Wang Xiaoxu was a little surprised by the news that the British wanted to talk about peace and private, after all, public opinion has not been fully spread, Zhang Yuan has not yet reached the weekend, and the citizens and students have not yet been fully mobilized, of course, as a local person, he has not yet set his eyes on the situation in Europe, and he is not clear about the consistent expression of Baron Gelsch who came from Beijing to visit Baron Gersch, he just felt that the reaction of the concession authorities this time did not seem to be right, and after a while, Yu Ziyi knocked on the door and came in and said: "Sir, the patrol room of the Siming Mansion has sent someone to conduct an autopsy." ”

"Went to the autopsy? When? ”

"Just now, the insider said that there were more than a dozen of them, and there were two doctors." Yu Ziyi also just received Hotline, and in order to prevent eavesdropping, the people inside spoke in code.

"Oh. I really went. "Wang Xiaoxu sensed that the development of the situation was in line with his expectations, but it was different." Is tomorrow the day of the earth? ”

"Yes, sir, tomorrow is Tuyao Day, all schools will not have classes in the afternoon, the students are going to be connected everywhere, originally mentioned that the assembly should be held on the day, but everyone is anxious, and it feels better to be a day earlier." Yu Ziyi has been helping to collect detailed information from all over the place, and the situation of the students has always been the focus of attention.

"They're still in such a hurry. Tomorrow you bring some people to see it, but watch out. Wang Xiaoxu commanded. Oh yes, and it's time for the newspapers to have a negative point of view, so let's let them start tomorrow. ”

It is impossible to blindly promote one's own point of view in hype public opinion, and it is always necessary to erect a few targets to debate, and then make everyone attracted by this kind of argument, and then, constantly back and forth, things are promoted by public opinion on both sides, until the truth is finally revealed. The opposing reader realizes that he was wrong. According to this principle, on the second day, a newspaper refuted the groundless speculation that Zou Rong had been poisoned, believing that the Ministry of Industry would never use such a despicable means as poisoning, and at the same time, the newspaper solemnly announced that the patrol house had sent someone to conduct an autopsy, and the results would be available the next day......

Originally, it should be a very fortunate thing to have a Chinese-language newspaper that stood on the position of the Ministry of Industry Bureau, but now Pu Lande's back was full of cold sweat, and he felt for the first time that he was estimated to be the general office for the first time, because this time the matter was complicated Cheng Dù was completely beyond his imagination. Before, because of optimism, he told the Consul General, Sir Huo Bilan, that it was too easy. Do you really have to go back to that cubicle at customs to make a report? He didn't want to, he had been suffering at customs for two years to get to this position, and he couldn't go back!

"He's in the patrol room right now? Do you need to see him? Ailes, the catcher next to him, said that he was talking about the doctor involved in the case.

"Nope! Damn, what am I going to see him for?! Pu Lande said angrily. Let him go back. But first take care of his own mouth. ”

"Yes. Mr. "Ayers.

Knocking on Mr. Dong's door again, Pu Lande waited for the people in his room to walk away. Only then did he say: "Mr. Dong." Things were worse than expected, and Dr. Niedernhofer had already confessed in the patrol room. Pu Lander didn't know how to go on here, he thought he was innocent, but after seeing the test results, he invited Nednhofer to the patrol room. Under pressure, the result was unexpected.

"Really?" Andersen stood up in shock, he couldn't believe that a doctor who had taken the Hippocratic oath had done such a thing, and shook it twice, and Andersen froze. "John." Why would he do this? He doesn't have any hatred for those Qing people? ”

"Yes. But Niedernhofer needed money so badly, he had two mistresses, and more importantly, he bet too much on Marseille last autumn, lost a lot of money, and if he didn't get any more money, he would go bankrupt. Then the Qing people found him and told him that if he poisoned the revolutionary, he could give him 20,000 pounds. Pu Lande said that he felt that it was indeed too unlucky to be such a good doctor, and now even he was going to be unlucky.

"God will punish him. John, we should not care about this matter anymore and let this man who has been tempted by the devil go to hell. Hans Christian Andersen said. It's just that after he finished speaking, Pu Lande didn't respond at all, and he seemed to think of a solution, "Sir, we don't have to worry about the matter of Niedernhofer, but this is a dishonorable thing compared to the Ministry of Industry Bureau, I think, it should be feasible to find the Shanghai Daotai and let him come forward to solve this matter." He sent the man who bought Niedernhofer. ”

"What do you mean to find Yuan?"

