Lin Fei was startled and hurriedly asked, "What happened?" ”

The soldier shouted, "The Spaniards in the city have begun to massacre the Chinese!" ”

Lin Fei frowned and said: "Immediately sue He Kaisheng, use the radio to tell the people in the city, Spaniards and Filipinos are strictly forbidden to go to the streets tonight, violators will be killed!" Then order all the troops and city guards in the city to guard the intersections, and find that the Spaniards and Filipinos who dare to disobey the order and go to the streets, not a single one will be left! ”

The soldier repeated the order aloud, turned around and left, Lin Fei thought to himself, the Spaniards in the city rebelled collectively, maybe there was also Brewer instigating it, if I captured Brewer alive, maybe I could quell the riot on a certain distance.

At this time, I saw a soldier running out of the warehouse and said to Lin Fei: "Your Majesty, Brewer has committed suicide." ”

Lin Fei's heart moved, and he asked, "Can you be sure that the person who committed suicide is Brewer?" ”

The warrior nodded and said, "Yes, our guide has seen Brewer and has already asked him to see it." ”

Lin Fei thought that it was okay to kill Brewer, and now he should return to the city government immediately and broadcast the news to the whole city, so Lin Fei asked Niu Dalong to gather troops as quickly as possible and return to the city government.

As soon as I entered the city, I heard gunshots everywhere, and there were fires and smoke everywhere I could see, and the loudspeakers in the city were broadcasting loudly in Spanish and Filipino......

Lin Fei asked Niu Dalong to lead the troops to patrol the streets, and he returned to the city government with a sniper team, only to see that the city hall was full of Chinese people with families and panicked faces, Lin Fei asked He Kaisheng to announce Brewer's death, and then said to the Chinese: "Don't be afraid, the Chinese Imperial Army will do its best to protect you." ”

When the Chinese saw Lin Fei, they immediately gathered around, and then an old woman fell to her knees and cried, crying and shouting: "My house was burned down by the Spaniards, and the money was robbed by the Spaniards!" ”

When everyone heard the old woman's words, they all told about their losses, and the scene was chaotic for a while, Lin Fei shouted loudly: "Everyone, please rest assured, I will let the Spaniards compensate you for the money you lost." ”

Everyone heard Lin Fei's assurance, only slowly calmed down, Lin Fei left them, came to the office, and took charge of the overall situation, for the situation in the city, he was not very worried, although the Spaniards were in chaos in the city, but their troops had guns, and they killed the killing order, the momentum of the Spaniards' rebellion would soon be quelled, after all, the Spaniards were all people, not machines, they would be afraid of death, and they would definitely not dare to risk their lives to make trouble.

Lin Fei guessed correctly, three hours later, the gunfire in the city gradually subsided, and when the sky brightened, the whole city was quiet, but there were corpses left in the streets and alleys.

Lin Fei organized the Chinese to clean up the corpses, and on the other hand, they went to receive the property of the rich Spanish merchants, who also participated in the riots last night, and their factory guards were killed when they attacked the city government, and they saw that Brewer, the most powerful among the rich merchants, was wiped out by Lin Fei, and they did not dare to resist, and obediently handed over all their wealth.

The suppression of the Spanish riot last night actually played a role in redistributing wealth, many Spaniards died in the riot, and the wealth of these people was also taken over by the government formed by Lin Fei, since then, Lin Fei has mastered 90% of the wealth of the Spaniards in Wuduan City, as for the remaining 10%, it is some ordinary Spanish people, Lin Fei left them.

Among the wealth in Lin Fei's hands, there were many factories, which were not damaged in the riots, because these factories belonged to wealthy Spanish merchants, and those rich merchants certainly did not want their wealth to be destroyed.

After this riot was suppressed, the prestige of the Chinese Empire was high, and the Chinese regarded Lin Fei as the savior, among the Spaniards, those who dared to resist were killed by Lin Fei, and the rest were all full of fear of Lin Fei, the Filipinos were originally ruled by the Spaniards, and for them, it was not a big deal to change the ruler.

The next day, on January 17, 1895, the affairs of the city gradually returned to normal, and Lin Fei poured out his hand to see the situation of the various factories in the city.

There are a total of 64 factories in the city, of which 36 are for the production of daily necessities such as paper, cigarettes, printing, etc., and there are 10 textile factories, all of which are cotton mills, because there is no place to raise sheep and silkworms on Mindanao, so there are no wool and silk mills on the island.

The cotton mills had a large stock of cotton, enough to produce nitrocellulose, and it was not a big problem to transport the cotton to Samar Island, because Wuduan City was originally close to the sea, there were ports, and there were more than 100 large and small transport ships in the port, and several shipowners were killed by Lin Fei's men in the riot, and Lin Fei then took these transport ships as his own and used them to send the cotton back to Samar Island.

