The triple-expansion steam engine, which was originally supposed to be put into use in the early 1870s, was born at Nanhua Shipyard several years in advance due to the hard work of technicians and workers in processing and assembly.
Although it only had a "merely" 1,000 horsepower, the emergence of the triple-expansion steam engine still changed Nanhua's shipbuilding industry - adding steam engines to merchant ships was put on the agenda.
In the days to come, the triple-expansion steam engines produced by Nanhua Shipbuilding Company will definitely not be sold to the outside world. Just providing steam engines for 36 merchant ships of Amelia Shipping Company is enough for the shipbuilding company's power workshop to produce them for a long time.
"Expand a professional steam engine and boiler manufacturing enterprise!"
Faced with the sudden increase in demand, Zhu Xianhai made a straightforward decision. As early as last year, Nanhua Shipyard had begun producing steam engines. After all, steam engines in this era were not complicated, and there were not even unified drawings. They were all one machine and one machine.
Type, steam engines are designed and produced entirely according to the needs of users. However, the triple-expansion steam engine produced by Nanhua has a set of standard drawings and can be mass-produced.
That is to say, when the new steam engine was put into production, the "Great Eastern" sailed back to Nanhua. Its arrival not only brought 43,612 new immigrants to Nanhua, causing the population of Nanhua to jump to more than 160,000. At the same time, a passenger on the ship,
Zhu Xianhai was so shocked that he didn't react for a long time.
Another governor of Zhejiang has arrived!
Nanhua already has a governor of Zhejiang—Wang Youling, no, his current pseudonym is Wang Yingjiu. Under Hu Xueyan’s recommendation, he has joined the company after teaching in the school for several months and became Zhu Xianhai’s staff.
"My lord, why don't I go and meet Zuo Jigao first?"
Wang Yingjiu also sighed deeply in his heart.
He was "sold" to Nanhua by Chang Maoluo when he was the governor of Zhejiang. Who would have thought that his successor Zuo Zongtang would also go to Nanhua.
What a coincidence!
Zhu Xianhai muttered secretly.
"No, let him take a walk around Nanhua first, and then I'll see him again!"
In fact, among the so-called "famous officials of the Zhongxing Dynasty" in the late Qing Dynasty, Zhu Xianhai had a very good impression of Zuo Zongtang, for no other reason... Xibei Er.
Just when Zhu Xianhai was planning to let Zuo Zongtang visit Nanhua, he stood on the deck and watched the passengers on the ship being sent ashore by sampans and small steamers. He stared at the city in front of him, Zuo Zongtang's
His expression seemed a little complicated.
"The proprietor still has to worry about how to see him later?"
Su Shijing asked.
"Um!"
Nodding, Zuo Zongtang said.
"Zuo was deeply favored by the imperial court. He was promoted to governor of Zhejiang within one year of joining the official position. He originally wanted to serve the imperial court and quell the rebellion, but he was defeated in Zhejiang and ended up in a foreign country. Now the Lord of Nanhua whom I want to meet..."
Different from others, Zuo Zongtang's imperial examination road was very bumpy and difficult. Although he was a talented man famous in Sanxiang, he studied the knowledge of managing the world and applying it, and the level of eight-part essays was not very high.
I took the exam three times but failed to pass the Jinshi exam.
After completely despairing about the imperial examination, he vowed never to take it again and returned to his hometown to farm and teach. Zuo Zongtang continued to work in this rural farmer's life until he was forty years old. Well, he was even a "son-in-law."
Having accomplished nothing before the age of forty, for a man like Zuo Zongtang, who has great ambitions and is more "prosperous" than he is now, one can imagine the frustration. If it hadn't been for the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, he would probably have stayed with his father-in-law all his life.
Come to your home.
Although he was a well-known talent in Sanxiang, he had been recommended by local officials and big bosses such as Zeng and Lin, but he had never been used by the court. Even when he was in his forties, he did not get a full official position.
, naturally he has no loyalty to the imperial court.
This was even the reason why he almost joined the Taiping Army in his early years. However, from the time he entered Zhang Liangji's shogunate, and then became an official as an aide two years ago, and was promoted to the governor's "Zhiyu" in one year, he felt that the court was very kind to him.
Hou, who would have thought that when he was preparing to serve the imperial court, he became a prisoner and was "sold" to Nanhua.
And this Lord of Nanhua.
"This Lord of Nanhua is said to be a descendant of Zhu Ming!"
After staying on the ship for dozens of days, Zuo Zongtang almost learned from other people's mouths that the identity of the Lord of Nanhua was actually Empress Zhu Ming. Unexpectedly, he also started to murmur in his heart.
I wonder if you are also rebelling.
With a wry smile, Zuo Zongtang said to himself as he looked at the crowds of people on the deck.
"He actually created such a large foundation in the foreign land. I'm afraid his ambition is not small!"
His ambition is not small!
What is this ambition?
While Zuo Zongtang was muttering in his heart, it was finally his turn to disembark. Unlike others who went to the new immigrant education camp to receive some training, he and a dozen of his subordinates were brought to the dock. The people who received them
It was actually an old acquaintance. To see an old friend tens of thousands of miles away was really beyond the imagination of Su Shijing and others. But then they were relieved. Now the city of Hangzhou is under Changmao's control. Since Changmao
Mao kept selling people here, so seeing a few old friends from Hangzhou here is of course normal.
"Why is Brother Jiayu here too?"
"How else could it have come about?"
Ding Bing smiled helplessly.
"Don't they all come the same way?"
Ding Bing shrugged helplessly and saluted Zuo Zongtang.
My Ding Bing, I have met Mr. Futai!"
"Hey, brother Ding Xian, why are you so polite? I just hate Zuo for his incompetence. Although my brother Xian passed the information, he was unable to save the people of Hangzhou from the fire. It is really a pity!"
In one sentence, he told what Ding Bing did when Hangzhou fell - he had sent information to Zuo Zongtang, but his fate had also undergone some changes, and he failed to rescue Wenlan Pavilion's "
"Sikuquanshu" and rebuild Wenlan Pavilion, but were "sold" to Nanhua together with the family's collection of books. Nanhua not only wanted people, but also books. So the Ding family was unfortunate and could not escape this disaster.
, the Ding family's collection of books and the "Sikuquanshu" and other books from "Wenlan Pavilion" in Hangzhou became the collection of Nanhua Library, and he himself also went to Nanhua.
Ding Bing said directly.
"Hey, what's the pity? Lord Futai doesn't know something. It would be amazing if you could defeat the current Changmao!"
"Oh? Why is this?"
Zuo Zongtang said doubtfully.
"Master Futai, haven't you understood yet?"
Ding Bing said.
"The reason why we came here is, to put it bluntly, we were plundered by Changmao. Why did he rob us? Isn't it just to exchange foreign guns and cannons with Nanhua? Now there are many guns and cannons in Changmao, and the officers and soldiers have sharp firepower.
How can they be their opponents..."
In fact, Zuo Zongtang knew what Ding Bing said, but he still looked around with some confusion.
"Nam Hwa uses guns and cannons to replace people. Is it possible that they can also make foreign guns and cannons?"