At the end of 1913, it was a busy season for businessmen, the Colombian turmoil was driven by an endless war of words, consciously or unconsciously, with tiny Panama becoming the focus of attention in the Pacific, and then the Mexican crisis almost pushing the United States into war, but the oligarchs who really controlled the United States were not willing to go to war, because for them the intense preparations for war in Europe had temporarily compensated for the loss of exports. (Full text reading, all in. (.i. Want. Wen. Learning Network)

A fleet full of all kinds of supplies on both sides of the Atlantic, even the blizzard did not stop, when the United States was in a frenzy, Chinese businessmen were also busy, although there were not too many orders, but the previous orders from Germany, Britain and Ottomans had all reached the delivery date, so large and small fleets still filled the Suez Canal.

In addition to grain, oil, rubber, and other things, Germany and Austria, which were frantically expanding their troops, also took a fancy to the 2,000 Makqin machine guns that had been eliminated by the Chinese army; due to the large number of equipment of the Type 98 light machine guns, many of the heavy and inconvenient Makqin machine guns were eliminated.

This is an era when everyone bows their heads and checks what they still need to prepare again, and it is an era when only how many troops and how many supplies are left in their minds.

It was a moment of suffocating silence.

Trains were sent from all over the country to the border, rifles were handed out to young and immature faces, and women and children were sent to military training.

The huge state machine, which has been filled with fuel, began to roll forward little by little along the established track, and at this moment, even Li Mo, the traverser, can no longer change this trajectory!

Whether the guns in Sarajevo will be heard or not, it will no longer be able to contain the outbreak of war, because it is only an excuse, a group of stupid Balkans to borrow from the powers!

Although China has not yet announced preparations for war and has not put forward any plans, Britain and France have continuously strengthened their garrisons in the southeastern peninsula and begun to arm a large number of colonial puppet armies, as well as the sudden approval by the Hua Parliament of the issuance of 10 billion yuan in national bonds and the increase in military budget.

In fact, there is no need for Li Mo to say anything at this time, Britain and France have used their manufacturing capabilities to continuously increase the number of puppet armies in Vietnam, Burma and India, plus the snowflakes of Britain and the United States to Australia, all show that even if China does not participate in the war, as long as Britain, the United States, France and other countries solve Germany, they will immediately turn their guns.!

There is no doubt about it!

No one likes the presence of an existence in the Pacific Ocean that can dominate the oceans after the consumption of the Europon War! Especially since it's a pagan country!

Britain knew that even if he suffered heavy losses in Europe, as long as he defeated Germany, "pull the United States in again, with the equipment manufacturing capacity of the Entente countries, then no more China may not be able to resist!"

As long as China is defeated, it means that Europe will lose several times more, and all of them will come back overnight!

That's the law of muscle!

Therefore, although there is no statement in the country, but under the impetus of a huge amount of funds, ammunition is continuously transported to military warehouses around the country like eggs, and light weapons reserves are required to be equipped with 30 divisions within two years, soaring to 100 divisions "The first M3 tank went off the production line smoothly, orders for military trucks crowded all domestic automobile factories, the second batch of 12 Yangtze River class light cruisers were required to be completed within two years, and the first generation of two aircraft carriers must be completed in April next year at the latest, The construction of the second batch of six ships will begin as soon as the first batch is completed!

The massive number of purchase orders made the General Staff and the Prime Minister's Office consider implementing the emergency bill for a time, because if the state of emergency is declared, the economy will automatically change to a wartime planned economy, which means that in addition to wages and the scarcity profits stipulated, all enterprises related to national security and materials and food cannot withhold profits in any way, simply put, the price of all weapons and equipment will drop by at least two percent!

However, this proposal was vetoed by Li Mo, because once the emergency bill was implemented, "the damage to the national economy is too great, and because of the weak foundation, Li Mo adopted a large amount of government infrastructure investment and encouraged industry and commerce to stimulate the economy, and completed the basic structure of industry with three five-year plans, and improved the living standards of the people", and a large number of technology enterprises appeared with the encouragement and help of the government. ※※※※※ I ※ I ※ ※

It can be said that China is currently in a rapid upward channel, maintaining a certain percentage of industrial and commercial profits" and the promotion of large orders from the government and the military can encourage businessmen to actively invest, expand factories or increase workers, but if the emergency bill is implemented, then the profits will be squeezed to a low level, which will curb private investment and force the economy to stagnation.

