Hum!

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Duan Yue'er gently pulled Xiao Xiao, who was picking up vegetables for Li Mo, her wings and nose snorted, and she snorted coldly three times in a row, and the little girl spit out her little tongue, white-eyed young master, and obediently leaned next to Sister Yue'er.

"What do you mean? The united front?! Young Master Li blinked his eyes, took a bite of the steamed bun and was overjoyed, does this mean that the 3P cause can be carried out early?

Before Bai Yuemeng woke up, he saw Duan Yue'er take out a familiar handkerchief at some point, looking at the familiar picture of mandarin ducks crossing his neck on the handkerchief, Young Master Li suddenly felt numb on his scalp, and a chopstick pickle was directly stuffed into his nose.

"How did this girl get the handkerchief?" Young Master Li glanced at Yue'er, who was not good-looking, thinking about whether it was time to continue to go out and hide, and then he recalled that he forgot to put away the handkerchief when he went out! Immediately chewed in frustration, because the appearance of the handkerchief had directly extinguished his dream, no wonder the girl saw Yue'er picking up vegetables by herself, and snorted three times in a row, thinking that she was jealous of Xiaoxiao, it turned out to be .......

Why is this steamed bun so hard? My teeth are gone!

As soon as she put down half of the steamed buns here, Miss Duan, who was huffing and puffing over there, took the first step ahead of her, picked up the remaining steamed buns and side dishes and was about to leave. "I haven't eaten yet." Young Master Li hurriedly protested, but got an even more chilling snort. "Hmph, there are mandarin ducks here, young master, you can roast them slowly and eat them." After speaking, he put the handkerchief on the table and rushed out of the study in a huff.

"Roasted mandarin ducks? It's a good dish, but it's embroidered! Young Master Li pinched the handkerchief given by Fang Xianqi, and looked at Xiaoxiao pitifully: "Qiao'er, do you still have anything to eat?" ”

Flutter.

Xiao Xiao covered the corners of his mouth, and his eyes were white, but when he saw the pitiful appearance of the young master, he was a little distressed, and he glanced out of the door before whispering: "Young master, you are really, and I don't know how to put it away, Sister Yue'er is for it." Xiaoxiao also glared at the handkerchief, and said to Ai Ai: "I've been angry for a long time." ”

Li Mo is also a head bigger than two, usually seeing that after people returned to ancient times, the three wives and four concubines were peaceful with the harmonious wife, and even took the initiative to pull the big quilt to sleep together, why did he come to himself, even the little girl's eyes and eyebrows were full of sourness?

People are more popular than dead people!

Young Master Li shamelessly approached a little, and hooked his thin waist with his big hand: "Qiao'er, I miss you." ”

"Oops."

The little girl exclaimed, her body turned into a whirlwind, escaping from the clutches of Young Master Li, and after twisting her eyes, she secretly glanced out of the door, and suddenly said loudly: "Young Master, you have been in a hurry recently, you must be on fire, I will go and stew a pot of herbal tea for you." ”

"Ahem." As if to cooperate with the small movements, a light cough suddenly sounded from the portal. Xiaoxiao heard the movement, her pretty face turned even redder, she wanted to leave but felt that it was against the young master's thoughts, and after thinking about it, she suddenly leaned over and pecked Li Mo on the cheek, before she hurriedly walked out.

"Wow Ka Ka ......, dead girl, I must have eaten you at night!" The warm red lips passed over his cheeks, which suddenly made Master Li's soul fly, and the fire in his heart was even more rubbing up, and he wished that the little girl would be corrected on the spot immediately!

Xiaoxiao walked halfway, and saw that he was about to leave the study, but for some reason he suddenly stopped, Dai Mei glanced at the young master, and Ai Ai praised: "Young master, young grandma is really beautiful!" After speaking, without waiting for Li Mo to answer, he fled out of the room like a fly, and a burst of laughter and anger suddenly sounded outside the door.

"Little girl, it turns out that it is the same as Yue'er, I am afraid that dozens of vinegar jars have been overturned in this paragraph."

Looking at the girl's curvaceous back, the corners of Li Mo's lips hooked slightly, grabbed the handkerchief on the table and sighed, when will I have the opportunity to play multiplayer games? Jealous? How boring is that? Why don't you come to bed and have a fight?!

