[Two more 10,000 words today, and there will be an update in the afternoon!] 】

Liao Dechang was lying on the ground groggily, he didn't know where he was at all, anyway, when he came down from the Guangzhou port, he was brought here blindfolded. The other party repeatedly asked about the loom and the dyeing machine, and it seemed that the Englishman did not know the details of the artillery bureau, but he never said a word.

I don't remember the first time I was beaten, the other party used a way every time - fists, Liao Dechang is not burly, but he is quite strong, but after two or three fists, he has to break out in a cold sweat, he gritted his teeth and persevered, and the other party came down with two fists, and he fell to the ground, twitching all over.

Seeing this, the other party also stopped and poured a bucket of water on him. He unconsciously sucked the water, then fainted, and in his last consciousness he seemed to see the two fierce-looking, tall British soldiers suddenly fall like logs......

Looking at the watch, it is already 12 o'clock in the middle of the night, and the British Consulate not far away opposite has already been immersed in the night, today is the second quarter of the moon, Guangzhou in early spring, there is a little chill in the middle of the night, Qin Kai is sitting next to the groom who is driving, and Zhou Ruidong and Zhang Kui have already led people into the house.

The only thing he was worried about was the firefight, after all, this devil was such a big place, and a gunshot could definitely wake everyone up. Finally, the dozen or so people who entered by mistake appeared, and Zhang Kui carried a person on his back and hurriedly ran to the carriage and squeezed up.

"Instructor, it's done!"

"Let's go!" Qin Kai quickly ordered, this operation was obviously unexpected, the other party should have completely unexpectedly expected that someone would run into the concession to rob people, and the guards in the house at night turned out to be two, instead of the original five, it was really lucky.

The two carriages clattered and moved quickly, and suddenly a group of patrolling British soldiers appeared at the intersection in front of them, and they were walking slowly and noisily along the street.

"Go ahead and don't make a sound!" Qin Kai said in a low voice and Xiang Yong, who was driving the car.

The two carriages moved slowly, and although it was late at night, it was not uncommon in the concession, so the group of British soldiers only paid a little attention when they saw the carriage, and one of them asked in English, "Who is in the carriage?" ”

Qin Kai hoarsely throated, and replied in a confused manner, "It's Mr. Anderson...... this ordinary name, you can meet ten Andersons in a circle, the soldiers nodded, and then continued to argue about their own issues.

Seeing that he was about to get rid of these British patrols, suddenly there was a noise in the house in the distance behind, and there were people running around, and Zhou Ruidong in the back carriage peeked out of the window and saw that there were three British soldiers running out of the house...... It's such a coincidence that it came across a rotation of British people on dog days.

Fortunately, it was already some distance from the house at this time, and the patrolman who was chatting beside heard the shouting from there, and under the leadership of a sergeant, he hurried over to see what was going on.

Qin Kai waved his hand, the carriage sped up a little, and quickly turned the intersection, at this time, there was already a whistle alarm behind him, he turned around and patted the carriage door, "Zhang Kui, implement the second set of retreat plans!" ”

"Yes!" Zhang Kui leaned out with a white rectangular Kong Ming lantern, lit a square fixed in the middle of the lamp, and the light blue flame suddenly rose, and after a few seconds, the Kong Ming lantern slowly floated into the sky, and the carriage accelerated and quickly passed through two intersections.

At this time, the Kong Ming lantern was already flying high in the sky at a height of seventy or eighty meters, and suddenly the whole lamp burned, and with a bang, a huge firework bloomed in the sky.

At the same time, in a forest behind the British Consulate to the east of the devil's base, a high flame suddenly rose, and it was obviously fierce, and the eastern sky was red in just a few minutes, and there was a tendency to spread in the direction of the embassy. On the way, I also met a few sporadic British soldiers, who were not interested in either carriage, and hurried to put out the fire.

Consul Schleier had been waiting for a long time at an improvised dock behind the German Embassy, and his face was somewhat uneasy when he saw the fire rising in the east, but ten minutes later, the sound of horses' hooves and wheels was heard on the stone road at the end of the darkness, and two wagons came rushing to him. ,

Under the guidance of the faint oil lamp, Qin Kai walked to Schleier's side, laughed and said, "Consul Schleier, I owe you a favor today!" Thank you so much. You must give me an answer to the matters we are discussing, we have more cooperation projects to discuss, and I will not continue to cause trouble for you here. ”

Watching Qin Kai unhurriedly board the small German gunboat, Schleier felt a little emotional, this young Chinese official really has too many peculiarities, but why can't he see any officials similar to him in other places, large and small Qing Dynasty officials in the Guangzhou Yamen, he can see a lot, one by one, they are either high, or have a face that sees money......

Schleier naturally can't figure out the truth, fortunately, this Lord Qin is very trustworthy, for the political family, trustworthiness is a rare virtue, no matter what, he has three more achievements, the most important thing at present is to report these achievements to the German Chancellor and the King, with the wisdom of Prime Minister Bismarck, he has made such a great contribution to the country in the Far East, the glory of the von Schleier family is finally coming again, he turned around and returned to the embassy with great ambition!

