Chapter 116: The World's First Battleship (I)

E: I had another day of meetings today, and my head was numb. Students, it will be fine in a few days. The Okatsu main armor belt in the previous chapter was written incorrectly, and it should have been 3m

On the top floor of the Neptune shipyard's office building is the office of the boss Banazal, and on the seaside is a floor-to-ceiling glass window that occupies almost the entire wall

At this moment, Mr. Banazal stood here watching the busy scene in the shipyard, and there was a slender figure beside him, and the two of them were talking with wine glasses

"Yes, this is the largest battleship in the world, and at the same time the strongest battleship on the planet, at least the same kind before it, it will not be its opponent"

Banazal raised his glass and touched it with the one in the hand of his new wife, Elijah. Illya is the granddaughter of Morgan Sr. and the little princess of the Morgan family. In February last year, Morgan's shameless old fox was shameless in order to get Banazal, the golden beetle son-in-law, and personally gave a direct showdown to the minibus classmates, asking him to marry his granddaughter. The minibus that got Mr. Wen's instructions also agreed, and the two announced their engagement within a few days.

Just last week, the two officially held a wedding and became officially husband and wife. The marriage of the two major consortiums of Zenith and Morgan, that scene is naturally extravagant to the extreme, and it will not be detailed. Anyway, almost all the heads and brains of the upper class of American society have arrived, and President Roosevelt Sr. also came to attend in person and became a witness.

"Come, dear, for the sake of the birth of the most powerful battleship in the world from our shipyard"

"Honey, you are amazing" Illya obediently drank the wine in the glass, looking at her husband with a fascination on her face, she felt that her husband's current self-confident style was simply handsome, coupled with that democratic and handsome face, it was indescribably handsome, Illya had stars in both eyes. Of course, when she was in bed, she was even more handsome, and she remembered that she was at the mercy of her husband with all kinds of unheard-of tricks these days at night, and the indescribable pleasure and comfort made her body hot.

Suddenly, she raised her pretty face, which was a little red, and said a little strangely, "Ah, what kind of wine is this?"

"What's the matter?"

"It's so delicious, I've never had such a good rum......" Illya took a few sips in a little surprise, and finally drank it all with some eagerness.

"It's a rum from China, produced by Sichuan Liquor......," Banazal replied casually, keeping his eyes on the dock below.

"Is there rum in China?" asked Illya, curious.

"Of course, aren't you drinking?"

"It feels like more than 4o years old, no, it's even better......" Although Illya is not an alcoholic, after all, she is from a wealthy family, and she has come into contact with many high-end wines, but such a delicious wine is the first time she has tasted it in her life.

"If you like, drink it, I have a lot of ...... here," replied Banazar indifferently, he was now preoccupied with the affairs of battleships, and how could he bother with such a trivial matter as wine. These wines were brought by Xingke by the way when they exported goods to the United States, mainly for the welfare of insiders.

However, Illya obviously didn't see it that way, and as soon as she rolled her eyes, she asked, "My dear, there doesn't seem to be such a wine in the American market, aren't you going to promote it in the United States?" ”

Banazal is also a smart person, and when he heard his wife say this, he reacted immediately.

"Gee, that's right for me, how did I forget this. I'm so stupid...... "He patted his head and said with some annoyance.

The rum produced by Sichuan Sugar and Liquor Group is indeed very good, it is brewed using a new technology in the 2nd century, the brewing process is only to improve the output and raw material utilization, which is secondary, the most important thing is that the yeast it uses is a new type of yeast cultivated in the early 2nd century, this yeast can not only add fermentation, the utilization rate of raw materials is dozens of times higher than that of ordinary yeast. However, its most important function is to produce a special biological enzyme that can increase the mellowing of the wine by more than 2o times.

In other words, the sake brewed with this yeast can be used for 2o years after one year. Therefore, in the 2nd century, there was no zĂ i at all, and it was almost the same.

"In the room of Zhilan, I haven't smelled its fragrance for a long time" is this reason, Wen Desi and his group of biochemical people didn't think this wine was anything special at all, because the wine made from this grade of yeast is good for the body when often drunk in small amounts. Therefore, Mr. Wen is like a soda, using this wine as a welfare health care product drink to his employees and officers and soldiers of the army, so that they can drink it as a drink.

In addition, these insiders are all guys who don't drink much, for example, Banazar usually rarely drinks, and after so long, Mr. Wen's welfare "drink" has basically not been touched, and there are already several full cabinets, not counting those colleagues. Today, I was very happy to see the start of the battleship, so I accompanied my wife to have a drink to celebrate. If it hadn't been for Illya's reminder, Banazar would have had to pass out for a long time before they could react.

Banazar smiled and said, "This kind of wine is made in a winery owned by a Chinese friend of mine, and he gave me some to taste, you know, I don't usually drink much, and I don't have much research on wine, so I don't take it seriously." You're right, it's a big business, so take some of this wine to your grandfather and they will taste it, see what they say, and if it's good, we'll be the agent of the wine. If you're interested, you can take charge of that, how about that?"

