Chapter 62: All Chinese

At the entrance of the village, a courtyard was lit, and the flames were blazing. Captain Du and several soldiers shot out, and with the firelight, they randomly shot the crowded figures. The black shadows were messy. I don’t know how many ferocious people gathered at the entrance of the village. The figures under the firelight were pulled long and looked weird and terrifying.

Under the ancient tree in the center of the village, there were four or five people, two foreigners and three Chinese. The foreigner led the team was a very handsome middle-aged handsome man with curved blonde hair and two beards. He was very noble. He called Short, and he came to China with his wife and daughter for three years and has also become a Chinese nationality. He is now the technical director of the Guangzhou Steel Factory. In fact, he not only achieved great success in the fields of steel machinery and steelmaking laws, but also had a profound research on geological geological exploration.

The alkaline open furnace steelmaking method that China Cantonese Iron and Steel Plant was the first to launch in the world. Although inspired by Ye Zhao, Schott would not have succeeded without real talent and knowledge. The Martin furnace, which should have been born a few years later, was born early. Moreover, in the history of world steel, there is no longer the name of Martin furnace, and it is replaced by the Schott furnace or the Chinese furnace.

As the captain of the survey team, Short came to Taipingfu to explore iron ore coal mine resources. He didn't need to do these things, he just needed to send someone to obtain ore samples and take them back to Guangzhou for him to check the impurities, but he was not relieved. The Regent said that the iron ore resources in this area were extremely rich, but he did not see with his own eyes that he would prepare for the construction of new blast furnaces and steelmaking furnaces just under the speculation of the Regent. He would never accept this irresponsible approach. He organized a survey team to Taipingfu and also obtained the approval of the Regent.

However, after coming to Taiping Prefecture, he was extremely dissatisfied with the soldiers' overly cautious protection. He could not go there or go there. He could only move in the so-called safe area, which made him very dissatisfied.

So early this morning, he took a few team members and left secretly without saying goodbye, and came to the restricted area where soldiers were not allowed to enter in order to obtain the most detailed first-hand information.

Now he regrets it. If a military team had not found them, they would have been cooked and eaten by the remnants of the brutal rebels outside. It was as if the troops in Taiping City had sent many such teams to find them. Short was ashamed and grateful.

Although these soldiers were also trapped in the village, they had no complaints. The captain named Du comforted him even more, asking him to rest assured that he would protect his safety even if he fought his life. His tone was plain, but Short knew that this man was the kind of person who did what he said.

Now Short can only pray, hoping that a miracle will happen and that everyone will be safe and sound.

Captain Du suddenly appeared under the big tree and whispered to Short: "Mr. Short, we don't have many bullets. Don't shout, try to put it naturally and don't cause their panic. Do this, you and the gentlemen of the survey team and Xiao Wang stay first. I will take my people out to attract the attention of the bandits. Please, Mr. Short, please listen to Xiao Wang this time, and wait for the right time, and he will lead you away from the haystack in the west."

Short was ashamed and ashamed. These soldiers wanted to sacrifice their lives to protect themselves, but had no complaints. Instead, they were worried that they would be angry again and said that they would listen to Xiao Wang's words. It was also life. Is their lives more noble than theirs?

Short kept shook his head and whispered: "Captain Du, I won't leave. If you want to leave, we will go together, or we will be killed by the rebels together. I am not afraid of death."

Du Laoqi patted his forehead. This ghost guy turned out to be quite loyal, but now is not the time to rush, so why would he tie them up?

At this moment, he suddenly heard the sound of gunshots outside the village, the horses neighed, and howling screams of ghosts and wolves. Du Laoqi was excited and laughed and said, "Mr. Xiaote, we don't have to die." The remaining bandits would not have a large number of horse soldiers, nor would there be such fierce and sharp firearms.

Du Laoqi was about to run to the roof to see, but saw more than a dozen cavalry racing in, but they came so quickly. Du Laoqi shouted, "Are you brother of the patrol team?..." He stopped halfway through the words, because he had already seen the light blue armor, the slightly trembling golden helmet, the iron-blooded and fierce arrogance in the fire, the Yulin Guard muskets and cavalry, and there was no more part of the world.

