The next day, a detailed business route and your information arrived in Zhang Lin's hands, Zhang Lin looked at the business line, there are two routes, each route passes through more than a dozen countries, mainly some economically prosperous countries, one goes to the Blue Moon Empire, one goes to the Reims Empire, the two business routes are larger routes, and there are detailed marks on the human specialties and humanities of each country. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Three days later, Smith sent Zhang Lin three large fishing boats and two armed merchant ships, which were equipped with large cold storage for transporting meat products according to Zhang Lin's requirements!

On the day of the arrival of the fishing boat, Zhang Lin organized the fishermen to go to sea and began to catch bluefin tuna, no one has ever fished here in the waters around the storm strait, a few hours later, the three fishing boats returned with a full load, all of them are hundreds of kilograms of big fish, due to the hot weather, the fishing boat has just returned, Zhang Lin put all the bluefin tuna into the cold storage of the merchant ship, according to Zhang Linde's idea, these fish are caught by fishermen, but the fishing boat is purchased by Zhang Lin, so Zhang Lin wants to extract 30% of the profit, In addition, the merchant ship belonged to Zhang Lin, and Zhang Lin agreed with the fishermen that the profits would be divided fifty-fifty!

On the merchant ship, Zhang Lin deliberately dispatched more than 200 sailors, plus the Hope and another destroyer to escort him, it should not be a problem to leave the pirate alliance, after all, it is only two merchant ships, and the pirates will not rob the merchant ships escorted by warships without a long eye!

Handed over the map and business route to the captains of the two merchant ships, Zhang Lin wished them a smooth journey, this time Zhang Lin chose the business route to the Reims Empire, and at the same time, Zhang Lin also wanted to know the news of Tang Xue!

The next day, it was clear that the sky had just dawned and the sun had not yet risen, Zhang Lin said goodbye to Avril, and at the same time led a lot of intelligence officers trained by the intelligence department, and in the days to come, he also needed the information provided by these intelligence officers.

Smith was looking at the design drawings of Tirpitz handed over to him by Zhang Lin at this time, although he had experience in the construction of the Liberty, but this big guy with a full load displacement of more than 50,000 tons still needs to be careful, after all, this battleship and Montana are very different in design style!

"Boss, this battleship has a strange design?" Several engineers said to Smith after reading the design drawings!

"Why?" Smith knew that there was nothing wrong with the blueprints that Zhang Lin handed over to him, but the engineer said that there was something strange about the battleship, which made Smith very interested!

"You see, this Scharnhorst-class battlecruiser is the same as the Tirpitz-class battlecruiser in terms of ship structure and design style, haven't you noticed? The caliber of the main guns of these two battleships is somewhat conservative, and the scale of protection is a little too large, the scale of protection of Tirpitz accounts for more than forty percent of the displacement of the battleship, which is larger than the scale of protection of any battleship, but the main armor belt is only 350 mm, and the caliber of the main gun is only 380 mm, which is on the small side of the battleships of the same period! Several engineers said!

Smith knew that these Zhang Lin said very clearly in the design drawings, and also gave a modification plan, the Scharnhorst-class battlecruiser Zhang Lin gave the opinion is to increase the height of the side side, and noted that when the battleship built according to the original design drawings sails at high speed, the seawater will easily splash on the deck, the reason is that the height of the side is too low, and the caliber of Tirpitz's main gun is too small!

"How do you think it should be modified?" Smith asked.

"The Scharnhorst-class battlecruiser thinks that the caliber of the main gun will be strengthened to three hundred and fifty millimeters, and the power of the main engine will be strengthened, although the displacement has increased slightly, but this will meet the operational standards of the battlecruiser, and this battleship gives us the feeling that the protection is too strong, and it is only equipped with two hundred and eighty millimeter main guns and the design ideas of the battlecruisers built by various countries are not the same, and it pays too much attention to survivability!" After several engineers finished speaking, they picked up the blueprint of Tirpitz and said: "Our opinion is that this battleship has reduced one main turret and changed it to a triple 406 mm main gun with two front and one back, which can slightly reduce the weight of the main armor, plus the reduction of one main turret, the overall displacement remains the same, and the firepower is greatly enhanced!" ”

Smith agreed with the engineers, as did Zhang Lin's advice on modifications, and Smith asked, "What class do you think we should be assigned to this battleship!" ”

"This is a bit difficult to answer, we don't have comparable warships, and besides, all countries in the world simply don't have a unified standard for dividing warships, and it's difficult to rank!" Several engineers were a little embarrassed!

Smith also knew that this was also where Zhang Lin felt difficult: "We will build Tirpitz first, notify the shipyard, and prepare to lay the first keel tomorrow, and the other factories will start to produce according to the division of labor, and assemble them as modularly as possible, with the help of Montana's construction and operation, remember, the first battleship will be handed over to Mr. Zhang Lin according to the agreement, and if there is any problem, we will find out on this battleship as much as possible, and the battleships we produce will avoid this kind of problem in the future!" "Smith is very clear about the problems explained by Zhang Lin, a series of problems that occurred in the battle of the Liberty have been fed back, and now the Liberty is on its way back, and when the Liberty returns to the dock, Smith will continue to complete the final construction of the Liberty!

"Boss, why does Mr. Zhang Lin want to strengthen the anti-aircraft firepower of the battleship so much, you know that aircraft carriers are difficult to become capital ships due to various defects, and only countries with deep pockets can raise one or two main battle aircraft carriers!" An engineer asked Smith without answering!

"Mr. Zhang Lin is a visionary person, maybe he has expected that there will be changes in the aircraft carrier, maybe the future war will be the main force of the aircraft carrier, we must be prepared for this!" Smith looked down at the blueprints: "Okay, send the blueprints to the factories as soon as possible, remember, be sure not to leak secrets!" ”

After Zhang Lin led the caravan to sail for a month, doing business in three countries, a boatload of bluefin tuna had been sold out at a high price, of course, the price was terrible, and it was bought at a high price of one million!

Just when Zhang Lin arranged for intelligence officers to enter the countries along the way, the Liberty stopped in the dock again, where she will repair the damage from the last battle, and complete the final perch, a large number of advanced anti-aircraft anti-aircraft guns began to be installed on the Liberty, the anti-aircraft firepower that was not installed before, this time it was not exposed, and the problems exposed by the Liberty in the last battle must also be fully modified, especially in terms of engine, the power output of the boiler under ultra-high pressure is unstable, and Zhang Lin specially asked to replace the barrel of the main gun, When the Liberty sets sail again, she'll look brand new!