Chapter 51: Target Jiawu
Yang Feng stayed in Germany until the beginning of 1894, during which he signed dozens of procurement and cooperation agreements with major German companies, from military to civilian, and almost copied the enterprises in his hands here, including the DDT project that had already begun production in the United States, and set up a joint venture factory with Hirschst Company here, and also signed a series of patent licenses with the Emperor Krupp Company, which is now a German industry, allowing Krupp to produce all the new weapons of Bofors in Germany, from automatic pistols to mortars. Even the latest Miss Seventy-Five.
Although the price of this guy is quite dark, Krupp not only cannot export these weapons, but also must give him 10% of the price of each weapon produced as a royalty, but for Franz. For Krupp, this was still a surprise, especially with the rate of fire reaching fifteen rounds per minute and the ultimate speed approaching thirty rounds.
Since this thing emerged in Yang Feng's conquest of Kuwait, it has been the most sought-after weapon in the arms market, and the German Army alone ordered a hundred at a time, and was able to obtain the patent authorization for this artillery, so whether it was for Krupp or the German Army, the significance was naturally huge, which also allowed Yang Feng to obtain the sincere friendship of this old glass.
In this way, it was not until his own destroyer in Sweden that Yang Feng left Germany with Zhang Quan, during this time, the governor-general's son can be said to have been completely cleansed, whether it is the strong industrial strength of Europe or the constitutional monarchy that seems unbelievable to him, as well as the terrifying wealth of European consortiums, especially when Yang Feng casually involved the funds involved in a commercial contract, at least no less than the investment in the entire Hanyang Iron and Steel Plant, he can be said to be truly shocked.
"Money and technology dominate the world, not those stinking sage thoughts, the industrial revolution brought about a leap in human society, not the speculation of a philosopher, strength is not how glorious you are, but how bright the future you have." Yang Feng taught him earnestly like a magic stick.
"Look at this, this is the future!" Then the cargo pointed to the destroyers in the trial voyage and said, these two destroyers are the fist products of the Yang shipyard in the future, not only can reach a speed of 37 knots, but also equipped with two quadruple torpedo tubes, using five, three, three or three mm steam gas torpedoes, and a twin turret in the front and rear.
Originally, Yang Feng wanted to use the 130 cannon, but later his shipyard designers thought that the caliber was too big, and the 500-ton boat couldn't stand it at all, so this cargo simply put the US army's seven or six in World War II. The two-millimeter naval guns were contributed, with a twin turret at the bow of the ship, a semi-open turret on one side of the ship, and a twin turret at the tail, so that there could be four main guns that fired forward when charging head-on, and nearly 100 shells could be projected at the fastest per minute.
With the completion of these two destroyers, Yang Feng's First Sino-Japanese Combat Fleet was officially completed, one armored cruiser, four destroyers, and as for the six landing ships, this will be available soon, Armstrong in order to meet his requirements to complete at the same time, and even pushed off the contract for two merchant ships, and after a year of continuous construction, it finally caught up with the time he requested.
As for the Pit Viper and the Cobra, they were also refitted at Yang's shipyard, using the exact same weapon system, these four high-speed destroyers and heavy torpedoes will be his main weapons against the combined fleet, after receiving the warships, Yang Feng immediately returned to London, and now there are only a few months before the start of the war, he has to hurry up and send the 305 shells to the Beiyang Naval Division, I don't know that with these 600 shells with picric acid charge, and the twenty 152 mm rapid-fire guns he gave them, 4,000 rounds of nitrocellulose, Four thousand shells with a picric acid charge, what will they do this time.
To be honest, Xue Fucheng thought that these shells were no longer playful, after all, Yang Feng had already given a lot of things to the Beiyang Naval Division, even if he didn't give these shells, there was nothing to say, but he didn't expect that he actually sent the shells, since he sent them, of course he had to accept them, praised the patriotism of Boss Yang, and hurriedly sent the merchant ship loaded with shells to China.
Originally, Zhang Quan wanted to go back with this ship, but Yang Feng told him that he might have to go to China in a few months, so he might as well go together, not only him, but also Xue Fucheng had to go together, his term of office as minister had expired, and Gong Zhaoyu, who replaced him, had already set off in Shanghai.
In the next time, Yang Feng was relatively leisurely, and continued to live a happy life surrounded by rich and beautiful women, although there were more and more women around him, which had caused the dissatisfaction of his legitimate fiancée, but Lin Luoke, who grew up in China, was obviously very clear about the reality of the three wives and four concubines of the Chinese at this time, and none of these women around Yang Feng had a formal identity, so they could barely tolerate it, after all, one was a maid, at this time, even if the European rich hooked up with the maid, it was very common, One is a slave girl, this one is not even as good as a maid, this Persian woman has no use except for dancing and warming the bed for Yang Feng, not to mention the status or something.
