Chapter 62lan

[62]lan

Yao Fan took out a large stack of silver tickets from his sleeve, all of which were 10,000 taels each, and ten were respectfully stacked on the table next to Ding Baozhen's hand. He retreated and bowed deeply, "Yao Fan begged you to save my life!"

Yao Fan's words confused Ding Baozhen.

Before seeing Yao Fan, Ding Baozhen thought that Yao Fan would bribe, give gifts, pull relationships, and beg him to do something, but he didn't expect Yao Fan to find him for help.

Ding Baozhen knocked on the table with his fingers and said thoughtfully, "Get up and sit down. Are you talking about who wants to hurt you?"

After saying that, he calmly picked up the silver ticket and counted it generously. He was also surprised. Good guy, a whole 100,000 taels! Nowadays, the actual shortage of a county magistrate is only 10,000 taels. It can be seen that Yao Fan is a figure!

Yao Fan thought that he would at least pretend to cry as an opening, so he covered his face with his sleeves, gently rubbed his eyes, and whined twice.

Ding Baozhen looked funny and stuffed the silver ticket into his sleeve and said, "You just tell the truth in front of me. Why are you howling?" I think you are tall and healthy, and your family is rich. Who dares to hurt you?

Yao Fan saw that Ding Baozhen had no sympathy, so he simply let go of his sleeves and said with a bitter face, "Your Excellency, when the younger generation first arrived in Qingdao for business, he accidentally saved a poor girl, but he provoked Guo Jixiu, the son of Guo Weizhong, the governor of Jiangxi. He hated me for disturbing his good deeds and found a group of bandits from nowhere. Man, he actually blocked the road with a knife to kill me! I'm so scared that Qingdao doesn't dare to stay, so I have to take my buddy to Jinan to ask for protection.

Ding Baozhen is used to the wind and rain in the world. How can he be confused by Yao Fan's two words?

He frowned and said, "Speak slowly and tell me the matter carefully."

Yao Fan seized the opportunity and quickly told the cause and effect of the incident. Naturally, he put all the shit on Guo Jixiu's head. Among them, he also introduced the tragic life of Su Sanjie, saying that he had entrusted He Wannian, who was doing business together, and was looking for Su Sanjie's sister everywhere to reunite them.

Yao Fan said while observing Ding Baozhen's expression. After seeing that he heard about the third sister's life, he was also moved. He was a little sad, and his heart said that the effect was okay.

But after hearing about Yao Fan's beating, Ding Baozhen squinted and shook his head and said, "Then the Guo family is a big family in Jimo. If they want to kill you, how can they escape from you? I think he is probably going to scare you."

Yao Fan was furious and immediately slandered, "Isn't I miserable enough? Are your ears broken? Don't you have any pity? Where is the universal value of the ruling class? ......”

Ding Baozhen thought carefully about what Yao Fan said and said lightly, "Kid, since you are predestined to come to me, you should listen to me. It's not appropriate for the enemy to solve it. After I find out this matter, I will mediate with you and teach him Guo Jixiu to restrain himself."

Yao Fan got up unwillingly and bowed, "Thank you for your grace." But in his heart, he felt hatefully that the 100,000 taels of silver were smashed down, and he did not knock Ding Baozhen unconscious and Guo Jixiu was not trapped.

Ding Baozhen raised his hand and pressed it gently, motioned Yao Fan to sit down, and asked, "You must know that I didn't help you because I received your money."

Yao Fanxin said you helped me with a ghost? If you could be furious and promise to shovel Guo Jixiu to me just now, it would be almost the same.

Ding Baozhen didn't care what Yao Fan thought, but continued: "Before you came, I read the books compiled by your father in the study. Although the layout is Western, it doesn't prevent me from taking a glimpse of all the foreign leopards.

Speaking of which, your father's book is really meticulous, which makes the British clear from the source. Although I haven't finished reading it yet, I still think your father is a great talent in the world.

Yao Fan was anxious to take advantage of Ding Baozhen, so he had to say this and said perfunctorily, "A figure like this praises Jia Yan so much that he must be happy to know. There is a saying that there is a confidant in the sea. If the world is close to each other, the family must be as happy as meeting a confidant.

Ding Baozhen smiled and said, "I am planning the Shandong Machinery Bureau here. There are coal mines and factories under construction. At the beginning of next year, I plan to send Xu Jianyin, the general office of the Machinery Bureau, to Shanghai to negotiate with the British company, and buy machines for making foreign gunpowder and Ma's thorn guns. When you come back from the West, you should know something about the market. Let me ask you, do you know this well?

As soon as Yao Fan heard Ding Baozhen's words, he immediately made up his mind and laughed and said, "Your Excellency, this is easy to do. Why do you need to find the Providence Equipment Company? Oh, it's the Puen Company. Those foreigners have always been arrogant, expensive and expensive!" If you want to buy a machine, my family has a ready-made way! As long as you ask Lord Xu to make a list of machines, I will communicate with Lord Xu about the list and determine the model clearly. As long as I take half of the deposit, I will send the goods for you.

Yao Fan has read the relevant materials for a long time. I remember that in history, the Shandong Machine Bureau spent more than 180,000 taels of silver, most of which was used to buy machines. The equipment bought is very simple. From the perspective of the 21st century, it is even simpler.

