In October 1905, the Russo-Japanese War ended. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

This tragic war involved millions of troops, and the two powers fought on the soil of a third country for nearly two years, and each came to the point of running out of oil.

Roosevelt intervened and ended the war.

The Japanese lost six-figure lives and went into debt, and the dividends of the Sino-Japanese War were wiped out. As for the Russians, the words were even more miserable, the revolution in the country was turned upside down, and the huge expeditionary fleet was completely annihilated by the Japanese......

This war has brought many things to the world.

It was the first time that an Asian country had truly triumphed over a European power, grenades and mortars shone in the war, and the results of the Battle of Tsushima made the navies of various countries ponder.

Ten days after the end of the war, Newport News Shipyard, owned by Huntelaar, submitted a model of a battleship to the Admiralty - a model of a battleship with eight 12-inch guns without the battleship ram angle!

The battleship with full heavy artillery coincided with the plans of the Admiralty.

In fact, it was possible for the Americans in history to have the first dreadnought-class battleship. Because it was in this year that the South Carolina class that the Americans were going to make was of this design. However, due to congressional funding constraints, the U.S. Navy was able to build only a few shrunken versions.

The proposal of the Newport News shipyard immediately aroused the interest of the Admiralty.

According to the Newport News Shipyard, the Admiralty could no longer build the warship they wanted because of congressional financial obstruction. The strict budget constraints have naturally caused the results can be imagined, so the Admiralty has always been entangled. But the presence of the Newport News shipyard gave the Admiralty hope.

In fact, the proposal is very simple, it is to build one of them by the Newport News shipyard!

According to the results of the war between the Admiralty and Congress, the future warships will be shrunken, but Newport News Shipyard will self-fund to make up for the gap in congressional funding to build a full version of the South Carolina-class battleship for the U.S. Navy. But in return, the Admiralty had to provide some of the technology to the Newport News shipyard so that they could combine it with the technology they had obtained from Britain and Germany, and use the knapsack turret technology......

The Admiralty is not a fool and certainly understands what the Newport News shipyard means.

A large number of obsolete but excellent technologies were obtained from Britain and Germany, and at the same time, the Newport News shipyard invested a huge amount of money in research in recent years, and with the support of Roosevelt, the level of shipbuilding can be described as a rapid progress. Now I would rather pay the Admiralty to build a new warship, which is nothing more than the purpose of experimentation, and if it succeeds, the voice in the Admiralty will be further increased! And with only one battleship, the part that needs to be insufficient is not particularly large, at least the money that Newport News Shipyard earns from the Admiralty every year is enough.

It's just that this situation is also what the Admiralty is happy to see.

The importance of building a full-fledged experimental warship for a country's navy is self-evident, even if it is just to accumulate experience. Moreover, the cooperation between the Admiralty and the Newport News Shipyard has been very pleasant over the years, whether in radio or warship construction, and even the President Roosevelt has strongly supported it. Not to mention that at the recent Century Expo, after the Admiralty saw the many amazing new inventions of the Huntelaar consortium, the idea of continuing to maintain good cooperation with the Newport News shipyard was even more determined......

At the same time, the industries under the Huntelaar consortium began to explode.

In February 1905, the final commissioning of the automobile production line was put into operation, and the Huntelaar Automobile Company announced the launch of the latest BMW 1905 model, priced at just $499. This selling price fulfills the promise made by Huntelaar Motors two years ago and does not exceed $500. And to distinguish it from this mass-oriented car, another new model named "Lincoln" was launched, which cost $1,299. However, this type of car uses a more powerful engine, and the interior is more luxurious, so it is strictly distinguished from ordinary cars.

Super cheap car, which has caused a sensation in the United States!

Compared with other car companies in the U.S. market, Huntelaar Motors' products are originally representative of good quality and affordable prices, so the market share has always been more than 80%. The launch of the BMW 1905, which is now cheaper but still performs well, has made competitors wail. In just three months, the BMW 1905 sold 6,500 units, and even Lincoln sold more than 400 units.

In addition to cars, Huntelaar Motors has also launched second-generation trucks and trolleybuses.

With a payload capacity of more than 5.5 tonnes and a faster speed, the second-generation truck was an instant hit with 1,100 trolleybuses shipped in a month, with the full support of American Electric Power Corporation, and Huntelaar Motors was preparing to build the first trolleybus system in Brooklyn with the full support of American Electric Power. At the same time, the experimental technology also played a role in demonstration.

In addition to its use in automobile companies, the Huntelaar Agricultural Machinery Manufacturing Company has also built assembly lines.

So along with the BMW 1905, there is also a second-generation diesel tractor, which reduces the price by a third, making it profitable to use agricultural machinery instead of labor. Therefore, after weighing the pros and cons, American farmers began to sprinkle orders, and at the same time drove the sales of a large number of agricultural tools - the Huntelaar agricultural machinery company shamelessly adopted a bundling strategy, buying tractors must buy matching farm tools, otherwise it will not match.

