Yanjing, the Forbidden City.

On the stage, the words are round and full of charm.

Under the stage, a finger with a golden finger sleeve gently joined the beat, and the mahogany chair smacked and beeped. Suddenly, a rush of footsteps disrupted the rhythm on the stage, and his fingers stopped suddenly, and he tapped the armrest of the chair hard: "Xiao Lizi, go and see who this is!" So unruly! ”

"Hehe, Queen Mother Lafayette, it's a minion!"

Hearing the reply, the Empress Dowager Cixi twisted her neck and saw clearly the person who was rushing forward, before she smiled and said, "Isn't this Laishan (Sun Yuwen's character)?" Is there anything big about being in such a hurry? ”

Sun Yuwen stood in the distance, held a fold high, and shouted: "Lafayette! Great joy, great joy! ”

"Daiki?" Cixi glanced at Li Lianying, motioned for him to take the fold, and asked, "What kind of happy event, it is worth being so excited by you, a minister of military aircraft, bring it to me." ”

Li Lianying hurriedly walked over and took the fold, and after turning around and handing it to Cixi, she glanced at Sun Yuwen again before saying, "Lord Sun, what kind of happy event is it?" Can we also follow the joy? ”

Sun Yuwen smiled, and hurriedly said in surprise: "Lafayette, you burn incense and worship the Buddha every time, and pray for my Qing Dynasty, and now it is finally the wish of the heavens!" Not only did the Hawaiians sink all their big ships, but they also heard that they had lost a lot of money recently, and now they no longer have the strength to toss our Qing Kingdom! ”

"Oh?" Cixi was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly opened the fold, and after reading it all, she was also happy, and hurriedly asked, "What country is this Hawaii?" Why have the mourners never heard of it? ”

"Back to Lafayette, this Hawaiian Lord Sun has told the minions." This kind of moment to please the Queen Mother, how can Li Lianying let it go! hurriedly teased: "Hawaii is composed of a string of small islands, just like Penghu in our Great Qing Kingdom, I heard that there has been a grand duke in recent years!" is still a descendant of our Great Qing Kingdom, and the one who defeated Yu himself this time is also our descendant of the Great Qing Dynasty. ”

"Oh! Is there such a person? Cixi was a little moved and asked, "Do you know what it's called?" ”

"His name is Li Mo, he is the son of Li Guotai, the former chief soldier of the Jinzhou Weilu Battalion, after the death of that Lord Li, he fled from the country with several family members, and he has become the Grand Duke of Hawaii before he arrives, and he also controls all the sailors."

"Li Guotai?" Cixi wrung her brows, thought for a moment and said, "Is it the Russian who once led the troops to kill Li Guotai who retreated several miles?" ”

"Lafayette, it's good that you remember your surname, it's that Li Guotai, it's a pity" How could Sun Yuwen let go of such an opportunity, and after a pause, he said angrily: "This kind of talent, but he was forced to death by Li Zhongtang, otherwise that round will be rampant!" ”

"Oh? Li? Cixi closed the fold, flipped it in her hand, seemed to be thinking about something, and asked lightly after a while: "Tell me more about the mourning family." ”

Sun Yuwen hurriedly added fuel and vinegar to Li Guotai's matter, of course, the matter of greedy ink and silver and arms trafficking was concealed, but it was just that Li Hongzhang was jealous of his talents and forced Li Guotai to death.

"Hey......." Cixi sighed: "Look, what is this doing, can you say that the mourning family can not be heartbroken!" ”

"Yes, Lafayette is worried about the country and the people, and everyone in the world knows about it." Li Lianying hurriedly patted her ass.

"Alright, little plum. Don't flatter me, an old woman, but now many people don't like the mourning family! Cixi sighed. Li Lianying hurriedly said: "Lafayette, you are too worried, the emperor he..." ”

Without waiting for Li Lianying to continue, Cixi raised her finger, interrupted him, and asked Sun Yuwen, "Does the emperor know the news?" Sun Yuwen nodded hurriedly: "Long live Lord already knows, he is very happy, and he ordered a banquet to celebrate the ministers and congratulate him on being defeated!" ”

"Humph!" Hearing Sun Yuwen's words, Cixi suddenly snorted coldly and said: "Shame, I defeated Yu myself with a fugitive slave, what are you celebrating!" Spread the word in the past, today it is said that the mourning family is uncomfortable, let the long live cancel all celebrations, go back to the Palace of Nourishing Hearts to rest and rest, don't bother too much! ”

"Huh." Sun Yuwen waved his sleeves and knelt down to answer-

Young Master Li, who was thousands of miles away, didn't know that he had been demoted to a fugitive slave by the Lafayette in the Forbidden City, and at this moment he was with a large group of subordinates, staring at the two four-wheeled cars slowly driving into the dock, drooling.

