Eunuchs who traveled through the Qing Dynasty

Xiao Ran said angrily: "Fuck your mother! This is Dai Yuanwailang from the Ministry of Industry, where did you come from?"

Before the words fell, he opened his voice seven or eight times earlier and shouted: "Go to hell, Yuanwailang, this guy must be a liar. Who has ever seen a high-ranking official in Chaoli wearing this outfit, mother, take us for fools ah?"

Xiao Ran was about to take out the badge of the chief executive, but he saw that gang of good people hurriedly lifted the bicycle that fell out, and shouted: "Okay! There is a monster here. Don't be afraid of him denying it! See the officer Go to the officer!"

When the onlookers saw the bicycle, they became even more enraged, throwing sticks and poles at them.A short man ran over with a wooden bucket and splashed it on the bicycle.The whole street suddenly stinks, but it turns out to be feces.

Only then did Xiao Ran understand the taste.Feelings They said that Dai Tong is a demon, just because of this bicycle!Damn, does this stand up to monsters?Seeing the attitude of these people filled with righteous indignation, words of dissuasion must be ineffective; touching their waist cards, thinking about it may not be able to hold back, so they quickly put it back.After hesitating for a while, the short man picked up the remaining filth in the bucket, and rushed towards Dai Tong again.Dai Tong was so frightened that he trembled all over, and stammered: "You, you, how dare you..." He couldn't even speak a whole sentence.

Xiao Ran was quick-witted, stomped his feet fiercely, swung his arms left and right, and while drawing and pulling randomly, rolled his eyes and shouted: "Taishang Laojun is as anxious as a law! God Erlang was ordered to take the demon here, let me get out of the way , anyone who dares to get close will not be held responsible for accidental injuries!"

The crowd was stunned for a moment, and the timid ones hurriedly looked back, fearing that some Tiangang Fa-rectification would come and hurt them.Dai Tong said angrily: "You kid is crazy..." Xiao Ranzhao kicked his ass, and said in a low voice: "I'm fucking saving you, shut up!"

Dai Tong immediately understood, and simply began to pretend to be crazy.Not all the people around the audience were two hundred and five, someone had already seen the way, and shouted: "Don't believe him! These two people are together, they have colluded with the Meng people!"

With this cry, the crowd that had just dispersed a little suddenly gathered around again.Dai Tong was so angry that he almost vomited blood, wishing he could find out that man and eat him alive.Seeing that this trick didn't work, Xiao Ran suddenly made another plan. He took out the banknotes and scattered silver in his bosom, and threw them out of the circle with his hands, shouting: "Steal money! Who is snatching it?" who!"

Those ordinary people in the market place are used to using copper coins on weekdays. Now they saw a lot of white money thrown down, and their eyes were red. They didn't care about any monsters and transvestites. They rushed away in a swarm. go up.If you get the money, you can't help screaming, and those who don't get the money will be burned, and the one who got the money will be grabbed, and they will PK with their lives.But those seven or eight bank notes were the real valuables. It's a pity that so many people looted them and they were already torn to pieces.

Taking advantage of the momentary chaos, Xiao Ran grabbed Dai Tong, desperately got out of the crowd, and ran away.But Dai Tong stopped him, and shouted: "Bicycle! My baby is still there!" Xiao Ran was so angry that he wanted to slap him, this old miser, who was about to die, couldn't bear to have a bicycle!Turning around, he saw the two porters looking at the chaotic crowd at a loss, Xiao Ran grabbed him and said: "Send that monster to Xiao's mansion for me, and give me a hundred taels of silver!"

The voice fell.The two bearers threw away the sedan chair and rushed over to lift up the bicycle, ignoring the excrement and urine dripping on it, and disappeared like the wind in the blink of an eye.Dai Tong only felt a blur in front of his eyes, dragged Xiao Ran and said: "Hey, where is the person?"

