Laughter came from the luxurious private room of the Chunshen Hotel.

In the luxury private room, there are only Lin Chengbin and Yu Lianyuan, although the two were still strangers more than ten days ago, but this will be as warm as making friends.

At this time, the huge temptation attracted Yu Lianyuan, sitting opposite Lin Chengbin, but Lin Chengbin didn't even look at the head office of the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau.

At this time, Lin Chengbin just shook the red wine left in the goblet, and sat there with a smile and a smile, as if he was pondering something.

And this will make Yu Lianyuan feel as if there are seven or eight monkeys tickling in his heart, and he can't even speak naturally.

"Brother step-ancestor, you don't want to play your brother Yu!"

The anxiety between the words, there is still the righteousness of the five-grade officials, the arrogance of the example, and some or just the fanaticism of the officialdom for the silver.

Lin Chengbin still looked at Yu Lianyuan with a smile, and after playing enough with the red wine in the wine glass, he drank it all, slowly put down the wine glass, and said softly.

"Brother Chengpu! That's a windfall! But! It's up to you to do it or not......"

Yu Lianyuan was stunned, who didn't want to fly to make a windfall.

"What business do you talk about first, let Lian Yuan also help you with the details!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Yu Lianyuan realized that his tone was so humble, but he didn't care in his heart, what is more real than silver, although as the general office of the Manufacturing Bureau, there are naturally some ways to get silver, but that silver can't be compared with those officials who let go of the place.

Just like when he promised to make the 1,000 boxes of special 9-mile pistol bullets for Lin Chengbin in front of him, each box was 150 yuan, and he ended up with 50 yuan for one box, and the person in front of him was his fortune boy.

"Samsang? Haha, Brother Chengpu, you're really kidding! There are some things that you better not do, don't think about anything if you don't do it, you have to do it when you think about it, there is no third way to go! ”

Lin Chengbin's tone was resolute, and he didn't leave Yu Lianyuan with the slightest room for other thoughts!

Laughed dryly, Yu Lianyuan looked at Lin Chengbin, a little hesitant, the meaning of Lin Chengbin's words made him hesitate, and the private room was quiet, the two didn't know each other a few days ago, but they didn't look at anyone, and they each thought about what was in their hearts.

Yu Lianyuan's hesitation did not make Lin Chengbin feel any surprise, the windfall of 350,000 taels of silver was put in front of anyone, and anyone would hesitate! And the greed he revealed before made Lin Chengbin believe that this person who even had to take some money from the food of the manufacturing bureau would naturally not refuse the flying windfall that was tantamount to giving him for nothing.

stared at the wine glass on the table, but Yu Lianyuan was thinking about whether to refuse or agree, refuse! If he really refuses such a windfall of 100,000 taels of silver, he really can't afford to be so ruthless. But if he agreed, I was afraid that I didn't know what the windfall he was talking about, not to mention that Yu Lianyuan thought about it before and after, but he couldn't think of anything valuable in his hands.

Three hundred and fifty thousand taels! That's 350,000 taels of snowflake silver! After being the general office of the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau for two years, how much silver did he Yu Lianyuan earn, which is a full 350,000 taels of snowflake silver, which is enough for a lifetime.

After repeatedly considering the work of a cigarette, Yu Lianyuan drank the French red wine in the glass in front of him, and his face showed decisiveness.

"Step Ancestor, say it! I'm not afraid of your jokes, your ancestors have been a big person, and they are a big family, but Lianyuan's family is poor, and they are afraid of poverty! These 350,000 taels of silver, Lian Yuan asked for it! ”

After that, Yu Lianyuan looked at Lin Chengbin greedily, no matter what idea he said, as long as it was worth the three hundred and fifty thousand taels of silver, it was best not to lose his head, he did it.

"Even so, the brother really doesn't want to hide it, someone has taken a fancy to the 164 Taidi Yasheng and Xinyi Foreign Company's machines in Brother Chengpu's warehouse!"

Lin Chengbin said lightly something that almost scared him to death Brother Chengpu.

"What!"

