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Because of the Moltke and Mauser brothers and these Prussian officers brought to China, Feng Yunshan was overjoyed and promised to provide an interest-bearing loan worth 5.6 million thalers (Prussian currency), and the Prussian kingdom returned them with weapons and steel and other war materials.

Of course, this huge amount of 5,600,000 thalers was not in the form of cash, but in the form of raw silk, tea, porcelain, and other commodities, at the standard price sold by the Nanyang Company, and was directly transported back to Prussia by Kalenway in batches by Dutch and British merchant ships hired by Kalenway.

Of course, for Karenwe and even Prussia, 5.6 million thalers was already a huge amount of money. You must know that the current annual income of the entire Prussian Kingdom is 80 million thalers, but the expenditure is nearly 90 million, which is equivalent to an increase in the financial deficit of nearly 10 million thalers every year. This time, he only sent a few officers over, and borrowed millions of thalers from the rich Far ASEAN country, which is not a small amount, equivalent to 800,000 pounds.

Moreover, it is profitable to use the precious goods that sell well in Europe: tea, raw silk and porcelain, as soon as they are shipped to Europe, and, since last year, Prussia and even Europe have had a serious surplus of steel, which can be used in exchange for loans. Karenway couldn't wait to inform Prince William of Berlin as soon as possible, as well as the many steel merchants, the Chinese Empire in the Far East, needed a lot of steel, and quickly organized a large number of steel to be sent.

Feng Yunshan looked at the Moltke and Mauser brothers who were left behind, as well as the young Wadsey and Schlieffen, and the other three Prussian officers, with a smile on his face, but his head was thinking about how to arrange them and discover their value as much as possible.

In fact, these foreigners should have gone to China a long time ago. It's just that because of the fierceness of the Crimean War, many armed merchant ships were also pulled to transport strategic materials, and redundant ships throughout Europe and America also flocked to transport food and war materials to the Crimean Peninsula.

As for Li Jianwei, deputy general manager of Imperial Krupp Iron and Steel Company, Wu Chongyao brought him in naturally to act as a translator. Like Moltke, he is proficient in English, French, and Russian, while others can only speak Prussian, so Li Jianwei, who has mastered Prussian, is particularly important.

As soon as Mao Qi and the others arrived in Guangzhou, Li Jianwei was requisitioned and transferred, exchanging and understanding all the way, and teaching them to learn Chinese all the way, after all, if they want to serve the empire in China, they can't speak Chinese.

"Li Aiqing, how is the production situation of Krupp Steel?" Seeing Li Jianwei, Feng Yunshan asked casually.

"Your Majesty, the Imperial Krupp Steel Company is developing very well, and now it produces nearly two hundred Krupp breech-loading rifled guns of various calibers every month. There are also quite a few Congreve rocket artillery and mortars. The development of warships also began, but after a narrow meeting on the Beijiang River, Mr. Krupp asked Li to report to His Majesty whether he could let the Krupp Iron and Steel Company open a branch factory, which would be located in an iron mine somewhere along the Yangtze River. In addition, the production of guns produced by the First Arsenal of the Empire, also in the town of Wushi, has also increased significantly. Li Jianwei reported.

Feng Yunshan nodded, he was actually very clear about the production situation of the Krupp Iron and Steel Company, and the logistics office of the General Staff of the Capture Army transported the newly produced artillery from the Krupp Steel Company every month and equipped it to the various capture armies. He just asked casually, and he didn't expect that Krupp had really started producing warships.

To talk about the conditions, the main thing is the lack of steel. Krupp Steel did not produce steel itself, but brought pig iron from Nanyang Iron and Steel Company's No. 1 Iron and Steel Plant, which was then processed into cast steel to make cannons. Nowadays, the country has been building railways, which require a large number of rails, and except for the first iron and steel plant, the others are small iron-making workshops, which are difficult to meet the needs.

Even a large number of rails for the construction of the railroad were purchased at high prices from John in the United States.

Therefore, he attaches great importance to the questions raised by Li Jianwei. Now that the Chinese Empire has basically unified the entire land of China, it has the conditions to mine iron ore everywhere and develop iron and steel plants on a large scale. Moreover, he is familiar with geography and knows very well where there are large iron mines in the land of China, such as the Ma'anshan Iron Mine not far from Shengjing, and on the edge of the Yangtze River, which is very suitable for running a large iron and steel factory.

However, now is not the time to talk about this, next, Feng Yunshan will arrange the matter of vigorously developing steel to the Ministry of Public Works.

