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    third chapter

    Naval Spring

    What is the sentiment of the people?  .

    ?It can¡¯t be seen or touched but it is extremely important.

    Hichiyoshi¡¯s face was very dark. As the first post-war minister to China, he was well aware of the heavy responsibility.  As the Japanese forces were almost completely eradicated in this battle, his task was to redeploy his informants and look for every opportunity to gather intelligence.  So when I heard about the monument laying ceremony, I quietly came to watch the ceremony in casual clothes even though I knew I would be humiliated.

    The figure with arms raised under the obelisk made him frown. After the war was won and the "Sino-British Shanghai Tariff Agreement" was reached, the famous Wall Street Times in the United States even called it "Eastern Washington" to praise his contribution to the nation.  * and efforts to achieve the world¡¯s largest democracy.  However, behind the eye-catching boasts of newspapers, there is a heart that worships ultra-nationalism!

    He stood on the top of the mountain, raising his arms high and using no paper to strengthen his limbs.  The speech, which was full of fanatical nationalist ideas, directly abandoned the basic national policy of co-prosperity of the five ethnic groups proposed by the Democratic Party and replaced it with the general term "Chinese nation".  After thinking that the Nanjing Congress, where he controls a majority of seats, is discussing the new national flag and national emblem, and looking at him at this moment, you can understand that this move of using all means and opportunities to stimulate people's hearts has brought great consequences to himself and the country.  What!

    Originally, this kind of impassioned speech to inspire people should have happened in Japan. After the Japan-British War, Japanese people from all walks of life also used victory in various ways to inspire their people.  In particular, the victory of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1899 suddenly reached the peak of popular sentiment in the country.  The people's eating, talking and even walking were deeply affected. In that boiling era, the Treaty of Shimonoseki quickly changed the country's worldview.

    Young students began to go to Europe and the United States to learn technology to broaden their horizons. Workers spontaneously worked overtime to create more sophisticated weapons. Businessmen went abroad to participate in world competition. The military changed its decadence and attracted countless talents. This is how we came to be.  A feat of defeating Russia again ten years later.

    This is the function of popular sentiment.

    Now, the young man who caused Japan so much pain is doing the same thing, even simpler and more straightforward than what Japan did back then!  Time and time again, he conveyed his nationalist thoughts, passion, and military-civilian ideals to others through victories, passionate speeches, and flamboyant body movements.  If he is just an ordinary person, then no matter how outstanding he is, he can only influence a very small number of people.  But he has ruthless and brilliant political skills, strong military capabilities, and he is at the center of the national political stage and even controls the entire country. Countless eyes are paying attention to him every day, and even the distant United States has repeatedly put him on the map.  Front page headlines.

    ?Look at the young people around you who are shouting and cheering excitedly, and the soldiers with increasingly determined eyes, you will know how many people he has influenced!  It has only been three years. If he was given ten or even twenty years, how many people would he have influenced?  How far will he and his National Socialist Party develop?  !  How much time will the endless European war bring to him?

    When a huge country with a population of more than 400 million, if not all!  As long as one-third of the young people follow him, listen to his call, and use his ideas to build the country and arm themselves, it is terrible! It is really terrible!

    "Under the obelisk, which is like a sword piercing the sky, are the heroic souls of more than 50,000 Japanese soldiers. Can they be reincarnated and return to their hometown across the sea after being pressed down by a huge boulder?  When the two countries face the Taiwan issue again five years later, will Japan be able to obtain Europe's desired navy and use its superior navy to rise again?  Thinking of the strange and unpredictable undercurrents in the country before departure, his eyes froze.

    "Your Excellency, it's time for us to leave." As the guard reminded him, Hizuki saw the cold eyes that had been following him since he set off, nodded and quickly disappeared into the torrent.

    "Haha, what Chen Hua said today is so good! If soldiers don't die, mountains and rivers will stay forever! Okay." Not long after Hichiichi left, Yang Qiu and others also returned to the former Japanese Governor's Mansion in Lushun, which had been designated as the headquarters of the Second Fleet.  Everyone was still immersed in those passionate words along the way.

    "Not only what he said was good, but what he did was also very good." While everyone was chatting, a familiar voice sounded behind them. Hangel, wearing a suit but jeans and a snow hat, appeared at the door. He seemed unconscious.  How weird it is to wear classic jeans with a suit.

