Xu Jun was not very good at economics and finance, but he had experts under him who were well-versed in the field, and Schacht and Funk had proved to Xu Jun that they were good enough to do the job, and that the German economy was quickly restored to stability after the end of the war, and there were no financial shocks caused by the entry of large war dividends.

The German government's announcement last month that the value of the mark will continue to be fixed at its original exchange rate is exciting news for all in the European financial markets, and I wonder how many financial experts breathe a sigh of relief.

In the past, when a large-scale war between European nations ended, it was followed by a redistribution of power and wealth, and a feast for war brokers and financial scavengers. Only this time the German financial beasts have long been put on a collar by the Nazis, and in the fanatical political atmosphere of Germany, there is no room for war brokers, and those giant family businesses and consortia in Germany have been controlled by the Nazi government, and Hitler has removed several of the biggest obstacles for his successor and paved a highway to the dictatorship.

"We're going well on the U.S. side, they're enthusiastic about the plan, and there are only a few procedural issues left, and I'm confident that a final agreement should be signed later this month." Viscount Wood picked up the glass jug at hand and poured himself a cup of black tea.

"We provide the technology, they take care of the manufacturing, and I don't see any reason for the Americans to refuse." Morality. Admiral Lapolde had a confident smile on his face.

The U.S. Navy's previous shipbuilding program is now being attacked by conservative members of the Senate, who see it as part of Roosevelt's "war conspiracy." Reival sneered at the corners of his mouth, and on this subject, he despised the coarse and ignorant Yankees from the bottom of his heart.

"Because of this, there are quite a few slipways on the east and west coasts of the United States, and our orders are extremely attractive to shipbuilders." Viscount Wood picked up the delicate little silver clip on his plate and picked up a white sugar cube from the sugar plate.

Xu Jun knows that the current expansion plan of the US Navy will not be greatly affected for the time being, and at most the budget for the new fiscal year will be reduced to a certain extent, but the Senate and House of Representatives are not all political animals, and they will not be blind to the threat in the Pacific direction.

However, the possibility of a large-scale arms build-up like that of Roosevelt's administration is almost non-existent, after all, the position of the US Navy in China is not as supreme as it was in the middle and late stages of World War II.

The situation of the US Army is also very bad, after losing the "threat of war" on the European continent, the security of the United States is guaranteed, and life is back to the peaceful years of singing and dancing.

The U.S. Army's weapons replacement program ran aground with the cancellation of the British government's order.

There are mountains of artillery and guns in domestic stockpiles, so why make the American people pay for new weapons. "You say these weapons are old? So why were the British willing to receive these rags before? Do you dare to say that there was no dealings and collusion with the British? ”

The U.S. Navy also had its own troubles, and in order to maintain the size of the fleet, mainly to retain experienced sailors, they had to continue to keep a number of old ships in their establishment.

More importantly, the Royal Navy, once the greatest maritime threat to the United States, had suffered heavy losses, and with Britain's national power, it was difficult to return to the old situation.

The conservatives, who are trying to restore "glorious isolation", are ecstatic so far, and their political slogan is "America first", and the withering of the British Royal Navy has given these politicians an excellent reason, the tonnage of the American Navy has jumped to the first place in the world, and for a long time to come, there will be no force in the Atlantic direction that can challenge the sea power of the United States, and there is absolutely no need to add more warships in this direction, if there is a real need, it should also be placed on the other side of the continent.

As a result, most of the shipbuilders on the East Coast of the United States have been idle, and it seems that the depression will continue for some time.

Just as the shipbuilding industry on the East Coast of the United States was about to fall into mourning, the British, who had been their rivals, arrived, and they descended like angels on this land that once flagged the rice flag, and at the same time brought a ship procurement plan of astonishing scale.

Britain once had the world's largest commercial fleet, but after brutal Atlantic submarine warfare, the fleet has shrunk to about 70% of its original size, and many of them need to be sent to shipyards for major repairs for various reasons.

