Made in Hanyang

[Westernization Movement + Industrial Saving the Nation + Resisting the Great Powers + Feelings of Family and Country] Describes the rise and fall of the Hanyang Arsenal from the perspective of the general office and chief engineer of the Hanyang Arsenal, as well as the significant impact of the weapons and ammunition produced by the factory in the course of Chinese history. When Pei Yuanji and Zhuge Jinhua were about fourteen or fifteen years old, they were sent to the German Empire by Zhang Zhidong to study ordnance manufacturing. The two studied abroad for ten years and returned to China in 1885. They have been following Zhang Zhidong in planning to build an arsenal. After ten years of hard work, through the introduction of the German Empire's most advanced 88 Mauser rifles and Burkert mountain gun production lines, an arsenal that could be regarded as the most advanced in the world's ordnance field at that time was finally built in Hanyang. Just when they were complacent and ready to flex their muscles and use Hanyang to arm the Qing army to resist the invasion of foreign powers, a sudden fire turned the arsenal into ashes...