After the production line of tire rims stabilized, Yu Ke found a new problem.

That is, the efficiency is too low!

On average, a maximum of seven or eight hundred tires are produced a day.

The production line in the Yuke Rubber Factory is from collecting sap, to making rubber, and then to secondary processing rubber to make rubber products.

Almost all of them are made by hand, not lathes, which is naturally inefficient.

After pondering and meditating, Yu Ke had to give up his unrealistic ideas.

It's not that he can't make this thing, it's that it's too time-consuming, and there's no need for it.

It is not as cost-effective as ordering a batch of lathes directly from Western countries.

So Yu Ke sent another telegram to Zhang Zhidong, which clarified the needs of the rubber factory.

Soon received a reply from Zhang Zhidong.

Zhang Zhidong said that he would rest assured that he would solve this matter.

Yu Ke was relieved after receiving the reply.

Zhang Zhidong's connections are much wider than his, and with his guarantee, there will naturally be no problems.

Sure enough, more than a month later, several Germans came to Lianhua County, followed by a carriage procession.

There are more than a dozen lathes of various types on the carriage, including horizontal lathes, floor lathes, turret lathes, etc.

Most of them are complete, and a small part is broken down into parts because they are too large or heavy.

These lathes do not use electricity, but are primitive bicycle lathes that resemble sewing machines.

The Germans were invited by Zhang Zhidong to help Yu Ke set up and set up the lathe production line.

Although Yu Ke felt that he didn't need the help of these Germans, and these Germans were very arrogant, which made Yu Ke feel a little unhappy.

But Yu Ke still patiently received these Germans.

After all, these Germans were Zhang Zhidong Qing to help him, and if he offended them, Zhang Zhidong would be very difficult to do.

Later, with the guidance and help of these Germans, the production efficiency of Yuke Rubber Factory increased many times.

With lathes, jobs that used to require ten people to work together now only require two or three people.

A lot of manpower has been vacated.

With this surplus manpower, Yu Ke can also start producing other rubber products.

Already having experience in making bicycle tire rings, Yu Ke first began to manufacture other types of rubber tire rings.

Of course, due to technical limitations, pneumatic tires cannot be made for the time being.

In addition to tires, rubber factories are also experimenting with the production of gloves, leather tubes, bicycle cushions, gelcoats and other products.

Although it is difficult to make a qualified finished product in a short period of time, at least there is a direction for effort.

It is not difficult to say that it is difficult to produce these rubber products, and it is not easy to say that it is simple.

Moreover, many rubber products are not necessities of life, and only if the cost is reduced and the corresponding price is lowered, will there be a market.

After more than three months, all rubber products have been able to be produced on a large scale.

But unfortunately, sales are not as good as Yu Ke's still not gets.

The total profit of the rubber factory is only seven or eight thousand taels of silver per month, which is only a drop in the bucket for the funds needed for Yu Ke and Zhang Zhidong's business.

Zhang Zhidong told Yu Ke that he had received the support of a group of wealthy businessmen, who were willing to support Zhang Zhidong with a batch of silver coins every month, totaling tens of thousands of taels.

But Zhang Zhidong also has to pay corresponding benefits, such as reducing commercial taxes and other policy support.

There are many wealthy businessmen in the Liangguang area, and they are all the masters with thousands of pockets, and many wealthy businessmen have even done business abroad.

It's good to have a relationship with these wealthy businessmen and get their support.

This means that Zhang and Yu's careers in Liangguang are more stable.

At least before the war spreads to Liangguang, there will be no more worries about silver spending.

But the money given by others is, after all, not as easy to spend as the money you earn.

Zhang Zhidong once thought about trying to sell various products from the rubber factory abroad, but the results were not ideal.

After Yu Ke learned about it, he suddenly understood that what the rubber factory lacked was products with core competitiveness.

After thinking about this, Yu Ke quickly thought of a solution to the problem.

Products with core competitiveness must first be necessities of life, and it is not easy and difficult to imitate.

Such a product, and it is a rubber product product, Yu Ke has a lot of it in his mind.

1. Rubber kettle.

The biggest difficulty of this product is to temporarily remove the smell of rubber.

Rubber kettles have a great advantage over water storage products made of other materials, that is, they are not easy to damage and are portable.

As long as the problem of peculiar smell is solved, there is no fear of no market.

Even such products can be sold as military supplies to the armies of many countries abroad.

This point has to be solved by Zhang Zhidong.

Do what you think. Surprisingly, it only took a few days for Yu Ke to find a way to get rid of the odor!

After the production of odorless rubber kettles, they quickly opened up sales abroad.

Even the sales of other products of Yuke Rubber Factory have also increased a lot.

The monthly profit of the rubber factory has increased several times, from seven or eight thousand taels of silver to twenty or thirty thousand taels of silver.

