The efficiency of the wartime cabinet allowed Zhu Jinglun to meet the families of the 120 martyrs who had died in the blasting of the Tushan Fortress three days later. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Zhu Jinglun expressed the country's apologies to them to the gray-haired fathers and heartbroken mothers, as well as extremely sincere gratitude, which could not be exchanged for their children, but the attitude of this country, that is, never forget that the unknown martyr is the shame of every nation, because every martyr has a name, and the reason why they became nameless is that the motherland behind them does not want to remember them!

When the Japanese set up archives for each of their sacrificed military powers, engraved tombstones, and tried every means to send their bodies back to China for burial after the war, the bones of their martyrs did not know which unknown corner they were lying in, so how could we be convinced.

Japan as the aggressor has no unknown martyrs, only famous war criminals, Germany as the aggressor has no unknown martyrs, only famous war criminals, and the Soviet Union and China, as the victors, have martyrs but no names......

After the capture of Tushan, it not only meant the end of the offensive and defensive battle of Tushan Fortress, but in fact the entire coastal defense campaign was also over, because the departure of the French navy from this port itself meant that the French abandoned this place. After being surrounded, an island-like port has little strategic value. The navy gave up here, and the Ming army captured the fortress again, not only the Ming army occupied favorable terrain, but the Ming navy was also able to threaten coastal defense from the water, the French did not intend to hold on, and those who could be withdrawn were withdrawn with the navy.

Therefore, when Zhu Jinglun received the families of the martyrs, the French army in Haiphong also sent envoys to negotiate surrender under a white flag, and at this time they left only 2,000 troops in Haiphong, while the Ming army had at least 100,000 people in the periphery, and 200,000 reserve troops could be reinforced at any time.

For the Ming Dynasty, the surrender of the French army was the best outcome, as they could keep the port facilities in Haiphong for their own use. I don't know if the French didn't choose to blow up this place for this reason, but handed it over to Daming, did they think that they would be able to take back this place sooner or later, and this would still be a French asset, so there was no need to destroy it. Or maybe the defenders didn't want to anger the Ming army by destroying the port facilities, so they kept it so that their prisoners could have a better life.

The acceptance of the port of Haiphong did not mean much to the army, because the army did not need here, the army always controlled the railway from the territory of Da Ming to Hanoi, and the army had its own way. However, there are some implications for the navy, which means that the navy has obtained sea supremacy in the Beibu Gulf, although this sea supremacy was in fact ceded by France.

The American Carnegie saw the news of Daming's conquest of coastal defense in the newspaper, which confirmed his understanding of the Chinese, this emerging industrialist in the United States, for some reason, is quite favorable to China's Confucianism, especially the idea of benevolence, and he constantly flaunts it to his friends.

The Chinese will definitely be able to drive the alien invaders beyond the border walls, as history has proven time and time again, and each time they succeed in driving out the invaders, they will become stronger than before. In Carnegie's mind, Daming was clearly the Chinese regime that drove out invaders again and again in history, while the Manchu Qing in the north were foreign invaders, and although his understanding was different from that of the Chinese literati, he himself believed that this was true.

Carnegie was on his second visit to Guangzhou, the first time eight years ago, when his steel business was already quite large, so he did an Oriental fulfillment, like many successful people of this era like to do, with stops in India, China and Japan.

He likes the craftsmen of these three countries, their craftsmanship is so exquisite, the English name of China China originally means porcelain, the English name of Japan originally means lacquerware, they are all famous craftsmen in the West. It's just that their income is so meager, Chinese craftsmen earn 15 cents a day, Indian workers earn 4 rupees, can people only struggle on the verge of starvation forever?

Japan's reforms were radical but disliked to him, with Western-style clothing replacing traditional clothing, and Carnegie saw Japanese women flaunting their clothes, hairstyles, and makeup. He felt that the Japanese had abandoned the oriental elegance and mystery that they should have. How could their women dress up so ugly.

The Chinese are very good, they are still wearing their own clothes, so they are still Chinese. Last time in Guangzhou, Carnegie was fascinated by Chinese drums, and he bought ten different drums from craftsmen. This time he was obsessed with fans in Guangzhou again, and he bought ten different fans.

