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.    Chapter 364 The Navy wants to build ships

    The sale of oil cracking technology brought a glimmer of hope for the upcoming 1914. Although US$25 million was not much, it was a good start. According to Lu Bicheng, Rockefeller immediately began to improve the process after receiving the technology, and at the latest  It is expected that this technology will be used to produce gasoline and diesel from the second half of 2016. By then, Huachen Petroleum Technology Company will be able to obtain stable and extremely considerable income every year.

    As for the exchanged petroleum refining waste residue, it has also begun to be continuously transported back to Changsha to decompose ammonia, and then undergo liquefaction and distillation to obtain propane, which is used to make synthetic rubber.  This technology is tied to the explosion-proof tire technology in data machines, and the equipment can also use the technology of current chemical plants. It only takes a period of time for workers to explore and practice, and it will be manufactured when the Xiantao Petroleum Refinery built with the help of the United States is completed.  , a preliminary petroleum processing industry can be established.

    However, none of these can compare with the emergence of sulfonamides, so much so that Yang Qiu dropped all his work and rushed back to Wuchang Pharmaceutical Factory. The war in Europe will start in less than a year, so it is necessary to arrange immediate trials to develop qualified products and master this  This technology is not just about making money.

    The first thing Yang Qiu did after returning to Nanjing was to repay the US$20 million loan from three companies. Originally, there was no need for him to repay it so quickly, but considering that the world situation will undergo major changes next year, he must have enough funds on hand.

    However, he did not expect that he had just paid off the loan ahead of schedule to increase the reserves of the central bank. Before he could settle down, Sa Zhenbing dragged Wang Guangxiong and also brought Xie Baozhang, who had lived in his hometown in Fujian for many years before returning to the Navy to serve as a rear admiral.  Well, before the old butler could finish greeting these three people, President Li Yuanhong's motorcade also appeared outside the mansion. It seemed that he had accepted Sa Zhenbing's invitation.

    After rushing into Yang Qiu's house, Comrade Lao Sa felt that he had the support of the student president and said directly: "President, Commander-in-Chief, can you build six cruisers for our navy?"

    "Puch"

    As soon as Yang Qiu picked up the "love" coffee brewed by Miao Luo himself, he was so shocked by these words that he spat out his voice. If it weren't for Sa Zhenbing, Xie Baozhang and Li Yuanhong in front of him, Lei Meng would have kicked him out.

    It was rare to see Yang Qiu in such embarrassment. Miao Luo covered the corners of his mouth and bent over with a smile. Yang Qiu was so angry that he glared at him fiercely and gave him a look like a look at you for the rest of the night. Then he spread his hands and smiled bitterly at Sa Zhenbing: "My deputy  Chief of General Staff, aren¡¯t you making things difficult for me? The Ministry of National Defense¡¯s budget for this year has almost been completely used up, so there is still money to build cruisers, and there are still six more."

    After Sa Zhenbing became the deputy chief of staff, the navy, which had been in chaos for several years, finally embarked on the right path. The three naval academies in Tianjin, Shanghai and Fujian were all converted into naval schools and were fully funded. Moreover, he also accepted Yang  Qiu suggested that several old warships be abolished to save money. He felt that it was time for the navy to develop, so he said: "Commander-in-Chief, don't worry, I'm talking about next year."

    As soon as Comrade Lao Sa finished speaking, Xie Baozhang followed the stick: "Vice President, you can't favor one over the other. Yesterday at the General Staff's 3rd-year defense budget meeting, the Army purchased 40 million weapons and equipment from Germany in the second half of this year alone.  Including orders from Hubei and Chongqing, it¡¯s almost 70 million. The budget for next year is also as high as 100 million. Even the aviation fleet received a budget of 5 million, but our navy only gets 20 million to support two fleets and so many soldiers! This is too much  There is less, so today I hope to double the budget and build at least four cruisers."

    Yang Qiu knew about the defense budget meeting for the next year. Since he was in Wuchang, he asked Song Ziqing to convene it on his behalf. However, he did not expect that before he could get the budget report, the navy came to the door. The total budget of the army, navy and air force was  It has reached a huge 125 million. This does not include the expenses once Japan breaks out in Europe and enters Qingdao, so next year's military expenditure will definitely exceed 200 million.

    Thinking of this number, Yang Qiulian was tempted to jump into the sea, but he didn't expect that the Navy would actually ask for the construction of a cruiser.

    Take the three training cruisers Zhaohe, Yingrui and Feihong that the Second Fleet has just taken over as an example. The three training cruisers, which are not very strong, cost an average of 200,000 pounds each, which is equivalent to 2 million yuan. Four ships cost 8 million.  The price may seem small, but in fact it does not include additional training personnel, additional logistics and other figures. If all is added up, the average cost of each ship will almost double.

    What's more, after having these three training cruisers, the Navy does not need to add small cruisers for the time being. Instead, Yang Qiu received another loan from the United States and ordered a large ocean-going sailing training ship from the United States, so even if it was to be built, it would be a big one, but  As a result, it is technically impossible to build warships exceeding 3,000 tons domestically, and secondly, the price will be relatively high.

