Breaking through Guandong, I became Zhu Chuanwen

Chapter 285 Maxim Krupp

The next day was the weekend, and Hanyao's primary and secondary schools were closed. In Zhu Chuanwen's view, the healthy development of primary school students still had to be adjusted by the holiday.However, the youngest generation of Hanyao boys headed by Qiao Liangfei are very quiet today, not as usual, they start calling friends and having fun in the family courtyard on weekends, it seems that there is something wrong...

And Tan Yongqing also rests naturally. Occasionally, as an "empty-nest old man", he gets up early in the morning and cleans up at home. He puts yesterday's goose feathers and goose bones into the stove. The high temperature will turn these bones into ashes. , without leaving a trace, and then took the toys that had been prepared a long time ago, and walked towards the porcelain house.

Zhu Chuanwen welcomes Tan Yongqing's arrival. The three-month-old Zhu Chuanwen's son, Xiaoman, has already learned how to stand up, but Zhu Chuanwen was so amused that he made a point in front of his father-in-law. The joy of becoming a father made him imitate regardless of his identity. All of a sudden, it made Uncle Tan smile.

Weng and son-in-law chatted for a while, and Xianer and Xianerniang also came out with the baby in their arms. Tan Yongqing hurriedly took it, and with the big baby, Zhu Chuanwen was perfunctory...

"My father-in-law, how is the situation in elementary school recently?"

"Well...it's good."

"My father-in-law, why don't you move to a bungalow, which will be closer to the porcelain house."

"Da da da da..." (the sound of a rattle)

"Well... no."

Tan Yongqing's more and more concentration made Zhu Chuanwen feel bored. Seeing the father-in-law who teased the child more and more attentively, Zhu Chuanwen and Xian'er looked at each other, "Xian'er, you can stay with your father-in-law and mother-in-law. I will go to work. I still have some things to do today." Recently, Xianerniang always lives in the porcelain house, taking care of the older children.Chuanwenniang has to sleep a little longer, this little one was very noisy last night.

The sound of Zhu Chuanwen stepping on the small rattle is very magical. Even if he is far away from the porcelain house, the sound of the rattle still hovers in his heart, and it doesn't dissipate until he enters the office and diverts his attention.

A red-marked portfolio was placed impressively on his desk.

Red, green, and yellow correspond to the priority of news from the hunter department, red urgent?This is the first time.

Open the dispatch.Inside is the news of the funeral of Guangxu and Cixi...

The power structure of the Qing court changed again, and the Empress Dowager Longyu and the regent Zaifeng became the helmsman of the broken ship of the Qing Dynasty. The above records in detail what happened in the capital in the past two days. Now it is not like before. Within a few days, the city was full of ups and downs.

Looking at the news above, Zhu Chuanwen carefully recalled what happened afterwards. Afterwards, there will be some power struggles.

Longyu and Zaifeng jointly made Yuan Shikai sick, and in the name of foot illness, he was relieved of all duties and returned to an ordinary citizen. This may be the last highlight moment of these two mediocre people.

But it was precisely this highlight moment, which was still full of compromises. Originally, Yuan Shikai was on Zaifeng's must-kill list, but the alliance of the governors completely forced back the two political novices. Zhang Zhidong wrote to disagree, and Xu Shichang I disagree with the letter...

This made the two novices feel terrified. Let's go ahead and say that when the Empress Dowager Cixi was still alive, she could no longer deal with the local governor with real power.At the beginning, the Empress Dowager Cixi declared war on the great powers.At that time, local governors such as Zhang Zhidong, governor of Huguang, Li Hongzhang, governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, and Liu Kunyi, governor of Liangjiang, formed an alliance to negotiate peace with the foreign powers, which was known as "mutual protection in the southeast" in history.

This kind of alliance of governors has already taken shape. Once Cixi died, the disintegration of the Qing Dynasty was in sight.

In order to maintain the superficial unity and wait for Puyi to grow up, this balance is something that Longyu and Zaifeng must compromise...

Zhu Chuanwen thought about these things carefully, and it seemed that the hunter and the firm had started to act in unison.

