The pen rustled across the cheque book, one cheque after another was written, and a sum of money was spent, and the Swiss Institute, Qiu Zhongming of the United States, and the Chinese Admiralty soon had only 30,000 pounds of the newly received 100,000 pounds. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoThe person who gets the money is full of energy, but Li Kongrong, who signs the check, always feels that the money is not enough to spend. And, for the money, he also risked offending the Soviet Union and completely changing the course of World War II - it would be fun if Stalin was really killed by the Japanese. But he can't manage so much, and now he wants funds, large sums of money.

"Check." Handing over the cheque with 3,000 pounds in his hand to Wang Gongheng, who came from England, Li Kongrong said softly.

"Thank you, sir." Wang Gongheng, who had just graduated from the shipbuilding department of the Royal Academy of Greenwich, bowed down and took the check from Li Kongrong's hand with both hands, his expression a little grim. The three thousand pounds, of course, were not for his personal money, but for official expenses, which he had already been absorbed by the Navy.

"Get things done." Li Kongrong looked at the young man. He was not alone, he had several classmates in the UK. The money is for them to buy a design plan for an aircraft carrier, a design plan that is invalid. The drawings will be shipped directly to Vancouver, Canada, where a month later there will be a Navy aircraft carrier refit team, led by Ma Deji of Jiangnan Shipyard. Li Kongrong is not worried about these people who have not touched the aircraft carrier, so he wants to buy this set of aircraft carrier drawings.

Seeing Wang Gongheng carefully put the check into his arms, Li Kongrong suddenly thought of a question, and he said: "Gongheng, I want to know how much it costs to convert a cruise ship into an aircraft carrier?" ”

"Sir, do you mean cruise ships?" Wang Gongheng began to pay attention to aircraft carriers a month ago, and the change of cruise ships to aircraft carriers was the first to be implemented in the United Kingdom.

"Yes, it's a cruise ship." Li Kongrong nodded. He wanted to know how big a funding gap he really was. "It doesn't have to be too detailed, it's probably good."

"If it's a cruise ship...... Wang Gongheng thought for a while, and said: "As far as a battleship is concerned, the cost of the hull accounts for about 30 percent, the gun mount accounts for at least 20 percent, the armor is close to 20 percent, the mechanical devices, including the boiler power system, the boiler and so on account for 10 percent, the ammunition is also 10 percent, the artillery is less than 10 percent, and the rest is very little, including the shipyard labor cost and material costs, it is less than 3 ......percent."

"Less than three percent of the shipyard labor costs?" Li Kongrong was a little surprised, even if this was only the shipyard labor fee, it was pitiful.

"Yes, sir. If it is a cruise ship to an aircraft carrier, it depends on how much the original mechanical device can be retained, if it is only to replace or increase the boiler, in terms of 120,000 horsepower, it should be within 300,000 pounds. In addition to the mechanical part, the cost of armor will account for a large part of the cost, 20,000 tons of displacement aircraft carrier, according to the standard of a cruiser, the armor needs about 5,000 tons, which may be close to 400,000 pounds, plus anti-aircraft artillery, the addition of watertight compartments, etc., the cost of modification is likely to be close to or more than 800,000 pounds. ”

"Eight hundred thousand pounds? Four million dollars? Li Kongrong sighed. Although it was a navy, he did not know how much armor an aircraft carrier needed and how much a boiler cost. In the past, it was roughly estimated to be about five or six hundred thousand pounds, but now he realized that the cost was so high - he had never figured out how much armor was needed for an aircraft carrier, and now he realized that the cost of armor was more expensive than that of a boiler.

"Sir, this is not counting the dismantled boilers, and if these can be sold, it may save tens of thousands of pounds." Wang Gongheng suggested that he did not know what Li Kongrong was going to do. "Sir, the conversion of the mail ship to the aircraft carrier is an emergency method, the anti-sinking performance of this aircraft carrier can not be compared with the regular aircraft carrier, and at the same time it occupies a special slipway period, and the boiler is installed, but if the length of the boiler compartment is too short, then the hull should be appropriately lengthened, although it does not cost much, it is very time-consuming, almost longer than the slipway period of rebuilding a new aircraft carrier, and the general shipyard may not accept ......"

"Nope! We will have our own shipyard. Li Kongrong said. Moreover, we have the situation of having time but no money. You go back, in addition to collecting more information on aircraft carriers, you must also pay special attention to the information on cruise ship modifications to aircraft carriers, but," Li Kongrong looked at him, "You must keep it secret, and your actions must not be noticed by others." ”

"Yes. Sir! "The prince stood up and saluted, which is very non-standard.

