When the "Fuxing" had just been completed, the Harbour Master had made other arrangements for the future use of the warship. In 1867, the Harbour Master School moved to Mawei has been open for nearly three years, and when the first batch of students of the Hou School who learned to drive arrived at the time when they should go on the ship for practice, Shen Baozhen planned to use the newly completed "Fuxing" as the practice ship of the Harbour Master School, "It is planned to move the high-class art children of the school to it, and the foreigners will teach them to drive, from Haikou to the near ocean, from the near ocean to the ocean ......"

Lin Taizeng, Liu Buyun, Deng Shichang, Lin Yongsheng and other students who graduated from the Shipyard School boarded the "Fuxing" ship under the leadership of the foreigners. However, just when the "Fuxing" was about to sail away and cruise the South Seas, a Prussian sailing merchant ship (also known as a plywood ship) named "Ma Duo" came to the Majiang River. Although Shen Baozhen chose the "Fuxing" as the training ship, the Japanese Yige was still watching to see if it was possible to get a sail training ship. After bargaining, the Prussian captain sold the "Ma Duo" at a price of 14,191 yuan (referring to the silver dollars such as Yingyang and other silver dollars in circulation in China at that time, and 10,282.814 taels of silver in Hekuping), and the shipmaster transformed it into a sail training ship and named it "Jianwei", while the "Fuxing" still resumed its identity as a gunboat and remained in the shipmaster's office, with a total of 67 people.

At the same time, in order to provide more weapons and equipment to the officers and men of the shipmaster's fleet, the shipmaster's gun station was also opened.

Wuchang, Huguang Governor's Office.

In the study, Li Hongzhang was about to write a letter to Lin Yizhe, telling him that the problem of the source of the barrel of the "Lin's machine gun" had been solved.

Li Hongzhang, who has always been very concerned about the shipmaster, was also relieved after learning that the shipmaster was able to get rid of the financial crisis caused by Zuo Zongtang's salary draw.

Since the Twist Army was completely annihilated by Li Hongzhang, the Qing court reinstated Li Hongzhang and punished him repeatedly, rewarded him with the title of Prince Taibao, and awarded the Governor of Huguang to co-organize the University Scholar. Soon after arriving in Wuchang, at the beginning of the year, Li Hongzhang was ordered to supervise the military affairs of Guizhou and suppress the Miao uprising. Before the trip was made, the re-entry army of the Gansu people into Shaanxi, the Qing court because Zuo Zongtang was far away in Pingliang and could not take care of it, and changed his life to aid Shaanxi. But Li Hongzhang really didn't want to work with Zuo Zongtang, so he repeatedly delayed and did not make the trip.

The last time the Twist Army in Shaanxi was "gifted" to the territory of Zhili by Zuo Zongtang, which caused the Beijing Division to shake, but fortunately it later ran to Shanxi, and it was he who personally led the army to intercept it, and it was easy to eliminate the Twist Army and did not cause a big chaos. This time, he said that he didn't want to wipe Zuo Zongtang's ass anymore.

Li Hongzhang came to the bookshelf, took out a letter written to him by his mentor Zeng Guofan from a wooden box stored on it, and read it.

This letter was attached to Zeng Guofan's gift to Li Hongzhang when he gave Lin Yizhe the bronze "Turning Tube Divine Machine Bead Gun" and a full set of drawings drawn by Lin Yizhe.

“…… The structure of this gun has been improved, the parts are not as complicated and fragile as the similar guns made in the West, and it is easy to prepare...... This son is good at ingenuity, thrifty and pragmatic, so the son of the gun shell collection bag, the Western gun has no original set, it is its own creation, to ask, answer to collect the empty son of the shell, in order to reuse. I was very happy to hear it, saying that the country would have to do it in the future...... You may wish to communicate with you a little bit, or you may have something to gain......"

Li Hongzhang put down his teacher's letter, remembering that the imperial court had appointed this young man named Lin Yizhe to be responsible for the transformation of the "Wannian Qing", and couldn't help but become interested in him again.

Although Li Hongzhang has not seen this young man yet, from the description of his teacher's words and deeds to him, he seems to have seen the shadow of his youth from the other party.

Li Hongzhang thought about it, put the letter back in the wooden box, returned to the desk, and began to write a letter to Lin Yizhe.

Within a few days, the letter reached Lin Yizhe's hands by post.

“…… The god machine gun made by Dejun was tested in the camp, as fast as thunder and lightning, so it was named 'electric gun'...... Jun said that the barrel should be made of steel, and it is better to use the Lin Mington gun of the United States, and it is better to hear that the country's domestic war has ended, and there are many stocks of this gun, and there is a backlog of this gun for sale. We have now approached foreign businessmen and are ready to purchase 2,500 guns, each of which will be equipped with a spare barrel and corresponding parts, and will be forwarded to ......you as soon as the barrel arrives."

Thinking that Li Hongzhang had so quickly implemented the source of the barrel of the "Lin's machine gun", Lin Yizhe was not only happy, but also a little worried.

Now the scale of the shipmaster is getting bigger and bigger, although with the help of Qiao Zhiyong, the shipmaster was able to get through the financial crisis caused by Zuo Zongtang's deliberate suppression, but the problem of funding sources has always plagued him, and now the gun station has also been established, which also needs to spend money.

In the evening, Lin Yizhe returned home, and along the way he pondered how to help the Harbour Master open up new sources of funding.

