[The big chapter of 6K5, oh, brothers, look good, don't forget the jì ticket~]

At the top of the house was a young man of twenty-five or sixteen years old in a pale gray kimono, who was none other than Mitsui Hiranao, the heir of the Mitsui family who had been sent to Shanghai by the Mitsui chaebol to deal with the crisis.

Mitsui, the shopkeeper of Mitsui Cloth Company, was sitting next to him, reporting on the situation of the price war of foreign cloth in the past few days.

"Gentlemen, in order to win the battle of cotton cloth, our Mitsui family has mobilized 150,000 pieces of cotton cloth from Tokyo, Osaka, Nagasaki and other places, and shipped them to Shanghai through Mitsubishi Shipping and British cargo ships to conduct a price decisive battle with China's Fukang Silver, and the other party is still continuing to sell at a price of more than 8 taels of silver per horse, but due to the continuous impact of price declines, the sales volume of foreign cloth at this stage has always been at a low level!"

"Shopkeeper Mitsui, this Fukang Silver is said to be the first-class Chinese silver village in Jiangnan, how much inventory and funds do they have, have you investigated?" Mitsui, who was sitting at the top, had a straight and gloomy face, and his small eyes were staring at Mitsui.

"Young master, this Fukang silver has the backer of the Qing army's important minister Zuo Dashuai, but this time the price war with my country's cotton cloth started suddenly, Shanghai Consul Kato-kun has sent someone to inquire about the news, the current accurate information is that not only Chinese cloth merchants in Shanghai have joined the price war, but the price of cotton cloth in Guangzhou, Fuzhou, Quanzhou and other places has also plummeted! The amount of money that Fukang Silver can mobilize is estimated to be between 2,000 and 30 million taels. ”

"Oh......" Obviously, the opponent has such a big energy, and Mitsui Pingzhi also feels quite a headache, after all, even if the Mitsui chaebol wants to come up with such a sum of money, it is bound to be supported by other chaebols in Japan.

Mitsui nodded and continued, "But...... We talked to Xi Zhengfu, the comprador of the HSBC bank, and negotiated with the British, who also suffered a lot of losses in the Indian Ocean cloth trade this time, and the prime minister Yamen in Beijing was not willing to intervene, so they agreed with the banks of various countries that they were not allowed to borrow funds from the Fukang Yin. ”

Mitsui Ping's eyes lit up, and his gloomy face had a hint of joy, "Very good, then we will fight here with this first-class silver horn in Shanghai...... I have decided that from tomorrow onwards, we will be the first to ship at a price of less than Chinese and force them to follow our rhythm, and you will try your best to find a way to spy on the news ......of Chinese, and don't care about spending money."

"Hayi!"

The Japanese people sat cross-legged on the tatami mats, thinking that they were strategizing, but they didn't know that Qin Kai, who was far away in Fuzhou's horsetail, had secretly brandished his blunt knife.

A little later than the Fukang silver number, the textile association merchants have received Wu Jingui's telegram, the textile association has begun to deliver the latest cotton printing and dyeing machine qì and potion to the textile mills, the new printing and dyeing cloth will not participate in the price competition, just secretly through their own channels to sell, of course, according to the number of textile machines and the amount of cotton cloth sold in the price war, there are still some differences in the arrival time and quantity of printing and dyeing machines.

As the head of the price war of foreign cloth at Shanghai port, Hu Xueyan got the first batch of 10 dyeing machines, which can be sent to Shanghai in three days, and is expected to complete the installation and trial production, that is, about five days, that is, eight days later, the new printing and dyeing cloth will be produced from Fukang Silk Factory.

After getting the news, the Chinese businessmen were in a big mood, and they hurriedly took a telegram to confirm to Wu Jingui the time to get the printing and dyeing machine, this is a big thing, Western flower cloth is more profitable, a horse is almost 30 taels of silver, which counts the cost, how to get more than twice the profit.

Hu Xueyan was in a calm mood and discussed with his shopkeeper about the continuation of the price war, while the Japanese merchants in Mitsui Foreign Bank were calculating how much foreign cloth they would smash down, which would make the Qing foreign cloth merchants completely lose money and not survive.

Naturally, they didn't know about the sales of the two lines of light and dark under the Qin armor, even if they heard the rumors, with their intelligence, it was impossible to believe that the Chinese merchants could master the technology that was still kept secret in Europe.

