048 Major upgrade of naval weapons
After Lin Fei conquered the various tribes, he called the patriarchs of the ten tribes together, and the ten patriarchs were intimidated by Lin Fei's advanced weapons, and each was as obedient as a sheep.
Lin Fei said loudly: "You want to prepare some greeting gifts for me, are you willing?" ”
Patriarch Isco first said: "Yes, of course I am willing, I am willing to dedicate twenty first-class virgins to you, all of them are one in a hundred beauties!" ”
Lin Fei frowned and said, "I don't want a beautiful woman!" ”
Patriarch Isco smiled: "You don't want beautiful women, do you want gold and silver?" But as you said, gold and silver are no longer useful, and we have now switched to 'renminbi'. ”
Lin Fei said: "What I want is very simple, it is all kinds of rare stones, do you understand? ”
The crowd was puzzled and asked, "What is the rare stone?" ”
Lin Fei said: "You go to find me stones with various patterns and colors, you must go to the mountains to find them, understand?" ”
The ten patriarchs nodded in agreement, and Lin Fei continued: "After you find the stone, don't think that you will be done just sending the stone to me, you must remember to me where the stone was found, and tell me together when the time comes, understand?" ”
The ten patriarchs nodded in agreement again, and Lin Fei waved his hand and said, "Time is pressing, you should hurry up and find it, and send it to me as quickly as possible after finding it." ”
The ten patriarchs walked out separately, and then Li Ming came over and said, "City Lord, what's the use of asking them to find you a stone?" ”
Lin Fei said with a smile: "Leyte Island is rich in manganese ore and sulfur ore, as well as some other ores, but Leyte Island is very large, and I don't have the energy to find it myself, so I asked these patriarchs to help me find it, and I will definitely find a lot of useful ores." ”
Lin Fei finished the matter on Leyte Island, and then got up and went back to Yanhuang City, with new craftsmen, the construction of the industrial zone in Yanhuang City was faster, and the time came in December 1894, the third month after Lin Fei came to the island, new blast furnaces and converters have been built, and roads have been built between the various tribes on Leyte Island.
On this day, a soldier suddenly came to Lin Fei and said, "Report to the city lord, Deputy Yu and comprador Chen are back." "Yu Xi'er's position is the first mate of the Nuwa ship, and Chen Fu's position is comprador, so he is called so.
Lin Fei was excited for a while, and was about to go out to greet him, but when he saw Yu Xier and Chen Fu walking in together, Lin Fei hurriedly greeted him and smiled: "You two have worked hard......"
Yu Xi'er and Chen Fu's faces were solemn and gloomy, Lin Fei saw that something was wrong, and hurriedly asked, "What happened?" ”
Yu Xier sighed heavily and said, "We're in trouble!" ”
Lin Fei was taken aback and hurriedly asked, "Trouble?" What's the trouble? ”
Chen Fu sighed lightly and said, "There are two troublesome things. ”
Yu Xi'er's expression changed suddenly when he heard this, and he coughed heavily, Chen Fu was stunned, turned his head to look at Yu Xi'er, Yu Xi'er coughed again, and Chen Fu said: "Oh, there is one troublesome thing." ”
Lin Fei frowned, and his tone was full of annoyance: "Lao Yu, Xiao Chen, are you two fools to me?" What's one for two? What the hell is going on, hurry up and sue me. ”
Yu Xier laughed and said, "Chen Furen is small, he remembers wrongly, and there is only one troublesome thing. ”
Chen Fu also smiled on the side: "Yes, yes, yes, there is only one piece, one piece, hahaha, I am young after all, and I can't talk with my brain, City Lord Haihan, Haihan." ”
Chen Fu laughed dryly as he spoke, wanting to cover up this matter, Lin Fei thought to himself: "These two guys must have something to hide from me, Chen Fu is a little thing, and he is the most proficient in lying and talking about fart, he will definitely not find a breakthrough from him, and the breakthrough can only be found from Yu Xier!" ”
Lin Fei turned his head suddenly, staring at Yu Xi'er like a knife, and said sharply: "Old Yu! Tell me, can a devout Catholic lie? ”
Yu Xi'er was poked on the death hole by Lin Fei's words, his face was flushed, and he was speechless, Lin Fei continued: "On the day of judgment, what kind of punishment will God give to those who lie?" There is no priest on the island, and there is nowhere to confess the sin you committed by lying to me, do you want to take this sin to the coffin and then be judged by God? ”
"This ...... Well...... Well, I'll tell you about it! Yu Xier was forced by Lin Fei to be helpless, so he had to say: "Here's the thing, we met a Japanese businessman in Taiwan, his character is excellent, and we feel that if Chiyo Mika is handed over to him, he can send her to Japan properly." ”
Lin Fei frowned and asked, "Is this what you and Chen Fu want to hide from me?" ”
Chen Fu and Yu Xi'er had a fun www.biquge.info, and Lin Fei asked, "What's the trouble with this matter?" I had promised Chiyo Mika that I would send her back to Japan whenever I had the chance. ”
Chen Fu said: "But if we send her back to Japan, what if she tells the Japanese that we are on Samar Island and the Japanese come to beat us?" ”
Lin Fei shook his head and said, "No, Japan is now at war with the Qing court, how can it come to fight us?" Even if the war with the Qing court ended, there would be no need for dozens of our prisoners of war to send a large number of troops to fight us across Samar Island, thousands of kilometers away. ”
Yu Xier said on the side: "I don't think it's this that is in trouble, but ......."
