Chapter 102 Experimental Ship
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"Cough..., Jizong, is there any news from the State Council?"
Listening to his old father's cough and looking at the pale hair, Lin Jizong sighed from the bottom of his heart and shook his head helplessly. After a red tide on Lin Zhaonian's face, he suddenly coughed again. Lin Jiye next to him hurried over and smoothed his chest for him before looking at Lin Jizong.
"Brother, is there really no hope?"
Lin Jizong sighed. In the past, it was the first Chinese in Hawaii, but now he has gradually fallen down like his old father lying on a chair. Even the tens of thousands of hard workers, who used to rely on the most, also left the Lin family under the new employment method promulgated by the new duke, and turned to the factories and plants with higher wages under his control. Garden, even if there is still a little left, it has to stay because it has not found a way out.
Now that the peak sugar season of the year is coming again, foreign merchant ships have begun to gather, but the Lin family not only did not even gather the people who cut sugar cane, but also the only small sugar factory in the family is because the new Honolulu State Council needs to re-register the land procedures, so they have to let the machine stop and rust.
Although the Lin family has some family backgrounds for so many years, if we can't complete the relevant procedures before the sugar season and find enough workers to start the sugar factory, I'm afraid there is only one way out!
Thinking of this, Lin Zhaonian, who was lying on the chair, sighed again.
To be honest, he is really regretful now. He regrets why he was confused at the beginning and questioned him in front of so many people in the palace! Now, with the soaring strength of the Li family, they not only firmly controlled Oahu and Cute Island, but also accepted the plantation real estate in the hands of the Chen family and American businessmen. I'm afraid that the area accounts for almost 50% of the sugar cane garden in Hawaii.
Now the queen escapes from Maui, Oahu is like a woman, tossing as much as she likes!
The industries of the Colin family are all here! If one day Master Li gets up in the morning and takes a sip of tea, he suddenly remembers that the Lin family has not cleaned up yet, I'm afraid that the second Chen family will appear immediately.
Thinking of more than a hundred people in the Chen family who disappeared inexplicably overnight, he had nightmares so much that he seemed to be a teenager in just two months. More importantly, he was too hesitant. He always thought that with tens of thousands of Chinese workers, the other party would accommodate him and at least come to recruit him, but he didn't expect that after expelling the Americans, the Li family didn't even ask, as if there was no one in Hawaii! This makes it even more difficult for him to sleep and eat.
With the recent development of Oahu **, the Lin family was completely left aside, so that they wanted to do something, but they all looked for a way and ran into a wall. The recent new employment method has made the Lin family worse, and now there is only one way left.
Lin Zhaonian trembled with his old hand, took out a already prepared check from his arms and handed it to his eldest son: "Ji Zong, this is 500,000 pounds. Go and meet the young master Li. Please let him see the Chinese and let me live in the Lin family."
"Dad! At worst, I'm going to beg the queen? The eldest brother is his niece and son-in-law anyway! Isn't he just a duke? I don't believe that he doesn't even give the queen's face!" Lin Jiye's surname is irritable. Although he has been much better during this period, when he saw his father admitting defeat and surrendering at the cost of 500,000 pounds, he couldn't help but be angry and shouted that he was about to go out
"Stand up!" Lin Zhaonian smiled sadly at the corners of his mouth. If the queen is willing to come forward, why are you worried about these? So he hurriedly drank his second son, handed the check to Lin Jizong, and waved his hand: "Go."
"Yes." Lin Jizong looked at his younger brother who was still angry on the spot, sighed and disappeared out of the door.
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Walking in the area of the Hawaiian shipyard, Huang Zichen was full of excitement. He didn't expect that Li Mo would send someone to invite him to visit the shipyard. Looking at the huge steel castings around him, the world made of steel, and the busy crowd around the steel, he couldn't help but be a little distracted.
When he was studying in France, he also visited some French shipyards, but he never imagined that a large shipyard larger than most French shipyards and with a more amazing shipbuilding tonnage could one day appear on the Pacific island of Honolulu in the mouth of Chinese people, and it was also controlled by a Chinese teenager who was only 16 years old. Control it!
More importantly, although the main technical workers of the Hawaii shipyard are still foreigners, there are thousands of Chinese who follow them and eager to learn various technologies. Most of them are young people in their twenties. Their skills are becoming more and more familiar under the guidance of foreign teachers. Practice, more and more exquisite.
