With a crisp sound, the teacup full of hot tea in the hand of the shopkeeper Huang fell to the ground and shattered.

At almost the same time, the sky outside the Huang Family Merchant House had become extremely gloomy at some point, and at the moment when the teacup smashed to pieces on the ground, a bright purple lightning dragon crawled across the sky with teeth and claws, tearing apart the lead-gray clouds. After a while, the rolling thunder resounded throughout Yangguan Town.

The yellow shopkeeper who had just dropped the teacup was still unfazed on the surface. He silently wiped the sleeves of his shirt that were wet with tea, looked up at the sky outside the window, and then smiled:

"Haha, people are old and useless, and even such a bomb can scare the tea in their hands. Young Master Lan, I'm smiling at you! “

Our Lan family was full of black lines when they boarded up--- you got the wrong script, right? Do you think you are Liu Bei? But I'm not Cao Cao! Besides, Liu Bei dropped chopsticks, not a teacup!

Of course, he wouldn't say those words.

But there was a person who jumped out and wanted to be the little doll who punctured the emperor's new clothes.

Before the Huang family boat king poured another cup of tea, and then slowly questioned the feasibility of Lan Wang's plan, a figure flashed outside the window next to the two. Then, just before the pouring rain fell from the sky outside the window, a small but flexible figure flashed directly into the room from the rooftop outside the window, and jumped to the tea table.

"Hahahahahaha, Daddy, Daddy, you're so funny! Liu Bei's Uncle Liu Huang's routine back then, you are self-taught! It's a pity that Liu Bei dropped chopsticks back then! Hahahahaha, it's so funny! I'm laughing to death! Hahahahaha......ha

Lan Wang watched in amazement as a little mud monkey-like boy of his age, dressed in a broken and sloppy gown like a gilly suit, scurrying in from outside the window with an agility that was not human, squatting in front of the tea table, pointing at the yellow shopkeeper and laughing, and then rolling all over the ground, rubbing the originally smooth wooden floor with muddy water everywhere.

Our Huang Da shopkeeper seems to have been a little mentally prepared for the scene in front of him: "Huan'er, don't make trouble!" Daddy is here to talk to your guests about business! I'll play with you later, ah! Shrewd! Come home! Go home, will Dad give you candy when he goes back after talking about things? The boat king comforted and coaxed the child in front of him, and at the same time put an embarrassed and sorry look on his face.

"I don't! I don't! I'm going to listen here, listen to my dad talk to his customers! The little mud monkey didn't care about his image at all, and still played coquettishly in front of his father with a hippie smile.

At this time, Shopkeeper Huang remembered to apologize to Lan Wang: "Young Master Lan, today is really unfortunate, it makes you laugh!" Embarrassed beads of sweat began to drip continuously on the forehead of the boat king, "I am Huang Huan, a dog, I have had a brain disease since I was a child, I often speak without a form and look like crazy, and I can't go to school at the age of twelve!" My Huang family is unfortunate, my Huang was born with such a wicked obstacle, it is really ugly! Young Master Lan, don't be like such a hairy child, please bear with me, bear with me! ”

"Dad, I told you, I don't have a brain disease! I'm not sick with my brain! Also, you're the obstacle! Your whole family is a hindrance! Obstacle ......" Huang Huan jumped up like a cat that had been stepped on by the tail, stood up and beat his father's chest weakly with his small fist, and our Huang shopkeeper was helpless when he saw this situation, so he could only put on a loveless expression with a sad face.

In the next second, the young master of the Huang family turned his head, and the naughtiness and madness in his eyes were swept away in an instant. He put on a very serious look and asked Lan Wangzhengse:

"What's that, Lan ...... The eldest young master of the Lan family, you just said that you can stew the bandits in Fuluzhou with only five or six boats, why do you say that? Why are you so confident?! Could it be that your five or six ships are all steam gunboats, and you can blow up the entire Fuluzhou to the ground without engaging in melee combat? “

Our Lan Da Young Master's eyebrows jumped.

"yes, that's my plan, how do you know?"

Lan Wang knew that he had met another traverser.

"I can tell the way you talk and the pace you walk!" Huang Huan giggled and said something that sounded completely nonsensical to the onlookers and could only be understood by the two traversers, "I just don't know what the basis for what you said this?" Steam-powered warships, even river gunboats, are not so easy to build! What about your engine? With propellers? Surely not, as far as I know, there is no place in this era that has the ability to machine complex curved surfaces, even the simplest two-bladed windmill propeller is difficult! So you have to use Pakharum. However, if a river paddle steamer of four or five hundred tons wants to maintain a speed of 8-10 knots in the shallow waters of the river, the power of the engine must be at least 500 horsepower! Do you have a steam engine of this caliber in your hands? And even if there were, was it miniaturized enough to get on board? Let's not talk about the problem of armor first, and in the end there is artillery, but as far as I know, the entire Yangguan Town does not have the ability to produce 19th-century horizontal modern artillery at all, and front-loading smoothbore guns are not good! It's not like I haven't been to Fuluzhou, where the water network is full of shallows, and the waterways that can pass through the river gunboats are nearly a kilometer away from the nest of the water bandits in the middle of the sandbar! Can you create an artillery with an effective range of more than a kilometer in a short time? Oh yes, I don't know if you don't even understand the gunpowder recipe now, I've done hundreds of experiments, and the black powder recipe doesn't work in this plane! “

