Although Germany's scientific and technological level is far more developed than China's at this time, because Hu Weidong knows the development direction of science and technology in the future, he will not introduce those frivolous or even useless technologies, and on the other hand, super-era technology is super-era technology, even a small invention can have a huge impact. For example, in the history of the United States, the radial tires applied to artillery and trucks in the late World War II period are to put it bluntly, steel wire is added to the tire rubber (nylon wire or other high-strength fibers can also be added, but steel wire is the best for military use, and steel wire is the cheapest. ), which greatly improves the weight capacity and off-road ability of the tires, and even if the jishu is not yet fully mature, it is enough to more than double the load of the truck.

On the one hand, it was possible to significantly increase the mobility of large-caliber heavy artillery, since it was no longer necessary to use heavy all-steel wheels, which in disguised greatly enhanced the role of artillery; On the other hand, the pressure on logistics can be greatly reduced, because the same amount of supply now requires half or even less of the trucks to be used (the fuel consumption of the transport trucks themselves also takes up logistics, so the savings are much larger than what appears to be figured). If it is combined with a turbocharging device, it can also save more than half of the fuel consumption of the car on this basis, which is of great significance to Germany, which lacks oil. In addition, the truck's cross-country ability has also been greatly enhanced after the replacement of radial tires, which means that the road conditions will not be as picky as before, which is also of strategic significance to the German army, which is fighting deep into the hinterland of the enemy country and the road traffic is often destroyed by enemy partisans or aircraft.

The radial tire jishu was taken by Hu Weidong to introduce the all-wheel drive car jishu from Germany that other countries have not yet mastered, so that various off-road vehicles produced in China have stronger off-road ability, so that they can better adapt to China's mountainous terrain and poor infrastructure, and the vehicle-mounted artillery that has made many miraculous achievements before also has stronger practicality.

Small inventions with a low jishu content, such as radial tires, have such a significant impact, not to mention major inventions such as radar, proximity fuses, rocket artillery, gyroscopic sights, and turbocharged jishu

In the face of so many good things, Germany has taken out all the jishu that Hu Weidong is interested in almost unreservedly. It was still far from enough, so the mustache even gritted his teeth and released an additional $1 billion in machinery and equipment export quotas, so that Germany's industrial growth rate was negative in the next two years. But it was still not enough to buy all the major inventions that could at least multiply the strength of the German army. But if you don't buy it, you can't do it, even if there is no conflict between China and Germany, there is no guarantee that they will not sell these jishu to the German enemy again, and then the enemy will have it and the German army will not. That's a fart! Just when the mustache was so agitated that he was about to lose his mind, the German delegation sent back a top-secret telegram from China, saying that the Chinese had made a new proposal. The content is mainly related to the naval aspect

Although today's China even has a pitiful ability to build civilian ships, let alone build ships, Qingdao has a number of large, even giant docks under construction, and Shanghai has a ready-made 20,000-ton large dock, plus the two giant hydraulic presses that Germany has agreed to hand over to China, as long as Germany is willing to provide further support in all aspects, equipment and personnel, China can now obtain the ability to build a German "Admiral Hippel-class heavy cruiser" with a full load displacement of more than 18,000 tons. And if you wait until two or three years later, the two giant docks in Qingdao will be built. Then the German Navy is in service, and even all the types of ships in the plan, China may be able to obtain the ability to build, of course, Jishu, equipment, talents, and even most of the shipbuilders still need German support.

Hu's suggestion, however, was not for Germany to help China build large warships. In fact, with China's current national strength, it is impossible to build a powerful ocean-going navy while maintaining a huge army, and his proposal is actually to let Germany put the construction of some ships in China, so as to take the opportunity to obtain the corresponding jishu and equipment, and accumulate construction experience, so that when the national strength is strong in the future and wants to build a large navy, there is a more haode foundation, to put it bluntly, it is "borrowing chickens to lay eggs". On the one hand, it can secretly develop a navy in the name of helping China develop its navy, avoiding the eyes and ears of the British, and on the other hand, when these ships are built, the German navy can unexpectedly assemble a powerful fleet in the Far East and attack British colonies such as India and hardcore allies such as Australia, which will definitely completely disrupt the deployment of the British.

But Hu Weidong's proposal also made it difficult for Xiaobeard to accept, that is, the speed was too slow, even if he was willing to wait a few years, the United States, Britain, France, and even the Soviet Union might not give him this time. But Hu Weidong soon came up with a more ambitious plan, which was to "sell" the German warship whose hull had been completed to China. After the hull is completed, steps such as arming do not need to be carried out in the dock, they can be completed in China, of course, steps such as dock testing are still inseparable from the dock, but for giant warships such as battleships and aircraft carriers, the previous work will take more than a year, and the two 70,000-ton docks in Qingdao should also be built by then, right?

What makes the mustache even more unable to refuse is that Hu Weidong said that he can sell new armor steel with excellent performance to Germany and transfer the formula and process, the raw material cost of low-alloy steel changed from the homogeneous armor steel of later generations is almost the same as the armor steel used by German warships, considering the factor of extremely low scrap defective rate (the credit of rare earths), the overall production cost is much cheaper, but its strength is more than double that of Germany's proud armor steel, as for other properties such as fatigue resistance, It is also due to the use of rare earth elements, which is far from being comparable to the various armor steels existing on Shijie. If this new type of armor steel was used, the German battle cruisers would be more resistant than many battleships, and the battleships would become almost impossible to sink sea fortresses

Moreover, with Germany's scientific research strength in structural materials, it is entirely possible to develop structural steel with stronger performance than the current steel grades on this basis, which will improve the defense and even comprehensive performance of German warships in all aspects (the material is strong, the demand can be reduced accordingly, and the reduction of load can free up more load to strengthen the armament, power or endurance). ）。 And if the study continues, the German Army, the Air Force and some civilian industrial sectors will also benefit from it. (To be continued.) )