Chapter 32: The Glory of the Mawei Shipmaster
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He Xing hurriedly let more than a dozen people behind him shout in unison, which had an effect, the patrol battalion at the gate first rushed up to protect the carriage, which scurrying craftsmen saw that someone came out to preside, and heard the order of Governor Ding, but began to slowly restore order.
Wan Dafu of the sailor also saw that something was wrong at this time, what could be that someone in the factory was making trouble, obviously the entire Mawei Shipmaster was having trouble with Shen Xiaoyan and the golden fat man, so he had already restrained his subordinates to run away to cool off.
"Hurry up and find out Shen Singhe and Jin Wu," Master Liu looked nervous, the situation at this scene is too chaotic, if a few craftsmen are dead, they can cover up the past, if Shen Singhe and Jin Wu, the two court officials, die here inexplicably, then something will happen, and then a few heads will not be lost.
Huang Dang hurriedly took the Hunan army of the patrol battalion to look for people everywhere, and let people shout and look for them, and finally found Shen Songhe in the woods on the side of the shipyard.
The fat blond man's body ...... Lying on his stomach directly on the spot, under the carriage, I don't know how many punches and kicks I ate, but fortunately, the skin is thick and the flesh is rough, so I pulled it out at this time, and I was still holding a huge pig's head, and when I saw Master Liu of the governor's yamen, I snorted busily: "Lord Liu, the thieves and craftsmen here are all reversed, and they actually beat Shangguan!" ”
Master Liu looked at the two people below with a strange expression, although the workers in the open space outside all felt that they had just beaten the corrupt officials and took advantage of them, but when they saw the governor and the yamen coming, they became a little uneasy, after all, everyone knows in this era, and it is normal for officials to protect each other.
Shen Singhe already had a bad feeling when he saw Master Liu coming with the paperwork, and there was obviously someone in the chaos in the shipyard...... No, there is a group of people who are fueling the trouble, and he clearly knows that person should be the kid surnamed Qin, but for some reason he stepped into vain, the kid surnamed Qin quickly gained the trust of Ding Richang by virtue of his success again and again, and became the descendant of Old Man Ding, and he and Shen Fatzi couldn't touch his path at all.
Seeing Shen Singhe's somewhat sluggish expression, Master Liu shook his head, this Shen Xiaoyan is also the number one person, he didn't expect it to fall so quickly, he coughed and cleared his throat, "Lord Ding Richang, the governor of Fujian in the Great Qing Dynasty and the minister of the Mawei Shipmaster's Office, ordered that the Mawei Shipbuilding Academy supervise Shen Songhe and co-organize the case of Jinwu's corruption, the evidence is conclusive, and the management of the ship's affairs is not good, and he will be investigated!" ”
At this time, the surrounding craftsmen were already applauding, and Shen Singhe and the golden fat man collapsed to the ground with human faces, their good days in Mawei Shipbuilding had finally come to an end, and they trembled in the disdainful eyes of the surrounding crowd.
Master Liu also announced that Governor Ding had asked all the craftsmen in the shipyard to resume the project, and that the matters related to the remuneration would be left to be dealt with after the adults returned. The craftsmen made a fuss, and they all felt that it was a bit excessive, and when they heard that the governor did not pursue it, they honestly entered the factory and only needed to work.
Soon a group of craftsmen and students from the Mawei School gathered in a room in the car window workshop, Zhou Ruidong and Zhang Kui wrote down their names one by one, and at the same time told them to return to their respective factories, according to Zhou Ruidong's explanation, to appease everyone's feelings, and to restore production in the factory.
A few days later, Qin Kai first took the "Tai'an" warship to return to Fuzhou first, sat in the cabin, he leisurely looked at the pile of newspapers beside him, this is the "declaration" of the past two days, which has reported on China's military industry at great length, obviously this time Li Zhongtang held a military display in Tianjin Wei greatly shocked the Westerners.
