However, Zhu Jinglun had to find a way to install these cannons on the battery before the British and French Coalition forces noticed him.
Section one hundred and twenty-nine Deception
The Swedish merchant ship Orient arrived in the newly installed cargo on July 2, but it was too late when they entered the port. The Swedes asked to go through the formalities the next day on the excuse of late handling of fragile machinery.
But on this day, in the middle of the night, there were fishing boats quietly relying on the Orient, and people moved a piece of goods from the ship without knowing it.
The next day, the machinery and equipment were connected as usual without accident.
No one knows that it was the fishing boats carrying cannons and some supporting equipment that were transported to the fort overnight.
But these cannons and equipment were cleverly concealed by them, and Dagu Fort could be blocked by straw curtains. What’s worse, what about their construction site?
The main body of Humen fortress fort has been completed, and even the gun bases have been built, with a total of 40 semi-enclosed gun bases. These are used to place the main guns. The table tops of the gun bases are very wide, with a width of 1 meter and a width of 1 meter. Each gun base can be equipped with four large and small fortress guns.
The gun base is built with huge granite, but in the end, it was not fixed with butterfly iron. Instead, it was recommended by local China craftsmen to use black camphor tree juice, lime and glutinous rice mixed with sediment as adhesive. After inspection, the effect was not lost to cement. Zhu Jinglun specially rewarded the old stonemason with one silver.
In addition to the gun base and ammunition depot, it is also a priority to build completed facilities. The communication between the gun base and the ammunition depot will not let the soldiers carrying shells be bombarded by enemy artillery.
Other peripheral facilities, such as retaining walls, battlements, battlefields, official halls, fences, gates, stone ditches and hilltop watchtowers, have not been built yet, but priority has been given to the construction of hilltop watchtowers of various forts. This is where observation posts and cannons rely to guide shooting.
But last night, there were no workers near the gun base. All the workers went into the gun base and were not allowed to live and eat in the gun base. There were soldiers armed with weapons outside the gun base, which made some craftsmen worry. I wonder if I thought of the kind of tombs that are often used in stories to dig and kill craftsmen.
But this fort doesn’t have to kill craftsmen, and all the factories can continue to work. Swedish engineers command them to take out one guide rail and install it in the reserved position of the stone foundation. Laying rails and smashing nails will soon be completed.
That night, a huge cannon was lifted in the number, and simple tools such as crowbars were used to mount the fortress guns weighing tons. It was really exhausting for a worker, but tonight they had an extra gain. Zhu Jinglun gave everyone a silver red envelope or two.
The red envelope was given to celebrate because he couldn’t shoot.
At this time, Kowloon artillery was recruited one by one, together with Chen Jia’s old gunners, to learn how to operate artillery with new Swedish artillery consultant Goodman and others, mainly to learn aiming techniques. These professional artillery professors are absolutely formal, but unfortunately, their math skills are too poor, and western-style mathematics has no foundation. Goodman and others are very serious, but these people just don’t understand.
The thought of having to make up a western-style math course for them made Zhu Jinglun feel even more urgent.
Finally, let them learn artillery exercises during the day and hire Swedes to teach them mathematics knowledge at night. It is not necessary to learn those mathematical formulas and principles.
The artillery exercise was held in those infantry cannons. At this time, the battery cannon had been hidden. After the completion, the gun base had been sealed and troops were sent to guard the roots. No one was allowed to get close to it. In name, I was worried that someone would destroy the reality or hoped to keep it secret.
On the other hand, he continued to deceive the British and asked a Jardine Matheson when the goods would arrive at Jardine Matheson. The answer was that Zhu Jinglun was a little surprised because they were still confident that they could deliver the goods before the end of the year, which made Zhu Jinglun think that the British had not considered the fact that the war would break out again, or that they were not going to interfere in the arms trade of Chinese businessmen at all, even if they were fighting China.
When I think of some abnormal business logic in the west, such as when the Dutch were fighting Spain, the Spanish account in the Amsterdam bank could still freely import and export their gold coins, and after the world war, Krupp could receive patents from the British because the British arms company copied their weapons during the war. Zhu Jinglun can’t help but worry that Jardine Matheson can really deliver the goods.
Zhu Jinglun didn’t expect to give them one million taels of silver. To be honest, Zhu Jinglun is going to buy these 40 guns. Zhu Jinglun is going to cast the Swedes himself, bring those machines and equipment and 100 technicians to ensure that Zhu Jinglun can produce excellent artillery himself soon. Where will he spare no expense to buy the British?
Zhu Jinglun made a dirty trick. He sent people to Hong Kong. The British government told them that they hoped they could guarantee that Jardine Matheson’s arms deal with them would not be affected by the war. This was for fear that the British government would not know the situation. The reaction of the British government in Hong Kong made Zhu Jinglun relieved. They said that they could not guarantee it, that is to say, once the war broke out, the British government might detain the guns, so Zhu Jinglun could ask Jardine Matheson for liquidated damages.
Here Zhu Jinglun is thinking about taking care of the British to pay liquidated damages. beijing******** * * * Senggerinchen is thinking about finding the British and French allied forces to compensate the army.
I don’t know where I heard a rule that foreigners can win wars, but they need soldiers if they fail. He thinks that he won the British and French Coalition forces once in Dagukou, and the other side has to give him soldiers anyway.
Of course, the British and French Coalition forces have gone south, and Sengü rinchen said to the Americans
The American envoy landed successfully, but he didn’t go to Beijing immediately. Because he negotiated with them, the Qing government officials didn’t give them a definite time, so they could wait on the shore. However, the Qing government sent some cattle and sheep as a gesture of goodwill.
In fact, Emperor Xianfeng is still waiting for Gui Liang’s 70-year-old people to walk slowly by boat. In fact, as early as June, when Americans set off from Hi, Leon Jay Williams expressed his hope that Gui Liang would go to Beijing with him on the American Mississippi cruiser, but Gui Liang said that he dared not sit without the emperor’s permission.
So Leon Jay Williams can wait on the shore. He actually doesn’t know what China people are stalling for when he waits for Gui Liang.
He didn’t know how to deal with these foreigners who didn’t want to bow down to him without knowing Xianfeng’s roots, so he asked the monk Gelin to drag Xianfeng as far as possible. It was estimated that he could reach beijing on July 19 th in Gui Liang, and as a result, the monk Gelinqin had been dragged to No.2.
The Americans have finally arrived. According to the treaty, everything for foreign ministers to go to Beijing is organized by the Qing government. This is what the Qing government won, so that they can dress up at will. For example, let the people along the way see foreigners pay tribute to the Qing Dynasty in a big way. When Magalny saw Ganlong, his bow was still hung with the English Tribute sign by the Qing side, but Magalnigan denied that he had come to pay tribute.
For security reasons, Sengqin refused to let the American envoy take the avenue but took the Beitang Trail.
The treatment along the way was not high, and frankly speaking, Americans were wronged at this time because they could not ride in the sedan chair.
Whether to make a sedan chair is not a matter of comfort, but a matter of status. Americans know very well that there are officials in China who can take a sedan chair in Leon Jay Williams, indicating his identity. He personally hired two sedan chairs, one for him and the other for the naval commander who accompanied him. However, the Qing officials disagreed with the Qing government’s final decision that foreigners are inferior and foreigners are not allowed to take a sedan chair, especially this time, when people are watching along the way to Beijing. How can China be allowed to give foreigners sedan chair a face or not?