Chapter 1133 Lanfang Shipyard
The entire fleet slowly changed direction. After only more than a month since Lan Fang was established, the whole of Lan Fang changed its appearance. The northwest had huge advantages in civil engineering. Advanced construction machinery, a large number of new construction methods, especially the use of reinforced concrete and frame structures, made the city construction very fast. Before the attack on Pontianak, the Sher fleet had already made the city dilapidated. Lan Fang simply started a new job and re-planned it on the basis of Pontianak, and drew a large urban belt.
Pontianak is positioned as the capital of Lanfang. Even after it is incorporated into China in the future, it will become the core of Southeast Asia, controlling more than one million square kilometers of land, and countless large and small islands to the islands. The area of Pontianak is not enough if it is small.
China is a bit different from a few years ago. With the experience of urban construction in Baotou, Taiyuan, and even Xi'an, Pontianak is just a piece of cake. Before Lan Fang was founded, field testing began. After the founding of the country, the construction process began.
After the construction team of more than 10,000 people and various large and medium-sized construction machinery were opened to Pontianak, high-rise buildings and cities underwent earth-shaking changes, and the Northwest Consortium and Chinese-funded forces also began to come to Southeast Asia. In just a short period of time, at least 500 million yuan of funds and more than one project settled in Pontianak. In the next three years, Pontianak will grow rapidly like Baotou in that year, like that of Baotou.
As for workers, the northwest has formed a long-term worker training system, continuously cultivating a large number of workers. Now, when copied to Lanfang, Lanfang will not only be the source of raw materials and material assets, but will also become a part of the entire Chinese industrial system. Only by fully exerting the role of Lanfang.
A considerable part of the things moved back from India were used on Lan Fang's body, building materials, wood and other things, even cotton and tea. They can also be used as basic raw materials.
The newly built military port has only established a simple berth. Sher's fleet has been tense for almost a month after a tense battle. Both will and energy are already tight, and it is time to relax. Some artillery barrels need to be replaced by the warship itself. The entire warship also needs to be fully maintained.
The Shijia Shipyard is just right for this. After Lan Fang was established, the Shijia Shipyard was acquired by Lan Fangguo. Based on the Shijia Shipyard, the Lanfang Shipyard was expanded, which not only expanded the scale of the Shijia Shipyard, but also expanded from the original area of 2 square kilometers to a huge coastline of 12 square kilometers. It has 4 50,000-ton docks and 10,000-ton docks.
Of course, this is just a long-term plan. Now, only three docks, one big and two small, have been started. In addition, the previous docks, at this time next year, Lanfang Shipyard will have the ability to build three main battleships.
At this time, the head of the Shi family was hired back in reverse. As the first manager of Lanfang Shipyard, he would prepare for three warships under the guidance of experts from China.
These three ships are nothing else, but Bavarian-class. In order to catch up with the British Navy, Germany placed an order for the main battleship in the northwest. It was just an intention before, but now after the 30,000 pounds harvest is in place, it directly issued a deposit.
Scher was a member of the German High Seas Fleet. Of course, he was looking to the naval fleet. After asking Tyre for the batch, he first used 10% of the harvest from this robbery to issue a deposit.
According to the northwest, the Bavarian-class price is 2.45 million pounds. The ship is an order of nearly 20,000 yuan. Scher was able to deposit more than 30,000 pounds as a deposit, which directly promoted the start of construction in the northwest. On the entire Qingdao ship platform, the only thing that can be built is the Shanghai Shipyard.
Unfortunately, it should be Germany's unlimited submarine warfare. The number of sunken merchant ships in the whole world has been increasing, and the price of freight is constantly rising. More and more people are waving money to enter the commercial shipping. The scale of the Jiangnan Shipyard is even larger than that of Qingdao. However, after being able to accommodate so many civilian ships, there are no extra ships for the warships. After being reluctantly adjusted, it accommodated 3 ships. After the Qingdao Shipyard has also misappropriated it, it accommodated 3 ships and 2 ships, perhaps the next batch, or perhaps waiting for the new dock to be built.
Because of the relationship between Lan Fang and Sheer fleet, Xiao Jianfeng occasionally heard Sheer mention it and felt that it was an opportunity. He went back to discuss with Yang Shu and Zhu Hua. They were both government officials and didn't know much about military affairs, but after Xiao Jianfeng was moved, they were also moved.