I have to say that although the Beiyang army in this era has not been in war for more than ten years, it still has a good way to fiddle with the troop drills and marching formations, and the Mauser 11mm breech gun and the Lin Mington 13mm rear-loading single-shot are strong, but they also gave a deep impression to the missions of various countries who came to observe.
However, it is obvious that the protagonist of this military display is the 254mm (26 times caliber) giant cannon brought by Ding Richang, when Li Zhongtang proudly introduced it to the ministers and consuls present, his proud eyes were very keenly aware of the embarrassing smile of the French minister Baohai, who had just shown off the 390-pound cannon like himself some time ago. ,
And the Japanese consul on the side, his mouth was so wide that he could almost throw a goose egg into it, in the end, he was a Japanese country, he had never seen the world, the Central Empire of five thousand years, and a small overseas country like you could only look up, Li Zhongtang glanced at the consul of the Japanese country Kato Yugo proudly.
After watching the shooting demonstration of the giant cannon, the flowering shells used in this artillery are specially made by the Horsetail Artillery Bureau, which is naturally of excellent quality and powerful, and even the British Minister Sir Wittoma was also greatly admired, but John Bull's temper naturally will not show weakness, he said tactfully: "The twenty years of foreign affairs of Lord Zhongtang have created a new miracle in the military industry of Far Eastern artillery!" ”
As the most powerful maritime empire of this era, Sir Wittoma's words were immediately quoted in the "Declaration", and the declaration published an introduction to the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau in Shanghai in successive issues of the newspaper, and the Yamen, the governor of Zhili, did not explain the meaning of the origin of the artillery at all.
In ancient Beijing, a recent letter from Li Zhongtang in Tianjinwei made several bigwigs of the Military Aircraft Department busy, and this Huaijun bigwig didn't know what medicine he had taken wrong, and he actually impeached a small co-organizer of Mawei Ship Administration with Fujian Governor Ding Richang, while another private letter was quietly sent into Prince Gong's mansion by Huaijun's people.
The two bigwigs of the Military Aircraft Department are the leaders of Qingliu, like Li Hongzao and Weng Tongyong, Qingliu has always had a lot of complaints about Li Zhongtang, who opened foreign affairs, and Li Hongzao can basically be regarded as Li Zhongtang's sworn enemy in the court, and mutual attacks between the two are even more common.
The other two bigwigs, Bao Jun and Jing Lian, are full of wall-to-wall characters, while Prince Gong, who is in charge of the Military Aircraft Department, is a rare figure among the Manchurians who is dedicated to Westernization.
This strange combination of five people, who holds the highest power in the empire in this era, and the big men sit in the meeting hall of the military discipline yamen, in order to discuss the disposition of a seven-rank minor official two thousand miles away.
"Everyone, Li Zhongtang and Ding Richang's excerpts have all been read! Let's talk about how to deal with it! "Prince Gong is a middle-aged man with a fair face, and he is well maintained, and he looks very energetic, but this sixth prince who is called "Devil Six" by the government and the opposition Qingliu is not in a good mood, and Shen Sing, who he installed in the Mawei Ship Administration, was convicted of corruption, and Li Zhongtang, who had a good relationship with him, sent a special letter, of course, he didn't mention it.
"A seven-grade official, this courage is really not small, and he dares to fish for the money allocated by the Military Aircraft Department, which was discussed with the Queen Mother of the Two Palaces for a long time before agreeing to build a military ship! I think I still have to kill chickens and make an example of monkeys, and ask ...... after taking office, "In the past, Li Zhongtang's opponent Li Hongzao was the first to jump out and speak.
Weng Tongyi also immediately agreed, agreeing to severely punish this case of embezzlement of military spending, and the other two wall grasses who had nothing to do with these eight poles naturally agreed immediately.
