Yang Chao didn't know that Zaifeng knew that he formed the Qiangguo and Fumin Society because of Kang Youwei's listening and speculation, and Yang Chao was still suspecting who betrayed the organization. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

But I couldn't find it out, so I could only give up temporarily, and after saying goodbye to Kang Youwei, I dealt with the official affairs of the yamen, and then immediately rushed to Qingdao.

Where did Yuan Shikai get a big order, you have to quickly let the arsenal work overtime, and it is necessary to go to the arsenal in person to show attention, because Zaifeng and Yuan Shikai may fight at any time, since there is no accident that Yuan Shikai wins, then continue to strengthen Yuan Shikai's strength, in order to end the war as soon as possible and restore peace as soon as possible.

Gustav had already returned to Germany, and after normal production, it was the chief engineer Paulsen who was responsible for managing production, and the factory director Eisenberg was in charge of managing the business.

"Great, great!"

As soon as he heard that there was a new order, Eisenberg was very happy, and he had a bonus.

"Production should be guaranteed this year, right?"

Yang Chao was a little worried, according to the production plan, it will be able to put into full production this year, with an annual output of 100,000 rifles, 1,000 machine guns, and 500 cannons.

"Don't worry, Lord Yang, we have sent three hundred technicians here. Totally guaranteed. ”

Yang Chao nodded, and the Germans sent three hundred technicians from Mauser and Krupp respectively, including more than thirty at the engineer level.

"However, Chinese apprentices also need to step up their training. If you want to reduce the cost, you have to localize and use local people in the end. ”

The wages of these Germans are very high, and they are much higher than Chinese technicians in Germany, and they have doubled, and their monthly salary is more than 300 taels, while Chinese skilled workers are considered high wages if they are given 20 taels a month.

"Take me to the workshop."

Yang Chao said.

Eisenberg couldn't object, and immediately took Yang Chao to go around the workshops.

In those days, there was no production line, but there was already an assembly line, and the same various parts were processed first, and then gathered together for assembly workers to assemble.

In the workshop where parts are processed, there are many machine tools, the machine tools are buzzing, and next to them are busy workers.

There is at least one German technician in front of each machine tool, and there are two or three Chinese workers, most of these Chinese workers are locally recruited apprentices, and they can't operate the machine yet, so they can only hand people a wrench, get a ruler, etc., and even the auxiliary work such as changing tools, the Germans don't let them do it.

Yang Chao walked around the barrel processing workshop, and saw everything clearly, the Germans seemed to deliberately retain the technology, and refused to let these Chinese workers learn, several times the German technicians did not know Yang Chao, did not know that Yang Chao knew German, did not shy away from shouting at the apprentice, asking the apprentice to stay away, saying that these things are not something that the Chinese can learn, and it is useless to look carefully.

Anger is second, skills are not as good as others, and you have to suffer a little grievance, the question is if you can't learn it, when can you cultivate your own technical strength.

"Let everyone stay, I have something to say!"

Finally, when it was time to leave work, Yang Chao asked Eisenberg to inform the workers.

Eisenberg honestly went to call out to the workers, and these people slowly and reluctantly finally walked in front of Yang Chao and gathered together.

"Hello German workers. I know that you came to China to make money, and you are afraid that the Chinese apprentices will learn your skills, and then you will not be able to make money. But I want to reassure you that you will stay here as long as you want to do it. But if any of you teach a Chinese worker, then I will reward him with a whole year's salary. If you teach two, you will be rewarded with three years. ”

As soon as Yang Chao finished speaking, these foreign devils whispered one by one, they are here for money, for double the salary, as young skilled workers, most of them are still struggling for the future, it is when they need money, so they will come to China thousands of miles away. They take two years' wages in Germany in one year, but this Chinese says that if one apprentice is taught in the church, they will be rewarded with one year's salary, and the second church will give three years of son, and as long as there are two people in the church, they will get ten years of salary, which is equivalent to eight years in Germany. It's totally possible to go back.

But it's not over yet, Yang Chao continued: "Of course, we have to explain how to calculate, that is, we can completely learn to process every part." We will conduct an assessment. At the same time I announce that the first apprentice of the church will be rewarded with ten years' salary! The second five years! The third quadruple! ”

This time, the German workers not only enthusiastically discussed, but some people could not help cheering, ten years of wages is equivalent to twenty years of work in Germany.

