It was mid-October when news of the impact on Algerian oil facilities reached Contini's ears, and he was watching a test flight of a carrier-based torpedo plane with a large group of technicians.

Recently, the progress of other industrial construction has been in line with Contini's expectations, and after the grand plan has been formulated, the rest is supervision, so there is no need for the president to work hard himself. Of course, the management under his command was busy, and Contini raised the requirements, steel output should exceed 1 million tons by 1929, 2.4 million kilowatts of installed capacity should be completed, and electrolytic aluminum, electrolytic copper, refining, coal chemical and other industries should keep up.

It's not that he covets the indicators to look good, but there are so many needs objectively: the consumption of rebar by United Real Estate alone is more than 3 million tons a year, and there is no such technology as strip steel in this era, and the president will not agree to use strip steel, so steel output can only continue to leap forward, otherwise it can only continue to increase imports from Germany. Cement, glass, aluminum alloy, refining, (PVC pipe), cable and other industries have been comprehensively upgraded and leaped forward, and a vigorous era with housing as the key link and infrastructure as the core is in full swing.

Isn't the three flags, the four greats, and the comprehensive construction equal to the fascist general line? It's just a five-character policy of "how fast and good to save", but in Contini's dictionary, the word "province" is usually ignored, so it is generally only how fast and good.

Industrial construction is a leg of the United Group, the other leg is the capital operation, the United Group has completed well in this regard, the United Bank has signed a letter of intent with the United States Investment Bank, preparing for the IPO in April next year, the United Oil will land in New York in a year, and now Wall Street is persuading him to inject the Libyan oil project into it, because the last 4 divisions of troops plus the oil guard sent, His Excellency the President felt that he was somewhat sure and increased the reserves by 20%, which made the Wall Street tycoons very red- This will be another mountain of gold once listed.

Therefore, the 6-year corporate bond of the United Group was successfully completed, with a amount of up to 200 million US dollars, and in China, the long-term construction bond of 6 billion lira was also snatched up. In order to support the façade of the soon-to-be-listed Union Bank, Leo gave up the way of profit transfer and greatly reflected the profits: although the United Bank only lent to the United Group with an interest margin of 1.5%, the problem is that the amount is large and the cost is low, the loan scale is more than 20 billion lira a year, and at the same time, it also has to undertake the operation of bond issuance, income and expenditure two lines, etc., the profit is considerable, and the annual profit can be at least 500 million, and its valuation of 500 million US dollars is not unattainable.

Compared with the smooth progress of these two battlefields, the situation in Libya began to become delicate, and the low-key intervention of the British gave him a strong sense of crisis, so he devoted more time to armaments and defense, and paid attention to the development and installation of various equipment.

Prior to this, the United Defense had achieved two outstanding achievements: first, allowing the Italian Army to accept the next generation of rifle cartridges with a standard caliber of 7.92mm, and second, agreeing to install 98K and Czech light machine guns, collectively known as the Model 1926 rifle and Model 1926 machine gun.

What is ironic is the process of assembly, which is not the result of careful comparison and scientific argumentation, but the result of His Excellency the President with a golden rod. The Army Committee on Light Weapons agreed to adopt it after simply looking at the power of the 7.92mm round. Because Contini opened his mouth: he was responsible for supplying the Italian Army with 200,000 updated rifles, that is, an old Charliman rifle that could be updated with a new Type 26 rifle; Bullets are replaced equally; The Hatch Chase machine gun and Breda machine gun used in the army were also replaced by new Type 26 machine guns in accordance with the principle of renewal - the number is not limited.

This opening was so big that the army could not refuse, and it was adopted at once.

The most annoyed by this matter is the Carcano rifle factory, which means that their company does not want to take orders at all - everyone else has a free new gun to change, and then pay to ask you to buy it, isn't it stupid? But Contini didn't care about this, anyway, he had promised Mussolini to donate 50 million lire to the army, which would be deducted from here first, and if it wasn't big enough, he would subsidize it himself.

However, the Army Committee expressed doubts about the semi-automatic Garand rifle, believing that it was necessary to continue to observe, and Contini was not in a hurry, believing that it might be better to continue to improve it, so it agreed to continue the review after a year.

Contini certainly considered all aspects of adopting such a replacement policy: first, the rifle factory and the Breda company he had taken over could now produce at full capacity, which could effectively boost production and employment; Second, he actually mastered the caliber of subsequent bullets and the standard of official rifles, in other words, if Carcano did not want to drink the Northwest Wind, he would soon have the hope of joining the production army of Type 26 rifles; Third, it can effectively reduce corruption in the procurement department, and there is no way to collect kickbacks if the trade-in does not involve procurement.

