With the temporary armistice between China and China, the export industry of the seven provinces in East China developed more rapidly, and at this stage, British factories had been transferred to the production of munitions, and the international market was gradually blank.

China's steel production was rising at this time, and with the arrival of German technicians, those steel mills that could not start production began one after another.

Steel production has increased from 8 million tonnes to 10 million tonnes, which is a very fast growth rate, but it still cannot meet the demand of the market.

Not only the international market has skyrocketed, but the domestic market has also begun to skyrocket.

After all, China has now absorbed a lot of foreign capital, and the people have so much money in their hands, so it is just in time to build a large number of buildings, and after the autumn harvest this year, the grain output is relatively large, and many peasants are not having a good time in the rural areas, and they have moved to the cities with their families and mouths.

Moreover, the people of other provinces saw that the seven autonomous provinces of East China were so happy, and they also began to move to the seven autonomous provinces of East China, and the construction of the project was also for the sake of providing jobs.

Steel is used in many places, and the internal prelude has skyrocketed, and it is too late to meet external demand, but in the international stainless steel market, it is monopolized by East China Iron and Steel Company, and it is very profitable.

The coal mining industry developed rapidly, and Shanxi's coal began to be exported in large quantities. However, the East China Mining Company has begun to mine coal in India, Australia and South America, and Shanxi's coal exports, although the number of tons of coal exports are increasing, will decrease to the extent that they will not be exported in the future.

Coal is a non-renewable resource, and when technology develops to a certain extent, coal is generally rarely used, but it is mainly a problem of destroying groundwater.

China's textile industry has entered a period of development of the big bang, the rapid expansion of textile scale, as well as sufficient, cheap cotton supply, and the expansion of the scale of deep processing, Britain, France and Germany blank out of the textile market at this time are all occupied by China's textiles.

Russia fell into the war, and there were problems in the production and transportation of the Baku Kerosene Plant Owners' Alliance, and the market of the Baku Kerosene Plant Owners Alliance was seized by the East China Petroleum Company.

The U.S. Mobil Oil Company had been broken up by President Wilson, but it was still in the hands of the Rockefeller consortium. It's just that Mobil Oil Company has been hit by East China Petroleum Company in the international arena and has lost a lot of market share. However, the profits of the two sides are still not high, and the competition is too fierce.

While selling kerosene, East China Petroleum Company focused on the development of petroleum by-products, and made a lot of profits in petroleum by-products, and Mobil Oil Company simply could not compete with East China Petroleum Company in terms of by-products, because the technological gap was too obvious.

In terms of drugs, it has entered a period of absolute profiteering, but the market was soon occupied by East China Pharmaceutical Company, and the price began to slowly decrease, but East China Pharmaceutical Company is still hanging on to the market, and the market will still have some out-of-stock phenomena, so that the price will rise.

However, this trick will not last long, and the pharmaceutical industry in the United States has also begun to develop, but it is not as large as the production capacity of East China Pharmaceutical Company.

Because of the preparation in advance, East China Pharmaceutical Company has occupied 50% of the global pharmaceutical market at this time, and has occupied all the blank markets in Britain, France and Germany.

In terms of the chemical industry, China's chemical products have completely captured the British market, especially the soda industry in Western countries, which had been largely fragmented before the outbreak of the First World War.

In addition to these industries, machinery manufacturing, as well as heavy industries such as automobile manufacturing, electrical appliance manufacturing, and optical product manufacturing, have sprung up in China, and China's industry has begun to transform from light industry to heavy industry.

Xia Jun sent a total of 120 transport submarines to Germany in more than two months, bringing back a large number of skilled workers from Germany.

At the same time, a large number of semi-finished materials and war materials were also transported to Germany. The value of precious metals shipped back from Germany alone amounted to 300 million pounds, which of course was not all the profits, but the amount was still rising.

The amount of war materials shipped to the Entente countries reached nearly 400 million pounds, but the raw materials were very small, and they were basically sold to Britain, France, Russia and other Allied countries.

China's industry is working overtime at this time, and the industrial cities are roaring, constantly producing all kinds of products and transporting them from the ports.

Shiploads of raw materials are shipped domestically, along with large quantities of precious metals.

The British and French ships were miserable, their flag-flying ships were regularly attacked by German submarines, and in December, both countries lost two million tons of merchant ships.

