Evening, Beijing, U.S. Consulate. A small banquet is taking place.

Tian Bei, Minister Plenipotentiary in China, held a goblet in his hand, laughed and chatted with the guests who came to cheer, returned to the corner that was opened up for them separately, and smiled at Shi Mide, the consul in Tianjin: "It seems that our strange expatriate has a talent for causing trouble." ”

Shi Mid thought deeply and nodded: "I have to say, I underestimated his courage before. But that's not a bad thing for us, is it? ”

Biedge often travels back and forth between the Prime Minister's Yamen and the Beiyang Yamen, and is more familiar with the officials of the Qing Dynasty, frowning slightly: "I'm a little worried that if that Chinese finds out our connivance, he will do something out of control." You must know that until now, the government and royal family of this ancient country have maintained a high degree of vigilance against those who have returned from studying in the United States and have not given them reuse. If the self-proclaimed Reinhardt. Young's guy has stirred up a rebellious mentality among conservatives, and it is very likely that they will be implicated. ”

Since the first batch of young children studying in the United States, in the past 20 years, there have been a large number of self-funded students studying in the United States, but none of them have been able to climb to a high position, and they have not been able to gain political influence. Some people in the US Government very much hope to influence the situation in the Qing Dynasty and foster a group of pro-US forces. This plan cannot be destroyed.

Tian Bei shook his head disappreciatively: "I think his appearance is a good opportunity." You know, the conservative forces in China are surprisingly stubborn, and they don't make big changes without a sufficiently large external influence. There's a strong guy who picks it out and stirs things up, maybe he can break the deadlock. ”

"But in that case, there is a high risk of excessive turmoil, which is not good news for the United Kingdom, which has always needed stability!"

Bidger's brow furrowed slightly. He was a little worried about overstimulating the British, after all, in today's world, Britain is the undisputed number one power, and its military and political influence is unmatched. Their strategy for the Qing was to ensure that the old empire would continue to dominate in its current state, becoming the fattest sheep of the British Empire, constantly shearing its sheep.

Any turmoil brings destruction and change, which the British hate the most.

Tian Bei smiled meaningfully: "If Britain's energy can be more contained in the Far East, their influence and control over Europe will be weakened. I think that's a much more favorable situation for the United States, which is ready to make its voice heard. As envoys in the East, we should do our best to promote him! ”

The center of the world is Europe, and the United States is still seen as a rural country. Britain scavenged the world's wealth to strengthen its homeland, and tossed between China, Japan, and Russia in order to weaken the Russian threat and ease its pressure on Europe. Of course, it would be even more ideal to be able to drag both France and Germany in.

The United States now has reached the largest economic aggregate in the world, and is seeking external expansion, but cannot challenge the authority of the British Empire head-on, so it must look for opportunities to take advantage of the chaos. It is not in the interest of the United States to have a stable China that constantly supplies Britain with cheap raw materials.

At present, the United States' exports to the Qing Dynasty are almost unilateral, and there is no trade balance to speak of, and Britain takes the lion's share of the shares, and Germany's large arms and other large orders are taken by Germany. This big cake can't be monopolized by them.

Shi Mid blinked and raised his glass: "Then I wish our children can resist the pressure and toss more happily!" ”

"Ding!" The three glasses collide together, and the crisp liquor reflects an intoxicating brilliance.

In the following period of time, the high-ranking officials and dignitaries of the entire Qing Empire were involved in the turmoil set off by the Japanese espionage case, and everyone was desperately trying to take this opportunity to dump their opponents and seek benefits. The caught off guard by the pressure of the British, the Japanese were overwhelmed and exhausted, and on the one hand, they reported to the cabinet and the Japanese Emperor Muren to urgently discuss countermeasures, and on the other hand, they reluctantly threw money to delay the investigation and punishment of them by the Qing court.

Li Hongzhang took the first step to remove himself, impeached Zhang Zhidong, and blocked his political enemies. The imperial party headed by Weng Tongyi seized the opportunity to jump out and strike a unified blow at the Westernists, and in view of Japan's rampant behavior, he called on the imperial court to severely punish them, especially stressing that such a large investment in the Beiyang Naval Division and so many large ships and huge cannons should not be kept beautiful, and they should take action and launch a fierce attack on Japan to demonstrate their strictness.

At this moment, Li Zhongtang didn't care about cleaning up Yang Hao, a figure the size of a sesame seed, and threw himself into politics with vigor, but he did not make any preparations for war against Japan. He always believed that Japan did not have the courage and ability to provoke a war, including Hurd, the director general of customs and customs, and most of the British people thought so, and he had nothing to worry about.

The upper class was surging with emotion, and the people in Beijing and Tianjin were also lively. Huo Yuanjia beat the German Hercules, Yang Hao bluntly reprimanded the news of foreign devils was spread beyond recognition, and countless idlers talked about the teahouses and restaurants on the streets and alleys, and used them as condiments for wine. Even some storytellers who responded quickly made this into a joke, which won the applause of the audience!

