Chapter 1223: New Airplanes and the Age of Dreadnoughts

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On February 10, 1905, the Royal Navy dispatched nearly 80 warships, including the home fleet, to completely block the English Channel and the Strait of Gibraltar, which directly led to huge losses to the French shipping company, and after just a few days, the French realized that with the strength of the French navy, they could not afford to confront the British Empire.

On the 17th, the French minister in London, England, Pierce, asked the Prime Minister to Belfort to immediately start negotiations on the Moroccan crisis, but was unexpectedly rejected by the British, and the French government, apparently aware of the crisis, immediately telegraphed Minister Pierce to visit the British cabinet again, and the result obviously once again dampened the arrogance of the French.

On the 18th, Germany, Austria-Hungary, and China sent a note to the British government, hoping for a peaceful solution to the Moroccan crisis, rather than intensifying the contradictions by blocking shipping lanes.

Soon the British first reached a secret agreement with Germany, the enemy of France, and Wilhelm II was apparently keen to see any change in the Anglo-French relations, and the German minister to Britain, Hutter, told the Prime Minister Balfour that Germany supported all British interests in the Nile Valley and in the Strait of Gibraltar, which there was no doubt, after all. Germany's maritime interests are in the Atlantic. And not the Mediterranean.

German trade required the British-controlled Suez Canal. But Germany did not mind that Britain would maintain their rivalry with France in the Mediterranean, which would only be good news for the rising German maritime power, not bad, and not to mention that the Moroccan crisis would only spur the French to further strengthen the confrontation, not compromise.

A little later. Chen Bo, the Chinese minister to the UK, expressed the same intention to the British government, but China obviously does not have much direct interest in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, and the more fierce the competition in Europe, the more it has interests in the domestic industry today - the only problem is that Europe cannot now break out into any war that affects Eurasian trade! Because China is ushering in a new wave of overseas production and sales......

At the beginning of February, the Swiss Fils consortium suddenly announced that it would open the patents of alternating current transmission technology and electron tube technology controlled by the consortium to the world, which means. The expensive royalties that would have been paid for the construction of high-voltage power lines have been reduced by more than 90 percent, and the basic conditions for the industry to be promoted have been achieved. This makes the recovering European and American economies seem to be injected? In a matter of weeks, the London and New York stock exchanges have seen an investment boom not seen in the past three years.

At the end of the month, the economic crisis that swept Europe and the United States finally showed signs of easing, and the economies of Europe and the United States, which had shrunk sharply, quickly recovered their economic vitality because of the broad investment prospects of the power industry, and the related railway transportation and steel industries also recovered rapidly.

In March, the export of power transmission equipment from China to Europe and the United States increased by 400%, while the stock of American power investment doubled in the same period, while exporting power equipment and products to Europe, China's automobile industry also opened up the export of cars to Europe and the United States, and the export of Dongfang brand cars from China's Shanghai Volkswagen Company also opened the markets of the United Kingdom, Germany, Austria-Hungary in one fell swoop, and quickly landed in the United States.

In July, when Britain and France finally reached the Moroccan agreement after three months of bargaining, the European power industry also followed the rapid rise of the United States, and the generator sets, large transformers, and high-voltage transmission line products quickly became a stimulant to enhance the domestic economy, and the railway industry that collapsed at the time of the last economic crisis also recovered rapidly.

In June, Tang Shaoyi at the cabinet meeting very happily reported on the astonishing development speed of the domestic heavy industry, the development of the domestic power industry far exceeded expectations, in the past five years, more than 430 state-owned and privately owned hydropower stations have been built across the country, more than 600 thermal power stations have been built and under construction, and the power generation capacity has increased from 500 million kWh at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China to 3.5 billion kWh today, and the power supply network of cities above the county level has been basically completed, and the construction of new power facilities is developing to villages and towns, facing a huge market of 50,000 people. The power sector has attracted a staggering amount of capital investment.

The four state-owned heavy industries for the power industry supporting the mechanical income is the development of amazing, overseas sales in the first half of this year reached an increase of more than 200%, and the rise of the automobile, chemical industry, directly gave birth to a large number of domestic emerging private factories, some of the private factories have even completed the initial accumulation, began to carry out large-scale merger, in order to achieve the ability to compete with the four major state-owned heavy industries.

Of course, Zhou Ruidong, who presided over the cabinet, was not most concerned about the rise of a certain industry, and the national finance and taxation achieved a huge increase of 32% in the year and a half after he took over as prime minister, which is the news that made him satisfied, and the new investment plan discussed by the cabinet in the next week is still focused on the expansion and reproduction of domestic infrastructure and state-owned heavy industry, and the automobile industry has become a new growth point of the real national economy.

