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Chapter 33 Get moving

The rest of the matter was left to Lao Wang and the others, and Li Bin teaches them every night now.

Now the number of students attending classes has increased greatly. Everyone will come to the craftsmen, secretariat, logistics department, and safety department if they have time in the evening!

Li Bin also patrolled everywhere every day to help them solve their problems.

Just as he was about to go to Peng Yongde to ask him to find more craftsmen, Peng Yongde sent him a bad news: Someone was going to attack him!

"What's going on?"

Peng Yongde was already waiting in his office, and Li Bin asked when he entered the door!

"Duke Xu asked someone to get rid of you with me and Nakamae Nakamae from Qingcun in the south, and then report a pirate to attack you!"

"Damn it, the ghost is still gone. Didn't you sell all the mirrors to him?"

"I stuffed some money to the sender. It is said that the Duke of the State sent someone to Shandong to check your foundation. As a result, Jinan was broken by the Tartars last year, and the archives were damaged. There was no way to check it! He probably didn't dare to go to the Ministry of Rites to check it!"

Li Bin took out his cell phone and began to search for information about Duke Xu!

He collected all the information of celebrities in the late Ming Dynasty on his mobile phone, just to beware of this situation!

"Is Xu Hongji the current Duke of Xu?"

"right!"

According to the information, this person died in 1644, so he chose a good time! Then his son Xu Wenjue inherited the Jue and turned around and enrolled in the Qing Dynasty!

Surrender! Easy to deal with!

"Why do you think he can't get along with me?"

"I don't know this. I heard it has to do with the mirror?"

"Yes, he initially wanted to bypass me and ask my friend to supply him directly, and then he wanted to buy out the goods in my hands at a low price! I didn't agree!"

"Young Master is too careless. A Duke can tolerate someone to rebel against him. He will take revenge for the sake of face!"

"How many people in front of Qingcun?"

"I am not as good as me over there. At most one hundred people can take up swords and guns! Moreover, this kind of thing is not good, so he definitely doesn't want to work hard. He just needs to find a way to communicate with Xu's public! After all, the guard stations in the south are all under the jurisdiction of Xu's public!"

Li Bin thought about it and felt that these local snakes were more familiar with the affairs of the Ming Dynasty than him. I saw if they had any perfunctory solutions!

"What do you think this should be handled?"

"It's hard. Since I'm tempted to kill, I always have to give an explanation. Why don't the young master ask someone to apologize to Xu Guogong and compensate him for some silver. The output of the salt farm has increased significantly now, and I can still withdraw 20,000 or 30,000 taels of silver here!"

"No, this kind of thing will only make you more and more frustrated. If he succeeds this time, there will be a next time. He will not stop if he doesn't make me lose everything!"

"Uh, Mr. Li, that's the Duke!"

"Remember, my life creed just can't solve the problem, I will solve the problem-maker!"

Peng Yongde was dumbfounded, like a toad struck by lightning!

He knew that Li Bin was bold and unscrupulous, but he didn't expect that even the Duke of the State would do it!

Now he was really convinced! Although he had no choice but to force him, he did not dare to make any trouble because his income had increased four or five times compared to previous years.

After all, you can only enjoy it while you are alive! What’s wrong with making more money!

Now he realized that if he hadn't been doing things for Li Bin properly for this period, he would have probably been three feet tall!

He ignored Peng Yongde who was walking away while touching the cold sweat, and called Wang Han directly to tell him about the matter!

Wang Han said: "Is there no other way to solve it? The situation of killing a Duke is too big. We have too few people now, so it is rare to do a comprehensive job!"

"Who said he was going to kill him? You forgot Peng Yongde?"

Wang Han smiled bitterly: "That's a Duke, not a thousand households like Peng Yongde. It's impossible for people to bring only twenty people when they go out. Moreover, people rarely go out, and usually everything is left to the servants! It's hard to tie him out from the Duke's Mansion!"

"Since you can't get in, then break one of his legs. If you have this, he will be unable to remember us at least for a while!"

Wang Han's face twitched obviously: "It's reasonable. The assassination of the Duke of China is a big deal, and he will definitely not care about small things like us! But I'm afraid he will suspect us!"

"Half a year has passed when he is treated. At that time, it is still a problem if we are afraid of him!"

"Okay, the young master is not afraid of anything I am afraid of, so I will do what the young master said! I will go to Nanjing to call the young master's front station first!"

"Well, go and tell Peng Yongde to let him get the Qingcun Nakamashiro!"

When Wang Han went out, Li Bin began to tilt his chin: The current plan can be said to be very rough. The other party's reaction was all guessed by himself or wanted the other party to make it! It was still a bit of a matter of course, but he couldn't think of a good idea for a while.

After all, the other party was indiscriminately trying to attack him. He, a foreign scholar who had no foundation, was probably not a dream to find foreign aid! Who would offend the Duke for him, a person he had never known before!

Alexander!

"Young Master, you've moved!"

"What's so excited about moving?"

"The steam turbine you mentioned has started to rotate!"

Li Bin's little depression was swept away: "Let's go and have a look!"

Li Bin next to the mechanical workshop arranged for someone to use cement to surround his pressure cooker, so that he could buffer even if it exploded. It was so deep that the turtle shell was so marred!