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Xiao Ran couldn't take it anymore.Lifting his leg was just a kick: "Old man, don't run fast!" Without any explanation, he dragged him to the corner of the street and walked into the alley.Fearing that someone would catch up from behind, the two of them just ran wildly, out of breath.After finally passing through the alley, he came to another street, stopped a carriage, and fled back to Xiao's mansion in a panic.

Entered the gate.The two finally breathed a sigh of relief, looked at each other, and sat down at the same time, both panting and speechless.The two bearers were faster than them and had already brought the bicycle back. When they saw Xiao Ran, they nodded and ran over to ask for the reward.Xiao Ran stretched out his hand in front of Dai Tong, and said angrily: "Take the money!" Dai Tong immediately shouted: "How can I have money? Look at my virtue, do I look like a rich man?"

"Damn! Who will pay for the money?"

"Of course it's you, are you rich!" Dai Tong said confidently.There was no shame on the old face, as if it was only natural for Xiao Ran to be the boss.

"Okay, old man, I'm counting on you!" As a last resort, I had to order 100 taels of silver to be paid from the cashier.The two bearers estimated that they would never see such a large pile of money in their lifetime.Le's eyes were dazzled, and he went happily.

When the wives heard that the husband was back, they rushed out to greet him. Seeing Xiao Ran's appearance, they were startled.The eight slender hands inspected him carefully from head to toe, and he was relieved to make sure that no part was missing.Seeing his embarrassment, he couldn't help covering his mouth and bending over with a smile.

Xiao Ran didn't care about his wives.I was still wondering, and muttered to myself: "Impossible? When the train first arrived in China, the common people said it was a monster; a bicycle, how could it become a monster?" I couldn't understand it.Dai Tong said quickly from the side: "It's not my fault. I'm riding on the street for the first time today. F*ck, who knew it would be like this? These people are so rare!"

Xiao Ran flew over angrily: "How dare you say it! The yard is so big, it's not enough for you to be crazy? Who told you to ride on the street?" Looking at Dai Tong, he couldn't get angry.This old guy is always slovenly, wearing a tattered robe like a beggar, and riding such a weird thing, it will belong to the group that affects the appearance of the city in later generations, let alone in the Qing Dynasty, where bicycles have never been seen, don't treat him as a Monsters are weird!

But this matter did wake him up.It turned out that he was planning to start a bicycle project. In China, the sales prospect of this thing should be very impressive.How come later generations will also be a kingdom of bicycles!According to the Chinese market, if you can monopolize the bicycle business, how much money will you earn in that year?But now it seems that how to get the common people to accept these new things and foreign gadgets is really tricky.

For a long time, under the policy of closing the country, the closure, backwardness and ignorance of the Chinese people have been deeply rooted.For Western scientific and technological civilization, it is regarded as a scourge.And after the Opium War, the hatred for foreigners has also been unknowingly passed on to these imported products. This can be seen from the fact that Xueyao was almost executed because of a cross.Even the foreign gadgets such as octaves and Western mirrors in the palace did not dare to use them until after Xianfeng died.The king of a country is like this, let alone ordinary people?

In Xiao Ran's memory, when the railways were first built in China, they were forcibly demolished by being denounced as monsters and evil methods.In fact, it was in the second year of Guangxu in history, that is, 1876 AD.The people of the country were in an uproar. From ordinary people to government officials, everyone was panicked and inexplicably terrified. They all believed that this was against the "law established by the ancestors", was a "miraculous skill", and "destroyed people's hearts". ", "Feng Shui".The Qing government did not dare to offend the British. One year later, it paid 28 taels to buy it back, and the purpose of buying it back at such a high price was to demolish this small railway!

Including China's earliest telegraph, the wires erected were torn down and burned more than once.In addition, the introduction of machinery, the construction of water conservancy, and the excavation of mines are all resistance and difficulties.Li Ran was already mentally prepared for these things, but he never expected that such a simple bicycle could be regarded as a monster, causing such an uproar!

