Zhang Chuang handed over this job to his subordinates, and then followed Lin Fei to the communication equipment factory, and came to the communication equipment factory in a short time.

The owner of the communication equipment factory was a wealthy Spanish businessman, at this time the rich Spanish businessman had fled without a trace, and the Spanish technicians in the factory also hid and did not dare to show their faces, and only Chinese craftsmen were left in the factory at this time, and the Chinese craftsmen set up a factory management with the support of Lin Fei's troops, and the entire factory was in a state of shutdown due to the lack of Spanish technicians.

When Lin Fei came to the factory, an entourage had already gone in and informed the acting director of the factory, this acting director was a Chinese, named Dai Lin, a middle-aged man in his forties, he heard that the emperor of the Chinese Empire personally came to inspect their factory, and immediately felt flattered and came to greet Lin Fei.

Lin Fei waved his hand casually and said, "Master Dai doesn't have to be polite, let me ask you, what can our factory produce?" ”

Dai Lin said: "Our factory mainly produces two types of equipment, one is the telephone, and the other is the telephone line. ”

Lin Fei nodded and said, "Let's talk about the telephone first, do you buy the parts of the telephone and assemble it yourself?" Or do you produce the parts of the telephone yourself? ”

The telephone is made up of various parts, Dai Lin heard Lin Fei ask this, knew that Lin Fei was an expert, and had a different kind of admiration for Lin Fei, he bowed deeply and said: "Your Majesty, our factory can produce some parts, such as the microphone, we bought the patent of the American Bell Company, and produced it ourselves here, and there are some parts that we can't produce, such as batteries, because the production of batteries is more complicated, we don't have that ability, and all the batteries used for telephones are purchased." ”

Lin Fei nodded and asked, "Is the battery still in stock?" ”

Dai Lin replied: "There is stock, enough stock for a hundred telephones to last more than a year." ”

Lin Fei thought for a while and said, "Let's not talk about the telephone, let's talk about the telephone line, how do you make the telephone line?" ”

Dai Lin said: "The telephone line is completely made by us, we buy the smelted copper first, there is a copper mine in Wuduancheng, and there is a smelter, we buy the smelted copper from them, transport it by sea, and then draw it into copper wire on our own wire drawing machine." ”

"The outside of the telephone line is wrapped in rubber, which we buy from a rubber factory in the city, and after buying it, we do some processing ourselves, and then we wrap it around the telephone wire, and that's it."

Lin Fei asked, "According to your current technology, how long can a telephone line be built?" ”

Dai Lin said: "About five hundred meters." ”

Lin Fei then asked, "I order a 50,000-meter-long telephone line, how long can you make it?" ”

Dai Lin was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously asked, "What do you want so many phone lines for?" As soon as Dai Lin said this, he knew that he was reckless, and hurriedly apologized, Lin Fei smiled: "It's okay, I want a phone line that is naturally useful." ”

"We can produce about a kilometer of telephone line in an hour, and 50,000 meters takes about 50 man-hours," Delin said. ”

Lin Fei said: "Okay, you are working overtime to make telephone wires, and processing 50,000 meters of telephone wires in the shortest time, where is your wire winding drum?" Show me. ”

The telephone lines are very long, so they will be wrapped around a cylinder, and this cylinder is the "winding roller", Dai Lin said: "It's all in the back warehouse, I'll take you to see it." ”

Dai Lin said and took Lin Fei to the warehouse, opened the door of the warehouse and saw that there was a large row of winding rollers neatly stacked in the warehouse, each of which was more than two meters long and fifty centimeters in diameter, with a black outer skin of telephone wires wrapped around it, Lin Fei frowned and said, "This winding roller is too big, right?" Isn't there a smaller one? ”

Dai Lin shook his head and said, "The winding roller is too small to be practical, and it is a waste of materials. ”

Lin Fei asked, "Where did you order this winding roller?" ”

"The lumber mill in the city. ”

Lin Fei said: "You immediately place an order for the timber factory in the city to reduce the size of the winding drum, and I will give you the specific size later, understand?" ”

Dai Lin nodded in agreement, and Lin Fei said again: "I also need twenty telephones, and each telephone must be equipped with a battery that can support its use for four hundred hours, is there a problem?" ”

Dai Lin shook his head and said, "No problem, our factory has a stock of telephones and batteries, and we can give them to you now." ”

Lin Fei nodded and said, "Okay, you guys should step up production, invite the Spanish technicians in the factory back, pay them according to the original treatment, and force them to do it with guns if they don't want to work, understand?" ”

Dai Lin agreed again, and Lin Fei asked before leaving, "Where does the rubber from the rubber factory in the city come from?" Do you know? ”

"From Cebu in the Visayas, there are large rubber plantations that produce fine rubber," says Delin. ”

