During lunch, Zhao Yu began to pour bitterness towards Bai Zhizhan, but it was more like asking someone to vent his anger.

Perhaps, he could not find anyone to talk to in normal times.

"If necessary, I can call the prime minister." Bai Zhizhan said tentatively.

It’s not that I don’t want to help, but that I know that even if I call Xue Yuanzheng, I may not be able to solve the problem. After all, Xue Yuanzheng doesn’t have to take care of everything.

If you want to say, Xue Yuanzheng asked his subordinates to solve his problems, rather than causing trouble for him.

No matter how great the face of Bai Zhizhan is, he is not as good as the prime minister to serve him.

Besides, Xue Yuanzheng didn’t understand the affairs of the navy at all.

He wanted to intervene, just to let Liu Changxun come forward, and Liu Changxun and He Yongxing were in a competitive relationship, which would make the problem more complicated.

The key is that if Xue Yuanzheng could manage the matter, Zhao Yu would have gone to find him long ago.

"It's useless to find anyone. To be honest, this is also the reason why I don't want to deal with the He family and advised you not to get along with the He family."

Bai Zhizhan sighed with a wry smile.

As early as 20 years ago, Zhao Yu told him after drinking that there was no difference between the He family and the Liu family. In fundamental terms, it was not as good as the Liu family in many aspects.

The Liu family takes the navy as its foundation. If the navy is strong, the Liu family will be prosperous. If the navy is weak, the Liu family will be defeated. Therefore, we have to consider the navy.

This is not the case with the He family.

Although they also came from the navy, they had been operating the shipbuilding industry for decades, controlling almost all the large shipyards in the empire, and extending their tentacles to upstream enterprises. The He family had long completed their transformation and became a veritable business family, and they valued more money interests.

He Yongxing suppressed this matter, and it was clearly due to interests.

Personal grudges?

Come on!

No matter how stingy He Yongxing is, he will not continue to worry about the battle of Bai Zhizhan, who is already the imperial prince-in-law and the current emperor's brother-in-law.

If we only look at personal grievances, He Yongxing should have flattered Bai Zhizhan and pleased people like Zhao Yu who are close to Bai Zhizhan.

Compared with the core interests of the family, personal grudges are nothing.

What is involved in this is actually the core interests of the He family.

The reason is that Zhao Yu proposed to build such small fleet aircraft carriers from smaller shipyards to ease the pressure on large shipyards.

When making this suggestion, Zhao Yu had no idea.

Of course, his head had water, and even if he had passed through his brain, he might not be able to immediately think of the powerful relationship.

Let small shipyards build aircraft carriers?

What are the large shipyards controlled by the He family for?

A small aircraft carrier can be built today, and a large aircraft carrier can be built tomorrow!

In fact, something similar has happened.

It is the "Guangcheng" class ocean cruiser.

This kind of warship, which has the tonnage of heavy cruisers but the main gun firepower is not even as good as that of light cruisers. It has air defense firepower far exceeds that of heavy cruisers, is not much different from that of battleships. In the Northwest and East Naval Battle, the four "Guangcheng" classes fully proved their great value.

If these four "Guangcheng"-class ships, the "Imperial Capital" and the "Paijing" would definitely be sunk.

The key is that the cost of the "Guangcheng" class is only 60% of the "Wuzhou" class of the same tonnage.

In fact, the "Guangcheng" class uses the "Wuzhou" class hull.

Although the main reason given by the Navy is that it is not equipped with 9 200mm main guns, which saves a lot, this reason simply does not make sense, because the anti-aircraft guns of the "Guangcheng" class are twice as high as the "Wuzhou" class, and it is just a expense for purchasing naval guns. There is not much difference between the two warships.

The real reason is actually in the shipyard.

Because the construction period of large shipyards cannot be completed, and no one thinks that the main gun is not as valuable as the warship, the large shipyards related to the He family are not very enthusiastic, and they even did not participate in the bidding. In the end, a small shipyard located in Wencheng won the bid.

Before this, the largest ship built by the shipyard was a 1,500-ton ocean-going fishing boat.

Since then, the shipyard has joined hands with three other small shipyards of similar size to start construction work.

The contract amount issued by the four small shipyards is only 60% of that of the "Wuzhou" level.

The key is that you can also make a profit!

According to the audit report of the tax department, the net profit of the four shipyards to build "Guangcheng"-class ocean cruisers is between 11% and 14%.

At that time, this incident almost made He Yongxing unable to get out of office.

The key is that the net profit declared by the four large shipyards of the "Wuzhou" class is less than 5%!

After Xue Yuanzheng personally inquired and the combat effectiveness of the "Guangcheng" class had been proven, the Navy only placed an order for the second batch of eight ships.

This is also the last order.

According to the new plan submitted by He Yongxing, ocean cruisers like the "Guangcheng" class are too small, and their main tasks overlap with heavy cruisers, so there is no need to build them separately. Just build more heavy cruisers. The air defense warships need to be redesigned, and the focus is to increase displacement.

Yes, this is the large cruiser being designed.

Because the standard displacement exceeds 30,000 tons, this large cruiser, which is almost a replica of the battle cruiser, must be built by a large shipyard.

From this incident, we can see that He Yongxing does everything he can to protect the family's interests.

In Zhao Yu's words, the large cruiser promoted by He Yongxing is actually an extremely expensive warship that cannot be up or down.

Simply put, with a standard displacement of more than 30,000 tons. In order to emphasize its identity as a large cruiser, the main gun was actually a 54-diameter 280mm naval gun introduced from the Tauman Empire. Moreover, even the turrets were imitated, with three triple turrets arranged in the front two and the rear one.

This tonnage is fully capable of installing three dual 400mm main gun turrets!

The key point is that even the Tyman Navy has lost interest in such naval guns that cannot be raised or lowered, and is preparing to equip the next large cruiser with 380mm naval guns, which is to use three dual-mounted turrets. Moreover, the Tyman Navy has introduced the production technology of 400mm naval guns from the empire.

Something that even the Tiaoman Navy looked down upon was regarded as a treasure by He Yongxing!

In addition, the protection of this large cruiser is only slightly better than that of cruisers. Not to mention battleships, even battleships that enter museums are not as good as those of battleships.

It is this kind of warship that has installed a lot of flashy and unrealistic things, and the cost of the evaluation in the design stage reaches 80% of the "Xuhai" level.

The actual cost will definitely exceed the "Xuhai" level.

If so, why not continue to build the "Xuhai" level?

Regarding the question raised by Zhao Yu, He Yongxing gave the reason: two large cruisers can be built on a 50,000-ton ship platform at the same time.

In addition, 20,000-ton ships can also be used.

Because the tonnage of the ship platform is less than 25,000 tons, as long as appropriate arrangements are made, two "Xuhai"-class ships can be built at the same time on a 50,000-ton ship platform.

It is not difficult to appropriately reduce protection and control the tonnage of the "Xuhai"-class ship platform to less than 20,000 tons.

To be said, the "Xuhai" class is more than any kind of cruiser in air defense and sea control, and is the most powerful and fast battleship today.

Of course, the key lies in the cost.

According to Zhao Yu's estimate, the actual cost of large cruisers may be only two-thirds of the price.

It is reasonable to control the quotation to about half of the "Xuhai" level.

As for where the extra parts go, Zhao Yu doesn't need to say more.

In the face of such huge profits, how could He Yongxing make small fleet aircraft carriers that were preparing to build dozens of ships fall into the hands of others?
Chapter completed!