The news of the emperor's arrival in Kaifeng spread all over Henan at once, and the Daqing Daily, local students, college students, officials, etc., surrounded the entire Kaifeng Mansion tightly, Zhang Yu's defense was already quite tight, and a few students and reporters mixed in, and were arrested by Guan Xuqing's personal Imperial Forest Army

On this day, Guan Xuqing was in the study and watched the telegrams from the capital, most of which were due to the fact that some local gun bureaus had received orders for weapons from other countries one after another, and since the gun and artillery bureaus were separated from the direct jurisdiction of the Ministry of War, there had been a steady stream of orders

In fact, this is all due to the grenades and mortars of the Qing Dynasty, although in terms of rifles, the self-made rifles of the Qing Dynasty have reached the international advanced level, but they are far from reaching the height of the leading countries, but the hand grenades and mortars are not available in other countries except for Germany and several allied countries

Some time ago, due to the increase in troops in the Qing Dynasty, the weapons manufactured by the Gun and Artillery Bureaus in various places were purchased by the Ministry of War

It has to be said that this is a channel for quick money, and with the advanced industrial capabilities of Britain, France, and other countries, with the finished mortars and grenades and ammunition manufactured in the Qing Dynasty, they can be developed in less than a year

Thinking of this, Guan Xuqing immediately gave instructions on the folding, and the local gun bureaus strictly followed the 100% price set by the Ministry of War to sell orders from neutral countries first, while pro-British and pro-French false enemy countries could do it later, and countries like India, which were British minions, must be the last to do it, and they had to charge first

After the instructions were completed, Guan Xuqing stretched his waist and just wanted to take a nap, when Wang Shang hurriedly ran in

"Your Majesty, there are two foreigners coming to the capital in an urgent matter," Wang Shang said

Guan Xuqing just wanted to sleep, but was disturbed by Wang Shang and said angrily: "What's wrong with foreigners? Can't I sleep with them when they come? Presumptuous, who sent an urgent telegram, see if I don't punish him for a year"

Wang Shang's frightened face turned green, and he said tremblingly: "Chirp, it was Wen Tingshi who said that he had found two foreigners who repaired bicycles, and they had been brought to the capital, and the slave asked the telegraph room to call back and let the foreigners wait for a year and a half."

This will be Guan Xuqing's face is green, what? Wen Tingshi is back so soon? And brought the Wright brothers together?

"Wait, who did you just say brought two foreigners back to Beijing?" Guan Xuqing didn't believe his ears a little

Wang Shang looked at Guan Xuqing, who had a lot of mood swings, and said cautiously: "Back to the emperor, it's Wen Ting, Lord Wen"

Guan Xuqing jumped up from the chair, sleepless, and shouted excitedly: "Spread my will, reward the Wenting style dazzling eyes, and let the household department allocate 1 million silver dollars to two foreigners for one year, and mark a vacant land for them in the western suburbs, in short, give him whatever the foreigner wants, and let Kang Youwei go to Tsinghua University to select the elite in mechanics to study and observe the two foreigners."

Although Wang Shang watched Guan Xuqing grow up, he had never seen him have such a huge emotional fluctuation when Mawei Military Port was attacked during the Sino-French War, Guan Xuqing was not so excited

"Chirp," Wang Shang hurriedly replied

The Qing Dynasty invented grenades, shells, mortars, these two light weapons, directly or indirectly made a lot of money, in addition to taking a lot of advantage in the war, now the Beijing airship company has begun to manufacture a large number of airships, although this kind of purely leisure and entertainment tools in later generations, but in this era of military can still play a certain role The most exciting thing is that the Wright brothers have come to the Qing Dynasty, as long as the hardware and software conditions are given the best belief soon, The world's first airplane is about to come out, and when the time comes, the Qing Dynasty, which has mastered the manufacturing technology, will not only be able to issue a large sum of money, but more importantly, it will be able to arbitrarily reach the airspace of any country and bomb at will

Thinking of this, Guan Xuqing hated to put on his wings and return to the capital and immediately meet the pair of Wright brothers

