Chapter XXVIII. Battleships and Heavy Artillery

Taiwan in June is as hot as a fire, but the Huojia Manor, which is full of greenery, is surrounded by ancient willow trees, but it is the fragrance of birds and flowers, and the scenery is beautiful!

Huo Shan lay comfortably on the bench in his garden, looking at Ping'er not far away, teasing happily like a deer, Huo Yu's white-haired puppy bought from the West, closed his eyes comfortably, with more and more talents under his hands, many things don't have to be done personally, so in the past few days, except for the usual correction of documents, going to the military base in Houshan, and giving lessons to those senior officers who are being trained, there are very few other things! Therefore, he also has time now, lying here and enjoying the scenery of Xia Rì.

"Young Master, Huo Long and Huo Shi are here!" Lei Zi, who was standing not far behind Huo Shan, looked at the two people who were walking over, and said softly in his ear.

"Well, how did these two guys get together?" Huo Shan opened his somewhat confused eyes, looked at the two tall young men who came over, and muttered to himself with some puzzlement.

"Today's life is in vain!" Looking at the little girl who ran away with the puppy in her arms, Young Master Huo thought a little depressed.

"Young Master!"

"What's the matter?" Huo Shan looked at the two animals who only knew how to ask for money from him, and asked angrily.

"Hehe, young master, I'll say it first!" Huo Shi rubbed his hands and said with a smile.

"Then let you say it first!But you can hurry up, I'm also very anxious about this!" Huo Long didn't have the same thick skin as his brother, so he was preempted by Huo Shi, you must know that military spending is limited!

"Hehe, didn't you hear that our arsenal produced 105mm heavy howitzers, so I would like to ask you to allocate some more money to our Army Equipment Department to buy dozens of them to equip our artillery units!"

After listening to his words, Young Master Huo's face immediately darkened, turned his head very happily, and said depressedly: "No money, I can't afford it!"

Huo Shi was anxious when he heard this, and his voice suddenly raised an octave.

"How can there be no money, our army has seized so much silver, and Fu Bo has brought back to Taiwan one by one, the young master must be very fat!"

However, at this time, Huo Shi couldn't take care of these things, and Chief of Staff Huo Da, who had already seen the power of heavy new artillery, felt like there were eighteen cat's claws scratching in his heart, and he couldn't suppress his greedy hope for heavy artillery. Originally, it was limited to the research and development progress of the Huojia Military Arsenal and the output of the iron and steel plant, and the output of heavy artillery was not high! However, now the Huojia Military Arsenal has finally mastered the production process of heavy artillery and has begun to finalize and mass-produce them! He also wants to buy hundreds of them in one go and put them in the newly established Artillery Command College to expand his artillery!

Thinking of the rich income in his small treasury, Young Master Huo's mood also improved. However, thinking of Huo Shi's words just now, he couldn't help but curse in his heart: "Which bastard from the logistics department, who sent these to this guy, must find out and punish him heavily!"

"What are you shouting, you don't know, you think I'm summoning the wolf!" Young Master Huo glared angrily, and the impatient Huo Shi then scolded.

Shrinking his neck, Chief of Staff Huo still muttered unwillingly: "I want heavy artillery!"

Huo Shan, who knew him, couldn't help but have a headache, if he didn't agree to this guy, I'm afraid he would move his home to his study! Looking at Huo Shi's pitiful eyes, Young Master Huo couldn't help but shake his head. "Okay, I see! I will ask Li Yunfeng to purchase ten new howitzers and hand them over to the Artillery Academy!"

"Ten gates, too few, we still have more than 100,000 troops!" Huo Shi muttered dissatisfiedly.

"Too little? Could it be that the current Qing Dynasty and those natives of Southeast Asia have more than 100mm army artillery?" said Young Master Huo with a glare.

After finishing speaking, Huo Shan ignored him, turned his head to look at Huo Long, who was standing on the side with an unnatural expression, and said with a smile: "What? Huo Long! You won't be here to ask for money, right?"

Rao is that he is already a young man, and he has already married a family! But under the gaze of Young Master Huo's smiling eyes, Huo Long has been beaten by the sea breeze all year round, and his tanned face still has a clearly visible red sè.

"Let the young master say yes! I also came this time to ask the young master to allocate funds for our navy to build ships?" Huo Long said with some embarrassment after touching his head.

"Xu Jianyin asked you to come?" He knew that during this time, Huo Long had been in the ship design department of Keelung, because he was the same age and loved the navy at the same time, so the two became brothers, if it weren't for the fact that the children of both were boys and no girls, I am afraid that the two would have become sons and daughters long ago!

"Yes!"

Huo Long also knew that the sworn brother was reluctant to come over because the young master sent someone to hijack him, so for the sake of the new warship, he could go into the water to test it one step earlier and equip the navy he had formed himself, and in the end, only he, the minister of the navy, came over personally.

"Can you meet the design indicators I requested?" Huo Shan asked with a frown, he didn't want the navy to be aggressive.

The construction of warships is a systematic and large-scale project, and it is also the embodiment of a country's comprehensive strength, even if he inherited the experience of the Qing Dynasty in building ships for more than ten years, he is not sure to build warships far beyond this era.

"The information handed over by the young master to the design department is very comprehensive, plus Wei Han, Zheng Qinglian, Li Shoutian and others from the Mawei Shipbuilding School are all very good shipbuilding talents, so they have the confidence to manufacture the new destroyer required by the young master!"

After listening to him, Huo Shan nodded understandingly, in fact, the three-rise steam engine he handed over to the ship design department is also very advanced, but in terms of Taiwan's current equipment processing capacity, the problem of manufacturing it is not too big!

The reason why many technologies appeared decades later is not because of the technology and processing capabilities, but because of the flash of inspiration in the scientist's brain, just like Newton's discovery of gravity, the difference is the apple that fell on his head!

"I know! You go to Forber to get money for this matter! Build a test ship first! If it can succeed and meet the design requirements, I will build twenty-four of these new destroyers for the navy in the next three years, in three batches! Of course, if there is a warship and there are not enough naval soldiers to control it, you don't blame me!" Huo Shan said slowly after thinking about it.

"Yes, I know! The navy guarantees to complete the mission!" Huo Long, who finally saw the young master's legendary 'Gao Daquan' method, couldn't help but say with joy.

"It seems that the scale of the Naval Academy needs to be expanded!" Huo Long thought secretly in his heart.

Seeing the young master in the blink of an eye, more than twenty battleships went out, not to mention the envy in the heart of Huo Shi, who was standing on the side.

At that moment, he took two steps forward, looked at Huo Shan with blank eyes, licked his face and said: "Young master, you see that their navy has so much funds, so should our army also allocate some more, not too much, just allocate us another fifty heavy artillery!"

"Get out! You don't look at your army, how many troops there are now!" Huo Shan, who was unbearable, scolded viciously.

Looking at his embarrassed appearance, the corners of Huo Shan's mouth couldn't help but hook slightly, and he secretly said in his heart: "I am getting closer and closer to my goal!"