Seeing that Tirpitz put down the information, Lieutenant Bohm said again: "Your Excellency, it seems that the other party has also learned the information of the invincible-class armored cruiser, but has not given us the details. "Below the number of dreadnought-class battleships, Yang Rui only wrote the name of an invincible-class armored cruiser, but there was no content, this can be regarded as a fishhook.

Sure enough, Tirpitz, who heard about the armored cruiser, glared again, "Also provided by the Chinese?" ”

"Yes. Excellency. Lieutenant Bohm, who seemed to dare not face the majesty of His Excellency the Admiral, bowed his head in response.

"Is the number of battleships consistent with what we have?" Battleships and large armored cruisers are the focus of the British new ship building program, and they are also the focus of the German Navy's spying, especially the Invincible class was only put on the slipway in April this year, and now the keel has only been laid, if the Chinese have the number of dreadnought class, then it means that they have spies at the top of the British Admiralty, design institutes, and shipyards.

"Exactly, Your Excellency, there are even some things that we didn't know before. It takes us time to corroborate these numbers. Seeing that His Excellency the Admiral began to pay attention to this information, Bohm was also happy. Although he was only a civilian, he was overjoyed to learn more about the British Navy.

"Then let the Ministry of Foreign Affairs ask the Chinese for invincible-level information." Tirpitz seemed to think that the person providing the information was just a greedy spy, and said lightly.

"Yes. Excellency. Lieutenant Bohm turned away, but in the afternoon he came again. Although Bu Li had already transmitted several requests of the Revival Society to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs when he transmitted the information, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs only wanted to give Yang Rui some small loans and some backward guns and ammunition, and at most some training places for officers, and did not expect that Yang Rui would put his idea on the submarine, after all, this involved the Admiralty, and the negotiations between the departments and departments were very troublesome, so they just wanted to send the information of the battleship to the Admiralty, and then turn back and tell Yang Rui that this matter was not good. I didn't want the Admiralty to ask for information about another warship, and then they realized that this information was actually true.

"That's the way it is." After a tirade. Lieutenant Bohm felt like he was dying of thirst.

"That means they need our submarines, right?" Things seem to be starting to get complicated, but Tirpitz only wants things to get simpler, and he doesn't have the time to negotiate the details of cooperation with a barbarian.

"Yes. According to the Foreign Office, the revolutionaries seemed to value submarines, and they wanted to join the German Navy in the development of submarines, as well as to buy more than two submarines. Lieutenant Bohm said the unbelievable thing, and at first thought that the Foreign Office was joking. But after the other party confirmed it repeatedly, he felt that it was true.

Tirpitz couldn't help but ponder for a moment, and then said: "As long as they can pay, then we can sell the submarine to them, and our submarine training boat can also train submariners for them." But we need more intelligence from the British Navy. ”

Tirpitz coffins have never been Tirpitz's dish, and if it weren't for the fact that submarines are the trend of various countries, and these things cost only two or three million marks, at a very small cost, the Admiralty would not have researched them. Since the Chinese have British naval intelligence, then you can sell some of this junk to them. The attitude of the Admiralty is clear, and there are no problems on the shipyard's side. But the news eventually returned to Shanghai. By the time Bu Li sued Yang Rui again, a lot had changed.

"Dear Yang," Bully smiled kindly, "thanks to our efforts, His Majesty the Emperor and the Admiralty have agreed to your request. However, in order to prevent the enemy from obtaining information about our submarines, we have one more very reasonable request. ”

"Requirements? What are the requirements? As long as it's reasonable, then I guess there's no reason for me to refuse. Yang Rui was a little excited when he heard that the submarine had finally touched his hand.

"That's right. Because the Revival Society did not have safe ports and factories. So the purchased submarines and the trained workers and officers will not be handed over to you until you have captured a safe port, or rather an entire province. Until then, these things could not leave Germany. Bully chewed his words and made it very clear the conditions attached by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Seeing that the Germans had this kind of idea, Yang Rui retorted: "Your Excellency. As promised, a submarine without torpedoes is possible. ”

"But that's a normal submarine, and now we're talking about the Imperial Navy's newest submarines, which are not allowed to come to the Far East if you can't ensure their safety. Here are British spies everywhere, and. If the Qing government protests, it will make us extremely passive diplomatically. Bli's tone was extremely harsh, as if it were insurmountable.

But Yang Rui still argued: "In the Far East Germany there is a port of Qingdao, and I hope that one or two submarines that are not too advanced can use Qingdao as their home port, so that their safety can be completely guaranteed." ”

Yang Rui's suggestion seemed to have some truth, but after thinking about it, Buli still shook his head, "I don't think the Qingdao Far East Fleet will agree to this matter, and the military port cannot be opened to non-military personnel." ”

"Well, I agree to the request." Yang Rui originally wanted to build a dock on Anton's side where submarines could dock, but he thought that Anton's place was under the noses of the Japanese, and it was not safe to build it. "But I have a request for this, that is, for the submarine side, there is no limit on the number of people."

