Chapter 18: A Visit from Hudson

Hu Lin left the school, and let people lead the way to find Chen Rui on the side of the cave, it seemed that the cement had been burned out, and he saw a lot of gray powder in the shed next to him.

"Boss Hu, you're here, I'm about to look for you, but you're often absent, to tell you the good news, the formula you gave has burned out several grades of cement, and now it's in the burning inventory, and other grades are still being tested.

By the way, if you want to build a house with several floors, you have to have steel bars, and the court doesn't have them at all, I'm afraid you have to ask foreigners to buy them, and it's not cheap, or you can replace it with bamboo chips. ”

When Chen Rui saw Hu Lin coming, he hurriedly reported to work, some things cost a lot of money, although Hu Lin almost didn't care what he wanted to do, and it was not good for him to use it with his eyes closed.

"Well, yes, there are also some architectural books brought to you, find time to see more, and bring more people out, you will be busy in the future, don't be short of manpower at that time, the steel bar has been prepared for you, according to the plan to build it in the village first, to have our garden style, don't build me some houses like foreigners."

Hu Lin told again, worried that Chen Rui would build a house on a whim, then he didn't like it, in modern society, there are square buildings everywhere, and I want to see what the ancestors' houses are like? No problem, spend a few hundred fares first, then a few hundred entrance fees, okay, you can go in and see what if you're hungry? What to do if you are thirsty? No problem, there is food, there is drink, the price is naturally several times more expensive, if you go with the group to see these things left by the ancestors, you have to follow to buy things, otherwise don't want to go. What the? Is there anything else in the scenic area? Don't worry, isn't this being destroyed all the time, the Great Wall has been demolished, and the others are scum.

"Boss Hu, great, I must study hard and teach more apprentices. Don't worry about the house, I won't repair that style, our ancestors' house is much better-looking, although I went to school with foreigners, I'm not the worm behind those foreigners' butts. ”

"Boss Hu, do those roads have to be paved with cement, but they need a lot of steel, as well as warehouses and factories."

Chen Rui was a little unsure, if these were all according to the standard, the silver for buying steel bars alone would be astronomical. Even in Europe and the United States, I have never heard of such a large amount of repair for one person, who can afford it!

Hu Lin laughed, "Chen Rui, don't worry about it, you just use it, it's not enough for me to buy some back." In addition, your classmates, do you know friends who can do things, help me introduce some, the treatment ensures that they are willing, and you are directly responsible for arranging if they come, give more silver, you know that I am very rich. ”

Hu Lin doesn't have to worry about steel, a truck loaded with dozens of tons of steel to take care of the progress of these unskilled construction workers, that's not trivial. Unless Chen Rui called some classmates he knew over to speed up the progress of the project, Hu Lin could only try his best to let Chen Rui contact him.

"Hehe, Boss Hu is naturally rich, I can see it, this was originally a countryside, and now let Boss Hu build the county seat, I will write to them in a while, why do you have to pull a few over."

Chen Rui's eyes rolled, it seemed that those down-and-out classmates had fallen, and they wanted to recommend it to Hu Lin before, but they just came over and pulled people over, and they couldn't say it, since Hu Lin was looking for it, those classmates could pull it over.

Looking at Hu Lin's strength, it seems that he has not seen through it yet, but in this dilapidated and remote place, he actually used such a big price to build, no one would do this, but Hu Lin did it.

Now that I came by myself, I didn't see a professional, it seems that I am the only one, so if I find more people to come, I will not lead the team to do construction in the future, and when there are more people, the scale is large, and I have become the boss of this area, Chen Rui is fluttering when he thinks about it.

Hu Lin checked in the cave of the cement factory, these people have been able to work skillfully after Chen Rui's basic training and the exercise of the past few days, and now five kilns have been built, and several are under construction, and the simple factory buildings are also being built.

"Hey, Hu, I've found you, the road on your side is really not easy."

"Huh?" Hu Lin heard a familiar voice, turned around and saw that it was actually Han Senh, why did this guy come.

"Hey, Hansen, why did you come to my little place, tell me earlier, I'll pick you up."

"Hu, Hu, I received your goods, the things are very good, I am very satisfied, I want to bring them back to Europe and it must be easy to sell, I came to be..." Hansen looked at Chen Rui and did not continue.

"Let's go, since you're here, please try our camellia."

Hu Lin was also tired of walking, so he took Hansen to a room in the cement factory, and after taking a seat, Hansen began to talk about his intentions in a hurry.

"Hu, I'm here to tell you that there is news from Germany, let me tell you the truth, I can't be sure if your goods can be supplied in large quantities, my cousin is a senior official of the War Department, and my cousin means that the Mauser 98 of the domestic army has not yet completed the redress, if you want a large number of Mauser 98 and other supporting artillery, etc., it is not impossible, but the price will rise by ten percent."

Hansen paid attention to Hu Lin, who did not say anything, and continued.

