Chapter 322: The Merchant Fleet

Having a real navy is Yang Feng's biggest dream, in fact, it doesn't need to be too large, six heavy cruisers, twelve light cruisers, thirty large destroyers are enough, and then build thirty large landing ships, so that it can completely land in Japan, and then with their own transport aircraft group, it is more than enough to play a simplified version of the overlord operation.

As for what kind of warships are built, this is very simple, anyway, if you want to be fast, it must be the current mature ship type, preferably the British are used to it, and the Norfolk class can be used to heavy cruisers, in fact, according to China's current combat needs, it is best to be Admiral Hipper, thinking about the terrifying intensity that the two big mushroom experiments of the Prince Eugen can survive, this thing feels a little salivating.

It's a pity that Xiao Xi will not agree to contribute the design drawings of his most advanced battleship to the workers of his number one enemy family to build it, so he has to make up the Norfolk class, which can also save construction time.

As for light cruisers, this is a good choice, and the Southampton class is completely suitable, and this thing is a new light cruiser even in the UK.

It's this destroyer that needs to be chosen well, what he wants most is, of course, a big fantasy, but the problem is that first of all, the French may not provide drawings, and the British have not built it, so it will definitely delay time, you must know that your time is not very much, it is now 40 years, even if World War II is still carried out according to the original schedule, he has four years at most, and he has to build eighty warships in such a short time, and he has to deduct the time for building a shipyard, Yang Feng found that his time is really not ordinary tension.

In this case, it's better to play tribal level honestly, although this thing is almost good, but fortunately, it can be made immediately, and the British warship manufacturing technology is still trustworthy.

That's it, Yang Feng in the shortest possible time. I determined all the warships I needed to build, and as for the landing ships, this one was relatively simple, go back and get the drawings of the domestically produced 072 tank landing ships, and then get a few supporting diesel engines, and there was nothing to say about the rest of the construction. Although the construction of warships in the 70s has been mainly welding, but this point is not much pressure on the workers in Pingjin, in fact, the factory here has already begun to eliminate riveting technology, so Yang Feng will not lack excellent welders.

After determining what he wanted, he immediately began to prepare to do it, but before that, he still had to solve the problem of the nature of this fleet, and the investment was nothing, to be honest, he invested alone. These hundreds of millions of pounds are not unbearable, and the money he has earned over the years from the Spanish Civil War and the British alone is enough to build such a fleet.

But in what form this fleet exists, this needs to be carefully considered.

Shandong, Hebei, Chahar, Suiyuan, Ningxia are now under his control. In addition, in the Reliao Autonomous Region, where the Northeast Army currently lives, the logistics department of the First Theater is responsible for the financial aspect. Because the bald guy didn't give military expenses to this side, he simply discussed with him to give him a fixed amount of taxes every year, and the rest would be handled financially for the military expenses of the First War Zone.

At present, all the northern armies, including the Forces nouvelles and the air force, are responsible for all the expenses of the tax revenues that are left behind. However, once the overseas war is carried out, then Longteng will be responsible for all combat expenses, and of course, in return, Longteng will have exclusive development rights in the occupied area.

However, there is no navy in the establishment of the First Theater, even the old and broken warships of the Third Fleet in Qingdao. It is also directly under the Admiralty, and as for his submarine, there is no record, so the expenses are all the responsibility of Jinyuan Company, including the submarine force that the Philippines is training, which is also unrecorded, and even the Liuye aircraft group, this is also Jinyuan's own.

Now to build such a huge fleet, naturally it can't be counted on the head of the people, so he can only follow the model of Longteng Company and build a commercial fleet.

"Forty docks, six of 20,000 tons, ten of 10,000 tons, and twenty of 3,000 tons, and at the same time as the construction of the docks, the construction of warships must also begin, and the construction of one dock will be started, and in three years, I must build eighty warships.

However, these warships cannot be counted as the head of the navy, after all, we do not have a navy, so it must be put in the name of Longteng Company in the form of a commercial fleet, including the shipyard, all investments are responsible for Longteng Company and provincial finances in the form of a joint-stock system, and after the completion of the fleet, the fleet will be handed over to the First Theater Command in the form of lease, including staffing and daily maintenance, which are responsible for the Theater Logistics Department.

The shipyard was handed over to Longteng Company to be responsible for the operation.

We are going to land in Japan in the future, and what are we going to do without a ship? Let's not forget that there are countless factories waiting for us to take over, as long as we can get our hands on Kyushu and the southern part of Honshu, the investment will be basically worth it.

