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"The young master just received a telegram from home!" said Horay, holding the wireless telegraph he had just gotten from the internal guard. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"You don't need to show me, you can take a look, what's the matter?" Huo Shantou said without replying. Now for him, no news is more noteworthy than the huge machine in front of him.

"Young master, it's a telegram from the old lady herself, saying that your father-in-law and second lady have come to Taiwan!"

"Li family?" Huo Shan turned around and asked with a hint of surprise on his face.

"Yes, in addition to the young master's father-in-law, there are also descendants of the Lu family and the Taiyuan Wang family!" Huo Lei said.

"The Lu family and the Wang family?" Huo Shan's expression was stunned for a moment, and then he asked, "Have you found out the purpose of their coming?" If it is an ordinary person, it is just an ordinary person, but it is the direct family of the top two families in the Qing Dynasty, and when they appear on their own territory, Huo Shan is naturally very concerned.

"According to the investigation of the secret guard, the two of them should have children to study in several universities in our Nanyang, so this time they also went south under the slogan of visiting their children, but since they deliberately chose to take a boat at the same time and place with the Li family, and after coming to Taiwan, they chose to stay, and let the young master's father-in-law bring them to our Huo family!"

"Alright, don't hide it. Just say what you have?" Huo Shan asked with a smile.

"Young master, the second lady also came with the people of the Li family?"

"Second lady, Li Wen?" Huo Shan looked stunned for a moment. React immediately. Although he had never seen the wife that his mother had set for him a long time ago, as Li Hongzhang's granddaughter, Huo Shan remembered her.

"Yes!" replied Horay.

"They didn't have any problems together?" At this moment, Huo Shan's face showed a rare hint of nervousness. People say that three women are one play, and now their wives have reached three!

Looking at the nervous look on the young master's face that had rarely been seen in the past few years, Huo Lei touched the back of his head, and replied with a smile: "Young master, the secret guard's telegram didn't say it!"

"Forget it. Don't talk about that!" Everything at home is trivial, and he believes that he can settle it.

Besides, now that he is in the dragon's lair, he will next inspect the various developments in Nanyang in the past four years. I can't interfere with the affairs at home, so instead of worrying about it now, it's better to talk about it when I come back. Thinking of these, Huo Shan also completely left these short things in the family behind. He turned his head to look at the bearded white man standing not far from him. "Mr. Maybach, has the problem of miniaturization of this 15-horsepower gasoline engine been solved?"

Huo Shan's eyes showed a strong sense of appreciation, because this rigorous German was the famous 'King of Design' in later generations, and created Mercedes and Maybach, two famous names in later luxury cars, one of the founders of Hyundai Motors, Wilhelm Maybach. He is also one of the three founders of Mercedes-Benz AG, along with Gottlieb Daimler.

Of course, the current Maybach has not achieved such dazzling results as later generations, nor has it installed the gasoline engine he invented in the horse-drawn carriage, let alone realized the broad prospects of the 'gasoline horse-drawn carriage' in the future. In the German scientific community, which is full of talent, he is still only a skilled person. But there are no little people who are not the slightest bit famous.

However, Huoshan, who has long understood the place of the car in the future world. But he has long been aiming at this big man in the field of modern automobiles. So, two years ago, when the economic crisis broke out in the domestic economic and political chaos of the German Empire, the man who arranged for the German embassy of Huo Jiajun found this man, who had resigned from Nicholas Otto's factory, and was considering that his friend Gottlieb Daimler was in Stuttgart, and continued his work on the invention of the internal combustion engine in a garden-converted workshop and then used a four-stroke with a heat pipe ignition, a honeycomb radiator, The planing drawings of gasoline engines with advanced technologies such as nozzle carburetors, as well as a large number of ideas for the application of internal combustion engines, were seduced to Nanyang, and a ten-year technical cooperation agreement was signed, which officially brought this master of internal combustion engines and modern automobiles into the hands of Huo Jiajun.

Now this rigorous German is already the director of the Institute of Gasoline Engine and Motor Vehicles of the Huo Family Military Academy of Sciences, and a large number of transmission machine drawings in Huo Shan's hands, as well as the structural unraveling drawings of future motorcycles, agricultural machinery, automobiles and other motor vehicles have also been handed over to him.

After listening to Huo Shan's words, Wilhelm Maybach's Chinese with a strong German flavor rang out, "Young master, not yet, but in two more years we will be able to solve the problem of downsizing gasoline engines, and then the automobile, this great invention that is enough to change people's mode of transportation, will be able to appear in front of the world!"

