After taking a bath, Jian Ziqiang was in a new state, and told His Majesty the Emperor in detail about the situation of the day.

It all started in mid-May......

Under the cover of a few progressive white slaves, the Daming special combat team was able to see Hong Xiuquan from a distance on the high platform built by the Hunan army.

This kind of commanding heights for investigating thieves in the city is generally not allowed to outsiders to go up.

The foreigner status of the progressive white slaves played a great role.

Generally speaking, the Hunan army, under the banner of preserving the name of the religion, actually does not like to have direct contact with foreigners.

On the contrary, Li Hongzhang and Huai Jun are completely different.

Li Hongzhang even hoped that "America" would sell him some American-style equipment.

Yang Liu secretly poked the white slave's ass a few times, and the latter agreed.

This is because Yang Liu, as a senior military attache of the fifth rank and a celebrity beside His Majesty the Emperor, knows very well that with the improvement of the industrial level of the Ming Dynasty, Long Live Lord has already intended to replace the Henry 1860 that was commonly listed before.

After all, this primitive submachine gun, which used pistol cartridges, was not suitable for use in plain battles.

In the last "Jucino Blockade", the Henry 1860 had already shown its limitations of low accuracy, short range, and low power.

Under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Industry, the Daming Royal Gun Factory under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Works, which is under the responsibility of the Nie Ministry of Industry, has successfully imitated the [Xing-237 type] rifle (that is, the 38 big cover).

It's just that the craftsmanship of the gun factory is indeed not as good as DR. Xing's secret R&D laboratory, and this rifle still has a big gap with [Xing-237] in terms of various data.

But even so, this firearm, named the [Dewu-02] non-automatic rifle, has also begun to be mass-produced and installed.

In fact, the design drawings of [Dewu-02 type] are exactly the same as those of [Xing-237 type], and the reason for the gap in final performance is the gap in technology.

This does not refer to the difference in the quality of the steel.

Steel is an important industrial product, although the cultural value penalty is much smaller than that of agricultural machinery, but the amount is helpless, far less cost-effective than their own steelmaking, there is a not rich iron mine in the Ming Dynasty, and the difficulty of mining is very low.

Zhu Fugui built four experimental earthen kilns in accordance with the methods of large-scale iron and steel smelting in the fifties and sixties, and in the place where Xinfeng would not be polluted as much as possible.

The small earthen kiln is an imitation of the [one-furnace three-bore reflex steelmaking furnace] invented by the Zhengzhou Municipal Bureau of Commerce in the 50s, making three or four tons of steel per day (see this paragraph for the picture).

The big one is a replica of the steelmaking furnace built in Yangquan, Shanxi Province, which makes 20 tons of steel per day (see this paragraph for the picture).

Of course, the products of these steel kilns are mainly used for civilian use, although they seem to be a little low, but they can also smelt 30 tons of miscellaneous steel every day, and if they are full, they are 10,000 tons of steel a year.

But don't underestimate that number.

The British Empire, which is now in full swing, produces only about 1.1 million tons of steel a year, and the combined output of the North and South of the United States is only 400,000 tons.

The Hanyang Iron Works, the fist project of "I Daqing", was built in November 1890, completed in 1893, and produced in May 1894, and continued to be built until April 1896, with a cumulative cost of 5 million taels and an annual production capacity of 140,000 tons.

Of course, the Hanyang Iron and Steel Plant is a real system problem, and the level of equipment itself is not bad, much stronger than the experimental clay kilns of the Ming Dynasty (see this paragraph for pictures).

The so-called experimental earthen kiln is naturally a temporary earthen kiln built to train steelmakers and engineers.

The Daming Iron and Steel Plant theoretically produces 10,000 tons a year, but in fact it does not even have 3,000 tons.

After all, the quality of the steel made in these clay kilns is extremely poor, and at most they can be used as a farm tool, an iron pot, or stupidly piled up in Juchino as a defensive bunker.

