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And Qin Kai, as a standard foreigner, was deserted during the two-day holidays of the Chinese New Year's Eve and the first day of the new year, but now he will not be forgotten. In the past two days, I went to Ding Richang's mansion first, and then there was a feast of the He family and the Wu family, but after the banquet, when the shadow became a double line, I couldn't help but feel a little more lonely.

Since Guangzhou met a beautiful woman, the two often communicate with each other, although Qin Kai can't write a small block of letters, but a hard pen calligraphy also looks quite elegant, the topic of letters between the two can be described as a super cute theme, he also became a fairy tale plagiarism king and cartoon designer, and later he learned that cute patterns were requisitioned.

Suddenly, he remembered that Qi Meinu's letter a few days ago had not been replied to, because the big beauty asked the question of why his hand-drawn KITTY cat had no mouth last time, Qin Kai smiled slightly, this question is much more difficult than drawing drawings by himself!

Niutou Village, this year's Chinese New Year can be said to have caused a big storm, the village of more than 20 boys are home with large bags of New Year's goods, this to the entrance of the village, but not less asked.

"Erhuzi, how long has it been since I saw you go home, this is the dress of an official army?" The old man at the entrance of the village greeted Erhuzi from a distance.

"Fifth master, this is the Ship Administration Security Corps, and that is a first-class soldier of Fuzhou Mansion," Erhuzi responded happily.

Qi Fang walked unhurriedly, in the past few months of training, he was notoriously hard in the security regiment, and he practiced the fierce instructor Zhou Ruidong on weekdays, and when he saw him, he often patted his shoulder and praised him, where, although he only conducted training and patrols every day, but in that large factory, he saw the world that he had never seen before.

This stimulated him to train harder, because when he was in a private school that year, his husband said that if you achieve great things, you must make great efforts. He was the first to spot an Assassin during the arrest operation at the meeting, and he also carried out the shooting orders very well, and Instructor Zhang praised him at a meeting of hundreds of security regiments, and gave him a credit.

This time it's the New Year, and other people don't know, he got an extra red envelope from Uncle Liu, who gave out the money, saying that it was a special reward from the instructor, which was a full ten taels of silver. When he arrived in the shipyard, he didn't have to spend, he didn't want to use the salary of 2 taels of silver per month, it was only a few months, plus the red envelope at the end of the year, he had more than 20 taels of silver in his bag. Thinking of the excitement of his father and mother after returning home, his pace couldn't help but speed up a lot.

After entering the village, he and Erhuzi were neighbors, and the two walked together, talking and laughing all the way, and only parted happily when they arrived at the door. Hearing Qi Fang's voice, his sister-in-law's familiar voice came from the yard, "Dad, Mom, it's Qi Fang back!" ”

Holding a big bag of New Year's goods in both hands, Qi Fang entered his yard in high spirits, the fence of the yard was still last year and his eldest brother went to the mountain to cut wood and repair it by himself, more than a year later, it was a little dilapidated, the house was still dilapidated, the yellow mud walls, there were traces of falling off and cracking everywhere, the thatched roof, it can be seen that the new straw has been paved this year, and it seems that it has leaked rain again.

Thinking of the newly built tile house in the shipyard and the kind of cement and lime things pasted on the walls, Qi Fang was very moved, whether to wait for the New Year to ask, the price is cheaper, and get some bricks and tiles for the family, if he continues to work like this, he will not be able to build a big brick house for his family in a few years.

Qi Fang's eldest brother Qi Yun was fiddling with farm tools in the yard at this time, this is the foundation of the farmer's family, taking advantage of the winter farming, he quickly put the farm tools in order, raised his eyes and saw that his younger brother was back, hurriedly threw the climbing plow, came up and stroked Qi Fang's head, and the two hugged each other happily.

"Xiao Fang, it's finally a holiday for the New Year, and your parents have been talking about you many times," Qi Yun saw the New Year's goods in his brother's hand, there were a lot of big bags and small bags, and said in a somewhat unhappy tone: "Go home, go home, why do you buy such things, this is a waste of money!" ”

Qi Fang naturally understood what his eldest brother meant, and stuffed the things into the hands of the sister-in-law on the side, "Sister-in-law, I can buy pork knuckle and come back, isn't our little nephew the most fond of eating this!" ”,

Then he pulled his eldest brother and went into the house, and his house was muddy and wood, and there was no window, so it was very dark in the house, and his father and mother had heard the movement and came out of the south room.

"Daddy...... Mom......" Qi Fangle shouted.

