Army and Marine Corps (please vote for me!)

"The first domestic car?"

Looking at the newspaper reports, Li Zicheng was stunned. Although the China Automobile Manufacturing Company had broken ground, it would have to wait until next year to produce cars. But now, the machinery company has already built the car, even outside of the plan.

And as many as forty vehicles were built at one time.

Interesting!

Looking at the blurry photos in the newspaper, Li Zicheng almost laughed out loud. What kind of car was there? It was clearly a "three-wheeled agricultural vehicle" and it was also an open-top type.

"The project of Lianyun Machinery Factory to make 40 domestically produced cars is about to be completed. These cars are all domestically produced. The cars are exquisite in style and extremely light. They are based on my country's urban and rural transportation. The load capacity can reach 1.85 tons, which is far superior to Ford trucks... According to the factory It is said that its estimated price is about 200 yuan, which is similar to that of a good horse. However, its transportation capacity is by no means comparable to that of horses and mules. One car can equal 20 mules, and the fuel is diesel. The oil price is low, and the operating cost is lower than that of animal power. This is actually an improvement. The best vehicle for transportation in our country..."

Looking at the news that seemed to be an advertisement, the smile on Li Zicheng's face slowly faded. Maybe it was an advertisement, but even a layman like himself could see that these three-wheeled agricultural vehicles would definitely be popular in the market.

, firstly, it is easy to learn to drive, secondly, it is easy to maintain, and most importantly, its price is low. When the Jiangsu Army purchased livestock, a mule cost 40 yuan, while a vehicle only cost 200 yuan, but its transportation capacity was

Equivalent to twenty mules. Although the tricycle burns oil, the mules also need to eat food. After all, raising one tricycle is definitely cheaper than raising twenty mules.

If the performance of this kind of tricycle is not inferior to the agricultural tricycles of later generations, it is conceivable that within ten years, such tricycles will be running all over the streets in China. People are always practical, and even pickup trucks may not be as practical as agricultural tricycles for transporting grain.

, transporting goods, pulling people, he is basically an all-rounder.

Looking at the blurry tricycle in the photo, Li Zicheng's expression became more and more serious. It seemed that he had been stuck in a misunderstanding, which was to use the German industrial data in the submarine as much as possible to develop China's industry. But in fact

Above, among German technical data, the most important ones are not necessarily the industrial finished products, but more importantly the basic technologies such as metal heat treatment technology, surface processing technology, and raw material technology. This is precisely where China fell behind in later generations.

Moreover, I can refer to some experiences of later generations, or industrial product concepts, or even best-selling industrial products, and then propose some products that have not been developed in Germany before World War II, and then integrate Lianyungang's technology to manufacture them, just like this tricycle.

Compared with ordinary trucks, it has low technical requirements and equally low requirements for factory conditions. What is even more valuable is that its structure is simple, simple to manufacture, and equally simple to use. Compared with trucks of this era, it can be said to be absolutely useless.

It's inferior. If this had been done earlier, it would be like now. In order to support the army, even the buses on the street have been requisitioned.

"Well! The tricycle is gone, what other means of transportation are there?"

Thinking about it, Li Zicheng picked up the pen and started writing on the paper, writing one after another. In the end, a story emerged in his mind of a later generation that traveled across China, from Northeast to Hainan, from Xinjiang to Shanghai, from Shandong to Yunnan, galloping

The artifact of almost every village in China - a small four-wheel tractor!

"tractor!"

Suddenly, Li Zicheng's eyes suddenly lit up. The tractor that appeared in Li Zicheng's mind was not the crawler tractor commonly seen on Lianyungang construction sites, but the "small agricultural tractor" of later generations. The price of such a tractor was only a few thousand yuan, but it was very useful in the field.

It is an all-rounder in the field, pulling grain, planting, and plowing. It can do anything that a crawler tractor can do. Compared with the high cost of use and complicated driving of a crawler tractor, the cost of a small tractor is low and easy to drive.

, and more importantly, easy to manufacture.

"Maybe I can even fire a cannon!"