The German gunboats circled around in the river, and soon approached the "Ji'an" ship that was anchored at the mouth of the Pearl River, and rested temporarily on the ship that night.

This is a talent, it is the most lacking shipbuilding expert in Mawei Shipbuilding, Qin Kai welcomed him very warmly, when the sky was bright, Qin Kai instructed Chen An to immediately burn coal and pressurize, ready to sail, when the sun rose, the warship had already faced the Guangzhou port of Chaoyang Shun lì leaving,

Liao Dechang is no longer suitable for showing up in the Artillery Bureau, Qin Kai temporarily arranged for him to recuperate at He Xing's house, fortunately, they are all skin injuries, David and Luo Shou have come to diagnose and treat, thinking that there is no big problem, just rest for a while.

The next day, Liao Dechang was able to get up and move around normally, this time the unwarranted disaster can be described as coming and going in a hurry, he was taken hostage and taken away, and he returned to Fuzhou in a daze, when he woke up, he saw his mother and little brother appear in front of him, and naturally knew that Qin Kai was the right thing to rescue him, and now he can only bury his gratitude deep in his heart.

Qin Kai also came to see him with Hu Changchang, just to let him rest in peace, and the Artillery Bureau's research team was temporarily replaced by other senior skilled workers, but all the things and materials in his hut were all sent, so that he could rest in He Mansion with peace of mind and not show up for the time being.

Liao Dechang introduced that Hu Changchang also studied in Germany, learned the major of ships and machinery, and also went to the Volkeng shipyard in Germany for a short period of time, and he was also very fluent in German, which is a shortage of talents.

Qin Kai immediately arranged him with the German Andrew, hoping that he could pull the German Yankee's skills over, but it wasn't long before Qin Kai realized that his original arrangement was somewhat reversed.

After returning from Guangzhou, Qin Kai'an had a lot of time, in addition to maintaining communication with Qi Meinu, he was concentrating on staying in the factory to promote the construction of Mawei shipbuilding industry, due to the improvement of electrolytic metallurgy technology in the steel mill and the investment of more and more small power equipment in the artillery bureau, it was obviously not possible to rely on small steam engine generators in various factories.

In terms of power equipment, Mawei Shipbuilding has always lacked talents, and Qin Kai can only take a few students to participate in the work of this thermal generator, but fortunately, there are also talents in this area among German technicians, and they just practice through guò, hoping to bring out a group of children.

The three-expansion steam engine and water-tube boiler just developed by the public relations team of Li Xiong, the director of the boiler workshop, were immediately applied to the thermal power plant, coupled with the investment of the reciprocating steam turbine machine, the efficiency of the large-scale steam-powered generator was greatly improved, and a large amount of fuel was also saved.

More importantly, after the three-expansion steam engine and water tube boiler are put into practice, all aspects of the process have been improved, and after the production of a large number of steam engines and boilers, the technical level of the workers has been significantly improved. ,

In the past few months, the biggest breakthrough in technical research should be the firearms research workshop, Huang Xingna has been exceptionally promoted to the leader of a research team due to a number of achievements in firearms research. And a lot of progress has been made in the modular production of the Mauser 98, and the modular disassembly and measurement of the 88 Commission rifle is also advancing simultaneously.

However, as an infantry weapon, although the Mauser 98 is cheap and good, the firepower is not enough to provide the Qin armor full of current tactics, and the fastest rate of fire provided by this rear-pulled bolt loading method is several rounds per minute, and this so-called firepower can only be provided by relying entirely on the number of people.

Based on the process that can be achieved now, the light brain soon provided two options for Qin Kai, one is the German improved version of the Maxim machine gun MG08, in the Maxim machine gun family, the German version of MG08 can be described as a high-quality product, as the originator of the tube retreat machine gun, the Maxim machine gun focuses on simple structure, but even if MG08 has been specially improved in weight, this thing is still too heavy, and what is more terrible is that a machine gun needs an officer and at least 3 team members to form a shooting team.

The second option is the German-made MP18 submachine gun, provided that the range requirement is partially abandoned, and the MP18's disemboweling and free-firing design has obvious shortcomings, and can only use relatively small bullets, and the range is slightly insufficient, only 150 meters. However, it is very suitable for the current production of the Mawei Artillery Bureau, because almost all of the MP18 structures can be stamped and formed at one time, and the requirements for machining accuracy are not high, and it can even be said to allow large manufacturing tolerances.

Qin Kai after viewing the MP18 structural hologram, he also had to admire the whimsy of the designer, this kind of thick line design and primer pre-firing ignition method, even in a hundred years later submachine guns are still used, what is even more surprising is the simplicity of the structure, there are only 37 parts of the bolt, gun body, magazine, butt, barrel 5 major components. He did not hesitate to choose this assault submachine gun. Hell with range, we've got cannons!

