Lockheed was indeed appreciated by Yang Chao, but the opportunity he got was not the opportunity he imagined, but Yang Chao's invitation, inviting him to work as a designer at the Zeppelin-Yang Chao company. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Although it is not what Lockheed imagined, such an opportunity is really not something that an auto mechanic can refuse, not only a matter of high salary, joining a star company like Zeppelin-Yang Chao Airship Company, working with an idol like Zeppelin, and engaging in the aviation career he loves, these reasons are simply a dream for a young man like him, so he didn't think about it, and stammered and agreed.

However, Lockheed can't go to China for the time being, but is responsible for staying in the United States, Yang Chao contacted the rich and powerful dang branch in the United States, and asked them to select personnel and form a team to attract some American design talents to work in the airship company, it is best to have brilliant work qualifications, such as rich design experience, whether it is designing cars, or designing other things, as long as you have relevant experience, or have a very prominent academic background, such as massachusetts, Columbia and other university graduates, Then have more than ten years of engineer qualifications.

Such people are elites in any country, but this is a time of economic crisis, such people do not starve to death, but the unemployed still abound, they have good savings, they can get through this period, and then find better opportunities in the next round of economic expansion, but now they are idle.

Of course, not too many people are willing to leave the United States to work in China, but if it is Zeppelin, it is a different matter, Zeppelin's appeal in the engineering world is not ordinarily strong, and many strange things made by the Germans in later generations, such as jet trains and the like, are named Zeppelin, which is a tribute to Zeppelin.

After spending a while in New York, I found that I really attracted a lot of engineers. Even scientists who are obsessed with science and technology, Yang Chao can't help but be happy, this can be regarded as a kind of bottom-copying, bottom-copying scientific and technological talents. As for paying. It's really not much, the arsenal hires those technicians who are still paid double the salary, these people are just ordinary wages, even lower than before, and they are willing to sign a contract to work in China for three years. It's really earned.

At the same time, what is more profitable is that it swept the Caribbean Sea, increasing the gold reserves in the airship to 800 tons, which is simply crazy, and it is precisely because of his confidence in the gold of the shipwreck that Yang Chao dared to start a large-scale war industrial cooperation this time, after all, Yang Chao basically accounts for about half of the shares.

After sweeping the gold of the Caribbean, Yang Chao continued to set off for Europe, and also gained a lot along the way, not that no gold ship was found. Especially when he arrived in Vigo Bay in Spain, he made a lot of money and even caught more than 100 tons of gold at a time.

What Yang Chao didn't know was that he could get a lot of gold here in Vigo Bay, thanks to the British.

In 1702, Spain's financial situation became increasingly difficult due to the war with the British, and King Philip V ordered the Spanish colonial government in South America to send the gold and silver treasures surrendered and tributed to Seville, Spain, by ship.

In order to win the battle for the suzerain, the colonies looted all the gold accumulated over hundreds of years, and used seventeen galleons to pull them towards Spanish territorial waters, but they had long been targeted by the British. Watching on the coast of Spain, it was sunk by the British.

The British then interrogated the prisoners, and the captured Spanish admiral Chacon confessed that there were 5,000 wagons of gold and jewels on board. But they all sank to the bottom of the sea.

This is the famous Spanish gold ship in the future, but unfortunately it has not been salvaged, and this time it is cheap.

After salvaging the Spanish gold ship, Yang Chao salvaged a thousand tons of gold!

But this 1,000 tons of gold has basically wiped out the gold buried in the bottom of the sea for centuries, and the detection capability of the spacecraft. It's not covered, after being swept, I don't dare to say that not a single needle will be missed, but it's not so easy to pick up the leak, at least don't think about salvaging tons of gold at once, at most find some missing golden sand and some shipwrecked crew jewelry.

After salvaging the gold, Yang Chao stepped onto the European continent.

There is no reason why the current financial crisis has not affected Europe, which is more closely linked to the United States, and in particular, the European financial industry has suffered heavy losses, and many of their banks have also participated in trust speculation in the United States, resulting in heavy losses.

Industry can be said to be completely affected, Britain and France, two colonies with a large number of colonies to dump goods, fortunately, Germany, a rising star, the most developed country with partial industry, is too innocent.

However, there are some exceptions, that is, some companies with close ties to China have fared better in this economic crisis, such as providing machinery and equipment to China's enterprises that are building vigorously, or have invested in China, and their situation has been slightly better.

This led to the emergence of such an argument in the German economic circles, that is, the balance beam hypothesis with the colonies, they believed that in the absence of a large number of colonies to dump, in small colonies, such as Qingdao and other colonies, the establishment of a certain scale of enterprises can be like a balance beam, with the ups and downs of German industry, effectively resolving the German economic crisis.

When the German economy is in crisis, it can divert the funds and profits of the colonies to stabilize, and when the German economy is good, it can continue to invest in the colonies to further develop the colonial economy.

So economists began to express their views in favor of the economic development of the colonies, especially those that interacted with German industry, and called this the Weighted Action.

There is a market for this hypothesis, and the German government is already considering and supporting the encouragement of some industrial enterprises to invest in the colonies.

