"On behalf of the Saar Empire, I express my indignation at your country's provision of secret weapons to the Allies." Zhu Erdian expressed his attitude and intention as soon as they met.
Chen Guilin smiled and said: "I don't understand what Mr. Ambassador means. Please explain it in detail."
Zhu Erdian immediately told the story of how the Saar Empire merchant ship and the Liverpool naval port were attacked by invisible weapons and suffered heavy losses. "Oh, so that's it." Chen Guilin had a look of surprise on his face, and Zhu Erdian was so angry that he wanted to beat him twice.
Fist: "Does your country intend to deny that it was you who provided this weapon to the Yaman Empire?"
"Of course not." Chen Guilin raised his eyebrows and said: "This weapon called a submarine is indeed provided by us to the Yaman Empire. This is a normal business behavior. Our government has no right to interfere, and the same goes for your country."
It turned out to be called a submarine. Zhu Erdian was really happy to know the name of this weapon. He immediately said: "However, the weapons sold by your country have caused serious harm to our country. I would like to protest to your country."
Chen Guilin spread his hands and said helplessly: "This makes no sense. Even international conventions do not stipulate that neutral countries can only sell weapons to you. You can buy them if you want."
"Your country is willing to sell this secret weapon to us?" Zhu Erdian said in surprise.
"Of course, our businessmen are looking for money. They don't have any political leanings. As long as the country agrees to sell it, they will definitely sell it." Chen Guilin nodded.
"Then I will order ten, not thirty submarines on behalf of the Saar Empire." Zhu Erdian said.
Chen Guilin shook his head: "I'm sorry, our government does not sell this kind of weapon. If your country wants to buy it, you can consult the arms company affiliated with the China Consortium." Zhu Erdian didn't care about being polite to Chen Guilin, and hurried out to the arms company.
Chen Guilin frowned and said to himself: "Why did the emperor also sell the submarine to the Sars? It seems that the emperor wants to make the war as intense as possible."
The order from the Saar Empire was quickly accepted by the Chinese consortium. At the same time, because the submarines achieved great results, the Yaman Empire immediately ordered fifty submarines from the Chinese Empire. Fang Xiaoyu suddenly discovered that his move could not only consume Saer
The empire's merchant fleet still has the potential to make a lot of money.
Now all kinds of military and civilian production industries in the Chinese Empire are operating at full speed, and products are sold in large quantities to countries participating in the war. The abundant funds have in turn stimulated an upsurge in increasing production and expansion of factories. The industrial system of the Chinese Empire is growing and strengthening like a snowball.
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Fang Xiaoyu understood that although the war would not end for a while, once the war ended, these excess production capacities might cause many problems, so he asked China Bank to have stricter loan qualification review requirements when making commercial loans, and try to be consistent with the national
The Ministry of Industry and Commerce has contacted the Ministry of Industry and Commerce to pour cold water on those entrepreneurs who blindly expand, and also let themselves have more funds to deal with possible problems.
Fang Xiaoyu's thinking is very long-term, but for now, the products of the Chinese Empire can still be sold as much as they are produced. He just thinks that the industrial system is already very large and does not need to be expanded. Now all countries have begun to use their gold reserves. I believe
Within a year their purchasing power will decrease.
In the direction of the Allied Powers, the Chinese Empire now occupies the entire market, while in the case of the Allied Powers, the Chinese Empire only holds 40%. There are various reasons for this.
One is that the Allied navies take the initiative. They block the waters of the Western Continent. Therefore, if neutral countries want to sell products, they can only sell to the Allied Powers. There are many countries selling products, and competition is naturally fierce. Each country gets a little bit.
The shares of the Allied Powers were naturally divided thinly. Even the Boston Empire only had a 45% share.
The second is that the Chinese Empire shut out the currencies of all countries in overseas trade and only accepted Chinese dollars or precious metals. This restricted the Chinese Empire's transactions, while the Boston Empire accepted any currency from any country.
Even the Japanese country benefited a lot from this war. They sold all the products they could sell and earned a lot of foreign exchange. With the money, the Japanese government's heart was revived. They quickly announced the construction of a new generation of 'Ise'.
The decision to build four '-class Chinese ships.
This news immediately alerted the Imperial Navy. Liu Junguo quickly reported to the government, requesting the construction of new battleships to compete with the Japanese navy's shipbuilding plan. Now the wealthy East China trip immediately approved it, and the navy's request was greatly criticized.
It was almost sent to the Naval Design Institute. Xu Shouchang's other teacher, Dietman, who had not made any designs since arriving in the Chinese Empire, wanted to show off his skills.
With the powerful scientific and technological support of the Chinese Empire, Dittman felt that he was at home. Two months later, he quickly came up with his own design plan. "Look, experts are experts, and the warships they designed are really nothing to say." Xu Shouchang
After Dittman drew the drawings, he immediately sent them to Fang Xiaoyu. Looking at the masterpiece of this master of warship design, Fang Xiaoyu couldn't help but nod his head.
