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Shen Wanqing asked, "What are you thinking about?"

Lin Yuan pulled her away and said, "Come with me."

Shen Wanqing didn't understand what he was going to do, so she had to follow him, and the two soon came to a small town, which was located near the post road, where the weaving factory opened by the British that Xu Bin mentioned was located.

The weaving factory itself does not have a production line, and the threads it uses are all brought in from the spinning mill; the weaving process also needs steam engines to provide power, so a large amount of coal needs to be transported. In this way, the connection between the weaving factory and the outside world It became very widespread, and more people came and went. Many local farmers left agricultural production and specialized in service industries. This is how the city was formed.

The two found a small hotel to stay, and Lin Yuan said: "Didn't you hear what Xu Bin said just now, the weaving factory run by the British eliminated a batch of steam engines, and I plan to get these steam engines."

Shen Wanqing smiled and said, "Steam engines are outdated, what do we need them for?"

Lin Yuan smiled helplessly: "The steam engine is not an outdated thing. Take the one used by the weaving factory as an example. Its main body is a boiler that generates steam. This kind of equipment is also used in many modern industrial productions, such as generators. , that is to use steam to drive steam turbines, as well as chemical industry, and many processes in the textile industry cannot do without steam.”

"So I want to see if I can repair these steam engines. Zhang Shiliang has a silk production line, but they still produce it by hand, so I want to put these steam engines there."

Shen Wanqing asked: "Then what are you going to do? To steal the boiler?"

Lin Yuan smiled and said, "Don't you look at how big the boilers are. They are more than three meters high, and the main body is made of steel. How can we move such equipment!"

Shen Wanqing smiled and said, "Then why did you drag me here?"

Lin Yuan smiled mysteriously and said, "You will know when it gets dark."

These words made Shen Wanqing's pretty face blush, she turned her head away, walked to the table, pretended to drink water, Lin Yuan said, "I'll go to that weaving factory first to find out the situation."

After finishing speaking, Lin Yuan came out alone and came to the weaving factory. The factory occupied a large area, and there were British guards at the gate of the factory building. Lin Yuan went up and said in English, "I want to see your manager!"

Seeing that Lin Yuan could speak English, the British man guarding the door dared not neglect him, so he hurriedly let Lin Yuan into the reception room. After a while, the manager came and asked, "Sir, what can you do with me? "

Lin Yuan asked: "I heard that your factory has newly replaced a batch of equipment, but what do you plan to do with the original equipment?"

The manager shrugged helplessly and said: "If in our UK, these equipments would be sent back to the steel factory, they would be re-smelted into steel, but here, I don't know what to do with them, so I have to pile them up first. In an empty factory."

Lin Yuan smiled and said, "Why don't you sell them to me."

The manager's eyes lit up, and he said, "Since you want it, that's great, but..."

Lin Yuan asked, "But what?"

The manager said: "We replace the equipment not because our equipment has failed, but because we think their performance has fallen behind, but if you Chinese use it, their performance is still second to none, so at this price, you can't buy it." Come out too low."

Lin Yuan asked: "Okay, we can talk about the money, you have to take me to see the goods first."

The manager rolled his eyes and said with a smile: "Not today, our factory has regulations, and outsiders are not allowed to walk around the factory at will during the working day. How about it, two days later is our factory's rest day, I will take you that day Look at the equipment, okay?"

Lin Yuan nodded and returned to the hotel.

At night, Shen Wanqing's heart was beating wildly, Lin Yuan said to her, "Will you sneak in secretly?"

After hearing this sentence, Shen Wanqing's heart calmed down, and she asked, "Where did you sneak into?"

Lin Yuan replied: "The factory of the British."

Shen Wanqing smiled disdainfully, and said, "I thought it was a dragon's pool and a tiger's den. It turned out to be a factory. If you want to go, I'll take you there."

Shen Wanqing prepared a few things, took Lin Yuan, and came to the edge of the factory wall in the dark. The wall was more than three meters high and half a meter wide. Shen Wanqing took out two thick The wooden block was tied to the hand with a rope, Lin Yuan asked, "What are you doing?"

Shen Wanqing smiled and said: "You will know when you go up." Then she approached the wall, inspected it carefully, retreated more than ten meters, and then rushed to the wall like an arrow leaving the string, and jumped into the air , kicked on the wall with his right foot, then changed his left foot, and actually took two steps vertically upward on the wall, and supported the top of the wall with his hands, the whole person had jumped onto the top of the wall.

According to the two people's previous plan, after Shen Wanqing jumped to the top of the wall, she should put down a rope and pull Lin Yuan up, but after Shen Wanqing jumped to the top of the wall, she just squatted on it, not knowing what she was doing. It was completely dark, and Lin Yuan couldn't see clearly, the surroundings were silent, and Lin Yuan didn't dare to shout out loud.

When Lin Yuan was in a hurry, a rope was lowered from above. Although Lin Yuan didn't have the ability to directly climb up the wall, his climbing speed was not slow. He grabbed the rope and quickly climbed to the top of the wall, and asked in a low voice. : "Why did you take so long to put the rope?"

Shen Wanqing pointed to the top of the surrounding wall with her finger, and Lin Yuan finally understood what was going on. It turned out that there were pointed nails on the top of the surrounding wall. It turned out that she tied the wooden blocks to her hands to prevent being caught. Stabbed, and she stayed on the top of the wall for a long time, cleaning the nails on the top of the wall.

Lin Yuan said: "I saw it when I came here during the day, and there is grass below. If you jump directly, you won't get hurt, and the sound will be very quiet."

Shen Wanqing stretched out her hand to stop him, and said, "What if someone is patrolling below?" After speaking, she waited for a while, and then jumped off the wall when she saw that no one was moving.

Lin Yuan said in a low voice: "I inquired today, and the factory building for storing discarded equipment is in the northeast corner of the factory."

The two of them tiptoed over, and Shen Wanqing asked on the way: "Aren't you just looking at the discarded equipment? Can you just tell the Englishman no? Why bother?"

Lin Yuan replied: "I asked the British man to see the equipment today, but he refused to let me see it. I was worried that we would not be able to use their waste products, so I had to come and check in advance to make sure I was aware of it."

Shen Wanqing asked: "Since it's a waste product, how can we still use it?"

Lin Yuan replied: "Our repair technology is there. As long as their equipment is not damaged beyond repair, we can buy them."

Arriving at the warehouse, Shen Wanqing unlocked the door without any difficulty, opened the door, and saw that the inside was full of iron columns, like giant steel beasts in the darkness, Lin Yuan walked in front of one of them , turned on the flashlight, and looked at the cylindrical shell while looking at it, as if looking for something.

Shen Wanqing asked, "What are you looking at?"

Lin Yuan replied: "This cylindrical shell is the outer shell of the boiler. This cylindrical shape is welded by many arc-shaped steel plates with curved surfaces. I am looking to see if there are obvious cracks on it. Without further testing, we knew it was impossible to use again."

Shen Wanqing couldn't help asking: "Then what is the further test?"