Gao Hongsheng looked at Ferdinand and Poper, who were blushing, with some schadenfreude, and said with dissatisfaction: "The new technologies have been given to you, don't you still understand that once those new technologies are applied, the battleship will change fundamentally?" The battleships being built now, although they are not at all backward at the moment, will soon turn into a pile of scrap metal. Do you really want to make a pile of scrap metal? ”

Glancing at Gao Hongsheng, who was a little displeased, Ferdinand smiled bitterly, changed his bitter gourd face and said, "No, you can't say that." High, the progress of new technology is too slow, the steam turbine has begun to manufacture a small prototype to verify, but the supporting bevel gear for deceleration has not yet studied the production method, and the steam turbine and the propeller shaft can also be directly connected, but if you want to achieve higher efficiency, the speed of the steam turbine will inevitably be higher than the operating speed of the propeller, so the gear reducer must be used between the steam turbine and the propeller, according to the information you provide to us, We thought the best way to reduce the gear was to use a bevel gear to slow it down, but I don't know how the damn British made it, and we could have made it by hand with senior technicians, but the time and cost of manufacturing it was too high.

The triple turret also began to be studied, using the steam engine as power, those mechanical mechanisms are too complex, too huge, the increased weight is simply unbearable, can only use a new type of electric drive, and the electric motor driven by electricity, although it has been developed at present, but there are still problems to be solved in terms of control, or the problem of gear reducer, the planetary reducer you give looks not difficult, but there are still many problems to be solved in actual production, the most important problem is the problem of machining accuracyThe accuracy of the gears we process is too poor, and the shaking is very bad during operation, so the result is that when the machine is running at high speed, the wear of the gears is very strict, and even broken teeth will occur. The research and design of the central fire control system has been completed, but there are still many manufacturing processes to be solved in the sample manufacturing process. ”

Gao Hongsheng looked at the two people with some doubts, and asked curiously: "Cog! In other words, if I help you solve the gears, or directly provide you with the gearbox, you can solve those problems? ”

Ferdinand hesitated for a moment, thought for a moment and said, "Well, they seem to be suing me like this, why don't I call them over now?" ”

"Hmmm! Call them over, it's been so long, and they should have some achievements. Let's see what other problems there are, and I'll help you figure it out. ”

"That's great, there are still a lot of problems, but they are all small problems, but these small problems are big problems when they come together, you can help take a look."

"Hey! Ferdinand, call them all over and see if there are any other problems, I have solved them all for you, you know that I am going back to China, you need to hurry. ”

Ferdinand looked at Gao Hongsheng with a gloomy face, and hurriedly smiled: "Of course, we have not been idle during this time, there is still good news, the new torpedoes and mines have been studied, and samples have been manufactured, and after sea trials, although there are still some differences from the design number, it does not prevent the use of mass production." In addition, the two factory floors for the manufacture of new armor plates have been expanded, and it is now possible to produce their own armor plates that are comparable to Krupp armor, and may even be better than theirs. ”

"Oh! That's really good news. Have both torpedoes and magnetic mines been developed? Sue me for their specific number jù, and what is the approximate ex-factory price of our products, the price is not too high, I want a relatively large amount. Gao Hongsheng said angrily.

This Ferdinand is really black to him, in his eyes, the weapons and ammunition produced by the Skoda Arsenal are not cheap at all, and the profits are nearly 100%, and he is still shouting that he is not making money, Gao Hongsheng quarrels with him a lot for this matter, but compared to the factory price on the surface, it is still a lot cheaper, but the bullets are about 15% cheaper.

"The magnetic mine is made in strict accordance with your design concept, because it uses a new type of explosive charge, it is quite powerful, and now there are two models, one is a 200-kilogram small guy, and the other is a 500-kilogram big guy. In addition, we successfully blew a target ship of more than 2,000 tons into two pieces during the test, and when we were about to conduct the test, we just happened to be in Vienna, so we secretly carried out the test, and the overall effect was quite good. ”

"What is the price, don't be too dark, this weapon can't be sold to the outside world, it can only be kept in your warehouse, so the price shouldn't be too high. If you want me to buy more, don't get it too high. ”

"It's not high, it's really not high, I don't plan to sell this kind of strategic-level weapon, it's about 1,200 pounds for the 200-kilogram class, and 2,000 pounds for the 500-kilogram class."

