The Fengtian Navy Set Sail! Although
the construction of the Huludao port was not completed, it already had the ability to open ports.
This was all thanks to the 100 million war loan from the Kwantung Army.
Although Yang Yuting and Shen Honglie had gone around to raise funds, they had indeed raised a lot of money.
However, when it came to building ports and shipyards.
That was really a drop in the bucket.
Therefore, the Huludao Port and the Huludao Shipyard were able to have basic capabilities so quickly thanks to the generosity of the Japanese army.
Wang Yongjiang had already sent back the news.
At the latest by the end of October, at the earliest by the beginning of October, the first huge sum of money would be transferred to Feng Jun's bank account.
As long as the first stroke was successful, the rest would not be a problem.
This also meant that…
Among the three armies, the navy, known as the gold-devouring beast, could officially be rebuilt.
For Zhang Tiannan's team, August was the perfect month to celebrate.
He was undoubtedly very busy.
All the equipment from Dagu Shipyard needed to be rearranged and reassembled.
Fortunately, Zhang Xueming was personally overseeing it.
Otherwise…
With Zhang Tiannan's team, just reassembling the equipment would be an insurmountable difficulty.
Huludao Shipyard continued to be built.
Zhang Xueming had overturned the original design and enlarged the overall scale by nearly ten times.
This was enough to meet the requirements for the construction of the Iowa-class battleship.
The current state of naval warfare had actually changed.
Battleships were slowly losing their position as the overlord of the sea.
An aircraft carrier with a carrier-based aircraft was the most threatening and destructive force in today's naval wars.
Zhang Xueming was naturally clear about this.
In 2022, the Japanese army had already built a modern aircraft carrier, the Fengxiang.
Moreover, they had already deployed naval forces.
There were also several aircraft carriers modified from other ships.
Compared to the peak of the Second World War, although the number was many times smaller, it still had the naval strength to match the other countries.
The current navy system was just in name.
The ships that survived the battle at Tongjiang City had become the merchant ship guards under Zhang Xueming's orders.
It no longer had the functions of coastal defense and river defense.
For this reason.
Shen Honglie had repeatedly tried to convince Zhang Xueming not to retire these old ships before the new ships entered service.
But Zhang Xueming didn't agree.
He did not waste any more time and locked Shen Honglie in his office on Huludao, letting him look through the draft on his desk.
After letting Shen Honglie out, he no longer spoke such nonsense.
Zhang Honglie simply pulled the entire navy over.
All the soldiers stopped training and were invested in the construction of the Huludao port and the Huludao shipyard.
"Marshal, there are already eight docks now. Do you want to expand four more?”
Shen Honglie was a little confused.
Zhou Tiannan also thought that it was a waste of money and manpower.
It was impossible for eight docks to be used at the same time.
Furthermore, he was expanding four even bigger ones.
With Fengtian's current military capabilities, they could at most start construction on three shipyards at the same time without affecting the operation of other factories.
"Marshal, we are indeed a little too hasty. Three docks being built at the same time is already the limit.”
It was rare for Zhou Tiannan to take the initiative.
"Moreover, I've studied the blueprint that you gave me, commander. Compared to the dock that has been expanded ten times, it's nearly three times larger. This... This..."
Seeing Zhou Tiannan stutter, Shen Honglie decided to continue.
"I am not raising an objection, but the navy is not as developed as the land and air armies. There are too few craftsmen and advisors.”
Zhou Tiannan nodded vigorously.
He was afraid that Zhang Xueming would misunderstand his words.
"It's fine. Just build it. There will be enough people soon.”
Hmm?
Zhou Tiannan and Shen Honglie looked at each other in confusion.
But since the marshal said so.
He could only do so.
Just like that, not far from the eight docks, a new round of dock construction began.
August passed in a flash amidst the busy atmosphere on Huludao.
Mid-September.
The weather gradually became colder.
On September 12th
, when Zhang Xueming observed the construction progress of the four new docks, Yang Yuting ran over excitedly.
"Marshal, they're here.”
Yang Yuting said excitedly.
He's here?
Zhang Xueming was happy for once and asked,"Where are we?"
"We've already passed through Ji Province. We'll probably arrive soon.”
