Chapter Seventy-Three: Landing on the Island

"Fu Shuai, the Fourth Fleet does not have an aircraft carrier yet, and I heard that an aircraft carrier of the Jiangnan Shipbuilding Group that has been rebuilt from a battle patrol has not yet decided where to go. It's not that I like to boast, the imaginary enemy of the navy can only be Japan, the Fourth Fleet is aimed at the South Seas, and the resources of the South Seas cannot be exaggerated for the Japanese navy. Petroleum, rubber, and rare metals are all indispensable materials for the production of Japanese military industry. If you can equip the Fourth Fleet with aircraft carriers, the entire route of the South China Sea will be threatened by our aircraft carriers. Chen Ce agitated a three-inch tongue and peddled the importance of his strategic position in Nanyang. The battleships were limited by the Washington Naval Treaty, and the tonnage of the four fleets wanted them to spit out, but there was no hope for them. Even if the relationship is good, it will not give up a tonnage. Especially Chen Shaokuan, that guy, can't wait to bring the entire navy's battle patrols into his Third Fleet.

Fang Jianxiong listened with a smile, Chen Ce felt that there was a play, and continued to entangle: "Fu Shuai, look." At present, the second fleet, which is the most powerful, has four battle cruisers, and the tonnage of battleships is as high as more than seven tons, and the first fleet also has two big ones close to 30,000 tons, even the third fleet is stronger than the fourth fleet, and two battle cruisers bought back by the British are more than four tons. ”

"Okay, you stop, the tonnage of the aircraft carrier is just like that, the aircraft carrier under construction by Jiangnan Shipbuilding can only be handed over to the strongest Second Fleet, which will be used to train a combat aircraft carrier formation first. Let me tell you this, aircraft carriers are a new thing at the moment, and the Navy needs time to find out and hone its aircraft carrier tactics. Don't worry about it, the big guys at the Admiralty won't say yes at all. That's good, I'll give you another naval flight group, and don't worry about this aircraft carrier. The Navy still has two Qingdao-class combat cruisers built by the United States to be converted into aircraft carriers, so you can wait patiently for two years. ”

Chen Ce didn't want to wait for a moment, there were so many resources for the four major fleets of the Navy. The problem is that Fang Jianxiong's words have already reached this point, and Chen Ce can only accept it helplessly. Thinking about it carefully, it's still a very helpless thing, who let Tang Qianming be the first to invest in Fang Dashuai's banner, not to mention that there is an elder brother who is the president. That's the case in China, where people are sometimes bigger than the sky. The Second Fleet has always been the main fleet of the Chinese Navy, and Shanghai, where it is stationed, is also China's largest free trade zone and the lifeblood of China's foreign economy.

The helpless Chen Ce could only hope to accept the reality. Fang Jianxiong suddenly thought of a question, thought for a while, and then said: "By the way, Shen Honglie's 1st Marine Division should be transferred from Taiwan to Hainan in turn, and train in Hainan to adapt to the tropical climate." ”

Fang Dashuai looked very crooked. Chen Ce couldn't continue to entangle, so he had to say a few words with him. The establishment of this Marine Corps originally consisted of only one brigade, which was originally advocated by Fang Jianxiong, and the navy was also very supportive. Mainly because of the competition between the army and the navy, which is a virtue in every country. However, now that there is an air force that is just red, it is just a little less to share the military expenses that are not rich. Overall. The Army has always been the boss, and it thinks of itself as the boss. The entire Republic of China was defeated by the army, and it is reasonable to be awesome. The problem is that the Navy doesn't buy it, you say that you are fighting? At the beginning, Qingdao hit the sun. Why didn't the army go to sea to fight battleships? Of course, the army has to talk back, no matter how big the navy is, warships will not be able to go ashore, and it is the army that will really solve the problem. So the Navy pondered making the Marine Corps larger. With ground forces in hand, there is something that needs to be landed in operation. You don't have to ask for the Army.

As a result, the Navy did everything possible to expand the Marine Corps, and the Navy and Army on the Ministry of Defense quarreled and ridiculed each other all day long. Anyway, the army just can't see the size of the Marine Corps expanding. After Huang Xing retired due to illness, the current Minister of National Defense Duan Qirui supported the army, so the size of this Marine Corps has not improved. Sa Zhenbing let out his old face, jumped to the table at the meeting of the Military Commission, and relied on his old qualifications to organize the Marine Brigade into a Marine Division. The bitterness is not enough for outsiders. Most of the time, Fang Jianxiong is full of words in the army, and when it comes to the establishment of the army, he is still very democratic. This is also the reason why the size of the Marine Corps has not been expanded for a long time, and according to the Navy's wishes, it is eager to get the Marine Corps out of 10 or 8 divisions.

In fact, Fang Jianxiong is also willing to expand the size of the Marine Corps, but the problem is that military spending is tight. The navy has been burning money so much that the new aircraft carrier has not been able to start construction for a long time, but has converted the original battle patrol into an aircraft carrier, isn't it just to save money? Of course, this cost is not much less, that is, it means that you can save a little bit and count a little.

This Marine Corps is directly under the Admiralty and is currently based in Taiwan. When it comes to the matter of recovering Taiwan, there was also quite a controversy within the country on the first day. The Japanese Navy is struggling between Sakhalin's oil and Taiwan's strategic position, while the Japanese Army is entangled in the strategy of advancing northward, and some diehards in the military department are unwilling to let go of the mainland policy. The cabinet of Kei Hihara has a headache in order to establish good relations with China.

