"I still underestimate the power of the butterfly effect! The determination of foreign devils to yearn for strength is much greater than imagined! ”

Fingers flicked the equipment purchase list from various countries, Yang Hao let out a heartfelt emotion.

He still underestimated how great the impact of his series of tricks had on the great powers.

Just for this batch of shipbuilding equipment that has begun to be delivered, the delay in delivery for up to half a year has not made the foreign devils lose patience. On the contrary, after testing all the samples around the clock, countries erupted with unprecedented enthusiasm for purchasing.

In Shanghai, an open port stipulated by the military government, members of the Western business delegation chartered a hotel and resorted to all means to entertain Sheng Xuanhuai, who was in charge of foreign trade, with the sole purpose of obtaining domestic orders from him that were originally supplied to the provinces south of the Yangtze River, and trying to keep competitors from other countries behind.

For all countries, even if they can win one-tenth more of their products, delaying the delivery deadlines of other rivals by three months may create a huge lead in the competition for shipbuilding. In today's general situation where the world's colonies have been carved up completely, it is inevitable that countries will rob each other of colonies in order to support their increasingly huge financial expenditures.

And if you want to win the war, you must first take the lead in naval construction. At the moment, nothing is more important than getting China's support first.

The foreign devils have not seen any of their previous arrogance and arrogance, and the specially selected representatives have lost all their temperance, not only learning stiff Chinese, but also smiling at the business executives at any time. The dog-legged virtue really makes the Chinese clerks who are used to seeing the nostrils and eyes of foreigners very uncomfortable.

They were also very uncomfortable.

The foreign devils in order to achieve their goals. Chartered hotel and nightclub cabaret. Inviting them to eat, drink, and be merry throughout the day is the most basic activity. Almost three meals a day without interruption. Take out the Yanma golden silk cat from all over the world at any time to accompany you and toss it casually.

At first, the clerks thought it was a great day. Yang Hao had already given them clear instructions, in view of the special nature of their work, they were allowed to accept foreign devils' invitations to eat and a certain amount of bribes, but no one was allowed to disclose sensitive information privately, let alone privately agree to some of the other party's requests.

In a word, the sugar-coated cannonball came and peeled off the sugar-coating. Shells were retained. It's no problem to eat, drink and play, but you can't take the real thing home, and you are not allowed to roll the sheets with the Yanmar golden silk cat, which is the final bottom line. Whoever touches it will be prepared to be questioned and even sanctioned by the Anti-Bribery Investigation Bureau.

Those who fought against bribery were all killed on the battlefield, except for Yang Hao's orders, they didn't recognize anyone, and they were ruthless and decisive, very much in the style of the Ming Dynasty Jinyiwei and the Qing Dynasty blood drops.

The bureaucrats and civil servants in the government are terrified of these people. This is because these guys not only have training from the 21st century, but also have a variety of equipment from another time and space. What wireless bugs, wireless monitors. Remote-controlled aircraft aerial photography, and even closed-circuit surveillance in the prescribed negotiation venues.

At every turn, you can reveal the whispers that people say in private. There are even photos to prove that after a few operations, the agents of the Anti-Bribery Bureau have become famous and shocked.

It's just scary. If you think about it, it is obviously a private word spoken by two people in the bed, and there is absolutely no place for hiding people on all sides, but it turns out that you can get all the photos of it, and record the words passed down by word of mouth, is this a special means that people can have?

This group was established by the original internal guard, disposed of from the original business intelligence, with agile martial arts masters and green forest heroes as the backbone, and determined to be excellent and reliable in politics through the indoctrination of revolutionary ideas and the baptism of war. Under the leadership of a young scholar who was jealous and hated and regarded Yang Hao as a great mentor, a powerful organization was created that kept the number of people secret, the office space secret, and the way of work secret, and even the people who were investigated could not see their figures in the end. Become the sword of Damocles that has always hung over the heads of the junta bureaucrats.

To this day, not only the bureaucrats and civil servants in the territory of the military government, but also the Qing court and the southeastern provinces of mutual protection have rumored these people to be like demons and monsters. In particular, those bureaucrats and gentry who had committed numerous crimes, local tyrants and shoddy gentry, were worried that they would be settled by the revolutionary government in the future, and they trembled one by one, and had to carefully restrain their usual rampant and domineering. Some of them even packed their luggage and were ready to flee out of the ocean at any time.

