Zhang Jingxiao is worried about the affairs of the shipyard every day, since he was sent to the shipyard, Wang Yi has completely given up and doesn't care about anything. Of course, the construction of the shipyard is not an overnight thing, coupled with other supporting facilities such as entering the steam engine factory, etc., it can be initially completed in two or three years, Zhang Jingxiao is really thankful.

Zhang Jingxiao was talking to Naide and Charlie at this time, and Wang Yi didn't know that Qichang Foreign Company was actually a joint deal between the two of them, simply put, it was a joint venture between Britain and the United States.

However, Wang Yi has now become friends with the two, and naturally Zhang Jingxiao has also been stained, and the Zhang family's Tai'an grain processing factory and the subsequent price alliance have basically monopolized the export of soybeans and wheat in Northeast China, so the two foreigners did not treat Zhang Jingxiao as an ordinary Qing person.

"Mr. Jingxiao, we have prepared to send the first batch of shipwrights to our British Empire for training according to your teacher's request, and you can rest assured about their affairs!" Charlie said pleasantly.

"Thank you so much." Originally, Zhang Jingxiao's English was not above the two or five eyes, nor was it under the two or five eyes, it was just a two or five eyes. But in the past few months, I have been dealing with a group of foreign workers every day, so I have practiced speaking and listening.

"You're welcome, although the language of those shipwrights is not up to par, I believe that as long as they can endure hardship, this is not a problem."

"I will make it clear to them that they will do as you tell them." Zhang Jingxiao smiled: "By the way, this is the production authorization of the gramophone that my teacher asked me to give you, currently in Europe, only you and Mr. Augustus have the production qualification, and in the United States, it is Mr. Naide and Mr. Spyro." Sir said that he will not interfere with the competition between you, but I still hope that you can control the competition within a reasonable range, after all, we are all friends. ”

Charlie and Naide nodded after hearing this, and said, "The king said that the world is very big, the market is also very big, and there are many places to make money. Therefore, there is no need for us to fight each other to the death, and now that the technology is in the hands of the king, we are all his allies. ”

Zhang Jingxiao knew that the gramophone alliance that Wang Yi was getting now was a copy of their Zhangjia Grain and Oil Alliance, but the scope was larger and had expanded to the whole world. More importantly, Wang Yi controls the technology, especially the production and recording technology of records. Don't look at the people like Naide Charlie who can produce gramophones, but the shellac discs used to store sound still have to be produced in Yingkou. As for foreigners who want to record records, I'm sorry, don't go too far, come to Yingkou.

Although today's big businessmen are not well-known in the world, these four foreigners who have been in contact with Wang Yi are all sharp eyes trained in the business field. Although the gramophone is also the highlight, it is not a really valuable cash cow compared with the electromagnetic waves that are being researched by the real business room of Dashang Industry and confirmed by Wang Yi. Whether it's radio communications, or radio broadcasts, that's the untapped treasure of unlimited money.

The four of them also want to open it now, and it is actually a good choice to act as an agent for big businessmen, coupled with the exchange of shares between each other, Wang Yi inadvertently set up a global trading company. Of course, Jack Sparrow and Augustus Elton are still very weak now, and the two together are only six ships. The scale of Qichang is larger, with nearly ten ships. However, compared with the real shipping giant, Swire & Co., the scale is not at the same level.

"Oh, by the way, this is the invitation that the teacher asked me to give to the two of you, and he has big news to announce in five days, and I hope the two of you can come at that time!"

"This must be!" Naide and Charlie are on the same path.

Guo Yuanwang, the director of the Dashang Cement Factory, was accompanying Wang Yi at this time, along with five foreigners and two Chinese. A group of people are walking in the factory area of Dashang Cement Plant, talking about the development of flat converters.

"At present, you can only produce general cement, and in the future, in addition to improving the production process, you will also strive to develop various special cements. Don't look at the current price of cement as high as seven taels of silver a bag, if there is competition in the future, if there is no fist product, hard times will come. ”

"Understood, Chairman!"

At this time, Wang Yi looked back at the five foreigners, and then looked at the two Chinese youths, and said: "Your material room must cooperate with the research and development of the cement factory, and as for the mechanical room, you must also remove the flat converter from my drawings." There are too many problems with this little real yàn furnace that I am making now, and I know that you have a lot of difficulties, but I asked you to come to solve the difficulties, so don't let me hear this nonsense again......"

"Got it, chief engineer." Wang Yi's position in the industrial office is the chief engineer, so the people in the real room call him the chief engineer or Mr. Wang.

After separating from these people, Wang Yi rushed to the pencil factory again.

Dashang's pencil factory belongs to Dashang Culture Company, and the general manager is Shen Wanzhou, who is in his thirties, average-looking, has passed the imperial examination, and has also mixed with Nanyang, and has rich life experience.

"Chairman, you're here." Shen Wanzhou also came from the printing house not long ago.

