[62] Solicitation

Yao Fan took out a large stack of silver tickets from his sleeve, all of which were denominations of 10,000 taels each, a full ten, and respectfully stacked them on the table next to Ding Baozhen, stepped back and bowed deeply: "Yao Fan begs your lord to save my life!" ”

Yao Fan's words confused Ding Baozhen.

Before meeting Yao Fan, Ding Baozhen thought that Yao Fan would bribe, give gifts, build relationships, and beg him to do things, but he didn't expect Yao Fan to ask him for help.

Ding Baozhen knocked his fingers on the table, and said thoughtfully: "You get up, sit down, but tell me who wants to harm you?" ”

After that, he calmly picked up the silver ticket and counted it generously, and was also surprised in his heart, good guy, a full 100,000 taels! Now the market for donating a county order is only 10,000 taels, and this Yao Fan's shot like this can be seen to be a character!

Yao Fan thought to himself, why don't he fake crying to make an opening first, so he covered his face with his sleeves, rubbed his eyes gently, and whined twice.

Ding Baozhen looked funny, and casually stuffed the silver ticket into his sleeve and said, "In front of me, you just tell the truth, what are you howling?" I see that you are tall and healthy, and your family background is rich, who would dare to harm you? ”

Yao Fan saw that Ding Baozhen had no sympathy, so he simply put down his sleeves and said with a bitter face: "My lord, when the younger generation first came to Qingdaokou in business, he accidentally saved a poor girl, but who knew that he provoked Guo Jixiu, the son of the Jiangxi Inspector Guo Weizhong, who hated me for disturbing his good deeds, and he didn't know where to find a group of bandits, and he actually blocked the way with open fire, and raised a knife to kill me!" I was so scared that I didn't dare to stay in Qingdao now, so I had to take my guys to Jinan Mansion to ask for shelter. ”

Ding Baozhen is used to seeing the wind and rain in the world, where can he be confused because of Yao Fan's two words.

He frowned and said, "You speak slowly, and tell me carefully about the matter before and after." ”

Yao Fan seized the opportunity and hurriedly explained the cause and effect of the matter, and he naturally put all the on Guo Jixiu's head. In it, he also focused on introducing the tragic life experience of Su Sanjie, saying that he had now entrusted He Wannian, who was doing business together, to visit Su Sanjie's sister everywhere, wanting to reunite their sisters.

Yao Fan observed Ding Baozhen's expression as he spoke, and saw that he was also moved after listening to the third sister's life experience, and he was a little sad, and said that the effect was okay.

But after Ding Baozhen heard about Yao Fan's beating, he squinted his eyes and shook his head: "Then the Guo family is a big family in Jimo, if you want to kill you, how can you escape, I think he is probably trying to scare you." ”

Yao Fan was furious in his heart, and immediately slandered, "Isn't Lao Tzu miserable enough?" The ears are all broken, there is wood! Don't you have a little mercy? Where are the universal values of the ruling class, which are said to be good! ……”

Ding Baozhen thought carefully about what Yao Fan said, and said lightly: "Boy, since you can ask for help in front of me, then you have to listen to me, it is better to settle the grievances than to settle it, after I find out this matter, I will mediate with you, and always teach him Guo Jixiu to restrain it." ”

Yao Fan stood up unwillingly and said, "Junior, thank you for your grace." But in his heart, he hated and felt sorry for the 100,000 taels of silver, and he didn't smash Ding Baozhen and Guo Jixiu.

Ding Baozhen raised his hand and pressed it lightly, motioned for Yao Fan to sit down, and asked, "You must know that I didn't help you because I received your money." ”

Yao Fanxin said you helped me with a ghost? If you could be furious just now and promise to shovel Guo Jixiu for me, it would be pretty much the same.

Ding Baozhen didn't care what Yao Fan thought in his heart, he only continued: "Before you came, I read the book compiled by Ling Zun in the study, although the layout is Western, but it does not prevent a glimpse of the whole leopard of foreigners.

Speaking of which, Ling Zun's book is really meticulous, and it makes the British clear from the source. Although I haven't finished reading it yet, I also think that Lord Ling Zun is a great talent in the world. ”

Yao Fan was anxious to take advantage of Ding Baozhen, so he had to say perfunctorily: "A character like an adult praises Jia Yan so much, and he must be happy when he knows it." There is a saying that there is a confidant in the sea, and if the end of the world is next to each other, Jia Yan must be as happy as meeting a confidant. ”

Ding Baozhen smiled slightly and said: "I am planning the Shandong Machinery Bureau here, there are coal mines and factories under construction, early next year, I plan to send Xu Jianyin, the general office of the Machinery Bureau, to Shanghai to negotiate with the British firm Puen Company to buy a machine to manufacture foreign gunpowder and Ma's gun." When you come back from the West, you should know something about the market. I ask you, do you know this? ”

As soon as Yao Fan heard Ding Baozhen's words, he immediately thought about it and said with a smile: "My lord, this matter is easy to do, why bother to find the Providence Equipment Company, oh, it is the Pu En Company, those foreigners have always been arrogant and have high prices!" If you want to buy a machine, I have a ready-made way to do it! You just need to let Mr. Xu drive out the list, and I will communicate with Mr. Xu on the list, find out the model clearly, as long as you take half of the deposit, I will bring you the goods. ”

Yao Fan has long read the relevant information, and remembers that in history, the Shandong machine bureau spent more than 180,000 taels of silver, more than half of which was used to buy the machine, and the equipment bought was very simple, and from the perspective of the 21st century, it was even more simple.

