After leaving the railway company, Yang Chao went to the airship company. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Qingdao's airship company is now extremely large, the workshop for manufacturing airships has been expanded to three hundred, each building two at the same time, can build six hundred at the same time, thanks to the worldwide arms race, orders here continue, Yang Chao and Zeppelin are not people who value money, the two are the only two shareholders, so the two decided to invest all the profits in expanding production.

Although major industrial countries, even Japan, have put into operation airship factories, the airship company here in Qingdao is still the undisputed world's largest airship production base, and even the German airship factory is only building 100 ships at the same time.

The most important thing is that an industrialization base has been formed here, and the surrounding shipyards, locomotive factories, and even many machinery factories, Dehua Textile Factory, are all supporting factories for the airship factory, helping the airship factory to produce various components, and the aluminum alloy frame pressed from the shipyard and locomotive factory can be combined in the factory within ten days, and then add the skin, cockpit, and it can be delivered within a month.

And factories in other countries, even the airship factory in Germany, take at least three months.

The most important thing is that Zeppelin's airship factory is at least two generations higher than the factories in other countries, and the first generation defined by Yang Chao is the original airship composed of steel skeletons, aluminum skins, coarse cloth airbags, and gasoline engines in the past; The second generation is an aluminum alloy slat-riveted skeleton and an airship with a diesel engine; The third-generation airship is riveted with an aluminum alloy frame; The fourth generation is hydrodynamically optimized and features a welded industrial machined frame.

And now the fifth-generation airship is in mass production. At this time, the level of German factories is barely up to the third-generation standard here in Qingdao. The Japanese, because they can't get aluminum alloy, are still using steel skeletons, and they are still at the level of the first generation, and they take three or four months to produce an airship with a very low carrying capacity, a 100-ton airship with a dead weight of less than 10 tons.

Yang Chao visited the production workshop of the fifth-generation airship, in fact, this airship is not big, only 60 meters long, compact structure, very strong, because according to Plante's research, the larger the airship, the worse the power, so there is this smaller fifth-generation airship, of course, the fifth generation is not all small, but as many as four different series.

Unlike the fourth generation, this airship is not only more in line with hydrodynamics, but also has two rows of triangular wings in the front and rear, one diesel engine suspended under each of the four huge wings, and two on each side of the cockpit, a total of eight Diesel magnesium alloy diesel engines, with a total horsepower of 8,000.

Small size, sufficient power, fluid design, plus wings, combined with the characteristics of a traditional airship and an airplane, so that this airship can reach a speed of 240 kilometers, full speed can reach more than 300 kilometers, the speed increase is not very large, but the flexibility is extremely excellent, super horsepower, two rows of wings plus tail and balanced rudder.

Balance can make the airship more advantageous in battle, making it easier to grasp the advantage, and obviously this is a combat airship.

As a combat airship, the armament will naturally not be less, the head of the airship, and the cockpit are equipped with a fighting compartment, the head of the airship is equipped with a heavy machine gun, and the lower part of the cockpit has a closed 37 mm rapid-fire gun, and the use of white phosphorus bombs, specifically aimed at the hydrogen airship commonly used in Western countries.

Then Yang Chao visited the Qingdao Arsenal, which is now more than double the size of the past, because they can now provide 380 mm naval guns to warships, and Krupp has to build a large-caliber artillery production line here, because they don't do it, the Americans will do it, then they will lose the market, and it is ridiculous that Krupp produced only 305 mm naval guns for the German Navy, but provided 380 main guns for Chinese capital ships.

Of course, not only the main guns of warships, but also the large fortresses that have been intensively built in the coastal ports of Shandong recently, have also ordered Krupp's cannons as fortress guns, in the final analysis, it is still Krupp's professional artillery, and the reason why the German Navy uses 305 mm guns is that they think that the power of Krupp's 305 mm guns is not inferior to the British's 340 and 380 mm guns.

In addition to heavy artillery, it has been able to meet the daily annual production capacity of 200,000 rifles, 500 million rounds of ammunition, and 5 million rounds of various types of shells.

Then went to shipbuilding, machine tools, locomotives, machine factories and other factories to visit, Yang Chao immediately went to Laiwu, or to see the arsenal, Laiwu Arsenal because Yang Chao felt more secure, more controlled by himself, so the scale of expansion is larger, more than double the scale of Qingdao Arsenal, the annual output of 400,000 rifles is not a problem, overtime doubled to 800,000, but also the production of various types of artillery, mortars, machine guns, aerial bombs, etc., this is the largest arsenal in the world.

Moreover, Yang Chao took great care of this arsenal, and the cylinders of the Diesel engine were mainly produced by the arsenal so far, and this arsenal preserved a huge technical force for the production of artillery.

In addition, there is a ZHA pharmaceutical factory, also built in Laiwu, which is in cooperation with DuPont, not only this ZHA pharmaceutical factory, but also three other nitrogen fertilizer plants, these three nitrogen fertilizer plants all use Harper's synthetic ammonia technology, not limited to saltpeter supply, the output is very considerable, in addition to supplying the entire Shandong and Northeast China, but also to Henan small-scale exports, the fifth and sixth nitrogen fertilizer plants have been completed at the end of construction, completed and put into operation in July and September this year, when it can supply the entire northern China region.

In wartime, these nitrogen fertilizer plants could be immediately converted into gunpowder factories, which could meet the zha medicine needed by 5 million people to fight.

