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In addition to the good things above, the things that make Joey happy are not over.

The fourth thing that made Joey happy was that the Qing Kingdom finally stopped being rash on the issue of building railways.

I heard that the German royal family was willing to apologize to the Qing Dynasty on behalf of the foreigners, and promised that all the Germans participated in the construction of the railways in the Qing Dynasty, the right to build the railways in the Qing Dynasty was in the Qing Dynasty, and Germany only provided technology, products and funds, and was willing to build the Qing Dynasty at the same time, Germany exported technology for the Qing Dynasty, and let the Qing Dynasty establish its own railway manufacturing company.

In the face of Germany's sincere request for cooperation, the attitude of the high-level leaders of the Qing Dynasty towards the railway has also loosened.

Among them, Shen Baozhen, the governor of Liangjiang, who had the most hardline attitude towards the railway, after sinking the British railway equipment outside the port of Taipei, received an inquiry from the imperial court about the relations between Qing and Germany, and among all the real governors of the Qing Dynasty, he was the first to write a recital on the railway part, saying, "If Germany is willing to help the Qing Dynasty imitate the steamer car, and all the sovereignty of building the road is mine, the minister is willing to restore the railway!" ”

With the relaxation of Lord Shen, who had the toughest attitude, the attitude of the Qing people softened, and voices began to talk about the benefits of the construction of railways in the Qing Dynasty, and the railway forbidden area, which could not be talked about in the first place, began to become the focus of discussion among all forces in the Qing court.

According to the intention of Prince Gong of the Great Qing Dynasty, it seems that he is going to build a small railway in the imperial city of Beijing, show this foreign thing to the royal family of the Great Qing Dynasty, and finally decide whether to build a railway in the Great Qing Dynasty.

With this good start created by the Germans, Li Zhongtang's lively mind also moved, knowing that the wind direction in the Qing court was about to change, and then held a meeting with his confidants in the study of his mansion.

In the study, Tang Tingshu, the general office of China Merchants and Kaiping Mining Bureau, said bluntly, "Lord Zhongtang, now that the imperial court knows that China Merchants has begun to earn silver, it is important that everyone is red-eyed, but Kaiping Coal Mine is at the beginning of its creation, and it is in urgent need of silver to maintain it inside and out. Now Prince Gong is desperately mixing sand into China Merchants, and I now want to take silver from China Merchants to support Kaiping Coal Mine, but there is no door. ”

Then he pointed to the map of the Kaiping Mining Bureau in front of him, and said, "Now I can't transport a ton of coal just dug out of the Kaiping Coal Mine, and the imperial court refuses to let me build the railway, forcing me to dig a 70-mile canal, but the British engineer in charge of the canal excavation said after surveying that the river will be dug for at least two years, and the excavation quotation given by the British is equivalent to 1 million taels of silver." ”

Tang Tingshu touched his braids, which were already gray when he was less than fifty years old, sighed and said, "Since I heard about this, the Fujian merchants who raised 800,000 taels of silver business shares from me are now pestering me every day, crying and shouting for me to withdraw their shares. ”

"Lord Zhongtang, if you don't want to transport all this coal out, not only will we not be able to earn a penny of silver in Beiyang, but we will also have to pour silver into it." Tang Tingshu looked at Li Hongzhang, who was also unhappy, and said helplessly.

Before the meeting, Zhou Fu already knew the intentions of his Zhongtang Lord, and interjected with a smile, "When it was built, Zhongtang adults knew these things, you want to build a railway, and Zhongtang has always maintained it for you in the imperial court, otherwise how could you be dumbfounded, send a letter to your old boss Lord Shen to ask for a railway, and finally he wrote a letter and choked on him." When it was built, you had to understand the heart of Lord Nakado! ”

Tang Tingshu bowed to Li Zhongtang and said with a humble face, "Lord Zhongtang's love for the lower officials, his subordinates remember it in their hearts, and it is unforgettable. It's just a matter of Kaiping Mining Bureau, it's too difficult! ”

Li Zhongtang waved his hand generously and said with a smile, "I know that you are difficult, so I will give you ideas so that you are not difficult." What you say and do is for the sake of Beiyang, the old man knows. ”

Then he waved his hand and said to Zhou Fu, "Yushan, you tell Jianshi what the Germans mean." ”

Zhou Fu put the German minister Balander, hoping to build the Tangxu Railway with Beiyang, and was willing to provide mining technical support for the Kaiping Coal Mine, and even the fine cotton soil factory (cement factory) that Tang Tingshu had always wanted to build, the Germans were also willing to contribute capital and technology with Beiyang.

In short, under the guidance of Professor Richthofen's information, the steel mills, mines, and cement factories that Beiyang or the Qing Dynasty intended to build were willing to intervene under Joey's remote control.

When I heard that the Germans were willing to control the shares of capital and technology within 49% of the total equity, and the sovereignty of all joint venture projects was in the hands of the Qing Dynasty, while the Germans only had three requirements outside of technology and management:

First, every year in the equity of the infrared, to pay the Germans equipment and technology patent fees;

Second, if the Qing State sells the property rights of a joint venture project to the outside world, it should first sell it to the Germans;

Thirdly, all minerals should be given priority to the Germans at a fair price.

After listening to these three points, Tang Tingshu, the general office of China Merchants Bureau and Kaiping Mining Bureau, patted his thigh and said urgently, "My lord, the conditions in Germany are real, and the deal is dealing!" ”

This spring breeze, which was led by Tang Tingshu and promoted by Li Hongzhang, brought the Germans into the Kaiping Mining Bureau to run mines and railways together, and thus blew into the city of Beijing and also into the court of the Qing Dynasty.