Ding Richang was in a very good mood during this time, not only the collection of books in "Seeking Truth from Facts" has increased greatly, but also a new breakthrough has been made in the production of horsetail in charge of Qin Kai. ,

Lao Ding is naturally very pleased, he has been busy with the toothpaste industry he presided over recently, but this industry is to make use of the surplus labor in the rural areas around Fuzhou, he just sent Sun Fu to several toothpaste factories in nearby villages and towns yesterday to understand the situation, most of these people engaged in production, most of them are local villagers.

The news that Sun Fu brought back also made him quite excited, who joined the toothpaste association, three or four women in the family can operate a manual toothpaste making machine, if they are proficient, they can produce dozens of boxes of toothpaste a day, remove the cost, and make a profit of one or two hundred Wen, which is a large family subsidy.

And now this toothpaste has formed an industrial chain. From the initial material calcite powder, the packaging of wooden boxes have people specially made zuò, and then sold to the toothpaste workshop, the finished toothpaste, there are also traders to buy, depending on the quality of the agreement price, of course, this standard is issued by the toothpaste association, and the toothpaste handmade zuò machine qì also has workers to repair. According to Sun Fu's words, it is an industry that drives a string of industrial production chains.

These new terms, Lao Ding naturally understood that they would not be invented by Sun Fu, but must have been invented by Qin Liefeng. However, this is the idea of serving as an official and benefiting one party, and it is finally round, but this Qin Liefeng will really make trouble for himself, and after the excerpt of the impeachment of Governor Wenshan was sent to the imperial court, the Minister of Beiyang and the Governor of Zhili, Lord Li Zhongtang, also seconded the proposal to investigate the matter thoroughly.

Wenshan was friendly with Hubu Shangshu Erle and Bu, and had always been at odds with Li Zhongtang, the minister of Beiyang who advocated foreign affairs, and was impeached by the governor of Fujian and the minister of Beiyang at the same time, which really caused a storm in the imperial court. And the impeachment of the conservative ministers of the Western-style faction naturally caused controversy among some other people in the imperial court, and these were the Qingliu faction led by Li Hongzao of the Military Aircraft Department.

After the excerpts of the Minister of Shipping and the Minister of Beiyang arrived in Beijing, Chen Baochen, an attendant of Hanlin, seconded the impeachment of Wenshan for the crime of connivance, and at the same time criticized Ding Richang, the Minister of Shipping, and Li Zhongtang, the Minister of Beiyang, saying that "they do not think about national policies and are designed for man-made disasters." Following this argument, Huang Tifang and Shilang Baoting, the political envoys of the Qingliu Qingzhuang faction, also echoed the above table.

The head of the household, Shangshu Erle and Bu, and some conservative ministers wrote to ask for a thorough investigation, but the two queen mothers who hung the curtain threw out the folds directly, and the evidence sent by the governor of Fujian and the minister of Beiyang was ironclad, and what else should be thoroughly investigated! However, the culpability of this Wenshan can be big or small, after all, this is not completely directly related to him, but this Qingliu and the Minister of Beiyang have quarreled about this matter, and the practice of turning big things into small things is not going to work.

In December of the fifth year of Guangxu (1879), the empress dowager of the two palaces finally sent a message, and the governor of Fujian, Wenshan, connived at the murder of domestic slaves, and demoted three levels to move to the Shaanxi political department, and the new governor of Fujian was completely unexpected by everyone, but it was reasonable, it was Zhang Peilun, a bachelor who was deeply appreciated by the queen mother of the two palaces.

After Qin Kai heard the news, he was somewhat in a trance, the great river of history obviously quietly took a turn, Ding Richang was originally in poor health, and at the end of the year, he resigned and returned to his hometown. However, now Ding Tieji is refreshed all day long, and on weekdays, Dr. David goes to him every once in a while, and his heart discomfort disease has hardly recurred after taking Musk Baoxin Pills.

And Zhang Peilun, who originally took over as the Minister of Mawei after Ding Richang, has now become the governor of Fujian because of factors related to Qin Kai......

