After a frightening episode in a café in Port Cork, Mike Donald gradually grasped the true meaning of this sentence. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 After returning to Wales, most of the members of the group became volunteer propagandists and "missionaries" for the new King Joachim I, telling those around them what they had seen and felt in Ireland. Although none of them were clever speakers, nor could they say profound truths, it was this simplest and most simple way that gradually eliminated the resistance of the Welsh people, and by May and June, the tension in Wales was effectively eased, the Irish army began to withdraw from the villages and towns, the local security and administrative authority was returned to the Welsh, many coal mines were resumed, and some metallurgical plants were put back into operation. Throughout July, about 60% of Wales' coal mines and 30% of metallurgical plants can hear the roar of machinery, and by August, this proportion has increased to 73% and 54%, although only a few mines and factories have reached full production, but in just these two months, Wales has produced more than 8 million tons of high-quality coal and 300,000 tons of steel, Talbot, Newport and other major ports have gradually regained their former vitality, cargo ships loaded with minerals and semi-finished steel sailed to Limerick, and then from Ireland to transport delicious meat, Delicious dairy, sweet whiskey and all kinds of beautiful metal accessories, life quietly returned to order, and even became more colorful than before.

In early autumn, Hager Larson, a Swede working for the New York Times, traveled around Ireland and Wales and summed it up this way in his press release:

"The conquest of Wales has given him a pair of strong wings like a dragon in the sea, and although he will never reach the pinnacle of the Kingdom of Britain, he has truly become a formidable and formidable opponent."

The mid-nineteenth century to the first decade of the twentieth century was a period of modern industrial development in Wales. Driven by coal mining and smelting, the coal industry grew into the dominant industry in Wales, providing sufficient energy for manufacturing, transportation and steel in Wales and the rest of the United Kingdom, so when the King of Ireland wore the crown of Wales with the support of the Allied camp, many British politicians exclaimed that "Ireland is about to soar".

Spurred on by the war, in 1933 the shipyards of the major belligerents were at or near full capacity, and the demand for military and civilian ships more than tripled compared to peacetime, and in the first quarter of 1934 Ireland received orders for four cruisers, 23 destroyers, 54 torpedoes and frigates, which would take at least 18 months to digest in accordance with Ireland's capacity to produce military ships. At the same time, Ireland has also received orders for 205 ships totaling more than 900,000 tons, and the annual shipbuilding capacity of the Irish shipbuilding industry has just exceeded 1.6 million tons at this time, and further expansion of production capacity has become a top priority.

Under the leadership of Natsuki, a monarch with two crowns, the Irish improved the scale of the shipbuilding industry by merging or associating a large number of small and medium-sized shipyards, and on the other hand, promoting advanced shipbuilding technologies such as the American-style prefabrication method of components, and improving the operational efficiency of existing shipbuilding facilities. According to the Irish industry sector, through the implementation of these positive measures, Ireland's military and civilian ship construction capacity will be greatly improved, and the expected profits of the shipbuilding industry will also reach a considerable extent.

Modern shipbuilding needs to consume a large amount of industrial raw materials, and high-quality steel is the first to bear the brunt. From 1916 to 1932, Ireland's metallurgical industry from scratch, from weak to strong, scale and quality have made great progress, the annual output of 3.5 million tons of steel is enough to make Ireland into the ranks of modern powers, per capita steel production has even ranked among the best in the world, but the construction of ships, the production of automobiles, the manufacture of munitions, the expansion of ports, the construction of bridges, etc. In peacetime, hundreds of thousands of tons of steel were imported from continental European countries every year, and after the outbreak of the war, the demand for steel surged, and under the overall planning and dispatch of government agencies, Ireland's steel supply adopted a two-legged strategy, that is, on the one hand, actively expanding supply, and on the other hand, implementing production rationing, which certainly ensured the operation of Ireland's wartime industry, but correspondingly increased industrial costs, compressed operating profits, and inevitably paid additional costs - in the six months from May to November 1933, A total of 220,000 tonnes of imported steel ingots were lost in transit, and most of this loss was attributed to Ireland.

The steel industry is of course dependent on the supply of iron ore and coal, which are not abundant in Ireland itself. Between the two wars, Ireland mainly imported these two types of minerals from France and Sweden in the early days, and after the formation of the Triple Economic Alliance, Spain became Ireland's main supplier of minerals. Since the sinking of the Irish cargo ship "Cronmel Marcher" on May 20, 1933, the sea route between the island of Ireland and the Iberian Peninsula of less than 1,000 kilometers has become a death zone for seafarers, and by April 1934, a total of 171 Irish ships, 52 German ships, 34 Spanish ships, and 15 French ships have been sunk, and more than 1,600 crew members have died at sea. The resulting economic loss was equivalent to the average annual GDP of the Kingdom of Ireland around 1919!

