Pacific Shipbuilding Industry Co., Ltd. is located in the southeast corner of Paradise Island. Echoing with Tianpan Shipbuilding Co., Ltd., which is located in the southwest corner, it forms the largest marine high-tech industrial park in the southern part of Paradise Island.

His Majesty Emperor Jincheng of the Great Donghua Empire and Stalin of the Soviet Union suddenly visited the Pacific Shipbuilding Industry Group, which made Lu Zhuofu, chairman of the Pacific Shipbuilding Industry Group, very excited and surprised.

When he decided to accompany Ning Haiyang, chairman of Tianpan Group, to take over the order for the construction of four Changxing Island-class aircraft carriers under the Imperial Navy, Lu Zhuofu can be said to have bet all his net worth.

Fortunately, all the cost of materials needed for the construction of the aircraft carrier is hung on the books of the Imperial Navy, and it can be credited from the Pentagon's raw material supply center, otherwise the capital chain of the Pacific Shipbuilding Industry Group would have been broken long ago.

Lu Zhuofu now really regrets that he listened to the nonsense of Chief Engineer Wittram, saying that he wanted to do some kind of innovation, which led to the temporary suspension of the 016 ship.

The other three aircraft carriers, built according to the original design of the Changxing Island-class aircraft carrier, are now all paid for. Only the 016 ship made by adhering to the spirit of innovation is not wanted. As a result, all the patents applied by the Pacific Shipbuilding Industry Group for the development of the 016 ship have become invalid.

In order to allow the other 015 ship to be completed ahead of schedule and receive payment, Lu Zhuofu could only temporarily withdraw all the workers and engineers of the 016 ship and concentrate them on the 015 ship.

As a result, when Cheng Gong, Stalin and others came to the construction site of the Pacific Shipbuilding Industry Group, they saw two completely different scenes:

The straight, diagonal deck aircraft carrier, codenamed 015, was densely packed with workers everywhere;

The arc-shaped sliding sloping deck carrier, codenamed 016, lay alone in the dock and let the wind and sun shine, and occasionally a few seabirds flew around on the deck as if foraging.

"Chairman Lu, why did you stop the 016 ship?" Cheng Gong asked knowingly, but his face and tone looked very curious.

"Back to the emperor, the 016 ship was forced to temporarily suspend work due to design reasons." Lu Zhuofu bowed respectfully and replied: "Caomin originally thought that the innovative design and patent of the 016 ship would bring more wealth, but it turned out that Caomin was too greedy and made an unforgivable mistake. As soon as the 015 ship is delivered to the customer, the grass man will petition the board of directors and submit his resignation. ”

"It's good to want to innovate, but you have to eat one bite at a time, and Ruth has to take it one step at a time." Cheng Gong said with a serious expression: "It's not terrible to make a mistake, it's important to realize why you made this mistake. We have always encouraged our enterprises to have innovative ideas, dare to think and do, and not be afraid to make mistakes.

Although your Pacific Shipbuilding Industry Group is first-class in scale and strength, it cannot afford the losses caused by a large aircraft carrier due to design errors. In this way, I am the master today, and I bought this 016 ship in my private name, which can be regarded as my encouragement to you to be bold and innovative. ”

"Thank you, Lord Longen!" Lu Zhuofu was so excited that he was about to bow down.

"Let's be flat, our Great Donghua Empire is not a set of Manchu Qing Tartars who kneel at every turn." Cheng Gong stopped Lu Zhuofu's kneeling behavior, and Zhengse said: "The backbone of the Qing Dynasty is kneeling!" ”

"Your Majesty the Emperor, I wonder what you plan to do with this unfinished aircraft carrier?" Stalin, who was standing beside Cheng Gong, suddenly asked out loud at this time.

"Of course, it's dismantled and recoiled." Cheng Gong replied without hesitation: "This aircraft carrier uses a large number of special steels for various types of ships such as HY80, HY100 and HY130. All of them belong to the high-level technical secrets of our Great Donghua Empire, and they must be prevented from leaking. ”

"Your Majesty the Emperor, it's a pity to dismantle the furnace." A subtle look of envy flashed in Stalin's eyes, and he said quietly: "Why don't you make a price and sell it to our Soviet Union!" ”

"Comrade Stalin, are you sure you're not joking with me?" Cheng Gong looked at Stalin very seriously and asked solemnly.

"Of course not!" Stalin replied very seriously: "We have always believed that it is better to buy than to build!" The USSR needed aircraft carriers, aircraft carriers that the USSR independently manufactured! This aircraft carrier, which is 60% completed, can become the starting point in the history of aircraft carrier construction in the USSR! ”

"You mean to buy this 016 ship back and then you guys do it yourself?" Cheng Gong looked at the huge hull of the 016 ship in front of him and said indifferently: "Comrade Stalin, I don't think you have this ability. Building an aircraft carrier is a very huge system project, which is different from building a battleship. ”

"Your Majesty the Emperor, you want to treat it as scrap metal anyway, why don't you treat it as waste?" Stalin asked with a smile.

"This 016 ship is a pile of scrap metal in my eyes, but in the eyes of experts who really understand aircraft carrier design, every screw nail in it is a treasure." Cheng Gong looked at Stalin with deep meaning in his eyes and smiled meaningfully: "Comrade Stalin, we are all smart people. You're here today to visit this shipyard specifically for the 016 ship, right? ”

"Our people got some information about this 016 ship from the Japanese." Stalin said quite frankly: "The Japanese expert group, they do not have a unified opinion on whether to buy this 016 ship or not. ”

"Do they think that our Donghua Royal Navy's newly commissioned Admiral-class aircraft carrier adopts a straight and oblique deck design for catapult take-off, so they think that this kind of sliding deck that does not rely on catapult take-off is definitely not the best?" Cheng Gong smiled confidently.

"Yes!" Stalin nodded and said: "The Japanese believe that this kind of sliding deck has a limit on the take-off weight of carrier-based aircraft, and the deck occupies a large area, which affects the movement of the whole deck. Moreover, the efficiency of aircraft sorties per unit time is low, and the control requirements for pilots are very high. ”

"But you Soviet experts believe that the cost and technical limitations of this sliding deck are not large, it is relatively simple for aircraft carrier construction, and the failure rate is low." Cheng Gong took Stalin's words and said with a smile: "Compared with the advanced but complex steam catapult take-off method, this sliding jump take-off technology is simple and practical, and its technical research and development costs and risk control costs are relatively low, which is more in line with the current situation of the Soviet Union's aircraft carrier development plan." ”

"Sure enough, the capable can do anything!" Stalin stared at Cheng Gong with wide eyes, and asked in confusion: "Your Majesty the Emperor, since you can see at a glance that the 016 ship is not a scrap, why did you say such a thing to Chairman Lu just now?" ”

"Because this kind of aircraft carrier with a sliding deck take-off design is a waste product for our Royal Navy Donghua!" Cheng Gong said proudly: "The high-power aircraft carrier steam catapult device is an insurmountable problem in the eyes of many countries, but it is not a problem at all for our Great Donghua Empire. ”

"Your Majesty the Emperor, is it true that the technology of high-power aircraft carrier steam catapults cannot be transferred?" Stalin asked visibly with a little unwillingness.

"This is the most important weapon of the country, not for sale!" Cheng Gong didn't want to reply categorically: "Comrade Stalin, even if I sell this technology to you, with the existing industrial level of the Soviet Union, you will not be able to build this kind of steam catapult." Because the requirements for materials and precision machining are too high for this kind of device. ”

(To be continued.) )