Chapter 32 The source of counterfeit and coin is gone
By the beginning of 1894, the ten factories that Lin Daxin purchased from Britain and the arsenal purchased from Germany had all been put into production, and the equipment of the four factories purchased by Lin Daxin from modern time and space had all been shipped to the Qing Dynasty and strengthened into similar factories. As a result, Lin Daxin had four large-scale and technologically advanced heavy industry factories in the Qing Dynasty.
Originally, a power plant with a power generation capacity of 20,000 kilowatts was purchased from the United Kingdom, and after adding four steam turbines of 30,000 kilowatts from a thermal power plant in modern space, Lin Daxin's power plant generated 140,000 kilowatts.
A steel mill with an annual output of 100,000 tons purchased from the United Kingdom has become a steel mill capable of producing several types of special steel, and is designed to produce more than 2 million tons per year.
The more than 100 machine building machines purchased from the United Kingdom have obtained the equipment of the modern space-time machinery and equipment manufacturing plant, and the steel produced by the steel mill can be used to manufacture more machine equipment and expand the scale of other factories.
As for the small British shipyards that have received the equipment of modern space-time shipyards, they have already repaired all the warships of the Beiyang Naval Division, and now they are starting to build some transport ships of several hundred tons, in order to accumulate experience in building warships in the future.
Arsenals also began to produce, stockpiling weapons and ammunition for the impending war. Chemical factories, cement factories, textile factories, garment factories, carpentry factories, flour mills, what these factories currently produce, are all produced by the Sailor School and the factories for their own use.
Lin Daxin's factory workers have reached nearly 50,000, and these workers can be regarded as qualified workers under the training of foreign technicians and their own continuous hard work.
The ever-expanding water master school and factory area, as well as the houses built for these workers in the planned living area, make the construction area of Beigou Village much larger than the urban area of Weihai Acropolis.
The houses built for the factory workers were built into five-story buildings because of the cement from the cement factory and the steel bars produced by the steel plant. Every factory worker can apply for a building, only need to pay a small down payment first, and then deduct a part of the salary from the salary every month to pay the balance of the house, and the building will be owned by the worker himself!
The workers who work in Lin Daxin's factory are paid relatively well, and Lin Daxin stipulates eight technical levels for workers, as long as they get out of the lowest apprenticeship and become a first-class worker, it is enough to support a family of five with wages.
After the army cadets of the Sailor Academy were reorganized into five divisions, by the beginning of 1894, they were already basically formed into an army, and these five divisions trained by modern time-space training methods, plus the weapons that Lin Daxin bought at any cost, Lin Daxin believed that as long as these five divisions experienced the baptism of war, they would definitely become five elite divisions.
Although the first fleet and the second fleet of the naval division of the naval division composed of the naval discipline of the naval division of the naval division are trained very hard in such a short period of time, it can be said that there is still a big gap in combat effectiveness compared with the old Beiyang naval division.
But the performance of the warships purchased by Lin Daxin is not bad, and they can barely fight!
Lin Daxin asked his cousin Wang Yan to buy a lot of jade and antiques in the Qing Dynasty and transport them to modern time and space in exchange for a large amount of cash, so that Lin Daxin bought a large number of living materials from modern time and space and transported them to the Qing Dynasty, ensuring the food and clothing of the army and navy of the Navy Academy, as well as factory workers, and more than 100,000 people, and also bought many things that the Qing Dynasty did not have, such as short-wave radios and walkie-talkies that could talk.
Lin Daxin of these short-wave radio stations are relatively large in power, and the communication distance can reach hundreds of kilometers. These radios were not only assigned to the army at the company level, but also to each warship with radios and walkie-talkies.
In the Battle of the Yellow Sea in history, the main mast of the Dingyuan ship, the flagship of the Beiyang Naval Division, was shot, and the signal lock was damaged, which made the Beiyang Naval Division have no command and fight separately, which is also one of the reasons why the Beiyang Naval Division suffered heavy losses in the Yellow Sea Naval Battle in history.
Now with shortwave radios and walkie-talkies, there will be no such thing as the destruction of signal locks that affect the command of the fleet, as in history. Lin Daxin also installed short-wave radios and walkie-talkies on the warships of the Beiyang Naval Division.
The walkie-talkie allows the captain of the warship to directly command the various departments of the warship through the walkie-talkie, and also knows the situation of the warship through the crew at any time.
Radio stations can make it very convenient for warships to communicate with each other, and improve the overall combat effectiveness of the fleet.
Lin Daxin also purchased a lot of medicines and medical equipment, and trained many battlefield medics with two knives for the upcoming war.
