Chapter 90 New Base

When these Japanese were escorted to the shipyard, Qin Kai deliberately let people escort them to the parade, and immediately ran away from two lurking Japanese stakes, but they were caught by the soldiers who were secretly staring.

was interrogating the Japanese, and Sun Fu came to Qin Kai for the matter on the dock and asked Lu Shu to come in, only to know that there was such a thing on the dock, and Qin Kai could only shake his head and be silent about Lu Shu's audacity.

"Brother Sun, how do you understand this?" Qin Kai severely despised himself, a bold and reckless student.

Sun Fu smiled nonchalantly, "Gale Wind, this evidence is conclusive!" ”

"Naturally, it's a sure thing," Qin Kai laughed, it's not up to us to decide how many nails there are on the board, how many do you want?!

"What about this...... It's not a big problem, according to the usual practice, the embassy's ships should first report to Yamén when they arrive in Fuzhou, I went to check, and the Japanese certainly didn't report it! As soon as you send the evidence, what are you doing in our Shipbuilding and Artillery Bureau, the intentions of this are clearly revealed! Lord Ding and Lord Zhang came forward and reported to the court for a decision! The bigwigs in the court saw that the British and French had more headaches, and the Japanese were ...... It's nothing! ”

"Thank you Brother Sun for your advice," Qin Kai smiled slightly, "Brother Sun, I still have something I want to discuss with you!" Let's go inside and talk! ”

Sun Fu was a little surprised by Qin Kai's mysterious mystery today, walked into Qin Kai's dirty and slag house, looked around and said with a smile: "Gale Wind, you are worth living in such a broken house, and you can think of it!" I've often wondered if you have gold bars buried in the ground here! ”

"Brother Sun, you're kidding again!" Qin Kai laughed and laughed.

Seeing a big map spread out on the table, and seeing that the place name marked on it was the boundary of Liangguang, Sun Fu raised his head and looked at Qin Kai strangely, "Gale Wind, you want to change places to be an official?" ”

"No, Brother Sun...... Have you ever thought about letting go of the prefect?" Qin Kaile asked.

Sun Fu looked at Qin Kai calmly, "Ten years of penance, who doesn't want to stay in the position of the prefect, it's just that Lord Ding is still in office, I can't leave for the time being, Gale Wind, you ask about this, what are your plans?" ”

Sun Fu can now be regarded as Qin Kai's ally in the officialdom, all official affairs, basically have his participation, hearing Qin Kai ask about the matter of the release of the prefect, he naturally understands that with Qin Kai's strength at hand, he can indeed do it, rumors about Qin Kai's control of financial resources are not just rumors, especially for people like him who have come into contact with the core of the shipyard, he knows this, so he is very calmly determined to bet on Qin Kai for his future future.

Qin Kai's attitude towards himself, Sun Fu is also very clear now, he must be a big help in the officialdom of this young superintendent, after all, this superintendent is very disgusted with those things in the officialdom of the Qing Dynasty, Qin Kai's scope in the official face can be described as very limited, and the governor and governor are the places where they go the most.

As for Qin Kai's true thoughts, he also thought about it carefully, more than a year ago, he dared to recommend himself and became a blockbuster, and in the past year, he has created an amazing industry, and the director of the Mawei Ship Administration is also temporarily in charge of the military affairs of the Nanyang Naval Division, although the official position has not been promoted by the imperial court this time, but in the face of this great feat, sooner or later it will be promoted.

It's just that he hasn't figured out that this Qin Supervisor has started such a business in a hurry, if it is just for fame...... He didn't believe it, Qin Kai grabbed real power! That's why he asked!

"Brother Sun, you see that I am now engaged in the fire of the artillery bureau and the machine factory, if the court said that the replacement would be replaced that day, would these industries still be there?"

"......" Sun Fu was stunned, "There is Lord Ding, and now there is Governor Zhang......"

