At any time, anywhere, money is a good thing, but too much money is not easy to spend, especially if this is an ongoing expense, even if most of it is for shipyards and naval equipment factories, the actual cost of building ships is only one-tenth, which is also a huge amount, at least for the navy, which has always been a little tight, it is simply a big pie falling from the sky.

As a high-level of the navy, and even a high-level of the Chinese military, Cheng Biguang's level is qualified to know some secrets, such as the real price of the Fantasy class and the Orion change, when the Qingdao was deducted and reclaimed, the price of these two warships to Germany was 6.5 million pounds, and the Orion class was 4.5 million pounds, which was high in terms of his price. But Germany still accepted it, on the one hand, it was a business without capital at that time, and the price of Qingdao was also inflated in Germany, on the other hand, the two warships conquered the Germans with real strength, even if it was a seven-fold discount, Germany was willing to accept it.

This is the price of the outside world, even in the future, if Germany continues to order, it will maintain this price, for the Chinese military, this price is not so high, according to the latest price, with the gradual depreciation of the Northwest dollar, rising prices and other reasons, the cost of the fantasy level climbed to 13 million Northwest dollars, that is, 6.5 million US dollars, 1.3 million pounds, this price is really quite low, as for Orion, it is 11 million pounds.

At the same time, the main warships of Britain, the United States and Germany were all about 3 million pounds, and the reason why the Northwest was so cheap was that on the one hand, the Northwest was mass-scale manufacturing from the beginning, coupled with advanced processing machines. Modular design, segmented construction method reduces man-hours. These occupy a large part of the cost of warships and become the root cause of the cost decline. Of course, artillery and various power systems, because of the existence of Yang Yuanzhao and the all-in-one machine, have reduced a lot of research and development costs, which is also a fundamental factor.

The price is cheap, the maintenance cost is relatively low, China naturally has the ability to equip warships on a large scale, and the moment he heard Yang Yuanzhao's request, Cheng Biguang had already calculated the capital ship. Battleships. If 12 ships are built, it will only be more than 100 million yuan, as for aircraft carriers, even if a lot of new technology is used, the aircraft carriers of the first generation of propeller period in this era, his price is still relatively low, at least only about half of ordinary battleships, that is, about 6 million, of course. This does not include carrier-based aircraft, which, as was previously practiced, were included in the special air funding, not managed by the navy. Even now, it is subordinate to the Air Force, at most until the time of future operations. Leave it to the battleship to command.

The tactics of an aircraft carrier, for any naval officer. It's all a new thing, Cheng Biguang wouldn't have thought of it. This will make the command unsmooth, and he will only think that in this way, it will save costs, and in this sense, it seems that the aircraft carrier can be built more.

This is just Cheng Biguang's initial idea, after leaving Yang Yuanzhao, Cheng Biguang immediately returned to the Admiralty building, although the main officers of the navy, not all in Baotou, but through telephone contact, convened a plenary meeting of the entire navy, to discuss the use of more than 500 million per year.

After weighing it, the main thing is to balance the contrast between the capital ships of each fleet, and according to the extent of the development of the Chinese Navy in the next few years, soon, the navy will form a large-scale shipbuilding plan, the scale is quite huge, the formal plan includes 27 aircraft carriers, 12 battleships, 72 escort aircraft carriers, 272 ships of different sizes, a total of 2.5 million tons of shipbuilding plan.

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Looking at the freshly baked plan, Cheng Biguang was also a little embarrassed, it turned out that he didn't think about it so much, just thought of 12 battleships, even if Yang Yuanzhao let go, after the navy understood the combat effectiveness of aircraft carriers, even if it was the most elementary aircraft carrier, his combat effectiveness and the channels used were far more than those of battleships, although through all considerations, 12 battleships were added, but in the continuous development of aircraft carriers, the power of carrier-based aircraft is getting bigger and bigger, Even under the premise that there are shallow water heavy gunboats in ground attack, there should not be too many battleships, 12 is relatively normal, plus the previous 9, 21 battleships, can be one-on-one, or one-to-two to protect the aircraft carrier battle group, play a better role, after the battleship has been modified, it can become a relatively excellent combat platform, air defense and melee defense combined.

As for the others, they all revolve around aircraft carriers, 27 aircraft carriers, with 3 ships as a formation, to form a task force, plus the regular voyage that is now under construction, it will ensure that the four major fleets in the future, the Bohai Sea, the East China Sea, and the South China Sea have 3 task forces, as for Lanfang, there will be 2 task forces. After a little integration, some stubble things were removed, and in the end, this large-scale, two-year shipbuilding plan appeared in front of Yang Yuanzhao.

