At any time, anywhere, money is good, but it is too much money and it is not easy to spend it, especially this is a continuous cost. Even if most of it is to match shipyards and naval equipment factories, the actual shipbuilding funds are only one-tenth, which is a huge amount. At least for the navy, which has always been a bit tight, it is simply a big pie falling from the sky.

As a senior navy, or even the top Chinese side, Cheng Biguang's level is qualified to know some secrets, such as the real price of the Fantasy and Orion changes. When the Qingdao was deducted, the price provided to Germany by these two warships was 650,000 pounds and the Orion changes were 450,000 pounds, which was high in price. But Germany still accepted it. On the one hand, it was a no-price deal at that time, and the price of Qingdao was also inflated. On the other hand, the two warships conquered the Germans with their real strength. Even if it was 30% off, Germany was willing to accept it.

This is an external price. Even if Germany continues to order in the future, this price will be maintained. For the Chinese side, this price is not that high. According to the latest price, with the gradual depreciation of the Northwest Dollar and the rise in prices, the fantasy-level cost has risen to 10,000 Northwest Dollar, which is 650,000 US dollars and 10,000 pounds. This price is really quite low. As for Orion, it is 110,000 pounds.

At the same time, the main warships of Britain, the United States and Germany were around 10,000 pounds. The reason why the Northwest is so cheap is that on the one hand, the Northwest has been large-scale manufacturing since the beginning. In addition, advanced processing machines, modular design, and segmented construction methods reduce working hours. These occupy large-scale costs of warships have become the fundamental reason for the cost reduction. Of course, artillery and various power systems, due to the existence of Yang Yuanzhao and all-in-one aircraft, have reduced a large amount of research costs, which is also a fundamental factor.

The price is cheap and the maintenance costs are relatively low. China naturally has the ability to equip warships on a large scale. The moment he heard Yang Yuanzhao's request, Cheng Biguang had already calculated the main battleship. For battleships, if 12 ships were built, it would only cost more than 100 million yuan. As for aircraft carriers, even if many new technologies were used, the price of aircraft carriers in this era in the first generation of propellers was relatively low, at least about half of ordinary battleships, which was about 60,000 yuan. Of course, this does not include carrier-based aircraft. According to previous practice, carrier-based aircraft was calculated as special air funds, rather than managed by the navy. Even now, it is affiliated with the air force, and at most it is handed over to the warships for command during future operations.

The tactics of aircraft carriers are an emerging thing for any naval officer. Cheng Biguang would not have thought that this would make the command unsmooth, and he would have thought that this would save costs. In this sense, aircraft carriers seemed to be able to be built more.

This was just Cheng Biguang's initial idea. After leaving Yang Yuanzhao, Cheng Biguang immediately went to the Navy headquarters building. Although not all the main officers of the Navy were in Baotou, they contacted each other by phone and held a plenary meeting of the entire Navy to discuss the use of more than 500 million yuan a year.

After weighing it, it is mainly to balance the comparison between the main battleships of each fleet. And based on the extent of China's naval development in the next few years, soon, the navy has formed a large-scale shipbuilding plan, which is quite large in scale. The formal plan includes 27 Zhenghang aircraft carriers, 12 battleships, 72 escort aircraft carriers, 272 ships of different sizes, and a total of 250,000 tons of shipbuilding plan.

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Looking at the newly released plan, Cheng Biguang was a little embarrassed. It turned out that he didn't think so much, but thought of 12 battleships. Even if Yang Yuanzhao let go, after the navy understood the combat effectiveness of the aircraft carrier, even the primary aircraft carrier, his combat effectiveness and channels of use were far better than those of the battleships. Although 12 battleships were added through considerations in all aspects, the power of the aircraft carriers was getting stronger and stronger, and even the ground attacks had shallow water heavy artillery boats, the number of battleships should not be too many. 12 were relatively normal. In addition to the previous 9 and 21 battleships, they could protect the aircraft carrier combat groups one-on-one or one-on-two, which played a good role. After the battleships were modified, they could become a relatively excellent combat platform, combining air defense and melee defense.

As for the others, they are all around aircraft carriers. The 27 aircraft carriers will form a special mixed fleet with three ships. In addition, the Zhenghang, which is currently under construction, will ensure that the four major fleets in the future, including the Bohai Sea, the East China Sea and the South China Sea, have three special mixed fleets. As for Lan Fang, there will be two special mixed fleets. After a little integration, some things from the last quarter were removed. In the end, this huge shipbuilding plan with a time span of two years appeared in front of Yang Yuanzhao.