When Wang Gongheng went out, Li Kongrong's mind was all about the cost of refitting the aircraft carrier. The cost of refitting each cruise ship is 4 million US dollars, and only two Spanish shipwrecks that have been half-skimmed can be replaced. What about the rest? Is it really to get a few unarmoured, twenty-knot catapult aircraft carriers on the field? There are also planes and pilots, one plane is fifty thousand dollars, one hundred is five million dollars, and two hundred is ten million dollars. Of course, 50,000 yuan is high, and if you abandon the intermediate costs, the manufacturer will order directly in batches, and it may be possible to press to 40,000 US dollars, but the aircraft is only one aspect, and the cost of pilot training is also a large one.

How much does it cost to train a Navy pilot? The training plane costs more than 10,000 dollars for every two people, and I don't know how much it costs to depreciate aviation fuel, aircraft, and related facilities, and what is even more troublesome is that the pass rate of pilot training in World War II is only one-third, and the pass rate of naval aviation is even lower than this. The only way he could think of was to eliminate those who were unqualified through psychological tests -- the main reason for the unqualified pilots was their psychological quality, and after the use of psychological tests after World War II, the training pass rate immediately doubled, so there was a saying that "for every dollar invested in psychological tests, the cost of pilot training will be saved by 1,000 dollars."

Li Kongrong, who racked his brains, made a list of $33 million based on the standard of an aircraft carrier fleet of 200 carrier-based aircraft. Among them, there are three aircraft carriers, and the refit cost is 15 million US dollars; 200 carrier-based aircraft, a total of 8 million dollars; The total cost of pilot training and fleet training is $10 million. Seeing such a huge number, he was immediately dumbfounded. The money could not be used under the Lend-Lease Act, and had to be raised on its own, and the deadline was December 1941.

How much penicillin does this have to sell to earn back? If penicillin comes out in the middle of next year, minus half a year's publicity and distribution period, what can really be sold is only 40 and 41 years, and one million doses of penicillin can be sold in these two years? He remembered that the American troops, who had spared human lives, had only stockpiled 100,000 doses of penicillin before landing in Normandy, and thought that was enough. But then again, at that time, penicillin was underwritten by the U.S. military for $20 a dose, and was not supplied to the private market. If there is a large enough distribution network, then the sales of penicillin will definitely increase significantly, but to what extent?

"I'm going to go to Switzerland right now." Zhong Qiangong, who had been around the country for half a year and completed the task, had returned, and Li Kongrong finally had an adjutant again, and the adjutant was promoted to a captain.

"Report sir, Major Lin is here." Zhong Qiangong reported.

"Didn't he go to sea?" Li Kongrong said strangely, when he was strange, Lin Zhun, who had just arrived in Hong Kong, came in. He sat in his chair and didn't speak. After Li Kongrong handed him a cigarette and lit it, he said quietly: "The training boat has been transferred back!" ”

"Going back?" The training of Group B had ended, and after that, it was to leave the port at night while the submarine crew was resting, and on one occasion there were not even German personnel on board, and they went to sea completely under the command of Li Kongrong. If it weren't just for the training boat, he would have wanted to drive it away.

"Yes. Brother Hansheng, what do you say we should do? "Lin Zhun didn't finish all the courses, more precisely, only two-thirds of the courses.

"Torpedo training?" Li Kongrong did not know what he had learned.

"Not yet, it was originally scheduled for the next class, it's all my fault!" Lin Zhun patted his thigh in annoyance.

"Report to the sir, Major Lehmann-William Bullock is here." Zhong Qiangong came to report again, and the Germans were beside him.

"I'm sorry, Lee." The Germans looked sorry, he got along very well with Li Kongrong and others for more than two months, and he was a little upset that he was suddenly recalled by the Admiralty before the training ended. China and Germany will never be enemies.

"Can't you stay one more night and leave tomorrow morning?" Li Kongrong held the German's hand tightly, hoping that he would leave tomorrow and that the submarine would be able to go to sea for training for 12 hours tonight.

"I'm sorry, Lee, but the Admiralty's order is to go immediately." Lyman-William Bullock said that it was after he had docked that he received an order from the Admiralty to return to Kiel as soon as he received the order.