Gu Ansheng is already in Shanghai, so Wang Keren is going to Jinmen...

Just thinking, "Dangdang!" There was a knock on the door.

"What's wrong?" Zhong Xuan, one of Zhu Chuanwen's secretaries, came in.

"Boss, there is news from shopkeeper Qu that the first batch of new steel has been completed!"

This is good news second only to Zhu Chuanwen's happy son. Hanyao Steel Plant now has two 20-ton iron furnaces and one 5-ton Martin furnace. Now it has added this [-]-ton steel production line. It is a [-]-fold increase.After nearly half a month of equipment assembly and debugging, the first batch of steel was finally produced.

"Let's go!" Zhu Chuanwen immediately put down the news about the capital city and the death of the two rulers. Although it was red news, it was far less important than Hanyao's refining of new steel.

When Zhu Chuanwen arrived at Hanyao Steel Works, he found that a group of people surrounded it. Nie Shize, who had just brought back more than 10 craftsmen from Jinmen, had completed Chu Keqiu’s steam engine manufacturing and was researching more powerful gunpowder. Mao Guangting, the outermost brother of the Zhou family, are all here.

They heard their quarrel from a long distance away, and Qu Zhenggan, who was surrounded in the middle, was looking around at this time. When he saw Zhu Chuanwen's figure, he seemed to see a savior, and rushed over after pushing away from the crowd.

"Boss, I'm overjoyed, this batch of steel products fully meets the previous parameters, and our Hanyao's steel is finished." Qu Zhengqian announced the good news to Zhu Chuanwen as soon as they met.

There are not so many special steel products now. Except for some confidential patented technologies mastered by the United States, Britain, Germany, and France, the steel products of this production line can already meet most of the needs. Qu Zhengqian can be said to be cautious about the choice of this production line. You Shen, the first steel furnace was produced, and he was the happiest one.

"All the parameters match?" Zhu Chuanwen didn't expect that the first furnace of steel would be so successful.

"It's consistent, my boss, all of them are veterans of steelmaking. It took a lot of effort to debug the machine in front. It can be regarded as a complete understanding of the use of electric equipment, but it is much more convenient." Qu Zhenggan was full of pride.

In this step, Hanyao took a very steady step. He had accumulated a lot of experience in steelmaking in the previous Martin furnace and trained a lot of workers.

"Okay, by the way, what are they doing here?"

"Boss, it's up to you to decide. This group of people are all hungry wolves. They heard that the steel has been made, so they rushed over after hearing the smell." Qu Zhengqian seemed to be complaining, but in fact he was proud.This group of people also became shameless under Zhu Chuanwen's indulgence, and the environment with many foreigners in Bingcheng also liberated their nature.If you have something to do, Councilor Gu, shopkeeper Gu, if you have nothing to do, you will be old Gu.

In the past, they were all able to speak well of Gu Ansheng, and used the research funds allocated by Hanyao to buy equipment and books from various offices. They saw that Lao Gu was very affectionate. Now, this furnace of steel has been targeted by them. . "Shopkeeper Qu, Shopkeeper Qu." He shouted, but Qu Zheng felt refreshed for a while...

Zhu Chuanwen glanced at Qu Zhenggan, who was proud of the spring breeze, and then at the blushing crowd. He couldn't help laughing, and suddenly understood what was going on... Then he looked at the shopkeepers who were staring at him with burning eyes, and finally understood. When I was working on this product, I didn't tell myself to watch the production of the first furnace of steel. I was pulling myself over to distribute things.

Damn it, every stomach is full of bad water now, and they brought a few people into Qu Zhengqian's office.

"Tell me!"

"Boss, my 10 steam engines were produced in a hurry, 5 were used in the flour mill, 2 were transported to Xiaoqingshan, and 1 was in the resident of the insurance team in Binjiang City. It can be regarded as a successful completion of the task. This batch of steel can be given to me. Points." Chu Keqiu was the first to speak.