Suddenly I remembered what I saw in the movie "Huang Feihong", those Qing Dynasty people demolished railways, destroyed electric wires, and burned all foreign things, such as pianos, clocks, clothes and utensils for foreigners, and even a cute Dalmatians. "A dog with sores must be a demon dog", throwing it into the fire and burning it to death.At that time, I thought it was the director who exaggerated and turned it into a movie, but now it seems that it really makes people want to cry without tears.

How unimaginably stupid is this? ...

But no matter what, the bicycle must find a way to get it up.This is an essential part of the money-raising plan.In the history of the late Qing Dynasty, the people’s resistance to foreign things was probably acquiesced, or even condoned, by the conservatives in the government. Lao Tzu is now the deputy chief executive, and Prince Gong and the empress dowagers of the two palaces have to listen to me. With the support of these forces, are you afraid that a small bicycle will not be able to ride on the street!

Thinking of this, my heart relaxed a little.It seems that it is very necessary to plan a bicycle promotion event in the capital.But before this event, the mass production of bicycles must be done first.

The servants had already cleaned the filth on the bicycle, and after asking Dai Tong, they found out that this bicycle was not the one copied from Su's mansion, but a copy made by blacksmith Li San.The workmanship of the iron guy of the crank-link mechanism is still very rough, because it does not need such precise components as chains, gears, and bearings. With Li San's superb technology, it is not very labor-intensive to build.However, the efficiency cannot keep up with the handcraft alone. If you want to mass-produce bicycles, you must first have professional machine tools.

machine tool!In the Qing Dynasty in the era of complete manual workshops, where can I find this stuff?This question immediately stumped Xiao Ran.

The manufacturing industry in ancient China was in a leading position in the world. For example, copper and iron smelting technology was hundreds of years earlier than other countries. The invention of gunpowder and firearms and their spread to the West are the great contributions of the Chinese nation to world civilization.These outstanding achievements embody the wisdom of the Chinese people.However, in the period of rapid development of Western capitalism, China's science and technology stagnated, and manufacturing was limited to family-based workshops.

In fact, at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Qing Dynasty originally had its own arsenal, and the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Internal Affairs were in charge of the ordnance manufacturing.But because of the extremely ignorant sentence "riding and shooting is the foundation of Manchuria to build a state", since the Jiaqing period, the manufacture of firearms has been at a standstill.In fact, there has never been a shortage of intelligent and talented people in Chinese history, and they have also produced various exquisite appliances and machinery, but they are all regarded as strange skills and obscene skills, and they are not advocated and promoted.What happened to the genius inventor Dai Zi back then is a good example.

But thinking of Dai Zi, Xiao Ran suddenly remembered something.When I was at Dai Tong's house in Tianshuijing Hutong, I saw all kinds of pillows, operating beds and so on. This old guy might actually have some in stock at home!He hurriedly dragged old man Dai to inquire in detail, but it was the first time Dai Tong had heard of the concept of "machine tool".

Xiao Ran is a paramilitary enthusiast, very good at firearms, but only half-knowledgeable about machinery manufacturing.Real machine tools are divided into turning, planing, milling, punching, combination, etc., with different types and functions.Probably the concept that Xiao Ran said was too general, so even though he spit all over the place and even explained with gestures for a long time, Dai Tong was still at a loss.

Damn, it's a genius, it's a piece of trash!Xiao Ran was not only a little resentful.no way.It seems that I have to go to Dai's mansion in person.

Before leaving, Xiao Ran secretly called Yu Ting, told Ning Wei's affairs briefly, and asked her, Xue Yao and Lin Qing'er to find a way to keep Ning Xin in check and not let her run around.Yu Ting was surprised and sad at the same time, but the matter has come to this point today.The original is also a lot of helplessness.After thinking for a while, he said: "This is the end of the matter, Xin'er will know sooner or later, and it's not an option to hide it from her. How about this, Xin'er, I will try to persuade you; Princess Ning Wei's body, you think again Think of other ways, how can we say that this matter is caused by us, and it will never work if you continue like this. By the way, her illness. I wonder if Li Jingchou, who is rejuvenated, can be cured?"

