Wang Guorui came to Kaohsiung, Tainan, and was glad that there was a large facility in the open sea, which ordinary people didn't know about. Moreover, Wang Guorui mobilized some sailors from the red alarm system to come out and keep an eye on this thing, so as to avoid being discovered. Anyone who approached would be warned by the warship with its guns, or else it would be sunk. And these warships are also those old ships that captured the Japanese army, and they will all be some warships with iron ribs, which are very backward. But these ships as warnings and training are also fine.

Even, if Wang Guorui didn't have Wang Guorui's permission here, he would be sunk and killed if he approached without permission, and he took great pains to prevent this thing from being exposed. What makes Wang Guorui feel relieved is that there are no spy satellites in this era, otherwise other people's spy satellites can be seen at any time, and it will not be fun. However, backwardness also has the advantage of being backward, at least you don't have to worry about this exposure, as long as you guard the sea, you don't have to be afraid of any enemy to reconnoiter in the sky.

Wang Guorui took Tanya by boat to this large facility, which was obviously a very large piece of equipment. All kinds of robots are running on it, ready to start shipbuilding. And Wang Guorui looked at this shipyard and smiled. Because this is also the dock in the red alert system, which can be used to make things for ships.

"This time, thanks to the two million taels of silver sent by the Japanese army, otherwise I really wouldn't have been able to form a navy!" Wang Guorui said.

Although Japan did not pay compensation this time, it had to pay for the food money of the Japanese soldiers, and they were extorted by Wang Guorui with two million taels of silver, which Wang Guorui was going to use to build a fleet. And Wang Guorui has now reached an armistice agreement with Japan, and then the Japanese army has gradually begun to retreat, and the Japanese food money has been gradually delivered. How much money they send for food, how many captives Wang Guorui will let go of them. That's pretty fair. And these two million taels of silver, which will be used as the basis for their own shipbuilding, can only really form a fleet with these two million taels of silver.

"It's so expensive! Shipbuilding is actually calculated according to the weight, but the weight of this ship is so expensive! Wang Guorui complained.

Of course, Wang Guorui knew that this shipbuilding was very expensive, but he didn't expect that this shipbuilding was actually calculated according to the weight of the ship. It feels like you're selling scrap metal. However, this price is not so cheap, and the price of different ships and different styles of boats in different years is also different. Moreover, these ships must be ships owned in this world, and if other countries have not developed them, then Wang Guorui will not be able to manufacture them.

Of course, according to Archimedes' displacement formula, the weight of a ship is almost equal to their displacement in the water. This is the unloaded displacement, if once on the battlefield, the additional parts and supplies are counted separately, this is the full load displacement. However, at present, the dockyard is only used as an unladen displacement. It is not calculated in terms of full load displacement. So one ton of steel is used to build ships, and the last empty displacement of this ship is one ton.

Wang Guorui's current R&D capabilities are very poor, because there are not too many shipbuilding engineers who can design new ships, so they cannot develop their own unique ship models. Therefore, Wang Guorui temporarily exerted his most powerful ability of the Chinese - Shanzhai. As long as you can copy some ships from other countries, you can build them. Moreover, its own cost is cheaper than foreign ships of the same type, after all, it is relatively cheap. And once someone else has this kind of ship. Then you can win by numbers. And this is also the so-called big ship is better than small boat, more ship is better than less ship. The truth that the big guns are better than the small guns, and the more guns are better than the few guns. China does not actually have a famous naval general, this famous general of the Ming Dynasty Yu Dayou has been this core until now, but it does not attach importance to naval warfare.

"A Sovereign-class battleship costs fifty silver dollars a ton of steel according to the material cost, and a whole Sovereign-class battleship needs seven hundred thousand silver dollars to get a Sovereign-class battleship. It's so expensive. This price is already more than five times the normal steel price. Wang Guorui sighed.

