Chapter 118 New Goals

In the evening, James returned to the hotel in good spirits, and hurried to Susù Wang Li, where he had negotiated a distributor, which, according to the population of Prague, would bring at least 20% of the sales increase to the Celtic Company, and he was obviously quite proud of today's results.

Wang Li only congratulated the German for his diligence, and at the same time asked for some information about the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which was the industrial center of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the status of this ancient city in Central Europe was a pivotal location.

Wang Li naturally didn't know that the Czechs here had created the foundation of the huge military industry of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, but for him who was on a secret mission, he was very interested in the powerful industrial strength of this land, and he believed that Instructor Qin would definitely have the same idea as him.

The next morning, the hostess of the hotel came to knock Wang Li's mén, saying that an employee of Charles University had come to him, which made him very excited, and sure enough, the employee of the management office of Charles University brought him the news of the николатесла student.

This is indeed the engineering and technical students recruited by Charles University last year, Croatian, born in Smilyan and Gspit, previously studied at the Comprehensive Technical Institute in Graz, and was admitted to Charles University last year, but just two months ago, the 25-year-old young man from Croatia was introduced to Budapest in the eastern part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire by his mentor because he could not afford to pay the tuition fees for the next academic year.

Wang Li's face was black, he came thousands of miles to find someone, his luck was not bad, there was really such a person, I really don't know how the instructor heard the news, this name, age, and previous situation can be said to be completely consistent, the only thing that is certain now is this person, he glanced at the middle-aged man, and asked the translator to tell him, "Sir, the previous news is very detailed, but is there this Tesla's address in Budapest?" ”

Obviously, this critical problem needs some important factors to be resolved, and after negotiating the price of 800 marks, the staff of Charles University very readily handed him a piece of paper, saying that it was from Tesla's mentor and that he was working in Budapest.

James, who was busy recruiting distributors, was immediately told that he had to rush to Budapest immediately, but fortunately, the Austro-Hungarian railway was already very well established at this time, and there were nearly 20,000 kilometers of railways in the country, and the journey from Prague to Budapest, another important city in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, was undoubtedly an easy trip.

James was somewhat dissatisfied with Wang Li's arbitrary change of itinerary, and made one of his business expansion efforts go to waste, but fortunately, Budapest also has a huge market, and he did not hesitate to invest in it, seizing a qiē time to work hard to earn his income.

In the Timal Telephone Company in Budapest, a group of shareholders were discussing the problem of telephone equipment, which was provided by the British company, but after the British engineers completed the installation, they were plagued by the poor quality of the calls, and they asked the British company to replace the equipment, but they were troubled by the high cost of renewal.

Now one of the directors said that he had paid for an engineer from a local design company to solve the problem, which was undoubtedly a lifesaver, and although most directors did not have much hope for this, since there were local companies willing to do the business, the price must have dropped significantly!

Half an hour later, a young man with curly hair and a high nose with a mustache came to the venue, bringing only two small boxes, and when he introduced it to the directors, he called the thing he had just developed a filter to filter out redundant signals from the copper wires of the telephone

Naturally, the directors didn't buy the effect of these two small boxes, but it didn't matter, the young man immediately asked people to drag two mén phones to test the effect of installing this filter on the spot, and as a result, the phone with a muffled voice immediately became refreshing...... The director, who had tried the phone, did not hesitate to agree to the contract with the design company.

The young man left the meeting quickly and happily, and today's business earned the company at least 15,000 kilograms (Austro-Hungarian currency), but for him he received a commission of 3% of it, which was 450 crowns. He happily imagined that with the money, he could buy a set of standard beakers to complete his empty chemistry chamber, or a hand-cranked power generator to improve his physics chamber.......

As soon as he stepped out of the telephone company, he was very surprised to hear his name called...... He had only been in Budapest for just over three weeks, and there were no more than three people in Budapest who could be called by his name, and it was clear that the voice was very unfamiliar!

Turning his head, he saw a local middle-aged man and a young man who looked like an Asian not far away, and it was the local middle-aged man who called his name.

Wang Li sat in the carriage in front of him, and almost immediately recognized that the young man who came out of it must be the target that his instructor wanted to find by himself, it was completely intuitive, he immediately asked the translator to call out, and the other party's reaction obviously made him feel relieved at last...... Finally let me find it.

"Do we know each other, gentleman?" Tesla still looks strange.

"I don't know, but there should be someone in our company who knows you and has a very bāng contract to sign with you!" Wang Li's excuse has been considered for a long time, and the antecedents are not important, as long as the result is enough to impress people.