"Yes. The victim is Chinese, and it is the Qing government that caused the whole thing, I think they will have a way to solve it. Pu Lande is not very sure, but, according to his understanding of the Qing government, the Daotai Yuan in Shanghai should be able to handle the whole thing, even if it is not handled well, it has nothing to do with the Ministry of Industry Bureau, not to mention that the Qing people who wooed this poor doctor are likely to be sent by the Daotai Yuan in Shanghai.

When Pu Lande was looking for Yuan Shuxun from Shanghai, the people in the yamen heard that the platform was not there, so they had to leave a message and go back. As soon as he went back, the porter saw that there were no foreigners outside, so he ran back to the inner hall and knelt down in front of a man in civilian clothes, "My lord, the foreigner has left." However, when he left, he said that he would come back next week, as if he was in a hurry. ”

"Hmph. What urgent matter can the foreigners have, it is nothing more than that the Jiangnan Dockyard is about to be sold to Chinese businessmen. Daotai Lord Yuan Shuxun said with a righteous face, since last year when the Ningbo Business Gang hit the idea of the Jiangnan Bureau and sent Zhu Baosan to talk about this matter, he was determined to help Zhu Baosan. Back then, he was just a small master of the county government in Shanghai, and when he was coldly treated, only Zhu Baosan never belittled him and treated him sincerely. In the year of Gengzi, he was transferred to the Shanghai Taoist platform several times, and it was also this Zhu Baosan who sent his most powerful general account room, Gu Qingchuan, to help, so that he could make no mistake between public and private, that is, he ran errands and made money. Now, if a friend has something, why don't you want to help, let alone ......

Yuan Shuxun hadn't finished thinking about it, and the subordinate next to him said, "My lord, the sedan chair is ready." Do you want to go out now? ”

"Hmm...... Kindness. Let's go. Yuan Shuxun looked at the hour, and then got on a small sedan chair, there is something big tonight. Can't afford to delay.

When Yuan Shuxun's sedan chair went to the concession, Yu Huizu was in the study, looking at some pictures given by Wang Xiaoxu, the picture is a strange machine qì, the machine qì is how tall a person is, the upper body is like a mailbox, and the lower body has a crankshaft and a big wheel. Look at the next one, this one is not an unusual thing, but a boat, next to the photo is written in a Western pen: Sarmat oil tanker, displacement 1150 tons. It has a load capacity of 750 tons and uses two 180 horsepower diesel engines. Speed 8.6 knots. Made in 1904. Further down is another steamer......

After reading all the information. Yu Huizu said: "I'm old, and I can't understand the things of foreigners." But, Xiao Xu, I know that foreign car, that thing is small, you can push it with this thing. But what we're going to build is a boat, and that thing weighs a lot, are you such a machine to push it? ”

"Hanzhang, you're too worried. Now the picture for you is to tell you that you have the best things to use on the ship. It's just that this thing is too new. In the past, the boiler factory was building steam ships, so it was rarely man-made. Wang Xiaoxu still had doubts about this kind of machine at the beginning, but after calculating the power, he was still very relieved about the performance of the machine, but Yu Huizu was not too familiar with this, he just saw that the foreigner's car was useful for this, so he thought that the machine that could push the car may not be able to push the boat, and if the number was invalid, he could only use the picture to say.

"But it can push the boat, then this thing has just come out, there must be a lot of problems, if it can't be used on the ship, then everyone will have to return the ship, besides, although this is not to use coal, but the oil is not cheap, now the Ye family's batch of fire oil is two yuan per pair, a pair of twenty gallons and sixty catties, and it costs four cents a catty, eighty yuan a ton, and this coal is twenty times more expensive. You just said that you only need two tons of oil a day to use this machine, and the same ship costs eleven tons of coal......" Yu Huizu began to calculate the detailed accounts again, and Wang Xiaoxu only shook his head when he heard it.