Let's settle these foreigners in front of you first. This matter is really only to worry about himself, and Xie Xiangcai, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, doesn't know which of them has expertise at all. Thinking of this, Feng Yunshan said loudly: "Convey my will, grant Alfred? Feng? Second Lieutenant Wadsey, Alfred? Feng? Ensign Schlieffen and Louis? All three of them had the rank of captain, and all served with Major General Moltke in the Operations Division of the General Staff. And both of them, both grenadiers, temporarily entered the training office of the General Staff, served as training officers, and the rank was also captain, responsible for helping the empire to form a grenadier unit. As for the two Mauser brothers, they will be transferred to the Shengjing Machine Manufacturing Bureau, and the Mauser Arsenal named after your two brothers will be set up under the General Bureau, and you will be in charge of this factory for the development of rifles and other firearms. As for Yu Lu, Wu Aiqing is in charge of negotiations. ”

After learning about the emperor's order through Li Jianwei's translation, Wadsey and others and the Mauser brothers were full of surprise. They were originally soldiers who took obedience to orders as their duty, but they were transferred to the Far East, and they were somewhat reluctant in their hearts. However, it is a great honor to be valued by the emperor of this great country now. Moreover, they were all promoted across ranks, and they were all in charge of important positions, and they might have better development prospects than in the Prussian army, which had a lot of talents.

The Mauser brothers were even more shocked. When they first heard Karenway's words, they thought they were fooling them, but when they met Moltke and Wadsey, they realized that they were indeed going to the far east.

The Mauser brothers lived in poverty. Their father was a well-known gunsmith at the Royal Arsenal of Württemberg in Auburndorf, but his income was not very high, and he had to support more than a dozen children. The Mauser brothers were ranked twelve or thirteen among many brothers, because they were the youngest, and their family had long been hollowed out, and in order to support the family, they worked as temporary workers in their father's arsenal when they were teenagers. A few years ago, just as they grew up, the brothers were officially hired in the arsenal and began their apprenticeship work as a gunsmith and designer, receiving a meager salary and seeing no end in sight.

Hearing the persuasion of the well-dressed Cullenway, and taking out a handwritten letter from Prince William Jr., the Mauser brothers were finally moved, and without even telling their father, they secretly followed Cullenway all the way, and it took a year to come to this far east.

It was a great honour to see the Emperor of this ancient empire now promised to be the head of a newly established arsenal, and to bear their surname, and to make them feel the urge to serve the Emperor for the rest of their lives. Although it is not yet known how much the salary will be, they have decided to develop the arsenal well.

That night, Feng Yunshan ordered Zuo Zongtang, deputy chief of the General Staff, to set up a banquet for him to entertain Moltke, Mauser and others. And he himself, honestly returned to the palace to prepare for the upcoming "wheel war".

There's no way, Feng Yunshan's harem has been competing recently.

Since Cheng Lingnan became pregnant again, Su Sanniang, who had just given birth to a daughter, also pestered Feng Yunshan, saying that she was going to conceive another one, and it would be a son. Every night he came to Feng Yunshan to fight to the death, so that Feng Yunshan, who was used to thinking about national affairs and the development of the empire late at night, had no time to think.

At this time, Cheng Lingnan, who has always been gentle and virtuous, may have changed her personality because of her pregnancy, and she became jealous, although she herself did not come up to ride the water horse in person (the second water horse is Feng), but took advantage of Feng Yunshan's concern for her body, and every time she visited her, she pulled her sister Qin Lingbei, and then left under the pretext of letting her sister and Feng Yunshan achieve good things.

Recently, it may be because of the spring season, Cheng Su's two daughters are even more entangled night and night, saying that they will not give up for a day if they are not pregnant, how can Feng Yunshan refuse this kind of thing, in desperation, they have to sleep together, light incense and calculate the time, one for each person, impartial.

However, maybe he was old, and in less than a month, Feng Yunshan felt unbearable, and he was ready to fight for another night tonight, so he hung up the exemption card and recuperated for a while.

He couldn't help but admire the emperors of the past dynasties who had three thousand harems, even if it was the nearest Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan, there were hundreds of concubines, even if it was the frail and sickly Xianfeng, it was also dozens of officially canonized concubines, why was it his turn, it didn't work?

Looking at Fu Shanxiang who was following closely behind him, Feng Yunshan couldn't help but grow his head for a while: And this, I have been snubbing her for several days. It seems that the war-free card will not be hung up tomorrow!

The sweets and bitternesses are only self-aware!

Feng Yunshan shook his head with a wry smile and strode towards the direction of the dormitory.