This inventor of later civilization, at this time was still a poor young man who had just set foot on the job, although he had enough wisdom, but he could not see through the mystery, he asked with some vigilance: "What kind of contract?" Why did you come to me? ”

"I don't know the specific reason, it should be the relationship between the top of the company! But this contract, Mr. Tesla, you can take a look, the company is willing to fund you to continue any research you are interested in at the German Imperial University of Berlin! There are no strings attached during the first year! ”

Tesla almost couldn't believe his ears when he heard the news, he wanted to study and research at a higher level of education after graduating from the Glaz Polytechnic Institute, but the experience of Charles University made him understand that the expensive scientific research and tuition fees in this era were not what he could afford now, so he chose the idea of working first to earn money.

This must have been earned by the mentor Ravalleton Guò for himself by certain connections, and Tesla thought of this question with great certainty, perhaps...... Or maybe the tutor Loren of the Glaz Polytechnic Institute! But these are really not the most important things now, the important thing is that the opportunity is in front of you.

"I want to take a closer look at this funding agreement, but what about after the first year? Are there any additional agreements? Tesla thought about it for half a minute and knew that he couldn't resist such a bewilderment, the University of Berlin...... It was the center of physics research in this era, and the most famous temple of science in this era, along with the French Arsenal and the Cavendish in England, were among the most famous temples of science in this era.

"In fact, this first year is just for Mr. Tesla you to fully understand our sincerity, after that, you can also stay in Berlin, Germany to continue the research project, you can also choose to go to the company's real room for experiments, there is the world's most perfect real environment and atmosphere, if you have enough talent, you can even set up your own real room!" Wang Li followed the good yòu and buried one by one yòu bait-

In Shanxi City, Vietnam, Zhou Ruidong's men and horses have been stationed here for more than half a month, but ten days ago, their camp moved into the city from outside the city, according to the agreement between the two sides, the establishment of the Black Flag Army remained the same, and after Zhou Ruidong provided a batch of weapons, the soldiers in his battalion entered the Black Flag Army as weapons to train these soldiers who had never used firearms in rifle fighting.

In Liu Yongfu's house in the city, more than a dozen leaders of the Black Flag Army are deliberating, and the content is naturally those things after this recruitment. In the past, the Black Flag Army was also the head of the same place in Vietnam, although it was still under the jurisdiction of Hoang Zuo Yan, the Vietnamese horse in Hanoi City, in terms of food and salary, and other aspects were also completely independent.

It's just that the Black Flag Army is not as simple as a few battalions of soldiers, a large part of these soldiers come from the Chinese recruited on the border, local people, and have taken root in northern Vietnam for more than ten years. In the early years, he fought with the Qing army, and he fought with the French over the years, and now he finally came to the imperial court's Qin to recruit peace.

A few days ago, Mr. Zhou Qian brought the news of Lord Qin, all the families of the reformed Black Flag Army can return to China, and the arrangements for the work will be arranged by the Mawei Shipmaster, that is, if people want to do things, they can also have a place to arrange, and the little babies can all learn for free, as for this house, the family has a place to build a house, you can borrow money from the shipmaster to build a house first, and then go to the shipmaster's factory to work slowly and pay it back! ,

For the Tao given by Lord Qincha this time, many military attaches and leaders of the Black Flag Army expressed doubts, this time they will not divide the land, so how can they support themselves? Therefore, although Zhou Ruidong has passed on these news to Liu Yongfu for almost 10 days, only a few dozen people on the Black Flag Army side have agreed to move back to China, and they are basically the families of some fallen soldiers.

In fact, Zhou Ruidong and Liu Yongfu naturally understand the deep-seated truth of this matter, and this army recruits an naturally have to have some expressions, since the Qin Cha agrees not to discharge the military power, then naturally wants those things as a guarantee, and now Lord Qin is proposing to take the family as a hostage, and Liu Yongfu's gang of people are not very relieved about this Qin Cha, so they are naturally unwilling to send their families around like this......

The military attachés present were noisy and noisy to no avail, or the military advisor Hou Xian was more sober at this time, and immediately put forward his opinion, "Commanders, now we are not the Black Flag Army that withdrew from Guangxi, but the officers and soldiers under Lord Qin, and they give food and salary, if we violate the will of Qin Cha in this matter, then this path of reform will come to an end!" ”

Liu Yongfu is a person who understands, knows that this matter is not sloppy, and after discussing with these officers under his command, now many of the Black Flag military families are in their base Baosheng (Laojie on the Sino-Vietnamese border), since they have now voted for Lord Qincha, this is a big taboo not to listen to this order, so it was decided to temporarily drag it on the grounds that the family is more in Baosheng, and those dozens of families who are willing to go have also sent a dozen clever soldiers to escort them, which can also be regarded as a probe wind.

Zhou Ruidong knew what they meant after a little inquiry, and he didn't expose it, he still sang mén in the camps of the Black Flag Army every day, and Liu Yongfu also reported every day, and revealed some news from time to time. Liu Yongfu is literate, and it is said that the calligraphy is not bad, this newspaper can naturally understand, but the content on it is a little more, and I didn't find what to read for a while.