The civil servants of the Foreign Trade Department were ordered to eat, and as long as the fence was tightened, they really didn't have to worry too much about mistakes.

But they didn't expect that the foreign devils were too determined, and they were overjoyed to see that these people were willing to go into the water, so they each donated generously, and finally made the appetite of these guys unbearable.

No matter how good the delicacies of the mountains and seas are, no matter how wonderful the wine and delicacies are, they can't stand the bad practice of three meals a day. In addition to their working hours, almost all of their spare time is occupied, and their wives and children at home can't take care of it, and they are embarrassed to look at them coldly if they don't pay the public food in time.

Sheng Xuanhuai saw that it was really not a problem, and hurriedly sent a report to Yang Hao to apply for a postponement. If this continues, a large number of his backbone personnel will have to be abolished.

Yang Hao had other plans, and replied kindly: "China has suffered for a long time, and has suffered humiliation for 50 years, and now it can be shamed. At present, the country is temporarily unable to wage an all-out war with the foreign powers, and your foreign trade and diplomatic work is a battlefield, so you must guard against arrogance and rashness, and persist bravely and fearlessly. ”

Sheng Xuanhuai can be regarded as a first-class smart person today, and after thinking about it, he understands Yang Hao's thoughts, but at this time, it is difficult for him to ride a tiger, and he can't find Li Hongzhang to turn around on his behalf, so he can only grit his teeth and die upright, and secretly mourn for those subordinates.

That's right, the backbone personnel in today's foreign trade are basically Sheng Xuanhuai's confidants who have been brought up over the years.

When he was on an errand for the Qing Dynasty before, he took advantage of his position to install a large number of his own people, gradually replacing the greedy and stupid bureaucrats, and gradually mastering the entire steamship China Merchants Bureau. Follow the established course of development. Such government-run enterprises are bound to lose money year after year. He seized the opportunity to embezzle the huge assets that concealed hundreds of millions of profits into private ownership.

After the revolutionary military control of the Yangtze River shipping. By the way, he also received a series of foreign affairs purchased by the Qing court. Sheng Xuanhuai judged the situation and gave up continuing to serve the Qing Dynasty, politely refused Zhang Zhidong's solicitation, and joined Yang Hao in accordance with Li Hongzhang's proposal.

Sure enough, Yang Hao used his talents to hand over the entire foreign trade to his control, which is a ministerial-level member in the new government structure. One step up is the elders in the front row. Especially in today's situation, the direct responsibility for manipulating the extortion trade against the great powers is immeasurable.

Sheng Xuanhuai is still selfish. He is purely a traditional habitual approach, thinking of turning the entire foreign trade department into his own private territory, and the iron is connected to the country. Therefore, immediately after taking office, those backbones of the past were inserted into it, and each of them controlled the main departments and main businesses.

Yang Hao didn't seem to see it at all, and let him play with power. But in the foreign trade operation of strategic materials that was suddenly launched last year. On the surface, he deliberately delegated power, but suddenly started to give a pot to the smuggling force led by Ye Yongtai.

Among them. A considerable number of Sheng Xuanhuai's cronies were involved. Relying on the convenience of their positions, they tampered with the order order very lightly, withheld the equipment of other customers, and even took advantage of the old relationship of the steamship China Merchants Bureau to openly transport bulk goods to Guangzhou.

As soon as the case was revealed, these people were immediately arrested. Abuse power for personal gain, betrayal of national interests, such a big hat is buttoned down, and it will cost people's lives when they are put on the line.

Sheng Xuanhuai is distressed, the flesh hurts, no, no. This is equivalent to cutting off half of his right arm!

But he didn't dare to say anything, Yang Hao was really reasonable, and his cronies were too bold. In their hearts, those people subconsciously regarded the military government as the Qing government, and they hit the muzzle of the gun headlong.

In the next six months, the official foreign business activities were officially launched, and the civil servants had to do it under Yang Hao's order.

Sheng Xuanhuai was scared, and hurriedly sounded the alarm bell for everyone in advance, don't let people grab the handle anymore.

