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At the 1851 World's Fair, the British used a steam locomotive to run at a speed of 100 kilometers per hour, which could not affect the trains running at 30 kilometers per hour on the British national railways, except for the unaware spectators who marveled at the technology of the British Empire.

The Jiaoji Railway built by the Germans in Shandong was originally designed to run at a speed of 60 kilometers per hour, and it has only reached this speed in recent years, and it is still at the world's advanced level, and the railway network that can run at a speed of more than 100 kilometers per hour in the world almost does not exist.

Siemens' transformation of the Jinpu electrified railway, the running speed is only 70 kilometers, which is already very amazing, which is only 10 kilometers per hour faster than the Jiaoji railway, and the Jiaoji railway was completed in 1898 design, it took 25 years to improve the 10 kilometers, the overall speed of the railway, is not so simple.

"From a professional point of view, if the railway can be transformed to meet the requirements, the running speed of 100 kilometers can be achieved in theory."

Hans pondered for a moment and said to Yang Chao, he believes that Siemens' technical strength can reach this level, but the speed of 100 kilometers per hour has no meaning for ordinary railways, and for railways with freight as the main profitable business, the load capacity is more important than speed, because by increasing the weight of the rails, it is easy to double the capacity, and in order to increase the speed, the railway line will be renovated again, and in the case of paying a huge cost, it may only be possible to increase the speed by one-tenth, and the gains outweigh the losses.

However, from the technical point of view, Siemens' electric locomotive runs to a speed of 100 kilometers per hour, which is not a problem, of course, if you want to turn the existing technology into reality, it will have to go through a lot of tests before it can be promoted, and there are many problems to be solved.

Because for electric locomotives, power is not a problem at all, it is easy to accumulate horsepower by adding coils, even if it can't be piled up, it is a big deal to add a few more locomotives. The biggest problem is the problem of train stability at high speeds, which is not Siemens' strong point, but a technology that locomotive factories should solve.

"Okay, you go and conduct arguments and experiments, and if you need my help, you can say it."

Yang Chao got Hans's assurance, he was already very satisfied, to make the current railway compete with the emerging cars, the only way is high-speed rail, the decline of the American railroad, is the combination of the developed automobile industry and the road network, Yang Chao does not want to stifle the automobile industry, but the advantages of flexible automobile transportation to railway transportation are too great, and it is necessary to support the development of railways.

The advantage of road transport is not efficiency, not cost, but flexibility, because a train has to prepare thousands of tons of goods before it can be transported, the car only needs to load a few tons of more than ten tons to set off, waiting for the goods in time, is a few tenths of the train.

Through reasonable management, the efficiency of railways can be improved, but this problem cannot be fundamentally solved. So the problem can only be solved from the speed, speed is the key to the success of the railway, because the railway does not need to take into account the congestion on the road, does not need to consider the problem of giving way, a railway runs on a train, this is a road built for them.

Especially in passenger transport, punctuality, fast is crucial, punctual problems have been basically solved through management, and more and more optimized, once the railway can reach a speed of 100 kilometers per hour, it will be completely car passenger transport competition, at least can be evenly divided.

"We want to work with locomotive factories and even railway companies to solve some technical problems."

Hans said.

Yang Chao said: "There is no problem, I can take the lead and let you set up a technical team with China Railway Corporation." If you want to work with Sifang Locomotive, no problem. As long as you can come up with technology, I will not be stingy with investment, Shandong's electric railway network is a big market. ”

The more than 5,000 kilometers of electric railway network is indeed a big market, a big market that is difficult to refuse.

Hans immediately said: "Sifang Locomotive has a strong technical force, and we also have a long-term cooperation, of course, the strength of the railway company is also very strong, our team of three parties will definitely be able to solve the technical problems you need." ”

Hans said.

In fact, there is not much need to introduce Sifang locomotives, because with the merger of Krupp's Chinese assets, Sifang locomotives have returned to Krupp's industry again. When the Americans withdrew from Yantai, several locomotive factories they left behind were bought by the China Railway Corporation, and Zhan Tianyou's plan was to have his own locomotive manufacturing industry, which could force the Germans to make concessions on prices and have the pricing power of railway vehicles. At the same time, the acquisition of these locomotive factories also allows the railway company to make up for the shortcomings in vehicle maintenance.

Therefore, the railway company can provide a complete set of technical services for vehicles and railways, and it is enough to form a joint team with Siemens, but as a German, Hans still prefers to cooperate with Sifang Locomotive, and Krupp can also mobilize greater technical capabilities in Germany.

