If you are not afraid of thieves coming to steal, you are afraid of thieves, Yang Qiu can understand the meaning of this sentence. The monetary reform had just begun, the depreciation of the renyuan had just begun, and even the tens of billions of deficits accumulated by the Ministry of Finance had not been written off, and the navy and army blocked him in his office.

"Say it."

Faced with this situation, Yang Qiu simply put the pen on the table and crossed his fingers against the back of the chair. He knew that if he didn't give some benefits today, he would definitely be annoyed by these bastards in the future, so it was better to simply open it generously than to have his ears clean. But his refreshment made Chen Shaokuan and Qin Zhangshu sweat secretly, how could he feel wrong? Do you want to mention the matter of military spending?

Yang Qiu couldn't help laughing, got up and poured himself a cup of tea and glared: "Don't have anything to say?" Then fuck off, there's no extra lunch in the house. ”

One. Are these people so like to rub rice? Qin Zhangshu and Zhang Xiaozhun bowed their heads and laughed, Bingwen hid next to him and snickered, and even Chen Shaokuan, who had the thickest skin, collapsed the corners of his mouth. But there is no such shop in this village, and it is rare that the president is in a good mood today, so he immediately asked: "President, do you know the shipbuilding information of the Japanese Navy?" ”

"You know, what's wrong?"

"What? Build a ship! Chen Shaokuan shouted this sentence in his heart, but he didn't dare to be presumptuous, and deliberately pretended to be anxious and said: "President." The strength of the Japanese navy was already slightly higher than ours, but now it has increased by eight ships, and the British Far East Fleet in the South China Sea has also begun to increase in number, so the pressure on us is too great. ”

Speaking of the recent situation of the navy, Chen Shaokuan immediately forgot that he had just become a broken-mouthed mother-in-law, chattering about backwardness, danger, inadequacy, etc., not to mention Qin Zhangshu and Zhang Xiaozhun, even Bingwen, who was sitting next to him, had hot cheeks. Why is the usually majestic commander so vague when he mentions military spending? What a disgrace to the Navy!

Yang Qiu also had a big head, touched his forehead and wanted people to blow his naval commander away directly, and finally had to knock his fingers on the table: "Don't talk nonsense!" ”

The more annoying everyone listened to, the more proud Chen Shaokuan became, which was his usual means of fighting for military spending. So he immediately put the plan on the table: "Look, President, this is the plan we have prepared for 4 70,000-ton battleships, 4 30,000-ton aircraft carriers, plus 8 heavy cruisers, light cruisers, 36 fleet-type destroyers, 22 submarines, and 2 amphibious landing ships. ”

"Poof, ahem." Zhang Xiaozhun, who was listening next to him, was choked by the tea and coughed vigorously, and pointed at Chen Shaokuan with trembling fingers: "Chen Houfu, do you still want to be shameless?" Are you going to confront Japan or take advantage of the opportunity to blackmail the president? ”

", am I such a person? That's already the minimum we've calculated! Chen Shaokuan jumped up directly.

Minimum requirements. Is this guy going to be shameless? If the appropriation is made according to this standard, won't the army have to drink the northwest wind again! Qin Zhangshu had a dark face and glared at Chen Shaokuan, who really wanted to learn from Xiaolin Jizao.

But the latter didn't care at all, and counted them one by one: "Japan has begun to upgrade the four Kongo-class ships to battleships, and the Ise-class table will be retired but it will definitely be changed after the treaty expires." So they had ten ready-made battleships. Japan developed a 460-millimeter naval gun during the European War, and after World War I, it also took the opportunity to obtain 18-inch technology from Britain. But their national strength is poor and their resources are small, and they must not be able to think of it and completely crush us, so this time it must be a big guy of 70,000 tons. We now only have six one. ”

"Stop! Isn't it eight? As soon as Qin Zhangshu found out his mistake, Chen Shaokuan glared at him with confidence: "The structures of Anhai and Zhenhai are damaged, it doesn't count." ”

One. Anyway, it's a battle cruiser with a total of 5 mm, and it can't beat a battleship, but it's not easy to hit a secondary heavy cruiser? As a result, the sentence "not counted" was smoothed out, you are ruthless! Qin Zhangshu cocked his thumb directly at Chen Shaokuan, who pretended not to see it and continued: "The gap between the heavy cruisers is even greater, Aoba, Furutaka, Myo-Ko, Kaohsiung, Mogami, and now four more Roots have been added, suppressing us with an absolute advantage of twenty to eight. If it weren't for the lack of funds and technology to balance light cruisers and aircraft carriers, maybe we would have fallen behind in these two areas, and if we couldn't recover the gap as soon as possible, I wouldn't know how to send that ship if something like Saudi Arabia and Sakhalin happened again. ”

