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"Young Master, this is a maintenance plan!"

Feng Ziqi stood in front of Li Mo, always feeling a little awkward, because the young master in front of him was too small, if he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he couldn't believe that Li Mo actually knew how to build ships!

Fortunately, he is also an old man of the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, and he also participated in the construction of the first steamboat Huiji in the Qing Dynasty, but he has never heard of a plan for repairing the ship. However, since the young master said it, following the British engineer back then, he had to write a rough maintenance plan after drinking foreign ink for a few years.

Li Mo had two faces in his previous life, one was rigorous at work, and the other was unrestrained in life, and even many friends who knew him thought that he was two completely different people in work and life.

This style has also traveled to this era with him, as long as it is related to work, Li Mo is never sloppy, and every time he must make a plan first, but he used to do it alone, and now there are more and more people under him, so he also began to cultivate his subordinates' rigorous attitude towards work, not to mention that the shipyard is also related to his future.

Although this so-called plan is only a simple single page, it explains what to do in the first step and what to do in the second step, which is a simple mess, but Li Mo still nodded, after all, it is not necessary to let people adapt to their habits.

"Next time, write clearly, the number of workers arranged for each step, the approximate time spent on maintenance, and also indicate who is responsible for each step!" Every time Li Mo said a word, he wrote a sentence on the side of the step.

Feng Ziqi listened while watching the young master write and draw on it, although he was a little unaccustomed to it, but after being imprisoned, his life was saved by others, and his wife also lived here, even if he had no choice, he had to hold on, not to mention that he also liked the position of the shipyard president, yes, director.

"It's just that the young master's name is a bit strange, Director, Director, probably means the general surveillance, right?" Feng Ziqi thought wildly, and when he saw that the young master had finished writing, he took the plan and prepared to leave.

Just about to go out, Li Mo stopped him again, squinted and smiled: "Add more surveying and mapping personnel, and mix in the maintenance workers!" ”

"Surveying?" Feng Ziqi's brain couldn't turn for a while.

"What a rare opportunity! Are you willing to watch such a good warship stay in vain for a few days under your nose? Li Mo almost wanted to kick it, but considering that people are not young, it would be terrible if there was a good one in one foot, not to mention that this was the only person who could do it in shipbuilding at present.

Of course, he himself does not count!

Seeing the sly smile on the corner of the young master's mouth, Feng Ziqi finally reacted, and hurriedly nodded to arrange double manpower, striving to reserve some materials for future shipbuilding.

After Feng Ziqi turned around and left, Young Master Li rubbed his temples again, the stall is bigger, naturally there are more things, Chen Ping has been used to the extreme, and several others are also doing their best in their respective positions, but why do you always feel that there are not enough people?

"Looks like we're going to kidnap a battleship designer!" Young Master Li had evil thoughts.

The maintenance plan was originally ten days due to the young master's surveying and mapping requirements, but the original ten-day construction period was "delayed" to twenty days due to the lack of workers, and as for the Chilean sailors, under Fauber's arrangement, they felt like going home, no, more comfortable hospitality than going home, and even when the ship was repaired and left, they also muttered that they must come to Hawaii again next time.

In addition to accompanying Simmons to hang out between the Hawaiian islands every day, Master Li spent most of his time in the Esmeralda, especially the power room and boiler room of his main business, and stayed for a day.

After getting the news that Li Mo entered the important boiler and engine room of the warship, he not only did not stop it, but even took the initiative to tell Li Mo the model of the boiler and steam engine of various countries that he knew, the surname and so on.

As for the embarrassment that night, Li Mo, who reacted in time, covered it up with a slip of the tongue, because he remembered Jorge. Monte, now Admiral of Chile, came to power in a coup d'état, and it was still some time before he could do it.

