Gao Hongsheng was also helpless to engage in these three new warships, but the British Imperial Navy before World War I was not something that his small arms and legs could shake at all, and even if he was tied to Austria-Hungary, he could not challenge the authoritative position of others.

Before and during the First World War, the most powerful country on the planet was Britain at the level of ship construction, so how powerful Britain was in that period, look at the strength of the capital ships of the British Navy during World War I.

40 former Dreadnoughts, 10 Dreadnoughts, 6 battlecruisers, 25+6 super dreadnoughts, and the total cost of the British capital battleships from the Dreadnought to the Hood was about 111 million pounds (according to the 1916 currency), which is about 8.359 billion pounds if inflation is taken into account today.

These ships are not conjured, but those state-owned and private shipyards in the United Kingdom, none of them are fake hands of other countries, they are really domestic, this is only the battleship level, let's not talk about the rest.

Britain was a country built on the sea before the end of the First World War, and there was no element of hypocrisy here, and the whole world trembled under the guns of the British warships at that time.

This is also a very cruel reality that Gao Hongsheng clearly understands, and it is also his most aggrieved place, which is really untouchable!

As for his calves, the Austro-Hungarian navy was very weak in this period, and it could not compare with the British Empire or even the emerging United States.

During this period, the standard displacement of the American "Iowa" pre-dreadnought-class battleships was more than 11,000 tons, the caliber of the cannon was 305 mm, and the auxiliary guns were frantically engaged in the twin turrets to restructure four 203 mm, while the slightly earlier Indiana-class dreadnought-class battleships were the pioneering work of American battleships and were designated as small shore defense battleships.

The main guns were 330 mm in diameter and 35 times in diameter, but black powder was used as the propellant, and each ship had four guns mounted in twin turrets in the bow and stern.

Then the Americans, who had a glorious tradition of winning by firepower, also placed eight 203 mm 35 times diameter secondary guns (two on the left and right), four 152 mm guns, 12 76 mm rapid-fire guns, 20 6-pounder guns, and 6 one-pounder guns on the sides of this class of battleships in the form of twin turrets, which was simply an all-round fire monster.

Of course, it didn't forget to install torpedo launchers like other dreadnought-class battleships, and it was equipped with six guns and fired 356mm bald torpedoes. It feels like as long as there is a place to put in the firepower strike force, I will put it on, which is really a bit too much.

At the same time, this Indiana-class battleship, which was also a notoriously thick turtle, used the most advanced Harvey steel armor of the time. The protection is quite in place, but the result of more armor is that the ship's coal storage capacity will be reduced, the Indiana class is designed according to the coal storage of 400 tons, in order to increase the range and sea activity time, often carry out barbaric overloads, and it is not the general overload, often 1600 tons, the limit is even 2000 tons (this is the overloaded cattle boat, look at the five times as many people!). But there are no traffic police at sea, and no one issues a ticket).

As a result, when overloaded, the main armor belt will be submerged in the water and will not play any role, and at the same time, as an offshore defense ship, the freeboard design is very low, and the sea conditions will be slightly worse and the foredeck will go up the waves, which will affect the speed of the ship and the main turret combat.

As for the previous bombed Maine, don't mention it, the comparison between that thing and the previous one is to eliminate the goods that should be thrown, with a displacement of 6789 tons, two guns of 254 mm, six of 152 mm, 12 6-pounder guns, 8 1-pounder guns, four torpedoes, and a speed of 5 knots.

In the Spanish-American War, one of the reasons why the United States went to war with the Spaniards was because of the bombing of the Maine, when the Americans cried and shouted that the Spaniards did it, but later historical data showed that it was actually an accident, and no one could explain the specific cause of the accident. There are many such things done by the United States in later life, the most recent is the invasion of Iraq, as for the authenticity, you can only use hehe, people have a glorious tradition.

The Austro-Hungarian Empire was too weak in the navy, and Gao Hongsheng had no choice but to take the sword to the front to engage in large torpedo boats, relying on the fact that the main guns of the battleships at that time were not very accurate, and using advanced torpedo technology to add obstacles to others and find small troubles, and challenging the maritime authority of the British Empire before World War I, it was simply an impossible task.

