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However, the negotiations between the two sides could not be delayed for this matter, and in the end, the two sides stated in the agreement that the Huaxia Army opposed the British government's occupation of Hong Kong and the Kowloon Peninsula and demanded immediate return, but the British government refused to do so.

Li Xian sighed secretly in his heart, this matter can only be done here, and he can only leave some foreshadowing for the recovery of Hong Kong in the future.

The armistice agreement between the two sides was later called the "Bao'an Treaty", and many historians have made many wonderful comments on this treaty, some say that the Chinese military side defended China's rights and interests, some say that the compromise is too much, in short, there is everything.

In addition to signing this agreement, Li Xian had many other gains during this trip to Bao'an.

Li Xian made a large number of requests to the British officials led by Pu Dingcha for the purchase of materials, including sulfur, saltpeter, wrought iron, steel, rubber, coke, cotton, canvas, machine tools, and ships, and other bulk materials, including two steam engine locomotives and more than 10 kilometers of railroad tracks, as well as two steam engine ships.

If the Qing government knew about such a material trade, it would definitely be shocked, and then desperately interfere, after all, many items here are important strategic materials.

However, Pu Ding Cha did not object at all, but happily agreed to organize British merchants to provide these supplies, without the slightest intention of obstruction.

From Pudingcha's point of view, isn't it to fight such a war in China to open up the Chinese market and sell more goods to China, so why not?

As for whether the Huaxia army will use these materials to improve its own military strength, as far as the powerful British Empire is concerned, it actually doesn't care at all.

At this time, the British government's open-mindedness was still commendable, for example, Britain's high-end machine tools, which were strictly forbidden to be exported abroad earlier, so as not to use these machine tools to produce weapons and threaten the British army.

However, in 1820, such a ban on the export of machine tools was repealed, and even allowed exports to traditional rival countries such as France, much to the delight of British machine tool manufacturers for a long time.

In a sense, this kind of bearing is an important characteristic that a country needs to become a strong country.

With such a trade contract of more than one million taels of silver, Pu Ding Cha could also shirk some responsibility when he explained the military defeat in Guangzhou to the parliament in the future.

After the treaty was signed, Li Xian returned to Guangzhou and brought two steam engine ships, but they were sold to him by the British.

These two steam engine ships are ships of about 600 tons, and they were both damaged in the war before, and it may not be safe to pull them back to Britain all the way, so Pu Ding Cha sold them to Li Xian at a high price, so that he could take them back to Guangzhou directly, and they also carried some of the goods that Li Xian bought this time.

Li Xian returned to Guangzhou, showed the steamship and the treaty to the military and high-ranking and gentry, and also showed everyone a copy of the "Treaty of Nanjing" signed between the Qing State and the British.

It was really unexpected that a peace treaty could be signed between the British and the Huaxia Army, who had fought and died before, and some of the people who originally hoped that the British army and the imperial army would use troops together to drive away the Huaxia Army, a rebel team, were secretly disappointed, but it was inevitable.

When the two steamships arrived in Guangzhou, they caused a sensation.

The steamships of this era were very good, the six-hundred-ton ships were only medium-sized ships in Europe, but they were indeed absolutely large ships in China, and the steamships had two-storey wooden wheels on both sides, which were huge and fast, and could even move without wind, which was unimaginable high-tech for the citizens of Guangzhou who had only seen sailboats.

Some well-informed and familiar people were not enough, but the common people, with great awe and curiosity, flocked to the vicinity of the wharf to watch the steamships move from afar, and it is said that the people selling pastries near the wharf made a lot of money.

However, none of this had anything to do with Li Xian, and after he drove the steamship to Guangzhou, he summoned hundreds of craftsmen from the research institute in the blessed land and pounced on the ship, studying the steam engine on board and the steamship itself every day and night.

In the past, Li Xian had also obtained some steam engines from multiple sources, but they were all small machines, and their power was less than 100 horsepower, which was not at the same level as these two steam engine ships with 280 horsepower and 350 horsepower respectively.

Li Xian led the craftsmen to sketch out the design of the steamship and the steam engine, and then tried to disassemble and install the steam engine, so as to familiarize himself with its internal structure little by little.

After having enough knowledge of steamships, Li Xian also dismantled the steam engine of one of the steamships, and with great effort, transported it to Sanyuanguan, and then transported it into the blessed land.

In the blessed land, using the power of the Dao species, it is easy to determine the material properties of each component, and then according to the size of each part, the steam engine can be imitated little by little.

To be honest, with the current accumulation of technology on Li Xian's side, similar imitations can be completed in the Overworld, but it will be slower than in the blessed land.

In this era, the difficulty of imitation of steam engines is actually not high, the parts are stupid and coarse models, the error range is very large, and the use of a large number of machine tools obtained from Macao to imitate, there is really no technical difficulty.

After a month of tossing, the Fukuchi Research Institute was finally able to imitate the first steam engine, regardless of the cost of investment, the performance of the iron used exceeded the original, and each component was accurately machined, and the overall performance was much better than the original steam engine.

However, the imitation steam engine has made certain improvements, that is, the original steam engine is made to burn coal, while the imitation is made to burn charcoal.

Guangzhou has always been short of coal, and the coal burned by the steam engine is still processed high-quality coal, and it is impossible to get it in the blessed land for a while, so it simply uses charcoal instead.

The calorific value and combustion performance of charcoal are better than coal, but because it is several times more expensive than coal, charcoal is not used in general steam engines.

Relatively speaking, the blessed land belongs to the tropical rainforest environment, and the most important thing is wood, which is cut down casually to make charcoal, which is much easier than finding coal all over the world.

The imitation steam engine was immediately taken away by Xuan Zheng and others, and when using the crucible steelmaking method to produce steel, the steam engine can be used to blower the furnace temperature, and when it is necessary to obtain a high temperature of more than 1,500 degrees, the blower can be used to increase the temperature, and then the temperature is controlled by a fourth-order or congenital-level master, which is much easier than before.

Originally, Xuan Zheng used the innate method to increase the furnace temperature, which was convenient, but to make Xuan Zheng the main power exporter, which was equivalent to doing coolies; now it was changed to increase the temperature by the blower of the blower, and Xuan Zheng only needed to use the innate method to control the furnace temperature, so that it would not be too high or too low, which would naturally save a lot.

With steam engine blowers, more and better quality steel can be produced, and then the production of various mechanical parts will be driven, the cost of manufacturing steam engines will be further reduced, and the speed will be increased, so as to form a virtuous circle and continue to spiral development, which is the true meaning of the industrial revolution. 2. For mobile phone users, please browse M. Reading for a better reading experience.