Despite the fact that the British began to experiment with various anti-submarine means, even submarine hunting ships, with little success. Only this submarine hunter is still a little successful, but the German submarine is gradually not taking the bait.

Similarly, despite the desperate efforts of the British to build ships, the speed of construction was far less than the speed at which they were sunk by submarines, and the creation was easy and fast without destruction.

For this reason, Britain can only throw orders to other countries, among which the orders taken by East China Zhengaxe are the fastest to be completed. In particular, after Xia Jun used submarines to bring in a large number of shipbuilders from Germany, the dockyard bought more than a dozen from the exchange platform, and the shipbuilding speed was completely incomparable with that of the United States.

A lot of times it's not about having as many orders as you want, it's about whether you can make fast enough, and the faster you build, the more orders you will receive.

China has become a crazy chariot at this time, and it is sprinting forward like crazy. Although it is inferior to the United States in many areas, its organizational efficiency is much higher than that of the United States, and there are also many areas of strength that the United States cannot compare.

…… At this time, the Navy's two 30,000-ton first-generation aircraft carriers had already been renovated and the torpedo machines were also equipped, and they entered the inspection stage.

The two carriers underwent the final refit, and after the conversion, each carrier could carry sixty Seagull 2, but one carrier could not fully carry torpedo planes, and some fighters were required.

Fighters for use on aircraft carriers are still under development, and fighters do not have a hard surname requirement for bomb load, so the fighters used on aircraft carriers are relatively simple, and the development is not so difficult. Moreover, at present, other countries do not have aircraft carriers, although Britain and these countries have begun to equip ships with aircraft, but they are not used for bombing, and at present, the main enemy of East China's political axe, their navy does not have aircraft carriers, so the situation of equipping fighters is not urgent.

The aircraft carrier is a new combat unit, and not only the East China Navy has no experience, but other countries also have no experience, so everything has to be explored by itself.

However, because the original aircraft carrier was relatively simple, it was not complicated to manage, unlike the aircraft carriers of later generations, which often had thousands of people on a single aircraft carrier.

After the aircraft carrier of the East China Navy was launched, it was transferred to the Taizhou Military Port in Zhejiang Province for training, and to the east of the military port was the Ryukyu Islands.

It has been occupied by Samoto and renamed Okinawa.

These two aircraft carriers are not used for coastal operations, there is an air force in the coastal waters, and the bombing intensity is much more powerful than that of aircraft carriers, and aircraft carriers are a kind of ocean-going combat arms.

The first generation of aircraft carriers was named the 'Shihuang class', and the two aircraft carriers were named 'Shihuang' and 'Gaozu' respectively.

The second-generation aircraft carrier is named the 'Pangu class', and the navy expects to build two Pangu-class aircraft carriers within five years, named 'Pangu' and 'Nuwa' respectively.

The super-dreadnought battleships built by the East China Navy were named the 'East China class', and the seven ships were clearly named after the provincial names of the seven autonomous provinces of East China.

There are also twenty more formidable Reaper-class submarines ready to be built, which are ocean-going combat submarines.

Although the construction plan of the East China Navy has been launched, the design drawings have not yet been made, and German engineers are demonstrating the ship type.

Although the power technology mastered by the East China Autonomous Political Axe is relatively powerful, as far as the design of warships is concerned, the East China Navy requires a maximum speed of 25 knots, and it is best to achieve this speed with the minimum power.

German engineers still preferred armor protection, after all, the warship sank without a few shots at sea, what is the use of this?

As far as the artillery aspect is concerned, it has been decided that it will adopt a triple layout, with four batteries and twelve 380mm caliber main guns.

Twelve 135mm secondary guns will also be installed.

In terms of secondary guns, the caliber of the East China-class battleships seems to be smaller than that of the Fuso-class battleships, but the secondary guns are only used to hit small ships close to the battleships, such as torpedo boats with the surname of suicide, and also include submarines, and the 135mm secondary guns are enough.

In addition, eight quadruple 60mm anti-aircraft guns and twenty five-mounted 30mm anti-aircraft guns were installed, and the East China-class battleships had strong anti-aircraft firepower.

In terms of firepower, this is basically the case, and the armor is generally 300mm thick special armor, but not the entire ship uses such a thick, but the main protective parts are made of 300mm thick armor, and the three layers of the deck are made of 45mm thick armor, which can resist heavy bombs dropped at an altitude of 3500 meters.