Yang Hao took advantage of this time to spend a lot of money in Tianjin, and the engineering team he got turned the American Concession into a big construction site. The non-stop construction day and night finally made the Germans unbearable and relocated one after another, so he took one of the relatively spacious houses as the core and officially determined the establishment of the space-time anchor of the B plane.

The moment the order was confirmed, Yang Hao could see a huge Yanhuang Ding phantom hanging high in the air, sprinkling a piece of light covering the entire American Concession, proving that his action was successful. Later, he traveled directly to the old mansion in this world at night.

Yang Hao came out of the mountainside and found that after more than ten days, the bottom was already unrecognizable! In the middle of the night, there is an area of more than one square kilometer with brilliant lights, the sound of machines rumbling endlessly, and the board houses are densely packed all over the construction site, and the warehouse, training center, logistics base, film and television city construction headquarters and other institutions are all put into use, not to mention how lively.

With sufficient capital investment, ready-made design plans for reference, and the care and attention of the upper and lower leadership departments, the construction progress is not generally fast. Optimistically, the first buildings could be put into use before the end of the year.

"Sure enough, money can communicate with the gods, and it can create a miracle!"

Yang Hao sighed with emotion and went down the mountain along the trail. The area where the old house is located has been completely isolated, a small road leads to the parking lot below, and an iron gate blocks the way at the exit, so that no outsiders can enter without a key.

I picked up the car, went home to get a haircut, take a shower and change clothes, and then went online and found that the "barefoot master" was actually online! Yang Hao sent a window to shake over and asked, "Fatty, how is the progress?" ”

Liu Fatzi immediately replied with a disdainful expression: "You still know how to care about progress!" I've never seen you as a boss like this, you haven't seen anyone for more than ten days, and you're not afraid that we'll throw money into the water for you and kill you! ”

Yang Hao smiled: "Don't we believe in your discipline?" Looks okay? ”

Liu Fatzi: "What words! With this master taking action in person, and a large group of big bulls at the level of the ancestor master, isn't it easy to catch such a little thing? Sensei nonsense, I'll show you the progress chart. ”

A document was smashed over, Yang Hao opened it and looked at it, and his spirit was lifted!

The progress of the steam gunboat project is beyond his imagination!

Since Liu Fatzi came to Langya with several retired engineers and formally established the project department, in just one week, they came up with the sectional design drawings of the 200-ton steam gunboat in conjunction with the shipyard design institute, and determined the supply of steel and parts by the equipment department, power department and supply center.

Diesel engines and other ready-made purchases are in time, and other shipyards basically have them, but the manufacture of steam engines and naval guns is a problem. In this regard, the project team proposed to set up an advanced steam waste heat power generation research laboratory, and jointly study low-temperature waste heat power generation steam turbines that adapt to a variety of environments and multi-stage power together with Langya Iron and Steel, a number of cement plants, oil refining and chemical enterprises.

Langya Iron and Steel itself is demonstrating its converter steam waste heat power generation project, two 7.5MW low-temperature steam generator sets, in response to energy saving, emission reduction, recycling and efficiency, the preliminary preparations have been completed, and are about to be put into formal construction.

However, the old experts of the project team believe that on this basis, combined with Jiangnan Heavy Industry's many years of experience in the R&D and production of steam engines and boilers, it can be extended to cement, chemical industry, oil refining, and even biogas, garbage incineration, straw, etc., which can only produce flue gas temperature of about 100-300 degrees, and realize the purpose of power generation with organic working fluid circulation.

According to the current data, the recovery of 200 kWh of waste heat can obtain 18% power generation efficiency; 25% can be obtained by recovering 300 degrees of waste heat. The current steam engine boiler, the output of saturated steam temperature is about 320 degrees, which can be improved on this basis.

The proposal was reported to Yang Haixin, and he was immediately obtained. Because this scheme is in line with the needs of domestic emission reduction and efficiency improvement, waste treatment, biopower generation and other market prospects, and also meets the needs of low-power combustion power generation in the B plane. According to the concept, this power generation system is not only simple and efficient, but also can be started and stopped quickly, can be installed flexibly, and does not require special high-burn value power generation coal, which is the most practical.

It can be said that as long as the research is successful, there is no need to worry about the lack of a market at all. This world can't be sold, and the B-plane sells as much as it should.

Yang Haoxin said that this is a good time, if you can't keep the steam battleship officially built later, let's not get any three-expansion steam engines, just steam turbines. Then he immediately found out that Liu Fatzi actually carried private goods in the design, and really got a small gunboat with a steam turbine power version in it!

Yang Hao, who has seen a lot of information in order to come to the dinghy, is definitely no stranger, it is the size is not much different from the current one, and it has appeared in the movie, and the authenticity is doubtful!

It is 48.0 meters long, 7.2 meters wide, 2 meters draft, and the physique of a full row of 300 tons is only a little enlarged, but the power system uses a steam turbine and two diesel engines to achieve a maximum speed of 45 knots! It's just that this design, which exceeded the domestic production capacity of the 70s, can only become a legend. Co-author Liu Fatzi is determined not to change, and he actually plans to get his own side to get what he wants!