"Boom, Boom......"

In the factory building of the machine, the suspended axis is driven by the steam engine, and the power is transmitted to the machine through the transmission belt, and with the roar of the machine, the red copper plates are punched into pieces of copper cakes, and the copper cakes are made into purple-red copper dollars.

In the deafening roar, Zheng Tingxiang, who had just come to North Korea from the United States a month ago, looked a little nervous, although he had enough confidence in technology, but he was only a mechanical engineer, perhaps participated in the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge in the United States, and also served as a technical engineer in the factory, but it was the first time to preside over a factory, the scale of this factory may not be large, there are only more than 200 machines, and there are only more than 400 Chinese and North Korean workers. But after all, it is currently the largest factory in the Unified Supervision Office.

What's more, the factory is about the future of the Unified Inspectorate, as the silver dollar and the ten copper dollars will be manufactured in the machine, which in turn is about whether the reform of the Korean money system can be carried out smoothly. In order to ensure the reform of the money system, and more importantly, to obtain money and profits for the unified supervision government to support the construction of the special zone and the mines around Pyongyang, he even renovated dozens of old equipment for the manufacture of copper dollars.

"My lord, if you start one shift a day and calculate it for eleven hours, the coin casting workshop can make 300,000 pieces as ten copper yuan per day......"

When Zheng Tingxiang cautiously reported the progress of the coinage, Tang Haoran just picked up a copper dollar and looked at it carefully, when the ten copper dollars were designed by Tang Haoran himself, there was not much difference from the late Qing copper yuan in his memory.

If you have to talk about the difference, I'm afraid it is the plum blossom pattern on the front surrounded by "dang Shiwen", and the back is still a dragon. The copper dollar does not bear the word "Korean" on it. Only the front can see the Guangxu year name and the words of 100 silver coins and one yuan. The reason why this copper dollar was designed was not to strengthen "suzerainty". Rather, it is to allow the copper dollar to circulate in the country. Both silver and copper dollars will eventually circulate to China, and only with the help of China's huge market can the government obtain sufficient money and profits.

"300,000 yuan a day, that is, 3,000 yuan......"

Yu Xinqiao calculates the daily profit, although the daily profit is nearly 1,000 yuan, but what can you do with hundreds of thousands of silver dollars a year?

Keep your head up. Noticing the electric lights hanging high above the factory, Tang Haoran looked at Zheng Tingxiang and asked.

"Since there are electric lights installed in the factory, does working at night affect the work?"

The electric light is perhaps less important than its invention in the industrial age, before which human production was limited to daytime, and after the electric light, for the first time man truly triumphed over darkness, and it became possible for factories to produce at night.

"Electric light?"

Looking up at the electric light above his head, the experience of working in an American factory made Zheng Tingxiang no stranger to night shift production, after figuring out the idea of adults. Zheng Tingxiang hurriedly replied.

"My lord, the lights used in the factory are all 150-candle Edison electric lights. There is no problem at all with the production in the evening, do you want to start another shift? ”

"Then open another shift, after all, we now have thousands of workers in Incheon and Taedong River who need to be paid, Shuqi ......"

After saying that, Tang Haoran turned his head to look at Tang Rongjun and commanded.

"How's the branch building going? There are also branch offices set up in various Haikou in Shandong, which must also be done well! ”

The purpose of establishing branches and branch offices is to issue silver and copper dollars, which is undoubtedly more important than the branch office located in the Shandong Tongshang Port, where the family members of workers can receive 50% of their wages with vouchers.

"Help me get a few million taels of silver?"

From the moment he got out of the carriage, Tang Rongjun thought about this question repeatedly, and he came back to his senses when he heard the adult ask this.

"Ah......h

Tang Rongjun, who came back to his senses, hurriedly responded.

"My lord, by next month at the latest, the branch office will be able to put into ......."

When mentioning the branch office, Tang Rongjun looked at the boxes of copper dollars, but his brows were slightly locked, will the families of those laborers accept the North Korean copper dollars?

Looking at the exquisite-looking copper dollar, Tang Rongjun connected with the sentence that the adult said before, "Help me get a few million taels of silver?" If you only rely on copper dollars, you need to make at least two billion copper dollars to achieve this goal, but how long will it take to make two billion copper dollars?

When Tang Rongjun pondered these questions, he was in a trance that after Tang Haoran and Zheng Tingxiang left the Tongyuan Factory, the group came to the gun factory again, and the gun factory was the Seoul Manufacturing Bureau established with the help of the Beiyang Ordnance Bureau through the purchase of equipment by the North Korea through the Beiyang Ordnance Bureau ten years ago.

As the first "military industrial enterprise" under the unified supervision government, Tang Haoran naturally attached great importance to it, and even entrusted Zheng Tingxiang to be in charge of the machine bureau precisely because he wanted to use his mechanical expertise to put the gun factory on the right track, so as to lay the foundation of the military industry.

Compared with the deafening sound of machinery, the gun factory, which only has a few rows of Western-style factories, seems to be somewhat "quiet", and now not only the gun and ammunition factory where the gun factory suppresses the cartridge shells has been merged into the copper yuan factory, but even the workers have also been merged into the copper yuan factory, and in a certain way, the gun factory is in a state of shutdown.

