When Zhu Lianjie led his troops to the northeast in a hurry, he happened to meet Jie Jiajun and Yuan Jingxiang in Yingkou. When he heard that Tang Jian was safe and sound, he had already gone to Jinzhou. So Zhu Lianjie brought more than 300 family members of the Octagonal Platform Tuanyong back to Weihaiwei.

A week after Zhu Lianjie returned to Weihaiwei, Tang Jian also returned to Weihaiwei safely.

In order to plan to take back the Northeast at the beginning of the year, and business was busy, Tang Jian did not return to Beijing to spend the New Year with his parents before the New Year, so Tang Kun had to take Mrs. Tang and Deng Yimeng back to Jingzhou, his hometown in Hubei to celebrate the New Year.

At the end of the New Year, Weihaiwei gradually became more and more popular. Tang Jian took this opportunity to hold a mobilization meeting on Liugong Island and gave officers at the colonel level and above a week off to go home for the New Year.

After all the work was arranged, Yan Fu accompanied Tang Jian to the secret base of Beizhu Island.

"Mr. Yan, do you think that Ouyang Yanqing had arrived at Beizhu Island a few months ago?" Tang Jian asked. This Ouyang Yanqing was a scientist he had dug back from abroad to develop an aluminum engine.

Summarizing the experience of the failure of the last first flight, I found that the biggest problem was that the metal smelting technology failed, that is, the last time the aluminum engine exploded during operation, causing the aircraft to stop in mid-air, the test plane crashed, and the experimental pilot died in the blue sky.

However, Tian Aden had no choice but to do anything about this metal smelting technology. Tang Jian only asked for help from other aspects. With the recommendation of the chief railway designer Zhan Tianyou, the name Ouyang Yanqing entered Tang Jian's eyes.

Tang Jian spent a lot of effort to dig Ouyang Yanqing back from the United States, just to ask him to help him solve the problem of the aluminum engine. Then last time he went to the Northeast and did not meet Ouyang Yanqing, so this time he heard that Ouyang Yanqing had arrived at Beizhu Island. Tang Jian was very happy. As long as the problem of the aluminum engine was solved, his Nighthawk Airship Air Force could be changed to a real air force immediately. By then, the sky in the Far East would be his own.

Hearing Tang Jian’s inquiry, Yan Fu replied with a strange expression: “I have arranged him in a western-style building on Beizhu Island.”

Yan Fu's strangeness naturally couldn't escape Tang Jian's eyes. Tang Jian asked, "What's wrong with this Ouyang Yanqing?"

Yan Fu smiled bitterly and was about to speak, Liu Wenqing, who was standing beside him, interrupted, "Commander, is the Ouyang Yanqing you are talking about really the Ouyang Yanqing you are talking about?" Liu Wenqing's words were full of suspicion and disdain.

Yan Fu laughed dryly and said, "Commander, this Ouyang Yanqing is the one you mentioned, the one you mentioned is good, but I don't think he is like the one you mentioned, because he is not as capable as you said, and is well-versed in Chinese and Western learning!"

"What's going on?" Tang Jian didn't understand for a moment. What is Ouyang Yanqing and not Ouyang Yanqing? It's like a tongue twister.

Yan Fu continued to explain: "This Ouyang Yanqing is right as the commander said. He is indeed Ouyang Yanqing from the United States. However, since he came to Beizhu Island, he either drank or wandered around Beizhu Island every day, and most of the time he locked himself in his room to sleep."

"Oh, is there such a thing?" Tang Jian felt very strange. Ouyang Yanqing had been paying attention to this for a long time. He and Zhan Tianyou were both young children studying abroad. They were both admitted to Yale University at the same time. Zhan Tianyou was admitted to the Civil Engineering Department to study railway engineering, while Ouyang Yanqing was admitted to the Metal Smelting Department to study metal smelting technology.

