At the same time, the United States and France also sent large business groups to get a share of the pie. Of course, they knew Germany's advantages in fortress cannons, but even if they couldn't get this big cake, they could at least get some benefits from other things. At least they knew that Zhang Yunfei's ambitions would not be limited to Hawaii, but the ancient empire in the East. As the most Westernized Zhang Yunfei, he was the best agent of the great powers of various countries in China, and it was in line with the current interests of various countries, so the business was not successful, and benevolence and righteousness were there. This was the best way to establish a good relationship with Zhang Yunfei. At the same time, Zhang Yunfei was a poor guy with only money left, which was more in line with the appetite of the great powers.

The most powerful American business group is Charles Herry Cramp, born in 1828, the eldest son of William Cramp, the founder of the Philadelphia Shipyard. This guy's Philadelphia Shipyard was the most advanced shipyard in the United States and was called Armstrong. The ABCD ships in the early stages of the construction of the new US Navy were built by this shipyard. From 1893 to 1898, 4 of all 11 battleships (including second-class battleships) in this period were built and 7 of 18 cruisers, and the total number of two ships was built far exceeds that of any other shipyard.

In addition to these, the Kasagi protective cruiser was also built for Japan, with first-class quality. This is an order placed by Japan to ease relations with the United States. It is the same as Zhang Yunfei's use of huge warship orders to tempt Britain to force Britain to bow to Zhang Yunfei for money, but Japan is too petty. It still trusts Britain, and its main battleships are built in the United Kingdom, and it is also guarding against Britain. Japan is also constantly learning and trying to get rid of Britain's dependence.

Later generations of India, Ah San, were both aircraft carriers and nuclear submarines, which were better than the Chinese navy. Why didn’t we dump him? This is also the reason, only by being able to build it themselves can carry out the war. Why did the Beiyang Navy’s post-war repair project slower than Japan? Because the parts of these foreign ships had to be imported from abroad, legislation during the war made these deadly parts unable to reach the Beiyang, and there was no way to repair them.

But Charles had a bigger dream: to build his shipyard into the Armstrong Shipyard in the United States! He always said jealously: "The Armstrong Shipyard is not a shipbuilding factory but a navy builder!" Therefore, when he learned that the wealthy man Zhang Yunfei from Hawaii had ordered a large number of cruisers to Britain, he also felt that the opportunity had come.

After learning from many sources, Zhang Yunfei knew that this guy was strong and wanted to understand the various performances of new American battleships. After all, you have to be careful when you are around them! So he built two 5,000-ton light cruisers at Charles' Philadelphia Shipyard, each costing $1.5 million, and 10 400-ton patrol gunboats, each costing $245,000. All of them require high speed and rapid firepower! In addition, 10 transport ships of 4,000 tons, each costing $950,000. The main consideration is that the current fleet only has warships, and should be fully matched with high, medium and low, otherwise it would be too single. In order to enable these warships to be delivered and used as soon as possible, Zhang Yunfei paid $500,000, asking for the progress of the project to be accelerated, and Charles promised to deliver it to Zhang Yunfei as soon as possible.

With the industrial capabilities of the United States, Zhang Yunfei believed Charles' words.

Another reason is that Zhang Yunfei cannot rely solely on a tree in the UK, which is too dangerous, because Britain and Japan have a two-year alliance. If Japan has any bad ideas during this period, or let Britain slow down the construction speed of warships, or disclose the various performances of warships to Japan, it will have an impact on Zhang Yunfei. For this reason, Zhang Yunfei has to order warships from many other companies, which will put pressure on the UK and will not be too overdoing it.

As an excellent boss and designer, Charles of course quickly mastered the relevant British technology. Since the UK only exports technology to European countries relatively strict, there are not so many requirements for other regions.

However, after Zhang Yunfei gave Britain a ecstasy soup, the situation changed, and Britain began to restrict technology exports to the United States. European countries also became wary of the United States because of Zhang Yunfei's intentional or unintentional American threat theory.

The reason for building a Qing cruiser was because Zhang Yunfei suddenly learned a man named John Holland from the crowd of the Admiralty. Zhang Yunfei knew very well. He also had a private submarine in later generations. The father of modern submarines was the Irish descendant American named Holland. Due to the catastrophic accident of the submarine "War Wisdom" in the past, the U.S. Navy was very unfriendly to Holland, who was dedicated to studying submarines, and even secretly transported away the new submarine he designed and built. Holland was not discouraged. Recently, he designed a new submarine and took it to the Admiralty, hoping to fight against the British Navy. In the end, the Secretary of the Admiralty Herbert threw him directly into the Hawaiian sales group.

In history, Holland's second submarine designed by Navy Secretary Herbert was approved, but now it has arrived at Zhang Yunfei, causing the United States to be equipped with a submarine force for the first time.

Of course, Zhang Yunfei did not let this talent go, so Gaoxin hired him to stay in Hawaii to continue designing submarines, and opened a submarine design laboratory for him at the Pearl Harbor base. He also bought the design drawings of the most advanced submarine "Gustav-Zid" that was built in France in 1893, and the on-board periscope and air regeneration system invented by Russian engineer C-K-Vitesky for Holland for research.