"I agree. As long as you don't put diplomatic pressure on us for exposure, and you can afford to pay. "Seeing that Yang Rui agreed to the previous 'reasonable request', Bu Li agreed to his later request very happily. In fact, in his opinion, revival will be fooled. For the original intention of this demand was to make the Baptist revolt in Shantung, and thus become a German agent in China, which, in the judgment of the Germans, could lead to a provincial uprising at most, not a national uprising.

"Is it expensive?" Hearing Bully's last mention of money, Yang Rui was afraid that they would open their mouths.

"No, my friend, just the usual charges." Speaking of this, Bu Li personally poured Yang Rui a glass of wine to celebrate the success of the negotiation between the two sides, and there were no major differences.

Yang Rui saw him handing over the wine, and he also took it with a smile, and the negotiations with the Germans ended here, and the details after that, or the price of the submarine and the price of radio and synthetic ammonia, were discussed by Zhong Guan in Germany, both of which are extremely important things for Germany, especially synthetic ammonia technology. Five or six years earlier than Harbour, and the conversion rate is much higher than historical, he believes it will sell for a good price.

When he was fighting with the Germans on the occasion of Zhong Guanguan, Yang Rui pulled Xu Huafeng from the northeast to Shanghai, after all, if he wants to study submarines, he is an old man. But wait for Yang Rui to explain his meaning to him. He wondered: "Actually, this kind of ship can also fight?" ”

"Of course. The current battleships are no longer available for one or two million taels, and the latest battleships cost more than 10 million taels, and in a few years it is estimated that they will cost 20 million taels, a price that China cannot afford to buy and cannot build. Therefore, we can only maintain the original size of the navy in the future, and at the same time build more submarines...... In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the only way to protect the coastline and ports was to shore artillery and submarines. "The submarine force will be an important member of the Renaissance Navy, and given that its price is not high, Yang Rui is ready to invest a lot.

"But it can only rely on batteries to move underwater for a short time, and when the time comes, even the merchant ships can't beat it." Xu Huafeng knows a lot about warships, although submarines have heard of it. But it doesn't take it seriously.

"No, a snorkel can be designed so that the exhaust and air from the diesel engine can be passed directly underwater. This allows the submarine to be less exposed while it is being charged. Yang Rui saw that he questioned the ability of the submarine, so he had to throw out the snorkel he knew. Don't tell the Germans about this, it is estimated that it will take several million taels to study submarines, or we have researched it, let the Germans buy it. ”

Seeing that Yang Rui was so thoughtful, Xu Huafeng did not object anymore. In line with his belief in Yang Rui, he believes that submarines are very important, and that will be a very important thing.

"Actually, then we are going to send those people to Germany?" Xu Huafeng asked.

"The research laboratories of diesel engines, metallurgy, shipbuilding, electromechanical, and chemical engineering have all passed, and some students from military academies will be sent to receive training, and we will still have to buy two submarines in the early stage. The submarine is small, but there is not much in it. That's right. Is there anyone in our shipyard? Yang Rui knows about the diesel engine, metallurgy, electromechanical, and chemical engineering laboratories, and he doesn't know how many people in the shipyard can use it.

"Shipbuilding has some students from Tongji University Hall who are reliable, and there are students from the Cantonese dialect school and the craft school in the manufacturing bureau before, when we accepted the Jiangnan Bureau. The two halls have also been taken over, and now they are merged into the Tongji University Hall, which are all talents trained by the Manufacturing Bureau for many years. There are also some of the original workers in the shipyard, all of whom are old masters, but these people do not know German. "After an unexpected explosion, the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau was taken over very lightly, and the Fuxing Society picked up a big bargain, the most valuable of which were the skilled craftsmen and those students.

"Don't be afraid if you don't know German. I'm afraid that those workers and masters are not strict in their mouths, and it will be difficult to get rid of them if they know that we are a revolutionary party. "Students are easy to fool, but this is not the case with workers with families.

"No, I know all the workers in the factory, those naughty ones have long been cleared away, as long as they don't raise the flag to rebel, it's not a big problem." Xu Huafeng persuaded that he grew up in a shipyard, and the people in it all knew each other. I believe that it can still shock everyone. "However, the shipyard is doing very well now, and if these masters leave, it will affect the business."

"I can't do it. Affecting business is a trivial matter, but delaying a submarine is a major matter. Now the Germans do not pay attention to submarines, which is an excellent opportunity for us, and now submarines are just getting out, and only if they eat it through now, then they will not have to spend much more in the future. Mr. Huafeng, let's put it this way, this is the Chinese battleship in the future. Yang Rui was afraid that Xu Huafeng would not understand the importance of submarines, so he had to make an extremely exaggerated analogy, so that when this sentence spread, it was ridiculed by dignitaries and navies of various countries.

