The impact of Qin Kai's first class among the students was absolutely sensational, no one had ever given these students such a clear direction, he set up the first lighthouse, and the theory of sea power that he described immediately spread in the school in the way of copying notes.

In the afternoon practical class, Qin Kai pointed to which reciprocating mechanical grinder, and he said very calmly: "This is a mechanical grinder completely driven by the power of a steam engine, I think this technology can only be achieved in Europe and the United States in ten years!" ”

"Why does Instructor Qin think that the European and American machines are inferior to his design?" The thin and tall Zhang Kui leaned into Zhou Ruidong's ear and muttered, obviously these students didn't know much about this grinder.

"I believe it! Because it is said that because of this grinding machine, Lord Li Zhongtang moved the foreign artillery bureau in Shanghai! Zhou Ruidong's eyes were full of fanaticism, staring at this cold machine, and the expressions of many students around him were no different from him.

As a government-run military academy dominated by foreign teachers, of course, there is a special official in it, that is, the French major Riyige, his status in the academy is second only to the Minister of Shipping Ding Richang and the superintendent Shen Songhe, of course, the benefits he can obtain from the side of Zuo Dashuai are also very huge, and the salary of one thousand taels of silver per month is the price of his service to the academy.

As an important coordinator between the foreign teachers and the Chinese officials in the school, the door of the office building of Riyige has almost been squeezed by foreign teachers these days, both British and French, and sitting opposite his beautiful sandalwood desk is the British teacher Bauer, who teaches arithmetic.

In fact, when Bauer was in England, he was just an ordinary teacher in a secondary school, but with his arithmetic skills, it was more than enough to teach Ponytail and these students.

"Mr. Riyige, you need to tell that Chinese instructor Qin that the arithmetic formulas he taught to his students during class are not in our British secondary mathematics textbooks, so that some students use this to doubt the accuracy of my teaching!" Bauer roared in anger.

Nine years ago, in the Franco-Prussian War, the British left too much of it, which caused France to suffer great humiliation, and John Bull's bad temper was definitely not tolerated by the elegant French.

"Dear Mr. Bauer, I don't have any jurisdiction over this newly appointed instructor of Qin Kai, he is directly subordinate to the Minister of Shipping, and I can pass on your advice to Lord Shen, the superintendent of the Guò Academy!"

Bauer obviously didn't expect Riyige to have a non-caring expression, but he was just a foreigner employee in the academy and didn't have a special position, so he argued with Riyige for a few more words and left.

Riyige was obviously not interested in the technical contradictions between these foreign teachers and a Chinese official, for him, the first was the 1,000 taels of monthly salary given to him by the Zuo Marshal and the second was to maintain the majesty of the empire, as for the French and British citizens, that was the business of the fleet...... He immediately got up and handed over the contradictions of these foreign teachers to Shen Songhe, the superintendent.

Shen Singhe actually heard about these things earlier than Ri Yige, Qin Kai seems to be harmless to humans and animals at present, but he doesn't have the slightest idea, strangulation is the way to be an official, after Ri Yige left, he immediately called the golden fat man, and now there is something that is most suitable for the golden fat man to do, after the two muttered, Jin Wu hurriedly went out.

Qin Kai was discussing the results of the mechanical grinder test with Xu Guofang in the machine tool workshop at this time, and at the same time arranged a machine made according to the drawings, he always felt a little unreliable, but he never figured it out, and was busy in the evening, thinking about whether to go to the restaurant outside to fight the tooth sacrifice, but accidentally ran into Huang Dang outside.

In fact, it can't be regarded as a collision, Qin Kai went out of the shipyard and was secretly dragged into the woods next to him by Huang Xing's kid, but Huang Dang was waiting inside, he looked angry and brought a message, "Brother Qin, the golden fat man has brought a message to the directors of various departments in the factory today, do your best to do a good job of the new ship, don't get involved in other things, this is aimed at you!" ”

Qin Kai was obviously stunned, although this golden fat man had a little bit of a relationship with him before he entered the hall, but with his official position, he was now far below him, and he was so full that he had nothing to find fault with, he really couldn't figure out the trick, he arched his hand and thanked: "Brother Huang, thank you for coming to sue me, wait for me to ponder." ”,

Early the next morning, Qin Kai really encountered some small problems, first Huang Xing got the news from the iron factory, saying that the blast furnace was broken again, and the pig iron was temporarily unavailable, and then, the steam engine workshop said that it was going to be loaded, and the little officials there came to say hello and wanted to move the steam engine back.