When Holland agreed excitedly, Zhang Yunfei seemed to have foresaw the scene of his own large group of submarines besieging enemy ships in the future. At the same time, he also thought of the importance of anti-submarine warfare, so he ordered a large number of destroyers. He knew that after World War I, countries would focus on building a large number of destroyers, and Britain alone built more than 200, and their purpose was to anti-submarine and protect the sea routes.

At the same time, Zhang Yunfei also signed with the U.S. Navy Department to allow the construction of a coal-plug station for the US Navy in Aiwa Bay east of Pearl Harbor. This is also the reason Zhang Yunfei showed goodwill to the United States. Once the Pearl Harbor Fortress is completed, Zhang Yunfei will be afraid of anything. The US coal-plug station is completely within the range of the fortress's firepower. Even if all the newly built battleships of the United States are driven, it will not be able to shake the Pearl Harbor Fortress. At that time, Pearl Harbor Fortress was like a hedgehog, and no one can touch whoever touches or hurts! The visiting Americans were very happy. The purpose of politics, military and commercial is a great harvest, and their attitude towards Zhang Yunfei was much better.

Of course France also participated, but they brought other countries, except for submarines, did not dare to be interested in it. However, there was one thing that Zhang Yunfei seemed to have picked up a treasure. Because he saw the plane, but people in this period did not have the concept of the plane, they called it the water dragonfly. The inventor was the Frenchman Clément Ader, who invented various machines (crawlers, subsea wires, various styles of engines, and even later car engines), but his greatest invention was the aircraft.

The aircraft invented by Adel successfully carried out its first flight on October 9, 1890, flying 50 meters at an altitude of 20 cm. Although it was a bit like that, it would be better than asking Zhang Yunfei to wait for the American plane to go into the sky 10 years later! Although the French army was quite interested in Adel's invention and provided him with some funding to continue the experiment. However, it was not very important and there was little funding. Therefore, Zhang Yunfei became a demolition worker again, digging the Frenchman Clemour Adel into his army, promising as long as it was researched by Adel, all the funds would be taken out by Zhang Yunfei, and whatever equipment should be purchased. For a fanatical scientific inventor, this is a naked temptation! A fatal temptation! An irresistible temptation!

In this era without any legal and regulatory constraints on scientific inventions, whoever has money and who value inventions is the admirer of these scientific invention madmen! Zhang Yunfei is undoubtedly the most successful person, who makes him a future person? Modern shrimps are the most expensive? Answer: Talent! All babies who eat milk know this principle, don’t believe it? Then go and ask!

Of course, it wouldn't work for France to have no orders. Zhang Yunfei was a method until France. Because of the hatred that Germany and France only saw, Beiyang only ordered warships in Germany, but was jealous of France and Britain. France built the Sanjing ship for Japan specifically to deal with the two ships of Dingzhen, while Britain built the fastest Yoshino ship for Japan at that time. It can be seen that no powerful country can afford to offend!

France cannot be left empty-handed, so Zhang Yunfei gritted his teeth and ordered two armored cruisers with a speed of 21.4 knots from France again, but they must be kept confidential. Zhang Yunfei sacrificed his money and smashed you all out with money, as long as he didn't trip him up! Of course, he knew that France and Germany were small because they were also nervous because of the tension between Russia and Japan, and the enemy's enemy was friends, everyone still knew this. I was afraid that Britain's position between itself and Japan was not firm, and if he deliberately slowed down the construction of warships at that time, Zhang Yunfei would be very passive. Fortunately, Zhang Yunfei was not hanged on a tree, so he was not afraid of Japan.

Warship level: Seahawk level

Displacement: Designed 9533 tons, maximum 10266 tons

Speed: 21.4 knots

Military equipment: 4 210mm double-mounted main guns, 10 150mm guns, 14 88mm single-mounted guns, and 3 450mm fish**.

Crew: 500 people

Japan is the most sensitive to Zhang Yunfei's series of big moves, and Saburo Yantian is also the only minister who constantly questioned Zhang Yunfei's intentions. Zhang Yunfei ignored Saburo Yantian's protests, and his look of despising everything seemed to say: "Little guy, don't throw you away! If you have the habit, come and beat me!" Saburo Yantian, who hit a wall with Zhang Yunfei, started to report Zhang Yunfei's small reports again. Unfortunately, no one likes to pay attention to him at this moment, and is busy doing business with Zhang Yunfei to make money! Besides, I am used to Zhang Yunfei's fluent ministers with obvious hometown dialect. At this moment, listening to Saburo Yantian's poor English is simply raping the ears of these ministers, and in the end they all refuse to see him in busy affairs.

Saburo Yantian was very depressed because his country was tightening his belt and fighting with Li Hongzhang! He didn't care about his place at all, but asked Zhang Yunfei's Pacific Fleet from time to time if he had left the port for 5 days. Obviously, the harm Zhang Yunfei caused to Japan made them lingeringly scared and became a shadow that could never be removed. Then there was no news and ignored Yantian Saburo's report. In the end, Saburo Yantian had no choice but to send people to stare at the movements of Zhang Yunfei's Pacific Fleet every day, no longer concerned about Zhang Yunfei's large-scale island defense construction, and stared at him.

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