Yang Rui had already compiled the story. In fact, not many royal families in the Ming Dynasty survived, but a powerful prime minister appeared in later generations. When reading his biography, he knew some details and remembered some things. All he could not remember was just a fool. "I actually heard it from others," Yang Rui made up, "The one he was talking about was the descendant of King Minzhuang and the eighteenth son of Zhu Yuanzhang. I don't know what the name was. I only knew that this branch fled to Tanzhou in the late Ming Dynasty and settled down there."

"Tanzhou is so big, how can I find someone?" Zhong Guanguang asked. In his opinion, as long as he is a royal family, Zhu Yuanzhang has so many sons, it doesn't matter which one.

If I had forgotten what I had seen for a long time, Yang Rui still remembered a detail in it and said, "It's easy to find. I remember that one of the family is a celebrity in Tanzhou. I don't know what he is called Zhu. I only remember that he is a grain merchant, who is kind and generous, and he once sponsored Zuo Zongtang to pacify Xinjiang. This person knew when he asked in Tanzhou."

Zhong Guangui and Wang Jitong looked at each other in a glance. Is this clue true or false? Yang Rui looked at them and seemed to be disbelief and smiled bitterly: "I remember so much. This Zhu Dashan is the descendant of King Minzhuang. I don't know if he is the eldest son. When I heard it, I just thought it was a story. No one thought that there would be a revolution today. Anyway, the news is true. Don't doubt the accuracy of this news, but think about how people can't be the emperor and are willing to take the risk of beheading the revolution."

Seeing that he couldn't find anything, Zhong Guangui and others had to stop asking. This matter was only a long-term plan, first finding Zhu Dashan, and then trying to form a relationship before making a plan. Because of the serious shortage of information, an originally important thing ended like this. Taking advantage of the early time, Wang Jitong opened the book and reported the recently collected Northeast information.

According to the previous plan, the students entered the Northeast after graduating from Lorenzo Maguis Military Academy. Thanks to the time travel novel, he was still very clear about the progress of the war. In order to prevent the computer from falling out of the chain, he made detailed notes. In order to achieve the effect of taking advantage of the troubled waters, the team must be formed before the Liaoyang Conference in late August 1904. If it is calculated based on the three months of training soldiers, then recruiting people will start in April. He will leave South Africa in February and study in the military academy for only eight months. This is still a very tight time. After all, he is completely unfamiliar with the situation in the Northeast.

In order to understand the situation in the Northeast more carefully, Yang Rui has arranged four Lingxing Instrument Museum students to collect information. Fengtian originally had a factory point, and Yang Rui also set up a point in Tonghua. It is located in Changbaishan District and is the industrial base of the base in the future. After watching too much things online, Yang Rui knew that there had been a violent incident in the steel company. In addition to these two points, the future war zone of Liaoyang should also be thoroughly understood. At the same time, Wang Jitong took the lead in collecting some information about the Northeast in English newspapers and old newspapers.

What Wang Jitong is talking about now is the situation of the Zhongyi Army in the Northeast. The people in the Northeast have always been fierce. The Zhongyi Army began to rise up to fight against Russia during the Boxer Incident and has persisted until today. It was extremely powerful before. It was said that there were 20,000 people at its peak, claiming to be the Forty Battalions. However, with the signing of the Xin Chou Treaty, the Russian army and local governments colluded to suppress the leaders, and the leaders were arrested and killed one after another. The Zhongyi Army was gradually weakening and can only hide in the mountains and forests to defend themselves.

Wang Jitong said: "Following this situation, I guess the Zhongyi Army will be dispersed by this time next year. Should we contact them first? If we can help, we can help first. It would be better to get the bottom when recruiting next year."

It is still right to deal with someone first, but when he thought of the students from the instrument hall, Yang Rui still shook his head. Those students were still too young, and he probably couldn't do the things he dealt with Zhongyijun. He said, "It's better to follow the news according to the previous plan. If I really go to the joint, I'm afraid they won't say anything. You can ask them to try it first, it doesn't matter. Besides, all we can give now is money, but what they want should be guns."

Zhong Guanguang knew the students very well and said, "I think it's better to ask them to collect information first, don't contact them first, and wait until the chlor-alkali factory is on track. I'll go there in August and September and have a look with the rebels there. It would be better if I can really lay some groundwork for next year."

This is a good idea. If you have a Zhong to visit, you can basically feel at ease when you are in the Northeast. As long as you have local news personnel support and detailed details of the Russo-Japanese War, the success rate of fishing in the muddy waters has increased greatly. Thinking of the place in Tonghua, Yang Rui said again: "At that time, you must take a closer look at the waterways from Hunjiang to Yalu River to see how traffic capacity is."

Wang Jitong asked: "Since I succeed, why should we focus on Tonghua? That place is located in the mountains and forests, and transportation is very inconvenient."

Yang Rui smiled bitterly: "Do you think I am willing to shrink into that mountain. Except for Anshan Fushun, the entire Northeast China can build a coal-iron consortium, the only thing left is Tonghua. If you really want to gain a foothold in the Northeast, you can't just get some advantage. Japan and Russia are not easy to deal with. You can't make guns, cannons, and the base will not last long. In addition, Tonghua is located in a mountainous area, and small forces like us are easy to survive. If you really can't defeat it, you can go into the forest." After Japan occupied Anshan, Tonghua was the only choice. Yang Rui did not want to build a large steel factory, as long as it could be needed for gun production.

Wang Jitong didn't understand that Tonghua had such a role, but he knew that it was still very difficult to build an arsenal. He said, "It's good to have coal mines and iron ore, but where can I buy this machine, how can I transport it in? There are workers, and ammunition, etc., and always saltpeter raw materials?"

