How profitable was the shipbuilding business at the end of the 19th century? Just take a look at some of the numbers.

First of all, it is necessary to have a slipway that can carry a warship with a displacement of less than 20,000 tons. At the end of the 19th century, the vast majority of British slipways were in the embarrassing situation of not being enough and had to be built or upgraded. And due to the proliferation of the length and displacement of battleships, even the newly built slipway will become obsolete in a few years.

In this world, when the British began to build almost 30,000 tons of battleships of the "Queen Elizabeth class", it was found that only five shipyards in the country could meet the conditions. For now, warships of less than 20,000 tons are the limit of major private shipyards. With the new director of shipbuilding, John . Fisher's rise to power, with his emphasis on the concept of "speed as defense", will inevitably lead the design of warships into a vicious circle of power system expansion and hull length.

If nothing else, as soon as the British design a new dreadnought, the vast majority of British shipyards will immediately face the problem of expansion and reconstruction.

This is a large investment that no one can get around, and the British, who urgently need enough advanced warships to maintain naval superiority, must have to invest heavily in it.

Secondly, to build larger warships, it is necessary to use larger cranes. At present, most of the cranes on the outfitting docks in various countries are 40 to 80 tons. However, with the advent of long-barreled main guns, such as the "Nelson-class" battleships that appeared soon after, their 305mm twin-mounted main guns weighed as much as 102 tons, and later dreadnought main turrets were generally more than 150 tons.

In 1898, the United Kingdom began to install 100-ton cranes. It can well be imagined. With the beginning of the competition for shipbuilding. How many large cranes do you need to meet the requirements of various countries!

Again. To build a dreadnought, it was necessary to replace a complete set of boilers and steam turbines. At present, among the countries, only Yang Hao can immediately come up with a complete, mature, war-proven steam turbine and boiler system. If countries want to not be left behind in the competition, they must race against time to seize the opportunity.

Then as long as he opens his mouth to sell, the British have to pinch their noses and buy it! Otherwise, they will have to wait for the successful product trials of their own domestic companies, which will take a year or two at least. Can the British afford to wait? Apparently impossible.

Finally, there is the most basic steel for shipbuilding.

At the end of the XIX century. Britain and Germany produced enough steel, but the production of armor steel, which was necessary for battleships, was low. In the history of the world, Britain did not reach an annual production of 50,000 tons of armor steel until the outbreak of World War I. Under the demand of more than 5,000 tons for a warship, this figure is obviously not enough.

Moreover, the cost of armor steel is very staggering in this era. In the case of KC case-hardened armor in the UK, the price per ton ranged from 80 pounds to £150. What is the concept? Equivalent to 500-1000 taels of silver a ton! You must know that the price of ordinary steel plate is only 6-8 pounds.

That's it, other manufacturers are still very conscientious. Earn less than half of the profits.

So if Yang Hao randomly finds a steel mill to make this standard armor steel in the 21st century, where can the cost be higher than ordinary steel plates? A ton can earn more than 100,000 soft girl coins when sold in the past. What is profiteering, this is it!

Yang Hao dares to sell the above things necessary for shipbuilding, and sells them vigorously and in large quantities! He is not afraid that foreign devils will build more warships to take revenge, because he has always held an absolutely overwhelming superior force.

Optimistically, in the next ship-building storm, the foreign devils will have to build at least 100 battleships to meet the demand. Even if only fifty of them needed to buy equipment and materials from him, it would be enough to bring a billion taels of silver in profit!

That's a lot of money! If you exchange it for gold, can you catch up with the world's gold reserves?

Yang Hao was not worried at all that the powers would not buy it, even if it was to figure out where they failed and figure out the strength of the existing equipment of the Chinese Navy, he had to grit his teeth and accept his blackmail. It can't just buy the equipment and materials needed for one or two warships, and if you buy two, you'll get a lot out. With Yang Hao's ferocious Cheng dù, it's strange if you don't rot the basins they knock!

Of course, there is only one thing that cannot be sold, battleship artillery.