As for the other two, Ye Zi has not succeeded in Yang Feng so far, Catherine was sent to school by Yang Feng, and now she is not by Yang Feng's side, so his hougong problem is not prominent.
In order to show his friendship with the British Empire, Yang Feng immediately listed all the cooperation projects he had with the Germans, and British companies could also cooperate if they were interested, so he sold the same thing again, and during this time the income increased geometrically, and waited until the new Minister Gong Zhaoyu arrived.
Gong Zhaoyu is also a person who is a ghost of Li Er, and he has naturally been famous for Yang Feng for a long time, and it is inevitable to praise each other when they meet, after all, it is indispensable to deal with each other in the future, and it is still necessary to have a better relationship.
And at this time, Yang Feng's landing ship was also completed, six flat-bottomed ships with a displacement of 3,000 tons, using three high-power diesel engines, the fastest speed in sea trials can reach 20 knots, the deck is equipped with 76 naval guns transported from Bofors, each ship has eight guns, the internal cabins are divided into three layers, each floor is a full through design, can accommodate a thousand soldiers to live, the bow of the ship has a large springboard with hydraulic opening and closing, after the beach, the soldiers can directly access the guò springboard from the internal cabin to the beach, and there is a special cabin for artillery on the top floor, the war horse can drag the cannon and rush out in the same way.
But unfortunately, this kind of beach-grabbing landing is still very difficult for the current cars, otherwise it is very good to get a few trucks, and then surround the armor plate and set up a few machine guns, at this time the armored vehicles appear on the battlefield, it is simply invincible, as for his tanks, he does not dare to show up now, or wait for later.
"Toyosei, what kind of ship are these?" Xue Fucheng looked at these strangely shaped giant ships with great curiosity.
"Merchant ships, ocean-going merchant ships, can run not only at sea, but also on inland waterways, and even dock at beaches where there are no ports." Yang Feng said without blinking.
"And what are those cannons up there for?" Xue Fucheng asked with a smile.
"Fighting pirates? Malacca is full of pirates, and if you don't believe it, ask your goddaughter, she was almost robbed by pirates last time. Yang Feng said, because of the natural awe of officials, so Ye Zi looked very ladylike in front of Xue Fucheng, she studied in private school for a few years, she is also like a lady, Xue Fucheng, who was alone in London, took her as his goddaughter, he didn't know that this very ladylike girl could burn a boatload of big living people with kerosene without blinking an eye.
Of course, such nonsense as fighting pirates, the cunning Xue Fucheng will definitely not believe it, as soon as he thinks of Yang Feng's evil deeds of robbing Kuwait last time, he understands what these six ocean-going merchant ships that can each carry a thousand guests are for, a thousand guests are replaced by a thousand soldiers, you can dock without a wharf, and you can even drive directly into the inland river, if the French also have such a ship during the Sino-French War, he will be in trouble when he fights the enemy in Zhenhai.
Six ships can transport six thousand soldiers, Yang Feng's subordinates are all European and American mercenaries, even the Chinese are known for their strong combat effectiveness, coupled with a full set of the most advanced weapons, and five warships, Xue Fucheng suddenly understood what this cargo wanted to do, this Tama is a large pirate group, and what pirates to prevent, he himself is afraid to play pirates, last time he destroyed Kuwait with two thousand people, if it is six thousand people, I am afraid that many small countries will not be able to stop him, and with Yang Feng's influence in Europe, no matter what he does, These countries will not interfere, since this is the case, the sea is not allowed to play, this is the real crossing!
Yang Feng didn't know that this old guy beside him had already seen through his evil nature, and this thing was full of longing to make up the scene of taking the pirate group Emperor Roulin in the future!
"When the time comes, find a few African gorilla-level and let His Majesty the Emperor enjoy them." He thought to himself with an evil face.
In addition to the warships, his ground forces were also ready at this time, and in the past year or so, in the office in Wuchang, he recruited another 2,000 soldiers, plus European and American mercenaries and Chinese workers, in addition to the training base in Western Australia and the security of the Persian oil fields, as well as the defenders who stayed in Kuwait, he could mobilize at least 4,000 mobile troops, and then after arriving in Taiwan, recruit another 1,000 natives in the local area, and a large pirate regiment at the brigade level was completed.