Struggle in Russia

Just when Yerofei scratched his head and was at a loss, someone pulled the hem of his clothes, and saw his young assistant Vasily Gurievich push a piece of paper in front of him with the words " — iron ship.

Immediately, Ye Luofei's eyes lit up, how could he forget this bad point. That's right, just attack this point directly, isn't someone who strongly supports the Iron Ship, and just hit you from here.

Ye Luofei immediately cleared his throat and said loudly: "The reliability of the steamship may have been improved, but as far as I know, Your Excellency the Grand Duke, you are not supporting ordinary steamships, you are quite supportive of steam iron ships, right?"

Li Xiao replied calmly: "Yes. What's your question?"

"Is there a problem?" Ye Luofei immediately said in an extremely exaggerated tone, as if he saw aliens and idiots exaggeratedly: "Is this just a problem? Your Excellency, I really doubt whether you have A little common sense? Building ships out of iron? Haha, this is the funniest joke of the century!"

Ha ha! Ha ha!

Ye Luofei laughed exaggeratedly on purpose, as if he wanted to stir up the emotions of the audience, but the audience didn't particularly buy it, except for the apprentices and accomplices Ye Luofei brought who laughed a few times, most of them remained calm Onlookers.

Li Xiao curled his lips and asked speechlessly, "What's so funny?"

Ye Luofei's eyes widened and he taunted with exaggerated body language: "Are you really stupid or pretending to be confused, don't you know that iron is heavier than water, and it can't float at all!"

As he said that, he turned to the auditorium, and sarcastically said: "Gentlemen, look, this is the bad influence I mentioned before. It ignores reality and blatantly violates common sense. If this continues, I don't know if there will be more people." How many crazy words are said, how can this be allowed, how can you let it go!"

The audience whispered and seemed to agree with this, but they still maintained restraint, because Li Xiao's mood was too stable, so calm that it was a little scary.

Can Li Xiao not be calm? Before, he thought that Ye Luofei’s attack on iron-built ships could be a bit of a novel and clever argument. Who would have thought that it would be so disappointing, and he would use the old-fashioned medieval argument that iron can’t float. This guy came from the grave Did you dig it out?

Ye Luofei laughed wantonly for a while, and felt that he had already secured the victory, and it was time to flog the corpse. He thought that Li Xiao would be clumsy, flustered and bewildered, but who would have thought that the other party would be like a normal person.

[As expected of the royal family, you have such a thick skin! 】

Yerofei just wanted to continue laughing,

Li Xiao suddenly said: "Do you understand the most basic principles of physics? Or to put it simply, do you understand buoyancy?"

Ye Luofei was taken aback, and was about to say that he understood it very well, but Li Xiao didn't give him a chance to speak at all: "What you said just now is a joke, steel will definitely sink to the bottom of the water? Are you still living in the Middle Ages? Don't you Did you know that iron-hulled ships were built in Britain in 1815? Don’t you know that the number of iron-hulled ships has been increasing day by day in recent years?”

Li Xiao snorted contemptuously, pointed at Ye Luofei's nose and said, "In my opinion, you are not competent at all as a designer. You don't understand the most basic physical principles, and you don't understand the world's shipbuilding technology. This is the biggest joke, although it is not funny at all, it is very sad!"

Li Xiao reprimanded: "If the designers of our navy are like you, I can't even imagine the gap between us and the UK. If this continues, our navy will be finished!"

Yerofei's mind was buzzing, what did he hear just now? The iron-hulled ship was built? Made in 1815? How can this be?

Ye Luofei really wanted to say that Li Xiao was lying, but the other party's confident appearance would not lie, so it might be true! But how is that possible?

For a moment, Ye Luofei felt that his world view had collapsed, and his whole body was completely shattered. Li Xiao, on the other hand, would not let go of the opportunity to beat the dog in the water. He walked up to Leonid, took the materials handed over by the other party, and then went to the audience to distribute them one by one:

"Gentlemen, this is the relevant information on iron-hulled ships abroad. You can see that Liverpool built the iron-hulled ship Tipton in 1815, and then in 1820 the French built the iron-hulled sea-going ship Aaron Manby. In 1830 the iron paddle steamer Gary Owen was also put into operation."

Li Xiao sneered at Ye Luofei, and said mockingly: "However, even today, at the end of 1847, there are still people in our country who doubt whether iron-hulled ships can float. How foolish they are! And such people are still in our navy. The designer of the ship? Ridiculous, pathetic!"

Ye Luofei was already sweating profusely at this time, and his mind was full of: 【Who am I? where am I? What am I doing? 】

This poor old man has been completely sculpted out of sand, and he just stood there speechless, making people laughable and pitiful. It's just that Li Xiao didn't mean to sympathize with him at all. The poor man must have something to hate. Although this old man is not the chief culprit, he is also an accomplice. Li Xiao will not be polite to enemies.

But just when Li Xiao was about to whip the corpse, little Rumyantsev, who had said nothing and did nothing when Ye Luofei was blaspheming, suddenly spoke.

"Your Excellency, I once again warn you to pay attention to your wording. In my opinion, what you just said is an extremely irresponsible attack and slander. It will never be tolerated. If you continue to be so presumptuous, I can only ask you to go out!"

Call!

The booing sounded immediately, and anyone with a discerning eye could see that Rumyantsev Jr. was pulling aside. When Ye Luofei satirized and attacked Li Xiao before, Rumyantsev Jr. pretended to be deaf and dumb, and Li Xiao slightly If you fight back and tell the truth, you won't be able to tolerate it. What kind of shit is this!

Little Rumyantsev knocked heavily on the table and shouted: "Silence! Silence immediately! Anyone who makes noise will be expelled!"

It took a lot of effort for Rumyantsev Jr. to control the situation, but even so, the situation was extremely bad for Yerofei and his like. After being hit head-on in a row, it is almost defeated. If there is no improvement in the future, I really lost my pants.

"How to do how to do?"

Ye Luofei's forehead was covered with cold sweat. Just now he took the time to glance at Grand Duke Constantine, and the other's eyes almost burst into flames. One can imagine how angry he was. But the question is, how to turn it around? I have no idea at all!

"Teacher, I think iron ships still have something to do..."

Before Vasily Guryevich finished speaking, Yerofei sprayed his face: "The fart article is all your bad idea just now, otherwise I would be in such a mess! You idiot made me miserable!"