Chapter 37: The Snake Plan

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Zhang Kui and Lu Han took the people to arrange his plan to scare the snakes, Qin Kai returned to his own room in the research institute, and he walked into a secret room in the house, which was full of wooden shelves, on which a large number of drawings were densely piled up. He opened a chest in a corner, which contained his tactical suit and helmet.

He thought about it, and the tactical suit was taken out, and the helmet was still in it. Although Zhang Kui's plan was good, he didn't have any idea of giving the enemy any chance.

In the next few days, Lu Han led people to secretly monitor the golden fat man, while Zhang Kui was in charge of continuing the arrangements. There was soon a news spread in the Mawei Ship Master School, and Supervisor Qin attached great importance to the selection of instructors this time, and he would personally preside over the exam this day. This news obviously stimulated everyone's registration, and before the registration deadline, dozens of people suddenly increased.

And Lu Han, who was in charge of monitoring near the golden fat man's house, soon saw a figure sneaking in through the back door at night, and when the person came out, some of the accompanying students recognized that it was Ma San, the former golden fat man's subordinate.

After the head thief returned to the school, he was quickly caught out of the bed, and he was scared of the ass and urinated, and after a little interrogation, he recruited all of them, it turned out that this guy was not the main one, and the golden fat man promised the benefits of 20 taels of silver, and asked him to inform the Qin supervisor of the recent movements, and he ran to the night to tell the golden fat man about the selection of teachers the day after tomorrow.

After another interrogation, Ma San couldn't say any valuable information, just said that he had seen the golden fat man and the three big men discuss, but he didn't know the specifics, and asked him to hire a carriage to park in the backyard of the golden fat man's house, and it was estimated that he was going to run away, and then Rory said some nonsense, which didn't seem to be of much value.

Early in the morning, Zhang Kui led a team of men and horses to lie in the woods at the foot of a mountain in the two miles of the Li Artillery Bureau, he climbed a big tree, and stared at the distant avenue with clairvoyance from the bushes.

He looked at the sun, the sun had just risen, and the instructor should have left the artillery bureau in an hour, and on this avenue, after careful analysis, around several small hills that could be used, seven or eight groups of ambushed security regiments had already been set up, and today was the first time that the security regiment had come out to carry out the mission, and the targets of the search were also explained, focusing on young and strong men, who might be carrying foreign guns.

Zhang Kui observed for a while, found nothing, thought about it, and beckoned down, "Uh! That one...... Qi Fang, you take a few people to climb the tree, show me around, someone is walking the road, tell me immediately! ”

"Yes! Instructor," a tall thin man in a village uniform nodded in response, it was Qi Fang who had been assessed by Niutou Village, who had been in the security corps for two months, and it seemed that he had changed a lot, his spirit was quite strong, and his body was much stronger, so he immediately ordered three people to run in several other directions.

For a long time, there was still no trace of the imaginary enemy, which made Zhang Kui a little anxious, and secretly scolded in his heart, this dead golden fat man, wouldn't he be a shrunken turtle in the back! After combing through the situation before and after, the information provided by Ma San and his own analysis all indicate that the golden fat man does not look like a turtle.

Suddenly, a thought crossed his mind! Carriage...... Carriage...... The carriage...... Is it for killers! It's not the golden fat man who runs away to use it! So the other party doesn't need to find a position to ambush in advance! TMD, son of a bitch!

"The whole team!" Zhang Kui shouted loudly.

A group of soldiers in ambush in the distance and Qi Fang who were observing from the trees hurriedly trotted all the way to gather, the two months of paramilitary training were still very effective in the end, these peasant-born security regiments cherished this well-paid and well-fed job, and they also sold their lives during training, of course, there were some people who were not strong enough to be eliminated.

"Immediately search along the main road in the direction of the Harbour Master's School, and be sure to find the carriage or people who may be hiding nearby! Notify other groups along the way to carry out this order! As soon as Zhang Kui's order was given, the team ran quickly at a rapid marching speed.