"Eh, there are unpredictable circumstances in the sky, who can grasp the meaning of the above?" Qin Kai smiled, "Brother Sun, since I joined the ship, Brother Sun is helping to deal with the affairs of this official, so I mentioned this matter, these two vast places, but the sphere of influence of the Hunan army ......"

Sun Fu picked up the teacup and got a cup of water by himself, and when he saw it, this Qin Kai was really picking, and there was a pot of herbal tea in the room, but there was no tea, he shook his head and smiled, and drank it to moisten his throat, now how can the Hunan army still have power, and they have all been cut by the imperial court without plastic surgery, Zuo Dashuai went to Xinjiang, and Liu Kunyi was in the eventful place of Liangguang. ,

"Gale, I can't get out for the time being, but if I want to find a prefect in Liangguang, I can help!"

Qin Kai nodded, "There is one more thing, Brother Sun, I don't have anyone around me to help copy and write, and I have a lot of people, you have reliable and diligent characters, I have to find some, there are too many miscellaneous things at hand now!" ”

This is put on Qin Kai's side, it must be trustworthy, Sun Fu thought about it and came to a conclusion, the ready-made masters in the Yamén are all old fritters, you can do things, if you let it go, it will be mysterious, but it is not difficult to find capable characters, you must know that the system of the Hunan army is the natural cradle of cultivating capable literati.

When the Taiping army was pacified, it was no accident that the Hunan army could suddenly rise up, such an army with untrained farmers as the main force, but the stronger and stronger it became, the more brave it became, and finally the Taiping army, which was also a farmer, was annihilated in Tianjing City, which has to be said to be a difference in the system.

The reason why the Hunan army and the Huai army were able to become two important military forces in the late Qing Dynasty in this era was due to the special system of the Hunan army, which was composed of local farmers led by talented Confucian scholars.

"Gale, I have some candidates, I don't know if you are willing to use them! After the pacification of the Taiping Zhiluàn, our Hunan army was basically abolished, and scholars like me, who were close to the handsome, could still have a certain official position, and listen to a bad thing under Lord Ding, but many of the colleagues back then could have unloaded their armor and returned to the field, and they had to spend their time in the mountains and rivers! ”

Qin Kai naturally understood that these characters that Sun Fu said were the backbone of the bottom of the Hunan army back then, and those who dared to use a horizontal sword when they were young obviously had to have some ability, "Brother Sun, I just don't know if they are willing to come to the shipyard to do idle affairs?" ”

"Gale said with a smile, to be honest, if it weren't for Lord Ding's still here, I would have wanted to do this chore!" After that, Sun Fu laughed, this is a good time to confess his heart.

"Then there is Brother Lao Sun," Qin Kai returned the salute, he naturally understood the meaning of the words, looked at Sun Fu, and said: "There is one more thing, I want to ask Brother Sun to help with it, I want to find a real shortage of Zhizhou and Zhixian ...... for my two students."

"Where is the county and the state? Gale winds, the real shortage of officials in rich places is difficult to donate, but the remote Yamén is easy to enter! "Although Sun Fu is well versed in the affairs of the Qing Dynasty officialdom, if he wants to go to the Zhixian and Zhizhou of Guangzhou, it is also a hot commodity and it is very difficult to do.

Qin Kai smiled slightly, came to the side of the map, and pointed to a place on the map, "Brother Sun, this place can't be considered rich, right?" ”

Tianjin Wei, Zhili Governor Yamén.

Lord Li Zhongtang does not come every day, in charge of the largest power group in the country, and the affairs of this are naturally very busy, so ordinary affairs are generally followed by Zhou Fuxian, and most of the affairs are handled by Zhou Fu, but today, it is Kato Yugo, the consul of the Japanese State in Tianjin, who came to visit.

For these obscene Japanese people, Zhou Fu naturally looked down on them in his heart, and he looked serious all day long, and he still had a piece of wood on the soles of his feet, thinking that he wanted to raise some heads, but no matter how he looked, they were all Japanese people.

