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Barricades have been erricaded in the alleys along the streets, where a small group of Manchester militia is trembling. Seeing Zhu Jishi and Liu Peng, who were dressed as gentlemen, come over, a middle-aged man who looked like a militia captain shouted to stop them, and sent another militiaman to check them, and after making sure that they were not strapped to ammonium oil bombs, he asked them to unload all the bullets in the revolver before letting them cross the barricade.

"Sir, what's the matter? Weishenme wants to be searched? Zhu Jishi asked the militia captain with some puzzlement.

"Bomb! Damn bombs! The militia captain stared at Zhu Jishi for a while and recognized him, "You are Sir Zhu?" ”

"Yes, I'm Zhu Jishi."

The captain sighed, "It's all about the bomb you invented, someone dropped a homemade bomb at the Manchester City Hall the night before, but it didn't go off. Yesterday the mayor ordered the military and police to go into the workers' quarters to search for criminals, and as a result, these poor ghosts took the opportunity to make trouble! ”

"The road to Avenue Vincent is blocked?" Zhu Jishi smiled bitterly and changed the topic. No matter how you look at the ammonium oil bomb he invented, it is destroying the harmonious society in Europe, I really wonder if it will cause a suicide bomb attack?

"It's all blocked, you better go to that Hult restaurant for half a day, the army will start to suppress it soon!" The captain pointed to a well-decorated hotel and said to Zhu Jishi.

"Muwen, let's go there and have something to eat." After squeezing in the crowd for an hour, Zhu Jishi felt a little hungry in his stomach, so he pulled Liu Peng into the Hult Restaurant.

Although there was a lot of commotion outside, the business of this restaurant was exceptionally good, and there was a gentleman with a sad face on almost all the seats, probably the same situation as Zhu Jishi. The smell of barbecue, coffee, and cigarettes mingle and is a bit pungent. There are also people talking in loud and loud voices.

"The situation is getting more and more chaotic, and it is a bit like France in 1789!" A fat man who spoke standard Oxford English said with a worried look on his face.

"It's not that bad, the army is still loyal to the queen, and the bourgeoisie is on the side of the government, these poor ghosts can't make a big deal!" Someone immediately retorted.

"But it's bad," the fat man shook his head, "isn't it?" Food prices are getting more expensive, and workers' wages are getting lower. Our Jason Churchill recruits are paid four pence a day for general workers and two pence for child labourers. ”

"yes, who's still hiring? There are layoffs everywhere, and if this continues, not to mention the workers, even those of us will be unemployed. ”

That fat man turned out to be his own employee? Zhu Jishi leaned over with interest, "Sir, are you an engineer at Jason-Churchill?" ”

The fat man looked up at Zhu Jishi, and Zhu Jishi was also looking at him - this was a real big fat man, more than Robert. Churchill was a whole big man, with a large nose and a strange beard on either side of his cheeks.

"Oh my God, you're Sir Zhu!" The big fat man stood up suddenly, and the portrait of Zhu Jishi is now hanging in the office of the director of all the factories under Jishixing, of course he has seen it. "I'm Henry. Bessemer was an engineer at Jason Churchill and an engineer at Jason Central Laboratories. ”

A fleshy fat hand stretched out and shook Zhu Jishi, and Zhu Jishi asked with a smile: "Mr. Besemai, are you a chemist?" ”

In this era, Zhu Jishi himself was a very outstanding chemist, so most of the research topics in the Jason Central Laboratory are related to chemistry, and the main ones employed are chemists.

"No, I'm in metallurgy, casting and machinery." The fat man said proudly: "I designed the shell of the Jason-style grenade, and I also designed the shell of the latest Besemai-style**." ”

"Metallurgical casting? Mr. Bessem, do you know how to make steel? Zhu Jishi suddenly became interested, steel is the food of industry! Regardless of whether it is a cannon or a gun, steel is indispensable.