"So high, how can it be so high?"

"Is this still a high price? How much does it cost to have 200 kilograms of new explosives, and we can't produce the stator and timer ourselves at present, so we need to import them from Switzerland, but these two items cost more than 100 pounds, and we have calculated the cost, which is about 700 pounds and 1,100 pounds, and we have no profit at all by selling only 1,200 pounds and 2,000 pounds. Ferdinand said with a straight slash of beard.

Is this price high? A magnetic mine earns at least five hundred pounds and shouts that it earns less, which is also too dark. But it is very cheap compared to a ship, whether it is a merchant ship or a warship, it is not calculated according to how many tens of thousands of pounds, but a mine of one or two thousand pounds can send them to the bottom of the sea, which is the deterrent power of mines. "One thousand and eighteen hundred pounds, five hundred each, and the manufacture of five camouflaged minelayers or the immediate conversion of two camouflaged minelayers with the existing all-steel steam merchant ships, and the manufacture of three specialized minelayers."

As soon as Ferdinand heard Gao Hongsheng finish speaking, he immediately jumped up with a smile on his face and said: "Deal, I will ask the shipyard to transform two 3,000-ton merchant ships for you tomorrow, there are two merchant ships of more than 3,000 tons that are about to be outfitted, you can buy them for refitting, and the price is not expensive." ”

Can he not be happy? What modification, can such a big financier buy an old ship to refit? How can I find a way to let him build five new merchant ships, he turned his head and winked at Poper, who was looking at him with a shocked face, and said with a look: "The design of the modification and the three minelayers will be handed over to Poper." Then he turned his head to look at Gao Hongsheng, who wanted to regret it, and asked, "By the way, how much tonnage do you want for a minelayer?" ”

"It doesn't matter, it's better to disguise it as a fast merchant ship, it doesn't matter in terms of speed, it doesn't matter about tonnage, a few hundred tons, thousands of tons are enough."

The modern era of professional minelayers has largely disappeared, and most of the minelaying work has been done by destroyers. The main thing is that the work of laying mines is very simple, and the speed requirements of the ship are not high, and even ordinary merchant ships are modified to install a slide rail at the stern, and then the mines are hoisted to the slide rail, and then set up, and directly along the slide rail into the sea.

What is a sharp weapon to steal and harm people, before the First World War, the use of magnetic mines is the biggest weapon of the Yin people, this thing is loaded on the merchant ships with non-belligerent countries, and there are still dozens of sneaking in and out of the channel to the port of the hostile country, a port is basically abolished, and a country has only how many large ports, if the large ports of a country are sealed to it, basically the country's shipping strength will drop by at least seventy or eighty percent, then the country can actually be regarded as trapped to death.

The only mine blockade war in the history of warfare was a large-scale mine blockade war implemented by the United States in order to paralyze Japan's economy and destroy its war potential in order to force it to surrender unconditionally, which is known as the "Hunger Campaign" in the later part of World War II.

The campaign lasted four and a half months from March 27 to August 15, 1945, and a total of 12,053 mines were laid, successfully cutting off almost all the communication routes between the Japanese archipelago and to foreign countries, and paralyzing the entire country.

In order to ensure the smooth passage of waterways and ports, Japan organized 349 minesweepers and more than 20,000 people to carry out large-scale minesweeping, but although the Japanese minesweepers lost three-quarters of the money, the cost was huge, and 35.71 million yen was spent in the Seto Inland Sea, but it was still unable to break through the blockade of the US army, the Japanese ships did not dare to go to sea, a large number of materials could not be transported back to the country, and Japan gradually fell into a state of paralysis and starvation, which was also the main reason for the great famine immediately after Japan's surrender. Because the Americans also have to clean up the mines they have laid little by little, and it is easy to arrange them, but it is difficult to clean them.

Don't underestimate the weapons of this poor country, in the Gulf War, the ships of the Iraqi Navy basically made no achievements, but the more than 1,200 mines laid by others damaged 9 ships of the multinational force, of which only four warships of the United States were destroyed.

Poper looked at Gao Hongsheng, glanced at Ferdinand, who was looking at him vigorously, and sighed resentfully: "This is too simple, leave it to others, the construction and modification of five merchant ships is too simple, tomorrow I will have someone to help you start the design, so that outsiders will not see that it is a minelayer." Now can you help me see the blueprint of my battleship? ”