Lin Fei said: "Lao Yu, if you have anything to say directly, don't spit out!" ”
Yu Xier let out a long sigh and said, "Mr. Captain, can you say that you don't mean anything else to Chiyo Mika? Now that she's leaving, can you not be sad? ”
Lin Fei's heart moved suddenly, and he hurriedly said: "Lao Yu, don't talk nonsense, I don't mean anything else to her, if I say anything else, it's also guilty, she is an innocent girl, I kidnapped her, I ruined her life." ”
Yu Xi'er looked at Lin Fei and didn't speak for a long time, Lin Fei was confused by him, and hurriedly said: "Okay, let's not talk about this matter, there is still a trouble, what is it?" ”
Yu Xier said: "Since you can let go of Chiyo Mika, then let's talk about the next thing, when we were in Taiwan, we heard a Spanish businessman say that the Spaniards in Manila were very angry about the looting of plantations on the islands of Ibayat, Batan and Pabuyan, and the navy in Manila has sent warships to search for us in the eastern part of Luzon and the Visayas. ”
Lin Fei was shocked in his heart and said, "The trouble you are talking about, do you mean that we will encounter the Spanish Navy?" ”
Yu Xier nodded and said, "Yes, with the current Nuwa, it is difficult to win against the Spanish Navy. ”
Lin Fei said with a smile: "Lao Yu, you don't have to worry, there are so many islands in the Philippines, it is difficult for them to find us." ”
"There's not much chance they'll find out about us, but we're getting bigger and bigger, and they might hear about us somewhere and find us," Yu said. ”
Lin Fei nodded thoughtfully and said, "What you said makes sense. ”
Yu Xi'er's tone was worried: "Then what should we do?" Can we build brand new warships now? ”
Lin Fei shook his head lightly and said, "It's very difficult, although during the time you left, I conquered Leyte Island and upgraded the industry of Yanhuang City, but there are too few alloy ores now to smelt advanced alloy steel, so the matter of building warships has to wait a while." ”
Yu Xier hurriedly asked, "Then what should we do now?" Without warships, how can we deal with the enemy if he comes? ”
Lin Fei smiled leisurely and said, "I've already thought of a way!" ”
Yu Xi'er frowned and said, "It won't be the kind of fighting style that takes ships at sea again, right?" The Spaniards should not be fooled. ”
Lin Fei said with a smile: "Of course it's not that way of playing, I'm going to carry out a major upgrade of naval weapons." ”
Yu Xier asked, "How is the upgrade method?" ”
Lin Fei said with a smile: "There are many specific aspects to be improved, I can't introduce them one by one now, and I'll tell you later." How's it going with what I asked you to buy? ”
Yu Xier said with a smile: "It's all bought, tin ore, bristles and tung oil, all the same." ”
Lin Fei said: "That's good, transport the tin ore to the metallurgical production area, transport the bristles to the light industry base in Chiyou City, and transport the tung oil to the chemical production area first." ”
Chen Fu asked at this time, "Captain, what is the use of these three things?" ”
Lin Fei said with a smile: "It's very useful, let's talk about tin ore first, after smelting tin, tin can be used as a welding material, do you know about welding?" It is to connect two pieces of steel together, which is what must be done to build a warship. ”
"Tung oil is used to make paint, applied to steel, to prevent steel from rusting, as for the bristles, it is used to make brushes, just paint, how can you do without the tools to brush paint on steel?"
After Lin Fei finished explaining, Chen Fu and Yu Xier organized people to transport these things, and the tin ore was sent to the metallurgical production area to be ready for smelting, and the tin ore should also be smelted by fire to produce tin, which is similar to the basic principle of copper smelting, and the smelting equipment also has something in common.
The bristles were handed over to the light industry craftsmen in Chiyou City to make brushes, and the light industry also made a great contribution to the military industry, brushes are one of the examples, as well as ship cables, all kinds of military ropes, are produced by light industry.
After Lin Fei finished arranging these things, he asked Yu Xier: "Old Yu, what is the name of the Japanese businessman you know?" Can it be relied upon? ”
Yu Xier said: "The Japanese businessman named Kishida Yinka, who deals in medicinal herbs, and his shop is called Leshantang, and the first two times we bought cinnabar and saltpeter, we bought it from his subordinate shop. ”
After listening to Yu Xi'er's words, Lin Fei's face suddenly changed drastically, and he asked in surprise, "What did you say was the name of that Japanese businessman?" ”
Yu Xier was stunned for a moment and said, "Kishida Yinxiang, what's wrong?" Is there something wrong? ”
Lin Fei's heart trembled suddenly, and he secretly thought, "Kishida Yinxiang, how could it be him?" ”
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