Young Master Li's eyes were so sad that his eyes were green, but before he could remember how to take the little girl to play multiplayer games together, a call from Fu Bo came from outside the door: "Young Master, the ship to Nihau Island is ready." ”

"Niihau?" Young Master Li, who was immersed in a white dream, didn't react at first, until Fu Bo shouted again, and then remembered that today was an important day for submarine sea trials, and hurriedly got up and walked out.

In the vegetable garden, Duan Yue'er had red eyes, and she was pulling the green and red peppers on the plants, regardless of the size or whether they were ripe or not, they were all picked in one go.

"Big pervert, let you bully me!"

"Dengzi, let you accept other people's handkerchiefs!"

"Big villain, let you marry a young grandmother!"

"This girl can't cure you, can't she cure your mouth?" In less than a moment, Duan Yue'er ripped off all the chili peppers in the vegetable garden that were regarded as treasures by Young Master Li, making Fu Hai, who was in charge of the garden, cry and laugh, I don't know where these chili peppers offended this eldest lady, although I had the heart to persuade her, I could see that this aunt was so angry, and she didn't dare to speak!

What's more, everyone knows that this Miss Duan will become the hostess of this place sooner or later, and the young grandmother wants to pick chili peppers, who cares?

Seeing that Miss Duan was about to attack the young master as if he were the most precious strains in his life, Fu Hai had no choice but to bite the bullet and said: "Young grandma, don't pull it out again, you can explain it to the young master if you pull out the old slave again!" ”

"Young grandma?" Duan Yue'er, who was angry, was about to pull out the chili pepper seedlings, which made Li Mo feel distressed, and when she heard Fu Hai's words, her little face, which was still blue just now, turned red all of a sudden, and she stomped her feet and said, "Uncle Fu Hai, what are you calling nonsense!" Who is the young grandma! ”

As soon as Duan Yue'er turned around, she didn't pull out the pepper seedlings anymore, and walked towards the door with the basket in a huff, and as soon as she reached the door, she saw that annoying guy rushing out, and the two almost bumped into each other.

"Yue'er, what are you doing? Can you eat such a small pepper? Young Master Li stabilized his body, glanced at the pepper grains on the basket that were smaller than diced beans, and began to worry about his vegetable garden, and hurriedly asked.

"You have to take care of it!" Duan Yue'er was still angry, and she was almost knocked down, so she glared at Young Master Li fiercely, and was about to drill into it.

Li Mo didn't know what Duan Yue'er was angry about, although he also wanted to explain the matter of the silk handkerchief to Duan Yue'er, but the big thing was important, Chen Ping and the others were still waiting for themselves, but what should be done to comfort this hot-tempered aunt and grandmother, and stop spoiling my vegetable garden?

After seeing that tense face, Young Master Li suddenly had an idea, and deliberately got out of the way to let Duan Yue'er go first, but when she walked to the side, she suddenly leaned over and tapped her mouth on Xiao Yue'er's cheek, and laughed: "Make some fried chili peppers, and I'll come back to eat them in the evening." ”

"Shameless, big pervert!" was sneak attacked, Duan Yue'er couldn't hold the basket in her hand steadily, fell to the ground, ashamed and anxious, stomped her feet and said angrily to the back of this Young Master Li who was fleeing quickly: "Eat, eat, eat!" Just know how to eat, see how I eat you to death! ”

After Duan Yue'er finished speaking, she turned her head and found that Fu Bo and several subordinates had already opened their mouths to look at her, and only then did she remember the language problem in the sentence just now, and suddenly her face was flushed with shame, and she quickly went into the kitchen with a basket.

"Eat me? There's nothing wrong with that. Young Master Li smacked his lips, laughed dryly, and got into the car.

On the blue sea, with undulating waves, the destroyer USS Exocet Li Mo and several members of the Admiralty finally arrived at the second-to-last inhabited island in the Hawaiian Islands.

Niihau Island is definitely one of the most peculiar places in the Hawaiian Islands, because even if Hawaii later became the Hawaiian state of the United States, Niihau Island was never recognized and refused to become a U.S. territory!

Because this small island, located 27 kilometers southwest of Kauai, is an island that was privately bought by Master Li before the butterfly arrived in Hawaii. In 1836, Mrs. Sinclair, the widow of a Scottish nobleman, bought the island from the King of Hawaii for $10,000, bringing dozens of relatives and servants here, and the remaining 200 natives on the island became her subjects.

