Yingtian Heavy Industry is an important enterprise under Yangfeng, the main business is large construction machinery, like bulldozers, excavators, and even giant gantry cranes in shipyards, in short, it is what is big, but the main factory has been relocated to Fengtian City, after all, this kind of factory is closer to the steel plant, the better, where Fengtian Iron and Steel has been put into production, with a designed annual output of 10 million tons, but the supply of iron ore is not available.

At present, there is also a headquarters and a special military industry department on the island, which is actually Yang Feng's tank research institute, and his main battle tank with thin skin and big stuffing has entered the sample manufacturing stage, because of some suggestions from time to time, his group of engineers who developed the Panther tank back then designed this tank into almost a copy of the Leopard One.

It's just that his soldiers are shorter, so they are smaller than the original Leopard One, but because they are smaller, so under the same total tonnage, the thickness of the armor in front of the hull has reached 100 mm, and the front of the turret is 150 mm, barely keeping up with the current mainstream tank armor, but it is still a lot worse than the latest T54 of the Soviet Army.

Fortunately, Yang Fuhrer didn't expect this layer of armor in the first place.

All the materials and a batch of corresponding equipment for his Chobham composite armor have been handed over to the Chinese engineers under his command, and they are currently experimenting with how to manufacture it in a research institute on a nearby island, according to the estimation of the experts in charge of this work, they will be able to manufacture armor of the same level as the sample within two years, which is what Yang Feng will really use for his own tanks in the future.

As for the artillery, it is very simple, the base model L7, which has already been handed over to the tank development team. It will be ready to be installed soon. There is no need for a more upscale one just yet. The basic model will do, and after a few years, it will be changed to a longer body tube, which is completely unnecessary now.

However, he was not here to see the tank today, behind this factory, which alone occupied more than two square kilometers of the precious territory of the Ming Empire, there was a special factory, in which a large number of workers were busy around a huge steel castle, but it was still under construction. Covered in rusty steel, it's hard to make out what it is.

"Cole, how long does it take for my darling to finish?"

Yang Feng asked the engineer who was wearing a helmet and was holding a drawing to direct the workers, and the latter saw him coming over and hurriedly said in stiff Chinese: "Your Excellency, your genius invention will take at least a year and a half, and I have to say that this is really an amazing and great achievement, words can no longer describe it, but there is one thing I always want to remind you, it's just that your time is too precious." So I haven't been notified of the audience until now. ”

"Well, I need to apologize to you for this. In the future, if Mr. Cole wants to see me, he does not need to make an appointment to schedule a time, as long as I am not in the meeting. ”

Yang Feng immediately said to Hu Hao.

At his level, of course, not everyone can see it casually, so you have to apply first, and then look at the arrangement of the attendant room.

Hu Hao hurriedly took out a small notebook and wrote it down.

"And Mr. Cole, what do you need to remind me?"

Yang Feng asked him about the former Wilhelmshaven shipyard expert, who was said to have been involved in a series of constructions from the Scheer all the way to the Tirpitz.

"How do you transport this behemoth to where it wants to go?"

The latter said.

"Can't you tow it?"

"Do you want to drag it from here to the Persian Gulf? That's impossible, Your Excellency, it weighs more than 10,000 tons, and it is not designed according to sea navigation, and its resistance to wind and waves is very poor, you can drag it to move at close range in shallow water, but you can't tow it for a long voyage, once it encounters a large wind and waves, it must sink. ”

Cole said with a smile.

Well, Yang Feng's treasure is a jack-up offshore oil platform, which is strictly speaking, he really developed it, because this thing is too heavy and beyond the Voyager's absorption capacity, so it is impossible to drag one directly from there. You can only find design drawings and materials, and then provide some of them to your experts, who will study them, and at most put some key things on the Voyager to make them. Fortunately, the technical content of this thing is not high, the first one of the people of the United States was successfully built in five or three years, although he worked at a deep depth, but after three years of tossing, he also made do with the construction, and his plan was to drag it to the offshore of Abu Dhabi to extract oil.

But as soon as Cole said it, he suddenly remembered that he had overlooked an important question, indeed, what about transportation?

"It seems that I also need to build a special transport ship separately for this kind of thing!"

Yang Feng touched his beloved mustache and said with a deep face.

"Special transport ships?"

Cole said confusedly.

"Yes!"

Yang Feng pretended to be forced and nodded deeply.

