Shen Wanqing asked, "What are you thinking?" ”

Lin Yuan pulled her and said, "Follow me." ”

Shen Wanqing didn't understand what he was going to do, so she had to follow him, and the two of them soon came to a small town, which was located near the post road, and the weaving factory opened by the Englishman Xu Bin said was here.

The weaving mill itself is not a production line, and the threads it uses are all transported from the yarn mill; The process of weaving also needed to be powered by a steam engine, so it was necessary to transport a large amount of coal, so that the weaving mills became very connected with the outside world, and the number of people who came and went became more and more, and many local farmers were separated from agricultural production and specialized in the service industry, and this is how the city was formed.

The two of them found a small hotel to live in, and Lin Yuan said: "Didn't you listen to what Xu Bin said just now, this British-owned weaving factory has eliminated a batch of steam engines, and I plan to get this batch of steam engines." ”

Shen Wanqing smiled: "Steam engines are all outdated things, what do we want them for?" ”

Lin Yuan smiled helplessly: "The steam engine is not an outdated thing, just take the use of the weaving factory, its main body is a boiler that produces steam, and this kind of equipment also has many applications in modern industrial production, such as generators, which use steam to drive steam turbines, as well as many processes in the chemical and textile industries are inseparable from steam." ”

"So I want to see if I can fix these steam engines, Zhang Shiliang has a silk production line, but they are still produced by hand, so I want to put this batch of steam engines to them."

Shen Wanqing asked, "Then what are you going to do?" Go steal the boiler? ”

Lin Yuan said with a smile: "You don't look at how big the boilers are, they are more than three meters high, and the main body is steel, how can we move such equipment!" ”

Shen Wanqing smiled: "Then why are you pulling me here?" ”

Lin Yuan smiled mysteriously and said, "When it gets dark, you'll know the way." ”

This sentence made Shen Wanqing's face crimson, turned her head, walked to the table, pretended to drink water, and Lin Yuan said, "I'll go to that weaving factory to find out the situation first." ”

After speaking, Lin Yuan came out alone and came to the weaving factory, the factory occupies a large area, and there are British guards at the door of the factory, Lin Yuan went up and said in English: "I want to see your manager!" ”

The Englishman guarding the door saw that Lin Yuan could speak English, so he didn't dare to slack off, so he quickly let Lin Yuan enter the reception room, and after a while, the manager came, and he asked, "This gentleman, what are you looking for me?" ”

Lin Yuan asked: "I heard that your factory has replaced a new batch of equipment, so I don't know what you plan to do with the original equipment?" ”

The manager shrugged helplessly and said, "If we were in England, the equipment would be sent back to the steel mill, and it would be re-smelted into steel, but here, I don't know what to do with it, so I have to pile them up in the empty factory first." ”

Lin Yuan smiled: "Why don't you sell them to me." ”

The manager's eyes lit up and he said, "Since you want it, that's great, but ......"

Lin Yuan asked, "But what?" ”

The manager said: "We replace the equipment, not because our equipment is faulty, but we feel that their performance has lagged behind, but if you Chinese use it, their performance is still second to none, so this price, you can't be too low." ”

Lin Yuan asked: "Okay, we can talk about the silver, you have to take me to see the goods first." ”

The manager rolled his eyes and said with a smile: "Not today, our factory has a rule, you can't let outsiders walk around the factory at will on weekdays, so let's do it, two days later is the rest day of our factory, I'll take you to see the equipment that day, okay?" ”

Lin Yuan nodded and returned to the inn.

When it was night, Shen Wanqing's heart was beating vigorously, and Lin Yuan said to her, "Will you sneak in secretly?" ”

Hearing this, Shen Wanqing's heart calmed down, and she asked, "Where did you sneak in?" ”

Lin Yuan replied: "The factory of the British." ”

Shen Wanqing smiled disdainfully and said, "I thought it was a Longtan Tiger's Den, it turned out to be a factory, if you want to go, I'll take you there." ”

Shen Wanqing prepared a few things, took Lin Yuan, and took advantage of the night to come to the edge of the factory wall, the wall is more than three meters high and half a meter wide, Shen Wanqing took out two thick wooden blocks from the bag and tied them with ropes to his hands, Lin Yuan asked, "What are you doing here?" ”

Shen Wanqing smiled and said, "If you go up, you will know the way." Then she approached the wall, looked at it carefully, retreated more than ten meters, and then rushed to the wall like an arrow from the string, jumped into the air, kicked her right foot on the wall, and then changed her left foot, and actually took two steps vertically on the wall, and supported the top of the wall with her hand, and the whole person had jumped to the top of the wall.

According to the previous plan of the two people, Shen Wanqing should have put down a rope and pulled Lin Yuan up after jumping on the top of the wall, but after Shen Wanqing jumped on the wall, she squatted on it, I don't know what Lu Dao was doing, it was completely dark, Lin Yuan couldn't see clearly, the surroundings were silent, and Lin Yuan didn't dare to shout loudly.

When Lin Yuan was in a hurry, a rope was put down on it, although Lin Yuan did not have the ability to directly kick the wall, but the climbing speed was not slow, he grabbed the rope and quickly went up to the top of the wall, and asked in a low voice: "Why did you put the rope for so long?" ”

Shen Wanqing pointed to the top of the surrounding wall with her hand, Lin Yuan then understood what was going on, it turned out that there were nails with pointed heads on the top of the surrounding walls, it turned out that she tied the wooden block to her hand to prevent being stabbed, and she stayed on the top of the wall for a long time, just to clean the nails on the wall.

Lin Yuan said: "I saw it when I came during the day, there was grass underneath, and if you jump directly, you won't fall and get hurt, and the sound will be very small." ”

Shen Wanqing stretched out her hand to stop him and said, "What if someone patrols below?" After saying that, he waited for a while, and saw that no one was moving, so he jumped off the wall.

Lin Yuan whispered: "I inquired today, and the factory where the waste equipment is stored is in the northeast corner of the factory. ”

The two of them tiptoed over, and on the way, Shen Wanqing asked, "Aren't you just looking at the abandoned equipment?" Just say no to that Englishman? Why bother so much. ”

Lin Yuan replied: "I asked the Englishman to see the equipment today, but he didn't let me see it, I was worried that we wouldn't be able to use their scraps, so I had to check them in advance and know what to do." ”

Shen Wanqing asked, "Since it's a waste product, how can we still use it?" ”

Lin Yuan replied, "Our repair skills are there, as long as their equipment is not broken to the point that it can't be repaired, we can buy them." ”

When she came to the warehouse, Shen Wanqing didn't make any effort to break the lock on the door, and when she opened the door, she saw that it was full of columns made of iron, like steel giants in the dark, Lin Yuan walked in front of one of them, turned on the flashlight, and looked at the cylindrical shell, as if he was looking for something.

Shen Wanqing asked, "What are you looking at?" ”

Lin Yuan replied: "This cylindrical shell is the shell of the boiler, this cylindrical type is welded with many arc-shaped steel plates with curved surfaces, I am looking to see if there are obvious cracks on it, if there are cracks visible to the naked eye, there is no need to do further testing, we know that it is impossible to use it anymore." ”

Shen Wanqing couldn't help asking, "Then what is the further test?" ”