This steam engine is the only power for the mechanical grinder, without this thing, this grinder has really become a human work, Qin Kai immediately became angry, and carried Ding Richang out on the spot, and scolded the director of the steam engine factory back, he knew that the water was deep here, and he didn't expect these supervisors to confess the mastermind behind the scenes.

Just as he was standing in the humble shed and pondering how to deal with this, he caught a glimpse of Xu Guofang rubbing in through the door out of the corner of his eye, thinking that he must have been hinted at something, and the expression on his black face was quite strange.

"Lao Xu, you're also here to talk to me!" Qin Kai asked a little depressedly.

Xu Guofang was stunned for a moment, shook his head and said, "Lord Qin, someone brought me a message last night, but I thought about it for a night, and I still work comfortably with you, so I ......"

These words are very simple, they are really simple, but Qin Kai listened to it and was as moved as heaven, he looked at Xu Guofang's black face, and suddenly felt that this guy's black face became more and more cute, after thinking about it, he couldn't help laughing a few times, went up and patted Xu Guofang's shoulder, it seems that he has not been in vain in the machine tool workshop for more than a month.

"Lao Xu, there is yours, don't worry, there is a big thing, I'll take care of it, you can find a way to get the second grinder out as much as possible, I'll go to the governor's yamen to do something, this time we have to make some new things, and give a good look at the garbage for those who don't do their job and think about the whole person all day long!"

"Lord Qin, don't worry, with the experience of the last time, this second grinder, I estimate that it will be able to be assembled in ten days!"

The fat golden man was hiding in his house and fiddling with cigarette bubbles, a handsome little maid next to him was helping to light the fire, and on the other side there was a small official sitting and lighting opium.

"Mr. Lin, have you taken care of everything in the factory?" The fat golden man took two puffs of cigarette bubbles, and his spirit came up.

"My lord, it's all taken care of, it's just ......"

"There's a fart, just what?" The fat golden man's eyes widened.

"Lao Xu, the supervisor of the machine tool workshop, is still following the work of the surname Qin."

The fat golden man's face turned cold, he sat up straight, waved his hand to let the waiting maid go down, pondered for a while, and muttered to Manager Lin for a while, and sent Manager Lin away.

Qin Kai still doesn't know who is secretly playing the trick, but he can see that the other party doesn't dare to come blatantly, and he is not too worried for the time being, he just found Sun Fu and told him about the things in the shipyard.

When Sun Fu heard this, he dragged his thin chin and pondered for a while, and he had some eyebrows, "Qin Kai, this matter is not on the table, even if Lord Ding asks about this matter, it is difficult to have any big effect, you also know, Mawei Shipyard is still mainly engaged in the production of warships, and now there are two ships to be built in the dock, after all, these things are the main business of the shipyard!" ”

"Is there no other way?" Qin Kai originally figured out Guò Sun Fu and got a chicken feather order arrow from Ding Richang, so it would be easier to do things.

Sun Fu looked at Qin Kai with a thin face, thought about it for a moment, pulled him to a remote courtyard in the yamen, and looked around cautiously before saying: "Qin Kai, you just came, you may not be clear about the affairs of the school, Lord Ding is the person who Li Zhongtang and Zuo Dashuai fancie, Shen Singhe is the person of Prince Gong, who is doing things for the banner people, as for Jin Wu, it is the brother-in-law of Wenshan, the governor of Fujian......"

After listening to Sun Fu's explanation, Qin Kai naturally understood the key to it, Prince Gong Yi He had naturally heard of it, the sixth son of Emperor Xianfeng, the leader of the Westernization faction among the Manchu Qing bannermen, the minister of the foreman military aircraft and the minister of the foreman prime minister Yamen, the late Qing Dynasty Qingliu called it "devil six", and people like him naturally would not let the Huai army and the Hunan army become bigger.

He already understood in his heart, it seems that it is obviously quite difficult for him to meddle in the affairs of the Mawei Shipyard, this is where the multi-party power game is, and the key position has long been placed, even if he is super capable, if he does not devote himself to the high-level forces, then his position will always stay in this kind of place.

"Lord Sun, how to deal with it now, I'm afraid that I will delay Lord Zhongtang's official work of casting cannons!"