    Hangel is now a famous person. From the president to the officials, almost everyone does not know him. When Sa Zhenbing saw him, his eyes brightened up and he seemed to realize something.

    Because they were familiar with each other, everyone exchanged a few polite words and then went straight to the point.  What made Sa Zhenbing and other naval personnel happy was that Hangel hurriedly chased him here from Shanghai for the order of the two large cruisers.  After receiving the inquiry and main technical parameters, a battle for orders began in the United States.  Although some members of Congress believe that the sale of large battleships will affect the balance of power in the Far East, more people feel that when Japan has a large number of battleships,Instead, the United States should maintain the maritime balance in the Far East by selling warships, allowing the two countries to contain each other and reduce pressure on the United States' west coast.

    Of course, this is just a high-sounding statement. The real reason is that the profit from selling two nearly 30,000-ton battleships is too high, especially for a country like China that lacks capabilities and urgently needs warships to fight its enemies. Not to mention that American shipbuilders have never  Since the Sino-Japanese War, they have been hoping to open up the Chinese warship market, but unfortunately the Manchu and Qing government is really annoying. They only focus on Britain and Germany and don't even give face to the largest economic power!  It was not until a few years ago that he reluctantly landed a Phenom training cruiser, and the revolution almost caused the business to die.  (ãßkun

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    Hangel was not a technical expert, so he brought two engineers.  One was a naval engineer sent by the Washington Navy Yard to the New Mawei Shipyard. Since the New Mawei Shipyard was a pre-war contract, the United States would pay a heavy commercial price if it breached the contract, so the Washington Shipyard, which contracted the project after the start of the European War, persuaded  Congress continued to deliver the needed machinery and did not remove the two dozen engineers who had been sent to help with the construction.  The other one is the technical representative of the American company GE in Shanghai. With the booming industrial construction industry in China, there is a huge demand for electrification equipment. Therefore, GE company attaches great importance to this profit and has business with Jiangnan, Chongqing, Hanyang, etc.  connect.  Not to mention anything else, the large hydroelectric generators and transformers business of several hydropower stations before the war was enough to attract GE companies to establish a permanent presence in China.

    The reason why Hangel came to him in a hurry is very simple, motivation!

    Since Yang Qiu made it clear that the speed must reach or even exceed the King Kong-class standard, this means that the two large cruisers must reach a speed of at least 27.5 knots.  Speaking of shipbuilding technology and design level, starting from the first use of the box-type armor layout for centralized protection by the Pennsylvania-class battleships, the United States is no longer weaker than any country in Europe, but it has big problems in terms of power.  When battlecruisers appeared in Europe and continuously broke through from 25 knots to 30 knots, the poor U.S. Navy could only drive a bunch of thick-armored turtle shells with about 22 knots to act as port guardians.

    It is not that the United States has no idea. For example, the all-electric propulsion concept used by New Mexico is 100 years ahead of the world, which really triggered a small wave of electric propulsion in the world. However, after the test, the Mexican-class speed was set at 22 knots again, and people only  Consider it a whim of the nouveau riche.  But in fact, in terms of boiler technology, the kerosene mixed-fired boilers produced by Babcock and Wilcox have been exported and equipped on including the British Tiger-class battlecruisers and Queen Elizabeth-class battleships, but the damn steam turbines have been seriously delayed.  leg.

    The biggest reason for this is that the GE company clings to the recoil steam turbine and ignores the huge power improvement capabilities of the British Curtiss impulse steam turbine.  Although the U.S. Navy complained, the government was not anxious at all. Anyway, the United States has no external threats, so it only needs a turtle shell.  As for speed, does the United States need to fly across the Atlantic to fight?  However, the conservative strategic thinking of the United States does not mean that foreign businessmen are also conservative, so Hangel simply called in the representatives of GE Company and talked directly with Yang Qiu.

