It is not easy for a tank to go from planned design to real finalized production, and modern industry is far from reaching the point where it can produce tanks without pressure. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Even in most countries, even cars cannot be produced, and at present, the only company in the world with advanced technology is the Ford factory in the United States, but the Ford factory manufactures commercial vehicles, which are lightweight cars, and are far from being close to tanks.

Of course, it is unlikely that there is no relationship, because the Type E is the predecessor of the armored reconnaissance vehicle, and the armored reconnaissance vehicle is based on the Type E car that has not yet been finalized.

However, considering that the armored reconnaissance vehicle needs to be equipped with heavy armor and weapons, improvements have been made in the engine, load-bearing bearings and chassis, etc., if there is enough time, through long-term experiments, the Americans will still be able to change this technical difficulty little by little.

But the problem is that they don't have enough time to do those complex and mindless experiments, and even if they do, what if they do? According to the E-type car, it can only be an armored reconnaissance vehicle, not a real tank, what they need is a tank, a tank that can withstand the Boar tanks of the Chinese Empire, and not those reconnaissance vehicles that can only bully the infantry.

But then again, there are no impermeable pants in this world, uh, walls.

Did the Chinese Empire have an automobile industry? Yes, but it was built with the investment of the Ford plant, and although this is true in theory, there are some things that cannot be hidden from the state apparatus, and the U.S. government has easily learned about some key issues.

For example, Henry Ford had been to the Chinese Empire in the early years, and stayed there for a few years before returning to the United States to build the Ford factory, and then to the Chinese Empire to invest in the Chinese factory.

The information on the surface shows that Henry Ford is interested in the cheap labor cost of the Chinese Empire, but the Americans know very well that the Ford factory located in the Chinese Empire is the first Ford factory in the world, and the American factory is actually copied back from the factory of the Chinese Empire in many aspects, and even a lot of research work is done on the side of the Chinese Empire.

This also made the U.S. government have to shift its attention to Henry Ford, and even the top level of the United States believes that perhaps, the design work of the Boar tank currently in service in the Chinese Empire has Henry Ford.

They were furious, angry that Henry Ford, as an American, would help the Chinese Empire design those advanced tanks, and found Henry Ford and implicitly raised the matter.

Of course, Henry Ford is not stupid at all, he will not admit this matter, but for the first investment in the Chinese factory, Ford still admitted it directly.

In response to the U.S. government's inquiry, Henry Ford's response was that the Chinese Emperor Wang Sirui had found him and was willing to pay him a large salary and provide him with sufficient funds for experimental research, in exchange, Henry Ford needed to authorize the Chinese Empire to build a Ford factory in China free of charge, and could use the research results at no cost, but only within the Chinese Empire, except for the Chinese Empire, the rest of the market belonged to Henry Ford himself.

As for the tank they proposed, Henry Ford directly denied it, but in order to avoid suspicion from the U.S. government, or to make trouble, Henry Ford only revealed that the students he brought with him had asked him some strange questions when he was researching, and then Henry Ford explained some characteristics of the armored reconnaissance vehicle.

And then there was no then, and as for the rest, Henry Ford would never say anything more, and besides, he really didn't know.

The armored reconnaissance vehicle Henry Ford was indeed fully involved, but Henry Ford did not participate in the Wild Boar tank at all, and those were completely designed and researched by his Chinese students. At that time, Henry Ford's main focus was on the research of trucks.

In order to protect himself, coupled with the plan agreed with Wang Sirui in advance, Henry Ford told the US government the data of some armored reconnaissance vehicles, and promised that the factory could try to transform it, but because there was no specific data and parameters, he did not dare to guarantee when the research would be successful.

At this point, the U.S. government had to give up for the time being, but the surveillance of Henry Ford was not relaxed at all, so they would not believe that Henry Ford really had nothing to do with the Chinese Empire, maybe the tank was designed by Henry Ford. But Henry Ford did not admit it, which made the US government very chagrined, and Henry Ford had a certain status in the United States, which also made it impossible for the US government to use high-level pressure to force him.

And the United States because of the geographical location factors, plus they expected Henry Ford to have the relevant technology about tanks in his hands, and there are also backup plans for Ford to come up with these technologies, so they are not in a hurry, on the Chinese side, the Americans do the most is intelligence gathering, they want to grasp the progress of the countries' negotiations on tanks, grasp the real situation of the forces of all parties, if necessary, they will take coercive means to force Henry Ford, or use the relationship to buy some technology from Wang Sirui.

