There are different opinions, and Zhu Jinglun can’t figure out what time it was, but some people built it from the inside to different times. Broken porcelain pieces had a Qing period, but no words were found. Zhu Jinglun speculated that Yao people built it mostly because Yao people didn’t have words. If it was the Han Chinese Resistance Army, I’m afraid they would have carved all kinds of inspirational and heroic poems on the stone.
Zhu Jinglun really couldn’t figure out what attracted Alexandra to an ancient castle hidden in the barren hills. Did the Mongols of ancient Jinge Tiema summon the descendants of pirates to fight the wind and waves across time?
Moreover, Zhu Jinglun has seen the mountains. There is no water source, even no streams. Hakka people are too lazy to come to the mountains. This place is extremely difficult to develop.
"Princess Alexandra, why did you choose this place?"
Zhu Jinglun sighed that if this place is to become a tea garden, it is said that the risk of planting is to drink water from the mountain and improve the dangerous mountain road. The burden is a huge sum. However, he heard that this king is a poor man and took the initiative to come to China. It is said that his friend won him a generous allowance in Congress.
I’m afraid this poor family can’t afford to play manor at the top of this mountain.
Alexandra pointed to a mountain next to her. "Because of those tea trees, didn’t you say I could choose any tea garden? I think the tea gardens are very good. How about you give me this mountain?" Please! "
Zhu Jinglun looks around, and there are some big trees scattered on the slope outside the city wall, which are completely different from the surrounding plants, because they look like soldiers, and some rules should be planted artificially
"Are these tea trees?"
Because the tea trees are too high, the tea farmers take care of the low tea trees, and they dare not recognize these as tea trees for a while.
Alexandra nodded. "Is it true that tea trees are wild!"
Zhu Jinglun sighed, "I’m afraid it’s not wild. I’m afraid there were only a few trees left when Yao people planted them."
Alexandra curled her head and smiled and said nothing.
Zhu Jinglun laughed. "Are you still trying to trick me into looking at these ancient trees?"
Zhu Jinglun shook his head. "It’s not that I don’t give it to you, but that you don’t understand tea. It’s not that the older the tea tree, the better it is. Really good tea is that tea trees have been producing tea for more than ten years, and tea trees generally can’t make any literary generations."
Alexandra insisted, "Maybe it doesn’t have strong tea fragrance, but it has historical vicissitudes."
Zhu Jinglun was surprised that she could say such a thing. This kind of tea tree with hundreds of years old can be found everywhere in China. Many tea gardens in Huizhou have a history of hundreds of years. Some tea trees in Fujian Mountain Temple were planted in Yunnan even before the Song Dynasty, and there are even thousand-year-old tea gardens in which tea trees are in the wild and domesticated place, which is recognized as the place where human beings first domesticated tea trees.
But it seems that China people have never played the signboard of history.
It seems that it is these European aristocrats who have to play cards. Yes, history can crush Indian tea with this signboard alone. It is said that going to India for tea in the big day, but in 20 years and 200 years, Indians are everywhere. How can we create a superficial concept of drinking Indian tea and Indian tea will be finished?
At this point, Zhu Jinglun had to promise her that "the whole mountain can’t be given to you, and the people near the Woods at the foot of the mountain have to firewood. So what if the mountain is 600 meters high and 300 meters high?"
"Wow, thank you so much!"
As soon as Alexandra was happy to come directly, she gave Zhu Jinglun a hug. Look at Zhang Rou next to her. She rolled her eyes and scolded the foreign woman for being shameless.
It was only in the mountains that Alexandra revealed her true thoughts. He planned to build a castle in the ancient mountain city. She would keep the original appearance of the ancient city as it is, and clean up the surrounding plants that covered the ancient city to turn it into a huge manor in the center of the castle.
But the question is "Do you have money?"
Alexandra giggled. "If anyone in Europe knows that I own such a manor, no one will lend me money."
In the future, the Princess of England will marry into Britain with a huge ancient tea manor, and then this tea garden will become an asset of the British royal family. The history of the rise of Indian tea and the British royal family’s encouragement to drink Indian tea have not promoted the atmosphere. The whole afternoon tea culture was brought to Britain because the British king married a Portuguese princess who liked tea. Before the British drank tea, it was in a smoky cafe, where was the elegance of the afternoon tea culture?
Being able to dig China tea into the British royal family is equivalent to labeling Indian tea as tea.
Section three hundred and nineteen New consultants
Alexandra left in November with a title deed. She owned a barren hill.
They left because they completed the exchange of contracts. Denmark and Sweden signed the Beijing Treaty with the Qing government respectively, and the exchange of contracts did not change. They obtained the same treatment as Britain and France. I don’t know what it was like for Britain and France to die after fighting for four or five years.
The Danes took something away, and the Swedes left something behind.
New Swedish consultant
There are technical advisers and military advisers.
The number of technical consultants is still many, with 50 people, including 20 people sent to the arsenal. These 20 people are not the main technical consultants of skilled workers in the past, but engineers, designers and senior talents. They are here to help upgrade the arsenal.