For Yang Chao, if the research of high-speed electric locomotive technology can be completed faster if it can be supported by Germany's huge technical support, why not.

So he did not refuse: "You Siemens look at it, I only make one request, and it is best to complete it within a year." ”

Yang Chao is impatient to wait for them to spend ten years doing experiments, and lose tens of millions of dollars a year, although Yang Chao is a rich man, but money is not so bad, and if he doesn't make money in business, it makes no sense.

"In addition, I have a requirement that the developed technology must be shared by Siemens and China Railway Corporation."

Yang Chao emphasized that high-speed rail technology is a high-level technology, this is a big country technology, after all, Siemens is a German company, although Chinese capital has a large number of shares in it, and the Shanghai bank group alone has 30% of the shares, but the operation of Siemens has always been in the hands of the Siemens family.

Therefore, the technology is shared with the railway company under the control of Zhan Tianyou, which can effectively balance the phenomenon of Siemens' dominance.

Siemens has no opinion, after all, it is to be jointly developed with China Railway Corporation, and China Railway Corporation can share the development cost under the pretext of technology sharing.

After communicating with Hans, this matter was decided, and then asked Zhang Nian to help implement it.

Yang Chao went to the arsenal again, and the Shandong Arsenal was divided into two factories, the Laiwu Arsenal and the Qingdao Arsenal, both of which were extremely large, and were among the best in the world, even larger than the German Krupp and the Czechoslovak Steyr Arsenal.

After all, these two factories are responsible for the vast majority of China's arms production.

But in peacetime, they still have to carry out civilian production, for example, both factories have undertaken a large number of orders for the production of cylinders for diesel engines in Diesel, and they are also helping locomotive factories produce accessories, such as transmission shafts and the like. Because it is an arsenal, the purchase of many equipment is not sparing no expense, so the machining accuracy has always been in the forefront of machining enterprises, such as the large-scale Heath machine tool, the number of arsenal equipment is more than that of the engine company.

Through cooperation with civilian people, the arsenal can not only receive a large number of new technologies, but also be inspired by a large number of civilian inventors' genius designs, and introduce a large number of new technologies into the arsenal as quickly as possible, which is why the British and American military production has always been stronger than that of Soviet Russia, not that the technical strength of Soviet Russia is not enough, but that the British and American military enterprises respond faster to new technologies, and they use the entire industrial system to fight against the military industry of Soviet Russia, and they can naturally win.

Now the engineers of the arsenal are developing a new weapon, a heavy mortar with a caliber of 120 mm, the biggest advantage of the mortar is that the first is the fast firing speed, which can fire more than 15 rounds per minute, which is incomparable to the field artillery, the second is light weight, easy to move, and the third is simple and easy to learn, and the soldier is easy to learn.

But when the caliber reaches more than 100, the mortar can hardly be called lightweight, the engineers of the Laiwu Arsenal developed this mortar body is 2 meters long, weighs 800 kilograms, no matter how you look at it, it is not easy to move the role, but it is more than 2 tons of weight than the heavy artillery of the same caliber, it is still light.

But the weight of 800 kg is still not something that ordinary soldiers can move, and the design of the arsenal is to install the ground and pull it with a car, but the question is, since it needs to be pulled by a car, then why not directly equip it with howitzers, but with a mortar whose design accuracy is far inferior to that of field guns?

After hearing their arguments, Yang Chao couldn't make up his mind, and only encouraged them to continue their research, but he couldn't promise to promote the army to equip this cannon.

Yang Chao and the engineers of the arsenal ignored an important reason, that is, the manufacturing process of mortars is much simpler than field guns, which makes mortars easier to manufacture than field guns, and a large number of such cannons can be manufactured most quickly during the war.

This is a problem with the Germans, so in World War II, the number of artillery equipped by Germany was far less than that of the Soviet army, because the Soviet army was equipped with a large number of mortars, especially heavy mortars played a great role, and the simple and easy-to-learn mortars were also very popular with Soviet soldiers who had no time to train and had low cultural quality.

What Yang Chao didn't know was that it was precisely because of his encouragement that the arsenal continued to develop mortars, which eventually played a huge role in World War II, and they even developed 150, or even 200 caliber super mortars, which were turned into Yang Chao's cannons by Western soldiers.

After staying in the arsenal for a day, he immediately rushed to Yantai, not to deal with business, but because the Jin sisters came from North Korea and brought their sons. (To be continued.) )