After listening to Qiu Yahui's introduction, Qin Zheng also praised Fang Bin for a few words. It seems that he did the right thing to send Fang Bin at the beginning.

Qiu Yahui then introduced the situation in Tianjin to Qin Zheng. Qiu Yahui now set up his command center in the Bell and Drum Tower. This is not a violation of discipline, because the Bell and Drum Tower is a public building, and it is both the main center of Tianjin City and the highest building. Therefore, if you occupy the Bell and Drum Tower, you can control the entire Tianjin City. The Japanese army stationed in Tianjin previously set up the command center in the Bell and Drum Tower.

However, because there are not many troops guarding Tianjin, the main energy has been focused on maintaining stability and defense in the city these two days. There is no counting the number of people in the city, but it has finally cleared out all the materials in the warehouse.

The Japanese had to have a lot of supplies left in Tianjin, with a total of 00 tons of grain, 500 tons of flour, 10 tons of cooking oil, 50 tons of seasoning, 000 bottles of wine, 100 tons of medical and pharmaceutical supplies, 400 tons of forage, and a total of about 00 tons of other supplies, 86 horses, donkeys, and 4 vehicles.

In terms of weapons, in addition to more than 3,000 Type 0 Murata rifles, more than 2,000 accessories, and more than one million rounds of bullets, a large number of German rifles were found, namely, more than 1,500 Mauser 1871/84 rifles, 500 Commission 1888 rifles, 4,000 Hanyang-made Type 88 rifles, and about 1.5 million matching bullets.

It turned out that after the Eight-Nation Alliance captured Tianjin, a large number of artillery, rifles and military supplies were found in an arsenal near Tianjin. According to an Italian officer, it included: 6 87mm-caliber Krupp guns; 60 70mm-caliber Krupp guns; 4 57mm-caliber Nordenfeld-style rapid-fire machine guns; 4 47mm-caliber Nordenfeld-style rapid-fire machine guns; 4 7mm-caliber Nordenfeld-style rapid-fire machine guns; 0 caliber rapid-fire machine guns; 30,000 latest marked Mauser rifles and Manlicht rifles; 30,000 bayonets, military supplies and others. It is estimated that it is worth about 2.5 million pounds.

Artillery and other military supplies were naturally divided by the Eight-Nation League and brought to participate in the battle to attack Beijing, but no one wanted rifles, because the armies of each country had their own standard rifles, bullets, and accessories that could not be used with other rifles, so it was useless to ask for these rifles. For example, the Mauser 1871 rifle was also a single-shot rifle in the era of the French-Prussian War. At this time, Europe and the United States had equipped the continuous rifle, so they naturally didn't like it.

But other countries don't want it, but Japan took all these rifles as its own. Because Japan has weak national strength and is not strong in industrial strength, it only started to assemble the Type 0 Murata rifle in 1897. There are still a large number of old single-shot rifles in China. Therefore, these outdated rifles are still treasured in the eyes of the Japanese, such as the Mauser 1871/84 rifle, the Committee 1888 rifle, and the Hanyang-made Type 88 rifle are also a bit behind, but they are also continuously fired rifles. In terms of performance, they are not worse than the Type 0 Murata rifle, and are still very useful in Japan. A group of them have been transported back to Japan, and now the remaining ones are left in Tianjin.

Qin Zheng was not only very interested when he heard this, but said, "There are actually Hanyang's buildings here."

Qiu Yahui raised his head and said, "Yes, but the Committee's 1888 rifles were all marked with Mauser's logo, probably to deceive the Qing court."

Qin Zheng laughed and said, "You also know the story of Mauser, the committee rifle and Hanyang."

Qiu Yahui also smiled and said, "Of course I know."

It turned out that in 1886, the Leber m1886 rifle made in France was the first bolt-type continuous-shot rifle in the world that integrates smokeless gunpowder, pointed gunfights and ammunition cabins. Its performance is far greater than that of the Mauser 1871/84 rifle assembled by the German team, the largest enemy of France at that time. Therefore, the German government specially organized a rifle design committee to summarize the excellent rifle designs of many factories in Germany and even other countries, and designed a new type of rifle, which is the Commission 1888 rifle, and assembled the German army that year. But 10 years later, the Mauser Company designed the Mauser 98 rifle with better performance, which was quickly adopted by the German side. The Commission 1888 rifle, which had only been assembled for ten years, was eliminated.

At this time, Germany had produced more than 100,000 Commission Type 1888 rifles, which could only be sold to other countries except for sealing and spared themselves. The Qing court was an important customer of German weapons at that time. Previously, the Qing court had purchased a large number of Mauser 1871 rifles and Mauser 1871/84 rifles. Because of its excellent performance, Mauser rifles had a very good reputation in China. Therefore, in order to promote the Commission Type 1888 rifles to China, the Germans pretended to be the Mauser 1888 rifles, which were the latest model of Mauser rifles, so the Qing court also purchased a considerable number. As a result, the Qing army also equipped the three German rifles, including the Mauser 1871 rifles, Mauser 1871/84 rifles, and Commission Type 1888 rifles.

