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The night breeze is slow, and the shallow waves are long.

The sea in Muscat has a warm and humid climate. Even in the cold winter, you can't feel the bitterness that winter night should be. Everything is so pleasant.

A gentleman’s evening tea party is being held on the Valkyrie. A dozen wind lanterns illuminate the square inch of the bow of the ship, and several sofas are placed in a semicircle facing the lightless and unfired harbour of Matola.

Lorraine poured tea for Manager Baker himself and raised his hand.

"The boat is simple and simple. Although the ratio of the blending is okay, the people who blend it are rough-handed sailors. I often say that they even have sea salt in their fingers, and they are a bit salty in everything they do. ."

Manager Baker took a nice sip, tasted it for a long time, and exhaled for a long time.

"It is the taste of the south of the motherland, the fascinating calmness and tranquility, and the president's requirements for tea are too harsh."

"England, only tea and breakfast can't be served."

"really."

In the other corner, Carmen held a tea cup with restraint, behind which stood the little Sharon with a lady's dovetail, and next to her Spanish fellow Mr. Mombardi sat.

Mr. Mombardi sighed: “Manager Xavier’s situation is really enviable. At a young age, he is in charge of the steering wheel in a super chamber of commerce like Drake, not to mention that you are so beautiful.”

"I often wonder, to what extent can the Lord's preference for people reach? If you want to come, it is difficult to exceed yours."

"That's because I met a president who is not capable of judging men and women, Mr. Mombardi." Carmen smiled and put down his teacup. "You should know that if I were in Spain, besides being an embellishment of a certain gentleman's social scene, Nothing can be done."

"It's the same in France," Mr. Ilic interrupted.

At this moment Melidori laughed three times with complacency: "That's why Mr. Drake should have been born in Holland. Everyone knows that Holland is the beacon of freedom!"

"I think the Netherlands is a beacon of self-righteousness..." Ilic murmured, facing Carmen, "Manager Xavier, the evening tea in England is delicious, but I want to know the roots of Mr. Drake's generosity. "

"You don't look like a French gentleman, old friend." It was Melidori again, his big belly seemed to never hide in his heart, "Tonight there is the richest young man in the world, and the most powerful Spanish beauty in the world. , There are the financial agent of the King in Africa, as well as our friends. Does it have to have a clear theme? No, we just need to enjoy it!"

Illich would especially want to tear Melidore's stinky mouth, but his cultivation made him hold back.

He smiled awkwardly: "Mr. Melidori said what I felt, but unfortunately, I still carry the expectations of the employer. If it is convenient for Manager Xavier..."

"In fact, I am also curious about how the Ibista Chamber of Commerce sent Mr. Melidori to participate in this study tour. His character is very bold, and he should be more suitable to be an admiral, and he will definitely become an excellent admiral."

Carmen covered his mouth, eyes curled.

"But there is really no clear theme tonight. It's just that Muscat has arranged a performance, and the president knows that you will definitely be awakened. In that case, it is better for everyone to get together and chat for a while, and when the performance is over, you will fall asleep. It will be especially sweet at times."

"Performance?" Mombardi frowned. "The Sultan is going to abandon his capital? Or are the Omanis dying to struggle? I remember that their fleet has sunk into the sea, right? Even their admiral has become your chamber of commerce. Slave..."

"Does the show stop at naval battles, maybe land?" Carmen asked rhetorically.

"On land?"

The three gentlemen wanted to dig into the question. Little Sharron snapped his pocket watch on and leaned into Carmen's ear and said something softly.

Carmen nodded to Lorraine and stood up: "Gentlemen, the Muscat show is about to begin. Please move the ship's side. The view there is better..."

...

Top of Mirani Castle.

Acharin drew a wind lantern and drew a complicated curve on the board.

"wind direction."

"The wind is northwest, 3.5 knots, no problem."

"Heaven."

"With few clouds, there is no risk of rain within two hours."

"It seems that God has intervened tonight, and the scheduled rain has been cancelled." Yacharin sneered, "Send the order, all guns are ready, solid bullets are loaded, and the firing angle is 25 to 30 degrees free, facing west."