Du Laoqi hurried over and stood attentively saluted, his chest straightened, and said loudly: "Du Qi, the captain of the third team of the Third Battalion of the Third Battalion of the Taiping Prefecture Guard Regiment in Southern Anhui!" Pingyuan's army has banned the bad habit of beating thousands of people at every turn. Unless the generals of each town arrive, the lower-level non-commissioned officers only need to marching, and only marching salutes are allowed. The impact on the morale and sense of honor of the lower-level soldiers is obvious. The Regent has also said that he likes soldiers with a strong waist and a strong chest.

The leader of the musket cavalry was a tough young man. He dismounted and returned the military salute, saying, "The leader of the Yulin Army's horse army, Lei Chong!"

"Hello, sir!" Du Laoqi stood at attention, but was extremely excited. This was the personal guard of the Regent. He could often see the Regent, but why did he come to this bandit nest?

It is not a complaint that Du Laoqi is biased. In the eyes of the Taiping Army, ordinary people are also exposed to banditry in the eyes of people from other provinces. This is also the reason why Ye Zhao ordered that a large number of militia groups in Ganzhou should not be allowed to enter Anhui in large numbers. The militia groups have a complicated variety of products and are even more difficult to restrain. Once they enter southern Anhui, they are afraid that many people will be there to take the opportunity to plunder. Even if they slaughter good people, they will be reported to kill bandits, and they will not be verified for the time being.

Therefore, it is better to eliminate bandit-related gangs and remnants, and never use militias with loose military disciplines. It is okay to protect your hometown, but it is easy to transform into bandits when you go to another place. China is too big, and the regional differences in this regional concept are not formed in one or two days.

Of course, Ye Zhao also rushed to mobilize the patrol troops to enter southern Anhui to quell the rebellion, and even dispatched 3,000 patrol troops from Guangdong to southern Anhui.

While Du Laoqi was thinking about it, he saw a group of people slowly coming over in the fire. Dozens of muslan cavalry gathered in the village dismounted and stood in a solemn manner.

Du Laoqi was stunned and didn't know what was going on. Lei Chong was kind and winked at him, "The prince is here."

Du Laoqi felt the five thunders thunder, his mind was blank, he knelt down and said loudly: "Young people meet the prince, the prince is a thousand years old!" In fact, he did not see Ye Zhao, nor did he know what he was calling out. Someone even helped him get up, and he still didn't realize it.

"Bill, why are you here?" Ye Zhao frowned slightly. He didn't expect to meet Xiaote before entering the village.

Shaute was ashamed and said, "Prince, I'm sorry, I was too impulsive and almost killed Captain Du Qi and his brave soldiers. I should have listened to you long ago, and shouldn't be so reckless and impulsive." He said, bowing deeply.

Ye Zhao and Xiaote sat side by side on the roots of the ancient tree in the center of the village. Listening to Xiaote's apology with a shame, Ye Zhao listened and patted his shoulder and said, "It's all their own people. As Chinese citizens and scientists, it is their sacred duty to protect you, so don't care too much."

As he spoke, Ye Zhao turned to Lei Chong and said, "Go and tell Du Qi that he did a good job and the soldiers are all good."

Lei Chong hurriedly took the order and left. Du Laoqi heard Lei Chong's words, rubbed his hands, his excited face shone, and he stuttered and didn't know what to say.

On this side, Ye Zhao handed the cigarette to Shotgen. Sometimes, it was more comfortable to chat with these Europa Chinese because they didn’t have so much restraint etiquette. Although they respected you, they would not kowtow and bow at any time.

Smoking smoke, Ye Zhao asked about the iron ore. In fact, the Taipingfu area includes large areas of Ma'anshan and other places in later generations. The iron ore is very rich. It is inevitable that the Guangzhou Steel Plant builds a branch here. Generally speaking, China's iron ore has more phosphorus and sulfur content than Western ores, so it is most appropriate to use alkaline open furnaces to make steel. The Hanyang Iron Plant in Zhangzhidong, the previous dynasty suffered a great loss in this regard. It used an acid furnace to make steel. As a result, a large amount of impurities could not be removed. The steel produced was brittle and easy to break. Western steel transported thirty taels of silver per ton, while the 20 taels of silver from the Hanyang Iron Plant was ignored. However, the cost of Chinese bureaucratic enterprises could not be reduced. Therefore, the loss of local steel to imported steel transported thousands of miles is a great irony.

