The Iron and Steel Frenzy of the Republic of China

"This old Jiang is too petty! As for a petty person like me, do you care about everything?" The instructions from the central government of the government went through for many days and finally reached Zhu Bin. After seeing it, it immediately caused a burst of complaints.

Minister Chen Shaokuan, who was sitting opposite him and was visiting his office with great interest, smiled lightly, as if everything had been expected: "You are not a small person. In the minds of many people in the government, the attention you pay to you is even higher." No less than the rebellion of Fujian and Jiangxi."

"No, is it that serious?"

Zhu Bin was taken aback, those gangsters from Fujian and Jiangxi are so powerful!Having a thought, a mission, and a man with a reputation is the top concern of Generalissimo Jiang. He mobilized almost all his forces and encircled hundreds of thousands of land and water troops on all sides, making it very powerful. Xiami, is it worth the boss's eyelids?

Having said that, Zhu Bin did not forget to pour tea for Minister Chen courteously. Anyway, the chairman of the committee who is far away in the capital is still far away from him, but the general in front of him is his reliable champion. Sky Giant Umbrella!

Chen Shaokuan returned to China at the end of May. After a brief report on his duties in Nanjing, he didn't bother to pay attention to the rude impeachment of Ding Mocun, Gao Youtang and others. He didn't want to resign as the Minister of the Navy according to their wishes, and simply left the smog. The Ministry of the Navy went to Shanghai to inspect the work progress of the Jiangnan Shipbuilding Institute and the Marine Equipment Institute.

This reason is very sufficient and justifiable, and no one else can say anything about it, especially when President Wang Zhaoming is stuck with the regular expenses of the Ministry of the Navy and refuses to give enough tuition fees for expatriate students studying in the UK. A look of concern and care for Chen Shaokuan, the hypocrisy is disgusting.Chen Shaokuan couldn't stand it, he was afraid that he couldn't help it, and wanted to avoid it.

Zhu Bin entrusted Wang Pingnan, Yu Baoguo, Wang Weishan and others to be responsible for the recruitment. After gathering all the people, he sent them to the Zhoushan Island base for formal training. In the temporary office in the Jiangnan Shipyard, he was staring at the progress of several projects.Especially in the past few days, the first fully hand-assembled fighter plane is about to be completed. As the first blockbuster product to be launched on the market, he, the main person in charge, must definitely sit in charge.

The low-wing all-metal-skinned fighter, which was named x211 fighter by praise, went through intensive examination and approval by Wang Zhu and others, and immediately started manufacturing it on the basis of the engine and nose given by Zhu Bin. The assembly of non-dedicated equipment has been nearly completed in the past 20 days.

Chen Shaokuan just happened to meet him when he arrived, so he refused to leave. He insisted on seeing the first flight of the fighter plane—you know, he, an admiral, has a deep understanding of the importance of naval aviation, even surpassing many British and American military experts!

By the way, he found a lot of weapons and equipment that Zhu Bin would design and produce in the future, and his interest greatly increased, so he had to understand clearly.

Seeing Zhu Bin complaining about the government's handling of such tricks, Chen Shaokuan felt amused in his heart, while playing with a model of a battleship with a novel structure on the shelf, he said casually: "Don't underestimate yourself. Let me ask in today's world, how many people can Go to battle to kill enemies and make meritorious service, go to sea to do business and mobilize hundreds of millions of dollars with your hands? When you go to the United States, you can cooperate with top giants such as Rockefeller, and you can gather a group of talents to drive you after a few days after returning to China? With such influence, who Don't look sideways? If you are allowed to develop like this for a few years, you will have a place in the government, can those people sit still?"

Zhu Bin curled his lips and snorted, "Do you really think that I care about their official positions and powers? All day long intrigues and vegetarian meals are useless to the country. Please don't go."

Chen Shaokuan shook his head, pointed at him, and said, "Stubborn. Well, let's not talk about this, just say that your sea clothing factory has only been established for a few days, and there are many new products of various weapons and equipment. If I can show off the limelight, it will not be a problem to sell millions of orders at that time, and the money will be huge, and it will make many people look sideways. By then, I will be in trouble!"

Zhu Bin laughed awkwardly.Chen Shaokuan didn't wrong him at all. In order to solve the problem quickly, he came up with a lot of new things in one breath these days.In addition to the new fighter plane that is about to be completed, several water patrol trainers designed by Wang Zhu have been modified, replaced with Pratt & Whitney 1535 engines, and the speed has been increased to more than 320 kilometers. Heavy machine guns and camera equipment, shotguns were replaced immediately, and have been defaulted as standard equipment for armed cargo ships that are about to be completed. Of course, they are only the dozen or so ships under Zhu Bin's own name. The "Global Communication" company and the defense company need to wait until July for the Global Merchants Fair Only after competing with manufacturers from other countries did we know.

It's hard to say about the seaplane. The x211 fighter jet is definitely unmatched. By then, the defense company will purchase at least 24 planes, and the trainer plane will definitely be needed. It's no problem just because of Zhu Bin's face.

