"We have tried every means to reduce the cost of a single ship, some internal non-critical equipment, and even control the cost to the point of harshness.

The cost of 5 million Cosmic Coins is indeed very high, so we must fight with war. While manufacturing our own Shenlong-class battleships, we are also producing battleships for export, so that as long as we can sell the battleships, it will not be long before we can produce a sufficient number of battleships for our own use. ”

Zhang Shusheng said with anticipation.

Building a Shenlong-class battleship with a snowball was the best way he could think of.

Others, such as loans, blackmail, doing business, are impractical.

The existing loan has not been repaid, and it is a long-term huge installment loan of two or three hundred million.

If it is a blackmail method, it is possible to get rich overnight, but rich and handsome people like Quinn and Gema are not often encountered, and if they encounter it once, it is just a small fortune.

In addition, even if it is to sell technology, it is better to sell drawings than to sell arms directly, and warships, as a necessary equipment for space warfare, have always been extremely sought-after.

Some countries with tight finances even once failed to repay their debts, so they directly replaced the warships of the active fleet and pulled them all over to pay off their debts.

Everyone nodded, this is also the best way, the cost of the Shenlong-class battleship is too high, and the value can no longer be estimated with the new yuan, plus many materials and components in it also need to be purchased or exchanged by Zhang Shusheng, and the materials are exchanged for production.

Hatton: "Your Majesty is right, this is also the best way we can think of, now let's take a look at our export-oriented battleships, Draco-class battleships and Wyvern-class battleships." ”

Hatton led the group to the side and had two models opened, and sure enough, they were two smaller ships.

"The Celestial-class battleship is a weakened version of the Shenlong-class battleship."

"Considering that we couldn't offer our most advanced battleship to anyone else, and that we wanted to make it have a wide market and be able to generate high enough purchases** for our customers, we designed this Draco-class battleship," Hatton said.

This Draco-class battleship mainly weakens the battleship armor system, energy engine system, and energy shield system. This makes the Draco-class battleships not much different from the current G-type battleships in terms of speed and energy shield strength, as well as charge speed and armor strength.

However, we have reserved two advanced designs for it.

One is its speed, the speed of this battleship has completely inherited the excellent speed of the Shenlong-class battleship, with a combat speed of 0.4 times the speed of light, and a maximum speed of 1.1 times the speed of light, which is already greatly ahead of the conventional G-type military battleships, not to mention the commercial battleships.

The second is its firepower.

The firepower of this battleship is very ferocious, in addition to modifying its main gun power supply system to make it more inefficient, it also has two powerful light energy main guns, which retains ferocious firepower.

Ahead of its opponents, with twice the enemy's firepower, and the fact that it was not inferior to the current Type G battleships in terms of armor and energy shields, engines, and energy supply systems, it ensured a great price-for-all when it came to exporting. ”

After listening to him, everyone suddenly realized that it was no wonder that the Tianlong-class battleship was a weakened version of the Shenlong-class battleship, and for the battleship, the customer's favorite thing was nothing more than running fast and fighting hard.

The Tenryu-class battleships not only retain their high-speed power, but also retain their ferocious firepower, and of course there will be a huge market.

Zhang Shusheng also said with a smile, "The positioning of our battleships is to compete with those second-level civilization production of commercial/military G-type battleships for the market.

Aside from its outrageously superior surname, the cost of this Draco-class battleship is not too high.

It is available in three versions.

The ordinary version of the Draco-class battleship costs 2.5 million cosmic coins for a single ship, and is expected to cost 4.5 million cosmic coins.

The deluxe version of the Draco-class battleship costs 2.9 million cosmic coins for a single ship, and is expected to cost 5.5 million cosmic coins.

The supreme version of the Draco-class battleship costs 3.3 million cosmic coins for a single ship, and is expected to cost 6.5 million cosmic coins. ”

Then, Zhang Shusheng explained in detail the origin of this pricing idea.

The ordinary version of the Dragon Battleship and the Shenlong-class battleship are a manufacturing idea, the key parts are of course real materials, but the internal non-key parts can be used as cheap materials as possible, so as to minimize the cost and reduce the selling price.

The deluxe version is just the opposite, the cost of the internal battleship decoration costs 400,000 cosmic coins, which is already very luxurious, and of course, the price is also increased accordingly.

If there is no difference between the actual surname of the ordinary version and the deluxe version, then the Supreme version of the Tianlong Battleship is still stronger in terms of surname, and its interior decoration is very gorgeous, and it is completely built according to the specifications of the flagship.

If you look at the price of a flagship, the price of the Supreme Edition of the Draco-class battleship is not expensive, it is quite cheap.

