industrial lord

Chapter 285
In the scorching summer, drinking a glass of ice-cold Leibi will chill your body and mind.

The research and development of the beverage factory is under the control of Psyche. She drinks whatever Frederick invents. Unexpectedly, Rebi has come out now, and it is the first time to drink it in the Kush Kingdom.

Frederick drank a bottle of Rebi all at once, and then said to the workers next to him, "Okay, let's start assembling the fan."

The place where he is located is the spare parts repair workshop behind the "4S shop" of the steam tractor in Wessen state in the port of Bosse. There is a lathe driven by a steam engine here, and there are many spare parts, which are enough to toss.

Just then, the distinguished guests arrived.

Madam Sophie walked in wearing a light blue robe, and said after seeing Frederick, "I should have thought that you would be here, so that I can find it easily. There is no need to salute."

There were several Kush Kingdom workers in the workshop, who were about to salute the Queen Mother, but were stopped.

Madam Sophie asked her staff to wait outside and walked into the workshop by herself.

Frederick also didn't see each other with her, and said with a smile: "You two are arguing all the time, so I'll just come out and wander around."

Hayreddin's battle plan stirred up thousands of waves with one stone. Some were in favor and many were against. The young king was in favor of it in his heart, but he didn't express his opinion easily, so he quarreled for three days and three nights.

Frederick did not interfere with their decision-making, so he ran out to play.

"You keep busy, don't worry about me." Madam Sophie stood aside to watch the excitement, "Isn't the girl I arranged for you pretty enough to come to such a hot place?"

Friedrich assembled the machine with a steam engine technician from Wessen, and said at the same time: "I found that many people could not afford an air conditioner, so I decided to produce a cheap machine that can blow air, and many people can afford it." .”

Mrs. Sophie said helplessly: "Did you come all the way here just to do this kind of thing? Yi Wen and Simi wanted to thank you, but you didn't know where you went, so you sent someone to the river to ask those The fisherman didn't see you either."

Frederick smiled and said, "I came here for a tourist. I originally wanted to meet you quietly before leaving, so as not to make it known to everyone."

Madam Sophie had nothing to say to him, and said after a while: "Go home for dinner tonight, just the family and no one else."

Frederick agreed.

Madam Sophie didn't leave after she finished speaking, but watched him fiddle with various parts.

What Frederick wanted to do was very simple, using the cylinder and other parts of a small-horsepower steam engine to make a fan driven by a Stirling engine.

The Stirling engine is an external combustion engine with an external heat source, which can be driven by lighting an alcohol lamp, charcoal, or even lard, and has a high speed.

But its shortcomings are also obvious, such as low power, low efficiency, large size, and problems such as fuel carbon deposits if it is burned.

Don't even think about using it to drive vehicles, but it is still possible to drive the fan blades to blow the wind.

The parts had already been prepared, and Frederick and the technicians quickly assembled the machine and installed it on the iron frame.

The iron bars of the iron frame were broken into shapes and welded by Frederick with his bare hands, and they fit just right.

The fan blades of the fan were cut by Frederick himself from a kind of local light wood, and the outer cover was simply bent out of rattan.

Frederick asked someone to drill a hole in the bottom of an iron cup and set it on fire as a heat source. Not long after putting it under the hot cylinder, the fan blades began to spin rapidly.

Madam Sophie had been watching from the sidelines, and stood in front of the fan when it turned up, blowing her robe and kerchief back.

"The wind is not small!" She was a little surprised, "It doesn't look expensive."

Frederick said with a smile: "This fan is only a schematic model, and there is still a long way to go before it can be mass-produced."

"I plan to build a factory here to produce this, and the profit distribution is negotiable."

Madam Sophie was just about to agree, when she suddenly thought of something and said to him: "You go and talk to Yi Wen about this now, he is the king."

Frederick agreed and said to the technician on the side: "This machine will be tested here first, and after a while, send the trial report, drawings, and machine back to Ogilvy, and he will arrange it."

"When the fans are put on the market, everyone who participates in these two days will get [-] units per person."

Then he pointed to the technician and said, "Padrovan, you contributed the most, with 100 units."

The technician named Padrovan immediately replied energetically: "Principal, I will definitely complete the test and hand over the report, drawings and machine to Professor Ogilvy himself!"

Frederick nodded, and left with Madam Sophie.

Mrs. Sophie prepared a family dinner to thank Frederick. Frederick hugged Amir and sat on the carpet with Yi Wen and Simi. There was a small low table in the middle with a fruit platter on it. and drinks.

Amir and Frederick are very close, and the two have a great time.

Madam Sophie went to the kitchen to cook herself, leaving space for the young people.

