Chapter 4 The curtain opens

This is just one of the directions that Meng Wen is currently responsible for researching. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 In the past 40 years, he has participated in the design and development of numerous equipment related to ordnance, guns, ammunition, vehicles, ships, armored tanks, warships, aircraft, etc.

Meng Wen's grandfather, his grandfather, and his father were all old and old in the arsenal (胤yìn). As early as 1883, his grandfather was recruited from Ningbo to work as a child laborer in the Machinery Bureau, and followed more than 50 craftsmen to imitate and develop various advanced weapons and equipment and ammunition from many Western countries, as well as gunpowder, guns, shells, mines, Mauser guns, rifles, Xilin guns, Krupp guns, and gun trucks and other weapons, ammunition and equipment. Its variety, variety, and fineness of production were definitely a shining point at that time.

In 1886, Jemus, the consul of Yingguo in Yingkou, recorded after visiting: "This gun is very light, it can be carried by two people, and the tripod on it is also very flexible." We watched the audition, and it could produce 80 rings per minute without any obstacles", which was only two years after the birth of the famous Maxim machine gun in the past, and Jemes watched and praised: "It is all assembly management by Chinese, without any assistance from foreigners." This is enough to amaze the white-skinned pigs who bark and bite self-righteously, and also to the mad dogs of the world who are afraid of dripping.

Another very important figure in his grandfather's factory, Wu Dashi, the left deputy capital of the Qing Dynasty Metropolitan Procuratorate (good official!). Welcome to the Northeast Yinji and Jilin Yindu) described: "The bureau made its own single-barreled small cannon, one is equal in size to the Russian Dengfei cannonball, and the name is the Japanese Xilin cannon; One is similar to the Green cannon, but with a single barrel rotation, dozens of children can be placed in an instant, the cannon barrel is wrapped around a water storage cylinder, the water heat can be replaced, and it is also a simple and flexible method. "Wa Guan, this kind of cannon is a bomb-swallowing monster in the original, it was very famous in the past, but fortunately, the imitation is only a single barrel, and the power will definitely be much smaller.

In his book "Changbai Mountain", Zhemushi also wrote: "The most notable thing in Jilin is the Jilin Machinery Bureau, which has recently been built under the supervision of the Song family. Song was trained in the machine bureaus of Tianjin and Shanghai. He was very kind and polite. Led us to visit the factory. A large factory full of Shadow and Tak machines, boilers, hammers, and all sorts of machines, looked as if it had arrived in Urich or Alswick; All of them were assembled and managed by the Chinese, without any assistance from foreigners, which would surprise Europeans who thought that only Western countries had technical and managerial skills. …… On the other side of the river, a gunpowder factory has been set up, which, as we have seen in Elise or Kirch, is making gunpowder using the latest scientific methods. ”

After 1887, his grandfathers also built 8 river gunboats, including 25-ton small gunboats. In 1894, one Kangji steamer, two sampan gunboats, and six four-plate gunboats were built, the largest of which reached 250 tons. His grandfather entered the only arsenal in Northeast China, which was also the first modern industrial enterprise in Northeast China at that time, as a child laborer, as a student, as an apprentice, as a general worker and a craftsman, and worked for about 15 years.

From the above, it can be seen how powerful the Jilin Machinery Bureau that Meng Wen's grandfather was recruited into was at that time, and at that time, it was definitely the best military enterprise in the Qing Dynasty. But this is only the beginning, this curtain opened its magnificent galloping momentum, just like the unfettered fierce horse began to be staged in the northeast, there are majestic, there are also sighs of you and me, but it is also a pity and hate, and it is closely combined with the glory of Meng Wen in the future.

After the signing of the two unequal treaties of 1858 and 1860, the Treaty of Beijing of the Chinese Demons, the sand demon Rakshasa ghost white-skinned pigs and bear-like old Maozi not only seized and seized more than 1 million square kilometers of Chinese territory north of the Heilongjiang River in the Qing Dynasty, south of the Outer Xing'an Mountains and east of the Ussuri River, but also attempted to continue to plunder the inland navigation rights of the Songhua River waterway, and repeatedly sent a small group of white-skinned pigs and bear-like old Maozi boats to illegally sail the waters of the Songhua River. Investigating the situation of the water system in various places, and forcibly carrying out all kinds of unequal miscellaneous trade, were intercepted by some good local officials and people, but the sand demon did not die.

In 1878, under the coercion of the sand demon, Qing Chonghou, the Qing traitor and dead turtle, signed the "Treaty of Livadia" without authorization, lost power and humiliated the country, the Qing court was forced by public opinion, refused to ratify the treaty, and the Qing traitor and dead turtle Chonghou was dismissed from his post and questioned, which angered the old Maozi of the sand demon white-skinned wild boar, and mobilized 90,000 mountain bear-like old Maozi near the border of Xinjiang in China, and also built a new East Siberian Rakshasa Ghost Infantry Brigade, equipped with new guns and stationed in the South Ussuri River region, China's northeast frontier is in crisis, The relationship between the demons tends to be in a state of overall tension.

In 1880, in order to resist the threat of invasion by the sand demon white-skinned boar, the good official Wu Dashi was ordered to help the Jilin border defense army to reclaim the real border. In 1881 (the seventh year of Guangxu), the Jilin Machinery Bureau was proposed by Wu Dashi of the Qincha, although it was only a medium-sized local arsenal, but as the first modern machinery industry in Northeast China to introduce Western advanced technology and equipment, completely relying on the independent establishment and development of the Chinese people, and the first in the country to use machines to mint silver dollars, it became one of the more effective military factory bureaus in the Westernization Movement. In the Westernization movement in various places at that time, from 1861, the Qing government successively set up more than 40 military factory bureaus across the country, which shows that the strength of domestic military enterprises at that time was not bad.

Jilin Bureau is the earliest modern machinery industry in Northeast China, as long as the advanced weapons and equipment of the West appear, it will soon spread to the country, and it will be imitated and studied by these factories. This made the late Qing Dynasty at that time, less than 10 years behind the West in terms of advanced weapons!

This gang of old coffins in the late Qing Dynasty is a stupid pig traitor, and the traitors do not do much serious things day by day, and what they do is not repair, this is repair, the officials who make the officials, the people who make the money, the people who drink the blood of the soldiers, the equipment of the officers and soldiers is not at all, and the training is not good, the double guns are too many and too fierce (big smoking guns and small guns between the legs), the tactical tactics are outdated, the conservative and rigid wooden flutes, the money is all lost, the price of gold and silver has risen sharply, the food is expensive, the lives of the people are cheap, the common people have no food, and the children and daughters are sold to beg for food, bandits and demons came to trouble, the land was desolate, but the Qing Dynasty, the mad dogs and white and yellow wild boars all over the world have come, but they are still the same as throwing crotch diapers, unhurried to make money, dogs swishing to do things, compromising back and forth, and forced to sign more than 1,100 unequal and shameful treaties......