However, not everything is smooth, and the reason why Lin Daxin was able to achieve such great results in a short period of time in the Qing Dynasty was mainly due to the fakes and coins obtained in modern time and space. In the time and space of the Qing Dynasty, these fakes and coins made it impossible for foreign banks to distinguish between real and fake, so that Lin Daxin could spend money unscrupulously in the Qing Dynasty.
However, Cheng Jianhua, who made counterfeits and coins for Lin Daxin in modern time and space, after completing the transaction of 6 kinds of counterfeits and coins of 100 million yuan each, when Lin Daxin wanted to buy counterfeits and coins from Cheng Jianhua again, he learned that Cheng Jianhua's gang was united by the police in the mainland and Taiwan to serve a pot because of making counterfeits and banknotes used in modern time and space!
Lin Daxin was worried every time he traveled to modern time and space, afraid that Cheng Jianhua would sue the police that Lin Daxin had purchased a large number of foreign counterfeits and currencies from him before 1890, which would bring great trouble to Lin Daxin in modern time and space.
Fortunately, Cheng Jianhua has been arrested for a few months, and no police have come to find Lin Daxin, which made Lin Daxin breathe a sigh of relief, but this way to buy counterfeits and coins is gone! Fortunately, Lin Daxin bought 6 kinds of counterfeits and coins worth about 150 million pounds last time, and Lin Daxin was not short of money to spend in the Qing Dynasty in a short time!
Anyway, Lin Daxin used the jade and antiques of the Qing Dynasty in modern time and space in exchange for a large amount of cash, if Lin Daxin was short of money to spend, he could naturally exchange a large amount of silver in modern time and space to transport back to the Qing Dynasty time and space.
You must know that Lin Daxin is now equivalent to raising 5 army divisions and two fleets, and the allowance given by Lin Daxin is equivalent to a very generous military salary, so that Lin Daxin will spend more than 1.5 million taels of silver every month only for these troops. If it weren't for Lin Daxin's ** exchange for a large amount of silver from a foreign bank, it would not be easy to raise so many troops and warships!
Lin Daxin also thought of selling some products in modern time and space to the time and space of the Qing Dynasty, and the sales must be very good, but as the time has entered 1894, Lin Daxin has no energy to make money! He focused all his energies on the five army divisions and the two fleets of the Naval Academy.
Regarding the imminent outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, although Lin Daxin has prepared a lot for this, he is still very worried in his heart. The main fleet of the Beiyang Naval Division and the two fleets of the Naval Academy can be said to have surpassed the Japanese Navy in terms of scale, but the naval cadets on the two fleets of the Naval Academy, after all, the training time is short, and when they arrive on the battlefield, they do not know whether they can defeat the Japanese Navy, which is more powerful than in history.
However, the Japanese army not only has six regular field divisions and one guards division, and a standing army of about 63,000 people, but Japan also has 230,000 reservists.
Japan can organize more than a dozen new divisions in a short period of time and then fight the army of the Naval Academy, but it is very difficult for the five army divisions of the Naval Academy to be replenished with personnel.
As for the huge number of Qing troops, Lin Daxin believes that in addition to a few elite armies of the Huai Army in the Beiyang system, such as the Yi Army, the Feng Army, and the Sheng Zi Army, there is still some combat effectiveness, and the other Qing armies are more appropriate to say that they are armies, rather than people with guns.
Lin Daxin believed that only the five army divisions and two fleets of the Naval Division Academy were more elite in training to resist the powerful Japanese army and navy in the imminent Sino-Japanese war.
The cadets of the army and navy of the Navy Academy, under the leadership of Lin Daxin, are very hard to carry out a large amount of training, fortunately, Lin Daxin has a very high prestige among the cadets of the Sailor Academy, and the cadet officers at all levels lead by example, and the rich food of the Sailor Academy ensures the nutritional needs brought by a large number of high-intensity exercises, so that the cadets of the five army divisions and two fleets have persevered, making their combat effectiveness stronger and stronger!
After 1890, Japan developed its navy and army with 60% of the country's fiscal revenue, and from 1893, Emperor Meiji decided to allocate 300,000 yuan from his palace funds every year, and then took one-tenth of the salaries of civil and military officials to supplement shipbuilding costs. In addition, the huge loans given to Japan by the British banks and large conglomerates enabled Japan's armed armaments to develop rapidly, and the morale of the whole country was high, and the goal was to catch up with and surpass the Qing Dynasty, and it was preparing to wage a war in which "the fortunes of the country gambled against each other."