Zhou Fu naturally had the same confusion as Li Zhongtang, he smiled, "Lord Wu's secret telegram arrived a little late, and I also brought it, indeed as my lord expected, the main force of this Hanoi victory was not the Qingzi army, but the protector that Qin Kai trained in Vietnam, and the one who commanded this protector was one of the several officers Qin Liefeng just promoted a few days ago, and it was an officer named Zhou Ruidong!" ”

When Li Zhongtang heard this, he was also stunned, before this Qin Kai became a political envoy, except for the Nanyang Naval Division, no one knew that he had such a group of army officers on hand who could fight, this is a danger signal! And what's even worse is that he is doing this qiē in the name of it, this protector...... It's still in the name of helping him get it myself, but I didn't expect to train a strong army now!

However, now the one who is the superintendent, who does not train some private armies, is the largest private army leader in the Qing Empire, this Qingliu cadre Zhang Zhidong went to Hubei, the first thing is to find foreigners to borrow money and train new troops, there is no gun in his hand, how can he sit on one side......

Thinking of this, Li Zhongtang also stomped on it, this Qin Kai is Lao Ding's favorite general, this origin is counted, and Huai Jun is quite related, this time in Vietnam's table xiàn is also quite informed and interesting person, the world is knowledgeable, and now people are also a provincial governor, and they can't take care of some soldiers in their hands, so it is also appropriate to repay Li with peaches......

"Wushan, the matter of the ironclad clipper, you find a chance to let Qin Kai handle it, call Ding Richang back immediately, and I will come forward to ask for credit for the Qingzi army and the protector!"

And another thing that Li Zhongtang couldn't figure out was that after the Battle of Hanoi, the French Minister Delisu disappeared from Tianjinwei, which made Li Zhongtang somewhat surprised, it stands to reason that now is a good opportunity for the two sides to reach a peace agreement, but what do these French people want to do?!

After Qin Kai learned of the victory in Hanoi, what made him most pleased was not that he had defeated the attack of the French, but that Zhou Ruidong had been extremely keen on the front line to pull the Qingzi army into the battle, and before the final attack of the French came, the plan he formulated was to try his best to hide his strength, and the cooperation with the Qingzi army, and at the same time alleviated the contradiction between himself and the powerful Huai army in a large way[full text]

The strength of the Huai Army is one reason, and the other is the huge power in the officialdom of the Qing Dynasty, if you need to mix in the officialdom for your own development, you can't help but follow the rules of this officialdom first.

At present, it seems that the French offensive may be temporarily contained, and the news from Schleier's side that the negotiations for a new French cabinet are still ongoing, and sure enough, as he expected, the warmonger Jouferi has become more vocal after the two defeats of the French army, and this old guy has even added the annexation of Cochinchina to his campaign slogan!

Jouferry's logic was simple: France had already paid the price, it had to be rewarded, the petty fighting in Vietnam had completely lost its meaning, and an all-out war had to be waged against the declining Qing Empire in order to obtain the Far Eastern interests that the French Republic needed.

And this time, those consortia and businessmen with huge interests in the Far East frantically supported the remarks of this warmonger, and the heavy blow given by Qin Kai in Cochinchina in the Far East inspired the revenge of the Gallic chicken**!

Qin Kai looked up at the starry sky, the wheel of history is still stubbornly rolling along the original line, although he has created a series of variables, it seems that there is no obvious change in the change of history, the Vietnamese shield war will continue to escalate, and what can be done now is to desperately strengthen himself!

He immediately convened the core meeting of the Mawei Ship Administration, and he also invited Sun Fu, this was the first time that Sun Fu participated in Qin Kai's core meeting, although before this, he had been in contact with Qin Kai's secrets countless times, and there was a tacit understanding between them that was not public, Qin Kai never concealed the information that should be known to Sun Fu, but Sun Fu never asked him for any information he didn't need to know, and now, this qiē seemed to be as smooth as it was.

