Thor arrived at the ocean between the Chacha Peninsula and Dazhan Island that afternoon, which is more than 20 kilometers away from Hoi An Port. Because it was winter and it was raining again, there were no fishermen going out to the sea around.

At dusk, as the rain gradually weakened, Ye Chengxiang and two subordinates quietly boarded Dazhan Island under the escort of several North Navy who had changed their Qing people's clothes. When he arrived here, it became simpler. He went straight to the fishing village on the island and hired a fast boat for a high price.

Although the hired fishermen were surprised, Ye Chengxiang and his two subordinates were both locals from Hoi'an, and he himself was the young owner of "Lianchang Ji" in the city. He was generous and the fishermen were naturally happy to earn this extra money.

Ye Chengxiang rushed back to Hoi'an, and several fishermen also took advantage of the heavy reward. The fishing boat, which was more than 20 meters long, was passing through the Dazhanshen checkpoint at the mouth of the Qiufeng River in just over two hours. At the third day, the group arrived at the pier south of Datang Street.

This place is not far from "Lianchang Ji", and you will arrive after crossing two streets. When Ye Zhanrong was woken up by his family, he learned that his son had suddenly returned and brought a few Qing people with him. Knowing that there was something wrong, he hurriedly got up and put on his clothes and went to the shop in the front yard.

"Cheng Xiang, why are you back? Are these guys?"

"Father, my son came back from Dazhan Island overnight. If you have a business, you have to help you get an idea."

"Oh! You guys are all hungry when you come from afar, aren't you?" Ye Zhanrong nodded. He asked the servants who followed him to cook and dinner. When the servants went out, he then carefully looked at the guests dressed in Qing people with the oil lamp.

There were five people from the Northern Navy who accompanied Ye Chengxiang back this time. Except for a young man who looked like a southerner, all the others were strong, with wide faces and clear edges, which were obviously different from those of Annan people or Fujian and Guangdong people. Although they all had smiles on their faces at this moment, the bloodiness and toughness in their sharp eyes made Ye Zhanrong secretly shocked.

When Ye Chengxiang saw it, he quickly whispered to his father, saying that the five people who accompanied him were all elite soldiers of the North Navy and all had the courage to be one or ten.

After hearing this, Ye Zhanrong bowed and said, "I wonder what you call me?"

The young man who looked like a southerner said in Cantonese: "In Xialin Daosheng, a native of Chaozhou. These are all my companions. They are all people outside the Beidi Pass and don't understand southern dialect very well."

"Oh!" Ye Zhanrong said no wonder.

Wen Dai, Lapini and others, who were sitting aside with expressionless faces, watched Lin Daosheng and the Ye family and laugh, and were confused and could not understand at all. Although Wang Yuanfang also asked Lin Daosheng and other southerners to teach Cantonese during the trip south, this thing was like a book of heaven for those Sorens who spoke Mandarin very carefully.

Since the Battle of Jiangping, the most simplistic Annan dialect that northerners in the Northern Navy say now is "Nuosong Kong Ye" (stop the gun but not kill), "Zongduikuanhong poisonous soldiers" (we are lenient to prisoners) and "Baoyu deliberate frost" (put down your weapons).

More than half an hour later, Ye Zhanrong was overjoyed when he heard the story of his son and Lin Daosheng. So he stood up and bowed and said, "Don't worry, everyone, the ship's business is covered by me. Twenty big openings will be collected by noon tomorrow, and two black boats from my Ye family will be presented together."

Lin Daosheng bowed and smiled, "Then please, sir. Before leaving, our superiors gave an explanation that in order to ensure the safety of the Ye family, your whole family can board the Thunder God. Our ship is very big, so it is absolutely fine to place your family."

The next morning, Ye Zhanrong and his son went to the port to build a ship. Now that they were leaning on the Northern Navy, Ye Zhanrong was even more eager to avenge his eldest son's family. He also fought hard and ignored the business of the shop. The father and son spent a day buying and renting, and spent a high price of more than 600 taels of silver to make up the number of ships needed.

