Open an aircraft carrier to fight against Japan

Before Lin Yuan could speak, the jailer next to him walked over with a smile and said, "I said, two adults, this is not a place to talk. If the younger one is two adults, then go to the Wanghai Teahouse to get a pot of the best quality tea." Longjing, drink and chat."

When the man heard this, he laughed a few times, stood up, and said, "I'm so anxious that I forgot these things. Master Lin, please go to the teahouse with me for a while. I have something important to ask." .”

Lin Yuan smiled and said, "Let's talk on the way if we have something to do, we won't go to the teahouse if we have something to do."

When he got out of the prison, the man glanced at Shen Wanqing who was following him. The meaning was very clear. Men should talk about big things, and women should go away. Shen Wanqing, who lives in the 21st century, obviously did not have such awareness. Ignoring the man's eyes, he walked on his own.

Seeing that Lin Yuan didn't say anything, the man had no choice but to give up and let Shen Wanqing listen. The man smiled and said, "Master Lin, I've seen you before. I don't know if you still remember me?"

Lin Yuan smiled and said, "I think you look familiar, but I can't remember where I saw you."

The man laughed and said: "My surname is Zhang, my first name is Jian (pronounced "Jian"), and I also went to the opening ceremony of Mr. Manshan's Daxin Spinning Factory. It's just that I have a low official position and a small position. Behind, Mr. Lin has a high position and authority. front, so adults may not have seen me."

Shen Wanqing exclaimed "ah", and said, "So you are Zhang Jian!"

As long as anyone who has studied modern Chinese history, it is impossible not to know Zhang Jian, Zhang Jian is a famous industrialist in modern Chinese history. In 1905, he and Ma Xiangbo founded Fudan Public School, the predecessor of Fudan University.

Shen Wanqing had only heard about Zhang Jian in history textbooks, but she didn't expect to see a living one today, so she exclaimed, Lin Yuan thought to herself: "Why are you so surprised, Zhang Jian hasn't set up a spinning mill and What about school?"

So Lin Yuan concealed and said: "She has heard that there is a champion named Zhang Jian, but she didn't expect to see it today, so she was surprised." This is another legend of Zhang Jian, he was the champion in 1894.

Zhang Jian smiled modestly, and said: "Where there is, as the saying goes: a scholar who is useless is a scholar, so don't mention the title of champion." Lin Yuan knew that he was pretending to be modest. It is extremely important, otherwise Zhang Jian would not have taken the imperial examination several times in a row.

Zhang Jian humbled himself a bit, and then said: "I was sitting on pins and needles at the opening ceremony of that Daxin yarn factory that day. Today, we have to rely on Japanese people for our clothes, isn't this a disgrace to our Celestial Dynasty?"

Zhang Jian said again: "So I also want to start a spinning factory, and please help me a lot!"

Lin Yuan smiled and said, "How can I help?"

Zhang Jian said with a smile: "It's not because I want to flatter you, but in this court, there are no more than ten people who are loyal to the people, and your lord is one of them. The up and down procedures for opening a cotton mill are the most cumbersome. With the help of adults, this spinning mill will be completed soon, and then we won’t have to rely on outsiders for the thread we use to make clothes.”

The main work of the spinning mill is spinning. The so-called spinning is an important link in the textile industry. The raw materials used in textiles, such as hemp, cotton, and silk, are stirred into a large ball at the beginning, while weaving requires What is produced is a single thread, and spinning is to turn these large clumps of raw materials into individual threads.

Lin Yuan smiled and said, "Okay! I'll help you with this job, but you have to promise me one condition."

Zhang Jian said with a smile: "Don't worry, I will definitely need the shares from adults."

Lin Yuan shook his head and said, "I don't want your shares, I want you to go to Germany to buy a batch of goods in the name of the spinning mill."

Zhang Jian had never heard of this company, so he asked, "What are you going to buy?"

Lin Yuan said: "I need to buy a lot of things. I will send someone to send you the list tomorrow. Don't worry, I will pay for it."

Zhang Jian also said that he would pay for Lin Yuan to buy it, but after some refusals, Zhang Jian said goodbye and left.

Shen Wanqing asked Lin Yuan: "Aren't you going to manufacture weapons on a large scale? Why do you ask him, a textile worker, to buy things for you? What use can the things he buy be used for?"

Lin Yuan smiled and said: "If I tell you which company I went to buy the goods, you will understand. I want him to go to Zeiss in Germany."

Shen Wanqing suddenly realized: "Zeiss Company, I have heard of this name before, and many of the camera lenses I use have this name."

Lin Yuan said: "Yes, in our era, Zeiss has developed into the largest manufacturer of camera lenses, but in this era, they have not yet developed to that point."

Shen Wanqing asked again: "Then what are you buying the camera lens for?"

Lin Yuan said: "What I want is not their lens, but their optical glass."

Looking at Shen Wanqing at a loss, Lin Yuan said: "Optical glass is an important component in the manufacture of optical equipment, such as telescopes used by commanders and scopes used by artillery, all need to be made of optical glass, so these optical glasses are The eyes of an army. In the previous battles, I found that the Qing army was extremely lacking in these optical devices, so sometimes the artillery had a very short range of action. Not only that, because the existing optical range-finding equipment was not accurate enough, resulting in The artillery wasn't accurate enough."

Shen Wanqing said, "Aren't these things available in China? I still have to go abroad to buy them."

Lin Yuan said: "The optical industry is an emerging industry in the whole world. Only the UK, France and Germany are industrial powerhouses that can manufacture optical glass. Now China doesn't have these things at all, not only now, but when China has them. It was already the 30s when the optical industry started.”

Shen Wanqing asked again: "Then can't we create it?"

Lin Yuan said: "We have all the technical information, but we lack manufacturing equipment. The modern optical industry mostly uses crucibles made of metal platinum as containers when crystallizing optical glass, but we don't have platinum now. In this era, refractory materials are used as containers." , but we don’t know the method to ensure the purity. Once impurities in the crucible enter the crystallization liquid of optical glass, it will greatly affect the performance of optical glass. However, we will have our own optical industry sooner or later. With our The ability, will definitely be far ahead in the world."

Shen Wanqing smiled and said, "In other words, you spun the army's eyes with a spinning machine."

Lin Yuan laughed twice, and Shen Wanqing suddenly said, "I'm afraid this plan of yours won't come true!"