It seems that I am very happy to chat at home)”

The visitor was Major General Du Xigui, deputy director of the Navy Department of Honolulu and deputy commander of the Pacific Fleet.

People who have been with Zhang Yunfei for a long time, especially Zhang Yunfei's direct descendants, like to learn something special about Zhang Yunfei, so that they feel closer.

Zhang Yunfei has always been clear about public and private affairs, and has rewards and punishments. He is easy-going, which makes the people around him feel very self-heating and close.

Since Major General Du Xigui has always spoken half of Chinese, and has some languages ​​from other countries. At first, he thought that Zhang Yunfei was deliberately guiding people around him to learn more foreign languages, but later he realized that this was Zhang Yunfei's habit. So Du Xigui became interested and also brought some English when he spoke (he only knew English). Over time, his English level rose sharply and he gradually got used to being the role of deputy.

In Zhang Yunfei's words, the job of the deputy is much more important than the job of the main job, which makes Du Xi very useful. In most cases, he will directly contact him as the deputy minister and deputy commander. In fact, Du Xi is the role of the chief of staff, while Lin Jianzhang, the main job can be focused on the fleet.

This is actually Zhang Yunfei's political power strategy. It will not allow a person to control power and do outstanding military and political affairs to win the morale of the army.

They are in charge of military affairs and government affairs, which is a good balance.

Seeing Du Xigui's attitude as if he had entered his own home, Zhao Huaiye looked at Zhang Yunfei with a daze.

Zhang Yunfei smiled and said, "This is not the exact occasion, so there is no need to be so restrained."

Then he said to Du Xigui: "Shenchen! You are so happy. You must have encountered something good!"

Du Xi smiled, then straightened his military cap, saluted Zhang Yunfei, and greeted Zhao Huaiye. He moved a stool to Zhang Yunfei.

"You guessed Yuan. I've really guessed it right. I've been checking the family's assets in Lushun these days. There are really a lot of good things." Du Xi said.

When Zhang Yunfei saw him look mysterious and mysterious, he asked, "Tell me, what has you, the landlord, seen?"

Du Xigui took out a small notebook from his pocket. After opening it, he said word by word: "I spent twenty taels of silver to get the land from Ji Lifeng, a former supervisor of the Lushun project. The above is a list of foreign-language projects. After Liu Hanfang, the alternate road of the Lushun Wu'ao project, translated it into Chinese, and inspected it item by item. It was only seven days, one by one, nine). The land booklet was just completed. The above details the facilities of the Lushun Fortress. It is much more detailed than the one you see!"

Looking at Du Xigui's appearance as if he was a villain, Zhang Yunfei smiled and took the booklet in his hand. He looked through pages.

‘There is a total of one Dashiwu, forty-one zhang and three feet, twelve zhang and four feet wide, three zhang and seven zhang and nine inches deep, and all stone steps and iron ladders and slides are complete. One Dashiao, with three sides southeast and north, is 416 zhang and eight inches long. The Dashiwu blocks the tide to the west and is 93 zhang and four feet long, forming a square pond. The tide water is 2 zhang and four feet deep, and a gate is left in the northwest so that the warships can enter and exit.

...There are large stone shores all around, from the plane of the Aoan to the bottom of the Aoan, with a depth of 38 feet and 2 inches. In addition, there are nine ship repair factories next to the dock, with an estimated land of 48,500 square feet. There are boiler factories, machine factories, iron mills, electric light factories, etc. In addition, there are four large warehouses in South Aoan, and one large warehouse is built in the east of the dock, each covering an area of ​​4878 square feet to be used as the need to store ship machinery and miscellaneous materials. Each warehouse uses iron beams and iron tiles to shelter from wind and rain, and fire protection candles. Other Aoan Dou are connected in parallel with railways, and five large and small cranes are set up intermittently.

...In addition, four or six large and small lamps were set up for night work. In addition, the salt water near the sea was inconvenient to eat, the iron pipe was used to lead the mountain spring for more than ten miles and reached the four sides of the Aowu. In view of the unfavorable loading and unloading of the beach, a large T-shaped iron wharf was built so that the coal transportation machinery on the commuters and warships did not stagnate. The rest of the small stone docks for small ships, the iron bars for hiding ships, the iron bars for hiding ships, the ferry floats for striking ships, and all the ship repair machines in each factory were also set up, and everything was included...'

After reading it, Zhang Yunfei nodded and said, "It's not bad, very detailed. But you can't just show me an account book, that's that simple! Tell me, what have you found?"

"It's worthy of being Yuan! You guessed it all at once." Du Xijiang said: "I have a very serious problem. The construction of the Lushun Fortress took a long time and took ten years. Of course, they had no money, no one, and no technology, so it's not their fault. But four countries intervened in this fortress. At first, Hannagan and Renel of Germany built the chief engineer for five years, and then they were replaced by British Levi and American Manyishi for two years, and finally the Frenchman Devine completed the last three-year construction period."

