Chapter 29: The Otsu Incident
But in this way, their torpedoes must be manufactured, this is not difficult, at this time the torpedo is still compressed air powered, not only the range is pitifully close, but also there is no gyroscope, can only attack stationary targets in good sea conditions, want to use this thing to hit the moving warship is simply against the sky, a steam gas MK8 torpedo is enough to kill everything.
To put it bluntly, this thing is a matter of processing accuracy, the thunder shell and the relatively simple part are made by Bofors, and the key part is made by the beauty avatar, so that you can completely ensure your control.
Took Woolf aboard his Nautilus, visited the two large diesel engines, and then took him directly to Newcastle at twenty-eight knots of high speed, so that this guy thoroughly appreciated the charm of the new engine, but before he could reach the place, Woolf had been completely dumped.
There is no huge boiler, no coal piled up on the deck, no towering chimneys, and no dozens or even hundreds of sailors waiting for a steam engine, in the empty power room, two small and delicate (this is what he thinks) diesel engines, running quietly (this is also in his opinion), surging power propels the three-body yacht, gliding like a seagull on the sea.
Oh my God, this is simply the most perfect engine, and if you think about it, how much heavy burden will be saved if a battleship is equipped with such a machine, and how much will it have to increase its combat effectiveness if these saved weights are replaced with armor and cannons?
"Mr. Yang, I have to say, this is a perfect machine." Although he said that he was not fit to say this, the excited Woolf still could not contain his feelings.
"But there are restrictions, fuel! If this kind of engine is really applied on a large scale, then it means that we have opened a new era, the era of oil!" Yang Feng said lightly.
"Then the oil companies should be happy." Woolf said with a shrug.
After arriving at Armstrong, Yang Feng drove the Nautilus into the dock, and then locked the power compartment himself, leaving a dozen bodyguards and two employees of Jinyuan Company to stay here.
The hull part of this giant ship of more than 3,000 tons has been basically formed, and the next step is the installation of the power system and weapon system, and it is estimated that it will be delivered to the Young's shipyard in Sweden for more than half a year, and then various external armor and 130 cannons will be installed there.
Looking at his future battleship, Yang Feng suddenly remembered his opponent.
"I heard that the Japanese ordered two new cruisers in your company, I wonder if it's true?" The thing suddenly asked Woolf beside him.
"No, at least not yet!" Woolf shook his head and said, it doesn't look like a lie, after all, the relationship between Yang Feng and Armstrong is far from being comparable to the Japanese.
"Maybe I misheard." Yang Feng said indifferently, in fact, the Japanese had not placed an order at this time, mainly because they had no money, and His Majesty the Emperor was calling on the people to reduce food and clothing to raise money to buy warships.
After seeing his battleship, Yang Feng attended the Armstrong company boss William Brown. George. Armstrong personally hosted a welcome party for him, along with him and now the de facto manager of Armstrong. Nobel formally decided on the intention of cooperation, and the next day, under the supervision of Majifen, who arrived on the Black Arrow, he loaded six sets of six-inch rapid-fire guns and a batch of shells onto a cargo ship, and then drove the Black Arrow back to London, and Majifen escorted the six rapid-fire guns back to China.
As soon as he returned to London, Yang Feng was invited to the ball by a fool, and His Royal Highness the Silly Prince is now more and more inseparable from Yang Feng's Viagra and sets, and these two things have become popular in the British aristocratic circle under his promotion, Yang Feng is even a little worried that once he can't go back and cut off the supply for two years, these angry dukes and princes will tear themselves apart.
Naturally, this guy and his yacht at the ball became the main topic of conversation among these boring guys, and the fool even complained that he didn't invite himself to visit.
"Your Highness, the Nautilus is now undergoing renovation at the Armstrong shipyard, and when the renovation is completed, I will invite all my friends to my ship to experience the charm of speed." Yang Feng said with a smile.
While the two were talking, the last Russian empress dressed in jewels walked over with a young man in his twenties who had an intimate expression with her, Yang Feng almost thought it was her future husband, and then thought that at this time Nicholas II seemed to be traveling in Japan!
"Your Royal Highness Princess, I haven't seen you for a few months, but you are getting more and more beautiful." Yang Feng complimented with a smile.
"Yang, thanks to your skincare products." Alice, or Princess Alex, said with a smile.
"Who is this?" Yang Feng turned his head to look at the man beside her.
"This is my brother." Alice said.
"Your Royal Highness, what a rudeness." Yang Feng hurriedly bowed and said, her brother seems to have only one, the future last Grand Duke of Hesse, Ernst. Ludwig, but this thing seems to be a glass, Yang Feng looked at Ernst. Ludwig's warm smile suddenly had a creepy feeling.
