However, both the duchess and the sister overlooked one thing - the legal age of marriage for Australians is eighteen, and second, in order to become a citizen of the Australian Commonwealth, minors must undergo two to three years of cultural training, that is, they must go to Sunflower College.

Probably because of a coincidence, or the reason why Xia Xiaoou had ears to report to God in Xin'an City, the Education Commission immediately learned about it and immediately interjected a pole, Aunt Du Na immediately extended the provisions of the "Federal Naturalization and Quarantine Law" and the "Federal Marriage Law (Revised Edition)", and telegraphed to inform the sister's "parent" Sun Lao, on the grounds that the little girl was under the age of eighteen, asking Gui Xianning to send his fiancée to Sunflower to study immediately, and she could not get married until she was seventeen and a half years old - that is, rounded up to the age of eighteen.

In fact, Du Na is also kind-hearted, anyway, Gui Xianning is going to come back, send his wife to sunflowers by the way, and then accompany him for half a year to appease his sister's heart, so that this prodigal son can get out of the environment that can be nonsense, and kill multiple birds with one stone.

Obviously, this is another important reason for Gui Xianning to return to the Red Mansion.

It is said that Sun Lao also warned Xiao Pingguo before leaving, saying that if there is a need, he will be encouraged to change it, and he will take it as a warning.

Xiao Pingguo accepted the criticism sincerely, but what Sun Lao didn't know was that when he was talking in the office, the two indigenous cooks in the next bedroom had not yet gotten up from the bed of the governor.

Fortunately, the governor only eats grass on the edge of the nest and never goes outside to mess around, and the girls around him are also wishful, so there is no big incident that has caused a sensation in the market for the time being.

In fact, it is not without incident, as a person who has come over, whenever Sun Lao steps on the granite steps of the Governor's Mansion of Sin'an Castle and enters the gate made of precious red ebony, he will smell some kind of harem-like Shura hellish smell from the indigenous maiden servants who are floating around like butterflies in the mansion.

Especially when Xiao Pingguo entertained Sun Lao for dinner or talked about work in the mansion, as long as there were a few maids beside him, Sun Lao could always feel a certain kind of subtle atmosphere with Xiao Handsome as the core in his heart - "There is an inner taste...... Sun Lao often reminded himself.

"Young man, take it easy, your maids are fighting for you, and palace fights are being staged in the Governor's Mansion all the time---- as the saying goes, gambling is close to theft, rape is close to killing, and wars between women are sometimes much more cruel than men."

From time to time, Sun Lao admonished Xiao Da musician with a serious face, but after saying these Sun Lao, he was still unsatisfied, he knew that the Governor of the Governor, who was young and handsome, and had the skills and temperament of an artist, was attractive to the girls, so he solemnly said:

"To tell you, some tribal girls are full of enthusiasm, but the natives are the natives, their way of doing things and thinking patterns are very different from ours, the love-hate relationship between women is often thrilling, and they are all your people, you are in the center of the whirlpool, and your romantic temperament, okay...... Well, don't get caught up in the ...... I hope I don't say anything to ...... you. ”

In December 1659, Mornington Island, a few days after arriving at the Red Wharf, the Nicole left the Red Wharf loaded with all kinds of trade goods, this time the Nicole brought to the island the naturalization village and the naturalization camp of more than 1,200 laborers, except for a small number of infants, all of them were adult male and female laborers, and the Sin'an City side was very powerful---- these laborers were selected by physique and character.

Thanks to the support of thousands of laborers, by mid-December, the port thermal power plant in the Xiliuhe Industrial Zone and the lignite pithead thermal power plant in the upper reaches of the Imi River in the west of the island were fully completed and began to be connected to the grid for power generation---- generators were old world equipment.

Fortunately, Shuguang Machinery Factory has obtained a large number of labor, all kinds of equipment to copy the manufacturing speed began to accelerate, Luo boss they have begun to copy the work of copying medium and large generator sets, it is expected that by the end of next year, the self-made coal-fired Stirling generator set will be able to come out, the power of the generator set is expected to exceed 20 kilowatts, much larger than the current 10 kilowatt Stirling unit.