"Xiao Fang, but I'm back, your dad doesn't talk a lot," Qi Fang's mother came in the morning to take a good look at her son, with a smile on her face, "Qi Fang's father, you come and see, Xiao Fang has been gone for several months, and his real body has really become stronger!" ”

At this time, Qi Fang's nine-year-old nephew and five-year-old niece popped up, chewing something in their mouths, holding two candies brought back by Qi Fang in their hands, and frolicking happily in the house, which added a bit of the atmosphere of the New Year.

Today is the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, Sister-in-law Qi cut off a small half of the pork knuckle that Qi Fang brought back, stewed a long casserole of fresh soup with salty bamboo shoots, stir-fried two vegetarian dishes, pickled vegetables and pickles, and the curd that she was reluctant to eat on weekdays was also served, and Qi Fang held a bowl of brown rice, but her mood felt extremely warm.

The family naturally asked Qi Fang long and short questions, and Qi Fang also carefully told them one by one, of course, he tried his best to pick some good and fun things, his father and mother originally heard that Qi Fang went to be a village warrior, and they were somewhat worried, but now they heard Qi Fang say that the Mawei Ship Master was like heaven, but they were also relieved.

"Xiao Fang, you Lord Qin, according to you, that's not the Blue Sky Lord! When I turn around, I'm going to go to the Land Temple to put incense on the pillar for you Lord Qin," Qi Fang's mother muttered.

"That's it! Our Lord Qin, that is, Lord Li Zhongtang of Tianjin Wei, heard it, and he also picked up his thumb and praised a few words, "Qi Fang said happily after pulling the meal, and then carefully took out a tight cloth bag from his arms.

He put the coarse cloth bag on the table, and seriously opened the dead knot, inside was a red paper head and three small cloth bags, he picked up the paper head and handed it to his father, "Dad, this is the commendation order issued to me by Instructor Zhang, you know no, there are more than 400 people in the whole security regiment, and I am the only one who gets this commendation order, and I read it again in front of hundreds of people!" ”

Hearing Qi Fang's words, although his father didn't understand what kind of official position this Lao Shizi commendation order was, it didn't sound ordinary, so he hurriedly took it and looked at it carefully, but unfortunately the words on it knew him, he didn't know the words, but the red square seal below, he also knew that it was the official master's seal, Qi Yun also took it curiously and looked at it, but Qi Yun worked early in the field and was illiterate.

"Xiao Fang, you read it to us, what kind of commendation order is this!"

"Okay! I'm reading, you guys listen...... Mawei Shipmaster Commendation, security team member Qi Yun trained hard, and outstanding performance in the execution of tasks, special general order commendation! Qi Fang read it proudly, and then handed the piece of paper to his father, "Dad, put it away for me!" ”

Qi Fang's father immediately took the red paper carefully, turned his head and wandered around the room for a long time, hurriedly ran to his only wooden box, opened the box and put the commendation order in.

Qi Fang lowered his head again and began to untie the small cloth bag inside, and when the three cloth bags were opened, he suddenly found that the silence at home was a little excessive, and when he looked up, he saw a family of four adults, and their eyes were straight.

"Dad, Mom, eldest brother, sister-in-law, what's wrong, this is what I earned this year in the security team, they are all serious ways, these 8 taels are salaries, these 5 taels are the red envelopes given by the instructor at the end of the year, and these 10 taels are the rewards given by Lord Qin's commendation order! That's a total of twenty-three taels! Qi Fang grinned, looked at the silver on the table, and smiled.

Qi Fang's mother reached out and put it in her mouth and bit it, only then she was sure that she was not dreaming, and hurriedly turned her head to Qi Fang's father and said: "Old man, Xiao Fang is good now, our family has owed Master Qiu's family the grain and tenants in the past few years, and the rest can help Xiao Fang Zhang Luo have a daughter-in-law!" ”

"No way!" Qi Fang immediately jumped up, "Mom, I'm going back to the shipyard the day after tomorrow, our instructor Zhang said, don't want a mother-in-law and mother when I am a soldier, and I will talk about it when I come back after being a soldier!" ”

Qi Fang's mother looked at her grown up son happily and said, "According to you...... Depend on you! ”

This Spring Festival is the happiest in Qi Fang's memory, he saw that his eldest brother was idle these times, and thought of what toothpaste processing machine he had heard from Instructor Qin, and it seemed that he had returned to the security group, so he went to Instructor Zhang to ask about it, how much could he make the eldest brother earn more subsidies for the family. ,

During the Spring Festival of this year, the return of 400 people to the home group in the villages and towns around Fuzhou definitely caused a major earthquake, these went out or standard mud legs of the team, brought back the self-confidence and pride, two days, where there is a security group at home, the villagers in the township to not mention, even the matchmaker also saw the opportunity to see the needle.