In a small forest one mile away from the Mawei Ship Master School, an old carriage was parked aside, two big men squatted under a big tree and closed their eyes to rest, one of the strong men with a black mark on his face suddenly opened his eyes, "Second brother, listen, is there the sound of a large group of people running?" ”,

The other big man was also stunned, and hurriedly lay down and listened to the ground, and jumped up violently for a while, "Someone did come from the artillery bureau, why didn't Lao Qi come to report the news?" Didn't you say that the person surnamed Qin likes to be alone? Could it be that the fat man surnamed Jin leaked the news and harmed us! ”

"Second child, you go up to the tree and take a look, I'll go and pull the car over, and if the situation is wrong, I'll run away! Go back and settle accounts with the surname Jin! The big man with the black mark immediately jumped up and ran to the carriage.

Another Chinese character jumped on a tall tree, and he realized why the old seven who were sent out to see the intelligence didn't come back! The kid was chasing after seven or eight people wearing this country's brave uniform, and there were also people in front of him who outflanked him, obviously unable to escape. As soon as the big man saw that something was wrong, he slipped down from the tree and ran to the carriage.

"Big brother, it's not good, I don't know why outside, there are a lot of townspeople here, and the seventh brother is surrounded, what do you think?" This big man can see that he has passed through the world, but he is not in a hurry.

"Withdraw first, if the seventh child is arrested, we are trying to find a way to get rid of it when we go back, and it is always okay to spend money to get rid of the crime!" The two of them did not say a word and ran into the carriage. The imprint man waved his whip and snapped, and the carriage rushed out of the woods.

Zhang Kui ran all the way, and finally bumped into a suspicious element for him on the last part of the road, a kid was cating on a tree in a forest next to him, and he saw it at a glance to Qi Fang next to him.

He waited on the road with a dozen people, and saw that this guy was running wildly all the way, most of them were today's main owners.

"Instructor Zhang, there's a carriage ahead!" Qi next to him shouted loudly.

I saw the sound of horses' hooves in the woods not far away, and an old carriage galloped out, which was at least forty or fifty meters away from Zhang Kui's team, and the other party suddenly rushed out and went in the opposite direction, obviously it was impossible to intercept it.

"Line up!" Zhang Kui picked up the Mauser rifle all the time, and as soon as Xiang Yong next to him heard the order, he immediately reflexively took Zhang Kui as the benchmark, and completed the whole team in a few seconds!

The carriage on the opposite side had already rushed out of the woods, running diagonally along the path to the official road, except for a strong man driving, another strong man saw the Xiang Yong in the opposite line, and immediately took out a spear and aimed it at the soldiers in the line.

"Raise your gun!" Zhang Kui steadily raised the brand-new Mauser gun.

Qi Fangzheng was standing next to Zhang Kui, and when he heard the command, he had already raised his aim flat, and at the crosshairs, the muzzle of the black hole raised by the big man on the opposite side was clearly visible, and his heart suddenly accelerated.

However, he understood that he could not shoot first, and according to the shooting regulations, he must shoot in a platoon of guns, and those who violated the order would be dealt with by military law......

"Shoot!" Zhang Kui shouted, and then gently pulled the trigger.

"Pap" "Pap" "Pap" "Pa" The gunshots rang out, and a cloud of smoke rose up, and the man who was whipping the horse on the opposite side was stunned, and an upside-down onion fell out of the carriage, and the two horses driving were shot, and immediately showed fatigue, while the other horse was also frightened and neighed on the spot, and the man who raised the gun to shoot was thrown out of the carriage that suddenly stopped before he could shoot.

However, it can be seen that this guy is a strong figure, and the moment he fell to the weeds on the side, he turned over and unloaded the momentum, and rushed into the wasteland. As soon as Zhang Kui waved his hand, Qi Fang chased after him with a few people.

The round-up ended soon, one died, one was caught, and in the end, the man was also a fierce man, running wildly all the way, and he jumped into the Min River and disappeared.

The man who was arrested was caught in the artillery bureau, but he was also like a tough guy, he refused to speak, Zhang Kui had no fold for a while, Qin Kai ran in and looked at this man, he didn't think about this old-fashioned move such as punishment, but he didn't think about it here, but he didn't use lynching to give people a handle, not to mention that the current governor Wenshan didn't know what his attitude was.

