Chapter 471 It's called a battlecruiser

@@@@@@@@ Li Enfu is dumbfounded.

Tang Shaoyi was stunned.

Chen Ping dug his ears straight.

And Long Guozhang is even more anxious. He has all the money to build a ship!

Only Liang Dunyan, who is engaged in finance, smiled and said nothing. He had admired Emperor Li in the bottom of his heart. Fortunately, the emperor also said that he did not understand finance. He either didn't play, and if he wanted to play, he would kill people!

As a minister who has been dealing with the financial industry for a long time, he knows very well how serious the run crisis covering the United States is. Although the U.S. political axe exchanged gold bonds for enough bailout funds, the problem is that the run has occurred for more than three months, and a large amount of US dollar cash has flowed into ordinary people, which has led to bad bank bad debts. It began to increase. Since the United States does not have a central bank supervision deposit system implemented by Xinhua, if banks want to solve the problem, they must pressure the factories and enterprises that lend to repay as soon as possible to suppress bad debts and restore people's confidence in banks, which will certainly have a great impact on the manufacturing industry.

At this time, not to mention throwing huge purchase orders, I'm afraid that millions of small orders will be robbed.

In Shanghai in March, the spring is warm and cold. As one of Xinhua's financial and commercial centers, a small news suddenly spread in the business world. "The Prime Minister's Office is convening representatives of the National Chamber of Commerce to the United States for a sweeping purchase!"

This news immediately attracted the attention of all businessmen and factory owners in Xinhua. The frigates and a large number of military orders thrown by the political axe before have made everyone grab the lead, but many people have to watch the big business in their pockets because of the lack of insufficient machines and processing capacity. Although there are a large number of domestic machinery and products imported from Germany, they still cannot meet the strong demand after all, and the United States has restricted the export of machines to China, so the contradiction between supply and demand is more tense.

At this time, such a blockbuster news suddenly came out, which really made many merchants who were eager to expand production scratch their ears and cheeks and were very happy.

Ten days later, hundreds of industrial and commercial representatives from all over the country boarded a cruise ship specially prepared for them and left for San Francisco. At the same time, Li Enfu also personally summoned the U.S. ambassador to China and told them that Xinhua was willing to purchase 100 million US dollars worth of machinery from the United States for the sake of friendship between the two countries and help the United States get rid of the financial crisis as soon as possible.

This news, after being reprinted by the newspaper, almost made the entire American business industry ecstatic. While putting pressure on the political axe to open up export restrictions, they held a warm welcome ceremony for the Xinhua bottom fishing group arriving in San Francisco.

In the face of the scorching domestic economy, President Fairbanks had to lift the previous ban after repeated weighing.

The limit of the end made all the businessmen of the two countries relieved, but Li Mo not only bought and swept the goods at the price, but also equipped a large number of translators for the procurement team, and even transferred several mechanical experts from the Ministry of Science and Technology. He did not want to spend money to buy other people's obsolete products.

In order to better attract this group of big buyers, American businessmen began to open some core processing industries to the procurement group to visit, hoping to catch their eyes and make profits. Finally, the sweep operation lasted for nearly two months, which not only allowed Xinhua's industrial and commercial representatives to go deep into the core equipment manufacturing industry in the United States to understand the situation, At the same time, they are equipped with advanced production methods, and more than 30% of them are the most urgently needed advanced machine tools and complete sets of precision hardware processing equipment in China.

Due to the high production difficulty and long time of such equipment, the large amount of goods required by Xinhua merchants and the tight time requirements, many enterprises even directly remove the existing equipment and load it on the train, and ship it after arriving in San Francisco.

For American manufacturers, although it is a little painful, the machine can be remade without it, but if the capital turnover does not work, there is only one way to go bankrupt! So more and more factories joined the selling tide, and finally Edison's General Electric Company was involved.

Looking at ships full of urgently needed machinery docking at the port and touching tens of thousands of sets of mechanical equipment, Li Mo's mouth was crooked. In the past, the United States may not be willing to sell these things at twice the price. Now it's good, 30% off for everyone!

However, he also knows that the United States seems to be at a loss this time, but in fact, this $100 million purchase order has also greatly stabilized the U.S. market, and people can also take this opportunity to upgrade.

For him, this bottom-sweeping operation is just a small thing that takes advantage of the economic crisis to the extreme. What he really cares about is the British invincible-class battlecruisers that are about to be launched.