Almost before Lin Chengbin's words fell, Yu Lianyuan was so shocked that he almost didn't squirt out the red wine he drank before, which ...... It's definitely a head-off deal!

"Step-grandfather, this ...... That's too ...... The stakes are so great that ...... Yu"

Yu Lianyuan's stammering words made Lin Chengbin smile, and he personally filled the wine glasses of the two of them with a bottle of French red wine of one hundred taels of silver, as if he wanted to comfort him again.

"Brother Chengpu, you and I both know that those machines were purchased by Brother Chengpu from the Beiyang Manufacturing Bureau the year before last, and now the Beiyang Manufacturing Bureau has long been reduced to ashes. When he said Brother Chengpu, he just pulled a dead man and stuffed it, and those machines had already arrived in Tianjin by waterway before the fall of Tianjin, so what could the imperial court say, who would check a dead person, or ask those foreigners if they could find those machines? ”

Holding the wine glass, Lin Chengbin smiled and gave the frightened Yu Lianyuan an idea.

"This ...... Is that okay? ”

Lin Chengbin smiled and didn't answer, but Yu Lianyuan knew the answer, after the Gengzi disaster, everything involving the imperial court and the north was like a mess, dead and fleeing, I don't know how many confused accounts came out, and before Gengzi, he did send a telegram to the Beiyang Manufacturing Bureau, asking where the machine was going, but there was no news.

"In a word! Brother Chengpu! It's not that hard, right? ”

With a faint urge, Lin Chengbin put on that smile and silent appearance again.

If...... Thinking of this, Yu Lianyuan's heart jumped sharply, his throat was dry, and he hurriedly drank the half glass of red wine in one gulp, his eyes were red, and his face was full of determination.

"Brother step-ancestor, this silver ...... I want it! ”

When he said this, looking at Lin Chengbin with a smile on his face, Yu Lianyuan understood one thing, from now on, he Yu Lianyuan was going to be tied to this Lin Chengbin on a rope, he went to heaven and stained himself, and he went to hell and suffered himself!

"Brother Chengpu, refresh!"

Lin Chengbin picked up his wine glass and toasted Yu Lianyuan, and after taking a sip, he took out a stack of silver coupons from the bag on the chair next to him and put them on the table.

"100,000 taels of HSBC bank silver two coupons, please also ask Brother Chengpu to smile!"

"Come to the office, please!"

The secretary led Lin Chengbin into an office.

This is the third time Lin Chengbin has come to this office, and unlike the previous bustle, there was no one in the office this time. Mr. Dong sat behind his desk, flipping through the papers on the desk, apparently wanting to stay here while they met.

The secretary who led Lin Chengbin into the office asked the chairman whether the project of the Jianghuai Road Mining Company's machinery factory could be postponed, and the chairman who lowered his head spoke very simply.

"No! It must be carried out in strict accordance with the construction schedule! If not, the person in charge of the project will be dismissed! According to the breach of contract, ask for compensation! ”

Chen Moran, who did not raise his head, buried his head in reading the documents again, and now he is not exactly the shopkeeper, especially after the completion of the Huangpu Sports School, he, the principal, only occasionally went over to take a look, and Xiao Xinren, who was originally in charge of the company, stayed in the school for a long time because of his position as the director of the professor department.

After the secretary left the office, Chen Moran still didn't raise his head, and his eyes didn't look at Lin Chengbin.

"Let's talk about it!"

After finishing speaking, he continued to bury his head in looking at the telegrams or letters sent from Pudong, Ma'anshan, Huainan and other places.

"Chairman, Yu Lianyuan has already accepted the silver, and after three days, the machine will be transported to the warehouse of Standard Chartered Foreign Company!"

At this time, Chen Moran raised his head and looked at Lin Chengbin with a smile on his face. The reason for "buying" those machines was simply a last resort, and the peace outline agreed to ban the sale of ordnance and ordnance production machinery within two years, originally thinking that Hu Nianzu could use this contract as a coercion to let the Germans sell the machines for the production of rifles and bullets to themselves, but those Germans were almost unreasonable in their bones, and they categorically rejected this suggestion.

