The Iron and Steel Frenzy of the Republic of China

If you want to fool a knowledgeable boss like Chen Shaokuan, just talking will not work, and Zhu Bin has already realized this.Sending two warships was just an appetizer. What really moved the minister, who did not hesitate to condescend to be busy for him as a small major, was the brilliant future of the navy that Zhu Bin described to him!

For the Chinese Navy, Chen Shaokuan had many grand ideas. In the Navy’s six-year shipbuilding plan in 1930, he proposed to build an aircraft carrier, two armored cruisers, two cruisers, 28 destroyers, and 24 submarines. Plus other gunboats, torpedo boats, minesweepers, submarine motherships, transport ships, etc., the construction plan of a total of 106 ships looks very good and powerful, but in fact, considering the financial situation of the government and the poor navy expenses, this is just a plan. field bubbles.

After two years of tossing, Chen Shaokuan was about to give up. Zhu Bin jumped out at a critical moment and took action to solve the problem of the aircraft carrier and a battleship. A sudden sense of confidant, especially, this guy is throwing real money in it!

Zhu Bin's plan is even bigger. Now, not only is the scale at least double that of Chen Shaokuan's, but the performance indicators, equipment, firepower, tonnage, and speed of the overall warship are even surpassed in all aspects.

Compare the "Ninghai" currently under construction in Japan with the two so-called light cruisers "Pinghai" which bought parts from Japan and assembled it at the Jiangnan Shipyard. The displacement is only 2500 tons, and the one with 23 horsepower is the highest. The pitiful speed of 6 knots, one-inch armor, and six 140mm Japanese version of the main guns make it feel aggrieved no matter how you look at it.That is to say, it is not too bad compared with the one or two thousand tons of so-called light cruisers of those old Japanese files. The speed is still the five 3mm guns of the "Faragut" destroyer with a displacement of only 127 tons that the Americans will start construction this year, or the speed of 38 knots. These two ships can only be beaten.

Compared with the 2000-ton and 4000-ton large destroyers depicted by Zhu Bin, it is even more difficult to see. Many advanced weapons and modules Chen Shaokuan has never even heard of, but it does not prevent him from understanding its powerful performance. , and Zhu Bin vowed that these ships will be built within five years, don't you believe it?watch action.

In less than four months from February to today, Chen Shaokuan watched Zhu Bin conjure up a bunch of equipment, which he could not have imagined or could not do before.In addition to the two giant ships, the Jiangnan Institute stopped ten "Yong" submersible gunboats, and then mobilized the equipment and workers of the "Pinghai" whose spare parts supply was cut off by Japan. For the 2-ton troop landing craft and the 20-ton multi-purpose landing craft, a total of six new berths have also been assigned tasks, including 100-ton large landing craft, 500-ton destroyers and tank landing craft, and 1500-ton landing craft. Destroyers, 2500-ton multi-purpose supply ships and hospital ships, etc.

Nominally, these ships are intended to be used by global defense companies for their own use and to be introduced to the world market, but Chen Shaokuan knows that the Ministry of the Navy is indispensable for everything in it. The brand-new naval combat concept will be obtained first for the Chinese navy, and this alone is priceless.

Now, together with the "Jiang Falcon" class amphibious aircraft under construction, the "Jiangfeng" and "Jianghe" improved training patrol aircraft, the x211 high-speed fighter, and the "hd-1" transport aircraft agreed with Douglas , amphibious combat vehicles in the design stage, and a series of equipment all indicate that in the next year or two, the navy will undergo earth-shaking changes!Even if you can't fight it out, at least the power of the overall defense will undoubtedly double!

If a brand new fleet can be built on this basis, perhaps the entire Chinese navy will change drastically!The brand-new pattern will be opened quickly, and the days of tight ends will be gone forever!

The series of cooperation projects that Zhu Bin discussed with the United States on "Global Communication" will have a huge impact on and enhance China's industrial manufacturing capacity, and the domestic industrial manufacturing capacity will also increase several times. Immeasurable!All kinds of amazing achievements revived Chen Shaokuan's long-lost ambition.Now I heard that Zhu released a huge satellite and built a 3.5-ton battleship within five years? !Is it possible?

