Chapter 5: Dreams Set Sail

"Madam, how about you take a look at what is written in these two books?" After putting the three booklets that Huo Shan gave him on the table, Fu Bo let out a long sigh of relief and said with a complicated expression. For the sake of time, he only skimmed through the two later booklets. Although he didn't understand it very well, the information revealed from between the lines really opened his eyes and at the same time, he couldn't help but be a little frightened.

"Fu Bo, what's wrong with you, where did these books come from?" Mrs. Huo asked strangely as she looked at the loyal old servant, her face changing with a complex expression.

"Madam, just look at it! Alas, in vain, my old man usually boasts that he is well-informed, but he is really far worse than the young master!

"Shan'er, what's wrong with him?" Seeing the old man's look of chagrin and shaking his head, the woman was puzzled and couldn't help but be interested in these booklets.

Fu Bo knows very well, she was born in the army, and she has crawled a few old housekeepers back and forth from the sea of corpses and blood, and her knowledge and concentration are far from being comparable, and it is very rare for him to be so ashamed of himself. And it seems to have something to do with his six-year-old son. Therefore, she couldn't help but be intensely curious about the few books on the table.

"What a bad handwriting!" said the woman as she turned the page.

Poor Young Master Huo has traveled over for more than a month, and he has just mastered the writing of traditional characters, and there are no typos, which is the result of his own modification several times. Therefore, before his great cause of promoting simplified Chinese characters was launched, his dog-crawling traditional Chinese characters would continue to be written.

Time passed by a minute, and Fu Bo, who knew the contents of it, did not urge, looking at the more and more solemn look on the woman's face, the old man couldn't help but sigh in his heart, how could a six-year-old child understand these things, this is really too demonic.

Before I knew it, a few hours had passed, and the sky outside had completely darkened, and at some point in the study, ten red candles as thick as children's arms were lit, illuminating the whole room brightly lit and delicate.

After reading the last page, the woman let out a long breath, and when she looked up, she realized that it was completely dark outside.

"Madam, it's getting late, I just ordered dinner to go down, and I'll bring it to you in a moment. ”

"Thank you, Fubo, don't be in a hurry to eat first, these books are really written by Shan'er?" No wonder she asked, the things in this are really a bit shocking, it is hard to believe that a six-year-old child will have a careful mind and far more insight than adults.

"It can be determined that the young master wrote it himself, while you are reading the book, I have already gone to the mansion to send a telegram to ask Mr. Huang, and the young master is out of the mansion for the first time today! It is impossible to know people outside the mansion!"

After the woman got up and walked a few steps, she said in a deep voice, "Then there should be no doubt about the mountain, but he is so young, even if he starts studying, he only has less than forty days, how can he know this!"

"Hehehe, madam, you are too worried, besides, the young master is talented and intelligent, and there are also successors of the Huo family, so you don't have to pursue the rest. ”

"That's just as well!"

After waving her hand and letting the old man sit down, the woman said, "You have also read these books of Fubo, do you think it is feasible?"

"The old slave usually takes care of the factories in the house, and he has more contact with Westerners, and the machinery factory and steel factory that the young master said can indeed make money, and there is no worry about selling the products, but the investment in the two factories is too large, and we don't have the manpower in this area, so the old slave is also a little bottomless in his heart!"

"Do you think the solution Shan'er said is feasible?" asked the woman again.

"It should be feasible, now the gang of people in the Qing Dynasty call them to fight for power and profit, and they are okay with intrigue, but they are amateurs in the factory, I didn't look at the dog officials of the Fuzhou Shipbuilding Bureau, a good big steel factory spent hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, and concentrated so many good craftsmen in China, and they were stunned for more than ten years and did not make a pound of good steel, and the old man blushed for them. ”

Looking at the old housekeeper's beard and glaring eyes, the woman couldn't help but nod her head in understanding, more than ten years ago, they carried their heads and fought a battle with the rotten Manchurian court in front of them, although after defeat, they came to Taiwan to avoid trouble, but the hatred in their hearts continued unabated.