Compared with the old-fashioned people in Germany, the foreign banks in Shanghai are obviously much more flexible, but they are willing to help, and they also mentioned that if the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau did not mention the machine a few years ago, there may still be a chance.

The Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau did not purchase many machines for the Beiyang Manufacturing Bureau, but it was necessary for the production of weapons, the production of rifle machine reeds, connectors, gauge guillotine beds, rifling machine broaches, barrel forging machines, deep hole drilling machine tools, and the most attractive is probably the Xinyi Foreign Company sold 63 machines for the production of small-caliber Mauser ammunition, the ordinary machine can be transformed to produce rifles and pistols, but bullets are not, bullets need real specialized machines.

Because he didn't want to bet all his treasures on foreign companies, Lin Chengbin befriended Yu Lianyuan. At first, it was just a temptation, but I didn't think that the batch of machines was still in the warehouse of the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau.

"You've done a good job!"

"It's just because he's greedy for money!"

"You're responsible for this to the end, remember, I don't want anyone to know, I bought these machines! Can you do it? ”

Lin Chengbin nodded, but didn't say anything, the chairman didn't tell him why he bought this batch of special-purpose machines, and he didn't want to know that because of the fact that his family has been an official for generations, he knows what to ask and what not to ask.

"If there are no other instructions, chairman, then Chengbin will leave!"

"Hmmm! You go straight to the meeting place to settle the money! ”

Just as Lin Chengbin was about to leave, Chen Moran remembered something again and called out to him.

"Jizu, your resume mentioned that you studied in the Department of Science and Chemistry at Kyoto Imperial University for two and a half years, why did you abandon your studies and return to China when you graduated?"

The chairman's words only made Lin Chengbin's face complicated.

"Chairman, studying abroad in Yueben, everyone called me "Qingguo slave", and then Chengbin's teacher called me "dolphin tail slave", Chengbin really couldn't bear such an insult, so he gave up school and returned to China! Originally, he was going to go to Europe to continue his studies. ”

How can a few words explain the insult Lin Chengbin suffered in Yueben, perhaps his insult is not unrelated to the pride in his surname, but the discrimination and contempt of people are the root cause.

Nodding his head, Chen Moran had such an expression on his face.

"Yes, it's not good, but it's also true!"

Hearing this, Lin Chengbin's face changed, but he immediately smiled helplessly, "If you want to be a courtier, you must first learn to be a slave." He knew that whether it was a Qing slave or a dolphin-tailed slave, it was indeed a fact, as the magazine said, the Chinese were just slaves of the dead country.

"That's it! Don't talk about that! In the second half of the year, the coke plant in Huainan will start, and there will be a chemical plant at the same time, where a factory director is needed, is there any interest! ”

Chen Moran asked with a smile, there is no chemistry in the company yet, Lin Chengbin is the candidate recommended to him by Xiao Xinren, since he can recommend him to "buy machinery" with Yu Lianyuan, then there should be no problem with letting him be in charge of the chemical plant.

"Thank you for your trust!"

Lin Chengbin was first happy and surprised, happy that the chairman had appointed himself as the factory director, but he was surprised that he was worried that he would have the knowledge of the director.

"Cheng Binding...... Live up to the kindness of the directors! ”

"Good job!"

Smiling at this young man with a face full of surprise, Chen Moran smiled and waved his hands.

"Negative and negative, do the results and then speak!"

After Lin Chengbin left, the office was quiet, leaving only Chen Moran alone, looking at the thick documents on the desktop, the smiling face that was originally revealed by the machine disappeared.

"I really regard my lord as the god of wealth, and I am here to ask for money!"

The company asked for money, but the Liangjiang Governor's Mansion and the Anhui Governor both stretched out their hands to him, and the letter from the Liangjiang Governor's Mansion was to let him do his filial piety and donate 50,000 taels, and the Anhui Governor asked the Huainan Coal Mine to take 8,000 taels of appeasement silver, saying that it was used to suppress the bandits of Bagong Mountain to secure the coal mine.

