In the case with Macklin. After Count Boto got in touch, Lin Haijiang asked Mark Lin. Count Voto provided a large number of Indonesian natives for the construction of the old port, for which Lin Haijiang advanced a part of the so-called remuneration to Macklin. Count Botto.

The main reason why Lin Haijiang did not recruit laborers from Sumatra, but directly from Indonesia, was that he did not want to have a bad relationship with the Sultan of Aceh, because Lin Haijiang did not intend to pay the so-called labor fees to Maclin. With a little benefit, the Governor of Count Boto can get a steady stream of free labor regardless of the dead or wounded, so why not do it?

And Lin Haijiang knows that the extreme delay of his delay is not to build the old port fortress, but to return to China to find a group of reliable people for himself, and now he is weak, the most painful thing is that there is only one Lawrence who can help, and many other things need to be done by himself, even if a person is strong, he can hit a few nails with iron?

For Lin Haijiang, he is not very eager to seek development opportunities, because he is waiting for an opportunity to cut in, and the Crimean War is a good opportunity given to him by God.

On October 20, 1853, a war broke out in Europe for control of the Balkan Peninsula, Turkey, Britain, France, and the Kingdom of Sardinia declared war on Russia, and the war lasted until 1856, ending in Russia's defeat, which triggered a revolutionary struggle in the country.

In this war, the British and French forces used a large number of advanced weapons, such as breech-loading rifled rifles, ironclad steamships, and new fixed-explosion artillery shells, which greatly improved the combat effectiveness of the army and navy, and the railroad and telegraph also brought about a major revolutionary change in the logistics command of military operations.

In the Far East, as well as in Southeast Asia as a whole, Britain had squeezed huge profits from the colonies by the British privileged class and bourgeoisie through the export of large amounts of capital, and at this point he knew that no matter how much he tried to cover up, he would sooner or later come into the sight of the British.

Lin Haijiang knew that in history, by 1855, Britain's foreign investment income had reached 90 million to 100 million pounds. As a result, a large class of rentiers has arisen in Britain who live by 'cutting the total votes'.

It can be seen from the emergence of this extremely decadent parasitic class that Britain has changed from a new industrial country to a typical rentier country at this time, so Britain will not give up the pace of expansion of overseas colonies.

Moreover, in the short period of more than 20 years from 1851 to 1874, except for a short period of time, the Liberals were almost exclusively in power in Britain.

During this period, Britain still maintained its position as the world's industrial hegemony, the country was more presumptuous, the air was thicker, and the ruling class did not need a strong state apparatus to maintain its rule. During this period, most of the British military was stationed in overseas colonies, and the number of troops and police in the country was very small, and the liberal style of rule was naturally implemented.

After the end of the Crimean War, as Britain's industrial hegemony gradually lost and domestic stability was gone, the British bourgeoisie changed its liberal way of rule, strengthened the state apparatus, weakened the power of the Parliament, and greatly increased the power of the cabinet.

At this time, the British [***] team also withdrew from the Crimean War, the British [***] side needed someone to pay for his huge military spending, the privileged class and the bourgeoisie needed to find new profit growth points, and the second Opium War seemed to be a foregone conclusion?

Lin Haijiang was a little helpless in this regard, at this moment the power of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in China was rising rapidly, and the huge and cowardly China had already made the Western powers smell bloody news in the "Treaty of Nanjing", and it seemed that this had become an inevitable and destined event.

Rapidly developing your own power? Lin Haijiang has not thought about it, and there are too many restrictions, and he understands the truth that if you want to hurry, you can't reach it, and it is easy to fall on your heels if you take too big a step, simply put, a shipbuilding industry needs a systematic industrial base as a backing, and these are what Lin Haijiang does not dare to think about for the time being.

As soon as Britain and France withdrew their hands from the Crimean War, and once their own fleet posed a threat to the British in the Far East, then I am afraid that even if they wanted to pass through Macklin. It was also difficult for Count Botto to buy ironclads from Europe.

