August 1st, 1920
On this day, the breeze was gentle and the rain was heavy. Lin Shu brought his people from Tang Shan Prefecture to the coastal area of Tianjing City early in the morning. It was about ten kilometers away from the system warship factory.
"Xingzhong, in the future, send people to guard this area within a few kilometers. Build a large shipyard and list it as a high-level military base.”
"Yes, Commander." Zhang Xingzhong glanced at the weeds and trees around him in confusion and nodded without saying anything.
"Su Yue, go to the car and get me a bottle of water.”
Not long ago, Su Yue finally dispelled her obsession with fighting the Japanese on the battlefield and became Lin Shu's personal assistant. Like Zhang Xingzhong, she was only responsible for herself.
"Can you see it over there?" Lin Shu opened the bottle of mineral water produced by Big Tree Company, which was widely praised. He gently took a sip and pointed at a large open space not far away.
"Inform the construction company to build a naval university here. Build it on the scale of the Air Force University. If you lack money, pay. If you lack people, hire.”
"Yes, Commander!" Zhang Xingzhong nodded again and hesitated for a moment."But, isn't it not good for two universities to be squeezed together?”
" That's true. It's indeed inconvenient for the two military universities, the Air Force and the Navy, to be squeezed in the same city."How about this? Didn't we take over Qindao City? Let's choose a site to build there.”
" Okay, I'll go over personally tomorrow." Zhang Xingzhong had no objections this time and immediately wrote down the matter.
There was nothing he could do. There were too many things. If he didn't write them down, he wouldn't be able to remember them at all!
"No, you go now. Su Yue will go back to cook and bring her here at noon.”
After the two of them left, Lin Shu drove to the warship factory alone. This was his first time here.
Even Lin Shu, who had seen all kinds of large-scale machinery factories in the future, was stunned by the scene in front of him.
The entire warship factory occupied an area of at least five square kilometers. It was surrounded by tall and sturdy green brick walls. The top of the walls was also inserted with high-voltage steel bars, which greatly prevented people from climbing over the walls.
"Commander, you're here?"
When they arrived at the only gate of the warship factory, more than ten armed security guards guarding the door immediately ran over to greet them and opened the gate.
Lin Shu smiled and nodded at them. He continued to walk inside and spent more than an hour to inspect the factory.
After that, they were far away from the warship factory. It was too noisy there.
"System, inform the factories in the warship factory to build two Iowa-class battleships, one with personnel and one without.”
The System replied,"The mission has been activated. It costs 50000 merit points and requires 240 hours.”
At this moment, Lin Shu was extremely excited.
Eva, that was Eva!
It was the most powerful battleship in human history. Although its displacement was not as high as the Japanese Yamato, in a real battle between the two, Eva had a high chance of winning with its speed and accuracy.
The reason why they directly produced two ships was because they planned to form a fleet of one for combat, while the other would be handed over to others to study and replicate.
To establish a fleet, just a battleship was definitely not enough. To master the technology of building a warship, it was far from enough to just study Iwa.
"System, produce two more Bismarck-class battleships. Similarly, one will be equipped with personnel and the other will not.”
The System replied,"Mission activated. Each ship requires 45000 merit points.”
[Contribution Points Balance: 499,880]
In the past few days, the Great Wall Army had taken down the capital, Shi Jia Village, Ji Nan, Qing Dao, Wei Hai, and other large areas, earning over 150,000 merit points.
Lin Shu did not lack merit points recently.
"System, build three more Admiral Hipper cruisers, two with personnel and one without.”
Staring at the cruiser production page, Lin Shu hesitated for a long time. He actually wanted to produce the Alaskan class cruiser from the end of World War II. However, this thing required more than 20,000 merit points, which was enough to produce a long gate-class battleship. The price-performance ratio was obviously too low.
In fact, the Hipper Admiral class heavy cruiser was also very good.
It was a large ocean-going cruiser commissioned by the German Navy in 1939. It was 202.8 meters long and 21.3 meters wide. It had a displacement of more than 14000 tons, a speed of 32.5 knots, and a range of 8000 nautical miles. It was equipped with eight 203.2 mm main guns with a range of 36.4 kilometers.
The secondary cannons were equipped with three 105mm cannons on each side, 32 37mm or 20mm semi-automatic anti-air dual-purpose machine guns, and three seaplanes.
Such a heavy cruiser would not be afraid even when facing the battleships of various countries.
Just its speed of 32.5 knots was already far beyond anyone's reach.
Finally, Lin Shu thought for a moment and ordered the production of five Allen Sumner-class destroyer with a displacement of 2800 tons and two supply ships with a displacement of nearly 6,000 tons.
As for the submarines, there were a large number of small sharks, so they did not need to be produced in the short term.
This production, including the combat personnel, cost a total of 380,000 merit points.
Lin Shu did not feel any heartache.
According to his plan, every type of warship would have one that was not equipped with combat personnel. This was left for people to study and imitate.
Decades ago, the foreign powers had used huge warships and cannons to blast open the gates of China. Lin Shu did not want this to happen again decades later.
For the long term, Zhongxia must be able to produce advanced warships on its own.
In this aspect, Zhongxia was really too far behind. They couldn't even figure out how to repair the parts, let alone build them themselves.
However, this was not a problem for Lin Shu. For the development of the navy, it was worth it no matter how many contributions he made.
From the very beginning, he had set the system as a support.
It was similar to this: China wanted to research and produce advanced warships, but the superpowers would never sell you advanced equipment, let alone send people to teach you. Therefore, Lin Shu could only spend merit points to buy from the system and then use merit points to invite people from the system to teach Zhongxia.
This was how Lin Shu should be used, not just relying on the system.
"System, summon 10,000 talents in warship construction.”
[Mission activated.]
Each special talent was worth 10 merit points, so 10,000 would be 100,000 merit points. This was enough to produce two Iowas, but Lin Shu did not even frown when he gave the order.
The talents summoned by the system all had very professional knowledge. Although they could not compare to the true masters of science and technology, they were definitely the backbone of any country.
With these 10,000 people, he believed that it would not be long before good news came.
In his previous life, he had heard a veteran of the Chinese Navy say that the best time to develop the navy was a hundred years ago, followed by now.
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