A family of three was talking and laughing, and suddenly remembered the noise outside the street, and the crowd let out bursts of cheers, mixed with gongs and drums, very lively, the fifth master frowned, his own house was the cleanest, why did he quarrel like this outside, "Uncle Xiang!" The fifth master called his old family, "What's going on outside?" ”

Uncle Xiang, the old family, inquired clearly, and came back to say: "Today, it was the Hanyang Iron Works that transported a rare item of iron beating, and sent it to Beijing by beating gongs and drums, and now people all over the city are ready to go out to see the excitement." Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"Oh? Iron-clad objects? What are the rare objects? The fifth master smiled, "It can't be the same rare object as the copper bull on the edge of Kunming Lake before, right?" ”

"There are all kinds of things, some say it is an iron ship, and some say that it is a large piece of iron lump with gods and Buddhas on it."

"I'm going to go out and see what's going on, and I don't know what it is." The fifth master said to the mother and daughter, "Let's be at the mouth of the alley, take a look, don't go far!" The fifth master shouted at his daughter.

The daughter pouted, in the end she agreed, Uncle Xiang accompanied the family out of the yard, and then to the front door street, which was already crowded with people, fortunately, there was a stone pier near the left, and Uncle Xiang helped his own grid on the stone pier, which was clearly visible.

There were many people on the side quietly discussing, "You say, what will this Hanyang Iron Works offer?" ”

A person who looks like a scholar said categorically, "It must be an ironclad ship, this foreigner every year from us, the ironclad boat alone does not know how much silver to earn, this China is a vast land, where there is no iron ore, as long as you find a good way, you can naturally practice good steel, this money is earned by your own people, how many people can be fed!" ”

This scholar is reasonable, many people nodded again and again, the scholar felt that his opinion was agreed by everyone, and his face was also red, "I looked at the newspaper, and I also made it clear, if we have a bad relationship with foreigners in the future, what if they break off contact, don't we don't have our own ironclad ship, so I look, it must be an ironclad ship!" ”

A businessman on the side was a little angry, and hurriedly retorted, "The difficulty of this ironclad ship skill, the newspaper published the excerpt of the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian, saying that it is the first skill in the West, and it must not be easily handed over to us, moreover, Hanyang Iron Works is a place for ironmaking, and I have never heard of a shipyard there, and now this shipyard is only Jinling, Shanghai, Fuzhou, and Tianjin and Qingdao in the north. Could it be that I took Hengyuanxiang's cloth and made a piece of excellent clothing and sold it for money, do I want Hengyuanxiang to be in the limelight first? ”

Everyone felt that what the merchant said was reasonable, and the scholar was speechless, his face turned red again, and he stomped his feet and said, "Then what do you say?" ”

The merchant smiled slyly, "Lord Zhang of Hanyang is the most fond of people's livelihood, and he also produced a lot of people's livelihood tools in the past, I thought, it must be an iron plow or something, or something else, it must be a farm tool!" The merchant shook his head, "Agriculture is the foundation of the world, and the new foreign policy is used on top of the country, so I thought, iron farming tools are the most suitable!" ”

The scholar hurriedly retorted, the scene was originally a crowd of people and extremely lively, two people quarreled, it was even more noisy, a group of people laughed and looked lively, and some people added fuel to the fire, the two people were almost about to fight, while maintaining law and order, the policeman wearing a stone blue uniform hurriedly came over and shouted: "What is the noise, don't make trouble!" If you make any more trouble, there will be nothing good to watch! ”

Everyone hurriedly asked what it was, the policeman was angry, the rest of the season, colleagues went to rest, but left themselves here to work overtime, people crowded people are sweating, but also got up early in the morning, specially for Hanyang to dedicate objects to arrange the road, maintain order, he has seen many colleagues drag their families to see the excitement, in his heart has long scolded the people of Hanyang Iron Works, where are you willing to say what it is, not to mention that he himself does not know what it is.

The policeman rolled his eyes and said impatiently, "How do I know!" How can we know about this new thing? As soon as the words fell, a group of people came over surrounded by a military attache on horseback, and the policeman saw his boss and hurriedly stood up and bowed, "My lord! ”

The small thin middle-aged man sitting on the horse was wearing a bear mending suit, and he was the military attache of the five grades, only to see that although this man was thin, his face was full of red light, and he was very powerful, and he commanded a few words to the policeman standing on the ground, "It's all hard work today, everyone goes to the Furuixiang Restaurant in Tianqiaotou, I've prepared it." ”

The policeman's face was flushed with excitement, and he hurriedly patted his chest to ensure that nothing would happen, and there were a few businessmen from Shandong, who didn't know who the military attache on the horse was, and asked the police, the police had won the approval of the boss at this time, and he didn't have a black face, and showed off proudly: "This is the director of our police station, the official of the fifth grade, Lord Feng!" (To be continued.) )