Of course, the Maxim machine gun was regarded as a secondary development goal, after all, this retractable automatic bolt machine still has huge application value even in the later machine guns and artillery.

Qin Kai naturally paid attention to the movements in Guangzhou all the time, and Consul Schleier could be said to have helped him get home this time, and news came every few days. After the first few days of great fighting in the British Concession, for unknown reasons, it did not even reach the governor's yamen, and a month later, it was over.

At this time, Qin Kai had already begun his new journey.

He Yong and Wu Jingui are the big treasurers of the He and Wu families' external operations, and now their value and strength have increased by leaps and bounds.

I don't know for what reason, Lu Yijin, the shopkeeper of Fukang Bank, came to see Qin Kai in person and brought Hu Xueyan's handwritten letter, first thanking Qin Kai for the invitation, and then saying that because the business of Fukang Silver was too busy, he could not transfer manpower to join the operation of Mawei Shipping Company, but he was willing to invest 300,000 taels in Mawei Shipping.

Qin Kai was still worried about the Shanghai raw silk trade war that Lu Yijin said last time, and after asking, it seemed that because the operation of dyed fabrics was in a critical stage of development, Fukang had not yet launched a raw silk acquisition war, which made him feel a little relieved. Of course, for the investment in Fukang Yinhao, Qin Kai is naturally full of words.

The two of them have purchased a 2,000-ton steam cargo ship, and Qin Kai also invested 100,000 taels to purchase a 2,500-ton cargo ship, and the director of the Mawei Shipping Company is served by He Yong, with Qin Kai accounting for 50 of the shares, and He, Wu and Hu accounting for 20, 20 and 10.

In the spring of the sixth year of Guangxu, on March 7, the fleet full of cloth, small hardware, toothpaste, soap, these horsetail shipbuilding specialties set off, the crew and sailors of the He family and the Wu family were recruited by themselves, but Qin Kai's re-named "Bingfeng" cargo ship completely implemented the military management model, the captain was Lu Zhiyuan, an eight-rank officer in the training camp, and the captain, the boatswain, these middle-level officers and soldiers were all from the training ship, and the sailors were all from the graduating students and art garden technicians of the shipyard school.

In Qin Kai's vision, the Mawei shipping company is the reserve force of the training camp, only standardized management and training, in order to create qualified soldiers, and the training out of practice is obviously ineffective, from the training to benefit, from the training to produce results, this shipping company is undoubtedly a good way to kill multiple birds with one stone. Beiyang's China Merchants Bureau was collecting 30 million taels of silver for Sheng Huai, and Qin Kai naturally did not let go of such a big deal. ,

The three cargo ships that sailed out of Mawei Harbor, this five-star red flag was hoisted high on the mast, it is said that the Qin Supervisor personally made the caravan flag, in this regard, no one in the whole fleet understood the meaning of this, but felt that this flag was eye-catching and bright enough, according to the prior arrangement, after the fleet sailed out of the port, it was moored next to the west channel of Chuanshi Island as agreed.

After a while, a huge black battleship appeared with billowing black smoke and chased after it from the mouth of the Minjiang River, and the officers on the "Bingfeng" naturally knew that this was the super battleship No. 501 of the Nanyang Navy Training Camp, and the sailors who were training on the deck below widened their eyes and looked at this big black guy in the distance in amazement.

A young man in an art garden uniform whispered to another young man from the Ship Master School next to him, "Brother Lu, this is a foreign warship, such a big guy, look at those two chimneys, thick and strong!" ”

"I know this, I mentioned it in our school, it seems to be called an ironclad warship, but we haven't it in the Qing Dynasty yet, it's all things that can only be owned by Taixi powerhouses!"

"Wow, it's so powerful, I'll get closer later, why don't you take a closer look!"

The chatter of the sailors who were training immediately attracted the attention of the officer in charge of training, and the two officers stepped forward and jumped at a few of the boys who were talking about it, "What a fuss!" What kind of place are you supposed to be! I warned you when I got on board, you...... You...... And the two of you, 1 hour of extra training today! ”

Several of the named sailors suddenly became wilted eggplants, and the other sailors grimaced at each other, and immediately began training in accordance with the officer's requirements.

When the 501 training ship approached the fleet, a burst of cheers erupted from the two merchant ships of the He family and the Wu family behind it, and the sailors who were training were also surprised to see that on the lookout of the black battleship, there was a five-star red flag hanging in a very bright color, and it turned out to be the escort warship of their own fleet.

However, in the cold evil smile of the training officer, these sailors opened their mouths one by one, and continued the training they were working on, and the lessons of the past were still there, and it was not a fun thing to communicate with each other.

Qin Kai was sitting in the command room of the 501 ship at this time, but obviously he was just decorating the command room, Lu Han was giving orders one by one, and Xu Shoushan on the side was lying on the chart with a ruler and gesturing.

"Raise the flag! Order the rear flotilla to follow at a distance of two nautical miles! ”

"Turn left rudder, course southwest, declination angle 37.4 degrees, cruising speed 12 knots!"

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