Master Sun secretly gave his colleague a good treat in his heart, this is not obvious to get some benefits, but obviously, if he does not leak some oil and water to this colleague, it is estimated that there will be a lot of trouble in the future, but fortunately, his own recommendation has been confirmed, and as for this Shen Sing and what he wants to share, it is also Qin Kai's credit.

"Brother Shen, this matter is naturally inseparable from your coordination," he turned his head and pulled Qin Kai over, "Qin Kai, Lord Shen has promised to do his best to help you coordinate these things, you have to remember the help of the adults!" ”

Qin Kai was stunned for a moment, before he had a score on this matter, he began to divide the credit, but he was not a chick, he understood the things in the officialdom very well, and immediately bowed his hand and said softly, "Lord Shen, this matter must be inseparable from your coordination, Lord Ding asked, I will definitely tell you." ”

Shen Sing and Qin Kai were very sophisticated, not at all as dull as those craftsmen, naturally very happy, patted him on the shoulder, the three of them looked at each other and smiled, and finalized the matter.

Subsequently, Shen Singhe read out the documents of the governor Ding, and then introduced the directors of each factory to Qin Kai, who had no official rank and belonged to the officials of Wupin, and now temporarily accepted Qin Kai's moderation.

After arranging this matter, Shen Songhe introduced the officials and foreign teachers in the room one by one, most of the officials here are fictitious, that is, they are doing the affairs of student management, and the real person in charge is indeed only Shen Songhe, and there are those foreign teachers, two of whom attracted Qin Kai's attention.

One of them is the French officer born in Riyige mentioned earlier by Master Sun, this is a thin French man in his forties, with a curly beard, Qin Kai noticed that he did not wear any clothing marked as an officer, but a neat set of Western clothes, for this person, he learned that the historical evaluation is relatively positive.

This person rose in the civil war of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and Zuo Zongtang formed a deep connection, the establishment of the Mawei Ship Master School, this person has a great credit, these overseas teachers, craftsmen are recruited by him, and most of them are indeed real talents, but quite sadly, the Mawei Ship Administration finally ruined the French Navy.

The other is the English Chinese teacher Jia Leer, Shen Sing and introduced this person to be proficient in Sinology, and the four Westerners who were with Jin Fatty that day were also present, naturally very surprised by Qin Kai's appearance, and soon, the information that Qin Kai was proficient in the foreign languages of the two countries spread among the foreign teachers.

After Qin Kai left, Jin Wu, the fat man who had been nesting in the corner, saw that everyone had left, and walked directly into the back room.

"Brother Jin, this surnamed Qin, you can look away!" Shen Singhe said with a smile.

The fat golden man snorted, "Uh...... It's no wonder to me, who knew that this kid had the ability to move Governor Ding! However, it seems that Lord Shen, you should be more careful of Luo! ”

Shen Sing laughed a few times, "What do I have to worry about, even if this kid has some ability, he can still turn the sky, and I still have the final say in the school!" ”

That night, after the routine party, Qin Kai returned to the instructor's dormitory arranged for him exhausted, which was obviously Shen Singhe's promise to him in return, and after a little washing, he fell down and slept until dawn.

He asked the soldiers on duty at the door, and then hurried to the cafeteria, where he saw for the first time the students of the Mawei Ship Master School, which gathered the elite of this era. Now, in the era of the imperial examinations, entering the academy means completely abandoning the career of the imperial examination, and the students here are mainly from enlightened bureaucratic families, children of poor families, or some young people with new consciousness.

Seeing this, those teenagers were busy, many of them were still reading hard after eating, and he was even a little impulsive, wanting to go up and ask the other party's name, maybe it was a certain big man in the future, thinking of this, Qin Kai was quite a little bitter.

Still eating, seeing Huang Dang appear again, it seems that he didn't come to talk to him today, he took two teenage boys, Qin Kai hurriedly got up to greet him.

"Brother Huang, looking for me?"

Huang Dang laughed, patted the two little boys next to him, and said: "Brother Qin, this one on the left is my baby, and this one on the right is my second nephew, his father died in the battle with the handsome in the early years, and now he relies on the old brothers to help take care of it!" ”,

Qin Kai got up and touched the heads of the two children, thought for a while, and said, "Brother Huang, okay, I'm going to the shipyard today, and by the way, I'll take them to see and see!" ”

Huang Dang was naturally very happy when he heard Qin Kai's mouth, originally he only said that he would let his own boy come, and when he returned home and told his mother-in-law, he remembered that this second nephew who had no father would bring it together, and he wanted to say more good things, but he didn't expect Qin Kai to respond directly and very happily, thinking that his old brother's son finally had a good home, he was also full of smiles.

Huang Dang's kid is called Huang Xing, his second nephew's surname is Sun, his name is Sun Xiang, both of them are 14 years old, but Huang Xing is obviously much better nourished, and his body is bigger.

Both of them looked at Qin Kai respectfully, they both listened to Huang Dang, their teacher is a capable person, and after respectfully bowing to the teacher, they will follow Qin Kai.

Shen Singhe seems to be very concerned about this matter, he also sent a small official named Ma San to help Qin Kai today, naturally he also instructed Ma San that Qin Kai's movements should be reported to him in time, and naturally he could not miss the benefits.

Although Ma San is not proficient in technology, he has a lot of information about the shipyard and the academy, Qin Kai followed him all the way, and listened to him introduce the various workshops of the shipyard all the way, but also learned a lot of useful news.