This is the scene where the shipyard has been working for more than a year. If in another two years, wait for the selected technicians who are said to have been sent to England and Germany to come back, wait for the shipyard to train more and more technicians, and wait for the technology and design to catch up, then...!
Huang Zichen looked at the slightly thin back walking in the front. Until now, he couldn't figure out why this teenager could change the whole situation in Hawaii and completely eliminate the powerful American forces! Not to mention the soldiers who seemed to emerge from the ground all of a sudden, and the Pacific Fleet that appeared out of thin air. What's the magic about him? How to save the imprisoned queen, take two big islands, and create such a big foundation in the year of the weak crown?
For more than half a year, Huang Zichen has been collecting everything about that teenager. When he cleared the fog, he found that it was covered by another larger fog, because he found that if he had collected the information, Li Mo not only knew that the Americans would usurp Hawaii, but also began to train sailors and Buy a warship. But the question is, who knew a year ago that the Americans were going to overthrow the Kingdom of Hawaii?
From the observation of this period, whether it is regular maintenance or emergency training, those sailors who show extremely high quality can even be with European and American countries, which can not be done quickly in just a few months at all. It takes at least a few years of strict high-intensity training, and it must be done by people who have experience in naval warfare. Only by teaching such soldiers can we build such a fleet.
several years!
God, did Master Li predict today as early as two years ago? At that time, I'm afraid he had just arrived in Hawaii!
Huang Zichen doesn't believe those legends. Master Li will never be the queen's illegitimate son, let alone the queen's assassin against the United States. Otherwise, the queen would not have gone to Maui and give him the two most important islands.
It can only be said that Master Li is a great man, super awesome! He is a demon who is not yet 16 years old!
After following the team across a warehouse area, the largest No. 3 and No. 4 dock suddenly appeared in front of them. It is said that these are two docks that can build 20,000 tons of super-large ships. Judging from the busy construction workers around, they seem to be building wind walls for these two docks.
Before he could understand why Li Mo had just made these two open-air docks in Europe, let alone semi-closed docks, a huge steel skeleton suddenly jumped up from his eyes, looking at the workers who were strengthening the keel and the naval officers in white navy clothes next to him with an excited face. His heart suddenly I jumped twice.
Is this...
"Young master, Mr. Li."
Seeing that the young master and Li Enfu were coming, the most excited McKinson rushed to Li Mo. Long Guozhang greeted him excitedly with a large number of naval officers and soldiers. When he walked in, he found Huang Zichen walking behind, and he couldn't help but be slightly stunned. Why did the young master bring him here?
After greeting everyone, McKinson immediately dragged Li Mo around the platform and visited excitedly, leaving Li Enfu and Huang Zichen in place and communicating softly.
"Zichen, I heard that you are studying machinery in France. I visited a lot today. What do you think of us here?" Looking at McKinson, who was excited like a child in front of the young master, Li Enfu smiled and gently pulled a handful of Huang Zichen.
"It's an eye-opener." Huang Zichen touched the cold steel skeleton, and his eyes were full of excitement: "I really didn't expect that in just two years, Oahu would have such a good shipyard and such a large industrial area!"
"Ha ha, it's not called Oahu now, it has to be called Honolulu." Li Enfu smiled, looked at Huang Zichen meaningfully, and deliberately asked, "So can Zichen see what this is?"
"Is this the keel?" Huang Zichen was puzzled that he didn't understand what Li Enfu meant. Since he knew that he was mechanical, he didn't feel that he couldn't see that this was the keel of the ship, right?
Just as he was about to say that it was the keel, the smile at the corners of the other party's mouth reminded him. He glanced at the workers who were strengthening the keel and the naval officers in white around him. He moved his heart and roughly estimated it and said, "If Zichen guesses correctly, I'm afraid it's a warship built here, and the displacement is about 4,000 tons. About right!"
Li Enfu nodded with a smile. He could see that the Huang family still had some eyesight. He added excitedly, "Zichen has good eyesight. This is the first warship we built by ourselves!"
"Sure enough..." Huang Zichen sighed. In just two years, he only had the experience of building a few cargo ships and dared to build a warship. Master Li's courage alone was enough to make himself ashamed!
"In fact, this is not a real warship. It is the first experimental ship we are planning to build, with a maximum displacement of 4,300 tons. In addition to absorbing European technology, we have also combined some of our own technology." Li Mo smiled and climbed down from the platform to explain instead of Li Enfu.
"Integrated your own technology?" Huang Zichen was slightly stunned. Is this young master a shipbuilder?
