Chapter 321: Sea Assassin (Part I)
After Wang Guorui supervised the work at the beginning of the gold standard, he handed over the matter to the Bank of Taiwan. After all, Wang Guorui is not a professional financial expert, but a leader. It is better to let financial experts take charge of specific financial calculations. However, the current gold standard is still gratifying, because those government leaders and civil servants still recognize it. This is because a large part of government civil servants are international students, and they are all open-minded people who understand foreign countries. So it was much easier for them to accept the gold standard banknotes, so government officials were not very disapproving of paper money like the officials of the past. If the officials don't approve of paper money, how can it be recognized by the people?
Next, Wang Guorui first inspected the Naval Ship Design Institute under the General Armament Department, which also requires a lot of consumption. At present, Taiwan's navy looks strong, but none of the ships can have their own characteristics and become their own killer weapon. First of all, although the Sovereign-class battleships seem to be powerful, in fact, the Sovereign-class battleships are also owned by the British, even more than Taiwan. However, Taiwan does not have a weapon that can really make a final decision, and this is Taiwan's weakness. If there is a killer feature, then the strength of the navy can be greatly increased.
Of course, Wang Guorui didn't plan to think of a way from the battleship, because the battleship was not only expensive to build, but also cost a lot of technology, plus a large number of crew members, this is also a very huge cost. At present, Wang Guorui does not have much idea about battleships, but he is very interested in the kind of weapons that restrain battleships.
"How did you design the submarine?" Wang Guorui asked.
"Well, Lord Wang, we've already designed it, but why haven't you been so satisfied?" Immediately a designer asked.
Wang Guorui said helplessly: "It's not that I'm not satisfied. There is something that is not satisfied! ”
Wang Guorui has always been urging his subordinate ship design institute to design submarines, because submarines are a good thing, but they are a sharp weapon for sneak attacks. You must know that in later generations, the submarine can be a weapon that can play a very good role in a small way. Judging from later generations, many weak navies relied on submarines as a killer weapon to restrain the enemy's large warships. Even in the 21st century. Submarine forces are also a very important thing. Because according to the exchange ratio of submarines and aircraft carriers, it must be submarines. Because there are only dozens of people on a submarine at most, but there are thousands of people on an aircraft carrier, as well as pilots, etc., and the cost of a submarine is much lower than that of an aircraft carrier. Therefore, if you can exchange several submarines for an enemy aircraft carrier, you will make a lot of money in terms of the number of enemies killed and the tonnage of ships sunk.
This is also the reason why some countries with weak navies in later generations vigorously developed submarines, and Taiwan's current Wang Guorui also thinks so. After all, the submarine is completely a killer weapon for Wang Guorui. If there is a submarine detachment cruising along the coast at that time, the enemy's battleships will not be at peace. Therefore, the future development potential of submarines is endless, if the battleship is a heavy samurai at sea, then the submarine is also an assassin at sea. And a samurai doesn't look at his usual martial arts, but if he is attacked by an assassin, he has no power to resist at all.
Therefore, submarines can be said to be a good thing that can achieve a lot of results with the smallest sacrifice. And in the Western world, they pay attention to what chivalry. There is no disdain at all about such an immoral thing as submarines. However, the naval powers of the Western world often suppress and even discriminate against submarines. Think that submarines have no chivalry. It can even be said that the West has not invented a suitable submarine for two hundred years, and perhaps there is no reason for this, because Westerners look down on this kind of sneak attack assassination. This is caused by the knightly culture, so they are also very cheating. As for the later Germany, in fact, the development of submarines was also forced, because the German navy was weak. Naturally, it was thought of breaking through the naval forces of the British from another side. Therefore, Germany also chose to develop submarines, but the Germans were also forced, and if they had a choice, they would not build submarines, which is the shit chivalry of the West. But Wang Guorui is an Oriental, and the law of war in the East is to make the enemy disappear by any means. This is the most basic rule of true victory. The war in the East has never paid attention to any chivalry, but to the success, the prince, the loser, and the thief, so Wang Guorui will not care about what submarines do not pay attention to chivalry! Wang Guorui naturally invested a lot of wealth to join in the development of submarines, so the progress of submarines is also good.