At this time, in the port of Dagu in Tianjin, a group of special people had already landed on the land of the Qing Dynasty

As the gateway of Gyeonggi and even the whole of North China, it is also the first treaty port to be forced to open, and Dagu Port is like a thriving new atmosphere

On the coastal hills, the seven-story lighthouse has been erected, the channel into the port has also been put down signs, small western-style buildings made of blue bricks and ash seem to spread all over the port area overnight, along the two horizontal and vertical streets, all kinds of shops are lined up, some are opened by Chinese themselves, some are opened by foreigners, goods from flour, soap, foreign cloth, to foreign nails, nuts, fertilizers and far away, the periphery of the port area is still under construction, "dong", "dong" piling sound is constantly coming, and in the direction of the black smoke Dagu shipyard, and some factories have risen from the ground, and here is almost the same every day

In the north of the port area, not far from the Dagukou Fort, is the military dock of the Beiyang Fleet, the Beiyang Fleet has a special military port Lushun and Weihai, Dagukou is not their main base, but because the Beiyang Fleet is really a treasure of the Qing court, every three or five will be reviewed, so in the Dagu Port left a simple mooring wharf, here is just a simple wooden fence and the civil wharf distinguished, sometimes the ships from other places will stop at the wrong wharf, at this time, it is just with the wharf of the Xu officials to unload the goods, Today, however, the military wharf of the Beiyang Naval Division is under martial law at three steps and one post at five steps, and there are mosquito gunboats and fish and torpedo boats patrolling back and forth on the sea surface of the port

Two behemoths painted with the unique black paint of the Great Qingshui Division were quietly moored at the dockside, eight 420 mm thick gun barrels stretched out from the armored turret, and the muzzles of the guns that were meticulously wiped by Shui Yong reflected the cold light, looking hideous and terrifying, this is the largest giant ship in Asia, the former Nanyang Fleet "Daqing No. 1" and "Daqing No. 2"

Not far away, the German ambassador Rick. Heinz looked at the "Daqing No. 1" and "Daqing No. 2" that had just been overhauled at the Dagu shipyard, and there was no doubt that the displacement of the two ships reached more than 10,000 tons, and the image of the two ships was extremely profound, although Heinz was not born in the navy, but because of family reasons, he was extremely rich in knowledge of ships, such a first-class heavy battleship was a powerful Germany, and only three of them, while this country, which has always been regarded as an ignorant and backward country by Westerners, has two such warships, It is said that these two warships were captured by the Qing navy from the British navy in the last Sino-British war, which is really incredible, but in this way, the naval strength of the Qing country has reached the point where no one can beat him in East Asia, even in the world, only a few countries can surpass him

In this regard, Heinz had some worries, the development momentum of the country's terror was witnessed by his own eyes, once the people's wisdom was opened, the whole country was like clockwork, rushing forward Tianjin, Shanghai, Guangzhou and even the prototype of industrial zones appeared, and this trend is spreading, there is no doubt that this country will experience an industrial transformation, although there are still many deficiencies in the education level of citizens, social system, but with its huge market, Once the abundant natural resources and almost extravagant human resources put it on the fast track of industrial development, its national strength will inevitably swell rapidly, which will bring great shocks to the world pattern

It's just that all this seems to be no harm to Germany in the near term, the great Germany only has a few small islands in the Pacific Ocean, and there is almost no conflict with the Qing State, not to mention that the Qing State needs German support for them to break through the British blockade, and also needs German technology and the Mark In the process of the rise of the Qing State's national strength, Germany will exert all aspects of influence, thus imprinting the country deeply, which will undoubtedly bring great convenience to Germany to obtain interests in the Far East, and these have been well confirmed in the past few years

In addition, he knew that the purpose of his visit to the Qing Kingdom was to inspect the current manufacturing progress of the airship company jointly established with Germany in the capital of the Qing Dynasty, and perhaps in the near future Germany would use these airships for a series of combat missions such as reconnaissance, bombing, and transportation