Taking the five major private shipyards in China as an example, a large number of military orders have made them start to expand the dock, increase equipment, and train a large number of workers, and they only need to wait for two years for their scale to be the scale of civilian shipyards such as Damei and Britain five years ago, which means that they can provide more than 300,000 tons of shipyards for the country!

So if it enters a state of emergency at this time, then they will have no profit to complete the construction, although sooner or later they will enter a state of emergency, but if they can be one day late, the economy will be hurt by one day, so Tang Shaoyi and Chen Ping both accepted Li Mo's suggestion, and more of them adopted the principle of state-owned enterprises taking the initiative to compress profits and private enterprises competing for quotations, which also made the purchase price drop a lot.

On December 30, the day before the arrival of the new year, Li Mo arrived in Chengdu by train, nominally to celebrate Bashu After ten years of arduous construction, the third railway line in the territory was finally completed and officially an important hub in the southwest, but in fact, after the end of the celebration ceremony, accompanied by Air Force Commander Xue Muhua and HNA Commander Le Fei, he quietly went to the Southwest Aircraft Research Institute located on the outskirts of Chengdu.

The country of Bashu not only has abundant resources, but also deep in the inland heart, so after the first railway was opened a few years ago, Li Mo began to consciously relocate some important factories and research institutes here.

Among them, the big ones are the Second Aviation Research Institute of China and the Chengdu Aircraft Factory.

After the convoy entered the empty factory area, several small monoplanes made Li Mo immediately excited, and after a year of intense test flights and improvements, the first F4A air force model has gone off the production line.

This is a real fighter, using 750 horsepower Kunlun II liquid-cooled inline V-type 8-cylinder and Fengshen III 15-cylinder star-type air-cooled engines.

Compared with the previous F3 two-winged condor, F4 can be said to be the crystallization of the later ideas brought by Li Mo and the technology of China Aviation for more than ten years.

Streamlined fuselage, using a lower single wing design, abandoning the wood and canvas "all using the Academy of Sciences to develop light and strong magnesium aluminum alloy" wing tip outer edge from round to cut tip shape, improve wing drag, at the same time in order to ensure low-speed maneuverability, and invent a large and powerful slit flap, the Air Force liquid-cooled model also added an additional engine fairing to improve aerodynamics.

The landing gear can be retracted at the last three points, so that the drag during flight is small, coupled with the closed cockpit, and the powerful engine leading Europe and the United States, after the use of in-cylinder fuel injection and other technologies, so that it can do any action without oil leakage" At the same time, it also makes the wingspan of 9 meters, the empty weight of 135 tons of F4A reach the cruising speed of 120 knots / hour and the maximum speed of 320 knots per hour.

In addition to the fuel tanks in the aircraft, the concept of the Limer wing fuel tank was also applied, which not only greatly increased the range to 1,300 kilometers, but also reached a ceiling of 6,000 meters.

The reason why the data has soared sharply, in addition to the breakthrough in engine technology in Persia and North Africa after nearly two years of torture, the main thing is the application of three-bladed asymmetrical propellers, in fact, as early as after the engine has never been able to break through" Li Mo pondered that there are still those aviation technologies in history that he did not pay attention to, because he really didn't know much about aircraft, until he saw the North African Eagle continuously sent back telegrams saying that there was a problem with the propeller design, and remembered that his propeller seemed to be one less than the aircraft of World War II.

Three-bladed propeller technology is not too complicated, after a long time of blowing experiments, the institute immediately mastered this technology, because it is asymmetrical, "so it can not only reduce engine vibration, make the aircraft quiet, ensure flight stability, but also provide a large pulling force, so the ability of the engine to play out" or according to Adel their experiments, if you continue to use the double-blade symmetrical propeller, then the take-off weight, speed and mobility will drop by at least three percent.

