Yang Chao said with a smile: "So my country's airship industry is the largest in the world, don't boast, I can't see competitors yet." Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"

China's airship industry is naturally the world's first, with an annual output of 10,000 ships, but limited by the supply of materials, last year's output only reached 5,000 ships, and this year it will be able to saturate production, because this year's Chinese aluminum industry has finally expanded to 400,000 tons, and the aluminum alloy consumed by an airship is generally about 40 tons.

But in order to maintain such large-scale aluminum alloy production, half of Shandong's electricity is occupied by several aluminum plants, and the aluminum industry will consume 6 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity this year.

Electricity is the biggest factor restricting the production of aluminum alloys, Yang Chao felt that Shandong was saturated with electricity two years ago, but as a result, everything began to be in short supply at the beginning of the war. Now the generator set in Shandong has expanded to 1.8 million yuan, and the average power generation time is 10 hours a day, only 6.4 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity a year.

However, the development of aluminum alloy has lengthened the average power generation time per day, reaching an average of 18 hours per day, removing the factors of power plant maintenance and accidents, almost every power plant is saturated with power generation, flattening the peaks and valleys, which is unexpected.

However, 18 hours a day of electricity generation only makes the power generation reach 11.6 billion kWh, ranking third in the world, second only to the United States' more than 40 billion kWh and Germany's more than 15 billion kWh, and more than twice the UK's 4.7 billion kWh.

If the ten large power plants built by GE are completed by the end of this year, the installed capacity will increase by 500,000,000,000 kilowatt-hours and the power generation capacity will increase by 3 billion kWh, which will basically reach the level of Germany. It will also alleviate the dilemma of electricity, but Yang Chao knows that in fact, Shandong has a surplus of electricity, and once the war ends, I am afraid that the aluminum alloy industry and the power industry will face a shrinking market.

Therefore, it has been necessary to make a lot of money before, and the investment will be recovered first.

And to get rich, you can only find a way from the arms, and the orders of the Americans will soon arrive.

They ordered three thousand airships in one go, all of them large airships, which were obviously not for defense.

Yang Chao told the Americans that if they want to spot it, it costs $300,000 for a ship, and if they can wait, $200,000 is enough.

The Americans want to spot it, obviously the Americans are angry, they plan to give the Germans back the color as soon as possible, and they are going to bomb Germany too.

The production cost of the airship is 100,000 taels of silver, and Yang Chao's old airship has been used for a few years, and what else can be said about the high price of 300,000 yuan, sell, and free shipping, and drive it directly to the Americans.

The war with Japan is over, but the Chinese Air Force is equipped with 20,000 airships, which are completely to support the production capacity of the airship company, and a large amount of military expenditure has been paid for this.

Of course, it is not Yang Chao who makes money, these airships are military assets, which belong to the state.

Yang Chao has added a huge amount of fiscal revenue to the government, and basically there is no need to borrow to get by this year.

After the Americans bought 3,000 airships, the British also decided to buy 1,000 airships, so that the number of their airships also reached 3,000, which was on a par with the Germans, and it was obvious that the British were also going to do something to the Germans, and the French purchased 1,000 airships, bringing their number of airships to 2,000.

They all want to be in stock, and Yang Chao is happy to give them spots, anyway, the Chinese Defense Forces can't use so many airships to maintain trade routes to Europe, and 10,000 ships are more than enough, and 10,000 airships are enough to transport grain, which is enough to feed the whole of Germany.

5,000 airships were sold for 1.5 billion US dollars, of which the profit reached 1 billion, at the current exchange rate, 1 US dollar is almost equivalent to 1 tael of silver, which is equal to 1 billion taels of silver, which can increase China's silver reserves by 37,000 tons.

But this is not over, this is only the first one, Yang Chao believes that once the strategic bombing starts, everyone has tasted the sweetness, and will continue to purchase, and want to play strategic bombing, this is a high-risk job, the battle loss rate is quite high, a hundred ships out, how many can come back?

After the Americans got the airship, after just a month of training, in mid-February they began to bomb Germany.

The Germans had already been prepared for a long time, and after four years of war, Germany's military bases and important cities had already had a complete air defense system, and the technology of the Americans' strategic bombing was not yet in place, as a result, less than half of the first batch of 300 American airships successfully returned, one-third were shot down on the spot, and the remaining ones fell on the way back because of injuries.

However, under the pressure of the consortium and the people of several cities that were bombed, the US government took a very resolute attitude and wanted to carry out the bombing to the end, at any cost, anyway, what they had was money, and the US government issued 20 billion bonds that did not have it, and provided large-scale aid to Britain and France with various materials and equipment for their own troops.

