The Iron and Steel Frenzy of the Republic of China

Chapter 126 The first defense deal and the second more ticket!

Hugo Eckner can be said to be an important figure who truly inherited the will of Count Zeppelin and revived the fallen "Zeppelin" and reached its peak in 1930. !.The "Earl Zeppelin" spaceship designed and built by him himself has become a contemporary legend since the day it was born. It has been described with various earth-shattering adjectives by media people who like to exaggerate, and has appeared in various publications.

I have to admit that this spaceship does have a proud capital. It is 23 meters long and 35 meters high in its largest diameter. The height of the entire airship is equivalent to that of an eight or nine-story building.The aluminum alloy hollow frame supports the huge hull. The multiple airbags inside can hold a total of 104 cubic meters of hydrogen, with a dead weight of 700 tons and a usable lift of 11 tons.

Her maximum speed is 12 kilometers per hour. The cockpit is located on the lower side of the front part of the airship. The airship also has generators, radio stations, wired telephones and other equipment.Her double-decker cabin is located at the bottom of the airship, arranged like a luxury hotel, and can take 30 passengers.Compared with the simple and extremely ranged aircraft at that time, it can be said that the sky and the ground are one by one.

This advantage lasted until July of this year, when the Douglas Airliner appeared in China.As the first truly profitable luxury passenger and cargo aircraft, it marks the official arrival of the era of air transport.

For this reason, Hugo Ekner was depressed for a while, but soon cheered up. He decided to design and manufacture bigger and faster airships, and never let those small and pitiful planes compare.At this time, Zhu Bin's design came.

No wonder Mr. Doctor was surprised, the first thing Zhu Bin gave was not a conventional airship creation.It looks like a squashed "Zeppelin", with a length of 276 meters, a width of 65 meters, and a height of only 33 meters. It can hold 20 cubic meters of helium, but its own weight is only 160 tons. An astonishing 150 tons.

Originally, the doctor didn't take this data seriously, but after carefully reading the disassembly drawings, he knew that something wonderful happened.

The skeleton of the entire airship is made of high-strength aluminum alloy, and the airbag is made of a high-strength "shilong" fiber made of airtight textile and non-woven double layers to form an independent unit. The outer shell is also thin aluminum alloy and this Made of overlapping materials, not afraid of general impact and scratch cutting, most importantly, the middle part of this airship is empty

There is a completely empty cabin part of 200x30x15 meters from the beginning to the end, which is a flat airstrip and a hangar that can accommodate 12 aircraft. There are four lifts down to the bottom pod.In addition to the rear main propeller, two rotor-facing attitude-stabilizing engines are installed on both sides of the central main frame, and an equipment platform for the warp and weft frame is reserved, which is obviously capable of installing defensive weapons.

And those five engines are also extraordinary. The all-aluminum body and high-strength cylinder liners and piston liners burn neither gasoline nor diesel, but methane

This is not an airship, it is simply a super flying mothership flying in the air

After reading all the drawings, the senior engineers of Zeppelin agreed that this airship could be manufactured and definitely fly. But a fatal question is, where do the airbag materials, methane and helium come from?

Methane is not easy to produce, while helium has always been controlled by the Americans. To be precise, the Rockefeller family has been refining petroleum gas for military and scientific research since the beginning of the century. For the Germans, it is forbidden to sell it in large quantities. They are used for weapons research.

On the other hand, helium is too expensive to use, so, knowing that hydrogen is dangerous, Zeppelin can only use this thing to fill the airship.

Zhu Bin's answer followed. Methane and helium can be extracted from the oil and gas fields extracted by the GD Group in Germany. The "Stone Dragon" fiber is provided by the group itself, produced and cut in Germany.

Neither the Zeppelin Company nor the doctor dared to be negligent, and greeted the representatives of the Wehrmacht and the Nazi Party full of doubts, and learned some secrets of cooperation from them.At the same time, the general of the Wehrmacht was very interested in learning about this huge ship that could rise to a height of [-] feet, and issued an order. If this big guy is really as ingenious and effective as designed, Germany must manufacture and own it, including the "" Stone Dragon" fiber.

