Feng Yunshan also didn't expect that this Prince Karl of Prussia, who was only in his twenties, could have such determination, and he could directly recognize his holy kingdom and conclude an alliance regardless of the Manchu Qing factor. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

He looked at Karenway suspiciously, and the latter revealed the reason, it turned out that although the entire Prussia had submitted several credentials to the Manchu court, they were ignored, and Prussia's trade in China was basically overstocked by Britain, France and other European powers, and it was pitifully small.

As a result, Prince Karl, as the plenipotentiary, completely ignored the views of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and also threw off Britain and France and other countries, and directly signed an alliance with Feng Yunshan. This arms order alone has already exceeded the total number of Prussian decades of trade in China, and from this point alone, Prince Karl has confidence.

"Your Highness, in the future, our Prussia and your country will be a country of brothers, and we hope to help each other and become strong together!" Prince Karl said politely: "By the way, Holy King, the order signed by Karenway on behalf of Prussia and the Nanyang Company last time has now arrived, and the Holy King can not send someone to inspect and hand over the goods as soon as possible!" ”

"Prince Karl is polite. Since it is a fraternal ally, this king will naturally arrange for your country to give priority to delivery! Feng Yunshan turned his head to Wu Chongyao and said, "Chongyao, arrange for Karenwei to handle the inspection as soon as possible." I'll talk to Prince Carl a little more. ”

Therefore, Wu Chongyao led a group of subordinates of the Nanyang Company and the soldiers of the captive army to the wharf to unload and inspect the Prussian cargo ships that were leaning towards the wharf.

The order for this time was a total of 10,000 Dresser M1841 pin muskets and 300 30-pound framed front-loading smoothbore guns. Of course, the matching bullets and shells are even more varied, all according to the configuration of 200 rounds per musket and 50 shells per gun.

Soon, muskets and artillery were unloaded from ships by thousands of soldiers and transported to the weapons depot of the captives in Guangzhou. Wu Chongyao, Tan Shaoguang, who came to inspect the goods, and other members of the Ninth Division of the First Division begged for the army, and after the inspection was completed, Wu Chongyao asked the steward of the Nanyang Company to pay a total of 1.12 million silver dollars from the silver taels that had been prepared long ago. Subsequently, the Ministry of Finance and Taxation of the Holy King's Palace, which was formerly the Holy Treasury, would supply the silver taels to the Nanyang Company.

And here, hearing that his subordinates had received a huge payment of 1.12 million silver dollars from the Nanyang Company, Prince Karl, who had always been quite calm, suddenly became excited: "Your Highness the Holy King, thank you very much for your order!" With this huge sum, Prussia's finances will be much easier, and it will be able to do more, including the production of more weapons! ”

"Holy King, in order to show the importance and sincerity of your country, Karl and Karenwei also brought two experts in firearms from Prussia this time, stayed in Guangzhou, and taught the soldiers of your army to use these firearms skillfully!"

"Great!" Feng Yunshan was not polite, he knew that Prussia needed funds, but he now had more funds. So, at his request, the Nanyang Company rented one artillery expert and one musket expert from China at the price of a small amount of silver dollars.

Next, Feng Yunshan is ready to leave these experts in the Holy Kingdom to help him develop weapons, I believe that with his own directional guidance, coupled with the steel refined by Krupp, it will not be in the future, and the new weapons developed by himself will give the world a big surprise!

After finishing the business of Prussia, it was almost dark.

Early the next morning, Wu Chongyao announced that the second arrangement was for the American Smith. He won the order for 2 new cotton gins, 3 steam-driven ring spinning machines and 2 steam-powered looms. The textile and weaving mills in this combination city require an output of 10,000 wool blanks per month.

The American Smith did not appear, but the Englishman George appeared with a smile on his face, saying that the American Smith was not in Guangzhou, so he came to act as a friend.

For this group of unprofitable foreign businessmen, Feng Yunshan knew that there must be something greasy in them, but he didn't bother to care, as long as the goods provided were easy to use.

Wu Chongyao asked George to send these weaving and weaving machines directly to Hexi, opposite the Thirteen Hang Wharf outside Guangzhou, where there was an open space and the best place to build a textile factory.

At the beginning, when the contract was signed, it was in the name of the American Smith, and he was also responsible for the installation and commissioning of machinery and equipment.

Unexpectedly, this George is really capable, and I don't know what method he used, but he really let him deceive the four technician workers of the textile factory who understand textile machines.

In this regard, Feng Yunshan did what he said, and every worker who came to the city was given a settling-in fee of 300 taels of silver, and all 4 people were hired at a price of 10 taels of silver per month! a subsidy of thirty-one thousand two hundred taels of silver, and an intermediary remuneration of four hundred taels of silver.

At the same time, this George was very praised by the Holy King Feng Yunshan, and was assigned a task to continue to recruit technicians with a high level of professionalism from Europe. George, who got the sweetness, happily led his subordinates to follow the people of Nanyang Company to transport the textile machinery to Hexi and install the machinery and equipment.

Next, many follow-up orders of Nanyang Company, under the arrangement of Wu Chongyao, have carried out the acceptance and payment of the goods.

And Feng Yunshan no longer interrogated and inspected the goods one by one, he really didn't have so much time, so he let Wu Chongyao, the general manager of Nanyang Company, and Pan Wentao, the deputy general manager, lead a group of stewards and captives to deal with it.

And he just listened to Wu Chongyao's report the next day.

"Ten sets of flour processing machines, twenty sets of ordinary steam spinning machines, ten sets of ordinary steam looms, and five sets of mining watt double-acting steam engines. The count and acceptance were all qualified, and he was ready to pay half of the total amount of 690,000 taels of silver. ”

"Chongyao, how was it accepted, has it been installed, and has it been tried by starting the steam engine?" Feng Yunshan was still a little uneasy.

"Shengwang rest assured, these foreigners have a very good attitude, they are thinking about the next business, for fear of offending our foreign company, take the initiative to ask to pay only half of the payment, and when these machines are installed, put into normal use, and then pay the remaining half! Moreover, they promised to repair it free of charge for three years, except for problems. Wu Chongyao said.

Feng Yunshan nodded, the foreigners at this time were quite simple, even a cunning businessman like George was willing to do business with integrity.

"The drawings and equipment of the somewhat outdated flintlock musket gun of the Charville MLE 1816 model for the French have also arrived. The equipment for the production of muskets is to be installed next to the Nanyang Iron and Steel Company's No. 1 Iron and Steel Plant in Wushi Town, Shaozhou Prefecture, so that the steel of the steel plant can be used nearby. There are also supporting bullet manufacturing equipment, which have also been installed and debugged. At that time, Wushi Town, next to Shaozhou Mansion, will become an important industrial town! ”

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When Nanyang Company was established, the purchased goods basically arrived.

In the end, Feng Yunshan took the initiative to ask to meet the friend introduced by the Englishman George, who had managed two machine factories in London and was very familiar with the establishment of the factory and various machines, so he came to act as an agent and help set up the machine factory.

This is a large order of nearly 500,000 taels of silver, not only to provide all kinds of machines, but also to help set up a large and medium-sized machine factory! (To be continued.) )