Lin Yuan asked, "Is there any problem?" ”

Shen Wanqing said: "What if Zeiss doesn't sell it to us? And ZEISS doesn't specialize in optical glass. ”

Lin Yuan said: "This is the ingenuity of my plan, I originally wanted the Tianjin Machinery Bureau to buy in their name, and then I thought, this can't work, because now China and Japan are at war, Germany will strictly abide by neutrality, the two do not help, so I plan to let a private enterprise, in the name of civilian to buy these equipment, although civilian and military supplies, there will be a certain gap in quality, but for the current Qing army, it is better than nothing." ”

"At this time, Zhang Jian came to the door, I simply asked him to help us buy, Zeiss is not a company specializing in making optical glass, the most famous optical glass factory in Germany is the Schott factory, but these factories are the objects of national care, want to buy optical glass from them, it will inevitably attract the attention of the government, after all, in this era, optical glass is still a relatively cutting-edge thing, although Zhang Jian's yarn factory is a private enterprise, I am afraid that they will find clues, so I found Zeiss company."

"Zeiss is still a small company, such a company, in the face of such a large order from us, will not let the boiled duck fly off, when the time comes, they will definitely go to the most famous Schott factory in Germany, to buy these optical glass, and then sell to us, as for some of the links, Zeiss will definitely find a way to help us dot, to talk about the strength of the dot in Germany, Zeiss company does not know how many times stronger than us."

Shen Wanqing thought for a while and asked, "However, what does a yarn factory want optical glass for?" ”

Lin Yuan said: "They don't care, as long as there is money to make!" ”

Shen Wanqing giggled, and suddenly, her smile suddenly froze, and she said, "I seem to have made a mistake." ”

Lin Yuan also became nervous and asked, "What mistake did you make?" ”

Shen Wanqing said: "I forgot to tell those catchers not to tell today's events!" ”

Lin Yuan thought to himself: "What kind of mistake is this?" So he laughed and said, "What's the matter?" ”

Shen Wanqing said: "What do you think, if the workers of the Tianjin Machinery Bureau knew that there were Japanese spies in their bureau, what would they think? ”

Lin Yuan said: "They will definitely hate these traitors, are you worried that the workers in the factory will find trouble with Xu Bin?" ”

Shen Wanqing shook her head and said: "No, Xu Bin's matter is easy to say, as long as he is arrested and caught by the wrong person, anyway, the arrest of the fast in this era often arrests the wrong person, what I am worried about is: if something like this happens, everyone in it is in danger, and they are afraid that they will one day carry the black pot, you say that if it goes on like this, how can the Machinery Bureau still produce with peace of mind?" ”

Lin Yuan said: "That's right, it's better to do this, let's go to the Machine Bureau to take a look, if there is any trouble, we will take measures in time." ”

Shen Wanqing said: "It's all my fault for this matter, everyone knows that such a secret operation was carried out and the news was not leaked, but I forgot the times." ”

Lin Yuan said with a smile: "Okay, don't blame yourself, this matter has not reached the point of being out of control, now it is getting late, they are almost off work, let's find a place to rest, and we will go to the machine bureau tomorrow." ”

The next day, after more than an hour of work time, Lin Yuan and Shen Wanqing went to the Machinery Bureau, there are many branches in the Machinery Bureau, such as gunpowder, bullets, and shells, these factories are separated from each other by a certain distance, in order to prevent accidental explosion of gunpowder and explosion, so the distance between each plant is a safe distance that will not produce explosions.

Since there are several manufacturing processes for the same weapon, and different manufacturing processes may be in different factories, for example, the manufacture of bullets and shells is in different factories, and the primer and propellant are installed in the shells and in the same factory, so people need to walk back and forth between the factories to transport weapons, and they are generally pushing carts, so the factory is still relatively lively.

But when Lin Yuan entered the machine bureau, he was surprised to find that no one was moving around in the huge factory!

When the two of them were inexplicable, they finally saw an old craftsman appear in the field of vision, Lin Yuan hurriedly stopped him and asked, "Master, why is there no one in this bureau?" ”

The old craftsman slapped his face fiercely and said angrily: "Those foreign devils are making trouble again!" No, it's a mess in the Kangbang workshop, and you won't work if you don't process money! ”

The so-called Kangbang refers to the steam engine, Kangbang workshop, as the name suggests, is the workshop where the steam engine is placed, in modern factories, electricity has long been popularized as power, punches, lathes, milling machines and other mechanical processing equipment are driven by electricity, and in the nineteenth century factories, steam is still used as power. There are many machine tools in the factory, and it is impossible to provide a steam engine for each machine tool, so the steam engine is placed in a workshop to provide power for each workshop.

Lin Yuan glanced at Shen Wanqing with relief, and the look in his eyes was clearly saying, "You don't have to blame yourself, it has nothing to do with you." ”

The two of them came to the workshop that the old craftsman said, only to see people surrounded by people inside and three layers outside, Lin Yuan and Shen Wanqing squeezed to the center, and saw a few blonde craftsmen sitting on the edge of several boilers, the furnace of the boiler did not have a single flame, obviously did not start the fire, and if the fire was not burned, it would not be able to produce high-temperature and high-pressure steam, and there would be no power, so the equipment of the entire factory stopped.

Su Mao was talking to the foreign craftsman at the head, and he spoke English quite fluently: "Mr. Lane, we want you to fix the boiler immediately!" ”

Ryan said expressionlessly, "Mr. Su, if you can't provide us with twice the amount of money from our monthly salary as a bonus, we won't repair it." ”

Su Mao's face turned pale, and he said: "Mr. Lane, you also know that your wages are twelve times the wages of our workers, and you take so much money, and now you still need money!" ”

Ryan smiled and said, "I'm sorry, Mr. Su, our ability is worth the price!" ”

The conversation between them was conducted in English, so none of the craftsmen below understood, Lin Yuan stepped forward and said to Su Mao, "General Secretary Su, what happened?" ”

When Su Mao saw Lin Yuan, he suddenly seemed to have seen a savior, he said: "I don't know what Lu Dao is doing this morning, the pressure of the steam can't go up, and we have no way to use a lot of equipment, so let this group of foreign devils repair, but they took the opportunity to rip off the bamboo!" ”

Lin Yuan asked, "Has there ever been such a problem with the equipment before?" ”

Su Mao said helplessly: "It appeared, but the price of the foreigners was not high at that time, so we agreed, but this time, alas! ”

Lin Yuan smiled: "Don't worry, I have a way." ”

Su Mao said: "My lord, don't mess with them, just think of letting them have less money." ”

Lin Yuan said like a peacemaker: "Don't worry, I will tell them well." ”

Lin Yuan walked up to Ryan with a smile and said in English, "Either fix the machine!" Or with your tail between your legs, fuck off! ”