Europe’s new technology is changing with each passing day. The arsenal was established three years ago, but it can’t keep up with the mainstream technology in Europe. The mainstream technology is not advanced. For example, this time they came to Sweden and brought in the new production of rifle gun technology. The most advanced cannons in Britain and France have been replaced with rifle guns. Zhu Jinglun’s arsenal can still produce smooth-bore Napoleon guns, which has fallen behind by one level.
It’s not that the technicians were not good enough in the past, but the new equipment, new manufacturing technology and so on. Rifled guns and even breeched guns have appeared in Europe for a long time, but they moved to China a few years ago, and Zhu Jinglun accepted the technical strength. Now that a large number of skilled workers have been trained, they can develop in the rifled guns.
The remaining 30 technical consultants are shipbuilding technical consultants. Zhu Jinglun will build a regular naval shipyard in front of the new Shekou. The technical force of the factory has imitated steam ships and hired a large number of China shipbuilders.
At this time, Cantonese people are actually no strangers to shipbuilding. The restrictions on foreigners in the trading era were very great. Even if the ship was to be repaired in Guangzhou, it had to be repaired by China craftsmen for ten years. Many craftsmen were quite familiar with the shipbuilding technology of westerners. It was not until the appearance of western steamships that these craftsmen had some knowledge. Not only did they build wooden hulls, but there was no problem. Arsenal was responsible for building iron ribs. Otherwise, they built hulls and connected them by groping, which was a steamboat.
However, Zhu Jinglun found that some people took it for granted that there was no problem with the ship and steam engine copied by these people, and there was no problem with the hull and the iron ribs, but when they were put together, there was a constant problem, and their patience was too poor. After all, they were not professional shipbuilders, and they must have some tricks that they didn’t understand.
Since the Swedes offered to help in this respect, Zhu Jinglun was also happy to accept that Zhu Jinglun directly ordered a thousand-ton ship to be the flagship with the help of these people.
In fact, the problem is not very big, mainly because of some tricks. Iron ribbed wooden boats should be said to be more advanced than pure wooden boats in the past, which greatly reduced the dependence of wooden boats on keels in the past. In theory, it is no problem to build as many ships as you want. Therefore, Britain and France have been able to build 5,000-ton warships. If we put them in the past, when the world could not find such a large keel and headed for artificial treasure ships, the splicing technology would solve this problem, but the robustness for warships would not be enough.
After seeing the imitation warships in the arsenal, Swedish consultants think that the main problems lie in two aspects. One is that the shrinkage and expansion numbers of steel and wood are different, so when the temperature difference changes, the stress of iron ribs and wooden shells will be different due to shrinkage, which will cause cracks for a long time. The solution is to reserve a certain shrinkage and expansion allowance.
Another reason is that the nails connecting the iron rib and the wooden shell are in contact with the wood. If the moisture content of the wood is not up to standard, the rusty wood such as nails will also be corroded. In the early days, American iron rib wooden shell flying shear ships regularly replaced the outer wooden shell. The Swedes said that strictly controlling the moisture content of the wood at 1% can greatly prolong the service life of the ship.
These 30 Swedish technical consultants are experts from the three largest shipyards in Gothenburg. The three shipyards, Tavilgen, Linsholm and Tariksberg, all of which have at least 30 years of shipbuilding experience, are now the backbone factories of Sweden’s burgeoning shipbuilding industry, and their technical level is catching up with the British.
Besides these technical advisers, there are fifty military advisers.
The former military adviser left 50 people, but these 50 people were not replaced in the same position, but in new positions
Former military advisers were mainly organized to help Zhu Jinglun train soldiers’ military skills, including steps, weapons handling and battlefield warfare. Now these 50 people are mainly civilians.
They are here to help Zhu Jinglun improve the military management system.
The main management is the whole management process of officers’ selection, training, assessment, rank, promotion, deployment, reward and punishment, salary and retirement.
First of all, a western military academy should be established to train officers.
At the same time, it is necessary to establish a personnel department in the army and a complete set of civilian management departments in front of the logistics department and the financial department. This is the real culture and martial arts, not the system in which the civil servants desperately suppressed and guarded against military commanders in the Song Dynasty. It is necessary to hold the promotion of officers’ personnel and the payment of logistics supplies and salaries in their hands, and the civilian personnel can completely control the army.
There is only one commander left, and most of the country’s command is in the hands of officers, and it is decided by commanders. However, now the German Chief of Staff has established a staff headquarters system in Germany, and the command has been seized by the staff headquarters, so that the strategic level command of the whole army has been merged into an individual command class, that is, the general staff, instead of the general managing everything in the past.
Zhu Jinglun thinks this way is very good. Some staff officers have been trained in the army, and the best of them have been transferred to the general staff. The general staff will be directly responsible to him, which will help him control the whole army. In this way, the command, personnel and money are in his own hands, and the army will really become a knife without thinking about the need to carry out orders.
It is very complicated to establish a military management system. Zhu Jinglun is not in a hurry. He is patient. He has built 20 thousand troops capable of fighting according to western-style warfare in three years. He doesn’t mind establishing a whole set of management system in three years
Of course, because these systems are new, Zhu Jinglun still has a strong control over the military, so it will certainly not take three years to build this system in one year, but it will probably take at least two years for the military to get used to this system.
By this time, the American Civil War had been fought for two years.