Seeing that Yang Rui said so heavily, Xu Huafeng nodded stunned, and said: "You can rest assured that it will be done, and you will gnaw down the submarine even if you fight this old bone." ”

After Yang Rui finished speaking, he knew that he was talking too much, so he had to say: "People come first, no matter how important the submarine is, it is not as important as people, don't damage your body for it." Also, Mr. will go to select people first, and after the selection is good, all of them will study in Shanghai for two months, and then go abroad next spring. ”

"Learning ......" Thinking of the vigorous purge that is now underway, Xu Huafeng was a little stunned.

"It's learning quality management." Yang Rui saw that he had misunderstood, so he had to explain: "Any warship is a sophisticated system, and without the concept of quality management, not only can it not be built well." It is even more impossible to use it well, so the entire submarine research team must have a sense of system and quality management, otherwise no matter how good things are, they will be garbage. ”

Seeing that Yang Rui was training this, Xu Huafeng was relieved, in fact, the gang in the real yàn room did not purge him before, so he was very relieved, because Yang Rui's purge was not like Wang Jitong and Zhang Taiyan's group complaining.

After explaining the matter of the submarine, it will be the Spring Festival in a while. This is Yang Rui's fifth Spring Festival in this era. He remembered that the first time he was with Zhang Hanting. He made a cameo appearance as a fruit seller at that time, and the two met in Sixteen Shop, and now he has taken out a loan from the Kanto Bank to set up a cooperative, and the Jiangxi oranges he has grown and tasted the same as those of later generations; There is also the night I met Han Xianfeng. Fortunately, I knew her, otherwise I would have hung up a long time ago.

The second Spring Festival was spent on a cruise ship from the United States back to China via Europe, and there were few Chinese on board, and he only spent a few pounds on a big meal on board, which was regarded as his own treat; The third is in the northeast, which is still on the battlefield of the Russo-Japanese War, but it is the same as the soldiers. ate a bowl of pork dumplings and drank a small half bottle of Erguotou, even if it was over; The fourth was in New York, USA, with Yu Zixun and them, and there were more people that time, which was more lively.

After thinking about the past in his mind, Yang Rui only felt that the past five years had been extremely bumpy, especially since the revolution, he was running around like a dog. I almost lost my life three times, which is considered unlucky. Although I think about bad luck, I think of those who sacrificed, and I feel that I am lucky, and it is not easy for the revival to reach the scale it is today. O7 years have passed, and the revolution has not succeeded. It's up to luck in four years.

Yang Rui was thinking wildly, he was waiting for the evening banquet in Cheng Weinan's study at this time. Because he learned that Yang Rui was alone in Shanghai, Cheng Weinan didn't care about the rules that men and women could not see before marriage, and asked Cheng Wei to call Yang Rui to his home to have a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner together. He is now regarded as the prospective son-in-law of the Cheng family, and the people below call him his aunt and uncle. The Cheng family is familiar with Yang Rui's shouting, but Yang Rui is a little unaccustomed to the Cheng family, and it is not good to walk around the house more, so he can only look through the thread-bound ancient books hidden by Cheng Weinan in Cheng Weinan's study, which can be regarded as a boring time.

"Do you understand?" Seeing Yang Rui holding a copy of the Yellow Emperor's internal scripture, Cheng Ying, who had just come in, asked with a smile.

"I don't understand." Yang Rui said frankly that in fact, he only saw the word 'Yellow Emperor' very attractive, and then looked at the 'Neijing' and thought that the ancient martial arts cheats, but when he opened it, he knew that it was a medical book.

Hearing Yang Rui's frank words, Cheng Ying laughed, and later the subordinates who came in with her saw that the young lady and the aunt were talking and laughing, and they consciously retreated after serving tea. Because it was Chinese New Year's Eve, Cheng Ying was wearing new clothes, her whole body was cleaned up, her face was delicate and beautiful, Yang Rui saw that there was no one around, she dragged her back with fear, kissed her hatefully, and was blocked by her when she wanted to take advantage of her hand. It seems that at home, Cheng Ying is very restrained, and after a while of intertwining her tongue, she "jiaonet" Yang Rui pushed Yang Rui away, and then sorted out a somewhat scattered style, and said coquettishly: "Pervert!" ”

'Pervert' was originally a modern word taught to her by Yang Rui, and she scolded her for another taste, coupled with her scatteredness, there was a kind of charm in the flow of her eyes, Yang Rui was about to kiss Fang Ze again, only to hear some noise outside the door, so he had to let go of the hand holding her.

