Wan Ling asked, "What a lot of work?" What does that mean? ”

Lin Yuan said: "The Fuzhou Shipbuilding Bureau and the Mawei Shipyard were both founded by Zuo Zongtang, Zuo Zongtang is from the Hunan Army Group, and Li Hongzhang is from the Huaijun Group. ”

Wan Ling smiled: "That's really not possible, so what are you going to do?" ”

Lin Yuan said with a smile: "You leave the design to your students to do, let's go to the Fuzhou Shipping Bureau together, and we will use the name of recruiting workers to get all the technical workers inside!" ”

Wan Ling smiled and said: "Okay, I'll hand over the specific work to them to do, during the time we leave, I will let them start the construction of our first warship, I think when we come back from Fujian, just in time for the launching ceremony of the first warship." ”

Lin Yuan said: "That's great, you prepare, let's go to Beijing first, tell the emperor about this matter, and then let's go to Fujian and get all the technical workers in the Harbour Bureau." ”

The next day, Lin Yuan took Wan Ling to set off, first to Shenyang, Lin Yuan felt that since he wanted to go back to Beijing, he would be indispensable to the right-hand man Chen Qingyun, Lin Yuan took Chen Qingyun, took the special train, and headed for Beijing.

On the way, Chen Qingyun asked: "Lin Shuai, the villain has been inquiring about the affairs of the capital during the days when you went to Mongolia to show your talents, I don't know what Lin Shuai is doing when you go back to the capital this time?" ”

Lin Yuan said with a smile: "I want to build a battleship, but there is a shortage of skilled workers, so I want to get the people from the Jiangnan Shipyard and the Fuzhou Shipbuilding Bureau to me." ”

Chen Qingyun's face immediately changed when he heard this, and he said in a panic: "Lin Shuai, this move is absolutely unacceptable!" ”

When Lin Yuan saw Chen Qingyun's appearance, he knew that this matter was not trivial, so he asked, "Why do you say that this matter can't be done?" ”

Chen Qingyun patted his thigh and said, "Lin Shuai, if you do this thing in the morning, two months ago." ”

The more Lin Yuan listened, the more confused he became, and hurriedly asked, "What's going on?" Hurry up and tell me. ”

Chen Qingyun said: "Didn't you tell the emperor a lot of benefits for building a navy? The calendar, timekeeping methods, and weights and measures have been changed to Western-style, and the emperor was moved after hearing it, and he has been preparing when you went to Europe, hasn't Yuan Shikai been training the new army? The emperor and the empress dowager felt that he was a general, so they gave him the title of Fuzhou Shipping Minister, in charge of the Fuzhou Shipping Bureau. ”

Lin Yuan thought in his heart when he heard this: "It's Yuan Shikai again, I have dealt with him many times, and every time he has been abused by himself very badly, this time he is afraid that he will seize the opportunity to embarrass me." ”

Chen Qingyun continued: "The Holy Lord has specially allocated a sum of money from the household department to Yuan Shikai for the construction of warships, and now Ji Lu has planned to build two warships, which are said to be the latest steel-armored fast gunboats!" ”

Lin Yuan thought to himself: "It's still the latest style!" Now the British have come up with dreadnoughts! Lin Yuan asked, "Who designed the battleship?" ”

Chen Qingyun said: "Lin Shuai didn't know, this Fuzhou Shipbuilding Bureau was created by Zuo Wenxianggong when he was in charge of Fujian and Zhejiang, and later Zuo Wenxianggong moved to Ganshan, so he was managed by others, and then after several evolutions, now in charge of the Fuzhou Shipbuilding Bureau, it is a Frenchman named Du Yeer, and the design of the battleship is completed by the craftsmen he invited from France. ”

Lin Yuan smiled secretly in his heart: "The French still want to buy steam turbine technology from me, and now they even come to build us warships." Chen Qingyun said again: "Yuan Shikai and Du Yeer have a very good relationship, Lin Shuai must be extremely difficult to go!" ”