At the meeting, it was still the production departments that reported the production and R&D progress first, although Sun Fu sat next to Qin Kai with a calm face, but everyone's simple speech still made his heart beat faster, as long as he was a normal person, he couldn't help but be shocked when he heard such unimaginable news.

"My lord, the production capacity of the stamping plant is almost saturated, and there is a lot of pressure on the supply of products to Japan and Nanyang Luzon, so we must add two more branches immediately!" Xu Guofang first talked about the production problem. ,

Qin Kai thought for a while, turned his head and asked He Xing, "Brother He, how is the profit situation of this stamping industry now?" ”

He Xing held a basic thick book every time he had a meeting, he opened the book and looked at it, "Brother Qin, the sales of stamping small utensils in China accounted for three into six, the average profit was 350%, Luzon and Japan accounted for two into one, the average profit was 390%, and the transportation cost of sales to Taixi and the United States was higher, but the selling price over there was also high, accounting for four or three of the total, with an average profit of 430%, and the total income of the three stamping factories last month was 980,000 and 3,700 taels of silver!" ”

"So many?" Qin Kai was also a little surprised by this income, he had been busy with military and government affairs recently, and he really didn't care much about silver income.

"There is so much income, but your stamping factory also comes with the production of guns, bullets, and shell shells, and those things are all money-burning things, and the purchase of copper ingots to produce shells alone will cost 430,000 taels!" He Xing smashed it, smashed his mouth, he was also very dissatisfied with Qin Kai's arms production, and this thing did not produce benefits, it was simply burning money!

This copper mine is indeed a big problem, now the two small copper mines in Fujian Province can not meet the production needs at all, plus the war in Vietnam, the copper mine in the coal and iron base over there cannot be transported, you must know that the war is now fighting materials, don't look at the army's rapid-fire artillery fierce, that thing is definitely a money burning machine, a shell is more than a dozen taels of silver!

Fortunately, a large number of spare materials were stored before, which did not affect the war with France this time, but the problem of this copper mine was to be solved, which made him think of the floating copper mine island in the South Seas, MMd, when would he be able to free up his hands and use his troops to take the island...... He weighed the strength in his hand, shook his head, put aside this thought for the time being, and motioned for Xu Guofang to continue.

"My lord, the production of the machine tool factory has been saturated, and now almost every month is opening a new factory, and the production capacity of the textile association is constantly expanding, I have calculated, we must open a new factory, we have enough manpower for machine tool processing, in the past two years, there are a group of young people who have work on hand!"

This is good news, the prosperity of the machine tool industry can drive the prosperity of the entire industry, after all, the machine tool industry is the most important system of the entire industrial system, everyone does not understand that the machine tool industry workers are the most important reason for the quality of the machine.

"Country, you have stepped up preparations for this matter, and the manpower and expenses you need can be put forward, and I will do my best to meet your needs!"

The accumulation of talents in the machine tool industry makes Qin Kai quite satisfied, but what makes him more satisfied is Zhang Jian's vision in terms of talents, during this time, the rotation internship of children in the United States in various factories and shipbuilding schools, the most concerned about this matter is not Xu Guofang who is responsible for this matter, but Zhang Jian who is responsible for horsetail education, Xu Guofang's mind is full of machine qì, and he can no longer fit people's information.

When these students were interning in Mawei Higher College, Zhang Jian took almost everyone with him, and he recorded the abilities and expertise of these students one by one, and specially made a long list, tailor-made specific positions for these students, in a sentence he said when he communicated with Qin Kai: "These students are all treasures!" If you use it in the wrong place, it's a waste! ”

This list Qin Kai has read carefully, the first schoolboy Cai Shaoji's explanation, he gave Qin Kai to Lei's outer focus and inner tenderness, Zhang Jian thought that Cai Shaoji was very suitable for working in Mawei Higher School, specializing in academics, good at research, and would be an excellent reserve talent for Mawei education in the future.

Zhang Jian naturally didn't know Cai Shaoji's future, but Qin Kai did know, this is the founder and first president of Tianjin Beiyang University, China's first university.

