Chapter 116 A man who wants to be a captain
"Isn't it hard for you to do discipline training with those craftsmen outside the city?
By the way, it is said that those foreigners beat and scolded the Chinese people at will, and punched and kicked them if they were not satisfied, have you ever been beaten?
I also have to say two words to you, Zhao Dagui wants to train his own subordinates, how can you say that he is also a scholar, why bother to join in the fun.
Otherwise, I'll tell Zhao Dagui that it's better for you to come back and work in the college, or go to our technical department to develop the silk reeling machine of foreigners together.
With your intelligence and ability, you can definitely help a lot. Sheldon persuaded.
"Hehe, I wanted to persuade you to come to me, but I didn't expect you to pull me. Yang Willy couldn't help laughing: "Seriously, how about you come to me to train together, I can let you be my deputy." ”
"Learn how you crawl around in the mud, don't worry. Sheldon hurriedly shook his hand.
"What's there, there's real fun in it. Yang Willy shook his head, then pointed at Sheldon and said in surprise:
"However, you have changed a lot during this time, and there is a lot of joy in your body, and your face seems to be radiant.
Looks like you're having a good time. ”
"Well, you don't know what we've been doing all this time. Talking about the experience of this time, Sheldon couldn't help but dance with his eyebrows, and talked about learning "Introduction to Mechanical Drawing" during this time, developing Western machines, and fiddling with various machine tools and steam engines.
"I used to only hear that the steam engine of foreigners was easy to use, but I didn't know what it was for.
As long as you burn some coal, you can use steam to propel all kinds of machinery, which is dozens of times faster than people themselves.
We've been planning to make a replica of a steam engine lately, and it's not the big one we used on the ship, but it's certainly the first steam engine I've ever made, and it's going to make a lot of money pulling raw silk..."
Sheldon showed off and talked about the idea of how to make a steam engine and the gearbox that would be used with it, and he couldn't stop talking for more than half an hour.
Yang Willy listened with a smile and didn't interject, just listened with relish.
To be honest, many of the things Sheldon said were very novel, Yang Willy had never heard of them before, he thought that his experience during this period of time was magical enough, and he had learned enough, but he didn't expect that Sheldon had experienced only a lot more new and strange things.
As for the significance of what Sheldon did, Yang Weili is also a person who has a considerable understanding of Western science and technology, so he naturally understands what kind of significance this imitation of silk reeling factory equipment and steam engine has for the whole country.
"These things are so interesting, you come to my side, let's do this together, how about it?" After Sheldon finished speaking, he didn't forget to invite Yang Willy.
"What you're doing is really interesting and meaningful, and I'm going to have the art of clone, and I'm sure I'll do it with you.
It's a pity that I can't get out of my body now, so I can only do what is at hand first. Yang Willy couldn't help but say.
"Isn't it just crawling around on the ground, what can't you get out of?" Sheldon was stunned.
"How can it be so simple, if I want to be a sailor, if I want to be a captain, if I want to conquer all over the world, I must slowly accumulate and get through the current hurdle. Yang Weili couldn't help but shake his head.
"Hmm... Besides, how could you want to be a sailor and a captain?"
Yang Willy couldn't help but be stunned, only to remember that his friend looked extremely smart, but in fact, his mind was a little immature, and he had a spirituality in mathematics and other subjects that others could not match.
In this way, we have to start from the beginning.
"Zhao Dagui is holding this discipline training, do you think it is just to invite a few foreigners to teach his subordinates some rules? If you want to think so, it is a big mistake.
In fact, the foreigners he invited were all soldiers, or officers specially invited from the British Navy, three of them were lieutenants, and the others were non-commissioned officers.
Therefore, on the surface, this discipline training is only to admonish the craftsmen and teach them the rules, but in fact it is to conduct military training and train people as soldiers of the army. ”
"And this kind of thing, this is really strange, what is Zhao Dagui trying to do? Aren't you afraid of violating the taboo of the imperial court?
Besides, what's the use of training craftsmen and guys as an army, will they still help Zhao Dagui fight?
By the way, it's just such a thing, why are you screaming in? You might as well leave as soon as possible. Sheldon felt that the amount of information he had obtained at once was too much, and he couldn't help but say incoherently.
"Zhao Dagui engaged in this training, naturally he didn't really want to train his craftsmen into soldiers, his real intention is really literal, through training to let the craftsmen know the rules, it will be much more convenient to use in the future.
If you think about it, these craftsmen are all pulled from several shipyards, and they are not affiliated with each other, and they are not familiar with each other, and they are even from both Macao and Dinghai, which is very troublesome to use.
Now it will be much easier to use military discipline to rectify and cultivate the habit of obedience from top to bottom, and then slowly integrate and use it.
I have observed a lot from the sidelines, and I feel that after these hundreds of people have been trained like this once, they will definitely be able to use them like fingers in the future, and they will be much stronger than ordinary craftsmen.
This Zhao Dagui is shrewd, and he always does things unexpectedly, but in the end the effect is very good, no wonder he makes so much money at a young age. Yang Weili hurriedly explained, lest his friend go out and talk nonsense and cause any trouble.
"And things like that, that's kind of weird. But I still don't quite understand, what does this have to do with you?" asked Sheldon curiously.
"You don't understand. When we came from Macao, we came on the Vostok, which was so fast, steady, and big that I decided that I would become a captain in the future, or even an ordinary sailor, and take a steamship to sail all over the seven oceans. ”
"That's it," Sheldon vaguely remembered that Yang Willy was very excited after getting on the steamship, and he always ran around the captain's room and the steam room, which annoyed many people, "Did Zhao Dagui make a promise with you, saying that as long as you participate in such training, he will let you be a sailor, or even a captain?"
"That's not explicit, but it's pretty much it. Yang Willy said hesitantly.
It turned out that Yang Willy was quite smart, and he was not as sensitive to realistic things as Sheldon, and after seeing more than 20 foreigners training Zhao Dagui's employees, he saw some clues.