The scale of the rubber factory is also getting bigger and bigger, so that the original 1,500 Guangdong military garrison is somewhat insufficient.

A few more workers had to be recruited from several nearby counties.

Yu Ke stayed in Lianhua County for nearly half a year, waiting for the rubber factory's business to stabilize before returning to Guangzhou.

In the past six months, many things have happened on the land of China.

The first is the White Lotus Sect.

The White Lotus Sect army that had raised the incident in Henan failed.

It was not that the Qing court took action to exterminate it, but that this White Lotus Sect army fell apart on its own.

Li Feng, the altar master of the White Lotus Sect in Henan, surrounded Luoyang City with 30,000 horses and fell into a stalemate, but he still failed to capture Luoyang after a month of siege.

After all, most of these 30,000 horses were just disaster victims who were driven in, and they had no combat effectiveness.

After besieging Luoyang City for a month, the supply of food and grass for these 30,000 horses was insufficient, and the victims also starved to death in patches, and even caused a plague due to improper disposal of corpses.

After a month of 30,000 horses, there were less than 5,000 left.

Most of the men and horses fled to other regions, and a small number of White Lotus Sect followers were still holding on.

The defenders in Luoyang City saw that the White Lotus Sect was gone, and 800 officers and soldiers took the initiative to attack under the leadership of Wu Chong, the defender of Luoyang City.

defeated the remaining White Lotus Sect members and captured the altar master Li Feng alive.

At this time, Luan Zhenkun, the master of the White Lotus Sect in Shanxi, came late with 50,000 horses and besieged Luoyang City again, and failed to take Luoyang after three days of siege, so he retreated.

Speaking of the White Lotus Sect in Shanxi, this sect leader Luan Zhenkun has some skills, and he captured most of the cities in Shanxi in less than two months.

His men and horses also grew to 200,000, and even formed 5,000 cavalry and 3,000 musketeers.

After his strength increased greatly, Luan Zhenkun proclaimed himself the king of Jin.

Luan Zhenkun did this, and immediately touched the bottom line of the imperial court. The imperial court could no longer sit idly by.

The ministers of the Military Aircraft Department reached a unanimous opinion and let Yuan Shikai lead his Beiyang New Army to quell the rebellion.

In more than a month, Yuan Shikai pulled out more than a dozen cities in a row, and almost wiped out the 200,000 troops under Luan Zhenkun.

and killed Luan Zhenkun with one shot.

Although the Qing court was rotten, the emaciated camel was bigger than the horse, and it was not something that the idle had the right to offend easily.

After exterminating Luan Zhenkun's forces, Yuan Shikai returned to the dynasty and was crowned as a third-class loyal and brave man by the imperial court, but in fact, he was promoted and surrendered secretly, and his military power was weakened.

After Li Hongzhang's death, the Beiyang faction was leaderless, and Yuan Shikai faintly had a situation of unifying the Beiyang faction, and it was naturally impossible for several ministers in charge of power in the DPRK and China to watch Yuan Shikai become bigger.

This time sending Yuan Shikai to exterminate the traitors was actually a temptation.

Yuan Shikai also knew very well in his heart that it was not yet time for him to emerge.

A vigorous rebellion, although it showed the muscles of the Qing court, shocked some people.

But at the same time, it also made some people with a heart see the chaos and weakness within the Qing court.

As mentioned earlier, the Zongren Mansion chose to let Prince Gong succeed to the throne.

According to the law of the country, the Zongren Mansion has this power, and others cannot interfere.

But Prince Qing was not an easy man, he controlled the financial power of the imperial court.

Before Cixi's death, Prince Qing was Cixi's "money bag".

The household department is almost firmly in his hands, and he also has the support of many ministers of the DPRK and China.

Now the two parties of the DPRK and China are fighting each other, and they are on the same page.

Even, there are faint signs of the division of the two dynasties in the imperial court.

Of course, the probability of this happening is very small.

But whether Prince Gong or Prince Shun succeeded to the throne, they could not stop the Qing Dynasty from going to Xishan.

Not long after the White Lotus Sect Luan Zhenkun was exterminated, the Heaven and Earth Society, which had been silent for decades, also began to raise its flag to rebel.

And the momentum is much stronger than that of the White Lotus Sect.

The rebellion of the Heaven and Earth Society began in Yunnan.

These anti-thieves of the Heaven and Earth Society are the remnants of those anti-thieves of the Heaven and Earth Society that established the 'Dacheng State' in Guangxi more than 30 years ago.

There is also some connection with the Black Flag Army.

In the end, Liu Yongfu just wanted Yu Ke and Zhang Zhidong to rebel together, and he couldn't wear the same pants with Yu Ke and Zhang Zhidong.

He was moved by his old friends of the Heaven and Earth Society to raise the flag and rebel with the Heaven and Earth Society.

even ran to persuade Yu Ke and Zhang Zhidong together.

But Yu Zhang and the others did not agree.

