"Bill, thank you so much today, thank you for bringing me in!"

"I've never said so much in public before, it's incredible, I'm still talking in front of the upper echelons of society!"

After leaving the auto show, the two returned to the street, Lao Wei was full of smiles, and the middle-aged man who was nearly forty years old was as happy as a child in front of Bill, and he was so excited that he danced with his hands.

Bill nodded indifferently and took out his copper pocket watch to check the time, the pocket watch he had bought at the watch shop, not the one in question.

"It's lunchtime, I'll introduce you to a nice restaurant, the food tastes great. ”

"I have other things I want to discuss with you, so let's go. ”

Without asking Willy for advice at all, Bill took him to the Oriental restaurant on Financial Street, where he hadn't been able to taste all the dishes even though he had been there the previous night.

And the private room here is just right for him to talk to Lao Wei.

It's about one o'clock in the afternoon, and the Oriental restaurant is still full, and even though there is only one chef and one girl to greet them, they can barely get over.

It's just that the fourteen or fifteen-year-old girl was obviously stunned when she saw Bill, she didn't expect to see this big-stomached man so soon.

When Bill and Wei sat down in the private room, May quickly brought a pot of hot tea, and Wei Wei was a little cramped and didn't know what Bill was going to talk to him about.

"Bill, although I don't know what else I can do other than repair, but I will do my best to help you if you need it, even if it's something I'm not good at!"

"Don't be so nervous, old man, I actually want to ask if you have any confidence in building a steam car with your own hands. ”

"Build a steam car with your own hands?"

"Oh my God, Bill, do you know how much it costs to build a steam car!?"

Lao Wei's eyes widened instantly, and he looked at Bill in shock, who didn't seem to be joking at all, his hand pouring tea was trembling, and hot tea was spilled on the table.

Realizing his gaffe, he scrambled to dry the table and continued to state the most realistic questions.

"Bill, I'm not kidding you, don't look at the steam car is not big, there are many kinds of consumables involved in manufacturing a car, if there is no special purchase channel, let alone a steam engine, even the best quality steel we can't buy!"

"Although it seems easy to assemble or even build a steam car in theory, it is difficult to operate in practice, not to mention that there seems to be some kind of knowledge protection bill in the academic world, and every company is very strict about technology. ”

"Take the simplest tires as an example, the factory only takes orders for the production of high-volume tires, and no company wants to waste time on four wheels. ”

Lao Wei quickly explained that although he was so frightened that he couldn't hold the teapot when he first heard the idea, when it came to professional matters, he became eloquent again.

"Of course I understand your concerns, old Wei, don't think about the materials just yet. ”

"If you were asked to design it, how much would it cost you to build a locomotive with performance close to the most perfect level of current technology?"

Picking up the hot tea and tasting it, Bill didn't waver in the slightest.

In Lao Wei's eyes, this composure is wordlessly telling himself that this man in front of him is not joking with you, he wants you to make the best steam locomotive for Bill, he trusts you so much!

And you, the self-proclaimed mechanic who dreams of building big machines, dare to take this trust!

"Eighteen Hundred ......"

"No, it's two thousand four hundred gold pounds!"

"If I have the money, I can rent a small steel processing plant, polish all the parts and design them myself, and in a year, no, maybe seven months, I can definitely build the most perfect steam car with the current technology!"

Lao Wei was emotional, his hands on the table, and he looked at Bill excitedly.

It's just that his emotions didn't infect the man in front of him who exuded coldness and indifference, and Bill's fingertips tapped rhythmically on the table.

Da, da, da......

Lao Wei swallowed his saliva unconsciously, and put himself back in his chair, worrying about whether he was talking too much about the budget.

"Seven months is too long, although I don't know exactly how far the technology has developed in this era, but with the current situation, the speed of technological innovation will only get faster and faster, not to mention the kind of energy that the research institute has discovered. ”

"Lao Wei, don't limit yourself to coal, I can find a way to help you find a factory, if you can really come up with a perfect design that surpasses those garbage trucks, in fact, you can find someone to co-set up a factory, even if you don't have the capital, you can also do technology shares." ”

"People have to do big things, you can't do everything on your own, you need a team to share the burden, or hire people. ”

Stop tapping on the table, Bill said lightly, but Lao Wei frowned, obviously not thinking about these complicated things.

"That energy?"

"Bill, can you build a steam car?"

"Build, of course. ”

"It's just that I can't wait seven months, I hope to see the locomotive of my dreams in three months. ”

"Well, during this time, you go back to design the plan first, design a few more sets of alternatives, and I'll help you contact the factory and hire workers. ”

Old Will was thoughtful, and he was only now sure that Bill wasn't joking.

Because he didn't wave his hand with a quick imagination and give full authority to himself, but really implemented things concretely and assigned tasks.

He is the most critical technical director and engineer in Bill's construction of steam cars, but definitely not all.

But it is precisely because of this that he is more confident!

"I see, Bill, please rest assured, I will design carefully during this time, and I will never let you down, and the rest will be left to you. ”

"Do you have any special requirements for your own steam locomotive, I want to ask in advance, and design it when I draw the drawings. ”

Lao Wei inquired earnestly, took out a carbon rod and cardboard shell from the pocket of the wide patent leather overalls, and began to record.

Bill tilted his head and thought, his mind was now full of DC Comics, the domineering and deformable Batmobile, which instantly drifted to 300 kilometers per hour.

But with the technological level of this era, not to mention the deformation and speed, even the chassis cannot be as low as the Batmobile.

At the same time, Batman also has a pure black motorcycle, obviously only a motorcycle can become a locomotive, and a steam locomotive is really a bit ......

"I have two model ideas. ”

"In the first model, the body should be streamlined, the diameter of the wheels should be small, but the width should be increased as much as possible, and the body should be designed to be as flat as possible while ensuring power. ”

"As for the second model......"

"I want this kind of car to have only two wheels, one in front and one behind, there are no other requirements, you draw the drawings first. ”

"You can't rush it, because performance is all about it. ”

PS: I know that there may be more true friends, so here is a popular science first, the first steam car in the real world was invented by the French in 1769, but the bicycle was invented in 1790, also by the French.

The motorcycle we are familiar with only officially came out at the beginning of the 20th century, and we have never heard of steam motorcycles in history, because motorcycles use internal combustion engines to burn engine oil.

In fact, it is easy to understand that if there is a steam motorcycle, the motorcycle body is so small, then where does it burn coal, so the larger the body, the more suitable for the use of steam engines, such as steam trains are very common.