Shengjing.???? One? See?? Book to read? Palace. Vice Premier Zeng Guanlan and Vice Minister of Commerce Pan Wentao stood respectfully in front of Feng Yunshan.

Pan Wentao was originally the person in charge of the Pan family in the Thirteen Lines of Guangzhou, and like Wu Chongyao, after Feng Yunshan captured the city of Guangzhou, he surrendered to Feng Yunshan and served as the deputy general manager of Nanyang Company. Last year, Feng Yunshan promoted Wu Chongyao to Minister of Commerce and Governor of Guangdong, Wu Chongyao left Shengjing and went to Guangzhou to concentrate on the management and development of Guangdong, and Feng Yunshan transferred Pan Wentao to the post of Vice Minister of Commerce, responsible for the affairs of the Ministry of Commerce.

This time, Pan Wentao came to report on the recent commercial situation in the empire.

"Your Majesty, the establishment of the special free trade zone has been in place for half a month, and the results have been remarkable! According to a message sent by Zhang Zhidong, head of Shanghai County, from the Tokyo Telegraph Office yesterday, in the short period of half a month since the establishment of the Pudong Special Free Trade Zone in Tokyo alone, 52 companies and foreign firms have been set up in the special free trade zone, most of which are engaged in the manufacture of machinery, iron and steel, ships, and daily necessities, and 19 of them have a capital of more than 1 million sacred yuan, and in particular, there are three shipyards, two iron works, and two machinery factories, all of which have a capital of more than 3 million yuan. In the past half month alone, the group of foreigners and domestic businessmen have invested a total of 51.2 million yuan. It is equivalent to the tax payment of most of the original Manchu Qing Dynasty. Pan Wentao's eyebrows fluttered, full of excitement.

Feng Yunshan was also taken aback, he had already prepared to attract a large number of investments, after all, there was a huge preferential policy for free trade, but he still misestimated that it would be so sought after, underestimating the degree of capital's pursuit of profits.

It can also be seen that these businessmen and foreign businessmen are very powerful. Fortunately, he was prepared to guide them to develop in industries such as shipmaking and machinery and equipment, iron and steel, otherwise, they would have been engaged in the tea and raw silk trade in a swarm, although they could collect their customs duties, and the imperial court would make money, but that was all, after a few years, it would still be like this, and it would not change much, once the empire and the European powers went to war, the money earned was not enough for a reparation, as was the case with the Manchu Qing in later generations.

"Very nice! It seems that the idea I gave to your Ministry of Commerce was quite successful! Zhang Zhidong, the Shanghai county magistrate, is okay. Feng Yunshan nodded with satisfaction, but asked with some unease: "How many shipbuilding-related ones have been opened?" Have you counted the size of shipbuilding? ””

"Your Majesty, there are only five shipyards, two of which are slightly smaller and three are larger. Instead, there are six or seven shipyards and ship repair yards for refit and repair of ships. As for shipbuilding capacity, Wechen has no data. Pan Wentao blushed a little.

Zeng Guanlan, who was on the side, hurriedly added: "Your Majesty, Weichen has obtained some data from the Ministry of Public Works. These shipyards in the Pudong Special Economic Zone can launch about 13,000 tons of ships every year. However, the largest tonnage is only more than 600 tons of wooden warships, and most of them are troop carriers and merchant ships of 3 or 400 tons. Of course, the old shipyards in the Shanghai Concession, such as Bowei Shipyard and Xinchuanao Shipyard, could only manufacture small wooden-hulled ships of less than 100 tons, which were only suitable for transportation in the Yangtze River and small gunboats. The two special zones of Foshan and Dagu should also have set up many shipyards, but because there is no telegram specific news has not yet come, it is estimated that only small ships can be manufactured, and the scale of the Pudong Special Economic Zone will not be large. ”

Feng Yunshan sighed: "It seems that my idea of strengthening the navy and strengthening the three fleets as soon as possible cannot be realized through the construction of shipyards in these three special zones." That's it, the imperial court has to spend a lot of money and build a few more large shipyards. At present, the Changzhou Shipyard under the Guangzhou Shipbuilding Bureau can manufacture large warships, and the others do not know whether they will be able to start shipbuilding and launching by the end of this year. By the way, I don't know what happened to Wu Aiqing, last time I sent someone back with a letter to say that I had spent $2 million to buy Norfolk Naval Shipyard, the third largest shipyard in the United States, and by the way, there were three warships that were about to be completed, and in addition, I also ordered several capital warships, but I don't know the specific delivery time. ”

Hearing the emperor talk about the establishment of the four major shipbuilding bureaus in the first five-year plan, as well as the trip to the United States by Vice Foreign Minister Wu Ruxiao, Zeng Guanlan hurriedly added: "Your Majesty, in addition to the Guangzhou Shipbuilding Bureau, the Fuzhou Shipbuilding Bureau is also about to build a shipyard twice the size of the Changzhou Shipyard, which can produce four large warships and three small and medium-sized merchant ships at the same time. In addition, the Shanghai Shipbuilding Bureau and the Dengzhou Shipbuilding Bureau will be delayed than the original plan, and the dock and shipbuilding equipment and personnel will be in place by the end of this year, especially the shipbuilding foreign technicians, because the four major shipbuilding bureaus are being built at the same time, and the supply of foreign craftsmen is in short supply. ”

When Feng Yunshan heard this, he was also a little helpless. Although he had a large number of local shipbuilders and technicians organized early on to learn from the hired foreign technicians at the Cheung Chau Shipyard, after all, the time was still short, and those foreign technicians were very ghostly and deliberately retained, so there were not many people who really learned how to build ships on their own. On the one hand, Feng Yunshan was ready to reward these loyal people, and on the other hand, he was ready to ask Prussia to send more people to the east to help build it.

