[Last night's update, I didn't get it until midnight, I started first, and I tried to continue to break out today~~]

Schleier now only recognizes Qin Kai, as for the governor and governor, he doesn't know, but Qin Kai said so, he naturally agreed, he took out the content of the treaty that had been drafted and handed it to Qin Kai, according to the convention, two copies of each of the two languages in one Chinese and one German, the translation of the content is still very consistent, in short, the diplomatic rhetoric is going around and around is to reach an agreement on technology research and development, and Schleier also directly proposed that he hoped that the research projects of steam engines, boilers and steam turbines in Mawei Shipyard would be open to German engineers.

As soon as these words came out, Qin Kai found out that there was a problem, and now the Mawei Shipyard did not let the German technicians participate in this steam engine workshop, and in other factories, there are certain German Cheng dù involved, this situation is actually obvious, there must be someone among the German technicians who serve the German government, or leak the situation of the horsetail to the German consulate.

He said quietly: "Dear Schleier, your request is too much, what about the engineer I have asked you many times?" So far, there are not many talents that have been sent to my satisfaction, and to be honest, I doubt your sincerity now! ”

"Lord Qin, it's really a big misunderstanding, I have directly presented the mechanical fine processing technicians, optical lens processing technicians, and ship designers you need to the prime minister, and among the technicians who came with the ship this time there is a senior optical lens processing technician and two mechanical precision machining engineers!" Regarding Qin Kai's obvious dissatisfaction, Schleier was somewhat flustered.

"Yes!" As soon as Qin Kai heard that the talents he wanted were in place, his face immediately warmed, "Dear Schleier, then I may have misunderstood you, then you can stay here for a few more days, we need to discuss the details of technical cooperation carefully!" I happen to have a big project that needs more marine technical engineers! ”

To be honest, these engineers and skilled workers who are willing to come to the Far East are really not high-level talents in Germany, but this Lord Qin has an excellent appetite, and he will take all the orders as much as he wants...... But what does it matter, even if Germany does not provide these talents, presumably this powerful Lord Qin will definitely be able to find technicians from the French, the British, or the Austrians, or even the Dutch.

When Schleier heard that there was another new human trafficking, he secretly snickered in his heart, the techniques that this Lord Qin could get his hands on were really endless, and between the two of them, new human trafficking plans were brewing one after another.

A few days later, under the recommendation of Qin Kai, Schleyer, Ding Richang and Zhang Peilun signed the "Sino-German Fujian Memorandum" in a friendly atmosphere, in which the two sides promised to carry out mutually beneficial exchanges in education and industrial technology, and the only substantive content of this was that the German side promised to provide 100 places for Fujian to study in Germany every year.

Of course, this news soon caused a lot of repercussions in the capital, and these days of Fujian Xinbao, which Qingliu celebrities in the capital began to understand some news of the Taixi countries, and also knew that Germany was a powerful country that had defeated France, and the focus of this repercussion was that Zhang Peilun, a Qingliu cadre who had always criticized foreign affairs, also turned to support the study of Western technology.

However, when these Qingliu celebrities and Zhang Peilun's Qingliu comrades were preparing to attack them en masse, a piece of news that was originally insignificant in history was published in Fujian Xinbao - the French troops stationed in Laos suddenly attacked the Vietnamese army at Ha Tinh Pass, and easily captured the newly established Vietnamese fortress there.

Originally, the Ha Tinh Pass was a large area of mountains, and there were no Vietnamese soldiers stationed, and Qin Kai was scared in front of the king of Vietnam, and after mentioning the Ha Tinh Pass, Huang Zuoyan, the horse master, hurried back to Hanoi, the defense area, and conducted an exploration of the Ha Tranh Pass in front of the important town of Shanxi, and found that this was indeed a good place to defend the French army.

So the horse master took it for granted that he was going to build a camp on the mountain pass, and wanted to put a nail in the mountain pass. The idea and desire of this plan can be said to be good, but the Vietnamese want to defend such a wide place with a wide river, and they are definitely suspicious of being a witty man.

As soon as the Vietnamese soldiers were stationed at the mountain pass, there were small French cargo ships coming and going to the Red River to find out, and apparently the French troops stationed in the territory of Laos downstream also discovered the threat of this stronghold, but this was obviously a miscalculation, if a fortress was built in the location of the Vietnamese soldiers, and dozens of artillery pieces were erected, this was indeed a Cheng dù that could be used to blockade the river, but this group of peasant troops, at least the military uniforms were not worn, how could they have the money to buy cannons......,

As a result, after the French fired five gunboats to bombard the camp, the 500 Vietnamese soldiers stationed there immediately abandoned the camp and fled, and the French quickly occupied the defensive point of the Hejing Pass.