It was Cheng Weinan who came over, he was thinking of the study to see what this son-in-law was doing, but he didn't want him to be holding his daughter Qingqing and me, and quietly retreated in a daze, he was unhappy in his heart at first Yang Rui was rude, and then he thought that the leaders of the revolutionary party were all so virtuous. This son-in-law is not bad, at least he has never raised a child outside, and he does not smoke, drink and gamble, he can be regarded as a serious person.

After Yang Rui and Cheng Ying separated, they were shocked when they saw that it was Cheng Weinan who came in, but they still politely shouted Lord Taishan, and Cheng Ying next to him went out with a red face.

"It's done, the family is vulgar, but you are still used to living there?" Cheng Weinan didn't care about what happened just now, and looked like the elders cared about the juniors.

"Habit. Habit. Yang Rui hurriedly said, in fact, he is not used to it, he has been in this era for so long, he has not been served, and he was driven out by him when those subordinates wanted to help him wash his feet.

"It's good to get used to it, it's good to get used to it." Cheng Weinan took the tea sent by his subordinates and took a sip before saying. In fact, for a few days that Yang Rui lived at home, he could see that this son-in-law was indeed from a poor family, and he lived alone after the early death of his parents.

"It was done. After the New Year, the Qing soldiers are going to increase their troops to Yanzhou, you... What can I do? Since he promised his daughter to the revolutionary party in front of him, Cheng Weinan often looked for some news about the Fuxing Society and Yanzhou in the newspaper, and was very worried when he saw the victory of the Qing army, and he was happy when he saw the victory of the revolutionary army, he only hoped that the son-in-law in front of him could occupy a province and become a prince with the support of foreigners.

"It's not a troop increase, it's a normal change of guard. It doesn't matter, the soldiers in Hubei are not familiar with Yanzhou, and they are afraid that they will slow down and attack again when they first arrive. "Although Yang Rui lives in Cheng Mansion, Chen Guangshou will still report some important things. After the eighth year, they will go to Huizhou to replace the Anhui New Army, and when they are familiar with the terrain and want to attack again, I am afraid that it will be two or three months later. By that time, the airship should have transported all the arms into it -- now the German side has built a new type of airship, and the Ma'anshan Iron Works on the Yangtze River is also quietly starting to build an airship docking station, and now the Yangtze River is an international waters, and the cargo ship patrol team flying the flag of foreigners will not dare to stop it, and it is very simple to unload more than a dozen tons of ammunition at night.

"That's good, that's good." Cheng Weinan really wanted to give advice for the revolution, but he didn't know where to start. Yang Rui was afraid that the two would be embarrassed, so he took the initiative to talk about the sugar business that Cheng Weinan cared about, and even recommended the sugarcane rolling machine from a novel, which made Cheng Weinan want to go to the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau to build a new type of machine.

Weng and his son-in-law talked about business, and they talked for several hours, until Cheng Ying came to call them into the table, and this remark only made Cheng Weinan think a little more highly of Yang Rui, after all, this son-in-law is not a car cannon, and he really has a lot of effort in doing business, so Cheng Weinan drank a few more drinks with Yang Rui during the banquet.

Eating Chinese New Year's Eve dinner here, the firecrackers outside shook the sky, more than a hundred years of time difference, but some customs can not be changed, but it is still very lively when it should be lively. Before the banquet was dismissed, Cheng Weinan, who had drunk a few more glasses, couldn't bear the drunkenness and rested early, and his mother-in-law, who wanted to talk to Yang Rui, had to serve first. And the couple in the dining room, after their eyes met, they no longer eat, took advantage of the lack of porter, sneaked out of the door, and walked hand in hand on the thick snow on the side of the street outside.

The prosperity of the French Concession lies in the pidgin that intersects with the British Concession, there are not many shops here, Yang Rui only thinks that it is not safe to go there, so he has to go west along Baochang Road. In fact, this Baochang Road is the middle Huaihai Road of later generations, once the students from other places visit or transit, he wants to accompany them to take a walk on the Bund Nanjing Road and this Huaihai Middle Road, a hundred years later, he seems to remember, but a hundred years ago, he could not find the shadow of the future generations at all.

Only at this moment, he suddenly felt that even if time flies and the vicissitudes of life, only this lovely person around him will never change, and she will accompany him to witness the revolution and the rejuvenation of a country. Thinking of the great increase in love in Yang Rui's heart, he only hugged Cheng Ying into his arms, and then said: "Wait for the New Year, come with me to the Northeast." ”

According to Cheng Ying's level, there is no way to go to the Northeast with Yang Rui, and at the same time, Cheng Ying also knows that Yang Rui's itinerary after the year is the Northeast, and when she was worried that the two were going to separate, Yang Rui asked her to go to the Northeast together, and she couldn't help but rejoice. When she was about to answer, she didn't want the old light bulb Chen Guangshou ran over from afar, he exhaled white gas, and said hurriedly: "Sir, Northeast emergency!" ”

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