The tonnage of Zhenghang aircraft carrier is 35,000 tons. After weighing the trade-offs, the battleship temporarily chose the fantasy level, but also proposed whether it can simply amplify the fantasy level so that it can install 16-inch cannons and increase its overall power.

Yang Yuanzhao was surprised by such a huge plan. The ambitions of the navy were not ordinary. If the fantasy class was equipped with 16-inch guns, the minimum total tonnage would be increased by 15,000 tons to balance the overall tonnage. This is not impossible to achieve. When producing two batches of battleships, the experience gained from Germany and Britain and the United States was integrated into the warships, and the areas that the Northwest were good at were also integrated into the warships. On the premise that the 16-inch guns were mature, it could be achieved, and at most it would be wasted some tonnage.

When the Northwest was at the fantasy level, it was basically learning from Germany in full. It was also with the selfless help of Germany that it had the ability to design. After integrating these, the Northwest's design ability has been greatly improved, especially in various auxiliary devices.

After Yang Yuanzhao proposed some ideas, the Northwest Naval Research Institute gradually realized these ideas. The largest one is the drag pool. From 70 meters in the research stage to 110 meters after maturity. After several expansions, it summarizes the experience and lessons and gradually expands from the distance. The largest drag pool can reach 650 meters and 11 meters wide. Using such a pool, you can conduct a complete experiment on the same-scale model of the ship when the ship is not built to find some shortcomings and find the warship design that suits the requirements.

It can be said that on the warship, relying on the all-in-one machine and the huge investment in the northwest, we have embarked on a different path. We use more experiment methods, not the experience of designers. Just like the industrial production of porcelain in later generations, such designs may kill geniuses and peerless quality porcelain, but bring about a large-scale decline in the quality and performance improvement of porcelain. As far as users are concerned, this is even better.

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The fantasy level was completed with the help of German designers, and it absorbed some of the knowledge in the northwest, but not much. The emergence of dragging pools and a series of other experimental methods can be verified in practice. If the method is proposed, you can get the right one.

"I will turn this to the Naval Research Institute!" Yang Yuanzhao nodded. After he saw the general requirements of the Navy, it was still complete. This is the plan for the next two years. On average, the annual use is only 200 million Northwest yuan, and the remaining 300 million will be used for maintenance. This shows that the huge fleet consumes a huge amount. He is more concerned about the distribution of naval shipyards. It is a larger plan, involving astronomical funds of 4.5 billion yuan per year, 450 yuan per year. The application of this money is not only the navy, but also requires industrial and strategic layout.

After the United States exposed 28 main battleships to be produced at the same time, Yang Yuanzhao was quite vigilant. During this period, the most important task of the Intelligence Agency was to pay attention to the United States' industrial heritage, military production capacity, and to the maximum assessment of what kind of military heritage the United States has, and how great the shipbuilding ability can be exposed under the extreme circumstances.

Although the Intelligence Bureau finally obtained a number through the investigation of the intelligence, Yang Yuanzhao found that the assembly line and standardization did not make it like it. According to historical development, the assembly line and standardization were first developed by the Americans. In this case, it is very likely to be applied to shipbuilding, especially the United States. Although the steel production is far inferior to China, there are signs that the United States has used a sealed steel plant and expanded and built a batch of oxygen blowing technology. It was proposed by China.

What came was improved by American research institutes, even if there were patents or something, but when the war was mobilized, the Americans ignored it. The strength of the world's factories bursting out from the northwest made them pay attention to this technology and had obtained this technology from Williams Laboratory. This technology alone was enough to double the US steel production. This is the foundation for the United States to start construction of 28 warships. Only the increase in the output of basic steel represents the increase in military strength.

Integration, the United States can reach at least 16o% of the current warship production capacity, which means that the United States can build 5o ships at the same time, even if the average launch period is 25 ships a year.

This final result made Yang Yuanzhao smile bitterly. A great power is indeed a great power, and its industrial heritage is indeed an industrial heritage. The rapid development of the Northwest cannot be separated from the support of the United States, but the United States has also received benefits. Once China joins the war and the war escalates, the core of the battle will definitely be transformed from the North Sea and the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. This is the truly magnificent naval battle. Perhaps, the scale of the battle that broke out in the North Sea will be rewritten in one or two years, or two or three years.

Chapter 1 is delivered, another chapter is around 9 o'clock! (To be continued.)
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