William Evans recently felt that he was definitely kissed by God when he slept, and he was very lucky.

Last year, he made a historic breakthrough in the trade wind shipping company's business, not to mention signing a major contract with the American Agricultural Association to help the American Agricultural Association transport 10 million tons of wheat and corn to Southeast Asia in three years.

Spread it out to three million tons a year, which is almost half of the trade winds' previous year's volume, so William Evans had to increase the size of his fleet in order to better enforce his contract with the American Agricultural Association.

So William Evans traveled all over Europe and Asia, looking for all the shipyards he could find, and finally handed over the initial contract for three 2,500-ton bulk carriers to China.

Because compared to European and Asian shipyards, the Chinese have the cheapest price under the premise of ensuring quality, and more importantly, the Chinese shipbuilding company with which he signed a contract can start construction of three ships at the same time, which is not possible for shipyards in other countries.

William Evans is a customer who orders ships, but he is also a profit-seeking businessman, time and cost are always the only criteria for him to weigh the pros and cons, and since China meets this standard, he is naturally willing to cooperate with the Chinese.

However, just when Evans felt that he had made a big bargain, a Japanese trading company with which he did business heard that he had ordered three freighters from China, and took the initiative to come to him to sell him marine steel.

At first, Evans was very disdainful, after all, the Chinese had assured him that his ship would be built for him with the best Chinese steel, but when he saw that the Japanese sincerely showed him samples and technical information of steel, Evans immediately changed his mind.

Because Japan provided him with a low-alloy high-strength marine steel with a yield of 380 megapascals.

If you just look at the numbers, you may not feel anything, but when you know that the same type of steel is the material used in the hull of the American "Spruance" class destroyer, you have to be moved.

This is a real military-grade marine steel, both mechanical and durable are not comparable to ordinary civilian ship steel, if the ship can be built with this steel, the life will be doubled, not to mention, the safety will be greatly increased.

The problem is that the performance of this steel is very good, but the cost is very expensive, Evans has not never fought the idea of military ship steel in the past, but when he asks the price, the little flame in his heart will be extinguished immediately, it is too expensive, the cost of a ship can almost build three ordinary civilian ships, a fool does this.

However, this time it was different, the Japanese actually sold this batch of military-grade steel to him at the price of ordinary civilian steel, on the grounds that a Japanese steel mill was losing money and urgently needed to recoup funds.

Evans didn't care what the reason of the Japanese was, he only knew that he would be a fool if he didn't eat this batch of steel, so he didn't hesitate to sign a contract with the Japanese.

At the same time, he informed the Chinese side that he would provide all the materials for marine steel.

This is of no significance to the Chinese side, it is the same as building a house, who can say anything about the shipowners using their own materials? What's more, these steel products are still imported goods in name, and the state can get an extra tax on imported goods without spending a penny, so why not do it?

So the two sides happily reached an agreement, and in this way, after some formalities, the Japanese steel became New Zealand goods and entered China.

However, it didn't take long for this batch of steel to become a hot potato, leaving several Chinese shipyards that built trade wind shipping companies anxious.

For no other reason, the steel provided by Evans cannot be welded by Chinese shipyards at all.

It was only at this time that the shipping company realized that something was wrong, and the steel provided by Evans was not ordinary civil steel at all, but a special steel with high specifications.

This kind of steel can only be completed to create a feasible welding solution unless it goes to the composition and explores the corresponding production process little by little according to the composition.

This process, not to mention the medium-sized shipyards that undertake the construction of bulk carriers, even the powerful large factories cannot be completed overnight.

What's more, the composition of this steel is so easy to do? It is estimated that it will take a lot of time to analyze the composition, and if the construction period is delayed, it will be compensated for liquidated damages.

So the shipping company hurriedly sent a message to William Evans, explaining the difficulties here, not to mention that William Evans was quite conscientious, not long after the news was sent, he sent all the components and basic technical information of the steel.

But conscience is conscience, and William Evans's last wording is very serious, that is, he hopes that the Chinese side will actually complete the construction of the ship in accordance with the contract, otherwise it will wait to pay liquidated damages.

In the face of pressure, the Chinese side did not show the expected counterattack, but became more and more difficult, even if it obtained the composition structure and specific element content of the steel, it was still helpless.

Come to think of it, it was the ship's steel for the American "Spruance"-class missile destroyer.

As a landmark missile destroyer of the U.S. Navy, the Spruance-class guided missile destroyer has almost condensed the essence of U.S. shipbuilding since World War II, and has reached a peak in terms of ship design, power configuration and general capabilities.

Even the later Ali Burke-class missile destroyers, in addition to the advanced "Aegis" radar, were measured in terms of ship design and construction technology, and they did not surpass this peak.

Because the Spruance class ship type was derived from the later "Kidd" class and the famous "Aegis", the original "Ticonderoga" class.

But the Ali Burke class only has various deformations of fried cold rice, which is not enough, and when it fights with various civilian ships, it is always at a disadvantage.

It can be seen from this that the technical level of the "Spruance" class missile destroyers is terrifying, and now China has just been able to build the Type 051 missile destroyer, which is almost 30 years behind the technical level of others.

This is like a scumbag and a scumbag, even if the scumbag writes all the steps of the finale and lets the scumbag get the answer by himself, the scumbag is also confused, and he can't understand what is written on it at all.

This is the psychology of the shipping company that received the specific composition of the steel provided by Evans.

At this time, Evans, as the owner of the ship, suddenly visited China to see the construction of his bulk carrier.

Sure enough, when I went to the two shipyards and found that the two steel plates on the slipway had not been cut, I was furious!

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