The Guangzhou Iron and Steel Plant is already building iron-making blast furnace steelmaking furnaces for new factories. With the accumulation of experience in producing small blast furnace steelmaking furnaces over the years, there is no technical pressure. It is originally the era when the era of large-scale industrialization has just begun. With corresponding technical talents and initial equipment, everything can be said to be ready. This is different from later generations. For example, various machine tools have just appeared today, but how did machine tools come from? The beginning was also hand-polished little by little. This was the most primitive period of the machine era. It was not like the founding of New China a hundred years later. The world has entered the electrical era, but China has just carried out the industrial revolution of the big machine.

It can be said that China in that era was just following the path Ye Zhao was taking now, but at that time you introduced technology and slowly absorbed it. When you digest it, you will find that other people's technology has entered a new stage. In many fields, there is always a gap between the times and the times, especially after falling out with the Soviet Union, there is no way to introduce technology. By relying on self-reliance, how can we catch up with others?

To be honest, Ye Zhao sometimes thought that if the New China was established in this era, even if the Western economy and technology were forged, they would rely on dismantling the other party’s machines and relying on manual workers to carry out the first generation of machine tools. The construction of machines and self-reliance would probably keep up with the pace of the Western world. After all, the structural principle of today’s large machines is relatively simple, and it is not comparable to the founding of the People’s Republic of China. Of course, this is just an idealization. After all, the differences in various systems are not so easy to solve.

No matter what, Ye Zhao felt that he had such generous conditions. If he had not done a good job in New China, he might as well just wipe his neck and commit suicide. Later generations often think that it is difficult to absorb technology, because China actually spent decades to catch up with others' pace for nearly two hundred years while being technologically protected.

But nowadays, many machine lathes have relatively simple structures. Although Chinese craftsmen do not understand theories, they can make it work, let alone a large number of Western technicians help.

Of course, if you don’t understand theory, sometimes small improvements can be made, but you don’t have to think about changing the technology. Fortunately, Ye Zhao still has time, and waves of people will grow up quickly, because today is not later generations, and the West has not yet reached the pinnacle of natural disciplines, and it can even be said to be relatively superficial. He has just begun to pay attention to natural disciplines, but it is far less important than that of the Southern Dynasties in China. Therefore, it is a hundred times easier for both sides to draw the same starting line to be closer than later generations.

This is also the best time, because with the exploration of Western civilization in the field of natural sciences, the development of science and technology has achieved an unprecedented explosion in the past 20 or 30 years. Forty years ago, in the era of Ye Zhao, there was still fierce debate over the theory of evolution because it overturned the doctrine of God's creation of man, was still fighting over whether the sun was the center of the Milky Way, and was still confused about the dinosaur fossil that had just been discovered. The bicycle rubber tires had not yet appeared; and forty years later, the plane went to the sky.

After chatting for a few words, he sighed when he couldn't really explore the iron mine area in Taiping Prefecture. Ye Zhao smiled and said, "Bill, don't worry, I think your wish will be realized soon."

There are about 20,000 patrol infantry regiments entering southern Anhui now, and it is no problem to eliminate the remnants of bandits in various places.

As he spoke, Lei Chong came to report that the patrol battalion with five hundred people nearly arrived after seeing the distress signal flare.

Ye Zhao nodded slightly, "I ask them to continue to eliminate the local bandits, so there is no need to pay my respects."

"Zhe!" Lei rushed back.

"Prince, I have a reluctant request." Short extinguished the cigarette butt and said.

Ye Zhao smiled: "You are really Chinese now, and you speak in a very literary way. Let's talk, what's the matter?"