    "I'm not going to hide it from you." Yang Qiu turned to look at Li Yuanhong and said, "You can ask the President, next year's budget is already very tight. The current overspending alone is 50 million, and it is expected that the overspending may eventually be more than 150 million, so.  ¡­.¡±

      Before he finished speaking, Sa Zhenbing laughed like a cunning old fox: "Commander-in-Chief, don't cry about being poor. We have heard that your factory has just repaid a loan of 20 million U.S. dollars. This money is enough to buy  Two battleships."

    its not right?  I just repaid the loan, why did the news spread so quickly?  Didn't Zhang Wenjing note that this money is a special fund that cannot be used temporarily?  Before he finished thinking, Li Yuanhong suddenly turned his head and looked at a mural on the wall with great interest.  Seeing his appearance, Yang Qiu knew who betrayed him and said, "Teacher, you are also"

    Li Yuanhong chuckled: "Chen Hua can figure it out for himself. Mr. Sa is my mentor after all. I'm just passing on a message." Now that he has said this, what else can Yang Qiu do?  Besides, the navy does need to increase its strength appropriately. He gritted his teeth and asked, "Let me tell you first, what kind of cruiser is needed?"

    Xie Baozhang returned to the navy as the chief of logistics, so when he saw Yang Qiusong, he glanced at Sa Zhenbing and Wang Guangxiong excitedly, pinched his fingers and said slowly like a magic stick: "What our navy means is to attack Britain, Germany and the United States first.  Design consultation, build four 6,000-ton steel-armored cruisers, install two twin 203mm cannons, 12 152mm cannons, turbine (steam turbine) speed must be 25 knots, and"

    As expected of the old Beiyang generation, Xianfu has not ignored the development of the world's navies even when he has been at home for so long. In addition to considering that there is no need for battleships and naval guns and the latest British oil-fired small water tube boilers, almost all the reported equipment is the latest equipment in Europe and the United States.  However, these data made Yang Qiuzhi frown. Not to mention that the follow-up number of a 6,000-ton ship equipped with two twin 203mm naval guns would definitely be very small. He shook his head just because of this configuration, which was too high to be achieved, let alone what to build now.  , except for the United States, even if you place an order, it cannot be opened.

    "no."

    Yang Qiu simply refused and said: "Made in China! It must be made in China. We have already purchased a batch of turbines from the UK last time. They will all be delivered before May next year and can be temporarily used by the navy. Other internal equipment can also be imported from the United States.  , but the main body must be based on domestic construction. I will not consider ordering cruisers of this level from foreign countries.¡±

    Made in China?

    Sa Zhenbing and the other three stared at each other. They visited Jiangnan and Mawei several times more than Yang Qiuke. Mawei did not have the ability to build a new cruiser at all. Jiangnan could, but they had received a positive answer after consulting American engineers. Standard displacement  An integral military keel of more than 3,000 tons cannot be built at all, unless the Navy is willing to accept a large warship with civilian ship standards.

    Although Yang Qiu¡¯s idea was to hone domestic shipbuilding technical capabilities, he insisted on building his own ship based on such technical conditions. Wouldn¡¯t this be life-threatening?  Wang Guangxiong, on the other hand, scratched his head and asked in surprise before he could recover: "Commander-in-Chief, did you agree to let us buy a battleship?"

    Yang Qiu gave him a pair of hygienic eyes, took out a pen and quickly drew the basic outline of the later American Porter-class destroyers.  Domestic technology is definitely not able to build a real Porter class at present, and it cannot even build a scissor-type bow, so it is just similar in appearance, and the power armor is insufficient. But now we must first solve the problem of having and not having it.  The weakened version can be barely used.

    So after finishing the painting, he handed it to Sa Zhenbing and said: "The large artillery torpedo ship (destroyer) has a standard displacement of 1,900 tons and a full load of 2,200 tons. It must use the 120mm naval gun we can make ourselves, three twin-mounted, using the current European  The backpack turret installation method used by large warships, four twin 37mm machine guns, the underwater torpedo tubes are cancelled, and two sets of quadruple torpedo tubes are reserved on the deck. The speed must not be less than 28 knots, and the unit price of each ship must not exceed  2 million."

    Although the piggy-back turret and three twin 120mm main guns are considered good configurations, the gap between the navy and the Navy's desire to obtain at least four cruisers like the Haiqi cruiser is too big. You must know that their imaginary enemy is Japan.  For the super battleships being launched one after another in the neighborhood, these small warships are basically cannon fodder, so Sa Zhenbing shook his head repeatedly: "The Commander-in-Chief is making things difficult, this kind of small warships can't defeat Japan at all, and they don't even have the ability to resist.  "

    His words caused everyone to nod. Even Li Yuanhong felt that such a small warship was not good, but Yang Qiu did not think so.

