There are many shipyards in Guangzhou, but most of them belong to the Qing Dynasty merchants, and the shipyards that can build a red single ship belong to the big factory, and the foreigner's shipyard was merged by the Yang family, and now around Guangzhou, in addition to a shipyard belonging to England, except for Yang Meng's Guangzhou shipyard, there is no serious shipyard anymore.

Guangzhou shipyard, that is the secret of the place, Yang Meng previously entrusted the old Taishan Pan Shicheng to seal a section of the waterway in Huangpu, that boundary is a secret to the people of Guangzhou, for the sailor to build a ship, it is obviously impossible.

In order to conceal the Guangzhou shipyard, Ding Taichen built a large-scale shipyard on Dawan Island near Humen, where most of the wooden barges and purchased Western warships were moored.

The sailors and Lian Yong's warships, Yang Meng's plan is also simple, the wooden boat is good, and after installing steam engines and artillery, it is still enough to patrol the Pearl River.

There is coal and iron in Guangzhou, and Yang Meng plans to build another front shipyard in Guangzhou, which can attract the attention of the great powers and protect the Whampoa shipyard, and secondly, he can also build a school for manufacturing ships in Dawan.

If you want to build this shipyard, you want to attract European and American businessmen to bring technology and return on investment, it is indispensable.

Recently, Yang Meng's actions in the Thirteen Lines were too big, and the Minister of Nanyang, Yamen, received a note from Britain, France and the United States, asking Yang Meng to explain the matter, more than 20,000 practice brave drills every day, which was practiced for them to see, as for explaining such diplomatic rhetoric, Yang Meng did not pay much attention, he was concerned about the actual interests.

"Commander, urge Yunnan and let the ladies set off! Bring Tiffany. Next meeting with the ministers of the three countries. Tiffany & Co. and Patrick participated.

These two days. Send an excerpt to the imperial court, and say that we will organize the merchants of Guangzhou to build a shipyard in partnership with foreigners, and the shipyard that can contribute to Gongwei Jinkou in the future.

Let Taechen come and see me! ”

Using Tiffany and Patrick as translators can improve one's status in the eyes of the great powers, and make one's words more convincing and deterrent, and the role of these two people is no less than that of the new Yong who is practicing around the Thirteen Elements.

Bringing family members to Guangzhou is also an attitude for the imperial court. shows his attitude that Yang Meng wants to be stationed in Guangzhou, with a woman in the back house, the court's suspicion of him will be smaller, and it is not easy to hide many things from the court.

Yang Meng also thought about the construction of the shipyard several times, at this time, in the name of the imperial court to build a shipyard, the resistance is still not small, but in the name of the people. The military plane should be able to handle it, and I want to save face. Peng Yunzhang can still give it.

Treat the establishment of a shipyard as a private matter, make a record with an excerpt, and rely on the Qing court, many things are so helpless.

"Third master, I heard that you are going to bring the ladies to Guangzhou, is this matter a little urgent?"

The war in Guangzhou, Ding Taichen can also predict that there have been a lot of provocations on the English side at sea recently, and the news from the English side is still on the way, what the situation in Guangzhou will look like, it is difficult to predict, Yang Meng took the woman from the back house to Guangzhou, which is undoubtedly a move to increase the risk.

"There's no way, I'm going to use Tiffany in the next two days, let's do it! Recently, England's table xiàn is a little abnormal, England was quite strong before, using provocation as an excuse, is there something in England's domestic situation? ”

As a maritime power, England's previous attitude was arrogant, provocation at sea, this time became more and more frequent, fortunately, Ye Mingchen didn't pay much attention to Yiwu before, even if something happened, it was England and France who talked to themselves, and now they want to communicate with foreigners, and some information still needs to be mastered.

"Hong Kong Governor Bao Ling, is a conservative person, not as active as his predecessor Bonham, the British Palmerston cabinet is also very ambitious, England's recent table is not very normal, the third master should be careful!"

After coming to Guangzhou, following the foreigners hired by Patrick and the Yang family, Ding Taichen also learned a lot of things, and he was able to say this, it seems that it is extremely correct to let Ding Taichen sit in Guangzhou.