It turned out that it was useless to say it! The foreign devils unexpectedly let go of their bodies to greet them, and they did not hesitate to invest in capital, these people ate and drank all day long, but they couldn't put it in their pockets. Even if you receive bribes from foreign devils, you have to pay the full amount.

It is conceivable that a group of bureaucrats who are accustomed to fake public affairs and private interests are like rats that have fallen into a rice vat but are not allowed to eat.

After half a year, even the strongest bureaucrats could not stand it. So at the beginning of this year's delivery period, the representatives of the great powers launched more fierce sugar-coated shell attacks, and finally many people could not hold on.

A considerable number of people who took the initiative to seek to be dismissed as civil servants also wanted to be transferred to other departments. A firm master who can really withstand the test, but he has been baptized by all poisons, and he is no longer in the same stream with Shanda, and has become an extremely determined member of Yang Hao.

Sheng Xuanhuai looked down and saw that he had betrayed his relatives and become the commander of the light pole. The vacant position was replaced by Yang Hao's mature newcomer. The entire Ministry of Foreign Trade has a new look, but it is difficult to become his home.

After that, the entire Shanghai Tang's external institutions were completely straightened out, and Yang Hao's intelligence and information channels were completely unblocked. As a result, the abnormal actions of foreign devils can be transmitted to his desk at any time, so that he can easily judge the changes in the situation of various countries without much effort.

The appearance of 30,000 tons of battleships in last year's attacks on the Philippines and Japan was an unprecedented stimulus to the great powers. Countries have put the planned all-main gun battleships on the table several years in advance, and Britain, France, Germany, Russia and other countries could not wait to start construction even in the winter of 1896.

And almost all of them are limited to conditions, and they can't build a guy as big as 30,000 tons right away. The construction of all countries is within the displacement of 20,000 tons.

A brand-new powerful warship and a brand-new technical requirement must be achieved in the shortest possible time, and it is really not possible to do it in three or two months. After the drawings came out, the countries determined that their own industrial capacity could not solve it, so they had to grit their teeth and take out real money and buy it from Yang Hao.

In order to seize the opportunity, countries abandon camouflage and order equipment and parts directly according to the design drawings. This includes the majority of the power system, the steam turbine and heatpipe boiler with specified power, and even the transmission mechanism and propeller. These are all labor-intensive and time-consuming parts to build, and have extremely high requirements for materials, processing accuracy, and processing equipment.

This is followed by the steel required for the construction of battleships. The riveting process is still used in various countries. The size and performance index requirements of each part of the steel plate were clearly defined in the order. In this era, there is no industry-wide steel specification. And the battleships used are all top secret. They can only be selected according to the technical specifications provided by Yang Hao before.

All countries have also been liberated, and orders have been placed even for armor steel. In this way, as long as an experienced shipbuilding engineer calculates the list, he can know the general shape and displacement of the warships of various countries, and even estimate the speed and seaworthiness of the warships after they are completed.

To exaggerate a little more, Yang Hao can completely go to this world, let Liu Fatzi and other experts draw drawings to build models, and conduct a ...... of the sink to simulate a blowing tunnel. Basically. We will all know what kind of appearance these warships can actually have, how much maneuver they can perform at how many knots in an engagement, and how much roll they can guide when firing with naval guns.

Know yourself and know your opponent, and you will not be defeated in a hundred battles!

Yang Hao thought again, this may be a conspiracy played by foreign devils. I'm just letting you know to make these, and you have the ability to judge how well it performs, and see if you're afraid of it then! It doesn't matter if you're really not afraid, we just mislead you, and wait until we have thoroughly understood the technology of various key equipment in private. Then design and build a new warship, and you can turn around and deal a heavy blow.

Yang Hao is just a deep contemplation of inertia. But in fact, he was thinking too much.

The great powers, already mired in paranoia of persecution, have reached an outrageous height of madness about obtaining advanced warships. In order to actually have powerful warships, they no longer care if Yang Hao knows the performance indicators, after all, the real purpose of these warships is in the competition between the great powers!

Subconsciously, countries do not regard China as an adversary in global competition. In their eyes, they only have those enemies who have been entangled for generations of grievances at hand. Between Britain, France, Germany, Russia, Austria and Italy, there is endless tearing x.