In fact, DuPont is not the only chemical plant that has the ability to produce nitrogen fertilizer, Bayer also has this ability, but first, Bayer is in Qingdao, and secondly, Bayer is not interested in the profits of nitrogen fertilizer, he uses China's conveniently obtained Ya tablet resources to secretly produce conch English for export to the United States, the profit can only be described as terrifying, under the protection of the Germans, Yang Chao can not interfere with them, it can only be natural, the scourge of the Americans is the scourge of the Americans, but Yang Chao closely monitors their sales to other parts of China.

Intuitively looking at the heavy industry in Shandong, Yang Chao knows very well that with the current heavy industry, it is fully capable of supporting an army of 500 people for long-term combat, obviously this is already the strength of a heavy industry country, but Yang Chao knows very well in his heart that this is brought about by abnormal development.

Shandong's industrialization is very unbalanced and unhealthy, and it can be said that it has always been driven by investment.

Last year alone, it pulled 30 billion marks of investment, the Chinese heavy industry invested 2 billion taels of silver, and the light industry invested 8 billion taels of silver, which is still seriously unbalanced, and this year there have been enterprises under-employed, but Yang Chao still shipped 1,500 tons of gold ore to Germany in exchange for a loan of 10 billion marks from Germany, and continued to leverage investment.

But Yang Chao knows very well that these investments can't actually pull much investment, and this year's form makes the Germans dare not invest too much in China, and the crazy arms race puts heavy pressure on the powers, and this year's 10 billion can almost only attract 10 billion investments, and the leverage effect is completely gone, because Germany needs to retain German industry to serve Germany's military.

After this third round of investment, the total scale of heavy industry in Shandong will reach more than 45 billion marks, mainly from the United States and Germany, and the Chinese investment will only be 2 billion taels, equivalent to about 6 billion marks.

When these factories are all put into operation, the annual output value can reach more than 30 billion marks, equivalent to more than 7 billion US dollars, but the United States has an output value of 25 billion US dollars, Germany also has 10.5 billion, compared with these two industrial powers, there is still a big gap, but China's economy is completely unable to bear, because eighty percent of it is heavy industry, up to 6 billion US dollars, the Chinese market can accommodate up to 1 billion US dollars, 5 billion US dollars is excess capacity, you must know that the industrial output value of the Japanese is less than 700 million, Yang Chao's surplus production capacity is 7 times that of Japan.

At least 4 billion of them will be put into production at the end of next year, and if they can't find a market, the economic crisis can no longer be described, and it can only collapse.

However, if World War I breaks out as scheduled, then these industries will be activated, and through the adjustment of the huge market provided by the four years of World War I, it will also be adjusted after the war, and then China's industry will be a huge industrial country ten times more than Japan's, and Yang Chao will not be interested in fighting Japan.

So this is a gamble, a big gamble, if you win, you will win all, and if you lose, you will lose everything, Yang Chao is still very nervous.

Anyway, it's all a gamble, so Yang Chao still continues to encourage investment and construction, even though he has seen the signs of overcapacity.

In this kind of apprehension, 10 billion German investment continued to settle in China in the first half of the year, and there were constantly two years ago, three years ago, that is, the second wave of the last batch of enterprises put into production, but put into production, the market competition is fierce, each one put into production is a surplus industry, and the third wave of 300 plus 10 billion marks of the factory has not yet started, and when those factories start, if there is no war, Yang Chao will be finished.

It was precisely because of this tense tendency, rather than taking precautions, that Yang Chao frequently and intensively inspected Shandong's industries, not because he hoped that these enterprises would be ready to supply materials for the war, but because he really couldn't stand it and couldn't rest assured.

In 1914, the first half of the year was spent in this anxiety, the problem of oversupply in Shandong industry became more and more serious, from machine production, machine tools, locomotives to steelmaking, almost all heavy industries had a surplus situation, at least thirty percent of the excess capacity, and more and more enterprises are putting into production or trial production, this market is about to have an overproduction crisis.

At this time, Yang Chao finally heard the life-saving gunshot:

On June 28, 1914, the Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary, Franz. In order to show off his force against Serbia, Archduke Ferdinand went to Bosnia to review the army, and was assassinated in Sarajevo by Princip, a young democratic Serbian democracy.

However, the war did not break out immediately, and the death of Archduke Ferdinand and his wife did not even attract much attention.

The British were concerned about the crisis that had erupted in Ireland.

The French are concerned about the power trade of their finance ministers and the issue of political assassinations.

The Americans are interested in the assembly line assembly method invented by the Ford Motor Company, Ford has opened their factory for peers and tourists to visit, and even the Shandong industry is quite interested, Zeppelin, who has been suffering from the speed of installation, heard that Ford can assemble a car in ten minutes, and immediately wanted to send someone to visit and learn, Yang Chao knew about it, and formed a huge team to visit with the engineers of the airship company.

The world's indifference is due to the unfamiliarity of the common people with international geographical knowledge, most people don't know where Serbia is, they don't know the person Archduke Ferdinand, for most people, a stranger is assassinated in a strange place by another inexplicable person, what does it have to do with them?

And the media didn't pay much attention to it, because there have been too many assassinations in recent years, and six presidents and seven prime ministers have died in assassinations in the past ten years, such as the assassination wave that broke out in Beijing and the killing of Japanese Prime Minister Hirobumi Ito. (To be continued.) )