"It's not easy for this self-made warship, and there are still people down there to catch this silver, it's really unbelievable!" Yi patted the table lightly and said, "Shen Songhe, the superintendent of the Mawei Shipyard, will not escape the blame, I will transfer the Shandong Salt Transportation Division and fine him for one year!" ”
The other bigwigs muttered to themselves in their hearts, these six princes are also crazy today, didn't you send Shen Singhe to the shipmaster back then, in order to install this cronie, he didn't bother to think about it when he was discussing at the military aircraft department, but ...... Several bigwigs quickly figured out the cause and effect, and immediately seconded the agreement.
This punishment can basically be regarded as a small promotion for Shen Sanhe, Shandong is very close to the capital, and it can be seen that Yi still takes good care of this subordinate.
Soon the excerpt was sent to the Queen Mother of the Two Palaces to use the seal, for Li Zhongtang, the Queen Mother of the Two Palaces is still trying her best to envelop, this time the Tianjin military power display of the great earthquake of the national prestige has already been sent into the palace by the people of the Huai Military Department, Ci'an and Cixi, two old women who have suffered from the cannons of foreigners, are also in a good mood.
In addition to the excerpts sent in, Yi also sent the British's "Declaration", and the contents of the large book on it also corroborated the achievements of the large-scale foreign affairs, which naturally helped Yi to continue to take charge of the Military Aircraft Department and the affairs yamen of various countries in the DPRK and China.
On the seventh day of the seventh month of July, the Qixi Festival, Qin Kai, who had already returned to Mawei and was busy finishing the shipyard affairs, finally got a new appointment brought back by Ding Richang, his new official position was the Tongzhi of Funing Mansion and the superintendent of Mawei Shipbuilding, seeing that he had changed to Funing Mansion next to Fuzhou Mansion, Qin Kai asked Sun Fu a little depressed. ,
Only then did I understand that this Tongzhi was already the position of Zhengwupin, but there was also a prefect above Tongzhi, so Funing Mansion didn't need him to take office, and his actual position was the supervision of the Mawei Shipmaster.
There are 200 people in the Mawei Artillery Bureau, but there are 2000 people in the Mawei Shipyard, and Qin Kai is completely in a hurry at this time, and the manpower on hand is very limited, and most of the senior technicians of the Artillery Bureau are tackling key problems in machine tools and artillery technology. After much consideration, he decided to keep the shipyard's original system for the time being.
However, these officials have temporarily retained their positions, naturally it is not that Qin Kai does not want to manage, but he needs to observe for a period of time to understand the management ability of these people in such a large factory, and now is the time to really need to adjust. The Mawei Artillery Bureau is also No. 200 people, and the specific affairs are led by Xu Guofang, which is already quite difficult, and the daily personnel management is still presided over by He Xing.
In the early days of industrialization, when this person managed ten people, the effect of management was close to maximization, and now the steel mill, rolling mill, shipyard, air hammer workshop, machine tool workshop, and steam engine workshop under Mawei Shipyard ...... With so many workshops and workers, it is clear that the management model of the Artillery Bureau can no longer be followed.
The original method of management with small officials as the main management method has been proved to be inefficient by the current situation of the various factories, but the first priority of taking over the shipyard is obviously not to carry out a revolution, but to carry out appropriate innovation.
All the small officials were summoned, of course, the management of the artillery bureau who had joined the Qin Kai group one step earlier was also found, except for Wu Yun and Lin Deping in the artillery workshop, the others were already familiar, after these months, they actually went to the same end, and in a blink of an eye, the top boss became this Qin instructor who came from behind, which made those who did not stand on the right side of the team must be quite depressed.
The salary of this artillery bureau has already spread in the shipyard, and it is inevitable to talk about this issue when we meet at this time, here is a portrait of all beings in the world, some people are calm, some people are depressed, some people are happy, and some people are looking forward to it, and Qin Kai personally announced that the current management system will be maintained temporarily, and the salary will be increased by one percent, and the small officials in this shipyard are all relieved.
Originally, today, a considerable number of officials thought that it would be a big change of position, after all, the set of things engaged in by the Artillery Bureau, they had heard of it somewhat, and it was an unheard of move, but from the bottom of their hearts, these small officials who had risen from craftsmen also agreed.