When Huang Zichen was stunned, Li Mo had come back and stared at Huang Zichen and said, "I heard from Mr. Li that Zichen studied machinery and management in France. I don't know if he is interested in helping me manage the shipyard?"
Manage the shipyard!
Huang Zichen's heart beat violently. Since Li Mo's large-scale reform of the Honolulu employment system, the family's pineapple business no longer needs to be worried. He has long wanted to find a job, but he has never found a suitable one.
Although he had long wanted to come to Li Mo's mechanical factory and didn't want to discard what he had studied hard in France for so many years, he had been making up his mind, so he came immediately after receiving an invitation to visit the shipyard, but he didn't expect that the other party would let him manage the shipyard as soon as he opened his mouth!
Huang Zichen wanted to nod immediately, but suddenly remembered that his father had said that the Hawaiian shipyard was managed by a person who was a confidant of Master Li. How could he suddenly let himself take over?
Seeing Huang Zichen staring around and not replying for a long time, Li Enfu knew that he had misunderstood and said with a smile, "Zichen misunderstood. The young master is not talking about the shipyard here, but a new shipyard that is going to be built!"
Brand new?
Huang Zichen's eyes are even bigger. With a Hawaiian shipyard and a supporting industrial zone, the investment is less than two million pounds! Now we have to prepare to build a new shipyard, not to mention how much investment is needed. The reality that Hawaii relies entirely on marine replenishment materials alone can't support another large-scale shipyard! More importantly, is there enough land in Hawaii?
"Is Master Li going to tear down all the fertile plantations on the island?" Thinking of the new seaport being built on the big island of Hawaii, Huang Zichen quickly asked, "Does the young master want to build another shipyard on the big island?"
"Big Island? Haha..." . Li Mo blinked his eyes and looked at Huang Zichen, who suddenly laughed. Even Li Enfu beside him couldn't help but stroke his forehead and smiled, "Zichen, you are good at mechanical learning, but others... still need to exercise."
Isn't it in Hawaii? Huang Zichen was flustered and at a loss. He hurriedly asked for advice, "Please give me some advice, young master and sir."
"Zichen, you have to remember that although Hawaii is very good, it can't support the Chinese sky!" Li Enfu stopped laughing, and his eyes suddenly became bright. He turned his head and looked at the warship keel like a whale skeleton stripped of bones. He took out a document and handed it over: "So we are going to send people here to build a brand-new industrial zone!"
"In addition to the shipyard industrial zone of the same size as here, a car factory will be built there!"
"That's an unclaimed land, so I'm going to spend three years to build the best industrial zone in the Far East. Do you want to try it?"
"The shipyard? And even the car factories that have just emerged in Europe!" Huang Zichen looked at the document in a daze, and suddenly felt that his throat was dry as if he had just drunk a sip of liquor, especially the sentence "Supporting up the Chinese sky!" It made his heart beat like a drum, and his whole body seemed to boil.
Three years! Another three years!
It has been three years since Master Li came to Hawaii in front of him. When he said a three-year goal again, Huang Zichen knew better than anyone that he had taken a fancy to that site!
"Now that the ironclad giant ship crosses the ocean, how can we Chinese alone guard the loess under our feet! The young master is ready to tell everyone in the world that we can not only build giant ships and cannons, but also tell them! In this Taiyang, every place is the land of my descendants of Yan and Huang. Pointing to the steel skeleton lying quietly in the dock, Li Enfu looked at Li Mo. For the first time, his heart was even more heroic, and even the admirals in the distance trembled and excited.
"The Lin family has come to compromise with me. I have discussed with Mr. Enfu to integrate all the sugar industries under my name and hand them over to Lin Jizong!" While helping Huang Zichen set up a competitor, Li Mo said, "As for the new industrial zone, I'm going to invest three million pounds at a time!" Zichen, don't fall behind others?"
Huang Zichen's heart fluctuated with the words of the two, especially when Li Mo finally said that Lin Jizong would take over all the sugar industry under Li Mo's name, he suddenly took a breath!
For the Lin family, who are already at the end of the road, it is simply a pie from the sky! At present, the plantation under the control of Master Li, and even the Queen's share should be included in the Lin family! What a big industry this is! It can even affect the price of white sugar in the world!
Thinking that Lian Lin Jizong was about to be entrusted with an important task, Huang Zichen couldn't help taking a deep breath and nodding hard.
"I'll go!"
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