Anqing Ordnance
Anqing within the Ordnance, in the Qing Xianfeng eleven years (1861) in Anqing Daguan Pavilion by Zeng Guofan set up for China's earliest modern military enterprises. Manufacture bullets, gunpowder, guns, ships. Anqing ordnance did not use foreign help, completely rely on the strength of the country, a collection of a number of well-known Chinese scientific and technological experts, such as Hua Hengfang, Xu Shou, Gong Yuntang, Xu Jianyin, Zhang Sigui, Li Shanlan, Wu Jialian, 100 workers. Tongzhi the first year (1862) in Anqing City, inverted lions of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the original site of the British government, Zeng Guofan governor of the eastern side of the Anqing Ordnance, to create China's first steam engine, but also in the country's military governor Xu Shou to create China's first A fire ship, Tongzhi start construction of large-scale military plant Anqing Machinery Bureau, after the dispatch Yung Hong to the Western procurement of military factory machinery, Tongzhi three years (1864) Hunan army captured in Nanjing, Anqing Ordnance and Anqing Machinery Bureau moved to Nanjing, Jinling Ordnance Office, Jinling Machinery Manufacturing Bureau and Jiangnan Machine Manufacturing General Administration. (The British government (Anqing literature historian) the first to study the Anqing military ordnance address, construction, the session of the person in charge, technical backbone, the results, etc.). ...