I am rich in martial arts, but choose culture to win

Today, the British Empire, which is in full swing, has an annual steel output of only about 110 million tons, and the combined North and South of the United States only produces 40 tons.

Hanyang Iron Works, the flagship project of "My Great Qing Dynasty", was built in November 1890 and completed in 11. The iron was tapped in May 1893 and continued to build until April 1894. The cumulative cost was 5 million taels, and the annual production capacity was only 1896 tons. .

Of course, the thing in the Hanyang Iron and Steel Works is a real system problem, and the level of equipment itself is not bad, much better than the current experimental earthen kilns in Daming (see this paragraph for the picture).

The so-called experimental kiln is naturally a temporary kiln built to train steel workers and engineers.

Daming Iron and Steel Works theoretically has an annual output of 1 tons, but actually does not even have [-] tons.

After all, the quality of the steel smelted in these earthen kilns is extremely poor. At most, they can be made into a farm tool, an iron pot, or piled up in Zhuqinuo as a defensive bunker. There is no need to make so many.

In fact, in Daming’s First Five-Year Plan, the final appearance of Fengdu Iron and Steel Works was a factory similar to Hanyang Iron and Steel Works, with the technical ability to temper refined steel.

Sometimes, Zhu Fugui is really envious of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in this era. He can buy whatever he wants, whether it is an advanced steel factory or a warship that is the country's most important weapon. Foreigners have no technical defenses or arms embargoes.

This treatment is like India in the 21st century.

Probably they have seen through it all, "My Great Qing" is as muddy as the third brother and cannot support the wall, but it can somewhat contain their northern big country, which is so generous.

All in all, Daming can only produce some crude steel now, and the steel for guns and cannons still needs to be imported from the platform.

Therefore, there is no problem with the raw materials of the [Dewu-02 type] rifle, but the processing technology is not sophisticated enough, which makes the accuracy slightly lower than that of the late 1905th cover, which is about the same level as the early version in [-].

With this kind of rifle, the Henry 1860 will naturally be phased out, and it is a good idea to sell it to the Huai Army.

Li Hongzhang is a rich and happy man.

Zhu Fugui bought a wholesale Henry 28 for around US$1860, and sold it to the Huai army for 28 taels of silver.

The only thing that puzzled Yang Liu was that the legendary DR. Xing was recruited into the shogunate by Li Hongzhang. Since he had such a talent, why did he buy "American equipment".

But after thinking about it for a while, Yang Liu understood what was going on.

DR. Xing, as a pure minister of the Ming Dynasty, naturally couldn't do things for the officials of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties.

The reason why he entered Li Hongzhang's shogunate and became an alternate magistrate of the puppet Qing Dynasty was entirely for the grand plan of Long Live Lord.

While thinking about coping, he can also use the principle of "darkness under the lamp" to hide and protect himself, and continue to shine for Daming.

This is a true warrior who lurks in the heart of the enemy.

Yang Liu secretly winked at Xing Jiurou behind Li Hongzhang, showing a meaningful smile.

But Xing Jiurou didn't understand at all, so he could only reply with an expression uglier than crying.

During this period of time, he was eating good wine and good meat, served by the beautiful maid, and hugged by the plump Biluo, life was so happy.

It's just that because of smoking opium, the flesh didn't grow a bit, and it still had the dignity of Captain Jia.

Seeing Dr. Xing's expression, Yang Liu said to himself, as expected of a pure minister of the Ming Dynasty, he actually used a trick of pretending to be insane in order to hide himself. Compared with him, he was really far behind.

……

If one wanted to get close to Tianjing City, which was surrounded by water, one naturally needed a legitimate reason.

The reason is also very simple. Yang Liu put on a set of foreign monk clothes for the progressive white slave, indicating that Father Wang from the Twisting Lama Temple wanted to debate the scriptures with the rebellious heretic.

It has not been a day or two since the war of words between the foreign monks and the cult members of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

Although Hong Xiuquan's Taiping Heavenly Kingdom claimed to be derived from Western Christianity, he actually knew nothing about Christians.His thoughts, in fact, all originated from the "Good Words to Exhort the World" written by the Chinese missionary Liang Fa at that time, combined with some local ghosts and gods, and fabricated a system that could be justified.

Even when Western missionaries tried to pass on the scriptures to him, Hong Xiuquan denounced them as heretics. The two sides debated the scriptures, and even the Westerners were defeated.

Therefore, in the eyes of Li Hongzhang and Zeng Guofan, it is reasonable for these foreign monks to want to argue with Hong Xiuquan before he burps, so as not to be able to turn things around again.

Yang Liu and others followed the progress of Bai Nu to the high platform, and threw scriptures into the city with bows, arrows and kites.

These scriptures were copied by Zhu Fugui in advance from the "Stories of the Bible" that cost 5 yuan a copy in later generations. The Hunan Army approved the input after checking and confirming that there were no problems.

Chapter 183 Heavenly Father Appears, Tianjing City is in an Uproar

However, these scriptures did not receive any reply in the end.