Beiyang up and down, now looking at the Germans, all hope that the Germans will enter the Beiyang industry as soon as possible, as promised.

A German who does not covet the sovereignty of the Qing Dynasty's enterprises, does not force them to buy and sell, but is willing to provide technology and funds, and is even willing to underwrite at a fair price in advance, is regarded as a sincere person by both Prince Gong and Li Zhongtang, so that Beiyang and Daqing are unanimously regarded as the best partners.

At this point, Joey privately liked the Kaiping Coal Mine, and Master Li also privately agreed that as long as it was under the premise of the Qing Dynasty, Beiyang was willing to accept the Germans' capital and technology as shares, and the Germans could be in charge.

In return, the sale of this most famous anthracite coal mine in the history of the Qing Dynasty was promised a low price for Germany. At this point, the envisaged German Far East Fleet had a valuable source of anthracite.

Anthracite in the steam age is equivalent to high-octane gasoline in the era of internal combustion engines, and the average speed of the same steam power can be 3-5 knots different from anthracite and bituminous coal. In the steam age, the interval between boiler overhauls on ships could be extended by the long-term use of anthracite.

Of course, how all this will go in the Qing Kingdom, according to the meaning of Minister Barland, depends entirely on the performance of Prince Heinrich, who is about to arrive in the Qing Kingdom.

For the diplomatic strength of his second brother in history, Joey has great confidence.

Compared with the mediocre naval command ability, his second brother is a natural diplomatic genius, and he is not inferior to the genius of the old prime minister Bismarck in terms of talent.

The fifth thing that made Joey happy was a letter from Professor Friedrich Wühler two days ago, in which he made it clear to Joy that Professors August Wilhelm von Hoffmann and Josiah Willard Gibbs had made a major breakthrough in the scientific cooperation between Sir Grusen's steelworks in Magdeburg.

In order to produce high-quality steel from the phosphate-rich iron ore in Alsace, Professor Gibbs creatively proposed a new method of phosphorus removal from pig iron, which used slag to remove phosphorus, which increased the daily output of high-quality steel at the Magdeburg Iron Works by a factor of five.

The slag produced by this steelmaking method contains a large amount of citrate-soluble phosphorus, and these slags containing crate-soluble phosphorus are completely useless by-products after refining refined steel.

The great Professor Auguste Wilhelm von Hoffmann, however, found a laboratory method for turning crate-soluble phosphorus-rich slag into phosphate fertilizer from Professor Gibbs's discarded slag.

It can be said that as long as the iron ore mines in Alsace and the Ruhr region were in possession and the laboratory methods were smoothly transformed into industrial production methods, then after 1879 Germany would no longer need to import foreign calcium phosphate ore to produce phosphate fertilizers.

Professor Wühler himself has also successfully simulated industrial processing in the salt-producing area of the Duchy of Anhalt, which is the Stassfurt potash mine, 30 km south of Magdeburg, from carnallite, potash and potassium magnesium vanadium, two important potash varieties, through laboratory methods.

According to Professor Weller, from the end of May 1879, following the industrial synthetic production of phosphate fertilizers, Germany found the industrial synthetic production of potash fertilizers for the whole world.

At this point, as in history, nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium fertilizers, the three most important methods of industrial synthesis of chemical fertilizers, the Germans have found two of them for the whole world, and all that remains is how to find ways to industrially synthesize nitrogen fertilizers.

As for the method of industrial synthesis of nitrogen fertilizer, although the laboratory research is in full swing, in terms of the industrialization process, Professor Wühler and Professor Hoffmann admit that it will take time for it to succeed in industrialization, and the safest way in Germany at present is to obtain nitrogen fertilizer from saltpeter or buy guano.

After carefully recalling the method of synthetic nitrogen fertilizer in the German chemical industry in his previous life, Joy strongly suggested that Professor Hoffmann continue to study the smelting by-products of Sir Grusen's steel works, such as the coke industry, and consider finding a way to synthesize ammonia from the desulfurization by-products of lignite.

In any case, even if only phosphate and potassium fertilizers are available, it will definitely multiply the production of food crops on German soil, turn the originally barren and unsuitable land into fertile land, and mean that the damage to the land Junkers will be minimized in the New Economic Policy promoted by his father.

The terrain of Germany is low in the north and high in the south, and the land suitable for cultivation is mainly in the North German plain, although suitable for cultivation, the soil is quite poor, and a large amount of land is concentrated in the hands of the Prussian Junkers.

Therefore, for these Prussian lands, if the grain production of the same area of land can be multiplied several times, then the real benefits of land will be higher than the benefits of simply raising tariffs.

After all, Germany is now extremely short of grain, and how much domestic grain will be digested on the spot, and there will be no such thing as grain being cheap and hurting farmers.

The last thing that pleased Joey was that William and Elizabeth fell in love, and William followed Joey's advice and moved Elizabeth from Charlottenburg Palace to Sanssouci Palace.

"Hey, dear Sergey, you don't have a chance!" Thinking about the upcoming Grand Duke of Moscow Sergei Alexandrovich, who was about to come to Berlin, Joey smiled happily in his heart.

"Dear Princess Elizabeth, bear with me, your Prince Charming will come to your rescue soon!" On a train from Moscow to Berlin, sitting in a special special train car, a tall and handsome black-haired man said softly to the photo inside a pocket watch with a Patek Philippe gold hunting shell the size of his hand.