Travel through the Qing Dynasty and become emperor

Chapter 398 The Bird Harbor Incident
"Bah!" Scarface spat fiercely, and said, "Although I am not a scholar, I have been born and raised in Keelung for decades, and I have never heard that the waters of Bird Harbor were once your territorial waters, if so , tell me, which history book has it recorded? You take it out now, as long as you can prove your words, I will leave immediately without saying a word!"

The officer was at a loss for words for a while, and couldn't answer for a long time, and finally became angry from embarrassment: "Baga! You are nothing more than some tricky Chinese fishermen. I don't need to explain to you. In short, go back now!"

Scar took two steps forward, staring at his eyes and said: "This is my place, I can do whatever I want, I advise you, if you are sensible, leave here immediately, otherwise, turn around and send a warship to find out , you can’t leave even if you want to.”

The officer swished out a pistol from his waist and pointed it at Scarface's forehead, shouting loudly: "Damn, hate! Now, immediately, kneel down!"

Scarface used to be the master of dawdling on the tip of a knife. He has never seen such a scene. Although he is not usually a patriot, but now facing the vicious person, he suddenly feels a sense of pride. More calmly, he stretched out his arm to block the opponent's muzzle, and squeezed lightly on the opponent's wrist. The officer couldn't handle it, and let go of his hand, and the pistol fell on the deck.At the same time, at the fastest speed, he pulled out his iron cock from his waist and pointed it at the back of the opponent's head.The iron rooster is a very primitive gunpowder gun, which shoots iron egg pellets, but this kind of gun is very powerful at close range. One shot will surely knock off half of the officer's head.

Seeing this, the other people pointed their guns at the scarred face, shouting in panic.The sailors kneeling on the deck were stunned. For a while, no one knew what to do?
Scarface has been a water thief for many years, and he is very familiar with taking hostages. While coercing the officer, he warned him in a low voice: "Tell your people to retreat to the warship, or I will kill you right now!" It ended up your little life!"

The officer knew that he was not joking, and hurriedly ordered the sailors to retreat in Japanese.Hearing the commander's order, these sailors retreated one after another, but their guns were always pointed at Scarface and the Chinese sailors on the deck.At this moment, I suddenly saw a middle-aged officer striding forward from the warship. He seemed to be of a higher rank than the hijacked officer. He stopped the sailor aggressively, and said to Scarface in fluent Chinese: "Put it down!" He, I let you go."

Scarface sneered, "Who are you?"

The middle-aged officer said: "I am Lieutenant Commander Sato Shinichi. This incident is purely a misunderstanding. If you let him go, I guarantee your personal safety, and the warship will leave Bird Harbor immediately."

"Why should I trust you?" Scarface is not a person who trusts others easily.

The middle-aged officer walked twice on the deck with his hands behind his back, and his heavy riding boots made a "kicking" sound. He suddenly turned around and pointed to the Chinese sailors kneeling on the deck: "It's up to them! You killed the sailors on the deck. The Great Empire only lost a lieutenant, but you, you, you, you, and you, all of you Chinese will be buried with him. And the soldiers of the Great Empire are not afraid of making any sacrifices Yes, Matsudaira-kun, let me ask you, are you willing to make sacrifices for the empire?"

The officer held hostage by Scarface nodded and said, "Hi. I am willing."

This situation made Scar look like he was riding a tiger. If he let this officer go, maybe his fleet would still have a chance, but if he killed him, he would be nothing, but the sailors accompanying him would die in vain. Under human hands.Thinking of this, his hands began to tremble.

"Okay. You must keep your word, kid." Scarface pushed Songping to the other side of the deck.

Sato Shinichi patted Matsudaira's shoulder and nodded, showing an appreciative expression, then waved his hand, and the man's gun was raised again, aiming at Scarface and the others again.

Seeing this, Scarface immediately realized that he had been duped, and immediately scolded: "You son of a bitch, your words don't count, even if I die, I can't spare you!"

"Really?" Sato Shinichi said with a gloomy face, "It can only be blamed on your stupidity in China."

Matsudaira asked his chief in a low voice: "Sato-kun, what do you plan to do with these Chinese people, kill them or let them go?"

Sato Shinichi frowned and thought for a moment: "Killing them will cause huge diplomatic disputes. It would be cheaper to release these Chinese people. They will definitely report what happened today to China when they return. I think we should detain them all first." Arise, and let the Admiralty decide."