"So, to sum up, who gave you the courage to make you dare to say that you would be able to wipe out a group of bandits with thousands of people and hundreds of boats in less than ten boats? Liang Jingru?! “

Lan Wang secretly complained in his heart. Good guy, a pedantic drop of a book bag is enough for himself, and now there is such a master who comes up and oppresses people with technical problems!

As for the shopkeeper Huang Da, who was still imitating Cao Sikong, Uncle Liu Huang, and cooking wine on the hero of Qingmei cooking wine just now...... At this time, he was completely petrified, and the whole person stayed there, and his auditory senses directly entered the self-protection mode, unconsciously shielding these "crazy words" that sounded like a fantasy to him.

"Listen to me explain slowly!" Young Master Lan tried his best to be patient, "First, our Wenjia Workshop has completed the design, manufacture and assembly of at least ten steam engines, although there was a little trouble during the trial operation, but now the problem should have been solved!" The remaining spare parts can also be used to assemble more steam engines to meet the needs of the ship, and the miniaturization and minimum power of the steam engine should meet your requirements. As for artillery, although our workshop does not yet have the means to mass-produce high-quality cast iron, we can buy iron! The type and caliber of the cannon is even simpler, with Caron and mortar! Caron guns should be 32-pounder, and mortars should be 8-inch or 10-inch calibers. These two kinds of guns are relatively simple to manufacture, the scrap rate is relatively low, the chamber pressure is low and it is not easy to explode, the operation is simple, the range is sufficient, the power is huge, and it is extremely suitable for shore bombardment tasks. “

Our Young Master Lan has already studied weapons, and recently in order to resist the technical flow fatigue bombardment of the two directors Wen and Li, he has done a lot of homework in private and recalled a lot of weapon knowledge in his previous life, so that he can not show his timidity in front of the third technical madman who appeared.

"Since that's the case, I'm not going to say anything!" Huang Huan picked up the teacup from the table and poured a sip of hot tea, "Let's just look at the results, I have a self-built dock here, and there are several wooden hulls that have been built in it that can be quickly converted into steam paddle gunboats, and now it's up to the deck outfitting, weapon placement, and power system configuration." You don't have to worry about the technical level of the hull, the blueprint for my shipbuilding reference is the more successful several types of inland paddle steamer gunboats during the American Civil War, as long as you can take out the engine and artillery at the fastest speed, these paddle steamers can form combat effectiveness in a week, ah no, five days! Our Huang family's sailors are still very good in business ability, as long as they carry out centralized training in boat driving and gun handling, after all, we don't expect to be able to use these gunboats to fight water battles, as long as the sailors can fire cannons, they can fire cannons, and they can also hit cannonballs into the bandits' dens, and the requirements for accuracy are not too high! ”

"If this gang of bandits can handle it, our fleet will be able to transport building materials for you. By the way, if I'm not mistaken, you want this batch of building materials to start farming in order to build an industrial zone, right? If so, I won't be missing at that time! I'm still very professional in this area! The young master of the Huang family continued to say with a hippie smile on his face, saying that his father would probably not be able to understand for the rest of his life.

"Alright, that's it, I'll talk to our technicians when I get back to the workshop and see when I can get these things to you. However, at that time, you may need the Huang family to send a ship to transport these equipment to your dock, and you will also need to help you with the iron materials for making cannons! ”

"No problem! I've been pretending to be crazy and stupid for so long, and it's not that there is no result, our Huang family has a big business, and in order to appease me and coax me to play, my father directly gave me a small shipyard, two hundred-ton docks and hundreds of craftsmen! Say what 'if a child wants to make trouble, let him make trouble"! Hehe, I'll take this opportunity to make such a fuss and open the gold finger! The hulls of these steam gunboats are the result of my 'messing around' for so long, and even my dad doesn't know why! Hahaha! The young master of the Huang family proudly showed off, like a cynical rich second generation in his previous life, showing off how many luxury cars he had at a young age, completely ignoring the cheap dad next to him who still looked confused.

With the historic handshake between the Chief of the General Staff of the Imperial Army and the future Minister of the Imperial Navy, a strange business negotiation started by the Huang family master and ended by the Huang family master came to an end for the time being.