"Of course, sir, I worked in my father's foundry since I was a child, and I knew a lot about metallurgy, and I also studied mechanical design in London, and I also invented a new stamping method, but unfortunately I forgot to apply for a patent, and I also studied pigments and printing processes."

Zhu Jishi nodded, many inventors and engineers in this era have a lot of knowledge, and they know a little about everything, but they are not proficient.

"Then how did you get to our Jishixing?" Zhu Jishi asked.

The fat man smiled and said, "It's not a damn economic depression yet, my paint and handicraft business is very sluggish, and your Jishixing offers a very attractive salary, so I'm here to work for you." ”

"Mu Wen, do you think we can open a steel factory in Hong Kong?" Zhu Jishi suddenly thought of something, turned his head and asked Liu Pengdao.

"Steelworks?" Zhu Jishi spoke English, and the fat man could understand it, so he interjected and asked, "Was that Hong Kong ceded to us by the Chinese emperor?" Is there a coal mine there? Is there an iron ore? ”

"None of them."

The fat man spread his hands out, "Sir, it's not a good idea to open a steel mill in a place where there are neither coal mines nor iron mines. ”

"Don't worry, Harry, this steel mill will definitely make money." Zhu Jishi smiled, looked at Liu Peng and said, "When our ship from Jishixing went to the South Seas, we transported piglets, what did we come back to transport?" ”

Liu Peng shook his head and said: "Although the products in Nanyang are extremely rich, there is nothing that can be sold to China, except for opium, but the opium trade involves too many interests, if we want to do it, we ......."

"Transporting coal, transporting iron ore, transporting timber." Zhu Jishi interrupted: "We should not only set up universities and colleges in Hong Kong, but also set up industries, and we should also regard Hong Kong as the core of the World Bank's trading system in East Asia." The coolie trade was only one part of the process, our ships transported laborers to the South Seas, and then brought back timber, coal, iron ore and other industrial raw materials from the South Seas, opened iron works, shipyards, and even arsenals in Hong Kong, and then sold the manufactured steel, ships, and weapons to China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, and other countries, and then imported gold, silver, ginseng, furs, silk, tea, handicrafts, and laborers from them. Muwen, is such a cycle feasible? ”

Listening to Zhu Jishi's idea, Liu Peng frowned tightly. "It is feasible and feasible, but the Foshan iron industry is prosperous, and it is known that the world's good iron comes out of Foshan, and we may set up another iron factory in Hong Kong to conflict with the Foshan iron industry."

"How many tons of iron does Foshan Iron Industry make every year?" Zhu Jishi asked casually.

"There are always forty or fifty million...... Pounds. "Liu Pengxin said that tons are foreigners' algorithms, and we in China use catties, which sounds like a lot!

245,000 catties is roughly equal to 25 million kilograms, which is converted into 25,000 metric tons, and even less if converted into British tons.

"Mr. Besemai, is the threshold for opening a steel plant high now, and how much investment does a steelmaking plant with an annual output of 100,000 tons of steel cost?"

"100,000 tons of steel! No way. Bese Maixin said: "This Sir Zhu is really a lion's mouth!" A reflective iron-making furnace can produce an average of forty or fifty tons per day, taking into account the factors of equipment maintenance and overhaul, 13,000 or 4,000 tons of iron a year is the limit, but this is only wrought iron, not steel! Steelmaking uses the crucible method, you have to use graphite clay to make a crucible, put the iron in the crucible and then put it in the crucible furnace to heat, just like baking a cake, the output of this steelmaking method is very small, the cost is high, so this steel can be expensive! How is it possible to casually produce 100,000 tons per year? ”

After listening to Bessemai's explanation, Zhu Jishi suddenly realized that the steel industry of the raw materials Europeans had not yet started. He stood up and patted Bessemer's broad shoulder, and said with a smile, "Mr. Besemai, then let's work together to make the impossible possible." I decided to invest in a steel mill in Hong Kong, you will be the general manager, within three years, I want an annual production capacity of 100,000 tons of wrought iron, can you do it? How much investment is required? ”