    "Your Excellency, Vice President." The naval engineer is of British descent from Pennsylvania. He also served in the Canadian Navy when he was young. He spoke slowly and logically: "We have studied the main indicators of armor and naval guns you proposed in detail.  , if you want to achieve an endurance of more than 11 knots and 10,000 nautical miles, then a 23,000-ton hull is unbearable, so I recommend that you enlarge it to 25,000 tons, which can not only ensure the stability of the nine naval guns when salvoing, but also  It provides comfortable navigation and ensures adequate fuel loading.¡±

    "What if the standard displacement is increased to 27,000 tons?" Yang Qiu doesn't understand ships. All ship knowledge comes from data machines, so he has no airs at all when asking experts for advice.  The engineer obviously did not expect that the young strongman was so modest, and said quickly: "The larger the tonnage, the higher the stability of the shooting platform, the greater the redundancy and the room for modification, and of course the cost will be much higher. And" he looked at it  The representative in front of him said with some disdain: "If you want to reach the speed of Japan's King Kong class, you need at least a similar 65,000 horsepower."

    The meaning in the eyes is very clear. No matter how big the tonnage is, there is no problem, but the speed is not something I can solve.

    The representative of ge company was probably ridiculed by these engineers. He immediately stated that the company had sufficient strength and produced a large stack of information to prove the benefits and stability of the recoil steam turbine.  Of course, he also tactfully suggested that Yang Qiu build a slow battleship instead of a battlecruiser, so that he could have better protection even if the speed was slightly reduced.  To put it bluntly, my own steam turbine really cannot produce a 27-knot monster.

    Although steam turbines are currently high-precision technology in China, navy people like Sa Zhenbing still know a little bit about it. When they heard that the steam turbines of GE Company could not meet the requirements, their faces suddenly froze.  The cannon is smaller than the King Kong class and its speed is weaker than it. Wouldn't it be a target after being built?  This is not possible!  He quickly looked at Hangel and asked nervously: "Counsellor, can't you purchase turbines from the UK?"??  "

    Hangel shook his head helplessly: "I'm very sorry. Although the British government has tacitly agreed to sell warships with a caliber of no more than 12 inches, they are currently unable to provide large steam turbines to foreign users." He was not lying. If it were a destroyer or 3000  The UK may still be able to produce some of the small steam turbines used by cruisers under the ton class, but the process of large steam turbines is complex and the manufacturing requirements are very high, so even the UK's output is not high.  Now they are still competing with Germany on speed and quantity, so there is no surplus to sell.  As for the French naval factory, half of its operations have been suspended, so it is even more impossible to provide it.

    Yang Qiu was also a little nervous. He finally waited until today. It would be a pity if he was stuck on power and delayed the navy's plan. So he immediately picked up the GE company's information and read it in detail, but the more he looked at it, the more strange he felt.

    There is no problem with the boiler. The 1913 rotary small water tube kerosene mixed boiler provided by Babcock and Wilcox Company is the core power of the British Tiger battle cruiser. The power of a single unit is 33% higher than the British boiler used by the King Kong class.  %.  Neither a battlecruiser nor a large cruiser is a true battleship. There are not so many layers of protective compartments and steel plates affixed to them, so they can accommodate more boilers.  Calculated based on 27,000 tons, the peak output can reach the 85,000 horsepower of the Tiger battle cruiser using 36 boilers, and it can reach 28 knots with a displacement of 1,000 tons.

    But the problem happened to be the steam turbine.

    GE Company clung to the recoil steam turbine and refused to let go, and when Britain and France were unable to provide impulse steam turbines, they suddenly fell into a dead end.  What surprised him most was that almost all the more advanced steam turbines in data machines were recoil type. Why couldn't steam pressure be converted into power here in the United States?  He looked at the data carefully and always felt that something was wrong. If someone hadn't been there, he would have immediately taken out the data machine to compare.  But no matter what, after holding the data machine and pondering it almost every night for three years, he still saw a clue.

    design!  GE Company has obviously not solved the stability problem of the rotor after high-speed rotation, resulting in serious loss of boiler pressure when converted into horsepower!

    His conjecture is indeed correct. This is also the reason why the United States' ships were not as powerful as Europe during World War I. This problem was not solved until a British engineer joined ge in 1924!  Thinking of this, he suddenly felt the urge to laugh.  The United States has not solved it, but we can!  The military steam turbine drawings in the data machine are detailed. As long as you get GE's recoil production line and material and process formulas, you can create a more powerful core power.