However, these prices are not too high compared to other companies' products, so farmers can accept them – as evidenced by the fact that more than 2,000 vehicles were sold in three months.

In April 1905, the ammonia synthesis process of Huntelaar Chemical Co., Ltd. was completely matured.

The Germans were sadly stolen yet another great invention, and it was advanced by four years. At the same time that Huntelaar Chemical wanted to make this approach public to the world, five ammonia plants had already been put into operation in the United States, with a daily output of 8 tons of ammonia, and as more plants were commissioned and process improvements were made, this number was expected to reach 50 tons in 1907!

After the news was confirmed, the price of saltpeter in South America fell in response.

As a necessity for the manufacture of explosives, the importance of the ammonia synthesis process in the increasingly tense atmosphere in Europe is self-evident, so President Roosevelt called John as soon as possible, and the ambassadors of European countries, especially those from Germany and Austria, rushed to New York to try to negotiate with Huntelaar Chemical to buy finished products or produce patents.

As a brother company, the Huntelaar Arms Manufacturing Company immediately reaped huge benefits.

The explosives factory, which had already been expanded, began to obtain sufficient and cheap production raw materials, and then launched low-cost explosives products, and DuPont, which was not strong enough, was suddenly hit hard and was at a loss for a while. Even the stocks of the major explosives companies in Europe have plummeted, causing an uproar in various countries......

While countries around the world were concerned about the application of synthetic ammonia in the explosives industry, Huntelaar Chemical did not rest on its laurels, in addition to assisting weapons manufacturing companies in researching explosives technology, under the orders of Mr. Huntelaar, they began to buy chemical plants on a large scale and study and improve the manufacturing process of fertilizers. According to the department's research plan, a series of fertilizer products would be launched by 1906 at the latest.

At the end of July 1905, the Huntelaar Machine-Building Company submitted its report to Mr. Huntelaar. After several years of hard work and millions of dollars of investment, Huntelaar Machine Building finally completed the design and finalization of a set of machine tools, and began to produce a complete set of assembly lines for the new plants of automobile companies, agricultural machinery manufacturing companies and other enterprises. At the same time, the machine manufacturing company also submitted its financial report for the first half of the year, with sales exceeding 25 million US dollars, firmly at the forefront of the electric revolution!

In August 1905, a freighter departed from Los Angeles and arrived in Shanghai, carrying a large number of books, research equipment, and experimental instruments. The three universities established by the Huntelaar family in China, Shanghai Heinz University, Nanjing Heinz University, and Hangzhou Heinz University, have begun to enroll students, with a total of 450 new students enrolled.

In September 1905, the Huntelaar Watch Company announced the sale of its 10,000th watch.

In October 1905, the Admiralty, stimulated by the Russo-Japanese naval war of Tsushima, reached an agreement with Newport News Shipyard to build an experimental battleship, and authorized Newport News Shipyard and Huntelaar Arms Manufacturing Company to develop a new generation of naval guns through technology transfer and funding.

In November 1905, the two newest hospitals of the Huntelaar system were inaugurated in Brooklyn, and at the same time, Professor Osler, dean of the Huntelaar Medical School, and Dr. Thomas of the General Hospital jointly announced that ten hospitals would be built in Boston, Baltimore and other places to be incorporated into the Huntelaar medical system. These affiliated hospitals, which are affiliated with the Huntelaar Medical College, will receive systematic technical support and will gradually be invested in the residency training system of the Huntelaar Medical College.

In December 1905, in John? At the special invitation of Mr. Huntelaar, Feng Ru, a 21-year-old Chinese, was invited to join Huntelaar Aircraft Manufacturing Company. The day after he joined, he saw the latest model of the Wright brothers take to the skies. The plane, which weighed more than 1,000 kilograms, stayed in the sky for at least two hours, flew nearly 300 kilometers, and could be loaded in more than 500 kilograms - a figure that is almost the same as that of an aircraft at the beginning of World War I.

The engine of the Huntelaar brand is so powerful that it makes people's hearts beat faster!

In John? After Huntelaar appeared in person, the Wright brothers patted their chests and promised that by early 1906 at the latest, they would be flying across the English Channel with planes across the English Channel and performing air shows in London, Paris, Berlin and other places. Although John did not want to do this in his heart, let's not forget that many people have begun to study airplanes in recent years, and it is unrealistic for the Wright brothers to continue their research in obscurity - the planes they built are completely commercial, and the desire for fame and fortune can no longer be suppressed.

So after acceding to the Wright brothers' request, John? Mr. Huntelaar arrived at the Huntelaar Machine-Building Company the next day and asked them to secretly study a machine-gun fire coordinator......

In March 1906, when the Huntelaar Automobile Company was split to form the Huntelaar Truck Company and the Huntelaar Bus Company, the Huntelaar Truck Company researchers were divided into two parts, one continuing to improve the second-generation trucks, and the other part, together with some technicians from the Agricultural Machinery Production Company, began to conduct another study that needed to be kept secret for the time being...... (To be continued.) )