The First Warlord of the Republic of China

Chapter 149: The British Cabinet is Too Stupid

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The issue of fighter jet export was negotiated with the Allied Powers, but the Allied Powers are still making unremitting efforts to research more advanced fighter jets.

Ordering bombers from China is really a move.

This situation of being controlled by others was tolerated by the Allied Powers. [

You have to rely on yourself to build an airplane!

China is only willing to export ordinary combat materials to the Allies. Advanced military equipment has always been on the export prohibition list, and it cannot be bought with money.

However, relying on the United States is not reliable.

Now the captains of British merchant ships are unwilling to go to the United States to run off their goods. In contrast, they prefer to go to the relatively safe China Sea and Indian Ocean to fight against the rich.

However, under the organization of the British government, there are still a large number of merchant ships transporting combat supplies in the Atlantic Ocean, but the United States' ability to export to Europe has been greatly reduced.

However, China's export capacity to Europe is constantly increasing, and transportation is gradually not a problem.

Beginning in May 1915, the losses of the merchant ships of the Allies continued to increase. In the following seven months, the merchant ships of the Allies were sunk by German submarines with nearly 5 million tons of merchant ships.

Huge loss!

The tonnage of British merchant ships is only about 2500 million tons, and the shipbuilding capacity is only more than 200 million tons. At this time, the merchant ship manufacturing capacity of the United States is only 80 tons, which is on par with China.

Somehow, China suddenly stopped accepting orders for merchant ships from the British, and instead built merchant ships for its own use.

And Chinese merchant ships will never go to the Atlantic Ocean, not even to the Mediterranean Sea.

In other words, the current British shipbuilding capabilities, together with the merchant ships ordered from other countries, cannot match the speed of being sunk.

Moreover, after the merchant ship was sunk, a large amount of supplies sank into the Atlantic Ocean, and a large amount of gold also sank into the Atlantic Ocean.

For this reason, the Yankees suffered heavy losses.

Because the current situation is.The British learned to behave.

The British did not take the initiative to transport goods to the United States, but let the United States rent British merchant ships to transport to Europe. However, under the protection of the US Navy, German submarines are still rampant.

Relations between the United States and Germany deteriorated sharply.

Jiang Yu gloated, hid at home and watched the battle report secretly.

"Hey! Now, regardless of whether the United States can transport supplies to Europe, or whether the United States participates in the war, first of all, it is impossible for the gold of the Allies to flow into the United States." Jiang Yu thought cheerfully. In history, Germany was not blocked from all foreign trade. In order to break through the blockade, build a transport submarine.Traveling back and forth between the United States and Germany brought a lot of gold to the United States. [

But now, the gold of the Allies belongs to China.

February 1916.At the Sanya military port in Hainan, China, ten Chinese transport submarines were loaded with high-value combat supplies and sailed out of Sanya port, followed by a supply ship.

Destination Germany!

Meanwhile, in the Northwest.

Twenty huge transport planes took to the runway.to the Arabian Peninsula.

This is the latest "Giant Bird" bomber developed by China, with a maximum transport capacity of 12 tons and a range of 3000 kilometers, just enough to fly from Xinjiang to Kuwait.

The giant bird transport aircraft is China's first transport aircraft that can be called a long-range transport aircraft.

For a type of transport aircraft that does not need to participate in front-line operations, it can fly directly to the next airport without returning.

But if it is used for airborne paratroopers and supplies.Only has a combat radius of 1500 kilometers.

These planes are not ordered by the military, but manufactured by the consortium itself, and only the consortium can build such a huge plane.And it's mass-produced.

The manufacture of this kind of transport aircraft is of great significance. First of all, it will allow China to quickly support the Arabian Peninsula and maintain convenient transportation between China and the Middle East Province of the Arabian Peninsula.

So that if the personnel in the Middle East want to return to their country, they can come back on the same day.

These giant bird transport planes can go back and forth once a day, and although the ships are transported a lot.But it takes a long time.

The East China Aircraft Manufacturing Plant has been mass-producing giant bird transport aircraft since this year.

This kind of transport aircraft is not only needed by the military.And the civilian value is also great.

The aircraft was large, and although relatively small compared to future aircraft, it was at this time perhaps the largest aircraft in the world.

The giant bird uses the most advanced engine in China. At this time, China's turbofan engine technology is definitely leading the world, and it is very leading.

A large number of achievements have been made breakthroughs under the guidance of Jiang Yu.

It is the most advanced in terms of fuel consumption, horsepower, and volume.

At least under the current export needs, the military's orders cannot be produced in the past two or three years, and the plan of the consortium is to produce 400 Giant Birds a year.

Thus forming a daily export capacity of 4000 tons to the Allies.

As for shipping!It's actually pretty cheap. [

Fuel oil is very cheap these days. Fuel oil is produced by itself, and China's oil production is already the largest in the world at this time, and it can produce as much as it wants.