At this time, the pressure cooker was surrounded by people, looking at the steam turbine that kept spraying steam from its tail!

Before Li Bin could add condensers, the steam pushed the impeller and then discharged it directly from the tail, causing the entire scene to be filled with smoke!

When he saw so many people crowded, he quickly started to rush: "Why are you all so close to you? Go away a little further! This thing may explode!"

The men and women in the logistics department were afraid of him and quickly retreated. The women in the secretariat all read countless men. They had long seen that he was a brave bandit, so they were not afraid at all, and even made faces with him!

After finally blowing away all the idle people, he had the opportunity to take a closer look at this troublesome thing!

The whole rotation is quite stable. The power adjustment is achieved by adding coal to reduce coal. If the rotation is faster, the rotation is less coal, and if the rotation is slow, the rotation is more coal!

He found the tachometer from the storage room in the workshop and measured it: 2130 revolutions!

Not bad, it's enough to maintain this speed!

He estimated that the specific power was built by him, so it was much more reliable!

"Let it run like this for two days to see how much coal it will burn, pay attention to adding water, send two people to take turns to guard it, and report any problems in a timely manner! Others came to the conference room for a meeting!"

When he entered the conference room, Li Bin first announced that each of the participants would be rewarded with 10 taels of silver, and arranged for Guo Shaoan to pay it on the spot!

"The next task is to build a generator, and the drawings are now handed over to you! I arranged for Secretary Gu Jingjing of the Secretariat to explain to you the numbers and instructions on the drawings that you can't understand! Let me first emphasize here that if anyone is rude to Secretary Gu or harasses him at work, he will be deducted all monthly salary for that month. If there is any move, there will be cuts!"

A group of men looked straight and had no expression on their faces, which made Secretary Gu blush!

Next, Li Bin assigned the task in detail to people: "Everyone is responsible for his own process, and he will find whoever has problems. If there is a bad tool or material, he will ask Director Guo to apply for it!"

The steam turbine is now moving, and he is going to move too!

If you don’t solve the troubles on Duke Xu, who knows when unexpected dangers will come. If you solve them one day earlier, you will feel at ease!

The craftsmen have dispersed, and Guo Shaoan and him are still sitting in the conference room! Before he goes out, he must take a look at his family’s assets!

"The expenses in May are lower than in April, mainly because the projects outside have not been completed, so they only need to pay a portion according to their progress. The newly hired craftsmen consumed some food and clothing because there were not many people and the monthly salary had not started to be paid! The guards paid a salary of less than 600 taels, and there were also food, pigs, sheep and clothes. These cost almost 500 taels. They had to wear two sets of clothes a month, and the boy Long Changsheng didn't allow them to make too many patches! It was said that it affected morale and was too wasteful!"

"Long Changsheng is right. The guard must dress better than others, otherwise why should he work hard to give it to you?"

"Where is the income? We have not earned the whole month. How many have we sent from the salt farm?"

"The salt farm gave 30,000 taels, and Peng Yongde said that the scale will be increased now, so some of the money has been invested again!"

"Did you check the account?"

"I've gone, it's clean, I can't see anything from the account! And I calculated the current area and price of the salt farm, and it's basically right!"

"You're doing it right. Not only do you have to look at the accounts, but also whether the output is the same as the accounts!"

"Then how much cash we have now?"

"Now, nine hundred taels of silver and nine hundred taels of gold!"

"It means we are now consuming 30,000 taels per month?"

"It's almost the same, mainly because the city walls cost a lot. I guess it will take about 70,000 taels to complete them all. This is not considered an outer city yet! I'm afraid that one outer city alone will cost 300,000 taels!"

"Now, don't care about the outer city. If we build our workshops and workers in the middle city, it will be safe! At that time, we will have as much money as possible!"

"Have you ever fired a musket before?"

Although I didn't understand why Li Bin asked him this question, Guo Shaoan still answered honestly: "I have fought several times. In the past, our wealthier families in Liaodong were all planning to have this!"

"I'm going to go to Nanjing this time, and you and Long Changsheng are responsible for guarding your family! I will only give you one task, which is to ensure Tuantuan's safety no matter what! Even if you lose all this place, don't you be afraid. Do you understand what I mean?"

Guo Shaoan stood up with a loud "bang" sound: "Please rest assured, as long as I am still alive, I will definitely ensure the safety of the lady!"

"Sit down, don't be so nervous! This time, Duke Xu attacked us and wanted to be unfavorable to us. I went to talk to him this time. I will leave you a long musket that I used and a short musket for Long Changsheng! I will teach you how to use it in the afternoon. Then you come to the military camp!"

Guo Shaoan's face turned red with excitement. He knew the meaning of the musket that Li Bin mentioned. Others can only see this thing, but they can't even touch it, but now they are willing to use it. This shows that Li Bin really treats them as his own!

"Young Master, why don't we go to Nanjing and stay and wait for our news!"

"No, I have to do some things!"

It’s hard for Guo Shaoan to persuade him after hearing what Li Bin said!

These strange things, as well as the complex and exquisite machinery in the mechanical workshop, and today's things that turn around to drive the car show that Li Bin has a big secret!
Chapter completed!
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