This time he was not here to tourist, he was here to do business, ambitious Chinese, intending to build bridges over their mother river, but they found that the only people in the world who had extensive experience in building bridges on large rivers were Americans, and Carnegie's Capstone Bridge Company was the first company to build steel bridges on large rivers, and they were the first to conquer large rivers like the Mississippi.

Twelve years ago, in the midst of a recession, Canet raised a huge amount of money to hire top bridge designer, James Brown. Colonel B. Eze built the mile-long St. Luis Bridge over the Mississippi River, and coincidentally, the first bridge the Chinese intended to build over the Yangtze River, also a mile.

They planned to build this bridge in Hankou to connect the north and south of China, and Carnegie felt that once the southern Chinese used the bridge to connect the north, their army would be able to easily pass through the natural defense line of the Yangtze River, so he pondered that the significance of this bridge to the Chinese was probably more than a bridge, and the more the Chinese needed the bridge, the better it would be, and his offer could be higher.

Unfortunately, Carnegie was greeted only by businessmen from their railroad company, not by the soldiers in Chinese-style iron armor he had imagined.

The other party was shrewd and refuted Carnegie's offer one by one, from the price of steel to the cost of construction, all of which were considered unreasonable, which made Carnegie feel that the deal did not seem to be as easy to do as he imagined.

Unlike Carnegie, his American companion Makin was officially received, he came to China through the Chinese ambassador to the United States, and after he learned the news of China's war with France, he realized that this was an opportunity, and the Chinese fighting with France would inevitably need weapons, so he showed his machine gun to the minister in the United States, and the military attache was very interested in the new machine gun and promised to help introduce him to China to recommend his products to the military.

On the battlefield in Vietnam, the experts of the Ming Army, stimulated by the news of heavy casualties under the French machine guns, have been looking for a solution recently, they need a weapon that can suppress the opponent's machine guns, the Gatling machine gun obviously can't handle this task, so what about the Maxim machine gun that the Americans took? They didn't dare to guarantee it, but tests proved that the Maxim machine gun had a higher rate of fire than the Gatling machine gun, and it was also more convenient to use.

Therefore, the Ministry of Industry of Daming agreed to purchase it very quickly, but Makqin could not immediately come up with the product, because his machine gun was designed two years ago, and then sold around the world with a sample gun, but it has not yet convinced a country's army to equip it, and historically, it was not until 1891 that Britain was equipped with the first Makqin machine gun, and then other countries have been installed.

He didn't receive an order, so naturally he didn't open a factory.

The Ming military department was very anxious, and could not wait for Makqin to return to China to build a factory and then carry out production, and asked Makqin to produce in Daming on the spot.

The first prototype was successfully produced a month later, and after testing, the performance was good, and Maxim also negotiated with the arsenal on the distribution of benefits, and then authorized the arsenal to carry out mass production, for each machine gun produced, Maxim could get a patent license fee of ten dollars, but the maximum limit was $100,000, after which the arsenal would be able to get a permanent license without having to pay royalties.

Makqin was very satisfied with the business, and on the one hand, the inexpensive licensing fee was, and on the other hand, as long as the army of one country was equipped with his weapons, and then it worked well, his orders would come in a steady stream.

At least if the French have experienced the power of this machine gun for themselves, France will buy it, France will buy it, Germany will buy it, Germany will buy it, Russia will buy it, then Britain, and finally the whole European country, as for the United States, the American army will still forget it, this is not an ambitious army.

Carnegie finally reached an agreement with Tang Tingshu, and Carnegie's engineers had initially looked at the hydrological conditions of Hankow and decided that it was feasible to build a bridge here, and as for the cost, they reduced it to three million dollars, and then accepted a lot of conditions from the Chinese and got the deal.

Carnegie hoped that after this business was completed, he would be able to borrow other businesses, such as the railway bridge in Nanjing, although the railroad was built by the British, but Carnegie felt that his company was more experienced than any other British company, because he had already built three bridges over the Mississippi River, and the British did not have a similar bridge.

Or he could build a bridge over the Pearl River, so that the Ming railroad could cross the river and send their military supplies directly to the battlefields in the south.

Carnegie, however, read in the newspapers that it seemed that the Ming had begun to attack again in Vietnam.