In terms of oil refining technology, the United States was still relatively backward at this time, but China's oil refining technology was constantly developing, and its productivity was getting higher and higher.

As for the manufacturing cost of the aircraft, no matter how expensive this thing is, it has to be built!

It's not a pile of scrap iron, and you won't be afraid to make more, as it can be used in wars.This is the thing that is said to be able to increase the potential of war, and it is certain to vigorously develop it.

At the same time, when it is put into civilian use, the government will also provide policy support such as tax exemption.

Once the time of war comes, those aircraft can participate in the transportation of materials to the front line, thus getting rid of the restrictions of roads and railways.

And make the law of belligerent countries accurately find out China's material transportation capacity, and make mistakes in the estimation of the big battle.

The airport in the Kuwait area of ​​the Middle East Province is constantly expanding and expanding at this time, and the materials for the expansion are transported to Iran by rail, and then transported to the Middle East Province by ship.

The export of ordinary materials to the allies is also transported by rail to the coast of Iran, and then traded with the allies.

However, these daily necessities can only be traded with the Ottoman Turkish Empire for the time being, because the transportation between the Ottoman Turkish Empire and Germany is not so convenient.

Furthermore, no matter whether China builds a railway from Xinjiang to Iran or a railway from Yunnan to Burma, it is inspected by the Allies.

The transported arms can only be exported to the Allies.

But in the China Sea, Chinese merchant ships have begun to transport arms to Kuwait, especially since 16.Transport volumes increased significantly.

Now China has formed three ways of exporting to its allies, one is by submarines, the other is by merchant ships, and the third is by planes.Among them, the efficiency of submarine trade is too low. Among them, submarines can be directly shipped to Germany, but aircraft cannot be used temporarily. However, after the German airport is repaired, they can also fly directly from Kuwait to Germany. However, it is a waste of transportation capacity, so direct export to Germany is better. By submarine.

However, shipbuilding capacity is relatively scarce.As a result, not many submarines were built.

More transport aircraft are produced, but the annual output of 400 is relatively low, and the output is only a little more than one a day.

Shipping costs are lowest.The largest number is the distance.

But China also wanted to export to overseas markets at this time, and the ships were mainly arms exports to the Ottoman Turkish Empire.

At the same time, the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Germany are working hard to build roads and railways to ensure that China's materials can be transported to Germany to sell them to cultivate immortals.

And China is shipping used cars for export, which are being driven directly into Iran.Then it was shipped to Kuwait.

Cars are not arms, and China uses the Middle East as an excuse.

As China has established military bases, airports and other facilities on the Arabian Peninsula, China's control over the Arabian Peninsula has gradually stabilized.

In order to protect the security of trade, Jiang Yu once again increased troops to the Middle East Province at the beginning of the year, and the strength of the Middle East Province reached the size of five divisions.

Even if the Allied Powers wanted to attack the Middle East Province, there was nothing they could do.

The rabble of the British Army.It is not too much pressure on the Chinese Army. Although the British Army is not so good at fighting, Jiang Yu still pays enough attention.In order to ensure that the trade with the Allies can be foolproof.

With the development of trade, Chinese arms and materials began to be continuously transported into the Ottoman Turkish Empire, and some were transported to Austria-Hungary and Germany.

At the same time, there is still a lot of grain shipped to the Ottoman Turkish Empire, and these grains are directly transported from the railway.

Ottoman Turkey, Austria-Hungary, German Empire.The three imperial states paid in gold.

By launching limited submarine warfare, Germany limited the amount of material imported by the Allies from the United States.And because of the opening of trade routes with China.To a large extent, it solved the problem of the lack of materials in the Allies.

Such trade movements are not small.

What first made the Allied Powers suspicious was that Chinese merchant ships began to frequently enter the Gulf of Oman and continuously transport goods into Kuwait.

In Central Asia, China is continuously transporting food, canned food, textiles and other daily necessities to Kuwait by railway.

China does not have such a big market in Kuwait at all, even if China starts to immigrate there, it is impossible to create such a big market.

In addition, the Allies did not get these materials.

Obviously these materials were not exported to the Allies.

In addition, the large planes constantly flying over the sky of Central Asia also caused investigations by the Allied Powers, who originally thought they were some kind of combat aircraft.

As a result, spies were sent to Kuwait to have a look... Nima!It turned out to be a transport plane.

China is using ships and planes to continuously transport goods to Kuwait, and then sell the materials to the Ottoman Turkish Empire.

Then through the Ottoman Turkish Empire, the supplies were shipped to the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Germany.

This shocked the Allied Powers!

Unknowingly, China opened up trade channels with its allies.

Only then did Britain understand why China wanted the colony of the Arabian Peninsula for life and death. If that colony was given to China, China would be able to trade with the allies.

No wonder China is willing to spend [-] million pounds to buy it.

Who is the fool?

The Frenchman couldn't help complaining that the British cabinet was too stupid and too short-sighted.

And what shocked the Allied countries was that the planes that China transported supplies to the Allies turned out to be metal planes.

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