After all, Hong Xiuquan Hong Tianwang had already started to eat grass roots at this time. He was already so hungry that his eyes stared like gold stars. He was busy dancing to communicate with his heavenly father and brother, praying for the descending of millions of heavenly soldiers and generals to save his life. Where would he be challenged by the foreign monk.

The delivery of scriptures during the day was actually just throwing stones to ask for directions.

After figuring out the route and setting up defenses, Yang Liu and the others sneaked back in the middle of the night.

Naturally, there were sentry posts in the places where troops were stationed in ancient times, but they were far less mysterious than those mentioned in TV dramas. What’s more, in December 1863, all the fortresses outside Tianjing had been lost, and there was a shortage of food. The loyal king Li Xiucheng suggested “let the city not go away.” ", Hong Xiuquan was not allowed, and missed the best time to break through.

For such a place of death, even the mature and prudent Zeng Guofan was already thinking about how to face the court after breaking the city.

The Hunan Army has even started to sell their own Qiuba for money, so naturally they don't have the will to guard against it.

Therefore, Yang Liu and others successfully reached the commanding heights outside Tianjing City.

The strongest grenadier, Jian Ziqiang, controls the Daming firefighting drone, and by virtue of stepping on the spot during the day, accurately ignites the altar where Hong Xiuquan jumped to the gods at that time.

This altar is located in an open area, and the fire did not affect other houses.

But that is the place where the Heavenly King prays to the Heavenly Father and Brother Heavenly Brothers. This fire is no small matter.

Hong Xiuquan, who was so hungry that he couldn't sleep in the middle of the night, heard that the altar was on fire, and almost fell to the ground with black eyes.

Fortunately, the final belief made him persist and shouted, "This is the heavenly father and heavenly brother, and he has come to receive my tribute!" Killed, even if asked to be granted Long Live)

This kind of nonsense, at this time, in fact, not many people believe it. After all, they call the heavenly soldiers to descend to the earth every day, but so far, there is not a single one.

Hong Xiuquan himself was insane and insane, but most of the generals of the Taiping Army still understood.

It's just that they are not willing to surrender to Qing Yao, so they can only coax the king to play.

Seeing that the king of heaven said that this is his old man from the heaven to collect the tribute, he had no choice but to agree.

While perfunctory, he organized manpower to fight the fire.

However, at this moment, a young voice sounded from the sky, yes, it was Zhu Fugui's jade voice:

"Hong Xiuquan, you unfilial thing, you gave your father and me all the things that dogs wouldn't eat. Has your conscience been eaten by dogs?"

This voice was extremely vulgar, but it seemed to come from Nine Heavens.

The Taiping soldiers raised their heads and saw ten red dots hanging high above the fire-lit night sky, which seemed to form a mysterious pattern, a bit like seven-star lighting, and a bit like a holy cross.

In short, the sound came from the ten red dots.

"Fairy!"

All of a sudden, all the Taiping ammunition could not be rescued, anyway, the altar was almost burnt out, and they fell to their knees.

Hong Xiuquan was even more shocked. He quickly knelt forward, raised his arms to the sky and trembled excitedly: "Father, Abba, my son is not filial, I should not neglect you, but my son has not had porridge for three days!"

Hong Xiuquan didn't feel wronged at all, although the voice scolded him for being unfilial, it was a good scolding!

Isn't he unfilial?

There were only a few ounces of brown sugar and two pancakes for worshiping the heavenly father. Although they were all decorated with silk and satin and served with gold, silver and jade, this did not change the fact that they were extremely shabby.

I prayed to the sky countless times, but I still couldn't establish a connection with my heavenly father and brother.

Obviously even Yang Xiuqing can do it...

That's right, at the later stage of self-hypnosis, Hong Xiuquan even believed in Yang Xiuqing's ghost upper body, and even felt that he had killed Yang Xiuqing, and was abandoned by the heavenly father.

but……

Obviously, I am the most beloved son of the heavenly Father!

Hong Xiuquan hated why he just killed a servant, but the heavenly father wanted to abandon him.

Fortunately, now that the Heavenly Father has finally returned, he has not abandoned himself at all. He is the real Son of the Heavenly Father, the younger brother of Jesus!

Although that voice sounds too young, and has a little Zhejiang accent.

But what does it matter?

Avalokitesvara still has thousands of faces, but the heavenly father is naturally impermanent!

Hong Xiuquan burst into tears, and kowtowed desperately, not even knowing that the blood on his forehead was red: "Father, the child is not filial, the child is not filial! Hurry up and send down the heavenly soldiers to save the child! When the child destroys the demons, I will give it to you as a sacrifice to the old man in Shanghai." It tastes delicious, and serve it with abalone and ginseng wing belly!"

Naturally, the tape recorder installed on the drone did not have any questions and answers between artificial intelligence and Hong Xiuquan, but played according to the preset:

"Hong Xiuquan, before there was a heretic named Nietzsche in the west who claimed that God was dead, so I paid more attention to your brother. Now that I come to you, I never thought that you would be so disappointing. The little demon has not yet been subdued."