No one understands the importance of materials better than the Germans, and they have been at the forefront of the world in this regard.When they discovered the body armor and fiber, titanium alloy and other high-strength material alloys exhibited by gd company in the sea bidding meeting in july, they made up their minds to get them.So when Zhu Bin went to Germany, they brought it up.

At the end of October, when the German delegation went to sea to sign a contract, they couldn’t wait to organize a full 10 12-ton cargo ships. The various machine tools, machinery, and machinery equipment that were pulled away dazzled the eyes of the representatives of the Chinese business community attending the meeting. , all the employees and escorts of Zhu Bin's fleet were replaced, and after pulling back 10 tons of gold ore from the Eastern Pacific Ocean, the Germans almost went crazy

Hitler and the generals of the Wehrmacht ordered together to go all out to ensure the progress of the transaction, even if the equipment was paid in advance, all the shipyards that had been shut down for a long time were all resumed, and standard freighters with a tonnage of 1 tons, 2 tons or even higher were once The construction of more than 20 ships will be carried out at a high speed according to the segmented manufacturing and assembly line manufacturing methods provided by Zhu Bin.

Driven by this, more than half of the German industrial system quickly resumed production. The original 600 million unemployed population was greatly reduced every day, and the public support rate of the National Socialist Party and the Nazi Party soared.

In short, all transactions related to Zhu Bin were given top priority. Large offshore drilling platforms, airships, and [-]-ton hydraulic presses were directly dismantled and sent to China, and the huge industrial machinery in Germany began to spin crazily.

Zhu Bin couldn't laugh or cry when he heard about it, but he didn't have time to worry about it too much, because just a few days after his successful test flight, a big happy event came to him.

On November 11th, when Zhu Bin was inspecting the construction of the group building at No. 15 on the Bund, Zhang Guoshu, the chief steward of the defense company, came to report beamingly: "Mr. Guzhen Kouwan as a base, but there is a condition, you must do one thing for him.”

"What's the matter? He should know that it's impossible for our defense company to help him fight the civil war. Besides, didn't Liu Zhennian let him and Han Fuju join forces to drive him away?"

After hearing this, Zhu Bin was overjoyed at first, and then began to frown.

As one of the ten domestic training base plans, Kouwan, an ancient town in Jiao County under the jurisdiction of Qingdao, is a very important one. Its strategy is even higher than that of Zhoushan. Chief Shen Honglie had negotiated, and he never agreed to have another armed force under his nose at the beginning, so they couldn't reach an agreement.

But after half a year, Commander Shen first went through his subordinate Ling Xiao's seizure of power and rebellion, and then he was persecuted and squeezed by the Japanese. Although he hadn't realized the internal crisis, he was already a little depressed.

In September, two other factions in Shandong occupied the capital and most of Northwest and Central Shandong, and Han Fuju, who occupied Yanwei and other places, claimed to be the "King of Jiaodong". Liu Zhennian, who had conflicts with Han Su, fought. North Korea broke out, and nearly 9 people fought immediately.

Han Fuju stood on his own in Shandong and refused to listen to other people's yelling, and he wanted to dominate the entire province. Naturally, he was merciless in his strikes, but Liu Zhennian was confident that his army was strong and strong, and he had Lao Jiang's verbal support behind him, so he fought back without fear. He would miss a good opportunity, scolding Han Fuju for being good at starting a war and provoking internal strife, which is really nonsense, and at the same time ordering the surrounding soldiers and horses to make a coercive posture, but secretly asked Liu Zhennian to hold Han back, and create enough facts to mobilize public opinion to deal with Han Fuju .

Although the old Korean is rough, his head is very bright. Ma felt that something was wrong and he wanted to resign and retreat.Lao Jiang saw that Han Fuju couldn't be dealt with, and he was concerned about the overall situation of suppressing the bandits, so he ordered Liu Zhennian to compromise. Liu Zhennian's subordinates couldn't bear it anymore, so they persuaded him in the same way, and finally started to evacuate Jiaodong a few days ago.

However, Han Fuju didn't take advantage of it, and Shen Honglie took over most of the Jiaodong ground.At first, Old Shen thought he had picked up a big deal, but when the Third Fleet took over the Yanwei area, he immediately became furious.

