Since Lin Zhe set the capital of Nanjing, although it is only dozens of kilometers away from Dangtu, he has never been to Dangtu, and it has been two years since the establishment of Dangtu Industrial Zone, and today is the first time to usher in Lin Zhe's inspection.

At the same time, it was not only the emperor Lin Zhe who came to be Tu, but also many high-ranking officials of the empire, including Bi Yutong, prime minister of the imperial cabinet, Shi Qingxuan, chief of staff, and other important civil and military officials.

Lin Zhe brought a large number of civil and military dignitaries to inspect Dangtu, which may only show Lin Zhe's attitude of attaching importance to industrial construction, but for the officials in Dangtu, this is the most important thing he has done in the past six months.

In Dangtu County, Bi Xuanxi is discussing with a group of local officials in Dangtu!

"This morning, the personnel sent by the palace affairs department have taken over the temporary palace, but we have not enough chefs prepared in advance, after all, the number of people who are expected to attend tomorrow night's dinner is relatively large, and the palace affairs department is extremely strict with the review of the chefs who have settled in the temporary palace, only four of the sixteen chefs we have prepared have been selected, and the others have been brushed down!" Zhou Shenquan, the magistrate of Dangtu County on the side, said: "There are also maids and miscellaneous servants, and the manpower is not very sufficient!" ”

"The review of the palace affairs department is too strict!" The people on the side also complained: "Most of the representatives arranged by the industrial zone to meet them have also been identified as potential threats and ruled out!" ”

However, as soon as this person spoke, Bi Xuanxi above immediately shouted: "Your Majesty's safety is related to the safety of the empire, no matter how much attention you pay to it, it is impossible to overdo it!" ”

Bi Xuanxi pondered for a while and said: "It is not appropriate to find people from outside for the manpower problem on the temporary palace side, and it is impossible for the palace affairs department to bring all the people over. Most of it still needs to be solved by ourselves. Now that time is a little urgent, it is impossible to look outside. It's not safe to guarantee that, if something goes wrong. I'm afraid that what will happen to me here, I don't need to say it, you can guess it.

In this way, we don't look for people from outside, we look directly for suitable people from our families! You can't let the makeshift palace be empty and unattended! ”

"Our family?" The faces of the people below were embarrassed.

Bi Xuanxi said: "Is it possible to serve Your Majesty, will they still feel wronged?" The wives and daughters of the princes of the Taixi kingdoms have to enter the palace as palace maids! ”

Zhou Shenquan hurriedly said: "This is not true, it is naturally their blessing to be able to serve His Majesty, but you also know my lord, our family can be guaranteed in terms of safety, but this work of serving people is afraid that it is ......."

He didn't say everything, but the meaning of his words was obvious, everyone here was an official. Needless to say, the families of the officials are all pampered, and it is not easy for these sons and daughters to be able to eat and dress themselves, so let them serve people? They don't have the ability to do it.

But Bi Xuanxi said: "They want to serve His Majesty to eat and dress? Just kidding, they don't have this opportunity in their next life, I just let them do chores, Your Majesty's affairs are naturally accompanied by people from the palace affairs department, and we don't need to worry about it! ”

"As for the welcome representatives of the industrial zone, since the palace affairs department has brushed down so many people, then we don't need to find people to make up the numbers. It's better to have fewer people, and it's easy to arrange when the time comes! ”

"If the number of people welcome is small, I'm afraid the Ministry of Education will say that our etiquette is not good!" Song Gaoyuan, the new governor of Taiping Mansion on the side, said: "Are you looking for dozens of more people from the Jiangnan Public Service Company?" ”

Bi Xuanxi shook his head: "You don't need to use the old stubborn ones from the Ministry of Education!" ”

Bi Xuanxi knows the group of guys from the Cabinet Education Department very well, and likes to find fault when there is nothing to do. And under the leadership of Jiang Daoquan, they are all a group of stinky and hard old stubborns, no matter how they arrange it now. At that time, I am afraid that they will all impeach themselves, and the most important thing now is not to worry about Jiang Daoquan and others. Rather, it is to cater to His Majesty's heart.

What does His Majesty like?

Judging from Bi Xuanxi's understanding, his majesty is an extremely realistic person. Like those courtiers who have made actual achievements, rather than saying anything about those who will only make a fool of themselves, the most obvious example is that at the beginning of the year, there was a magistrate in Zhejiang who said that the sky was auspicious, and there was a red rabbit in the territory, and he specially sent the red rabbit to Nanjing with an urgent report, and then said a lot of nonsense.

As a result, Lin Zhe threw this red rabbit directly to his youngest daughter Princess Shuchun to play, and then dismissed Nazhi County with a verbal message, saying that he was not pragmatic and was dedicated to retreat.

There is also a very interesting thing:Many people have seen Princess Shuchun, the little Lori, directly dragging the red rabbit all over the ground,Running with short legs and giggling,Not waiting for two days,The very cute red rabbit was played to death by Princess Shuchun......

The first so-called auspicious incident in the history of the Chinese Empire came to an end, and many people left in their minds the influence of Princess Shuchun playing Xiangrui Chitu to death, and more people remembered the unlucky guy who was dismissed for offering auspiciousness.

Just from this incident, many of the subordinates below can understand some of Lin Zhe's attitudes, that is, Lin Zhe doesn't like his subordinates to engage in some flashy things, what he wants to see is the actual results.

