Lord of Industrialization

"Principal, why are you here? It's too hot and dirty here!"

Kaspar was checking the operation of the engine when he suddenly found Frederick next to him.

The Flying Tulip and the Flying Cornflower left Le Havre for almost ten days. Yesterday, they docked at a small port in the Kingdom of Lisenberg to replenish fresh vegetables and meat, preparing to head south to bypass the Kingdom of Madeira.

Frederick said loudly: "It's okay, I'm just here to take a look, you go ahead and do your thing."

Now he had personally experienced and deeply understood why "you want to drive a warship with such a low voice". Not to mention the roar of artillery fire during wartime, the machines in the engine room were also very noisy, and it was really difficult to hear a low voice.

Just now, a zipline material transportation drill was conducted between the two ships. Frederick, Lulu and others came to the Flying Cornflower in an iron basket.

It's just that the sailors here made a mistake in a hurry. In today's exercise, the two steel cables coming from the opposite side should have been hung one high and one low to achieve two-way transmission, but in the end, both were hung incorrectly.

While Lulu was scolding someone, Frederick came to the engine room to take a look.

He was very satisfied to find that the equipment in the engine room was in good working order and clean.

After checking the lubricant condition, Caspar filled out the form, walked out of the engine room, and put his helmet in a basket nearby.

As Frederick took off his helmet, he asked him, "How is your grandmother now?"

Kaspar was a little surprised and asked, "How do you know I have a grandmother?"

Frederick said unhappily, "I still remember that your grandmother was carried here by the Duck Thief, and you were carried here by Zopel."

Kaspar scratched his head a little embarrassedly. He didn't expect that Grand Duke Wessen, who was so busy with his work, still remembered him after all these years.

He said: "I sent a telegram home when I was in Le Havre."

"I asked for leave to go home when the ship arrived. She is in good health. The restaurant is now managed by my apprentice, and I research new dishes every day."

As they were talking, the two came outside the chief engineer's room.

On this ship, only the captain, ship's doctor, first mate and chief engineer lived in a single bedroom-cum-office, while the other sailors lived in double or quadruple rooms.

Frederick was surprised and said, "Of course, you can become the chief engineer now."

He remembered that Caspar should still be a cadet at the Naval Academy.

Kaspar said a little embarrassedly: "I am just an acting member. I was seconded from the school for this mission."

Kaspar had previously served as a sailor on the Flying Tulip and was a cadet at the Naval Academy. He had strong professional knowledge, so it was not surprising that he was transferred to serve as chief engineer.

He pushed open the door of the chief engineer's room and saw someone inside.

There was a red-haired girl holding two bottles of steaming Leibi. When she saw Kaspar, she smiled brightly, but her smile froze instantly when she saw Frederick next to her.

Frederick pretended to be disappointed and said to Lulu's secretary: "Oh, Christina, I thought the two bottles of drinks you brought were for me."

Christina's face suddenly turned red and she handed him one of the bottles.

Frederick smiled and waved his hand, saying, "I'm going to take my drink back and drink it myself. Now I want to talk to Caspar about something. I'll give you a break after we get to the city of La Cobriga."

When a ship of the Principality of Wessen arrives in a foreign country, sailors are generally required to return to the ship before 6pm and 10pm on the same day for second and third class leave respectively. Only first class leave allows sailors to spend the night abroad.

The two young men's faces turned red, and Christina threw down two bottles of Leibi and ran away.

Frederick just smiled. She thought that there were some things that others didn't know, but Lulu and others had already seen them.

Kaspar picked up a bottle of Rebi and gave it to Frederick, then opened one for himself and drank it all in one gulp.

The temperature outside was close to zero degrees, but the engine room was very hot. The fresh air sent in quickly turned into warm air. Frederick felt sweat starting to appear on his forehead when he stood for a while, so Kaspar was naturally very hot.

Kaspar finished a bottle of drink, and Frederick unscrewed the bottle in his hand and handed it to him, asking him: "When we get to the south, the temperature will be very high, and the engine room will be even hotter. What are you prepared for?"

The tractor worked well in the Duchy of Wessen, but started to break down frequently when it was moved to the Kingdom of Sardinia and the southern coast of the inland sea.

Kaspar took the drink and replied, "We have done statistics and found that mechanical failures in the southern region are mainly caused by severe wear and seizure caused by lubricant failure."

