Shen Singhe has been a little disappointed recently, this new young man has stolen too much of his limelight at once, and the students in the hall are clamoring to take his class, and after opening the first class of "Machine Qì Industry", this student has seen word of mouth, and knows that Qin Kai's subjects are very interesting, and they have opened their horizons, and there are students in the front and back schools who ask to open an additional class.

This kind of wrong signs were naturally suppressed by him, and the order to let the golden fat man draw a clear line between the shipyard officials is quite smooth, he is the supervision of the Mawei shipyard, and he has a huge backer behind him, most of the officials are very consciously on their side, that is, Xu Guofang of the machine tool workshop does not know each other, but this is not a big problem, the machine tool workshop is originally a place where there is no oil and water.

The golden fat man looked indignant, twisted his neck to the side with great effort, and handed over a bag of things from his sleeve, "Last month's fire consumption, the ticket for opening Taiyin Village!" Brother Shen, it's all this Qin Kai who is now clearly self-reliant, he is fighting with you in the ring! ”

Shen Singhe still looked unfazed, took the silver ticket and put it in his sleeve very easily, he naturally didn't put his thoughts on his face, "Brother Jin, this Qin Kai is naturally a somewhat capable person, now is the time for him to be proud, since Lord Li Zhongtang took a fancy to him and asked him to build a cannon, this is his creation, as for whether he can resist the wind and transform, it is not something we can predict!" ”

"Make a cannon!?" The fat golden man looked fat-headed and big-eared, this brain was not simple at all, and he immediately noticed the key in Shen Sing and a few words.

"Lord Nakado has high hopes for his machine!"

"This Fuzhou can make iron and roll steel is our shipyard, Brother Shen is really a good idea!" The golden fat man laughed, and Shen Singhe's long face also showed a little pity.

"Brother Jin, have you heard anything about the He family?"

"This thing is very strange, He Xing, the second son of the He family, also met Qin Kai by chance on the official road outside Luoxi, and I don't know why the He family would be desperate to help this foreigner surnamed Qin!"

"Oh...... You should hurry up and inquire about this matter, if you have a handle...... Shen Sing and his professional smiling face suddenly became a little stiff, and he let out two eerie chuckles, which scared the golden fat man.

After the artillery factory started, Qin Kai transferred Xu Guofang as soon as possible, and half of the manpower in the machine tool workshop followed. The craftsmanship of artillery manufacturing in this era is really outdated, and it is definitely the product of manpower. For the sake of this manpower matter, Qin Kai specially went to consult Master Sun, but he didn't expect the answer given by Master Sun to be much beyond his expectations.

Mawei Shipyard is a government-run factory, and Lord Ding Richang is naturally the ultimate person in charge, but the daily affairs are handled by Shen Singhe.

Qin Kai said that he wanted to recruit some skilled hands, and Master Sun gave him an idea very directly, and asked Governor Ding to ask for people directly from the art garden and the factory......

Sure enough, things were as Master Sun expected, Ding Richang didn't know what to be busy with these days, anyway, his face was not good, but seeing that Qin Kai was still quite face-saving, he asked him to sit down and talk, mentioning the materials and operating funds of the artillery bureau, the old man pulled with a black face, and the two heads were spread, "Gale Wind, you don't sit in the position of governor, you have to use money everywhere, you want to find a shipyard for iron materials, I just told Jin Wu today!" ”

Damn, I still have to find a fat man, isn't this a pot that can't be opened, Qin Kai was depressed for a while, but fortunately, when it came to the matter of important people, Old Man Ding was also very happy to put down the words, "If you want someone, you can, I'll let Master Sun write, you can go directly to Shen Songhe, but the salaries of these craftsmen will definitely have to be paid by you in a gale, and Shen Songhe will release them!" ”

Qin Kai touched the shriveled money bag, and was indignant in his heart, Old Man Ding is really an iron rooster, and this Shen Singhe is even more Oriental Grande, but what kind of vision do we have, you can't see the value of these craftsmen, I can burst out with three hundred percent of their energy!

Turned around and went to Shen Singhe, I don't know if it was a coincidence, or waiting for him, anyway, the fat man Jin was there, after Qin Kai's very professional smiling face, he mentioned the matter of important people, there was a warrant from Ding Richang, Shen Singhe originally wanted to do something, but it was not very convenient, so he waved his pen, and the condition was that he paid the salary! ,

The golden fat man was even more unexpectedly cooperative, and agreed to provide iron materials for the blast furnace of the shipyard on the spot, and even greeted Qin Kai with a smile, and apologized for what happened at the beginning.

The old fox greeted the New Year, this is a big problem, Qin Kai was snorting, his brain was spinning, and he couldn't think of any dirty things in this fat man's belly besides oil and water for a while! But now that the matter is done, he doesn't bother to face these two nasty people here, and turns around and leaves.