Qin Kai scratched his head, this practical problem is too complicated, he is not a god, he can think of anything! Or concentrate on the practical problems of his shipyard, what is most lacking in this era? He is a good young man with knowledge and culture! In the last round of teacher examinations, 43 teachers were recruited at one time, and they are all a new generation of intellectual young people cultivated by Mawei School over the years!

Soon Qin Kai came to Ding Richang again, he proposed to use the professional advantages of the Artillery Bureau to carry out the research and development of army weapons and equipment, of course, considering the duplication of functions with the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, he only proposed in the excerpt to open a special research institute in the Mawei Artillery Bureau, and not to carry out mass production, of course, if there are research and development results, they can be transferred to the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau for mass production.

Lao Ding has a wide range of interests in the research and development of his favorite general, and he has some complaints, but fortunately, this is also within his authority, he just told him again and again, be sure to put more energy on the cannon, he only cares about the cannon...... Cannons, the bigger the better! As for Qin Kai to make a foreign gun, he will let it go. ,

Time flies, in a blink of an eye, it has been the Spring Festival of the sixth year of Guangxu, the workers of Mawei Shipyard have been given an unprecedented two-day holiday, everyone naturally knows that this is the care of the Qin Supervisor for everyone, let everyone go home for a rich New Year, go home to rest, and have a reunion dinner.

Before the holiday, every worker of the shipmaster got a red envelope and a New Year's goods from the hands of Lord Qin, since Qin Kai took charge of the shipyard, in just a few months, every worker here seems to have been reborn, here, they are no longer inferior craftsmen in the past, but skilled workers with a certificate of approval from the shipmaster, which makes them admire this young Qin supervisor to death.

Qin Kai held a New Year's group meeting, and the participants were naturally his descendants, as well as outstanding talents in Mawei shipbuilding technology, including the team leader with outstanding research and development achievements in the past few months, and he was full of people who had done seven or eight tables. Qin Kai smiled and walked among the crowd.

From his second generals Zhou Ruidong and Zhang Kui, to the technical director Xu Guofang, and even the current God of Wealth He Xing of Mawei Shipbuilding, they all thought that Qin supervised the office because the recent research on various projects in the shipyard was very successful, so he was very happy today.

Qin Kai clinked glasses and toasted one by one, looking at these subordinates, this is the absolute main force of his future development, they are all new learning, not the imperial examination, and they are assertive, hard-working, and most importantly, they are the people who gave them the world of development, these people are iron-hearted followers.

After a round of toasting and group worship, Qin Kai motioned for everyone to be quiet, He Xingle took out a red list, and loudly announced that the second batch of special awards in the previous year was the structural steel of the steelmaking team and the electrolysis industrialization of the chemical team, and a number of new achievements such as hydraulic presses, stamping machines, and secondary expansion steam engines won the first, second and third prizes.

The marine structural steel won a special award, and everyone was expected, but the metal electrolysis industrialization program of the chemical team was a dark horse, and everyone was surprised to talk about this new technology, and Chen Fatzi of the chemical research team was also brilliant for a while.

These honors are definitely a huge incentive for the various groups who are busy with work all day long and have time to tackle key problems in their spare time.

Qin Kai made an outlook speech, putting forward key projects for the new year, including the establishment of the Mawei Chemical Industry Bureau, the completion of the industrial technology control and modification of the training ship, and the doubling of the output of the steel mill, and a series of goals, and also announced an important nomination, Chen Tongpu will be appointed as the first director of the Mawei Chemical Industry Bureau.

After the group meeting, He Xing, Xu Guofang, Wu Yun, Wang Fei, Qian Qing, Chen Tongpu, Lu Han, and Xu Shoushan were left alone, and the core members of Qin Kai gathered here.

He Xingxian explained the financial situation of the Mawei Shipmaster, to be honest, Qin Kai only had a general understanding of the current financial situation of the Shipmaster, and the others were almost completely unaware of the huge industry that Qin Kai was rolling out now.

"Supervisor, colleagues, after supervising and advocating the industry that is being operated, the steel mills, shipyards and artillery bureaus under the Mawei Shipyard are basically not profitable, and they have to paste about 9,400 taels of silver into it every month, and this month is the New Year, counting the workers' red envelopes and rewards, and an additional 25,000 taels of silver are spent!"

