After scolding Jiang Xinlong once again, Li Guangyuan turned around, bowed to Zhao Huan and said, "Let the officials laugh."

Zhao Huan smiled nonchalantly and said, "It doesn't matter. My son-in-law likes to study this iron and lead, which is not necessarily a bad thing."

Just when Li Guangyuan looked confused, Zhao Huan turned his attention to Jiang Xinlong again and said with a smile: "How did you remember to use steel to make ships?"

However, Jiang Xinlong did not directly answer Zhao Huan's question. Instead, he looked at Zhao Huan with excitement and shouted: "Are you really a current official?"

Zhao Huan smiled, but before he had time to answer Jiang Xinlong's question, Li Guangyuan, who was standing next to Zhao Huan, became furious and shouted: "I'm afraid it's the lard that has deceived your heart! Why don't you pay a visit to the official soon!"

"Students are paying homage to the official! I was rude just now. I hope the official will forgive me?"

After being reminded by his father-in-law, Jiang Xinlong also came to his senses - he didn't know the current official family, how could his father-in-law, who was in charge of the Quanzhou Shipyard, admit his mistake?

"It doesn't matter."

Zhao Huan nodded indifferently and continued: "You haven't answered my question yet. How did you remember to use steel to make a boat?"

When asked by Zhao Huan, Jiang Xinlong became a little shy, and after murmuring for a long time, he bowed and replied: "Back at the official house, the student saw the copper basin floating on the water one day, and thought that since the copper basin

If it can float on the water, then a ship made of steel can naturally float on the water. If the iron sheet is made larger, wouldn't it become a ship?"

Zhao Huan nodded, and then asked: "How many times have you built this kind of iron ship? How much money did it cost? Where did the money come from? If you build this kind of iron ship like a Mulan boat, how much money will it cost?"

How much money and talent are needed?”

A series of questions directly made Jiang Xinlong turn around, but Li Guangyuan became nervous——

This is like a Shangguan question. If you answer it well, there will be benefits. If you answer it poorly, you will probably just have to laugh. Nowadays, legends about the moodiness of today's officials are circulating in the official circles of the Song Dynasty. Li Guangyuan is really worried that Jiang Xinlong can't answer well.

These problems did not bring half the benefits, but they inadvertently offended the officials.

Seeing Jiang Xinlong's confused look, Li Guangyuan couldn't help but get angry and shouted: "The official is asking you something, why don't you answer it quickly!"

Being scolded by his father-in-law, Jiang Xinlong immediately came to his senses. After some consideration, he bowed and replied: "I'll tell you, since the student was thinking about building this iron ship, he has tried it no less than a hundred times, and it cost a lot of money."

Even if my money is not tens of thousands, it is still thousands."

After finishing speaking, Jiang Xinlong became a little coquettish again and stammered: "Student is ashamed. Students don't find much use in studying on weekdays. They just spend their time thinking about these strange skills. Every time they spend all their money on shipbuilding,

Then he would think about getting some clever and practical things to sell for money. After getting the money, he would continue building ships."

Your surname should not be Jiang, your surname should be Ma. You should not build iron ships, you should play with rotors.

Just when Zhao Huan was secretly complaining, Jiang Xinlong continued: "As for building this iron ship like a Mulan boat, the student has never thought about it."

"If we want to build this iron ship like the Mulan Boat, there are actually many problems that cannot be solved."

"The first is the problem of how to drive it. The iron ship is too heavy and cannot be driven by ship slurry like the Mulan Boat. And the impeller used by the iron and lead ship in front of us will also become heavy if it is installed on the Mulan Boat.

Incomparable, I can only think of another way."

"In fact, iron will rust. Students don't know whether iron and lead will rust in water like on land. If it rusts, how will it be replaced later?"

"Finally, there is another problem. Even if the wooden Mulan boat is broken by wind and waves, the people on the boat can cling to the wood to survive. However, once the iron lead encounters such a problem, it will only sink, and the people on the lead will also sink.

No way to survive.”

"Students are stupid. If these problems are not solved, there is really no way to build an iron and lead boat like a Mulan boat. In the student's opinion, it is best to build an iron boat smaller, so that it can allow fishermen to go out to sea to fish."

When it comes to his professional issues, Jiang Xinlong doesn't stutter as much as before, and his eyes on the iron boat in the river are gentler than those old perverts' eyes on young ladies.

Zhao Huan also followed Jiang Xinlong's gaze and looked at the small iron boat in the river.

It doesn't really matter whether it is a ship or not. After all, something like this is not enough even if it is used as a park amusement facility. Zhao Huan can't connect this thing with the words "steel giant ship" anyway.

The important thing is that Jiang Xinlong, who was thinking about using steel to build ships in this era of wooden sailboats, can be regarded as a talent to some extent——

This kind of person is actually similar to Qin Huiwan. The most suitable person is to be used as a coolie. The difference is that Qin Huiwan is suitable for doing dirty work, while a talent like Jiang Xinlong is best suited to be thrown into something like the royal family.

Do research-oriented hard work in a place like a college.

After all, he is an emperor, so he cannot do everything himself.

"Would you like to follow me north to the capital?"

After making up his mind to let Jiang Xinlong go to the future Royal Academy to work as a scientific research coolie, Zhao Huan said with a smile: "Other issues can be studied slowly, but I do have some ideas on how to drive an iron ship."

Turning to look at Li Guangyuan, and then at Jiang Li who was following Jiang Xinlong with a nervous look on his face, Zhao Huan pondered for a moment and then said with a smile: "I will give you enough space and enough manpower.

Enough money to research and build a large steel ship, and a good place to live will be arranged for you.

As for your rank, I will tentatively decide it as the fourth rank. If there are results, you may not be able to become the first rank or even become a prince."

As soon as Zhao Huan finished speaking, Li Guangyuan was already eager to agree directly for Jiang Xinlong. Even the look he looked at Jiang Xinlong was filled with jealousy and a hint of relief——

A Juren who is not even a Jinshi, started from the fourth rank, and like himself, a veteran who has been ups and downs in the officialdom for more than ten years, has almost reached the top in one step. How can this not make people jealous!

But fortunately, such an awesome person is his son-in-law. Even if he slaps him, he has to stand up!

When he thought of this, Li Guangyuan couldn't help but twitch his right hand again, and he had a vague urge to slap Jiang Xinlong again - the last time he wanted to slap him was when his daughter got married...

However, Jiang Xinlong did not agree directly as Li Guangyuan imagined.
Chapter completed!