Investing in the Sea Train is not actually profitable. Because the world government has very strict control over the Sea Train's routes, it is very laborious to roll out the Sea Train's railways.
In the more than ten years since Tom's death, the Sea Train has only been opened to traffic on five or six islands. Because it can only be implemented in a small area, the profits are not high. Carrera Company operates the Sea Train After a year, in fact, I can only make a small profit.
Aoun looked down on the small money, and investing in the sea train was actually more of a reason. What he really wanted was to use this railway line to drive similar logistics. Sea transportation was obviously very promising, but few people in the pirate world took advantage of it. field of.
Another is to use the thinking and technology of French and Carrera companies to promote some slightly advanced small inventions.
For example, small steam engines, sewing machines, and even relatively primitive internal combustion engines. With Frankie's mind and Carrera's technical capabilities, it is not easy to make such things.
If these things can be promoted through this railway, there will definitely be a steady flow of Bailey into his pocket.
With this wealth, Aoun can try to continue to expand his power secretly, or contact the revolutionary army, or find Zefa, who is destined to defect from the navy in the future, to form a neo-new navy, etc...
In short, there is really too much room for maneuver. As long as he has enough money, he can make great efforts in the future and gradually move himself to the center of the world stage.
Franky was obviously shocked by the large amount of gold, but he still remained rational after all, and after thinking for a moment, he still chose to contact Bingshan.
After receiving a positive answer, he accepted the large sum of money with peace of mind and promised that he would fully meet all Ornn's requirements.
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Franky and Carrera Company were working very efficiently. Only about ten days had passed before Aoun received a call from Franky saying "all the commissions have been completed."
"That's it for today's sparring. Next, we should all go out to see our new ship, or our own ship."
After Ornn stopped training against Yamato, he smiled and called everyone in the Ornn Pirates and Bellamy, a "little tail" who looked reluctant but was very honest.
"Our own ship? Isn't the Gospel our ship?" Robin didn't know about Aoun and Yamato's previous experiences in the Western Sea, so he had such a question.
"The previous Gospel was a ship that the captain snatched from pirates in the Western Sea, so it wasn't actually the captain's own ship?" Rhea said some popular science on the side.
Peyton rarely jumped out to apply for interaction with Rhea. At this time, he was taking deep breaths and looking forward to what kind of experience it would be like to use his mechanical right hand.
The group of people arrived at the Carrera Shipyard chatting and laughing.
Almost as soon as they entered the shipyard, everyone's attention was unconsciously attracted by the large sheep-headed ship parked in the center.
The size of the ship is similar to the previous Gospel, a few times larger than the Thousand Miles Sunshine of the Straw Hat crew in the original book, but smaller than Whitebeard's Moby Dick.
The length of the hull is about one hundred meters, and the height is about fifty meters.
The bow of the ship is a huge sheep's head carved based on the human-animal form of Ornn, which looks mighty and domineering. The overall color of the ship's hull is mainly black and red, and it is also dotted with various irregular golden lines. It's like slightly solidified magma.
"Cool~"
Almost the moment he saw the ship, Rhea couldn't help but praise it.
"Oh~ Miss, your taste is really amazing!"
Franky appeared out of nowhere carrying a black suitcase. He looked like a standard "super" when he met:
"How about it, Mr. Aoun, are you satisfied with this ship, which has condensed all the hard work of Bingshan and I?"
"Of course I'm satisfied." Ornn jumped onto the deck of the ship in a swish, and while carefully stroking the mast, he smiled and said to Franky:
"Franky, why don't you hurry up and introduce to us what functions this ship has."
"Then let me introduce to you the various functions of this ship. The first is of course the most important attack system!"
Franky said, pointing to the sixteen cannons arranged on both sides of the sheep-headed boat:
"There are a total of sixteen traditional artillery pieces on both sides of this ship, and at the stern is a stern propulsion system that combines the wind blaster and my most proud wind cannon. However, these are not the strongest, the most powerful. It still belongs here..."
After speaking, Franky also jumped onto the deck and pressed a switch under the statue on the bow of the ship.
With his press, two grooves immediately appeared in front of everyone. Correspondingly, the mouth of the sheep-head statue on the bow of the ship opened, revealing a small barrel.
"How powerful can such a small barrel be?"
Rhea looked at the barrel with a look of disgust.
"Don't underestimate this barrel, madam!" Franky solemnly warned Rhea, then turned to Ornn and said:
"Mr. Aoun, this cannon is an electromagnetic gun I developed by combining your ability with that magical platoon shell!"
As he spoke, he took out large steel balls with a diameter of seven or eight centimeters from somewhere.
"Fill these special steel bullets from here, and then use your hammer to charge them here. Under the dual acceleration of electromagnetic force and volley shells, this steel ball will have extremely terrifying speed and destructive power. According to I estimate that its power will even be several times more powerful than my Feng Lai Cannon!"
Electromagnetic gun? !
Ornn's eyes brightened obviously. He had been coveting the electromagnetic cannon created by Kidd using his magnetic fruit in the original comics for a long time.
I don’t know if the power of this electromagnetic gun can be comparable to Kidd’s electromagnetic gun...
We are still in the Capital City of Seven Waters, so it is difficult to test the power of the electromagnetic gun. It seems that we can only wait until we leave the Capital City of Seven Waters before testing it.
Resisting the idea of taking a shot now, Aoun continued to listen to Franky's introduction:
"Next are the regular functional areas. The forecastle at the stern is designed into three floors. The first floor can be used as a kitchen and warehouse. The second floor is a room for men and a training room. The top floor is The first floor is the study room and women’s living room..."
"What about the bilge? Under normal circumstances, wouldn't it be enough to just use the bilge as a warehouse?" Ulki asked curiously.
