The Old World is in the midst of fierce war, while the New World is thriving.

Newport News Shipbuilding Company, Virginia.

On the slipway, there are many cranes used for construction, so that people can feel the liveliness here, and at this time, in the aisle next to the slipway, a group of people are communicating while walking.

"Right now, our construction task is very busy, and if you want to get the finished product as soon as possible, then our price will probably have to be raised again." Walter Hawkins, chairman of the shipbuilding company, addressed the visitor.

Hearing the other party's words, Art, the representative from the Hanseatic Steamship Company, frowned, showing that he was hesitating at this time.

Take advantage of this opportunity to knock the Germans hard!

A few days ago, the German Hanseatic steamship company sent them a tender letter, saying that they wanted to get involved in the new shipping business, and they needed a new batch of steamers, which they wanted to build at the Newport News shipyard.

That's when Walter realized that the opportunity had come!

Newport News Shipyard, which originated from a coal terminal.

In the 1870s, the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad was laid to connect Richmond with the Ohio River. It extends to the Virginia Peninsula and connects to the Hampton Anchorage, where a coal terminal is built in Newport News.

By 1886, Huntington had built a dockyard next to the dock to provide repairs and shipbuilding services for coal carriers. The shipbuilding company was established ever since.

After their formation, they established a relationship with the U.S. Navy, which later began to contract shipbuilding companies to build warships.

Before World War I, the company built a total of six dreadnoughts for the U.S. Navy. After World War I, the company built a number of aircraft carriers for the Navy.

In later generations, when it came to Zhan'ou, they still had a very close relationship with the navy, so that until the 21st century, even the American Ford-class aircraft carriers were built by them.

It can be said that this is a historic shipyard and, at the same time, the largest private shipyard!

Yes, this is why the German side was attracted to place an order!

Why not build it in Germany? For this reason, Walter can guess that now, Germany is in the midst of a war in Europe and needs a large number of arms and weapons, so the various shipyards in Germany are very full, and even the warships ordered by the Soviet Union have been delayed.

That's why they came to the U.S. to place orders!

This is precisely in the interests of shipbuilders.

Although the shipyard has orders for the Navy, after all, they are all their own people, and they can't pit too much, that is, the profits are not enough, and now, since the Germans have placed orders, then of course they have to pit them more!

Walter was quite excited at this time, the war in Europe, for the Old World, was a disaster, and for the New World, it was simply the best opportunity!

Relying on the war in Europe, many enterprises in the United States have made a fortune, and large orders from Germany have made their production lines run at full speed, and the daily profits are astronomical, and to the satisfaction of the American financiers, when they explicitly refused to accept the German mark to prevent Germany from becoming waste paper once the war was defeated, the Germans were very generously willing to pay with their hard currency such as gold!

This means more to the United States, the war in Europe, let the gold flow to the United States, then, when the war in Europe is over, the United States will become the richest country in the world!

Gold, this is a hard currency, whoever has more reserves has the right to speak, and they can even see that the dollar will replace the pound sterling in the future and become the world's common currency!

The whole country of the United States welcomed the war in Europe, and in this case, even the president made a statement that he would not interfere in the situation in Europe.

Isn't it good that Europe is at war and the United States is making war money?

And now, it's finally your shipyard's turn! In fact, it's not war money, it's just some small orders, love to invest or not, if you invest in orders, you have to accept your own price increase!

Looking at the other party's expression, Art knew what the other party was thinking, and sure enough, every capitalist is the most interested in profits, and being able to feed these capitalists can make them give up aid to Britain, and these, Germany's investment, are all worth it.

"Yes, we can't wait." After pretending to be embarrassed, Yate finally agreed: "We have made the design drawings of the whole ship, and now, we need you to carry out rapid construction according to our design drawings, and we hope that within a year, you will be able to deliver the twenty such ships we ordered." ”

Twenty ships, it's really a big order! As for the delivery within a year, there is no problem at all, and our shipyard, in fact, is in a low-load operation state, and has the potential to increase production at any time.

Moreover, building a civilian cargo ship is different from building a warship, you know, the construction of a warship only in terms of armor protection is a headache for the shipyard.

What the other party proposed was just a civilian ship with a standard displacement of more than 6,000 tons and a full load displacement of only tens of thousands of tons, which was no problem at all.

"Okay, we can agree, then, can we show the blueprint?" Walter said.

Only after negotiating the conditions, can you see the design drawing, otherwise there will be a leakage problem, in the future is the same, house decoration, if you want to ask the decoration company to design, you must pay a deposit first, and the designer will show you the design drawing.

Now that the two sides had reached a preliminary agreement, Art took out a sketch from the briefcase he was carrying.

In fact, to build a ship, you need at least a car to install the blueprints, and now, Yate just took a sketch.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this is related to the next step of our company's strategy, please be sure to keep it confidential." Yate said very mysteriously: "What we need to build now is a container cargo ship, which can greatly improve the efficiency of transportation, and our steamship company will monopolize the global maritime transportation business in the future." ”

This sentence was said in a very loud tone, which made Walter full of sarcasm in his heart, just your small fleet in Germany, and you still want to monopolize the global transportation business? Don't dream, the rise of the United States is unstoppable.

With this thought, he took the design drawing, and at this time, there was still a sea breeze blowing on the sea in the distance, and he picked up the drawing slowly, and suddenly, his eyes widened.

What container cargo ship, shit, this is clearly an aircraft carrier, is it good?