"Then it can't be helped." Li Kongrong glanced at Lin Zhun who was looking at him, and then forced a smile: "It seems that we will only have to rely on the ship model in the future." ”

Li Kongrong said here that Captain Zhong Qiangong made another report, and Colonel Heisenberg, who was in charge of managing the Chinese naval cadets at the base, walked in, and his news was even more shocking. "Lee, the Admiralty informed the base this morning that your training has ended, so ......," he also said with an apologetic expression, "you're leaving the base today." ”

"Get out of here?!" Li Kongrong looked at him blankly, and couldn't believe it at all, was he driven out by the Germans? Even Lin Zhun, who was hit, was excited, and he was almost yelling: "Get out of here? Where do we go out of here? ”

"......" Colonel Heisenberg could only shrug his shoulders at this, and he was speechless. Lee, this is an order, and I regret it, but I hope you will be able to leave the base by six o'clock this afternoon. ”

Colonel Heisenberg left on the front foot, and Major Lehmann-William Bullock left on the back foot. There was silence in the apartment, and after a long time, Li Kongrong said to Zhong Qiangong: "I won't go to Switzerland first, inform everyone to line up at the dock and send Major Lehmann out of the port." ”

Hearing that Li Kongrong was going to send the Germans, Lin Zhun said angrily: "Brother Hansheng, isn't it enough for you to be humiliated?" ”

"It was the Nazi Party that gave the order, and it was the Nazi Party that humiliated us. It was Lyman who trained us, what does he have to do with humiliation? We're going to be able to drive submarines, but we're still new, will you be able to fight? Do you have any experience in attacking? I won't anyway, I'll have to be friends with Lyman. Li Kongrong looked at him and felt like a child. He then turned his head to Zhong Qiangong and said, "Go and inform." ”

Ten minutes later, in addition to Lin, the naval cadets at the base lined up to send the training boat out of the port, and several cadets actually cried when the two sides waved their hands in part. The training boat gradually moved away, and Li Kongrong immediately disdained when he saw this scene, "It's really useless!" He said displeasedly. Stand - Positive, take a break! ”

"You all know what's going on, right?" After shouting two commands, Li Kongrong's voice was raised, and after the Wang Zhiguang incident, he was already the absolute authority of the naval cadets. "It's normal. We under the fence are such fate. Not only is this our fate, but the navy is also like this, we can't build battleships, we can't build submarines, every time the minister and director go out to order a ship, it looks very beautiful, in fact? After all, people don't value our few dollars.

Why is this happening? Some people will say that the motherland is not strong yet and is still being bullied by the Japanese. I can only say that people who think like this are those who see only the forest but not the trees, and push everything on the motherland and politicians. You're still young, and you don't really have any responsibilities, but that's just before, and now is when you people come to power.

How can a small country like Japan fall from the sky today? When the Beiyang Navy was formed, they were still playing with wooden boats and driving fishing boats! However, the Japanese won the First Sino-Japanese War and also won the victory against Russia, and these two battles established today's Japan and gained hegemony in East Asia. This hegemony was originally ours, and his glory today is also ours, but twenty years ago, on the First Day of the First Sino-Japanese War, they snatched it away from our soldiers.

The lack of effort of the former soldiers and the lack of martial arts of the former countrymen made us end up where we are today, and only then did we be humiliated by the Germans without concealment! Now there are still people crying, is this a soldier? It's him. the! If I see anyone crying in the future, get out of here and go back to my country! I want soldiers who dare to kill and love to kill, not crying girls! ”

Li Kongrong's last few words were roaring, although he knew that this attitude might not be right for such a young man, but he couldn't restrain his temper.

"Now, I order: all the cadets go back and pack their bags, clean their rooms, and leave in an hour downstairs. Disband! After Li Kongrong finished speaking, he waved his hand, and more than 30 people immediately dispersed.

When he returned to the dormitory, he found that Lin Zhun was still grinding there, so he said, "I have already given the order, and I will leave in an hour." ”

"Hansheng, you can see it." As soon as he returned to Hong Kong, Lin Zhun was sloppy, he was smoking, lazy, and he was not in a hurry to leave the base, he said: "Now you can steal the submarine, Brother Hansheng, you count me as a share." ”

"Count in your share." Li Kongrong looked at him with a smile, then shook his head and said: "It's too late, besides, the shipyard has been grinding foreign workers, there are no submarines, and they have been driven out of the base, what do you say to steal?" ”

"Then what were you discussing with Chief Lin some time ago?" Lin Zhun threw away the half-smoked cigarette and asked seriously.

"Discuss what will happen after the submarine is stolen." Li Kongrong said. "There is also the fact that the submarine really didn't steal, some compensation plans."

"Then it's not a submarine, okay, I'll follow you in the future." Lin Zhun suddenly stretched out his hand, as if to shake hands. (To be continued.) )