In the future, in a long time, Lan Fang and China will be separated in name, even if they join the camp of the Allies, it will be the same. It will not be convenient to give Lan Fang a lot of support. In this case, even if there are one or two main ships, Xiao Jianfeng and others need logistics and repair support, and they cannot run back to China in everything. Southeast Asia is still thousands of kilometers away from China. It is a bit too troublesome to run back and forth like this.
The Shi family's shipyard was established with the help of the Northwest, but it is just a civilian shipyard. Recently, it is undergoing militarization transformation and simply maintaining the battleship. The orders of the two Bavarian-class ships are far behind the Fantasy and Orion changes, but they are also the key to the transformation of Lanfang Shipyard. It is necessary to take it down. With it, it will take a step forward in the field of military shipbuilding.
For the orders of these two ships, Zhu Hua and Yang Shu both returned to Baotou separately. Both of them were both members of the same party. The situation in Nanyang today has a lot to do with the two people. In the Northwest system, the two people have their own references, and finally successfully attracted the orders of these two ships.
Shi Zhongyu stood in front of the 30,000-ton dock. This is a dock that has only been built less than a week. A Bavarian-class keel has been laid inside. Once upon a time, when Shijia Shipyard was most glorious, it was just a 7-ton ocean-class cargo ship. Most of the things were purchased from abroad. Now it has the ability to build a large capital ship about 30,000 tons. The changes in the middle made Shi Zhongyu feel very moved.
One engineer and three skilled workers from the northwest have been distributed to various places in the Xinlanfang Shipyard. They are carefully selected elites, which can allow Lanfang Shipyard to enter the state faster. With their joining, Lanfang Shipyard, which is mainly used in civilians, immediately looks like a military shipyard. A large amount of equipment and metal is transported directly from the northwest and constantly filled to the Bavarian level.
On the other side of Shi Zhongyu, Sher was standing. The fleet entered Pontianak for rest and rest. Some of the damaged warships needed maintenance. Although they were not seriously injured, they would be fine at most a few days after entering the dock.
That is, when they entered the dock maintenance, Schell heard that there were two Bavarian-class ships that were being built here, so he was interested. He also came with several young officers under his command. Although they are now operating stronger than the Bavarian-class, they have strong German ancestry and modified under the technical conditions of the northwest. They are not weak, and the minimum protection and power system have been greatly strengthened.
Schell has been standing here for a long time. As a naval officer who had been dating with the Northwest for a long time, he discovered something very strange, that is, since the exchange with the Northwest, Germany has been strengthened to varying degrees. From the army, trench warfare, the use of heavy machine guns, various mortars, and airships, it can be said that these inconspicuous little things have caused subtle changes in the German army. This is not obvious in peacetime. During wartime, Germany's absolute advantage at present is proof.
The same is true for the Navy. Scher could not imagine what would happen when his fleet was missing 9 battleships, and one German battleship encountered 29, or even 41 battleships.
Britain leased six warships from the United States, which proved a little bit. Even if Tirpitz proposed the concept of risk fleet, according to this concept, Germany and Britain fought for both sides, Britain could get the fleet from the United States at any time from the Commonwealth countries and the United States. At that time, it would be even worse.
In terms of cost, this special mixed fleet that had not spent money has already made money. Next, when the Bavarian-class ship is completed, the German high seas fleet will immediately challenge Britain. At that time, the battle with more than 6 main battleships will definitely be the largest naval battle in human history. He was extremely excited when he thought of this.
Now it is just a keel, and in the future, it will become the backbone of the German navy. Scher did not stay in the Lanfang Shipyard. The navy that went ashore must be managed. From training, to annihilation of the British and French fleets, to looting India, many soldiers and officers have made contributions. Before going to sea next time, they must be rewarded and punished. Fortunately, they have gained a lot from India, and some rewards can be directly distributed, but officials, such as those who exceed the school level, must ask the Navy Department.
This time, the rest time was not short. It took from July to almost January. When the rainy season in Southeast Asia gradually ended, it left. The newly renovated Sher fleet began a new journey. Just as Sher thought, the purpose of sneak attacking South Africa was very simple, for gold.
Chapter completed!