But Simmons's reaction made Lemmer a little strange, because this guy would talk about what would happen to Admiral Monte if he really became president as Lemmer said. So Li Mo suddenly realized, it turned out that this guy was Monte's henchman! No wonder when he made a slip of the tongue that day, this guy's first reaction was to touch the gun bag.

Dare to love this is to kill people and kill people! it! When the young master goes to Chile, he will slaughter you a few times! Young Master Li thought to himself, and at the same time began to make his Chilean planner on the table again.

Twenty days later, when the Esmeralda took on a new look, Li Mo took Chen Ping, Dong Dahai and Liu Guishan, as well as ten other escorts, and quietly boarded the Esmeralda, and several telegrams were also sent from Honolulu to their respective destinations.

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Santiago, the capital of Chile, where the Valparaiso fortress is not only the largest port in Chile, but also the headquarters of the Chilean Navy at this time, but the purpose of Limer's trip is indeed not here, but to continue south to the port of Talcahuano.

As a veteran member of the multi-turret BB party, Master Li's vision of the battleship era can be traced back to his childhood in his previous life, during the first Iraq War, the image of the United States' Iowa-class battleships bombarding Iraqi positions with more than a ton of huge artillery shells was even more profound in his heart than the fighter planes flying in the sky on the aircraft carrier.

From that moment on, he fell in love with this kind of steel fortress full of violent beauty, and it was also from that moment that he hungrily collected the traces of the battleship duel in history, perhaps for many people, the first day was the first battle of the ironclad ship on the stage, but in fact, as early as 1879, there was a small naval battle between Chile and Peru and Bolivia, and in that naval battle, the ironclad turret and the famous ironclad central room gunboat appeared for the first time.

In the hearts of many veteran multi-turret secrets, this naval battle in the South Pacific is the first battle for ironclad ships to appear on the stage!

Throughout Chile at that time, no matter how you go around, you can't avoid a key word, nitrate, which is what everyone calls saltpeter.

In later generations, everyone seems to have the deepest impression of Chile only copper, accounting for 40% of the world's copper, but in fact, before 1910, Chile's copper is still sealed in the dry desert treasure, and Chile in that era can remember the world, only occupying more than 80% of the world's nitrate resources!

At the beginning of 1890, Chile's saltpeter exports to Britain accounted for three-quarters of its total exports, causing Chile to be more dependent on Britain than India, plus through the war, Chile monopolized the global saltpeter market, and also obtained unimaginable wealth in the unfavorable situation of single exports and economic unipolarity.

Of course, the lion's share of the profits is still British. Thomas. The Liverpool Nitro Hydrochloric Acid Company, founded by North, took away 40% of the profits, but even so, Chile still relied on nitrates to become the strongest country in South America.

It was also at this time that Jose. Manuel. President Balmaceda took to the stage, he launched the "most ambitious development plan" in Chile's history, established a new Ministry of Industry, improved the country's infrastructure, reformed education, and even bypassed the British loan to Germany for the first time, built a large number of factories, and even broke the British monopoly on Chile's national railways!

In the end, Balmaceda also announced that he would nationalize all saltpeter resources, but it was precisely because of this sentence that he became a thorn in the side of saltpeter merchants, and was accused of reading and treason by the parliament full of merchants and careerists!

It was also at this time that the originally inconspicuous port of Talcavano, relying on a steady stream of saltpeter profits, coupled with the Chileans' consistent emphasis on the navy, and the honeymoon period with the British, had become an important naval base with large dry docks, repair shops, steel mills, arsenals, warehouses and naval barracks.

Because Chile has a long and narrow territory, coastal defense has always been regarded as the most important part of Chile's national defense construction, three-quarters of the annual military expenditure has been invested in the navy, so the Chilean navy has always been among the best in South America, even in later generations, the training sailing ship with the same name and surname as the Esmeralda, is also a frequent visitor to the round-the-world navigation training, and has also visited China many times.