Of course, Qin Kai has no mercy for these people who want to kill him, this era is chaotic enough, and he is not interested in eating black guns inexplicably. Let people tie up this person, send several waves of people to take turns to watch, and do not talk to this person, this guy is about to sleep, so he wakes up with cold water, and as a result, the next afternoon, this guy took the initiative to recruit. ,

They are the gangsters of Jiulong Mountain at the junction of Fuzhou Mansion and Yanping Mansion, and this time it was the big boss Gao Yizhong who said that he had taken over a good deal, and someone offered three thousand taels and three Mauser new guns to kill the supervisor of the Mawei Ship Administration surnamed Qin, and he came here to wait after finding out the exact news yesterday.

The big man with a black mark on his face who was killed was Gao Yizhong, the eldest brother of the Jiulong Mountain Gang, and the one who escaped was the second master, called Luo Jin, he was the seventh in line on the mountain, called Su Ben'er, and as for the one who contacted them here, it was a gangster in Fuzhou City, called Lan Yang, nicknamed the thirty-second master.

This guy is really stupid, he has seen the golden fat man, but he doesn't know the name of the golden fat man, he only said that he is willing to identify the house and people of the golden fat man.

As soon as the evidence was conclusive, Qin Kai immediately asked this guy to sign the confession, and escorted the bodies of Su Ben'er and the bandit leader Gao Yizhong into the governor's yamen.

When Ding Richang heard this, he was furious immediately, and immediately summoned the Fuzhou prefect, and sent the officials to detain Lan Yang.

And Lao Ding is obviously not a good stubble, this golden fat man spared his life last time, this guy dared to be so bold, I don't know if it was instructed by Li Zhongtang, or the old man Ding was really angry, anyway, he handed it to the military aircraft department in a book, and directly participated in the governor Wenshan connived at his family members to attack the imperial court officials, and the Fuzhou officialdom was in a mess now.

A few days later, Qin Kai finally looked forward to the telegram from Shanghai, Xu Jianyin had boarded the journey to Europe, but Xu Jianyin had mentioned Qin Kai many times in front of his father, Xu Shou had a good impression of his son's new friend, and immediately replied to the telegram to recommend a list of more than a dozen people to him.

Among them, Qin Kai saw a familiar name, Zhang Jian. Xu Shou has a high evaluation of this colleague, which can be summed up in four words - the world's best man.

And the history that Qin Kai is familiar with, this Zhang Jian, who is now only 28 years old, is a doer who integrates education and industry, and he really has his own road in front of the mountain, he hurriedly sent a telegram to Xu Shou, entrusting him to invite Zhang Jian to Mawei to talk about the great cause of this new learning.

Soon, a busy month has passed, and all departments of the Mawei Ship Administration are running at high speed, and there are not many times when He Xing comes to find Qin Kai these days, but today this tough Fujian man looks full of smiles.

"Brother He, there must be something good about coming to me today! And...... It has something to do with silver! Qin Kai laughed and joked.

"Brother Qin, you really know me," He Xing smiled and took out an account book and handed it to Qin Kai.

"What are you doing for me, I can't understand this thing," Qin Kai smiled, this financial account book is dense, how can he have time to read it, but according to the modern financial concept he understands, he still cares about He Xing's monthly expenses and income, and the financial changes have increased.

"Last month, the Germans promised another amount of 654,000 taels arrived, the sales of textile machinery are now very good, Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi, Zhejiang merchants have come to purchase machines, last month's surplus is 183,000 taels, I estimate that this momentum can continue until next year, but the maintenance of these machines, in the future, there will be about 100,000 taels per month."

Qin Kai smiled slightly, this machine is the only one in China, there is no semicolon, our machine is cheaper, this maintenance fee should be earned, this is a stable income, but ...... The premise is the prosperity of the domestic textile industry, thinking of this, he took out a letter from the drawer.

This is the news he entrusted Wu Jingui to collect and inquire from the members of the Thirteen Lines and the Textile Association in various places, and the general information of the foreign cloth trade in various ports in the Qing Dynasty, among which there are a few that Qin Kai is quite interested in.

At present, 7 percent of the so-called foreign cloth comes from Britain, France, the United States, Germany, these European and American countries, especially the British Empire, which uses their huge ocean fleet and fleet to plunder raw materials from the colonies, and then produce them and sell them to China.