As soon as the sailors rushed forward, they wanted to capture Scarface, but Scarface didn't know where the courage came from. Although he was not a loyal and patriotic man, he only had one thought in his mind at this moment, that is, to be a prisoner who would say nothing. .Seeing people rushing towards him, he raised his gun and shot at the sailor in front, only to hear a loud bang, a fist-sized blood hole was punched out in the sailor's chest by the iron egg ball, and he didn't even groan. Turned over and fell.But the iron cock in Scarface's hand is a primitive gunpowder gun, but after a bullet is fired, it needs to be reloaded with gunpowder and bullets. With a dagger, he leaned over and came to a sailor. The dagger swiped upwards, and it was wiped on the sailor's throat impartially, and blood burst out all at once.Before the sailor fell down, he jumped up and down, the dagger flew up and down, and pierced five or six transparent holes in the two sailors.

"Bang! Bang!" Two gunshots sounded, and Scarface felt his back go cold. When he looked down, he saw that he had been shot in the chest and abdomen.From his blurred vision, he saw that the two middle-aged officers were pointing pistols at him, with white smoke still coming out of the muzzles.At this moment, the guns of the other sailors rang out, and dozens of bullets pierced Scarface's body at the same time.His whole body trembled, and he slowly slumped to the ground. The moment he closed his eyes, he uttered three words: Damn it!

Beijing, three years has not brought much change to this ancient imperial capital. If there is any change, it is that all the roads here have been replaced with cement roads, the streets are wider, and the buildings in the city are getting more and more beautiful. As it gets higher and higher, styles become more and more diverse. More and more foreigners come here for business and tourism. Nancheng basically retains the unique street market style of old Beijing. Noisy and lively seems destined to become the eternal theme here.But in the west city, you can see all kinds of western-style buildings everywhere, and there is a sense of tranquility amidst the prosperity.Horse-drawn carts and donkey dung are rarely seen on the road, replaced by trams and cars.

In the Qianqing Palace, Guan Xuqing was listening to the state of the union speeches of the ministers.This year passed relatively smoothly. Although the world war has passed, the empire's arms sales during the war showed a blowout growth trend, which continued to stimulate the development of private industries in the post-war years, so that China's emerging national industries did not It has shrunk due to the war, but has expanded in scale. There are more than 5000 new factories and mines across the country.

In fact, developing China's industry and commerce is not easy, but it is not difficult. China now has a population of more than 4 million, accounting for more than one-third of the world's total population. Such a vast market can support a large number of factories even if it does not export. All that needs to be done is to create a loose and fair environment, and market rules will naturally eliminate those enterprises with redundant construction, poor management, and backward technology.Anyway, now Guan Xuqing holds only a dozen "state-owned enterprises" such as the Nine Major Arsenals, the Kaiping Mining Bureau, the Fengtian Railway Bureau, the Shanghai Railway Bureau, the Shipping Merchants Bureau, the Ma'anshan Iron Works, and the Liaoyang Iron Works, and most of them are In terms of military industry, the interference to the market can be said to be minimal. Unlike later generations, state-owned enterprises are all over the world. They need to be taken care of here and find ways to find ways there. Economic rules are completely replaced by human intervention. Withdrawing the share of state-owned enterprises in some industries, I really don't know how rigid the economic system will become.

Although the industrial development is very good, Guan Xuqing knows that this is not driven by the rules of the market economy. It is mostly stimulated by the purchase of military supplies. When the total amount of industry is not large, such macro measures can indeed play a role in promoting , but such means cannot be sustained, otherwise it will be counterproductive, and China's national industry will eventually have to face world competition.

These days, the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau has imported a large amount of equipment from the United States, most of which are high-precision machine tools, and as a technical exchange, the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau has also hired a group of foreign technicians to guide production. A group of Chinese experts in the shipbuilding industry were recruited.I have few factories in my hands, so I can concentrate limited funds to do big things, make a factory fine, big, and run well, without having to spread out a big stall, and everyone has a bun, and no one can eat enough in the end. Now Jiangnan The Manufacturing Bureau has been able to produce some simple lathes, grinders, milling machines and other machine tools, and has finally begun to move towards its goal of "a tool for making tools".

The country’s industry is in the ascendant, but due to the relatively weak industrial foundation, many things still need to be explored. Scientific research and technical processes all have their own styles. For example, Britain emphasizes simplicity, Germany emphasizes exquisiteness, and the United States emphasizes versatility. And tolerate its style, choose the best one to learn from it, and in the future can develop China's own industrial technology style.

However, when everyone was immersed in the new atmosphere of the prosperous development of the empire, an unexpected news came in suddenly!

(End of this chapter)