But then again, it's a bit embarrassing to let these powers, who have dominated the Chinese Empire for so many years, come to the Chinese Empire to buy technology.

You must know that as early as a few years ago, they could still bully the Chinese Empire at will, but in the past few years, the development speed of the Chinese Empire has been too fast, so fast that the great powers can't adapt to it.

And many people also began to regret it, they knew that it would be like this, and it was better to unite with the Qing government to suppress Wang Sirui back then. Of course, what they regretted even more was that they had already done it at that time, but Wang Sirui solved the trouble by means of a stand-in, and what replaced it was an almost mad revenge.

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Zhongjing, a very ordinary courtyard, is just the home of an ordinary civil servant, but today, it is here to welcome two unusual guests.

In order to avoid the eyes of the outside world, Wang Shizhen invited the German ambassador to China Mummer here, and it was still night, and the family also went to the neighbor's house next door, and no one knew about the arrival of Wang Shizhen and Mumo.

There were only four people in the whole courtyard, and two of them were interpreters from their side.

Wang Shizhen also doesn't know why Wang Sirui insists that the Germans will definitely provoke a war in Europe within five years, but according to the recent performance of the Germans and some preparations made by the Germans in secret, Wang Shizhen is also more and more sure of Wang Sirui's judgment.

A normal country needs a lot of steel, this is understandable, after all, if the country wants to develop now, it needs all kinds of resources, and Germany has very little iron ore, and there are no colonies in the world, their resources are much less than those of Britain and France, and the secret steelmaking in the Chinese Empire is also reasonable.

However, the weapons production line supported by the Germans demanded a commission, and the commission was not money, but the production of good weapons and equipment, and even in order to meet the requirements of the Germans, there was an arsenal in the factory in Shandong that was producing according to the requirements of the Germans. (The Mauser rifle used in the Chinese Empire was an improved version and was more suitable for East Asians.) ）

Because there was a good foundation for cooperation in the past, and there were many exchanges of technology and resources between the two sides, Mu Mo knew very well that the Chinese were not willing to lag behind, so they would definitely provoke a war in Asia to change China's position in the world.

And the Germans' minds are almost the same, but in Mumo's view, the Chinese's intentions are obvious, especially after the Sino-Japanese Korean War, the Chinese's thoughts are almost not covered, and the Germans are very good in this regard, of course, this also depends on the environmental factors between the two sides, the Germans have to cover up, once the British and French know, will the Germans have a better time in Europe?

Therefore, as soon as they met, Mu Mo did not detour and directly put forward a request to buy tank technology, and the Germans were not likely to play those zigzag routines, plus the attribute of a tendon, with the relationship with the Chinese Empire, which was okay, so I felt that it was nothing to put forward directly.

And Wang Shizhen did not refuse, which made Mu Mo very happy in his heart, once they got the technology of the tank, with the industrial capacity of the Germans, at most one year, they would be able to start producing the steel monster of the tank, and in less than two years, they would have the ability to challenge the authority of the whole of Europe.

But what Mu Mo didn't expect was that Wang Shizhen proposed that the Chinese Empire would only do this deal in the form of technology exchange, and if the Germans wanted to get the technology of the tank, they had to use artillery technology and industrial machine tools in exchange.

For this condition, Mu Mo felt a little embarrassed by his mother.

The technology of artillery can be considered, anyway, the Chinese themselves can build it, but the technology is a little backward, and it does not hurt Germany to give them a set of technology.

But the industrial machine is a pain, the industrial machine is not the name of a single equipment, and no one in this world has ever seen the appearance of the industrial machine, it is just an ignorant concept, that is, the self-upgrading ability of the industry, the level of the machine tool these two major items.

It's a complex concept, but to sum it up, it's a whole set of machines for the production of high-precision machine tools and other equipment, and if there are excellent senior talents, this equipment can be used to continuously produce more advanced equipment, and at the same time, it can be modified to adapt it to more severe historical challenges.

There are also some of these things in Germany at present, in addition to the three sets that have been put into use, there are two sets as backups, and it doesn't hurt to take them out, but the problem is that the big guy like the industrial mother machine went to change the tank technology, and obviously suffered a big loss, which is equivalent to the Chinese taking an egg for the German hen.

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