Two days later, when the members of the security regiment returned to the artillery bureau, as their instructors, Zhou Ruidong and Zhang Kui both saw a strange change.

"These boys," Zhang Kui muttered secretly with ill intentions, and then yelled, "Assemble the team, start the twenty-mile training in ten minutes!" Zhou Ruidong on the side could only shake his head, and the team members who had completed the team quickly ran and rushed out of the gate of the Artillery Bureau.

In the newly built dock in the northwest corner of Mawei Shipyard, the huge 501 ironclad ship is sitting quietly on the dock, and the person in charge of the overall modification of the ship is Wang Ruijie, a boy from the United States, and the German Andrew on the side is talking to him through an interpreter.

Andrew obviously had a lot of objections to the Chinese dismantling the two single-barreled engines in the stern of the German ship, "Director Wang, these two single-barreled steam engines made by the German Volken shipyard are technically perfect, and can easily push large warships to a speed of 14 knots, why should they be disassembled?" ”

Wang Ruijie still admired the technology of this middle-aged German man very much, he smiled, "Mr. Andrew, you should know that as the most dynamic R&D institution in the East, Mawei Shipbuilding has always been innovative in technology, and this time it is the HW-1 steam turbine we have just developed, which we think represents the most advanced steam transmission theory." ”

Andrew naturally understands that the dismantled single-tube engine is also a kind of steam turbine, although the conversion rate of steam efficiency is not high, but the technology is the most mature, even the most advanced German warships still use this kind of mature technology.

"Director Wang, I deeply doubt that you Mawei Shipmaster will not be able to catch up with Germany's industrial base," the German said with some arrogance, but out of the work ethic of the employer, Andrew was still very careful to assist in lifting the two steam turbines that had been transported.

The design of these two huge turbines is clearly different from that of a single-tube engine, with multiple rollers with turns, which is very good in terms of the bare parts, and judging by the discerning eye of the Germans, this process also achieves a very high degree of dù.

Naturally, this is a condensation of too much effort of the steam turbine research and development team, due to Qin Kai's repeated requirements, the machine qì production zuò are completed independently by Chinese skilled workers, in the process of feeling defective, the workers dismantled the parts, to learn from German technicians, and finally in accordance with the requirements of Qin supervision, the error rate of each part is less than three thousandths of the standard.

If it weren't for Qin Kai's very unexpected invention of vernier calipers, it is estimated that the technical workers of Mawei Shipyard will continue to work with primitive iron rulers until the next century.

The size of these two steam turbines is obviously much larger than the original single-tube engine, so the crew first treated the aft power hatch, and it must be said that the craftsmanship of the Germans is indeed exquisite, and the forged iron armor laid on the power compartment is very highly coupled and there are almost no gaps.

If it weren't for Andrew on the side to explain the combination of these iron armors, Wang Ruijie estimated that it would have been at least a few days to get to know the German technology, due to the overall change of the power cabin, these forged iron armor were temporarily removed, and the corresponding position was drawn into dozens of drawings, which were served by Huang Xing and Sun Xiang, the most professional draftsmen in Mawei, who are now well-known drawing experts in Mawei Shipbuilding.

Soon the new survey drawings were sent to the Mawei steel mill, and more than a dozen pieces of forged armor with a thickness of 300 mm needed to be adjusted, and Qian Qing, who was in charge of composite armor, immediately organized manpower to smelt a furnace of high-carbon steel alone, and after rolling the steel into shape, it was transferred to the Artillery Bureau, and the 70-ton air hammer was repeatedly hammered and shaped before it could be sent back to the dock.

At this time, Qin Kai was accompanying Ding Richang to observe the production of composite armor in the gun factory, and the composite armor information provided by the light brain was submitted to the research and development team led by Wang Fei, after hundreds of tests, this thing was completely made from scratch, although there was information provided by Qin Kai, but the first forging of steel armor was completely like crossing the river by feeling the stones for Wang Fei. ,

Wang Fei went to talk to Andrew when he had nothing to do, and asked about some of the situation of the German steelmaking industry, but fortunately, Andrew was also well-informed, and the steelmaking plant had also been inspected on the spot, but he could also say some things.