Qin Kai then announced that he would complete the management transfer of all factories in the shipyard in the next three months, which was based on three points, one was the quality and progress of the products, the second was the management effect of the craftsmen, and the third was the evaluation of the workers.
Then Qin Kai announced that the assessment of all skilled workers was about to begin, but it was obviously unrealistic for such a large person to be assessed one by one, and it was bound to affect the future shipbuilding engineering arrangements, so for the time being, the small officials were used to conduct a preliminary evaluation of the craftsmen.
Of course, their authority is limited to apprentices and junior workers, of course, for the small officials who abuse this power, Qin Kai will naturally not hesitate to use the big stick in his hand, as for the intermediate and senior levels, they need to go through a separate assessment team interview and practical examination, and the assessment team has an additional task to supervise the workers.
With a raise and a promising future, the chaos at the shipyard was quickly calmed down. After Qin Kai did what he had to do, he quickly restored his true face and became the shopkeeper, he had always designated a direction, and then handed it over to He Xing to implement it.
He hired Wang Fei, a senior engineer who was good at making molds, and now it was time to set an example for the Mawei Ship Master, and under his design and guidance, Wang Fei quickly processed a batch of brass medals. Then, a ceremony was held in which all the workers of the Harbour Department participated.
Standing on the podium today is Wu Yun of the Artillery Bureau and a group of front-line workers, seeing a large number of workers under the stage, the craftsmen standing on the stage waiting for the award are naturally very excited, they all know in advance that it is because the cannon was made, Supervisor Qin said that he would give a reward, but he didn't expect to enjoy the honor in front of thousands of people.
The crowd in the audience was even more discussed, this is something that has never happened in the factory, in the past, in addition to burying their heads in work, there was no reward at all except salary, but if they could not survive, they would be punished. ,
"Wow...... Those people on the stage, many of them are so angry! ”
"I heard that the Suzhou Artillery Bureau came with me, and the black face in front of the platoon is called Wu Yun......"
"Look! Lao Liu of the lathe workshop also stood on it? Supervisor Qin doesn't know how much reward money will be given! A worker said.
"Stupid, what a lot of face is this when you stand on the platform, what a reward!"
Seeing that everyone had arrived, Zhou Ruidong took a team of students to stand on the platform as a megaphone, and the team stood straight, although they were still wearing old-fashioned student uniforms, but this posture was full of majesty.
Qin Kai beckoned, and the audience suddenly became quiet, "Everyone, I am here today to announce a great news, a 420-pound cannon made by the Mawei Artillery Bureau will be placed in the Dagu Fort at the gateway of the capital, and in the display of military strength of Tianjin Wei, the Westerners were also shocked, even the Westerners can't make cannons of this caliber, but our Mawei Artillery Bureau has done ......it."
The audience was still silent, Qin Kai was depressed for a while, why didn't he applaud, when did this applause ceremony enter China......
"The success of this artillery is the glory of our Mawei Shipbuilding, the glory of everyone in our Mawei Shipbuilding, and the glory of every worker of our Mawei Artillery Bureau who participated in this project. Let's pay tribute to these horsetailed heroes! ”
Qin Kai's speech was very encouraging, he took the lead in applauding, and the students next to him saw it and learned to applaud, and immediately thought of applauding under the stage, and soon this turned into a sea of applause.
Wu Yun and those workers standing on the stage were obviously a little too excited, and their faces turned red, what a glorious thing this is, I didn't expect that as a low-level craftsman, one day I could get such praise, and this Lord Qin is really right, and the applause like a sea is the main theme of this day.
Then Qin Kai personally hung up the shining medals one by one, the first batch of medals was only a dozen people, but among these ten people there were small officials and craftsmen, which undoubtedly made everyone in the shipyard see hope, under the Qin superintendent, as long as you work hard, there will be a glorious day, and that man will not look forward to glory!!
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