After Yu Huizu finished calculating, he said: "Hanzhang, this thing came out more than ten years ago, and the kind used in foreign cars has been for thirty-four years, and now the diesel engine we are talking about is just a variant of the car on the machine, and the technology is very mature for decades, but there are immature places, and Mr. Hua Feng has also solved it in Germany." The current situation is that except for the steel used in it, we can't make it for the time being, and everything else is fine. Even if there is a problem, it is only made to be bigger than the foreigners, but this thing is loaded on the ship, and the bigger one is not in the way. ”

Hearing Wang Xiaoxu talk about this thing for decades, Yu Huizu seemed to have some convincing, but he still asked: "But the price difference between this burning oil is too outrageous, the same boat will cost one hundred and twenty yuan more than a steam ship." ”

"This thing doesn't burn oil." Wang Xiaoxu emphasized.

"What do you burn without burning oil?"

"Diesel."

"Diesel?"

"Yes. Diesel fuel. Wang Xiaoxu emphasized: "Brother Zhang, the diesel engine burns diesel, not oil." Diesel is the waste oil left over from the refinery, which no one wants, and is generally dumped. If you really buy it, it won't cost you ten yuan a ton. ”

Hearing Wang Xiaoxu say that this thing only costs ten yuan a ton of oil, Yu Huizu was very surprised, "Is it really so cheap?" ”

"It's really so cheap, isn't the Ye family in the fire oil business now, you can go back and inquire." Wang Xiaoxu said unhurriedly, he knew that it was a bit difficult for a person to suddenly accept this, in the eyes of ordinary people, the steam engine has been difficult to understand, and now there is a diesel engine, which is even more amazing.

"Does it mean that he will build this kind of diesel engine ship after the Jiangnan dock is down?"

"Yes, he meant that, but now steamships are still mainstream, so both ships are built. However, the focus is still to build more diesel ships, and the diesel fuel is also currying favor with the United States, and they will pull over as much as they want, and they are afraid that no one will want this thing. At the beginning of a boatload they gave to us in vain. Wang Xiaoxu said.

"Given away for nothing? This foreigner ......"

"Foreigners are not stupid, they will raise the price when we use it well, but this thing is rarely used, and the price increase cannot be raised, ten yuan is expensive, it really counts, a ton of crude oil, except for the hot oil and gasoline that make money, this diesel is pulled to Shanghai. Five dollars is expensive. Wang Xiaoxu said that he won't talk about it here, he still has something else in his heart, speculating in London on national bonds, that is, with Chase Bank under Standard Oil, otherwise he is not familiar with life in the UK, even if he can make money, he will not be able to take it away. Yang Rui used the radio to pull the line of the Americans, and used this line as a protective umbrella in London, so that he could do something unexpected.

"Oh. I was afraid that I would lose money when I took over. I didn't think that I could make money with this thing," Yu Huizu listened to Wang Xiaoxu's words, and was very excited. He said, "Let's go, let's go to Mr. Zhu's house with me." Today I happened to make an appointment to talk about Jiangnan. ”

"Mr. Zhu?" Wang Xiaoxu was stunned and understood, it is estimated that only Zhu Baosan can make Yu Huizu, who is so angry now, shout Mr. He suddenly thought of something else, and said, "Okay." I'll check it out too. ”

Zhu Baosan is also a native of Ningbo, Zhenhai, and went to Shanghai as an apprentice at the age of 14. worked hard to build a family business from scratch, and there were two nobles in his life. The first is Ye Chengxin, who is also from Ningbo. The second is Yuan Shuxun of Shanghai Daotai, the former let him take the Shenyu hardware store to a higher level, and the latter let him hold the right to transfer accounts before the payment of Gengzi indemnity - Gengzi indemnity is paid by Shanghai to various countries, and the indemnity of each province is collected in Shanghai, and there are often two million taels of indemnity from various provinces and six million tariffs from Shanghai Shangjiang Customs in the account before payment, and these eight million taels can be transferred to the major money banks in Shanghai before being transferred. Lots of interest.