Although after her death, the inheritance of Niihau Island was forever ruled by the Sinclair family, and the entire island was completely sealed off, and no one outside Hawaii was allowed to enter. But how could such a trivial matter stump Master Li? When he heard about this, he hurriedly asked Cindy, a beautiful woman who also has Scottish ancestry, to come out and send marines to station! In the end, under the temptation of force and money, the descendants of the Sinclair family finally failed to resist the temptation, and after selling Niijau Island to Master Li for 50,000 pounds, they took their families to settle in the mansion they bought for them in Brazil.

Because it was a private transaction, except for Li Mo and a few other people, the only person who knew that Niihau Island had changed hands was the Hawaiian queen who was a witness, and Niijau Island was no longer part of the territory of the Hawaiian Kingdom, so the queen did not tell outsiders.

The world only knows that Young Master Li controls and owns Oahu and Kauai, but they don't know that Niihau, which has 186 square kilometers, also belongs to Young Master Li.

Since taking over Niihau, Limo has also continued the tradition of Niihau's exclusion from outsiders, so that no one knows about it.

Niihau Island is a volcanic island, with many mountains and few flat land, and only a few plantations, but because the vegetation is relatively well protected, Master Li also built a large livestock farm here, one is to solve the work and life of the island's natives, and the other is to provide the needs of Oahu, which has less and less land area.

Unlike the factories that go on a rampage everywhere you go, Niihau Island remains untouched, with only a small 1,000-ton floating dock in a small bay east of Kauai.

Unlike other places, there are only docks, but there are no large forging and metallurgical factories to work with, everything needs to be provided by Oahu, and there is not even assembly work here, and the role of the docks is only for routine maintenance.

It was precisely because of the closed environment here that Master Li bought this small island for some secret experiments, and now several important test sites have been built here, and almost half of Honolulu's laboratories are also here, among which the submarine test base centered on the dock is one of them.

The huge cost is not to say how large the area is, after all, Niihau Island is completely unsuitable for industrial development, and the maintenance of this dock alone will depend on Oahu to ship here, which is not a small cost.

The main reason is that the technical requirements of the submarine itself are much higher than that of ordinary ships, especially the requirements for steel, and almost half of the special alloy materials research institute and smelter on Oahu that have begun to take shape are produced according to the needs here.

In addition to these, another major expense is to gather those submarine experts around the world, because the submarine is not valued at this time, it is the best opportunity to dig people, so at this moment Honolulu has almost pulled the world's best submarine designers, including not only submarine veterans Nordelfit and Garret, but also John Holland, who is known as the father of submarines by later generations, and Simon Lake, a new generation of submarine experts in the United States, and the entire French submarine design team headed by French scientist Laubeve.

The number of people reached more than thirty people!

Especially Holland, although he made the Ram in 1881, which is considered a milestone in the history of submarine development, it was not taken seriously by the US Navy, but because of the US Navy's downsizing, lack of funds and other problems, he finally cheapened Master Li.

And, of course, there are hundreds of young Chinese "helpers" who have been selected.

So many big people, and they are all monsters with a skill and a strange temper, gathered on this small island of Nihau, and it is naturally false to say that there is no conflict, especially in the academic aspect, all of them are not convinced, and they are the same as the original group of steam turbine experts, and they will spray each other when they meet.

For this situation, the master Li naturally has a way to deal with it, when he came up with the overall plan of double-layer shell, water injection ballast, and diesel engine propulsion, almost everyone bowed to him, and almost offered him up.

Of course, Master Li also wanted to directly make a drop-shaped hull, but that was very demanding on craftsmanship, and in the era of lack of welding, it was impossible to knock out big steel droplets with rivets, so he lowered the requirements and adopted the shape of a barracuda.

In addition, Li Mo has always pursued a three-high policy of high treatment, high security, and ensuring research funds and required materials for these technical personnel, so these big heads, who were originally not valued in various countries, could not get research funds, and could not see the future of submarine development, immediately signed a deed of sale and sold themselves to Master Li, just like Tesla at the beginning.

In order to prevent being dug into the corner of the wall in the future, Master Li did not stop doing it, in addition to the extra-long contract, he also moved all the big-headed monsters and their families to Hawaii to settle down, and gave the house, money, and citizenship of the Hawaiian Kingdom.

