Listening to Mr. Zhao linking his lifelong ambitions with mining, Shikanosuke said with some disappointment:

"But eight years is too long..."

"Then try to shorten it, Jinjiro." Young Master Zhao encouraged him, "You must believe that scientific management can stimulate people's potential. You must believe that people's potential is infinite. If you feel the limit, then recruit more miners. Believe me, you can continue to significantly increase production... Oh, I mean, shorten the time to reach 20 million taels."

"Yes, I will work hard!" Kanosuke nodded heavily. It seems that the best way is to continue mining, dig more and dig faster!

"By the way," Young Master Zhao asked casually, "The Tango navy that caused trouble in the western Japan Sea is now under the control of the Amago family, right?"

"Yes, they are the last resort of the Amago Army." Kanosuke knew that he could not hide anything from Master Zhao, so he answered honestly: "But after the establishment of the Marine Police Bureau, except for cooperating with the Celestial Empire in one operation, they have never gone out to sea again. They have been anchored on the Oki Island and dare not make any trouble."

"Is that so?" Young Master Zhao nodded and did not continue the topic. How could the wise, great and glorious Young Master Zhao say that he would let the Tango navy attack Busan? Even if he wanted to hint, he had to let his subordinates do it...

~~

After saying goodbye to Master Zhao's residence, Kanosuke and Amako Katsuhisa prepared to leave the bastion.

When going downstairs, because the stairs were steep, Kanosuke raised his arm and asked Nizi Shengjiu to hold his arm.

Nizi's face turned slightly red, but she still obediently held Kanosuke's arm and slowly walked down the stairs.

"Don't you want to know what we talked about?" Kanosuke asked in Japanese after leaving the bastion.

Nizi Shengjiu shook his head slightly, smiled and said: "Anyway, everything is decided by Onii-chan, so I won't bother with it."

"Alas, you. You are about to become a genfu master, but you are still like a child who has not grown up." Kanosuke smiled helplessly, his eyes full of doting.

"I don't want to wear Genfu. The topknot is so ugly." Nizi Shengjiu covered his hair with a look of fear and said, "Onii-chan won't like me if I do that."

"Fool, you can officially take on the responsibility of the head of the family after you come of age." Upon hearing this, Kanosuke was furious and said, "If you forget the mission of restoring Niko, I would rather commit suicide!"

"Oh..." Nizi was frightened and nodded with tears in her eyes: "Then I will be obedient."

"Ah..." Kanosuke reached out to wipe his tears, and saw that his bangs really set off his delicate face. He couldn't help but said, "Forget it, it's okay to come of age a few years later. Anyway, he's been mining these few years and can't leave Onsenzu."

"Yeah!" Nizi nodded happily as if she had been pardoned, and tightly held Kanosuke's arm and said, "Onii-chan is the best!"

On the third floor of the bastion, Sister Ma felt a chill and whispered, "The Japanese are so shameless and don't know how to cover up."

"Hahaha, you don't know this, right? This is called 'Zhu Dao', a belief deeper than 'Bushi Dao', and a love more solid than 'husband and wife love'!" Zhao Hao held her slender waist and said with a smile: "It says that once two people fall in love with each other, they must swear to never change their 'brother' like a heroine. It is a great sacrifice made by the daimyos of the Warring States Period to strengthen the unity within the samurai group and build an unbreakable relationship of courtesy and righteousness!"

For example, Oda Nobunaga and Uesugi Kenshin, two cross-dressing masters in the Japanese Warring States Period, both have tragic stories of love between the common people.

Sister Ma became alert upon hearing this, worrying that he was planning to bypass Lianli Company and find another way out?

Or is this a threat to force Lianli Company to give in?

No, I can't make the decision on my own on such a big matter. Can we have a special discussion on this at the next company meeting?

But now the shareholders are scattered all over the world, when can they gather together?

~~

After finishing his business, in the evening, Master Zhao enthusiastically took a hot spring bath with his sisters.

This was their second time taking a hot spring bath in Japan. Compared to the shyness and nervousness they felt the first time, Sister Qiaoqiao finally enjoyed it this time and was so engrossed in the bath that she didn't want to move her fingers anymore.

I don’t know what was wrong with Sister Ma. She asked for everything she wanted that night and she didn’t even want to move her fingers in the end.

~~

Early the next morning, Master Zhao left Wenquanjin and continued his inspection tour northward.

Three days later, the trial fleet arrived at the Lightning Island Water Police Station thousands of miles away.

The so-called Lightning Island is Sado Island, which is slightly smaller than Kunshan County. There are two parallel mountain ranges in the north and south, the northern one is the Great Sado Mountain Range with a main peak of more than 1,000 meters, and the southern one is the shorter Small Sado Mountain Range. Connecting these two mountain ranges, in the center is a fertile land called Kuninaka Plain, which covers an area of ​​more than 150 square kilometers and has many rivers, so rice can be grown.

Because the island was completely controlled by the Jiangnan Group, in order to completely erase the Japanese traces on the island, Master Zhao decided to rename it. Because the two mountain ranges and the central plain formed a lightning shape, Master Zhao renamed it Lightning Island. Zhao Hao also renamed the Kuninaka Plain on the island to the Jiangnan Plain, the Osado Mountains to the Da Zhuangyuan Mountains, and the Kosado Mountains to the Xiao Zhuangyuan Mountains.

Jin Ke and others thought that the top scholar must be Mr. Zhao Erye, and the second top scholar was the new top scholar Yu Shensi.

