In fact, what the Navy Design Bureau submitted were two aircraft carrier design plans, and these international students who already had a certain amount of design experience had been divided into two groups, A and B, with Wang Pingxuan being the leader of Group A and Ye Zaifu being the leader of Group B. Compared with Ye Zaifu, who tried his best to keep a beard and wanted to pretend to be mature, but could still see the immaturity from his eyebrows, the 34-year-old Wang Pingxuan first entered the Jiangnan Shipyard to work and then was sent to the United States by Tianzihao to study, because he had worked in the shipyard for several years, he gave people a more capable feeling, and his design was quite old-fashioned.

For example, this is the case with kerosene mixed burning - for the time being, the battleship that completely uses oil-fired boilers has not yet appeared, as a designer who strives to be safe, although China produces oil, but based on the fact that there are no gas stations in various ports, he chose the current mainstream design: oil-coal mixed burning boilers; In addition to the boiler, the plan is also designed with a lot of armor, power compartment, oil depot, ammunition depot, hangar, etc., in order to protect these important facilities, under the wooden deck in the middle of the aircraft carrier, a 150-meter-long three-inch horizontal armor and a 1.5-inch hangar deck will be laid. The important area not covered by these two decks was also covered with a layer of 4.5-inch armor on the upper end, and the side sides also had 5-inch mine-resistant armor inclined 14 degrees.

These armors protected an important part of the entire aircraft carrier, but the more than 5,000 tons of armor increased the cost of the aircraft carrier by two percent, and the fact that the center of gravity could not be arranged due to the heavy weight of the flying armor. In particular, the carrier-based aircraft on the Shenwu could not sail long distances because of their small size, and the newly designed carrier-based aircraft was a whole circle larger than the previous one, and even if the two elevators were installed on the side of the ship, the area of the single-story hangar was only a pitiful 3,300 square meters. It was not much larger than the hangar of the Shenwu, which had only forty-two aircraft. There are 12 spare parts machines.

Compared with the design of Group A, Ye Zaifu's Group B has the exception of the inclined armor on the side side. The horizontal armor only protects the power compartment, aviation oil depot, ammunition depot and other key positions, the weight of the armor has been reduced by more than 2,000 tons, thanks to the lower center of gravity so that a double-layer hangar is arranged, the area of the upper and lower two layers of hangars is 5,400 square meters, the carrying capacity reaches 74 aircraft, and the reserve aircraft is 20.

Perhaps anticipating the significant reduction in the capacity of the single-storey hangar, Group A added a floor plan to express their remedy, which was to mooring the aircraft on deck. The total length of the aircraft carrier's flight deck is 264 meters, and the comfort is 29.5 meters. Considering that the rear end of the flight deck needs 50 meters for landing space, and the front end needs 120 meters for takeoff, and there is 94 meters of space in the middle of the flight deck that can be used to mooring aircraft, so counting the 2,800 square meters on the flight deck, the "hangar" area of the entire aircraft carrier actually exceeds the 400 square meters of Group B, and the total carrying capacity of 74 aircraft.

Tethering planes on deck is a common thing for US imperialism in World War II, and I don't want Wang Pingxuan and these people to be self-taught, probably this is also forced by a single-story hangar, but in this way, the planes on the deck will be exposed to the wind and sun. Suffering from the corrosion of sea salt. So the final plan was set up: if it weren't for wartime, the tethered aircraft on the deck would be removed, and the peacetime carrying capacity would be forty-two.

Armored aircraft carriers have always been the favorite of the British, but I don't want this design to be on Yang Rui's desk. And in order to solve the problem of the small number of aircraft on board armored aircraft carriers, the deck tethered aircraft that the US imperialists often dry have also been brought out. Although I have read a lot of World War II military documents, this plan of Group A is unknown to Yang Rui. He just kept wondering: why did the three countries of Britain, the United States and Japan in later generations not think of this method. Could it be that the British were too stupid to expect that the Japanese were too distressed about the plane. The Americans are too sloppy to install armor?

No one gave him a puzzle, and no one told him that the Japanese aircraft carriers and American aircraft carriers in the Pearl Harbor movie were actually all played by the Essex-class aircraft carriers built by the United States in World War II. The Essex-class aircraft carrier has only a single-story hangar 170 meters long, 21 meters wide, and 5.4 meters high, and all other aircraft are moored on the deck.

