Qin Chuan went to the West Bureau of Tianjin Machinery Bureau this time. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The Tianjin Machinery Bureau is divided into two places, east and west, and is located in Jiajiagu, east of the city, which is mainly engaged in the manufacture of gunpowder, guns, bullets and mines. Located in the Chengnan Nanguang Temple, it is called the West Bureau, which mainly manufactures military equipment, destroys artillery shells, and arranges ships and dredgers for laying mines.

Haiguang Temple outside the south gate of Tianjin City, is a monk of Kangxi 44 years with the name of Cheng Heng, because of the river network here, the pit pond is dense, it has the style of the south of the water town of Zeguo, it is a good place for feng shui, so it is a treasure temple built in this fate, named Putuo Temple. Because of the magnificent terrain around the temple, Putuo Temple is full of momentum, so that the incense is extremely prosperous. In the 58th year of Kangxi's southern tour, he was stationed in Tianjin, and he was given the name Haiguang Temple. In the first year of Qianlong, Qianlong passed Tianjin, and the inscription plaque was "Ying Wei Ciyin".

Because Haiguang Temple was favored by Kangxi and Qianlong, it really brought many benefits to Haiguang Temple, officials and businessmen donated money, and the people always offered incense, and their reputation rose for a time, so they expanded greatly. After the expansion of the Haiguang Temple, not only the palace is magnificent, but also in the temple outside half a mile, digging two nullahs around the temple, the inner canal is eight zhang wide, the outer canal is two zhang, and the depth is about six feet. The two canals lead to Chenghao in the north and the Haihe River in the south. Planting willow trees in the surrounding area again, for a time, the scenery of Haiguang Temple has changed greatly.

In the Second Opium War, the "Treaty of Tianjin" was signed here, and Haiguang Temple was also called the Signing Temple.

The so-called West Bureau is composed of more than ten factories such as iron foundry, hammer iron factory, sawmill, foreign gun factory, gun factory, machine factory, etc., which are built around the temple, with hundreds of large and small houses and nearly 1,000 craftsmen. The shipbuilding capacity of the Western Bureau is particularly commendable, and it has long been able to build its own small steamers, as well as boat bridge ships, dredgers, and even underwater machine ships that are similar to submarines. This is also the reason why Qinchuan's new ship was made in the Western Bureau.

On the way to Xiju, although there were still many people visiting relatives and friends on the road, Qin Chuan had a lot less troubles.

As soon as Qin Chuan left the gate of the dyeing factory, there were many pedestrians and business owners standing on the side of the road and rushing to greet Qin Chuan for the New Year, which made Qin Chuan struggle all the way, until he got out of the East Street and walked on the main road, which calmed down.

Because there were a lot of pedestrians on the road, although Qin Chuan was anxious to see his new ship, he didn't dare to let the horse gallop, but patiently took the reins to let the big black horse trot all the way with broken steps, and Gao Ying and the four guards who followed Qin Chuan all stuck the shell gun in the holster on the belt around their waists, so that it was easy to quickly pull out the gun once something happened.

After crossing the Xiping Bridge on the nullah outside the Haiguang Temple, it is the factory area of the West Bureau.

The gate of the Xiju Machinery Factory is the most magnificent in these factories, it is a big archway-like appearance, from a distance, Qin Chuan saw two soldiers standing lazily in front of the gate, leaning on the door post while snorting, lazily basking in the sun. Except for these two guards standing guard, there was not a single guard in the vicinity of a huge machine factory, and there was no vigilance at all due to the military aircraft, and Qin Chuan, who saw it, couldn't help frowning slightly.

When Qin Chuan and his entourage arrived at the door, the two guards only glanced at Qin Chuan and the others casually, then rolled up their sleeves and continued to enjoy the warmth of the sun with their hands in their hands.

Without waiting for Qin Chuan to dismount, Wang Desheng, who had already hurried out of the gatehouse in the gate, with a happy face, was followed by a middle-aged man wearing a brown fox fur with cuffs, a black flower satin horse coat, and a black otter warm hat, with a slightly chubby body and a ruddy complexion.