But Mr. Zhao said no, how could a master commemorate his disciple? And the little champion only refers to his father. As for the big champion, it was named after Chen, the champion who discovered the island...

After Jin Ke and his team returned, they asked people to do a thorough investigation, just to find out who this Chen champion was, so that they could erect a statue on the island. Unfortunately, his staff, who had studied, searched through piles of old papers and searched through more than a dozen Chen champions since the Tang Dynasty, but could not find a single one who had ever sailed...

After listening to the staff officer's report, Wang Rulong angrily said, "You lazy fellow, why don't you check further? There was the Han Dynasty before the Tang Dynasty!"

The staff officer whispered to him, but the imperial examinations had not been held before the Tang Dynasty...

Oh... Wang Rulong then kept silent.

So they still did not know the name that the island was named in honor of.

~~

The two mountain ranges and plains of Lightning Island each form a large bay. The one in the south is called Mano Bay and the one in the north is called Ryotsu Bay. Both can be used as seaport sites.

However, the northern Ryojin Bay does not have to face the impact of ocean currents, and its hydrological conditions are much better than those of Mano Bay. It also has a large lagoon, forming a perfect shelter, and its conditions are much better than those of Mano Bay. Therefore, although it has to bypass the Xiaozhuangyuan Mountains and travel more than a hundred miles, the group still set up the port here and renamed Ryojin Bay to Jiangnan Bay.

When the fleet rounded the cape lighthouse on the east coast, the huge fjord appeared in everyone's sight.

At the deepest part of the fjord there is an outlet to the sea no more than two kilometers away. When the fleet slowly sailed into the waterway formed by the remnants of the two mountains, it entered the magical lagoon.

On each ship, however, there was a busy and intense activity. All crew members, including the Marines, gathered at the stern and transferred the supplies that were to be unloaded to the stern.

"Is this a freshwater lake?" Master Zhao said happily upon seeing this.

"Yes, my lord, this is a lesson for us." Jin Ke nodded and said, "There is a pile of sand and gravel at the entrance of this lagoon, so the bottom of the ship is wide but the water depth is insufficient. When we first entered the port, the pilot boat measured and found that it was just right for entering the port, but our ship 202 still had a bow tilt, and the bottom of the ship scraped against the seabed. It took us half a year in the lake to repair it. After that, we added this rule to the manual."

This is the defect of the Dafu ship. The pointed bottom is too easy to be damaged. It is far less durable than the sand ship in the near sea and is not afraid of running aground.

"It's also my fault. I forgot to write this in the exercise manual." Master Zhao slapped his head. In fact, he had talked about buoyancy and center of buoyancy in the physics textbook. Unfortunately, it was a pity that it took time to explore how to link theory with practice.

"Why is it that the boat nods to a freshwater lake?" Qiaoqiao heard it and asked Secretary Ma in a low voice.

"According to the buoyancy theorem, when a ship moves from high-density seawater to low-density freshwater, the buoyancy will decrease, so the bow will sink." Sister Ma explained calmly, "And because the hull is pointed at the bow and fat at the stern, the center of buoyancy moves backward, which will aggravate the bow trim, so corresponding measures need to be taken to make the bow tilt up."

"Wow, sister, you are so awesome." Qiaoqiao's eyes were full of stars in admiration.

"It's all very simple knowledge. You can already read, so you can understand something by reading the popular science book "A Brief Introduction to Physics" written by the young master." Sister Ma gently pushed her gold-rimmed glasses and said, "I am proud of my knowledge."

"It's a pity that I still feel sleepy when I read..." Qiaoqiao put her index fingers together, feeling ashamed. "I have lowered the IQ of our entire company."

"What's the big deal? You've raised the altitude of the entire company." Sister Ma glanced at her chest with a smile and whispered to her, "This Sado Island... oh no, the hot springs on Lightning Island are also very famous."

"Ah? There's more?" Qiaoqiao's face immediately turned red, she covered her chest and said, "I won't flirt with you this time no matter what you say. You two are playing too shamelessly, I definitely won't accompany you again!"

"That won't do. If you're not here, what's the point?" Sister Ma held her arm, as if she was afraid that she would run away. Last time, Qiaoqiao was inconvenienced and she escaped. This time, she couldn't be allowed to escape again. This was a bad thing, and everyone had to do it before they could be assured!

~~

The fleet had been in and out of the lagoon many times and had accumulated rich experience. In addition, because there were three large Western ships with sharper bottoms, they chose to enter the port at noon when the water level was highest for safety reasons. As a result, all of them passed the lagoon mouth safely in the end, with the hulls only tilting slightly forward without any bow tilt or bottom scraping.

But surveyors reported that at the most dangerous time, the water level was only one meter, which was quite thrilling.

"That won't work. The three ships are only half full this time." Zhao Hao frowned upon hearing the news. "And these are half-sized ships. In the future, full-sized warships, or even 2,000-ton warships, will definitely not be able to come in empty. Wouldn't this harbor be half-wasted then?"

"We also wanted to deepen the channel, but the water is too deep, so we can't do it at all." Yan Wu, the director of the Marine Police Bureau who came to greet us, said with a distressed look: "At that time, I thought this place was perfect, but I didn't expect there would be such an irreparable defect."

ps. My son is now my deskmate. During the day, I write on the left while he does his homework on the right. As a result, I have only finished two chapters so far, and the next chapter can only be posted tomorrow... Have pity on the old father who writes while watching his son do his homework, and don't scold me.