Fang Xiaoyu said with a smile: "Even if there is no navy, I think that if you develop industry and commerce, the best mode of transportation is sea transportation, which not only has low transportation costs, but also has a much larger market because it can be sold abroad." As for Fang Xiaoyu's talent in industrial manufacturing and business, I am afraid that everyone in the whole empire knows about it, but this explanation makes Xia Jun more convinced, he said: "I can try my best to fight for you, but the best result is the relatively poor Luhai County." Fang Xiaoyu said with a smile: "That's natural, if I can get Luhai County, I am already very satisfied, thank you Marshal for cultivating." ”

Xia Jun waved his hand and said, "You will be my grandson-in-law in the future, I will naturally take care of you more, but what are you going to do with Wei'er and Yun'er?" Hearing that Marshal Xia Jun suddenly turned the topic to the Xia family sisters, Fang Xiaoyu was stunned: "Marshal, what do you mean by this?" ”

Xia Jun looked at Fang Xiaoyu with deep meaning and said, "I know that Dao Wei'er also likes you very much, have you ever considered marrying two?" Fang Xiaoyu secretly said that I had thought about it many times, but he didn't dare to say this to Xia Jun, so he had to say vaguely: "I haven't thought about it yet, after all, I'm not even fourteen years old." ”

Xia Jun smiled and said, "It's not small, there are already many children born at the age of fourteen or fifteen in the empire. A man can start a business desperately, but he must remember that the money is endless, the battle is endless, and he still has time to think about his personal problems. ”

Fang Xiaoyu secretly said that the people of this Lanfang Empire were so precocious? Fang Xiaoyu, who has been educated in New China, always feels that early love is shameful and intolerable, why do you support early love here? Seeing that Fang Xiaoyu didn't speak, Xia Jun smiled and said, "You better go back and think about it, I'm not in a hurry to ask you to answer." But I want to tell you, my Xia Jun's granddaughter is not just going to marry outside, if you want to marry two at the same time, you have to make a big enough achievement and have a high enough status. ”

Fang Xiaoyu, who left the Xia family, did not return to the villa, but returned to the Fang family's old mansion and visited his long-lost family, especially his mother. At night, Fang Xiaoyu still slept on his small bed that he had slept on for more than ten years. "Little Wind." Fang Xiaoyu, who couldn't sleep, began to call for a small wind.

Xiaofeng replied, "What's the matter, master?" Fang Xiaoyu said: "You said that if I marry all the sisters of the Xia family, is it a little too shameless." Xiao Feng said: "I'm just a civilian research chip, and I don't have an emotional system, but according to Chinese law, you will commit bigamy." Fang Xiaoyu said: "I am now a citizen of the Lanfang Empire, who still abides by Chinese laws, and besides, I have broken the law, can the Chinese police still come here and arrest me back?" I'd be grateful to them if I could get it back. ”

Xiaofeng said: "So I can't give you a definite answer, but I think you should come to the chip to see, you haven't entered for a month, and a lot of research has been completed." "Really?" Fang Xiaoyu immediately forgot about his emotional troubles and quickly entered the chip.

In the control room of the chip, the huge screen was suspended in the air as always, and Fang Xiaoyu walked over and found that the research points had become 370\40,000. "Oh my God, there's so much to spare." Fang Xiaoyu immediately opened the interface of the science and technology tree, and the research of the single expansion high-pressure steam engine and the fire barrel boiler had been completed, but when Fang Xiaoyu determined the scientific and technological research of the three-expansion steam engine and the fire-tube boiler, he suddenly found that there was a countdown of numbers on the technology, and he was stunned to find that the research time of the three-expansion steam engine was actually half a year, Fang Xiaoyu said: "How can the research time of this three-expansion steam engine be so much higher than that of the single expansion?" ”

Xiao Feng Dao: "The three-expansion steam engine is a complete subversion of the steam engine theory, it put forward the concept of machine linkage for the first time, I have no technical reserves for this kind of research direction, and the speed of natural research will be slower." ”

Fang Xiaoyu nodded: "How is this chip designed, it was originally a very high-tech thing, but it was so slow to study the steam engine, if its previous level was not zeroed, and the database was not lost, it would be good if the fire-tube boiler was not so subversive, it just took a month and a half to study it."

