When: July 3.

Location: In Jinmen City, the best Li Shunde Hotel, in a luxurious box.

A huge table is full of all kinds of dishes made of precious ingredients flying in the sky, swimming in the water, and running on the ground.

The wine is the favorite whisky of Westerners.

Such a luxurious table of seats could not be purchased without one or two hundred taels of silver.

It's just that in the face of such a table of good wine and good food, there are only six people seated; Even outsiders knew at a glance that two of the men were the key, and the other four women were just sisters who accompanied the wine.

One of them was white and chubby, and when he laughed, he called a harmless human and animal.

It is in the Xuange camp that is not too senior member of the shadow horse; This profession in the modern plane is the little brother of the finance of a private equity fund.

Of course, because he came over today to shoulder some special tasks, he has a pseudonym 'Wu Ming'.

After some eating and drinking, he was already a shadow rider whose neck was red after drinking, and he knew that the atmosphere was almost in place, and it was time to talk about business.

coughed a few times and motioned for the four sisters who were accompanying the wine to go out.

He took out a thin list from his sleeve and handed it to a man who looked like he was thirty-six or seventeen years old opposite; Li Zhongtang's nephew, Zhang Shiheng, who is now the head of the Beiyang Ordnance Bureau.

At first, after taking over the list, Zhang Shiheng was a little unimpressed.

The man in front of him, who spoke with a demonic accent when he spoke, invited him out to dinner after a lot of connections; Thinking about it, it is nothing more than a relationship between himself and Li Zhongtang's nephew, and he demands some things.

Or, I want to ask Li Zhongtang.

So he had already decided that if the other party could get enough benefits, he might as well do him some small favors.

If the benefits are not enough, he will eat such a meal, and even if he Uncle Zhang can come out to eat with his face, it has already given him enough face.

It's just that after seeing the contents of the list, as well as the relevant selling price and quantity, Zhang Shiheng's eyes straightened; In his eyes, he was full of Chiguoguo's greed.

Because on the list, it reads:

Krupp's latest steel flowering projectile, the price of a 305 mm caliber is ten taels of silver, and the distribution is 200 rounds.

The price of 150 mm caliber shells is five taels of silver, and the distribution is 1,000 rounds.

Krupp's new armor-piercing projectile, the price of a 305 mm caliber shot is three taels of silver; 150 mm caliber, the price of a shot is a tael of silver.

In terms of quantity, it is the same as the flowering bomb.

The above price is too expensive, so that Zhang Shiheng has such a reaction? No, but the price of the above shells is too cheap, and it belongs to the price of cabbage in the price of cabbage.

You must know that one of the tasks of the Beiyang Ordnance Institute that Zhang Shiheng is in charge of is to produce and purchase shells of various calibers for the Beiyang fleet.

So, he was quite clear about the doorway.

At present, the artillery shells used by the Northern Yang Fleet are basically armor-piercing shells and flowering shells.

The difference between the two is that the warhead of the former is just a large iron stone, which relies on the kinetic energy carried to cause damage; But the latter warhead has gunpowder in it, which can explode and be more powerful.

The former is less difficult to manufacture, and the armor-piercing shells used by the Northern Yang Fleet are basically produced by the Ordnance Institute itself.

However, the propellant is black powder, and the power is really not comparable to that of a foreigner's cannonball.

The latter is more difficult to manufacture, and the ordnance institute is not unable to manufacture, but the quality and efficiency are really difficult to describe, and they are generally purchased externally.

For example, this kind of Krupp production, the warhead contains a new type of explosive 305 mm caliber flowering shell, and one shot costs 210 taels of silver.

The price of a 150 mm caliber flowering bullet is much cheaper, but it costs 28 taels of silver per shot.

Even the armor-piercing bullets they can produce are cheaper than the selling price above.

Such a price is not relatively cheap at all, it is simply giving him money.

What's more critical is that some time ago, Zhang Shiheng was a little shy in his pocket, so he sold all the shells of various calibers in stock to the island devils at a price of 100,000 taels.

Originally, he thought it was no big deal, and thought that he just needed to take out two percent and make a point.

Let people make these training losses, and this thing can be fooled.

The result? Now that the situation on the sea is tense, Admiral Ding of the Beiyang fleet sent letters every once in a while, saying that he wanted to replenish the artillery shells, especially the flowering shells.