Lin Fei said "I know", took Zhang Chuang out, and then took Zhang Chuang to another factory he was interested in, the Keli Steam Engine Factory, on the way Zhang Chuang asked: "Your Majesty, what do you want to do when you order a telephone and a telephone line?" Does it have anything to do with us? ”

Lin Fei said with a smile: "This involves the issue of battlefield communications, and I ordered these telephones and telephone lines for battlefield communications. ”

Zhang Chuang shook his head, indicating that he didn't understand, Lin Fei said with a smile: "We have experienced several battles before, the Battle of Ibayat Island, the Battle of Bazahai City, and the Battle of Wuduan City, the scale of these battles is relatively small, the battlefield area is relatively small, and the number of participants is not large, but what we have to fight in the future is a big battle." ”

"There is a striking feature of a major battle -- the number of participants in the battle is large, the number of participants is large, the battlefield area is large, and the positions of the various units are far apart, which has brought great problems to command and communications.

Zhang Chuang thought for a while and said: "If it is three thousand meters, the road is flat, lightly equipped, and it will take about ten minutes to run at the earliest, if it is under battlefield conditions, the road is rugged, and the soldiers have to carry combat equipment, it is difficult to say how long it will take." ”

Lin Fei said with a smile: "That's right, this news for help is very likely to not reach Unit B when Unit A is surrounded and annihilated by the enemy, if there is a telephone between Unit A and Unit B, just a phone call, Unit A can send the news of the enemy's sneak attack, not only the news of the enemy's sneak attack, but even the location of the enemy, Unit B can either directly reinforce or attack the enemy's flank, this is the importance of battlefield communication." ”

Zhang Chuang nodded and said, "So that's the case, I understand the role of telephone lines and telephones, so why did you ask me to find a warrior who is good at long-distance running?" ”

Lin Fei said with a smile: "Of course it's wiring, I need these soldiers who are good at long-distance running to pull the telephone line from one troop station to another, and the purpose of my letting them improve the wire winding drum is the same, making the wire winding drum smaller and easier to carry." ”

Zhang Chuang suddenly realized, Lin Fei smiled, and said: "The role of battlefield communication is more than this, there are more important roles, for example, with battlefield communication equipment, our artillery can be like a tiger with wings!" ”

Zhang Chuang was stunned for a moment and asked, "What does this have to do with artillery?" ”

Lin Fei said with a smile: "The areas of these battles are all plains, and the terrain is transparent, but Zamboanga is surrounded by mountains, and under such terrain conditions, our artillery cannot aim directly, so we can use battlefield communication equipment for indirect aiming." ”

Zhang Chuang asked, "Indirect aiming?" What does that mean? ”

Lin Fei was just about to explain, when an attendant suddenly reminded on the side: "Your Majesty, the Chris Steam Engine Factory has arrived." ”

As soon as Lin Fei looked up, he saw a large factory building, Lin Fei smiled and said to Zhang Chuang: "Okay, let's get to the place, let's talk about indirect aiming later." ”

After Lin Fei finished speaking, he turned over and dismounted, and several Chinese ran out of it, led by a white and chubby middle-aged man, with kind eyebrows and kind eyes, and a group of kind, and his entourage introduced Lin Fei: "This is the acting director of the Chris Steam Engine Factory, Bai Shanhe." ”

Bai Shanhe and the craftsmen behind him knelt on the ground when they saw Lin Fei coming, Lin Fei stretched out his hand to help them up, and then said to Bai Shanhe: "Master Bai, can this factory produce its own steam engines?" ”

Although Lin Fei wanted to equip his warship with the most advanced gas turbine, the industrial base could not be made at all, so he could only use the steam engine first, and the steam engine, especially the ship-powered steam engine, was a very complex system, and if it was completely independently developed, it would take a long time, and I am afraid that it would be too late to prevent the Japanese from occupying Taiwan.

Therefore, Lin Fei planned to build a steam engine with the help of the Spanish steam engine factory, and in the process of factory construction, he used the advanced technology he mastered to improve the steam engine technology in order to obtain the advantages of the power system, and then accumulated talents in the future, further laid a solid industrial foundation, and then independently designed and manufactured a new steam engine.

At this time, the Chinese Empire had occupied two-thirds of Mindanao, and the territory was vast and in urgent need of railway transportation, so Lin Fei rushed over when he saw that there was a steam engine factory in Cotabatar.

However, Bai Shanhe's words made Lin Fei very disappointed, and he only heard Bai Shanhe say: "Your Majesty, we are a steam engine repair factory here, not a steam engine manufacturing factory, all we can do is repair the steam engine, and the parts used for repair need to be purchased from other factories." ”

Lin Fei hurriedly asked, "Buy from a foreign factory?" Where do you buy from? ”

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