As for choosing to cooperate with the Chilean Navy, Master Li was also carefully considered, except for the coincidental discovery of Simmons and the fact that the other party was going to sell warships, the ultimate reason is probably the strength of the Chilean Navy itself.

The Chilean Navy, a South American country with a traditional naval concept, has just ended the first ironclad confrontation in history with Peru and Bolivia because of the huge nitrate this important resource, as the final victor, has rich experience in naval warfare, and with the service of the Esmeralda, and the famous Admiral Torare relied on the huge profits brought by nitrate, a surname signed a contract in Europe for the purchase of 2 additional protective cruisers, 2 torpedo ships and 1 new ironclad ship, The Chilean Navy has become the most powerful navy in South America, and there is no one for the time being!

At this time, since it is temporarily impossible to arrange personnel to study in naval powers such as Britain and France, it is obviously a good choice to rely on the Chilean Navy, which has been tempered in the war, to train his subordinates.

However, the contradictions between Congress and Balmaceda have reached a stage where it is difficult to reconcile, and seeing that the atmosphere is becoming more and more tense, Jorge Murphy, who has stepped into the position of general step by step in the midst of the war. How will Monte appear?

As the Esmeralda slowly sailed into Tarcahuaeno, Limer found himself feeling extremely nervous, although he knew that Jorge . Monte and the congress that supported him eventually won, but when he was actually in the game, he realized that he was not cast of copper and iron.

Balmaceda? Jorge. Monte?

Like two equally tempting red apples on the table, it's hard to choose!

With the whistle of the Esmeralda, Li Mo closed the information about Chile urgently collected by the Ministry of Intelligence, in fact, this information is not as good as his knowledge of this period of Chilean history, as a later generation, in his opinion, Balmaceda can be regarded as a real nationalist, just like the later generation and the president of the United States, to compete with the Chavez who has been in office.

But Li Mo still shook his head, it is 1891, it is the most glorious era of the Immortal Empire, it is the era when the great powers hold this knife and fork for a feast, such an era, as a regional country, has a monopoly strategic resources beyond its own ability, which is more beautiful than lucky!

Balmaceda and the upcoming Chilean civil war are not so much a confrontation between reading and anti-reading as the dissatisfaction of the imperial powers with the distribution of resources!

Swimming against the current, what you need is absolute strength! When you don't have the strength, you can touch a stone with an egg, which is the famous "grass mud horse"!

In the slightly swaying cabin, the corners of Young Master Li's mouth twitched slightly, from a personal point of view, as indignation, he appreciated Balmaceda's toughness more, but reason made him have to support the other side! Because he knows that before he has the ability to change this history, before he has the ability to shake the powerful empire, what he has to do is to sow a seed in Chile and dig up another miracle of the world while everyone is staring at nitrates!

He needs copper! Lots of copper! It is conceivable that when most of Chile's copper mines are under the name of the young master, and when the young master's fleet begins to rise in the Pacific Ocean, then the young master Li will replace Britain and become the largest trading country in Chile!

"Monopoly on Chile's copper!" With a few shouts coming from the cabin, Li Mo's eyes lit up, and he folded the information and put it in his pocket! "Mr. Balmaceda, your life is not good!" The corners of Master Li's mouth hooked, and he walked out of the cabin with his head held high!

When Li Mo stepped out of the cabin and came to the deck, his eyes suddenly brightened.

"Dear Lee, welcome to Talkavanoo Harbor!" The bearded Simmons appeared beside him in time and made a gesture of please with a smile.

Li Mo finally saw clearly that in the port of Talcahuano, which is known as the cradle of the Chilean Navy, although it cannot be compared with a super port area like New York Harbor in the United States, it is now a group photo of another Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau and Hanyang Ironworks.

Huge dry docks, large warehouses, tall chimneys, busy dock workers, warships and transports painted in Chilean naval livery everywhere, and sailors in naval uniforms from time to time, the whole port is a busy and thriving scene.

Chile! The young master is here!