Huang Zuluo is naturally a little interested in this industry, but the greater pressure obviously comes from Lu Hong's mastery, his wharf is actually used for foreign medicine smuggling, if this little mistake is to let Qingliu poke out, if he doesn't die, he will have to peel off the skin, he immediately agreed with Lu Hong that he was willing to invest 5,000 taels of silver to occupy 1 percent of the shares!

Lu Hong smiled and immediately responded, he naturally came prepared, took out a prospectus contract, and asked this Daotai lord to sign a name on it, this is just a prospectus, naturally there is no specific contract content, but this is a good thing, with Huang Zuluo's name on it, it can be of great use if you take it out.

And Huang Zuluo naturally understood what Lu Hong meant, but these thousands of taels of silver are just a small amount of money, and if they have a relationship with Qincha, that is a big deal...... He also generously used his private seal to show his support.

After everything was in order, Lu Hong was naturally more accommodating to the thief ship, and said that the matter of Zhoujiadu Wharf would never appear on the folds of the imperial court, and the two talked about a happy breakup, and Lu Hong even got a piece of the Guan Wen given by the Yamen to coordinate the second transfer of troops.

And a little later, Lu Honglai took the general office of the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau located near the Gaochang Temple, and after handing over the famous thorn, he soon saw Ruisheng, the director of the manufacturing bureau, who was born with a red belt, originally did not plan to see the six-pin judgment of the famous thorn, but saw that the value of the gift attached to the famous thorn was also several hundred taels, so he belatedly came to the side hall.

However, the visit that was originally thought to be an official business was completely unexpected by him, and the tall young official opposite threw out two things with a smile on his face, although Ruisheng was a little suspicious, he still picked them up and looked at them twice, and after that, his eyes could no longer be separated from the contents of the two confessions, many of which mentioned that they were all tired of doing a lot of benefits through his hands.

For example, if the goods needed by the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau are pledged at the wharf, and the expenses in the name of the factory are transferred to his pocket, for example, multiple batches are stored in the wharf warehouse, and then the highest price batch is included, and the difference in price will undoubtedly become his income...... There are all kinds of things mentioned in this, many of them are seven or eight, in fact, Ruisheng is a little clearer, there are still a lot of things that have not been listed, and how can this Xiao Yunjuan named Lu Hong know so clearly!

When he was sweating profusely and was a little at a loss, Lu Hong saw that the time was almost up, so he said coldly: "Supervisor Rui, I forgot to tell you just now, I am now following Master Qincha Wang out of Beijing to do business, I have no intention of meddling in things, I just want to see what you think, Lord Rui!" ”

When Ruisheng heard Lu Hong introduce himself, his legs were a little trembling, and he was almost about to lie down, and the sweat on his face fell like rain, but he was a delicate character, and immediately heard that Lu Hong had something to say, and it seemed that there was room for maneuver, so he immediately came to his senses, and said busily: "Lord Lu, there is another hidden truth in this matter, please investigate it carefully...... If there's anything I need to do, I'll do my best! ”

Lu Hong didn't answer his question directly, but stared at this guy with a serious expression, if it weren't for this guy's great usefulness, he wouldn't have bothered to let him go, "Lord Rui, Lord Wang has never been out of the way, you naturally have a chance to serve the emperor, I will temporarily suppress this matter, but I also ask Lord Rui for a small favor!" ”

"Lord Lu, please say, I will do my best in the future!" When Rui Sheng heard this, his expression was overjoyed, this sweat did not come out immediately, and the tone of his speech was also very fixed, it seemed that there was still a lot of room for this matter, and his legs were no longer able to step away, so he immediately sat down and prepared to start talking about the conditions, in his opinion, there must be heavy bleeding!

"Lord Rui, I have an injection industry here, and I need some workers who are familiar with machine tools, I would like to ask you to help find some good hands, in addition, I may need to borrow your factory at that time...... Don't know how much to pay? ”

"Lord Lu, this thing is very easy, I will arrange it, and I will accompany you to the factory to go around," Ruisheng heard this, and immediately put down his thoughts, this is a piece of cake for him, the big boss in charge of the logistics of the manufacturing bureau, in the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, now it is not too few people, but too many, every general office always has to bring a group of assistants, these years, how many idlers have to be left!

Hearing this guy's mouth, Lu Hong's face relaxed, and he sighed with satisfaction, "Lord Rui, I have time now, why don't you take me to see ......" Saying this, he looked at this guy, the stick has been raised, and this carrot is naturally needed, otherwise how can this guy be desperate to help!

He took out the prospectus document he had signed with Huang Zuluo before and put it on the table, "Lord Rui, I have an opportunity here, Lord Wang and Huang Daotai are preparing to set up an industry, if you are interested, you can come to participate in the shares......"

