Chapter 283: Not Bad Money

Not to mention the dead Cixi, even the living Emperor Guangxu, Ren Chao did not let it go. Ren Chao took the initiative to have a good talk with Emperor Guangxu. Ren Chao said, you see the Japanese emperor, for the prosperity and strength of the country, people only eat one meal a day, just to save money to buy warships, engage in construction, and the queen mother of the family even donated jewelry. Your Majesty, you are wise and powerful, and you are a holy monarch who has not been seen for thousands of years, how can you teach these emperors of the Japanese Kingdom to compare! After saying this, Emperor Guangxu was ashamed of what he said, so Emperor Guangxu issued an order at that time to save the silver in the Internal Affairs Office, take out 10 million taels and hand it over to the household department, and at the same time issued an order to reduce the royal expenses to the original 30%. In addition, Emperor Guangxu also carried out a large-scale fundraising activity in the harem, although Emperor Guangxu only had one queen and two concubines, but Tongzhi, although the two emperors of Xianfeng have been dead for a long time, but their concubines are still a lot of alive, so that there are always more than ten or twenty people in total, this fundraiser down, but also donated more than two million taels of property, although not much, but enough to build a railway that is not too long, the only trouble is that these things are some jewelry, and it takes some effort to sell them.

After this search, Ren Chao naturally obtained a large amount of income, and for the time being, he was not short of money at all. However, Ren Chao also got the nickname of 'Ren Peeling', or it can be called 'Ren Peeling', he picks up people when he sees them, and even the emperor doesn't let them go, let alone others?

"The Post Department sent a telegram saying that the "Daqing Postal Regulations" had been approved by the Cabinet and officially promulgated. Liu Hanqing then picked up another copy of the text and said.

As early as 1878, the "Great Dragon" stamp was introduced. It is the first set of stamps for China. In 1896, the Daqing Post Office was established and officially opened to the public in early 1897. After the formation of the Cabinet. The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications was established, and a postal department was established under it to manage the postal affairs of the whole country in a unified manner. The "Daqing Postal Regulations" became the first postal regulation since China had a national postal service.

Ren Chao just nodded slightly, indicating that he knew, and didn't say anything.

Then Liu Hanqing picked up another copy of the document, "The Ministry of Agriculture and Industry sent a telegram saying that it is planned to be in Tangshan and Xuanhua. The construction of steel mills in Handan and other places has been stepped up in preparation, and agreements have been reached with Britain, Germany, the United States and other countries. The three countries have agreed to purchase steel-making and iron-making equipment from the above-mentioned three countries, and they will do their best to ship the required equipment and relevant technical personnel to our country. The other three steelmakers hope to transfer another batch of skilled workers from the Shandong steelmaking plant to support the third plant. ”

"Yes! Permit! Ren Chao nodded and said. Notify the Ministry of Agriculture and Industry and Commerce. The construction of the iron and steel plant should be done as soon as possible, and urge those foreigners, we are not not giving money, and they are all cash transactions, so that they do not procrastinate. ”

"Yes!" Liu Hanqing replied respectfully, "The Ministry of Foreign Agriculture and Industry also reported that the first oil well in the Renqiu Oilfield has begun to produce oil, and the refinery is also under construction. ”

"Good!" Ren Chao shouted excitedly. As a traverser, Ren Chao knows the future of industrial and commercial development. The importance of oil. But Ren Chao's geography is not very good, about the domestic oilfield division, only know a Daqing Oilfield and Renqiu Oilfield, Daqing Oilfield is because the fame is too big, Ren Chao doesn't know it, but this place is in the Northeast, Ren Chao has not completely controlled the Northeast, this oilfield will naturally not be able to exploit. As for the Renqiu Oilfield, the reason why Ren Chao knew about it was because this place was not far from Ren Chao's hometown, so Ren Chao knew that there was a big oilfield in this place. Therefore, after the capture of Beijing, Ren Chao immediately sent an exploration team to Renqiu County, Hejian Prefecture for exploration, Renqiu County is only a little bigger, since the approximate scope has been determined, such a large oil field exploration team naturally quickly discovered, and then after several months of hard work, now it can finally produce oil.

"So far, we can only rely on this oil field, so we have notified the Ministry of Agriculture and Industry to make every effort to build the Renqiu oil field, and we can build as many oil wells as we can, and the construction of the oil refinery must also be done as soon as possible." Ren Chao said excitedly.

"Yes!" Liu Hanqing hurriedly recorded what Ren Chao said. Later, Liu Hanqing reported some things to Ren Chao, but most of them were inconsequential trivialities. "That's all the good news for today." In the end, Liu Hanqing said helplessly.

Ren Chao nodded, thought for a while, and suddenly asked, "How is the training of our batch of truck drivers?" Nowadays, the front line needs a large number of military supplies, and the logistical pressure is very high, if they are trained, let them come to the front line to transport supplies immediately. ”

Back in 1769, the Frenchman N? J. Güniu built a three-wheeled car powered by steam from the combustion of coal gas. But the speed of this car is only 4 kilometers per hour, and it has to stop every 15 minutes to refuel the boiler, which is very troublesome. Later, the car crashed into a brick wall during a march and shattered into pieces.

In 1879, the German engineer Karl ? KarlBenz, the first successful test of a two-stroke experimental engine. In October 1883, he founded the "Benz Company and the Rheinland Gas Engine Factory", and in 1885 he built the first Benz patented motor car in Mannheim, which was a three-wheeled vehicle with a two-stroke, single-cylinder, 0.9 hp gasoline engine, which had some of the basic characteristics of a modern car, such as spark ignition, water-cooled cycle, steel tube frame, leaf spring suspension, rear-wheel drive, front-wheel steering, and brake handlebars. On January 29, 1886, the German engineer Karl ? Benz filed a patent for his motor vehicle. In November of the same year, Karl? Benz's three-wheeled motor vehicle was patented by Germany. This is what is recognized as the world's first modern car. For the above reasons, people generally regard 1886 as the first year of the automobile, and some scholars refer to Karl? The year Benz built the first three-wheeled car (1885) is considered the year of the birth of the automobile.

In 1896, the German company Daimler Automobiles successfully built the world's first truck. Ren Chaotong Guò System was the first to get the news, so he immediately contacted the representative of Guò in Germany and expressed his desire to buy the truck to Daimler AG. After a period of negotiations, Daimler finally agreed to sell the truck to the Qing government, but the first order was only 20 units. Not long ago, this batch of trucks has been transported to Qingdao port, Ren Chao immediately arranged for German technicians to learn truck driving skills, and at the same time added an order to Daimler AG for 200 vehicles, but the subsequent 200 trucks could not be delivered in a short time, because Daimler AG's production capacity was limited, and Ren Chao was not Daimler's only customer. Daimler AG promised to sell the truck to Ren Chao, and it took a lot of effort. (To be continued......)