As a few years ago, he was personally valued by Lin Zhe, and every appointment was personally arranged by Lin Zhe, Bi Xuanxi naturally understood some of His Majesty's basic matters, and he knew very well that Lin Zhe was looking at the Dangtu Industrial Zone this time, and as long as he showed Lin Zhe a Dangtu Industrial Zone that had been developed for two years, and let Lin Zhe see those high-melted and smoke-emitting steel factories, then he would have completed the task of Lin Zhe letting him come to southern Anhui.

After coming to southern Anhui in 1857 to serve as the prefect of Taipingfu, in 1858 Lin Zhe personally promoted him to the rank of Taoist of southern Anhui.

According to the current imperial bureaucracy, there are several provinces under a province, and these Taoists are in charge of several prefectures and counties under their control, assisting the governor in handling government affairs, and their political status is higher than that of the prefect and the head of the provincial government, and the political status is lower than that of the political envoy, but in some cases it is more important than the political envoy, such as the Taoist in some important areas, such as Su Songtaidao in Jiangsu. In Anhui's South Anhui Province, their chances of being promoted to governor of a province are far higher than those of political envoys.

Bi Xuanxi has served as a Taoist in southern Anhui for more than a year. Its main energy is still focused on the industrial development of southern Anhui, and today's industrial development in southern Anhui is naturally Dangtu Industrial Zone.

Dangtu Industrial Zone is his biggest political achievement in the past two years in southern Anhui!

Now what Bi Xuanxi wants to ensure is to be able to let Lin Zhe see the success of Dangtu Industrial Zone!

Just as Bi Xuanxi sat in the town as Tu. When arranging the driving matter, Nanjing also arranged it.

Originally, the specifications of this patrol were relatively high, but Lin Zhe directly vetoed the cabinet's proposal to go on patrol on the grounds of avoiding labor and money.

In the end, the military, no, to be precise, the Minister of the Navy Lin Dabiao proposed to Lin Zhe that he hoped that Lin Zhe could take the navy's warship on patrol, and said that it would be much faster and safer than setting off by land!

Recently, Lin Dabiao is in high spirits. Lin Zhe separated the navy and the army, and put all naval affairs under the control of the Admiralty, and at the same time, in order to reflect the independence of the navy, Lin Zhe gave Lin Dabiao a new assignment: to supervise naval affairs.

This dispatch is not an actual position such as the chief of the Admiralty, the chief of the general staff, or the commander of a certain army, but a temporary dispatch similar to Shi Qingxuan's 'supervising the military affairs of the Northern Expedition' and Shi Langyi's 'supervising the military affairs of the Western Expedition'.

And with the name of Qincha. Lin Dabiao will be called the 'Minister of the Navy', not the former Chief of the Admiralty.

The reason why this time it was proposed to let the navy provide warships to escort Lin Zhe to be Tu was naturally because he had a little Jiujiu in his heart, that is, he hoped that the navy's warships would appear more in Lin Zhe's field of vision. Left a deeper impact on Lin Zhe.

To this end, he did not hesitate to select the most advanced and largest warship in the navy, the 'Suzhou', to serve as Lin Zhe's ship.

After Lin Zhe got on the boat. He personally explained to Lin Zhe, boasting about the strength of the Suzhou. Intentionally or unintentionally, he persuaded Lin Zhe to build more warships.

"The combat tonnage of the Suzhou is the largest in our army, and the firepower is also unprecedentedly powerful. A total of six breech-loading rifled guns are enough to overwhelm all the enemies! If it is fighting the enemy, the Suzhou, with the advantages of its guns in range and accuracy, is enough to destroy the enemy ships outside the range of those battleships equipped with only front-loading guns, and it will be unscathed! ”

Lin Dabiao continued: "At present, our navy has ordered more tonnage of new ships from Shanghai Shipyard, and will be equipped with naval guns with a larger caliber and more quantity!" ”

Lin Zhe lowered his head and looked carefully at the 1857 150mm naval gun in front of him, although it was not the first time he had seen this artillery, but he still looked at it more carefully, this artillery can be said to be the largest artillery that can be built and equipped in the Chinese Empire, the range and accuracy are much higher than other front-loading guns, and it can even be said to be the most advanced artillery in the world, because even Britain has just tested the breech-loading rifled naval gun.

On the Suzhou, Shi Qingxuan and several other army generals watched Lin Dabiao follow His Majesty like a dog, saying how powerful this kind of artillery is, and their faces are not very good.

Shi Qingxuan turned around quietly, and then said to Han Xiangfang on the side: "Brother Han, you've been talking about it for a few months, give me a good word, when will our rear-loading guns be able to enter service?" ”

Han Xiangfang smiled bitterly after hearing this: "Even if it goes well, I'm afraid it will have to wait until the year after tomorrow!" ”

Shi Qingxuan frowned: "Why is it taking so long, isn't their navy already equipped with rear-loading guns!" ”

When Han Xiangfang heard this, he secretly said in his heart: Our army's artillery can be compared with the navy's artillery.

As long as the artillery of the navy has accuracy, range and rate of fire, it is not too concerned about weight and cost, but our army can not care about weight and cost?

If the army wants to be equipped with rear-loading artillery, unless it is only equipped with a few fortress guns or siege guns and the like, then there is no need for new research and development, and the navy's artillery can be directly pulled over to make up the number, but if it is to be equipped with rear-loading field artillery, it is not the same concept.

In addition to the performance of range, accuracy, and rapid-fire, the army's field artillery also requires a relatively low weight, so as to maintain mobility, and then mass production must also be cheap enough, so that it can be equipped with hundreds or thousands of guns.

In the contemporary era when the technology of rear-loading rifled guns is not mature, it is actually very difficult to meet the above conditions at the same time, especially the cost condition. (To be continued.) )

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