"So...so I have to find a way to grab the time! Grandpa and father... I have to recover the time they have been wasted! I'm anxious here..."

Ermao hadn't spoken in the corner, but today he saw that the little emperor was so crushed that he was about to cry. He felt a little reluctant, and he tried a color at Cai Bixia and said.

"Mr. Cai... When the Head of State and His Majesty parted in Europe, they promised to support His Majesty in power and put on the horse!"

"For His Majesty to take power, my godfather has done a lot of effort! Today I said that the key is the equipment matter? I don't believe that the head of state cannot solve it!"

"Mr. Cai...you should report the situation to the Head of State!"

When Cai Bixia heard Ermao started acting according to the script, he waved his hand and said, "No, no... Manager, please don't ask me a problem. Why don't you send me a copy of this telegram!"

"You send it more useful than me! I really don't dare..."

Zai Chun suddenly woke up. He was a clever man. From the expressions and tones of the two, he could tell something was wrong!

"I dare not? Sister Cai said something wrong... I just sent a telegram, why don't you dare? There must be something wrong here..."

"Ermao... tell me the truth, is there any resilience in this matter? Don't hide it from me, I have always been good to you!"

Ci'an also alerted and said to Ermao, "Ermao! Your Majesty has always regarded you as a friend, but you don't have to be a slave if you have an order!"

"What a great grace this is? No eunuch has had such grace in the country for two hundred years! You have to know this friendship when you treat you as a friend rather than a slave!"

"Your Majesty is in trouble now. If you can't blame the Ai family, but if you have an idea in your heart but don't say it, then you have let your Majesty down!"

Ermao looked constipated, so he was difficult to do it. "This...this should be what the special envoy said, and I, an outsider, should not interrupt!"

Cai Bixia began to wave his hand again, "I can't say it, I really can't say it... Ermao, you know how deep the water is, I dare not send this telegram!"

With a bang, Ci'an put the soup bowl on the table, "Ermao! Tell me! Tell me whatever you have! Do you still have to ask the Ai family for your wishes?"

When he saw the queen mother getting angry, Ermao shrank her neck and stamped her feet, "Forget it! I'm so verbally!"

"Long live the Empress Dowager! In fact, the three-year period is not impossible to shorten, but it is quite difficult!"

"What Master Long wants is to build the iron plant and some railways as soon as possible, because with the iron plant, there will be industrial raw materials, and the machinery plant and military plant will have raw materials!"

"The steel used in railway tracks cannot rely solely on imports, the price is too expensive!"

"The railway must be built. Your Majesty knows very well where the railway is built, where our Qing army deployment can be expanded!"

"If there is a railway between Beijing City and Tianjin City... according to Western rules, the number of garrison troops in the two cities can be reduced by more than half!"

"In fact, it is enough to leave one-third of the defenders in these two cities. The extra money is enough to build a strong iron army! Just use the convenient transportation of railways to allow a strong army to control the defense of the two cities!"

"This is what Your Majesty wants. This is the best way to save military spending and improve combat effectiveness!"

"Using half of the military spending can control a larger territory and provide higher combat power... This is a good strategy to make money!"

"Yes!" Zai Chun slapped his thigh excitedly, "Empress Dowager, this is what I have always said. The so-called reform and reform can actually save money for the court! It has saved a lot of money..."

"The country is rich and strong, and the soldiers can save money. In the end, can the relatives of the Eight Banners eat meat and drink soup? You don't understand the simple truth!"

"I understand, I understand... Your Majesty, don't be impatient, let General Ermao say it slowly..." Ci'an smiled and comforted the little emperor.

Ermao breathed a sigh of relief, "The benefits are of course obvious, but the root of all this is still in the steel industry. If the raw materials matters are not solved, it is said that everything is a castle in the air!"

"The Iron Factory of Beijing is the top priority in everything. The earlier it starts production, the faster the industrial branches that continue to be established!"

"But this big iron plant is not that simple to build. What hinders our neck are just the key equipment of the steel plant!"

"Ironmaking requires a blast furnace, and steelmaking seems to require a flat furnace... It takes a hydraulic press ranging from tens of thousands of tons to process steel rough billets. What's more important is that cranes have to be bought from Europa..."

"All kinds of machinery can be produced by some Chinese people, while one third can only be imported from the UK or Germany!"

"We can speak the Chinese people's own production and work overtime! But the equipment imported from Britain and Germany is the key point that stumbling our necks! This is really impossible, no matter how anxious we are, it's useless!"

"Unless..." Ermao's elongated sound made Zaichun see hope. Zaichun, who was originally a little desperate because of Ermao's analysis, suddenly saw the light!

"Unless what? Tell me quickly..."

"Your Majesty... Unless you can influence the big merchants and big capitalists of the Chinese race, there is no way!"

Before he finished speaking, Cai Bixia couldn't help but sigh, "This road is simply not feasible... It's useless to say it!"

Ci'an and Zai Chun were really confused. Cai Bixia knew that it was not possible today, so she had to take over the conversation and said, "Empress Dowager, Your Majesty... In fact, what General Ermao said was very simple but difficult!"

"Your Majesty wants equipment, who has this equipment? In addition to the steel mills of Germany such as Krupp, there are also a group of people who have equipment in their hands!"

"Who is it? It's these big Chinese capitalists, such as Boss Niu Jinfu and Boss Mi Fu... Of course, the old shopkeeper Fan Ru also has some controls in the family!"

"Haha... In this world, the most profitable business is to produce industrial products, especially industrial commodities related to steel! This is huge profit, which makes more money than buying and selling silk, tea, medicinal materials, fur, etc."

"Krupp Company sells a cannon, and the profits exceed your number of ships of porcelain! This is the treasure pot industry that will make money in the future!"

"So these big Chinese capitalists are making arrangements in advance! Before the Franco-Prussian War, they had signed a contract for processing equipment with the Prussian arsenal and steel mill!"

"It's not one or two! That's dozens of them... Some of the equipment in these people's hands have been loaded for shipment to Asia, and some have basically been produced in the workshop!"

"This is the only quick way, don't even think about other tricks!"

Zaichun was excited when he heard this, "Okay! Let's buy it from them! Even if the price is 10% higher, I agree! I have seen Mi Fu, Boss Niu and others, and I believe I will not refute my face!"

"If it really doesn't work, Manager Fan won't stand by and watch..."

The more Zai Chun said, the less confident he became. The more he spoke, the less his voice was, because he saw that the expressions of the people around him were very unnatural, and even Ci'an's smile had frozen!
Chapter completed!