After all, Xiao Ran is proficient in medicine, and knows that this is a mental illness, and there is basically no possibility of curing it with medicine alone.Thinking of Ning Wei's helpless appearance, it felt like a needle pricked her heart, causing a sharp pain.He said dejectedly: "I was also thinking about going to him to try my luck, but I don't have much hope. Ning Wei was killed by me, and I have to heal her no matter what, otherwise, I will have a bad conscience for the rest of my life!"

Yuting Bingxue was smart, and quickly understood that there was something more to his words, but she didn't say anything, she just hugged him silently.half an hour.Suddenly she smiled softly, stood on tiptoe and kissed him lightly on the face, said: "Go, young man. You are a good man. No matter what you do, I will support you."

Xiao Ran had a sore nose: Good man, what do I count?Suddenly remembered what was sung in the song, a good man would not hurt the woman he loves a little bit, and he would not wander in the gentleness like a gust of wind... If you want to talk about yourself, it’s fine to just wander in the gentle town, but Ning Wei is an innocent girl, but she was made into this appearance by herself, how can she justify it in conscience?

Yu Ting's understanding made him feel even more guilty.But there are more important things now, and we can't just focus on the love of our children.Immediately call the blacksmith Li San, and go to Tianshuijing Hutong with Dai Tong.Just as he was about to go out, another bicycle rushed out from the rickety stone road in the nearby garden, and the three of them ran straight into it.I don't know what kind of bad luck happened to Xiao Ran today, those who dodged left and right just didn't dodge, and were knocked to the ground with a plop.

Before he could get angry, the instigator himself cried out in pain.When Xiao Ran saw it, he immediately lost his temper, and said dumbfoundingly: "Yingying, you still remember how to deal with brother's feelings, so you are probably aiming at me now, right?"

The girl riding the bike was her younger sister Xiao Ying. She had just learned to ride a bike, so she was unavoidably elated and had fun all over the garden.This bump probably hurt his arm, and he dragged Xiao Ran relentlessly.Xiao Ran said angrily: "Brother still has to do business, so I don't have time to accompany you. You're messing around, be careful, I'll go to my mother to complain!"

When Xiao Ying heard this, she was elated, and she hugged Xiao Ran's arm without letting go, and said, "You want to go out? That's great! Staying in this mansion all day, I'm so tired of it! I don't care, I want you to take me go together!"

This little girl is only 16 years old this year, but she has already developed bumps and bumps. When she was hugged, her small breasts were pressed against her arms, Xiao Ran suddenly blushed and felt uncomfortable all over.In terms of blood, she is his own sister,

Jiao didn't think it was too much; but for the reborn Xiao Ran, who was fully adapted psychologically, it was inevitable that he felt a little awkward.Feeling anxious, she wanted to withdraw her hand, but Xiao Ying refused to let go, and wanted to go out to play.Xiao Ran was so embarrassed, he had no choice but to surrender and admit his bad luck, and went out together with a tail.

No matter what happened to this guy, Dai Tong, he has been promoted to an official. He is a dignified fifth-rank official. I guess the family should settle down better, right?Unexpectedly, when I entered his house, it was even dirtier and messier than last time.Scrap copper and rotten iron are everywhere, which have been successfully upgraded from scrap collection stations to garbage dumps.After rummaging through the piles of rubbish all afternoon, I found a few operating machines, but they were far from the professional machine tools that Xiao Ran expected.

Dai's mansion has been turned upside down, to see if there will be any more gains, so he had to make do with moving these operating beds back first.At the same time, he told Li San, the blacksmith, to recruit craftsmen, purchase raw materials and equipment, and set aside a special place in Xiao Mansion for the production of bicycles.As for the structure of the bicycle, they are probably used to the two-wheeled models of the later generations, and they are not pleasing to the eyes of such things with large front wheels and small rear wheels.But now there is a lack of professional equipment, and precision components such as chains and bearings cannot be manufactured. How to improve it needs further discussion.