"I designed the bilge as a sub-ship dock system, so it is not suitable for use as a warehouse."
Franky then introduced the dock system he designed to Aoun and others. The dock system of the Yangshou Ship is similar to the dock system of Qianli Sunshine. A total of six small docks have been designed.
One of the docks is an auxiliary propulsion propeller, which is used to sail in calm or extreme weather. Considering Ornn's ability, this propeller also chose an electric system.
Dock No. 2 is a small steam-powered lifeboat used to face emergencies and conduct preliminary investigations.
Dock No. 3 is a small submarine that also uses electricity as its energy source and is equipped with weapon systems such as chain blades, harpoons, and whaling nets. It can be used to explore the underwater environment or solve some problems that occur in the water. The next battle.
Due to time constraints and Franky's lack of any good ideas, the remaining three shipyards are temporarily vacant, leaving it to Ornn to find someone to develop and upgrade them later.
After roughly introducing the many functions on the ship, Franky said to Orne:
"In addition, the moving castle has been upgraded. It is placed at Frankie's House. Because I cannot move it away, I need you, Mr. Orn, to bring it back later."
"No need to wait. Come with me to Frankie's House now. I can just operate it myself and see how the upgraded power system feels."
Aoun said and took out Mjolnir. Under the influence of electromagnetic force, his figure began to gradually lift into the air.
"What a convenient ability."
Franky muttered, grabbing Ornn's thigh without needing to remind him.
With Mjolnir's assistance, the two quickly took off into the air, and flew back to Franky's House at extremely fast speeds under the shocked gazes of the people of the Capital of Seven Waters.
Just after arriving behind Frankie's House, the renovated moving castle came into view.
Because only the power system was modified, the appearance of the moving castle did not change much, and there were only some more wires and a white protective shell inside.
"I didn't make too many adjustments to the interior decoration of the castle. I just added some more lights and modified the electric propeller..."
Franky said, leading Aoun into the main control room.
Compared with other rooms outside, the main control room has obviously changed a lot.
Franky obviously put a lot of effort into it, and directly made an entire electronic display screen that can be connected to the video phone bug, which allows Ornn to clearly see the scene in front of the moving castle and take into account the movements in all directions.
In addition, the original forge and large boiler were moved to the corner of the main control room as a backup.
Instead, there is a metal operating table in the center. You can see it through the glass around the metal table, which contains a very large lithium battery-like thing.
"According to your needs, we have designed timely control and charging options. If it is only used for flight and castle interior lighting, this battery should be able to last about three days of flight. In addition, please pay attention when charging. Don’t charge too much voltage at once..."
After briefly introducing some precautions, Franky asked Aoun to try controlling it himself.
Aoun followed Franky's instructions and placed the flashing Mjolnir in the recess of the main console. With the continuous infusion of electricity, within a short time, all the electronic displays lit up.
Ornn could see the entire process of the propeller at the top of the castle slowly opening from the corner of the screen.
Power continued to be input, and the panel displaying power on the main console changed from 0% to 2%. At the same time, the propellers also began to rotate rapidly.
Different from the original slowness when using steam power, after replacing it with electric energy, the speed of the propeller became significantly faster, and the moving castle took off at a speed that was completely beyond Orn's expectations.
I secretly estimated in my mind that although the lift-off speed of this propeller is far less than that of the helicopter in the previous life, it is probably not much different from the flying speed of the drone, which is about 100km/h.
This speed is about five times that of the Gospel with smooth winds and rivers. In other words, with a permanent pointer to guide the way and the weather conditions are suitable, Aoun will probably only need three or four days to get from Shampoo to Shampoo. It only takes about seven days to fly to Twin Gorges and get to Rhea’s hometown for her to reunite with her mother!
Moreover, the consumption required for flight is not as exaggerated as imagined. Perhaps it is because the utilization rate of energy consumption has been improved several times compared with steam power. Ornn hardly felt any physical exertion while operating the moving castle. .
According to his estimation, with his current physical ability, it would not be a problem to fly the moving castle for ten days and a half at a stretch while consuming his own energy during the day and consuming battery power at night.
fragrant! It smells so good!
At a certain moment, Aoun even had the idea in his mind that "one kid is a kid, two kids are a kid, let's just take Franky away too".
However, after calming down, he finally gave up the idea. After all, Frankie was still better at cola technology, and forcing him to study electrical appliances every day was really delaying him.
Let's wait and think about how to trouble Gaji later...
When taking Frankie back to the Carrera Shipyard in the moving castle, Rhea and others were still visiting various rooms on the ship, making various exclamations from time to time.
"Onn, you're back!" Yamato was the first to notice Ornn's arrival, and subconsciously jumped over and took his arm:
"We were just discussing what name this new ship should be given! Do you have any good ideas?"
Because there has been no sailing for the past ten days and they have been training together or going shopping together almost every day, Yamato has now fully adapted to it and even relies on such physical contact.
Robin is actually similar to her, but she still maintains a lot of restraint in front of outsiders. Only when she and Orn are alone will she show her clingy trait of leaning on Orn and resting her head on Orn's chest.
"What's the name of the ship..."
Aoun blurted out without hesitation:
"How about calling me Luxiang?"
"Luxiang? It's so strange. Why is it called such a name?" Rhea asked curiously.
"Well, my destroyed hometown is called Luxiang. For me now, this ship is my home, so I want to name it Luxiang as a commemoration."
After hearing Aoun say that this ship is his home, everyone in the Aoun Pirates no longer felt that the name Luo Xiang was strange at all, and even felt a faint sense of belonging in their hearts.
This ship is the captain's home, so naturally they are the captain's family!
What words in this world can give people a greater sense of security than "you are my family"?
(End of chapter)