Zhu Bin was not joking, and nodded resolutely: "It will be possible! In fact, most of the technical problems have been solved, and the remaining industrial manufacturing capacity will be ready within three years. The series of measures in the first half of the year are just the beginning. After July, you will see Another upsurge in industrial construction! At that time, I am afraid that the Jiangnan Institute and the Haizhuang Institute will be far too busy!"

Chen Shaokuan patted the thick gun barrel of the battleship model and laughed: "It's good if you can't be too busy! If that's the case, you just have to fight for your wealth. I will fight for Zhoushan Shipbuilding and the port for you, and even Shen Honglie in Qingdao. Come forward to persuade you to develop the base. However, during this period, you must make a good show for the government and the chairman to see, otherwise it will be very difficult to achieve your goal!"

As Chen Shaokuan said, it was Zhu Bin who started planning to bring the Volunteer Army into the Ministry of the Navy, establish a naval special forces directly under it, and become the ambition of the real power faction who grasps the people.Although he didn't say it clearly, Chen Shaokuan has seen through the ups and downs of his career for decades!

Everyone knows that Zhu Bin has ambitions. He wants to set aside the factional-lined and fortified Whampoa army and open up a world of his own in the navy. Chen Shaokuan knew it first, and then Chairman Jiang, who is most sensitive to military power, also figured it out.Want to own a team reasonably and legally?Now this situation is not so difficult!

In particular, Lao Jiang is trying his best to prepare the naval forces directly under him, and sit back and watch the shameless politicians under Wang Zhaoming and some unscrupulous literati in Shanghai unscrupulously slander and attack the Ministry of the Navy, just to kill people with a knife.Zhu Bin's attitude was ambiguous, and he refused to directly serve as the chairman of the committee, but he was confused with Chen Shaokuan, a "lone husband" and "perfect man". Lao Jiang would never let him get his way easily.In this regard, Chen Shaokuan could barely resist the pressure of entering the mountain.

Zhu Bin scratched his forehead and sighed softly, "Why is it so difficult to do something serious! I've spent tens of millions of dollars, isn't it sincere enough?"

Chen Shaokuan shook his head, smiled and said nothing. $1000 million, what did you do for it?

If you send it directly to Generalissimo Jiang, even a lieutenant colonel in the navy will not be able to run away now. As long as he waved his hand, he would enter the Central Army Military Academy for gold plating, and at least get a regimental commander and brigade commander when he comes out. It's not too difficult.But now, if you send money again, I'm afraid the result will be hard to say.But it seems that none of the people who are missed by the chairman can be successful.

Rolling his eyes, Zhu Bin slapped his thigh: "Hey! Since that's the case, I don't have to be polite. Aren't you afraid that I'm not a direct descendant and I can't control it? I'll let you find a way to win over and control it!"

Chen Shaokuan narrowed his eyes slightly, glanced at him meaningfully, and continued to play with the battleship model as if he didn't hear it, with an uncontrollable smile floating on the corner of his mouth.

Two days later, when Zhu Bin accompanied Chen Shaokuan to Zhoushan to inspect the training base, he had already resigned from China Airlines, and Wang Zhu, the chief engineer who had joined the aircraft manufacturing department of the Haizhuang Institute, rushed to report the good news—the assembly of the x211 test aircraft had been completed. up!

"So fast?!" Not only Chen Shaokuan was surprised, but Zhu Bin himself was also a little unbelievable. Are these guys moving too fast?A few days ago, I went to see that there were still a lot of work that was not finished.

Wang Zhu shook his head and sighed: "Your design and preparation work are so detailed that we can't think about it anymore. We just follow the picture and do the job of assembler. If it wasn't for the students to understand every detail as much as possible, we could have done more. quick!"

"Okay! Take a look!" Chen Shaokuan excitedly put down the model, this is the first shipboard advanced fighter for the navy, of course he wants to witness its birth with his own eyes!