"It's actually not difficult, I heard that you're quite close to the He family, right?" ,

This made Qin Kai quite surprised, after all, he didn't meet He Xing much, but obviously Sun Fu had his news channels, and he didn't hide it, "Lord Sun, I have a business with the He family!" ”

Sun Fu habitually stretched his thin face and suddenly smiled, he did know from his own news channels that the He family had suddenly started a new business recently, and it seemed that the business was very hot, after inquiring, he knew that it had something to do with Qin Kai, but no matter how detailed it was, he couldn't find out.

"Oh...... Qin Kai, I can't see that you still have some ability to do business! Sun Fu immediately gave him an idea, "If that's the case, you can ask Lord Ding to come forward and order which raw materials you want!" As long as the price is cheaper than the shipyard! ”

Qin Kai immediately realized that this was a serious opportunity, but he didn't have any funds at the moment, this was the only problem, but he had a number of solutions to solve the problem. Ding Richang's side was very good to discuss, with Sun Fu on his side, he quickly obtained Ding Richang's consent, and the yamen advanced 500 taels of silver first, and he must do his best to get the grinder.

With the silver ticket in his hand, Qin Kai came to find He Xing, he inquired in detail about the He family's purchase of raw materials from Western merchants, and immediately decided to go to Guangzhou in person, and early the next morning, under He Xing's arrangement, he accompanied him with Huang Xing and Sun Xiang, and took the British steamship "Martin".

He Xingding is a first-class cabin, and the space in it is not small, Qin Kai made full use of this space and tinkered with the drawings, after two months of study, although Huang Xing and Sun Xiang have made limited progress in theoretical things, but their mastery of the drawings has improved by leaps and bounds.

After Qin Kai drew a sketch, he handed it over to the two students for deep processing, but also the speed of progress, in the evening, the workload that was expected to be two days was almost completed, the two students immediately knocked on the teacher's bamboo pole, came to the ship's dining room to prepare for a feast.

Qin Kai is naturally very satisfied with the progress of the two disciples, which can greatly reduce his work intensity, and over time, he will definitely be able to become his right-hand man, after all, he does not expect the two students to become any scientific and technological geniuses, but under his own technical guidance, they need to have patience and the talent to endure hardships.

The three of them were eating and chatting about the theory of sea power and the theory of machine qì industry that had been taught recently, and Qin Kai naturally did not give up the opportunity to conduct an in-depth analysis for the two students, but at this time, he heard the exclamation of a young girl from the table in front of him, "Come on, Mr. Kirard has fainted!" "It's a standard Beijing film.

Immediately, someone ran over, obviously helping to deal with it, the waiter on the boat asked everywhere if there was a doctor who could help with first aid, Qin Kai pointed at Huang Xing, and said softly: "Go!" See what's going on? ”

Huang Xing was very clever and immediately got into the crowd, and after a while, he came out again, leaned into the teacher's ear and said: "Teacher, he is a Western businessman, he passed out with his hands on his chest, and he looks like the situation is about to die!" ”

Qin Kai also got into the middle of the crowd in the spirit of joining in the fun, at this time there was already a Western doctor making a preliminary diagnosis for the patient, he smiled secretly in his heart, it turned out that this era has already had this kind of primitive stethoscope, this is indeed a great invention. The doctor shook his head as he listened with the stethoscope, while the patient held his right hand to his chest, and his head drooped lower and lower, apparently dying.

He approached the doctor and asked in English, "Doctor, have you diagnosed your condition?" ”

The Western doctor looked up, obviously the other party was still a little surprised that a yellow-skinned Qing Dynasty official could speak good English, but obviously he didn't intend to answer Qin Kai's question, out of subconscious, he obviously thought that there was no need to explain with this yellow-skinned monkey at all.

"This person is no good, his heartbeat has stopped," the Western doctor made a diagnosis after some observation, apparently helpless.

The people around immediately dispersed, the excitement was obviously over, what should I do, only a girl next to me stood next to the Western doctor, and continued to plead to the other party in English, hoping that the doctor was trying.

Qin Kai listened to the woman's voice, it was the one who exclaimed in Chinese in front of him, his eyes turned over, sure enough, it was a Chinese woman, and unexpectedly this woman was wearing a Western-style long skirt and a small suit, and an elegant lady's hat. At this time, from the side, his eyebrows were picturesque, his face showed an anxious application, his eyes were red, and he was about to cry out in a hurry, which obviously had something to do with the German businessman.

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