Chapter 477 The Age of Gasoline and Super Battleships

@@@@@ "Yuting, hasn't the U.S. fleet left yet?"

"The emperor hasn't left yet. I heard that they were very dissatisfied with the invitation of Xixiang Congdao to settle in and signed several agreements, and they are applying pressure on him." Zhang Zuolin just walked in front of him and immediately put the news he had just received on the slightly messy small table.

Li Mo turned his head.

Outside the window of the car, an eagle hovered over the grassland for a while, and suddenly swooped down to a place, just like brown lightning. Before the shadow in the net dissipated, the sharp eagle's claws had grabbed a hare and soared to the top of the snow in the distance.

This scene made him and Zhang Zuolin smile. For the original at this moment, Xinhua is undoubtedly the eagle, hovering in the sky all the time. After looking for a few years, he finally found an opportunity and struck with a thunderous blow.

Several new agreements mean that from finance to military, it was swallowed up in one bite. When Britain and Germany could not extricate themselves in the arms race, when the United States was not winged, it had no choice but to shudder under the eagle's claws.

With the support of Xinhua, the protests of the United States are pale and weak. Even if the Great White Fleet has arrived at the door of Japan, it can only show off its power or waste a few shells to intimidate it.

The special geographical environment makes Japan Tokyo Bay like a chicken protected by a hen under its wings. As long as Yokosuka is in the hands of Xinhua one day, the throat of the whole Uraga waterway will be stuck by himself. Whoever enters the heart of Japan must get his own permission.

Although the United States is making a lot of trouble now, if a ship of mines is dropped into the Uraga waterway at this time, the whole White Fleet will become a fish struggling in the net, and even fighting is enough to make them surrender automatically.

Moreover, from Japan to the French-controlled Jinlan Bay, it is the waters of the Xinhua Empire all the way, so it is impossible for the United States to be too fierce, because if it provokes Xinhua, all the roads of the White Fleet to the Suez Canal will be blocked, and there is not even enough coal to go home!

In fact, many people don't understand why he wants to regain the Japanese version at this time. Only he knows that this is still preparing for the war a few years later.

With the intensification of the European competition, whether the power has made a breakthrough or not, the super fearlessness is bound to appear, and the navy will enter a new era.

The experience of later generations has proved that the era of defeating the enemy by one or two naval battles is over. The naval's combat philosophy has undergone earth-shaking changes, and containment and anti-containment have become the key. However, at this moment, Europe and the United States have not realized that when all countries have made breakthroughs in technology, such as If you can't completely control the Japanese in your hands, there will be a huge loophole in the Pacific defense line, and you can't devote yourself to it wholeheartedly.

And what worries him most is the submarine. Judging from the experience of later generations, even if someone provides two or three submarines to Japan at that time, it is enough to contain several times his own destroyers and more seriously threaten the safety of the sea route, so he must completely subdue Japan.

From the current point of view, the sudden completion of the Japanese book has caught Europe and the United States off guard and has achieved the purpose of control. In the later stage, it is just the kung fu of the water mill. Wang Shizhen should be able to complete this aspect.

Now that the farmers have gradually got the land, they will definitely solve the problem of food and clothing first. In addition, the landlords have been weeded. It will take at least seven or eight years for Europe and the United States to find someone, which means that there was no threat before World War I.

For the United States, without Japan, there is a lack of a means to interfere with Xinhua, and the most dangerous nail on the long defense line east of the Pacific Ocean has been completely pulled out!

As for the emperor's family!

Li Mo stood in front of the car window and looked at the sneer at the corners of his mouth in the reflection of the glass, which was also secretly shocked. Although he could not get an atomic bomb now, he clearly remembered the record of dirty bullets in the book "Super Restricted War". After adding some special concentrated radiation material powder to the building materials, he repaired a new Beijing. The Imperial Palace will be the tomb of the emperor's family. In the next 20 years, the family will gradually disappear in the ray bath.

At that time, it was all up to his own mood whether to make a new emperor or let the Japanese book completely embark on the internal consumption of partisan struggle.

"Your Majesty, Commander Long asked how to deal with the U.S. fleet."