"How are the arrangements going for Li Jinglin and Wang Furui?”
"Everything has been arranged. Our Blessing General promised that no information would be leaked and that he had planted many people.”
"That's good."
Zhou Tiannan and Shen Honglie looked at each other in confusion.
Who was coming?
Even their marshal needed to personally ask about it. His background was not small.
What the two of them did not know was…
A month ago, Zhang Xueming had already ordered Wang Yongjiang to conduct a secret deal with the Soviets.
This deal is very special.
This was because what Feng Jun needed was not some practical material.
Instead, it was talent and a large number of workers.
The reason why the navy of the Soviets was not strong was that they had never developed their naval strength.
It wasn't that he didn't want to.
The Soviets had a lot of talents in building warships, and the number of workers was also large.
It was only because of the overall situation and strategic analysis.
It was not placed first.
Zhang Xueming clearly knew that the Soviets had been vigorously developing their naval forces since the end of 1945, when they started the 10-year early warship plan.
16 years from now.
However, the Soviets still had a large number of technicians and ship builders.
Zhang Xueming's gaze fell on these people.
The Soviets naturally understood the importance of these talents and started many rounds of negotiations and dialogue with Wang Yongjiang.
In the end.
With Zhang Xueming's agreement, they successfully reached an agreement after giving up another 0.2% of the profits.
The internal situation of the Soviets had just stabilized.
These talents were not needed at all. Almost all of them were unemployed.
A profit of 0.2% was quite shocking.
Just 0.5% of the resources could make the Soviets drool and be willing to become tools for the Feng army to realize the resources of the three provinces.
How could he not agree to exchange these unemployed talents for 0.2% of the profit?
But there was one thing.
The Soviets had emphasized this many times.
It was limited to seven years.
Within seven years, this batch of talents would support the construction of the Feng Army's navy, but they could only use the warship blueprints provided by the Feng Army.
Not in any way.
Obtaining, coercing, enticing, and other means to obtain the warship blueprints and key technologies that the Soviets had.
To put it bluntly.
This group of people were here to work for Feng Jun.
The Feng army paid for the blueprints, while the Soviets helped with the construction and provided technical guidance and advice.
Nothing else.
The Soviets were very shrewd.
In fact, it was not impossible to provide technology. He just hoped that Feng Jun could increase the bargaining chip.
On top of the 0.2%, a portion was added.
As long as they could meet the expectations of the Soviets, other than the core technology, it was not impossible to negotiate.
But who knew.
Zhang Xueming agreed without hesitation.
Techniques and blueprints?
Sorry, Zhang Xueming was the youngest vice president of the National Weaponry Research Institute.
His brain was not lacking in blueprints and techniques.
What the Feng army lacked was nothing more than advisors and shipbuilders.
Moreover…
Zhang Xueming asked Wang Yongjiang to change the seven years to five years.
After several rounds of negotiations.
The two sides hit it off and signed a new agreement.
Yang Yuting had just mentioned these people.
They gathered at the beginning of September. After half a month, they finally arrived.
The placement of these people was all arranged by Yang Yuting, while Wang Furui was in charge of monitoring and spying.
The advisors and workers arrived in three batches.
There were more than 10,000 people.
The person in charge was called Tchevrovsky.
He was the deputy chief designer of the No. 1 Shipyard of the Soviet Army.
He was also the person in charge of the highest level that Wang Yongjiang had managed to obtain after many efforts.
Chefokolovsky was very dissatisfied with the arrangement of the higher-ups.
Although all the shipyards of the Soviets were currently shut down, Tchevrovsky was still discussing with the chief designers how to upgrade the warships first.
Although it was just a theoretical discussion.
However, this was also a very difficult learning opportunity for Chefkolovsky, who had great ambitions.
Tchevrovsky dreamed of becoming the chief designer.
He was in charge of a shipyard.
However, because the Soviets had extremely high expectations for the chief designer, there were a lot of deputy designers, but there might not be many who could replace the chief designer.
Therefore…
Tchaifokrossky was extremely dissatisfied with being sent to a place with backward technology.
He felt that it was a waste of his time.
This led to…
Ever since they got off the train, Chefokolovsky's expression had been ugly.
