The visit of the Nautilus also caused a great sensation in Shanghai, as a famous Chinese in Europe, in the most prosperous city in Asia, it is natural to receive public attention, not to mention that this goods are still so high-profile, wearing a black SS fur coat in the autumn rain, riding a pumpkin carriage full of fairy tales, the inseparable heavily armed white bodyguards behind him, the weird yacht that can only be imagined in science fiction, Yang Feng's days in Shanghai, All newspapers followed his whereabouts almost daily with their front pages.

However, to everyone's surprise, Boss Yang did not stay in Shanghai for long, but only held a dance party on his yacht as a warm thank you to his friends in Shanghai, and then visited Shanghai Daonie Jichun alone, and then set off along the Yangtze River and went straight to Wuhan.

He is here to recruit soldiers, so naturally the business is important, since he is recruiting mercenaries, then he has to recruit the most suitable person to do this job.

The target of this goods is the town pole army of Phoenix, although he has not seen the specific combat effectiveness of these guys, but it should not be wrong for the reputation of the Chinese Gurkhas, and now is not the time to cut the long hair, originally their main opponent Miao people have also been attached, most of the town pole army has been unloaded and killed donkeys, even the leader of them Tian Xingshu was kicked back to his hometown and died, and the others are estimated to be planting a land at home now and a wife, and it may be possible to even ask for food in the poor place of Xiangxi.

Give them no more, an annual salary of one hundred taels of silver a year, it is estimated that one by one will have to scream to play for their lives.

The Nautilus, which had a very shallow draft, galloped at high speed for twenty knots on the Yangtze River waterway, and soon arrived at the destination of this trip, the ship docked at the Hankou wharf, and the British consul in Hankou was already waiting here, the two casually said a few polite words, and were just about to go to the consulate by carriage, but they didn't want to suddenly run behind a team of Qing soldiers, led by a big man who hurriedly dismounted and then arched his hand and said: "May I ask if the driver is Yang Feng Yang Gongzi?"

Yang Feng nodded somewhat in surprise.

"In Xia Zhang Biao, please make Taiwan's masters." The big man said.

An hour later, the Yamen of the Governor of Wuchang Huguang, Zhang Zhidong looked at the strangely dressed guy in front of him with interest, although it looked very unpleasant, but he also had to admit that this black fur coat looked far more majestic than his official uniform.

And Yang Feng, who was giving his hand very casually, was also curiously looking at the dry old man in front of him, dressed in a zombie suit, with a long white beard, and the bird feather on the back of his head, the standard is a dried corpse crawling out of the grave, it is hard to imagine that such a person opened the era of China's heavy industry.

"Ahem!" Zhang Zhidong broke the silence with a majestic cough.

"The younger generation sees the Lord of the Stage, I don't know what the adults are summoning to send?" Yang Feng hurriedly bent down and said.

"I heard that Yang Tongyi opened a factory in England to promote the prestige of my Qing Dynasty, and the old man has always admired it. Zhang Zhidong said with a smile.

"The adults are polite, it should be the juniors who came to visit, but the identity is very different, and I didn't dare to come to disturb." Yang Feng sweated for a moment and then said.

The two talked to each other a few more words, Yang Feng really couldn't stand this feeling of grievance, and hurriedly arched his hand and said: "My lord, the junior is an urgent son, if you have any send, you might as well say it directly, if there is a place for the junior, you will definitely not refuse."

Zhang Zhidong was stunned for a moment and then said with a smile: "Since this is the case, then the old man is no longer polite, you also know that the Hanyang Iron Works is under construction now, although the progress is quite smooth, but with those foreign technicians after all, it is not very reassuring, I heard that you have a steel factory in your hands, and it is also famous in Taixi, can you help the old man?"

"My lord, I can't hide it, I've heard of your steel plant, but with all due respect, with the machine you're using now, you can't make qualified steel at all, Daye iron ore has too high phosphorus content, and you can't remove phosphorus with your current Bessemer acid converter, so the steel produced will be brittle and can't be used to make rails.

The use of acid furnace in Europe must be equipped with low phosphate rock, and high phosphate rock must use Thomas alkaline converter, in fact, the transformation is not difficult, mainly in the refractory bricks lined with blast furnaces, replaced with dolomite, if you want to be interested, I will call you a few engineers from Bofors, it is free to help you, it will not take long to complete the transformation. Yang Feng said with a smile, in fact, the British didn't lie to him, this old man didn't understand science, and he was reminded that he had to test the iron ore first, but he bought the steelmaking furnace without testing.

If you don't worry about this kind of thing, the British will definitely not be interested in worrying about him.

Zhang Zhidong was a little dumbfounded, and only after half a year did he cautiously say, "What Brother Yang said is true."

He doesn't have to do that set of crepe now.