In fact, battlecruisers can also be called an epoch-making progress. As the first new warship to combine battleship firepower with cruiser speed and mobility, Britain has invested a lot of manpower and material resources on it. Fisher's concept of speed is defense has been reflected, even decades later. The shadow of this warship can also be seen on the large cruiser pioneered by the United States, and even the fast battleship is a reflection of the speed requirements.

Although he doesn't like this new warship, its thin armor is simply a disaster, but from the perspective of this era, it is still a kind of transcendence!

On April 30, 1908, on the first berth of Armstrong's Alvik Shipyard, a slender and beautiful warship quietly docked there. Hundreds of sailors were preparing for the first trial voyage. On the dock, Fisher and the officers of the Royal Navy, who were the first to enter the dock. He looked excited. After a year of intense outfitting work, Britain finally regained the top of the world four years after losing the warship innovation.

Around the area, the guards were still the same. For this top-secret plan, they worked hard for two years to ensure that the news would not be spread. For this reason, the intelligence department even released the fake news about building an armored cruiser to confuse the Germans on the other side.

Everyone will smile, because the Germans in the dark are still building the backward armored cruiser Blücher. In this way, when the news came out today, the cruiser that was launched at the beginning of the month became scrap metal.

What could be more exciting than calling the enemy's warships that have just been launched into service called garbage? A few years ago, the Chinese gave the British Empire a bitter fruit, and even the Australian crisis, which was still full of gunpowder smoke, almost broke out. The light cruisers of the New China Empire relied on this speed to expel the weak Australian naval cruisers, and now, the Royal Navy of the British Empire finally has a kind of A new type of warship that can be controlled by any cruiser in the world.

The British Secretary of the Navy, Landos, gave a congratulatory smile to Fisher and seemed to be very satisfied with the First Secretary of Naval Affairs. As the minister of the national navy, communication between them and the important person who actually manages the navy is extremely important.

Although Fisher seems to be very different in the conservative Royal Navy, there is no doubt that he is a reformer who really loves the navy and regards the navy as the whole life.

With a wisp of thick smoke slowly rising from the three chimneys of the Invincible, the smiles of the two people's mouths became more and more intense. After begging at each other, Langandos said a few words to the guards behind him, and the large group of reporters who had been waiting outside for a moment had been told that important news would be released today rushed into the dock.

A camera, the camera was quickly set up, and the reporters almost did not need to ask, but aimed their lenses at the new battleship that was preparing for sailing.

"Gentlemen, we will have a good news to announce to you today."

Landos walked to many reporters, smiled and showed the confidence of the Royal Navy. He smiled and said, "Through the efforts of Sir Fisher and the vast number of imperial naval designers, we have re-occupied the peak of the world navy!"

"It is the new hope of the Royal Navy!"

Landos's words immediately detonated the temporary venue. Everyone followed his fingers and looked at the battlecruiser Invincible in the distance. When everyone saw the backpack layout and eight 12-inch/45-caliber naval guns, they all frowned.

The backpack layout has not been new for a long time, and the eight 12-inch cannons are not different. Why do you dare to say that it has re-occupied the peak? When the idea came up for a moment, the reporters immediately asked, "Sir Landos, why do you say it is a new hope for the navy?"

"Excuse me, is there any difference between this battleship and the previous one?"

"It has fewer naval guns than before. Why does it help the navy regain the peak of the world?"

One by one, like indiscriminate bombing caught runners off guard, but this time he did not have any anger, but smiled and explained, "Gentlemen, the quality of a warship does not depend on the gun. It also needs the cooperation of other systems!"

"And what you see is a new warship pioneered by the Royal Navy. It not only has the firepower of a battleship, but more importantly! It also has a faster speed than the cruiser!"

"It will be called the nemesis of all cruisers in the world!"

"It will help the Imperial Royal Navy regain control of the world's oceans!"

"It will be a nightmare for any enemy!"

"We call it a battlecruiser!"

Landos' louder and louder words made the reporters excited. In this era, everyone will know some knowledge of warships, not to mention these professional journalists.

One ship has battleship firepower, but it is as flexible as a cruiser, and it also has a speed beyond the reach of the enemy. This is indeed big news!

It can be imagined that what will happen when the naval cruisers of all countries in the world, especially Germany and Xinhua, meet the battlecruisers, and even if they see it, they can't catch up with it. Instead, they will get rid of it with speed or even attack.

The reporters quickly wrote down this sentence. When the Invincible gradually accelerated and disappeared from everyone's sight, all the reporters wrote such a sentence.

"It's called a battlecruiser." ......

(to be continued)