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When Yang Chao arrived in Qingdao, he couldn't help but be shocked when he saw the factory of his joint venture with Zeppelin again. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

It is no longer the time to build the first Zeppelin Company, there is only one factory, and only two airships can be built at the same time, but five factories are neatly built, and ten airships can be built at the same time, which is the reason why Yang Chao's airship fleet has doubled to thirteen, no, now fifteen.

Yang Chao's airships, all of which were made by Zeppelin, were first-generation airships, with a load of 40 tons after dismantling and renovating.

However, these airships are now outdated, and Zeppelin spent a year constantly changing the design, and then asked Yang Chao to help calculate, improving the design more than ten times in a year, and finally launched the second-generation airship.

"Zeppelin-Yang Chao II airship, with a total length of 240 meters, a hull width and a height of 40 meters, the steel wire in construction has been reduced by two-thirds compared with the past, from 300 kilometers to 100 kilometers in length, aluminum has been reduced by one-third, from 150 kilometers to 100 kilometers, and the anchors have been reduced by half, from more than 800 anchors to 500. The engine was a new diesel engine, with a single horsepower of 1,000 horsepower, which was reduced from 12 to 6. ”

Zeppelin loudly briefed the press about the parameters of the new airship.

"The result of these new designs is that the deadweight of our airship reaches 300 tons when the dead weight is 100 tons, and the deadweight-to-weight ratio reaches 1 to 3, which is a technological miracle!"

Zeppelin himself was also very excited, to be honest, he didn't expect that the performance could be so much improved, after he modified the weight loss again and again, Yang Chao's calculations showed that it was safe, so that he made great strides to reduce to the current level, otherwise with his previous situation of slow groping, maybe 30 years will not be able to reach the current level.

What Zeppelin didn't know was that he invisibly advanced the airship technology by 30 years, completely meeting or even exceeding the technical parameters of the Hindenburg.

It's just that the price to pay is. Zeppelin relied more and more on Yang Chao's 'mathematical ability', of course, more relied on Diesel than him, otherwise Diesel would not have been able to launch this 1,000-horsepower engine, you must know the strongest German MAN company. It was just an 800 hp diesel engine.

Now the two have a new goal.

Zeppelin planned to increase the length of the airship to 300 meters and the carrying capacity to 500 tons, so that it could compete with ships, but in fact, the plane had never entered Zeppelin's eyes.

Diesel began the development of a 2,000 hp engine, targeting the shipping market. His 1,000-horsepower engine has been installed on the locomotive of the Sifang locomotive, and has been experimenting on the railway in Shandong for a year, and it is surprising that there has not been a single problem caused by the engine, and Diesel is full of confidence in his 1,000-horsepower product, so he did not hesitate to invest in the development of a larger engine.

Yang Chao is still very happy to see the continuous improvement of technology driven by airships, this kind of high-tech industry can indeed promote the development of other technologies the most.

Yang Chao couldn't help but sigh: The airship is the big plane of this era!

The Zeppelin-Yang Chao-2 airship is not only larger. The design is also more luxurious, drawing on the feedback from the first airship, Zeppelin has reduced the number of private rooms in the airship, adding a luxuriously designed dining room, and a variety of other event spaces, such as a dance hall, library, and even a smoking room.

These designs made the airship more expensive than before, reaching three million dollars.

But Zeppelin now has money. Not to mention last year's $4 million revenue and $2 million in profits, just to help Yang Chao build 15 military airships, Zeppelin received a whopping $1.5 million in processing fees. With Yang Chao providing all the materials, Zeppelin would receive $100,000 per ship for only the construction.

Of course, this was also believed by Zeppelin as Yang Chao's support for the company's development, because Zeppelin knew that Yang Chao also had manufacturing capacity, but handed it over to the joint venture company for production, apparently to help Zeppelin exercise the technical ability of the workers.

But he didn't know. Yang Chao was only hiding the secret for the reason, and nothing else.

The huge airship naturally needs more employees, just in the cockpit, there are twelve crew members, the captain used to be an old captain of the American steamship company in Hamburg, who was recruited by Zeppelin with a high salary, the old captain has rich experience in naval navigation, has been to more than fifty countries around the world, and he is responsible for commanding the spacecraft. In addition, there are operators who are responsible for operating the engine, controlling the direction, observing and recording various pressure instruments, and so on.

In addition, 30 hostesses, 30 male waitresses, 10 cooks, and 20 handymen were hired, all of whom added up to more than 100 people, which is basically on par with luxury cruise ships.

Yang Chao lived in the royal cabin, and the first-class ticket he bought last year had never been seated, so Zeppelin insisted on extending Yang Chao's annual ticket for free for one year, and the VIP with the first-class annual ticket had the right to transfer to the royal cabin when there was no royal member occupying it.

The visitors who followed Yang Chao also lived in first-class and second-class rooms.

The large house of nearly 100 square meters in the royal cabin, with floor-to-ceiling luxury viewing windows, bathrooms, kitchens, dining rooms, toilets, and even smoking rooms, allows Yang Chao to get all his needs without going out of the room.

