256 6.50 You Got Sea Power BUT We Have Sea, Air and Land Supremacy. (1/2)
I went outside with the rest of my 'crew' that consist of Hiko-sama, Tokugawa, Izumi and the 4 Execom members and asked if Townsend Harris is feeling alright. I told him, the meeting would be continued tomorrow morning and would be adjourned.
”Would you like to get in board our Fasuto Japan Airways and gather the men that I wished for? 6x Mechanical Engineers, 1x Bosun, 1x QM, 1x Ship Engineer and 1x Ship Captain. Send your men back and gather those I need ASAP. Only you would be getting by here and then we will continue. Is that understood?”
”It would take you 45mins flight to go and another 45mins to come back. I go fetch a pilot for you...” without waiting for an answer I summoned for a tanuki to bring these men back and return with 11 men back. I requested a senior pilot because 11 men would weigh more than 600kg.
Within 10 minutes, the 4 men had climbed aboard the pulled and stretched scrotum of a senior tanuki to become a yellow floating gourd....hahahahaha. At least they don't have to ride their horses and have their first experience of riding on our very own Fasuto Japan Airways. Welcome aboard and place your trays onwards and your chairs upright. Buckle up.. Feeewiittt... Hahahahaha.
”What do you expect from this outcome?” asked Tokugawa Iemochi with a worried look at his bleak future as a Shogun. I turned around and clasped my hands on his shoulder. ”Let's make this to our fullest advantage...” I placed my arms around his shoulders like a friend should be and reassured that the future of Japan would be guided by underage teenagers. Hahahahaha.
I laughed and all of us laughed too. Because it was always Hiko-sama that would put me in a headlock and knuckle rubbed my head and now I find someone to actually show my inner feelings.
This was because until now, Hiko-sama is always not too accustomed to touchy feelings with others. I won't know with Shu Uemura, ask her yourself. Hahahahaha
”Tell me more about the people that you need from Townsend. Maybe you can shed a light on us a bit.” Tokugawa Iemochi asked me as we all sat around the exterior of the conference building as the 4 Execom members had to entertain some 18 new merchants from the cosmetics shops in the Miyagi Prefecture.
”The term Your Majesty used is correct. Shed a light. I saw a steam engine in one of the caravans, some cables, light bulbs and light bulb holders. If I'm not wrong, it's going to be used to light up our town. I asked for 6 mechanical engineers because I need them to reproduce something for our own use.”
”Wind Technology and Steam Turbine Engines.” I simply said as I took my sketchpad and wrote these words on a blank page. ”I don't have much knowledge in these but I was thinking of improving the lives of our residents through building these Wind Technology. In having these in place, these would be able to turn wind power into electricity much like these steam engines. Let me draw you a crude design... ”
I draw a cartoon-like picture with a boiler, a heater, a spindle and rotating chain wheel and I draw a black box and named it as a generator with a plus and minus on it a black line that represents electrical lines and lastly a light bulb. Next, I drew a crude windmill with some black boxes underneath it and an arrow pointing to the steam engine and below it, I drew on with a generator with no boiler and heater. Two different things but function just the same.
”Ah...I have seen this before. It was made by the Dutch. It was used to pull water from the ground and also a place to grind grains. That's the place where they made soybean milk. I think it was in Gunma or something. They called the milk as Meiji. Very refreshing... Nice taste but tastes better if sweetened.”
”Right, we don't bother the Dutch now. Our main focus here is the Americans. Let me see what they could do for this town first. If they could produce wind technology that produces electricity, then we could be into something for our town as well as Fukushima. Or rather, we could make steam engines and produce them here to be marketed all over Japan.”