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In the No. 4 dock of Mawei New Factory, Bingwen pushed Chen Haohui to follow Yang Qiu.

Yang Qiu came to inspect the Navy and the Nanyang Fleet, and in the dock next to him was the Beihai-class aircraft carrier Balkhash, which had only laid its keel in September last year.

The North Sea class is basically modeled after the famous Yorktown-class aircraft carrier in the parallel world, with only appropriate modifications of anti-aircraft firepower. The original 8 127mm Gaoping dual-purpose guns and 16 28mm anti-aircraft guns were replaced with 6 twin 85mm Gaoping dual-purpose guns, 6 twin 40mm anti-aircraft guns and 8 twin 25mm anti-aircraft rapid-fire guns made in Zhengzhou. The domestic anti-aircraft artillery technology is slightly ahead of the world, mainly because he smashed a large number of drawings in this aspect and directly entered the engineering imitation stage, copying all the Erlikong and Bofors. But what frustrated him was that the current domestic anti-aircraft artillery technology was actually completely unable to meet the requirements. Fortunately, Europe and the United States can't get better than themselves at present, so there is still enough time to slowly carve, as for the advantage after the smashing is that the original scary design and development costs are all saved.

Because of the increase in the extension of the gun mounts on both sides, and the weakening of the underwater torpedo protection, the armor thickness of the anti-torpedo compartment was enhanced, the German small watertight compartment design was adopted to increase the sink, and the mechanical catapult design that was not practical and could not be built temporarily was canceled, and the final displacement was increased to the standard 21,500 tons, and the full load was 27,200 tons. The power pack is not enough to increase to 14 boilers, four-shaft and four-paddle design, the design maximum speed is 32 knots, and the endurance is 20 knots/7,000 nautical miles, 15 knots/11,000 nautical miles. Due to the increase in power protection, it occupies a lot of space, and the carrier aircraft has not yet been finalized. So the number of carrier aircraft is expected to be between 70 and 80.

Due to the allocation of funds and the selection of aircraft, the construction of the two aircraft carriers in the 1920 Navy plan was delayed a lot, and the Navy could not actually get the new aircraft carrier until the beginning of 1928, which was about the same time as the launch of the Japanese and American modified aircraft carriers. However, Yang Qiu did not care about the delay in the construction of the aircraft carrier, because the peacetime military projects of any era were not on time. What's more, the selection of aircraft has always troubled the Admiralty, and he means that since there are 2 training aircraft carriers on top, it is better to wait for Ba Yuzao and them to see if they can break through. Directly with the new aircraft. In the end, his opinion prevailed, so the start of construction was a full year late.

Looking at Chen Haohui and thinking of Dai Yunong who went to the South Seas, Yang Qiu stopped and looked at the silhouette of the tall aircraft carrier. He asked, "What are you going to do in the East Indies?" ”

As director of the Strategic Intelligence Bureau, Chan Ho-fai is well aware of the situation in the South Seas, especially in the Dutch East Indies, and said: "The South Seas are complicated. After taking German Guinea, Japan gradually penetrated southward. The Netherlands was on the moribund, and the strongest forces in the Dutch East Indies were the Islamic guerrillas and indigenous forces, apart from the Dutch garrison. Although the National Society is influential, Britain and the United States are very close to political parties, and the Kuomintang Party is not clear about colluding with poor parties on the side, so I mean not to follow the party line. ”

"Do you want to learn from the Lanfang company back then?"

Chen Haohui nodded: "Although the Lanfang tragedy was instigated by Britain and the Netherlands, it makes sense that it can develop to the point of founding the country in just a dozen years. The Dutch colonists only had money in their eyes, and the Sumatra oil fields and the Gulf Company were too ambitious, so Yunong had gone to Batavia to register a 'Fanghua Industrial Company'. Fang Rui and I also sent some people from China to help. My request to him is that within three years, we must not only sort out the interior of the Chinese, but also cast the net to all corners of the South Seas, so that we can get the news as soon as the British, American, French, and Dutch ships leave the port. ”

Yang Qiu still trusts the ability of "Boss Dai", and he will definitely be able to establish a perfect intelligence network in Nanyang in three years. In fact, now is not only the time for the economy and manufacturing to catch up, but also for the development of the intelligence sector. However, it is more difficult for the Chinese to engage in intelligence in Europe and the United States. The main thing is the appearance and language, so the intelligence department after the war in Europe has collected a group of four or five-year-old orphans from Russia and Europe, and these children who have not opened their minds are currently adopted by specially arranged Chinese families, and receive special education from an early age, just to make up for this shortcoming when they grow up.

Yang Qiu knows very well that a good strategic intelligence network cannot be built in a few months. It takes years or even decades of uninterrupted penetration and deployment. Therefore, Nanyang is only the first step, and it is necessary to take advantage of the wide dissemination of the Chinese to establish a large intelligence network that can cover the whole world within 10 years.