The whole shipyard and school area of more than 600 acres of land, close to Mawei Port, along the port distributed steel mills, docks, rolling mills, steam engine workshops, iron cooperatives, at the same time, Qin Kai also learned that here eight years ago has successfully imitated the Western steam engine, successfully manufactured a domestic small ironclad warship.

These news obviously made Qin Kai quite excited, being able to build large warships and imitation steam engines on his own means that this factory has such a large number of skilled workers, which is the most precious wealth in this era.

He was soon surprised to discover a new type of academy here, Ma San told him, that this is a "school" for the purpose of training skilled workers, where students learn theoretical knowledge for half a day, participate in factory labor for half a day, and provide various apprentices for the shipyard.

This teaching system integrating teaching, learning, and practice, looking at a hundred years later, is also a very elite system, which makes Qin Kai sigh again the sadness of this era, the ignorance of the Manchu rulers, who only know how to learn from the Western powers in technology, but ignore the decay of their own dark rule, he silently listened to Ma San's introduction, and his heart was surging.

Huang Xing and Sun Xiang, who were following behind, were obviously much more excited, after all, the various large-scale equipment in this factory made them very curious, and the two boys were suddenly fascinated by the machinery here, but because Qin Kai was already warning them, they couldn't touch these machines without his permission, but they were also very honest and didn't look at them.

After turning around, Qin Kai chose to go to the machine tool workshop first, after all, the manufacture of this new grinding machine, mainly the processing of parts, soon the small official Xu Guofang in charge of the machine tool workshop came, he also heard that today there are officials from the governor Yamen to make a large machine, this news made him think that he heard it wrong, and after confirming it again and again, he believed that there was indeed such a thing.

In the workshop equipped with twelve machine tools, the bearings, gears and other parts being produced are full of amazing noise, and they can't hear face-to-face speech, so they have no choice but to call Xu Guofang outside, find a stone table and sit down, he looked at this Xu Guofang, who looked like he was 30 years old, but a pair of rough hands were full of calluses, which made him feel a little more trusting.

"Lao Xu, what parts can you produce here?"

"My lord, bearings, gears, round rods, bushings, bearings, nuts can all be produced!" Xu Guofang thought about it and quickly reported a string of nouns.

Qin Kai nodded, very satisfied with his answer, "What accuracy can a manual grinder achieve by polishing a three-meter round rod?" ”

Seeing that Qin Kai asked such a technical question at once, Xu Guofang immediately realized that this young ambassador was not simple, he should not be the kind of official who came to take a look, he calmed down, thought about it, and said: "My lord, this manual polishing is difficult to control, if the accuracy reaches 1% error, it is estimated that it will take about 10, I don't have many craftsmen here who can do grinding machine polishing, to be able to achieve the accuracy required by adults, only myself and Lao Liu can do it!" ”,

Qin Kai naturally understood the difficulty of this manual work, and he had to control the high-speed grinding wheel to polish the iron rod, which was definitely a difficult job, he patted Xu Guofang's shoulder, "Okay!" Lao Xu, I will leave this matter to you, in half a month, it is no problem to make an iron shaft that meets the accuracy requirements! ”

Xu Guofang thought about it and nodded.

"You dispatch ten workers with the best craftsmanship to process the parts on the drawings I provided," Qin Kai has already seen those machine tools, to be honest, he is not very clear about the role of these manual machine tools, however, these are machine tools imported from Britain and France, although they are not the most advanced type, they are not bad, and they should be able to achieve the accuracy required by the drawings after seeing the processed parts, and they also use the standard "meter" unit of measurement.

"My lord, no problem", Xu Guofang patted his chest and responded.

Qin Kai went to the steam engine workshop again, and after calling the little official in charge here, he checked the steam engine here, which is definitely a behemoth, and the little official also admitted frankly that the steam engine that can be imitated now is the old style of the West more than ten years ago, so the power has never been able to be further improved.

This news is not necessarily a bad thing for Qin Kai, after all, there is a successful experience in imitation, as long as there are suitable drawings, the upgrading of technology can be completed, and he asked the little official to also dispatch a few capable people to prepare for the assembly of the steam engine.

Qin Kai was disappointed by the situation in the steelmaking plant, a few days ago he came to the Mawei Shipbuilding School to see the tall blast furnace, which was the open-hearth steelmaking equipment that Ding Richang spent a huge amount of money to purchase from Siemens in Germany, but after working for half a year, there were frequent strikes, and he found the officials and technicians in charge, but he couldn't say the reason, and this was not something he should be in charge of, so he ordered a few steel rods and left to visit the dock.

As the most advanced shipyard in China, Mawei Shipyard has the most advanced technician team in this era, in the dock, a 2,500-ton ironclad gunboat is under intense construction, and the workers are nervously carrying out construction, but it is clear that this warship called "ironclad ship" is still far from the requirements of the real ironclad ship, but in the critical part of the wooden hull, partially covered with an iron deck to increase the protection capacity, later generations called the "ironclad ship".

In this year, Li Fengyuan and Xu Jianyin began the Chinese's technical investigation of Europe, and only a few years later did they usher in the German "Saxony"-class ironclad battleships "Dingyuan" and "Zhenyuan" in the real sense of China at that time, and the road to Mawei Shipyard was still very long. Qin Kai looked at these busy pioneers of the industrial revolution with reverence, perhaps they were just engaged in this groundbreaking cause with a simple purpose, but for future generations, they were definitely pioneering pioneers.

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