He decomposed the forging process of the overall steel armor into multiple processes, according to the flow of this process, all the components of the steel composite armor can be produced smoothly, and the final armor is processed by a 300-ton hydraulic press to form a finished product that meets the requirements, and the process designed by Wang Fei, Qin Kai reminded him a little, and it evolved into an assembly-line operation, which greatly improved the efficiency of the work.

Of course, today Ding Richang was invited, naturally in the name of watching the cannon, sometimes Qin Kai really suspected, this old Ding Mo is a soul who has not crossed completely, he loves cannons and big ships, and the 11-inch (280mm26 times caliber) rear-loading rifled gun to be tested today is a 11-inch (280mm26 times caliber) breech-loading rifled gun.

Due to the use of rear-loading firing, the firing speed of such a huge 11-inch cannon has been increased to 2 and a half minutes per cannon, which is at least 20% higher than the previous three or four minutes per cannon, and the 11-inch cannon is more than 500 pounds of super heavy artillery according to the traditional algorithm of the Qing Dynasty.

After the test firing was completed, Old Man Ding walked to the side of the cannon and happily stroked the cold iron pipe of the artillery, which is still a heavy cannon with a double sleeve, but considering the power of the cannonball, the bottom has been treated with three layers of sleeves, and in addition, in the important part of the barrel force, the third sleeve reinforcement has also been carried out, and the whole giant cannon looks mighty and perfect, and the dark and smooth outer wall shines with a faint light.

Of course, the thickness of the pipe wall and the position of the pressure are all simulated and calculated by Qin Kai in the optical brain, if not, it will take at least hundreds of live firing and destructive tests to test the force point of the barrel chamber pressure.

Ding Richang finished pondering the cannon and began to ponder Qin Kai again, touched his old face, stroked his beard, and said to Sun Fu, who was standing on the side without speaking: "Gale is encouraging the old man again today, guess what, what are you doing?" ”

"My lord, I can't guess this, Qin Liefeng has too many ideas," Sun Fu patted his head and smiled.

"Gale persuades me to advocate new learning in Fujian, this is to roast my old bones on the fire," Ding Richang smiled and sighed long, "I'm thinking, I can't do this alone, if I do it according to this kid's idea, sooner or later I will drown in the spit of the old pedants of Xuezheng!" ”

Sun Fu has already put forward the sound of the strings, it seems that Ding Richang is still very interested in promoting this matter, it is no wonder that this Mawei Ship Master School teaches an authentic new school, English and French are one of the necessary homework for admission, seeing Qin Kai running the shipmaster's life, the role of this new school is self-evident.

"What do you mean...... adults" Sun Fu thought about it for a while, and then thought of someone, "Could it be that you want that Zhang Youqiao to also take on your shoulders?" ”

"Sun Fu, that's what the old man meant, Zhang Youqiao, I have heard of this person's reputation, you sue sù gale, if this matter can be said to move him, then the big thing can be decided," Ding Richang smiled, patted his ass and slipped away.

When Qin Kai heard the news, he was a little confused, who is Zhang Youqiao, the leader in the clear stream, he can't fight with his eight poles, and now he is promoted to the governor of Fujian, he is so inexplicable to get up and start a new school in Fuzhou...... It's really not a human job.

He glanced at Sun Fu with his eyes, and saw that Lao Sun was not shocked, this is the old fritter of the Yamen, "Brother Sun, this is ...... You see, let me go to the new governor to talk about this, and it will inevitably be a little abrupt! You're going to have to help me come up with ideas! ”

Sun Fu smiled, "Gale Wind, to be honest, it was a bit abrupt for others to talk to Zhang Youqiao about this, but if you go to talk about it, I see that I am a little sure!" ”

“……”

"This Zhang Youqiao is a good writer, in the court and Hanlin Chen Baochen, the political envoy Huang Tifang, Shilang Baoting and other good discussions on current affairs, collectively known as the 'Qingliu Four Advices', their favorite thing to talk about is this great cause of rejuvenating the country, this is not the most good thing you are doing in the gale!"

Qin Kai has a black line on his face, he is not the kind of person who is eloquent, except for the time when teaching students, of course, this Zhang Youqiao should be a responsible figure from the historical information he has in his hands, his firm anti-French and anti-Japanese position, or he has a common language, but I have to say that he is really not a literati with no military talent.

Since Sun Fu had this construction, he thought of two ways, one was to let Sun Fu first get through the guò relationship and blow the wind in the governor's yamen, and he began to work behind closed doors.

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