Qin Kai, who was presiding over the Northern Shi Yàn Room, naturally obtained the report from the cabinet at the first time, however, his mind was obviously not on this, Zhou Ruidong had already shown his talent to the people with a beautiful number, and what he had to face was to create a new era of technology China that led the new century here.

For the energy of the European and American powers, Qin Kai will not have any complacent, the European and American economies are periodically falling into inevitable economic crises due to the lack of a large enough market and tariff barriers between countries, while the rapid rise of China's economy has a completely different development process from the West, the huge Greater China market and its own secret trade agreements with various countries have laid a solid enough foundation for stable economic development...... At least, for now, China's economy is growing rapidly.

Previously, the Global Sources consortium opened up the AC and radio patents of the Swiss shadow company, and finally plundered a huge profit of more than 40 million pounds through the authorization of various countries, and these capitals are constantly transfusing to the domestic industry by purchasing a large number of machine tools through the United Kingdom and France, and the collapse of some intensive industries in Europe and the United States can obtain sufficient labor support in the underdeveloped areas of the country, but it is obviously not worth wasting the scale of the domestic industry for low-end production, purchase, is the best channel.

With the rise of domestic emerging industries, China's huge industrial scale has begun to attract capital from Europe and the United States, and a number of European and American banks, including Deutsche Bank, have obviously seen the profits of China's finance and began to take the initiative to introduce overseas capital.

As a descendant, Qin Kai naturally understands the huge energy of capital in the economy, from Mawei to the present, more than 20 years of economic accumulation, China has finally completed the transformation from a state-led industry to a market-led industry, and the two standardized financial markets of Shanghai and Guangzhou have become an important help to promote this transformation.

Of course, Qin Kai, who is now fully engaged in the real room in the north, in addition to mentioning to Zhou Ruidong again to increase the supervision of official corruption, he is not too involved in national politics, and the large number of technical problems in front of him makes him have to preside over the work of the real room wholeheartedly.

In October, the re-designed Tissot II aircraft completed the finalized test flight at the Northern Armament Test Site, although compared with the first generation of the Tissot I improvement is limited, but Qin Kai for the heavy industry system in the power outstanding performance Xiàn still gave great praise, power as a post-era of armament, obviously has an extremely important position.

Compared with the original V-shaped water-cooled engine used in the Tissot I aircraft, the Tissot II aircraft does not have many breakthroughs in the overall structure, still using the traditional wooden skeleton, plywood and tarpaulin skin, but the CC-V8A water-cooled 8-cylinder piston engine developed by the North Heavy Industry Co., Ltd. gathered many domestic power engineers to complete the research and development, driving the double-bladed propeller, providing the aircraft with an amazing power of 220 horsepower.

In late October, the third experimental Tissot II aircraft completed an amazing challenge under the pilotship of the meritorious pilot Ma Li, the single-engine Tissot II aircraft with a total weight of 850 kg ran a good speed of 190 kilometers per hour, and at the same time, the aircraft carried out the ultimate 3300 lift test and achieved the final success, so far, Qin Kai realized that the real aviation era has come.

In November, Qin Kai summoned Liao Dechang, chief engineer of the Northern Shipyard, and secretly assigned him a task, and then the Ministry of Military Affairs began to secretly prepare for the second domestic aviation regiment, and allocated 3 million yuan to the Liaoyang Aircraft Factory under the jurisdiction of the Northern Heavy Industry to build 40 Tissot II biplanes.

Just when Qin Kai was intensively preparing for the first generation of domestic air power, thousands of miles away in London, British Prime Minister Prime Minister Balfour, who was worried about the intensifying European arms race, finally heard a news that made him excited.

Lord Fisher, First Secretary of the Admiralty, submitted a secret report to him, in which he headed the Admiralty Battleship Design Committee proposed a new type of battleship with a unified fleet of 8-10 12-inch guns capable of operating at 21 knots for a long time. Of course, Fisher naturally didn't know that Qin Kai had plagiarized the very interesting name of the Dreadnought, so he still named the Dreadnought battleship in the plan, and he said very arrogantly that this kind of ship could not be broken. (A good event for pie in the sky, cool mobile phones are waiting for you!) Follow from ~ Dian/Chinese network public account (WeChat add friends - add public account - enter ddxiaoshuo), participate now! Everyone has a prize, now pay attention to ddxiaoshuo WeChat public account! (To be continued......)