1825 My New Daming

Chapter 187 The future is in the sky, but now we have to bet on dreadnoughts! (ask for subscription, ask for monthly pass)
Zhuge Weidao answered the phone in Zhuge Weitian's office, and the other end of the phone was Zhuge Weiyi, Minister of the Navy.

On the phone, Zhuge Weiyi didn't say what happened, but asked him to return to Beijing as soon as possible to attend the emergency meeting of the Armaments Commission.

However, Zhuge Weidao still guessed something from Zhuge Weiyi's tone. This matter must have something to do with the arms conference, and most of it has something to do with the "sit-in coup" that just happened in India!
That Emperor William can come to power, and the Indian Empire can achieve nominal independence, and that must be the government of the British Empire.And the purpose of the British government's doing this, I know it with my ass, it must be to turn India into the trump card of the United Kingdom.After all, India has a population of 2 million, and the land is vast. The land that can be reclaimed and cultivated is more than that of Ming Dynasty. It is also rich in resources. It is the kind of country that can always squeeze out a lot of oil and water.

However, Zhuge Weidao is not worried that the British will play with India, because what really determines the future is not the hard-earned money of the Indians, nor even the "1000 million tons of navy", but the history of air power. The Bismarck, the most powerful battleship in Central Germany, used torpedoes to damage the stern rudder of the biplane taking off from the aircraft carrier, and finally couldn't run back.

If those battleships and battlecruisers in World War I encountered biplane carrier-based aircraft that could dive bombs or conduct torpedo attacks, they would basically be dead!
Therefore, in any case, biplane bombers, biplane torpedo planes and 2-ton fleet aircraft carriers must be produced!
Thinking of this, Zhuge Weidao hung up the phone, then smiled and said to Zhuge Weitian: "Feilong (Feilong is Zhuge Weitian's ship), you are an expert in aerodynamics, and the wind tunnel tests of these biplanes are just as important. I have entrusted you with carte blanche. After blowing it up, you can help to modify it, even if we invented it together. With this invention, it will be much more convenient for you to get the position of military adviser. According to the rules of our family, you can also get To the aviation book!"

Hearing what Zhuge Weidao said, all the last grievances in Zhuge Weitian's heart disappeared, and a chubby face was full of smiles: "Being a military adviser? I'm still young. Can I really do it?"

"Brother Ninety, you are really joking," Zhuge Weidao took Zhuge Weitian's hand, and said with a smile, "Little brother, I am one hundred and eight, so I won the position of military adviser? Brother Ninety is in the sky in the future, we The Zhuge family needs a true aerodynamic expert like you!"

Zhuge Weidao has already leaked a bit of the secret. But this is not the secret passed down by King Zhuge Wuzhong, but the secret that Zhuge Weidao himself knows.

Zhuge Weitian is not the kind of person who gets the "secret" for nothing, so he immediately said: "Brother [-]'s Feilong Industry is planning to go public recently, and it still lacks some capital. How about you invest in some shares?"

Feilong Industry is very hot now, so of course there is no shortage of capital.And once Feilong Industry goes public, it will definitely go up sharply!
Zhuge Weidao understood what the other party meant, but he still shook his head and smiled and said: "Brother Jiushi, I have received your favor. But I can't earn this money like this. A gentleman loves money, and there is a proper way to get it. If I enter now You won’t be able to reach the chancellor’s residence in the future!”

In fact, it is never too late to buy stocks of "future Boeing" like Feilong Industrial, but the key to making a lot of money is to be able to hold it.

Therefore, Zhuge Weidao does not need to carry out this kind of internal transaction at all. It is really optimistic, and it can be bought after listing.Although this transaction is now such an intra-family transaction, it will not cause him any trouble.But in the future, if he wants to sprint to the prime minister's position, people will come out and talk about the matter.

And to ensure that Ming won the war, he had better be the prime minister of Ming.

"Oh!" Zhuge Weitian immediately understood that his brother had great ambitions, "Brother [-], I will definitely support you in the future!"

