ps: I wish you all the best in advance, a family reunion, and all the best! "Well, the first prize for the high school two-color ball!" Do you want to say this?

Hehe, Happy New Year!!

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"Ahem, Jizong, is there any news from the Government Council?"

Listening to the coughing sound of the old father and looking at the hair that was getting paler and paler, Lin Jizong sighed in his heart and shook his head helplessly. After Lin Zhaonian wiped a red tide on his face, he coughed violently again, and Lin Jiye next to him hurriedly walked over and smoothed his chest for him, before he glanced at Lin Jizong.

"Brother, is there really no hope?"

Lin Jizong sighed, the first Chinese in Hawaii in the past has gradually fallen like the old father lying on the chair, and even the tens of thousands of coolies that he relied on the most have left the Lin family under the new employment law promulgated by the new duke, and turned to the factories and plantations with higher wages under his control, even if there is a little left, it is not found a way out and has to stay.

Now that the annual sugar season is coming again, foreign merchant ships have begun to gather, but not only have the Lin family not even had enough people to cut sugarcane, but the only small sugar factory in the family has to let the machine stop to rust because the new Honolulu government council needs to re-register the land procedures.

Although the Lin family has some family background for so many years, if they can't complete the relevant procedures before the sugar season and find enough workers to let the sugar factory start, I'm afraid there is only one way to leave!

Thinking of this, Lin Zhaonian, who was lying on the chair, sighed again.

To be honest, he is really remorseful now, regretting why he was confused in the first place, questioning people in front of so many people in the palace! Now, with the Li family's strength skyrocketing, they not only firmly control Oahu and Kauai, but also accept all the plantation properties in the hands of the Chen family and American businessmen, and the area is about 50% of Hawaii's sugar cane plantations.

Now that the queen has avoided Maui, Oahu is like a woman in the family, and she loves to toss and toss!

The Lin family's property is here! If one day Young Master Li gets up in the morning to drink tea and suddenly remembers that the Lin family has not cleaned up yet, I am afraid that a second Chen family will appear immediately.

Thinking that more than 100 members of the Chen family disappeared inexplicably overnight, he had nightmares, so much so that in just two months, he seemed to be more than ten years old. What's more, he was too hesitant, he always thought that with the tens of thousands of Chinese workers under him, the other party would accommodate him, or at least come to recruit him, but he didn't expect that after the expulsion of the Americans, the Li family didn't even come to ask, as if there was no one like himself in Hawaii! This made it even more difficult for him to sleep.

With the recent development of Oahu, the Lin family has been completely left aside, so that they want to do something, but they have no way to find a way and run into walls everywhere. The recent new employment law has made the Lin family even worse, and now there is only one last way left.

Lin Zhaonian trembled his old hand, took out a check that had been prepared from his arms, and handed it to his eldest son: "Jizong, here is 500,000 pounds, go and meet that Young Master Li, please see that in the Chinese lineage, let my Lin family live." ”

"Daddy! Big deal I'm going to beg the Queen? No matter what the eldest brother says, he can be regarded as his niece and son-in-law! Isn't he just a duke? I don't believe he doesn't even give the queen face! Lin Jiye's surname is irritable, although the tempering during this period of time has improved a lot, but when he saw his father actually admit defeat and surrender at the cost of 500,000 pounds, he couldn't help but be aroused and shouted that he was going out

"Stop!" Lin Zhaonian laughed miserably at the corner of his mouth, if the queen was willing to come forward, why would he still worry about this? So he hurriedly grabbed his second son, handed the check to Lin Jizong, and waved his hand: "Go." ”

"Yes." Lin Jizong glanced at his younger brother who was still standing on the spot with a disgruntled face, sighed, and disappeared outside the door.

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Walking in the Hawaii shipyard area, Huang Zichen's face was full of excitement, he didn't expect Li Mo to send someone to invite him to visit the shipyard. Looking at the huge steel castings around him, looking at this world made of steel, and looking at the crowd of people who were busy around these steels, he couldn't help but be a little distracted.

When he was studying in France, he also visited some French shipyards, but he never imagined that a large shipyard larger than most shipyards in France and with an astonishing shipbuilding tonnage would one day appear on this isolated island in the Pacific Ocean of Honolulu in the mouth of the Chinese, and it was controlled by a Chinese teenager who was only 16 years old!

More importantly, although the main skilled workers of the Hawaii shipyard are still foreigners, there are thousands of Chinese who are following them, their eyes are shining and they are tirelessly hungry to learn various technologies, most of them are young people in their twenties, and their skills are becoming more and more proficient and exquisite under the guidance of foreign teachers.