Under normal circumstances, people who like to fly love to take risks, and American cowboys are very suitable, and there is no shortage of cowboys who like to play with their lives in the United States, so despite the high death rate, there are still a large number of people who sign up for the airship unit, and the United States continues to train airshipmen and bomb constantly.

Of course, cowboys love to play with their lives but are not afraid of death, they quickly mastered the law and began to bomb at high altitudes, as for the success rate, this is not what they consider, anyway, the United States is not short of supplies, but they can throw it hard, anyway, they are thrown on the territory of Germany, they can't bomb cities, factories, railways, they can always blow up flowers and plants.

With the enthusiastic participation of a large number of young Americans with a cowboy spirit, at the end of February, they were able to dispatch 1,000 airships at a time, and the effects of strategic bombing began to appear, and German factories and German railways were destroyed, seriously affecting the military industrial production of the Germans.

The Germans soon produced combat airships, apparently they stole technology from China, and the issue of patent fees was not discussed, and they were directly copycated. But the effect was very good, almost completely curbing the bombing behavior of the Americans during the day, and the effect of the night bombing, just look at the German bombing of London, it was almost useless.

The Americans' new combat method also began to appear, that is, aircraft escort bombing, but the Americans found that the effect was not very good, because the plane was difficult to achieve perfect escort because of the range and altitude problems, and the engine of the plane above 4,000 meters would be stalled, so the Americans could only order combat airships again.

The escort and counter-escort launched the largest air battle in history, known as the Great Air Battle of the United States and Germany.

With the progress of the Great Air War between the United States and Germany, the Germans began to be unable to hold on, they purchased materials from China, but there was no money, the property of the German expatriates in Qingdao was about to be squeezed dry by the German government, not only the German capitalists in Qingdao sold an average of ninety percent of their assets to buy German bonds, but the first thing the German expatriates now do when they receive their salaries every month is to buy bonds.

But this is already a drop in the bucket, and the salaries of these expatriates are not enough to buy penicillin for the Germans.

The Germans have finally begun to sell off some of their most important assets, such as the Jiaoji Railway!

The price is 10 million taels of silver, but he can only buy about 30 airships.

At the same time, the Germans themselves are also working overtime to produce, they do not lack technology, because Zeppelin's technology has long been secretly mastered by the Germans, what they lack is raw materials, the Germans expanded the output of aluminum alloy to the limit of 100,000 tons, all used to produce airships, with an annual output of more than 2,500 ships.

But the Germans are producing, the Americans are also producing, they do not lack raw materials, nor lack technology, although they are still purchasing Chinese airships on a large scale, that is for the war, and within a year the American airship industry can completely blow up Germany, so Yang Chao's good business will not last long, unless both sides sell, so they have to rely on China's production capacity.

But the Germans really don't have any money, so they sell technology.

When the German ambassador came to Yang Chao to negotiate with him to issue bonds, Yang Chao suggested that they sell technology.

Germany still has strong technical reserves, such as Zeiss's precision optical instrument Yang Chao is very interested.

What can be done, sell, now that it's like this, there is nothing left if you lose, and if you win, you win everything, there is nothing to be reluctant to, and the Germans are beginning to lose.

Zeiss's precision optical technology, precision bearing production technology, precision screw production technology, watch production technology, fuel technology of chemical companies such as Bayer, Akfa and BASF, synthetic rubber technology, electrical equipment technology of Siemens, submarine construction technology, and even poison gas production technology have been sold to China.

After obtaining these technologies, Yang Chao also asked the Germans to ensure the reliability of the technology, and let them send technicians to China to help train workers.

Generally, the drawings and technical processes provided by the Germans were used to select factories in China for trial production, and while the Germans sent people to teach directly, Yang Chao made up his mind to transfer the most elite parts of German industry before the end of the war.

Of course, Yang Chao doesn't need to buy many of these technologies now, or even need to buy them, such as Siemens' technology, Bayer's technology, they are producing it in China, even if they want to buy it, it will definitely be cheaper to buy it after the war, and it will be to buy the bottom after the war.

The purpose is very simple, that is, to strengthen Germany's power and make Britain and the United States consume more, so that the Americans will continue to purchase Chinese airships, and even if they don't make Germans' money, this deal is worth it, and it can be said that those technological patents and other intellectual property rights are all additive.

With the outbreak of the air war between the United States and Germany, Britain and France naturally could not sit idly by, they soon joined the ranks of the United States, and jointly bombed Germany, with the outbreak of the scale of the air war, the consumption rate of airships also increased rapidly, and the sales volume became higher and higher, and the monthly order exceeded 2,000 ships in April.

At this time, the crisis of Tsarist Russia finally arrived, spring arrived in Siberia, and the Russian Red Army began to attack the Ural Mountains. (To be continued.) )