It was getting dark at this time, and just as he was about to go back home, Xiao Ran suddenly remembered that it was raining.Recently, Yulai moved Chengde's health care product factory to the capital. While focusing on production, he also had to take care of the company's business expansion, and also took care of the beauty salon business. He was so busy that he even went to Xiao's mansion to visit his sister. None of the time.Yu Ting went to the company to see him two or three times, and every time they met, she couldn't speak ten words, but she was busy with this and that, which was really hard.

Hongmenzi Hutong was only two streets away from Tianshuijing Hutong, so Xiao Ran decided to visit his brother-in-law who had worked so hard.Since Xiao Ying arrived in Beijing, she has never been out of the Xiao Mansion. I heard that there are streets to visit, which are beautiful.At present, the two brothers and sisters rushed to the same hall to kill each other in high spirits.

Unexpectedly, when he arrived at the company, Yu Lai was not there, and the clerk told him that he had gone to discuss business with someone.Guessing that this time would be coming back soon, the two waited for him in the shop while wandering around.What Xiao Ran was most interested in, of course, was the beauty salon opposite, and he plunged into it; but Xiao Ying was interested in Yu Lai's office.

This office is not too big, but it is neatly organized. What attracts Xiao Ying the most is the wall on the right hand, which is divided into grids. Inside are not antique jade, but clocks, hourglasses, music boxes, etc. gadgets.Xiao Ying has never seen such exquisite and fun things when she was so old. She held them one by one in her hand, looking left and right and couldn't put it down.

He was having a great time fiddling with it, when he suddenly heard a voice at the door saying: "Mr. Ayton, then our business is settled. I have already drafted a sample of the paperwork agreement, but please hurry up for the down payment." Send it here, you know, Jardine Matheson has always wanted to do this business, and their financial strength even surpasses your Fulai Matheson. My cooperation with you is entirely out of the friendship of our old friends. "

Only a blunt voice said: "Yes, I know! Mr. Fang has always been our most respected friend. It is a despicable honor to entrust this business to us! The down payment will be sent to the account tomorrow .”

Xiao Ying felt strange, and was about to go out to see what happened, but saw that the two people who were talking had already walked in.The one in front is blond and blue-eyed, wearing a foreign suit and a foreign cap, but he is a foreign devil. The man in the back is not very old, but tall and handsome, especially his eyes, which are very bright, with a kind of expression that does not match his age. Disproportionately old.

Xiao Ying's personality is a bit similar to Ning Xin's, she is also eccentric, but when she saw two strange men barging in, she couldn't help feeling ashamed and anxious, blushing immediately, and said loudly: "Who let you in?"

The foreigner was startled, looked at the man behind him and said, "This lady is... oh, it turns out that Mr. Fang has guests here, so I won't bother you. I will arrange for someone to handle business matters right away." According to Chinese regulations Etiquette, clasped fists and made a bow.Turning around, he said to Xiao Ying, "Beautiful lady, it's an honor to meet you!" He took off his top hat and bowed.

The person behind was also surprised. Before he could speak, Xiao Ying was anxious to say something to the foreigner. After all, it is an ancient Chinese tradition that it is a kind of humiliation to praise a girl so casually, and she immediately got angry. Said: "Shameless foreign devil, how shameless!"

The foreigner was taken aback, then laughed loudly, and said, "Mr Fang, this lady is very cute." He left with a smile.That Mr. Fang was still confused, looked Xiao Ying up and down, and said with a downcast face: "Hey, where are you from?"

The unscrupulous eyes already made Xiao Ying extremely ashamed and annoyed, what's more, when this came out, the small universe burst out immediately, grabbed the music box and threw it at the young master Fang.Mr. Fang was taken aback, he quickly lifted up his robe, and managed to cover the music box, he just breathed a sigh of relief, only to feel that there were stars in his eyes, and his forehead was smashed straight, he took a closer look, but it was A sea ship model had fallen to the ground and was broken into pieces of wood.