With this thought in mind, Li Zicheng closed his eyes and recalled for a moment, then drew the "little four wheels" in his memory on the paper. After a while, a simple sketch was drawn, and he even specially drew "

The unique inverted figure-eight tire pattern of the "small four-wheel" is this special tire pattern that gives the small four-wheel the off-road capability that puts most SUVs to shame.

After drawing a sketch of the "small four-wheel" and writing a few hundred words of design description, Li Zicheng put the sketch in a folder and placed it in the second file basket from the left on the spacious desk.

That was the company's report. The second document basket had been processed. Seeing that there were still many documents in the document basket to be processed on the right, Li Zicheng took out the documents and read them one by one. These were all from the Office

Things that need to be dealt with organized by the Secretariat.

After reviewing documents for more than an hour and giving instructions to as many as a dozen requests for instructions, Li Zicheng took out the last report from the basket and opened the kraft paper cover. It was a report from the Army Staff Department.

"Request for the Establishment of the Jiangsu Army and Navy"

Establish Army and Navy?

Interesting!

Li Zicheng, who had never expected such a report, was amused by the request from the Jiangsu Army Staff Headquarters. They were all Marine Corps, but the Jiangsu Army wanted to establish an "Army Marine Corps". He looked at the report carefully, but

See that the first half of the report is a reflection on Japan’s threat to Lianyungang, especially the reflection on the sea and the lack of defense.

"Coastal defense, not blockade defense", the "Jiao'ao Incident" has shown that the port blockade can only defend one place, and the enemy fleet only needs to change its target to threaten the homeland. Although this battle was successful with the help of the air force, the coastal defense

It’s empty, but it still makes people alert.”

After more than a hundred words of reflection, the report changed and mentioned two Japanese battleships that were semi-stranded in shallow waters several kilometers off Arashiyama. The Army Staff hoped to conduct an inspection on the two Japanese battleships to determine whether they were

Is there any salvage value? If so, I hope that the entire ship can be salvaged, and an "army and sailor" that can meet "basic coastal defense needs" can be built based on the two ships.

What kind of army and sailors are there? They are clearly the Jiangsu Navy! If it really happens, then Jiangsu will have all three armies!

"Salvage sunken ship?"

This suggestion surprised Li Zicheng. In fact, regarding the sunken Japanese Navy ships, both the Jiangsu Army and Li Zicheng had the idea of ​​​​using whatever they could. Several warships were sunk off the coast of Lianyungang.

The main turret was salvaged as a whole. Only the eight twin turrets of the Kongo and Hiei ships were successfully salvaged. Five twin 356mm turrets were successfully salvaged. This was entirely due to the Lianyungang Maritime Affairs Bureau Salvage Department last year.

According to the plan, five twin 356mm turrets will be installed in the coastal defense fortresses of Qingdao and Lianyun, coupled with the salvaged 152mm secondary guns, to build a coastal defense with armored turrets as the core.

Fortress. As for the three twin 305mm turrets that were lifted, they are planned to be used to build the Zhenjiang Fort.

But it is one thing to salvage a turret of about a thousand tons, but it is another thing to salvage a battleship of more than 20,000 tons. The technical difficulty is certainly not small, but the suggestion of the Army Staff is good. Two battleships, then

How much silver!

More importantly, if the Jiangsu Army owns these two battleships, then the deterrent power of the Jiangsu Army in the future will even be affected. In the near future, it may have to send the Jiangsu Army to Europe. By then, the power in its hands will be

will weaken, and the same deterrent effect will also decrease.

But what if you have a powerful navy in your hands?

The main force of the fleet is two battleships with 12 12-inch naval guns. Whether it is for the central or local governments, it is an extremely powerful deterrent. The existence of a powerful fleet has a deterrent effect that is not inferior to that of an army of 100,000 people, but the cost

It seems far beyond what an army of 100,000 can match.

"Well! At least we can salvage these two battleships first!"

While talking to himself, Li Zicheng picked up the phone, looked at the phone list, and dialed the number of the Port Authority. If there is something most advanced in Lianyungang, it is probably the telephone system that has been initially built in Lianyungang, and the operators used by other countries in this era.

Different from the magnet telephones with plug-in wires, Lianyungang uses automatic telephones produced according to drawings. The use of this mechanical telephone is basically faced with the rapid increase of telephone users, and the telegraph and telephone company cannot provide enough operators.