Short said: "It's not my two daughters. I have received the teachings of the prince and have been studying hard all day long. Now, I don't have textbooks to read." Speaking of his daughter, Short's face was full of love and pride.

Ye Zhao smiled and said, "It's simple. I'll write something for them to see." Xiaote has a twin daughter, who looks seven or eight years old, and it's not to mention the cuteness of the ice and snow. Although Ye Zhao has never seen it, he has heard people talk about it. The wife of Short is French. Those people say that these twins have both the coldness and charm of the British and the romantic nobility of the French. At a young age, they are as beautiful as bubbles and beautiful as amazing.

The most strange thing about these two little girls is their genius minds. They are so young that they read all their father's geology and machine learning materials. The two of them are very competitive, and they both want to overwhelm their sister (sister), question each other, ask each other, and fight each other all day long, which is so cute.

Later, Shorter showed the secondary education textbooks edited by Ye Zhao to the two little girls, and since then it was out of control. Shorter also begged the prince several times and wrote some knowledge of natural science that they could understand. The two little girls were very interested and built a "laboratory" at home. They were both worried and novel. Shorter thought that Dongfang was right. If it weren't for such a strong academic atmosphere, I'm afraid that they would still compete for whom to eat pizza?

If it weren't for knowing that the prince was busy with all his life, Xiaote really wanted to beg the prince to accept them as students and teach them, of course, this idea would be just a random thought, and that would be impossible.

At this time, it was a bit too much to ask the prince to write something for the two little monsters.

Ye Zhao smiled and said, "This time, let's write something about chemistry." The current physics discipline is actually one with chemistry and has not yet been separated.

In fact, what Ye Zhao gave Xiaote was all Rong'er had seen, otherwise how could he have the time to give his two daughters a correspondence course? However, Rong'er seemed to have different interests from them. The two little girls in the Shorter family prefer traditional physical and mechanical aspects, while Rong'er likes novel things, such as chemical elements, and her idea of ​​electric current sound transmission.

"But with the convenience of the prince, I don't know how to tell you what I am grateful for." Short looked grateful.

Ye Zhao smiled and said, "I am also cultivating our ******. One is called Panmila and the other is called Pandura?"

When Short heard that the prince still remembered their names, he was even more happy and said, "Yes."

Ye Zhaoxin said, Pandora, if you dare not make an atomic bomb for me tomorrow, then you will be Pandora.

After lit another cigarette, Ye Zhao said, "Let's go on the road. Where do you want to see it? Take more people and don't slip away silently."

How dare you with this lesson? Short repeatedly claimed that it was.

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The Taiping Prefecture has just been restored and there is no governor yet. It is now under military control. The highest commander is Zheng Zewu, the chief of the Third Land Patrol Regiment of Southern Anhui. He is still an acquaintance.

Ye Zhao defeated Chen Yucheng and Zheng Zewu was in charge of the team. He cursed the women in the female hall who refused to go home. When Ye Zhao saw him, he was kicked by his boss's whistle.

Although I have asked the gentleman to give him a loud name and abandoned Zheng Gouzi, the name he had accompanied him for many years, he is still the same person and the rough and generous man.

From the Pingyuan Army Infantry Regiment to the Patrol Corps, the official position was promoted from deputy director to Dusi. He is now a fourth-rank military officer, but the boss is unwilling to do so. Although the patrol infantry regiment also goes to the battlefield, it is just an auxiliary. How can the elite soldiers of each town fight on the battlefield as much as the battlefield?

However, it is also a decree to add some generals to the patrol infantry regiments in various places. It is also to reorganize the patrol infantry regiments to form an army as soon as possible, have combat effectiveness as soon as possible, and also arrange combat tasks such as protecting the country, safeguarding the people and suppressing bandits.

No matter how unwilling Zheng Gouzi was, he could only obey military orders. Now that the elimination of the remaining bandits in Taiping Prefecture has become the top priority. Zheng Gouzi was so busy that he was exhausted, but he also shouted that he had no energy. He fought with these bandits who had already scared him and hid in Tibet. He was really unhappy when he came.

