Reborn South Africa as a police officer

Chapter 2025 Baguette
The customization business of the southern African shipyard was mainly for the private sector, such as customizing a yacht for the rich. As long as the price is affordable, the battleship can be converted into a private yacht.

Now it is considered to have opened up new business, and the profit of customization is still relatively high. The total profit of the four German transport ships can reach more than 1500 million rand.

Albert Kesselring was very clever and wanted to take advantage of the competition between Walvis Bay Shipyard and Edward Shipyard to keep prices down.

However, Whale Bay Shipyard and Edward Shipyard were smarter, and they did not give Albert Kesselring a chance to bargain at all.

Such a large order is definitely not something that can be negotiated in a short while. The delivery cycle is calculated on an annual basis, so it has to be done slowly.

After gaining a full understanding of the "transport ship", Albert Kesselring began to ask about the specific performance of the "transport ship", trying to get more information.

Wang Wenyuan and Samson immediately remained silent, refusing to say a word.

Albert Kesselring left the office with a heavy heart.

The technical content of the "transport ship" is actually not high. Even the Japanese can fiddle with building their own aircraft carriers, and the Germans can naturally.

The key is cost.

The quotations of Walvis Bay Shipyard and Edward Shipyard are lower than the cost of German shipyards. You must know that the wages of workers in southern Africa far exceed those of German workers, so Albert Kesselring is also unclear. How to reduce the cost to such an extent.

Walvis Bay Shipyard and Edward Shipyard must make money, so such a low quotation means that the cost of the Southern African shipyard will be even lower.

Looking at the cloudy sky in front of him, Albert Kesselring remained silent.

The future of the German Navy, in Albert Kesselring's view, is as invisible as the sky.

Well, Albert Kesselring is the Air Force, the future of the German Navy has nothing to do with Albert Kesselring.

Albert Kesselring could only comfort himself in this way.

When Albert Kesselring began to contact the two shipyards, the French responded quickly.

The southern Africans are a bit shameless. The German ship purchase agreement has not yet been reached, and a British businessman inadvertently disclosed this news to the French.

The French government immediately became nervous.

The Germans have begun to seek aircraft carriers, so is France indifferent?

Impossible Well, France has long been yearning for aircraft carriers. When the world war just ended, the French economy was hit hard and it was unable to manufacture aircraft carriers.

After a few years, the economy finally recovered a bit, but it suffered the Great Depression, an economic crisis that lasted for several years.

After all, France still has a foundation. After a short period of pain, the French economy gradually improved, and the French Navy finally had the money to start building "Richelieu".

However, "Richelieu" obviously cannot satisfy the ambitions of the French navy. The arrival of "Madagascar" further stimulated the French navy. Now even the Germans are looking for aircraft carriers, and France cannot lag behind.

So, after a while, if France decides to build an aircraft carrier, it is estimated that the Italians will also come to the door, for the same reason as France.

This is the horror of the arms race. As long as the arms race starts, it will definitely end in an irreversible war.

"France also signed the "London Naval Treaty", promising not to build new capital ships before 1943. Now if they want to build aircraft carriers—" Li Ao was speechless. The ink on the "London Naval Treaty" was still wet, and the French were about to tear it up. Agreement, it is estimated that the "London Naval Treaty" will become the shortest-lived treaty.

It was also at this naval meeting that for the first time, aircraft carriers and battleships became the main battleships of various countries. When talking about "capital ships" in the past, they only referred to battleships, and aircraft carriers could not be ranked.

"Signing this kind of treaty at this time is ridiculous, and it is useless at all." Leonard Capet invited Li Ao to have dinner at the most luxurious restaurant in Saint Rocco. This restaurant provides the most standard Western food and Chinese food at the same time , it is by no means the restaurants that make up the numbers outside.

Whether a restaurant is pure or not mainly depends on whether it is authentic, but most people can't accept this. For example, Li Ao can't accept the baguettes provided by this restaurant.

Many Chinese have a misunderstanding about bread, thinking that bread is sweet and fluffy, and you can eat it directly after buying it, just like the steamed buns that Chinese often eat.

In fact, the gap is huge. Authentic French bread is so hard that it can be used as a weapon to kill people, and it is salty rather than sweet. The way to eat it is the same as mutton steamed bread. It has to be broken and soaked in soup. The teeth can't get through.

There is also a reason for this. Before the industrial revolution, Europe was very poor. Most European families could not even repair the ovens for baking bread. Usually, there was only one mill or public oven in a region. Tax, that's where the mill tax comes in.