In addition, there are the Ryukyu Islands, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, don't you have an interest in these places? If nothing else, how much is the oil on Borneo worth? Without the navy, we would not have the capital to rob. Yang Feng said.

A bunch of capitalists and old warlords are almost confused by him, but the navy is the dream of several generations of Chinese, hundreds of millions of pounds of investment, although it is a little ruthless for the north at this time, but when they go back, they will issue some public debts, no matter what form they make, it is true that the Chinese have a real big fleet.

Since it is a commercial fleet, it is natural that there is no need for anyone to approve, a large number of budget personnel after intense busyness, quickly calculated how much total investment is needed, and then after bargaining, respectively determined the provinces and Longteng company need the proportion of investment, and commissioned by Longteng company, the European JY company began to go to Britain and France these countries, large-scale recruitment of shipbuilders, at the same time, by the British Zhengfu to organize the British shipyard construction engineers also flew to China, An unprecedented shipbuilding project kicked off.

Of course, in addition to the ship, there are people, in the major schools in the north, and even in the new army selected batch after batch of cadets began to go to the United States, Yang Feng has already contacted Roosevelt, these cadets will be trained in the United States naval school, of course, it cannot be regarded as studying abroad, just a one-year training, and then sent to the British Navy after a year of the same type of warship for internship, as for whether a few will die in the battle with the Germans, these are not necessary to consider, in addition to hiring a group of instructors from Europe and the United States, In Qingdao, he also set up a naval academy and got a group of students to use Shen Honglie's broken warships for training.

As for the problem of steel supply, there is no need to worry about this, in less than a year, China's light large-scale steel mills have been built four, Han Fuyu built Laigang, Yu Xuezhong built Handan Iron and Steel, bald man Ma'anshan Iron and Steel Plant, Yan Xishan Taiyuan Iron and Steel Plant, in addition to the Hanyang Iron and Steel Plant that has been re-put into operation after rectification, these are all capable of producing steel for shipbuilding, plus Beiping and Chongqing are now mainly producing special steel, and now China's steel industry not only has scale, but also does not lack quality.

Looking at China at this time, Yang Feng also has a little sense of achievement, steel, munitions, petroleum, automobiles, aircraft, aluminum, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, special metals... It can be said that a real industrialized country is rising, although the Japanese army still occupies the northeast and Fujian, Liangguang, but this is no longer a concern, to be honest, the Japanese army in the south, if it weren't for the bald guy who didn't want to consume strength, he would have been cleaned up a long time ago.

In the world outside of China, although more and more countries are involved in the war, but the battlefield is becoming more and more calm, except for the Germans and the British are still fighting to the death, even the Japanese have stopped attacking in India, and now they have even lifted the encirclement of New Delhi, of course, the Japanese army has been lifted, the Indian army and the puppet army of Vietnam and Malaysia have not been lifted, but they also lack the courage to take the initiative to attack, especially after He Jifeng's department entered New Delhi, these guys are even less courageous.

On the Western Front, the two armies formed by Pakistan had crossed the line between India and Pakistan and had begun to engage in large-scale battles with the Indian army, and the Thunder improved fighters purchased from China at the expense of the British had begun to defend Pakistan's skies under the pilots of Pakistan, and the Sino-British air force in New Delhi had firmly grasped the air supremacy in northern India.

The Japanese are going all out to develop India's iron ore, and now they have begun to put into production, and high-grade iron ore is being shipped to Japan in a steady stream, desperately repairing the wounds caused by Yang Feng, but to Yang Feng's surprise, the Yamato super battleship he expected is gone, the Japanese changed the Yamato Musashi into an aircraft carrier, but they repaired the Queen Elizabeth and the Malaya captured by them and returned to service, and canceled the construction plan of the Yamato-class No. 3 ship Shinano, and turned it into two fleet aircraft carriers, Until now, there are ten aircraft carriers under construction on the Japanese slipway.

In addition to the mainland, the Japanese are also carrying out large-scale construction in Vietnam, at the same time as the construction of the railway through Vietnam, Khmer, Siam and Burma, relying on the coal mines of northern Vietnam, the construction of a large steel plant in Saigon, and it is said that the construction of a shipyard is also being prepared, and millions of Japanese immigrants are pouring into Vietnam, in the slogan put forward by the Japanese Zhengu, to build Saigon into a little Tokyo, to build Vietnam into a real royal paradise. (To be continued......)