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When Xu Guofang asked Wu Yun to inform Wu Yun to inspect the cannon, Ambassador Wu was really not light, the polishing of the inner chamber of this artillery could not be completed in 20 days in the past, and the production efficiency of the Mawei Artillery Bureau was too outrageous. He took a ruler and the solid shells of the cannon to test the cannon until midnight, and finally confirmed that the caliber of the gun, the inner chamber, and the quality of the outer bore surface were of the best grade.

The next day, naturally, there was a process that the artillery of this era had to go, that is, to try shè! Before the nineteenth century, whether it was casting artillery or using a drill chuáng to process artillery, in fact, the key factor affecting artillery was the quality of steel, and the other was the degree of jīng in processing, and testing guns was the most direct and primitive method.

Today's test gun, Ding Richang also gave a lot of face, not only did he come in person, but also scattered a post, inviting Wenshan, the governor of Fujian, and Rongshan, the general of Fuzhou, and Xu Jianyin and Qin Kai both played a package ticket in front of Ding Richang.

Xu Jianyin is obviously full of confidence, the raw materials of the rough embryo of the artillery brought this time are all hard steel imported from the United Kingdom, and the grinding chuáng designed by Qin Kai has completely conquered him, and the concept of scientists is based on technology and principles, and the more he studies this grinding chuáng, the more confident he is.

Ding Richang came very early today, this test cannon seems to be a Xiǎo matter, but in fact, it is a matter of great importance, Li Zhongtang has always trusted him, and this time he was able to set up the Mawei Cannon Bureau in less than a month, which is also a reward for Lord Zhongtang.

In this era, there is still a great danger in testing artillery, as Ding Richang, who has built his own cannon, naturally knows very well, so the stands are set up far away in the safety area, near noon, the horses' hooves on the avenue, the convoy of the governor and the general of Fuzhou slowly entered, and the three giants of Fuzhou Mansion could not help but have a greeting after meeting, and the stands were surrounded by the Eight Banners Army wearing the word "soldier" military uniform.

Today's test gun is a good hand found in the Nanyang Naval Division, which naturally does not need Qin Kai and Xu Jianyin to cào heart, the two of them are not today's protagonists, today's protagonist is Ding Richang Ding old man, so Qin Kai and Xu Jianyin got together and chatted about the topics of interest over and over again, while looking at the artillery test shè in the distance.

For the two high-ranking officials on the stage, Qin Kai saw it for the first time, the governor clerk was thin and thin, and he was also an old man, belonging to the type of person who threw people into a pile, and no one would pay attention to it. Rong Shan, the general of Fuzhou, was a big man with a scruffy beard, with a shiny face, and he walked with a swaying and majestic manner, and he wore a striking yellow belt in an official robe.

Qin Kai didn't have much to get acquainted with, and the experience of later generations made him understand that the Tao in this officialdom is actually to use each other, and the officialdom of this last world is full of power and money.

He is now temporarily hidden in the Mawei Ship Administration with peace of mind, as long as Ding Richang is flat here, and other places are as low-key as possible, what he lacks most now is not money, but time, he came to this time and space, who knows what kind of butterfly effect will be caused, the road in front of him seems to be clear, but it is difficult to walk step by step.

The newly cast cannon was placed alone on a flat ground, Qin Kai saw a team of soldiers wearing the five cloud suits of the sailor hurriedly rushed to the running position, and a mule horse pulled the cannonball and fire yào followed, under the command of a military leader, began to load the fire yào, muttered for about three minutes, and waved the flag to signal that the preparation was completed.

In the stands, Ding Richang stood up in high spirits, symbolizing xìng and throwing down an order arrow, and the official next to him immediately raised a large order flag and waved it.

Seeing this, the soldiers next to the artillery immediately dispersed and stood more than twenty yards behind the artillery, and the head of the army stood beside the cannon for a moment, and then unhurriedly picked up the torch on the ground and lit the long fuse.