The bureau has just "asked questions in advance." Although the mechanical automatic telephones and switches have just been put into use, they have already received orders from the United States, Britain, France and other countries. It can be said that except for radios, they are currently the best-selling products produced in Lianyungang.

Electronic equipment, and the profits are far higher than they imagined.

After a blind tone, the phone was connected. After a brief explanation, he hung up the phone and half-closed his eyes. Li Zicheng was thinking in his heart whether he should put something on the agenda in advance, such as building a warship.

warship!

Building warships made Li Zicheng's heart skip a beat for no reason. In this era, warships are the most complex industrial products. They not only test a country's shipbuilding capabilities, but also test a country's metallurgy, artillery, optics, and precision machinery manufacturing.

Power, etc. It can be said that once warships are manufactured, there will be countless problems before the shipyards and most factories in Lianyungang. This is definitely a technical challenge. It is a challenge, but it is not a test at all!

If a warship can be successfully built, then Lianyungang's industrial manufacturing capacity will make a qualitative leap due to this "big battle", thus achieving a change in industrial capacity. This is not exactly the kind of industrial capacity I expected.

A test?

"Isn't it a little too early?"

Thinking that the shipyard has just started building 3,000-ton merchant ships, Li Zicheng can't help but doubt the shipyard's capabilities. Although the shipyard has several large slipways and large docks, and is fully capable of building large warships in terms of equipment, Yingyoumen Shipyard

There is no experience in building warships at all. Although the shipyard has 3,000 skilled technical workers, and even dozens of technicians from the United States, when it took over Qingdao, it also accepted hundreds of technicians and technicians from German-owned shipyards.

There are more than a thousand skilled workers, and perhaps some of those German technicians have experience in building warships. If the shipyard's software and hardware resources can be fully utilized, they may be able to build large warships.

Why build large warships?

If the two Japanese battleships can be salvaged, then the army and sailors will have two capital ships, which means that what the Jiangsu army and sailors need are several smaller escort ships such as destroyers, which can be completely replaced by small ships.

By continuing to build warships, you can build large warships after you have accumulated experience and technology in shipbuilding. By then, as long as you are willing, you can even build Bismarck-class battleships!

Bismarck class battleship!

Thinking of the most prestigious battleship in the world, Li Zicheng's heart just fluttered. He even imagined the image of the Bismarck-class battleship sailing in the Pacific Ocean, imagined the scene of the Bismarck-class battleship's guns roaring on the sea, imagined

With the shock that the invincible battleship brought to the world.

At this moment, the door was pushed open, and Zhang Yilin was walking in front, followed by a stranger who looked a bit young.

"After briefing, Director Fang Zicheng from the Salvage Department has arrived!"

Salvage place? At this time, Li Zicheng came back to his senses from his previous fantasy. Bismarck was only the future at best. The most urgent thing now was to salvage the two sunk Japanese battleships.

Li Zicheng stood up and walked to the sofa. After sitting down, Li Zicheng pointed to the sofa opposite and said,

"sit!"

Fang Zicheng, who saw the military envoy for the first time, was still in a state of excitement. For him, the economic envoy in front of him was the real hero. If it weren't for his courage and responsibility, "Jiao Luo" would

The "Australian Incident" will not break out. China can only let others bully it as it has in the past. It is the current strategy that makes Resolutely choose to use force to defend the country's rights and interests when everyone thinks it is impossible, instead of just blindly

compromise.

But the actions of the strategic envoy in front of him clearly told him that China is not only willing to compromise. When necessary, China can also bear sacrifices and choose to use war to speak and use force to defend the country's interests.

"Director Fang, you have something I want to ask you about!"

After a few words, Fang Zicheng sat up straight and respectfully and replied.

"Jing Luo, I don't know what your problem is!"

"Does the Salvage Department survey all Japanese shipwrecks?"

Now, what Li Zicheng is most concerned about is the two sunken ships. As long as those two battleships are salvaged and repaired, the Jiangsu Army... well, the Army Navy, or the Army Navy, will have two capital ships.
To be continued...