Damn! This thing has finally been figured out by the young master! Wow Ka Ka ......, get rich! Get rich!

After throwing all the unhappiness brought from the Ryukyus out of the clouds, Master Li danced with his hands, jumped off the deck without waiting for the ship to stop, quickly got into the driver's seat of the car, skillfully stepped on the accelerator, and ran away with a whoosh in the stunned eyes of everyone.

"Yuanshou, is this the car you are talking about?" Long Guozhang had never seen Simmons's old car, and only heard Chen Ping talk about it once in a while, so after seeing the four-wheeled iron box running faster than the boat, he hurriedly dragged Chen Ping, who was about to get off the boat.

Chen Ping looked at the car, and his face was also wooden, although after returning from Europe last time, the young master said that he wanted to get a real car for him to see, but then he was too busy, and he had forgotten about it, but he didn't expect the young master to take it seriously, and he actually quietly built a car, and from the outside, it was bigger and faster than Simmons's, and it looked better!

The two bosses were stupid, not to mention the younger brother in the back, huddled on the bow of the boat one by one, watching the young master drive back and forth a few times, and finally waited for the car to dock again, only then did he remember that he hadn't gotten off the boat yet, and hurriedly scrambled to get off the boat and surrounded the car.

"Young master, is this the car you said burns oil?" Chen Ping swallowed his saliva and looked at the car in front of him, his eyes were full of little stars.

The wide driver's seat, the front and rear rows can be two people each, and the driver is also equipped with a large glass to block the wind, and the engine is placed in front of the car, and it is wrapped in iron sheets, so that it no longer has to be ugly and exposed.

Unlike Simmons's car, the engine of this car drives the front wheels in front, and then relies on the long bearings under the chassis to drive the rear wheels, and there is a long exhaust pipe under the car that extends from the bottom to the rear of the car.

"Chang Lin, have you tested them all?" Young Master Li kicked his leg in a dashing manner, jumped out of the car, walked to Chang Lin who came to pick him up with the car, and asked excitedly.

"Yes, all the tests were completed last month, except for the engine power, which can only reach fifteen horsepower, and the fuel consumption rate is still a bit large, everything else is fine."

Fifteen horsepower, no wonder it didn't seem to be very powerful just now. But it doesn't matter, it's a necessary process, no one can make a high-horsepower engine overnight, and it's already the world's top at this level!

"It's okay, it's okay!" Li Mo happily patted Chang Lin on the shoulder, the indicators he set at the beginning were already a bit high, and it was normal to not reach them, judging from the situation he personally drove just now, he could completely enter the production process.

Now the question is, how long will it take to put the car into practical use, which is not only related to the start of another money-collecting machine of Master Li, but also the most basic condition for him to build an oil empire, that is, consumption, a consumption-based oil market!

The two cars in front of them are the biggest drivers of this vigorous oil consumption revolution! As soon as he thought of the several major oil producing areas that had been circled by Thomas, and the scenes where those lands were full of pipes, Young Master Li shuddered, how much money did it have to be!

So he didn't wait for Chang Lin to continue speaking, so he hurriedly asked: "Chang Lin, according to your estimates, if we start building a factory now, how long will it take to produce the first mass-produced car?" ”

I expected that the young master would have such a problem, so Chang Lin reacted very quickly, and immediately said: "Young master, we have eaten the gasoline engine thoroughly, although the fuel consumption and power have not reached the indicators you want, but there is no problem with mass production, and we have also summed up a lot of experience in the trial manufacturing process, according to my estimates, as long as there is a year to build a factory and purchase special machinery and equipment, it is completely possible to produce the first car." ”

"Build a factory?" Li Mo turned his head to look at the already crowded car and frowned.

A year is nothing, the main thing is that the problem of building a factory is too big, Oahu is not suitable for heavy industry, and now it has been used to the extreme, shipyards, large forging plants, etc., are all behemoths that occupy a large area, and there is no room for a large-scale car factory.