When Rui Sheng heard this, he didn't really think that Lu Hong was letting him participate in the shares, thinking that he should give him a gift for the Qin Cha, how dare he not support it, and immediately nodded, "Lord Lu, I will let the family raise 20,000 yuan tomorrow...... No, no...... 50,000 taels will be sent to you, this share or something, you don't need it! ”

When Lu Hong saw the appearance of this guy, he didn't bother to explain, it was important to go to business first, nodded and smiled: "Supervise Rui, this matter is naturally decided by Lord Wang...... Tell me what to do with that manpower! ”

The Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau has a history of 30 years, although the redundancy and inefficiency under the official system have seriously restricted the development of the factory, it can be said that the situation of people floating in the factory is inevitable, but there are capable people in the factory, there are absolutely there! What you need is to set up your own grass platform team first!

Sure enough, after talking to Ruisheng in detail for a while, this guy is an old man from the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, and he is very familiar with the situation here, "Lord Lu, you want this person who can do things, if there is really a living person in that hand, there should be no problem with twenty or thirty of them...... Nowadays, the shipyard, the artillery bureau and the armaments factory are all not working, and many workers are paid half salary, and I heard that a few of them have gone to the foreigner factory! ”

Oh...... Lu Hong is very interested in this news, this Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau is so depressed now, is it possible that the foreign affairs that he will know in later generations are all superficial articles?

He immediately asked: "Lord Rui, doesn't the imperial court allocate silver taels to make ordnance every year, why is it so depressed?" ”

Ruisheng was obviously a little inexplicable about the loneliness of this Qin attaché, and after thinking about it, he picked the key point and explained to Lu Hong, "Lord Lu, the orders that the Jiangnan Bureau has now obtained are fast guns, bullets, shells, small cannons, etc., and no more than 1,500 rifles are produced every year, and the price is more expensive than Mauser, and the Ministry of War is unwilling to buy it for this, and the cannons, steel ingots, and parts made by the Artillery Bureau must be customized by foreigners. ”

When Lu Hong heard the news, he was somewhat depressed, but the most news he heard in later generations was the positive news of the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, but he didn't expect to hear some completely bad news here, he frowned, and he didn't bother to continue to study this problem, it seems that this depression is an indisputable fact, but this is not necessarily a good thing for himself!

And the progress of the matter really proved Lu Hong's guess, sitting in the carriage of the manufacturing bureau, following this Ruisheng for a lap, Jiangnan shipyard, artillery yard, gunsmithy, ordnance repair factory, steel mill...... Along the Huangpu River, the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau has a huge industrial scale distribution, and along the way, except for the Artillery Bureau, smokeless medicine factory, steel mill, and foreign gun building, other factories are rarely seen workers coming!

On the way, Sheng Rui accompanied Lu Hong to visit, and it could be seen that this guy was obviously the number one person in the manufacturing bureau, along the way, those assistants wearing horse coats and robes were polite all the way to greet him, and Sheng Rui sent the errand down, so that a few cronies of the assistant carefully collected, and the workers seen at the scene were all unkempt and looked lifeless!

When he arrived at the minefield, Lu Hong finally saw a rare large-scale air hammer and platinum wire thunder rod processing factory in this era, but what puzzled him was that there were only a dozen apprentices and two engineers working here, and the huge air hammer and a large horizontal milling machine that was obviously processing large parts Although the wipe was quite clean, there were obviously no products on the shelf, even iron filings, which showed that it had not been produced for a long time!

Lu Hong actually saw this large floor milling machine, he knew that he came to the right place today, this era, the development of machine tools has been very perfect, all kinds of special machine tools have already been launched, and have withstood the test of the industry, and the development history of the machine tool industry, is from the dedicated to the all-round and then extended to the dedicated trajectory, therefore, the most important industrial capacity of the early industry lies in the accumulation of people and machine tools, the more machine tools, the more workers, it means the more powerful production capacity.

And the bigger the machine, the stronger the processing technology...... Now this milling machine here obviously means that there are capable people who can start this machine tool here, and at this moment the two engineers were called over by Ruisheng.

Lu Hong naturally didn't make any more detours, but asked very directly: "Do you two know how to work with this machine tool?" ”

The two engineers obviously didn't quite understand what the official master brought by the Rui Supervisor wanted to do, and after looking at each other, one of them was a forty-year-old man with a numb face, and said: "My lord, this is a German milling machine, and we can drive five or six engineers here, but there has been no order for more than three months!" ”

Lu Hong nodded, he beckoned, took a stack of drawings from Ouyang Hao behind him and handed it to the hemp man, "Look at these parts, can you do them here?" ”

The hemp man looked at Ruisheng with some doubts, this naturally had already set up the shelf, nodded slightly, and the two engineers hurriedly took the drawings and looked at them carefully, but the structure of these parts immediately made their expressions solemn, especially one of the arc-shaped groove parts and a spiral surface part, the two muttered and discussed for a while.

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