In fact, in the First Five-Year Plan of the Ming Dynasty, the final appearance of Fengdu Iron and Steel Plant was a factory similar to that of Hanyang Iron and Steel Plant.

Sometimes, Zhu Fugui really envied the Manchu Qing Dynasty in this era, and he could buy whatever he wanted, whether it was an advanced steel mill or a large warship with the country's heavy weapon, the foreigners did not have the slightest technical defense and arms embargo.

It's like India in the 21st century.

Probably saw through it, "My Daqing" can't support the wall like the third brother, but it can somewhat contain the big country in their north, which is so generous.

All in all, the Ming Dynasty can only produce some crude steel now, and the steel used to make guns and cannons still needs to be imported from the platform.

Therefore, there is no problem with the raw materials of the [Dewu-02 type] rifle, but the processing technology is not sophisticated enough, so that the accuracy is slightly lower than that of the late 38 big cover, which is about the same level as the first version in 1905.

With this rifle, the Henry 1860 was naturally going to be phased out, and it was a good idea to sell it to the Huai Army.

Li Hongzhang is a person who is both rich and happy.

Zhu Fugui bought a wholesale Henry 1860 for about 28 US dollars, and sold it to Huai Jun for 28 taels of silver, which not only earned back the freight, but also made a surplus.

The only thing that puzzled Yang Liu was that the legendary DR. Xing was actually recruited into the shogunate by Li Hongzhang, since he had such a talent, why did he buy "American-style equipment".

But after thinking about it for a while, Yang Liu understood what was going on.

DR. Xing, as a pure minister of the Ming Dynasty, naturally it is impossible to do things for the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

The reason why he entered the Li Hongzhang shogunate and became the alternate governor of the puppet Qing Dynasty was completely for the grand plan of the Long Live Lord.

While thinking that it is a countermeasure, it can also hide and protect itself with the principle of "black under the lamp", and continue to shine for Daming.

This is a true warrior lurking in the heart of the enemy.

Yang Liu secretly glanced at Xing Jiurou behind Li Hongzhang, revealing a meaningful smile.

And Xing Jiurou didn't know why at all, so he had to reply with an expression that was more ugly than crying.

During this time, he was eating good wine and meat, a beautiful maid, and a plump biluo in his arms, and the days were called a happy life.

It's just that because of the big smoke, the meat hasn't grown for a tael, and it is still the dignity of Captain Jia.

Yang Liu saw Dr. Xing's expression, and secretly said to himself, worthy of being a pure minister of the Ming Dynasty, he actually used a fake stupidity in order to hide himself, compared to him, he was really too far behind.

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If you want to approach the surrounded Tianjing City, you naturally need a valid reason.

The reason is also very simple, Yang Liu's progressive white slaves put on a set of foreign monk clothes, indicating that Father Wang from the Twisted Waist Grand Lama Temple wanted to debate the scriptures with the great rebellion and heresy.

It has not been a day or two since the foreign monks and those cultists in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom had fought a war of words.

Although Hong Xiuquan's Taiping Heavenly Kingdom claimed to be derived from Western Christianity, he knew nothing about Christians. In fact, all his thoughts originated from the "Good Words for Persuading the World" written by Liang Fa, a Chinese missionary at that time, combined with some local ghosts and gods, and fabricated a system that could justify itself.

Even at that time, Western missionaries tried to preach the scriptures to him, but they were denounced as heretics by Hong Xiuquan, and the two sides debated the scriptures, and even the Westerners were defeated.

Therefore, in the eyes of Li Hongzhang and Zeng Guofan, this time these foreign monks want to take advantage of Hong Xiuquan's burp to debate with him again, so as not to be able to turn the tables again, which is also a reasonable thing.

Yang Liu and the others followed the progressive white slaves to the high platform and threw scriptures into the city with bows, arrows and kites.

These scriptures were all copied by Zhu Fugui in advance from the "Story of the Bible" for 5 yuan a piece in later generations, and the Hunan army approved the investment after checking and determining that there was no problem.