He is not in a hurry, there is no war in all countries in a short period of time**, there is enough time to develop slowly. So after asking about Nanyang, I asked about the situation in Soviet Russia. Chen Haohui rubbed his knees and said: "The GPU is developing rapidly, and Dzerzhensky's intelligence ability has exceeded our expectations. However, the road is one foot tall and the demon is one foot high, and the dragon's teeth that infiltrated in the early years have already lurked in it, and one of them is still an internal high-level, and it is very promising to replace him in charge of the Soviet Russian intelligence network. ”

The "Hidden Tooth Operation," which was carried out immediately after reunification, was a proud work of the Ministry of Intelligence, which took advantage of the internal chaos of the poor party to lurk in many "dragon teeth." Most of these people have not yet been activated, and of course some have been exposed to being killed or missing. Even Yang Qiu was not very clear about the specific numbers and lists, so he was secretly surprised when he heard that someone had approached and might replace Dzerzhinsky, but he didn't expect that the shadow he had arranged casually back then had developed to such an extent. However, he didn't ask who it was, because the less people knew about the hidden list, the better, so he wouldn't look at it unless he had to.

"Stalin is already in power, but Tonotsky will not be able to survive if he does not settle the matter, and there will definitely be a fight between the two, and I have asked the Dragon's Tooth to keep an eye on the matter. The latest news from the Japanese side is that most of the 10 light cruisers of the Nagara-class and Kawauchi-class have been delivered, and the rest will be ready for service by the end of next year at the latest. The construction of 2 Aoba-class heavy cruisers has also begun after the modification, and the design has been increased from the original 6 main guns to 8, and the displacement has also been enlarged a lot. Business between Nagata Tetsuyama and the Russians is booming right now, with two fleets passing through the Strait of Malacca last month, but we didn't detect any prohibited goods. There were also Japanese immigrants from German Guinea, whose numbers increased rapidly, and Hirohito took advantage of the earthquake to speed up the migration there on the pretext of clearing the land to grow crops, and the number of people had reached 100,000, and there were signs of building forts in Rabaul and Truk. ”

After Chen Haohui told the situation of the surrounding countries, Yang Qiu immediately said: "Give Dai Yunong more support, there should be captured Japanese ordnance on the navy's side, and you should find a way to send it over." At present, the main attack is Borneo, and the rest of the place will not move if it can, and there is no need to smash the Dutch to startle the snakes. ”

When Yang Qiu took the opportunity of inspecting the navy to study intelligence and deployment in the South Seas, a hot politician in Europe had already arrived in Guangzhou.

In the busy port of Guangzhou, the cruise ship Petrien from France slowly approached the dock, and on the deck, the newly appointed US Secretary of Commerce Hoover, carefully inspected the harbor, which was both familiar and unfamiliar. This was not his first time in China, from here before the 1911 revolution, he transported a large group of Chinese laborers to South Africa to open mines. It was messy, dirty, and with braids everywhere. But just over a decade later, the place has completely changed. Although the dirty and messy environment of the wharves has not been completely changed, the rows of warehouses and oil tanks in the distance show that China is gradually moving towards an orderly society. Cars began to appear on the streets that used to be filled with cows, horses, and rickshaws, and dock workers who had long since lost their braids wore clothes emblazoned with such and such a transport company, and trucks became the main link between ships and warehouses.

"Clark, are you sure this is the Far East and not Istanbul?" Hoover was surrounded by a man about his age, equally neat and eye-catching.

Istanbul is a well-known dirty and busy international port in Europe and the United States, which is why men have such an analogy. Hoover also spread his hands and shook his head: "I don't know, but this is indeed Guangzhou." We've been so focused on Europe over the past decade that we seem to have missed out on a lot of things. ”

John agreed, saying, "Yes. So President Coolidge wanted to know more about the Far East, and I think the changes that have taken place here should have caught his attention. By the way, do you think His Excellency Yang Qiu will agree to let us transit through the northwest to Kazakhstan and Central Asia? ”

Hoover shook his head and said that he did not know, but the main purpose of his visit this time was to provide food aid to Soviet Russia. Moscow's promise to grant relief was a good thing, not only because it had set up a large number of relief sites in Russia's European region, but also because it had forced Moscow to promise to open up more investment areas to American businessmen. However, what made him dissatisfied was that because Moscow had always disagreed, the US disaster relief team had never been able to enter the east of the Urals, especially Kazakhstan and Central Asia, so he came this time in the hope of going to Kazakhstan and other places with the Soviet Russian grain convoy to check the disaster relief situation, so that the US government could grasp whether the food and disaster relief funds had reached the people. But it was almost impossible for him to enter the military-controlled northwest region through China's railway network as a semi-official status, so he remembered that Yang Qiu had come to him for help.

In addition to this official matter, he was also very interested in Yang Qiu's plan to form a mining company together at the last cocktail party. As the new U.S. Secretary of Commerce, working with an official destined to become the ruler of the world's most populous country will go a long way toward his future. Of course, he couldn't come forward on his own in this matter, so he wanted to discuss it privately with Yang Qiu, so he said, "Please rest assured John, I don't think he has any reason to refuse us." Because President Coolidge, unlike his predecessors, does not want Japan's decline to lead to a strong China, and as far as I know, Congress is already discussing a draft to increase exports to Japan, and we, the ones who hold the keys. ”

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