"Now, I will bestow heavenly grains one after another. You only need to take some heavenly grains, mix them with water, and you will be full for a day. You also have heavenly noodles, boil them in water, add seasoning packets, and you will be fragrant for three miles... ..."

……

Although Zhu Fugui had a bad feeling towards Hong Xiuquan, they were all anti-Qing colleagues after all, and after all Hong Xiuquan was also the old leader of Yang Liu and others, so Zhu Fugui was quite generous.

What they were given this time wasn't any three-free pig feed, but serious high-concentration compressed biscuits and a small amount of instant noodles.

Instant noodles are mainly for Hong Tianwang to warm his stomach, mainly [high-energy nutritional iron box 200g*6 anti-hunger food meal replacement fullness compressed biscuits dry food military industry military food]

This compressed biscuit is as hard as a rock, rich in fat and sugar. A 200g compressed biscuit contains 2500 kJ of calories, 7.1 grams of protein, 20 grams of fat, and 238 mg of sodium.

Even for future generations, the taste is definitely not bad when you are hungry, otherwise you will not lead the sales on Taobao.

For these hungry Taiping soldiers who were about to starve to death, it was a great tonic.

It can not only supplement energy, but also supplement valuable protein and salt.

The minimum energy required for an adult man to maintain normal activities is about 5000 kilojoules, that is to say, two compressed biscuits are enough.

Daming's fire-fighting drone has a load capacity of 25 kg and can deliver 125 packs of high-energy compressed biscuits at a time.

Including Jian Ziqiang, a total of ten drones repeatedly delivered a total of [-] kilograms of high-energy compressed biscuits and some instant noodles to Tianjing City for five consecutive nights.

These supplies are enough to support Hong Xiuquan for a long time, at least not to eat grass and starve to death.

Even if he has a conscience, his subordinates can share some noodle soup to drink.

And material satisfaction is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that after five consecutive days of Heavenly Father's apparition, even the general of the Taiping Army who suspected that Hong Xiuquan was out of his mind before found out that the clown was actually me!

He is really the son of heaven!

There really is a god father who can move mountains and seas, fly to the sky and hide from the ground, and take care of him!

Of course they are not entitled to taste the delicious instant noodles, only senior generals like the Hong family and Li Xiucheng are eligible to enjoy it.

But for those compressed biscuits, every junior officer can get some.

After eating it in the mouth, the fragrance of the oil that overflows the mouth makes everyone sigh with emotion, this god is actually a gourmet!

It is indeed a heavenly food, it is really delicious!

It's a pity that the tribute given by the Heavenly King is too poor, the Lord God is not willing to send down the Heavenly Soldiers, otherwise they have already reached the Forbidden City by now, right?

But all the soldiers of the Taiping Army who experienced that night firmly remembered God's Yuyin. Such a fairy fate may be difficult to meet in this life.

I really want to listen to the fairy sound again!

After breaking through the city of Beijing and breaking into the Qing Yao Temple, will the Lord God appear again?

When the time comes, will he take us to heaven as soldiers and generals?

Many people have such "extravagant hopes" in their hearts, and the mental outlook of the entire Tianjing City has changed!

Chapter 184 Master Li entrusts me with a message

From Jian Ziqiang's report, Zhu Fugui learned that at least when they left Shanghai in early June, Tianjing City's resistance was still vigorous.

Even Huang Jinwen, the Huzhou defender of the Taiping Army, launched a small-scale Qinwang offensive. Although it ended in failure, it further strengthened the confidence of the remnants of the Taiping Army.

Guaranteeing a vigorous but not corrupt Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is helpful to the overall interests of Ming Dynasty, so when Zhu Fugui's special fleet returns next time, it will send another wave of supplies to support its own... son?

At that time, it was just a whim to recognize Hong Xiuquan's father, but after thinking about it carefully, Zhu Fugui felt that he had suffered a lot.

If you want to spread the word casually, those who are willing to be the adoptive son of Fugui can go from the Fugui Palace to the Daming River.

How can you take advantage of that lunatic Hong?

After rewarding Jian Ziqiang with a big red flower, Zheng Baoguo came to face the saint again.

He solemnly delivered a letter to Zhu Fugui.

The second time I went to the Far East to pull people, the two gunboats did not accompany me. After all, the armed merchant ships of this era are more than enough to deal with most of the so-called water bandits and pirates in East Asia.

It must be known that the Japanese Changshu Domain officials did not take advantage of the 800-ton American merchant ships, and the Ming fleet was an average of 2000-ton ships.

Therefore, the highest person in charge of the fleet is Zheng Baoguo, Admiral of the Navy. The letter submitted by him so solemnly is obviously very important, even so important that soldiers like Jian Ziqiang don't know the inside story at all.

Zhu Fugui took the letter and found that there were a few large characters crookedly written on the envelope: "Shanghai Zhizhou Bu Xing Jiuliu of the Qing Dynasty to Ambassador Tang Na X of the Hua O Country".