"Well, Grandpa knows a lot of tasters, so I can ⊥ them to help identify them. Illya nodded hurriedly in agreement. It was nice to be able to help her husband and make her feel very happy.

Immediately, Banazar called several male and female bodyguards and asked them to accompany his wife to bring the wine to the elder Morgan.

After his wife left, Lao Ba remembered one more thing: "Yes, I am married now, I have to find a chance to go back to China, remove the genetic lock, or how to have children?"

Because Mr. Wen promised to lift the genetic lock of fertility for all the cyborgs under him. Therefore, those cyborg people in China, the earliest ones have been lifted, and the later ones have not been locked at all. Although Lao Ba was the first batch, because he had been in the United States, he had no chance to go back to unlock it, and the earliest batch of cyborgs under him had already returned to China in batches.

After he got engaged last year, Wen Deji had already informed him to go back and unlock it, but he, the head of the region, was too busy to leave, so he has been delaying until now. Unlocking is only a small operation, and it can be done in a few minutes, but this kind of equipment is only available in the Neijiang base, so you have to go back.

He looked at the battleship "Iowa" that was being renovated in another dockyard, and smiled: "Well, let's go back together when the country comes to pick up the ship, and I don't know when the matter between Mr. Wen and Gu Xiaolu will be done......

Newport News Shipyard.

Newport News Shipyard is located in Newport News, Virginia, near the Hampton Anchorage. It was the largest private shipyard in the United States, but not anymore, because with Neptune Shipyard, it can only be relegated to second place. Of course, the drop in the ranks does not affect the cattle forks of this shipyard. After the advent of the dreadnought, the naval competition was fierce, and this shipyard also took on many tasks. It built six dreadnoughts for the U.S. Navy, including the USS Delaware, USS Texas, USS Pennsylvania, USS Mississippi, USS Maryland, and USS West Virginia.

In this plane, it was lucky enough to get a big order from China, the largest and strongest battleship in the world

According to Mr. Wen's original intention, of course, I hope that all the big ships will be built on Neptune, and the fat water will not fall into the fields of outsiders. However, although Neptune integrates a number of shipyards, including the San Francisco Union Steel Shipyard, it cannot afford to build such a large number of warships, whether it is the venue, equipment or personnel. Being able to win half of the tasks is already their limit.

So, there is also a large ship that was built by other shipyards in the United States. However, it is not for nothing, the government in southwest China requires that Chinese engineers and workers be involved in the construction process from beginning to end, and that the number of people in each position should not be less than a quarter of the total number of people in the position, and not less than that

These demands are normal, and the US government has also agreed to increase the strength of the younger brother and make the younger brother more able to play a role, which is also a good thing for the United States. However, although it is normal for the government to think like this, the staff below are not necessarily so cooperative.

For example, Mr. Portman, the chief engineer of the Newport News shipyard, felt depressed at first.

Because a group of Chinese actually came to do technical guidance, yes, it was technical guidance that made him very uncomfortable, and there was an anger that his professional ability was despised.

Well, we haven't built such a big warship, but have you built it in China? Why do you guide me?

However, it didn't take long for Portman to be convinced, and he was truly convinced. Because these Chinese engineers are the best shipbuilding engineers he has ever seen, I am afraid that Britain, the most powerful shipbuilding industry, cannot have many such excellent engineers. Portman felt as ignorant as a recent graduate in front of them.

"God, how can China have such good shipbuilding engineers? As far as I know, they have never built warships above the cruiser, it's incredible" Portman was speechless, he couldn't think of it, these guys jumped out of there.

Portman's decision to stop thinking about the Chinese experts hurts his pride. He turned to look at the drawings and couldn't help muttering in his heart: "They can still design such powerful battleships, this country is really so mysterious, is it really like the legend, the people of that country are all descendants of the gods?"

There is no doubt that this battleship on the drawing is definitely the strongest and largest battleship in the world.

The waterline is 2o meters long, 3 meters wide, and the draft is 6 meters. Standard displacement 33o tons, full load displacement 338o tons. The armament is: 4 triple 3o mm 45 times diameter main guns, full central axis layout, tail back arrangement. Twin 13o mm 6x diameter secondary gun Block B, arranged on the broadside. The main armor belt is 34m thick and covers 6. o The length of the waterline, the main armor belt is arranged obliquely, the tail part of the waterline is slightly lower, there is 6mm horizontal armor, the main horizontal armor in the core area is thicker than 1om, the frontal armor of the main turret is 3umm, the gun mount is thickest, the armor is 3umm, the commander tower armor is 3umm, and the mine protection compartment is 6mm thick.

The power plant is 2 heavy oil special burning small water tube boilers, 4 steam turbines, with a total power of 40,000 shaft horsepower. The maximum degree is 2 knots, and the range is 556 nautical miles / 2 knots. The biggest difference is that it is not a direct transmission, but a very novel electric transmission, the steam turbine drives the motor, and then the electricity is used to drive the electric motor.

"It's so powerful, 2 14-inch class guns, whether it's a British or German battleship, there is no power to fight back in front of it," Portman was excited every time he saw the drawings.

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