Yanwei is located on the peninsula, which is a strategic location on the Bohai Sea, the most important port and pass. It has been controlled by foreigners for many years, and the tax control on entry and exit is relatively strict.Since the negotiation of tariff independence in 27 years, the British basically let go, but the Japanese did not do it, and the see-saw between each other has been very fierce. Since the impact of the Great Depression in 29 years, Japan was forced to stop the gold exchange business, and the economic vitality was severely damaged. Smuggling to China began.Especially after September [-] last year, it became even more rampant. From the original small fishing boats of dozens of tons, they broke up, and directly increased to several thousand tons of freighters blatantly transporting from Lushun Port to the coast of Shandong.

The bold and arrogant Japanese not only smuggled sugar, rayon, and cigarette paper, but also smuggled a large amount of opium, drugs and other drugs grown in Northeast China and North Korea. As many as 500 million, the entire raw silk industry almost collapsed. Under the impact of smuggled goods, silk farmers went bankrupt one after another. They had no choice but to sell natural silk at a low price to the Japanese, causing a vicious circle.

The worst thing is that the merchants in Zhoucun, as the textile center, wanted to smuggle the goods cheaply, bought them in large quantities and then sold them for weaving.

Han Fuju, who was supposed to be in charge of cracking down on smuggling, was obviously working hard to rectify it, but secretly watched his 3rd Route Army people participate in the trafficking. So an extremely strange situation appeared that the Japanese transported smuggled goods from Chengkou and Xiawa. On the shore, the ronin escorted them with guns, stuffed some money into the garrison, and swaggered to send them to Zhoucun, Jinan and other places for wholesale. Some people dared to block the way to attack and shot directly.

Such large-scale smuggling first greatly affected the import and export taxes of Qinghai and Tobacco, and Shen Honglie was helpless in the face of the smuggled freighter escorted by the Japanese fleet. At this time, someone reminded him of Zhu Bin, and he immediately had an idea. Your defense Can't the company take on this kind of work?I give

As for the Guzhenkou base, he also looked away. Zhu Bin's background is so tough, he can't stand it for a long time, so it's better to be a favor, and talk about this matter, isn't there someone's intention?Just do it yourself.

Ever since, there was this "sale" that Zhu Bin received.

Hearing Zhang Guoshu's explanation, Zhu Bin pondered: "Cracking down on smuggling is a good opportunity to practice mobile phones. It is also a long-term business. It is a good thing to get a coastal base. But why do I always feel that there are What's the problem?"

Zhang Guoshu was puzzled, with a dazed look on his face: "What's the problem? Those smuggling teams don't have any heavy weapons, so it's a piece of cake to clean them up? Besides, Commander Shen mentioned that Chairman Han's team is involved, so it's hard to cause misunderstandings." , we are doing just right."

Zhu Bin shook his head again and again: "No, no, this matter is not that simple. Do you think, who is smuggling goods here? Who else is there besides the Japanese? Now the whole country is under the tune of not messing with the Japanese. This is for us to be guns." Woolen cloth."

"Oh, if that's the case, then we don't need to do this business." Zhang Guoshu was more honest and prudent, lacking courage, so he hesitated immediately.

Zhu Bin waved his hand: "Hey——why not do it? It's a pity to lose the good deed of delivery. Just answer them, we've done this deal, his uncle is a leg, no matter who wants to plot against us, in the end You have to show your fox tail. Want to watch us have fun? There is no door.”

Seeing his resoluteness, Zhang Guoshu slapped his thigh and said, "Okay, then I will finalize the matter with them."

He left in a hurry, Zhu Bin hurriedly flew to the Zhoushan base, and called a group of backbones to discuss it. Yu Baoguo frowned and thought for a while, then shook his head and said: "Our intelligence work is still too weak, and we have too little information. It is difficult to judge the real purpose of the other party. But I think, since we are going to do it, we might as well do it once to show the strength of our defense force and teach some people a lesson."

Zhu Bin chuckled and said, "That's what I mean. They really think that our mere [-] soldiers won't be able to make big waves? Hey, wait and see and pass on my order. Let's mobilize everyone this time, let them have a look first."

With information, it is still not cheap to have more words