The two were in the office, drinking tea for a while, and then Wang Yicai said, "Wanzhou, how is the progress of colored pencils?" ”

"It's not difficult to develop, but the problem is that some pigments need to be imported, so the output is limited. And the hue is not very comprehensive, at present, there are only red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, these seven colors, and then subdivided colors, it will take a while. ”

"If it is necessary for you to build your own factory in the matter of pigments, you can propose to the board of directors, and I will try my best to give you a satisfactory answer at that time."

"Thank you so much, chairman!"

"I also read the financial statements of the printing house, and most of the current production capacity is printing all kinds of books and materials for big merchants. But don't worry, I have imported a few more printing presses from abroad, and we will be able to reach Yingkou in two weeks, and you must pay close attention to training workers, so as not to waste the means of production caused by the lack of workers. ”

Shen Wanzhou made a note.

Wang Yi continued: "Your printing house must pay attention to the confidentiality of materials, and my books and materials must be in charge of special people, special houses and special planes, and they must not be circulated to the outside world. ”

"Yes, Chairman!"

"And your personnel, you must ask for the innocence of the three generations of ancestors, even if there is something that is not clear, do not use it. I don't want to kill the Japanese in key parts of the company. ”

Wang Yi has emphasized this question many times, so Shen Wanzhou is also very concerned.

The entire printing plant is guarded by insurance personnel, especially those in the printing workshop, where pieces of paper are not allowed to be brought in and pieces of paper are not allowed to be taken out. Everyone rotates positions every day, so as to prevent people from using their brains to endorse them.

It may be difficult for outsiders to imagine that in the entire large business system, the most heavily guarded outside the industrial industry is the little-known printing factory. The reason why Wang Yi merged the printing factory, the paper factory, and the pencil factory was to hide people's eyes and ears and confuse the public.

That night, after Wang Yi rushed back from other places, he did not rest, but directly joined the team attacking Dagu Mountain. Their main target was the Wanjiayao of the Qi Army.

Since the last battle of Qinglonggou, the insurance team has expanded again, and now it has reached the scale of 800 people, but the bigger change is the replacement of the shotgun on the equipment.

The Mauser Type 71 rifle became the standard equipment, and the musketeers basically had one for each person, a total of 300 men. The Flying Horse Scout was armed with a Winchester M1873 trolley rifle and numbered a hundred people. Thirty artillery crews, armed with five PP93 mortars. The rest is the logistics corps, a total of one and a half hundred men, also armed with Mauser Type 71 rifles. In addition to this, two new branches of the armed forces appeared, machine artillery and sharpshooters.

Machine artillery, a team of 10 men, is responsible for controlling a Gatling cannon. A total of five teams, or 50 people, were dispatched for this mission.

Sharpshooters, that is, snipers in their primitive state. The establishment of this class is entirely due to the role played by Wang Yi at the critical moment of Qinglonggou last time. However, in this era, there is no sniper rifle in the true sense of the word, so it is just a myth to want to kill with one shot at a distance of 1,000 meters. Because of the cooperative relationship with Zeiss, it didn't take long for Wang Yi to get an optical sight, but the gun was not a Mauser 71 type, but a British front-loading rifled gun found from Qinglonggou - Wei Shusi rifle.

The Weiss rifle, designed in 1854, fought in the American Civil War, and the advantage of this gun is that it has a long range and a crosshair. The disadvantage is that the barrel is cleaned after each shot, and the hexagonal bullet is difficult to fit into the barrel. Therefore, as the equipment of ordinary soldiers, this gun has obvious shortcomings. But for sharpshooters, the slow reloading speed is not too much of a problem.

Now the king had thirty sharpshooters under his command, mixed with the musketeers, but the targets were mainly enemy officers and leaders. Of course, because it is a black powder weapon, it is basically impossible to fight like a modern sniper.

The total number of people in the insurance team's attack on Wanjiayao was 660 people, and the remaining more than 100 people were responsible for guarding the security of various systems of Dashang. At the same time, Wang Yi also invited Zhang Quande to come forward and suppress all the bandits in the vicinity, so that they would not make trouble during this time.

Wu Xiao came to Wang Yi at this time and said, "Captain, Zheng Haitao sent back a message saying that the flying horse has arrived at a small mountainous area fifteen miles away from Dagu Mountain and set up camp. ”

By this time, it was past midnight, and people were sleepy.

The king nodded a little and said, "Okay, pass the order, let the flying cavalry set up a guard post, we will spend the night there tonight, and attack Wanjiayao at dawn tomorrow." ”

"Yes!" Wu Xiao gave a military salute and walked away.

Wang Yi raised his head at this time, looked at the moon in the sky, and then looked at the team beside him, and couldn't help but feel a trace of emotion in his heart.

If life is only as cheap as it was at the beginning!

When I was cheap for the first time, I could listen to my parents more, work early, get married early, can my life be better now, what does the humiliation of a hundred and ten years ago have to do with me? Millions of people have already been humiliated, so why do you want to add me more?

I really don't like it! I'm going to kill again tomorrow......