Chapter 62 Submarines

After discussing the specific details of the new silver dollar issue with Huo Jiaguang, he left!

It wasn't long before dinner that Fauber was back home!

"Young Master, this is the auction price of each factory! In addition, the transaction price of this auction is 71 million taels! However, the cash we got in our hands was only 45.6 million taels, and the rest were almost all real estate title deeds, jewelry and antiques and other collateral!" After finishing speaking, Fu Bo put the account book in his hand on the desk in front of Huo Shan.

"I know, Fauber! I'm sorry for you! But ......!"

Looking at the look on Huo Shan's face, Fu Bo smiled and asked, "Young Master, is there anything you want me to help with again?"

"Yes, I want to go out tomorrow!, but I'm afraid that my mother won't agree!" Huo Shan said with a headache.

Since the last time he ran away from home and returned to the United States, he has been grounded for a long time! Up to now, he is still under constant surveillance, and as soon as he leaves the vicinity of Taipei City less than five kilometers, someone sent by his mother will immediately arrest him!

Therefore, every time he goes out, he can only go out after his mother's permission to go out!

Huo Shan shook his head helplessly, he also understood his mother's bitterness! After all, he is the only seedling of the Huo family, if something happens to him, then no matter how much money the Huo family earns, no matter how much wealth and status they have, it will be meaningless! 'Inheritance of ancestors' in the eyes of Chinese in this era, especially in the eyes of women who have become wives and mothers, it is the top priority comparable to the survival of the family!

Therefore, almost every time he went out and saw his mother's nervous appearance, Young Master Huo scratched his scalp, there was no way, who told him to still be "**"!

"Hehe, young master, don't worry! This matter will be told by the old slave! But when he goes out, the young master must bring all the people, otherwise something really happens, and the old slave can't afford it!" Fu Bo looked at the little boy with a sad face in front of him and said with a smile.

"Really, great! Thank you, Fauber!" Huo Shan said happily.

"Okay, it's not early, young master should rest early!"

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After nearly a year of intense construction, with Huoshan's investment at no cost, the single line of Taiwan's Ring Island Railway has been built to Taitung! Therefore, this time he will take the railway that has already begun to operate to the south for inspection!

"Click...... Whew...!"

Amid the cacophony of steel grinding, a train dragging five cars slowly stopped on the platform of Taipei Main Station. This train is dedicated to the staff, so there are fewer sections and the speed is much faster!

Under the guidance of the conductor, Huo Shan walked into the train with some expectations! Although he had already seen the simplicity of trains in this era when he went to the United States last time, he was still very interested in taking his own train this time! After all, this was the first railway he proposed to build after coming to this era, and it was also the longest railway in China now!

Because this train is for dedicated zhèngfǔ office staff, the interior decoration of the carriage is a little better than usual, which makes Huo Shan feel very satisfied.

"This broad-gauge train looks much more spacious than the standard regulations of later generations!" Huo Shan said secretly in his heart after looking left and right.

Although Taiwan's round-the-island railway network has been under construction for nearly a year, this is the first time he has come to the train station!

It is a pity that only Li Yunfeng, minister of the General Armament Department, and Luo Fenglu, minister of the Ministry of Railways, have already gone to the newly built Nanyang provinces to check on the construction of the railways in the five-year plan! This made Huoshan, who was interested in learning about the operation of the railways, a little disappointed.

"Yun Feng, do it! This time, I have to work for you, the big minister, to come out with me!" Although Huo Shan spoke in an old-fashioned manner, Li Yunfeng did not have the slightest surprise on his face. The young soldier on duty standing not far away had just joined the army, so he didn't know Huo Shan! So looking at the minister who usually looked extremely majestic in front of them, it seemed a little unruly to be so respectful to a small child at this moment!

"Young master, it's a joke!"

"I'm going to see the submarine this time, don't you be unable to take it out then!" Huo Shan said with a smile.

"Don't worry, young master! That Huo Lan from the United States has promised me! The submarine must have it, and he has applied some new technologies that the young master gave him to him! And he wants more research funds, of course he works hard!"

"Really?" Huo Shan said with interest.

