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In the early morning, the mist dotted Oliver Manor like a dream, and Young Master Li, who temporarily lived here, was shirtless, gritting his teeth, screaming, running around the lawn in circles, sweating.

"Young Master." It wasn't until he saw Li Mo fall on the lawn tiredly that Chen Ping, who was on the side, snatched the towel from Liu Guishan's hand and walked to the young master's side.

"It's a pity, you said that with such a big garden, how good is it to grow vegetables?" Young Master Li got up, bent over on his knees, drooped his tongue, looked at the big flower garden covered with dewdrops, competing for beautiful flowers, and his face was full of envy: "Guishan, write it down for me, and when I go back, I must tell Fu Bo to change the garden in my villa into a vegetable garden!" ”

Liu Guishan lowered his head in response, and the green tendons on his forehead protruded.

Flower beds to plant vegetables?!

Chen Ping really can't stand it, no wonder everyone says that he must bring at least three heads with the young master, otherwise he will definitely not be able to keep up with the train of thought, I really don't know how the young master's head grows, jealous of the beautiful flower beds of others, he has to change his garden into a vegetable garden? I guess it's just this one who dares to think!

Why do you feel out of breath every time you are with the young master?

But you can't blame Young Master Li for being so atmospheric, it's really because he was blackmailed too ruthlessly this time!

No one expected that when Monte officially agreed that Simmons would provide the British ambassador to Chile with the data on Master Li's procurement plan and the required warships, he would get an official reply from the British Admiralty in just a few days, which could help Chile build these warships!

Young Master Li was dumbfounded all of a sudden, when did the British Yankee talk so well?

In fact, Li Mo's thinking is still in later generations, he doesn't know that in fact, since the launch of the Sovereign class, the British Navy has begun to work on the design of the Majesty class, so when he sees the data provided by Li Mo, he will immediately agree to build it as an experimental ship of the Majesty class.

And the purchase of six warships at once is a super business for any country, not to mention that it was once said that the end of the nineteenth century was the era of the real free economy, and as long as you have money, you can buy anything you want.

As for whether Chile's purchase of so many warships will pose a threat to the South American interests of the British Empire, it was thrown directly into the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean by the Navy's audit department in charge of foreign procurement of warships, when will it be the turn of the Empire's invincible fleet to be threatened by small South American countries?!

It's a pity that Young Master Li didn't know that his battleship was just someone else's experiment, otherwise he would definitely give a middle finger to condolences to all British women's surnames!

Including the Queen!

But even if you don't know these hidden secrets, when Simmons quoted the purchase price, Master Li still exploded!!

This damn bearded, cunning Chilean bastard, and their MP, is so despicable that he actually offered a sky-high price of £1,200,000 per battleship and £500,000 for cruisers!

Grandma's, don't you know when the young master does? The British offer was nothing more than 1 million and 400,000, this guy, 200,000 for battleships and 100,000 for cruisers! Or the pound! Together with the second-hand goods purchased earlier, the Chilean Navy earned more than a million pounds almost for nothing! No wonder when placing an order, I saw that three Polar stars were marked on the form, and it turned out that the Chilean Navy had ordered one of its own.

It's all the young master's money!

Grandma, is it easy for the young master to make money!

What's even more crazy is that in order to get these warships as soon as possible and let the British keep the matter of purchasing warships for the Chilean Navy again, the British also asked the Chilean political axe to pay a rush fee of 50,000 pounds for each ship! In this way, they guaranteed that the cruiser would be delivered within a year, and the battleship would be delivered in a year and a half at most, and of course, this money still fell to him in the end, Young Master Li.

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While amazed by Britain's powerful ship-building ability, Master Li also hated itchy, gritted his teeth, first found Simmons, insisted on asking him to sell himself a saltpeter mine at half price, and then sent a telegram to Thomas overnight, asking him to immediately send someone to Chile to buy the world's first Chuqui Camata, and the two major copper mining areas of Gandraria, together with the world's first, Chuqui Camata, and Gandraria, so as to dissipate his anger a little.

In addition to the above, this trip to Chile directly cost more than five million pounds, and more importantly, the three gold mines with the largest income in Li Mo's hands only mined about 20 tons of gold per year, and the calculation into pounds is only 2.8 million, that is to say, even if you don't spend a penny, it will take almost three years for you to repay this money!

Fortunately, the money for building the ship can be paid in batches, otherwise, Young Master Li can only go back with his bare ass at the moment!

Young Master Li had a cold face, wiped the sweat on his body, got dressed, turned his head to look at this luxurious and luxurious villa, and said hatefully: "Let's go, let's go to Masti Island!" ”

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Hundreds of kilometers east of the island of Masti off the coast of Chile, isolated from the sea, is Juan. The main island of the Fernandez archipelago, but in those years the island of Maas was not well known, although that was according to Lieutenant Alexander of the English Navy. The story of the famous biographical novel "Robinson Crusoe" based on Selkirk has long been interviewed, and the story of living alone on such an uninhabited desert island is very fascinating, but at the end of the 19th century, when the spread and impact were still small, it was still barren and bleak.

If it weren't for the occasional discovery of this book in the study where he stayed, I'm afraid Li Mo wouldn't have thought of it at all, not to mention that there were very few people who knew about Mas Di Island in his previous life, but its other name was very popular.

Robinson. Crusoe Island!

After someone brought 300,000 pounds to Qiu Zishan as the first batch of funds to develop the Escondida copper mine, requiring him to mine the first batch of copper ore within a year, Li Mo took Chen Ping and came to this small island full of mysterious legends.

Standing on the bridge, the low-pitched, barren Maas Island looks like a child abandoned by the ocean, and only the occasional seabird rising from the island can confirm that it is still alive and well.

It seemed to know the young master's thoughts, and Ji Weishan, who led the Tianyong, ordered to slow down, and let the boat slowly circle along the island before plunging headlong into Mas Di Bay, which was not too big.

It is said that it is a bay, but in fact it is only a berthing area less than two kilometers deep into the island and less than one kilometer wide, but the water depth is not bad, enough to moor some large warships.

Entering the bay, everyone on the Tianyong suddenly became short of breath, even Young Master Li was not spared.

The six figures neatly moored on the sea, like a raging fire, suddenly ignited the Tianyong, especially when they saw the central ship covered in iron armor, and the four hideous cannon barrels poked out from the front and back, the left and right sides of the big guy, everyone couldn't sit still, and rushed to the deck one after another, and even pushed each other in order to grab a good seat that could be seen clearly.

USS Brad, the latest type of ironclad purchased in France by the Chilean political axe!

The displacement is 6900 tons, the speed is 18 knots, the main gun is 4 single-mounted 240 mm 35 times the diameter gun, the secondary gun is 8 120 mm 45 times the diameter gun, 6 57 mm guns, 4 47 mm guns, 10 37 mm guns, four torpedo tubes, and the maximum thickness of the waterline armor is 300 mm.

"A capital ship that has passed by China and has fallen behind as soon as it is launched!" Before the flush of excitement could reach his body, Young Master Li sighed slightly, and his eyes turned to the busy seaport coast.

Compared with the warships in the harbor that had just been piloted by the Chilean Navy sailors and delivered to Long Guozhang, those temporary residences that were under construction along the harbor were what Li Mo valued the most, as long as this temporary base was built, his Pacific Fleet would start from here!

What I have to do is not to personally lead them to conquer the four seas, but to help them and give this suffering nation a chance to participate in this great era again!

"Pacific, the young master wants to take care of you!" Young Master Li stepped on the gangway and pointed to the sky!