This situation has affected the ability of the British to transfuse blood, and the wealth and resources they have looted in the colonies are now hoarded in warehouses in the port area, and there is not enough capacity to send them back home. So they need the United States to build them a number of transport ships, and they need to make them suitable for sailing in the tropical waters of Asia.

Britain itself was a shipbuilding power, but at this time the production of domestic shipyards was becoming saturated, because in addition to building merchant ships, they were now working hard to repair and build military ships.

In addition to the warships damaged in the war, there are also some sunken ships that have been salvaged, and the Royal Navy will not pass up any chance to repair them as long as the ship proves to be worth repairing.

For example, the Hood, which sank off the coast of Dunkirk, was successfully salvaged and righted thanks to the efforts of British, German and French naval engineers, and it was planned that the Royal Navy would secretly tow her back to her home port of Clydebank the next month, and return to the slipway of the John Brown Company that built her.

The damage to this patrol was not as serious as everyone imagined, and the Royal Navy guessed that the reason why she capsized in such a short period of time should be caused by the chaos of the damage control system, in addition to a few cracks in the bottom of the ship caused by concrete sabotage bombs, naval investigators also found that more than half of the water filling valves of the dozen ballast tanks and bottom ammunition depots on her right were opened.

At that time, the firepower of the German heavy artillery was beyond imagination, and the battleships of the same company were shot and sunk one after another.

However, the number of survivors of the Hood was small, all the senior officers, including the captain, were killed at that time, and the divers of the German Navy also searched for the bodies of Captain Kohl and several senior officers in the armored control tower of the Hood, and most of the surviving sailors were sailors on duty on the upper deck, and the highest rank was only a captain, and no one could say what happened at that time.

The restoration and renovation of this battle patrol is a huge undertaking and a severe test of the shipbuilding skills of the British Royal Navy, but the Royal Navy seems to be confident that the Hood has become a totem of their faith, and they will not hesitate to pay any price to get the ship back into the naval sequence.

Information on the repair of warships has been classified as top secret, and only the governments and navy leaders of Britain, France, and Germany know about it. The British Navy's secrecy had been done like a colander, and there were even Japanese spies who had brought their own dry rations, but now they were cleaned up with the "help" of the Germans, and Xu Jun hoped that they would be able to keep these secrets for at least a year.

In addition to general-purpose cargo ships and oil tankers, the British order also includes a number of special ships, among which the most interesting for the Americans is a high-speed sea supply ship.

This ship adopts a lot of "advanced technology" that has been recognized by the United States as "beyond this era", so that this supply ship can replenish the target ship at sea while sailing, which will greatly improve the flexibility of the supply work, and also ensure the vitality of the battlefield on both sides.

At that time, most of the ships of the sea material supply, can only be carried out in calm sea conditions, after the two sides stop the ship, and this is often the most vulnerable stage of the warship, because it takes a certain amount of time for the ship's power to re-pressurize, if it is attacked at this time, the ship can only be honestly used as a target, and it is impossible to implement the evasion maneuver, especially at this time when encountering a sneak attack by a submarine or aircraft, it is almost equivalent to being sentenced to death.

How could the British not be clear about what the Americans thought, "Want technology?" Let's work together. ”。

The United States will build eight high-speed supply ships of this type, named the Derian class, for the British Navy, and will also allow the United States to build two of its own supply ships in the form of a license. In the usual American style, the technology on this is tantamount to giving it away.

The British would not tell the U.S. Navy that the ship was actually based on a high-speed transport ship developed by the French Navy, added some "advanced designs" of the German Navy, and then integrated and optimized by the shipbuilding experts of the British Royal Navy.

This is a test product of European naval technical cooperation, and it is also the crystallization of the wisdom of the technical personnel of the navies of the three countries, who chose to build this ship in the United States, in addition to the fact that the countries really cannot vacate the slipway, but also because the ship is designed with all the metric system, if the Americans want to build, they must go through a lot of conversion, and after this "cooperation", when building other European-designed ships in the future, I believe that they should be more proficient.

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