Time is in a blink of an eye to March of the tenth year of Tongzhi. Liuzhou Industrial Park has entered the fast lane of development!

Light industrial products such as matches, cigarettes, and soap were marketed in Lingnan, and textile factories were full of workers, although few of them were women.

The success of the former is not expected by Liu Xian, and the production of Hanzhong alone cannot meet the needs of the entire Chinese market. It's a huge market indeed, and as long as you can get inside the door, there's a lot of silver waiting for you to earn! The reason for the consummation of the textile factory was greatly beyond Liu Xian's expectations. Because that should be the head of a wave of children.

Guangxi has been in war for many years, and I don't know how many children have lost their families in the war and become orphans. If these children follow the historical process of the original time and space, their fate will undoubtedly be tragic. But now that Liu Xian is here, it takes a lot of manpower to open an industrial park in Liuzhou. After all, children are no weaker than adults in jobs such as pasting matchboxes and cigarette boxes.

As a result, a large number of orphaned teenagers have gathered in Liuzhou.

When these children arrive in Liuzhou, they will not just work honestly, but will run around, especially in the industrial park. They look at the rarity of machinery or something, and the hands and feet are quick and can smooth things, which has a very bad impact on the security environment in Liuzhou.

These children work in match factories or cigarette factories, or they work as child laborers themselves. But the impact on the textile mill is still very small, and those rumors are even more intimidating to these children who have no roots.

It wasn't until a wave of children stole cigarettes in the cigarette factory that they were discovered by the guards, chased after them, and fled into the textile factory in a panic, and the fate of the textile factory's lack of labor was completely changed.

The mill is very warm in the winter, much warmer than where these children live. Even if the winter in Guangxi itself is not cold, this is relative to the people who do not worry about clothes. Many of the children wear single clothes even in winter. The children, who coveted the warmth in the textile mill and followed the skilled workers to the yarn joints, quickly learned and were given some cash. This is very attractive for farmers who do not have any money on hand. It wasn't long before the rumors were shattered.

In other words, Liu Xian is now the kind of immeasurable capitalist who drives child labor in large numbers. Every copper plate in his hand was stained with dirt, and every pore on his body was full of sin. But it is an indisputable fact that he 'feeds' hundreds of orphans by relying on these simple light industries.

In fact, no one is taking this kind of thing to 'despise' Liu Xian. In particular, Liu Xian opened more than a dozen night schools for workers and children, and recruited hundreds of talented and children as teachers in Liuzhou with a small amount of money, which makes no one say that Liu Xian is criminal and greedy. Instead, he got a big hat of 'educating the people', which was put on by Liu Xian, the prefect of Liuzhou, Sun Shouqi.

At the same time, a briquette called honeycomb coal and an object called a coal stove began to appear in Liuzhou.

These two prices are of almost no technical value, but they spread quickly. In just one month, Liuzhou Prefecture and all county towns have become popular.

Liu Xian used the power in his hands to blow the wind in the middle, but the main reason was that the people felt that it was suitable.

Compared with burning firewood and buying firewood every month, coal stoves and honeycomb coal are obviously much more cost-effective.

Before the establishment of the steel plant, Liu Xian also successfully found a financial way for Hongji Coal. However, the larger market for high-quality Hongji coal is still in Guangdong. For example, Foshan, the iron-making industry, became famous in the Ming and Qing dynasties for 500 years. Although now that foreigners have come in, Foshan iron-making has gradually entered a decline, but the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and Foshan's demand for coal is still among the best in Guangzhou. Moreover, the production of ceramics in Guangdong, the needs of Guangzhou City itself, as well as the steamships of European and American powers such as Hong Kong and Guangdong Customs, all need coal.

However, Guangdong's coal mines are small and the quality of coal produced is low, and Hongji coal, an anthracite whose quality can compete with Welsh white coal, suddenly appeared in the Guangdong market, and the sensation caused by it was completely explosive. The first thing the British looked at was Vietnam. It's just that before they can do that, they need to get through France. Vietnam is a French reserve.

Transporting Hongji coal to Guangzhou was one of the five towns of the Guangdong Navy Division, Qiongzhou Town, with only a few warships left. It is mainly a rice boat with a load of 2,500 stones, supplemented by an ann shuttle ship and a large transverse shuttle. Carrying thousands of tons of Hongji coal to Guangzhou at one time. Since the start of coal transportation in February, there have been five exchanges, all of which have been frantically snapped up.

It's just that the 'tough' Guangdong sailor has received the filial piety of Qiongzhou Town, but he seems to be deaf to the good of Hongji Coal. The coal used in the six steamboats was still purchased locally in Guangdong. There is no need to say more about what is in it.

Liu Xian had already contacted the British to prepare for the purchase of a steamer cargo ship. At the same time, the news was released to prepare for the Hongji Port IPO.

Yes, Hongji Port, not Hongji Coal Mine. But this can definitely attract a lot of rich people and discerning people.

