Chapter 377: A Gift to the Germans
Yang Feng's seeds of sin have been sown, just waiting to blossom and bear fruit under the hard irrigation, of course, it will take time, but fortunately he is not short of time.
After the end of the Sino-French War, his military diesel engine immediately ushered in a new wave of orders, especially in France, which was most stimulated, after knowing that Emperor Yang did not restrict the export of diesel engines to them, he purchased two hundred more units in one go, and they were all 10,000 horsepower high-power versions, because he was worried that Yang Feng would be sanctioned one day, so he would rather increase the price and get it in the shortest possible time, and finally the price set by both sides was 100,000 pounds, and all were delivered within half a year.
It's not that they want to increase the number of battleships with these diesels, France already has a budget of sixteen perfect battleships, the first batch of six will be built in two years, there is no point in adding more, their navy will not wait that long, and besides, they will not have the money. The indemnity of 500 million gold francs was not a small amount even for the usurious empire, and even the money for these diesel engines had to be settled by the issuance of additional national debts, thanks to the defeat of the war, especially the naval blockade of the American fleet, which stimulated the French capitalists, and in order not to have such a terrible tragedy in the future, they bought it as enthusiastically as they did in order to drive the Germans out of Paris as soon as possible. This batch of diesel engines will be used to build various types of cruisers and large destroyers that can be completed in a short time, in addition to large submarines that are under development.
Of course, this amount is nothing to worry about Yang Feng, he has just shipped back nearly 20,000 tons of raw materials, and the beauty avatar can build him hundreds of units a day, and even now the emperor does not need to transport goods in person, his shuttle has recovered its deformation ability, and he can become an ocean-going freighter and dock directly at the special dock newly built by Yang's Power Systems Company in Haizhou, although it seems mysterious to see the crew go ashore every time, but since it is the ship of the emperor's majesty, no one will dare to study this problem.
After the diesel engine is unloaded at the dock, it is directly sent to the nearby factory for packaging, which is actually mainly to package the shell. That is, to continue to thicken on the basis of the original shell, and add another part of the parts that seem to be useful, but are actually useless, and of course there is no harm. All of his diesel engines are done like this, and after so many years, they have long been familiar with it, and countless European scientists are distressed by his little tricks, and many people are sure that the reason why they can't make diesel engines with the same performance is because they don't have a thorough understanding of the use of these things, and Emperor Yang doesn't know how many times he snickered because of this.
After adding the bits and pieces, they are then stamped with the steel seal of Young's Power Systems. Then put on a special box, and it is also a brass cast box, engraved with the Chinese royal coat of arms, a dragon with teeth and claws in the clouds, it looks like a high-end atmosphere, absolutely in line with the standard price of 40,000 to 70,000 pounds each.
Because of the perfect performance of the Kunlun-class battleships in the war, the European powers are now eyeing not only diesel engines, but also Britain and Germany, all of whom are trying to consult the secret of the first salvo that can be hit seventeen kilometers away. Of course, Emperor Yang resolutely refused to admit that he had used some mysterious instruments that were not known to the outside world. In his mouth, this is the result of the well-trained Chinese sailors, which is understandable to the European powers, although this is not more than a hundred years later, but everyone exports ideas. The principle of the export system, that is, the inability to export technology, is still very clear. In fact, in their opinion, Yang Feng also continued to sell diesel engines to the outside world. It's already quite a bit of a money-making death.
Besides, how he did it, the outside world can basically guess, it is nothing more than a more advanced observation and sighting system. At this time, the British had already begun to engage in centralized fire control, and they were confident that they would be able to do it for a short time, as for the Germans, they had Zeiss company, and they were really not afraid of anyone in this regard, even the color camera, which is the hottest commodity of General Electric, had to use lenses purchased from Zeiss company, and if they wanted their cannons to hit a battleship seventeen kilometers away, Zeiss company was also confident enough.
The European powers, stimulated by the war, continued to march more indomitably on the road of the arms race, distant Europe was in tension, Africa was still in open and covert struggle, the British Empire in South Africa was still entangled with the Boer guerrillas, and the establishment of concentration camps allowed the Germans to seize the handle, and cynicism was endless. Relations between the two countries are on the verge of a dangerous situation in Nigeria, where so-called German volunteers are often seen in anti-British uprisings by the indigenous people.