So Lin Haijiang needed an ally who would not be interfered with by the blockade of British and French policies, and for Europe in 1853, I am afraid that there would be no more suitable country than the German Confederation.

In Lin Haijiang's memory, after the Prussian city-state revolution of 1848 was suppressed, the Prussian king Fred Risch? Wilhelm IV refused to succeed to the throne, and in 1850 the German Confederation was re-established.

However, the newly established Federal Parliament of Frankfurt was still not an openly elected parliament, but a parliament of representatives of the various city-states, which could only be effective if Prussia and Austria agreed on certain principles, and the following city-states or regions also went about their own devices.

Although Germany was now undergoing industrial construction, with the discovery of huge mineral deposits in the Ruhr region in 1840, the construction of railways led to the rapid development of the iron and steel industry, coal mining industry and machinery industry.

Germany's booming economy has allowed it to become a quasi-industrial country in just a decade, and although its production scale is still far behind that of the United Kingdom, it has surpassed it in terms of growth. During this period, heavy industry and machinery manufacturing led the way, especially the shipbuilding industry.

What the Germans lacked most at this time was the necessary order for shipbuilding experience, and this point was precisely the dead end of the shipbuilding industry, especially the construction of warships, but this was also what Lin Haijiang did not care about, because Lin Haijiang was confident that he could provide the Germans with a set of ship drawings that they had never seen before.

Regarding the matter of sending people to Germany to contact the purchase of ships, Lin Haijiang discussed with Lawrence, and Lawrence was deeply skeptical that the Germans would be able to build ironclad ships.

He even smiled at Lin Haijiang's preparation to design his own ship drawings, in Lawrence's opinion, Lin Haijiang must have recently spent the night on the ship and was dizzy by the waves, and he even wanted to design his own ironclad ship?

In order not to hurt Lin Haijiang's self-esteem, Lawrence just kindly reminded Lin Haijiang to pay more attention to rest and not to think nonsense if he has nothing to do.

Lin Haijiang finally secretly chose the shipyard to buy ships in "Hamburg", a beautiful port city located on the banks of the Elbe River in the northeast of Bremen, Hamburg was the most important seaport and the largest foreign trade center of the German Confederation at this time, and was later known as "Germany's gateway to the world".

However, in Lin Haijiang's memory, there was a major fire in Hamburg in 1842, in which a third of the city was burned down, but it was this fire that allowed Hamburg to quickly industrialize.

The Dewittem shipyard in Hamburg was Lin Haijiang's final target, and he wrote a letter to Miller, who had been living in seclusion in Europe, explaining that he had planned to buy ships, and that he should pay more attention to a German named Wiener von Siemens, and look for opportunities to cooperate with him and do his best to buy his patents.

Venal von Siemens is a famous German engineer, entrepreneur, inventor of electric motors, generators, trams and compass telegraphs, improved submarine cables, proposed open-hearth steelmaking, revolutionized steelmaking technology, and is the founder of Siemens.

In 1843, he invented nickel plating technology, which played a very important role in the development of printing technology in later generations. In 1847, he invented the technique of measuring ballistics by electric spark, which greatly improved the accuracy of naval guns.

Moreover, in 1847, Siemens and mechanical engineer Johann Georg Halske relied on 6,842 thuler silver coins invested by his cousin (1 thaler is equivalent to 3 German marks) to establish the Siemens-Halsk telegraph manufacturing company, which mainly produced the compass telegraph invented by Siemens, which was the predecessor of the later Siemens company. In 1848, Siemens won a contract for the telegraph line from Frankfurt to Berlin, and the development began.

Siemens and Krupp are the two major arms giants of the Third Reich in the future, from the beginning of World War I to the end of World War II, they have mastered as many as 2,987 reading power patents, especially optical patents such as naval gun ranging sights are major inventions of Siemens in the middle of the 19th century, but the wide application of this invention has been postponed to World War I, and its company's research and development strength should not be underestimated.

In Lin Haijiang's view, science and technology are the primary productive forces, and science and technology are also the first combat effectiveness!

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