Under such preferential treatment, those big heads were all grateful and struggling to move forward in their respective fields, which made Young Master Li smile crookedly every time he thought about it.

Today's submarine design team is in such an atmosphere, from the project to the final results, it took only two years to overcome all the difficulties, if it were not for the diesel engine to drag its feet, maybe it could have succeeded half a year earlier, and now it is almost in strict accordance with the original requirements of Master Li, the experimental submarine named mackerel was built.

As the destroyer slowly approached, Li Mo soon saw that the mackerel, which had taken two years and invested more than two destroyers, was more than thirty meters long, like a huge sperm whale, fixed to the dock by two arm-thick cables, and was rising and falling with the waves.

Next to the submarine, dozens of experts from the design team were busy, and they didn't bother to take a look at the arrival of Young Master Li.

Soon, Limer met with John Holland, the team's chief expert, and two of his most important assistants, Simon Lake and Laubel, and listened to their introductions as they slipped into the cramped cabin.

It is 33 meters long, 5 meters wide at its widest point, 220 tons of displacement above water, 280 tons underwater, and 18 people in full crew, using a shell and a pressure-resistant shell proposed by Master Li to design a double shell, two water-injected ballast tanks, a set of underwater periscope system is installed, and the maximum depth of the design is 15 meters, equipped with two 50-horsepower large horizontal bar diesel engines and a set of large battery packs, and two elevators are installed on both wings of the hull, which not only makes the submarine dive and float faster, but also more agile in the water.

Finally, at Tesla's suggestion, the submarine also abandoned the three-bladed propeller used by ships for the first time, and adopted a new propeller with four blades, which is not only more efficient, but also more beneficial to submarine.

Compared with surface ships, the space inside the submarine is much more crowded, especially in the era when ergonomics had no concept, and there were messy pipelines and water valves everywhere, which made Li Mo feel as if he had drilled into a hole in the coil.

In the end, after seeing the horizontal bar diesel engine, which was not much smaller than a car, Master Li suddenly burst into tears, this thing finally came out, and he finally saw the shadow of the tank self-propelled gun! The next step is to make it more multi-cylinder and lighter.

The theoretical speed of the mackerel is ten knots above water, eight knots in the semi-submersible state of the snorkel, and only five knots underwater with complete battery dependence. The surface range is 300 nautical miles, and if it relies entirely on batteries, it can allow the submarine to move underwater for 30 minutes.

As for the slightly weaker armament, except for a single-barreled 76 mm gun on the deck, only four torpedo tubes were installed in the bow, and there was no reloading ability, and since the current torpedoes could not be fired at deep water, they had to be kept at a maximum depth of five meters when attacking.

Although the defects are still very obvious, but looking at the submarine that has some of the appearance of the later generations, Li Mo still clapped his palms excitedly, although this kind of data is not worth mentioning in the later generations, but at this moment it is the summer of 1895, it is not easy to design such a perfect submarine.

After seeing the submarines, Master Li immediately rewarded the entire design team with a full 10,000 pounds, and at the same time allocated funds to build three more to facilitate the testing of the troops, and used the two boats to carry out the training of submariners in advance and explore future underwater combat methods.

At the same time, the new generation of submarines was also proposed to immediately carry out pre-research, and Li Mo also specially took care of Tang Xiao, who accompanied him, to pay close attention to the research of torpedo underwater launch technology, and asked to start developing a new generation of large-caliber torpedoes.

Also on the same day, the submarine force of the Pacific Fleet, which was classified as highly secret, was officially stationed on Niihau Island under the leadership of Qin Shou. Watching them jerkily conduct the first dive test under the guidance of technicians, in addition to admiring their courage, Li Mo also seemed to see that a powerful underwater wolf pack was gradually taking shape in the future, but in fact, he also knew very well in his heart that although the submarine was finally made, in terms of training and technology, there was probably still a long way to go in actual combat!

"Baidu Niang couldn't bring it, it's a pity!"

Young Master Li stood on the dock and sighed for a long time, making several adults behind him look at each other. Baidu Niang? Sounds strange! Could it be that the young master went out once and hooked up with that little daughter-in-law again?

"It's still a young master! Look at the ...... of people's tastes, it's all mother! ”。

(To be continued)