In fact, the current submarines do not have much use value, and Huo Shan has only handed over some advanced technologies that will appear on submarines in the future to the submarine design department led by Huo Lan! For example, the advanced submarine technologies that will appear in the next 10 or 20 years, such as the design of the teardrop-shaped shape, the rudder, the double-layer pressure-resistant shell technology, the periscope, the snorkel technology, and the dual-propulsion system technology based on gasoline engines and storage batteries.

The rolling train was advancing rapidly, and the coal-fired steam engine was really not as stable as the internal combustion engine of later generations, and having a meal on it was like a war, which made Young Master Huo very depressed! Although the island of Taiwan was not too big! However, due to the slow speed of the train in this era, it still took them nearly eight hours or so to come to a small port not very far from Kaohsiung Port! Of course, this port, which was later called Donggang, is still just a small fishing village, and it has not yet had the prosperity and hustle and bustle of later generations. However, after Huoshan chose this place as a temporary submarine base, roaring machines shattered the quiet life of this small fishing village at the mouth of Gaoping Creek.

The repaired train didn't pass here, but a brand new road led to the small shipyard at the mouth of the sea!

After getting off the train, Huo Shan directly got into the carriage that he had been waiting for for a long time! The good road conditions made the carriage not as bumpy as before, but after getting used to the comfortable car in the future, he would not think that this carriage could be so good no matter what!

"Xu Jianyin didn't come with him this time, it seems that after returning from the submarine factory this time, it is necessary to go to the Academy of Sciences! Alas, I don't know when that damn gasoline engine will be able to provide enough power for the car!" Huo Shan sat in the carriage, holding his chin, and complained in his heart.

Li Yunfeng, who was sitting opposite, couldn't help frowning when he looked at the young master's grinning teeth for a while, and his eyebrows opening for a while! Although he couldn't understand why, he still stretched out his hand and wanted to remind the young master Li to pay attention to his image!

However, he was soon stopped by Huo Lei, who was sitting next to him, and he had been following Young Master Huo for more than a year, and his usual habits, Huo Lei knew very well!

"Young Master often does this when he thinks about things!It will be fine after a while!" Seeing the doubt in Li Yunfeng's eyes, Huo Lei whispered in his ear.

Hearing his words, Li Yunfeng took his hand back, and looked at Young Master Huo who was still dancing with his teeth and claws in his eyes a little weird, it was the first time he would have such an expression when he saw someone thinking about things!

It wasn't too far from the train to the submarine's production plant, and after about half an hour, the carriage slowly stopped!

"Oh, why did the carriage stop?" The shaking of the carriage woke up Huo Shan, who had sunk into his thoughts, raised his head and glanced at the two of them a little blankly, and then asked.

"Young Master, we've arrived at the place!" Li Yunfeng hurriedly replied.

"Oh, it's here! It's so fast! Let's go, let's go down!"

The submarine construction factory is not very large, after all, in addition to the use of steam power, submarines at this time rarely exceed 100 tons, and Huo Shan, who clearly knows the direction of the development direction of submarines in later generations, did not hesitate to give Huo Lan the submarine information of the diesel-electric dual propulsion system, of course, the advantage of this is that the best submarine designers in the world now began to work for him.

"Instructor! Chang Baofeng, the battalion commander of the submarine factory security unit, reports to you!" Just as Huo Shan and his party were about to walk to the door, a young soldier wearing a white Navy Major uniform, dark skin, and a dry body ran over quickly, stood in front of Huo Shan, put his feet together, and saluted a standard Huo Jiajun military salute!

"Do you know me?" Huo Shan asked in surprise, as he spent less and less time going to the Army Academy and the size of the Huo Family's army continued to expand, there were very few soldiers in the army who could know him, let alone the navy that rarely went!

"Yes! When you went to the Saipan Naval Academy to give a lecture last year, I stood in the audience, and the instructor's theory of sea power at that time made all our students and teachers feel very remarkable, pointing out the direction of the future development of the navy! It also revealed the important role of the navy in the national strategy! It was a great naval work!"

Looking at the reverence revealed in the eyes of the soldiers in front of him, Young Master Huo, who had pirated the fruits of other people's labor, touched his nose with some embarrassment! However, compared with being able to be respected by the navy, this embarrassment really couldn't last much time, and soon Young Master Huo took his entourage and swaggered into the gate of the factory under the respectful eyes of the major!