The biggest feature that cannot be reflected in the photos is that the small steamer has a series of circular openings on both sides of the side of the ship, like a circle of small circular windows arranged.

The handsome Mexican man who came with Wang Bo was surprised when he saw it and said, "What are these openings? Are they used for passengers to visit?"

Rodt was about to explain, but Wang Bo said, "Is this power pulp? No wonder these ships are cheap. It turns out that their power is the original steam engine connecting wooden oars."

In 1786, John Fitch of the United States installed a watt steam engine on the ship to turn the rudder instead of as power. The ship's power relies on 12 paddles to row. In other words, the steam engine of this ship generates power, not to act on the propeller to push the ship forward, but to drive the wooden paddles below.

Judging from the current perspective, this idea has not yet left the cage of the original ship craft. It is like when the Chinese invented explosives, they did not use explosives to convert them into ammunition to kill them, but used explosives to push the bows and arrows to increase the distance.

Similar processes are all about anti-aircraft guns that kill mosquitoes, and they are useless for a large amount of money.

In 1790, American Mochi improved this process and still used a steam engine to drive the paddles to row. However, at this time, he changed the wooden paddles to a linkage type, which made the wooden paddles row faster and more uniformly, and could increase the speed of the boat.

But naturally, because the steam engine occupied a large amount of space on the ship, such a speedup made the shipping industry at that time unsatisfied, and this process was eliminated.

But after entering the 20th century, especially when World War II ended, this retro craft was warmly welcomed in the tourism industry and gradually developed.

The reason why Wang Bo can recognize it at a glance is because he has seen such ships before, but the oars of those ships were driven by internal turbines at that time, and the speed was quite fast.

After hearing his words, Rodt smiled and nodded: "Yes, this is the window for telescopic wooden oars, but the ship has not started yet, so the window must be closed, otherwise the water vapor will be too high and it will damage the ship."

No wonder this kind of boat is cheap, and the wooden oars look beautiful, but the value is much smaller than that of marine propellers. This thing needs frequent maintenance and replacement of parts, and is not as resistant to manufacturing like propellers.

Wang Bo got on the boat and inspected a series of important machines such as the steam engine and the rudder. He did not ask industry experts to help. The ship was an empty rack and used the steam engine as a power to drive the ship to sail, and there were almost no electronic accessories.

So, he can check it himself.

These ships can be used, but they are generally maintained. Many of the decorations inside the ship are destroyed, the floor is rough and the inner wall is broken. If you want to invest in the tourism industry, you will have to work hard to repair them.

After reading it roughly, he said, "I can take all four ships away and pack them together. How about 500,000?"

Rodt looked at Schneider with dissatisfaction expression: "Man, you must have told him the reserve price of the ships I bought, a ship costs 120,000 yuan? Then what else can I do in this way?"

Schneider spread his hands and said, "I just talked to him about the White Horse on the Waves. I don't know the situation of the other four ships, and I haven't said it."

Wang Bo said: "The price is very fair. You may have bought the White Horse on the Waves by 120,000 yuan, but the other four ships are definitely not at this price, at most 100,000 yuan. Look, the damage is too serious."

"Selling scrap iron is more than 100,000 yuan. My man, this is a big ship of fifteen meters!" said Rodt.

Wang Bo said: "To be put into operation, I have to spend at least 200,000 yuan each of my ships in, right?"

"If you spend 200,000 yuan, these ships can be sold for two million in packages!" Rodt said, "After 500,000 yuan, it is better to take it away. For the sake of my good friend Schneider, although he messed up my business this time."

The next step is the bargaining process. Wang Bo nodded to the Mexican handsome guy and signaled him to come on.

The Mexican handsome guy can be said to be Wang Bo’s private financial officer. Now the town’s expenditures and his personal expenses are a lot, and the income is complicated. The Mexican handsome guy is dealing with financial problems for him.

He coughed and said, "Five-80,000 is too expensive. We can add 20,000 yuan. You know how long your boat has been here. If you don't sell it, you will have to stop for a longer time. I won't talk about how much the berth costs, I just say how much the ship will lose in the future. You know more than me."

"Your words touched me," Rodt showed a frustrated expression. "If I had known that I wouldn't buy these rags, my funds were suppressed by this damn thing, and I would have to add parking fees and maintenance fees to it..."

"Then, why don't we take a step back, 560,000, right? 560,000 and 4 good ships, no matter how you look at this business, it's not a loss."

The handsome Mexican shook his head firmly: "This is our lowest price, 520,000 yuan. No matter how expensive it is, we will be laughed at. We don't want to be suckers or become laughing stocks."

Rodt shouted: "But I can't sell this ship without even making money from coolies, right? Do you know how much it cost to drag these ships back from Auckland? Five hundred and sixty thousand is my lowest price, and I won't cut it by another cent."

The Mexican handsome man said regretfully: "Then we can only take the Talang White Horse away. It seems better to buy a new ship with the remaining money."

Schneider pretended to be an intermediary and grabbed the two of them and said, "Forget it, my guys, it's only a little bit. Let the business be done. Why not like this, Mr. Mayor, 560,000, let my guy find a car to drag it into your lake."

Rodt shook his head repeatedly: "My God, brother, do you know how much it costs to hire a tow truck?"

Schneider glared at him: "I'm the decision on this matter. You guy is so greedy!"

Wang Bo smiled and looked at the two of them and said, "Okay, Schneider, I pretended to be happy to accept this business for your sake. You know, if you and my guys had given me the White Horse, I wouldn't have liked to pretend to be confused so much."

Obviously, before he came, the two had already discussed the price. If he insisted that Rodette would sell it for 520,000 yuan, the shipping fee would be more than 10,000 yuan.

It is true that the transportation fee for transporting these five ships from Wellington to Sunset Town is very high, but there is no need. Wellington leads directly to Dunedin by sea. You can save more than half of the shipping fee by driving the ship first and then transfer to land.

But he had to give Schneider some face, not because he said earlier that Schneider gave him a ship, but in the future, the Sunset Group would be under his command, so he would make a good relationship for Ryan and others.

After hearing his words, the two laughed, and Rodt shook hands with him and smiled, "Thank you for taking care of my business, I will transport them to Sunset Town as fast as possible."
Chapter completed!