"Welcome!" As soon as Li Mo waved his hand, he was in a good mood and immediately smiled and said, "Open the door and hold a banquet. It's lively and shows the friendship between the two countries."

Zhang Zuolin's eyes jumped straight. Emperor Li was really friendly. He crashed into the ship and cheated people. Recently, the United States has been unable to recover for at least a year through the financial crisis. Just now, he monopolized Japan, and now he is going to hold a banquet again. Is this a slap in the face or a provocation?

On October 1, after a month of splurning for a month and not getting any benefits, the vast Dabai Fleet finally arrived at Lushun Port and began a friendly visit to Xinhua.

The huge white fleet was indeed an eye-opener for many New Chinese, and those American soldiers also saw a unique oriental charm for the first time, but Major General Evans was a little dissatisfied, because the previous idea of deterling the Xinhua Empire with the Great White Fleet was completely ruined with this incident.

Li Mo did not have time to care about the U.S. fleet. Instead, he and Zhang Zuolin quietly took a train to Jiayuguan. This is the farthest point that the Xinhua Northwest Railway Network can reach at present. Although the railways from Urumqi and Tangnu Wulianghai are under construction, it will take at least two years to connect.

The difficulty of building a railway in the northwest far exceeds that of the Central Plains. In order to spread the main railway road to all the provinces in the northwest as soon as possible, at least more than one million natives of the construction corps have died here in the past eight years, which cannot be described as white bones.

There are two reasons why Li Mo ignored the White Fleet to come here. The first is the position of the Jiuquan Steel Plant in the previous life. The first steel plant under the Xinhua Northwest Heavy Industry Group, which took five years, finally started construction. Although there is still a big gap between the actual output of 500 tons of output and the designed annual output of one million tons, and Due to the serious delay in the construction period due to roads and other reasons, it is still a great progress, which means that the northwest region can finally produce its own steel to meet the local construction needs.

But this requires a process. When the workers are proficient, when the ore mining progress is better, it doesn't take a year or two, and the output can reach the design target. In addition to here, in the next two years, the steel mills built in Urumqi, Yinchuan, Xining, Baotou and Lanzhou will also be put into operation one after another. At that time, not only will the northwest construction officially enter the fast lane, but Xinhua's steel production is also expected to double.

Even if Li Mo is not a traveler, the pursuit of steel in this era is endless. Whether it is a warship, or an M2 tank that has begun to be produced in small batches to deliver troops for training, or rails, factories, Xinhua to steel. Demand is almost like a bottomless hole.

Although the output of major steel mills exceeded 5 million tons for the first time as of last year, second only to 6.1 million tons in the United Kingdom, it has become the world's fourth largest steel producer. It has not only won the hot forging technology of VH armored steel and the technology of electroslag furnace, but also broke through the two technologies of silicon-iron alloy steel and manganese silicon alloy steel for the first time. However, it is still difficult to meet the strong demand in China.

Therefore, the start and production of Northwest Group and Jiayuguan Steel Factory have become extremely important.

Looking at the red steel pouring out and turning into rails, and watching the changing shape of the steel embryo under the hydraulic press, Li Mo carefully asked every detail like a child, wearing thick coarse cloth work clothes, checking the progress with the workers and checking the furnace.

For him, refining an extra ton of steel every day means that Xinhua has grown another point.

It was not until ten days after lingering in Jiayuguan that he finally reluctantly embarked on the return journey. Although he really wanted to go to Tianshan and Urumqi now, the northwest was about to usher in winter. It was very difficult to have no railway traffic, so he had to give up for the time being.

After inspecting the steel mill, Li Mo came to the largest oil smelter in the northwest to extend the oil field.

After stepping into this not-large oil field, the first thing you see is the earth wall that was once covered with human skin. Although the wall has been cleaned up, the local workers did not push it, because this is a memorial. Everyone hopes to let future generations know that this large oil field was built from blood.

