Several people stood in front of Xu Shouchang's mansion and talked enthusiastically. Although Lu Hong could not solve these problems of blackhead torpedo now, his explanations of some principles of blackhead torpedo and Howell torpedo were extremely insightful, and the analysis of the reasons was also reasonable. Cai Tinggan had already put down his attitude when he came and asked questions carefully.

As the commander of the Beiyang Navy's left-wing torpedo boat, Cai Tinggan naturally had a deep understanding of the tricks in the army. The navy welcomed the target shooting training of the officials in the court several times. In order to ensure success, the target ship was well wielded and watched the earth-shaking explosion of the target ship. In fact, it was all pre-arranged explosives.

In real combat, even those Haqikas machine guns with extremely fast speed fire can make wooden-shelled torpedo boats go wild. If they are hit by the flowering bullet, the torpedo boats with a small tonnage may sink suddenly. In this regard, he was consistent with Lu Hong's point of view. In this situation, the torpedo boats must focus on night battles, and night is the best cover for the torpedo boats to seal the throat, but... this is easy to say, but it is absolutely difficult in wartime.

After a discussion, Tang Wenjin was obviously very excited and pulled Lu Hong to the restaurant next to him to talk at the same time... And just as they left, Huang Tifang and Zhang Peilun happened to come out of the mansion and saw Lu Hong talking with a group of Beiyang Navy officers in five cloud uniforms from afar. This surprised Zhang Peilun a bit. In his opinion, Huang Tifang had never had any interaction with the Huai Navy officers...

However, Huang Tifang explained to himself, "Youqiao, when Lu Hong was studying, I heard that he had also studied at the Thai Military School. He learned a lot. He had a lot of fun on the boat and had a chat with these navy officers!"

These words made Zhang Peilun seem to be more curious about this young man. However, his current imperative is obviously not to pay attention to Lu Hong. In his opinion, the current Qing Dynasty was the only important officials, Li Zhongtang, who could maintain the important task of prosperity. Since there were signs of a crisis, he had to carefully consider how to report to Zhongtang.

On that day, Lu Hong did not return to Xu Shouchang's mansion until late at night, but met Wu Shengxi, who was reading at night outside the guest room. This diligent sect was not interested in social events, but seemed to have been interested in the new policy like his uncle Wu Daqiu. In the past few days, he has been studying Zheng Guanying's "The Dangerous Words of the Prosperity". This book talks about various Western political systems and institutional changes, and Lu Hong is a living dictionary.

Wu Shengxi is a standard Chinese scholar. He pulled Lu Hongxun to discuss the various conclusions in the book based on the arguments, and even began to discuss the possibility of China's implementation of the Western system. Naturally, Lu Hong poured cold water... How could a democratic parliament be opened under the Chinese imperial system? That country has the feudal and deeply rooted traditional ideas that have been continued for thousands of years in China.

Wu Shengxi was not convinced of the cold water poured by Lu Hong. After listening carefully to the history of the French Revolution introduced by Lu Hong, the continuous restoration and republic made him leave thoughtfully.

Two days later, at noon, Lu Hong poked out of a carriage, traveled through more than a hundred years, and finally saw a place he was familiar with. The iconic Zhenhai Chongwen Iron Turtle in Chongwen Gate was still lying there as always, and the bustling crowds in and out of the capital actually looked a bit prosperous in the new China in later generations. Of course, he did not know that Chongwen Gate was the busiest city gate with the busiest freight transportation in Beijing.

However, under this prosperous trade scene, scenes of disharmonious scenes were revealed without any scruples in front of Chongwen Gate. The capital city gates were divided into nine inner and seven outer cities, and the seven outer cities were all guarded by the police battalion affiliated to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and this also became the way for the children of the Eight Banners of the Capital to make money.

Lu Hong looked at it and saw that all the trucks that were coming and going were treated with special care without exception. Groups of Eight Banners soldiers in military uniforms casually wrapped their braids on their heads, holding their knives and spears in their hands, and shouting and causing trouble one by one. However, it was obvious that this had been the custom of Beijing City. Except for some of them, probably foreign trucks, the shopkeepers who accompanied the car all put the filial money into the hands of the officials with a smile on their faces.

Seeing this scene, Wu Shengxi, who was studying hard on the side, felt a little touched and muttered, "In the prosperous era, a slut is a disaster!"

However, this was immediately refuted by Qin Tianmin next to him, "Young Master Wu, you probably don't know. I heard that the Chongwenmen wine truck, the Xizhimen water truck, the Chaoyangmen food truck, and the Xuanwumen prison truck, these are all ways to make a living for the Eight Banners Army guarding the capital. Even if you send the water truck to Qingquan in Xishan for the Empress Dowager of the Imperial City, you have to pay for the same amount of money!"