"The Governor has changed! I thought it was still Bonham! I met with Pashali the day before yesterday, this person is a serious Chinese expert, and Pashali's behavior that day was not very normal, it seems that the matter is in England.

Take the initiative to provoke, I'm afraid that Palmerston's cabinet has reached the term of office, in the Crimean War a few years ago, England's casualties were not small, England took provocations, I am afraid that it wants to make a move in the general righteousness, if it is estimated, there is only this one statement, let the people at sea probe, if this is the case, our side, there are still some articles to do.

Is there any manpower on Hong Kong Island? ”

Previously, Yang Meng did not pay much attention to the international situation, except for the war in Crimea, he had seen it carefully, most of the other things were handled by Ding Taichen, after hearing about the change of the governor of Hong Kong, Yang Meng also made an estimate of the recent attitude of England, which should be a domestic problem in England.

"There are not a few shadow people, Patrick's business investigation team, dozens of people are also on Hong Kong Island."

"Hmmm! That's it! Let the shadow explore the sea route, find the way for Lin and Li to enter Hong Kong Island, and arrange for Lin and Li to come to see me in a few days.

Patrick's business investigation team, their main task is to befriend the British officials on Hong Kong Island, to find out the situation in England, preferably by the end of the year, there is no war on the Guangzhou side.

I came to you this time to talk about the Dawan shipyard, these days you plan the materials, I want to build another iron yard and shipyard in Dawan, the coal and iron over Baiyun, and make a more stable waterway. ”

The intelligence thing is due, but it is a bit of a waste to build a shipyard and an iron factory on Dawan Island, the shipyard that Yang Meng said, Ding Taichen knows that it is an iron-shell shipyard, so that the silver invested is at least hundreds of thousands of taels, and if it is not good, it will be more than one million, although Dawan is close to Humen, but Humen Fort cannot protect Dawan Island, once the war starts, who is this shipyard built for?

"Third master, can the shipyard and ironworks be suspended, as you said, the war is imminent, we have built a shipyard and an ironworks, I am afraid that it will be a wedding dress for others!"

"Having said that, shipyards and iron yards still have to be built. This time, the shipyard and iron factory are joint ventures with foreigners. British, French, American, and German businessmen. It is our partner, the Dawan Shipyard will be built to build the largest, during this time, you relocate the people of Dawan, I want to turn the entire Dawan Island into a shipyard. ”

As soon as he heard this, Ding Taichen couldn't help but sigh, and turned the entire Dawan Island into a shipyard, but he was afraid that this shipyard would have to use tens of millions of taels of silver to pile it up.

"Alas...... Third Master. You're talking about the whole of Grand Bay Island? ”

"Not bad! Is there a problem? ”

"There is a big problem, this Dawan Island is nearly ten miles in circumference, if the whole island is built into a shipyard, a single house will cost tens of thousands of two hundred thousand taels of silver, and the equipment of the iron factory and the shipyard will cost millions of taels for a simple investment.

There is also a small tiger mountain on Dawan Island, if you want to build a shipyard here, you must build a fort on the small tiger mountain, so that it can echo with the Humen Fort, the third master. As soon as this shipyard is built, it is a large sum of 10 million taels of silver, and you should also consider it for those of us who do things!

Partnering with foreigners. The third master is afraid that he should invest in technology, right? Today's Guangzhou shipyard, the technology is not inferior to any country, don't you do this with silver? ”

Ding Taichen can understand the deep meaning of Yang Meng's construction of a shipyard in Dawan, it is nothing more than to contain foreigners, but this pretense is almost done, and it will be a bit of a nonsense to turn Dawan into a pretense larger than the Guangzhou shipyard.

Although Yunyan said that he was ruthless and made money quickly, but Yunnan and other provinces, pointing to Yunyan's mouth to eat more, the previous income of the Yang family, the business name and Yunyan together, there was still a little surplus, but since the third master opened the river project and the follow-up river repair project, the Yang family has not been able to make ends meet.

purchase of grain; The salaries of the new army and Wuzhuang, the two academies of Xishan and Minghu, and the river project, these are the bulk of the long-term cost, and then open the shipyard, the 20 million injected by the old man of the Yang family in the early stage is afraid that it will not survive the end of the year, and if the old man does not give money next year, the operation of the Yang family will have problems.