"Chen Houfu, don't treat me as if I don't know! 70,000 tons of battleships, is it so easy to build? The technology of Krupp carburizing steel is in Chongqing, tempering, quenching, and surface hardening ̈ It takes several months for a piece of armor steel to go from embryo to finished product! Therefore, Japan only has a manufacturing capacity of 30,000 tons of armor steel a year. There is also a slipway, not long ago in China Jiangnan, Zhanjiang, Qinzhou and Mawei four expanded oil tanker slipways, a 100,000-ton class will cost 5 million, not counting large cranes and processing equipment. There are also 30,000-ton hydraulic presses, heavy-duty free forging, gun barrel heat treatment towers, Zeiss lenses larger than the tabletop, and special ships for transporting large structures and gun barrels. I didn't have two years of preparation, and I couldn't even lay the keel! Qin Zhangshu did not give in.

Chen Shaokuan really didn't expect an army commander to be able to lay out the complexities and problems of building a super battleship one by one, but how could he admit defeat and say: "Yes, because of the long preparation time, this allocation will be made earlier." Our navy is not one of your big-headed soldiers, you can pull it up in three months for a gun drill, it will take four or five years from preparation to construction, and it will take about a year after launching to form combat effectiveness, can you not be early? ”

Although the two of them didn't have a loud voice, it was really unseemly to expose each other in front of the president, so Bingwen wanted to persuade him, but surprisingly, Yang Qiu didn't hear it, and lowered his head to look at Chen Shaokuan's plan carefully. As a matter of fact, he has long known about the competition between the three armed forces, no matter which team develops to a certain extent, there is no escape from the dispute between the branches of the military, and as long as this kind of competition is well controlled, it is actually beneficial. And he also knows that the dispute between the three armies of the Republic of China and the contradiction between Japan's land and sea are two different things, because the sharing of civilian expenses has always been relatively fair, although the sea and air have spent a lot this year, it is also the pressure of the army to be careful and willing to give in.

For example, Chen Shaokuan's plan, the navy is actually like a mirror in his heart, knowing that it is impossible to get so many allocations at one time, it is nothing more than wanting to seize the pit first so that they can know that they have such a plan. It's not that he doesn't want to develop the Navy, but he has his own ideas and concerns. First of all, the naval treaty could not be broken, and at least the tonnage could not be dug up before 1936, because the four ships of the Ankai class and the Ise class, which were purchased after the European war, were different according to the 20-year standard stipulated in the treaty, and they could not be replaced until 1937, even if the time for early construction is counted, it is too early to start construction. In addition, he had to be careful of the Soviet Union, knowing that Stalin had already made himself a first-class leader, and that the Soviet Red Army was growing in size and was likely to expand to 2.5 million or even 3 million in three years at the current rate of growth. When the number reaches a certain level, the technological advantage will be reduced indefinitely, so it is imperative to expand the army. According to the minimum requirements of the General Staff, even if war does not break out, the number of land forces must reach seventy percent of that of the Soviet Union, so as to ensure the needs of the two fronts in the northwest and northeast.

There is no need to worry about the speed of human resources and conscription training, but equipment manufacturing always takes time, and increasing the army by several hundred thousand is equivalent to more than doubling the arms and material reserves, and in addition to the hoarding of strategic materials, this money is actually far from enough to support the land and sea at the same time. Not to mention, that's not even counting the needs of the Air Force, as the aircraft become more advanced, they spend no less than the Navy.

Of course, the most important thing is that the time and funds for the reckless explosion of troops must be reserved for national construction, and if you start too early, you will only miss the time to catch up with Europe and the United States. However, it is true that the navy can't act too late, so he thought about the plan and asked, "I can promise you this." ”

"Really?!"

Chen Shaokuan almost jumped up excitedly, but he didn't expect that this time Yang Qiu would nod without even a little discount. Especially the battleships didn't expect it, you must know that everyone in the navy knows that Yang Qiu especially doesn't like battleships that cost a lot of money, but has a soft spot for aircraft carriers and light cruisers, so he almost fainted with happiness. But without waiting for Qin Zhangshu to raise his dissatisfaction, Yang Qiu first poured cold water and raised his finger and said, "You should know that whether it is for cooperation or strategic needs, the bottom line of the naval treaty cannot be broken. Japan can't die now! We need them to act as shields across the Pacific Ocean, so you should prepare your capital ships and aircraft carriers first, and you might as well keep an eye on Italy in your actions, and we will do it when they do it. ”