To transport this kind of thing, of course, you have to use a semi-submersible ship, but at this time it seems that no country has built this kind of ship, but this is not a big deal, now even a 50,000-ton aircraft carrier can be built, how can you not build a semi-submersible ship with a load of 20,000 or 30,000 tons, it is nothing more than a special appearance, and the structure is strengthened, and then the water injection and drainage requirements are higher, in short...

Anyway, he doesn't build it, this kind of thing is too high-level, and the largest ship his shipyard has built so far is only a merchant ship of more than 10,000 tons, let them build such a big one, technically it's not that it can't be done, there is no problem with his technology, but there is not such a big dock at present, the dock must be built first, he has no time to wait, he can't wait to go to the Middle East to extract crude oil!

What's more, he doesn't have so many workers, in the dock of the Suncheon Shipyard, four large destroyers are now being built at the same time, and there are six frigates for coastal anti-submarine and patrol, of course, frigates, in fact, the tonnage should still be regarded as a large destroyer at this time, and the full load displacement is close to three thousand tons, which is not even inferior to his current main combat class destroyer.

Well, what he built was actually the Leander-class frigate of the later Britons.

With so many warships under construction, he trained them for a total of five years, how could there be so many workers to build a semi-submersible ship of tens of thousands of tons.

His time is very urgent, the sooner the oil price is lowered, the sooner the Ming economy will get rid of the shackles, so even if this one is not used, but the next one must be sent to the coast of Abu Dhabi, so the easiest way is to hand it over to someone else, to the Prussians, in fact, he has already ordered two 50,000-ton tankers at the Blomfors shipyard, since this is better to hand over to the Prussians.

They are still very conscientious in terms of asking price, much more conscientious than the British.

"Doctor! You can put aside your work here for a while, go back to Europe for me, help Miss Yang Hongqi, and sign another order with the Blomforth shipyard, I need them to build me a special transport ship, a semi-submersible ship. ”

Thinking of this, he immediately said.

"Semi-submersible?"

"Yes, you can sail on the surface, you can also semi-dive after filling the water, and the hull structure has to be strong enough to load this platform directly, so that I can just drag this platform over it, and it can be lifted up by draining and transported to where I need it. Then by injecting water and diving, it can be directly towed from the ship to the side, so that all the loading and unloading transportation work can be completed, in fact, such a ship seems to be able to transport a lot of things, such as transporting submarines is also very good. ”

As he spoke, Yang Feng drew a sketch of a semi-submersible ship for Cole, and when he finished drawing, the latter's mouth was almost closed.

"Your Excellency, you are a genius!"

Cole exclaimed after half a minute.

"Of course, I think I am."

Yang Feng said proudly, but as soon as his eyes turned to the oil platform under construction, he immediately changed to a melancholy expression.

Of course, this oil platform is also very useful, you can't go to the Middle East and can't go nearby, go back and tow it to the offshore waters of Annam, or tow it to the offshore waters of North Borneo to rent scallops, so it also happens to form cooperation with scallops in this regard, first exercise skills, and then everyone happily go to the North Sea to extract oil.

He is making petty fights in other places, and only by getting out the big oil fields in the North Sea is the real most lethal.

While he was watching, an attendant hurriedly walked up to Hu Hao and handed him a telegram, Hu Hao only glanced at it, and immediately exclaimed with irrepressible excitement: "Oil, Führer, we have oiled in the oil exploration off the coast of Cilegon." ”

Well, the Ming Empire oil, which has been exploring off the coast of Java for many years, has finally begun to produce oil.

"Here we go! It's time to get started! ”

Yang Feng didn't have any happy expression, just talking to himself with a sinister smile there.

More than 1,000 kilometers away, in the northwest of Java, off the coast of Cilegon, the exit city of the Sunda Strait, on the Red No. 4 missile speedboat of the Ming Navy, several sailors were looking speechlessly at the distance opposite them, where was an old-fashioned freighter anchored in the sea, but there was just an extra set of drilling equipment on it, and now dozens of workers were going crazy, singing and dancing on the deck, and behind them, black crude oil was gushing out of the ground like a fountain.

The Arjuna oil field, which was originally the largest offshore oil field in Indonesia in history, began its first gushing.

Of course, those members of the imperial oil exploration team who were cheering did not know that the oil well they extracted also kicked off a bloody war, and the Ming Empire, which had just been established for only five years, would face the most serious crisis, and the director behind this crisis was their head of state.

It's February 50, and it's still 4 months until 625. (To be continued.) )