“We now have special tropical lubricants on board, which have been tested in the shipyard’s high-temperature laboratory and have shown very good results.”

"The fresh air system in the engine room also has large air conditioning equipment to lower the temperature."

Frederick nodded, satisfied with his answer.

"One thing to note," Frederick said, "is that not only is the temperature high in the south, but the humidity is also high."

"I am a little worried that when the ship is refrigerated, the amount of condensed water will exceed the design range, and the diameter of the condensed water pipe will be insufficient, and it will rain in the cabin if the water is not drained in time."

Kaspar thought that made sense.

The crew cabin is on the waterline, and the air-conditioning water is discharged directly into the flush tank in the bathroom and directly into the sea.

The cargo hold below is also air-conditioned to keep it dry. The condensed water flows into the sump and is pumped out with a water pump. If the amount of water is too large to be discharged and drips directly into the cargo hold, that would be terrible.

He thought for a moment and said, "If this happens, we can only connect an independent water pump to the main drainage pipe to force the water out."

There are many large and small water pumps on the ship to deal with different situations.

Frederick nodded and said, "It's good that you are mentally prepared. Think more about what kind of problems we may encounter when we arrive in the south and how to solve them. At least you should have an idea in mind."

"Many big problems start out as small problems. It is best to solve them at the early stage."

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Frederick left him busy and walked around.

It was time to prepare lunch and Frederick came to the kitchen.

This morning the crane at the stern of the ship lowered the trawl net and caught a few fish, which were eaten at noon.

After killing the fish, the chef removes the scales, cooks the fish head, tail and bones into soup, minces the boneless meat from both sides together with the fatty pork, and then adds salt, ginger powder and other seasonings to make bun filling. The automatic dough mixer on the other side has already kneaded the dough, which is then put into the automatic bun machine to make buns, and finally put into the steamer to steam them.

Frederick didn't know what to say. It was inconvenient to cook normally on the sea, and the chefs on the ship were average, so most of the chefs took turns. As a result, steamed buns became the best choice after compromise among all parties.

Making steamed buns does not require any cooking skills. You just need to add the ingredients according to the cooking manual like doing an alchemy experiment. As long as you don't make the mistake of adding 10 grams of salt as 10 kilograms, the steamed buns will taste good.

Moreover, the buns are easy to hold, even if the boat shakes.

If fresh water is scarce, the steamer can be turned into an oven, and even seawater can be used to make distilled water.

If the wind and waves are not too strong, you can also use a noodle machine to make noodles, so you don’t have to eat buns every day.

Frederick didn't disturb the chef. He took a look and went to the cold storage next door.

The cold storage door was open and a shrill alarm sounded at the same time.

Frederick immediately shouted: "What happened?!"

There were footsteps in the corridor as someone heard the alarm and rushed over.

Kaspar poked his head out from behind the cold storage door and said, "Don't worry, I'm testing the 'Hozhenproz Button'."

He had just finished filing the records of the routine inspection of the engine room and was now inspecting the ice house.

Frederick blinked and asked, "What is that?"

He couldn't understand what this alarm had to do with a former great thief.

A sailor ran over and saw that it was a false alarm. He couldn't help but muttered: "You didn't even tell me about the test. I thought some idiot was locked in there."

Frederick continued to blink, as if he had heard something extraordinary. He almost sent a telegram back to ask Hozhenploz, "You were actually locked up in the ice room?"

Kaspar said in the cold storage: "There is a large cold storage in the duck canning factory in Hozhenproz, and there are many slaughtered ducks in it."

"I heard that one day when he was counting ducks inside, a careless worker closed the door and he couldn't open the door. He almost froze to death."

"He later sued on the grounds that the product had major safety defects, and he won."

"So now there are alarms installed in cold storages, so that when someone is locked inside, they can notify the outside world."

Frederick smiled and began to check the meat, vegetables, and syrups for drinks such as Happy Water stored in the ice storage.

There is a fixed amount of food distribution on the ship. The fish and fish soup in today's lunch are extra snacks. If there is no fish, it will be pure pork buns.

There were quite a few canned foods, but they were only eaten at the last minute.

Frederick was concerned with mechanical and food issues, and was very satisfied with the inspection of the Cornflower, which was flying again today.

Then he and Lulu and others returned to the Flying Tulip, where no lunch was prepared for them.