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Chapter 233 Planning the Sea
The cold war between the little girls and Frederick only ended when they ate half of the skewers, and all of them were flushed and sweated a lot.

Frederick hurriedly asked Tarot to wait for the maid to bring dry towels, and put them on their backs to absorb sweat, so as not to catch cold when the clothes were wet and the wind blew.

Both Maria and Susan had personal maids arranged by their families to take care of them since they were young. Of course, Lilu didn't have one, so Frederick asked Tarot to take care of her for a while.

Maria had never seen the sea, so she asked Lilu curiously, "Are there really fishes as big as houses in the sea?"

"There really are!" Lilu said while eating the baked tofu skin. "We have the best fighters who can catch whales. They use many javelins to tie the whales on the sea. The rope behind the javelins is tied with a big empty hole." Barrel, just follow until the whale is killed."

"If the wind is good, they will use the boat to drag the whale back to the shore. The skin is used to make clothes waterproof and strong. The sailors like it very much. The oil under the skin is very thick and thick. The meat is also delicious, and the bones can also be brought. Make the roof."

After she spoke, she put down the half-eaten tofu skin, and stretched out her hands to describe the size of the whale and how to spray water while talking, which made Maria and Susan stunned for a while.

Frederick finally said: "I ordered a whale bone specimen, and it will be placed at the zoo in a few years."

Maria said with some yearning: "I also want to see what the sea is like."

At this time Frederick asked her: "I will go to sister Katie's hometown next year, which is on the island, will you go?"

Maria was amused at first, and then said a little depressed: "I don't know if my father and mother will let me go."

Frederick deliberately smirked and said, "If they don't agree, I'll take you there secretly."

At this time Susan said: "Sister Maria can hide in the barrel."

Frederick touched Susan's head with his clean hands, and praised, "You're really smart."

While joking, a Frederick looked at a familiar young man passing by, thought for a while and shouted, "Is that Kasper over there?"

The first time Frederick saw Caspar was in the refugee camp over Maria's house, when a certain thief exposed his identity. Compared with that time, Caspar has grown up now, It looks a little strong.

Caspar turned his head around to search for the source of the sound, and finally determined that it was the Duke in the shed surrounded by the maids and sisters calling him, and hurried over to greet him.

Frederick asked him with a smile: "Long time no see, how is your grandma?"

Casparma replied on the Internet: "Thank you for your concern, my grandma has always been in good health, and now she is busy in the restaurant every day."

Frederick nodded and said, "The old lady's restaurant is very famous now. What are you doing now? That friend of yours is...Zuobel, what is he doing now?"

Caspar replied a little embarrassedly: "Zobel and I graduated from the carpenters' union school this year. I signed up for the sailor's school last month. I was admitted because I knew carpentry. Zuobel was too seasick. off to the shipyard."

Frederick saw that he was still holding the hardwood used for skating, so he said: "Be prepared to suffer when you become a seaman, and have a good meal before going to school. Tell Zuobel for me, when you build a ship Pay attention to safety when working in the factory. Well, let’s go play without delay.”

Kasper slipped away after giving Frederick his luggage, it seemed that he was very nervous just now.

Maria asked Frederick strangely: "Why does he have to eat something delicious before going to school?"

Lilu said with some fear: "Because Frederick is so bad, there are so many machines in the school that make people unable to eat."

Maria still had a question mark, and Frederick smiled and said, "We'll find out when we go and have a look tomorrow."

Frederick then asked Lilu, "Are you still used to being at sea?"

"Very good." Lilu said, "I was a little dizzy at first, but I'm fine now."

Frederick touched her head and said, "Work harder and learn more from Baron Adiken. In a few years, maybe I can send you a fleet that can sail even when there is no wind."

Lilu's face turned red all of a sudden.

Afterwards, they talked about the affairs of the sea by the charcoal stove, and Lilu told almost all the rumors about the sea that she had heard and seen.

Maria and Susan were surprised by what they had heard about the sea and foreign lands, especially the profits of maritime trade, which made Maria, who had already understood the meaning of money, widen her eyes.

When Frederick told Lilu just now that he could form a fleet of steam ships in a few years, he was actually bragging, just drawing big cakes for the little girl.

His ideal steamship is the first steamship to cross the Atlantic on July 1845, 7. It is about 26 meters long, with a full load displacement of about 100 tons, a steam engine with a power of 3600 horsepower, and steel. The hull, try to build it before Psyche incenses himself.

Now his first goal is to benchmark the steamship Archimedes, which made its maiden voyage on May 1839, 5. It is about 2 meters long, has a full load displacement of 40 tons, two 237-horsepower steam engines, and mast sails.

It’s just that there are many problems to be solved at present, and the most troublesome thing is the propeller. Friedrich’s key to the design of the propeller is: how to correctly handle the relationship between the various elements of the propeller such as diameter, pitch ratio, disk surface ratio, blade contour shape, number of blades, and rotational speed, etc. I don't know anything, so I can only arrange Weissburg University to use stupid methods to continuously test and improve to see which one produces the greatest thrust when rotating with the same number of revolutions.

Frederick had already figured it out, if the propeller couldn't keep up, it would be a paddle steamer.

As for ironclad ships, he doesn't want to think about it so much at the moment, and wait until the weight of the steam forging hammer gradually increases to the extent that it can process hull steel plates.

All of this will take time, but Frederick, influenced by the idea of ​​"preferring equipment to wait for people", started to build a group of sailor schools this year relying on the University of Wessenburg.

The administrative staff of this school is supported by Wessenburg University. The teaching staff are recommended by Baron Adiken and hired by the Dawn Chamber of Commerce. They are all experienced sailors. It is enough to teach newcomers to avoid detours.

So here is a thing that makes people feel very incredible. The world's first professional seaman's school actually appeared in Wessen, which is more than 400 meters above sea level and surrounded by mountains.

However, Frederick also understands that people who have never seen the real sea are not real sailors. Now the branch school is being established in Hanma City, and the Lixiao Chamber of Commerce is responsible for it. The branch school provides practical teaching for going to sea.

In the future, the main school will move to the seaside, when Frederick's territory has an outlet to the sea.

According to Frederick's plan, it will take ten years to dominate the North Sea, 15 years to have a huge voice in the Inner Sea, and strive to open up the Eastern route and find a new western continent in 20 years.

(End of this chapter)