However, it was this series of failures and hardships in the early days that produced a large number of skilled railway workers.

And what really brought out the full potential of these workers was the credit of Zhu Fugui's personal advisor, Master Guo, and his friends.

Zhu Fugui currently has 4 groups of personal consultants.

They are:

Minting consultant: fake antique dealer Xiao Erhei and Boss Zhou, monthly salary 0, single consultation fee of 50 yuan;

Agricultural consultant: Chen Xiao, Ph.D. in Agronomy, East China Agricultural University, [Akatsuki], because of the improvement of his academic qualifications, his monthly salary has risen from 3,000 yuan to 3,500 yuan, and the bonus ranges from 500 yuan to 10,000 yuan;

Medical consultant: Vice President Tong of Ivory Mountain Central Hospital, old friend, monthly salary 0, single consultation fee ranging from 1,000 yuan to 5,000 yuan, open class 1-30,000 yuan each time;

Industrial consultant: [Jiangnan Combine Harvester Factory] Master Guo, monthly salary of 7,000 yuan, bonus of 1-100,000 yuan

Obviously, Master Guo's salary and bonuses are the highest.

On the one hand, this is because Master Guo himself has a very good income as a senior engineer, and if he earns less money from part-time work, he may not be willing.

Of course, the most important thing is that Master Guo's ability to help Zhu Fugui solve problems is really strong.

He was born in 62 years, with a college degree, and was a proper intellectual at that time.

He and his classmates are the generation of engineers who seized the opportunity to transform into an industrial power in China, with strong hands-on ability, practical ability, and a solid theoretical foundation.

If they were simple front-line veteran technicians, their level might be very good, but they lacked the ability to pass on their experience to others in the form of words and sketches.

If it is a highly educated engineer born in the 80s and 90s, their knowledge structure is certainly very novel, but it is precisely because it is too novel that Daming does not have the ability to imitate at all.

Master Guo just met Zhu Fugui's requirements.

And his popularity is good, and with a red envelope of money, there are a lot of old classmates who enthusiastically give him advice.

Master Guo is good at the old-fashioned internal combustion engine, and the other parts of the locomotive are designed by Master Guo's classmates.

In general, the Daming "Fox" train is based on the American MK1 train.

The New China Steam Locomotive Sifang Factory once used the MK1 as the prototype to imitate the Jiefang freight steam locomotive.

This steam locomotive was discontinued in 1960, so Master Guo and his classmates were not involved in production.

But this kind of train has been in service for a long time, and it was still used in some remote areas in the 90s, and almost everyone of Master Guo and his classmates has repaired this kind of train.

It's completely different from just having a drawing.

Why did the main battleship of the Ming Navy Division twist and turn?

It's not because Zhu Fugui really can't find a master who has ever repaired or built a warship, but he has been reported several times.

Trains are less sensitive.

Master Guo and his classmates provided extremely detailed drawings and first-hand data, as well as details that simply did not exist in various literatures.

They almost taught the engineers trained by Daming how to build an MK1 steam head.

It is the excellent team of consultants and the excellent engineers trained by themselves that Daming has a world-class steam locomotive.

With strong and reliable power, another big killer weapon of this era, armored trains finally have the possibility of actual combat.

At the Xinzheng Railway Station, Zhao Aqian specially invited Bismarck to get off the train and visit the armored train parked.

Even without Zhao Aqian's introduction, Bismarck could still see that the six carriages that were being maintained on the track of Xinzheng Station at this time were obviously different.

The thick black-gray steel plates on both sides of the carriage formed a solidly armored carriage, and workers with spray guns were spraying paint on their heads.

On the roof of one wagon, two steel-plated park-type turrets, a 75-mm field gun and a Gatling gun were mounted.

The carriages were full of dense shooting holes.

These hideous armor and output parts are a reminder of the terrible damage these armored trains can inflict on the enemy once they are put into combat.

Qian Luojun, the Royal Army military attache who accompanied him, said: "These carriages can carry up to 60 tons, otherwise ordinary carriages would not be able to carry so much steel. ”

Bismarck looked at the hideous steel beast and felt his hands and feet involuntarily cold, and the slight dizziness made him wonder if he was a little sick from the car.

But reason told Bismarck that this was impossible.

Because the trains of Daming were smooth, at least far more stable than those of Prussia.

"Originally, we planned to install two 152mm long-range guns on armored cars, but in the end we rejected this plan."

"Our Emperor considered that machine guns were no less important than artillery, so we reduced the number of large-caliber artillery and increased small-caliber field guns and machine guns."

"When it comes to artillery, we believe that your country's Krupp company is the best artillery supplier in the world, and I believe there will be a lot of room for cooperation between us."

Qian Luojun is the commander of the 32021st Brigade of the Railway Army, so he naturally knows the secrecy regulations and knows what to say and what not to say.

In fact, everything he said came from the instructions of the military department.

And the final decision-maker is naturally Zhu Dashuai.

If you ask what is the shortcoming that the Ming Dynasty needs to strengthen most in the military today, the answer is probably artillery.

Daming's [Eagle] series field guns are of course very good, but there are always many flaws in grafting.

The 20,000-ton giant beast battleship of the Ming Dynasty was still using a clumsy giant shore gun.

The guns used in the Iron Harrier medium tanks also often malfunctioned.

In this kind of inability to get direct help from later generations, there is actually a gap between the Ming Dynasty and the top powers.

So Zhu Fugui took a fancy to the Krupp cannon of the Prussians very early.

It's not that all the Krupp guns should be replaced, but learning a full set of craftsmanship from Prussia can obviously bring huge benefits to the development of the military industry of the Ming Dynasty.

As for these armored trains, they were the chips that Zhu Fugui took out to exchange.

Nominally, Mingpu cooperated in the development of armored train guns, but in fact, it was the Prussian guns of the Ming Dynasty, and then supplied them with armored trains and steam heads at low prices.

If Brother William wanted to exchange only the production process of the Krupp cannon for the production process of the "Foxy" steam locomotive, then Zhu Fugui would definitely have nothing to talk about.

However, Zhu Fugui believes that this kind of thing will most likely not happen.

After all, it is now the Prussians who stick the Ming with a hot face, and not the other way around.

And the armored train that can be exported to Prussia in the name of civilian trains and quickly form combat power is undoubtedly what Germany II needs the most today.

It's better to buy than to build, Zhu Fugui hopes that Brother William can understand this truth as soon as possible.