It is precisely because of this strong complementarity that the ambitions of the Irish rulers for Wales can be seen in some of the military deployments at the beginning of the British campaign - the landing of Allied troops in Wales was on the Cohen Peninsula and the island of Anglesey, which were dominated by agriculture and agriculture, the bombing of the Allied air forces deliberately avoided the industrially concentrated Welsh towns and all the large coal mines, and after breaking through the British Snowden mountain defense line at the eastern end of the Cohen Peninsula, the Allied troops immediately advanced into the heart of England, As a result, there were no large-scale engagements in central and southern Wales during the war, and Welsh industry and mining facilities were well protected. Although many of the facilities and management models here are still at the level of the beginning of the century, and the operational efficiency is not only not as good as that of the United States and Germany, but also less than that of Ireland, Natsuki is not in a hurry to integrate and upgrade it on a large scale, because it requires a lot of capital investment, and second, gradual actions are easier for the locals to accept than drastic changes.

As foresight had predicted, an adequate supply of steel and energy was a prerequisite for Ireland's re-development, and with the resumption of production of the Welsh coal and metallurgical industries, coupled with the retreat of the American and British navies to the western Atlantic, Allied ships were able to sail unhindered in European waters, and iron ore and pig iron from Spain continued to arrive in Ireland, and Ireland's steel production continued to climb, setting a new record of 470,000 tons of steel in August. Ireland's steel industry surpassed Japan to become the fourth largest in the world, behind the United States, Germany, and Soviet Russia.

The Irish shipbuilding industry was soon able to realize its astonishing potential, and the rate of wartime construction of 10,000-ton standard freighters increased dramatically from four per month at the end of 1933 to seven per month. 5 ships, and 2 of them can be converted into auxiliary aircraft carriers according to the standard process, and the construction period of 20,000-ton ocean-going tankers has been reduced from 8-9 months to 4 and a half months, which means that 6 more ships can be built every year, and about 10 months can completely make up for the losses in the early stage. In terms of military vessels, the construction speed of the two main export warships, the improved light cruiser of the Fiona class and the improved destroyer of the Agni-class destroyer, has been increased by 27 percent and 33 percent respectively on the original basis, and the cost has been reduced by 11 percent and 14 percent respectively. In order to compensate for the losses in the Battle of Bermuda, the German Navy added nine Fiona-class modifications and 30 Agni-class modifications to Ireland in two batches, with a total amount of 560 million marks, as its shipyards could not absorb new orders.

With standard ships and cargo ships as the main selling point, the Irish shipbuilding industry during the war has gained a lot, and the Irish aviation and automobile industry, which has already formed a large-scale, systematic and characteristic effect, is not weak: the Me-50 series is the star product contributed by the Irish aviation industry to this war, and after the full realization of local production, the monthly output of this multi-purpose light fighter has exceeded 200 units, but it still cannot meet the needs of the Allied camp for this excellent fighter, The Limerick Aircraft Factory, which is responsible for the production of land-based models, and the Irish Aviation Factory, which produces carrier-based models, are planning to continue to expand their production capacity and are actively working with the Bavarian Aircraft Factory to develop their successors.

On land, the pre-war finalized "heavy cavalry" half-track armored personnel carrier and the wartime launch of the "round shield" tracked self-propelled anti-aircraft gun are the success of the Irish military vehicle manufacturing, the former during the British campaign with combat vehicles to deduce the subtlety of armored tactics, has been highly praised by the participating troops, and the battle is still ongoing, the German Army passed the decision to expand the armored forces, and decided to purchase at least 4,000 "heavy cavalry" from Ireland, the Ottoman Empire, Austria-Hungary, The Kingdom of Spain, the Kingdom of Italy, and even Sweden and Norway in Northern Europe also showed great interest in this volume of armored personnel carriers; The latter first appeared on the battlefield in the Azores, and was soon designated as a standard weapon by the Irish Army, and after witnessing the power of this new equipment, the Germans followed the example of the Irish Army to form their own independent air defense battalion, and on the other hand, asked their own military enterprises to develop products with the same function, and before obtaining qualified substitutes, the German army repeatedly increased the number of purchases according to strategic needs, and by the autumn of 1934, the "round shield" provided by Ireland to the German army reached more than 800, and the enemy fighters shot down by it had already easily exceeded 100.

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