Ding Baozhen heard that Yao Fan actually knew Puen Company and said a foreign article. He looked quite familiar with the company and said happily, "Then I'll test you. What kind of machines do you think you want to buy?"

With his understanding of history, Yao Fan said, "Since the coal mine is open, there are always two small steam engines, one with eight horsepower and one six horsepower, and the six horsepower one is used to drive the steam reciprocating pump and extract water from the bottom of the mine. The eight-horsepower one is used to drive the hinge and lift raw coal from the shaft to the ground. In addition, two railway tracks need to be installed in the inclined lane of the coal mine. This is not for running trains, but for trolleys.

As for the gunpowder factory, it is just iron rollers driven by small steam engines, which are used for crushing sulfur, nitrification, carbon and other processes. There are also small boilers used to lift nitrate, steam sulfur, bake charcoal, and some other pressing molds and machine punches. These are used to make * and * fire hats, and the structure is very simple.

And the Ma's rifle is actually the British Henry Matini rifle. I have hit it. Although the design is not as good as Mauser 1871, the excellent rifling line makes him more accurate than Mauser. This gun is improved from the Pbdi rifle. It is loaded with a lever-bore, loaded with gunpowder-rolled copper shell bullets and shot, then cleaned up the remnants of the rapper, and then repeated the previous steps to shoot. Early Henry Martini rifles are very prone to explosions if they are not cleaned up. As for the jams when retiring, it is even more common.

The ruff method of this gun is to drill a hepangle in the barrel, that is, a heptagonal shape with one more angle and one side than the hexagonal nut. The rivet line does not rotate much, and a barrel drills down and rotates less than half a week, but even so, for the mechanical processing water these days Generally speaking, it is still very difficult to process.

This gun is said to have an effective range of 550 meters. In fact, it means that he can still penetrate a thin board at 550 meters. In fact, if he wants to reach the target, even if there is no wind and clear, the sharpshooter will generally be about 250 meters. But there is no such good weather on the battlefield. As long as the wind blows, the ripping line and bullet processing accuracy these days will shorten the distance to the target. In addition, the recoil of this gun is so great that the back support is hit on the chest or shoulder, which is the same as the effect of being shot. Therefore, basically, if ordinary soldiers want to hit the target, the shooting distance should be about 100 meters, but this is a good result. Undoubtedly, this gun is much more advanced for a large number of well-equipped birds and guns.

Listening to Yao Fan's talk like pouring beans into a bamboo tube, Ding Baozhen has no doubt that he has found the treasure!

"For Xu Jianyin himself, that's probably the case! This man is really proficient in foreign affairs!" Ding Baozhen thought excitedly.

Yao Fan saw Ding Baozhen looking at him and thought he had to go on, so he was willing to stop and continued, "Our Shandong Machine Bureau made this gun, which is nothing more than a six-horsepower small steam engine for both burning firewood and coal, driving a manual machine tool, and manually processing every part step by step. The inner part is also It is necessary to manually operate the machine tool to turn in and out little by little, and then manually operate the machine tool to carefully boring the wire. If there are no high-level machine tool workers, I'm afraid of the consequences..."

Yao Fan remembered that Ding Baozhen once imitated 120 Martini Henry rifles after being put into production in Shandong Machine Bureau and boasted that his imitation "makes sound, and the strength to enter the target seems to exceed the original goods". Ha ha, this guy actually feels that the sound is more than the original is an advantage!

But in fact, the imitation of this gun stopped and was never produced.

Of course, Yao Fan knows why. The reason is that the first model of the Henry Matini gun is originally a particularly rubbish thing. The British improved it for six consecutive years, and finally came up with the second model in 1877. Since then, it has been officially mass production.

The innate deficiency of type 1 and the quality of the cottages of the Qing Dynasty are too poor! Thinking that Li Hongzhang rushed to let the Huai military use this gun to practice, he found that "the springs are not working, the marbles are different, and the accuracy is not far, which is inferior to the British ones". A basin of cold water poured Lao Li through, and the Shandong Machinery Bureau has never imitated this lever rifle since then. The 120 imitations became the souvenirs of this failure.

While Yao Fan was meditating, Ding Baozhen suddenly said, "Yao Fan, would you like to stay and help me build this Henry Martini rifle?" If you can stay, this rifle, bullet and gunpowder will definitely be made! With such a sharp weapon, what foreigners will our Qing Dynasty be afraid of in the future!

At present, what I use in the Qing Dynasty is bought by foreigners, which is very expensive. I'm afraid that when something happens in the future, gunpowder and bullets will be nowhere to buy, and guns will become waste. I often think that China knows how to use foreign guns but can't make their own foreign guns. If it goes on like this, it will be deceived by foreign countries without being controlled by foreigners!"

Yao Fan knew that he could not stay to help Ding Baozhen build guns and bullets. In order to rebel, he needs the weaker the Qing army, the better. Moreover, according to history, Ding Baozhen will go to Beijing to report on his duties in September 1876. He will be the top official, add the title of prince's eunuch, and be promoted to the governor of the right capital of the Military Department and the General's General's Office, and be promoted to the governor of Sichuan. After that, Wenge, the new Shandong governor, is a money-making master, which can guarantee Shandong. The machine bureau has paid for Ding Baozhen.

Yao Fan got up and said deeply, "The younger generation is the eldest son of the family. The huge business in the family will be controlled by me in the future, my lord! I really dare not take this job, otherwise I'm afraid the family business will be difficult to hold!"