In the factory, only a dozen craftsmen are repairing old rifles used by the North Korean army, which is the only "business" of the gun factory at present.

"Renyu, with the current equipment of the gun factory, can you produce rifles?"

Looking at the equipment in the workshop, which was also driven by the heavenly axis, Tang Haoran asked rhetorically, he is not very concerned about the production of weapons now, not because of the "warehouse" of the Beiyang Ordnance Bureau, but because of the embarrassment of funds, it is impossible for the Unified Supervision Office to manufacture a large number of weapons.

"My lord, there is no problem with the equipment at all, if you make a Mauser single-shot rifle, you can produce ten guns a day, if you look at it below......"

Speaking in official dialect with a Cantonese accent that is not fluent, Zheng Tingxiang replied cautiously.

"If the gun factory makes guns, it should imitate the Japanese-made Murata 18 rifle, compared with the Mauser rifle, it omits the bolt jam, and the production performance is simpler, if the Murata 18 rifle is manufactured, the daily gun can reach 15 guns......"

Even if this is the case, there are only more than 5,000 rifles a year, which is not enough for a mixed association, if this arsenal is not expanded, I am afraid that it will really have to find a way from the Beiyang Ordnance Bureau, but although the scale of the factory is not large, it can also be used as a breeding talent, and the mine also needs to produce some simple equipment here.

"Renyu, although the gun factory in front of me does not make guns, but to make machines, but guns are always their own duty, I will ask the police department to send a few Li rifles, you study its principle, see if you can improve it......"

As he spoke, as if he remembered something, Tang Haoran took out his notepad again and drew a simple sketch on the notepad with a pencil.

"Now the Lee's rifle used by the guard and the police department, although it uses a magazine to feed ammunition, but it needs to be loaded with one round, this is a bridge clip, five rounds are a clip, and the bridge clip card slot on the bolt is loaded, you can see if you can let the Lee's rifle use the bridge clip to feed ammunition......"

The reason why the bridge clamp is mentioned is that in the Boer War eight years later, the British army with Lee's long rifles was packed up by the Boers without temper, and the Boer Mauser rifles were loaded with bridge clips, which could fill the magazine at one time. And although the Lee rifle has twice the capacity of the Mauser rifle, it can only be loaded one round at a time.

"And ......"

After turning the page, Tang Haoran continued to sketch again.

"This is a grenade, made of cast iron shells, and the firing tube with a drilled wooden handle is similar to the firing tube on the artillery, except that there is a delay of three or four seconds, and the ...... is pulled with a firing rope."

Looking at the grenade sketch drawn by the adult on the paper, Zheng Tingxiang's eyes widened, all of them looked incredible, and then the adult drew a sketch of another weapon, although it was only a principle, it was enough to make Zheng Tingxiang amazed.

“…… Mortars are simpler than other artillery, they have a low bore pressure, they can be made of ordinary steel pipes, and considering the current situation of the guards and police departments, a light and easy-to-carry mortar is more suitable for them, Renyu ,......"

When handing over the sketches of grenades and mortars to Zheng Tingxiang, Tang Haoran had a smile on his face.

"You can study these weapons first, test them, and when the time is right, let's expand the arsenal and produce these weapons!"

Now there is not enough funds for production, it does not mean that we cannot carry out experiments, when I was in Tianjin, there was no factory for myself to develop, now I am guarding a factory, how can I not do something? Perhaps after the outbreak of war, the troops will have to rely on it to win the war.

"Yes, sir."

After receiving the "drawings", Zheng Tingxiang replied respectfully, although he was not a soldier and did not have much sensitivity to weapons, he could still perceive the significance of these inventions to the war, and might even change the war in some way.

More than an hour later, on the way back to Seoul after leaving the machine, Tang Rongjun looked at the adult in front of him but looked speechless and stopped, and the words of the adult on the way before were still hanging in his heart.

"Adult ......"

Seeing Tang Rongjun's appearance of wanting to speak and stopping, Tang Haoran asked with a smile.

"What's wrong Shuqi, if you have anything to say, just say it!"

"My lord, Rong Jun has been thinking about what the adult said on the road before!"

Tang Rongjun looked at Lord Tang and cautiously mentioned the previous topic again.

"You mean the silver!"

How could Tang Haoran forget the most important thing, he looked at Tang Rongjun and asked rhetorically.

"Shuqi, in addition to bank loans, what other means can you use to raise funds for starting a business abroad and building a railway?"

"Your Excellency, what do you mean......"

Thinking of the answer in the adult's words, Tang Rongjun's heart moved, and he looked at the adult and asked excitedly.

"Is it going to issue bonds?"

(Today, the college entrance examination is over, and after several years of hard work, it's time to relax and have fun!) I wish all the friends who participated in the college entrance examination good results! Hey, the second watch, ask for a monthly pass! Empire's Sunrise Reader Exchange Group: 150536833 welcome everyone to join! (To be continued......)