However, Yang Chao still walked out of the room generously and communicated with the guests one by one, the people who can take an expensive airship in this era are all successful people, and Yang Chao is naturally unwilling to let go of this great opportunity.

The guests were mainly Americans, American businessmen doing business in Yantai, and the economic crisis has made many more American businessmen come to China in search of opportunities.

These people are still very enthusiastic when they see Yang Chao, and they know that it is difficult to make big gains in doing business in China without official support. However, the Shandong government seems to be biased against the United States, or only more welcoming to Germany.

For this reason, some people have very opinions about Yang Chao, not to mention the Americans, the Chinese have scolded Yang Chao for betraying the country.

However, there is still an opinion among the Americans that Yang Chao may have some kind of deal with the Germans, and that Shandong is after all Germany's sphere of influence, and that Yang Chao may have had to submit to Germany because of political considerations.

There are not a few Americans who hold this view, and the more they understand political activities, the more they believe that there is a political factor, and the more they resent the inaction of the US government. The world has reached the era of dividing spheres of influence, but the US government has not gained anything except for the Philippines from Spain ten years ago, and it is really incompetent.

At this time, I saw Yang Chao. Whether they have secretly hated him or understood him, they are very enthusiastic at this time.

Yang Chao also chatted with them enthusiastically and expressed his gratitude to the U.S. government for its help in this disaster. When the businessmen asked about investment opportunities, Yang Chao said that any investment by national capital was welcome. Among them is American capital.

These people were really direct, and immediately put forward those preferential policies of Yang Chao, asking them how they could get them, such as tax exemptions for starting a business, and so on.

Yang Chao told them that because the Germans had trade privileges in Shandong, he had no choice but to sign an agreement with the Germans, and that he had no plans to carry out such cooperation with other countries for the time being, and that if there were similar plans in the future, he would definitely consider American friends.

The commercial privileges that the Germans seized in Shandong were a political matter. It was so unfair to them, the businessmen, that they decided to put pressure on the government as soon as they returned home.

I walked all the way calmly, and when I arrived in San Francisco, I was personally greeted by the governor of California, and there was a member of the state legislature.

Yang Chao is not surprised, this is a long time set etiquette, since last year's confirmed foreign visit, with the United States hundreds of telegrams to communicate, everything has been decided, including which way to go. See who is sure.

At the governor's residence, I had a cordial conversation with representatives from all walks of life in California, and talked to each other about the bright future, friendship, and so on. It seems to be a group of old friends reuniting, laughing at jokes that are not funny, welcome dinners, celebrity drinking parties, just how boring, just so boring. But this is politics, like a group of actors on the stage, constantly putting on a show in the spotlight.

The next afternoon, the agreement was signed, and that was the main thing, and all the friendships, dinners, and receptions were all because of this.

But all these activities have nothing to do with this agreement, the real story always takes place outside the field, and it only shows the most glamorous side.

The agreement is about California's grain exports, and Shandong will import 3 million tons of grain from California every year for the next three years, at very favorable prices.

The reason why Yang Chao wants to purchase grain is precisely because of this catastrophe, the disaster has long been calmed down, some of the victims have returned to their hometowns, and some of the victims have been resettled in Shandong, but if they can't learn a lesson, it will be a waste of time.

Taking advantage of this catastrophe, Yang Chao caught the large and small state government warehouses in Shandong, and wiped out the original moths, although under the compromise of all parties, these guys were not brought to justice, but let other parties make concessions, Yang Chao reorganized the Shandong Hucang, handed over to Li Fu'an for management, and established an official grain company, responsible for specializing in the storage of grain in the official warehouse.

Shandong's empty granary, at this time urgently need to be filled, more than 30 million fathers and elders in Shandong, how can they consume tens of millions of tons of grain a year, and Shandong's local grain, in fact, is barely enough to eat, if a disaster like that in northern Jiangsu occurs in Shandong, it will only cause a greater disaster.

Therefore, Yang Chao must at least prepare enough emergency spare food for one season, so that when the disaster occurs, the people will die in vain, so Yang Chao has to buy at least 10 million tons of grain, and this year's disaster in northern Jiangsu, China is not a country with a surplus of grain, and it is obviously impossible to buy these grains from the Chinese market.

At this time, the United States is struggling with the economic crisis, and its grain is as cheap as dirt, and it happens to buy it from the United States, and it can still win the favor of the Americans, and it can also be used to express its gratitude to the United States for its help in China's disaster.

Of course, Yang Chao's purchase of 10 million tons of grain in three years is not only for Shandong, but now with the development of the railway network, linked with the waterway, there are basically few places that cannot be reached, the national market is forming, Yang Chao's batch of grain, it is easy to dilute in the Chinese market, and at the same time, after the disaster in other places, it can also be allocated as soon as possible, to put it bluntly, it is to use their power in Shandong and their own financial resources to build a small national grain reserve. (To be continued.) )