"Hey! Can you hurry up with that? Didn't you give you all the drawings for the mechanical firing distance calculator? Why hasn't I eaten it for so long. Gao Hongsheng asked with some dissatisfaction.

Ferdinand smiled bitterly and said: "You can't enter all kinds of numbers without understanding the principle, so far the collection of our ship's gun number jù has not been completed, and the officers are still a little resistant to the central fire control system, they think that the establishment of the central fire control room is useless at all, a ship is not only the main gun, but also a large number of secondary guns, the central fire control room simply cannot complete such a huge amount of calculations." ”

"Made", Gao Hongsheng scolded in a low voice, the central fire control system of the battleship is still a little too advanced for the navy of this era, and it doesn't matter if the central fire control system is there or not in the era of dreadnoughts, this is actually a small mistake by Gao Hongsheng.

Only in the era of dreadnoughts, when unified large-caliber heavy artillery became a killer feature of a battleship, did the central fire control system come into play.

At present, those little monsters with multiple turrets, there is actually no big difference whether they have a central fire control system or not, the main gun is only two and four barrels, and it is really a bit of a chicken rib to make such a complex central fire control system that can serve such four guns in the end.

After thinking for a while, Gao Hongsheng said to Ferdinand: "Have you eaten the drawing method thoroughly now?" ”

"That's fine, it's all in the hands of you now." Ferdinand replied in the affirmative.

The drawing method is to mark a series of target distances and azimuth points on the drawing, and then connect these points into a line to roughly judge the course and speed of the target, this method can determine the movement law of the target, and then decide the time of their own cannon according to this law, and effectively predict the flight time and flight distance of their projectile, this method is relatively simple.

"How's the optical rangefinder project going?"

"No problem, according to the information you provided, I have dug up more than a dozen engineers from the Carl Zeiss Foundation to establish our own optical glass instrument factory, which can now provide a one-meter baseline rangefinder for the army, a three-meter baseline rangefinder for the army and the navy, and a ten-meter baseline rangefinder for the navy."

"Gyro Compass!"

"No problem, our micromechanical engineers have already started to mass-produce gyroscopes according to the drawings you gave, and of course the gyrocompass has already come out, and it has now been installed on our warships and started to be used. But the cost of that thing was so high that a gyroscope cost more than a hundred pounds, which made the cost of our torpedoes rise significantly. ”

"Let's not talk about torpedoes, I'll ask you later, how is the phone?"

"The new magnet telephone has long been produced, and the magnet-type artificial telephone exchange has also been produced, layered into three grades, respectively 30 doors, 50 doors and 100 doors, and the supporting seat relay station has also been successfully developed, and I am currently building a 1,000-door telephone bureau in Vienna, which will have 20 percent of your shares."

"Yes, thank you, don't you say that I forgot the phone, you have to hurry up and don't let Siemens rob you, the telephone communication of the Austro-Hungarian Empire is waiting for you to occupy, do you need me to continue to invest?"

"No, no. Enough money, telephone communication is too profitable. A telephone costs thirty pounds to install, two pounds a month to use, and the current installation of 1,000 telephones in this telephone office has been sold ahead of schedule, and now we are pulling telephone lines to various customers' homes, and we are going to make a fortune, and it is estimated that one or two thousand more will not be enough, and I am still considering whether to establish a long-distance telephone line between Vienna and Budapest. ”

"Yes, long-distance telephone has incomparable advantages over telegraph, don't just be limited to Vienna and Budapest, you can connect all the cities of the entire empire with telephone lines, so that you can make a lot of money, this is a monopoly money-making opportunity, ha, Ferdinand we can make a fortune."

"Okay, let's work towards that goal." Ferdinand said that there was some spirit here, but it was all bad news.

"What happened to the military magnet phones and small portable magnet switches? It's time for that to come out. You must know that the telephone is a sharp weapon on the battlefield, and the deaf and clear-sighted army is not a little stronger than the army of the blind and deaf, and it is also needed on the battleship, and the ten, thirty, and fifty must be made, and the ten ones are for battalion-level units, and the more than thirty guns are installed on battleships and used by units above the battalion level. By the way, how about the construction of the supporting wire and cable factory, I don't want to have a phone but no wires to use. ”

"The supporting wire and cable factory was completed last month, and mass production has begun, where three shifts of production can not meet the demand, I really didn't expect that after the price of your light bulb came down, the installation of electric lights can have such a high boost, I want to turn the whole of Vienna into a real city that never sleeps."

The more he talked, the more excited Ferdinand became, blushing and waving his arms thickly, sweeping away the embarrassing and decadent form just now, just like a hot-blooded young man who had been beaten with chicken blood giving a speech, full of fighting spirit.

"Okay, you have to seize the time to lay out the layout before Siemens reacts, so that they can be complacent in the construction of the power plant, and we can just grab the end customer now." Ay! The manufacturing capacity of power equipment is still our short board, and it must be strengthened here! ”

"Don't worry, an electric power research institute has been established, and soon we will catch up and can manufacture our own high-power generators and power transmission and transformation equipment, as you said, alternating current is king, our current research direction is alternating current, they hang themselves on direct current."

"No, direct current is also useful, how is the research on the tram, the subway that Siemens has built in Budapest is still good, the subway construction is too troublesome, but the tram is still very simple, it is a good project to make money."

"Yes! Budapest's subway carries more than four million passengers a year, and Siemens makes the damn money. ”

"Don't worry, the tram project is still good, they only build more mileage, Ferdinand, the public transport system plays a decisive role in the prosperity of a city, you have to hurry up and strive to lay a twenty-kilometer long real line in Vienna within the year, so that everyone can see the benefits of this thing, we can make a lot of money by building the guò line and providing vehicles."

After the two profiteers laughed heartily for a while, Gao Hongsheng looked at the drawings on the table and said with a wry smile: "Okay, let's go back to this damn drawing." ”

"Poper, I need you to redesign a battleship, with a twin-mounted turret with the main guns, a vertical bow, three turrets with four main guns in the front and one in the back, and a piggyback layout in the front, well! I'll show you how to lay out the knapsack turret, do away with the secondary guns, and install only rapid-fire small-caliber guns to protect against torpedo boats. Forget it, I'll give you a piece of information, you can refer to it, but there is a request, you can start the design work on this battleship now, but it must be kept secret and it cannot be built for five years, I don't want such an advanced thing to be exposed to other people's eyes, it will be a disaster for us. I'll give you another copy of the battleship's information in a moment, and I want you to immediately carry out design work based on that information, torpedo boats of more than 3,000 tons, do you dare to be interested? ”