"On behalf of the Saar Empire, I would like to express my indignation at your country's practice of supplying secret weapons to the Central Powers. As soon as Zhu Erdian met, he expressed his attitude and intentions.

Chen Guilin said with a smile: "I don't understand what Mr. Ambassador means, and I would like to ask Mr. Ambassador to elaborate." ”

Jurdian immediately recounted the heavy losses suffered by the unseen weapons attack on the merchant ships of the Saar Empire and the military port of Liverpool. "Oh, I see." Chen Guilin's expression was abrupt, and the angry Zhu Erdian wanted to punch him twice: "Could it be that your country intends to deny it that you provided this weapon to the Yaman Empire?" ”

"Of course not." Chen Guilin raised his eyebrows and said: "This kind of weapon, called submarine, is indeed provided by us to the Yaman Empire, this is a normal commercial practice, and our government has no right to interfere, and your country is the same." ”

It turned out to be called a submarine, and knowing the name of this weapon made Zhu Erdian really happy, and he immediately said: "However, this weapon sold by your country has caused serious harm to our country, and I want to protest to your country." ”

Chen Guilin spread his hands and said helplessly: "This is too unreasonable, even if there is no provision in the international convention that neutral countries can only sell weapons to you, if you want, you can buy them." ”

"Your country is willing to sell us this secret weapon?" Zhu Erdian said in surprise.

"Of course, our businessmen are seeking money, they don't have any political inclinations, as long as the state agrees to sell, they will sell." Chen Guilin nodded.

"Then I will order ten submarines on behalf of the Saar Empire, not thirty." Zhu Erdian said.

Chen Guilin shook his head: "I'm sorry, our government does not sell this kind of weapon, if your country wants to buy it, you can consult the arms company under the China Foundation." Zhu Erdian didn't care about being polite with Chen Guilin, so he hurried out to the arms company.

Chen Guilin frowned and said to himself: "Why does the emperor want to sell submarines to the Sahr people as well, it seems that the emperor wants to make the war as fierce as possible." ”

The Saar Empire's order was quickly accepted by the Chinese consortium, and at the same time, due to the huge results achieved by the submarines, the Yaman Empire immediately wanted the Chinese Empire to order fifty submarines, Fang Xiaoyu suddenly found that his move could not only consume the merchant fleet of the Saar Empire, but also make a lot of money.

At present, all kinds of military and livelihood industries in the Chinese Empire are running at full speed, and a large number of products are sold to the countries participating in the war, and the abundant funds have in turn stimulated the upsurge of factory production and expansion, and the industrial system of the Chinese Empire is snowballing.

Fang Xiaoyu understood that although the war would not end for a while, once the war ended, these excess production capacity may cause many problems, so he asked the Bank of China to make commercial loans, the requirements for loan qualification review are stricter, try to contact the Ministry of Industry and Commerce as much as possible, pour cold water on those entrepreneurs who blindly expand, and let themselves have more funds to deal with possible problems.

Fang Xiaoyu's thinking is very long-term, but at the moment, the products of the Chinese Empire can still be sold as much as they produce, he just thinks that the industrial system is already very large, and there is no need to expand it, and now that all countries have begun to use their gold reserves, I believe that their purchasing power will decline within a year.

In the case of the Central Powers, the Chinese Empire now occupies the entire market, while on the part of the Entente the Chinese Empire has only forty percent, for a variety of reasons.

One is that the Allied navies occupy the initiative, and they blockade the sea surface of the western continent, so the neutral countries can only sell to the Entente if they want to sell their products. Each country was given a small share, and the share of the Entente was naturally thinned, and even the Boston Empire had only a four-fifty share.

The second is that the Chinese Empire rejected the currencies of all countries in overseas trade, and only accepted Chinese dollars or precious metals, which restricted the transactions of the Chinese Empire, while the Boston Empire received all the currencies of all countries.

Even the Japanese countries benefited a lot from this war, they sold everything they could sell, earned a lot of foreign exchange, and with the money, the Japanese government was alive again, and they soon announced the decision to build a new generation of four Ise-class Chinese ships.

This news made the Imperial Navy immediately alert, Liu Junguo quickly reported to the government, asking for the construction of new battleships to counter the shipbuilding plan of the Japanese Navy, and now the wealthy East China Travel immediately approved, the Navy's request was quickly sent to the Naval Design Institute, and Xu Shouchang's other teacher, Dietman, who had not made any designs after arriving in the Chinese Empire, planned to show his means.

With the powerful scientific and technological support of the Chinese Empire, Dietman felt like a fish in water, and two months later, he quickly came up with his own design plan. "You see, experts are experts, and there is really nothing to say about the design of a warship." Xu Shouchang sent it to Fang Xiaoyu immediately after Dietman drew the drawings, and looking at the masterpiece of this warship design master, Fang Xiaoyu couldn't help but nod again and again.