When Kato Yugo entered, although he still tried his best to maintain a strict demeanor as a foreign official, after handing over an official letter, he began to protest loudly, saying that a visiting ship of their Tianjin consulate had been detained in Mawei Port in Fuzhou, and even the embassy personnel on board had been detained, which was a violation of the peace treaty signed between Lord Li Zhongtang and Japan.

Zhou Fu listened to Kato's statement with patience, and smiled, this Japanese is really troublesome, what are you going to do with the Nanyang Naval Division, maybe you just want to steal the information of the Naval Division, this time you must have been arrested, this matter has to be reported to Lord Zhongtang, and our Weihai Naval Master can be on guard against Luo.

Seeing that Zhou Fu was poor and ignored his own statement, Kato hurriedly reminded loudly: "Lord Zhou, this is a foreign jiāo dispute, please do your best to release our foreign jiāo personnel, otherwise Japan will reserve the right to pursue this matter!" ”

Xiǎo Japan also began to play with the rhetoric of the British and French, which made Zhou Fu a little unhappy, "Consul Kato, this is the Yamén of the Minister of Beiyang, and you are in charge of this matter from Lord Liu, Minister of Nanyang, and I will not accept it!" In addition, if your country wants to settle a dispute with the Nanyang Naval Division, I will first go to the French Navy, the second in the world, and ask about their experience! Come! Drop-off! ”,

When you arrive at the territory of the Qing Dynasty, you will do it according to the rules of the Qing Dynasty, you projectile xiǎo country, you dare to be so arrogant, watch us play you to death! Zhou Fu laughed, since the French recently died down, now as long as they mention the naval battle in the South China Sea to foreigners, their eyes are wide open, but they immediately lose their arrogance, and this Japanese country is no longer a problem.

Kato Yugo was also stunned, in the past, this yamén was still polite, so they didn't take this former suzerainty seriously for a long time, but they didn't expect to eat such a big nail today. At this time, people drove people directly, and he ran out of mén angrily, so he couldn't go to Guangzhou to find the minister of Nanyang Liu Kunyi...... After pondering for a long time, I had to take a telegram to Fumio Yano, the Japanese minister to China, in Beijing, and directly resolve the matter with Prime Minister Yamén.

A few days later, Prince Gong had already received a recital from Fujian Governor Ding Richang and Governor Zhang Peilun about the Japanese infiltrating the Fuzhou Ship Administration to steal the secrets of the Qing Dynasty, and along with this recital, he also sent several confessions from Japanese spies.

The bigwigs in the court are most angry about this matter, damn the Japanese country, the Ryukyu vassal state that swallowed our Qing Dynasty last year, and has not settled accounts with you, that is because the ministers of Nanyang and Beiyang have said that the new warships of the Navy have not arrived, and the attack has not been won, last month, the French, known as the second in the world, wanted to rob the Vietnamese vassal state of our Qing Dynasty, which did not give the Nanyang Navy division three dead and three wounded, and honestly came to sue for peace.

Prince Gong immediately summoned the Japanese minister Fumio Yano, threw away the confessions, and Fumio Yano knew the handwriting of these arrested people, and looked at the twisted signatures that were indeed the names of the spy, and secretly cursed in his heart, these idiots of the Admiralty actually sent such a boneless guy to be a spy, and he didn't have time to rescue him, so he confessed directly.

"Your Excellency, this is absolutely impossible, I think there may be a question of zàibī confession, these are all serious embassy staff......"

"Ambassador Yano, there is no need to quibble, the governor of Fujian, Yamén, has checked, and after you arrived at Mawei Port, you did not go to the Yamén for the record in accordance with the regulations of the outer jiāo, isn't this kind of behavior clearly showing that you are secretly mōmō!" Prince Gong didn't want to waste time with these people about this, and he was busy going into the palace to see the Empress Dowager of the West Palace.

"......" Fumio Yano really couldn't tell the difference, "Your Excellency, even if these embassy personnel are at fault, they still enjoy the immunity of the foreign embassy, and please release them as much as possible!" ”

"No problem, when the trial is clear, after I report to the emperor, I will definitely deal with it in accordance with the treaty between the two countries!"

