Although it was March, the spring was still cold, and the sea breeze was blowing on his face, which was still very cold. However, Yang Yuxin was still standing on the bow of the boat in the wind, looking at the masts on the distant coast, looking at the masts on the distant coast, and was full of energy. It was only more than two months since he returned to Qingdao to attend the annual meeting last time, and he returned to Qingdao again. Moreover, during the annual meeting, he not only received special praise from the Executive Yuan, but also the suggestions he made were approved by the Executive Yuan and began to implement them step by step. At the same time, Yang Yuxin also reached an agreement with the Postal Committee for the Establishment of Communications and the Business Committee and proposed alliance relations.

After returning to Shanghai, Yang Yuxin immediately started to organize a Shanghai industrial and commercial delegation to Qingdao to inspect the investment environment. After the New Year, the delegation was finally established. There were 41 Shanghai businessmen, basically all of whom were famous in Shanghai, such as Sheng Xuanhuai, Zhang Jian, Ye Yiquan, Zhang Shuhe, Zheng Guanying, Chen Manyun, Chen Yunpei, Yan Xinhou, Xu Dinglin and others. Among them were red-topped businessmen like Sheng Xuanhuai who started his business with the government; there were also industrialists like Zhang Jian who were born in traditional literati but devoted themselves to industry; there were also businessmen who were originally compradors but also devoted themselves to industry, such as Zheng Guanying, and almost everyone had official positions. Of course, this is also a major feature of Chinese businessmen in this era. If you don’t hold an official position, you will almost be unable to do business.

Of course, these people are rich and have a wealth of at least hundreds of thousands of taels of silver. Naturally, they will not be single when they go out. They will have to bring at least a dozen entourage staff around them. Some serve their daily life, some run errands, some keep their carries, and some have to negotiate some things at any time, of course, there are also bodyguards. However, this time, they are traveling in groups, so naturally they cannot bring so many people. Moreover, Yang Yuxin also used the name of the East China government to ensure the safety of the Industrial and Commercial Group. Therefore, the final negotiation decided that each person's entourage was limited to 8 people, but the candidates could be decided by themselves. In addition, the accommodation, three meals and visit fees of the Industrial and Commercial Group in Qingdao were paid by the East China government, but if you want to shop or other purposes, you need to pay by yourself.

However, among all 41 businessmen, Sheng Xuanhuai and Zhang Jian were publicly recommended as the group leader and deputy group leader, and were responsible for organizing the itinerary arrangements for the entire group and coordinating and communicating with the East China government. Therefore, they could bring 10 entourages, but in this way, they formed a huge group of nearly 400 people.

The Shanghai Industrial and Commercial Delegation departed from Shanghai on March 2 and arranged two passenger ships at the Shipbuilding Merchants Bureau. The East China government also sent two warships to escort the passenger ships. Yang Yuxin, as the initiator and organizer of the Industrial and Commercial Delegation, was the main person in charge of the Shanghai New District, and of course he had to accompany him throughout the journey. Therefore, in less than three months, Yang Yuxin returned to Qingdao again.

In addition, when she returned to Qingdao to attend the annual meeting last time, Yang Yuxin took Bai Liusu to enroll her in Qingdao for a training class. The semester is 16 weeks. Bai Liusu is still studying in Qingdao. This time she will meet Bai Liusu again and see how her learning situation is? Because only by passing the training can she obtain the assessment of the Ministry of Safety and look at her appearance. Of course, when we meet again this time, we can naturally be able to meet again.

The two passenger ships sailed into the port one after another and docked at the wharf under the guidance of the guide ship. The East China government was responsible for picking up their business committee member Ye Yanfu, and of course Yuan Shikai and Li Jingfang also followed.

Everyone first introduced Yang Yuxin and met Ye Yanfu. Only then did they realize that this was an overseas Chinese technical secondary school official in charge of industry and business. Naturally, they all had to say a few words. Then Li Jingfang and Yuan Shikai also came to meet everyone. In fact, Li Jingfang knew everyone and most of them, but Yuan Shikai could not know a few, so Li Jingfang introduced him. However, now Yuan Shikai is also a newcomer to the Qing court, and he is in his prime, and his future is unlimited, so merchants are naturally willing to meet him. After all, there are many friends and many ways. Yuan Shikai also took this opportunity to get familiar with everyone first.

This time, more than 40 businessmen came, and each of them brought a lot of followers, so arranging their accommodation was a big problem. It was not that there were no guest rooms, but that these people usually had a good time and could not live in too bad places. The high-end housing in any hotel is limited, so it would not be so easy to arrange high-end accommodation of each person of the same grade.

Finally, the Shanghai Industrial and Commercial Group was divided into two parts, led by Sheng Xuanhuai and Zhang Jian to join the two wineries. This was how they were arranged to avoid being strong. On that night, the East China government held another grand banquet to recruit the Industrial and Commercial Group, and also invited Li Jingfang and Yuan Shikai to attend, and several businessmen from Qingdao and Tianjin were accompanied.