"Four steam turbines with a standard displacement of 48,500 tons, a full load displacement of 56,000 tons, a hull length of 250 meters, a width of 32.3 meters, a draft of 10 meters, and a horsepower of 80,000 horsepower, are expected to reach a speed of 24 knots. The armor was 381 to 330 mm on the side of the gunwale, 203 mm for horizontal armor, 457 mm for the turret and 381 mm for the conning tower. The armament consisted of three triple 457-mm 45-diameter guns, eight twin-mounted 152-mm 55-fold guns, and six 127-mm 45-diameter guns. ”

Fang Xiaoyu read the data of the new warship and sighed for a while, this Dietman is like a fish in water with the support of a large number of high-tech in the Chinese Empire, how big is this warship, but the design of this warship is the same as the design of the new generation of British battleships N3 after World War I, which was stopped because of the naval agreement.

Unexpectedly, there is not much naval battle data to study now, Dietman actually realized the importance of horizontal armor in advance, the only difficulty of this warship is its eighteen-inch main gun, which is comparable to the Yamato-class battleship, it is estimated that it is difficult to build at the level of the current Chinese Empire, but these things still give Zhang Hui a headache, it is a big deal to change to a smaller one.

When I saw the design parameters of this kind of warship on a military forum, I was embarrassed that this huge battleship could not come out, but I didn't expect that on Wangxiang Star, I could actually realize this dream with my own strength, which is really good.

"Master, what do you think of my teacher's design?" Xu Shouchang tried to ask. "Huh?" Fang Xiaoyu came to his senses at this time: "Yes, very good, can I ask your teacher to design an aircraft carrier for me." ”

"Aircraft carriers?" Xu Shouchang was surprised: "What is that?" "Don't you remember?"

Fang Xiaoyu explained: "I just let you see the drawings the day before yesterday. ”

"Ah, that one has no artillery, and the whole hull is a big flat ship called an aircraft carrier, Master didn't say that I thought it was the latest transport ship in the Navy."

Fang Xiaoyu said: "What kind of eyes, don't you look at the notes next to the drawings?" ”

Xu Shouchang scratched his head and said, "I really haven't seen it, because that ship doesn't have a main gun, so it doesn't look like a warship." ”

"Go back and ask your teacher to design one for me, just follow the principle of my drawing, but it should be larger, at least 20,000 tons." Fang Xiaoyu didn't have a good airway.

Xu Shouchang said: "What kind of mothership doesn't even have artillery to fight?" ”

Fang Xiaoyu said: "Use an airplane, this is for the plane to take off and land at sea." You have to learn carefully, this kind of warship will replace the battleship as the hegemon of the sea in the future."

"Just such a weird thing?" Xu Shouchang is very confident in the battleship that is now dominating on the sea, and he doesn't feel this kind of strange-looking warship at all, but Master's words have never been missed, and he is careful about this kind of warship.

Not only the Chinese Empire and the Japanese Kingdom were building new battleships, but the Boston Empire and even the countries that were participating in the war did not stop the construction of new battleships, especially the Yaman Empire, which was holding back its momentum and quickly building its first Chinese ship, the Nassau.

"How's the steam turbine built?" The warship designer asked a supervisor anxiously.

The supervisor said: "Don't worry, it will be delivered tomorrow, the design of the Chinese is really ingenious, and it can actually make the steam engine exert such a great power." ”

The warship designer nodded and said: "That's true, as long as the steam turbine can be in place, our warship will run faster, and it will be ready to be outfitted in about a month." ”

The director smiled: "Yes, if it weren't for His Majesty's wisdom, how could it be so fast to build several hulls in advance." ”

"Sir, how much time do we have left to launch the warship?" In the shipyards of the Kingdom of Haboafsburg, too, there was a supervisor who asked the designer.

The designer said: "Our 'United Force' has not been built for a long time, and I am afraid that it will take another year to complete. ”

"So long?" The blonde-haired director frowned.

"It's been fast." "I've only been building the ship for half a year, and it would have been faster if we had built the hull ahead of schedule, but unfortunately we didn't do anything for a year in order to wait for the steam turbine to become more technical." ”

The same thing is happening in the shipyards of the Cossack Empire, the Nantes Empire, and the Grand Duchy of Sardinia, even in the war, countries do not relax the construction of new battleships, and now the Chinese Empire, the enthusiasm for building battleships is not as high as the outside world thinks, at this time Fang Xiaoyu is studying the drawings of aircraft carriers with Dittman in the Naval Design Institute.