Everyone smiled slightly, and pinched the big red envelope in their arms, Lord Qin really treats his subordinates like guests, how can we not be deadly, this is an industry that Lord Qin has single-handedly operated, and he has raised more than 2,000 people in Ponytail, this ability! How can there be a second person in the entire Qing Dynasty......

Qin Kai smiled slightly beside him, "Everyone, you all call me superintendent and adult outside, but behind closed doors, here are all brothers, I repeatedly mentioned a sentence when I was lecturing to the students - science and technology is the primary productive force, and this depends on everyone's research and development, mastering technology is the king!" Brother He, you continue to ......"

Everyone naturally understands the history of this Qin supervisor, dare to do things that no one can think of, dare to do things that no one dares to do, Lu Han and Xu Shoushan looked at each other and smiled, this adult is really a strong man, and he even dares to shout about the royal road.

"Supervising the industry that adults can make money at present, the largest piece is the textile machinery industry, the latest color printing and dyeing machine has also begun to sell, machine sales and maintenance, according to the current situation, monthly profit of 250,000 taels, our expectations, by the end of this year, will maintain or slightly increase, after next year, considering the saturation of machine sales, will be reduced to about 12 to 150,000 taels." ,

Many people present heard about this industry for the first time, and they only heard some unbounded rumors on weekdays, although they knew that this adult made a fortune by being good at making machines, but he actually made the machine industry so prosperous, which was greatly unexpected by everyone, and the fanatical worship in everyone's eyes was a little stronger.

"Textile, because of the new industry of chemical dyes to join, is expected to be able to maintain a monthly income of 200,000 taels, we are uniting Shanghai, Guangzhou, Ningbo, Quanzhou, Fuzhou and other places of cotton cloth merchants, and the price competition of Japanese cloth, Indian Ocean cloth, if the victory, in the words of adults, this profit is enough to maintain for decades!"

For decades, everyone couldn't help but calculate in their hearts, what a huge number this is, each mouth can be thrown into an ostrich egg.

He Xing paused, drank a sip of water to moisten his throat, and continued: "There is also the toothpaste industry, which is also the achievement of the chemical group, and the profit of the current synthetic toothpaste raw materials is also very high, plus the sales of toothpaste are very prosperous, with a net profit of about 50,000 taels per month!" There are also some fragmentary incomes, no more than 20,000 taels! ”

He Xing said okay, Zhang Kui on the side smashed his mouth, "Instructor, I didn't expect you to make so much money!" Can I ask for the allowance to be doubled? ”

Qin Kai glared at him and smiled, "Zhang Kui, you are homeless and unemployed, what do you want so much money for, I see that you follow me all day long, and you save all the money for practicing and eating, and I am still thinking about deducting part of your allowance and taking it to the pharmacy to do good deeds!" ”

"Instructor, don't worry, if you want to donate to the pharmacy, then I'll go myself, this chance to be famous won't be left to you!" Zhang Kui laughed and said.

"you!" Qin Kai didn't have anything to do with this old oilman, he picked up the teapot, poured tea for the backbones present, and said with a smile: "Brother He has managed the money of our shipyard well, but with our current financial resources, many major things can't be done at all, and in the new year, you still have to work hard!" ”

He took out a draft, "Everyone, the future performance of the shipyard depends on how many talents we can gather, of course, it is a talent who understands new learning and is willing to learn new learning, last year the Mawei Research Institute recruited more than 100 children from various families and children from rural areas, this year I plan to continue to expand the enrollment, the scope should cover the entire rural areas and towns of Fuzhou, a baby will give an allowance of one or two a month, manage food, I invest 100,000 taels every year, so that the children in the countryside around Fuzhou can read nearby!" ”

Qin Kai's words made these backbones stunned, our adult is really panicked with a lot of money, these 100,000 taels are smashed down, just to let these rural children study, no matter how this is counted, it is what Fuzhou Xuezheng should do, and this supervisor in charge of shipbuilding and cannons, eight poles can't be beaten together......

Seeing the stunned expressions of these people under him, Qin Kai's face was black, we are not even happy about this great thing for the country and the people, a century-old plan, education-oriented, "Everyone, do you have a different opinion on my plan to benefit the country and the people?" ”

Xu Shoushan coughed and said: "Supervisor, this matter is not in your hands, and the school does not study Confucianism, maybe what will happen to the old men who study politics, maybe just hand it over to it......"