In February 1897, Yang Hao saw the results of the evaluation of the warships ordered by the great powers jointly completed by Xu Jianyin and Jiao Hai, and the blueprint outlined accordingly.

The British added two more orders to the previous two battleships. Its tonnage is basically the same, and the power system, armor protection, and many other parts are almost the same as the previous one. However, after taking back the world for further modeling, Liu Fatzi asserts that this thing must have changed.

Referring to the history of dreadnoughts in this world, Yang Hao estimated that the two batches of warships with a total of four before and after should be the "Dreadnought-class" and the "Bolerophon-class". It's just that after it is built, whether it will be the same as the original, I dare not say. Because the host system that the British finally got must have better performance than what Parsons provided. The steel and pipe parts used in the battleship are also better, and it is very likely that the overall strength will be raised to a higher level.

This will inevitably cause trouble for himself in the future, but Yang Hao is not worried about being challenged. A strengthened version of the enemy that is only pleasing to the eye to fight!

The Germans are very surprising! In addition to the high-end equipment including the 10,000-ton hydraulic press, they also added 200-ton cranes and gantry cranes, and boldly introduced gas cutting and electric welding process equipment, and purchased a full range of patent rights.

In addition, the second batch of orders is as many as four! The assessed displacement of the battleship is basically the same as that of the British. This meant that the Germans would catch up with the number of British capital ships in two batches at once.

In addition, Krupp also bought back the naval artillery technology of the two ships in Dingzhen. In this way, they were able to directly obtain the key technology of the 45x diameter 305mm twin-mounted turret. This also includes a one-shot-per-minute gun carriage and a brake-and-retreat mechanism. In this way, the four newly built capital ships will directly have warships that surpass all current German standards.

To the delight of the Germans, Yang Hao actually agreed! Not only promised, but also promised to dismantle the four eight main guns on the two ships in Dingzhen and sell them to them!

Major General Tirpitz was overjoyed. At the delegation's private celebration reception, he couldn't suppress his excitement and declared to a group of colleagues: "The two warships we are building can be replaced with eight powerful heavy guns at once, replacing the 280mm main guns in the design!" Gentlemen, we will be one step ahead of the British! ”

Suddenly, the German naval colonels who came to China burst into tears! Once upon a time, they also had the opportunity to surpass the British and take the lead!

Not only that, but Krupp III, who also came to negotiate in person, vowed that they would thoroughly eat the serial technology of Chinese 305mm guns in the shortest possible time. When the new first class battleship is designed, it will have the world's strongest main gun from Krupp, and it will be installed on it!

Speaking of which, it is quite unacceptable that Krupp has been overtaken in artillery, and he is still a Chinese who has always been his big customer. With the stubbornness of the Germans, they want to dig into the horns of the bull and research it themselves, and they never want to buy it out.

However, Kaiser Wilhelm II could not wait, he could not stand for a day that Germany did not have powerful battleships and could not compete with Britain and France at sea. If the colonies of the Far East can't get it, then grab it directly from Britain and France! has long been determined to challenge British hegemony, and now it is rare for the British to suffer a head-on blow from China, everyone is on the same starting line, Germany does not seize the opportunity to overtake, and when?

Therefore, Krupp bought naval guns and privately hoped that Yang Hao would not sell them, so it was logical to persuade the Kaiser to use the 40 times the diameter of 280mm they made first.

But unfortunately, Yang Hao has already gotten into the eyes of money, and he can't use what he has to empty the coffers of the great powers. In addition, the two ships in Dingzhen have completed their historical mission, and they will be used as training ships and test ships to test turret platforms of other calibers, and it is not a pity to sell them.

In addition, the sluggish French and Italians were obviously unmotivated, and they were only worried about being hated by Yang Hao, so they had to reluctantly join in the ship purchase. The order that came down was unexpectedly not the standard of the full main gun of the dreadnought, which made Yang Hao a little unhappy.

But in any case, after such a toss and turn, it can be predicted that in the summer of this year, there will be a spectacular scene of more than a dozen battleships outfitting on the seas of the whole of Europe. Just thinking about it makes people excited! (To be continued......) R1292