Since it is a World Exposition, there must be a lot of machinery and equipment for foreign participation, and these things, long before the start of the exhibition, were introduced by the ministers of various countries one by one, turned into patterns, and sent to Lafayette to "try it". Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

At that time, Lafayette was particularly interested in these new gadgets that called themselves "strange and obscene", such as the American electric light, the German telegraph, the French chiming clock, and the music box, each of which was more exquisite than the other, and she was full of praise and smiles when she looked at it.

At this expo, in addition to the things she had seen or heard, they also brought new ones, bringing a common telephone and a three-wheeled car that had just been put into use at that time, which really opened Lafayette's eyes.

However, I saw more foreign things, but this Lafayette gradually became unhappy, and although he didn't say anything on his calm face, there was also a trace of worry and displeasure.

All this, those Qing court bureaucrats who are the best at observing words and feelings, naturally will not be unaware of it.

In this regard, the Qing court ministers were sincerely afraid, but they didn't dare to ask the old Buddha what he meant, and later the great eunuch Li Lianying was smart, and people took advantage of the kung fu to comb the old fayette's hair and asked his heart knot, and then he understood the reason why the old Buddha was not very satisfied.

It turned out that the foreign goods were seen more, and Lafayette also committed "aesthetic fatigue", she recalled the toss of the Qing Dynasty in recent years, the defeat was not less, the foreign goods were not less, and the talents were not less, and even a decent machinery could not be made, so that in the machinery expo for the birthday of all countries, even a decent domestic gadget could not be found, it was really a shame, a shame!

Lafayette's thoughts soon reached the ears of the prime minister's yamen through the mouth of General Manager Li, and after hearing this, the group of bureaucrats immediately understood the spirit of leadership and studied the "things" that belonged to the Qing Dynasty day and night.

However, at this time, the meaning of this Lafayette made Li Hongzhang, Zhang Zhidong and several other humerus veterans very difficult.

After all, after so many years of beating, "our Daqing" has been beaten for so many years, and it is not that there is no growth at all, a few years ago, when Tongzhi Zhongxing, he also specially engaged in a Westernization movement, and introduced a lot of machinery and equipment and foreign talents, and also sent people abroad to study.

But the problem is that the things they have introduced by these ministers are all machines that make guns and cannons, and the local mechanics can only make guns and bullets, and the students who came back a few years ago are also some foreign slaves or revolutionaries who repair railways, make guns and make broken shoes, and when they make a shot, they are also not guns or cannons, and most of them still have ideological problems, and obviously they can't do anything on this festive day.

Therefore, the plan to use Chinese people to make "things" and participate in the World Exposition and win the smile of the Queen Mother had to be shelved, and as time went by, it was difficult to move forward, and this plan seemed to be about to fail.

The ministers couldn't come up with ideas, and the one who was most anxious was our Lafayette's humeral eunuch Li Daguan.

Because the whole thing was led by him as the chief manager of Li, and he once boasted about Haikou in Lafayette, the Internal Affairs Office and the princes. Now that everyone suddenly can't come up with something, it is really equivalent to letting the chief manager beat himself in the mouth.

In this case, Chief Manager Li gradually understood that it was impossible to rely on those courtiers in the yamen to solve the problem, and if he had to deal with this errand, he could only find a solution from within the Qing Palace, and use his connections to find good craftsmen and craftsmen to complete a "thing" as soon as possible.

Therefore, the great eunuch turned his attention to an ancient carpenter family...... "Style Lei".

In the late Qing Dynasty's "carpenter's field", the most famous are the two "craftsman gangs", one of which is the "Xiangshan Liangren" represented by the "Nine Households Wooden Dragon", and the other is the "Jiangxi Old Craftsman" represented by the "Style Lei".

In these two factions, Xiangshan craftsmen work in the construction of water towns in the south of the Yangtze River, like to adapt measures to local conditions, because of the amount of talent, so the things made, whether it is mechanical toys or palace pavilions, are very cost-effective, quite popular among the people, and even have the reputation of "a thousand gold is easy to get gloomy wood, and it is difficult to find a good person for ten thousand gold".

Compared with the down-to-earth Xiangshan people, the status and background of this *** are much taller.

In the Chinese architectural circles, Jiangxi old craftsmen are famous for their exquisite materials, flat and stable, working in feng shui, opening and closing, and are a kind of craftsmen who work in the palace and temple buildings, among which the most representative of the "style thunder" family is the golden glittering in the history of Chinese architecture, and the existence of dyeing and dyeing, which can be called the imperial relatives of carpenters.

Style Lei, is a mysterious and brilliant family, since the twenty-fourth year of Kangxi, the originator of style Lei developed, they have participated in the construction of all the Qing court royal gardens.

Because of the excellent construction skills and design pursuit of the style Lei family, they won the love of the powerful as soon as they made their moves, and almost all the "national projects" at that time.

A series of royal and national buildings such as the Forbidden City, Summer Resort, Old Summer Palace, Summer Palace, Changchun Garden, Peking University Hall, and Lama Temple have left behind the buildings and machinery of the protégés of the descendants of the Thunder.

Two hundred years, seven generations, it can be said that the history of court construction in the Manchu Qing Dynasty is a history of the Lei family.

And these brilliance and skills are naturally one of the key reasons why Mr. Li thought of this family at a critical moment.

After recruiting the last patriarch of Style Lei into the palace overnight, Manager Li told his distress with a crying voice, and repeatedly begged the patriarch of such Style Lei to help him make a "thing" of his own to participate in the machinery exhibition.

And Mr. Li's words also correspond to the meaning of style thunder.

This exposition was also closely watched by Chinese craftsmen such as Shi Lei, and seeing foreigners flaunting their might in their own courts, they could not call the length of the exposition, which in itself was a very aggrieved and humiliating thing.

Therefore, for the glory of the family and the country, Style Lei gladly accepted the appointment and vowed to make a "thing" for Galeries Lafayette in the remaining three days, so as to give the Chinese craftsmen a good face!

After receiving Style Lei's happy promise, Mr. Li was relieved, and then Style Lei's clansmen studied all night and carried out arduous scientific and technological public relations work.

And as soon as they came up, they encountered a very difficult problem.