Although he had already told Shen Baozhen that in the future, he would build a merchant ship and set up a special shipping company to solve the financial difficulties of the shipping administration, but at present, it is difficult to raise the daily operating expenses and ship maintenance expenses of the shipping administration, and the affairs of the shipping company are naturally impossible to talk about.

"Kunyu is back." The voice of his beloved wife Chen Wan pulled Lin Yizhe back from his thoughts.

"I just came back and didn't stop, are you tired today?" Chen Wan saw that Lin Yizhe seemed to have something on her mind, and asked with concern.

Lin Yizhe just wanted to tell her what happened today, but seeing the cheerful smile on her face, he couldn't bear to let her accompany him, so he still held back and didn't say anything.

"Wan'er is so happy today, is there any good news to tell me?" Lin Yizhe smiled and pulled her into his arms, and the husband and wife hugged each other.

"Then Kunyu guess what? What's the good news today? Chen Wan blinked and said with a smile.

"It's not...... Wan'er is happy again, right? ”

"Where...... Auntie has a letter! See! This is a photo of Weier! ”

Lin Yizhe temporarily let go of the thoughts in his heart, he didn't go to read the letter immediately, but looked at Xiao Chen Wei's photo first.

In the photo, a baby is smiling at him.

This is a very cute child, with a pair of big eyes and bright eyes, the big head occupies almost half of the whole face, and the face is delicate, handsome, and the corners of the smiling mouth seem to have a drop of saliva, which makes people look at it at a glance and have an urge to kiss.

"Good kawaii......" Lin Yizhe couldn't help muttering, he immediately realized that his thinking had been out of order, and immediately shrunk the words behind. Although he didn't speak loudly, Chen Wan still heard it.

"What did Kunyu say? Cute? ……”

"Hehe, that's what it means to be cute......"

Lin Yizhe opened the letter and read it, the letter was written by Sarah, the main content was to congratulate Chen Wansheng Lin Yuxi, and to greet Lin Yizhe and Shen Baozhen and his wife. In the letter, Sara specifically expressed her gratitude to Chen Wan for giving her "Lin's underwear", saying that it was "her favorite gift", and at the end of the letter she told Chen Wan that the patent and operation of "Lin's underwear" has been successfully registered, and the company is currently operating well.

She sent two drafts from Rotchild Bank, one with a denomination of 100 pounds, which was the "New Year's money" she gave to Lin Yuxi, and the other with a denomination of 7,762 pounds, indicating that it was the patent income of "Lin's underwear" and the total sales revenue of "Lin's underwear company" from the date of registration to the present. Sara also made it clear that she would send money to China on a quarterly basis in the future. When Lin Yizhe saw the amount of the second bill, he couldn't help but be secretly frightened.

In less than half a year after it was listed, it was sold for 7,762 pounds, which is equivalent to 50,000 taels of silver in the Qing Dynasty at the exchange rate of this era! Equivalent to a month's operating expenses of the current Harbour Administration!

In this way, the cost of the gun station will also be covered!

It's just that......

"I can't think of this corset...... It sells so well in the UK......" Chen Wan thought that she was wearing such a dress now, and her face flew red again.

What Lin Yizhe thought in his heart was that for a long time in the future, perhaps the operation of the shipyard would be maintained by the income from the sale of bras......

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but smile wryly.

Using a bra to keep a shipmaster seems like a big joke no matter how you look at it......

"Wei'er doesn't know if I've 'caught Zhou', I have to ask my aunt, hehe." Chen Wan's attention was attracted by the cute little Chen Wei in the photo again, and she took Chen Wei's photo and looked at it again.

"Don't mention this 'catch Zhou', what do you know about such a young child? It's just a matter of grabbing and playing. Lin Yizhe was depressed when he remembered that his baby daughter Lin Yuxi's "Catch Zhou" that day turned out to be a toy wooden knife and food.

Grasping Zhou, also known as swabing, trying, trying, trying, and trying, is a kind of Chinese folk tradition for a long time, it is a kind of ritual held when the child is one year old to predict the future and temperament, and it is the celebration of the first birthday anniversary. It is the same as the annunciation of childbirth, the washing of children in the three dynasties, the full moon ceremony, the 100-day ceremony, etc., and belongs to the traditional birth ceremony, and the ceremony of "catching Zhou'er" is generally carried out before eating the "longevity noodles" at noon. Some wealthy families who pay attention to it should set up a big case in front of the bed (kang), and put it on it: seals, scriptures of Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism, pens, ink, paper, inkstones, abacus, coins, account books, jewelry, flowers, rouge, food, toys, and girls "catch Zhou'er" and add them: shovels, spoons (cooking utensils), scissors, rulers (sewing utensils), embroidery threads, patterns (embroidery utensils) and so on. The adult will bring the child to sit upright, without any inducement, and let him choose, depending on what he grasps first, and what he catches later. In this way, they can gauge their interests, their future and the career they will be engaged in.

According to the traditional saying, if the child catches the seal first, it means that when he grows up, he will take advantage of the grace of heaven and the virtue of the ancestors, and the official fortune will be prosperous; If you grasp the stationery first, it is said that you will be studious when you grow up, and you will have a splendid article, and you will eventually be able to pay three yuan and the first; If the child grasps the abacus first, it means that he will grow up and be good at financial management in the future, and he will become a Taozhu career. If a girl grabs sewing utensils such as scissors and rulers or cooking utensils such as shovels and spoons, she is said to be good at housework when she grows up. But Lin Yuxi grabbed a toy wooden knife, which means that she will like to dance with knives and guns in the future.

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