This is the scene of the shipyard starting for more than a year, if you wait for another two years, when the selected mechanics who are said to have been sent to study in England and Germany come back, when the shipyard trains more and more mechanics, and when the technology and design catch up, then!

Huang Zichen looked at the slightly emaciated back figure who walked in the front, and until now he couldn't understand why this young man could change the situation in the entire Hawaii with his backhand and completely eliminate the powerful American forces! Not to mention the soldiers who seemed to emerge from the ground all at once, and the Pacific Fleet that appeared out of thin air, what was so magical about him? How can you rescue the imprisoned queen, take two large islands, and create such a big foundation in the year of the weak crown?

For most of the year, Huang Zichen had been collecting everything about the young man, but when he cleared the fog, he found that it was covered by another, even bigger fog, because he found that if he had collected the information, then Li Mo had not only known that the Americans would plot to usurp Hawaii, but also started training sailors and buying warships at least a year earlier. But the question is, who would have known a year ago that the Americans were going to overthrow the Kingdom of Hawaii?

Judging from the observation of this passage, whether it is regular maintenance or emergency training and sailing, those sailors who show extremely high quality can even compete with European and American countries, which is not at all a few months can be quickly completed, that requires at least several years of rigorous and high-intensity training, and must be trained by people who have experience in naval warfare to build such a fleet.

Years!

God, could it be that Young Master Li predicted today two years ago? He must have just arrived in Hawaii at that time!

Huang Zichen doesn't believe in those legends, that Young Master Li will definitely not be the queen's illegitimate son, let alone the queen's secret son who arranged against the United States, otherwise the queen would not have left Maui and handed over the two most important islands to him.

It can only be said that that Young Master Li is a bull, a super cowman! It's a demon who is not yet sixteen years old!

After following the team over a warehouse area, the largest docks, No. 3 and 4, suddenly appeared in front of them, which were said to be two docks capable of building 20,000-ton super-large ships, and judging by the busy construction workers around, it seemed that they were building a wind wall for these two docks.

Before he could figure out why Li Mo had made these two open-air docks into semi-closed docks that had just emerged in Europe, and were not even more in place, a huge steel skeleton suddenly jumped up from in front of him, and his heart suddenly jumped twice when he looked at the workers who were reinforcing the keel and the naval officer next to him who was wearing a white navy suit with an excited face.

Could it be.

"Young Master, Mr. Li."

Seeing that the young master and Li Enfu were coming, the most excited McKinson rushed to Li Mo like a fly, and Long Guozhang greeted him excitedly with a large number of naval officers and soldiers, and when he walked in, he found Huang Zichen walking behind, and he couldn't help but be slightly stunned. "What did the young master bring him for?"

After greeting everyone, McKinson immediately dragged Li Mo around the slipway to visit excitedly, leaving Li Enfu and Huang Zichen in place and communicating softly.

"Zichen, I heard that you studied mechanics in France, and you visited a lot today, what do you think of us here?" Looking at McKinson, who was jumping up and down in front of the young master and was excited like a child, Li Enfu smiled and gently dragged Huang Zichen.

"It's an eye-opener." Huang Zichen touched the cold steel skeleton, his eyes were full of excitement: "I really didn't expect that in just two years, Oahu would have such a good shipyard and such a large industrial area!" ”

"Hehe, it's not called Oahu now, it's Honolulu." Li Enfu smiled, glanced at Huang Zichen meaningfully, and deliberately asked, "So can Zichen see what this is?" ”

"Is this a keel?" Huang Zichen wondered in his heart, he didn't understand what Li Enfu meant, since he knew that he was studying machinery, he wouldn't feel that he couldn't see that this was the keel of the ship, right?

Just as he was about to reply that it was the keel, the smile on the corner of the other party's mouth reminded him, and he glanced at the workers who were reinforcing the keel and the white-clothed naval officers around him, and his heart moved, and he made a rough estimate before saying: "If Zichen guesses correctly, I am afraid that it is a warship built here, and the displacement is about 4,000 tons!" ”

Li Enfu smiled and nodded, seeing that the son of the Huang family still had some eyesight, and added excitedly: "Zichen has good eyesight, this is the first warship we built ourselves!" ”

"Sure enough......." Huang Zichen sighed in his heart, in just two years, with only the experience of building a few freighters, he dared to build a warship, that Young Master Li's courage alone was enough to make him embarrassed!

"In fact, this can't be considered a real warship, he is the first experimental ship we are preparing to build, with a displacement of up to 4,300 tons, in addition to absorbing European technology, we have also combined some of our own technology." Li Mo smiled, climbed down from the slipway, and explained in place of Li Enfu. 、

"Incorporate your own technology?" Huang Zichen was slightly stunned, could it be that this young master is a shipbuilding designer?