He didn't give Yang Yuting a good look.
It was considered arrogant.
Yang Yuting, who was good at reading people's expressions, naturally noticed Chefokolovsky's emotions.
But for the sake of the bigger picture, he could only pretend not to see it.
However, under Yang Yuting's guidance, Chekhovovsky's dissatisfaction exploded after he toured the Huludao Shipyard.
"I'm sorry, sir. What exactly do you want to build?”
asked Chefokolovsky.
"Battleships, Fengtian class battleships with a displacement of more than 40,000 tons.”
After Yang Yuting's words were translated and conveyed, Chefkolovsky and the other technicians burst into laughter.
A 40,000-ton battleship?
"Please forgive us for being unreasonable. Your dock does have enough space, but do you have the design drawings?”
"Sir, you may not know this, but there is a condition in our cooperation with your side. We, the advisors and guides, will not provide the blueprints for your army. Instead, you will provide the blueprints, and we will be responsible for the guidance during construction.”
Chefokolovsky said with contempt.
His words were even more arrogant.
"As far as we know, most of your naval ships are modified from merchant ships. The few original ships are also old models purchased from England and France.”
Chefokolovsky's words made Yang Yuting even angrier.
The marshal was right.
These guys from the Soviets were all arrogant.
If Zhang Xueming hadn't given Yang Yuting a heads-up beforehand, Yang Yuting would probably have exploded from anger.
But the more he did so, the less Yang Yuting spoke.
The commander had told him that they were going to build a world-class battleship.
Not just battleships.
The four large docks were reserved for aircraft carriers.
This aircraft carrier.
It wasn't a seaplane carrier bought during the reign of Old Marshal Zhang, but a real aircraft carrier with a carrier aircraft.
Thinking of this, Yang Yuting couldn't suppress his excitement.
The anger in her heart had dissipated by half.
Very quickly.
Yang Yuting led nearly 100 advisors and technicians, including Chefkolovsky, to the large design studio of the Huludao Shipyard.
Zhang Xueming was explaining some technical difficulties to Zhou Tiannan.
"Marshal, the first batch of soldiers from the Soviets have arrived.”
Hearing Yang Yuting's words.
Zhang Xueming raised his head and saw the hundreds of Russians standing in the middle.
"The one at the front is Chefkowski, the technical team leader and the deputy chief designer of the First Su Shipyard.”
Yang Yuting introduced.
Zhang Xueming nodded and said.
"Alright, take them to rest. Three days later, distribute these people to docks 1, 2, and 3.”
After saying that, she continued to get busy.
However…
At this moment, Chefokolovsky and the others were no longer calm.
It was unknown who had nothing to do, but he picked up a blueprint from the ground and mocked.
"This is their design drawing? Could it be the design of a 500-ton displacement submarine heavy gunboat?”
The crowd burst into laughter.
His laughter was filled with arrogance and contempt.
Zhang Xueming frowned.
As expected.
Whether it was in the future or now, this group of Russians with the world's cutting-edge technology was still so arrogant.
"The person in charge is called Chefkolovsky, right?”
"Yes."
"Call him over and let him familiarize himself with the design drawings. Ask him how long it will take to start construction.”
It was normal for technicians to be arrogant.
Zhang Xueming himself was a technician, so he knew how to treat these technicians.
He became the youngest vice director in his thirties.
Moreover, he had a group of top researchers working under him. He relied on his real strength to make some researchers who were almost old enough to be his grandfather convinced.
At this moment.
Seeing this scene, Zhang Xueming actually felt like he was in a different world.
It seemed like when he was first appointed as the vice director, those old fellows had this kind of attitude.
As expected.
Technicians had a bad habit in their bones. It was the same no matter where they went. It really could not be changed.
However, the more he acted like this, the purer his thoughts became.
As long as he could let them understand what it meant to be a frog in the well and there would always be someone better.
These technicians would give their all to work for you.
When the time comes, they won't even leave if you chase them away.
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PS: I know that many readers can't wait to see the war with the Kwantung Army and the Japanese army ~
These are all arranged by the author ~ It
won't drag ~
Soon, a major event will break out ~
Please be patient, after all, it will affect the reading experience if it is too abrupt.
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