After that, Zhang Jian conducted a careful investigation of each student's major, and tapped a group of talents for the subjects lacking in Mawei Higher School, such as prospecting, railway, telegraph, chemistry, etc., and even Zhan Tianyou was also selected by Zhang Jianxiang to ask him to open a subject of railway construction engineering in Mawei Higher School!

For the rational use of these talents, Qin Kai naturally has nothing to allow, but Zhan Tianyou didn't let him teach, he wants to be of great use, for Zhang Jian's achievements in Fuzhou education at these times, he has nothing to say, now the scale of Mongolian education covers almost all the villages in Fuzhou, and the students of the primary school, the higher school and the Mawei College are also rising.

In fact, the most benefited from these achievements are the two bigwigs who inscribed the door number, Ding Richang and Zhang Peilun talked about the results of Xinxue all day long, and with the help of the report of "Fuzhou Xinbao", the achievements of Fuzhou Xinxue soon caused a lot of follow-up in the Qing Dynasty, but Qin Kai is so willing to burn money that there are too few masters, and it is not good to learn if you want to learn, but the education model of Han culture and Western learning has aroused heated discussions. ,

Qin Kai proposed to Zhang Jian this time that he wanted to invite him to go to Guangzhou with him to copy the achievements of Fuzhou Xinxue to Guangdong, but Zhang Jian was not very happy, he pondered to make Mawei College of Higher Education bigger, and said that he would wait for the college of higher learning here to get on the right track. Qin Kai thought about it, it is true that Mawei College of Higher Education is full of talents, and now Tongguò overseas film company has hired many foreign teachers, plus the Chinese who continue to return to China, and now Mawei has become a paradise for new education in the Far East.

Zhang Jian can't leave, Qin Kai can only ask him to transfer a team of 50 teachers from the primary school and higher school, and he will be used after he goes to Guangzhou, which Zhang Jian is naturally full of.

In addition, the establishment of the Mawei room of the great role gradually revealed, in the full operation of the real room committee, first of all, the easier to produce results in the chemical industry, the technical research team has made a breakthrough in the deep processing of coal tar, the industrial production of benzene compounds has entered the trial production stage.

What's more, in addition to the more than ten kinds of flavor raw materials synthesized in the real yàn room, the first small-scale industrialization process of flavor raw materials with orchid fragrance has also been completed.

For this research team, Qin Kai immediately issued a reward of 10% equity in the new industry plus 20,000 taels of silver, and asked Chen Tongpu to specially dispatch core technical personnel to participate in the production of new products - synthetic perfumes, but he knew that there was still a shortage of talents for the establishment of a perfume company, so he immediately asked He Xing to send a telegram to several shadow companies in Europe, and made every effort to find local perfumers.

In addition, the steel mill, the steam engine factory, the shipyard are steadily advancing, the only one here, the only fruitless is in charge of electromagnetism, radio research Zhang Siqi, due to the impact of the capacitive oscillation spark emitter transmission power, the first short-distance radio wave demonstration equipment acceptance range is only 5 meters, and the metal powder detector reaction sensitivity is also low, whether the signal can be received, completely depends on the power of the transmitter.

However, in Qin Kai's view, Zhang Siqi's ancient radio equipment has been regarded as a beginner, and is currently mainly stuck on the capacitive oscillating spark emitter, for this research direction, he gave full affirmation, and at the same time took out a document and handed it to him, which is a description of the American patent "Edison benefit", and Qin Kai hand-drew a bulb-shaped thing, and made some detailed explanations of the idea.

Zhang Siqi immediately realized that this must be related to the detection of electromagnetic waves, and the other large bulb-like thing, he looked at it for a while, and he didn't even turn it on, so he hurriedly escaped!

At the meeting, Qin Kai sent a large number of people to Guangzhou with him to take up his post, and capable talents were indispensable for the large-scale industrial construction in Guangdong, and after the meeting, he left Sun Fu alone.