As for the bow, German engineers and designers of the East China Navy made more than 50 models in a row for demonstration, and finally the results were obtained at the end of December.

The design team chose a model that is very similar to the bow of later warships, which can reduce wave resistance by 9% and maximize the power efficiency.

This bow is the first of its kind in the world! It is already very close to the bow of the warship of the twenty-first century.

In the end, a 35,000-horsepower power plant was used, which was basically the same as that of the Fuso, and according to calculations, the speed of the East China-class battleship could exceed 25 knots, which was at least 2.5 knots faster than the Fuso-class battleship, and this was a 35,000-ton guy.

Because the tonnage is larger than that of the Fusang class, the tonnage used in power is much less than that of the Fuso class, because it is the same 35,000 horsepower, and the gas turbine used by the East China Navy is much smaller.

In terms of artillery, there are 12 main guns, each of which is 20mm larger than the caliber of the Fuso-class, and the diameter is also a little more, 47 times the diameter, so the tonnage used is more than that of the Fuso-class battleships.

In addition, the tonnage is 5000 tons more than that of the Fuso class, so the armor is even more powerful.

Whether it is speed, armor, or firepower, the East China-class battleships are more powerful than the Fuso-class battleships.

The East China-class battleships adopted relatively mature key protection in terms of protection, and also protected the ammunition depot and ammunition transportation process, and the ship's side was reinforced and anti-torpedo watertight compartments were added, which was far from being comparable to the Fuso-class battleships.

In terms of firepower, not only did the main gun have 20mm caliber more than the Fuso-class battleships, but also the delayed fuse of the armor-piercing shell adopted German technology, which had huge lethality. The Fusang-class battleships not only had their main guns not as large as the East China-class battleships, but also had a double diameter of only 45, and the armor-piercing shells were made of British technology, which basically exploded when they hit, and there was no way to cause any damage to the interior.

Needless to say, in terms of speed, the speed of the East China-class battleships was at least 25 knots, and the Fuso-class battleships of this book were only 22.5 knots.

The bow problem was solved, the distribution of firepower, speed, and armor was also solved, and the design drawings of the warship soon came out and submitted to Xia Jun's desk.

Xie Baozhang said to Xia Jun: "The navy is quite satisfied with this design, and there should be no problem. ”

Xia Jun took the design drawings and looked at them in detail, he didn't learn this, so he didn't understand it very well, he only looked at the estimated data below.

However, he still saw the difference on the drawings, the design of the East China-class battleship used a large chassis in the German style, and the speed was sacrificed, but the ship was more stable and not easy to sink.

Seeing that the estimated data met the requirements, Xia Jun nodded and said, "Then it will be built according to this drawing." ”

In terms of the advantages of the East China-class battleships, they will also have an advantage in hit rate in the future, because Xia Jun will also upgrade the fire control technology.

Four billion points are invested, most of which are on this fire control system.

There is a cannon that must be able to hit the middle, so the fire control system is the top priority, and if such a huge number of points are smashed, the fire control system will be raised to the level of the forties.

The improvement of the fire control system can not only be used on battleships, but also can drive the fire control system of the army, and the fire control system is bound to be upgraded.

In the process of building the East China-class battleship, if it is just to build a battleship by throwing four billion points, then Xia Jun will not accompany him, who will mix such a money-burning thing. But it can be used in other things, and it is worth it to lay the foundation for a more advanced fire control system.

Moreover, the manufacture of warships can also drive the shipbuilding industry and lay the technical foundation for the manufacture of larger cargo ships.

These are the basic starting points for the manufacture of East China-class battleships, and after they are manufactured, they will be able to produce a deterrent effect in the international arena.

Of course, Xia Jun has a more sinister purpose, that is, to continue to provoke an arms race, and he has an exchange platform in his hand, which can be fully supported.

At the same time, the unfolding of the arms race, as well as the opposition of camps, will inevitably lead to war.

It's just that Xia Jun hasn't figured out the object of the camp confrontation yet, and is currently looking for it. Perhaps China will become a camp of opposition to Western countries, but whenever there is confrontation, there will definitely be a conflict of interest, and it is impossible for Xia Jun not to compete for interests, which may be an inevitable result.

(To be continued)