The breakthrough in the performance of the aircraft made the flight research institute also comfortable in the internal arrangement, four meters of aviation machine guns improved by the big viper, "two in the nose coaxial arrangement, two in the wing root position, the total reserve ammunition reached 1800 rounds.

Although the armament department is working on a 25mm cannon, "it can't catch up with the progress at the moment, but judging by the current situation", the arrangement of four machine guns is enough to sweep the wooden racks in the sky.

Advanced short-wave radio, radio navigator and other equipment, gyroscopes and other equipment make the aircraft not only beautiful on the outside, but also full of a sense of the times on the inside.

After watching the F4A flight show, Li Mo also piloted it himself, because it was an airplane, although everyone was confident, but it was still strictly forbidden for His Majesty the Emperor to do big maneuvers.

When Li Mo got off the plane, he immediately thought of the "Japanese" Zero fighter that swept the sky in the early days of World War II, and it can be said that Hua's current F4 can definitely be a miniature version of the Zero, not only because it looks more similar, but because he will make all countries experience the embarrassment that the United States was helpless with the Zero in the early days of World War II.

After experiencing an airplane, Li Mo visited the two extended models of F4C and F4AD that are being assembled in the laboratory and waiting for test flights, which are actually naval air combat types, and developed folding wings according to Li Mo's ideas, and strengthened the landing gear and fuselage structure, but also because these fuselages are a lot heavier, their performance is worse than that of the air force type.

As for F4D, it is a dedicated attack aircraft, whether it is wingspan or length has increased a lot, mainly to obtain good air utility after loading, because the requirements of the Air Force and the Navy are similar, so there is no subdivision for the time being, but considering that the weight of the aviation torpedo under development may reach 700 kg, but also to carry two pilots, if you use the folding wing, it may cause the weight to be too large to fly, so the wing of the F4D can not be folded for the time being, and it must be decided after the counterweight test flight.

In addition to the F4 he cared about, Li Mo also visited other types of aircraft, and to be honest, many of them made his traverser shocked, such as have you ever seen a dinosaur with 8 propellers?

However, Li Mo did not stop this exaggerated whimsy, but greatly encouraged it, in fact, after the liberalization of the domestic civil aviation market, a large number of individual aircraft enthusiasts have appeared in the people, according to previous reports, the number of registered pilots in the country has reached as many as 50,000, and this number is still growing at a rate of thousands of people per year.

All sorts of whimsical ideas have been proposed, and the development of the aviation industry has been further defrauded by the fact that the conversion of airplanes has become a favorite of young adventurers, and there are countless racing competitions, and merchants like to fund competitions to promote their goods.

Later, Li Mo also visited the assembly workshop, and according to the accompanying staff of the armament department, China's three large aircraft factories, including Chengdu, Fengtian, and Zhengzhou, can now produce 2,000 such aircraft per year, and if they are increased at full capacity, plus small civilian aircraft factories, they can even reach a capacity of 5 to 7,000 aircraft per year.

Although Li Mo's heart was surging when he heard it, he wished to make 10,000 planes overnight and spread the sky first, but the price of the convure eagle soared from 300 blue coins to 2,000 blue coins, which still made him stop his words.

Now it's rich, but it's not so urgent, not to mention that from the simulated air combat exchange ratio of the enhanced F3G Condor and FO during this time, the big building can only be chaotic money, and the ejection seat with rocket boost is still in the post-experiment, according to Adel, it will be able to be equipped in batches after half a year, not to mention the technological development is so, in case a strong one or two years later, then the waste is more serious than the battle damage.

So nodding or following the plan, let the Air Force order 500 single-seat and 500 two-seater first, the latter is mainly to let the pilots adapt to this kind of aircraft, and the Navy needs to equalize. After the test flight of both models, it is possible to decide how many orders to place.

Emperor Li, who had been in the excitement for half a month, solicited the advice of Xue Muhua and Le Fei, and personally named the F4 empty sheep and navy types, Mustang and Bumblebee.

Grab the name first!! ~！