He looked at Sun Fu, who had a complicated expression after attending the meeting, smiled and asked: "Brother Sun, when I arrived in Guangzhou, I lacked a chief by my side, and Chen Yuanting was also a capable person, but the days of getting along were short, and I couldn't be completely at ease, so I wanted to ask Brother Sun to help!" ”

Sun Fu looked at Qin Kai and smiled, "Gale Wind, Master Ding and I didn't understand you before!" Today I can be regarded as an eye-opener, you have quietly laid down such a big situation, to be honest, fifteen years ago in that stormy meeting, I was a latecomer, failed to catch up, I didn't expect to get acquainted with Gale you, and it was such an opportunity, how could I miss it again! ”

The two looked at each other and smiled, this matter was naturally up to Qin Kai to talk to Lao Ding, but I think it's not a big problem, Lao Ding's subordinates can use the master!

In the vast South China Sea, a fleet is heading south at cruising speed, and the ship's mast is hung with the Qing Dynasty dragon flag and a red five-star red flag.

Since Liu Shen's dismissal, Wan Dafu is the only officer in the original Nanyang Navy Division who chose to continue to stay in the Liu Shen Department of the Navy Division, of course, since that bloody rebirth at sea, this burly man has undergone great changes, and the experience of that battle has revived his soul that has been muddy. ,

After staying in the Naval Division, he only participated in the training of some Horsetail Naval Division training camps as an ordinary officer, where he saw weapons beyond his imagination and more excellent soldiers, but this guy was a brave man in the end, and soon stood out among the officers, and was famous for his bravery in the routine training of the Nanyang Naval Division.

This time, he finally got his wish, and once again boarded the battleship "Dengyingzhou" as a pipe band to escort the route of Mawei Shipping to the Philippines and the South Seas.

At this time, the South China Sea was calm, and the fleet of Mawei Shipping was the first to be connected, with 9 cargo ships, which made Wan Dafu have to admire Qin Kai, this Lord Qin has come to the current position of governor step by step in his eyes, and can control such a huge industry, which makes them followers full of confidence.

Now that he has become a pipe band, in addition to giving him a high salary of 200 taels a month, the Nanyang Sailor has a series of benefits, and even his wife and children don't have to worry about the future, how can he not let him die in the Nanyang Sailor.

While he was in a bored reverie, the lookout sentry above shouted something loudly, and the officer hurriedly came in to report that he had found several suspicious ships ahead, circling three or four nautical miles on the left side of the fleet!

Wan Dafu came to the energy at that time, and when he came out, he heard that most of the natives of Nanyang were lazy and lazy, and they were extremely vicious to the Chinese, and there were many bandits on the sea, robbing Chinese businessmen who came and went! He smiled and said to his soldiers: "Hurry up and inform the driver, lean up and take a look, find out the situation, I can't say, Lao Tzu is going to do the road for Tianxing for a while today!" ”

The battleship left the fleet and rushed forward, don't look at the speed of the "Dengyingzhou" as a battleship, it is a little slower, but compared to the merchant ship, it can definitely be called high-speed, and soon the ships in the distance will be clearly visible in the newly installed high-powered telescopes on board.

Wan Dafu looked at it a few times, but Ren didn't see that these ships looked like pirates, and on the opposite side were two sailing ships of about more than 1,000 tons, two 2,000-ton steamships, and sail dual-purpose merchant ships, but it seemed that these ships had suffered some disasters, and the people on one of the steamboats jumped up and down, and they didn't know what they were doing!

However, what is more suspicious is that these boats are all hanging a strange flag, which looks like a spherical pattern, which is too far away to see clearly, but Wan Tai Fook has definitely never seen a Tessie ship flying this flag!

However, at this time, several ships on the opposite side obviously also saw the rushing battleship, and the dragon flag of the Great Qing Dynasty hanging on the mast of the Nanyang Navy Division was very eye-catching, and the opposite ship made a move that made Wan Dafu stunned!

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