"Okay! Brother Ninety, my little brother will give you a little secret." Zhuge Weidao took Zhuge Weitian's hand, and said again, "The future of airships is limited. If the technology and patents can be sold, we must sell them as soon as possible. But the future of airplanes is boundless." !"

After saying this, Zhuge Weidao didn't stay here for long with Zhuge Weitian, he turned around and left the wind tunnel base of Feilong Industry, and drove his little broken "Red Rabbit Car" towards Beijing city. go.

This "Red Rabbit Car" is a new product created by Zhuge Weili's "Zhuge", who is engaged in automobiles, after receiving Zhuge Weidao's improvement suggestions.Compared with the car that Zhuge Weidao had tested before, it has already made a reborn improvement, and it is basically ready for sale, and Zhuge Weidao naturally also invested in the newly established "Chitu Industry".
When Zhuge Weidao arrived at the Admiralty Building in his small broken car, it was almost time to clock out that afternoon, but in the conference room dedicated to the Admiralty, an emergency meeting of the Armaments Committee was still there open.

When Zhuge Weidao opened the door and entered, Li Tiezhu, Chief of Naval Intelligence, was criticizing someone's strategy there!

"That's all right, the Brits don't hesitate to kill the children and grandchildren of the Indians and want to bet with us on the 1000 million tons, so what should we do? They can't shout 'follow', let's continue to shout '2000 million tons', right? This is meaningless!"

"Of course we can't show weakness!" Zhuge Weidao accepted the topic with a smile, "But it is true that we can no longer brag about the total tonnage, 1000 million tons is already a bit of a bragging, and 2000 million tons is probably no one will believe it. "

The so-called 1000 million ton large navy is actually "launching satellites". It's hard to say how much it can achieve in the future.After all, this is a 10-year or even 15-year project. For a country like Ming Dynasty with relatively stable politics and relatively strong policy continuity, this kind of project is quite reliable.But isn't the Tory's long run in power almost over for Great Britain?Whether the Whigs who came next would overthrow the Tories' long-term naval plans was doubtful.

"Daozi, you're here. Sit down!" Zhuge Weiyi was polite, calling him to sit down, and asked with a smile, "How's the wind blowing?"

"Your call came before I started blowing it," Zhuge Weidao said as he sat down, "I'm in a hurry to get back to the meeting, and I will leave the blowing to Layman Feilong."

"Leave it to him," Zhuge Weiyi said with a smile, "he's an expert, so he can't be wrong." He paused, then asked, "Have you thought about how to deal with the British? Have you ever thought about the total tonnage?" It’s boring, so what’s next?”

"Of course it's performance." Zhuge thought for a while, "Shang Shu, is there any room for modification of our Hongwu Emperor?"

"Remodeling?" Zhuge Weiyi asked, "How do you want to change it?"

"Add two steam engines, and see if the power of the main engine can reach 2.2? Can the main gun be equipped with a 280mm piggyback turret? There are two double-mounted turrets at the front and rear, and a total of eight 8mm cannons!"

What Zhuge Weidao is presenting now is a "dreadnought" plan similar to the "Nassau" class.Historically, this type of battleship was the corresponding solution developed by the Germans after the British came up with the "Dreadnought" class.Because the steam turbines of the Germans were a little bit worse at that time, they used steam engines, so the power of "Nassau" was a little bit worse than that of "Fearless".

But this first-tier battleship is still much stronger than all the "former dreadnoughts"!
"That's it." Zhuge Weiyi thought for a while, "There is a ready-made plan, called Hongwu Modification 1.85, with a standard displacement of 280 tons, and the hull is also elongated, but there is no piggyback turret, but two sides. Two twin [-]mm turrets are installed each. The first ship is being built in Jiangnan Heavy Industry's Changxing Island shipyard."

"Great, that's it!" Zhuge Weidao slapped his hands, "Use it to gamble with the British!"

"How do you want to bet this time?" Zhuge Weiyi asked again.

Zhuge Weidao said with a smile: "Once this Hongwu ship comes out, all previous ships will have to be eliminated, even the Hongwu Emperor class is no exception. Let's export it to the French and the Raksha people together with the Feilong III technology!"

(End of this chapter)