Seeing Qin Kai leave, the smile on Shen Sing Heyuan's face immediately condensed into ice cubes, and he slammed the teapot in his hand, "What a thing!" Dare to come to me with chicken feathers and arrows! ”

"Brother Shen, people are in high spirits now, I heard that even Xu Jianyin, the general office of Shandong Machinery Bureau, has a close relationship with him, do you think we want to avoid the edge for the time being!" The fat man said with a wicked smile.

"Brother Jin, the sixth prince has found this position for me, but it's not for me to come to eat and drink, you will go and call all the officials from the factories in a while, and it will not be his turn to point fingers from his surname Qin here."

"That's right, Brother Shen is here, naturally as stable as a rock," the golden fat man smiled and picked a cigarette bubble from a box he was carrying and swallowed it, yawning with satisfaction, "By the way, today's first batch of materials, I have prepared for the surnamed Qin, I want to see how big his belly is!" ”

Shen sang and laughed when he heard it, and the two began to mumble again.

After Qin Kai came out, he went straight to the Mawei shipyard, he has been here for so long, in fact, the shipyard is familiar with the machine tool and steam engine workshop, he has a list in his sleeve, and he is the good hand of each workshop asked by Xu Guofang. His character, if he wants to do something, he will immediately get things done, and when he arrived at the gate of the shipyard, Huang Dang, Zhou Ruidong, and Zhang Kui, who had made an appointment in advance, were already waiting.

"Brother Qin, I've been waiting for you for a long time, this time I can make a big effort, there are more than thirty babies over there who want to enter your academy!" Although Huang Dang is now calling Brother Qin, this etiquette is still being guarded, after all, Qin Kai's official position is much higher than him.

Qin Kai smiled slightly, and patted Huang Dang's shoulder, "Brother Huang, thank you, now we have to do something," he beckoned, Huang Xing hurriedly brought a cloth bag, and took out some papers in it, he arranged them one by one, and when the matter was done, he went to the Artillery Bureau to report to him.

In the ironworks, the German blast furnace erected high in the sky had not been in operation for several days, and the little man in charge showed his face in the morning, and then he did not know where the cat went.

The craftsmen can't be absent from work for no reason, they can only sit around the shed under the blast furnace and fart, which is related to their own livelihood, the shipyard wages are not much, but it is enough for a family to have food and clothing.

However, there was a short young man in his twenties, who was somewhat unusual, and was sitting by in a daze with a large part.

A strong man next to him said to him, "Xiao Qian, come and drink saliva, why do you just stare at these machine parts every day, what's the point of that thing!" Come over for a drink of saliva and chat with your brothers. ”

The young man raised his head and smiled, "Brother Wang, I'm not wondering what went wrong with our blast furnace, why is it bad at both ends in three days!" ”

"Xiao Qian, what the hell are you thinking, I guess the first few adults are afraid that there is nothing wrong with this stove!"

Hearing this, Xiao Qian had a strange expression, the strong man laughed, pulled Xiao Qian into the pile, and whispered in his ear, listening to the young man who was stunned, and the big man surnamed Wang also added at the end, "Xiao Qian, rest when you should rest, don't be tired yourself, go home more and see your old lady is real!" ”

Seeing that the young man was still stunned, the strong man was about to relieve him, but he heard someone shouting again at the door of the workshop, "Wang Fei, come out for a while, someone is looking for you!" ”

The strong man was stunned for a moment, stood up, looked outside, and didn't understand who would come to him, he patted the young man on the shoulder, and then walked out of the door of the workshop, there was indeed a tall and thin man about twenty years old outside, with a smile on his face, looking like a student of the Ship Master School, he didn't know it at all.

"You are Wang Fei?"

"yes, you're the one? Looking for me? ”

The person who came smiled, "My name is Zhang Kui, I am a student of the former school, it naturally doesn't matter if I don't know me, I just brought a message for Instructor Qin, the Mawei Artillery Bureau is recruiting people, someone recommended you, the salary is at least one percent more than here, and it depends on whether your skills are too strong!" Interested? ”,

"What is the Mawei Artillery Bureau, our shipyard doesn't have that bureau!" The strong man Wang Fei asked.

"The Mawei Artillery Bureau was set up by Inspector Ding assigned by Instructor Qin!"

Wang Fei sighed, thinking about it for three seconds, since he was in the shade under a big tree, he could get an extra salary, this kind of good thing should not be missed, not to mention that it sounded like it was more promising than here, he immediately agreed, and took a piece of paper covered with a strange pattern from Zhang Kui's hand, he saw his name written below, and with this paper, he could report to the artillery bureau.

He suddenly remembered something, and asked, "I still have a brother with a little money, can I go together?" ”

Zhang Kui was stunned, Qin Kai hadn't explained this question, but he immediately responded, "Does your brother have any work on his hands?" Instructor Qin doesn't accept mixed meals, understand! ”

"That's good, thank you, little brother", Wang Fei grinned excitedly and thanked him, turned around and left in a hurry.

