Struggle in Russia

Yerofei was like a heartless scumbag, venting all his grievances and dissatisfaction on his assistant, or his apprentice Vasily Guryevich. He took it for granted that if it wasn't for Vasily Guryevich's little note, he would never be as passive as he is now.

so. It was all Vasily Guryevich's fault, it was this little bastard who led him to the pit.

If it weren't for the occasion where everyone was watching, Ye Luofei would definitely raise his hand and slap his mouth a few times. For traditional and rigid Russians, assistants or apprentices are like serfs at home and can be cleaned up as they like.

Unfortunately, there are too many people watching here. Yerofei could only suppress his full-bodied roar, glared at Vasily Gurievich, and scolded him to vent his anger.

To be honest, this made Ye Luofei very unhappy, and felt that there was smoke in his seven orifices. The problem is that Vasily Gurievich was actually even more upset. It was obviously not his fault. He reminded Yerofei that he was not making him question whether the iron-hulled boat could float, but this old-fashioned old thing messed up everything by himself. But the head turned to him to vent, you think he can not be angry!

Vasily Guryevich really wanted to walk away, really wanted to never see Yerofei's face again. However, he can only think about it. In very traditional Russia, in the circle of craftsmen, the relationship between master and apprentice is the most important and special relationship.

No one will use an apprentice who does not respect the master, no one will give him a job opportunity, no matter how powerful he is, it is useless, the door will be closed to him forever.

Therefore, in order to live a good life, for the younger brothers and sisters in the family to have enough to eat, and to learn a craft, no matter how many grievances he suffered from Ye Luofei, he could only endure it.

Vasily Guryevich lowered his head, tightly suppressing his resentment and anger in his chest, trying not to look at Yerofei's disgusting face, and trying his best to endure all insults until the old thing had vented.

Ye Luofei finally finished cursing, it wasn't that he was venting his anger, in fact, whenever he saw an apprentice who bowed his head and said nothing, he felt annoyed. This is what he hated Vasily Gurievich the most—this little bastard thought that he kept his head down and didn't speak, so he didn't know that the little bastard was full of anger!

Ye Luofei knew exactly what his apprentice was thinking, and he was furious about it. He naturally thought that he could insult Vasily Gurievich at will, which was his natural right as a master. And the apprentice can only bear it, and no complaints are allowed.

Vasily Guryevich dared to be dissatisfied! To Yerofei, this was treason, so he secretly decided to postpone Vasily Gurievich's departure date for at least another year as punishment.

What made Yerofei stop his abuse was that the inquiry session had to go on,

If he didn't continue to question, Li Xiao would be able to go home as a victor in a fair manner. In that case, Ye Luofei would really become a laughing stock.

Ye Luofei threatened loudly: "Think about it quickly, what other problems can confuse that bastard grand duke, you all don't want to be a teacher!"

Vasily Guryevich glanced at Yerofei resentfully, and his hatred for this narrow-minded, old-fashioned and old-fashioned master who had no real skills increased. But he knew that Ye Luofei was absolutely doing what he said. There was a brother who corrected the old man's little mistakes, but he was hated for three years, and he was an apprentice for eight years before he was allowed to leave the teacher.

Vasily Guryevich didn't want to be a cow to Yerofei anymore, not even for one more day. He gritted his teeth and said, "Master, there is absolutely no solution to the problem of the iron-hulled ship's magnetic compass!"

When Vasily Gurievich interrupted, Yerofei was going to scold him again immediately, and he hated this apprentice who came up with bad ideas. But after the other party finished speaking, Ye Luofei's eyes lit up again. This is indeed a good question, great!

However, Yerofei still didn't give Vasily Gurievich a good face. He taught him a lesson: "You traitor! Why didn't you say it earlier, did you deliberately want to make me look ugly!"

Vasily Guryevich was scolded again, but he was used to it. His master was just such a scumbag with no humanity at all.

However, Ye Luofei no longer cared about continuing to teach Vasily Guryevich a lesson. He rushed back to the center of the stage, ready to use the ammunition given by Vasily Guryevich to knock Li Xiao down in one fell swoop.

"Even if an iron-hulled ship can be built, it is absolutely impossible to develop too much. This kind of ship has natural flaws that cannot be overcome, and the iron-hulled ship will greatly interfere with the use of the magnetic compass... Without the magnetic compass, How do our ships navigate the vast sea? Can we spend huge sums of money to build ships that can only stay on the shore forever!"

Is Yerofei's question justified? Truth be told, there are. Iron products are ferromagnetic and do interfere with magnetic compasses. Especially in the early 19th century, this problem was almost unsolvable.

Therefore, people were able to build iron-hulled ships in 1815, but it took another fifty years for iron-hulled ships to gradually become the mainstream. The key problem is its interference to the magnetic compass. Back then, there was no satellite positioning system, and the magnetic compass was the most important navigation device. Who dares to sail without it?

So this attack point is so powerful that even Li Xiao couldn't help giving Vasily Guryevich a high look. Yes, he saw all of Ye Luofei's performance just now, and knew that this old guy had no skills, and the one who had skills or a bit of common sense was his apprentice.

"Your Excellency, why are you silent? You, who advocate building iron-hulled ships, haven't thought of this question, have you? You don't know such a simple common sense question, do you?"

Li Xiao felt a little funny, this poor old man was resurrected with full blood, he was just like a lost dog just now, he really is a villain.

Ye Luofei was still going to continue to sarcasm, while Tolstoy and Alexei who were watching were secretly worried about Li Xiao. But Li Xiao was still so calm, he smiled slightly and said:

"The reason why I don't speak is because of your ignorance. I thought that as a senior naval designer, you should have a broad international perspective. Tsk tsk, what I didn't expect is that you are so...so closed, almost do not know anything!"

Ye Luofei became angry, and shouted: "Don't talk about him, I will ask you how to solve the problem of iron-clad ships interfering with the magnetic compass! Answer quickly!"

Li Xiao looked at the distraught Ye Luofei, sneered, and asked, "Colonel Fezinov, do you know George Ally?"