After the Meiji Restoration, Japan in the east set up a large number of textile and processing industries, purchased advanced textile machines from Britain and France, purchased cotton and silk from China, processed in Japan and then sold back to China, earning a high price difference, their cloth was called Oriental cloth by merchants, which was slightly better than that of Indian Asan in terms of workmanship, but it was far from the Western cloth that came directly from Europe in terms of color and system. ,

In this year, due to the promotion of Qin Kai, domestic businessmen began to buy a large number of cotton and raw silk, resulting in the price of domestic cotton and raw silk rising all the way, but considering the huge agricultural population base in China, the price of cotton and raw silk increased this year, which will definitely stimulate the relevant output in the second year.

Moreover, with the current purchase price of cotton and raw silk for production, the price of finished cotton cloth, cotton yarn and silk is also much lower than that of foreign cloth transported from the port by more than 5 percent, and the sales of textile machines carried out by the Tongguò Textile Association control the scope of the textile industry from a certain distance, and these merchants are inextricably linked, and a close relationship community has been formed at present.

As the three giants of the Textile Association, He Yong, Wu Jingui and Qin Kai, the sales profits of the two machines alone are rich enough to make people crazy.

He Yong's statement at a recent family meeting of the He family is the most direct confession, "Our He family, the business done in previous years, from Fuzhou Mansion all the way to Dingzhou Mansion, not to mention the hard work on the road, the whole family has a surplus of only a few thousand taels every year, and now I help Lord Qin cook, these million taels are also seen, and the Textile Association alone has tens of thousands of taels of income every month, which is all thanks to the blessing of Lord Qin!" If we don't risk our lives to repay the adults, how can it be done! ”

Master He naturally understands that it is unlikely that he will risk his life after this, but there is a lot of silver, so he is afraid of attracting envy. Therefore, the He family discussed with Qin Kai, and Master He personally took charge of it, and invested eighty percent of the monthly surplus into Qin Kai's Jimin Pharmacy.

This has been strongly supported by Qin Kai, Jimin Pharmacy is now relying on the hands of the He family to take care of it, which is also responsible for the development of a piece of Chinese and Western medicine, the development of traditional Chinese medicine can be presided over by Luo Shou, now Luo Shou is no longer the original family road in the middle of the appearance, the research and development of fast-acting heart pills and musk heart pills is successful, Qin Kai has allocated two percent of the profits to the R & D personnel to enjoy ten years.

This greatly stimulated the continued research and development of traditional Chinese medicine from another angle, Luo Shou naturally understood the origin of this prescription, and was naturally grateful for this generous gift, which made his family medicine finally come in handy.

This time, the He family increased its capital and hired a group of famous doctors from all over the country, which made the golden sign of Jimin Pharmacy famous in several nearby provinces, and the research and development of finished drugs also advanced to a new stage.

Recently, it has been the German David has looked for Qin Kai several times, Qin Kai had no choice but to spare a day of work, plagiarized a booklet of modern medicine, let him study on his own, although he cooperated with Luo Shou, David learned a lot in Chinese medicine, but obviously he still focuses on Western medicine, Qin Kai now basically treats him as a teacher, with a group of newly recruited students, students have grown a lot in most of the year.

Qin Kai mentioned in the pamphlet a number of plant extracts for their medical applications, which were actually the main source of early Western medicine, and in this era, the main feature of Western medicine was still focused on minor surgery. The concept of disinfection and germs mentioned by Qin Kai in the booklet made David refreshed and immediately devoted himself to research, which was exactly what Qin Kai hoped for, so that this dedicated German could train the first row of Western medical talents for New China.

In September, Qin Kai proposed to Ding Richang that the telegraph offices that were now set up by the consulates of various countries should be brought back to the imperial court, and this bill was soon submitted to the imperial court through Guò Li Zhongtang, and the ministers of various countries were actually tired of the telegrams that went their own way, and it was best for the Qing government to fund the planning of the whole country, and soon the Qing telegraph office, which should have been put into practice a year later, was formally established.

In late September, the hydraulic press developed by the second R&D team of the Mawei Artillery Bureau completed the standardization system, and the first generation of hydraulic press presided over by Xu Guofang - the 120-ton hydraulic press was off the production line.

In October, the China Textile Association held an internal consultation meeting in Guangzhou, and since this was the first important meeting within the association, when the shopkeepers of all the big merchants arrived at the big mansion of the Wu family in the thirteen lines of Guangzhou, they received the shocking news that the Textile Association was going to engage in a trade war with Oriental cloth.

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