Originally, the Vietnamese troops stationed in Shanxi did not notice the defensive position of the Hejing Pass at all, but kept cowering in the city of Shanxi until the French hit the front and then panicked and turned to the defense. Obviously, the expulsion action that the French thought was inconspicuous was the "Fujian New Newspaper" written by Qin Kai.

It is said that many ministers in Beijing directly wrote to the Empress Dowager of the Two Palaces, mentioning that they would immediately declare war on France, and at the same time transfer large troops from Yunnan and Guangxi into Vietnam to assist the Vietnamese army in defending Shanxi and other places.

In the yamen of the Military Aircraft Department in Beijing, several bigwigs are discussing this matter.

"In the past few days, the excerpts that have been played to the Queen Mother of the Two Palaces have been piled up! Today, the Queen Mother issued an edict, let us military discipline yamen give an idea, this Vietnam matter must have a charter! Prince Gong leaned on the Taishi chair and held a teapot and said slowly.

"Sixth prince, this matter of Vietnam is due to France, I mention that I immediately summoned the French Minister Baohai and asked France to give an explanation on this matter, don't we pay attention to the first salute and then the soldiers!" The big bachelor Bao Jun on the side spoke, this has always been Yi's follower, and when the others heard it, they all pondered it, and it seemed that what the six princes meant.

"This treasure sea is bound to be noted, I think now hurry up and order the soldiers and horses of Yunnan and Guangxi to prepare for war, I don't know how many troops the French used this time, in the end, it is a strong country in Taixi, if you really start to do it, you will not lose both!" Li Hongzao has always advocated a tough foreign policy, but with France, there is a lot of pressure to make this decision.

"This Vietnam is not Korea, the French are much stronger than the Japanese state, I think this matter needs to listen to the Beiyang and Nanyang ministers......" Jing Lian, a cabinet scholar, was involved with two more important ministers.

After a whole day of deliberations, the only result of the consultation of the Military Aircraft Department was to urgently summon the French Minister Bao Hai to protest against the French invasion of Vietnam, and asked the French to immediately withdraw from the Vietnamese territory they are now occupied.

After more than ten days of noisy noise, the Military Aircraft Department finally issued an order again, and the 30,000 green battalion troops on the border between Yunnan and Vietnam in Guangxi immediately opened and crossed the border into Vietnam, Yunnan political envoy Tang Jiong led 8,000 infantry troops stationed in Langshan, and Guangxi political envoy Xu Yanxu led more than 6,000 troops to garrison Gaoping and camera action.

The noisy quarrels of the bigwigs and Qingliu in the court were all on paper, and in their opinion, the war in Vietnam, a vassal state far to the south, would soon end in some peaceful way, and the Westerners were just greedy for some cheapness, and they would never dare to risk war with the Tian Dynasty.

Although the Military Aircraft Department issued a war preparation order, but soon an edict appointing Li Hongzhang, the Minister of Beiyang, was sent to the Yamen, the governor of Zhili, Tianjin, and the Military Aircraft Department and the Empress Dowager of the Two Palaces hoped that Li Hongzhang, who was accustomed to war, would come to prime minister the military affairs of Guangdong, Guangxi, and Yunnan provinces, after all, the Huai Army had the first-class naval division and army of the Qing Dynasty in this era.

When the edict arrived in Tianjin, Li Zhongtang convened his staff to discuss the matter, and he took the edict and said with a stern face: "This Vietnam war, the local danger is not easy to march, this sea, my Beiyang naval division is by no means the enemy of the French, only to lure the enemy to attack, strict defense and defense strategy, what do you think?" ”

Zhou Fu, the chief of staff, naturally understood the big man's intentions, pondered for a while and said: "My lord, the matter of the three provinces must not be taken over, this time with Vietnam, the risk is extremely high, if I fight with the elite of the Huai army in a hundred battles, there may be a chance of victory, but there must be heavy losses, not to mention that the army of Guangdong and Yunnan has not fought for a long time, and this combat power is not enough to mention." ”

"This land of Vietnam, thousands of miles away from Tianjin Wei, there are many inconveniences in the transfer of materials, if war is declared, then our merchant shipping will not be smooth, adults ponder!" Sheng Xuanhuai, who was sitting upright on the side, also meant to protect himself.

