The next day was a sunny day, this day Prince Gong was not empty, invited Bao Jun, Jing Lian and the court's very considerate Shangshu Department of senior officials to come to have a meal together, also by the way to see a meeting, yesterday's events do not seem to make Prince Gong all depressed, this day wore a light green silk Tuanfu dark pattern gown, wore a vermilion hat, looked very rich and calm, a few people are still drinking tea in Qingyi Hall, the weather is still early, several people are talking and laughing, all know that Prince Gong heard the Vietnam War displeasure, So I don't talk about the military, just take some things that are usually perfunctory, Bao Jun got a new watch from the United Kingdom, and proudly gave it to Prince Gong to show off, "This is the best handmade watch by the best craftsmen in London, England, Qi De Zhai Tong at the front door has only entered three pieces, I got one, King Li got one, and the other piece seems to have been bought back by the Qiao family in Shanxi, Lord Wang," Bao Jun trembled, "I see that this watch is good, it is better to dedicate it to you." Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Prince Gong smiled slightly, and instructed the housekeeper, "Bring me the flat box on the shelf." The butler took a flat box out of the shelf, and wrapped it in dark red velvet into a square flat box," he said. ”

The housekeeper walked to Bao Jun, opened the box in front of everyone, only to see that under the background of velvet, five watches were placed in the shape of plum blossoms, Bao Jun sighed, took one up and looked at it carefully, Prince Gong smiled and said, "This is the last time the British ambassador brought some manager of their steamship company to visit me, gave it to me, I don't wear a watch this day, I like it, just take one, don't dislike it, all the ministers take one and it's cheap." ”

Those watches were extremely exquisite, shining in the sunlight, like a jewel-like luster, Bao Jun looked at it carefully, and then looked at the one in his hand, and shook his head, "This is really a class axe, is there any good object here?" I'm a frog at the bottom of a well. ”

Taifu Siqing hurriedly made fun, "That is, our king has such a good object here, you didn't see it, this is our prince deliberately teasing you?" ”

Prince Gong smiled slightly, "This is also invisible outside, I heard that it is exclusively for the Queen of England's own use, and it is not sold outside, this manager is a relative of the Queen, so Baba took such a little thing out and gave it to me, if he didn't want to order a burden for the ship from Tianjin to Qingdao, he wouldn't have taken this to give it to me, but I don't like these things very much, he thinks it's expensive, but I think he sent it too simply." ”

Bao Jun laughed, picked one and put it in his hand and refused to let go, "Then thanks to the blessing of the prince, this is an eye-opener." He instructed his entourage to come up with tortoiseshell reading glasses, and carefully looked at the watch, and couldn't help but sigh, "When it comes to craftsmanship, it is better to count British things as the best, and German things are cheap, but the quality is not good." ”

Jing Lian on the side said with a smile, "With a wide range of eyes, I can't look down on things in Germany, and there are watches and pocket watches in the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the south these years, so I guess I can't catch my eye." ”

"Those things aren't very bad, but they're expensive, and I don't know how to be so expensive," Pei Yu shook his head, and asked his relatives to pack the watch and take it home, he lowered his eyes and said to Jing Lian, "I said that these people from the Internal Affairs Office are black-hearted, although there are many people who use this watch now, but after all, only rich people can afford to use it, thinking about killing pigs?" It was only later that I asked, I knew, our machine, no, these metal parts out of the rough are very rough, not only to polish again, sometimes the machine is broken, but also to spend a lot of money to hire foreign technicians to repair, the cost is too great, so take it out and sell, but the price of foreign goods is not too far away, since the price is not much different, British goods are better, there will be their goods, are in a hurry to buy British goods. ”

"According to the statement of the princess, isn't it that the watch of the Ministry of Internal Affairs is unattended?" Youdu Yushi shook his fan and smiled, "But how did the lower officials hear that the watches of the Internal Affairs Office are selling okay?" ”

"Some people shouted out to support domestic products and boycott foreigners' things, especially when they had a very stiff quarrel with the British before, this slogan is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and the people of the Internal Affairs Department are also fueling the troubles, so many people are willing to buy this self-produced thing, but it's a pity," Bao Jun sneered slightly, "The machine that makes the watch is a foreigner, the craftsmanship and technology are also foreigners, and the people who repair the machine are also foreigners, where is it a domestic product?" It's just ridiculous that the world has been fooled. ”

"It's nothing, speaking of which, things in the future always have to be learned by themselves, and then slowly explore for their own use, and make something by themselves," said Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Industry with a smile, "Jinling Shipyard used to buy the technology of building ironclad ships from the French, and now it has been learned as much as possible, and several students who have returned from studying abroad in the Ministry of Engineering have created centipede ships through China and the West, and this can be used on horse-drawn ships, such technology is amazing, and there is no need to set horse-drawn carriages back and forth, I heard that it is necessary to design a ship that can get on the train, and the big rivers cannot now build bridges to set up railways, so they can only find ways to do this. ”

Bao Jun nodded, "yes, yes, isn't this the same in the north?" The steamship yard in Tianjin, I heard that it can already build a 4,000-ton steamship, of course, this ship can not be used as a warship, but it is convenient to transport freight people, and the route to Jinzhou is a month smaller each time. ”

"Naturally, it's the best to learn," Prince Gong nodded, "Let's use these best, and those people below should also use more of their own things, anyway, now there is more business with foreigners." But it can't be the same as before, if you get into trouble with foreigners, you don't do business, if you don't do business, I'm afraid that serious domestic businessmen won't be able to stand it first. ”

"This is nature, tea from Anhui and Zhejiang, silk from Shanghai, porcelain from Jiangxi, now I don't know how many times the output has increased compared to before, we use it ourselves, we don't sell it to foreigners, otherwise who are we selling these things to? So in the future, this prime minister's yamen," Bao Jun said with a smile, "it is a war of words with foreigners, and this business matter, how to do it, or how to do it, can't be broken." (To be continued.) )