Chapter 283: Bidding for Steam Turbines

After staying in Port Arthur for a month, the envoys of various countries became a little impatient and wanted to go back, but when they came, the governments of various countries issued a death order that they must get this advanced power system, so the envoys had to wait patiently here.

Just when the envoys were at a loss, the reception officials of the Chinese Consulate suddenly came with the news, Fang Xiaoyu invited the envoys to the dinner, and all the envoys were excited when they got the news, as long as they could see Fang Xiaoyu, it would be much easier.

The dinner began at seven o'clock in the evening, and the envoys arrived at the place of the dinner as early as half past five, bringing their female companions, much to the strange of the waiters who were busy going back and forth. None of these envoys seemed to be able to sit still, and from time to time they got up and walked around, or divided into small groups to discuss something with each other, but in short, none of the envoys could sit there safely.

At seven o'clock, Fang Xiaoyu arrived at the venue on time with the four ladies, the dinner party of the Chinese collar is different from the cocktail party in the Western Continent, the dinner party in the Western Continent generally only provides wine, everyone goes to the banquet when they are full, and the dinner in the East Continent has a main meal.

The envoys of the Western Continent who did not know that they had eaten enough to come, and when they saw the sumptuous feast on the table, they regretted it again and again, only those envoys of the Eastern Continent who knew about it smiled and tasted these rare delicacies, as for the envoys of the Western Continent, they could only watch dryly, or barely eat a little bit.

Of course, the envoys didn't come for dinner, and when the plates and bowls were removed and the waiter served tea, Fang Xiaoyu finally spoke: "It's really hard for the envoys to come from afar, and I happen to be in a hurry to meet with the envoys these days, I'm very sorry." Hearing Fang Xiaoyu's words, the envoys quickly got up and didn't dare to say anything.

Fang Xiaoyu continued: "I know your intentions very well, and I am also very willing to share these advanced techniques with you. ”

Hearing that Fang Xiaoyu's words meant selling new techniques, the hearts of the envoys of various countries were alive. Fang Xiaoyu said with a smile: "But everyone also knows that every new technique is researched by many scientists day and night, and it takes a lot of effort and money to succeed, so I can only sell it to everyone, and I can't contribute it for free, I hope you can understand." The envoys agreed in a chaotic manner, saying that they could understand.

Fang Xiaoyu said with a smile: "Therefore, I want to hold an auction in three days, this auction will only sell the technique to one country, of course, after the sale, this country must sign a contract with our country, and the technique shall not be transferred to another country." ”

Seeing that the envoys had a tendency to stir, Fang Xiaoyu waved his hand and said: "Of course, I don't want to sell it to other countries, after a year of this auction, I will sell this technique to all countries at half of the auction price, I hope everyone can understand, so that countries that spend a lot of money can enjoy the new technique first." ”

After saying this, Fang Xiaoyu stood up: "Thank you very much for being able to have dinner with me, I still have something to do, I won't be with you, I want to auction such a big event, you must discuss it with your own government, the officials who receive you will provide you with a cable telegram directly to the countries of the Western Continent, you can directly ask your own government." ”

After Fang Xiaoyu left, the envoys of various countries left and rushed out, for fear that they would be slower than others. Looking at the envoys who were scrambling to go out, Fang Xiaoyu, who was standing behind the window, had a smile on his face.

Xia Tingyun smiled: "Husband, you are so bad, let them raise the price by themselves, but you can make a lot of money." ”

Fang Xiaoyu spread his hands and said: "I didn't force them, they wanted to send money to my pocket, and I couldn't help it." ”

Elena snorted and said, "If it's me, I'll wait a year and buy the technique at half the price." ”

Fang Xiaoyu said with a smile: "You don't understand this, as a strong country, time is more important than anything else, and one year is enough time for them to be a generation ahead of the other party." What is the concept of the difference in the navy between two countries with equal national strength, that is, before the emergence of new innovations, the number of your new warships will never be able to catch up with others, and you will always be overwhelmed. ”

Xia Tingwei said: "What if they work together to lower the price? We're not going to lose a lot. ”

Fang Xiaoyu smiled: "I have considered all the aspects, didn't you see that there are envoys from the Saint Martin Empire and the Ohu Kingdom inside?" They are trust, if someone lowers the price, they will raise the price, and then those envoys will not be able to bear it. Listening to Fang Xiaoyu's words, the four girls laughed, and even said that Fang Xiaoyu was really treacherous.

As Fang Xiaoyu expected, the bidding scene three days later was extremely hot, and all countries made enough efforts to offer high prices, and the representatives of the Saar Empire and the Yaman Empire almost started to move on the spot, but were later stopped by the security guards on the spot.