Before the banquet, Ye Yanfu, Yang Yuxin, and Sheng Xuanhuai and Zhang Jian had a brief conversation and determined that tomorrow's event was to attend the launch ceremony of the warship and visit the Qingdao Shipyard.

Although the launch of warships is a military-wide matter, it is also an industrial manufacturing. Moreover, Qingdao Shipyard is a key enterprise project supported by the East China government. Therefore, the arrangement of industrial and commercial delegations to visit the shipyard is also to show them the achievements of the East China government's industrial manufacturing. Of course, Sheng Xuanhuai and Zhang Jian had no objection to this. Although they are not soldiers, they have also seen reports that overseas Chinese are building warships in the [New China News], and are also very interested in the warships built by overseas Chinese. Anyway, they are here, so it's okay to take a look.

The atmosphere of the dinner was also very warm. Everyone was drinking happily. Many people also took the opportunity to get in touch, get in touch, and look for business opportunities. Yuan Shikai also took the opportunity to make friends with some businessmen. Although they had not had a deep conversation, they were called brothers and very close on the surface.

The next morning, Yuan Shikai and Li Jingfang got up early, finished washing up, had breakfast, and left the hotel and came to Qingdao Shipyard. Because they were familiar with the time traveler, they politely declined the East China government to arrange vehicles to greet them, saying that they were just asking the time traveler to concentrate on receiving the industrial and commercial troupe, and it was enough to walk to the shipyard by themselves. The time traveler did not force this, but arranged four plainclothes to protect the two in secret.

When Yuan Shikai and Li Jingfang arrived at the door of the shipyard, the shipyard had already prepared to welcome him. Someone immediately led the two into the factory and sent them all the way to the side of the ship.

The two warships built by Qingdao Shipyard were built on the platform and the other was built on the dock. The launching ceremony was held on the dock. This was because it was relatively safe and simple to launch the dock. You only need to pour water into the dock. After the warship automatically floated up, you would tow it out of the dock and enter. The boat platform was much more troublesome. You had to use a machine to drag the warship from the platform to the slope and slide the slope into the sea. When the warship was on the slope, it had to be pulled with steel cables and put it into the water bit by bit. This was the area where accidents were more likely to occur. Therefore, for safety reasons, it would be better to hold the ceremony on the side of the dock.

Since Yuan Shikai and Li Jingfang came early, the industrial and commercial troupe had not arrived yet, but the launch ceremony was all ready. On the side of the dock, there was a red carpet, and a row of chairs were neatly placed, and a small square table was placed in front of it. The railings on the dock were filled with colorful flags of various colors, and a small number of soldiers were patrolling the dock.

From the seat position, the deck of the warship was below the ground level, and there was no ship to see the ship. Only superstructures, such as command rooms, masts, chimneys, etc., but there were several tens of colorful flag lines connected to the mast, which were colorful and dazzling. Before the ceremony began, the two came to the side of the dock and looked inward.

The upper deck of this warship is about 2 meters lower than the ground, but light brown wooden boards have been laid. The entire hull is basically completed, but no ship-based weapons are installed, but there is a hole for the installation of the naval gun on the upper deck. It is obvious that the main gun is arranged in an inverted triangle in front and back, while the secondary gun is arranged on both sides of the ship's side. At this time, more than a dozen workers did the final inspection on the deck. The silver-white painted hull is completely different from the Victorian paintings in this era. In addition, the head of the ship has obvious fly-shear shapes, which are the same as those of overseas Chinese warships, but the huge chimney and towering masts are the same as the usual warships, and it seems that the two styles of hulls have been designed in a comprehensive design.

Yuan Shikai knew nothing about the navy, and was very humble to ask Li Jingfang for advice. However, Li Jingfang had experienced the development of the Beiyang Navy, so he compared this warship with the "Badayuan" of the Beiyang Navy back then and told Yuan Shikai some of his own opinions. Judging from the length, width and size, this warship is obviously larger than the "Badayuan". That is, compared with the two ships Dingyuan and Zhenyuan, although the width is narrower, it obviously has to grow a large part. The entire warship looks very slender, which is very different from the bloated shape of Dingyuan and Zhenyuan. In this way, this warship is unlikely to be a heavy armored ship like Dingyuan and Zhenyuan, but a dome-armored cruiser like Zhiyuan.

However, Li Jingfang knew some navy after all, and knew that the dome-armored cruiser only had horizontal deck armor and no side armor. Therefore, although this warship was large, its drainage might not be larger than that of Dingyuan and Zhenyuan, but it was definitely much larger than the other "Six Fars". It was estimated that it should be around 5-6,000 tons.

Although this warship has not yet been equipped with weapons, it is impossible to measure its combat effectiveness. However, it is unlikely that the dome cruiser will be equipped with a 12-foot (305 mm) diameter main gun like Dingyuan and Zhenyuan ships, but with such a huge hull, it is impossible to install a main gun with a caliber that is too small. Li Jingfang estimated that the caliber of the main gun should be between 8 inches (203 mm) and 10 inches (254 mm), but three seats in front and rear. Even if it is just a single-mounted, the 6 main guns are quite considerable. If the six main guns are all twin-connected, there will be 12 main guns in total, and this combat power is also very powerful.
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