"The standard displacement is 48,500 tons, the full load displacement is 56,000 tons, the hull is 250 meters long, 32.3 meters wide, the draft is 10 meters, and the four steam turbines with 80,000 horsepower are expected to be
The speed is twenty-four knots. The armor is 381 to 330 mm on the side, 203 mm on the horizontal armor, 457 mm on the turret, and 381 mm on the control tower. The weapons are triple
Equipped with three 457 mm 45 caliber guns, eight twin 152 mm 50 caliber guns, and six 127 mm 45 caliber guns."
Fang Xiaoyu sighed while reading the data of the new warship. With the support of a large number of high-tech technologies from the Chinese Empire, Dittman was at home like a duck in water. He could build this warship as big as he wanted, but the design of this warship was different from the one that was stopped due to the naval agreement.
The design of the new generation of British battleship N3 built after World War I is still the same as before. It is really a hero who sees the same thing.
Unexpectedly, now that there is not much naval battle data to study, Dittman actually realized the importance of horizontal armor in advance. The only difficulty of this warship is its 18-inch main gun, which is already the same as the Yamato-class battleship
It is comparable to the current level of the Chinese Empire. It is estimated that it will be difficult to build at the current level of the Chinese Empire. However, Zhang Hui should give Zhang Hui a headache. The worst is to change it to a smaller one.
When I first saw the design parameters of this kind of warship on a military forum, I felt sad that this huge battleship could not come out. I didn't expect that on Wangxiang Planet, I could actually realize this dream with my own strength. It was really good.
"Master, what do you think of my teacher's design?" Xu Shouchang tried to ask. "Ah?" Fang Xiaoyu finally woke up from his memories: "Not bad, very good. Can I ask your teacher to design another one for me?"
aircraft carrier."
"Aircraft carrier?" Xu Shouchang asked in surprise: "What is that?" "Don't you remember?"
Fang Xiaoyu explained: "I just showed you the drawings the day before yesterday."
"Ah, that ship without artillery and the entire hull is just a big flat plate is called an aircraft carrier. If Master hadn't told me, I would have thought it was the latest transport ship of the navy."
Fang Xiaoyu said: "What are you looking at? Don't you look at the notes next to the drawings?"
Xu Shouchang scratched his head and said, "I really didn't look at it because the ship didn't have a main gun and it didn't look like a warship."
"Go back and ask your teacher to design one for me. Just follow the principles of my drawing, but it should be larger, at least 20,000 tons." Fang Xiaoyu said angrily.
Xu Shouchang said: "What kind of mothership is this? It doesn't even have cannons. How can it fight?"
Fang Xiaoyu said: "Use an airplane. This is for airplanes to take off and land on the sea. You have to learn carefully. This kind of warship will replace the battleship and become the overlord of the sea in the future."
"Just such a weird thing?" Xu Shouchang is very confident about the all-powerful battleship on the sea, but he has no feeling at all for this kind of weird-looking warship, but the master's words have never been missed, and he is quite interested in this kind of warship.
The warship has taken care of it.
Not only the Chinese Empire and the Japanese Empire are building new battleships, the Boston Empire and even the countries participating in the war have not stopped building new battleships, especially the Yaman Empire, which is holding back its energy and quickly building its first battleship.
Chinese warship 'Nassau'.
"How is the steam turbine manufacturing going?" the warship designer asked a supervisor anxiously.
The supervisor said: "Don't worry, it will be delivered tomorrow. The design of the Chinese people is really exquisite, and it can actually make the steam engine exert such great power."
The warship designer nodded and said: "That's true. As long as the steam turbine can be in place, our warship will run faster. It can be launched and outfitted in about a month."
The supervisor smiled and said: "Yes, if His Majesty hadn't been wise and built several hulls in advance, how could it be so fast?"
"Sir, how long do we have before we can launch the warship?" A supervisor at the shipyard of the Kingdom of Habfsburg also asked the designer.
The designer said: "Our 'United Forces' will not take long to build. I'm afraid it will take another year to complete."
"So long?" The blond supervisor frowned.
"This is already very fast." The designer said, "I have only started construction for half a year. If we built the hull in advance, it should be faster. Unfortunately, we did nothing in a year because we were waiting for steam turbine technology.
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The same thing is happening in the shipyards of the Cossack Empire, the Nantes Empire, and the Grand Duchy of Sardinia. Even during the war, countries do not relax the construction of new battleships. However, the current Chinese Empire is not as enthusiastic about building battleships as the outside world imagines.
At this time, Fang Xiaoyu was studying the aircraft carrier drawings with Dittmann in the Naval Design Institute.