Fortunately, the big fishing boats that Deng Fei wanted were all fishing boats, and the officials were able to check when they left the port. If they really came to get more than twenty big black boats, the matter would be big. Moreover, with He Xiwen's accident, sailors driving the boat were no longer a problem. Just hire someone locally to drive the boat to the vicinity of Dazhan Island.

The unexpected actions of the Ye family father and son quickly alarmed all the merchants on the Tang Dynasty. In the evening, all the businesses were talking, and even business partners and neighbors who had been dating for many years came to ask for it to show their concern.

After a night of cleaning up and preparing, the hired sailors drove out of Hoi An Port in the early morning of the third day, led by two black boats from the Ye family.

While Deng Fei and the others were busy preparing, Zhao Xin, who was far away in Yenisesk, also quietly returned to Beihai Town. Zhao Liang, who had just rushed back from Boli, was very surprised to see Zhao Xin who suddenly appeared.

"Why are you back in the cold weather?"

"There was some unexpected situation. Deng Fei and his team's plans changed. I have to go to the south to deliver arms and supplies."

Zhao Xin then briefly told Zhao Liang, and Zhao Liang became very indignant after hearing this. He immediately reviewed the inventory accounts of the arsenal and frowned and said, "The '1790 rifle' I used to produce was transported to Jaxa for 2,000, but now there are only more than 500 in the warehouse."

"Okay, I'll take away five hundred poles. How many more revolvers are there?"

"Well, this one is more. Including the Qingye Camp and Ainu Camp's replacement and return, the total number is 2,357."

Zhao Xin was shocked after hearing this and then said, "Then I will take a thousand hands away."

After finishing his work, Zhao Liang seized the time again and spent half a day and a night to discuss the progress of the construction of Boli Steel Plant with Zhao Xin. Now Zhao Liang is running from Beihai Town and Boli, and he is very busy.

This time, the steel plant established in Boli in Beihai Town is 3 million tons, which is a small private enterprise in another time and space, but it is definitely the world's number one in this time and space.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! However, since the level of knowledge and skills mastery of farmers in the 18th century were far lower than that of another time and space, the construction cycle of the entire project was tentatively set to four years and the production and operation cycle was twenty years. Conservatively estimated, the output in the first year of production could reach one million tons, and then the annual output growth rate can be maintained at 30% per year.

The entire steel plant is divided into eight major projects, including a comprehensive factory, a coke factory, a sintering workshop, a pellet workshop, an iron smelting workshop, a steelmaking and continuous casting workshop, a bar project and a furnace roll project. In addition, there must be gas pipeline network, an oxygen station, a power plant, a water supply and drainage system, a communication system, etc.

Among them, the sintering workshop produces sintering ore, the pellet workshop provides acid oxidized pellets to the iron smelting workshop, the continuous casting workshop produces steel billets and slabs, the bar project produces round steel and steel bars, and the furnace coil project produces hot-rolled steel plates.

The production equipment of the steelmaking workshop includes two 80-ton converters, using top-bottom reblowing technology, and the annual production of steel billets can reach up to 1.71 million tons. The steel that can be produced in the future includes general carbon steel, low-alloy steel and alloy steel, welding wire steel, cold pier steel, and spring steel.

If the workers' knowledge and technical level have improved, standard alloy steels such as 40, 45, 40Gr, 20MnSi Q235, Q345, 15Mn and other products can also be produced in the future.

According to Zhao Liang's estimate, it is not enough to think about the 40 alloy steel magic code for at least five years. It would be good to produce low alloy steel in the first five years. In general, the products in the previous period mainly focus on related equipment on railways and shipbuilding, including steel and steel plates needed on railways and shipbuilding.

In terms of the number of workers in the steel mill, the total number is expected to reach 8,000. This is the time and space, more than 3,000 people are enough!

Let’s talk about investment at the end. This is the biggest thing that makes Zhao Xin the biggest. The construction plan and investment plan of the entire project were made by several invited old engineers, which can be said to be completely unfamiliar. Of course, they all came to the 18th century, and even if they wanted to take kickbacks, they wouldn’t be able to take it.

