Chapter 20 Enclosure of America

Boss Yang returned to Sweden after the New Year, and first contacted the Swedish military to help him lie about the original cruiser, which is just a trivial matter, and for the hottest foreign investors in Sweden now, all the requirements of Boss Yang will be met.

Then there is the production of new weapons, there is no difficulty at all in this regard, the main problem of grenades in this era is the charge, you can't let a soldier with a grenade filled with nitrocellulose or picric acid all over the battlefield, that really can't say whether to blow up others or himself, just look at the geming comrades who blew themselves up to death.

There is no such concern about changing the ladder, this thing is still a wooden handle grenade, with steel balls in the cast iron shell, and the performance is not much worse than the grenades in World War II, anyway, the lethality within five or six meters is still very gratifying, the only defect is that the price is a little higher, at this time the ladder um ladder has just begun to be applied in the military, and the high cost is inevitable.

The key to the production of mortars is steel, to provide Bofors with a little technical improvement, Yang Feng easily got the alloy steel he needed, although the processed 82 mm mortar could not reach the five-kilometer range of his modern alloy steel, but it was still very easy to hit two kilometers away.

This is already enough, and the 82 artillery that can run with one shoulder can run two kilometers, which makes it embarrassing for people to push the latest Krupp 75 elements artillery that has to be pushed by horses.

As for the machine gun, there is no need to study it, anyway, no one likes this thing now, it is better to let Bofors copy Miss Seventy-Five, it will be wildly sought after, in the end, this is still an era of artillery, a tube retreat rapid-fire army heavy artillery with fifteen rounds per minute, it will be crazy to think about.

The other is his steam turbine, Young's Marine Power System Company and Parsons Steam Turbine Company's joint venture Young's Steam Turbine Company has been formally established, but not in the United Kingdom, but in Sweden, as a compromise Parsons got 15% of the shares, and another steam turbine inventor Laval got 5%, the company's general manager was a Swede selected by Erickson, Parsons as the chief engineer and deputy chief engineer Laval cooperated in research, and Yang Feng also provided them with some technical help, For example, the condenser and the high-temperature nozzle that Laval later invented, with the help of these things, the research work progressed rapidly, and a sample of more than 1,500 horsepower was built, which was being loaded into a fifty-ton dinghy at the Young's shipyard.

In addition to the steam turbine, his diesel engine and walk-behind tractor production has been fully on the right track, including the supporting rubber tire factory, and this tire factory named Goodyear, the product was immediately enthusiastically sought after as soon as it came out, carbon black rubber, rubber surface pattern, cord inner tube... A series of new techniques have brought tires to almost 20 years later, and car manufacturers, including Mercedes-Benz, have swarmed like flies that have seen blood.

In addition to tires and manual transmissions, the automotive industry immediately entered a new era.

This result made Yang Feng very satisfied, how can building his own car compare to controlling the upstream, BMW, Mercedes-Benz is bullish, is it different in front of Bosch? Go back and build a high-end car brand on your own, which is dedicated to showcasing new skills.

In addition, his diesel engine can also be said to be progressing rapidly, in the case of providing drawings and samples, Yang's engineers have built a four-cylinder diesel engine with a power of more than 100 horsepower, although the block is still large, but there is no problem at all with the truck, but considering the current road conditions, if the production of trucks with a load of several tons, it is estimated that it is difficult to sell it, so the next target of Yang Da Boss is still a tractor, a large truck tractor, anyway, at this time the oil is cheap, Don't care too much about fuel consumption and stuff like that.

In fact, at this time, the production of crude oil was a bit excessive, you must know that the most important product of the petrochemical industry is kerosene, and the most used is kerosene, Rockefeller is started by selling kerosene, and Mobil's signature product in China is lamp oil.

The use of gasoline has just been discovered, and due to the distillation technology, the output is not very high, until 20 years later, with the invention of cracking technology, gasoline has really entered the era of great development, as for diesel, now it is not called an industrial product at all, it is industrial waste, petrochemical plants are used to burn it, but now with the emergence of diesel engines, this thing has also begun to sell for money.