The popularity of Hongji Coal in the Guangdong market directly promoted the recruitment of workers by the Mining Bureau in Guangzhou. Laborers, who had previously been hesitant to recruit the Mining Bureau, are now flocking to the Mines Bureau. It also increased the number of workers in the mine from less than 4,000 in February to more than 7,000 at the end of March. But this is not enough, Hongji Coal Mine can absorb at least 5,000 people.

Whether it is the governor of Liangguang or the general of Guangzhou, they do not say a word about the non-business of Qiongzhou Town. And Zhai Guoyan, the governor of Guangdong Waterway, although he has been a commander in the water division for two years, his previous roots were all in Nanao Town, and he didn't pay attention to Qiongzhou Town at all. In addition, when Qi Dalin entered Qiongzhou, he brought a whole battalion of Qin soldiers to take office, and he himself occupied an absolute dominant position in Qiongzhou Town, and now the transportation of Hongji coal began, and he let the remaining thousands of officers and soldiers in Qiongzhou Town see the hope of making money, Zhai Guoyan just wanted to put his own admiral prestige in front of him, but he couldn't do it.

Zhai Guoyan is a native of Hunan, and like Liu Songshan, they will not have a good impression of Qin Jun if their background is limited.

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In April, another batch of munitions was brought to Guangzhou from the United States, along with a batch of guns and artillery repair equipment and a batch of equipment for the sugar refinery. This is a project that Liu Xian suddenly added in the first month, and originally this batch of transactions was only arms and gun repair equipment.

Don't blame Liu Xian for being ignorant, and don't say that Liu Xian doesn't pay attention to life. He really didn't find out until the Chinese New Year this year that there was such a shortage of white sugar in China, and most of the sugar liao only produced brown sugar and brown sugar. Domestic sugar production is very small, and the Guangzhou market is full of white sugar imported from Southeast Asia.

This made Liu Xian lament at the same time, but also had the idea of buying a modern sugar refinery. And as a large number of treasures and jewels he had obtained to Xinjiang were sold, and the amount of money he received exceeded his previous expectations, Liu Xian had a lot of spare money in his hands. The sugar refinery will run one of them, and the total equipment is only less than 50,000 eagles.

"Bang Bang Bang ......" firecrackers exploded, and the dense gunfire rang out loud on the test site. But it was not a squadron of soldiers that made this noise, but only a 10-barreled Gatling gun. And it only takes four people!

"How? My Admiral. This is an innovative invention that can change the paradigm of warfare. The world's first repeating weapon. With it, thousands of enemies charge at you, only to their own death. "Bell. Fawkes smiled like a fox with a chicken.

Liu Xian didn't answer, and he didn't turn his head to look at the frightened officers and guards beside him. It wasn't until the 10-barreled Gatling gun had fired a thousand rounds that he said lightly to Bell: "A thing that was invented eight or nine years ago?" ”

"Huh?!"

Bell's wicked smile came to an abrupt end, and the man was like a duck that had been grabbed by the throat, and could no longer rattle. The whole person's expression is so weird.

"My friend, don't treat me like a turtle who doesn't know anything. In this Great Qing Kingdom, you can use your lies to deceive other officials, but you can't deceive me! ”

Liu Xian looked straight at Bell until Bell smiled stiffly.

Waving his hand, Liu Xian beckoned Bell to follow. "I bought these ten machine guns, three hundred taels of silver each, don't think about five hundred taels. Otherwise, I would have people put a row of targets 300 meters away and make them accurate. ”

Bell's already open mouth slammed shut. As a handler, he knew where the Gatling gun's flaws were.

This kind of military prematurity [military thinking has not developed to the point of using machine guns], and the Gatling gun itself has a number of problems, such as gunpowder gas leaks, and the stricter 0.58-inch copper cartridge rim fire ammunition. The Gatling gun had to overcome the difficult problem of how to make the independent chamber coaxial to the chamber. He used a conical chamber with a larger diameter at the rear of the barrel, which made it easier for the projectile to enter the barrel. But at the same time as solving the problem of loading, a much more serious problem arose: due to the excessive diameter of the breech, the warhead rolled over during flight.

A bullet that shoots a bullet is a tumbling weapon, and the accuracy of the long range can be imagined. Although the improved Gatling gun had a rate of fire of 500 rounds per minute, this is a staggering figure in the current era.

"Bell, let's talk about a new business. We don't need to stay here any longer. I think your boss will send you a red envelope, if the business is negotiated. ”

The frustrated, embarrassed expression quickly wiped from his face, and Bell. Fawkes's body and mind radiated joy from the bottom of his heart. New business, yes, Maisheng needs new business. Because of the Qin army's arms business, they are about to come to an end. Maxim needs to open up new projects!

"Steamers, I need a batch of steamers." On the carriage leaving the test site, Liu Xian told Bell his new requirements. The British's asking price was too high, and they needed to bring the Americans into the game.

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