Blast furnace steelmaking has been studied, the later steelmaking project Fang Xiaoyu thinks that there is no need to carry out research, he first chose some light industry and machinery manufacturing project research, various military theory research or as always, invested part of the points, but now the points are relatively rich, he increased the points in this area to 5,000 points.

In terms of heavy industry, Fang Xiaoyu already has a certain scientific and technological foundation, which is already very advanced for the current world, and he is now eager to transform his scientific and technological advantages into productivity, and only selects some of the more practical mechanical research.

The next morning, Fang Xiaoyu returned to Lanting Villa, leaving behind fifty single-expansion steam engines and supporting boilers in the warehouse at a time, dozens of the best machine tools he could provide, and ten sets of blast furnace components. These things are all produced by Xiaofeng in the heavy industry equipment warehouse, Fang Xiaoyu only needs to hand over the manual to Sun Huaizong, with those dwarf technicians who are born with superb skills, plus the help of a few scientists, he no longer needs to teach them to use it by hand.

In addition, Fang Xiaoyu also wrote down all the books on artillery manufacturing recorded by Xiao Feng in the Western Continent, and instructed Huadong Xing to hand over the Beretta Giant Hammer to let him try to manufacture advanced rear-loading artillery in the Western Continent, and once he could cast more than 150 mm caliber guns, he would immediately build a large number of batteries in Moore Harbor, for this territory that has not yet been recognized by the international community, Fang Xiaoyu was still very careful.

Because the environment there is relatively airtight, it is not easy to leak the news, Fang Xiaoyu also relied on his understanding of light weapons in his previous life, and gave the drawings of the Mauser GEW98 rifle and Maxine heavy machine gun to Huadong Xing, these things are almost the only advantages that Fang Xiaoyu can rely on in addition to the chip, and he has to make good use of them. The dwarves' craftsmanship is not to say, but they are relatively uncreative, and with their own drawings, I believe they can quickly grope their way to make these weapons on their own.

Fang Xiaoyu was not afraid of the dwarves rebelling, not only did he have to send most of the Iron and Blood Guards to the Savage Continent, but the slaves who continued to arrive there were also Fang Xiaoyu's solid backing, because Fang Xiaoyu played a little word game when he liberated the slaves, that is, he liberated those slaves, not applied to liberate those slaves in the empire.

This statement sounds no different at first glance, but the real meaning is that as long as they are on Fang Xiaoyu's territory, they are not slaves, as for escaping or rebelling, the empire has slave files, and they will also be treated as fugitive slaves, and the empire's handling of fugitive slaves is very simple, and there is only one way, and that is to shoot.

Only a few days after returning to the barracks, an order came from the superiors, requiring all troops to prepare for war, and the barracks immediately became nervous, and all the people began to prepare their outfits and check their weapons, and Fang Xiaoyu was no exception. The 9th Brigade of the Garrison Battalion was a purely infantry unit, and the armament of the unit was only a single-shot breech-loading rifle, without any artillery configuration. Such a small arms configuration without the help of artillery units to meet cavalry is simply looking for death, for which he approached Charhoud to ask for artillery, but was rejected by Charhoud in the name of non-compliance.

Unable to equip artillery, Fang Xiaoyu found another way, he secretly asked the factory of Lanting Villa to manufacture grenades, although Fang Xiaoyu did not dare to expose the yellow explosives and smokeless gunpowder of the half-hung now, and the grenades could only be filled with black powder.

However, Fang Xiaoyu didn't want to use the explosive power of the grenade to kill people, the grenade he designed was to fill the waste such as broken iron scraps left in the workshop into the gunpowder, so that the fragmentation killing power was much greater, and due to the equipment of the rear-loading gun, the thunder mercury was ready-made, Fang Xiaoyu did not have to make the ancient ignition grenade, but used the pull fuse, so that the use of the grenade was much faster, and if the scale of the composition was believed to be able to pose a great threat to the cavalry.

For the grenade, this melee weapon, the soldiers like it very much, with this weapon is equivalent to an extra life in close combat, so before the departure order, each officer and soldier of the Ninth Brigade has an extra grenade bag equipment, which has a full six wooden handle grenades.

Hand grenades are a new thing in this world, except for the officers and soldiers of the Ninth Brigade who have used it, the officers and soldiers of other units do not know what the road is for, so even Xia Houde did not interfere too much, and later he even used the grenade as a wine jug, and asked Fang Xiaoyu's Ninth Brigade to strictly prohibit drinking alcohol during wartime, making a joke.