Seeing the person behind Wang Desheng, Qin Chuan's heart couldn't help but move, and he said in his heart: "How could it be him?" ”

This person was none other than the person he saw in the concession when Min Chengjun was assassinated.

For some reason, since Qin Chuan first met Ishikawa Wuyi in Lishunde, he had a deep wariness of Ishikawa Wuyi from the bottom of his heart, so much so that this person who had a close relationship with Ishikawa Wuyi also made Qin Chuan involuntarily wary.

Qin Chuan jumped off the horse, threw the reins back to a guard who had just jumped off the horse, and before he could speak, the joyful Wang Desheng smiled and gave Qin Chuan a salute.

"My lord, our new machine has been completed, and we are waiting for you to inspect it."

Looking at Wang Desheng's thin face, Qin Chuan reached out and patted Wang Desheng's shoulder heavily: "It's hard work." ”

Qin Chuan's actions and words made Wang Desheng's heart warm, his eyes were also a little moist, and he said with a smile.

"It's not hard, it's not hard. My lord, let's go and see our new locomotive ship. ”

Qin Chuan stretched out his hand to grab Wang Desheng, who was about to take a step in a hurry, and looked at the middle-aged man who had been standing aside and looking at Qin Chuan: "Old Wang, this is 。。。。。。 ”

Wang Desheng also remembered that he had forgotten to introduce Qin Chuan at this time, and hurriedly apologized to the middle-aged man and said, "My lord, look at me, this joy has forgotten the truth." ”

Wang Desheng pulled the middle-aged man and said to Qin Chuan: "My lord, this is Mr. Liu Fang, the secretary of the Machinery Bureau, Mr. Liu, and Mr. Zhang specially arranged for Mr. Liu to come today to listen to your support." ”

Without waiting for Qin Chuan to speak, Liu Fang had already smiled and said, "My lord, Wan An, Liu Fang will meet my lord." ”

Liu Fang's gift made Qin Chuan a little embarrassed, and turned around to signal Gao Ying, who hurriedly took out a red paper sealed Vermilion Bird Ocean from the brown cowhide briefcase on his shoulder and handed it to Qin Chuan.

Qin Chuan turned around and stretched out his hand to take Liu Fang's hand, and put the hundred Vermilion Bird Oceans in Liu Fang's hand, and said with a smile.

"Liu Shuban can't be like this, don't call adults anymore, I'm just an alternate officer, and I don't have a real job. It's not the right time for Qin to come today, I disturbed Liu Shuban, and Liu Shuban had to come to this bureau for the New Year, sorry! I'm sorry! ”

Qin Chuan just took Liu Fang's hand, and felt that he was holding a hard object in his hand, and glanced at Liu Fang's right hand from the corner of his eye as he spoke. saw that Liu Fang's right thumb was wearing a jade wrench that shone green and shining.

Although Qin Chuan didn't like to wear ornaments such as wrenches and jade pendants that were fashionable at this time, there were many official eunuchs and merchants, and he could roughly distinguish the quality of some jade pieces. He had seen jade of this color on Sheng Xuanhuai's body, but the jade on Sheng Xuanhuai's body was not a wrench, but a small piece of jade.

Sheng Xuanhuai's things must be worth a lot of money, and at this time, the wrench in Liu Fang's hand is much bigger than Sheng Xuanhuai's jade pendant, and this bookstore is very rich.

Liu Fang didn't expect Qin Chuan's thoughts, touching the silver dollar of the hard state, smiling eyebrows and eyes were crowded together, and his demeanor was more respectful, while carrying the silver dollar in his arms, he thanked him repeatedly.

Wang Desheng was relieved to see that his adult did not snub Liu Fang because he did not hold his own identity.

"My lord, Liu Shuban has won the trust of Lord Zhang, let's build this new ship, and all the affairs in the East Bureau are handled by Liu Shuban, whether it is the materials needed or the craftsmen, they are all close to us, which is why our new ship was picked up so quickly."