"What are you doing with the new steel?" Zhu Chuanwen was very puzzled. In his heart, this batch of steel had to be supplied to the Hanyao Gun Factory, which had been renamed. That is really reassuring. The continuous injection of 30 silver dollars has made the Gun Factory the largest factory area of ​​Hanyao. The original No. 600 Ironware Factory has been continuously expanded and renamed. The first batch of [-] Mosin Nagants Already on the field, in the experimental stage.

"Boss, the steamship is ready..." Chu Keqiu looked at Zhu Chuanwen resentfully, like a betrayed daughter-in-law, feeling that the boss didn't care about the Second Iron Ware Factory at all.

With the foundation laid by Xu Shou, and the small boats captured by Zhu Kaishan's suppression of the bandits, Chu Keqiu was not idle. In addition to helping the Binjiang City Insurance Team to build a power plant and connect it to electricity, the remaining two steam engines The core was used by him on the ship. For this matter, he traveled to Vladivostok several times. The power system of that large freighter has been thoroughly studied.

Hanyao No. 1 steam engine, also called Chu’s steam engine, can be said to be the peak work of Chu Keqiu in the first half of his life. Through continuous modification of core components, it can drive iron mills and generators. Now it can be used as an iron ship. It is very difficult to build a large power core, but it is easy to build a boat running in the Songhua River.

"Can your boat run in the water?" Zhu Chuanwen asked with interest.During the first test, he also looked at it with great interest, but seeing the 20-ton wooden boat, it turned off after running for a while, which really hit his self-confidence.

"Okay, my boss. Ships A and B have done a lot to buy grain from Sanjiangkou this year." Chu Keqiu stared at Zhu Chuanwen resentfully again. His boss really didn't pay attention to him.I also blame myself, why did I call my boss for the first test?
"Then you want steel now?"

"Boss, I want to build an iron ship, look here is the design drawing!" Chu Keqiu hurriedly took out the iron ship design drawing he drew from his arms.

"How many tons?"

"100 tons!" Chu Keqiu said proudly.

It's not too small, Zhu Chuanwen thought, "How much steel do you want?"

"Boss, I don't think it's too little..." Chu Keqiu agreed with what his boss meant, and said with a smile, he knew that his boss also liked the things he liked. , Chu Keqiu still likes to make things by himself, he knows his boss...

"Then..." Zhu Chuanwen was about to make a decision when Mao Guangting spoke.

"Boss, I also need this new type of steel plate here. The equipment made of this steel can resist corrosion very well. I just need a batch of such equipment for the production of the new type of yellow gunpowder here."

This is also a big deal. Yellow gunpowder is widely used in Hanyao. Except for the mining of Laojingou Gold Factory, which does not use gunpowder for safety reasons, coal yards and iron ore factories are widely used, but dangers also exist. , Zhu Chuanwen also dragged Doug to collect a lot of German papers, so now that Mao Guangting said it was a new type of yellow gunpowder, then it should be that the thing he gave has been developed.

"The development was successful?" Zhu Chuanwen asked.

"The owner can only manufacture a small amount now, but the equipment with new steel materials should be mass-produced soon." Mao Guangting is steady, and he plans to report this matter to Zhu Chuanwen after the mass production. He is not like the old man. Chu, being reckless, almost gave up his own advantage.

"Here! You don't want much, do you?" Zhu Chuanwen couldn't bear to look at Chu Keqiu, and said this.

"Not much, boss, more than 30 tons is enough, and I have to trouble the Zhou family brothers to build it according to my requirements." Mao Guangting said, handing the design drawing of the equipment in his arms to the melon eater beside him. The Zhou family brothers, the two brothers came here this time to see the production of new steel. They have no idea about these steel products. The steel from the old-fashioned Martin furnace will belong to them in the future. , They are both thinking about recruiting another wave of people and what kind of bicycles they need.

30 tons, not much, Chu Keqiu didn't say anything, his enemy was not Mao Guangting.

"Okay, yours will be supplied first, no problem, Lao Qu." Zhu Chuanwen planned to supply Mao Guangting first, only 30% of the output this time.

