Chapter Forty-Seven Fresh Plaything

  Hu Mei laughed until she couldn't laugh anymore, then squatted down on one side and hummed to herself.

  But what happened next was not what Zhou Yu wanted to see, because Hu Mei, who had adjusted her mood, began to stare at him with a straight face, and the thick, unmelting tenderness in her eyes made even Zhou Yu, a newcomer to love, feel the heat and palpitations inside.

  This scared Zhou Yu half to death. He thought to himself that he was still a regular officer, and couldn't afford to inexplicably fall here!

  "Ah ha! Mei'er, look at today's weather, it's so sunny and clear, just like the east is red with no clouds in sight. Our great China has that Mao..."

  Zhou Yu is talking nonsense with his eyes open again, who can see through the house to look at the sky?

  Hu Mei saw Zhou Yu dodging and avoiding her, even more so his own fervent emotions, and in her heart she secretly sighed, her face also becoming dull.

  However, she firmly believed that her persistence would one day move the Old Man in the Moon and even more so, Zhou Yu. You have your Vajra pestle, I have my entwining fingers; I'm not afraid of your profound skills, even if you grind me with an iron pestle, I'll still grind it into a needle. So she once again summoned her spirit, forced a smile and said to Zhou Yu:

  "Zhou Dage, let's continue learning piano!"

  Zhou Yuyi agreed to Hu Mei's request and hastily said, "Okay! Let's get started then!" But in his heart, he was secretly thinking of finding an opportunity to slip away quickly. If things continued like this, it would be disastrous! At the same time, he was also very worried about Hu Mei's physical condition. What if something happened to her after he left? He would spend the rest of his life filled with guilt and regret.

  Ugh, it's really troublesome! Sometimes Zhou Yu would also have some perverted thoughts: why not just push her away and be done with it? However, influenced by traditional ideas from the past, Zhou Yu dispelled his own evil thoughts. Having something to do with a 13-year-old loli is just a perverted uncle's thought, so... let's wait until the little loli has grown up a bit before saying anything else!

  It's possible that by then, Hu Mei will have forgotten herself in the daughter country, and she won't have to suffer from such difficulties anymore. However, thinking about Hu Mei possibly forgetting herself in the future, Zhou Yu felt a slight discomfort in his heart.

  He also doesn't know what reason is.

  But Zhou Yu still upheld his old tradition; if he couldn't figure it out, then he just wouldn't think about it.

  Come on, Mei'er! Let's continue learning guzheng! Zhou Yu called out to Hu Mei.

  Hu Mei, who had calmed down, began to listen attentively to Zhou Yu's explanation.

  Zhou Yu taught Hu Mei some combined piano techniques, Japanese koto playing methods, and even some double-handed playing methods that are different from the current guqin playing methods.

  This time, Hu Mei learned quickly with a calm mind. Basically, Zhou Yu taught her once and she would master it. Zhou Yu also didn't have any reservations, pouring all the techniques he knew from his past life into Hu Mei, asking her to practice often.

  Generally, techniques that require muscle agility are achieved through frequent practice, and there is no shortcut to master them.

  He is fundamentally different from the perverted existence of Zhou Yu, who has undergone strengthening and development due to his differences with ordinary people, possessing extraordinary mimicry, creativity, and speed, making him irreplaceable.

  If everyone were like Zhou Yu, wouldn't the earth be full of salty egg superheroes?

  When Hu Mei's skills were almost up to par, Zhou Yu considered that her body had just shown a bit of improvement and suggested: Let's stop here for today, we'll continue practicing tomorrow.

  Hu Mei was already feeling very tired and agreed to Zhou Yu, but repeatedly asked Zhou Yu to stay at her own home. She wasn't reassured! She was afraid that Zhou Yu would leave again without saying goodbye, and Hu Mei's body couldn't withstand a second blow like last time.

  If Zhou Yu really dares to do so, then Hu Mei is very likely to end up like Lin Daiyu in "Dream of the Red Chamber", a tragic and untimely demise!

  The crafty Hu Xueyan had arranged for Zhou Yu to stay in a small, independent pavilion not far from Hu Mei's boudoir in the rear courtyard of the Hu estate. Of course, Zhou Yu's two attendants were not so lucky and were instead assigned to rooms in the front courtyard, where they would be waited on by the household servants.

  Hu Xueyan was determined to make Yu Cheng's daughter's good fortune come true, and wasn't afraid that Zhou Yu would sneak up in the middle of the night to steal her away.

  Even if Zhou Yu wouldn't do such a thing, even if Zhou Yu did it, Hu Xueyan might be overjoyed! It's settled, isn't that great?! Zhou Yu not only has talent, has feelings, and has intentions, most importantly, in the future Zhou Yu is going to be an emperor, so his own daughter wouldn't become an empress then?! Haha!

  And he himself has become a national father-in-law, what a wonderful thing! If you don't do it, you're just a turtle egg.

  Without the psychological burden, Zhou Yu immediately sent a telegram to Benz in Hawaii, asking him how he had been traveling for more than half a year and why the Mercedes-Benz was still producing old cars.

  The Hawaii telegram, which had been delayed for some time, finally arrived in Zhou Yu's hands. Benzi explained with great embarrassment that the Hawaii Mercedes-Benz factory had long since stopped producing old cars.

