"I think it's still Brother Mercy's loss, your two sons are slippery, and they are more neat than you, and they are about to grow up eating hundreds of meals. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info You didn't want to care, but now it's just throwing it at the two of them, you not only look generous, but also worry-free, how can you take advantage of it. "It's not a loss, the two of them have to nod. The son is temporarily gone, in exchange for the positions of two commanders, which is indeed what the couple wants. But there are always people who like to say strange things, Swan is willing to go against Hong Tao, and at this time his good buddy is deflated, and he can't help but stand up and help out.

"It's your business! Don't make trouble, hurry up and finish eating and drinking, and go back to the canal construction site tomorrow, and by the way, transport the slaves brought back by His Majesty, and leave Joseph to stare at me somewhere! Your Majesty, let America go with him, and when he arrives at Midway, he will have to build a port from scratch, just in time to learn how to manage so many people. Luo Youde was afraid that Hong Tao would sprinkle this evil fire on Swan, a short-sighted thing, so he hurriedly interrupted his work, abducted his son and went to stay on the construction site with him for a few more days.

"With your godfather here, I won't care about you. The work of site safety is left to the Americas, and you take the rest of the men to explore the way for me, from the city of Mexica to the northwest, as far as you can, and you are not allowed to come back for half a year. When I came back, I had to see a detailed map, showing each of the indigenous villages, the number of people, and the local products. "It's not difficult to say that Swan, but revenge comes very quickly, this kind of mouthy thing should let him do what he is good at, so as not to have idle life.

"Just go...... If you don't say that I have to stay away from you, I won't have a good life as soon as you come back! "Swandu let Hong Tao toss his skin, just like beating a child, he is not afraid of beating him all the time.

"Adjournment! Meeting! If you haven't drunk enough, take the wine and find a place to drink it yourself, don't toss around in my house! "After talking about the right thing, with the addition of the two of them and Luo Meimei and Hong Salamander, he can finally relax for a few days, Hong Tao wants to quickly blow these people away, and then sleep well.

The crowd came and went quickly. The young people gathered around Compassion, Luo Mei, Hong Salamander, and Swan to find a place to eat, drink, and talk. The old ones also continue to get together with wine and food, and they are usually busy, and there are really not many opportunities to chat together.

"Your Majesty......" Hong Tao went up to the second floor by himself, but he didn't expect to be followed by one.

"What are you going to do! Why are both eyes green, the same as rats? People are scary and scared to death, and when he looked back at the guy who was following him silently, it turned out to be Wen Xiaoqi.

"I've got something good for you...... I've got that machine! Wen Xiaoqi rubbed his eyes, took another step forward, lowered his voice like a spy joint, and said his intention.

"Oh, I saw it, I saw the big chimney on the side of the mill on the boat, and it's good! Keep up the good work! "Hong Tao has been tossing at sea for more than two months, and has experienced a big war, it is false to say that he is not tired, and now he is sore all over, and he just wants to find a bed to sleep until he wakes up naturally. Wen Xiaoqi's steam engine has been built a long time ago, and he has been experimenting in the textile factory, and this time the chimney seems to be much higher, but he can't be interested.

"It's not that, it's on the ship, I got it on the ship, a ship without sails! Don't you want to check it out? Wen Xiaoqi didn't let Hong Tao pass perfunctorily, reached out and grabbed Hong Tao's sleeve, his face full of anticipation.

"I ...... Going to see it at night? Hong Tao originally wanted to say that I wouldn't go, but when he saw Wen Xiaoqi's expectant expression, he didn't say it. If they are tired, they are also tired. They don't have to go out to fight, but the production task is not easy. Wen Xiaoqi is seven or eight years younger than himself, but he looks like he is in his fifties, with gray hair and a hunched waist, which is tired.

"You and I will know when you go, this time I promise that it will be easy to use, and the momentum is strong enough, a steam engine can carry more than 30 spinning wheels, and it is no problem to bring a big saw. There is just a small problem, how can it not work well when it is installed on the ship? I tried it with a wheel, and it was no problem in the river, but when it came to the sea, the wheel was not very easy to use, and it was easy to be damaged by the waves. The blueprint you drew me of a sailless ship has a little flower on its tail, what is that for? ”

Wen Xiaoqi has already entered the stage of obsession, and when he sees Hong Tao, he has nothing else to say, his mouth is full of steam engines. Listening to the meaning of his words, the steam engine has been tinkered with by him to the practical stage, at least on land. But he was not satisfied, the ideal has not changed, that is, to let the steam engine replace the sail as the new power of the ship, this purpose is not achieved, everything in front of him is in vain, he does not care whether this kind of machine can be used for other purposes.