When he came to the Shenyu hardware store on Sima Road, Yuan Shuxun had not yet arrived, Yu Huizu breathed a sigh of relief and was busy greeting Zhu Baosan. And Wang Xiaoxu's side had already seen it when he negotiated with Bu Neimen the year before last, so don't introduce it. Everyone sat down, and Yu Huizu hurriedly asked, "Senior, it seems that this Lord Yuan has not arrived?" ”

Zhu Baosan looked at him and didn't speak, just took a sip of tea. Yu Huizu knew that he had always been very good, and he didn't dare to ask again, as long as he waited, after a long time, he only heard Zhu Baosandao: "Hanzhang." You do it here and there, offend individuals here, offend people there, how do you do this business? ”

Yu Huizu's heart jumped when he heard this, and he defended: "Hey, I can't help it." That foreigner is too bullying, so he knows how to talk and make peace. ”

Hearing Yu Huizu's words, Zhu Baosan smiled, "Hanzhang, you, you don't look like a businessman at all, I really don't know how you made your name this day." Hey, young people are angry, but don't forget to make money by being angry. Your Tiantong company sells goods on both sides of the river, and the farthest Yunnan, Guizhou, Shaanxi and Gansu have semicolons, and the things are good and cheap, and you are afraid that you can't sell Xiangmao? ”

"But I just want to get angry." Yu Huizu still really has a grudge against Xiangmao, and he has high hopes for soap.

"Is it important to be angry or to make money? Knowing that wow, behind Yezon is Xiangmao's people who are helping them to accommodate their relationship, and they found a British consul, but fortunately, the leader of the consular corps in Shanghai is a German consul, and they didn't pay attention to them, otherwise, as soon as the note from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing was delivered, you would not be able to buy the Jiangnan Bureau. Although Zhu Baosan is only well-connected in the money industry, he is still very clear about what is going on in Shanghai.

"Huh? Are they going to Beijing? Yu Huizu was a little dumbfounded, he thought that the matter would be settled by the Governor of Liangjiang and the Shanghai Daotai, although he knew that the foreigners would interfere so much.

"It's not over yet, but I'm afraid of it. As long as you get to Beijing, things are not so easy to handle. Even if you can buy a silver tael to be dotted, there are not a few, you have to know that this Jiangnan Bureau is extremely important to you, and for the Manchurians, isn't it a waste dock, it has been abandoned for decades, and you are afraid that it will be abandoned for another few decades? . Zhu Baosan looked at Yu Huizu's interest obviously, knowing that he had listened to what he said, that is, he didn't say it in the middle of the matter, "Later, Lord Yuan is here, what do you have to say to him, it is best to let him also send a fold to Beijing, saying that this Jiangnan Bureau is indeed a shipbuilding and repairing ship, and it has been abandoned for a long time, even so, it is better to sell it to Chinese businessmen, this is one thing, and then there is the dock, steel mill, machine, workshop, etc., when the discount is estimated to be on the side of Lord Yuan, you have a good relationship with him now, It's easy to get through in the future, more than 100,000 taels and less 100,000 taels is not a sentence from Lord Yuan. ”

Hearing that Zhu Baosan no longer asked, Yu Huizu breathed a sigh of relief, and later heard him say that Lord Yuan, especially when he talked about more than 100,000 taels and less than 100,000 taels, his face was smiling, at first he didn't want to get his hands on the Jiangnan Bureau so much, but now the more he gets it, the more he wants to take it down as soon as possible, and then install the diesel engine that Xiao Xu just said, and kill those British devils.

"The seniors taught us. I've written it all down. Yu Huizu said honestly.

Zhu Baosan asked again, "Have you been there for Lord Lu and Master Sheng?" ”

"Master Sheng has been going, Lord Lu is just filial piety on the New Year's Day, and the other ......"

"You have to go. Although Lord Lu is an official Zhou Zheng, it is still necessary to take care of it. Don't be careless. You don't know how many people in Shanghai are staring at the Jiangnan Bureau now. Zhu Baosan admonished, the more he looked at Yu Huizu, the more angry he became, and he felt that it was really good that his fellow villagers could make a fortune in Shanghai, in fact, it was lucky. In fact, Zhu Baosan felt right, Yu Huizu was not able to do it by himself, but a team formed by Yang Rui to run the entire company, and the daily affairs were managed by this management team, and although the heavy affairs would also be reported to Yu Huizu, in fact, it was Yang Rui who made the move, Zhong Guanguan, Xu Huafeng, etc. persuaded him to do it, Yu Huizu is easy to talk to, and he is generally obedient. (To be continued......)