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Tang Shaoyi was stunned.

Chen Ping gouged his ears.

And Long Guozhang is so anxious that he jumps to his feet, he has all the money, and he builds a ship!

Only Liang Dunyan, who was engaged in finance, smiled and said nothing, and he had already admired Emperor Li in his heart, and the emperor also said that he didn't understand finance, and he either didn't play, or if he wanted to play, he would completely kill people!

As a minister who has been dealing with the financial industry for a long time, he knows very well how serious the run crisis covering the United States is, although the US government has exchanged gold bonds for enough bailout funds, but the problem is that the run has occurred for more than three months, and a large amount of dollar cash has flowed into the hands of ordinary people, which has led to the increase in bad debts of banks. And to restore public confidence in the banks, which will certainly have a huge impact on the manufacturing industry.

At this time, let alone throwing out huge purchase orders, I am afraid that even millions of small orders will be snatched up.

In March in Shanghai, as one of China's financial and commercial centers, a small piece of gossip suddenly spread wildly in the business community, "The Prime Minister's Office is summoning representatives of the National Chamber of Commerce to go to the United States for a sweeping purchase!" ”

This news, immediately attracted the attention of all the businessmen and factory owners in China, before the government threw out frigates and a large number of military orders have made everyone grab the head, but many people because of the lack of machinery, insufficient processing capacity had to look at the early years of the well-prepared a few happy to put the big business into their pockets, although now domestic machinery and German imported products appear in large quantities, but after all, it still can not meet the strong demand, and the United States has machines exported to China, so the contradiction between supply and demand is tightened.

At this time, such a bombshell news suddenly came out, which really made many businessmen who were anxious to expand production scratch their ears and cheeks, and they couldn't think about it.

Ten days later, hundreds of business representatives from across the country boarded a cruise ship specially prepared for them and set off for San Francisco. At the same time, Li Enfu also personally summoned the US ambassador to China and told him that for the sake of friendship between the two countries and to help the United States get out of the financial crisis as soon as possible, China is willing to purchase $100 million worth of various machinery from the United States.

After the news was reprinted in the newspapers, almost the entire American business community was ecstatic, and while pressuring the government to open exports, they held a warm welcome ceremony for the Chinese group that arrived in San Francisco. (Full text reading, all in. (.i. Want. Wen. Learning Network)

Faced with a scorched domestic economy, President Fairbanks had to revoke the previous ban after weighing it up repeatedly.

The restrictions that ended without a problem made the businessmen of the two countries breathe a sigh of relief, but Li Mo was not only to buy bargains and sweep the goods, not only equipped the purchasing team with a large number of translators, but even transferred a few mechanical experts from the Ministry of Science and Technology, he didn't want to spend money to buy other people's obsolete products.

In order to attract this group of big buyers, American businessmen began to open some core processing industries to the purchasing group to visit, hoping to catch their attention to make profits, and then lasted nearly two months of sweeping operations, not only let Chinese industrial and commercial representatives go deep into the core equipment manufacturing industry in the United States to understand the situation, experience the advanced production methods of others, but also let them return with a full load, and more than three percent of them are urgently needed advanced machine tools in China, and complete sets of precision hardware processing equipment.

Due to the high difficulty and long production time of this kind of equipment, and the large amount of goods required by Chinese businessmen and the tight time requirements, many enterprises even directly dismantle the existing equipment and load it on the train, and load it on the ship after arriving in San Francisco.

For American manufacturers, although it is a bit painful, the machine can be rebuilt without it, but if the capital turnover is not effective, then there is only one way to go bankrupt! So more and more factories joined the sell-off, and even Edison's General Electric Company was involved.

Looking at the ships full of urgently needed machinery docking, and touching tens of thousands of complete sets of machinery and equipment with his own hands, Li Mo's mouth smiled crookedly, in the past, the United States might not be willing to sell these things for double the price, but now it's good, all of them are discounted!

However, he also knows that this time it seems that the United States has suffered some losses, but in fact, this $100 million purchase order has also greatly stabilized the American market, and people can also take this opportunity to upgrade.

For him, this bottom-sweeping operation is just a small thing to take advantage of the economic crisis to the extreme, and what he really cares about is the invincible-class battlecruiser that Britain is about to launch.

In fact, the battlecruiser can also be called an epoch-making progress, as the first type of warship that combines the firepower of a battleship with the speed and maneuverability of a cruiser, Britain invested huge manpower and material resources in it, and Fisher's speed is the concept of defense has been reflected, and even the first large cruiser in the United States decades later can be seen on this kind of warship, and even the speed battleship is also the embodiment of the speed requirement.