The most anticipated is Wu Ruxiao's side, not to mention anything else, through the platform of the Norfolk Naval Shipyard, it is not impossible to send shipbuilding technicians and craftsmen there to the four major shipping bureaus to help, and even directly recruit craftsmen in the shipmaking industry to stay in the Chinese Empire permanently.

After all, it was a late start, and it would have been nice to have the same kind of machine-building as the General Directorate of Machine Building, which made muskets and artillery. In the first five-year plan, the plan to set up a general machine manufacturing bureau in Shengjing, Guangzhou, Shanghai, and Wuchang was basically completed by Feng Yunshan when he heard the news a few days ago. Even, at the end of last year, the Ministry of Public Works reported that it already had considerable arms production capacity.

In particular, the Guangzhou Machinery Manufacturing Bureau, because the original Guangzhou Machinery Bureau has been completed and put into operation, and now after the capital increase and expansion, it will not take long to build a collection of steam furnace factory, steam hammer factory, machine factory, wrought iron factory, rifle factory, wood factory, cast copper and iron factory, gunpowder factory, bullet factory, shell factory, rocket factory, power plant and other more than ten branch factories of the General Administration of Machinery Manufacturing. Except for the steel plant and the artillery plant, which were not built, everything else was complete. And because the Imperial Krupp Iron and Steel Company in Shaozhou Prefecture in the upper reaches of the Beijiang River was able to produce stainless steel and artillery, the Guangzhou General Machinery Manufacturing Bureau did not repeat the setup, in fact, this is equivalent to subcontracting this part of the process to the Imperial Krupp Iron and Steel Company.

The Guangzhou Machinery Manufacturing Bureau integrated the two arms factories, the Shengguo No. 1 Arsenal and the Machinery Factory on the edge of the East Lake on the outskirts of Guangzhou, and concentrated the production capacity of duplicate Charville firing muskets in Wushi Town, and renamed it the First Arsenal of the Guangzhou Machinery Manufacturing Bureau, specializing in the manufacture of improved Charville firing smoothbore guns and Dressel needle guns. The Donghu Machinery Factory was officially renamed the Second Arsenal of the Guangzhou Machinery Manufacturing Bureau, which was specially used to produce Minne rifles and develop newer breech-loading rifled guns.

Last year, the two arsenals of the Guangzhou Machinery Manufacturing Bureau produced more than 29,000 improved Charville MLE1856 firing smoothbore guns, 10,000 Dresser M1856 needle guns, 8,000 Migne rifles, and countless other bullets.

This is also the reason why more than half of the skilled technicians and craftsmen in the First Arsenal and the Second Arsenal were transferred to the other three places, and the preparation for the establishment of the Shengjing Machinery Manufacturing Bureau and the Shanghai and Wuchang Machinery Manufacturing Bureaus was organized, otherwise the output would be even higher.

Feng Yunshan naturally knew that this also meant that the empire's arsenal had indeed been established, and even if all those foreign technicians were gone, it would not have much impact at all, because his own local talents had already been cultivated.

A few days ago, the First Arsenal of the General Directorate of Machine-Building in Shengjing, which has another name, the Mauser Arsenal, has been built. Feng Yunshan did not rush the Mauser Arsenal to mass-produce the Charvail MLE 1856 firing smoothbore gun and the Dresser M1856 needle pistol, knowing in his heart that both of these rifles were actually not ideal. The former is actually somewhat outdated, you must know that the British and French armies in the Crimean War have begun to put into use the Migne rifle, although the latter is not considered obsolete, but there are still more problems.

Since the Mauser brothers came to Shengjing, Feng Yunshan directly arranged the Mauser brothers in the Shengjing Machinery Manufacturing Bureau, and invested heavily in the establishment of the Mauser Arsenal, the purpose of which was to focus on the development of Mauser rifles. Even, he relied on his own half-understanding of the Mauser rifle of later generations, directly pointed out the general design direction of the Mauser brothers, and told them the principle of the rotary pull-back single-shot rifle, although so far, there have been no achievements, but Feng Yunshan has been looking forward to the famous Mauser rifle can come out one step earlier.

Therefore, the main task of the General Directorate of Machine-Building in Shengjing was not to produce the Migne rifle and the Dresser M1856 needle pistol, but to develop the Mauser rifle. Of course, in order to train their hands and train craftsmen, the Mauser Arsenal still made some Charville MLE 1856 firing smoothbore guns more or less, which are cheap and practical for now.

However, the Shanghai General Machinery Manufacturing Bureau and the Wuchang Machinery Manufacturing General Bureau have not yet been established. For these two general bureaus, Feng Yunshan's positioning is different, the two general machine manufacturing bureaus of Guangzhou and Shengjing are mainly engaged in the production of muskets, while the two general bureaus of machine manufacturing in Wuchang and Shanghai, Feng Yunshan thinks that the production of artillery is mainly from the planning point of view. However, because of the imperial Krupp Steel Company in Shaozhou, which continued to produce Krupp cannons, and because of the large-scale construction of railways in China, there was a shortage of steel, Feng Yunshan did not require the two manufacturing bureaus to be completed and put into operation immediately.

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