"Technology, never be complacent, build the Dawan Shipyard, gather foreigners can not only make England a mouse, but also we can absorb new technologies from Europe and the United States, the Crimean War gave birth to ironclad ships, the technology of Guangzhou Shipyard, although it is one step ahead, but European and American countries want to surpass us, it is only a matter of time!

In addition to the shipyard, there is also a major project that has recently cost money, that is, the relocation of the Thirteen Lines and the people nearby, the reorganization of the Guangzhou wharf, and the arrangement of shore defense fortifications at the west gate of Guangzhou, the cost of this project is probably in the millions!

Lately, you're going to have to hurry up and grab money! ”

Ding Taichen's difficulties, Yang Meng probably knows that the Qing Dynasty is a broken house, and the cost of blocking one place is tens of millions, but there is no way, some things have to be done.

"No money!"

First the shipyard, and then the Guangzhou wharf, Ding Taichen was also annoyed, tens of millions of snowflake silver, but it was not something that could be obtained by saying that it was money.

"Expand the poison factory!"

"The East India Company's tobacco production can't keep up!"

"Rush!"

"Since the beginning of the previous year, it has been urging, from the beginning of 30,000 or 40,000 boxes a year, to now a year of 167,000 boxes of tobacco, the East India Company has tried its best, in the past three years, the annual increase is only more than 10,000 boxes, I am afraid that there is no land!"

"Impossible! The Golden Crescent is a very large production area, the output of two or three hundred thousand boxes can still be satisfied, this year is almost over, next year let the East India Company change the grain fields of the Golden Crescent into tobacco planting land, and it is not much of a problem to double the output. ”

For the yield of tobacco soil in the Golden Crescent, Yang Meng has a rough number, 1670,000 boxes, not the limit, as long as the grain field is changed to tobacco planting land, the output will be doubled, it is easy!

"It's ......"

Yunyan is a thing that damages yin virtue after all, in this matter, less than ten thousand times, Ding Taichen does not want to expand the scale of the poison factory, since the beginning of Xishan, the output of Yunyan has increased nearly a hundred times, such a large-scale production of Yunyan, the future is endless!

"It's not our people, you don't care if they live or die, the matter is handled by the East India Company and merchants from various countries, and it has nothing to do with us, all we have to do is to barter with them.

In the next war, cloud smoke is military spending, and the output of 1670,000 boxes of tobacco soil is not enough to support our ambitions, and the import of tobacco must be doubled!

If it doesn't work, let Britain, France and the United States find another way, now is the time when the demand for cloud smoke is the greatest, let's seize this opportunity.

Using Dawan Shipyard to attract capital and technology from Europe and the United States, what I want to promise is a fixed income of 30% a year, if the output of the shipyard is good, the highest annual income is 50%, there is no sufficient amount of cloud smoke, how can Lao Tzu pay the income of foreign businessmen?

How long can the formula of cloud smoke last? If you don't squeeze the East India Company, we're going to have to do it, it's all real money! If you are allowed to go out, you won't feel distressed? ”

This era is the time to determine the success or failure of a race, not the same race, not black hair and black eyes, in Yang Meng's eyes, there is no doubt about livestock, his own people can't control it, who cares about the life and death of foreigners?

Yunyan, before the fall of the Qing Dynasty, Yang Meng wanted to grab enough benefits from it, this thing is exclusive to powerful and rich countries, and countries like the Qing Dynasty and India cannot afford to be used by ordinary people.

"Third Master, you've been a little crazy lately!"

Heaven wants it to die, it will make it crazy, earlier in the mouth of the third master, the drug factory could not continue to expand, but now, in order to support the Yang family, the scale of the drug factory is expanding year by year, and after the madness, it is ruined.

As the hardcore of the Yang family, Ding Taichen has to say that the Qing Dynasty hates England, which specializes in tobacco and soil, why won't it be the same in the future? (To be continued......)