However, Wang Guorui asked those designers to constantly design submarines and come up with as many solutions as possible, but none of them were recognized by the Red Alert system. Wang Guorui not only got the design drawings within the scope of the Red Police Base once, but those Red Police bases did not recognize the submarine design. If the red alert system does not admit it, then it will inevitably be impossible to produce submarines, so this makes Wang Guorui very troubled. If this submarine problem can be solved, it will be an important killer weapon that can truly and stably protect China's maritime frontiers. Surface ships can't fight others, they can use submarines! The cost of the submarine is low, the effect is good, then of course it is worth it.
"Lord Wang, we are stepping up the design and striving to design the submarine that Lord Wang needs as soon as possible. And we have synthesized the submarine design plans of various countries in the past, and we have also tried to find the most suitable one. And the design plan of Holland that Lord Wang got at the moment has inspired us a lot. And it won't be long before we can design a new type of submarine. The designer said.
When Wang Guorui heard this, he nodded helplessly. Submarines are not a new thing, as early as the time of Leonardo da Vinci, submarines were also conceived, and then countries began to develop their own submarines, but the effect was very slow. Worldwide, there have been two centuries of development of submarines, and submarines at this time have progressed from artificially powered submarines to diesel-electric submarines. However, there is still a long way to go before a submarine can really give full play to its actual combat capabilities.
At present, the only submarine that can really have a certain combat significance is the submarine of the American Holland, which is less than a month and a half away from being developed. Holland's submarines were not adopted by the U.S. military, but they have since become the father of Holland's modern submarines. So next, Wang Guorui produced Horan's submarine from the dockyard and asked people to draw design drawings, hoping to give some inspiration to those designers. However, their design still made Wang Guorui not very satisfied, or the Red Alert system did not recognize this submarine plan.
"Lord Wang, our reliable diesel engine has been used. And even the submarine originally invented by Horan, using a hybrid of diesel engine and electric power, is not reliable enough. Holland's submarines also tend to need frequent repairs and maintenance, which may be the reason why the Americans do not adopt them. However, Taiwan was the first place to invent a reliable diesel engine, and if we have a reliable diesel engine and a gasoline engine, then we can build a submarine that is better than Horan. ”
Wang Guorui also knows that Taiwan has come up with a diesel engine with good reliability, which is a very good thing for submarines. Because although Holland also invented submarines in the past, his diesel engines were not very reliable and often had to be repaired, so Holland's submariners could not be used for combat purposes. The main weapon of Holland's submarines was to rely on artillery to damage the enemy, which was also not possible. As a later generation, Wang Guorui certainly knew that the main weapon of conventional submarines was to rely on torpedoes to kill the enemy, not on artillery. If you rely on artillery to kill the enemy, then you will naturally have to float, which will definitely cause the submarine to be threatened by the enemy's artillery, which is definitely not good.
"Okay, Lord Wang, we will definitely work hard to design, and then strive to design a qualified submarine as soon as possible!" The designer said right away.
Wang Guorui then looked around the design institute before preparing to leave the scene.
"Didi, the submarine design drawings were found, and the submarine design was completed. Tentatively named the submarine number A scheme, the dock can be built by itself, and each submarine costs 40,000 silver dollars. ”
Wang Guorui suddenly heard this voice and immediately felt shocked. His subordinates finally designed a qualified submarine, and he will be able to produce submarines by himself in the future, which made Wang Guorui immediately surprised.
"Who, who just designed the submarine?" Wang Guorui asked.
With Wang Guorui's order, everyone began to look for the person who designed something new. However, after searching for it, they were unable to find anyone who had designed a new submarine. Because the various submarine design groups have not been able to design this new torpedo, this is also a surprise to everyone. And Wang Guorui knew that the red alert system would not be wrong, someone must have designed something new, and then it happened to be able to form a submarine design scheme, so that he could have this red alert system and recognize this new submarine. And this submarine has just been replenished, and it can be used as a combat submarine, and then everyone can continue to produce submarines and form submarine forces. (To be continued......)