"The angle is 25 to 30 degrees free, facing west, and the distance is 2000 to 3000. The target port of Matola, berths and coastal fort, without difference coverage."

"Open the gun suit!"

"Debug the artillery!"

"Commander, cancel the test firing, and fire all three shots!"

"After blast shooting, the group will be transferred to suppression in advance, and the shooting order will be one group, two groups, three groups, four groups! Within the group, the shooting interval is 2 minutes, and the interval between the groups is 30 seconds."

"The planned shelling time is three hours, and each gun is assigned a rotation sequence!"

"preparation!"

Acharin snapped his pocket watch away, and beside him, the second gunner Kerry and the messengers also opened the pocket watch at the same time.

Pocket watches in this period are still far from being able to accurately time, and it is normal for an error of more than ten minutes a day to occur.

But they also have their own method, which is to set benchmarks and use the pocket watch as a stopwatch.

Just listen to Yacharin said: "Based on my time, gentlemen, a three-minute countdown."

His order was quickly communicated to the entire roof.

Seeing that the order has been issued, the Kerry thief smiled and leaned forward: "Chief Cannon, don't you tell us about today?"

"Nowadays?"

"You have taught us that uninspired operation is mediocre and boring. Such a gunner can't hit the heart-shaking soul directly. Sooner or later, it will be replaced by machinery."

"I even heard the chief mate say that the Maritime Group has begun to study semi-automatic steam guns for supplying bombs, debugging, firing, and cleaning. Once they are on board..."

"Are you worried?" Yacharin lifted his eyes and glanced at his deputy. "There are things that don't even have a shadow, and the technicians are really not suitable for staying with the crew."

He stood up while he was talking, put aside the drawing board, and walked straight to the west edge of the castle.

"Steam guns came from the admiral's suggestion, but they have never been applied to the front muffler plan. They are paired with the breech artillery that is also in the development stage. They also have a common premise, the steam warship plan."

"This plan is the focus of the future research of the Miami Center. It involves a lot of manpower and material resources of the entire Chamber of Commerce. Because it has not been officially launched, many members have not even been notified."

"Like you." Yacharin narrowed his mouth. "You belong to the fire control project. When the theory construction starts, there will be a special notice to you."

"Theory...the theory?" Kerry blinked his innocent eyes. "Chief Cannon, I was on a warship when I was young. I only learned writing and calculation from the Pansy. Theory..."

"I don't know anything, or learn from scratch." Today's Yacharin is rare and serious. "When the admiral put forward this plan, he told us that the future merchant ships and warships will become two completely different species. "

"It's like our proud Valkyrie. Just put on the iron armor, you can easily challenge the Portuguese navigators."

"Future warships will completely abandon wood, iron floating islands will float on the sea, steam will replace the wind as the source of power, and the current artillery will pose no threat to them."

"Merchant ships are not like this. The cost of steam iron ships is too high, but their carrying capacity will not be qualitatively improved. They will still be wood. In order to protect themselves at sea, they can only be faster, faster, and even the current ones. The direct fleet is beyond the reach!"

"That may be a hundred years from now. But who knows? It may only take fifty, thirty years..."

He turned his head back sharply, staring at Kerry like a beast.

"I don't know anything, or learn from scratch!"

"The admiral has passed a resolution on the board of directors. Drake must become the world's first chamber of commerce with the corresponding technology~lightnovelpub.net~ whether it is a speeding merchant ship, a steam-propelled iron island, or those that can catch a spacecraft, The new type of artillery that sank the Iron Island."

"That will bring us inexhaustible resources and money, and an honorable position comparable to the king."

"But we can't do this with the boat builders and nerds alone. They don't understand the ocean, and we understand it."

"I don't know anything or learn from the beginning, Kerry, you have been ruined by a steam engine once in your life. If you don't want to be ruined a second time, just join in..."

"Report! Five minutes is over, everyone is ready!"

Not far away, the messenger shouted hoarse.

Yacharin sneered away from the broken hair on his forehead, and ordered the night wind: "The covered bombardment of the port of Matola begins. Gentlemen, Omanis need to know that times are changing."

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