It seems that it is time to enter the petrochemical industry. Looking at the tractors being assembled in his factory, Boss Yang began to think about the next direction of development, he was ready to do his best to pull the world into the era of oil as quickly as possible, this is the key factor that caused the reshuffle of the world order, if he could let the cars run all over the streets in 1900, maybe the First World War would have to start before 1914.

With his petroleum cracking technology and additive technology, he can build the most advanced oil refinery in the world in Sweden, and then use this refinery as a technical symbol to cooperate with those oil giants, all oil giants, so that gasoline can be flooded in the shortest possible time.

"Yang, now there are more and more American businessmen who want to buy tractors, should we sell some to them?" Erickson doesn't know that Lu Dao is studying how to mess with the world, the sales of tractors are very hot, but Yang Feng has always insisted on not selling to the United States, which is a bit of a fly in the ointment, he does not sell to Russia is understandable, after all, it is said that his best friend and first love ** died in the hands of the Russians, but it is a bit bad not to sell to the United States.

"Haven't they agreed to our patent application yet?" Yang Feng asked, now that European countries have given him the vast majority of patent authorizations, but the United States has not moved, it is not surprising, the aristocracy and rich people in European countries have become more and more dependent on his special drugs during this time, but Americans have little friendship with him.

"No, it is said that it is still under approval." Erikson shook his head and said that he didn't think it was a big deal, the patent approval would have taken a long time, let alone a foreigner's application.

"This is forcing Lao Tzu to them!" Boss Yang sighed with emotion.

"You asked someone to book a ticket for me, I need to go to the United States." He immediately said to Eriksen.

In the United States at this time, there are a lot of things waiting for him to start, not to mention just buying the big oil field in East Texas, it can be said that it is a big profit, and now that place is simply a wild forest, the land is not worth a few dollars, and it will not cost much to buy all the land in the entire oil field area, and it is estimated that there are hundreds of thousands of pounds in the sky.

Of course, it's not for development, in this era to believe that it would be a fool to go to the United States to dig up oil and make a fortune! The United States in this era is purely a flow mang country, in order to make money can be said to do whatever it takes, without any lower limit, and Europe is not the same type at all, if a Chinese really has a big oil field in the United States, then the next day he will die so that there is not even a scum, even if he has an army to protect it, the Americans will use the army against him, want to kill a foreigner in this kind of thing, it is too simple, as long as Congress casually passes a law to solve the problem, I believe that all the capitalists in the United States will support it at this time.

In front of these rogue mangs who are not even afraid of death in order to make money, Yang Feng's poor medicine control is very pale and powerless.

Therefore, he wants to enclose land, large-scale enclosure in the United States, what oil fields, iron ore, aluminum ore, all those who can be encircled, and then raise grass and trees there, do nothing and fence the sheep with the wall, and with mercenaries to herd sheep, private land is forbidden for any mining exploration personnel to enter, with his current identity plus the control of medicine, even if he buys a county in the United States, or even a state of wilderness sheep grazing, the Americans will not have the slightest opinion, this is a good way to draw wages from the bottom of the kettle, the development of American industry, It is not by technology but by resources, and it is the inexhaustible cheap resources on the vast land that allow them to win in the competition with the old continent, and if they can use this way to delay their development as much as possible, it will undoubtedly be very helpful to their future strategy.

Moreover, this can also be done in exchange for the convenience of the Americans in terms of patent rights, a big financier who spills money everywhere, I believe that no matter who will warmly welcome it, in return, give him something that should have been given to him, that is naturally a matter of course.

He wants to go to the United States, so naturally he can't go alone, financial personnel, lawyers, bodyguards, little maids, female secretaries, and even private chefs, especially the bodyguards here, Yang Feng recruited a platoon of mercenaries in Sweden, with Johnson as their captain, equipped with Lee Enfield rifles, automatic pistols, and even grenades, and a few titanium alloy plates made a bulletproof vest by himself, which are all big guys like bears, and they don't care about the extra weight on their bodies.

The place in the United States was very chaotic, there was not enough security, he didn't want to risk his life, this thing even put on his own golden dragon stand-up collar, but in order to cover the golden dragon with teeth and claws, some very fine embroidery was specially pasted on the outside, making it look like those nobles in the Middle Ages.

After learning the news, Baron Rothschild also assigned him a bank manager, who was in charge of his banking business in the United States.