After listening to his words, Huo Shan couldn't help but pouted secretly, compared with the invention of the car, what he wanted more was actually the new China of the later generations, the artifact of agricultural mechanization 'walking tractor', especially now the vast and sparsely populated, and incomparably desolate provinces and cities in the Americas, it is difficult for the immigrants of the Huo family army who are generally not of high cultural quality to operate those thick and bulky steam-type agricultural machinery, if you can now come up with the kind of simple structure, easy to operate, easy to maintain, and can be applied to complex roads, whether it is harvesting, sowing, fertilization, watering, Drilling wells can be done, and a tractor with a bucket can also pull a ton of bulk cargo.

However, it is clear that the Germans' concept of excellence and the desire for great inventions have made Maybach's attention more focused on the research and invention of automobiles.

"Mr. Maybach, now I need a 15-horsepower two-stroke gasoline engine weighing no more than 100 kilograms, how long will you be able to hand it over to me?" Huo Shan asked directly.

"At least a year!" Maybach said after a moment's thought.

"What if we remove the automatic ignition and use a manual hand to start it?" Huo Shan asked closely.

"Young master, as an inventor, I remind you that the invention of science and technology or products takes time, and a great invention should not have any flaws!" Maybach said solemnly.

"I know, and I agree with Mr. William, but now I want the answer to my question, can I?"

"Of course!" Although Maybach has the stubbornness and rigor of the Germans, he is not rigid in dealing with people, he has already understood from the respectful attitude of the big man who is responsible for the operation of the entire academy of sciences around him towards the young man, so after hearing Huo Shan's words, Wilhelm Maybach just shrugged his shoulders, thought about it for a while and said: "Eight months, I need eight months!"

"Also, I hope that after the new 15-horsepower gasoline engine is taken out, it will be able to work for more than 2,000 hours without failure!"

"Of course, I am confident in my own technology, but if I want this engine to be able to meet the requirements of the young master perfectly after it is put into industrial production, then skilled workers are still needed to produce!"

Although Wilhelm Maybach's strange Chinese made Huo Shan not very comfortable to listen to, it did not prevent him from agreeing with this sentence. However, in the past, he might have been worried about the shortage of senior technicians within the Huo Jiajun, but now after robbing 60 percent of the high-level academic and industrial talents in the United States, the shortcomings of the Huo Jiajun's industrial development have been made up for to the greatest extent.

"I know that we will naturally take care of the production matters, you only need to provide qualified products and technology!"

Hearing this, Wilhelm Maybach nodded and said nothing!

"Why didn't you see Mr. Tesla?" Huo Shan asked with a frown after turning his head and scanning the crowd next to him. You must know that at other times, if he comes to the Dragon's Lair, then this scientific giant will definitely rush up as soon as possible, not because of how much respect he has for Huo Shan, but in order to seek more scientific and technological research and development funds, because of his extensive and numerous interests, he will often squander the scientific research funds allocated to him when he is just over half of the time! And including Xu Jianyin, the president of the Academy of Sciences and the person in charge of the Dragon's Lair Secret Base, only Huo Shan can continue to give him funds!

"He's been holding the refrigerator materials handed over to him by the young master for the past few days, and is doing research and development! Maybe it's at the most critical juncture, so he didn't come over, right?" Xu Jianyin said with a wry smile.

Although he is the person in charge of the Academy of Sciences and the Dragon's Lair, he has a lot of power in his hands, but he does not have much influence on these scientists and inventors that Huo Jiajun has spent a lot of energy to get back from all over the world, in addition to the difference in ideology, it is also caused by Huo Shan's cherishing and tolerance of these technical talents.

Of course, this is also the result of Huo Shan's deliberate connivance, because he from later generations really understands the bureaucracy's containment and infringement of scientific and technological inventions, so within Huo Jiajun, he puts government officials more in a subordinate position, and the specific research projects are decided by scientists and technicians themselves. Inside the Academy of Sciences and Dragon's Lair, you can study whatever interests you as much as you like.

Of course, sometimes many inventions cannot be realized under the current technical conditions, and at this time it is necessary to mediate the science of sciences and the person in charge of the dragon's lair, of course, this kind of adjustment is not mandatory, but more induced. For example, for the invention of the gasoline engine, if the laboratory or individual can complete the research task issued by the Academy of Sciences within the specified time, then they can get 500,000 to 1 million silver dollars on the basis of the fixed monthly research and development funds, or even more research and development funds.

This kind of induced scientific research task can often mobilize the greater enthusiasm of scientists and technicians, which is beneficial to the development of technology. (To be continued.) )