There are also twenty-eight heavy industry factories in Wuduan City, Lin Fei is most interested in the electroplating plant and copper smelter, the electroplating plant can produce a lot of high-quality materials for the Chinese Empire, and the raw materials of the copper smelter come from the copper mines in the nearby mountains, which can provide rich copper ore for the Chinese Empire and solve the problem of the shortage of copper ore in the Chinese Empire.

Lin Fei was looking at those factories, and suddenly a factory caught his attention, he hurriedly called Gao Manlu, pointed to the factory on the list and asked, "Are you familiar with this factory?" ”

Gao Manlu said: "Baslo Pigment Factory? I'm still quite familiar with it, their factory produces all the pigments, and the colors are still very good-looking. ”

Lin Fei said: "You take my subordinates to the paint factory, find me the technicians of the factory, and bring me the technical information." ”

Gao Manlu's eyes were full of doubts, and he asked, "Your Majesty, what do you want the technicians and technical information of the pigment factory to do?" ”

Lin Fei smiled: "You hurry up, you don't understand if you talk too much." ”

Gao Manlu agreed twice, and left with Lin Fei's subordinates, and brought back the technician of the factory after a short time, the technician was a Chinese man in his fifties, with gray hair and a wrinkled face, Gao Manlu said: "Your Majesty, this is the technician of the Baslo Pigment Factory, Master Yuan Zhengxiong Yuan." ”

Lin Fei greeted him politely, but Yuan Zhengxiong knelt down in fear, Lin Fei stretched out his hand to help him up, and said with a smile: "Old man, you don't have to be like this, please sit down, I have an important matter to ask you." ”

Yuan Zhengxiong hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, please speak." ”

Lin Fei stretched out his hand to pick up the information of the Baslo pigment factory found from the city government, handed it to Yuan Zhengxiong, pointed to the several pigments on it and asked, "What are these pigments made of?" ”

Yuan Zhengxiong looked at it and said, "There are many kinds of things inside, what do you want to know?" ”

Lin Fei smiled and asked, "Is there something called 'lead' in it?" ”

Yuan Zhengxiong's eyes lit up and said, "You are really an expert!" How do you know? ”

Lin Fei said: "I know that the pigments of this color need to be modulated with lead, let me ask you, where does the lead that makes these pigments come from?" ”

Yuan Zhengxiong said: "Our pigment factory has several lead smelting furnaces, all of which use the local method of lead smelting, and I heard that the British lead smelting furnaces are advanced......

Lin Fei saw that Yuan Zhengxiong was about to go off-topic, and hurriedly said: "Let's talk about the lead smelting method later, let me ask you first, where did your lead ore come from?" ”

Yuan Zhengxiong said: "It was shipped from Kota Ba. ”

Lin Fei was taken aback and said, "Brother Bato? It's more than 200 kilometers away, and the freight is too high. ”

Yuan Zhengxiong said: "Although the freight is higher, but their selling price is cheap, Cotabato does not refine lead from lead ore, they refine silver from it, lead ore contains silver, after they refine the silver, the remaining lead ore is bought as a stone to pave the road, it is very cheap, Cotabato is close to the sea, and it does not take too much freight if you go by sea." ”

Lin Fei nodded and said, "Okay, when I defeat Cotabato, you can refine more lead for me." ”

Yuan Zhengxiong frowned and said: "Your Majesty, forgive me for talking too much, this lead is used to make pigments, and pigments are luxury, you can't use them more!" ”

Lin Fei smiled: "Don't worry, I don't want lead to make paint." ”

Yuan Zhengxiong was taken aback and asked, "What else can lead make without making pigments?" ”

Lin Fei smiled and said, "You'll know what you're going to build later." ”

Lin Fei's real purpose in getting the lead is to make batteries! Batteries can be made with metallic lead and acidic solutions, and the battery greatly improves the performance of weapons and equipment, such as torpedoes, there is no gyroscope for stable course in torpedoes of this era, so the range is extremely close, and the hit rate is extremely low, if the torpedo is equipped with a gyroscope, the accuracy and range will be greatly enhanced, and the gyroscope needs electrical energy to drive.

The lead-acid battery was invented in 1859, and it is not something that has never appeared in this era, Yuan Zhengxiong may have heard of it, but Lin Fei didn't want to explain more, so he said so.

Lin Fei found another very important ore, and he was very happy in his heart, Yuan Zhengxiong bowed down at this time and said, "Your Majesty, have you been to Cotabato?" ”

Lin Fei shook his head and said, "I've never been there, why do you ask?" ”

Yuan Zhengxiong's expression darkened, and he said hesitantly: "I heard you say that you are going to attack Cotabato, I don't know if that's the case?" ”

Lin Fei saw Yuan Zhengxiong's evasive expression, and he spoke heavily, knowing that he must have something inconvenient to say, so he smiled and said: "Master Yuan, you might as well say it directly, you and I are both Chinese, so you don't need to shy away from speaking." ”

Yuan Zhengxiong nodded and said, "Then I'll say it directly." ”

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