Zhang Quanbao sat opposite Wang Yi, holding a tea bowl, bowing his head and sucking lightly, and said: "The matter of the tax official Feng Youyou was too big before, none of the forty-three people in their group lived, Feng Youyi was also hung on a big tree, disemboweled, and it was also written next to it to do the right thing for the sky, eliminate violence and peace!" Brother Wang Xian, do you know what's going on? ”

Wang Yi crossed Erlang's legs, with a shocked expression on his face, and scolded angrily: "Who, who is it!" Who exactly! In broad daylight, who did such a thing as a beast! robbed and killed the officials of the imperial court, and didn't know that there was such a thing as a king's law, which is really unbearable! ”

Of course, Zhang Quanbao knew that Wang Yi was acting, looked at him, and said, "Brother Xian really doesn't know? ”

"I really don't know ......!"

"Then how did I hear that your student named Qian Haixin had a family ruined because Feng Youyou was forced to collect taxes?"

"And such a thing?" Wang Yixu was shocked, but then said: "The family is ruined? What if the family is ruined and people die, don't we pay attention to the fact that a monarch wants his ministers to die, and the ministers have to die. If the Father wants the Son to die, will the Son have to die? Shangguan asks you to pay taxes, and you have to pay them even if your family is ruined! Do you know what it means to be loyal and patriotic, do you have a little awareness! ”

This made Zhang Quanbao speechless. In favor of it, it seems a bit lacking in morality. Against, it's not like that!

"I'm just giving my brother a wake-up call......

"Stay safe, don't you? Don't worry, Brother Zhang, now thieves are rampant, you see that I am not afraid of the sky and the earth on weekdays, but in fact, I am afraid of death! Now I can only tighten my belt and urgently recruit hundreds of more insurance teams! Ay...... This world still doesn't let people live! ”

Wang Yi didn't feel strange that Zhang Quanbao knew that he had sent someone to rob and kill Feng You, but this matter may not have been passed on by Zhang Jingxiao, don't look at him as Zhang Quanbao's own son, but he also has his own principles of being a man, which is also what Wang Yi appreciates about him. As for who passed the news to the Zhang family, Wang Yi actually didn't have to think much to know that he had no academic class or martial arts class under his command, but the Zhang family recalled it for himself, to say that there was no eyeliner in it? I don't believe it when I kill Wang Yi!

But even so, Wang Yi still won't do anything to these eyelashes. Because this will destroy the cooperative relationship with the Zhang family and cause misunderstanding between the two families. Keeping these eyeliners is a kind of trust! Everyone knows the roots. Once Wang Yi's pair of eyeliners are in hand, the two families will meet each other.

Zhang Quanbao also knew that in fact, he had no malicious intent, and mentioning Feng Youyi's matter today was also a wake-up call for Wang Yi. Now the two families are not full-fledged, and if the Qing court really wants to pursue it, no one will be comfortable. But then again, Lao Zhang also knew that it was useless for him to say this. Because of Wang Yi's character, he is now very clear, it's good if you don't provoke him, if you really touch his little scales, don't say that you are a bullshit tax official, you are General Shengjing of Fengtian, even if it is the old bitch in the Forbidden City, he dares to bring someone to slaughter.

Wang Yi turned his face to Zhang Jingxiao at this time and said, "Filial piety!" ”

"Sir!"

"You can send a message to Uncle Quanfu in a while, and say that he will send people to Fuzhou and Shanghai to help me recruit a group of people back!"

"Yes!"

Zhang Quanbao's mind turned away, but he still couldn't think of a reason, so he asked, "Brother Xian, who are you asking Quanfu to help you recruit?" ”

"Oh, I recently heard that the Fuzhou Shipbuilding Bureau has been no longer building ships since a year ago! I thought to myself, since he didn't build ships on his side, and I wanted to open a small shipyard to build merchant ships, but there were not enough shipbuilders, so I simply recruited people from there. Wang Yi sat by the fire and roasted the fire, and said casually: "It's also cheap, little Japanese devil." ”

"What?" Zhang Quanbao was taken aback! Even Zhang Jingxiao's eyes moved in surprise. "How so?"

Wang Yi shrugged his shoulders and said indifferently: "I don't know, I think it's not cost-effective for the imperial court!" ”

"Nonsense!" Zhang Quanbao was so angry that he slapped the table.

At that time, there were two more famous shipyards in China, one was the Fuzhou Shipbuilding Bureau and the other was the Jiangnan Shipbuilding Bureau. However, from the very beginning of their establishment, they have faced public opinion pressure and official constraints. Zuo Zongtang once said: "Extraordinary moves, slander and easy to prosper." There is one initiator, one person in charge, and one bystander", "At the beginning, we are worried about its failure, and then we will discuss its excessive expenses, or even more discuss its loss of body, all of which are necessary things". In 1871, the scholar Song Jin even demanded that "the shipbuilding in Shanghai and Fujian be temporarily stopped, the funds allocated to the household department, and the completed ships were leased to Yin Shang" with the title of "The cost is too heavy, the name is far-sighted, but it is really wasted". In fact, not only did the officials disagree with shipbuilding, but even the Westernists also had many differences of opinion. In China, which lacks a heavy industrial base, the raw materials of each domestically built ship must be imported, and the manufacturing work is carried out under the guidance of foreign craftsmen. The so-called self-design, most of which are surveying and mapping foreign drawings. The number of ships is small, the construction period is naturally extended, and the cost of raw materials and engineering continues to rise, so that the price of domestically built ships is much higher than that of purchased ships, and the benefits of "building a ship is better than buying a ship" have been clearly revealed. Zheng Guanying later commented in "The Danger of the Prosperous Age": "Chinese shipbuilding, whether it is wood, iron, steel, copper, etc., is all purchased from foreign countries, even if the price is not strange, and there is a fee for transportation, a fee for servants, and a fee for profiteers, and the cost of its involvement has been greatly disparity with foreign countries. "It is estimated that the cost of materials for the self-built ships of the Harbour Administration Bureau is 50 to 60 percent higher than that of similar foreign products, and this has directly led to the increase in the investment of the Harbour Master Bureau from the original 3 million taels to more than 5 million taels in the past five years.

