All work at Jilong Port is proceeding in an orderly manner.

In this battle to defend the chicken coop, the guards suffered more than a thousand casualties before and after.

But their gains were equally astonishing.

The Perry fleet was completely wiped out, and thousands of American soldiers in the Perry fleet were captured, as well as the seven battleships in the bay.

These are all the American warships in the East.

Now he can go to war with the United States without ceremony, or even cut off their trade with the East.

After discussing the issue of naval establishment with Guo You, a logistics officer responsible for cleaning up the captured ships found Dong Liang.

This man’s name is Xu Jinchi, a Ryukyu Chinese.

Xu Jinchi was originally an official in Gongliangcheng. Because he was careful and good at calculations, he had been assisting Lin Ben in managing the logistical supplies of the escort army.

After the Household Department was established, he became the Military Supplies Warehouse Ambassador of the Household Department.

When Dong Liang went on an expedition, he usually stayed with him to provide military supplies.

However, Xu Jinchi usually keeps a low profile and is not famous. He is the type who works in obscurity.

"Führer, there are some good things on the flagship Mississippi that I need you to take a look at." Xu Jinchi said, seeming a little excited, but he suppressed it and did not show it.

After all, so many soldiers had been sacrificed, and the head of state did not look good. No matter how happy he was, he had to bear it in his heart.

"What is so mysterious?"

"My subordinates have never seen it. I heard from people on the ship that it is called a telegraph machine and a model of a train and locomotive. I heard that it was a meeting gift brought to the shogunate by the Perry fleet."

Dong Liang remembered that when the Perry fleet visited Edo, they presented a telegraph machine and a model train and locomotive that represented industrial civilization.

In history, the shogunate could only ask the powerful men to carry some rice as a return gift.

"Come on, let's go take a look."

Dong Liang and Xu Jinchi came to a well-kept warehouse on the dock.

There are a lot of things piled up in the warehouse, and the bottom is supported by wooden boards.

There are many books among them. Foreign captains have the habit of keeping books in the captain's cabin so that they can use them to pass the time during the long sea voyage.

Dong Liang collected tens of thousands of foreign books in the library of the Chinese University Hall, which were collected from captured warships.

Looking at the books arranged together in the warehouse, there are probably tens of thousands of them.

There are also some decorations and some personal items, such as the guns collected by the captain.

Dong Liang and Xu Jinchi came to a locomotive. This was a ten-wheel locomotive, which should be considered relatively advanced at this time.

However, this train locomotive is only one person tall and is not a full scale model, but a scaled down model.

"Can this train locomotive start?"

Dong Liang did not ask Xu Jinchi, but asked a middle-aged white man wearing worker's clothing in English.

This man was looked at by two soldiers. He wore a pair of glasses with very small frames. His skin was somewhat dark and rough, especially his hands which were covered in calluses.

"Yes, sir, except that it is smaller, this locomotive is fully operational. If there are tracks, it can pull hundreds of kilograms of things."

This white man wearing glasses seemed a little scared. When he spoke, he stooped and spoke in a low tone, appearing very respectful.

"Did you make it?" Dong Liang got in front of the locomotive and observed it carefully.

"Yes, sir, I am a locomotive engineer. This model was handmade by me. This time they asked me to demonstrate and explain this locomotive. I am not a soldier. Can you let me go back? My home

There is also a 70-year-old mother and four young children. My wife has no job and cannot support them at all." The white man wearing glasses said in a pleading tone.

He could tell that this young man's status among these people was not low.

He was just an engineer at the Chicago Locomotive Factory. This time the Navy Department ordered a locomotive model from them. As the chief engineer of the factory, Mark Stevens was assigned to complete this task because it was to make a model.

Therefore it has to be made by hand.

Only an engineer as experienced as Stevens could do it.

As a result, after the train model was completed, the military recruited him to be an instructor. Fortunately, there was a generous subsidy, and he was able to receive his factory salary as usual.

So Mark Stevens readily agreed to the trip, and it just so happened that he also wanted to visit the mysterious East.

Travel and adventure were generally popular among the white scholar class at this time, which can be seen from the large number of literary works that appeared during this period.

This also promoted the expansion of Western civilization from the side.

The trip was very enjoyable at first.

He saw the savagery of Africa, the wildness of the Arab world and the mystery of the East.

It's just that it's all over now.

After a fierce battle, the entire fleet became prisoners of the Easterners.

It turns out that these Eastern people are not only mysterious, but also very tough.

They are not at all like the rat-tailed, cowardly people advertised in the newspapers.

Those damn people who write travelogues about the East are all liars.

Now Stevens just wants to return to the United States alive. He is an engineer and has a good life in the United States.

Without him, he really couldn't imagine how his wife and children would live.

"What's your name?" Dong Liang asked. He had just heard a familiar name. He wouldn't meet any famous people this time.

"Mark Stevens, sir, you can call me Stevens."

"Okay, Mr. Stevens, your craftsmanship is really good." Dong Liang had just seen it. The workmanship of this steam locomotive was so fine that it was hard to imagine that it was made by hand.

"Thank you, sir, this is my job." He was not happy because of Dong Liang's compliment, because Dong Liang did not answer his request.

"Stevens, sir, I have a factory that can now produce steam engines. I need you to guide my workers to make steam locomotives. If you can do it, then I can consider reuniting you with your family."

"Really? Sir, thank you so much." Stevens' voice rose a bit because he was happy.

However, he did not notice the details Dong Liang said, which was to reunite him with his family.

How could Dong Liang let such an engineer who was more capable than himself and who knew so much about steam locomotives let him go? At worst, he would have moved his family here, just like Richard.

"Of course, we are a civilized country. You have also seen that this time it was you Americans who took the initiative to provoke the war, and we were just self-defense. Even so, I still gave you the treatment of prisoners of war."

"Take Mr. Stevens down and get him safely settled." Dong Liang ordered Xu Jinchi.

This engineer may be worth several battleships.

Under normal circumstances, Dong Liang would not have been able to bring an engineer back from the west.

Next he looked at the telegraph machine.

This telegraph machine was also equipped with a hand-operated generator.

The principle of these things is actually very simple. Dong Liang could guess what was inside without even opening the box.

It's nothing more than a coil made of copper wire.

However, with these ready-made machines, it would be much easier for Dong Liang to imitate them.

As long as there are raw materials, Dong Liang can quickly lay the telegraph lines on Dongfan Island.

And Dong Liang also knew how to transform it into a wireless telegraph.

The technical gap between the two is not too big.

After walking around the warehouse, Dong Liang felt much better.

In order to show off in front of the shogunate, the Americans brought quite a lot of good things.

Dong Liang knew the principles of many things, but without samples, he couldn't make them by himself.
Chapter completed!