    He immediately had an idea and pretended to be nervous as he put down the information: "Your Excellency Hangel, Britain and France cannot provide it, so can we purchase it from Italy?"

    "That's right!" Sa Zhenbing slapped his thigh. Italian ship power technology has never been weaker than that of Britain and France.

    Hangel didn¡¯t understand technology and looked at the two engineers.  The ship engineer said: "Your Excellency, Vice President, Italy's steam turbine technology is indeed comparable to that of Britain and France, but there is one thing I must explain to you: it consumes more fuel!"

    Consuming more fuel means shorter endurance, but it is not a big deal for China, which currently only needs to maintain the safety of its coastline. So Sa Zhenbing immediately looked at Yang Qiu, with those burning eyes, he wanted to agree for him.  .

    "Using Italian steam turbines, it is acceptable to reduce the endurance, but the speed must not be lower than the King Kong class." As Yang Qiu made the final decision, the GE representative's face fell. It was obvious that in this shipbuilding contract, GE  I guess it would be nice to get a few generators.  But before he could sigh, Yang Qiu suddenly picked up the information again and consulted: "Your Excellency Hangel, if I build four ships, then all the technologies and production lines for boilers and recoil steam turbines will be  Can you sell it to me?¡±

    Phew!

    Xie Baozhang, who had just picked up the teacup, squirted out. Cheng Biguang also kept digging his ears with straight eyes. Sa Zhenbing looked directly at him. Even Tang Shaoyi's eyes widened. Did you hear that right?  Four ships!  Doesn¡¯t this mean that the money will be doubled?

    In this era, it is normal to sell battleships with additional technologies, and there are even gifts as gifts, so Hangel was not surprised by Yang Qiu's words, but was a little surprised that he ordered two more ships.  As for the sale of rotary small water tube kerosene mixed-fired boiler technology, he did not dare to make the decision. After all, this is the current core product of Babcock-Wilcox Company. However, the representative of GE Company jumped up directly: "You said, you  Want a full set of production lines and technologies?¡±

    "Yes, I still need 30 technicians to help me train workers for at least three years." Yang Qiu nodded seriously.

    "No problem at all!" The ge company representative patted his chest boldly.  There are people in this world who don't want better and stronger impulse technology but spend a lot of money to buy recoil technology!  It¡¯s like pie in the sky!  In recent years, ge company has been working hard for this technology.It¡¯s a headache, and astronomical amounts of scientific research funds have been spent to solve the problem of power loss. Therefore, except for the US Navy, the Atlantic cruise ships do not use GE products. In order to save fuel, merchant ships will not install expensive and fuel-consuming steam turbines at all.  Even the few battleships built for South America use the impulse type.

    If it weren¡¯t for the huge investment in the production line, GE itself would have given up.  Nowadays, some people want to buy complete sets of technology and production lines. Isn¡¯t this helping to draw back funds?  The equipment is moved directly from the factory, and technicians have no problem. After the funds are withdrawn, they can switch to impulse technology!  As for the United States temporarily not selling complete sets of machinery and the ge company's brand name, convincing the government is not a piece of cake.

    Soon, Yang Qiu and GE representatives confirmed that Hubei Industrial Group would purchase a complete set of technology and production lines for recoil steam turbines at a price of US$6 million.  As for the boiler, Yang Qiu believes that he can also get it. Babcock-Wilcox is very technical and must have a newer model. Moreover, the drawings he handed over to Jiangnan Factory are also for this boiler. It is nothing more than materials and  The process has been unable to break through, resulting in the power only reaching 50% of the design.

    After setting the power, the technical indicators of the large armored cruiser are basically determined.

    With a standard displacement of 27,000 tons and a full load of 33,500 tons, large ships and small guns are more suitable for future modifications.  It uses 36 Babcock-Willcox kerosene mixed-fired boilers and Italian steam turbines, with two chimneys for forced ventilation, and the speed is tentatively set at 27.5 knots.  It adopts the U.S. New Mexico-class flying shear bow with an extended forecastle and a floating ship shape, and uses German small watertight cabin partitions and explosion-proof design.  In terms of firepower, it is a 3-door triple-mounted American-made 305mm

    L50 naval gun, modify the elevation angle so that its range can be increased to at least 30,000 meters.  The secondary armament was changed to 16 single-mounted 120mm guns that are being developed independently in China.