Fortunately, at this time, Yang Feng suddenly gave William a big gift, which made the emperor, whose eyes were blood-red from the oil, resist the desire to go into battle shirtless and fight his grandmother.
"William, it's really nice that you can come to my birthday, I haven't seen your father for more than two years, although I have always wanted to go to Europe again, but unfortunately there are too many things to dop, and I don't have so much freedom when I become an emperor." At the birthday banquet at the Beijing Imperial Palace, Emperor Yang said with great emotion to the German Crown Prince Wilhelm, who came to enhance his relationship with him on the grounds of visiting China.
"Your Majesty, my father is also very much looking forward to being able to meet you again." Little William said very respectfully, as if his father and Yang Feng were also good friends.
"Next year! If I have time next year, I will visit my old friend, and I have prepared a small gift for him. Yang Feng said with a smile.
"Majesty, I don't know what kind of gift it is?" Waldze, who came with William Jr., hurriedly asked, with his understanding of Yang Feng, he naturally understood that this guy was waiting for him to praise him!
"An oil field, an oil field in Germany." Emperor Yang said with a smile. He has been worrying about a question lately, what if there is a real fight, what if Germany runs out of gas? Although it is now supported by the oil fields of Austria-Hungary and Romania, the former is too small to help, and the latter is too dangerous. Although it was not World War II that needed a lot of crude oil to maintain German tanks, the problem was that the German Navy was not as large as it is now. A battleship sailing is not a few tons of oil, it will have to be hundreds or thousands of tons, just the more than 30 battleships designed by William to go out for a ride, I am afraid that the Austro-Hungarian Empire's crude oil production will be gone for half a year.
What's more, at this time, Germany did not have such a huge coal liquefaction capacity, and even this technology had not yet been invented! In addition to these two Germany, the main crude oil supply is currently overseas, once they fight the Mediterranean route, they don't count on it, the Balkan land transportation is also hopeless, there is also the Russian Black Sea Fleet on the Black Sea, the transportation in the American direction is in the hands of the British, and the supply in any direction will be completely cut off, in this case the only solution is to give them a local land oil field.
Yang Feng's words made the fox hand tremble for a moment, and he exclaimed with wide eyes: "Your Majesty, are you true?" â
"Earl, we are old friends who know our roots, do you still question my integrity?" Yang Feng said lightly.
"No, no, I don't question what you mean, it's just that it's really surprising, you must know that many companies in our country have carried out a lot of exploration in the country, and it can be said that almost all the places where there may be a ZĂ i oil field have been explored, but so far nothing has been found." Waldzer said embarrassedly that he was telling the truth, that the German capitalists had drilled countless wells in the country, but unfortunately had not found even a drop of oil, which was almost a joke in the international capital circles.
Not only did you get nothing, but the mustache didn't get anything back then! Yang Feng said in his heart, Germany has oil fields, although there are not many, but they are enough, but neither William nor Mustache has that technology, after all, the two-thousand-meter deep well exploitation now has this ability for Gulf oil, not to mention the two thousand meters of German oil fields have to add dozens of meters of seawater.
"That's because Oiloil doesn't have the technology to do that, and your oil fields aren't on land." Yang Feng said with a smile.
"Not on land?" Now it was William's turn to be surprised.
"Yes, not on land, but under the sea." Yang Feng said.
"How do you extract the oil fields under the sea?" Waldzer said suspiciously.
So I said you don't have the technology, but I do, but the problem now is, I don't want to share my offshore oil extraction technology with anyone, I think you should be able to understand that, so this oil field will be operated by Gulf Oil alone, at most the German government will get 30% of the shares with the right to exploit, you have no right to intervene in the operation, of course I can promise that the crude oil extracted from this field will be supplied to Germany, in fact, I can only supply Germany, whether I am here or Sweden, I don't need German oil. Because the cost of offshore mining is higher than that of land, it is not cost-effective, so you have to subsidize me.
The output of this oil field is actually not large, probably at most more than one million tons per year, which is just a small supplement to Germany's current demand of 15 million tons a year, but you have to understand the strategic significance of this oil field, I don't think you want to be cut off in the event of a war, and Germany's huge fleet has to stop at the military port because there is no fuel, right? Yang Feng said. (To be continued......)