I want to ruin the country

"Lee, how do our British women taste?"

Martin asked Li Hongzhang.

Li Hongzhang nodded,

"Yes, but their fragrance is too strong, a bit too much!"

Li Hongzhang had no idea that European and American women did not have a natural body fragrance like Oriental women. They had a body odor that Oriental people could not accept.

They also know this problem of theirs, so they try their best to cover up their body odor with perfume.

The well-developed perfume industry in Europe is also one of the important reasons.

Martin chuckled.

"Lee, you'll get used to it!"

Li Hongzhang said,

"Mr. Martin, you know that this kind of behavior is not allowed in our country!"

Martin laughed.

"You can bring your prince along and there will be no problem!"

Li Hongzhang took out the two hundred pounds and handed it to Martin.

Martin was stunned.

"Lee, what do you mean?"

Li Hongzhang said with a smile,

"This is our prince's money, it's for you!"

"This...this, wasn't it what I gave you yesterday?"

Li Hongzhang shook his head.

"No, I've already accepted what you gave me. This is a reward from our prince. They're two different things!"

Martin was confused.

"Lee, what's going on?"

Li Hongzhang laughed,

"I want to give you a chance to get rich!"

Martin was even more confused.

"Have you told your prince about this?"

Li Hongzhang shook his head.

"Of course not, but the prince has assigned me another task, and he is willing to use silver in exchange for a word from you."

Martin was confused.

"A word?"

He couldn't remember what words were worth two hundred pounds in gold.

Li Hongzhang said,

"Yes is just one word. If you answer correctly, this check is yours!"

Martin had no shares in the shipyard and his annual salary was £30.

These two hundred pounds were his income for six or seven years, which was a huge sum of money for him.

"What do you want to know?"

Li Hongdao,

"Just tell me the price you gave the Royal Navy for this warship!"

"price?"

Li Hongzhang said,

"Of course, you can choose not to tell us, because Mr. Armstrong has already told us, and our prince just wants to verify it!"

Martin's eyes moved quickly. In fact, the price of the warship was not a secret to others. The core figures in the shipyard knew it.

He looked at the two hundred pounds and finally couldn't resist the temptation and said,

"4100 pounds!"

Li Hongzhang calculated that the Daqing exchange rate was equivalent to about 650000 taels of silver. Damn, the quoted price was taels of silver, which was really outrageous.

It was two hundred pounds well spent today!

He pushed over the cheque for two hundred pounds,

"Mr. Martin, this check is yours!"

Martin couldn't believe it. His lips trembled as he said,

"Is it really mine, Li?"

Li Hongzhang smiled and nodded,

"Absolutely true!"

"thanks, thanks!"

Li Hongzhang said,

"One more thing to ask of you, Mr. Martin!"

Martin became nervous again.

"Speaking!"

Li Hongzhang smiled and said,

"We need to get to know some outstanding talents in the shipbuilding industry. If you can come back with us, we can pay you three times the wages!"

The three times the wages was the first thing that caught Martin's attention.

If I go to Qingguo for a few years, it will cost me 90 pounds a year, which means 450 pounds for five years.

Adding the two hundred pounds he just got, he would have seven hundred pounds, and he could become a boss and start his own business!

"You want to build your own ship?"

Li Hongzhang nodded,

"Of course, we can't buy everything!"

Martin said,

"I understand your technology. If you were to build a warship like ours, even if we started building a factory now, it would take at least five years!"

Li Hongzhang said,

"Yes, we want to build a state-of-the-art shipyard!"

Martin's eyes opened wide.

"That requires a strong industrial system to support it. You can't even produce a single screw right now!"

Li Hongzhang said,

"Weren't you the same as before?"

Martin said,

"But it took us a hundred years to do it!"

Li Hong said with her armband,

"With you leading the way, it will definitely take us less than a hundred years!"

Martin said,

"That's true, but it definitely won't work without twenty or thirty years!"

Li Hongzhang smiled and said,

"We can wait twenty or thirty years. Is Mr. Martin willing to return home with us?"

Martin thought for a long time,

"Of course I'm willing, Li, but I still need to discuss it with my family!"

Li Hongzhang said,

"I forgot to tell you one thing, you can bring your family with you to our country, and they will even have good jobs!"

"What if I want to come back?"

"anytime!"

"Okay, I'll go, but please keep it a secret for me!"

Admiral George submitted a test report to Queen Victoria.

The Queen was furious when she saw it.

"Why, you didn't find out there was a problem with the steel until the ship was already built? Are you planning to send my Royal Navy soldiers to the sea to feed the fish?"

George hurriedly explained,

“Your Majesty, no one is irresponsible and it is only with advanced technology this year that these flaws can be detected.

In fact, launching it this way might prevent the hull from breaking, after all, this kind of material was used in the past!"

The queen became even more angry.

"What? Are you saying we're just going to irresponsibly launch this behemoth?"

The angrier the Queen was, the happier George was, but he had to pretend to be speechless.

"This one……"

Queen's Road,

"How are the lives of our brave sailors protected? Is this how you do your job, George?"

George lowered his head.

"Your Majesty, I don't want this warship to be launched with a problem, but the Royal Navy needs it now!"

The Queen stood up and said,

"Even if I need to, I can't agree to something like this!"

George said,

"But the problem is with the keel. Replacing the steel would be more troublesome than rebuilding a new ship!"

The Queen stood up from her throne and rolled around the room like a ball, saying,

"We don't care. Anyway, we can't take this warship!"

George said,

"Your Majesty, if this warship is qualified according to last year's technical standards,

If we reject this warship now, we will be in breach of contract and we will have to pay the penalty!"

The Queen thought about it and realized that this was indeed the case. However, she was unwilling to accept the fact that she had to pay the penalty for breach of contract even though the warship clearly had defects.

The Queen asked,

"How much is the liquidated damages?"

"Thirty percent!"

The Queen felt a little distressed.

"Thirty percent?"

George lowered his head and said nothing.

Queen's Road,

"It's their fault that the quality is not up to standard, how can it be our breach of contract?"

George said,

"Your Majesty, this is a report they submitted on their own initiative. If they hadn't told us, we wouldn't have known there was a flaw on the keel.

According to the contract, they have done a good job, and I think they are responsible!"