The tonnage of the Zhenghang aircraft carrier is 35,000 tons, and the battleship chooses the Fantasy class for the time being after weighing it, but it is also proposed whether the Fantasy class can be simply enlarged, so that it can be equipped with 16-inch guns to increase the overall power.

Yang Yuanzhao was taken aback by such a huge plan, the ambitions of the navy are not ordinarily large, if the fantasy class is equipped with 16-inch guns, At least the total tonnage should be increased by 15,000 tons, in order to balance the overall tonnage, this is not unattainable, in the production of two batches of battleships, the experience obtained from Germany, Britain and the United States has been integrated, the most important thing is that the northwest is good at the place is also integrated into the battleship, under the premise that the 16-inch gun has matured, it can be achieved, it is a big waste of some tonnage.

When the Northwest was at the fantasy level, it was basically a comprehensive study of Germany, and it was also with the selfless help of Germany that it had the ability to design, and after integrating these, the design ability of the Northwest has been greatly improved, especially in various auxiliary devices.

Northwest Naval Research Institute, after Yang Yuanzhao put forward some ideas, these ideas gradually realized, the largest of which is the towing pool, from 70 meters in the research stage, to 110 meters after maturity, after several expansions, summing up lessons and lessons, gradually expanding from the distance, the largest of the towing pool can reach 650 meters, 11 meters wide, using such a pool, you can not build a ship, for the ship's scale model to carry out a complete test, in order to find out a little shortcoming, Find out the right ship design for your requirements.

It can be said that on the battleship, relying on the all-in-one machine and the huge investment in the northwest, has embarked on a different path, more with the method of experimentation, not the experience of the designer, just like the industrial production of porcelain in later generations, such a design, may kill the genius and peerless quality of porcelain, but bring about a large-scale decline in the quality of porcelain and the improvement of performance, as far as the user is concerned, this is more outstanding.

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The fantasy class was completed with the help of German designers, absorbing a part of the knowledge of the Northwest but not much, dragging the pool and a series of other experimental methods appeared, any idea can be confirmed in practice, and the method can be proposed, and the appropriate one can be obtained.

"I'll turn this to the Naval Institute!" Yang Yuanzhao nodded, the general requirements of the navy, after he read it, it is quite complete, this is the plan for the next 2 years, on average, the annual use is only 200 million northwest yuan, and the remaining 300 million will be used for maintenance, which shows that the huge fleet consumes a huge amount, and he is more concerned about the distribution of naval shipyards, which is a more huge plan, involving 4.5 billion per year, 450 astronomical funds in 10 years, the application of this money, not only the navy, but also the industrial and strategic layout.

Since the United States broke out the production of 28 capital ships at the same time, Yang Yuanzhao has been quite vigilant, and the most important work of the Intelligence Bureau during this period is to pay attention to the industrial heritage and military production capacity of the United States, and to assess to the maximum extent what kind of military heritage the United States has, and how much shipbuilding capacity it can burst out if it is at the limit.

Although the intelligence bureau through the investigation of the intelligence, finally got a figure, but Yang Yuanzhao found that did not make the assembly line and standardization like this, according to the development of history, the assembly line and standardization, the Americans first came out, in this case, it is very likely to be applied to the construction of ships, especially the United States, although the current steel output is too far behind China, but now there are signs that the United States has used the mothballed steel plant, and expanded and built a batch, oxygen blowing top technology, is proposed by China, But it has been perfected by the research institute of the United States, even if there is a patent or something, but when the war was mobilized, the Americans did not care at all, and the strength of the world's factories that burst out of the northwest made them pay attention to this technology, and they have obtained this technology from the Williams laboratory, and this technology alone is enough to double the steel output of the United States several times, which is the essence of the United States to start 28 warships, and only the increase in basic steel production represents the improvement of military strength.

Taken together, the United States can at least reach 160% of the current warship production capacity, that is to say, the United States can build 50 ships at the same time, even if it is an average launch period of 2 years, that is, 25 ships a year,

This final result made Yang Yuanzhao smile bitterly, a big country is really a big country, the industrial heritage is really an industrial heritage, the rapid development of the northwest is inseparable from the support of the United States, but the United States has also received benefits, once China enters the war, the war escalates, the core of the battle will definitely be converted from the North Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, to the Pacific Ocean, this is the real magnificent sea battle, maybe, the scale of the war that broke out in the North Sea now, in one or two years, or two or three years will be rewritten.

The first chapter is delivered, and the other chapter is around 9 o'clock! (To be continued.) )