"Boom!"

A huge cannon sound rang out, and the position of the cannon was suddenly covered by the thick black smoke, and with a subconscious thought, Qin Kai glanced sideways at Shen Songhe, who was standing not far behind him, and found that this guy had a nervous look on his face, and his eyes looked directly at the cannon shrouded in smoke in the distance.

Which tendon is this guy, he is so nervous about trying this artillery, what credit this artillery has is not his smiling tiger's merit, Qin Kai turned his face and thought a little depressedly.

A gust of wind blew, and the cannon in the smoke came out, and several high-ranking officials on the stage who were holding clairvoyants to observe obviously felt good, although the cannon did not directly hit the target in the distance, but the error was not large, Ding Richang's old face was somewhat excited, it was really a complete performance. ,

The three giants on the stage looked at each other, anyway, Ding Richang felt good, and after a while, Master Sun came over from the side and led Xu Jianyin and Qin Kai to the high platform, and Ding Richang personally introduced the heroes of this cannon casting to the governor and the Fuzhou general, which made Qin Kai feel a pimple again, and pretended to be a salute and greeting.

Fuzhou General Rong Shan still looks high, but the governor Wen Shan also walked down in person, pulling Qin Kai and Xu Jianyin around a few words, this old fox's eyes glanced at Qin Kai from time to time, and when he came down from the stage, Qin Kai felt a cold behind him, and he could inadvertently break out in a lot of cold sweat, this old man Wen is not a good stubble, I don't know if he has calculated himself!

The three giants of Fuzhou retreated, and He Xing was the busiest, while Qin Kai took a few students to the research institute under construction next to him, where dozens of laborers were busy building roof beams, and on the side of a Xiǎo house that had been built, a young man was holding a máo pen and writing hard, and there was a group of adults and xiǎo children lining up at Mén.

"Teacher, you still hire child labor!" Zhang Kui, this guy is bubbling out of place again.

"Zhang Kui, you slander your teacher like this!" Qin Kai's eyes widened, pretending to be vicious, but Zhang Kui's guy was completely immune to this, "Education is the foundation of the country, Zuo Dashuai is really a clever move to open a ponytail school, and I am also a dog's tail mink!" ”

Zhang Kui pursed his lips disapprovingly, and said: "Teacher, do I remember that Wang Anshi guarded his students in Jinling for more than 20 years before the law change, could it be that the teacher has this ambition?" ”

This is a complete irony, Wang Anshi heard about it in the imperial court when he was young, but he was a unique person, and he would rather be a county guard in the xiǎo place than go to the court to work with other people, this is the kind of xìng grid that would rather be jītou, so the court repeatedly recruited him into the capital as an official, but he refused, which made him "bear the reputation of the world for thirty years" at that time.

However, Qin Kai naturally understood the meaning of Zhang Kui's crow's mouth, and waved his hand to give him a light touch on the back of the head, "Zhang Kui, Wang Jiefu has the name of changing the law, he is just a utopian, so the change is a failure, as for what your teacher did, which one did you see that was not planned?" ”

Zhang Kui pursed his lips, and couldn't think of a way to refute Qin Kai, so he slipped aside and muttered to Zhou Ruidong, the two of them are now Qin Kai's diehards, and they are super supportive of the theories taught by Qin Kai, but compared to Zhou Ruidong's diligence, Zhang Kui prefers to pick thorns, and every time he fights with the instructor, he gains a lot, which has become one of his motivations for picking thorns.

Qin Kai walked in front of the young man who was struggling to write, and the young man noticed that he was busy getting up and giving a salute.

"You are Ho Xing's ......"

"Lord Qin, He Xing is my second cousin, my name is Chen Ping!"