The equipment investment of the entire project is 2.1 billion yuan, the project investment is 800 million yuan, and the supporting power plant construction is 300 million yuan, with a total of 3.2 billion yuan. According to the basic gold price of another time and space, eight tons of gold alone are needed.

In addition, more than 100 engineers and old workers over 50 years old were invited from another time and space, and this is 600 million. Yes, Zhao Xin reduced the employment cost. As more and more "workers" under his command, Zhao Xin's financial pressure became increasingly greater.

The 18th century was the era when silver was prevalent, but silver in another time and space was not valuable, so he could only make money.

Fortunately, he has now controlled the world's highest-quality gold mine. With the support of countless advanced mining equipment in another time and space, the annual output of the Ryuka gold mine is as high as 7 to 10 tons, but don't dream in this time and space.

With the current production capacity of Beihai Town, coupled with the Hongzhiwu Mine in Essential Land and other fragmented small gold mines, Zhao Xin’s annual gold income can now remain at the level of 2 to 3 tons.

In addition, he has no land use cost, and ordinary construction personnel's remuneration is paid in silver coins. In addition, investment does not need to be completed in one go; equipment manufacturers also need a time to make production. Therefore, Zhao Xin does not need to take out several tons of gold at a time to cash in, otherwise not only the international gold price will be smashed by him, but the eye-catching risks will also be raised to a level that can never be returned.

In order to build an industrialized country in the 18th century, Zhao Xin has long since left the low-level interest of "being rich is at ease, embracing left and right", and is aimed at a pure person and a moral person... Forget it, I really can't make it up anymore.

Zhao Xin searched in Beihai Town, and then left quietly with a yawn. At this time, the Thunder God had already returned to the Hue Sea with more than 20 wooden boats. The first thing Deng Fei and his friends had to do was to meet He Xiwen.

Mr. He, standing on the black boat, raised his neck and looked at the Thunder God, which looked like a hill, and kept gasping for air, thinking that today it was really a knife slashing his butt and opening his eyes.

The moment he got on board, He Xiwen moved to Beihai Town.

Look at Guo Xuexian, who was only in his twenties, was already a high-ranking official, in charge of a Western-style sailing ship. If he led his people to throw him over, he could have managed two, right? If the Northern Navy conquered the entire Qing Dynasty, would he be able to become a founding marquis Dangdang? Not to mention the third rank of Annan Kingdom, he would not be as good as a king even if he was standing side by side!

So after meeting Deng Fei and Wang Yuanfang, He Xiwen's first words after greeting each other were: "When will Prince Zhao ascend to the throne and become emperor? He is willing to serve the work of a lot of people!"

Deng Fei and Wang Yuanfang looked at each other and thought to himself that this person is so fierce, he is following whatever he wants!

"I heard from Guo Xuexian that Lord He has become a third-rank military officer in Jiu Ruan?"

He heard Deng Fei's words, He Xiwen blushed and said quietly: "There is a saying that good birds choose trees to live in, and good ministers choose masters, this..."

"Mr. He wants to say that the good minister chooses the lord and serves."

"Yes! Lord Deng is very knowledgeable, and He is ashamed of himself! Alas, when He was young, his family was poor and only attended a private school for a few years, which made the adult laugh."

Deng Fei and Wang Yuanfang had learned about He Xiwen's situation from Zheng Lianchang before. As a pirate family that has been entrenched in the mouth of the Pearl River for many years, Zheng Lianchang did not have any enterprising intentions, but he knew all the pirates along the coast of Guangdong.

At this time, the two heard He Xiwen say again: "On the way back from Guangdong, He fought with the Tartars navy and killed a general with his own hands. This time he came to meet the two generals and had no gifts that he could show. He gave the seized waist knife and yellow jacket to the two."