  Now Benz luxury and household types designed by Zhou Yu have been produced. The horsepower of the engines used is as high as 100 horsepower gasoline engine, adopting double-point electronic injection technology.

  The technical data of small family cars with a displacement of 1.6 liters in later generations is very close.

  Zhou Yu saw in Shanghai that the car was an outdated model purchased by Hu Xueyan a long time ago, and it's possible that Hu Xueyan felt there was nothing wrong with it and didn't want to replace it.

  It's still acceptable like this, if I had this cheating device and was still driving that old, slow, smoke-spewing, ear-splittingly loud car, it would be too much of a sin against the heavens.

  Benzi also told Zhou Yu that the current sales of Mercedes-Benz are very good, and the factory's orders have been scheduled for two years later. He asked Zhou Yu if it was time to consider increasing production lines or building another branch factory.

  Zhou Yu thought for a moment; sent a telegram to Benz, telling him that he didn't have a large number of skilled workers to produce cars yet, so he asked Benz to divide the car manufacturing into two production modes: manual fine-tuning and industrial processing.

  Handcrafted cars are finely carved, with a quota of only 50 handcrafted cars sold per year, and certain social status and additional conditions are required to increase the price and after-sales service. The interior decoration of the car uses rosewood trim.

  For the hand-painted Mercedes-Benz, Zhou Yu provided a set of brand-new polishing paint formulas and drawings to Bentz. To ensure the safety of these important materials, Zhou Yu telegraphed Liu Mingchuan in Taiwan to send someone to pick them up.

  Although there is no competition from peers now, it's still necessary to be careful and steady.

  Zhou Yu asked Ben Cui to take the materials he had given him in Europe and proceed with the next step, the high-power engine topic research, and also, in terms of volume, it must be done to develop towards miniaturization as much as possible.

  In the telegram, Zhou Yu also made requirements for Diesel's diesel engine to develop in the direction of precision, fineness, sharpness and smallness.

  The roads all over the world are not very good now, so the production of diesel trucks is not high.

  Zhou Yu did this with his own reasons. Taking advantage of the time when he was technically ahead, he must make a large amount of technical reserves and talent reserves for Huaxia.

  Zhou Yu still has many plans waiting for it!

  For example, marine diesel engines, aero diesel engines, and most importantly, the steel monsters used by the future mechanized army in Zhou Yuxin's mind - tanks.

  Because Zhou Yu knew the importance of tanks, he didn't rush to build them. He was waiting until the volume and performance of diesel engines met his ideal requirements before manufacturing.

  If it appears too early, one point is that it is not convenient for secrecy, and another point is that it has high requirements for logistics support, and the other point is that I do not have the equipment conditions for tanks temporarily.

  Zhou Yuke didn't think that, like in the late period of history, the domestically-made tank engine of Huaxia would be huge in size, with combat personnel operating inside, wearing a pig-snout mask, and even in winter, people inside the tank would still be sweating profusely.

  Due to the massive engine's operation, a large amount of heat is emitted, making the interior of the tank like a steamer.

  The driver and gunner are blinded by their own exhaust steam, how can they make accurate technical movements in actual combat?

  Moreover, due to the engine's low power output, when engaging enemy tanks in combat, by the time you've managed to aim, the enemy has already moved to your rear. The tank's protection, speed and firepower are also crucial in battle.

  There are also some flexible and reliable things like tracks! The rest also have some detailed problems, which need to be solved first.

  Zhou Yuxin had a major demon in his heart, that is, he did not have a truly vast and comprehensive tank experiment base and training base.

  For all of the above reasons, Zhou Yu decided to wait for the best opportunity.

  But to get back on track, Zhou Yu currently doesn't have any truly powerful enemies coming from the ground, if there were any, Zhou Yu wouldn't give up making tanks. Putting himself in the enemy's line of fire isn't Zhou Yu's style.

  After dealing with the base's affairs, he found that he could basically be idle now. Thinking about it, he couldn't go out and couldn't do anything, what to do?

  It's almost been pirated by myself, what can I do in these days at Hu Fu?

  Huh! After racking his brains, Zhou Yu finally thought of something - the government's mouthpiece: newspapers.

  In this era where there were no entertainment activities other than listening to storytelling and watching plays, newspapers were the most favorite thing for the vast majority of cultured people. I remember that in history, the Qing government did not believe in government officials but believed in the reports and data from Shanghai's Shen Bao newspaper, which shows how simple-minded people blindly believed in and trusted newspapers.

  However, Zhou Yu encountered a problem when deciding to run the newspaper, which was whether to buy a controlling stake in an existing newspaper or start a new one.

  This put Zhou Yu in a dilemma. If he were to start his own newspaper, he wouldn't have the right talent; if he were to buy one, most Chinese newspapers at that time were basically owned by Western powers.

  When he was deep in thought and couldn't get the hang of it, Zhou Yu suddenly had an epiphany. Hey, got it! Isn't the current Shenjiang Xinbao, also known as Shen Bao, published and issued by British man Anatasio Cha Mei and three friends who jointly raised funds, and is controlled by them?

  And the Briton Annas Toth, wasn't it not long ago that he asked both Bartoli and Van Sijl to use their popularity to help him run for Birmingham City Council?