Liu Fang shook his hand and said: "Lao Wang, you must not say that, Lord Qin and Lord Zhang have a good relationship, and Lord Zhang has already told me, how dare I be a little contemptuous." ”

In order to build this new ship, Qin Chuan gave Zhang Shiheng 10,000 silver for the cost of work, and said at that time that if the cost was not enough, Qin Chuan would add more, but now listening to Liu Fang's tone, this 10,000 silver is estimated to make Zhang Shiheng greedy for ink.

I just don't know, I don't know if this Liu Fang can also get a piece of the pie?

Qin Chuan, who was thinking about his thoughts, exchanged a few words with Liu Fang, and then followed Liu Fang and Wang Desheng into the courtyard.

Qin Chuan was thinking about his ship in his heart, and he didn't have the heart to look at it more along the way, but he didn't have a ride and talked to Liu Fang absentmindedly.

The machine shop had its own small dock for the construction of various types of locomotives, connected to the Haihe River by an artificially dug waterway. Far away, Qin Chuan saw a thirty-meter-long mast, gray painted, no mast, and a relatively low mast, but with two pointed bows on the hull, quietly parked on the unfrozen water outside the dock.

Qin Chuan was overjoyed in his heart, and couldn't help but take a few steps closely, and he and Wang Desheng boarded the catamaran along a gangplank. Seeing that Gao Ying was also going to take a few guards on the boat, Qin Chuan waved his hand to stop Gao Ying. Liu Fang did not follow the boat.

Although the catamaran has two hulls, there is a compartment in the middle that firmly connects the two hulls together, and the tail rudder is housed in this bilge that serves as a link between the two hulls. Two state-of-the-art German diesel engines, installed in the aft compartment of the hull, are powered by a propeller pushed by a transmission mechanism. Both diesel engines also have a generator on their drive shafts to provide electricity for lighting in the cabins.

These two hulls are not simply an empty shell, but are equipped with three watertight compartments with spacers, mainly to prevent the hull from leaking. Each of the six compartments has a pump to drain water when it leaks.

Although the mast tower does not look high, it has two floors, the lower one is fifteen meters long and ten meters wide, and there are no compartments inside. The smaller upper floor, the cockpit and captain's cabin, with teak-studded steering wheels showing that they had not yet had time to be painted.

Although the catamaran had enough width with two hulls, there were no fore and aft decks, and personnel could only pass through the cabins on the first floor from bow to stern.

According to Wang Desheng's introduction, the hull of this iron-hulled ship is welded, and after sea trials, the hull stability is excellent.

Looking at the catamaran that he had loved for a long time, Qin Chuan was extremely excited, inspecting them one by one inside and outside the cabin, touching and looking at everything, and it took a long time to explain Wang Desheng in the cockpit.

"Is there any difficulty in driving the boat back to the dock in the backyard of our dyeing factory today, and the rest of the work will be done there?"

In the West Bureau Machinery Factory to decorate the ship's cabin, the raw materials are ready-made, back to the dyeing factory backyard, in the repair shop to do these things is much more troublesome.

Wang Desheng said tentatively: "My lord, according to your explanation, I just said that this is a yacht made by adults, and no one knows anything else." ”

Seeing that Qin Chuan was just looking at him with a resolute attitude, Wang Desheng couldn't say anything more, so he thought about it.

"My lord, it's okay to drive back to us and do the rest of the work, but 。。。。。。"

Wang Desheng hesitated for a moment and said: "My lord, there are two German engineers and three technicians in the East Bureau, the contract they signed with Beiyang will expire after the New Year, they are very good in technology, and they don't want to return to China immediately, I really want to work in our factory in Aurora, if they are there, this ship will be much easier, I don't know。。。。。。 ”

I heard that there were foreigner engineers and technicians who came to the door, Qin Chuan was willing to let them go, and waved his hand: "Just let them all come over, and the treatment of those two engineers will be compared to you, those technicians, you and Lu Dezhang will do it together." ”

As he was talking, he saw a soldier at the gate of the East Bureau hurriedly coming over and saying something to Liu Fang, Gao Ying's face on the side suddenly changed color, and he rushed onto the boat a few steps along the gangplank, ignoring Qin Chuan's order not to let him get on the boat. (To be continued.) )