After saying that, He Xiwen asked Huang Zhongtong, who was holding a satin leather bag, to present the thing.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! As soon as the bag was opened, it was fine, but the green shark-skinned goose-feather knife attracted everyone's attention. The handle, handguard, and various parts on the scabbard were made of copper gilt, with beautiful lines and exquisite craftsmanship. When Wang Yuanfang got up and slowly pulled out the knife, he saw that the wide and thick knife was covered with fine patterns. It was obvious that it had been refined and hammered for hundreds of times, and he couldn't help but exclaim: "Good knife!"

In the early Qing Dynasty, the Yanling Knife was more practical, with a wide and thick blade body. The blood grooves were mostly deep, and the number of lines was relatively small. Generally, there were less than three lines, and there were often few decorations and the overall layout was sparse. By the middle and late periods, as the role of cold weapons on the battlefield weakened, the etiquette use of the military officer's sword was greater than the actual combat function, and the body of the Yanling Knife also became narrower and thinner.

However, Wang Yuanfang praised him and then inserted his knife back and said to He Xiwen: "Mr. He should keep such a good thing by himself."

He Xiwen's expression changed, thinking that the other party wanted to refuse to apply for it. Just as he was about to explain, Wang Yuanfang continued: "We have a lot of this thing, and we will give you a chance to give it to you another day."

The Northern Navy has also seized a lot of weapons from the Qing army over the years, including many generals, including the assistant leaders, generals, and deputy governors. The most expensive one is Fu Kang'an's waist knife, which was given by Qianlong. These things were thrown in the warehouse before, but later, after everyone's new house was built, Zhao Xin took the lead, and others took them home as decorations.

Seeing that Wang Yuanfang's expression was not as fake, He Xiwen relaxed his hanging heart.

"Okay, we all understand what Lord He means. If you have anything to do, let's talk about it after you conquer Hue."

After Deng Fei finished speaking, he asked Jiang Fan to spread the map on the table. This is a picture of the inside and outside of Hue City drawn by the staff entourage through drone reconnaissance for many days, depicting the layout of the city and the surrounding mountains, lakes and waterways. Although it may not be very accurate, it is sufficient.

He Xiwen's eyes were becoming more and more surprised. He had never seen such a detailed map before. At this moment, in his heart, the North Navy became more and more mysterious.

Wang Yuanfang pointed to the Guanxunkou leading to Xiangjiang and said, "Our plan is to use eight large-slit ships equipped with artillery as the vanguard, and go straight to Hue City, Marines, and Special Forces Battalion. Oh, and there are also Lord He's men and horses to follow them as other flat-bottomed ships. All ships are lined up in a row. If they encounter Xishan soldiers and horses blocking along the way, small groups of people and horses do not need to pay attention to and shoot directly; if they are large groups of people and horses equipped with artillery, they will attack with artillery and try to avoid landing operations. According to our reconnaissance, the Xishan Army may have set up iron cables or shipwrecks on the Xiangjiang River. At that time, I hope Lord He's troops will cooperate in cleaning up."

He Xiwen was fascinated and said that's all. He hesitated and asked: "Although He has never been to Hue, he also heard that the Xiangjiang River channel is extremely wide. Besides, the big tail boat is only fifteen feet wide. How can we put down the cannon?"

Wang Yuanfang smiled and said, "Please rest assured that our army's artillery is completely different from what Lord He has seen."

He Xiwen looked down for a long time, thought for a while and said, "I'm afraid it's not right. If the bandits of Xishan took away all the food and grass in the city and hid the troops in Haiyunling and the west of the city, once we enter the city, they may cut off the waterway and besiege our army. It would be difficult to think about it again."

Huang Zhongtong, who was looking at the map on the side, also interrupted: "Yes. Thousands of people have no food and grass, even if they are thrown in, it will be useless!"

When Deng Fei, Wang Yuanfang, Jiang Fan and others were all happy when they heard the worries of He Xiwen and Huang Zhongtong.

Deng Fei said: "Haha, Lord He, we have considered what you said in advance. Don't worry about food and grass. You and your people will take your heart back into your stomach! The way the Northern Navy fights is different from all the troops you have seen before. This time we are just a small trial, and you will be shocked at that time."
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