Chapter 285: Training
On a hot summer day, a glass of cold Leibi will chill your whole body and mind.
The research and development of the beverage factory is in charge of Psyche. Frederick drinks whatever she invents. Unexpectedly, Lebidu has come out now, and it was the first time he drank it in the Kingdom of Kush.
Frederick drank a bottle of Rebi in one go, and then said to the worker next to him: "Okay, let's start assembling the fan."
He was in Weiwei The parts repair shop for Sylvain's steam tractors is located behind the "4S shop" in Port Bosai. There is a lathe driven by a steam engine and a lot of parts, which is enough for trouble.
At this moment, the distinguished guest arrived.
Mrs. Sophie walked in wearing a light blue robe. When she saw Frederick, she said: "I should have thought that you would be here, making it easy for me to find you. No need to salute."
There were several workers from the Kingdom of Kush in the workshop, who were about to salute the Queen Mother, but were stopped.
Mrs. Sophie asked her men to wait outside and walked into the workshop.
Frederick did not stay away from her, and said with a smile: "If you quarrel all the time, I will come out and walk around."
Hayreddin's battle plan stirred up a thousand waves, with some in favor and many opposed. The young king agreed in his heart, but did not express his position easily, so the quarrel lasted for three days and three nights.
Frederick did not interfere in their decision-making, so he ran out to play.
"You continue to be busy, don't worry about me." Mrs. Sophie stood aside and watched the fun, "Isn't the girl I assigned you beautiful enough to come to such a hot place?"
< br>Frederick worked with a steam engine technician from Wesson to assemble the machine and said at the same time: "I found that many people couldn't afford an air conditioner, so I decided to produce a cheap machine that could blow air for people who could afford it. Quite a bit."
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 to go. Yes, I sent people to the river to ask the fishermen but they didn’t see you.”
Frederick smiled and said: "I came here for tourism. I originally wanted to see you quietly before leaving, so as not to make it known to everyone."
Mrs. Sophie had nothing to say to him. After a while, he said: "Go home for dinner tonight, just my family, no one else."
Frederick agreed.
After Mrs. Sophie finished speaking, she did not leave, but watched him playing with various parts.
What Frederick wanted to do was very simple. He used 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. It can be driven by burning 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 deposition if it is burned.
Don’t even think about using it to drive a vehicle for now, but you can still drive the fan blades to blow the air.
The parts had 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 were cut by Frederick himself from a local light-weight wood, and the outer cover was simply bent out of rattan.
Frederick asked someone to drill holes in the bottom of an iron cup and put wood on it to use as a heat source. Not long after he placed it under the hot cylinder, the fan blades began to rotate rapidly.
Mrs. Sophie has been watching from the side. After the fan started to turn, she stood in front. The wind blew her robe and headscarf flying back.
“The wind is quite strong!” She was a little surprised, “It looks like it shouldn’t be expensive.”
Frederick said with a smile: “This fan is just a principle model, and it is far from the real thing. There is still a long way to go before mass production can be achieved.”
"I plan to build a factory here specifically to produce this, and the profit distribution can be discussed."
Mrs. Sophie was about to agree, but suddenly thought of something, and said to him: "Go and discuss this matter with Yi Wen now." Say it, he is the king."
Frederick responded and said to the technician on the side: "This machine will be tried here first. After a while, the trial report, drawings and machine will be sent back to Austria. Meite, he will arrange it."
"When the fans are put into the market, everyone who participates in these two days will receive fifty units."
Then he pointed at the technician and said. : "Padlovan, you contributed the most, with 100 units."
The technician named Padlovan immediately replied energetically: "Principal, I will definitely do a good job in testing and personally hand over the report, drawings and machine to Professor Omet!"
Fitter Lie nodded, and then left with Mrs. Sophie.
In order to thank Frederick, Mrs. Sophie prepared a family dinner. Frederick held Amir and sat on the carpet with Yi Wen and Simi. There was a small low table in the middle. , topped with a fruit platter and drinks.
Amir and Frederick were very close and they had a great time playing together.
Mrs. Sophie went to the kitchen to cook herself, leaving space for the young people. Yi Wen is not much older than Frederick. His black hair is tied into a spiral braid and hangs down his head. His eyes are golden like Mrs. Sophie, but darker.