    L50 rapid-fire cannon, American engineers have no problem with this, because after the 105 and 150 long-range cannons were sold to Europe, the whole world knew that China had made a breakthrough in medium-caliber long-range gun technology, as well as 12 76mm deck guns and 6  It is equipped with twin 37mm rapid-fire cannons and can carry two self-produced seaplanes.

    The protection adopts the New Mexico-class box-type centralized protection design, which can save a lot of armor in secondary places, so the designer said that the main armor can be increased to 250 mm and arranged according to Yang Qiu's improved tilt of 17¡ã.  The horizontal deck is increased to 76 mm, the front 305 mm of the turret is also tilted at 20¡ã, the gun mount is 305 mm, and the conning tower is 350 mm. It has a two-layer hull. The anti-torpedo compartment adopts a German-style small compartment layout and adopts twin rudders 4 with more flexible control.  Shaft design.  Naturally, the ugly American-style cage mast cannot be used. The front and rear triangular mast drawings developed by Jiangnan Factory are used to add mast towers.  Three steam-driven hydraulic pumps are used to drive the main turret, and six 750-kilowatt DC generators from GE are installed. Fresh water is provided by six evaporators and two distillation coolers, with a daily production of 480 tons of fresh water.  Cancel the underwater torpedo launch tubes and reserve a set of deck launch tube positions.

    The Navy Department selects sailors and officers to go to the United States for training, and at the same time dispatches 60 technicians from domestic shipyards to supervise and learn manufacturing technology.  Regarding the most critical cost, the United States saw that Yang Qiu was impatient, so they decided to sacrifice the minimum price of 17 million U.S. dollars, which was like robbing money!  But it's worth it compared to what you get.  Therefore, after Yang Qiu and Tang Shaoyi discussed it, and after Hangel promised to come with a set of gun barrels and gun chambers, as well as 12 boilers and 4 Italian steam turbines for replacement, they still gritted their teeth and agreed.

    A month later, Babcock Wilcox Company also agreed to sell a complete set of boiler technology and production lines to Jiangnan Factory for US$5 million.

    After the final details were almost settled, everyone¡¯s attention returned to Yang Qiu again.

    It seems that you just said four ships?  !

    Looking at the eyes cast by the pairs of people, Yang Qiu took a deep breath.  In fact, the latter two ships are not completely deliberate chips to obtain technology. The manufacturing of large warships is very complicated. The most critical one is the current lack of large machine tools and large heat treatment furnaces up to 100 meters long in China.  But it is too difficult to think of these things, so building a 10,000-ton warship is simply impossible under the current circumstances.  But it won't work if you don't build it. No matter how many merchant ships are built, they can't replace the complex-structured battleships!

    What's more, both battleships and battle cruisers are the pinnacle of technology in this era. Building a battleship is completely comparable to the Apollo program's promotion and pull of domestic technology in later generations. Even if it is not that big, it will involve hundreds of companies and tens of thousands of people.  jobs and hundreds of technologies to promote corresponding technological and economic development.  That's why he decided to add two more ships. The United States will provide technical support and components that cannot be produced domestically, and they will be built in Jiangnan and Mawei to help the domestic shipbuilding industry become familiar with the internal structure, manufacturing technology and processes of large warships as soon as possible, so that when conditions are mature in the future,  I can build the big warships I need.

    "It's too late for Hangel to be happy about the change from two ships to four, so how could he refuse?"  However, due to poor technology in Jiangnan, the new Mawei shipyard will not be fully constructed until at least 2016. Therefore, the United States will start construction on two ships first, and then start construction in Jiangnan half a year later.One ship, and Mawei needs to wait until March 2016 to lay the keel. In this way, the first two ships can be obtained by the end of 2017, while the latest Mawei one will not be completed until 2019.

    The time happened to be just before the handover of Taiwan. It can be seen that the United States also knew why Yang Qiu spared no expense in building four large cruisers.

    When Yang Qiu personally named the "Anhai-class" and signed the agreement of intent, uncontrollable laughter spread from the office.

    The Chinese Navy finally ushered in spring after just returning to Lushun!

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