Then, Zhu Bin took out a lot of samples of infantry weapons and equipment, made improvements on the basis of Colt and other American arms, and designed a semi-automatic rifle with short bullets and 1903 rounds of magazines based on the m10 Springfield rifle. , the 7.62x63mm high-power bullet is shortened to 7.62x51mm size, the power and accuracy are not reduced, and the rate of fire is faster.

In addition, a light machine gun is designed on the basis of the German mg30 machine gun, which also uses 7.62x51mm bullets, a 2mm air-cooled heavy machine gun modified from Browning m12.7, and even a 20mm version modified from Oerlikon's 25mm machine gun, etc. There are more than eighty kinds of light weapons.

In addition, there are three types of portable mortars of 60mm, 81mm, and 105mm, 76.2mm infantry guns, several armored vehicles, and even two tanks!On the basis of the CA-1 A-type truck that has just completed the prototype, a series of military version transport vehicles, tractors, engineering dual-purpose vehicles, etc. are designed, with various patterns.

In addition, flat-bottomed landing craft as small as 100 tons and as large as 800 tons, amphibious assault landing ships with a maximum of 600 tons, destroyers and frigates of more than [-] tons to [-] tons, and shallow-water gunboats with a maximum displacement of tens of thousands of tons. There are submarines over [-] tons.

All kinds of models and samples filled the whole office. After Chen Shaokuan came in, he was dazzled immediately, but couldn't put it down, especially a large battleship with a full load displacement of 46000 tons made him even more excited. After seeing the giant American ship cannon, He dreamed about these steel monsters!But Zhu Bin assured him that everything in the house would be made!

Chen Shaokuan is very clear about how many people and guns there are in the so-called Haizhuang Institute, because they are all assigned with his consent. At present, the largest group is the group of people in the aircraft design team, other ships and light and heavy weapons. To put it bluntly, domestic Few of them are available. Zhu Bin also admitted that many of them come from the mysterious "gd laboratory". Regarding this, Chen Shaokuan can't control so much. Anyway, they provide Haizhuang Institute with free designs and build them. The Admiralty's own, if you sell it, you can make money. Now that he's in a situation, why bother?

The bidding meeting for the "Global Express Logistics" company in July will gather arms dealers and industrial product suppliers from all over the world. At that time, Zhu Bin, a fast-paced guy, will definitely be able to sell a lot of these products, but the Admiralty will ask Under pressure for him, no matter domestic or foreign.

After all, Chen Shaokuan was happy to resist such pressure.The more these products are sold, the richer the Admiralty will be, and it will be able to manufacture more warships and weapons. Only when it becomes stronger can it compete with Japan and other powers. Therefore, this big tree cannot fall down. The future of the Navy!

"You don't have to worry about these things, I'll do everything. Tell me about the parameters of your battleship. I'm interested in it." Chen Shaokuan pointed to the two-meter-long model.

"Of order!" Boss Chen spoke up, and Zhu Bin didn't have to deal with those politicians. He saluted happily and casually reported a series of data, "'Taishan-class' battleship, standard displacement: 36000 tons, full load displacement: 46000 tons Tons, length 230 meters, maximum width 34 meters, average draft 9.5 meters, maximum draft 10.5 meters. Power: 8 heavy oil boilers, 4 steam turbines, 4 five-blade propellers, main engine output power 130,000 shaft horsepower. Maximum speed : 32 knots, endurance: 16500 nautical miles, 17 knots, 6000 nautical miles, 28 knots!"

“武备：3座三联装406毫米45倍径主炮，炮塔前二后一背负式分布，10座双联装127毫米高平两用炮(每舷5座)，12座双联装76.2毫米高炮，和20毫米双联装“厄利孔”高炮30座！”

“装甲(英寸)：水线14；隔舱13；炮塔正面18，顶和侧面9－11；司令塔18－16；甲板9，主甲板3－1.5。装甲总重12000吨。舰员：设计编制1600人(其中：军官100人，士兵1500人)！”

"A very powerful battleship! It seems to be similar to their newly designed ships I saw in the United States, but the anti-aircraft firepower seems to be stronger!" Chen Shaokuan listened to the comparison in his heart, and couldn't help admiring!

Gently caressing the gun barrel with unparalleled attack power even though its size has been reduced by a hundred times, sweeping over the elegantly shaped bow of the clipper, the slightly floating high freeboard, the clean flat deck, scattered Well-designed secondary guns, the smallest 20mm anti-aircraft gun is not even as thick as a matchstick but is still subtle and precise. The smooth-looking conning tower, a single inclined chimney and two masts are arranged on the center line. There are a total of 113 large and small artillery in the small The small model does not appear crowded!The elliptical cruiser stern perfectly accommodates the hull, and the unique five-blade propeller looks exceptionally well-proportioned.

Zhu Bin chuckled cheekily, not saying that this is actually the version that Serena copied after peeking at other people's drawings. Of course, the anti-aircraft firepower has been strengthened a lot, and it looks like a jungle of turrets at first glance. After adding the radar fire control system and close-in defense, the small number of fighter jets that come up to bomb slowly will definitely be a tragedy!

"If there are four such battleships, plus three aircraft carriers, and a dozen or so new destroyers and submarines like yours, why worry about not being able to defeat the Japanese fleet?!" Chen Shaokuan sighed longingly, and turned his head to stare at Zhu Bin. , "You said, it can be made within five years?!"