In the end, the envoy of the Saar Empire, who had deep pockets, bought the steam turbine technology at a price of 1,500 tons of gold, equivalent to 3 billion Chinese dollars, which afterwards made the newspapers of various countries dumbfounded, and they couldn't believe that a new technology could be sold at such a sky-high price.

"Young Master, I don't understand very much, why do we want to sell the most advanced steam turbine technology? If we wait a few years before selling, won't we be able to get a big lead over other countries in the navy? Liu Junguo asked with a frown.

Fang Xiaoyu said with a smile: "You don't understand this, although the battleship looks majestic now, it is not the direction of development that it should take in the future, we have better warships, and I have such a few considerations." ”

Fang Xiaoyu smiled and pointed his finger deeply: "First, anyway, we don't have the ability to knock them down now, so it's better to mislead them and let them waste a lot of energy, manpower and money on battleships, while we develop new warships." ”

Although he didn't quite believe that such a good battleship would be the wrong way for the development of warships, Liu Junguo was still very confident in Fang Xiaoyu, so he did not refute it out loud.

Fang Xiaoyu stretched out a second finger and said: "Second, now that all countries are in a deep economic crisis, the most direct way for them to get out of the economic crisis is for the government to expand armaments and use armaments to drive the recovery of the entire economy, and this requires an excuse, I am giving them an excuse to let them carry out a naval arms race and consume their national strength." When the arms race reaches a certain level, their only way out is war, and use war to consume huge equipment reserves, otherwise the maintenance cost alone will be enough for them to go bankrupt. ”

Liu Junguo still agrees with this very much, as the commander of the navy, he knows very well the price of a battleship, and if he builds more such battleships, I am afraid that the richest Chinese leaders will not be able to stand it.

Seeing Liu Junguo nodding again and again, Fang Xiaoyu stretched out his third finger: "This is the last point, who said that I sold them the most advanced technology, I just sold them the single-stage impulse steam turbine, as for the better multi-stage impulse steam turbine and the supporting heavy oil boiler, I didn't sell it." ”

Liu Junguo said: "But the reason why they bought our steam turbine is because my Chinese ship is fast enough, if they don't use it to achieve results, don't you know that we have a better one?" ”

Fang Xiaoyu smiled: "It doesn't matter, the single-stage impulse steam turbine can also achieve the same effect, but it is just that a few more units need to be installed, so that they can use more displacement on the power system, which can weaken their advantage in armor and artillery, isn't that good?" ”

Liu Junguo said with a smile: "Okay, great, I didn't expect the young master to leave so many back hands." It's just that our Zhonghua-class battleships can build a few more. ”

Fang Xiaoyu shook his head and said, "Enough is enough, do you really think that my money will not be spent?" This Zhonghua-class battleship costs 100 million Chinese yuan, and now four have been launched. ”

Liu Junguo said with a smile: "But I always feel that our naval strength is still too thin, much smaller than the scale of the Saar Empire. ”

Fang Xiaoyu said: "Who are you comparing with, the Saar Empire is the number one naval power, and it has a vast colony, of course it needs a huge fleet to maintain, do we need so much?" ”

As soon as Fang Xiaoyu said this, he didn't expect Liu Junguo to really raise his fingers and calculate: "I need to defend the territory of the Central Continent, the territory of the Eastern Continent, the territory of the Savage Continent, and a series of islands, plus I want to help defend the allies of the Oahu Kingdom and the Saint Martin Empire." Master, we have a lot of places. ”

Liu Junguo was long-winded, and made it clear that he wanted Fang Xiaoyu to build him a few more battleships. Fang Xiaoyu was a little impatient by his nagging, and waved his hand directly: "Okay, okay." Don't be so brainless, just stare at the battleship, let's go, go with me to see something new and open your eyes. ”

Liu Junguo said excitedly: "Do you have any new equipment?" It's our Navy, right? ”

Fang Xiaoyu said with a smile: "Of course it's from your navy, it's the equipment of the Yin people." ”

Fang Xiaoyu and Liu Junguo quickly came to the submarine research base that had just been secretly built near Port Arthur, and when they came here in a car, Huo Lan happened to be in the dock of the submarine and loudly commanding the workers.

Fang Xiaoyu greeted Huo Lan as soon as he got out of the car: "I'm Huo Lan, I look very busy every time I see you, what are you doing?" ”

Huo Lan turned around and saw that it was Fang Xiaoyu and immediately smiled: "It's not a big deal, we are hoisting torpedoes on the submarine." ”

Fang Xiaoyu walked up to him and asked, "How is the situation?" Is the experiment complete? ”

Huo Lan smiled: "Of course it's done, it's already passed the sea trial, and it's waiting for you to come and inspect." Under the guidance of Holland, the group soon came to the small docks in the middle of the huge mountain, which were renovated and regular, which were used to dock submarines.