"If you buy this price again a year later, it can be reduced by 20 percent, and the army will be redressed by then, so if you agree, the cousin of the German army can go to the relationship, and you can also be equipped with a division, no matter how much you have, you will have to wait for next year, and the army can't delay the redress for too long, I don't know if you are interested in Mauser 1888, this is not limited."

After Hansen finished speaking, he looked at Hu Lin with some excitement, in fact, there was no pressure on the German side at all, as long as there were no more than two divisions, the crowd would come out. Moreover, the price given by Hu Lin was from the Qing Dynasty, so the profit was not generally high, and the plus ten percent was Hansen's income.

"Hansen, don't worry, take a sip of tea first and taste the agricultural tea made in our mountains." Hu Lin asked the workers to bring the tea leaves, made a cup of old tea, and motioned for Hansen to drink the tea first.

These old teas are brought in modern times, when buying grain seeds in the town, a few large boxes of old tea are carried in hand, and the inventory of tea sold next to it is emptied, these old teas have a heavy taste, bitter, refreshing, when Hu Lin was a child, he also watched the adults work when he drank, and brought them to these workers to drink, in the eyes of these people, there is tea to drink, that is a high-level treatment.

"Poof, Hu, what is this, are you sure it's tea? It won't be the medicine you boiled to cure people's diseases, let's talk about things first, tea, I've already drunk it. Hudson took a sip and squirted.

"Okay, Hansen, that's it, but I don't want the guns you eliminated, the silver of the Mauser 98 and other equipment will be deducted from the payment, how about it!"

"Oh, Hu, of course no problem, if only those goods could be added to the amount, I only get 5,000 pieces per month, and the dead John also gets 5,000 pieces."

Han Sen readily agreed and kept cursing John for his share, after all, Hu Lin had met the two of them before, and the two main sales places had to find someone to help with sales, and they were separated for the time being.

"Hansen, what happened to the Mauser 98 production line last time, what did the German side say?"

Hu Lin asked Han Sen seriously, Hu Lin can care most about this production line, in the modern society Hu Lin can not get, training this era of skilled workers must have the equipment of this era, plus German technical training personnel, in order to use modern and more advanced equipment to replace.

"Hu, don't worry, my cousin asked, it's similar to what I told you last time, if you can come up with something that interests the above, this can be discussed." Seeing Hu Lin's serious appearance, Han Sen was a little worried, and the relationship with Hu Lin should be maintained, this is a living treasury.

Hu Lin smiled mysteriously, "If I say that I got a complete set of blueprints for Britain's newest warship, the Dreadnought-class battleship, what do you exchange it for?" ”

"What, what, this can't be, how can you get it, the dreadnought-class battleship that's the top secret of the British top secret. Hu, don't make fun of me, this joke is not funny. Hansen's face twitched in surprise, unable to believe that Hulin could get his hands on the drawing, and seriously suspected that Hulin was joking with him.

"I'm sure that if Germany doesn't want it, I'll go to the United States, or France, and Russia, and I think they'll be interested." Hu Lin said with a nonchalant expression.

"No, no, hu, you can't do this, is it true? If it's true, I think you'll get a lot, whether it's gold or arms, you can talk about anything you want. ”

Although Cousin Hansoh is in the War Department, how can he not understand the British warships in this position, it is the most powerful navy in the world, the most advanced warship in the world, the German Army is powerful, but the navy is far behind, this drawing is too important for the German Navy.

Germany's strong army is the navy, and the navy has always been Germany's shortcoming, if you can get these drawings, it will be equivalent to adding wings to the German navy, with an invincible army, it makes people chill to think about.

"Hu, although I'm not sure if you really have the blueprints of the Dreadnought-class battleships, I believe you, anyway, if you don't produce the drawings for the Admiralty to approve, you won't get a single mark. You know it's too much at stake, and I'll have to go back and send a report to my cousin. ”

Hansen was in a hurry to leave, this matter was a big deal for anyone, and it was determined earlier that the German Navy would be stronger a day earlier, and these exploits would be equal to being picked up for nothing.

"Hansen, you don't have to go back to Guangzhou, I have a telegram here, come with me, and by the way, I will show you the general drawings of the battleship."

Hu Lin and Han Sen came to the warehouse next to the barracks and gave Han Sen an overview of the battleship, the drawings of this set of warships were made by Dahua Trade's Zhou Ding online next year, these materials from more than 100 years ago are easy to find on the Internet, as long as they are printed out and can be used.

Others such as artillery, turrets, steam engines, etc. also got a lot, and packed several boxes of drawings, and slowly exchanged money and equipment with foreigners in the future.

"Hu, although I'm not a battleship designer, I can be sure that your drawings are real, it's incredible, how did you get it, the telegram, where is the telegram."

Hansen shouted in some horror, his voice was still suppressed and he didn't dare to be too big, this is Hu Lin's territory, things are still Hu Lin's, no matter how excited, no matter how urgent things are, they have to be suppressed, so they have to shout in a hurry.