Since there is a tax on baking bread, you have to bake more at one time, the more the better, and it is possible to eat it for several months at a time.

Therefore, when Europeans bake bread, they must dry out the moisture in the bread as much as possible, so that it can be stored for a long time, so there is French baguette.

What I want to explain here is that Europeans have always relied on bread as their staple food, and there are very few meat, poultry eggs, and vegetables, so when Mustache came to power, he promised to fill the German table with bread and milk.

It's not that the mustache is easy, but that in most European families, the recipe is bread and milk, and there are very few complementary foods.

Britain is developed enough. Fish and chips are the national dish. European traditional bread is okay when it is freshly baked, but it is extremely hard and unpalatable after cooling down.

During the World War II, Britain once implemented a food rationing system, and British cooks invented a kind of war bread with a grain content as high as 76%.

Later, the miscellaneous grain content of war bread was as high as 92%, and it was very dark after baking. The nobles in the rear could eat the freshly baked bread, but the soldiers on the front line would definitely not be able to eat it.

In order to balance the contradiction, the British government issued a "Bread Order", stipulating that the bread is not allowed to be sold within 12 hours of baking. Since it is hard, everyone should harden together, and no one should comment.

The richness of food in Southern Africa can be said to be the highest in the world. The land-hungry Chinese burst out with great creativity after they came to Southern Africa. The small bread was also played by the Southern Africans. Adding sugar, sweet things will always make people feel happy.

If plain flour is not tasty, beat eggs and add butter to the noodles, and add some meat floss when baking. If you get tired of simply roasting, you can try frying and cooking. Steamed buns can be fried, why not bread?

So after the Chinese came to southern Africa, bread was completely ruined by the Chinese.

White people in southern Africa are very depressed. The bread transformed by Chinese chefs is no longer bread in the traditional European sense. According to the classification, it should be classified as dessert after dinner.

However, the modified bread is really more delicious. The restaurant in San Roque provides this kind of modified bread.

Renard Capet is a very traditional Frenchman.

Naturally, the traditional French cannot accept the soft and sweet bread in southern Africa, so Leonard Capet wants the purest baguette.

"Why do I have to eat this kind of baguette instead of the more delicious bread?" Li Ao kindly reminded that the baguette is indeed unpalatable, but the mushroom soup is not bad, and the ingredients used are all locally produced fresh Mushrooms, great taste.

Mushroom soup is a perfect match for baguettes. Formal restaurants must have a bowl of mushroom soup when serving bread, mainly for soaking bread.

Of course, if you have to stick to it, you can eat it.

"Only baguettes can represent the spirit of the French, tough, tenacious, and never compromise!" Reynard Capet put gold on his face without shame. Of course, the French look at France everywhere.

Li Ao didn't hold back, he was stubborn to a certain extent.

"When I was young, my family was poor and my life was difficult. At that time, my biggest ideal was to eat baguettes every day. Of course, it would be even better if there was milk. Until now, my feelings for baguettes have never been It hasn’t changed, even if there are delicacies from mountains and seas, I will choose baguette, which can keep me awake enough.” Reynold Capet’s expression remained the same, and his so-called “family fortune” was actually far more common than that of France. People's living conditions are better, otherwise he and Ida would not have the opportunity to receive elite education.

Li Ao didn't know about Leonard Capet's experience, but such a Leonard Capet was worthy of respect.

"If France wants to build an aircraft carrier, can southern Africa provide some information on the 'city' class aircraft carrier?" Renard Capet is a lobbyist on behalf of the French government. Don't worry about the "island" class, you can give some of the "city" class aircraft carriers. "level information is not bad.

"It's not up to me to decide—" Li Ao did not overstep his authority, and the information on the "City" class aircraft carrier has now begun to flood. The next level of aircraft carrier that Japan is considering building is also similar to the "City" class.

The Germans can be regarded as blundering, not getting relevant information about the "Akagi", which is not a bad thing for the Germans.

"Akagi" was rebuilt with a battleship. At that time, more than half of the hull of the "Akagi" had been completed. Therefore, during the transformation, the designers worked hard to add three flight decks to the "Akagi". The first floor can be used for aircraft take-off and landing, and is used for the recovery of carrier-based aircraft.

The middle deck can be used for small fighter jets to take off, with a length of only 15 meters and a width of 17.2 meters.

The lower deck is for larger attack aircraft to take off, 56.7 meters long and 23 meters wide.

Probably only the Japanese in the world can design such a wonderful shape.

ps: Happy birthday to my brother who celebrated his birthday yesterday——

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