Throwing the information of the new warship to Poper, who was still a little stupid, Gao Hongsheng and Ferdinand ignored Poper, who was holding the data and was a little demented, and the two of them continued to talk about other things.

"Is there any good news for me? It's been more than half a year, and we can't just stay where we are. ”

Ferdinand said with some smugness: "How is that possible! Haha, let's talk about the forging machine you care about the most. Two 3,000-ton hydraulic forging presses have already been produced, both of which are currently used to produce the propeller shafts and other parts of your tractor, as well as the barrels used to forge the new 105mm heavy howitzer, and it is estimated that we will have to build three or four more units to meet the demand.

The design of the 6,000-ton large hydraulic press forging machine has been completed, and now the manufacturing of parts has begun, and we can produce a larger caliber naval gun in half a year, and the design of the 10,000-ton hydraulic press you said has also begun, and the infrastructure work has begun, but that thing is simply too big, it is estimated that the parts manufacturing and assembly work can be carried out next year, and we can use the big guy in the year after tomorrow, so that the caliber of our battleship artillery can be made larger, and the diameter is higher. ”

"Well, that's good news. The application surface of free forging is still very wide, but don't forget that there is still die forging to grope out, die forging to do your best, so that our guns and tractor parts will be much cheaper, the most cost-saving way for mass production is die forging, especially in terms of mechanical parts, die forging has an incomparable cost advantage. Hold on. ”

Gao Hongsheng coaxed the leader to guide the country, and then saw Ferdinand nodding like a chicken pecking rice, and said with a smile: "How is the tractor project, I want to take some of it away." ”

"The tractor and your spherical single-cylinder internal combustion engine are in the final adjustment before mass production, and they will be ready for mass production soon, but you may have to wait for that tractor, because I have already sold more than 300 units in advance, and more than 700 units of the spherical single-cylinder internal combustion engine have been sold."

Ferdinand said with a smile on his face, the burnt ball type single-cylinder internal combustion engine and the two tractors developed with this internal combustion engine were very popular as soon as they were produced, and they were greeted by the nobles who heard the wind without publicity, and began to book, after all, this thing is much more convenient than the steam engine, you only need to fill the fuel tank with those fuel that can be burned, you don't need to take care of it, it can work non-stop until the fuel in the tank is exhausted, Although the movement of that thing can be described as earth-shattering, it is still not a reason for people to give up on it, but its convenience and applicability are simply wonderful.

"Hey, Ferdinand, you can't do this, I'm going to take at least twenty of all kinds with me when I leave, and you can slowly replenish the rest of the quantity later, I'm going to use these samples for training, the workers who drive the tractor need to be trained, and the same needs to be repaired, if you don't give it to me first, when you can produce it in large quantities, I'll probably have to reduce the number of orders because I don't have enough maintenance and drivers." Ha, Ferdinand, you should look at it, you must know that the Great Qing Kingdom is tens of thousands of nautical miles away from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and it takes nearly two months to run once.

With a bitter face, Ferdinand said helplessly: "Okay, okay, I'll supply it to you first, but I'm going to expand the scale of the tractor factory, now the scale of our tractor factory is too small, and we can only produce up to eight tractors and ten internal combustion engines a day, which is too low." ”

"Okay, it's better to expand it two or three times, you can do it, make a profit first. Three or four years later, we began to enter the gasoline internal combustion engine and diesel internal combustion engine, that is our focus, the single-cylinder burning ball internal combustion engine is our training of workers and the accumulation of management experience of the experiment, this is also no way, at least you have to wait until the new refinery is completed, and the new refinery can provide you with qualified high-grade gasoline and diesel before we can engage in gasoline internal combustion engine and diesel internal combustion engine, and how about the construction of oil fields in Romania, we need a lot of crude oil, And then you have to build two or three large oil storage bases, only the oil there is ours, and you have to set up small gas stations in various cities, and with the development of our internal combustion engine sales, you can't let your customers travel hundreds of miles to refuel. This is a brand-new industry, you and I can't do it either in terms of capital or connections, it's best to pull more people to do it together, make the cake bigger, and everyone's share can be bigger. ”