Historically, until World War II, most countries still used steel wire winding to strengthen the body tube, and Japan still used this process even when it came to the "Yamato-class" battleships. In addition, there is the sleeve structure of the United States and Germany, which is just as cumbersome and ruthless. And Yang Hao's side has already used too advanced manufacturing methods, and the strength of the barrel alloy and the strength and life of the product are not at all what they can imagine. This thing is directly fatal, so it can't spread anyway.

In short, under controllable circumstances, Yang Hao made a large-scale arms deal in an almost frenzied manner, using all kinds of equipment and raw materials obtained from this time and space in an almost unlimited amount of light, and dumped to the world powers at the end of the 19th century and the products that were judged to be substandard in the 21st century.

Many small factories in towns and villages and local private enterprises that are not well-known in the country have successively received orders for strange products that are acceptable. It was a mess of all kinds of purely mechanical instrumentation valves, old heat pipe boilers, and so on. However, as soon as he heard that all these things were sold to the African old black, the big guy immediately showed an expression of understanding. That's right, the things sold to the old blacks have to be stupid and coarse to make them use.

Africa in the 21st century can be regarded as a contradiction complex of extreme trendiness and extreme backwardness. They wore the most fancy and avant-garde Chinese-made shirts and denim pants, fashionable imitation Adi slippers on their feet, and held Chinese-made knock-off machines or cheap mobile phones, which looked similar to the urban-rural junction of a certain turtle country.

However, in terms of production and construction, the old blacks are ninety percent illiterate and do not like to operate industrial equipment to do heavy work. No matter how advanced the electronic machinery is, the only fate in their hands is to turn into a pile of garbage that no one can fix in the shortest possible time. On the contrary, the simplest, most primitive and most durable pure mechanical products are more favored by them. Without him, these uncles don't understand what maintenance and repair is.

As a result, the classic Acre-47 has always dominated the market for light weapons in Africa. The easiest RPG to operate becomes a powerful heavy firepower fist; Toyota's pickup truck, which has superior performance and resistance to manufacturing, plays a role model of high-speed maneuverability; As for what other high-tech weapons? Go back and forth.

Basically. The vast majority of Africa in the 21st century. Similar to China during the Republic of China, there were too many illiterates and the industry was extremely weak. However, the difference is that after receiving the help of Mao Zi's big brother, China has burst out with a strong action force to fight the heavens and the earth, not only establishing a large set of nearly complete heavy industry system in just two five-year plans, but also developing thousands of types of light industry downward, and in one fell swoop from a poor and white country to one of the few large industrial countries. After decades of development, it has now become the only industrial country in the world with a complete range of industries.

That's it. The people who have a high heart are not satisfied. As a result, on the Internet and various public media, you can see articles everywhere about China competing with the world for the top technology of industrial science and technology. What national strength should be compared with the United States, welfare should be compared with Northern Europe, the environment should be compared with Canada, precision machinery should be compared with Germany and Japan, mobile phones should be compared with Apple's three grandchildren, computers should be compared with IBM, HP, Dell, cars should be compared with General Motors, Toyota, and CPUs should be compared with Intel. The C919 is better than the Boeing Airbus, and the fighter is ...... than the F22 and su35.

Look at so many enthusiastic people who don't do anything else all day. They racked their brains to find the shortcomings and gaps between China and the world's powerful countries, chattered endlessly on the side of the broad masses of the people, and even did not hesitate to make all kinds of group ridicule, personal attacks (note: not personal attacks) and insults and spills, for fear that the people who had achieved a little bit would slack off. What a well-intentioned one!

On the other hand, looking at Africa, it is not too late for national liberation movements and national autonomy, and the great powers and countries are also very enthusiastic about cultivating high-end politicians and management talents for them, and they have been "invited" to the Americas and Europe centuries ago to learn systematic labor skills from basic farm work. But now, after so many years, so many church schools and volunteer hospitals have been opened in Africa, and as a result, no decent industry has developed. South Africa, the only country with some achievements, was tossed into a mess by the success of some great politician.

As a result, as of 2008, sub-Saharan Africa accounted for only 0.7 percent of the world's industrial output, and 0.5 percent without South Africa, which can be said to have no influence. Among the major countries in the world, China is the only country that is sincerely increasing industrial investment in Africa, starting from infrastructure construction to improve their industrial development conditions.