    "So, if I buy you four 6,000-ton cruisers, you will be guaranteed to defeat the Japanese Navy? Can you train sailors to rival the Japanese Navy within a few years?" Although his words were a bit harsh, they were true, even if they were bought immediately  With four battleships, the Republic of China Navy was also unable to defeat Japan. The main reason was that the talent gap that emerged after Beiyang was too big.

    So he chose to build his own. Technically speaking, Hubei and Chongqing can only build up to 150mm gun barrels, but the displacement of a 150mm naval gun can easily exceed 3,000 tons, so the best way is to use a 120mm naval gun.  , in addition, he did not choose to build a cruiser because the protection requirements of cruisers were different from those of destroyers.Except for the key parts, the rest of the destroyer is basically unarmored. This can greatly alleviate the pressure of the Chongqing Special Steel Plant's insufficient capabilities. Moreover, the destroyer is not incapable of dealing with the battleship. If a 550 mm large torpedo or even an oxygen torpedo can be developed, even if it is  Even the Japanese combined fleet can fight a dozen if they pull up all of them.

    "Technically, you have to figure it out on your own. Twin turrets, electric motors and ammunition hoist technology can be purchased from Germany, but all drawings must be obtained for the factory to copy. All subsystems must be completed before May next year. We have turbines and boilers.  I have pre-purchased a batch for the navy first, and if the shortage is insufficient, we can continue to purchase. I can also promise you to purchase fuel-fired hybrid boilers. After all subsystems are completed, I will place the first batch of two orders for Jiangnan and Mawei at the same time. If  If the test can reach the design level, I promise you to allocate funds for construction in the next five years" In fact, there are countless destroyer subsystem technologies in the data machine, and they can be directly copied by the factory if they are taken out, but Yang Qiu does not want to  The Navy gets something for nothing, and if you want to get it, you must pay. This can train the Navy to develop its own research and development capabilities. After he finished speaking, he paused briefly, raised his finger and shook it a few times.

    "16 ships."

    "16 ships!"

    This number shocked the entire audience. Not to mention Xie Baozhang and Wang Guangxiong, even Sa Zhenbing and Li Yuanhong stared in shock. Just now they said they had no money, and now they are building 16 ships at once?  !  Although it is divided into five years, the budget is only increased by 7 million per year. However, including personnel training and logistics, it will actually increase naval funding by at least 10 million per year.

    Is there any hallucinogen in the coffee?  Sa Zhenbing stared at Yang Qiu's coffee cup suspiciously for a long time before asking: "Does the commander-in-chief keep his word?"

    "After the 16 ships are built, all the old-fashioned gunboats and lightning strike ships in the Navy that were in service before 1905 will be gradually phased out. 20 years ago, the Navy only retained 6 cruisers and 18 large lightning strike ships (including the newly delivered Yongji and Yongjian  ), 6 submarines, if possible" Yang Qiuzhong nodded: "I will add at least 2 large warships to the navy 20 years ago."

    A large warship?  !

    Sa Zhenbing feels extremely happy. 2,000 tons can only be considered a lightning strike ship. Aren¡¯t large warships going to exceed 20,000 tons?

    Before they could cheer, Yang Qiu raised two fingers again: "Two things. After the Sino-Japanese War, thousands of old Beiyang people were demobilized, and there were many outstanding people among them. You must bring them back to strengthen the navy.  Let them show their abilities! As for the second thing" He deliberately drawled a long note, glanced at the three navy men present and then closed his mouth.

    Although he didn¡¯t say it out loud, everyone knew that after dealing with Beiyang¡¯s sweeping domestic warlords, Yang Qiu had already thought about taking action against the largest ¡°maritime warlord¡± in the Republic of China. This was how the Second Fleet appeared.  In fact, several people here have already seen that the current Fujian-based navy's alliance is not conducive to the development of the navy.  The navy needs unity, but that is when facing foreign enemies, not against the country, so now they must make a choice between maintaining the Fujian gang or reviving the navy.

    The atmosphere of silence instantly depressed the air in the living room. After a long time, Sa Zhenbing slowly raised his head: "Commander-in-Chief, don't worry, within four years we will recruit at least 4,000 sailors from all provinces across the country for training. Officers from the three naval schools  The structure will also be adjusted slowly."

    After receiving Sa Zhenbing¡¯s affirmative reply, Yang Qiu immediately asked Cai Gongshi to find Song Ziqing and allocate 200,000 yuan for shipbuilding reserves from the special budget.

    This time the Navy was determined. After receiving the reserve funds, Xie Baozhang led the team. It also invited Cheng Biguang to form a naval delegation of more than 50 people to visit Britain, Germany, the United States and other countries. Sa Zhenbing also took action and personally invited hundreds of veterans  Outstanding people in Beiyang returned to the navy. Most of these people later became instructors at naval schools, shipyard supervisors and other demobilized officers.

    When the Navy began to be busy building ships, the bell of the end of 1913 also rang.

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