On the contrary, Hou Xian's eyes were sharp, and at a glance, he saw the article with the words "Black Flag Army" in the lower right corner of the newspaper, which was an excerpt from the Qingliu faction's squire Lang Baoting to impeach Huaijun Pan Dingxin, "...... In April, the new department of Pan Ding of the Huai Army encountered black flag bandits in Beining, and the army was defeated! ”

After reading it, Liu Yongfu and Hou Xian looked at each other, they had been staying in Xuanhua and Shanxi well, how could they go to Beining to attack the soldiers and horses of the Huai army! What is actually going on, no one can say it now, this court recital has said so, that is the final conclusion.

"Lord Zhou, this matter is not the work of our Black Flag Army, please tell Lord Qin to defend us!" Hou Xian explained a little depressedly.

Zhou Ruidong smiled slightly, this was originally what I ordered, of course it has nothing to do with you, but in this land of Vietnam, the instructor is determined to be a chā, so you can't help but be a wall grass, the land of the Qing Dynasty is big, but only this small piece of Nanyang can accommodate you!

"Lord Qin will definitely help you defend this matter, but...... Liu Shoubei, this Dingzi Army is Li Zhongtang's descendant, I heard that now it is changed to another Huai Army, Wu Changqing's Department is stationed in Beining to supervise the battle! ”

Liu Yongfu has experienced a lot of stabbing in the back, his official position as the deputy governor of Vietnam's Sanxuan, and his top boss is Huang Zuoyan, a concubine sitting in Hanoi, but after becoming the commander, his exploits in suppressing bandits in the local area and defeating the French squad in Shanxi were all swallowed by Huang Zuoyan, and even the scum of the slightest credit was not left for the Black Flag Army, and the military salary and grain were also deducted.

That night, Liu Yongfu thought about it again and again, and immediately notified Zhou Ruidong to arrange a ship to send his family to Fuzhou for resettlement, and he discussed with Hou Xian and Yang Zhusi for a long time, only to find that in addition to taking refuge in Lord Qincha, Vietnam and the Qing Dynasty did not have a place for their Black Flag Army......

After Liu Yongfu made this statement, the rest of the things were much easier, Zhou Ruidong immediately lost no time in announcing various benefits of Mawei Shipbuilding, the first hit is the free reading of children, there are few people in the Black Flag Army who can read and break words, so the status of the readers is very high, such as the young military advisor Hou Xian, this benefit immediately made many Black Flag soldiers staggered.

The second is free medical care, job opportunities for family members, very good salaries, etc., these unheard-of benefits immediately made the Black Flag Army feel that this recruitment is the right way. The following training of the Black Flag Army also received the full cooperation of the commanders of all battalions. ,

Zhou Ruidong found that one of the major characteristics of the Black Flag Army is that there are many veterans, all of whom have been trained in melee combat with the French, but these soldiers' understanding of firearms is terrible, and many people are still at the stage of playing with big knives, and after obtaining some rifles, especially after seeing the drill of protecting **, several commanders of the Black Flag Army also pay attention to the training of firearms, which makes the officers and soldiers of the first battalion very sought-after.

In June, when Qin Kai received news from Zhou Ruidong, the Black Flag Army had completed its initial firearms training and was in urgent need of 2,000 firearms......

At this time, the Mawei Shipping Company is brewing a new big plan, a large number of cargo ships are gathering in the warehouse of Mawei Port, and the dock porters are nervously loading and unloading the goods.

It is said that this is a small port of civil interest, but thanks to the superior geographical conditions, large sea cargo ships can still be berthed here, so many British and American merchants set up foreign houses here to sell overseas goods. Obviously, Chiba Port recently opened a British foreign house in a low-key manner, and the owner of the foreign company is the Englishman Smith.

However, this foreign company has been open for nearly half a month, and did not sell any goods, the boss Smith only contacted the British merchants in various treaty ports, asking them if they were interested in distributing the goods he brought, after seeing the goods, most of the merchants very wisely chose to join this trade plan, after all, the risk and profit are almost insignificant.

The goods in this have more than 20% profit margins, and according to the agreement, the quantity of supplies is a huge amount, so that British merchants everywhere understand that they can obtain huge commercial profits in a short time. The source of these goods has nothing to do with them at all, and only needs to stabilize the supply channel, which is the most important thing.

On the second day of the seventh month, a large number of goods were transported by Chinese and British cargo ships to the British merchants at the various treaty ports for whom deposits had been paid, and according to the pre-signed agreement, all kinds of goods flowed into the market of the capital, and these goods, obviously, were not produced in the country, and a large amount of silver was quickly earned.

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