Yang Hao's African Development Fund (Africa) Development Fund (Africa) has inadvertently aligned itself with this national strategic trend, especially when it was intended to be used to dump industrial equipment and raw materials into a different time and space, and it has accidentally missed the core points of the African investment plan. His so-called 5 billion investment in Kenya, a promising AU partner, has greatly improved the country's overall strategic process.

It's no wonder that so many people are red-eyed and pounce on them with their teeth and claws to snatch them. The descendants of those high-ranking bigwigs know best what a great bonus to their factional strength will be if they grasp the current results of such an outstanding political achievement! Money laundering channels or something are just one of the uses.

On the other hand, Yang Hao did a lot of bad things that were criticized.

You say that if you really invest, you can just get some decent industrial entities, but you actually pull countless obsolete production capacity facilities from China, pull them to Africa to split and cobble together a new industrial system, and then claim that this is a support investment for others. It's not like words, if you want to be shameless, dare you be more shameless!

But in February this year, at the 10th summit of the African Union held in Addis Ababa, Yang Hao and his African Fund became the object of repeated mentions during the heated discussion on the important topic of "industrial development in Africa". The Kenyan government is proud of the large investment that has been able to get this direct boost to the country's chicken fart development, and can't wait to claim their contribution to the level of industrialization in Africa as a whole. And the praise of United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon also made Yang Hao wrap himself in a halo of great glory.

With this disguise, Yang Hao's movements were more open and close, and although there was a lot of criticism from the outside, it was difficult for him to break his muscles and bones.

In this environment, the Yang Group has scavenged and eliminated production capacity equipment and shipped it to Africa, and wantonly ordered all kinds of backward industrial equipment and steel and cement and other strict surplus products. Even less so that no one interfered.

That's a great thing to count in one fell swoop! In the eyes of some big people. The Yang Group has such a huge "bad way" wealth. However, instead of buying luxury goods everywhere and destroying the market environment, they have made great contributions to the country's strategies of energy conservation and emission reduction, revitalization of exports, and expansion of external industrial investment. It is optimistically estimated that the Young's Group may achieve billions or even tens of billions of direct exports every year, solve hundreds of thousands of labor and employment population, and affect hundreds of billions of GDP contributions, which is a great drop of good people.

All in all. The Yang Group's ass is sitting too upright, and he occasionally plays some seemingly side-rubbing actions overseas, and before causing substantial harm to the country, some people play tricks to buckle their hats, and they are helpless to him.

There are all kinds of conditions, so that Yang Hao has the capital to be willful.

At the African shipyard, two warships without turrets were launched, and two more hulls were immediately welded on the vacated slipway, as well as a full four breaking modules, and they were working overtime in some shipyards in China that had no work.

Besides. In addition, as many as a dozen light cruisers cut steel plates and welded small breaks, which were also frantically manufactured in a large number of township beach shipyards.

These unlicensed and unlicensed private shipbuilding gangs. It has become an excellent accomplice to provide Yang's three-no products. Across the country, there are thousands of beach shipyards, and there is not much work to be done, while basic breaking and welding work is not too bad.

Yang Hao also doesn't need them to make the whole, only give strict small breaks, strict quality control, and drag them to Africa or transport them to the shipyard of the second plane for assembly after passing the acceptance.

Just an African shipyard, the current production capacity is not much. However, with the subsequent commissioning of more than a dozen slipways, the use of Chinese workers can provide at least 40 hull welds of 55 to 30,000 tons a year.

In the second plane, the Rizhao shipyard, which is fully projected, has doubled its production capacity after expanding and building, and has a full 20 slipways, which can assemble a maximum of 50,000-ton warships. When all the workers are in place, the maximum production capacity can reach 20 ships per year and 20 ships with an annual shipbuilding of less than 30,000 tons. In today's world, it's a big guy.

However, until now, the number of qualified shipbuilders trained is still insufficient to operate at full capacity. In the huge factory, eighty percent of the workers are apprentices, and there are four "Langya-class light cruisers" on the slipway that are purely used for them to practice. This was followed by the construction of eight "Dengzhou-class" destroyers.

A team of the country's best shipbuilders can build two light cruisers by splintering welding, and the next level of workers and apprentices will learn from the splice of the other two light cruisers and the break-welding of 3,000-ton destroyers.