Zhan Tianyou was appointed as the chief engineer of Southern Railway by Bafeit. When Tang Jian was looking for talents in metal smelting, Zhan Tianyou recommended Ouyang Yanqing to Tang Jian. Ouyang Yanqing had previously served as the chief engineer of Carnegie Steel Company of the United States' steel king Andrew Carnegie.

After Zhan Tianyou wrote a letter to persuade him, Ouyang Yanqing agreed to Tang Jian's invitation and returned to China to serve as the supervisor of this project for Tang Jian.

How could this talented scientist who is well-versed in Chinese and Western learning be an alcoholic?

So, Tang Jian decided to go to the meeting in person.

Tang Jian stepped back and came to Ouyang Yanqing's door alone, and knocked on the door gently.

After a while, a unshaven uncle opened the door and asked sleepyly, "Who?"

Tang Jian bowed slightly and replied politely: "Tang Jian!"

A flash of light flashed in Ouyang Yanqing's eyes, and then he flashed away, and he said lazyly: "Please come in!"

Tang Jian entered Ouyang Yanqing's room. Sure enough, the room was filled with empty wine bottles, and a strange smell was filled with the air. Tang Jian frowned, said nothing, and found a place that could barely sit down and sat down.

Tang Jian smiled and said, "Tang Jian came to visit Mr. Ouyang today. Last time, he went to the Northeast and did not greet him in person. I hope he would forgive me."

Ouyang Yanqing looked at himself from a pile of empty bottles and found the remaining half bottle of wine. He found two glasses that had not been washed for a long time. He poured a glass for himself and Tang Jian respectively, then handed it to Tang Jian, sat on the ground and started drinking.

Tang Jian didn't look at the wine glass, and drank it all in one gulp, saying, "Mr. Ouyang, do you know why Tang Jian came this time?"

Ouyang Yanqing drank on his own and said without raising his head: "I know, don't you just want me to help you refine high-quality aluminum?"

The Tang family laughed in their hearts. Liu Bei had visited the cottage three times, and he could not stand this test. Tang Jian's extraordinary observation skills knew from the moment he entered the door that everything Ouyang Yanqing did was to test himself. The expression in his eyes just now was not hidden from Tang Jian.

"Sir, please help me!" Tang Jian bowed respectfully to Ouyang Yanqing.

In fact, as Tang Jian said, everything before was to test Tang Jian. Tang Jian was respectful to himself from the beginning of entering the door, and did not mind the wine glass he handed over. In the end, he was so respectful to his arrogant attitude, and Ouyang Yanqing's knot gradually uncovered.

When Ouyang Yanqing was the chief engineer of Carnegie's Steel Company, he proposed the importance of aluminum, but the white people who thought they were noble looked down on the results of their research, the yellow people. They were thinking about how to increase the production and profit of steel.

As early as a year ago, Ouyang Yanqing had the intention to retreat and wanted to return to China to develop, but he really lost confidence in the corrupt Qing government and therefore never came back.

Since he received a letter from his old classmate Zhan Tianyou, the letter said that Tang Jian, the new naval admiral, attached great importance to talents, especially industrial talents. He returned to China under the repeated urging of Zhan Tianyou.

Everything he did before was just to test whether his talents could be valued in this place. Now he saw enough sincerity from Tang Jian’s actions.

A naval admiral with great power can still attach so much importance to a drunkard, and his heart is untied.

After Tang Jian bowed to him, Ouyang Yanqing stood up decisively, took out a stack of thick drawings from under his bed, handed them to Tang Jian and said, "I'm sorry, I hope the commander can forgive my previous disrespect!"

Tang Jian smiled and unfolded the drawings one by one. The surprise on his face became more and more. He asked quickly: "Is this the picture you have made recently?" It turned out that the drawings were drawing in detail some aluminum making steps, which were very similar to the industrial aluminum making method that he had simply learned in later generations.

Tang Jian secretly exclaimed in his heart that he had found the treasure!
Chapter completed!