"Boss, Lao Qu, let's go first!" Mao Guangting took Qu Zhenggan's approval note, called Zhou's brothers, and started to deliver his own part, but the old song beat Qu Zhenggan back. Original appearance.

The departure of a few people made the smell of gunpowder in the room even stronger...

At this time, Nie Shi, who had already felt that the winning ticket was in his hands, closed the door, took out the things he had prepared a long time ago, and put them in front of Zhu Chuanwen: "Master, this is the craftsman I invited back from Tianjin to recently draw a picture made by the Tianjin Machinery Bureau. The designs of the Maxim heavy machine gun, the Krupp mountain gun, and the Krupp field gun were partly made by the Tianjin Machinery Bureau at the time."

"Have you changed it?"

"The heavy machine gun has been changed, using Lao Chu's design." What Qu Zhenggan was talking about was the tripod.

"Then what else is there?" They are all confidantes, so there is no need to avoid it.

"The mortar is still under experimentation, and the infantry artillery is also under experimentation." Nie Shi said that the mortar is a new thing and needs to be continuously tested, while the infantry artillery is based on the research of the two Italian cannons.With financial support, under the organization of Nie Shize, the old craftsmen brought back have quietly established the Hanyao 002 Research Institute in the Gun Factory. For this group of talents, Hanyao's conditions are very favorable, and 001 chemical research institute The researchers of the Institute are treated equally.

Moreover, in the gun factory, in addition to the densely constructed rifle production line, there are also heavy machine gun manufacturing workshops and Krupp gun manufacturing workshops that have also been established successively, but the equipment is still being manufactured in Chu Keqiu's Second Machine Factory.

"Have you conquered these technologies?" Zhu Chuanwen asked Nie Shize.

"There are no difficulties in technology. The important thing is the steel. I just checked the quality of this batch of steel. It is completely in line with the manufacture of heavy machine guns and Krupp guns. If it is used in the manufacture of firearms, our Mosin Nagant Maybe the quality can be improved, and the Maxim and Krupp made of new steel can reduce a large part of the risk of bombing under the condition of correct operation." Nie Shi said very calmly, these things are He competed for the sharp weapon of steel, the production line of this new steel, according to the scale of the current gun factory, but he was sure to eat them all.

Zhu Chuanwen thought for a long time, and still made a choice, "Old Qu, from now on, Xingang will supply all of the guns to the gun factory."

"Boss!" Chu Keqiu couldn't bear it anymore.

"Old Chu, you have accomplished the goals and tasks set last year very well, but what Hanyao is facing next is another industrial revolution. What do you think is different about today's steel mills?"

What's the difference? It's not as different as Chu Keqiu's place!Complaints are not dared to say in the open, but Zhu Chuanwen treated him well, he also thought about it carefully, and asked tentatively: "The use of electric motors?"

"Yes, Lao Chu, I also want to build ships, and I even want to build cars and tractors, but it is very difficult for Hanyao to build these now. You should know that the cost cannot be controlled at all. The most urgent thing now is your technical research. In the future, you will take the lead in establishing the Hanyao 003 Research Institute. This iron ship is temporarily used as a technical reserve. Combined with the previous steam engine technology accumulation, I want you to study thermal power generation. For this part, I will allocate 20 silver dollars to you next year. The funds will help you with your research, you can go to foreign countries for investigation, and you can look for talents, I want you to complete the transformation of all factories under Hanyao from steam engines to electric motors within three years." Zhu Chuanwen spent a lot of effort He just walked out of the temptation of the iron boat. Since he has the template of the first electric power production line in Hanyao Steel Works, Chu Keqiu should do something more meaningful first.

When the power reform is completed, Hanyao will go up to a higher level, and the steel output will be doubled several times. The matter of the iron ship is being put on the template. The second iron factory is still very important, and the workers trained in it are all from several large factories. Gears drive Hanyao's industry to move forward steadily, so speed up these gears.

But while speeding up, one's own safety must also be ensured. The spears produced by the gun factory will greatly protect Han Yao and put the ship in iron armor.

(End of this chapter)