In short, the reasons are very complicated, and at one time some voices of the Japanese navy opposed the army in order to oppose the strategy of advancing northward, but in the end, under the pressure of Britain, the United States and France, and under the temptation of oil and land in the Far East, China and Japan reached an agreement. Of course, among them, the Northern Advance faction played a huge role, and the Japanese Army could not defeat the Chinese Army, nor could it defeat Russia? Watching the Chinese Army help White Russia fight to Omsk, the Japanese army's eyes were red.

Of course, these things are now in the past, because of the recovery of Taiwan, the entire sea transportation line of the whole day has been exposed under the nose of the Chinese Navy, no matter how you calculate this account, it will be earned. The Japanese cabinet and the navy and army also feel that they have earned, and 500,000 tons of oil are pinched in their hands every year, which is called a peace of mind. In parallel history, the seemingly powerful navy of Japan and Japan, warships sailed to count every drop of oil, and they were completely poor. That is, for more than 30 years of the Republic of China, the country has not been unified in the real sense, and has been struggling in civil strife, which has been left behind by Riyuan. In this sense, the incompetence of the Beiyang clique headed by Yuan Shikai in history can be clear.

After the signing of the Washington Naval Treaty, the development of the Chinese Navy also fell into a slow phase. In the early years, he bought four war cruisers from the United States, later built two of his own, and later bought five old war cruisers from Britain in one go. The tonnage of 200,000 roots has long been exceeded. There is no way out, so I can only change the two Qingdao ordered from the United States and one battle cruiser class bought from the United Kingdom into aircraft carriers, which will be maintained at 200,000 tons in front of us.

The shipbuilding industry of the Republic of China did not regress because of this, but ushered in a new development opportunity after turning to civilian use. Under the deliberate guidance of the government, China's ocean shipping industry has developed rapidly. The development of industry requires energy, and oil is China's largest import, followed by grain. Because of the good relations between China and the United States, and the low cost of shipping, a large amount of oil and grain was shipped from the United States to China. On the other hand, China's made light industrial products and some unique products, relying on extremely cheap products, also opened up the US market, and Sino-US trade heated up rapidly, which in turn stimulated the development of China's ocean shipping. Shanghai, Qingdao, Zhanjiang, Qinzhou and other four seaport cities, because of the development of shipbuilding and shipping, the economic development momentum is rapid.

Therefore, don't look at the fact that the navy does not build many warships, in fact, once a war breaks out, it will be able to convert civilian shipbuilding capacity into military use within half a year. As far as the shipbuilding industry is concerned, China's current capabilities have surpassed Japan's, and the shortcoming lies in the accumulation of technology. In terms of power system, due to the conservative technology of Western technology, the ability of material synthesis and precision processing is still much worse. However, in the past two years, due to the large-scale cooperation of the Germans, these shortcomings have been supplemented to a certain extent.

Whenever he thinks of the lack of talent and technology accumulation, Fang Jianxiong also laments helplessly in his heart that plug-ins are not omnipotent.

Sanya is now a small fishing village, and if it weren't for the distortion of history, Sanya might not have changed much in another 50 years. Fang Jianxiong's destination was the Yulin Military Port, a humble civilian Sanya port, which benefited from the birth of the rubber industry.

When we landed at Yulin Port, it was already noon, and the submarine unit, one of the most special arms of the navy, was originally in Shanghai, but now it has moved to Yulin. Chen Fu's military rank has also changed from colonel to major general, even within the Admiralty, Chen Fu doesn't buy anyone's account, anyway, he just listens to Fang Dashuai, and whoever comes is in vain.

The navy can only not see Chen Fu's behavior. Chen Fu has a bad relationship with the bigwigs of the Admiralty, but he has a good relationship with Chen Shaokuan and Chen Ce.

"I've seen Fu Shuai!" Chen Fu stood upright on the dock and saluted, Fang Jianxiong stepped forward with a smile, shook hands with a group of people from the submarine force and spoke, and comforted a few words like "hard work, take care of your body". immediately got into the off-road vehicle prepared by Chen Fu and ran to Tian Du. At this time, Tian Du was a small village. The scientific research team of hybrid rice of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences chose the real yàn field in Tiandu, mainly because of the year-round spring of this place, and the proximity to the Yulin Military Port, with convenient transportation.

The off-road vehicle was bumpy on the dirt road to Tiandu, and the dirt road paved with a layer of fine sand looked flat, and the smoke and dust were billowing and upside down when running, which was a test of people's butts. Fang Jianxiong was surprised to see a construction team on the side of the road, building a narrow-gauge railway, and immediately said to the driver: "Stop." ”

Chen Fu, who was accompanying him, hurriedly asked: "Fushuai, what are your instructions?" Fang Jianxiong pointed to the construction team one hundred and fifty meters away and said, "What are these people doing?" Chen Fu glanced at it and said with a smile: "The mine is open to iron ore with small reserves, but the quality is very high." I sent someone to check, and they came from Shanghai, and the leader of the team was a man named Zhu Jiahua. He used to be a member of the Kuomintang, but because he was dissatisfied with some of the Kuomintang's actions and quit the party, Zhu Baosan, a wealthy hardware businessman in Shanghai, invested in Tiandu, and at the same time opened a salt drying field while mining iron ore in Tiandu. It is a narrow-gauge railway that leads to the port of Sanya and is used to transport iron ore. ”