"Yes, yes, Brother He told me," Qin Kai remembered when he heard the young man introduce himself, he smiled slightly, lowered his head and pointed to the book on the table, "Chen Ping, how many children have been registered!" ”

"Lord Qin, there are 7 children sent by our He family, 39 children from local farmers, 31 children from the Hunan army, a total of 77 people! I've tested them all, and I'm all 10-12 years old, and 47 people are literate and 30 people are illiterate," Chen Ping said, holding a note next to him.

"Good, keep busy!" He turned around and looked at the adults who were still queuing up, obviously most of these people were nearby villagers, many of them came to work on the construction site at the request of the He family this time, and unexpectedly saw that xiǎo children were recruited here, and as long as xiǎo children could finish reading here, they would not only give 1 tael of silver a month for the family, but also cover three full meals a day.

You know, in this era, it is not easy to produce one or two taels of silver in the field, not to mention giving three meals to eat, and the villagers who got the news are in a hurry to send their own xiǎo children, and the poor farmers who gave birth to NV children will inevitably go home and scold their mother-in-law again.

At this time, Qin Kai had a lot of thoughts in his heart, this time recruiting this batch of children, maybe it can become his own help in the future, of course, his research institute will naturally not use the traditional level of teaching, these children will complete the cramming literacy teaching in the first year, the second stage is to be directly taught by the craftsmen of the artillery factory, in the learning technology, there is an intensive cultural learning for xìng.

Of course, for students, there are incentives for the first stage, the monthly subsidy of one yuan, the second stage will be increased to two yuan, and so on in the third stage, until they can independently carry out mechanical work. This is also a last resort, if it is carried out step by step, first, there is not enough teacher strength, and second, the students trained are not targeted at all. ,

In fact, he has too many concerns about this plan, and the education that these children will receive in the future is undoubtedly a kind of uprooting, but now for him, this is also a helpless move, he needs to do his best to cultivate talents who can cope with the explosive industrial growth, which is also an emergency measure.

What made him feel funny and helpless was that a large number of talents who should make a difference cultivated by the Mawei Ship Master School for more than ten years eventually became sailors or equipment cào members who did not have much value in the Nanyang Naval Division, which made him red-eyed, and now is the time for change.

Qin Kai did not invest much effort in the basic education here, and divided these juvenile plans into two classes according to whether they were literate or not, and the literate students were directly selected by Xu Guofang to teach craftsmen who graduated from the Shipmaster Academy's art garden, and the illiterate xiǎo children hired a few local old gentlemen to teach literacy.

In addition, he also posted a notice in the Mawei School to recruit students to work and study, and most of the students in the Mawei Shipbuilding School are the children of poor families in Fuzhou, and the Shipmaster School gives a living allowance of four taels of silver every month, but for the opportunity to be self-reliant, it still attracted a large number of students from the front and back halls, and recruited seven or eight at once, which greatly eased the pressure on teachers.

A few days later, Qin Kai was taking the students of his class to carry out evening training, and He Yong hurriedly arrived in a carriage, bringing a telegram from Dr. David from Guangzhou.

Qin Kai has been waiting for this news for a long time, although he is still shouting that he is not short of money, but all the money raised by He Xing is the money he raised, and the hundreds of taels of silver in his bag really can't be used.

When he opened the telegram, he was surprised by the news that Consul von Schleier had decided to meet him in Mawei on the German warship "Earl", accompanied by Dr. David.

The Germans can't wait! Qin Kai secretly snickered, this was a good sign, in the telegram, he also saw the change of Schleier's position, and it was obvious that the last Jiāo Yi had brought the German a bad benefit.

If you take my benefits, you will naturally repay me, Qin Kai turned his hand into a knife, volleyed a few times, and Zhang Kui, who was following behind him, couldn't help but shout: "Instructor, what kind of kung fu are you practicing?" ”

Qin Kai turned his head and looked at this guy sharply, "Zhang Kui, this is called the ever-changing gold hand, do you understand!" ”

Ding Richang has been in a good mood these days, Lord Zhongtang has already sent a letter to report his merits, although there are no new products in the artillery bureau, but in terms of output alone, it has achieved at least 10 times more than an increase, and this alone can make Lord Li Zhongtang excited.