Although the Ryukyus are already under control and the area is sufficient, the conditions are similar to that of Oahu, and all resources have to be imported from outside, although it is closer to the country, closer to Canada, and the harvest is about to be in Australia, so it seems that it can be guaranteed, but automobiles are a high-energy-consuming industry, not to mention the need to maintain shipbuilding and other needs, and it is impossible to afford such a large industry.

In fact, the best place is the United States, where there are not only a large number of industrial workers, but also huge resources to produce cars, but with the current relationship between the United States and itself, if large-scale investment is made, if one day it is swallowed up or confiscated, there is no place to cry.

Europe is a good choice, but the First World War was fought entirely on the European continent, and in the long run, it also faces investment risks, and it seems that only on their own land is the most assured.

After thinking about it, there was only Huang Zichen left. However, according to his letter not long ago, there are also some problems in Taiwan, although the shipyard has been built, but both the scale and the situation are very poor, not to mention the supporting factories in the later stage, and there is not even a shadow of the automobile factory that Master Li has taken special care of.

To say that Huang Zichen's ability has not only been appreciated by Li Enfu, but even Li Mo feels that it is a material that can be made, after all, the foreign ink in France in those years was not drunk in vain, but why is the progress in Taiwan so slow?

"It seems that it is necessary to go to Treasure Island once!" Li Mo muttered to himself, his biggest dream has always been to pry open a crack in the country and activate the huge domestic resources, so that he can establish a complete industrial chain for himself, so he will send someone back to Liaodong first, and now that the cars have been drummed out, then some things can't wait any longer. And rubber, which is one of the raw materials, also needs to use more brains!

Thinking of this, Li Mo immediately pulled Chang Lin and Tang Xiao to his side, and asked them to let Li Enfu take the money first, and immediately send people to Europe and the United States to purchase the equipment they need.

In addition, it is necessary to use the existing resources to start training automobile workers as much as possible, and build a small automobile factory in the fiefdom of Master Li of the Ryukyus, as a means of accumulating and training workers, and as for the number of machinery and the tentative target of the automobile factory, it is at least 10,000 units per year!

10,000 vehicles!

Tang Xiao stuck out his tongue, the rumors in the rivers and lakes are really not wrong, the young master just likes to be tall, big, and complete, no wonder the last time I heard that the British had made a crane and other equipment that could be used with the 30,000-ton dock, he immediately sent someone to purchase a set for the expansion of the original smallest 10,000-ton dock on Oahu, and now the dock is almost complete! But he didn't want to think about it, even if a 30,000-ton ship was built, I am afraid that the speed would be like a snail, what was the use?

Although Tang Xiao didn't understand what the young master wanted such a big automobile factory to do, he still remembered the lessons of the last training, and he didn't dare to ask more, so he hurriedly arranged for people to arrange the training of workers, and at the same time sent a large number of buyers to Europe and the United States to purchase equipment, and also arranged his own two machinery manufacturing factories to immediately start building the assembly line equipment needed by the automobile factory.

In the end, Chang Lin and Tang Xiao took the two bridge cars to offer treasures, one was requisitioned by the young master, and the other was given to the Government Affairs Yuan.

As for Long Guozhang and the others who didn't get it, they almost stepped on the threshold of Tang Xiao's office, and in the end, they had no choice but to let a few cars be built in the factory and send them to the masters of the Admiralty and the War Department, so that they could also enjoy themselves.

At the same time, considering that the future oil refining and processing links could not be controlled by others, Li Mo ordered the establishment of his first oil refinery in the northernmost part of Ryukyu Island, and at the same time secretly built a small oil refinery on the land that Guam himself bought, which had already become Thomas's second.

As for oil reserves, Li Mo is not worried, since the day the East Dallas Oil Company was founded, he has been stockpiling oil at a rate of 500 barrels per day, and now that he has laid down the Ryukyus, there are enough reserve sites, and this speed will definitely be accelerated.

"Why do you think it's too small when you just hit the Ryukyus? If you want to calculate, the fragments add up, I'm afraid there are more than 6,000 square kilometers! Why do you always feel like it's not enough? "Looking at the scattered islands under his control on the map, like scattered on a blue jade plate, Young Master Li finally knows where the problem is!

The young master's territory is still too scattered!

After a long time of sorrow, Young Master Li gritted his teeth suddenly, grabbed the magnifying glass again, stared at the red eyeballs, and looked on the map over and over again.

Searching......

(To be continued)