Yi Wen was not much older than Frederick, with black hair tied in a spiral braid hanging down his head, and his eyes were the same golden color as Madame Sophie's, but darker.

The young king looked a little haggard, and asked Frederick directly after greetings and courtesies: "How feasible is the plan you proposed through Hayreddin?"

As soon as he talked about the business, Simi immediately left Yi Wen's side and knelt down behind him.

Frederick could understand his pressure. This game is a gamble on national luck. If you win, you can recover tens of thousands of square kilometers of land. If you lose, you will be miserable.

"It's hard to say the success rate of this operation." Frederick said while teasing Amir, "I don't know much about the combat effectiveness, marching ability, logistics ability, intelligence collection and analysis ability of your two armies, so I can't make any further conclusions. judge."

"However, I can share some of my experience in commanding operations."

"When planning a war, don't think about how to win first, but first think about what factors will lead to failure, and whether these failure factors can be resolved, or prevent it from being caught by the enemy."

"When planning before going to war, think of your enemies as if they were the smartest people in the world who can see their own flaws, and don't delude yourself into thinking they're fools."

"There must be a way to deal with failure in the plan, so that you won't be at a loss when the time comes."

"There is a limit to what one can think of in one's head. As a commander-in-chief, everyone's ingenuity needs to be brought into play."

"If your subordinate has proven his ability and is worthy of trust, then trust him and don't easily interfere with his specific operations."

"You must be firm in your confidence and goals, and you can't change them easily, and you can't give up just because of a little setback, otherwise your subordinates will be at a loss."

"Our most important role in the war is to control the direction and choose the one we think is most appropriate from various suggestions to make the final decision."

Yi Wen showed embarrassment after hearing this. At first, he thought that Frederick, who had won many wars, would give some winning secrets, but he didn't expect that they were all clichés.

Frederick saw what he was thinking, just smiled and continued rubbing Amir's face.

Young people are always thinking about the secret to achieving results quickly, looking for shortcuts, and thinking about making achievements beyond the past.

It’s just that some things can only be understood after living for a long time. For example, those commonplace things can be handed down just because they are useful.

Not long after, Mrs. Sophie brought the servants to bring the dishes.

The main course was a large platter of roast venison and giblets with a salt and pepper dish in the middle.

The staple food is quite interesting. Rice is soaked in water, mixed with spices, stuffed into hollowed out tomatoes and steamed.

The soup is made with goose meat as the main ingredient, with herbs, fried garlic and parsley.

Vegetables are what Frederick likes to eat. After the leaves are cut, put them in boiling water and scald them out, then mix them with olive oil, salt, a little oyster sauce, and soy sauce.

The conversation between Frederick and Yi Wen just now reached Mrs. Sophie’s ears through the servants. After everyone started eating, she said to Yi Wen unceremoniously: “Look, what I said to you, Frederick and you What they said, Hayreddin and the others basically said the same thing as you."

"I should have taken you out to sea in the first place, so that you can experience for yourself in the storm what it means that everything in the world has its own laws, and it will not be shifted by your own thoughts."

She also fought against the wind and waves in the sea back then, and when she came back, she killed a ruthless political opponent who was bleeding like a river, and when she became stricter, Yi Wen was immediately suppressed.

Mrs. Sophie continued: "In the past few years, you have read the letters that Susan sent back to you many times. I don't know if you have read some of what Frederick said and what he did."

"If you keep doing your 'don't think, I want to think', if you don't learn from Frederick's seeking truth from facts, I won't be able to help you in the end."

"Not long ago, you thought that the Imperial Guard of the Ghazi Empire had been defeated and the emperor had changed, so there would be no war in the near future in order to stabilize the country. Someone reminded you that the new emperor would launch a war to establish authority. What did you say at that time?"

"It's all right now. The 30 army is just across the street. You don't even know when they started preparing for the assembly. You didn't even know that the army had reached the border until your son was stolen."

"Stop talking, the more you talk, the angrier you get, eat."

The surroundings of the dining table suddenly became quiet, only the sound of Simi feeding Amir rice cereal with minced meat and vegetables.

It was hard for Frederick to say anything. At this moment, he already understood that he had become the "child of someone else's family" when Mrs. Sophie was training her son. If he said anything at this time, it might backfire on Yi Wen.

At the same time, he was thinking in his heart that it might not be easy to talk about the matter of the fan factory in the near future, so let's talk about it later, anyway, it will take a while.

As for Yi Wen's reaction after being scolded by his mother this time, Frederick couldn't predict it.

But he also thought about finding another basket to hold eggs in the south.

(End of this chapter)