The time came to March 1889, the fifteenth month after Cixi's death.

The great cause of the Heaven and Earth Society rebellion finally ended in failure.

Heaven and earth will have more than 200,000 troops.

Even if Yu Ke Zhang Zhidong secretly traded arms with him, the number of guns held by the Heaven and Earth Society was only twenty or thirty thousand.

Moreover, the Heaven and Earth Society can't keep up with all kinds of logistical supplies.

The interior is full of hills, discipline is not strict, and management is chaotic.

Except for the Black Flag Army under Liu Yongfu, the rest were no different from the rabble of the White Lotus Sect before.

Yu Ke and Zhang Zhidong saw this, so they did not choose to act together with the Heaven and Earth Society.

The Heaven and Earth Society raised its flag for more than a month, and the imperial court sent a large army to encircle and suppress it.

The main army was the Beiyang New Army, with the assistance of the armed forces of other state capitals.

The Beiyang New Army has a good combat strength, using the most advanced guns and artillery purchased from the West, and has rich combat experience.

Although the Heaven and Earth Society is menacing, it is not its opponent.

In just half a year, it was defeated by the Beiyang New Army, scattered everywhere, and collapsed.

After that, it took more than two months for the imperial court to completely extinguish the Heaven and Earth Society.

Liu Yongfu saw that the general trend had gone and wanted to withdraw to Liangguang, hoping that Zhang Zhidong and Yu Ke would pull him in on their former feelings.

Zhang Zhidong and Yu Ke agreed after discussion, but Liu Yongfu's Black Flag Army had to be broken up and incorporated into the new army, and Liu Yongfu was to serve as the commander of the Ninth Regiment.

Liu Yongfu had to agree.

Although the Tiandihui was defeated, it also greatly weakened the military power of the Qing court, and further exposed the fact that the Qing court was weak.

Before the rebellion of the White Lotus Sect, the Beiyang New Army had a total of 50,000 people, sufficient guns and ammunition, and 500 artillery pieces.

After the destruction of the Heaven and Earth Society, the Beiyang New Army only had more than 30,000 left, and more than 200 artillery pieces were damaged or lost

However, during this time, although Zhang Zhidong did not act on the surface, he never obeyed any orders from the imperial court.

In the eyes of the ruling ministers of the imperial court, Zhang Zhidong may not be any different from the thief.

Not only Zhang Zhidong.

Many feudal officials and local military generals, like Zhang Zhidong, also had two hearts.

Neither listened to the tune nor the announcement, and regarded the decrees of the imperial court as bullshit.

Although these feudal officials and local military generals did not rebel openly, they were just waiting for an opportunity and waiting for a leader.

The life of the Qing court was at the end of its life.

In June 1889, Liu Jin, the governor of Xinjiang, was crowned marquis and proclaimed himself the king of the northwest.

Subsequently, the feudal officials of many regions also raised the banner of rebellion, either self-proclaimed generals or self-proclaimed princes.

Zhang Zhidong and Yu Ke also announced to the world that they rebelled against the rule of the Qing court and established a regime called Nanguo.

It's just that unlike other rebels, Zhang Zhidong and Yu Ke did not proclaim themselves princes, but established a party that others could not understand. (PS: I can't write it in detail here, it will be sealed)

Compared with other rebel forces, Yu Ke's force is more stable and powerful.

After all, Yu Ke had begun to prepare for the rebellion two or three years ago, much earlier than others.

After another two months, Yu Ke led the new army to capture Yunnan Province and Guizhou Province.

Due to the rebellion of the Heaven and Earth Society in these two provinces, the land is vast and sparsely populated, and there is not much power in the two provinces.

With almost no soldiers, Yu Ke succeeded in incorporating these two provinces into the territory of the southern kingdom.

For a long time, the southern kingdom did not continue to expand.

It's about trying to digest the territory.

Stabilize the interior, recruit talents, promulgate legal codes, admit displaced people, build city walls, plan the economy, develop commercial agriculture, and innovate technology......

During this period, other forces led troops to attack, but they were easily defeated by the army of the southern country, and took over the opponent's territory as a matter of course.

At this time, people realized that the strength of the southern country was much stronger than that of other forces.

The great cause of rebellion has been completed for most of the time, and those who travel a hundred miles are half ninety, and Yu Ke will naturally not give up halfway.

But the three-year period is approaching, and Yu Ke is still ready to go to the next world first to find a way to live forever.

In September 1889, Yu Ke returned home to accompany his family for two days, and then submitted the 100-day fortune to Tianzhou.

Then I saw the whole world stand still and fade as if it were frozen frame, as if it had turned into a gray photograph in an instant.

Yu Ke also followed the darkness in front of him and fell unconscious.

When he woke up again, he found that the place he was in was not the ocean he had imagined.

Instead, they are in the middle of a sparsely shaded wood.