After these things, Contini did not care about the sales of scrap steel in the Far East, and was ready to leave for the United States again, but before he left, he had to smooth out the domestic economic situation again. In 1926, the losses of the United Group exceeded 3.4 billion lire for an unprecedented time, of which the military and military-related expenses alone amounted to 1.4 billion lira, not to mention that Contini was a minefield, a tank, an oil guard, a warship, and a movie, all of which were smashed with money, and the oil was being exported to Tripoli through pipes, and the lira slipped through his fingers on every occasion - every telegram, every decision, Behind every statement, there is an endless amount of money turning to ashes, and it has no economic effect.

However, the image points are still earned, all the European countries' consortiums, political circles, and business giants are impressed by the United Group, and now no one dares to regard the United Group as an ordinary business group, which is a standard national policy group with the same country, plus the United Group took Dante and Leonardo da Vinci in one go, which shocked all observers, and the United Group is not satisfied with the existing military ranking, and intends to rush forward to squeeze out Greece?

But soon they knew that they were wrong, and the United Group began to dismantle the Dante at the end of January, which made the French side breathe a sigh of relief - they were most worried that the Italians would say that they would retire, but in fact they would continue to keep it through the United Group, which would break the rules, and now it seems that the Italians have not been blatantly to this point, and it also shows that the Italian government is measured, as for the news that the Leonardo da Vinci may be sold to the Far East, everyone guesses too lazy to pay attention.

The Dante was dismantled not to be converted into a bathtub ship, but to be converted into a transport boat, and before leaving for the United States, Contini once again gathered the designers to give a lecture. Since the subordinate United Shipyard has been basically built in place, this time the renovation is planned to be placed in our company, and at the same time, personnel will be dispatched from the United Shipyard to assist. In fact, Contini has made it clear that he intends to take a stake in the United Shipyard, and the other party also has this intention, but the price is still a little worse, the other party thinks that he is strong, and asks for 600 million lira but is only willing to give 40% of the shares, and the president has always wanted to control, and would rather give more lira than be a second shareholder, so this matter is still to be discussed.

"This time we're going to change Dante into a transport boat, what kind of transport boat? ...... capable of carrying a rapid integrated force," Contini said with a large bucket of exuberance, and also showed the sketches he had drawn, with the help of the ugly drawings above, the designers seemed to understand something, but the main technical parameters they understood:

First, the tonnage will increase from the current 19,500 tons to 22,500 tons;

Second, all naval guns, including the bridge, were all dismantled, and a straight-through deck was built in the form of a bathtub ship, with a length of 174 meters and a width of 29 meters, but this deck was different from the Ida with armor, which was basically a thin steel plate and a wooden deck, and the aircraft were not stored in the hangar, but were mainly tethered in the open air, mainly for fighters.

Third, the inner compartment was adjusted and hollowed out, and a large space was deployed to accommodate ground troops, and Contini required that it could accommodate about 300 mechanized troops, and that it should have the ability to fight on the beach, and that it could carry medium-sized landing craft;

Fourth, the power compartment and boiler were improved, and the original steam turbine could only output 32,000 horsepower at full load, which could have a speed of about 23 knots (now it has dropped to less than 22 knots), and he asked to increase it to more than 45,000 horsepower, which could run at a speed of 27-28 knots.

If you go to the scene, you can see through what it is - this is clearly an amphibious assault landing ship, and it is just a traffic boat, but it is quite consistent to say that a traffic boat is also quite suitable - isn't this a traffic boat of the landing force? Who stipulates that a transport boat can only be a few tens or hundreds of tons of cargo? Therefore, in the future, the full name of Dante is the United Petroleum Maritime Integrated Supply Boat, which is a perfect match for the floating sea airport.

The use of Dante does not meet the definition of a perfect amphibious assault ship, at least those side armor belts that originally belonged to the battleship are all wasted, but Dante has such a large shelf, and the hull is not bad, and it would be too wasteful to completely dismantle it, so Contini came up with such an improvement method, of course, the necessary anti-aircraft firepower will still be complete after the main gun is removed.

After listening to such a performance introduction, the designers quickly grasped the key point: the flight deck transformation and the layout of the side bridge are not difficult, but the difficult thing is how to arrange the cabins below reasonably - not only to improve and upgrade the power compartment without breaking through the scale of the hull, but also to ensure the space accommodation of 300 people and corresponding equipment - these 300 are not pure infantry, that are trucks, armored vehicles, tanks, motorcycles and light artillery to be on together, but also to support supplies, ammunition and other logistics materials, At least 14-18 aircraft supporting facilities should be considered on the deck, which are all obstacles.

However, the time given by the president was quite generous, and he used the time of dismantling to ask them to complete the plan for the improvement of the power compartment first, and then consider the superstructure and other cabin arrangements, and the time was ample until at least the end of May, and as for the dismantled guns, Contini also had suitable arrangements - Tripoli and Benghazi were still lacking in shore fortifications, and these naval guns were just completely arranged, and by the way, Tobruk was also settled.

After the idea of renovating the amphibious assault ship came to an end, Contini convened a group economic work conference: this year, there is no doubt that United Construction and Oil Guard are A-class enterprises, and even United Milan has climbed into B-category, because he won third place last year, and the gap between him and the first place is only 4 points, which is very close. Who is this year's C category for? Very unexpectedly given United Moto.

When it was revealed, everyone was shocked, United Motorcycle not only has new products launched, but also orders have been completed very well, which is a rare supply of goods, and the profits are among the top among the enterprises. Except for institutions like Union Bank, which lie down to collect money, United Motorcycle has the best profits. Observers say that there are two brands in Italy, one is called United Motorcycle, and the other is called other brands, and even Fiat Motorcycles have been beaten back and there is almost no way to fight back. Such a good company, even if it doesn't have Class A, it won't be Class C, right?

Outsiders feel wronged, but the management of United Motorcycle does not dare to say a word, of course they know what the problem is - the president is angry at the endless failures of United Force Shoulder Motorcycle in North Africa!