Open an aircraft carrier to fight against Japan

Lin Yuan went on to say: "Given the predicament we are facing now, I think that in future wars, we will not use aircraft carriers as a means of direct strikes. Aircraft carriers will play more of a killer role. Our next step The goal is to learn how to use the warships of the Japanese combined fleet that we have captured as soon as possible. The Sino-Japanese War of [-]-[-] just ended told us that it is not enough to have a strong navy alone, we also need a strong army.”

Su Zhengming asked: "Captain, what kind of weapons should our army equip?"

Lin Yuan said: "This is how I think about it. Due to the level of the times, mechanization is impossible, and informatization is even more out of the question. I plan to equip the army with a batch of semi-automatic rifles and grenades. Now we are poor and useless. That's all there is to it."

Su Zhengming said: "Captain Lin, these are relatively easy to manufacture. In this regard, Mr. Liu, please tell me."

Su Zhengming was very polite to Mr. Liu. Obviously, Mr. Liu's qualifications and abilities were not inferior to Su Zhengming's. An old man in the crowd waved his hand and shook his head repeatedly, which meant that I had nothing to say. Lin Yuan looked over and knew this. Mr. Liu's name is Liu Jinqiu. He is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and a well-known expert in the metallurgical industry in our country.

Lin Yuan knew that Mr. Liu had the gentlest temper, and he was completely opposite to Su Zhengming, so he smiled and said, "Mr. Liu, just say a few words."

Only then did Liu Jinqiu walk out of the crowd and said: "I just heard what Academician Su said. Our biggest difficulty now is materials. The most basic thing for all industrial products is materials. If you want to build army weapons, there is no need for steel. No. This involves the issue of basic industries.”

Liu Jinqiu continued: "Basic industries, to put it bluntly, are things that manufacture means of production, such as: energy, minerals, metallurgy, mechanical processing, etc. In order to let everyone understand, I will use iron and steel smelting as an example, In terms of minerals, we need iron ore, as well as fuel. If we want to make iron, we must use coke; in terms of energy, the most common steelmaking method is blast furnace steelmaking. Blast furnace, what is the blower used to drive? We can only use a steam engine to drive it now; in terms of metallurgy, it is to take out the iron in the iron ore.”

"With these basic industries, it's like having 0 and 1 in binary, which can form all other numbers, but the problem we face now is that we don't have these things." Liu Jinqiu said with a smile.

Lin Yuan said: "For coal mines and iron mines, I will find a way to buy them from Taiwan, but for other equipment, we need to use our brains to think about it."

At this moment, someone came to report: "Several British people want to see the Emperor of Ryukyu, and Shang Tai wants Lin Yuan to help."

The meeting had been going on for a long time, so he asked the experts and professors to go back and rest.The meeting place is the Japanese Navy Fleet Headquarters in the port of Naha, which is also the only available building in the port of Naha.

There is an old saying in China: "If you want to know what you know, you need to listen to what is said behind your back." Lin Yuan came to the reception room, borrowed a set of local clothes, pretended to be a handyman, and put on a big straw hat to cover his face He went into the house where the British were.

This room was originally the meeting room of the Japanese navy stationed in Naha Naha, and it was very clean. Four British people were sitting in the room. Seeing Lin Yuan walking in with a bucket and a rag, an Englishman was surprised and said, "This way." Young people should go to work in factories, how can they do these jobs here?"

When the British saw Lin Yuan wearing local clothes, they thought he was a local and must not understand English, so they didn't have any scruples about speaking in English.

Another said: "Mr. Green, you are just meddling. What are we doing? Our concern is: How much interest should we charge for loans to Ryukyu people?"

The person named Green said: "Let's not raise the price too high. Our bank went to the United States and wanted to give Lincoln a loan, and proposed 35%-45% interest. As a result, Lincoln pointed at the door and said: Get out."

The four Britons laughed, and Lin Yuan thought to himself after hearing this: "They are here to provide us with loans. Needless to say, these loans must be mortgaged with the fiscal revenue of the Ryukyu Kingdom."

The man named Green said again: "Mr. James, I don't understand why you Krupp Steel Company came here. There are barbarians here. Do you see where there is a need for steel and farm tools?"

The four laughed again, James said with a smile: "We will be here to help them build a steel production line."

When he said this, Lin Yuan was cleaning the glass. Hearing this, the glass-cleaning hand stopped, thinking to himself: "Why did they come here to build a steel production line? They must have some kind of conspiracy, but building a The establishment of a steel production line means that the general layout of the basic industry has been established, and in the future, with our technical strength, we will definitely create something that shocks the world!"

Soon, Shang Tai came with a few entourages, he was lightly dressed, very demeanor of an ancient sage.Lin Yuan hurriedly went out to change clothes, and when he came back after changing clothes, several British people had already handed over the contract.

How did Shang Tai know this? When he saw Lin Yuan coming in, he seemed to have seen a savior. After Lin Yuan apologized softly, he took the contract. One contract was a loan contract of 1000 million pounds, which was mortgaged by the fiscal revenue of the Ryukyu Kingdom for five years. One is a contract for the establishment of a steel factory. The content of the contract includes that the Ryukyu State invested 200 million pounds to introduce a set of steel production lines, including steam blowers, ironmaking blast furnaces, Martin steelmaking furnaces, coke production lines, desulfurizer production lines, continuous casting machines, two Thousand-ton hydraulic press and so on.

When Lin Yuan saw the Martin steelmaking furnace, he thought: "This kind of steelmaking furnace has been completely eliminated by the converter later." So he said, "We still need the converter."

The British didn't expect that among these uncivilized savages there were some knowledgeable ones, so they agreed in surprise.

The additional terms of the contract pointed out that the iron ore used by the Ryukyu Iron and Steel Plant, the coal used for coke refining, and the raw materials for desulfurization agents need to be imported from the United Kingdom, and the transportation costs should be borne by the Ryukyu country; the steel produced in the Ryukyu country cannot be sold to third countries.

Lin Yuan thought to himself: "This British man is really a weasel giving chickens New Year's greetings—he has no good intentions. These raw materials are shipped from England, and we have to pay for them. The British will definitely ship raw materials from the nearest colony and tell us this. It was shipped from the mainland of England, so the price was skyrocketing."

Lin Yuan is not worried about this, he has his own way to deal with them, so he said with a smile: "We generally agree to the contract, but when we buy iron ore, we need to measure the grade of iron ore, if the grade is not up to If requested, we will not purchase."

Lin Yuan also said: "We not only need equipment, but also hope that the British side can provide personnel training and technical guidance, and the salary of the guidance personnel is favorable."

James pointed to a young man beside him, and said: "We have already considered these things. This young man named Will is an excellent talent in our British Empire. He will stay and guide the selection of your steel plant." site and is responsible for training your personnel."

Lin Yuan glanced at the man named Will. He laughed the most during the conversation of the four of them just now. Obviously he looked down on the Ryukyu people the most, thinking that the Ryukyu people don’t understand science at all. Lin Yuan couldn’t help but smile in his heart. An interesting word suddenly appeared in my heart: "Pretend to be a pig and eat a tiger."