The hull of the "Langya-class light cruiser" is almost the same as that of the "Tianjin-class heavy cruiser", and the keel is almost the same in length, width and depth, and even most of the keel breaks. The power system is basically the same as all optical instruments, radar equipment, fire control devices, etc.

The difference is that the ship uses four triple 47 x barrel 152mm main guns, which are knapsack front and rear opposite each other, and the bridge and chimney are clustered in the middle. Eight single-mounted 127mm secondary guns, while reducing the weight of the superstructure, but also to ensure the firepower of anti-air \ sea rapid-fire suppression, in addition to 12 40mm Bofors and 20 Erly anti-aircraft guns are also equipped in advance.

The overall weight of superstructures such as turrets, bridge conning towers, etc., made with modern metallurgical techniques, is undoubtedly lighter, which allows designers to increase the thickness of armor without disrupting the overall balance and stability.

The frontal armor of the turret of the "Langya class" light cruiser has been increased to 203mm, and the composite armor thickness of the command tower has also been increased to 203mm, ensuring that they can resist the destruction of the main guns of heavy cruisers at close range. The waterline armor is made of high-strength ship steel produced by modern times, reaching a maximum thickness of 152mm, and a double-layer composite lining plate and a second layer of armored compartments are designed in the inner layer to ensure that it will not be pierced by the heavy cruiser's 203mm cap-piercing shells.

The double-layer horizontal armor with a maximum thickness of 102mm, and the key protected boiler compartment and auxiliary artillery ammunition depot are also equally thickened to ensure that the long-range falling warhead in the future will not be lightly damaged.

Such a variety of designs make up for the shortcomings of the original American "Cleveland class", and the performance is more superior and prominent. The final battleship has a standard displacement of 11,300 tons and a full displacement of 13,844 tons, which is enough to withstand the bombardment of any contemporary battleship from a distance of 10,000 meters. However, it has a maximum of 12 rounds per gun, a maximum rate of fire of 144 rounds per minute, and a crazy figure of 6.85 tons of ammunition delivered!

What is this concept? Theoretically, the superstructure of any contemporary warship can be swept to the ground in a minute! And with 47.6kg armor-piercing shells, it is possible to penetrate 152mm Krupp armor at 7500 meters! It is the strongest "Sovereign-class" and "Majestic-class" battleships that can be called the present, whether it is the composite armor of the former or the Harvey armor of the latter, they all have to kneel!

Such a powerful thing, in the naval plan proposed by Yang Haiwei, it was to build thirty-six ships, which coincided with the number of thirty-six counties divided by the first emperor of the year.

As for the "Dengzhou-class" destroyers, they are imitations of the famous "Fletcher-class" destroyers of World War II, and because of their strong firepower, easy to build, and capable of carrying out a variety of combat missions, they can meet the needs of naval warfare for at least 30 years in the future, and there is no need to change models frequently.

The main thing is that it is convenient for mass production, and there are fewer orders in this world, and other factories are not willing to do it. A hundred 2,100-ton "Dengzhou-class" destroyers seemed like a lot in the 19th century and even in World War II, but in the 21st century, it is a number that even private enterprises of a certain size cannot look at. Hundreds of thousands of tons of steel and hundreds of diesel engines, a bunch of steel pipes, are you embarrassed to take them out? The key is still so fragmentary.

Therefore, the order given by Yang Haiwei started with a hundred.

As a result, when it came to China on the second plane, from the northernmost Lushun Dalian Shipyard, to the Tianjin Dagu Shipyard, to the Weihai Shipyard, to the newly built Qingdao Shipyard, all the slipways of the shipyard directly under the Navy that were expanded on the basis of the original Beiyang Repair and Repair Yard were all started with this thing. It is often one or two certified engineers who take hundreds of apprentices to work while taking classes, which is slow, but can harvest tens of thousands of shipbuilders in the future.

After Yang Hao finished tossing the order in this world, he returned to the second plane to breathe in the smell of soot that was gradually getting stronger in the fresh air, and gave the enemy's order refreshedly: "Send a notice to the great powers, and you can start to provide them with all the equipment and raw materials needed to build ships." ”

As soon as this order came out, the world shook! (To be continued......)