Soon Li Hongzhang, the minister of Beiyang, wrote to the Empress Dowager of the Two Palaces, proposing that the coastal defense army could not fight with the French, and that it was useless for the French to occupy the mountainous areas of North Vietnam, so he proposed to negotiate with the French minister Bao Hai to solve the problem of the vassal state of Vietnam. ,

For a while, the officialdom of the entire capital paid attention to the war in Vietnam, whether it was war or peace, and the situation changed for a while, but everyone knew that this war was together, and it was a good place to make contributions, and perhaps it was a shortcut to lose your head.

Qin Kai didn't care too much about the decisions of the imperial court at this time, he naturally understood the efficiency of this imperial court, and there was absolutely no result in a month. At this time, he was trying out an electromagnetic wave receiving device with more than a dozen students, which was written in the textbook and the principle was easy to understand, but to start from scratch, even if it was the simplest set of sending and receiving devices, it was really difficult for him.

Liao Dechang, who has developed telegraphs and telephones, has long been in good health, and has also been secretly called to the institute to participate in the development, the electromagnetic principle and related design drawings have been issued to every student who participated in the development, at this time a most primitive electromagnetic wave transmitter is being debugged, the transmitter is a telegraph transmitter modification, and the receiver is the simplest detector, using the electromagnetic wave to pass the small energy generated by the coil to control the swing of the pointer.

These primitive devices provide these students with a door to enter electromagnetism, but to go from ignorance to mastery, even Qin Kai's cramming teaching cannot train electromagnetism experts in one step, so he can only wait patiently. However, today there was a small accident.

Xu Guofang suddenly came to see Qin Kai, holding a stack of materials in his hand, "My lord, these are the materials you have recently taught?" ”

Qin Kai took it and took a look, it was indeed the recent teaching materials of electromagnetism, could it be that Lao Xu also had the enthusiasm to participate, he was so busy now that it was best to split it in half by himself, "Guofang, how could it be in your hands, I can take care of these students and keep them carefully!" "These are all cross-era theories, and it would be terrible to go out, and it seems that this point should be reiterated.

"It's not in my hands," Xu Guofang turned around and went out the door, and when he came in again, he was followed by a young man in his twenties, quite tall, but his figure was a little thinner, Xu Guofang pointed to the young man, "This is the only Chinese in this batch of German technicians, his name is Zhang Siqi, he graduated from Cologne University, and he has something to show you, which is about the electromagnetic aspect!" ”

"Oh! Zhang Siqi, what do you want to show me? "Qin Kai is interested now, he is definitely talented in inventing and creating zào, and these Protestant students are all very smart, but they are still very unfamiliar with this new theory, and it is indeed difficult to invent and create zào immediately!

"Supervisor, this is also a little idea after I read the information written by the adult, the information mentions the detection of electromagnetic waves, and also mentions the capacitance, I went to study it myself, and made a metal capacitor spark emitter, which successfully produced the electromagnetic waves that the adult said!"

"Hmm...... Hurry up and show it to me! Qin Kai was very surprised and delighted by the little genius who suddenly appeared, to be honest, his own hands-on ability was really not good, so he only had a lot of information, but he could only make a simple transmitter, and it was just an ordinary coil device!

Zhang Siqi took out a small square box and placed it on one side of the table, and placed another receiving device with a pointer on the other side of the table, and then used the power supply by hand-cranked power generation, and immediately the pointer on the receiver at the other end had a regular swing!

Qin Kai smiled proudly......

Compared with the bullstaking in Beijing, Nanyang Minister Liu Kunyi reacted the fastest to the Vietnam incident, on the seventh day of the fifth month of the sixth year of Guangxu, Sun Fu suddenly appeared in the Artillery Bureau, at this time Qin Kai was supervising the construction of a set of standard spark radio transmitters on the spot, although the range of this thing is only the size of two yards, but this has made Qin Kai ecstatic, the most difficult, and the most difficult to take is this first step!

"Brother Sun, what's the news today!"

"Liu Kun, the governor of Liangguang and the minister of Nanyang, has ordered to inspect the South China Sea!"

"Oh! Lord Liu really has the courage, but what instructions do you have? ”

"This time it was carried out by the Nanyang Naval Division, and Lord Ding had ordered Liu Shen, the commander of the Naval Division, to open on the same day and inspect the first-line sea area from Qiongzhou to Saigon, Vietnam, but unless there are special circumstances, the war must not be lightly started!"