"You see I said that I will help you for free, naturally it will not be fake, and this is all basic things, I don't believe you send a telegram to the embassy in London or Berlin, and let them find a random steel engineer in Europe to consult, and if you are not afraid of trouble, you can get some iron ore samples and send them over, and let them find someone to test it for you." Yang Feng said with a smile.

"Thank you very much this time, otherwise I would have almost missed a big thing." Zhang Zhidong said with emotion.

"It's just a matter of effort, in fact, when you enter a new steelmaking furnace in the future, try to use a Martin furnace, an open-hearth furnace is more cost-effective than an converter." Yang Feng said.

"And when will the engineer you said arrive?" Zhang Zhidong couldn't wait to ask.

"Now send a telegram to Sweden, it is estimated that it will take a month at the earliest, the construction of the steel plant you should still build how to build, and after they come, you can directly transform the steelmaking furnace, if you are in a hurry, let those foreign engineers now be responsible for the transformation can also be, dolomite is not lacking in our country, I remember that there is a county in Shandong, where you forgot jì, you let a few engineers go to Ye County to find it yourself." Yang Feng said.

Since the relationship between the two is naturally much more cordial, Yang Feng took the opportunity to propose that he would go to Zhenxiao to recruit workers, hoping that he could provide some convenience.

"Townsman? Brother Yang, the people in that place are strong, but they are not suitable for being a worker. Zhang Zhidong kindly reminded him.

"My lord, it's this kind of worker who is recruiting, you probably don't know it, my most important business abroad is to provide security services, or in our domestic language, it is called a bodyguard, but it is not the kind of bodyguard that dozens of people escort the goods, of course, that is also within the scope of business.

I am in the Ambrera company in the United States, the scope of business includes private security, that is, personal bodyguards, factory and mine security in dangerous areas, for example, if I want to go to Tibet to open a factory, then I need a small army to protect, as well as military training, such as your self-improvement army, if you need instructors, you can hire from our company, are retired officers in the armies of European powers, and also include proxy wars, if you want to fight a certain place, but the number of troops on hand is insufficient, then it doesn't matter, as long as you pay for it, you can have as many people as you want, just like the foreign guns of the year. Yang Feng said.

Zhang Zhidong was almost stupid, he didn't expect to open a company like this, but according to what Yang Feng said, this job is indeed suitable for Zhenxiao people.

With his help, Yang Feng's journey south to Phoenix was very simple, Zhang Zhidong directly transferred a team of Qing soldiers, with a garrison officer personally led the team, under the banner of the Huguang Governor's Palace, took an inland river flat-bottomed boat along the Yuan River upstream, all the way to look at the scenery of Sanxiang along the way, and broke into the ancient city of Phoenix with great momentum, and frightened the Phoenix Hall Tongzhi to crawl out of the ground.

"This Yang Gongzi is a VIP of the Lord of Taiwan, and he lacks a few bodyguards, I heard that the veterans of the army are quite capable of fighting, so I want to recruit a few from here, and your hall needs to take care of it more." The garrison said somewhat pretendiously.

"Xia Guan will definitely try his best to cooperate with Yang Gongzi." The Phoenix Hall Tongzhi slave Yan said on his knees, what kind of person is Zhang Zhidong, crushing him to death is like crushing an ant, how dare he slack off such a person's VIPs.

"Are there any people who are still alive in the Tiger Mighty Victorious Army back then?" Boss Yang took off his sunglasses, looked at the cloudy sky impatiently and asked.

"Yes, there are, but I'm a little older, I'm forty or fifty, I'm afraid it's not as good as a young man." The Phoenix Hall Tongzhi continued to say servilely.

"Gather it and I'll see." Yang Feng said casually.

Soon hundreds of middle-aged people in different clothes were summoned to the Tongzhi Yamen, these people have a relatively large age gap, some are fifty or sixty years old, and some are in their early forties, and the Huwei battalion is also an important part of the battle against the Twist Army in the later period, so not all of them have been beaten with long hair, but these people have a bright shoulder, and the tattoos on their arms are very majestic, and a tattoo like this is more visually impactful.

However, these veterans don't seem to be having a good time, and a few of them are in tatters and are very suspicious of Yang Feng's guess, and those who are over fifty are definitely useless, but in order to buy people's hearts, Boss Yang still gave a reward of ten oceans by himself, not to mention these veterans, even the green battalion soldiers who maintained order around them had bright eyes in their eyes.

This effect makes Yang Feng very satisfied, as an ignorant outsider, he wants to come here to recruit people to work hard for himself, it is absolutely impossible not to take the money first, and if the army is easy to use, it will be an important source of soldiers in the future, and it is necessary to have a good reputation, thousands of oceans are not called money at all for him, and it is a huge wealth here.