"Little flowers? When have I ever drawn you a small flower? "Hong Tao has said so many things to Wen Xiaoqi, Qi Zu, and Bush over the years that he can't remember too specific details. But he was sure that he had never painted any flowers, and he would have to be able to do so!

"It's the little flower under the stern waterline, three breaks." Wen Xiaoqi took out a folded piece of paper from his arms, and when he opened it, there was a structural diagram of an iron ship with a displacement of dozens of tons. The ship appears bare, as it has no mast and is more like a lifeboat on a large ship. However, in front of the tail rudder, there was something that looked like a flower, and a big question mark was drawn on it.

"It's called a flower! Is this what I painted? Hong Tao's sleepiness disappeared in an instant, if it was someone else, he would definitely think that the other party was deliberately looking for trouble, and he drew a propeller, how could it be said that it was a flower!

"I'm zooming in according to your original picture, and it's really like this, and there is no error at all...... Isn't it a flower? Wen Xiaoqi looked carefully at the pattern on the picture again, and made sure that he was not mistaken, this is obviously a small flower.

“…… Let's go, go to the shipyard! "Hong Tao is very angry, this is slandering his own mapping skills, Chi Guoguo's slap in the face, uncle and aunt can't bear it!

After several years of large-scale construction, Cité Soleil has transformed from an agricultural village into a large arsenal. Most of the farmers moved to the Mexican Valley to cultivate larger farmland, leaving the remainder in Cité Soleil, where the land had been cultivated with adequate water conservancy and abundant animal power to provide the necessary food for the workers in the factories and to transport it from the Mexica Valley.

Wen Xiaoqi's Sun City shipyard was originally on the north bank of the Sun River, but four years ago it also occupied the opposite bank, with a total of four slipways laid with tracks, as well as wood baking, processing, rigging and a simple blacksmith workshop, which stretched for more than a kilometer along the riverbank.

Behind the slipway on the south bank is Qizu's foundry. Due to the dense population on the north bank, he also moved the foundry and smelter to the south bank, leaving only a machine factory on the north bank. In this way, not only will there be enough land for development without affecting the lives of residents, but it will also provide convenient assistance to shipyards. Nowadays, shipbuilding is no longer just a carpenter's business, whether it is a warship or a cargo ship, it needs a lot of steel components, and if you want to make a ship with a steel keel, you have to work closely with the shipyard and the steel mill.

Wen Xiaoqi's laboratory is very spacious, occupying a whole slipway, surrounded by wooden planks more than three meters high, and only the upper part of the ship's side and mast can be seen from the outside. Now he can't see anything, because Wen Xiaoqi's ship has no mast and the freeboard is also very low.

"The boat you built is ugly!" Entering the wooden wall, Wen Xiaoqi shouted, and immediately three Indians ran out of the house, lighting the gas lamp as they ran, illuminating the slipway. Only then did Hong Tao see the whole picture of the ship on the track, it had a round head and a round tail, almost 20 meters long and about 4 meters wide, and there was a thick chimney erected in the middle mast, and on each side of the chimney were two large wooden wheels nearly one meter higher than the side of the ship, and the whole ship looked like a thick-soled slipper.

"Hey, hey, hey...... It's just for experiments, and Uncle Qi is also very busy with the production of guns, so I begged him for a long time before he took out some manpower and brought my blacksmith here to get it out. If I had more time, I could have made it more beautiful. But it's useless to be beautiful, it can run three knots in the river, and even slower at sea. Help me see what the problem is. It's a bit slow, but it's really useful, and it can go upriver where the sailboat can't go, and it doesn't have to work hard at all. Wen Xiaoqi didn't take Hong Tao's too high evaluation to heart at all, this ship is a test platform, the purpose is to verify the performance of the steam engine he made, what looks good or not, sooner or later it will be a fate to dismantle.

(To be continued.) )