When Fumio Yano returned to the Japanese embassy, he threw his belongings and immediately ordered someone to quickly send a letter back to China, demanding that the arrogant attitude of the Qing Kingdom be treated harshly.

However, at the end of September, the proclamation sent by the imperial court made Ding Richang depressed for a while, and he immediately asked Qin Kai to be called, and the official document of the prime minister Yamén was also transferred to him.

With regard to the Japanese espionage case, Prime Minister Yamén first praised the Fuzhou Ship Administration, and then reprimanded the Japanese for their actions, and the conclusion was indeed that he raised it high and gently put it down -- he was reprimanded and released on a later day.

"My lord, this is conniving at the behavior of the Japanese people!" Qin Kai realized this problem at the first time, the bigwigs in the Manchu Dynasty were really brainless than the other.

"Yes! But this is the will of the imperial court, and it can only be implemented, but the old man still has to play, at least he has to admit his mistake in a state of expression! Ding Richang was a little angry.

Qin Kai's mind turned, and he already had a plan, "My lord, since this is the case, then you have to ask for some personal certificates when you release it!" I see that there are German warships visiting the port, but I have some jiāo feelings with them, so I might as well let them do circumstantial evidence, and the Japanese people in the province will come to make a fuss about this matter again! ”

"Very good! Gale, you go to Cào to do it," Lao Ding was also very satisfied with this arrangement.

In the evening, 7 Japanese spies led by Takeda Fanyuki, who had been detained for more than 20 days, were escorted to the docks, and these 20 days did not make them feel better.

The escorted officer Lu Shu looked back and forth at these Japanese several times, and then said in a non-yang manner: "Listen well, if you dare to come to our Fuzhou again to do bad things in the future, you will not be polite next time!" If you see it once, you will die once! Then, he snapped out a few pieces of paper. ,

"Sign them one by one, this is a release certificate, sign my name clearly!" The soldiers roared loudly to catch the signed Japanese onto their xiǎo boat! Takeda Fan looked at the surrounding situation suspiciously, it seemed that the embassy's efforts did play a role, and the Qing people really did not dare to fight against the Great Japan, but it was a pity that they could not find out the detailed news this time, and only saw some skins of the Nanyang Naval Division, and these skins also showed that the Qing Kingdom had gathered a strong army in Fuzhou, and they had to go back to plan the next spying.

Xiǎo Japan was all caught up on the cargo ship, and Takeda Nomiyuki saw two people who looked like officials, one of them was even a European, took the release order they had signed, looked at it, and then exchanged a few words of greetings, and quickly signed it and sent them away.

"What does this Qing Guo want to do......" Takeda Fan Yu thought and ordered to leave immediately!

Qin Kai looked at the Japanese merchant ships that were slowly leaving, raised his eyes and looked at the sky, the sunset had only the last afterglow left, and the port was already quiet at this time, and the Japanese ships were the only ones that were going out in smoke......

"Dear Schleier, this coming to see me must have brought me happy news!"

"Of course, dear Lord Qin, last time we discussed the cooperation project, this time I have completed it for you to the letter, this time there are 10 engineers of jīng dense processing, as well as 50 ship engineers and 150 skilled workers in other aspects that you have repeatedly requested, this is the roster!"

Qin Kai opened it and scanned it, this time among the skilled workers, the proportion of engineers has greatly increased, it seems that the pressure on Schleier last time has had an effect, but he quickly found the problem, "Consul Schleier, what about the chemical engineer I requested?" Why only the poor three or four? ”

Schleier spread his hands, "Dear Lord Qin, you actually have to blame yourself, the multi-group catalyst for the synthetic ammonia industry you provided for the empire, recently the empire has invested a lot of manpower at once, and established two huge synthetic ammonia chemical plants in Hamburg, so in terms of chemical talents, we are also in short supply!" ”

Qin Kai heard a black line on his face, he pondered for a while, "This is not good, so let's do it, I will first organize a group of students to study and train in the chemical factory in Hamburg, Germany, and you will be responsible for letting the chemical plant teach these students the best engineers, this cooperation plan will continue to be carried out, and I will send students over every year, with a quota of at least 300 people!" ”

"This training requires a lot of financial resources, dear Lord Qin, how do you think it can be solved?" Schleier is now becoming more and more proficient in his wrists.