Chen Shaokuan nodded, the bottom line of the Washington Naval Treaty must be maintained for the time being, which is the bottom line of Sino-British and Sino-US cooperation. However, he is not really in a hurry, last year France began to build Dunkirk-class battlecruisers, and this year Japan announced the construction of new battleships, Italy and Germany are bound to follow as soon as possible, so if you do more than a year, you will definitely be able to start construction. However, he was not without gains, because the next light cruiser and destroyer Yang Qiu relaxed the requirements: "It doesn't matter if the tonnage of the light patrol is not enough, I will ask Jin Jiu to come forward and order four ships in the name of North Korea, as long as the plan and conditions allow you to do it." Fleet-type destroyers are yours, I don't limit the number, but you must control the cost, the Taishan class is a little expensive. ”

The Taishan-class destroyer built according to the utopian-class standard is indeed very good, especially the 45-knots speed during sea trials allowed the Navy to see the strength of France in the super destroyer, but the price was too expensive, so the Navy repeatedly asked for additional construction but did not pass. Fortunately, its main high-pressure rotary boiler and other technologies have been obtained through this cooperation, as long as the speed standard is lowered slightly, it is not difficult to build a batch of lower-priced destroyers.

Seeing that Chen Shaokuan and Bingwen were recording their words, Yang Qiu suddenly remembered something, and said with a smile on the corner of his lips: "That's it." I will find a way to increase some of your military spending so that you can start building a batch of frigates. The tonnage does not need to be too large, to ensure that the full load is 1500 tons, and the safety standard of the ship type is slightly higher than that of civilian ships. The speed is about 26 knots, and the armament does not need to be too strong, 2 single 120 mm naval guns will do, but the endurance must be played, and the anti-submarine equipment must be complete! Listeners, deep bombs, and mines are strengthened as much as possible, and air defense is moderate. ”

Chen Shaokuan's eyes widened in surprise, 1500 tons? Verse 26? Civil Ship Standards? 2 x 120 mm single-mounted guns. Can this thing work? Offshore patrols to protect fisheries? That's not as good as a torpedo gunboat! Even Bingwen scratched his head and couldn't understand what Yang Qiu meant, in his opinion, except for the two 120 naval guns, the rest was almost the standard of the Coast Guard patrol boat.

"36 ships, let's train personnel in advance." Yang Qiu didn't explain either.

336 ships! Personnel training with specialized 36 frigates ?! Not to mention Chen Shaokuan now, Qin Zhangshu and Zhang Xiaozhun, who were waiting on the side, both thought that Yang Qiu was too good for the navy! You must know that the army is not even willing to eliminate the first-generation T1 and TZ-type tanks, and use them to train new recruits, and the navy is better to build dozens of training frigates directly.

Chen Shaokuan is also thick-skinned, anyway, it is a dish in the pot, and the president said that it is not suitable for the coast guard to be the same, so he immediately wrote it down. But he never imagined that it was precisely because of this batch of anti-submarine escort frigates that it would bring great benefits to the Republic of China.

After the naval problem is solved, it will be the army, and compared with the navy's plan to swallow gold, Qin Zhangshu's idea is much simpler. It is not outrageous to add 5 divisions in three years, 2 infantry divisions to Pyongyang, North Korea, to purchase tanks and armored vehicles, heavy guns, 480 85-mm field guns and cannons, etc., on the contrary, the maximum cost is ammunition. According to his idea, it is necessary to increase the amount of ammunition purchased by 20 percent a year from now on, and strive to triple the ammunition reserve in five years.

Instead of pursuing the immediate purchase of a large number of advanced weapons, the army has increased the amount of ammunition purchased, which shows that the army is no longer optimistic about the situation in the northwest, so Yang Qiu not only agreed to this expansion and procurement plan, but also deliberately increased the proportion of some new weapons to be purchased.

After settling the matter of Lu Hai, Yang Qiu realized that it was already noon, and beckoned to Bingwen, who was about to leave: "Bingwen, you stay for a while." ”

The relationship between Bingwen and Yang Qiu is well known, and Qin Zhangshu and others thought that the two were going to catch up, so they immediately went back to the Ministry of Defense to arrange their own plans. After everyone left, Yang Qiu took out a document and handed it to him: "This is the plan of our respective military exercise delegations exchanged with the United States, and I am ready to send you to lead a delegation of the three armed services to observe this year's fleet exercise." You can take a look at these materials first, and set off in half a month. ”

"In addition!" Bingwen just wanted to look through the documents, but Yang Qiu suddenly stood up, looked at him and accentuated his voice: "I want you to help me do something, go to Mexico, and meet Trotsky!" ”

"Trotsky?! He's not. ”

"I know it's inevitable that you'll gossip when you go to see him. But don't worry, I'll help you suppress this matter in China. All you have to do is be high-profile! Make sure that Mexico and the United States know that you have contact with him, and invite him to visit China! Yang Qiu walked to the bookcase and took out a thick paper bag from below: "This is prepared by Chen Haohui for you, this is 500,000 US dollars, you want to give it to him, it's best to let them see it!" ”

"One of them." Bingwen nodded emphatically.

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