"He's your admirer!" Her Royal Highness the princess said with a smile on her face.
"Huh?! It's an honor!" Yang Feng looked at him somewhat blankly.
"It is unbelievable that those poems, full of wisdom and emotion, should be written by a young Oriental like you." The old glass stretched out his hand to Yang Feng with a shocked expression.
"Well, I should say they come from my heart." Boss Yang said very pretendly, he only remembered at this time that because wet people are more popular now, he seems to have plagiarized part of Gibran's "Sand and Foam" before, and it seems that this guy was dumped by these poems full of wisdom.
In this way, it seems that Wet Man is still a promising profession, and I look back and plagiarize the things he wrote in the collection of Tagore's birds that he was dazed by a Japanese geisha, and I don't know how it would be like for Tagore to see it now.
This thing maliciously thinks about his plagiarism business, and at the same time copes with the compliments of His Highness Ludwig, although this seems a little absent-minded, but wet man, as it should be, which poet you see like a dog, except our wet man, of course.
At this time, the vampire suddenly walked in in a hurry, looking at his expression, something big must have happened, Yang Feng thought about today's date, as if he vaguely remembered what was going on.
"Three Highnesses, I just got a telegram that His Royal Highness the Russian Crown Prince, who is visiting Japan, has been assassinated by the Japanese!" The vampire said with a solemn face.
"Oh my God, poor Nikolai!" As soon as she heard the bad news about her sweetheart, Princess Alex almost fainted.
"Your Highness, don't worry, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was only slightly injured, but it is said to be disfigured." The vampire said busily.
"Hah, who made him like to run to that kind of hellish place." Ignoring Princess Alex's angry eyes, the fool gloated and said that he knew that the main reason why he failed to propose to his cousin was because of the Russian crown prince.
In the midst of the shocked discussion around him, Boss Yang shrugged his shoulders regretfully and said, "Now you know why I don't like this country!"
The Otsu incident allowed him to seize the grip of the Japanese, and the next day tomorrow the newspaper stopped all other reports, including the serialization of the novel "John Carter on Mars" that countless people had been waiting for, and then discussed the evil nature of the Japanese nation in the form of a special page, especially the old bottoms who used them as pirates to raid the coast of China, and described the Japanese as monsters more terrifying than horned demons.
Then he delved into the national identity, history, and various strange customs of Japan, as well as the greed for expansion as an islander, although many of the contents are easy to arouse the sense of substitution of the British, but because of this, they can be deeply touched.
When a robber turns into a law enforcer and dresses himself in a veneer of civilization, he is always full of anger at his successors, and when the English see that there is a people in the East who is replicating their own rise, they will never feel any affection in their hearts.
However, this time the Japanese legation did not come out to start a debate with the Ming Daily, and the last fiasco has made them understand that the best choice in this kind of thing is to keep their mouths shut and let the hateful Chinese talk to themselves, and besides, this matter cannot be debated, the knife in the face of the Russian crown prince cannot be erased in any way, and now the best way is to pretend to be pitiful and win the pity of the Europeans with a soft image, anyway, the Russians are not very popular.
But it's a pity that even if they don't fight, Boss Yang also has a way, the Japanese don't come forward and he comes forward himself, this thing is wanton roulin Japanese in tomorrow's daily newspaper at the same time, and at the same time spend money to hire gunmen to support the Japanese in other newspapers, and then tomorrow's daily newspaper and the newspaper that received his money will refute again, and the other party will refute it, and then refute it here, at this time, he doesn't need to spend money, and the heat of the Otsu incident has exceeded the Japanese jinv issue last time.
Of course, this is just his little entertainment, spend a little money to buy a happy mood, and now Boss Yang is not short of money, because the beauty avatar has a great harvest in the Gulf of Mexico's gold sweeping activities, and when he saw the gold jewelry piled up in the shuttle, he was so excited that he almost leaned on the bulkhead to kiss the beauty avatar.
More than a dozen tons of gold, more than forty tons of silver, and nearly a ton of various jewelry, this is just the result of a beautiful woman's avatar in less than a month, if you sweep it for a year, it will not be hundreds of tons? And this is only in the Gulf of Mexico, what about the rest of the seas? Especially on the most important Atlantic shipping lanes, I am afraid that a few thousand tons will not be a problem.
"Well, how many good things did these colonists rob back then? If it sinks, it will cost hundreds of tons of gold, and won't it be several times better for them to bring it back to China?" Boss Yang's eyes immediately flashed with anger.
"Rob the girl! Grab all the little left, so that these ghosts can live a life of nibbling on black bread again. The creature said viciously.