() One morning at the end of March, Liu Fu was fishing on a fishing boat when he suddenly noticed a large amount of smoke appearing on the sea in the distance. Through his experience on the dock in the past few months, Liu Fu knew that only large ships or fleets of ships were coming.
Entering the port. Tamsui Port is only a supply port, and large quantities of sugar and camphor are shipped from the port in Taichung. Therefore, except for navy ships coming for supplies, there are few large coal-fired ships coming in and out.
To be on the safe side, Liu Fu quickly slipped back into the cockpit, started up the main engine, and was ready to run away if there was any danger. More than half an hour later, the fleet could be seen with the naked eye. They were two very large ships.
The French flag was flying, and it was slowly approaching the largest pier in the west under the guidance of the harbor navy's boat.
Seeing that the ship didn't look like a battleship, Liu Fu felt relieved and wondered if the first batch of equipment and technicians that David had mentioned had arrived. As it turned out, Liu Fu's guess was indeed correct. The two ships docked soon.
, a navy battalion came and delivered a letter.
The letter was written by David, and it probably means that the first batch of equipment has arrived. Due to time constraints, most of the equipment is second-hand, but the quality should be no problem. The list includes: Equipment for a cement plant with an annual output of 200,000 tons:
2 vertical kilns, 2 raw material mills, 3 cement mills; an annual steel production
40,000 tons of rails, 20,000 tons of steel plant equipment: 2 iron-making furnaces, 4 steel-making furnaces; a set of supporting coking plant equipment; a set of power plant equipment; and more than 200 installation technicians, the letter also said,
At Captain Mondial's place, there was also a little surprise that David personally gave to Liu Fei as a gift.
After reading the letter, Liu Feile could see his molar teeth. After struggling for a whole year, he finally made some noise. With this foundation, it doesn’t take much. If he works hard for another five years, Liu Fei feels that he has the basics.
The self-protection ability has been improved, and there is no need to be like now, ready to sail away at the slightest sign of trouble.
I'm very happy. I'm very busy with a lot of things right now. I don't need to load and unload equipment. It's enough to call a few hundred people from Keelung. However, the food, accommodation and accommodation of the more than 200 technical installation personnel are enough.
Security issues are really a big problem.
Although I knew that technicians would come when I received David's telegram last time, I didn't expect that there would be so many. The three yards prepared in advance at Keelung Port were obviously not enough for living, and houses had to be built quickly. In addition, there were so many
The foreign devils are coming. Although I have my father's backing, I didn't tell my father that there were so many at first. If these foreign devils cause trouble and cause trouble in the court, my father may not be able to resist, so safety is a problem.
It must also be resolved.
First go to Liu Fu and ask him to find people to build a house, and then build 7 more yards according to the pattern of the first 3 yards, to make up the whole number. In addition, allocate some people to buy various vegetables and poultry from the villages near Fucheng, Taipei.
Then send a telegram to Guangzhou.
We will first provide dozens of translators in Chinese, English, German, and Spanish, and then hire a few chefs who can cook Western food. Although the Chinese food is delicious, it is estimated that they will not be able to handle twice-cooked pork, fish-flavored shredded pork, etc.
I can't get used to it either, so I have to mix it up.
After arranging these things, Liu Fu hurried to the west pier and found the Captain Mondiay mentioned in David's letter. Mondiay was a bearded French captain, not tall, with a lot of fat, and he stood there carelessly.
Seeing is the same as sitting. But the old French man was very kind and praised David very much in accented English, as if David had been elected president of the European Union. When Liu Fu took a few barrels of zhong nan
Hai gave it to him as a meeting gift and briefly mentioned the surprise gift David gave him. The bearded old man mysteriously told Liu Fu that it was not convenient to take out the surprise now and could only unload it at night. Liu Fu had no time.
It's just night with Mondiai, because there's no shortage of surprises for me anyway.
In the afternoon of that day, Liu Fu rushed to the dock with hundreds of young men and began to unload the cargo. Since the ship was full of large-scale equipment, although they were not assembled, they were not small in size, and they were all numbered.
They must be stacked according to the numbers, and the order cannot be messed up. Therefore, Liu Fu cannot leave yet. He is the only one who knows English here. He has to be the translator, otherwise the workers will not know what those foreign engineers are saying.
After working for half a night, Liu Fu remembered that there were three Americans and two translators in the school. His throat was dry from the exhaustion, and he couldn't make those few pieces of material comfortable. He would be there early tomorrow morning.
Caught to work on the dock.
To make a long story short, with the huge power of silver, Liu Fu summoned the available laborers from dozens of miles around, and even the Lvying navy at the dock sent dozens of people to earn extra money. The loading and unloading work went smoothly, and it took a
It took half a month to get all the equipment delivered.
As for David's surprise for Liu Fei, it turned out to be 50 Swiss rifles and 5 Maxim heavy machine guns, as well as 100,000 rounds of 7.92mm pointed bullets that can be used in both guns. He imitated the big bearded captain Mondiay.
Wei's exact words are
, these small gifts are used to protect David's son. Anyone who dares to touch his son will fight against him. Liu Fu thought in his heart, this is a naked threat, and the target of the threat is himself. Do you want to go back?
What about giving his son a kick?
David's son, who is now more than 2 years old, was originally named Sandro Warburg. He had just been able to walk around. Due to the good food he had raised, he was white and fat. His eyes were very green, and they turned green at night.
Just then, the relatives of Liu Fu's family who came to visit were so frightened that they peed their pants.
These guns must be contraband, but a factory as big as Keelung does need someone to guard it. After telling his father about this idea, Liu Mingchuan assigned the 100 Huai Army naval forces originally stationed in the small port of Keelung to Liu Fu's command.
However, he raised his own food and salary, and the governor's Yamen did not care about it.
The Huai Army navy originally stationed in Keelung Port were all Anwei soldiers. They came to Taiwan to station with Liu Mingchuan. Their posture was much stronger than that of the Fujian soldiers stationed in Taiwan. After Liu Fu took over, he immediately increased the soldiers' pay by three times.
, and it was in cash, with pay paid once a month, and he also brought out two Maxims, which immediately shocked the big-headed soldier who had just been knocked unconscious by the money.
Live. At that moment, Yu Degui, the highest-ranking military officer here, slapped his chest and swore to the sky that as long as the brothers have a breath, no matter who comes, without the master and the third young master speaking, they can't even think of standing in and out from Keelung. Liu
After hearing this, Fu rewarded Mr. Yu with another 10 taels of silver. He muttered to himself that it seemed that he was still not knocked unconscious. He also knew that the master was in front of the third young master.