The young king looked a little haggard. After greetings and courtesy, he asked Frederick directly: "How feasible is the plan you proposed through Hayreddin?"
As soon as he talked about it Getting down to business, Simi immediately left Yi Wen's side and knelt down behind him.
Frederick could understand his pressure. This was a gamble on the fate of the country. If he won, he would be able to recover tens of thousands of square kilometers of land. If he lost, it would 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 capabilities, logistics capabilities, intelligence collection and analysis capabilities of your two armies. , no further judgment can be made.”
"But I can share some of my experiences when commanding operations."
"When planning a war, don't first think about how to win, first think about what factors will lead to failure. These factors of failure Can it be solved, or prevent it from being caught by the enemy?"
"When making plans before going to war, you must treat the enemy as the smartest person in the world, who can discover your own flaws, and cannot deceive yourself and treat them as fools. . ”
“The plan must have a way to deal with it in case of failure, so that you will not be at a loss when the time comes.”
“There is a limit to what a person’s head can think of. The commander-in-chief needs to use everyone’s intelligence.”
"If your subordinate has proven his ability and is worthy of trust, then trust him and don't easily interfere with his specific operations."
"Your confidence and goals must be firm and cannot be changed easily, and cannot be changed just because of a little Give up if you encounter setbacks, otherwise your subordinates will be at a loss.”
“Our most important role in the war is to control the direction and make the final decision based on what we think is most appropriate.”< br>
Yi Wen was embarrassed after hearing this. At first, he thought that Frederick, who had won many wars, would give some secrets to victory, but he didn't expect that they were all clichés.
Frederick saw what he was thinking and just smiled and continued to play with Amir's face.
Young people always think about the secret to achieve quick results, are constantly looking for shortcuts, and want to achieve results beyond what they have done before.
Some things can only be understood after living for a long time. For example, those commonplace things can be passed down precisely because they are useful. You have to fall down a few times to realize this.
Soon after, Mrs. Sophie brought the dishes to the table with her servants.
The main course was a large platter of roasted venison and offal, 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 then steamed.
The soup is made with goose meat as the main ingredient, plus herbs, fried garlic and parsley.
Vegetables were the way Frederick liked to eat them. Cut the leaves and blanch them in boiling water, then take them out and mix them with olive oil, salt, a little oyster sauce and soy sauce.
The conversation between Frederick and Yi Wen just reached the ears of Mrs. Sophie through the servants. After everyone started eating, she said to Yi Wen unceremoniously: "Look, what I said to you , what Frederick said to you, and what Hayredin and the others said to you are basically the same."
"I should have taken you out to sea and let you experience firsthand what it is like to be in a storm. Everything in the world has its own laws and will not change due to personal thoughts."
She also fought with the wind and waves on the sea, and when she came back, she killed her political opponents and turned them into rivers of blood. She became a cruel person. The boy calmed down Yi Wen.
Mrs. Sophie continued: "You must have read the letters Susan sent you many times in the past few years. There are some things that Frederick said and did. I don't know if you have read them into your mind."
“If you continue to do your trick of ‘I don’t want you to think, I want me to think’, and don’t learn from Frederick’s pragmatism, in the end I won’t be able to help you.”
“Not long ago you I thought that the Ghazi Empire’s Imperial Guard had been defeated and the emperor had been replaced, 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 his authority. What did you say at that time?”
“ Well now, the 300,000-strong army is right across the way. You don’t even know when they started to prepare and assemble. You didn’t even know that the army had reached the border until your son was stolen.”
“ Stop talking. The more you talk, the more angry you become. Let’s eat.”
The area around the dining table suddenly became quiet, except for the sound of Simi feeding Amir rice cereal with minced meat and vegetable minced.
It was difficult for Frederick to say anything. At this time, he already understood that he had become "someone else's child" when Mrs. Sophie was training her son. If he said anything else at this time, it might be counterproductive to irritate Yi Wen.
He was thinking at the same time, I'm afraid it's not easy to talk about the fan factory in the near future, so let's talk about it later, it will take some time anyway.
As for Yi Wen’s reaction after being scolded by his mother this time, Frederick could not predict it.
But he also thought about finding another basket to put his eggs in the south.
(End of this chapter)