"Soon the joint research and development between Mawei and the German side will begin, Mr. Schleier, should I also charge these German engineers for the relevant fees?"

"That's fine!" Schleier laughed, hiding his embarrassment, this Lord Qin is really difficult to deal with, but fortunately, he and Qin Kai are a partnership, and he is secretly proud of his determination to make a decision at the beginning, so that he has today's glory, "By the way, and the steelmaking equipment you need will arrive soon, I hope you can be satisfied!" ”

As the sky grew darker and darker, Takeda Nobuyuki stood on the merchant ship urging his men to quickly leave the place where he had suffered so much setback, and the merchant ship suddenly advanced at a speed of 10 knots.

As soon as he turned around a Xiǎo island outside the harbor, seeing that night was about to fall, Takeda finally let go of his hanging heart! Damn Nanyang Marine, I'm going to come back!

"Takeda-kun, do you see there's a battleship in front of you?" The subordinate next to him suddenly asked in a panic.

Takeda Fan obviously didn't have a chance to answer his subordinates' questions, because when he got closer to the distance of 500 meters, the other party was very shameless and arrogant to pour all the six mén 254mm caliber cannons and the 3mén 120mm speed shè cannon into the wooden-hulled merchant ship of xiǎoxiǎo, and the wooden ship of several hundred tons immediately completed the process of evaporation from the world.

Guangdong and Guangxi, since the trade and foreign affairs, the officials of these two places do not like to go to Guangxi as officials, while the officials of Guangdong prefer the officials around Guangzhou, and the market of Zhaoqing, Panyu, and Huizhou officials around Guangzhou has risen year by year, and the so-called three-year Qing prefect and 100,000 snow huā silver market are outdated.

However, the place where Guangdong is closest to the west, the boundary between the two Guangzhous, and the land of Qinzhou and Lianzhou, which are close to the 100,000 mountains, is indeed a place that has little attention in Guangdong, and the place is remote, and most of them are mountainous areas, and there are not many plains, and it is undoubtedly a poor and remote place in the era when the fields were the main medium of production. ,

One morning just after the beginning of October, in Dongpi Town, Fangcheng County, below Qinzhou, two military boats flying the flag of the Admiral of the Qing Dynasty suddenly appeared outside the fishing port. But it was the kind of fast boat with smoke overhead, and soon approached a xiǎo fishing boat, and a man who looked like a big official came out and asked the fisherman what to say.

The fisherman, the villagers here naturally know it, it is Lu Ding, the second son of the Lu family, and the villagers in the distance can't help but mention that this stupid person is worried, the current official is not easy to mess with, and the soldiers are even more horizontal than the official master!

Unexpectedly, Lu Jia Erxiǎo Zi climbed onto the military ship after a while, and then a big ship sailed out suddenly with smoke, and after a while, the military ship actually attracted more than a dozen smoking big ships from outside, and under the guidance of Lu Jia Erxiǎozi, they docked from the deep water area next to the fishing port to the dock!

That night, the word spread in Dongpo Town that the second son of the Lu family was meritorious in assisting the big soldier ship today, and the official master on the ship suddenly rewarded a full amount of official silver of 10 taels and one ingot.

Fangcheng County is more than 10 miles away from Dongpi Town, and it took two days for Lu Yixing, the county leader, to get the news and sent Chen Zhutou to the town with a team of officials to watch the movement. Chen Zhutou pondered about this matter all the way, and the xiǎo officials in the town only came to report it in the morning, saying that a large caravan had come, and the warships of the Nanyang Naval Division had escorted it, and a large piece of land had been enclosed in a bay near the left near the fishing port, and the construction of the village had already begun!