As for the old rifles that were withdrawn, Contini would not have used them to equip the oil guards, he sent them to the Far East in the name of army scrap steel and sold them at low prices. Zhang Dashuai's strength was greatly weakened after Guo Songling's rebellion, and the demand for arms was very urgent, and at the same time, the Great Revolution was in full swing, and a large number of army scrap steel returned to China with Li Xi and others. Wu Dashuai of Hunan and Sun Dashuai of Jiangxi were eager to see through these arms, and even Chang Dashuai of Huangpu bought several thousand.

There's no special reason for it, it's just cheap! Moreover, the Italians are righteous, in addition to the current ocean, they can also take grain, agricultural products, pig bristles, tung oil, tungsten ore, antimony ore, tin ore, copper ore to top money, they are responsible for package transportation, there is really no top, get some laborers to go to Libya can also exchange money, in this way, the name of Italian scrap steel in China is far away, there is a great sense of sweeping. A few years later, Italian scrap steel became a proper noun in the dictionary, and history classes were all to be examined.

And these merchant ships are not empty-handed, when they return to Italy, they usually go to Libya with a full load of personnel and materials to unload the goods first, and then return to Italy to load scrap steel, and so on, if you grasp it well, it can be recycled once every three months. From the moment the ship departs, the next shipment is ready and ready for delivery, and everyone is satisfied. Can this business make money? Of course you can't earn it! If you can make money, a bunch of people will definitely rush to get on it. But Contini's starting point is not to make money, he is to reduce losses, otherwise who will sell these 20 tens of thousands of scrap steel? However, the fact that the president is a good friend of the Chinese people is solid-really kind!

Copper, tin, and tungsten ore were turned into munitions and sent to the Italian army, and all the grain and agricultural products were digested locally in North Africa—it was said that Chinese rice could still be sold at a good price among laborers. The superficial loss of the United Group has been replaced by a deep increase in strength, which is what Contini believes is the most cost-effective, and it is also the place that future management professors will feel the most.

The new torpedo bomber had similarities with the American Martin T3M torpedo bomber in that it had a single-engine structure, but with a liquid-cooled engine; And unlike another torpedo bomber, the T2D (from the American company Douglas), which had two air-cooled engines.

On the question of whether to single or double engine, Contini's attitude is very clear, the carrier-based torpedo machine must use a single engine - although the double engine is reliable insurance, it is too much space.

Fortunately, at this time, United Power also introduced a 12-cylinder V-shaped liquid-cooled engine based on Rolls-Royce and Fiat, with a standard output of 435 hp, which is 35 hp more than the engine used in the T3M.

In terms of body design, this verification machine is much more generous than T3M, a full set of aluminum alloy body, this is not ordinary dura aluminum, not to mention the aluminum alloy used in United Real Estate, but the latest chromium-nickel-manganese superalumin alloy produced by the joint laboratory, this thing is slightly stronger than steel, but the unit weight is only one-third weaker than steel, which suddenly makes the aircraft much lighter, not only the surface tension and strength of the fuselage are strengthened, but also the performance of take-off and landing from the deck is better.

Of course, this alloy is not the same as the Igarashi aluminum alloy used in the later Japanese Zero War, which contains magnesium, zinc and other components, but the joint laboratory is also stepping up research, because the president said that not only aluminum alloy should be used to make airframes, but also use aluminum alloy to make aircraft, automobiles, and tank engines if necessary, and it is unimaginable to make a breakthrough in materials science.

Take this prototype codenamed T1 as an example, with an empty weight of 2.37 tons, three seats, can carry a simulated torpedo weighing 600 kg, exceeds the ability of T3M to carry 454 kg, has a practical ceiling of more than 3000 meters, and a maximum level flight speed of more than 200 km / h.

Goering and other veterans have even experimented with two 25-kilogram drop tanks on the wings on the premise of carrying a 600-kilogram simulated torpedo, but the running distance will be increased by 9-12 meters.

Watching the plane fly steadily from the deck, Contini and the others gave warm applause, and he explained: "The next step is to use this kind of simulated bomb for training, and you must do it step by step, not in a hurry." ”

"But there are no such aviation torpedoes!" Goering scratched his scalp, "You can't practice every day, can you?" That feels too bad! ”

"I'll rush a batch out of the real one, but don't expect any performance, it's just usable." Contini shrugged, "Now the torpedoes commonly used in the Navy are more than 1 ton or even 1.5 tons, and they haven't considered 600 kilograms of torpedoes at all. Of course, this is also a good thing, and when we can make it, isn't this order firmly in our hands? ”

Everyone laughed......