"Uh!! Then put this matter aside for the time being," Qin Kai's face was black, in the end, the official was too small, what level was this academic politics, but this is not respectful of Confucius and Mencius's big hat button, then it will be ironclad on Chinese soil, "Then the second plan, please talk about He Xing, about the affairs of the steel mill ......"

He Xing arched his hand, "A few years ago, the two blast furnaces of our shipyard were put into normal production, in accordance with the instructions of the superintendent, we have from the upper reaches of the Minjiang River Jian'ou and other places to order a medium-sized iron mine, three coal mines, local mining and transportation, through the Minjiang River direct transportation to Fuzhou, is expected this year, will form a strong profitability." ”

These people here have heard too many truths that they don't understand today, anyway, there is just one feeling, what is in the hands of Qin Kai, it can't be said that it will become a big industry in three moments, attracting wealth and treasure for the shipyard, this is not another money-making thing, but when it comes to this, everyone still can't touch the north about how to make money.

At this time, the topic turned to Xu Guofang's hand, he stood up happily, ran outside and beckoned a few student soldiers to bring in a large basket of things, everyone was naturally curious, and they all came up, only to find that there were all kinds of pots and pans and other things, as well as all kinds of beautiful tableware. ,

"Ladies and gentlemen, this is the big industry that the superintendent said, our hydraulic punch after half a year of research and development and repeated improvement, has now carried out mass production, can complete the one-time molding processing of metal appliances, all the things in it, are machine qì one-time stamping out, several workers, as long as the raw materials are sufficient, the production capacity is almost unlimited!" Xu Guofang explained excitedly.

Astound...... It's really shocking, you must know that most of the household kitchenware and tableware in this era are porcelain and wooden, and the metal products belong to high-end products, the realization of this machine qì production, obviously these originally expensive things can suddenly enter the market at a low price, this can produce countless things, and the profits will definitely scare people to death.

Before everyone's stunned expressions could recover, Qin Kai once again mentioned his third plan, which would be arranged with Lu Han and Xu Shoushan, "Cousin Geng, Brother Yushan, how is the training ship familiar during this time?" ”

Lu Han nodded, "This ship is very good, sailors and officers go on board every day to practice, and there is absolutely no problem with training!" ”

"As much as possible, after the first phase of the power modification is completed, you can immediately start the actual combat drill at sea! Get a senior technician on board and stay informed about the problems during the voyage! Questions? Qin Kai is naturally looking forward to the 501 ship, which is shouldering the heavy task of rapidly improving the shipbuilding technology of the Mawei shipbuilding.

"Supervision, the first phase of the transformation is estimated to be completed in fifteen days, the boiler has not been changed, the original single-tube engine has been changed to a "HW-1" multi-stage reactionary steam turbine, and the steam engine still uses the original German double-expansion steam engine! Xu Guofang explained two sentences on the side.

"Very good, do your best to carry out training at sea, but one thing, don't hang the flag, sail at night, don't attract the attention of outsiders! I need you to do your best to get the results of your training, and there are many more new training content to be added in the future! Thinking that the ironclad ship could finally sail to sea, even Qin Kai was quite excited.

The last plan, Qin Kai lightly handed over to He Xing, Chen Tongpu led the R&D team to complete the development of the paper process, and in a small paper mill under the plate batch trial production, the rest of the matter, naturally handed over to the He family. And the cigarette machine that Qin Kai handed over to Xu Guofang had already been prepared.

"Brother He, this cigarette should be printed with a trademark, just call it 'Zhonghua' cigarettes, first put it in the Guangzhou port for trading, and try to do export trade," Qin Kai's bad taste flared up again, and he hurriedly opened his mouth and said a few words.

Zhang Kui on the side couldn't help but muttered to Zhou Ruidong again, "Ruidong, didn't the instructor do this last time...... Cigarettes, blowing like gods, do you believe it? No matter how I listen to it, I think it's mysterious! ”

Zhou Ruidong slanted his face and looked at Zhang Kui, "Have you ever seen the instructor do meaningless things?" The instructor naturally has his reasons for doing things! I believed it anyway. ”

Later, Qin Kai had a private exchange with several supervisors of Wu Yun, and these backbone elements of Qin Kai learned for the first time that they were supported by the huge strength behind them, so they were naturally full of confidence and left with great expectations.

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