As the purpose of attracting investment, Yang Chao suddenly became unprecedentedly important in this public opinion environment, and Yang Chao's every move has attracted attention in Europe, but it is almost a phenomenon in Germany.

However, Yang Chao still intended to tune the appetite of the Germans, and his first stop was not Germany, but England.

He first solved the problem of railway financing, and last time he promised the British to issue 10 million pounds of railway bonds, this time he came to cash, of course, the minister in Britain can also handle this kind of thing, but in order to contribute to Yang Chao's diplomatic activities, the China Railway Corporation authorized Yang Chao to be responsible for this bond issuance activity.

And Yang Chao signed a new railway construction plan with the British. Britain wanted to build a railway from Burma to Yunnan, China, and the Qing government had never agreed, but Yang Chao agreed, how difficult it would be for China to build a railway from Yunnan to the Indian Ocean. Yang Chao is very clear.

It's just that in that era, China wanted to go from Burma to the Indian Ocean, and in this era, the British wanted to go from the Indian Ocean to China. The Qing government was conservative. was worried about the British infiltrating Yunnan, but Yang Chao was not worried, he was confident that he could stop the British.

In addition to railway cooperation, Yang Chao also decided to have an interaction with the British shipbuilding industry, but instead of introducing British shipbuilders, he ordered two Dreadnought class ships in the UK, and the British gave a preferential price, with a total price of 10 million US dollars, you must know that the British spent 1.8 million pounds to build the Dreadnought, which is equivalent to 9 million US dollars. Now the two ships are only 10 million.

But who said that now is a time of economic crisis, the price of steel and labor has been greatly reduced, as long as they can not lose money, the British would like to work in vain, at least they can keep their slipways empty, so that their shipbuilders have work, not unemployed, for the purpose of protecting the British shipbuilding industry, this contract is not a loss.

Yang Chao also had a proviso that the British had to send someone to help China train its navy. The British did not have any reason to refuse.

After that, he went to France and signed a joint venture contract with Air Liquide to cooperate in the production of pressure air tanks in China. There is a foundation for this cooperation, and Yang Chao's airship company is now Air Liquide's largest customer. In the past two years, hundreds of air tanks have been procured to store helium. Stimulated by the large market of 100 airships to be built by Yang Chao in the next few years, Air Liquide can't wait to invest in China, even if it is not a joint venture.

He also determined the specific agreement with the French on the Chengdu-Kunming Railway, which was also promised by Yang Chao to the French before, in order to make concessions to France on the issue of the Zhengtai Railway, and Yang Chao promised the French to build a railway from Yunnan to Sichuan. And hire the French, this time to implement this problem. Moreover, Yang Chao said that all French technicians will be used, and in the case that China's own materials and equipment cannot meet the conditions, French materials and equipment will be prioritized for procurement. The financing of the railway was carried out entirely in Paris.

Yang Chao's visit this time can be said to have brought great gifts to Britain and France, but the highlight is in Germany.

Long before Yang Chao left the United States, he had set up a team to recruit scientific personnel in the Berlin branch of Fuqiang Dang, and before Yang Chao arrived in Germany, they had recruited more than 1,000 technical personnel, including heavyweight physicists like Plante, who accepted the invitation of the airship company and would go to Shandong to engage in the research of airship aerodynamics.

Yang Chao is not very surprised to be able to attract a figure of Plant's level, Zeppelin has such a great appeal in the United States, and it would be abnormal if he could not attract a group of heavyweights in Germany.

In 1904, Plante published the boundary layer theory of low-speed flow, which is actually a theory of aerodynamics, aerodynamics is still a cutting-edge science, and the closest to aerodynamics is undoubtedly the Zeppelin, so he went to the airship company to do research.

Yang Chao plans to assign him a group of consultants, such as some physics students who graduated from Germany, to let them be assistants to Plante, and at the same time follow Plante to complete his master's education.

It's a pity that Yang Chao strongly invited Harper did not agree to go to Shandong, as a leading chemist, is embarking on the research of the direct synthesis of ammonia with nitrogen and hydrogen, the Germans are reluctant to let him go to China, because the synthesis of ammonia is related to whether nitrate can be obtained directly from the air, and nitrate is a necessary raw material for the manufacture of ZHA medicine, the nitrate trade has always been monopolized by the British, if this problem is not solved, the German military industry will always be subject to the British, once there is a war with the British, Within a year, Germany will have consumed all the zha medicine and will have to surrender.

The reason why Germany was able to hold out for three or four years in World War I was precisely because Harper completed the ammonia synthesis process, and the Germans could directly use air as a raw material to produce TNTzha medicine. However, Yang Chao funded Harper's research, and with the acquiescence of the German government, Harper promised to share ammonia synthesis technology with Yang Chao once the research was successful.

What Harper didn't know was that his research would be completed in a few months, and of course Yang Chao didn't know it at this time, it was just a coincidence.

This is just a small episode, so small that the Germans have not recorded much in the history of later generations, not that it is unimportant, but it is not worth mentioning in terms of the next cooperation between Yang Chao and the Germans.

Because Yang Chao later reached a series of cooperation with the Germans, it caused a sensation in the whole world and was called a cooperation that changed the world pattern. (To be continued.) )