Zhang Yunfei frowned and said, "What do you want to say?"

Du Xigui replied: "

The whole world knows the family's foundation, there is no secret to it. You have to know that this is not counting. The entire fortress is built from inside to outside. Let's talk about the Sow Reef Fort on the east coast and the Mantou Mountain Fort on the west coast! The foundation of the fort was fired by the Germans, but the fort was built by the British, but the cannon was made by the French. People all over the world know that the three countries are not dealt with, and the building parameters are very different. I asked the turret guards, and the cannon has not been tested since it was installed seven years ago. As a result, I asked them to fire one shot, but the turret collapsed. The reason was that the British did not give the French turrets the design parameters, so that the French gun caliber was too large and the turret could not bear it. There are many similar things. I have seen the fortress turrets above seven floors and all have to be corrected again."

Yes, this kind of Wanguo Card Fortress has a great hidden danger, otherwise Lushun would not have been captured by the Japanese army so easily.

The fate of Lushun is closely related to the difficult motherland. Four years after the self-built port, the port was occupied by the Japanese army; seven years after the Russians were leased; fourteen years after the 1940s, it was occupied by Japan again, and then sublease it from Russia to Japan. At the end of World War II, it was re-captured by the Soviet army, and it was not until 1954 that the Soviet army retreated. In the seventy-five years, the port changed several times, sometimes trapped in Japan and sometimes rented in Russia, and more than two-thirds of the time left the embrace of the motherland. A modern military port built by the Chinese with such huge financial and manpower actually became a base for the great powers to invade China for most of the time.

Lushun Fortress is very important, there is no doubt that this matter must be handled slowly and there is no rush.

With a navy to protect the sea front, the fortress is not the most important place at present. Zhang Yunfei is most concerned about the navy. But Zhang Yunfei is puzzled. Why did Du Xi come in with a smile? There are probably other tricks.

"You can take the fortress slowly, and don't rush for a moment. You, the navy general, don't take care of naval affairs, but instead think about the 6th Army. Could it be that you want to change your career to become the 6th Army?" Zhang Yunfei joked.

"No, don't. I'll just take a look. Although Lushun Fortress is not good, the facilities such as the naval dock are still quite good and not outdated."

Du Xigui continued: "The dock can accommodate 12,000 tons of ships for maintenance. With a slight improvement, we can repair our battleships. Other supporting facilities are also complete, but the location of the Lushun dock is too narrow, so it is difficult to expand into a large dock. At most, we can build battleships with current tonnage, but according to the development direction of the international navy, the tonnage of the warships is getting bigger and bigger, and the Lushun dock will not be able to keep up with the international pace in the future."

After reading all the information about Lushun, Zhang Yunfei was quite satisfied with this Lushun Shipyard. Although the equipment is not as good as the Pearl Harbor cabin, it cannot be compared with the Subic Naval Base under construction. Zhang Yunfei did not intend to build Lushun Shipyard into a large shipyard, because he knew the future direction of the navy, he did not want to waste all his money. This is also the biggest advantage of time travel.

According to the future trend of the world navy, armored cruisers will withdraw from the stage of history and be replaced by a large number of destroyers and submarines. For the current shipbuilding tonnage of Lushun, 12,000 tons is enough to build light and heavy cruisers and destroyers and submarines, and there is no need to spend more money. Because with two large shipyards, Pearl Harbor Shipyard and Subic Shipyard, Zhang Yunfei's naval overlord position in Asia in terms of main battleships.

Zhang Yunfei nodded and said, "I don't plan to expand the Lushun Shipyard at the moment. The equipment of the shipyard is relatively advanced, so we can't waste it. Now our territory almost occupy the entire North Pacific, lacking a large number of small warships such as light cruisers, destroyers, frigates, etc. The current tonnage of Lushun Shipyard is suitable for building some fast warships, so that Pearl Harbor and Subic can avoid wasting dock resources and focus on building large ships."

Du Xigui was relieved to hear that Zhang Yunfei had no intention of expanding the Lushun Dock. His purpose was to worry that Zhang Yunfei would continue to deal with the Philippines, and he began to carry out military facilities construction as soon as he returned to China. In fact, Du Xi thought about continuously expanding the strength of the navy, and the strength of the navy was also his dream, but as his knowledge increased, Du Xigui was no longer a young man who only wanted to fight.

We will consider it more. With the current naval strength, there is no need to expand it more. This will not only waste manpower and financial resources, but will also attract the attention and vigilance of naval powers such as Britain and the United States, which will not be conducive to Zhang Yunfei's great cause.

Du Xigui smiled and said, "Yuan is worthy of being far-sighted. I also think that it is enough to use the existing resources to maintain the navy's exhibition. There is no need to waste it anymore. You are very rich, but there are so many people in the Qing Dynasty, on average, it is like a stone thrown into the sea and you can hardly see it."
Chapter completed!