Today, he suddenly heard the great news. When the Regent arrived at Taiping Mansion, Zheng Gouzi was excited and frightened. When the Regent asked him to arrange an evening banquet to have dinner with him, Zheng Gouzi was so happy that he almost fainted. No, it was already a great honor for the Regent to summon him to ask questions. He asked him to hold a banquet to greet him? Where did he start? He never thought that there would be such an honor.

But while he was happy, he immediately had a huge problem. What to eat? How could he relieve the prince and the old man from exhaustion all the way?

Zheng Zewu has remitted all silver home over the years, and he has not had a few taels of silver on hand. The money from the Taiping Prefecture Treasury cannot be moved around and wash the prince. What kind of dishes do you have to prepare?

If the problem of money can be solved, at worst, I can blackmail the rich. Although the prince is strict in his orders, he can borrow some money to spend to respond to the emergency and repay him in the future. But even if the problem of money is solved, it is even more difficult to relieve the prince and his old man's happiness.

The simplest thing is, it would be better to invite the girls from the art troupe to sing and dance at the banquet, but he would not dare to give Zheng Gouzi three courages. The Regent ordered the troupe's responsibilities, performed for soldiers on the front line, promoted the discipline of the Southern Dynasties and Pingyuan Army among the people, and gave special comments that the members of the art troupe were also one of the soldiers of Pingyuan. If a general dared to use his program to cheer up the banquet, or perform in private houses, once discovered, no matter how many years later, the general involved would be immediately dismissed from the military, and the bad influence would be killed.

This is not a false threat. A deputy general in Pingyuan's army with outstanding military achievements asked several art troupe members to sing and dance because he was drunk. In a few days, he was removed from the silence and was repaid to his hometown for farming. He heard that the security chief would not do it and would have to wait five years before he could re-discuss it. He had to start from the bottom, which made it even more stains. It was difficult to promote it. The situation was so miserable.

With the lessons learned from the past, how dare others be confused? No matter how much alcohol you drink, you dare not touch the ban.

Zheng Gouzi racked his brains and finally thought of a "smart plan" and asked his sister to play the pipa to cheer him up, which made Ye Zhao helpless.

In Ye Zhao's opinion, the dishes on the table were naturally not rich, but they were more attentive. The crab was touched by Zheng Gouzi himself. The yellow feet cream was full, which made people's index fingers tremble.

The Zheng girl didn't play a few times, and Ye Zhao asked her to go to the table. Zheng Gouzi was a rough man. Although she was confused, she was always loyal and filial, so Ye Zhao couldn't scold him.

The eldest girl of the Zheng family, who is dressed up in a green shirt and green pants, is very sensible, and is also a member of the art troupe. She is very restrained. Ye Zhao asked her to eat crabs and gave them twice, but she still didn't dare to say anything. Zheng Gouzi became angry and scolded in a low voice: "Why don't you hurry up and thank your prince for your kindness?"

This is the second floor of a restaurant in Taipingfu. By the window, you can see rows of Wuwa houses and narrow alleys. Taipingfu was not destroyed by war. Soon after Su Hongniang's army besieged the city, Wei Shier opened the city gate and surrendered.

"Dogzi, don't scold your sister, don't be restrained, you should eat and drink. I see you from the deputy captain to this Dusi. You are not apart from my brother." Ye Zhao smiled and patted Zheng Gouzi on the shoulder, and said, "Now you are considered working in the local area, so you can't live with the old Huangsheng. You are so rude to your sister. You are even more impatient."

Zheng Gouzi dared not speak out.

Ye Zhao smiled and said, "If you want to let you do this mansion, you will be even more competent. Someone originally recommended you."

The prefect? ​​Zheng Gouzi thought I wouldn't do it if I beat him to death. He sat in the lobby every day in a play robe, and was so suffocated. But he naturally didn't dare to say this to Ye Zhao.

Ye Zhao pinched his shoulder and smiled slightly: "Forget it, hurry up and deal with it and put all the bandits to me! Taiping Mansion, I'm going to build a large steel mill."

Zheng Gouzi then raised his chest and said, "Yes! Don't worry, Prince! I must destroy all the local bullies!"

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Chapter completed!