Lu Hong rolled his eyes when he heard this. The old demon queen of the West Palace, who was pointed by thousands of men in later generations, actually allowed the people below to collect the money from their own water trucks to buy the road. It can be seen that the entire parasitic system of the Qing Dynasty was the foundation of this corrupt empire and no one could shake it... This ultimately decided that only changing the world was the only choice, and his future was uncertain when he entered Beijing this time. After all, whether he could succeed was successful. Even if he made sufficient preparations, the decision was not in his own hands!

While he was pondering, the group of Eight Banners children walked past the carriage with a smile on their faces. It was obvious that they had gained a lot. The Eight Banners officer in the lead had yellow teeth and raised cheekbones. Although he looked full of energy at this moment, he was obviously a big smoker. The other Banners soldiers were all rogue. Apart from the sloppy military uniform, they didn't look like an army...

Huang Tifang was transferred to the right inspector of the Censorate this time. This was a powerful position among the civil officials in the court and controlled part of the mouthpiece of the court. This was also a big deal for Qingliu boss Weng Tonghe and Li Hongzao to strengthen the Qingliu faction's right to speak in the court. However, just after entering Beijing, Huang Tifang was obviously busy at the Ministry of Personnel to hand over the payment, while Lu Hong and others were arranged to enter the Huang family's old house in Chaoyang Gate.

After settling down, Wu Shengxi came to greet Lu Hong, "Brother Lu, I have booked a carriage to Liulichang, are you going together?"

Liuli Factory... Lu Hong rolled his eyes when he heard this. It should be the glass factory in Beijing. However, it seems that the glass of this era is just used as a bottle and a jar. Is this guy going to buy these things... However, he immediately discovered that Qin Tianmin next to him seemed to be full of interest and immediately realized that he might have made something wrong!

On that day, Wu Shengxi and Qin Tianmin pulled Lu Hong to a nearby Beijing Liulichang Bookstore Street, which allowed Lu Hong to truly appreciate the influence of the imperial examination in Beijing. On both sides of the streets of Liulichang, there were all kinds of guilds and bookstores. In this era, a large number of the candidates who went to Beijing to take the exam would live in these local guild halls with a lot of books. There were Guangzhou guild halls, Shanxi guild halls, Huguang guild halls, etc. around Liulichang.

Wu Shengxi, who was a man from Wu Shengxi, got into the Shanxi Guild Hall without hesitation, and then started talking about the scriptures and discussions with a group of Shanxi scholars. However, Qin Tianmin only had the fame of a student in the imperial examination. After all, he had the fame of a current scholar when he went to Beijing to take the exam. In comparison, he was embarrassed to go to the guild hall of Shandong people, so he accompanied Lu Hong around.

After a while, Lu Hong gained a lot. In the bookstore here, he easily found many books on basic education translated by the Shanghai translation agency, such as "Calculus Grades", "Re-Study", "Talking about the World", "Number Theory" and other important academic books... This shows that the progress of Chinese people in learning Western science in the 30 years of the Westernization Affairs Office.

When he walked to the east of the Shanxi Guild Hall, a bookstore called "Xianwen Book Pavilion", in addition to the dazzling array of books, several long boxes placed in a corner of the table attracted Lu Hong's attention, because in the opened box, he saw a few things that were suspected to be pens... and the box was obviously quite ancient Chinese style, which was a bit out of place.

The guy next to him had been staring at the guests coming in. When he saw Lu Hong looking at the boxes, he immediately came up to talk to him, "This man, this is a hard pen from a foreign company. It is very well-made. It is said that all the celebrities in Europa use this thing to write... But we Chinese all come here to play calligraphy, and the shopkeeper bought a few pieces, but they couldn't sell them!"

Lu Hong took the so-called Europa hard pen from his friend, and found that the overall appearance of this thing was almost a pen from later generations. The only problem was that the part used to store ink was a sponge-like thing. The friend introduced that after writing for a while, he had to add ink with a special dropper!

Taking into account the pain of drawing with a brush, he bought several French-made Wodyman pens without hesitation. Then, the guy obviously discovered the business opportunity and sold him a pencil. After getting these things, Lu Hong finally felt a little bit of the atmosphere of returning to modernity.

In the evening, just as Lu Hong was carefully drawing several types of primary mechanical drawings that had been tried in Mengyin with a pencil, the voices of Qin Tianmin and Huang Tifang came from outside. After a while, Huang Tifang walked in with a serious expression on his face.
Chapter completed!