Zhang Shusheng: "A 3,000-meter-long battleship is already the size of a recognized entry-level super battleship, coupled with its ferocious firepower and proud speed, we are fully confident that it will be sold at a high price." The actual price may be higher than the current expected selling price. ”

What Zhang Shusheng didn't say was that the design of these three battleships was based on the technology of multiple levels of civilization. For example, an expensive material used on a Shenlong-class battleship, if the method of a second-level civilization is adopted, it will cost a huge amount of more than 200,000 cosmic coins, but if the technology of a fourth-level civilization is used to synthesize an ordinary new material, it can be replaced.

The technology of the second-level civilization comes from the third-level civilization, and many key technologies are not clear, and sometimes they are deliberately misled, so that the second-level civilization has taken many detours in the design and production of warships.

The empire has a large number of technologies and drawings to refer to, and there are extremely powerful intelligent brains to participate in the design, as well as a large number of scientists with a very high degree of brain domain development to participate.

This is also the most significant scientific and technological achievement of the empire in the past two years.

At this time, Chen Yun thought for a long time, pointed to the third model named the Flying Dragon Battleship and asked, "Your Majesty, is the positioning of this kind of battleship to compete with them for the market of ordinary models?" ”

Zhang Shusheng nodded and said, "You're half right. When Hatton led the design, we did take into account the problem that not all countries can afford a large number of Draco-class battleships, and they also need cannon fodder battleships with a façade.

At present, the second-level civilization in the southwest star field only sells commercial battleships, and the standard military type is supplied to each family, and it is used for long-range star trade.

Everyone is afraid of raising tigers, and in the area of military battleships, they still control very strictly.

Our Wyvern-class battleship is completely a general-purpose G-type military battleship, which can be manufactured by many second-level civilizations without any peculiarities, but the cost is very low, one can be built for 1 million cosmic coins, but the expected price can reach about 2.5 million cosmic coins. ”

Chen Yuan nodded, that's it, the Tianlong-class battleships are used to grab the high-end market, which is enough to meet the needs of most first-level civilizations, and even second-level civilizations for high-end warships.

The third-level civilization implements a monopoly on warships for the second-level civilization, and the second-level civilization imposes a ban on the sale of warships to other countries.

In addition to the high-end warships that seize the market, the civilian-class Wyvern battleships are cheap, high-quality and real, and they will detonate a round of procurement when the time comes.

Everyone was excited, but they were still worried about these good and advanced warships, can the empire really be able to make them?

Everyone visited again, and after Zhang Shusheng personally decided to visit the battleship factory collectively next month, he finally dispersed.

Entering the office, Zhang Shusheng changed from an emperor to a scientist and a budget-conscious project leader.

He first looked at the current installation progress of the battleship factory, and some important machinery and equipment had been successfully exchanged for almost all system points in the past two years.

Seeing that 1956 was about to come, these devices, which cost a huge amount of points to redeem, were also installed one by one.

During this period, Zhang Shusheng also arranged for someone to go on an outsource, and bought back more than 5 million cosmic coins of conventional machinery and some basic materials from Yun Ya.

In the past two years, in addition to purchasing equipment and exchanging equipment, Zhang Shusheng also personally supervised the construction of some supporting factories for Hatton to take the lead in building some supporting factories for the battleship factory.

With the vigorous cooperation of the giant machine-building center, the whole empire invested the whole country, and a large number of new machinery was produced, new material factories, new engine factories, and new main gun manufacturing plants...... In the past two years, construction has been started one after another, although the battleship factory itself has a large number of related supporting equipment, but in order for the empire to be able to produce battleships in large quantities in the future, Zhang Shusheng's only way is to try to equip it in place at one time.

Two years have passed, and although the battleship factory will be completed next month, in fact, it will take more than a year for these large-scale and large-scale supporting factories.

It was expected that in the first half of 1958, the Reich would be able to start mass production of battleships.

As for piecemeal production, there are not many materials needed, so there is no need to wait for all the supporting factories to be complete. During the period of 1956~1957, what Zhang Shusheng had to do was to order Hatton and take the lead in manufacturing 3 No. 0 ships, which was used as a finalization.

The three warships involve a total of 5 main guns, more than 70 subguns, hundreds of secondary guns, three sets of engines, three sets of energy shield systems, and so on.

Hatton told Zhang Shusheng that the empire could make half of it on its own, and that the rest could only be solved by Zhang Shusheng, whether it was purchased or secretly obtained from 'alien allies'.

Zhang Shusheng is not in a hurry, if he is insufficient, he will naturally exchange it with the system, which is nothing.

In his opinion, in another year or two, the empire will be able to gradually emerge, "In 1958, there is still more than a year to go, and our first batch of officially produced battleships will be able to start construction." ”

(To be continued)