Lord of Industrialization

In late April, it began to rain more in the Osmaga Empire, and the water level and flow rate of the Danube River increased a lot.

A huge fleet of ships sailed down the river, attracting countless people to stop and watch on the shore when passing through the city of Venn. Even His Majesty Emperor Ferdinand stared at a turret on the riverside for a long time.

The entire Wesson Army began to specialize in a skill that left Frederick speechless - pretense.

When the fleet passed the imperial capital, everyone lined up on both sides of the ship and wore gas masks, even the horses on the deck.

For this reason, Frederick ordered on the intercom with a dark face: Whoever is pretending to be a gas mask with a filter element in the canister will be responsible for digging and filling the toilet.

According to the sanitary regulations of the Weisen Army, the pits in the field toilets must be filled when they are almost full, and they must be stepped on to ensure that they will not sink. The first one or two stepped on often lead to accidents.

There is no way, why are there so many toxicologists in Constantbul? The poison filter canister has a service life and cannot be wasted.

"What kind of boat is that?"

Ferdinand's voice sounded buzzing as he spoke wearing a gas mask.

The emperor has been interested in this kind of armor for a long time. After trying it out personally, he decided to buy one. He also thought it was quite fun and often wore it to play with.

It’s just that the price offered by Frederick was 10 times the internal purchase price, but it was eventually reduced to 7 times under the firepower of sugar-coated bullets sent by the emperor.

Now His Majesty saw a strange boat with a waterwheel on both sides of the boat and no mast, so he asked: "Is that a water mill?"

In some rivers where the water level changes greatly, some people install waterwheel mills on boats, so that the waterwheel can work at different water levels.

Frederick smiled and replied: "That is the 'Flying Tulip', a steam engine ship built for sea navigation and transportation. This ship can sail when there is no wind. This time I stopped by the sea to have a look."

Ferdinand took off his gas mask and looked at the ship seriously. Without the two wheels and putting the mast back on, it would look similar to an ordinary 500-ton ship.

Before he could finish reading, five more ships without sails and "waterwheels" at the stern followed.

"Did you move the magic crystal cannon onto the ship?" Ferdinand suddenly noticed the big pipe in front of the ship.

"How can I afford a magic crystal cannon?" Frederick's answer made the people around him roll their eyes. "It's just a large pea gun that hits rocks. It can only hold one rock at a time."

"These were originally river transport ships. This time we took them with us in order to smash the city wall of Constantbul. It would be great if we could get there safely."

The situation at sea is different from that on inland rivers. It is very dangerous for inland river boats to sail on the sea, but he has no choice this time, because in the first battle, he needs to capture a port and put people down.

Ferdinand could still understand what he said, but the next two ships were strange.

The bottom of the ship looks like a ship like the Flying Tulip, but above it is a large flat deck supported by pillars that covers the entire ship.

"What kind of ship is this?" Ferdinand thought for a while but couldn't figure it out.

Frederick replied calmly: "The Lexington and Saratoga are fishing boats."

Everyone knows that he is lying, but most people can't figure out why.

Mary thought for a moment and realized that she was from the Fire Dragon Knights: "This is for your Dawn."

Frederick immediately said to her: "You are so smart!"

This is a fool's errand.

With the current level of Wesson, there is no problem with paddle steamers for inland rivers. If there was no war this time, the several inland river cargo ships would have been put on display.

As for sea-going ships, there were still some problems with the development of propellers, and the waterproofing of the shaft passing through the bottom of the ship was even more problematic, so Frederick asked the shipyard to try to develop paddle steamers and modify them on sea-going ships first.

Dragaces's ship arrived the next day, so he could dock and bring a group of former loyal ministers of the East Puran Empire to visit Ferdinand.

Ferdinand welcomed Prince Dragaces as an emperor and presented a box of gold coins as military expenses for the restoration of the country.

The huge fleet passed by, followed by two new ships.

Mary and her fire dragon joined the fleet at the end, and Frederick took to the air on Dawn, carrying the newly joined Eugene behind him, and finally landed on the Flying Tulip.

This was the flagship of the operation and the staff was also located here.

Frederick grabbed a random person and asked him to take Eugene to report to Helmut, while he went to the captain's cabin.

"How's the boat?" Frederick asked, closing the door and locking it.

In the captain's cabin, a girl with short blond hair was reading a report. When she saw Frederick coming in, a bright smile appeared on her face.

"Ah, you are back!" Lilu stood up suddenly.

After studying with Baron Adicon for many years, Lilu thought she could be a captain. When she came to Weisenburg to find Frederick, she happened to catch up with the newly refitted ship on trial in the University Lake, so Frederick decided to promised to give the boat to her.

Once she learned how to maneuver the boat, she caught up with the operation.

"There is something wrong." Lilu said to Frederick. "In the past few days, it seems that the water wheel has been entangled in debris from time to time. It is a bit troublesome to clean, and it almost got tangled on the shaft. The temperature of the chain is a bit high, and the lubricating oil is consumed. It’s a little bigger. And... babbling... it’s annoying, it can’t be done now!”

"Just a hug." Frederick sat on her chair and hugged her over. He gently held her waist with one hand and took yesterday's daily maintenance list with the other hand.

Frederick only proposed a draft design of the paddle steamer. The specific technical details were completed by shipyard technicians and teachers and students of Weissenburg University. He would not point out the problems unless they were serious.

Nowadays, the four 50-horsepower steam engines of the paddle steamer are set up in the bottom cabin of the ship, which was originally the position of the ballast stone. They are connected to the water wheel through the main shaft, gears and large chains. The high temperature of the chain and the rapid consumption of lubricating oil are probably caused by differences in the working environment. of.

He had no choice but to install some blades near the main shaft and use the power of the water wheel to chop them up.

What Lilu didn't have time to mention was the ventilation problem. The temperature in the cabin was a bit high, the humidity was high, and the original ventilation ducts were not enough.

She asked the carpenters on the ship to open two vent pipes in places that would not affect the hull structure, and then installed exhaust hoods from the spare parts warehouse.

After reading all the maintenance records and voyage logs, Frederick was quite satisfied with the ship and even more satisfied with Lilu's management. He couldn't help but hold her hand tighter.

Weissen's fleet sailed down the river without any hindrance, except for a fight that broke out when they docked at Buda City for supplies.