Master Sun also went to the artillery factory every now and then to have a look, and new news kept coming. Several buildings of the artillery bureau were basically completed, while the shipyard's machine chuáng workshop was under full construction, according to Xu Guofang, an official of Xiǎo, Qin Kai improved the original machine chuáng of the artillery bureau, and designed a new boring chuáng for the production of artillery.

He was also curious, how much jīng power this Qin armor has, but he didn't bother to think about this problem, recently his health has deteriorated, he has also considered whether it is time to return to his hometown and return to the mountains and forests, he has been an official for decades, and he has been in a high position for more than ten years, and this eunuch bag is also very rich.

And now the official is becoming more and more difficult to do, Westerners everywhere to make trouble, not to mention, the DPRK and China are even more powerful, he can be said to have a deep background, Li Zhongtang and Zuo Dashuai both regard him as a cronie, but in the place of Fuzhou, even the concurrently serving ambassador of the ship is also restrained, and all forces are in peace.

If it weren't for the fact that this Qin Kai appeared in the sky, and Mawei had such a new situation, he really wanted to ask Lord Zhongtang for a spare position, and now Qin Kai opened the artillery bureau at his behest, but recruiting people and opening what research institute is indeed with the help of the He family, and he also guessed one or two of the Tao, this is the step that he had dreams of then and now but has never been able to take it, and now, it also makes him interested in seeing how much movement this young man can have in the future.

And on this day, Xu Jianyin came to bid him farewell, this young man is also his favorite, asked about the feelings of this trip, Xu Jianyin only said two words, "Fortunately!" ”

On the dock, Qin Kai personally came to see Xu Jianyin off, and the two stood on a high slope, overlooking the infinite scenery of the sunset, and they were a little reluctant.

Xu Jianyin turned his head to look at the man next to him who was much younger than himself, and admired him, he was a young man, and often sighed that the Chinese people were content with the status quo, but when he arrived at Mawei, he found that there was a new world here, and he faintly felt in his heart that this would be the place where the national fortune was involved, which made him feel quite comfortable in his heart. ,

"Brother Galewind, if I don't have a heavy responsibility to shoulder this time, I will definitely have to stay in your research institute for several years before I can realize the industrial dream in my heart......"

Qin Kai naturally understood that his so-called heavy task was the "Dingyuan" and "Zhenyuan" ironclad ships that would affect the national fortunes later, and he would go to Europe to run for the dream of the giant ship of the Beiyang Naval Division, the sunset was infinitely good, but it was just near dusk, but for the predictable future, he couldn't help but have a faint sense of depression.

"The Taixi countries, Brother Zhonghu can focus on the German Empire, England is known for its arrogance, it is difficult to really build a first-class ironclad ship for our country, the shells of the ironclad ship, you can use huā shells, and the traditional iron egg pills will soon become obsolete! In addition, if there is a high-speed gun, it is necessary for the ironclad ship. ”

Thinking of the future battle, Qin Kai can only put forward a little bit of his own construction, maybe it can provide some variables for that battle, but some construction is hindered by the current technology, and it is inevitable that there is a lack of basis for putting it forward, such as the design of the Dingyuan and Zhenyuan artillery rooms, which are protected by iron armor all around, but there is no top, which is mainly to consider the problem of smoke after the cannon is fired, but this has laid the root of the future fight against the speed cannon.

During this period of contact, Xu Jianyin had a preliminary understanding of many of Qin Kai's theories, and he was a scientist who was good at in-depth thinking and excavation, and he admired Qin Kai's theories after careful consideration.

The two of them said goodbye and went to Taixi, thousands of miles away, and they didn't know when they would be able to reunite, but Qin Kai believed that the seeds he planted would take root sooner or later.