Ding Baozhen heard that Yao Fan actually knew about Pu En Company, and dragged a foreign sentence, looking quite familiar with this company, and said happily: "Then I will test you, you say, which machines do you want to buy?" ”

Relying on his knowledge of history, Yao Fan said: "Since the coal mine is opened, there are always two small steam engines in the mine, one with eight horsepower and one with six horsepower, and the six-horsepower one is used to drive the steam reciprocating pump to pump water from the bottom of the mine. The eight-horsepower one is used to drive the hinges that lift the raw coal from the shaft to the surface. In addition, two railroad tracks are installed in the inclined roadway of the coal mine. This is not used to run trains, but to run coal carts.

As for the gunpowder factory, it was nothing more than iron rollers driven by small steam engines, which were used for grinding sulfur, nitrate, and carbon. There are also small boilers used to extract nitrate, steam sulfur, bake charcoal, and some molds and machines for pressing medicine. These are used to make black powder and thunder mercury fire caps, and the construction is very simple.

There is also the Marsley rifle, which is actually the British Henry Martini rifle, which I once played, although the design is not as good as the Mauser 1871, but the excellence of the rifling allows him to pass the Mauser accurately. This gun is an improved version of the Peabody rifle, with a lever-mounted breech load, loaded with a coiled copper-cased bullet with gunpowder, and then cleaned of the breech residue before repeating the previous steps for firing. The early Henri Martini rifle was very prone to explosion if the breech was not cleaned, and jamming when unloading was commonplace.

The rifling method of this gun is to drill a heptagonal type in the barrel, that is, a regular heptagon with one more angle and one side than the hexagonal nut, the rifling rotation is not large, and a barrel is drilled down, and the rotation is less than half a circle, but even so, it is still very difficult to process for the level of machining in these years.

This gun is said to have an effective range of 55o meters, but in fact, it means that he can still penetrate a thin wooden board at 55o meters, and in fact, if you want to hit the target, even if there is no wind and sunny, the marksman is generally about 25o meters. However, how can there be such good weather on the battlefield, as long as the wind blows, the rifling and bullet processing accuracy in these years will shorten the distance to the target. In addition, the recoil of this gun is too large, and the back support hits the chest or shoulder, which is almost the same as the effect of a shot, so basically, if an ordinary soldier wants to hit the target, the shooting distance should be about 100 meters, but this is already a good result. Undoubtedly, this gun is much more advanced than the bird guns and lifting guns that are currently heavily equipped in the Qing Dynasty. ”

Listening to Yao Fan's eloquent conversation about pouring beans into a bamboo tube, Ding Baozhen has no doubt that he has picked up a treasure!

"Even Xu Jianyin himself said it, probably that's it! This person is really proficient in foreign affairs! Ding Baozhen thought excitedly.

Yao Fan saw Ding Baozhen looking at him, thinking that he would have to say it himself, so he was willing to stop, and continued, "Our Shandong Machinery Bureau made this gun, which is nothing more than using a six-horsepower small steam engine for both firewood and coal to drive a manual machine tool, and process each part step by step by hand. If you don't have a very high-level machine tool worker, I'm afraid the consequences are ......"

Yao Fan remembered that Ding Baozhen once boasted after he imitated 12o Martini Henry rifles after the Shandong Machinery Bureau was put into production, saying that his imitation "made a sound and entered the target, and it seemed to be too original", hehe, this guy actually thinks that the sound is more than the original is an advantage!

But in fact, the imitation of this gun was then discontinued and was never produced again.

Of course, Yao Fan knew why, and the reason was that the first type of Henry Martini gun was originally a particularly rubbish thing, and the British improved it for six consecutive years, and finally made the second type in 1877, and since then it has been officially mass-produced.

The congenital deficiency of Type 1 and the quality of the cottages of the Qing Dynasty are too inferior! I think that Li Hongzhang rushed to let the Huai army practice with this gun, but now "the machine spring is not effective, the bullet is not the same, the accuracy is not far away, and it is inferior to the British", a basin of cold water poured Lao Li through, and the Shandong Machinery Bureau has never imitated this lever rifle since then. The 12o imitation became a memento of this failure.

Just as Yao Fan was pondering, Ding Baozhen suddenly spoke: "Yao Fan, are you willing to stay and help the old man make this Henry Martini rifle?" If you can stay, this rifle, bullets, and gunpowder will be made! With such a sharp weapon, what foreigners will our Great Qing Kingdom be afraid of in the future!

At present, all the money used by the Qing Dynasty is purchased from foreigners, and the cost is very huge, and I am afraid that when something happens in the future, there will be nowhere to buy gunpowder and bullets, and guns and cannons will become waste. I often think about it, China knows how to use foreign guns but can't make its own foreign guns, and if this continues, it will be deceived by foreign companies unless it is controlled by foreigners, and it will not be calculated! ”

Yao Fan knew that it was impossible for him to stay and help Ding Baozhen make guns and bullets. In order to rebel, he needed the weaker the Qing army to be, and according to history, Ding Baozhen will go to Beijing in September 1876 next year to report on his work, and the official will be the best to wear, add the title of prince and taibao, hang the post of the secretary of the military department and the right capital of the Imperial History of the Imperial Procuratorate, and be promoted to the governor of Sichuan.

Yao Fan got up and said deeply: "The younger generation is the son-in-law of the family, and the huge business in the family will depend on me in the future, my lord!" I really don't dare to take this job, otherwise I'm afraid the family business will be difficult to sustain! ”

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