At this time, Zhang Zhidong was appointed governor of Huguang and founded the Hanyang Iron Factory and the Hanyang Arsenal in Hubei. He was about to introduce an advanced rifle from abroad to imitate. Although the Committee's 1888 rifle was still insufficient, its performance was far better than the Mauser 1871 rifle and Mauser 1871/84 rifle purchased by China before. In addition, it was named the latest model of Mauser 1888 rifle. Therefore, after trial, Zhang Zhidong decided to purchase the patent, drawings, machinery of this gun for 450,000 marks, for imitation production.

Since 1896, the Hanyang Arsenal began to produce this type of rifle, named the Type 88, also known as the Hanyang-made Type 88 rifle, which is the famous Hanyang-made in the old time and space. Because it designed a wooden sleeve on the barrel, it is commonly known as the old sleeve among the people. In the year when it was put into production, the Hanyang Arsenal produced 100 Hanyang-made rifles and 500,000 bullets. By 1901, a total of more than 000 were produced.

The Hanyang-made rifle was China's first large-scale rifle, and some improvements were made to some shortcomings of its prototype. Therefore, at that time, it was also considered a rifle with good performance. Compared with the rifles from other countries during the same period, it was not inferior to those of other countries.

However, due to the limitations of the prototype and production era of Hanyang rifles, there are some irreparable shortcomings. First, they can only use round-head bullets instead of pointed bullets. The difference between the two is not big. However, when they are outside 400 meters, the power of round-head bullets is obviously not as powerful as pointed bullets; second, the magazine clip is a leaky clip rather than a common bridge clip. The difference between the two is that the leaky clip must be completely wiped out before they can be refilled, and the bridge clip can be filled at any time; third, the shell retraction hook of Hanyang rifle is relatively old, so it ages very fast and has a service life of no more than ten years.

In the old time and space, Hanyang's rifles were not stopped until the end of the War of Resistance Against Japan in 1944. They were produced for nearly 50 years, with a total of more than 1 million units, and occupied a very important position in China's history of firearms and military industry. However, due to the ups and downs in China during this period, the quality of Hanyang's rifles was also uneven. Generally, when the current situation is stable, the quality is better, while when the current situation is turbulent, the rifles produced are worse.

Of course, for the current time travel group, these rifles are naturally useful, and they can be ignored if they are missing. They are Hanyang-made rifles and Type 0 Murata rifles. Because of their large base, they are not as different from the rifles of this era, and they can be used in large quantities with the army.

Then Qin Zheng and others led the way by Qiu Yahui and began to conduct field investigations in Tianjin. The area of ​​Tianjin was not large, just like a freshman property in later generations. It was basically transferred after only more than one time.

The environment in Tianjin is indeed not satisfactory. In addition to the damage caused by the Eight-Nation Alliance to Tianjin City, Tianjin City's own urban construction, planning and maintenance are indeed not good. In addition to the four main roads connecting the city gates, other places are really unsightly. The roads are all land and bumpy. There are many ponds in some areas. The houses are all adobe mixed structures, and many are thatched huts. Most of them are dilapidated and have very few new buildings. At the base of the wall, there are piles of garbage and waste, with spider webs under the eaves corners, dust, and a lot of feces, which emit an unpleasant smell. Although the corpses in the city were clean, they were destroyed by shells and burned houses were not cleaned up, forming large areas of ruins, and wild grass grew in many places.

Everyone frowned. Although most people had visited tourist attractions such as ancient cities and villages in the old time and space, these places were somewhat artificially repaired and had special people to take care of. Although the old was old, they were cleaned up, which felt naturally very different. In contrast, the environment in the concession was indeed much better, so it was indeed a correct decision to set up the administrative center of the time traveler in the concession area.

When we were about to return to the Bell and Drum Tower, Qiu Yahui said: "Political Commissar, there is another thing to report to you. We have hosted more than 80 children in Tianjin, all of whom are orphans. Their parents and relatives all died in this war."

Qin Zheng immediately said: "Why did you arrange them all in that?"

Qiu Yahui said: "It is temporarily arranged in an unmanned house in the city."

Qin Zheng bowed his head and said, "Doing well, children are the future, and they are very malleable. You should take all these children in a favorable way. If you encounter them again, you should take them in. After a day or two, all the things in the concession will be arranged. After moving into Gordon Hall, I will arrange for these children to be placed in the concession to be placed, so that they can be educated and well trained."

Qiu Yahui immediately said: "Yes."
Chapter completed!