Facing the empty warehouse, where can Zhang Shiheng get it for a while?

Now it is a headache, countries are actually unwilling to sell shells, and even the price they are willing to sell is amazing, and they are afraid that they will go bankrupt if they fill this hole.

Suddenly encountered such a good thing, where is not overjoyed.

It's just that he also knows that where there is a good thing in the sky that drops pie for nothing, maybe there is something bad in these shells; Under the urgency of the current situation, don't fall for the tricks of devils.

Otherwise, after the incident, I am afraid that Li Zhongtang would not be able to protect him.

But the one on the other side, Wu Ming, as if he saw his thoughts, smiled and then spoke: "Lord Zhang doesn't need to worry about the quality of the shells, they are definitely the latest Krupp shells, but they cost a lot of money to buy them."

Besides, these shells can be paid for after they have arrived and checked that they are correct.

The reason why it is so cheap is that, on the one hand, the dynasty is not very peaceful, and Wu wants to reimburse the imperial court and Beiyang.

On the other hand, there are some small things that I want to ask an adult to help me operate. ”

After hearing such a sentence, Zhang Shiheng directly ignored the statement of 'reimbursement of the imperial court and Beiyang', 'There are some small things, help to help operate', but he listened deeply.

It was after hearing such a sentence that I immediately let go of all the worries in my heart.

There is something to ask for himself, so he gave such a large sum of money with a minimum value of hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, which is a fair and understandable thing.

After taking a sip of whiskey with a sake glass.

He said calmly: "Say, what do you want?" ”

After hearing this, the shadow rider said the biggest purpose of coming from the magic capital thousands of miles away: "The villain has some personal grievances with the Deng Guan belt of the Zhiyuan ship.

I have long been unaccustomed to a villain like him, who is actually in charge of a court weapon like the Zhiyuan ship, so I wonder if Lord Zhang can help operate one or two and let him get off the ship and stay? ”

After hearing such a request, Zhang Shiheng quickly analyzed the stakes.

quickly figured it out, because of the incident in Surabaya City, the people of Beiyang had long been unwilling to see Deng Guandao; In the past, it was just because of Emperor Guangxu, so it was not good to take him too seriously.

Now where does Emperor Guangxu still have the heart to take care of such a small person.

Therefore, as long as he took out one or two thousand taels of silver, and took care of Yang Shixiang and others, he could easily get off his position as the pipe belt of the Zhiyuan ship.

Let him find an idle job after getting off the ship, where to stay cool, where to stay.

Eventually, waving that list, a sentence came out of his mouth:

"Send the shells over immediately, when will they arrive, and when will Deng Guan take them off the ship."

"The cannonballs have already been on the ship in the magic capital, and they will be delivered tomorrow and the day after tomorrow at the latest." Shadow Rider gave such an answer......

Saying! Of course, Ying Qi and Deng Guandai, there is no slightest grudge between the two, and it is too late to admire such a respectable national hero.

There is a reason why he did it.

According to later generations, one of the key reasons why the Beiyang fleet suffered such a big defeat in the naval battle of Dadonggou in the first year of the First Wu Dynasty was that there was a serious shortage of artillery shells.

In particular, there are not a few rounds of the new type of flowering shells.

Why? It's not because Zhang Shiheng, the grandson, resold the stock of shells for the sake of profit, so that the fleet is seriously short of shells; By the time he had filled the stocks, the Northern Yang fleet had already been defeated.

So, in order to strengthen the combat effectiveness of the Northern Yang fleet.

The Xuange camp could only let the shadow rider disguise his identity and come to deliver a large number of cannonballs at the price of cabbage.

And these shells, in fact, are not the latest products of Krupp; To be more precise, it should be the latest product of Xuan Geying.

The propellant in it is not black powder, nor is it picric acid, but better trinitrotoluene; In terms of power, it is much stronger than Krupp's shells.

It's just that they still know the truth of being diligent and being either a traitor or a thief.

In order to let Zhang Shiheng, the grandson, relax his vigilance, there is a requirement for Deng Guan to take the Zhiyuan ship.

By the way, there is still a little caution, just hoping that Deng Guandao will not repeat the mistakes of history in this naval battle, and he should not die so unwillingly.

Instead, he must live well and become the commander-in-chief of the future Xuange Battalion fleet.

Take the powerful fleet of flower planters and conquer all the seas of this planet......

(End of chapter)