"These bastards!"

scolded hatefully on his lips, but he was quite helpless to sign and stamp his private seal, and the three words Chen Moran, who was barely eye-catching, signed it towards it, and tens of thousands of taels of silver were gone.

There is no need to say "open the door with sesame", just use a stick to open the hole, originally just wanted to find some inspiration from this car, Chen Moran, but inadvertently found that he had opened a "treasure".

Looking at the things on the ground that had been cleared out of the glove compartment under Xing Kaima's back seat, Chen Moran's eyes almost lit up, not to mention, the one that had been ignored by him was not only a different world, but even a large number of treasures in front of him.

The tires and rims of two motorcycles that haven't even been folded, various repair tools, well! There are also condoms and the like, of course, what really attracts Chen Moran is the thick stack of dozens of old books and magazines, all of which are a windfall left to him by the two drivers.

"This girl must be a fan of the army!"

Looking at the dozens of magazines and old books found from the lockers, there is no doubt that in addition to a few pornographic novels and magazines, there are more military magazines such as "Light Weapons" and "Modern Weapons", without exception, there is one thing in common, they are all outdated old magazines of one color, most of them are 08 years ago.

"It seems that he is also a master who has no money!"

Muttering to himself, while flipping through the small pile of old books, Chen Moran instantly held his breath, he saw one, it should not be said to be two books, two old books with yellow glow, and even eye-catching slogans could be seen on them.

Army infantry detachment company platoon tactical textbooks, army infantry reconnaissance detachment professional and technical textbooks!

"Baby! Baby! ”

With light in his eyes, the movements of picking up these two books became extremely slight, obviously for fear of accidentally messing up this textbook, I'm afraid even Jinshan! Well! If he still wants that thing, he will give a million taels of silver in exchange for these two books, and he will refuse without hesitation.

What is most needed now is fists! As long as the fist is hard, the silver will naturally come!

Staring at these two books, Chen Moran had that pride on his face, and even the idea of building a big tomb for the two unfortunate uncles and nephews rose in his heart to express his feelings.

"Go back and make a copy!"

Looking at the book in his hand, Chen Moran resolutely decided to copy the book by hand, removing the slogans and slogans in it, fighting tanks, planes and the like.

"This is the first textbook of my Whampoa Military Academy!"

In the main residence of Chen's Garden, in the studio on the second floor, Chen Moran, who was sitting at the desk, had a drawing plate in front of him, which he was drawing with a ruler at the desk.

After drawing a few lines, he turned around and took a part on the table, where he measured the size with a measuring tool, and on the table next to him, in addition to the broken NZ75 pistol, there were also several broken Mosinagan rifles, and every day when he returned home from the company, he would always work in this studio for a few hours, where he would carry out his reverse engineering.

For anyone who studied mechanical engineering in later generations, reverse engineering was almost a compulsory course for Chinese mechanical students, and the same was true for Chen Moran. Finally, after the drawings were finally revised, Chen Moran breathed a sigh of relief, looking at the drawings, his face was full of smugness, he "designed" a gun, an epoch-making pistol.

"It's finally done!"

Holding the teacup, looking at the drawings, Chen Moran, with a sense of accomplishment on his face, tasted the steaming water vapor and exuded a faint fragrance of tea! The reason why this gun was drawn was because of the promise to those foreign instructors, and on the other hand, it was to give his own troops some good guys, after all, to some extent, that army was his last capital.

"That's it!"

Finally, he glanced at the 53-type trainer bullet on the workbench, which was also a treasure found on the truck, but what Chen Moran liked was the pointed warhead, the current bullet is a round bullet with a low muzzle velocity, limited range and low lethality.

"As soon as the bullet factory starts, it will produce the most advanced bullets in the world!"

When he said this, Chen Moran was proud, but he sighed helplessly in his heart. It's easy to say, but in the end, when these become reality, they all need one thing, silver! Whether it is a gun factory or a bullet factory, once it starts, those factories are only in and out of the angle, and they need a lot of silver to dig out.

"I'm still poor, I have to find a way to make a fortune!"

(To be continued)