"Well, don't talk about that. The old man shook his head and sighed, then said, "According to the salary given in the young master's book, we can also recruit skilled workers over there." However, we do not have iron ore in Taiwan, and we will have to ship it from outside in the future, and although the cost has increased, it will not be a problem for us to make money. And with steel, our machine factory will be able to build machines, and if successful, it will be a lot of income. In general, it is not a problem to make money, but the initial investment is too much, according to the young master's plan, this first fund will require 500,000 taels of silver!"

After listening to him, the woman lowered her head and thought for a while, and then said slowly: "Although 500,000 taels is a lot, we have also made a lot of money in the past ten years, and we still have that amount of silver, so money is not a problem." The key is that these two factories are too eye-catching, if they provoke the peeps of the imperial court, although they are not afraid, they will always be troublesome!"

"Madame is right, but now Taiwan is lonely overseas, and the eyes of the imperial court can't reach here for a while, and we still have the militia in our hands, even if Taipei Governor Liu Xuan can't help us. ”

"That's right, in that case, then you can go down tomorrow according to Shan'er's plan!" Looking at the haughty look on the old man's face, the woman couldn't help but smile indifferently and said.

"Okay, the old slave will do it, Madame should rest early!"

Lying on the bed, Huo Shan couldn't fall asleep after tossing and turning, and Suo Xìng sat up. Now that the first step of his plan has been taken, he is 90 percent sure that it will succeed as long as his mother sees it. And, with these machines, his next steps can be carried out smoothly.

"Fortunately, the current machinery and equipment are not too complicated, otherwise it would be really troublesome. Huo Shan muttered to himself. With those drawings in his computer, and the fact that he learned machinery, he has full confidence to manufacture the machinery and equipment needed for his own industrial development through those industrial machine tools.

"Mauser 98K, Maxim heavy machine gun, mortar...... , all of them were invented by the young master!" With these beautiful dreams, Huo Shan slowly entered the dream!

The night passed quickly, and the next day Huo Shan got up early in the morning, hurriedly washed his face and brushed his teeth, and even Ping'er didn't tease, so he ran to the front yard.

Looking at his mother's face cautiously, Huo Shan stopped talking several times, and finally gritted his teeth and said, "Mother, did Fu Bo tell you yesterday?"

Looking at her son's face, with a worried look, the woman couldn't help but smile and said, "Okay, you have read all the books you made up yourself, and yesterday I asked Fu Bo to order for you to go to a foreign store!"

"Really, great, thank you, Mother!"

Looking at her elated son, the woman was happy at the same time, but she couldn't help but ask with some hesitation: "Shan'er's booklets, are you really writing them yourself?"

"I knew you were going to ask. Huo Shan muttered in his heart, but his mouth was not slow. "Of course, your son is a genius, and he has already read all the Western books brought by the teacher!"

"Poor mouth!"

Looking at the proud look on her son's face, although she was still a little hard to believe, she really couldn't find a rebuttal, after all, in the past month, her son's teacher has been praising him in her ear for being a genius, and yesterday's books also show that her son is extraordinarily talented.

After eating, Huo Shan did not leave as usual, but after chatting with his mother for a while, he took the opportunity to say: "Mother, I want to ask you something, can you lend me a few people!"

"Why, what the hell are you thinking again!" said the woman, sneering.

"I can't say it yet, but you'll know when the time comes!"

"You kid, keep it a secret from your mother! Say, my mother promised you!"

"Thank you, mother, you can find me fifty literate people, preferably all young people between the ages of eighteen and twenty-two, and in addition, find another five hundred people of this age, preferably able to read and write, of course, it doesn't matter if they are illiterate. ”

Looking at his excited expression, the woman couldn't help but be a little dumbfounded, and asked hesitantly, "Son, what do you want so many people for?"

"What's the matter, mother, can't our family afford it?"

"That's not it, it's ten times more than a hundred times, and there is no problem with our Huo family's financial resources. But you ......!"

Looking at the expression on his mother's face, Huo Shan said with a smile: "Mother, don't worry, my son will naturally be useful if he wants these people, and you will know when the time comes." Please, mother, you can promise me!" Huo Shan threw himself into the woman's arms and used his nirvana 'coquettish'.

"Okay, okay, don't shake it, my mother promised you!"

"Really, thank you!"