Jagged Warlord

Smith pointed to Strong and said, "He, he is an excellent mechanic."

Li Mohan looked at Strong and asked, "Are you a mechanic?"

Strong replied, "I was taught mechanics in college."

After Li Mohan picked up the goods in the warehouse in the Tianjin Concession, he took Strong south and returned to Jiaozuo.First we took the waterway, then the railway, and when we returned to Jiaozuo, it was several days later.

The first thing to do after returning to Jiaozuo is to give Ma Qian'an the passbook for opening an account in Jardine Matheson under Ma Qian'an's name.

"Hey, [-] yuan?" Ma Qian'an opened his mouth wide enough to fit a fist into it.

"What? Does this make you look dumb? It's just your talent." Li Mohan scolded with a smile: "I said earlier, we are the ones who do great things, follow me well in the future, and the days of glory and wealth are still to come."

Ma Qian'an put away the passbook, saluted Li Mohan, and said: "From now on, as long as you give the order, big brother, I, Ma Qian'an, will have nothing to say."

Li Mohan smiled, patted Ma Qian'an on the shoulder, and said, "I don't worry about your work." Then, he asked Gao Xiang to take out the [-] oceans in cash and send the money to the clerk and his subordinates with his own hands. Things cannot be done to others.

After distributing the money, the buddies and subordinates were naturally grateful to Li Mohan.

Li Mohan opened up an open space behind his mansion, and placed the generator bought from Tianjin directly there.Strong had installed the generator set and installed electrical splices throughout the mansion.The next step is to debug the generator, but this cannot be done by Strong alone.

Strong proposed to Li Mohan: I need an assistant.Li Mohan sent a few smart men to be Strong's assistants, but what Strong wanted were assistants with certain mechanical and electrical knowledge, and the help of these people was very limited.

This is not difficult, because there is a modern school in Jiaozuo - Jiaozuo Road and Mine School.Jiaozuo Road and Mine School, founded in 1909 (the first year of Xuantong in the Qing Dynasty), was founded by the British Fu company and was the earliest modern mining institution of higher learning in my country. In 1898, the British Fu company obtained the privilege of mining road mines in China. On June 1898, 6, under the auspices of the Prime Minister's Minister of State Affairs and Prince Qing Qing, the Henan Mining Regulations were signed in the Prime Minister's Office in Beijing.This was the initial legal basis for the establishment of the Jiaozuo Road and Mine School. On March 21, 1909, the Jiaozuo Road and Mine School held its opening ceremony. The first batch of 3 students was recruited, and 1 Englishmen including Li Hengli and Chinese Chen Xiaobo were hired as teachers.

Li Mohan immediately went to the Jiaozuo Road and Mine School to find Chen Xiaobo and others, and proposed that he wanted to build a power plant in Jiaozuo, and was currently debugging the machine, and needed the help of people who knew mechanical and electrical knowledge.Li Mohan said that he can ask the students in the school to help in the name of internship, and he can give a generous internship reward.

The foreign teachers in the Road and Mining School earn as much as 200 yuan, while the Chinese teachers only earn about 30 yuan, and the living expenses of students generally only cost one or two yuan.Therefore, Chen Xiaobo and other Chinese teachers readily brought a group of Chinese students to Li Mohan's place to help.With the help of these people, Strang's commissioning work went smoothly, and within a few days, the electric lights lit up Li Mohan's mansion.

"Thank you, Mr. Strong." Li Mohan thanked Strong

But Strong said: "Thank you for being too early. Debugging is one thing, running it is another. You need a team of professionals who are responsible for daily maintenance and operation."

Li Mohan was in a bit of a dilemma, he could only discuss it politely with Chen Xiaobo. "Chen Jiaoxi, look at this group of people helping me to the end, can you do me this favor again?"

Chen Xiaobo was a little embarrassed. To be honest, the price Li Mohan offered was not low.But my teaching is official at any rate, and the drought and flood are guaranteed, unless the school is closed.Whether Li Mohan's power plant can be built is still up for debate. I have seniors and juniors, so I can't take this risk.

So Chen Xiaobo shook his head, and said in embarrassment: "My teaching is also a job of the government's family committee, and besides, I can't delay the students from going to class."

Li Mohan nodded, expressing his understanding, and then said to Strong: "Please help me recruit a group of people in Tianjin and Peking. The salary is definitely not a problem."

"Okay, but I'm afraid it won't be possible in the short term," Strong said.

Chen Xiaobo suddenly remembered something, and he said to Li Mohan: "I have a few friends who work as factory electricians in Shanghai, maybe he can help."

The two people introduced by Chen Xiaobo were named Huang Meimao and Xu Rengen.

Huang Meimao, born in Pudong, Shanghai, used to work in Shanghai Zhabei Hydropower Plant. His father was a veteran skilled worker of the plant. Huang Meimao learned the installation and line maintenance technology of power generation equipment from his father.Xu Rengen is from Ningbo. He studied mechanical technology in Shanghai since he was a child. He is an expert in machinery manufacturing and is no stranger to electrical equipment.

But at that time, Bai Lang was making trouble in Henan, Huang and Xu felt that their safety was not guaranteed and refused to come to Jiaozuo.Of course Li Mohan couldn't give up easily, so he and Chen Xiaobo brought the two of them to Jiaozuo with a high salary to lure and coax them.

After coming to Jiaozuo, Li Mohan entertained the two with a small banquet for three days and a big banquet for five days, and gave them each a courtyard house and a generous meeting gift.It is said that there must be a brave man under a great reward. Seeing Li Mohan's kindness, Huang Meimao and Xu Rengen were too embarrassed to refuse, so they agreed to stay in Jiaozuo to help Li Mohan build a power plant.

Two months later, a simple tile-roofed house was built on the open space behind Li Mohan's mansion. At the same time, the first batch of machines ordered by Li Mohan was finally transported to Jiaozuo Railway Station by railway.Hundreds of porters worked all morning and finally transported these large wooden boxes safely to the big tile house.

Huang Meimao and Xu Rengen led a group of newly recruited workers and temporary helpers from the Road and Mining School to work for another half a month, and finally installed and debugged the first 1000-horsepower generator and started to officially generate electricity.However, the only places that supply electricity are Li Mohan's mansion and Yizhao Fresh Mutton Restaurant on Zhongshan East Street.

The Yizhao Fresh Mutton Restaurant is still decorated with neon lights. After the electricity is turned on, the colorful light bulbs will flash colorful lights. Sometimes they light up together, sometimes they light up one by one, and sometimes they light up in circles around the three characters of "Yizhaoxian".The novelty neon lights attracted countless people to stop and watch, coupled with the tempting aroma of mutton in the store, people couldn't help but go in and have a feast.

As a result, Yizhaoxian's business was even more prosperous, and the guys were almost busy with their feet off the ground, and Gao Xiang was also pulled to help.

On the other hand, a group of Chinese wearing British military uniforms that had been marked off by the British army began to practice live ammunition in the field on the east side of the north of the town.