On this day, in addition to the busy dock, there are people coming and going in other workshops of Mawei Shipyard, extremely busy, the next day, the golden fat man ran into Shen Songhe's house in a hurry, "Brother Shen, the surname Qin is really fast, yesterday I was still looking for the little officials in charge of the house, he has already sent people away, this is good, except for the people in the dock, the good hands of the other workshops have run more than half!" ”

Shen Singhe didn't show any excitement, he touched his fat face, and suddenly smiled, "Brother Jin, what does it matter, you have fewer people, let the art garden recruit some, in fact, we have a lot of people in the dock here, and there are fewer people in other factories, isn't this vacancy still more!" ”

"Brother Shen, I won't tell you, I really can't see through this Qin Kai, he has nothing to do with recruiting so many craftsmen, and I don't know where he got the money to hire so many people!"

"You don't have to worry about this, have you accepted that batch of raw materials?"

"Well, just wait and see his jokes!" The fat golden man laughed.

In the Mawei Artillery Bureau, a cast iron cannon was finally cut after nearly ten days of processing by more than 30 workers on the drilling machine, Qin Kai has been paying attention to the manufacturing process of this cannon in the past few days, which is a new concept for him, but he is not interested in this inefficient process, he is interested in the very strong manual ability of these craftsmen in handling artillery.

Obviously, if they are given a new machine, they will soon be able to become proficient, theoretically trained, and maybe become good technical talents.

Seeing that such a 127mm caliber breech gun rough embryo was removed from the drilling machine, Xu Jianyin turned his head and said: "Brother Gale Wind, do you think this artillery process is still successful!"

"Brother Zhonghu, it's very good, it's really good, the people you picked are really good," Qin Kai beckoned, and Xu Guofang ran up with a few of his subordinates, hoisted the cannon with pulleys, and slowly moved it to the card slot of the grinder.

Xu Guofang has not been worried about anything in the past few days, he has used the new grinding machine for more than a month, and naturally he is familiar with it, but it is the first time for him to directly polish the cannon of nearly three meters, Lord Qin gave a death order, it must be successful at one time, so yesterday he just replaced it with a new steel shaft to ensure accuracy.

Today, he checked all the parts of the grinding machine again and again, he settled his mind and carefully considered whether there were any omissions, which was related to the face of the Mawei Artillery Bureau and the face of Lord Qin, but at this point, he still didn't know about this Lord Qin, and Qin Kai didn't care about this hypocritical face! In Qin Kai's words, what do you want to do with your cheeks? ……

Xu Guofang nodded confidently, turned his head and shouted to the back: "Lao Wang, hang up the steam engine!" ”

With the sound of clattering transmission, the grinding tool fixed on the steel shaft on the grinding machine is running at high speed, the steel shaft maintains the reciprocating and uniform motion of the fixed plane, and the artillery on the card slot is also under the gear transmission, slowly rotating in place with the grinding tool, and the metal friction produces huge noise and steel flowers, but everyone on the scene is full of excitement and excitement.

This is a huge machine that can be operated by almost one person, and the 127-caliber cannon weighing thousands of catties is actually slowly rotating in place as light as nothing under the power of the machine, and after the steel flowers are scattered, the outer wall of the cast iron cannon has become smooth as a mirror.

Ambassador Wu, who came with Xu Jianyin, is named Wu Yun, who is also a technical official in the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, and there are dozens of artillery guns that have been personally inspected from his hands, and the polishing of the outer wall of the artillery in the early days is actually not very important, after all, the inner chamber is the most important, but to polish it so smooth as a mirror, his mouth is open enough to throw goose eggs into it.

Xu Jianyin looked at this machine with a smile, but the excitement in his heart was not expressed on his face, he had personally participated in the preparation of two manufacturing bureaus, England, France, Germany, and Milliken's machines were also seen a lot, and some were steam engine transmission, but they also required a lot of manpower intervention, and the quality of the product also depends on the level and patience of the workers.

However, compared with this grinding machine, the gap between those machines and this grinding machine is absolutely huge, the reason is that most of the machines of the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau are purchased by the West, most of them are old goods from more than ten years ago, and in the past few days of communication with Qin Kai, the biggest impact is the rapid development of Western technology, which makes him even more excited.

An hour later, the grinding of the outer wall of the artillery was completed, Xu Guofang took out a ruler and was measuring the accuracy, Wu Yun naturally ran up excitedly, inspecting the polished outer wall inch by inch. The gun was hoisted up again and loaded onto another grinding machine, and a smaller grinding tool was fixed to a steel shaft and placed in the chamber.

After hanging the steam engine power, the grinding of the inner chamber of the gun began, this time except for the dull sound of squeaking, the noise was much smaller, polishing the inner chamber, the gun did not rotate, and the steel shaft rotated at a constant speed to complete the polishing of the inner circle.

Xu Guofang carefully observed the rotation of the steel shaft, if the rotation of the steel shaft has a slight deviation, it may have a high precision impact on the polishing of the inner chamber, until the evening, when the mold slowly spun out of the muzzle, finally, the first gun of the Horsetail Artillery Bureau rolled off the assembly line!

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