Compared with Jinzhou, and a number of state-owned and private refineries that have started construction in Jizhao, Lianyungang, Changxing Island, Fujian, and other places, the scale of the extension of the refinery is not large, but because of the deep inland center, it has almost undertaken most of the processing and experimental bases of special oil after completion, which is also new at present. China's only aviation gasoline supply base.

"Small technology, big change."

As a later generation, Li Mo is very clear about the meaning of this sentence, because many small technologies seem to be inconspicuous, but have a great impact, especially in aviation gasoline.

Due to the current limitations of processing and smelting technology, the current difference between aviation gasoline and ordinary gasoline used by Xinhua is not big. It only adds some compounds to reduce the evaporation surname.

This factor was not a problem at the beginning, because the star engine had not been made at that time, but with the appearance of the star engine, the engine horsepower was slow to break through, which became his biggest problem.

No matter what kind of aircraft, a good engine is particularly important. Looking at the experience of future generations, the engine has the greatest impact on the aircraft, so he has always dreamed of solving this problem as soon as possible.

However, after the technical department tried its best, it has not been greatly improved. In addition to the processing and design factors, the designers also found that gasoline with different batches also have a great impact on the engine name.

After the news reached Li Mo's ears, it reminded him of an article he had read about the impact of the octane number on the engine in aviation gasoline, so he rushed here.

The volatilization of aviation gasoline is lower than that of car gasoline, which is less likely to vaporize. The octane number directly affects the surname energy of the engine, so after arriving at the extension, Li Mo immediately began to solve how to improve the octane number in gasoline.

Although there are other ways, he still chose the simplest one, relying on adding highly toxic tetraethyl lead to increase the octane number. In order to find the best formula, he learned to add different dyes to gasoline in the United States to distinguish categories, and then handed it over to the engine department for testing.

When using a high-octane engine, the fuel system of the engine also needs to be redesigned, otherwise it will pose a risk to the aircraft, so a small change from gasoline has triggered a new engine revolution.

Li Mo's goal is to develop a good oil with an octane content of 110 to 120 in accordance with the standards of World War II in the United States, and to be equipped with a better fuel system and improve the engine, so that the star engine can reach at least 600 horsepower required by the single-wing aircraft.

But this is a long cut. In addition to fuel, the engine fuel system matched with fuel requires long-term testing, and then he understood why only the United States dared to use such high-octane aviation gasoline in World War II, because when gasoline was purified, added and mixed over and over again in the pipeline, It's almost burning money.

As the American White Fleet went all the way west, it visited Shanghai, Guangzhou and Luzon one after another, and crossed the Suez Canal to the Mediterranean Sea. After returning to the United States, which caused a sensation in Europe, this impressive record of sailing for more than a year, traveling tens of thousands of nautical miles and crossing the three oceans, on the one hand, made all countries in the world appreciate and recognize the United States. On the other hand, it proves the trans-oceanic combat capability of the U.S. fleet.

But at the same time, he did not achieve the expected purpose of deterrence of the Xinhua Empire and Europe, because the dreadnought that was early by Li Mo could not stop. In May 1909, in May 1909, in order to cope with the pressure of the naval ship-building competition with Germany, the British Parliament approved a huge additional budget for the construction of eight capital ships. To respond to the challenge of the German navy!

This news also means that the haze has not accumulated over Europe, but the complete explosion of Mars.

On August 29, three months earlier than history, the British Royal Navy released the data of four Orion-class battleships on the day of construction. The full displacement of 25,000 tons and the speed of 20 knots were not beyond the world's expectations, but the five doors and doubles of the Jilin-class layout of the Xinhua Empire were adopted. The 13.5-inch 45-fold barrel naval gun ignited the whole world almost as soon as it was announced.

"The World Has Entered the Age of Super Battleships" In the past year, when Li Mo, who traveled all over the country and various laboratories, raised his head and saw the report sent back by fax machine from the Xinhua Embassy in the United Kingdom, he immediately threw it into the trash can.

"The young master is very busy!" Li Mo spat at the newspaper, because compared with the super fearless appearance, an extremely important thing was imminent.

On October 1, 1909, Li Enfu, Prime Minister of the Xinhua Empire, announced in his own name that he would step down on September 30 next year...

(to be continued)