Hou Fangyu, who was castrated, was sent to the resting place of the clean room to lie down. The old eunuch who used the knife patted his shoulder with a smile: "Grandpa Hou, congratulations on becoming one of us."

Hou Fangyu was about to cry but he had no tears, but the truth was gone, so he could only accept this reality.

"Hmph! A soft-fried man, a scumbag, deserved it!" After hearing the news that Hou Fangyu had become Eunuch Hou, Zuo Xianmei couldn't stop smiling.

But Wu Xiaomei said worriedly: "I don't know what will happen to Miss Xiangjun when she hears this news. Will she see through the world and become a monk? Zhao Lang, I have asked you to take Miss Xiangjun long ago, but you just don't listen to me."

"Little sister, our Zhao Lang is not such a casual person." Zuo Xianmei said with a smile.

Wu Xiaomei snorted: "Who said that? He accepted all the sister Kou Baimen, why can't she accept Miss Xiangjun?"

Zhao Peng smiled awkwardly: "Do you think you can just take it? Miss Xiangjun's heart is on Hou Fangyu. Do you know how Hou Fangyu treats her? She still followed Hou Fangyu wholeheartedly. Kou Baimen is different again. Miss Kou did not really look at Zhu Guobi, but because Zhu Guobi redeemed her. After Zhu Guobi's death, Miss Kou was helpless and nothing mattered. But if a strong woman like Miss Xiangjun came to force herself, she might have committed suicide by throwing herself into the water the next day. Do you believe it?"

Wu Xiaomei nodded: "What Zhao Lang said is, why didn't I expect this?"

"Little sister, when will we Zhao Lang be wrong when will we consider the problem be considered?" Zuo Xianmei patted Wu Xiaomei's shoulder and said.

The next day, at noon, the Jinyiwei took Huang Shu out of the prison, took him into a prison cart, and sent him to Caishikou in the west of the city. At three o'clock in the afternoon, the executioner raised his sword and cut off Huang Shu's head. At the same time, although Hou Fangyu's family was not executed and not demoted to slaves, the land and property of the family was confiscated, and they directly turned from a landlord class to a tenant farmer.

Ten days later, Hou Fangyu, who had recovered from the injury, was sent out of the palace, and two Jinyiwei escorted him into the car and headed to Xiaguan Wharf.

Six 1,500-material sand boats were moored at the dock, and a large number of Jinyi Guards wearing black armor and goose yellow hats were escorting a large number of prisoners tied up with many flowers and boarding the sand boat.

The two Jinyiwei escorted the Jinyiwei untied the shackles on Hou Fangyu: "Grandpa Hou, you are a noble father-in-law. We have arranged a good room for you on the boat, and they can only live in the stuffy bottom cabin. You are your father-in-law, and we need special care. After arriving in Qiongzhou, you will be responsible for managing those people. Eunuch Hou, please get on the boat."

Hou Fangyu boarded the boat, and the workers on the dock moved the springboard away. The sailors on the boat untied the cables, raised the sails, and prepared to use bamboo poles to push the boat away from the shore.

"Wait for me!" A petite white shadow appeared on the shore and rushed towards the dock.

"Wait!" Hou Fangyu heard Li Xiangjun's voice and shouted, "Wait until the ship is started!"

But the sailors on the boat were not accustomed to him: "The time for the ship is already here, the ship is not waiting for anyone. If you have anything to say, just stand on the side of the ship and say a few more words."

Hou Fangyu lay on the railing and shouted at Li Xiangjun on the dock: "Miss Xiangjun, go back, I'm already a useless person. Now that I'm going, I don't know if I can go back to Jiangnan in this life. You go back and go back to your Qinhuai River."

"I want to go to Qiongzhou, I want to follow you, and I want to take care of you if I go there." Li Xiangjun cried.

A Jinyiwei shouted at Li Xiangjun on the dock: "Miss Xiangjun, my father-in-law goes to Qiongzhou to be a mining prison. If you can't take your family, you'd better go back quickly."

The ship had left the dock and was getting farther and farther away from the river. Li Xiangjun cried at the sand boat that was leaving: "Hou Lang! Hou Lang!"

A few days later, a new little nun appeared in a nunnery outside Nanjing...

Li Xiangjun became a nun, so Zhao Peng was too lazy to care about her. Anyway, it was useless to persuade her, and it would be counterproductive. So let her stay in the nunnery alone for a while. Maybe one day in the future, he will return to secular life.

At present, the most important thing for Zhao Peng is to quickly cast iron keels. Only by successfully building iron keels can a larger ship be built.

But when it was time to cast the keel, Zhao Peng discovered a serious problem: it takes keels with a length of more than 100 meters to build a large fly-scissor ship, but does it have such a long mold?

The keel cannot be welded, it must be a whole steel plate. In the future, an aircraft carrier worth more than 300 meters long was built, and it is impossible to have a mold worth more than 300 meters long to cast the keel, so the keel of the large ship was rolled out by a rolling mill.

Steel rolling means that after heating the entire steel block to red and soften, the steel block is rolled into steel plates or long steel strips with a steel rolling mill. However, in this era, Zhao Peng could not have built a steel rolling mill.

So how were the long keels cast in the eighteenth and nineteenth century ships? In the eighteenth and nineteenth century, the British had invented steam engines. With steam engines, it was easier to create large steel parts.

Can a hydraulic steel rolling mill be built before the steam engine was born? The answer is impossible, because hydraulic machinery is affected by the water flow velocity, and the water flow velocity is not very stable, sometimes fast and sometimes slow. If the steel rolling mill is driven by a water turbine, the steel plates that are stuck out will be different in thickness. Only steam engines, internal combustion engines and electric motors can achieve stable output.

In later generations, the output power of hydropower stations was actually unstable, but the power sent from the power grid is uniformly allocated, and substations and other facilities can obtain a stable voltage.

What's more, the output of later turbines was actually very stable due to the adjustment of water flow by gates and culverts, and technology in this era would definitely not be able to do this.

Not to mention stable output, even impact turbines and counter-attack turbines similar to those of later generations could not be built with the technology of this era. Only waterwheel turbines with much lower efficiency can be built in this era. Impact and counter-attack turbines are high-tech. If you can create these things, it is better to build a steam turbine directly, because the principle is the same.

At present, even a steam engine cannot be built, so how can we make a steam turbine?

To take a step back, even if a hydraulic rolling mill can be built, how heavy is the keel that is more than 100 meters long? How to transport the keel from the steel plant to the shipyard is a big problem.
Chapter completed!