Lin Yuan smiled and said, "What do I do, which one is easy?" ”

Chen Qingyun waved his hand again and again, looked around, and said to Lin Yuan in a low voice: "Lin Shuai, if you want to talk about the strength of shipbuilding, Jiangnan Shipyard is obviously stronger than Fuzhou Shipbuilding Bureau, do you know why Lu Dao gave the errand of warship manufacturing to Fuzhou Shipbuilding Bureau, but not to Jiangnan Shipyard?" ”

Lin Yuan frowned and asked, "What are you talking about this for?" ”

Chen Qingyun said: "Lin Shuai, they all think that Jiangnan Shipyard is your cronies, so they didn't hand over the errand of building warships to them, you think, you have made the Northeast so good, the imperial court is not at ease with you!" Especially your army, having defeated the Russians and the Japanese, is simply invincible in the world, you say, can the imperial court hand over the navy to you again? ”

Lin Yuan smiled: "So that's the case, I'm not afraid." ”

Chen Qingyun said: "The villain knows the strength of Lin Shuai, but this is not something you are afraid of, but something that those craftsmen are afraid of, you think, the imperial court will definitely not let you get all the craftsmen to the northeast, what can you do to get them over?" ”

Lin Yuan smiled and said: "You don't know what to do, that Du Yeer is domineering and domineering in the Fuzhou Shipbuilding Bureau, and the people in the Fuzhou Shipbuilding Bureau have long been unpleasant to look at him, do you still want those craftsmen to work under him?" These craftsmen and the Fuzhou Shipyard Bureau have not signed a deed of sale, so why can't I get them all? ”

Chen Qingyun thought for a while and said, "This is a good way, but Lin Shuai, you have never been to the Fuzhou Shipbuilding Bureau, how do you know that Du Yeer is domineering?" ”

Lin Yuan smiled in his heart: "Of course, this is written in the history books. However, Lin Yuan did not tell him, but smiled, did not speak, and soon came to Beijing, Lin Yuan listened to Chen Qingyun's words, and knew that there was no need to see Emperor Guangxu again, first sent the workers of Jiangnan Shipyard to Lushun Shipyard with a paper order, and then took the train directly to Fuzhou Shipyard.

At this time, the railway to Fuzhou has not been built, so Lin Yuan first went to Shanghai from the Beijing-Shanghai Railway, and then took a boat to Fuzhou, the completion of this railway also surprised foreign countries, because they did not expect that when the railway crossed the Yangtze River, it did not build a bridge, but dug a tunnel from under the Yangtze River.

In this era, Shanghai is the economic center of China, with this railway, Shanghai's goods can be transported to the northern provinces more quickly, so many merchants use this railway to transport goods, this railway is very busy, if it is not for the right to operate the railway in the hands of Lin Yuan, he really can't squeeze the train, Lin Yuan looked at the trains coming and going, and thought to himself: "It seems that we need to build more branch railways that communicate the north and south, look at these people outside, they are about to catch up with the Spring Festival!" ”

Lin Yuan came to Shanghai, and Zhang's industrial company in Shanghai comrades met below, learned that the trade situation with foreign countries is very good, can be described as a day into the gold, Lin Yuan then brought some entourage, but also got a few cars, from Shanghai to Fuzhou by ship, the shipyard of the Shipyard is located in Mawei, this place belongs to the jurisdiction of Fujian Province, Fujian Province, 20 kilometers away from the provincial capital Fuzhou, Lin Yuan first to Fuzhou, Fuzhou prefect descended to greet him, Lin Yuan is not polite, just stay in the most luxurious post house in Fuzhou.

When the next day, November 5, Lin Yuan drove to Mawei with people, and Lin Yuan thought to himself: "I'm going to recruit technical personnel, so I should put some shelves out." So when I got to the outside of the shipyard, I asked people to go in to report, thinking that the people inside would come out to greet them, but I didn't expect that the people who went to report would come back with a blue nose and a swollen face.