Just when Huang Zichen was stunned, Li Mo had already come back, stared at Huang Zichen and said: "I heard Mr. Li say that Zichen studied machinery and management in France, I don't know if he is interested in helping me manage the shipyard?" ”

Manage the shipyard!

Huang Zichen's heart beat violently, since Li Mo reformed the employment system in Honolulu on a large scale, the family's pineapple business no longer needs to worry about it, he has long wanted to find an errand, but he has not found a suitable one.

Although he had long wanted to come to Li Mo's machinery factory, and he didn't want to let the things he had studied in France for so many years be discarded in vain, he had never been able to make up his mind, so he would come immediately after being invited to visit the shipyard, but he didn't expect that the other party would let him manage the shipyard as soon as he opened his mouth!

Huang Zichen wanted to nod immediately, but suddenly remembered that his father had said that the Hawaii shipyard was managed by a person who knew that Young Master Li's henchmen were in charge, so how could he suddenly let himself take over?

Seeing Huang Zichen staring around blankly and not replying for a long time, Li Enfu knew that he had misunderstood, and said with a smile: "Zichen misunderstood, the young master is not talking about the shipyard here, but a new shipyard that is ready to be built!" ”

Brand new?

Huang Zichen's eyes widened, just a Hawaiian shipyard and a supporting industrial zone, the investment is no less than two million pounds! Now there is a new shipyard to be built, not to mention how much investment is needed, and the reality that Hawaii is completely dependent on supplies by sea cannot support another large-scale shipyard! More importantly, is there still enough land in Hawaii?

"Could it be that Young Master Li is going to tear down all the fertile plantations on the big island?" Thinking of the new harbor being built on the big island of Hawaii, Huang Zichen hurriedly asked, "Does the young master want to build another shipyard on the big island?" ”

"Big Island? Ha ha....... Li Mo blinked, looked at Huang Zichen and suddenly laughed, even Li Enfu beside him couldn't help but smile, stroked his forehead and smiled: "Zichen, you are good at mechanics, but other ...... still have to exercise." ”

Isn't it in Hawaii? Huang Zichen was so flustered by laughter that he was at a loss, and hurriedly asked for advice: "Please also ask the young master and Mr. for advice." ”

"Zichen, you have to remember that although Hawaii is very good, it can't hold up the sky of the Chinese!" Li Enfu stopped laughing, his eyes suddenly became bright, he turned his head to look at the keel of the warship like a whale skeleton that had been stripped of bones, took out a document and handed it over: "So we are going to send people here to build a new industrial zone!" ”

"In addition to the shipyard industrial zone of the same size here, there will also be a car factory built there!"

"It's an uncultivated land, so I'm going to spend three years to create the best industrial zone in the Far East, do you want to try it?"

"Shipyard? And the car factories that are just emerging even in Europe! Huang Zichen looked at the document blankly, and suddenly felt that his throat was dry as if he had just drunk a sip of spirits, especially the sentence "Hold up the sky of the Chinese!" It made his heart beat like a drum, and his whole body seemed to be boiling.

Three years! Another three years!

Thinking that the young master Li in front of him had been in Hawaii for three years, and when he said a three-year goal again, Huang Zichen knew better than anyone that he had already taken a fancy to that territory!

"Now that the ironclad giant ships are crisscrossing the ocean, how can I, the Chinese, be alone in the loess under our feet! The young master is ready to tell everyone in the world that we can not only build giant ships and cannons, but also tell them! In this ocean, any place is the land of my descendants of Yan and Huang. Pointing to the steel skeleton lying quietly in the dock, Li Enfu looked at Li Mo, revealing his heart for the first time, these words were even more arrogant, and even those naval officers in the distance trembled and excited all over their bodies when they heard it.

"The Lin family has already compromised with me, I have discussed it with Mr. Enfu, and I am ready to integrate all the sugar industries under my name and hand them over to Lin Jizong to take care of!" While helping Huang Zichen erect a competitor, Li Mo tempted: "As for the new industrial zone, I am ready to invest three million pounds at a time!" Zichen, don't you want to be left behind? ”

Huang Zichen's heart rose and fell with the words of the two, especially when Li Mo finally said the news that Lin Jizong would take over all the sugar industry under Li Mo's name, he took a sharp breath!

This is like a pie falling from the sky for the Lin family, which is already at the end of their rope! At present, the plantation in charge of Young Master Li, plus the Lin family, even the queen's share should be counted! What a big piece of industry this is! It can even affect the price of white sugar in the world!

Thinking that Lian Lin Jizong was about to be entrusted with a heavy task, Huang Zichen couldn't help but take a deep breath and nodded vigorously.

"I'll go!"