Now, the energy supply bottleneck on Mornington Island has finally been broken, and then the joint seawater chemical plant of Baisha Group has been fully put into operation, and Holley Quanzhen Hai An Hengtong has also received labor support to varying degrees, and steel production has also increased rapidly.

In particular, the completion of the branch railway, so that the labor intensity of material transportation has also been greatly reduced, plus the training of steam locomotive drivers Cheng Dong has been doing it for a long time, and now it has finally come to fruition---- it turns out that several apprentices who followed the two of them have also become locomotive drivers and co-drivers.

Today, with a total of four locomotives running on Line 9 and branch lines, Cheng Dong basically does not run trains, and he is now devoting himself to the production of the second "Australian Type 1" steam locomotive.

At the same time, another branch railway branched off from the Red Wharf and was built on the beach near Bluegreen Creek, where there is an important structure, the No. 2 slipway built by Wang Gong.

As the labor bottleneck problem of major companies has been alleviated, Wang Gong's slipway has received more support from Zhuyuan, so far, although Wang Gong has not formally applied to the "North Fund" to set up a shipbuilding enterprise, but we all know that this is a matter of course, at present, Wang Gong's slipway, the "most quality" labor force ranks first in major companies.

These shipbuilding laborers not only include the new batch of naturalized village strongmen, but also the teenagers of the navigation training class, which is also the content of the navigation training course, Li Junming's reason is very real: how to be a qualified crew member if you don't understand the structure of the ship?

It is said that Wang Gong has obtained Li Junming's approval and will select a few trainees to stay on the slipway as technician training in the navigation training class - close to the water and connections, Wang Gong's slipway is always taken care of, and this time is no exception.

In addition to using the cement produced by the "old cement factory" to build the road near the slipway and some shipbuilding ancillary facilities, the No. 2 slipway was built with the strong support of the board of directors of the "Beishang Fund", and Wang Xue used up all the reinforced concrete materials from the old world to repair the slipway, and since then, all the reinforced concrete materials from the old world have been used up.

During the period when Li Junming was training the new sailing training class teenagers, Wang Xue also presided over the construction of a large slipway double-row crane - this is the key equipment of the slipway, obviously this crane is an upgraded version of the current red dock and slipway tower crane.

It's just that the crane is still composed of reinforced concrete structure and manual pulleys, and the steel olives and chains are still materials of the old world.

There is no way, now Holley is busy building railroad tracks for Zixia Island, and Boss Luo is busy building Australian Type 1 and No. 2 steam locomotives, so they really don't have time to develop new equipment to build chains and steel olives.

In any case, with labor, slipway and slipway crane, plus a railway branch line has been repaired to the edge of the slipway, Wang Xue's new shipbuilding plan can finally be implemented.

Based on the ratio of displacement to steel tonnage, Wang Xue, a naval engineer, redesigned the displacement of the new ship and the amount of steel required by referring to the Pride's blueprint, and soon after, a smaller version of the Pride class sailboat was launched – a lighter twin-masted hybrid clipper with hydrofoil structure.

Soon, the No. 2 slipway became lively and hot, Holley they had just produced the ship steel was pulled to the edge of the slipway by a car, a large group of strong men under the command of Wang Xue laid the keel - this is a large duplex steel, because the welding rod this "high-tech" material has not yet been able to produce, so the entire hull structure is riveted, which is also the main reason why the displacement and steel consumption ratio of the new ship is higher than that of the Pride - the Pride is a welded hull, saving materials and loads, The riveting hull undoubtedly increases the weight of the whole ship itself, but now there is no way, even if it is riveted steel, Holley and they have spent a lot of effort---- if the quality of the steel is not good, it is not possible to make rivets.

After the keel was laid, it was the rib of the ship, like the Pride, the whole was fixed with a mortise and tenon structure and rivets, and the rows were lined up along the keel, looking like a big whale lying on the shore from a distance.

The main work left is riveting, and the key to riveting is sealing and waterproofing, Wang Xue uses a double-layer tung oil linen pad at the riveting place, which is the material of the new world, how much and how much, of course, the whole workload is a lot......

All in all, in addition to slipway No. 1, which is assembling the sister ship of the Pride class, Wang Gong has finally begun to try to build this kind of light hybrid armed merchant ship of his own design on slipway No. 2.