But in 1874, Japan sent troops to Taiwan, which had already put the imminent Japanese threat in front of it, and in order to defend its maritime frontier and deal with threats from the sea, China needed to build a navy sufficient to protect itself in a short period of time. However, for the Qing Dynasty, which lacked a base for heavy industry, it was almost impossible to accomplish such an overly ambitious goal - there was a shortage of technology, equipment, personnel, and worst of all, no time! Therefore, in order to achieve the above strategic goals, only by choosing to purchase can we assemble a modern navy with advanced technology and a large number in a short period of time.

For Wang Yi of later generations, although Japan in this period showed a little fang, in terms of national strength and naval strength, they had not yet reached the point where they could threaten the Qing court. However, Li Hongzhang and Prince Gong did not know enough about the outside world, coupled with the insecurity of the defeat of the Opium War, and the impatience of the French in Vietnam, so they were in a dilemma, and finally chose to suspend the shipbuilding project, which can only be said to be the most favorable decision made under the historical cognitive conditions at that time.

"Where is the shipyard going to be built, sir?"

"It can only be built in Yingkou at present, and as for the future...... Lushun and Huludao are both good choices. ”

Of course, Wang Yi knew that Lushun's geographical location was better, but in the absence of a railway, to achieve this goal was tantamount to a fool's dream.

"Yes, sir, I see!"

"Wait, you'll be in charge of the shipyard in the future!" Wang Yi filled Zhang Quanbao with a cup of tea, and said while pouring it.

"Yes, sir!"

"I'll tell you the specific arrangement!"

Zhang Jingxiao took out the paper and pen he was carrying, "Sir, please speak!" ”

"First, because the shipyard is currently under construction, new recruits, including those who are familiar with Shanghai and Min, can take advantage of this stage to conduct preliminary training and improve their theoretical level. At the moment I have hired a total of thirty experts from England and Germany, and you can ask Charlie Fama about the specific arrangements for this matter. As for the translation of the classes and the foreign language training of the boatmen...... You go to the literary class and pick six students who have not joined the real yàn group, and let them stay with you in the future. ”

Zhang Jingxiao nodded.

"Second, you are already familiar with my modern enterprise system! I will not repeat it here, but I need to pay attention to one thing, that is, the security and confidentiality work must be in place. ”

Wang Yi said a total of twenty-three articles, Zhang Jingxiao asked directly if he didn't understand, and Wang Yi would explain carefully.

Zhang Quanbao never spoke, but he knew in his heart that Wang Yi handed over the shipyard to his son, on the one hand, because his son was capable, and on the other hand, it was also a favor that Wang Yi gave to the Zhang family. This kind of thing, he and Wang Yi's hearts are like mirrors, and they are all unspoken.

"Okay, you've memorized all of these twenty-three articles. Finally, respect the labor of others, respect the laborers, the Qing court regarded those workers as if they were a piece of, and I regarded them as treasures, and don't get the bureaucratic rotten stuff into my shipyard. ”

"Yes, sir."

"Alright, it's not too early, let's go to school. I still have classes in the afternoon! Wang Yi turned his face at this time and said to Zhang Quanbao: "Brother, I'll go first!" And tell your second brother, after eating, go to our school again, don't always eat at my place! ”

Zhang Quanbao laughed.

The eastern part of Haicheng is a mountainous area, and Zheng Haitao is hiding in the bushes on a hillside with four team members.

"Company commander, this is what the captain said about Qinglonggou."

One of the letters that Wang Yi found on the white fat man was a letter of order written by Sergeevich, a Russian naval officer stationed in Vladivostok, to the white fat man, which stated the benefits they promised to the white fat man. Although several months have passed, Wang Yi still decided to send someone over to take a look, maybe there will be something to gain. As the commander of the reconnaissance company, Zheng Haitao naturally took over this task without shirking his responsibility.

"How did you find out?"

"A topographic map of the vicinity of Qinglonggou has been drawn."

"Where's the sentry?"

"The deployment and the time of changing guards during the day and day have also been roughly recorded." A scout under Zheng Haitao said in a low voice: "There are a total of fifty Russians stationed in this Qinglong Ditch, and in addition, there are about two hundred bandits, all of whom should be traitors who have defected to the Russians. But there's one thing that's troublesome......"

"What?"

"They all set up the Gatling cannon that the captain had introduced us to in the dangerous positions...... Company commander, with our current strength, I'm afraid we can't fight this kind of place! ”