Ignoring the Germans, Yang Chao began to say to the Chinese workers, who outnumbered the Germans: "Ladies and gentlemen, children from all over Shandong. I just told the Germans to teach you well, and you will reward them when you learn. In the same way, you will be rewarded for what you have learned. Most of you are children of poor families and have never gone to school. I've always run a night school here, and I've heard that you don't take it very seriously. That's not right. I now announce that in this year's year-end exam, the top three will be rewarded with one hundred taels of silver, the fourth to sixth will be rewarded with fifty taels, and the seventh to tenth will be rewarded with thirty taels. The last ten will be fined, and they will be punished for washing smelly socks for a year. ”

After Yang Chao finished speaking, these children laughed.

These are children, eleven or twelve years old, the oldest is only fourteen years old, this age is very strong in learning, and after learning, you can also work longer for the company, but this age is also the most playful time.

Yang Chao cultivated them in an all-round way, not only letting foreigners teach them skills, but also inviting teachers to teach them literacy and arithmetic.

But these people don't take it seriously.

"And. You all know that foreigners make a lot of money, right, they earn three hundred taels of silver a month. I'm telling you, that's technology. If you learn, I will give you three hundred taels of silver. At that time, according to the technical classification, the workers of the first level will be three hundred taels, the second level will be two hundred taels, and the third level will be one hundred taels of silver. If you can't even reach the third level, the factory can't ask for you. Go home and farm. ”

In fact, there is no need to threaten, one hundred taels to three hundred taels a month is enough to shock these children.

Even if they don't know what it means, when they go home and talk to their families, their parents will teach them to study hard with sticks.

After the training, leaving a heated discussion one by one, forgetting the workers who got off work, Yang Chao and the factory director quietly left.

"By the way, Lord Yang, our company has sent a batch of goods recently, and I want you to see if there is any sales in China."

The director said as he walked.

"What?"

"A batch of pistols."

"Mauser pistol?"

Yang Chao was taken aback, the famous barge gun, he still knew, this was a successful design, but it was a failed commodity.

Because from the beginning of production to the end, there was no military equipment in any country in the whole world, including the German army, where Mauser had a huge influence.

"No, I've heard of this gun, it's ugly, and it's too big. You Westerners think it's big, do you think the Chinese will like it? You must know that the physique of Chinese is generally petite than that of foreigners. This gun is not suitable! ”

Eisenberg sighed.

The Mauser company was also in a hurry, and the design of this firearm was very successful, and it was produced for decades with almost no changes to a single part, and the reliability was very good, but the accuracy was poor, but the pistol was not designed for precision.

Yang Chao is right, this gun is indeed a failed product, there is no market in the world, but it has been welcomed in China. Some people say that because of the arms embargo, only pistols are not within the scope of the embargo, but there are more models of pistols, and it is not unreasonable for Chinese to like this pistol alone.

This gun is large and heavy, but it is very reliable and powerful. Foreigners feel that it is too big, which is a shortcoming, and Chinese like big things, so a big gun pinned to the waist to look arrogant, which may be the reason for popularity, because of the different aesthetics of things.

So Yang Chao told Eisenberg that there was no market for this gun, but he was actually lying to him, of course, with ulterior motives.

"You restore Mauser. Said that this gun could not be sold. But I'll try to get the Chinese army to buy it, but he has to promise me one condition. Dismantle all the German machines and buy them at half price for the Qingdao Arsenal. Qingdao Arsenal has 30% of their shares, and if they can make money, it will be beneficial to them. Otherwise, let them wait and lose money. ”

Mauser didn't convince any country's military in the West, so he came to China to try, but Yang Chao gave this condition, can they agree? Or do they have the conditions to refuse?

In fact, in the production of weapons in this era, there are no special machine tools, most of them are general-purpose machine tools to produce all parts and components, and finally assemble them together, so Yang Chao's workshop for producing rifles can also process extremely strong parts.

Only wooden parts such as butts have special machine tools, so what Yang Chao wants to buy is just a batch of Mauser's butt machine tools. Or rather, to ask Mauser to put the production of pistols in Qingdao.

"That's right. Must be accompanied by a patent grant. Tell Mauser that the royalties are included in the machine. ”

Yang Chao continued.

Yang Chao believes that if he agrees, Mauser will thank him in the future, because he will see that no one in the world uses this kind of gun except China, and he will naturally think that Yang Chao saved this kind of gun, and will not suspect anything else.

Eisenberg communicated with his boss, and Mauser unsurprisingly agreed, because he had no choice. It has been five years since this gun appeared, and he has long given up hope, otherwise he would not have taken the gun to China to try his luck.

The sample guns sent by Mauser were a total of 100, and all of them were taken by Yang Chao to the big stone house to equip his own subordinates.