Although he doesn't look down on this type of warship, its thin armor is a disaster, but from the perspective of this era, this is still a kind of transcendence!

On April 30, 1908, at the first berth of the Alvik shipyard of the Armstrong Company, a slender and graceful battleship was quietly docked there, hundreds of sailors were preparing for the first sea trials, and on the dock, Fisher, who was the first to enter the dock, and the officers of the Royal Navy looked excited, after a year of intense outfitting work, Britain finally seized the top of the world with heavy weight after four years of losing the battleship.

All around, the guards were still the same, for this top-secret plan, they spent two whole years to ensure that the news was not spread, for which the intelligence department even released the false news that an armored cruiser was being built to confuse the Germans on the other side.

Everyone smiled knowingly, because the Germans who had been kept in the dark were still building backward armored cruisers like the Blucher, so that when the news came out today, the cruiser launched at the beginning of the month would be scrap metal.

What could be more exciting than to be able to call an enemy battleship that has just been launched and not yet in service called garbage? A few years ago, the Chinese gave the British Empire a bitter fruit, and even the Australian crisis, which was still full of gunsmoke, almost broke out into war, and the light cruisers of the Chinese Empire relied on this speed to drive out the weak Australian Navy cruisers, and now, the British Royal Navy finally has a type of warship that can restrain any cruiser in the world.

Randos, the British Admiralty, gave Fisher a congratulatory smile and seemed very pleased with the First Admiralty, whose communication was of paramount importance as Minister of the Nation's Navy, and as an important person who actually managed the Navy.

Although Fisher may seem unusual in the conservative Royal Navy, there is no doubt that he was a reformer who truly loved the Navy and regarded it as his life.

As a plume of smoke slowly rose from the three chimneys of the Invincible, the smile on the corners of the two men's lips grew, and after exchanging glances, Lanndos said a few words to the guards behind him, and in a few moments the large group of reporters who had been waiting outside to be told that there would be important news to be released today rushed into the docks.

Cameras and cameras were quickly set up, and the reporters almost didn't have to ask questions, and all of them focused their lenses on the battleship that was preparing to set sail.

"Ladies and gentlemen, today we have good news to announce to you."

Rändos walked up to the crowd of reporters, smiled and showed the confidence of the Royal Navy, and said with a smile: "Through the efforts of Sir Fisher and the vast number of Imperial Navy designers, we have reoccupied the pinnacle of the world's navy!" ”

"It is, the hope of the Royal Navy!"

Landos's words immediately detonated this temporary venue, and everyone followed his fingers to look at the battlecruiser Invincible in the distance, and when everyone saw the knapsack layout and eight 12-inch/45 caliber naval guns, they all frowned.

The knapsack layout has long been uncommon, and eight 12-inch guns are not an exception, why dare you say that they have reoccupied the peak? When this thought arose, the reporters immediately asked: "Sir Rhendos, why do you say that it is the hope of the Navy?" ”

"Excuse me, is there any difference between this battleship and the previous ones?"

"It has fewer naval guns than the previous ones, so why do you say that it has helped the navy regain the top of the world?"

One question after another, like a wild bombardment, caught Lanndos a little off guard, but this time he didn't have any anger, but explained with a smile: "Everyone, the quality of a warship does not depend on the ship's guns, it also needs the cooperation of other systems!" ”

"And what you see is a kind of battleship pioneered by the Royal Navy, which not only has the firepower of a battleship, but importantly! It also boasts more speed than a cruiser! ”

"It will be called the nemesis of all cruisers in the countries of the world!"

"It will help the Imperial Royal Navy and regain control of the world's oceans!"

"It will be a nightmare for any enemy!"

"Let's call it, battlecruisers!"

Lanndos's high-pitched words made the reporters all excited, in this era, anyone will know some knowledge of warships, let alone these professional reporters.

A battleship with firepower, but as agile as a cruiser, and with a speed that the enemy can't match, is indeed great news!

It is conceivable what will happen when the cruisers of the navies of all countries in the world, especially Germany and China, encounter a battlecruiser, and even if the battleship sees it, it will not be able to catch up, but will be used by it to get rid of it or even attack.

The reporters flew down this sentence, and when the Invincible gradually accelerated and disappeared from everyone's sight lightly and quickly, all the reporters wrote down such a sentence.

"It's called a battle cruiser.