Wang Guorui felt that this Sovereign-class battleship was too expensive, because it would cost 700,000 silver dollars to produce a Sovereign-class battleship with his own dock, which was enough for Wang Guorui to form a division. The navy is a gold-swallowing beast. This is true. And the weapons that can form an army division are only obtained here, and they only get a Sovereign-class battleship, and they don't get much else. And the Sovereign-class battleship is the most advanced battleship of the British at present, and the effect is very good. If it weren't for the food and beverage expenses that the Japanese were about to deliver, I am afraid that this warship would not have been able to be built. However, Wang Guorui only plans to build a monarch-class, because a fleet still needs many warships to form a fleet. Other money was used to build other ships, and it was also used to recruit sailors and recruit naval officers from outside.

A navy is not only capable of having warships, but also sailors and various supporting construction equipment, so it is impossible to form a navy with warships alone. The century-old navy, this is not just a casual talk, the main thing is that a lot of supporting things must be built. Soldier training, officer selection, and even various industries at sea. In fact, the navy is the embodiment of the highest level of a country's industry, and Taiwan does not have much industry at present, so it must establish its own industry. And then the personnel selection and other things of the navy must be established step by step, so that we can have a real navy, not the kind of navy that is short-lived and has powerful warships but cannot give full play to its combat effectiveness.

As for Wang Guorui, 700,000 silver dollars can also get a monarch-class battleship, and if the British know about it, they will definitely cry and faint in the toilet. Because the British spent 1.1 million pounds sterling to build the Sovereign-class battleship, which is equivalent to the current exchange rate of silver dollars is about 7.7 million silver dollars. If the British knew that Wang Guorui would be able to get a Sovereign-class battleship just for one-eleventh of their price, would they not be able to cry? When the time comes, they will build one, and Wang Guorui will build a dozen, then they will be miserable.

But no matter how expensive the warship is, Wang Guorui still wants to form a navy. After all, Taiwan is also an isolated island, and if it does not have a strong enough navy, it will inevitably suffer very much. If you don't have a navy, then only others will attack you, but you can't attack the enemy, so people can fight if they can, and if they can't, they will leave. At that time, the battlefield will be on Taiwan, which will be very harmful to the local economy. If you want to solve this difficulty, you must build a navy, and then strive to keep the enemy out of the country, or take the initiative to send the navy to cover the land to land in the enemy country, and then fight for enough benefits for yourself. Therefore, no matter how expensive the navy is, it must be formed, otherwise I am afraid that it will really not be able to solve the next crisis. Isn't it because they have a navy that the Japanese army can run rampant? Because they have a navy, Wang Guorui can't do anything to them, so naturally they can only let them leave, and Wang Guorui can't teach them a lesson.

Wang Guorui now also understands the feeling of the Japanese back then, on the one hand, they are an island country, and they must have a strong navy to have enough strength to protect themselves. On the other hand, however, they have a large continental plan, which necessitates a strong army. In such a situation, the sea and land sides will inevitably start fighting, so now Wang Guorui is also facing a similar situation as Japan back then, whether to develop a navy or an army. If it weren't for this red alert system, then Wang Guorui might really be difficult to choose. However, with this red alert system, Wang Guorui can build the best ships at the lowest price, so that he can naturally save a lot of money to invest in the army.

Wang Guorui's future goal is to grasp both land and sea, and both hands must be hard, after all, in the 21st century, aren't the Americans also grasping both the navy and the army, and then the sea, land and air are very powerful? There is only one navy of sufficient strength, that

"Make a small gunboat with a displacement of six hundred tons!" Wang Guorui said.

Soon, the manipulators in the dockyard were also running, and the steel plates were also being built. And with these automated machines that are ahead of their time, a small gunboat with a displacement of 600 tons is also very well built. And this small gunboat is nothing more than a 100-millimeter gun, which is simply an out-of-the-way gunboat for the present era. And Wang Guorui built this gunboat, not to install the navy, but just to send Tanya to Quanzhou and send his family back.

This kind of small gunboat style is backward, and the artillery is also slow, so the system does not have too much blackmail, that is, the cost price of steel, more than 600 tons of steel cost only more than 6,000 silver dollars, which is not too expensive. This kind of small gunboat will not cause any sensation when it arrives at Quanzhou Port, after all, this kind of small gunboat is not too big. If you directly exclude the passage of large ships such as cruisers, it will cause a big sensation, and Quanzhou will definitely be alerted, so that Tanya will not be able to rescue her family. (To be continued......)