These problems are also a headache for Yang Rui. I thought about this problem before, but now I am taken out by Wang Jitong, which makes it even more headache. Yang Rui put his hands on his temple and massaged himself a few times and said, "I have these problems too. Machines should be easy to buy, at least they will sell in the United States. Besides, we are buying small equipment, and not many people pay attention to it. The only way to transport the waterway of the Yalu River and Hunjiang River is to travel. I hope that the river can be used. As for workers, they have to count on Mr. Huafeng. After all, the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau has steel mills, gun factories, and ammunition factories. The raw materials can be solved on the spot, so they can be transported secretly."

Wang Jitong was surprised and asked, "Mr. Huafeng wants to join us too?"

Zhong Guanguang and Mr. Hua Feng were most familiar with each other. He shook his head and said, "No, I haven't asked about revolution in front of him."

Yang Rui said: "This can be slower. I guess Mr. Huafeng will still help us. Even if the Qing court is loyal, their generation of scholars are more loyal than ordinary people. Our biggest task in Northeast China is not to fight against the Qing Dynasty, but to fight against Japan and Russia. If Mr. Huafeng doesn't revolution, he won't help us. Besides, all we need is to help us in the early stage, and when everything is on the right track, he can come back. It's only a year before and after, he won't help this."

This is reasonable. In the Northeast, it is directly confronting Japan and Russia. As long as you have patriotic thoughts, who would not help? The Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau is really a treasure, and there are all industrial talents in it, but I don’t know how to dig it out. Yang Rui asked Wang Jitong: "Didn’t the students of Guangfangyan Academy also participated in the Volunteer Refusal Team? Can some members be developed in them?"

In this era, there is no better choice than developing a membership in students. Yang Rui has abandoned the unbearable idea before. The policy within the association is to do a good job in student work and give priority to developing a membership among students. Wang Jitong has been working hard on this. He said: "It has already developed activists in them, but it still takes time to become a member, but it is still okay to do some work. What do you need them to do?"

"There are more work to be done. All of us now have no experience in iron and steel making and gun production. Although Northeast China can hire foreign technicians at that time, so many foreigners appear in Tonghua are too eye-catching. I hope to develop members among the technicians of the Manufacturing Bureau and dig out some technicians. It's just that this problem is too difficult." Yang Rui sighed after saying that, he knew that this matter was not easy to deal with. At this time, the Hanyang Iron Plant in Zhangzhidong has been suspended due to insufficient coke. At present, China has only the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau that has technical workers in steel and gun production. It is very brain-intensive to dig out some technical workers.

Zhong Guanguang smiled and said, "It's true. You can't always think about how to dig it out. We can send it in. Now there is still one year left to go next year. As long as we establish a relationship with the General Office and say that we are going to set up an iron factory to send people in to study for a year, then isn't this problem solved?"

This is also a way. I just sent it to an internship. Even if I don’t learn it well, I can be familiar with it. Wang Jitong thought it carefully and said, “It’s easy to explain how to make guns, cannons and bullets. What do you say about the Qing court does not allow arms factories to run them privately.”

Yang Rui said with his shallow military knowledge from the Internet and novels: "Guns and cannons should not be a big problem. I heard that bullets are the most difficult." He used the black gun dealers in later generations to illustrate, "Besides, we made small cannons, the bases are all mountainous, and the most used mortars are just used."

Seeing them nodding, Yang Rui could only smile bitterly. In the past, he liked to read time travel novels and farm in some military forums to see aircraft and missiles, but he had never studied the most basic production of guns, cannons and bullets. Although many strong people published some information in the forums in a long and long way, Yang Rui withdrew when he saw so many formulas, no pictures, but only the text was too boring. He would hate the fact that he had less books when he was used. If he was more serious at that time, he would not have read it a little.

I don’t know anything. Just like now, I don’t know what kind of gunpowder is filled in the bullets, and what kind of structure is the mortar shell. I smiled bitterly and said, “We can’t solve this big thing in this factory in one night. Steel is done according to the Constitutional Method. Gunpowder is to do Mr. Huafeng’s job. In addition to seeing what the students in Guangfangyan Academy have, we also think about more ways to do this and pay more attention to talents in this area.”

This is the best solution. Wang Jitong was busy finishing the meeting minutes. Although the problem was not completely solved tonight, both major events were left behind and they had to follow up. Yang Rui was about to leave Shanghai, so the rest of his work was only for Zhong Tourism and Wang Jitong. After Zhong Tourism for a few months, he had to go to the Northeast. The rest was only for Wang Jitong. Fortunately, he had a few capable students around him to help, otherwise he would have to be too busy.

The meeting that night ended, and Yang Rui returned to the room and couldn't sleep. Suddenly he remembered Taizu's famous saying about revolution - revolution is not about treating guests to dinner, writing articles, paintings and embroidery, not about being so elegant, calm and gentle, respectful and frugal. Revolution is a riot, an action of a class to overthrow a class violence - the plan is about to be implemented, but he felt weak in his heart, and it was still Taizu's words.

It's powerful. Perhaps, if there was a time traveler rebelling, Taizu would definitely be the first mentor. He suddenly felt that the rebels in the novel were shameless. He used Taizu's experience to speak bad things about Taizu and opposed the Red Party with the actions of the Red Party. At this time, another thought suddenly arose, and he vaguely remembered Churchill's words after his defeat. It took too long to remember it, but he only remembered that he seemed to say that an ungrateful nation is a great nation.
Chapter completed!