Looking at the two drawings that were entangled for a while, Yang Rui suddenly smiled and said: "The aircraft carrier can be said to be something I invented, and no one in the world understands her better than me." However, I'm now confused by the designs of your two groups. ”

Yang Rui admitted that he was confused, and everyone around him laughed, Zhu Lu and Lieutenant General only felt that it was too rare to make Yang Rui confused, and his hand reached behind his back and raised his thumb at the two groups of people. Yang Rui asked at this time: "If Group B's plan is to mooring the aircraft on the deck like Group A, does it mean that Group B still has more aircraft than Group A?" ”

"Back to the Prime Minister," Ye Zaifu endured a little trembling teeth, and didn't know who moved before he began to answer: "The oil depot, ammunition depot, various provisions, and crew compartments of the aircraft carrier itself are all fixed, although the design of this group can also moorn aircraft on the deck, but the number of additional aircraft is limited, at most fifteen to twenty aircraft can be added, but the plan of Group A is not stopped in the landing area, if it is a multi-aircraft carrier formation in wartime, it is also possible to moored aircraft there, or in the case of using catapults, There will be more space on the deck for aircraft, so the capacity of Group B can also be increased to more than 90 aircraft. ”

"That is to say, in addition to the higher cost, Plan A is basically the same as Group B?" Yang Rui asked.

"There is another advantage of the Group A scheme compared to this group, that is, the single-storey hangar is significantly simpler than the double-decker hangar, and the manufacturing speed is faster." Ye Zaifu said very modestly about the merits of this group A. However, before his words fell, Wang Pingxuan also said modestly: "The armor under the flight deck will increase the weight of the hull structure, and once it is attacked by Yanzhòng, the hull may be completely deformed; The aircraft tethered on the deck will also be corroded by salt spray, and if the ground staff is not properly maintained, the performance of the aircraft will be greatly impaired. ”

Both sides were saying that the other party's design was good, Yang Rui smiled and said nothing, he asked Zhu Luhe: "What is the approximate cost of the two designs?" ”

"Judging from the quotation coefficient given by Japanese shipyards last year, the Group A plan will cost about 17 million yen, while the Group B plan will not have so much armor steel, and the cost will be about 14 million yen." Zhu Lu and Dao. The General Logistics Department is responsible for arms procurement, and he is now the focus of attention of arms dealers around the world.

"Why is it so cheap?" Yang Rui was very surprised, even if the depreciation of the yen is not taken into account, this is cheaper than the Shenwu. "Right?"

"Sir. This is the price before the price of steel plate increases, and it is at the current price. Each ship will increase by about 2 million to 3 million yen, depending on the price of marine steel given by Benxi Iron and Steel Plant. And the price they quote is so low. This is because Japan's finances were tight after the war last year, and the navy had no money to build ships, and the boilers, steam turbines, and armor used in warships could also be produced by shipyards without the need to purchase them, which saved a lot of money. Zhu Lu said.

"Then now that we have signed a contract with them to build a merchant ship, will the price increase and delay the work if we place an order to build a warship?" Thinking that China and Japan are going all out to build standard ships, Yang Rui is not only worried about money but also about time.

"Sir, the standard ships built by the partners are all merchant ships of less than 10,000 tons. Besides, no matter how fast the merchant ship is built, it is not as profitable as the warship. Japan's shipyards are not like ours that are all state-owned. Private shipyards are unable to make profits from merchant shipping, and they are being pushed down by the government and chaebols, and those private shipyards with more than 20,000-ton docks will gladly accept our orders; As for Japan's state-owned shipyards, they will not let go of this opportunity because they are extremely interested in the construction of aircraft carriers. Zhu Lu said.

"Then let's talk to the Japanese right away." Yang Rui said: "It doesn't have to be completed in two years, but it can be done in three years, our time is not too tight, and when we can't build the second batch by ourselves, can Nanjing Shipyard lay the keel first." ”

"Which plan to choose?" With Zhu Luhe's voice. The members of both groups A and B, who were standing on one side, looked over.

"What is the speed of the two groups? How much horsepower? Yang Rui asked.

"If you don't use a mixed boiler, the two are Japanese-made ship-type heavy-oil boilers, with a total of 18 ships and four ship-type steam turbines. Four oars and four axles, with a total output of 140,000 shaft horsepower, and a speed of more than 33 knots. "Zhu Lu and Dao." Other than that. Some new technologies have emerged, especially related to pipe loss. For example, carbon dioxide filling and automatic sensor fire monitoring will be used this time, but this will be installed independently by us after entering the water. We do not share technology with Japan. ”

"Then let's build one for each according to this plan." Yang Rui's decision was unexpected, "This time and the next time are just to accumulate experience, we have to take the road that seems right, and we have to try the road that seems to be wrong, although I know better than you what this thing can do, but I am not a designer, this ship is ultimately designed by you, and you will supervise it." No matter how good you think, you can't make it in vain; If you can't achieve the effect in use, it's in vain; It is also effective if it is made and used, but it is even more useless if it is useless in wartime.

The battlefield is already changing rapidly, and the battlefield on the ocean is even more complex, and how the design is useful and effective can only be summarized little by little. Before I asked you to take the training course of production management and quality management to learn the analysis of factory actions, I want you to understand: no matter how the ship is built, it is still used by people, and if you want people to use it comfortably, you must consider the operation problem based on the job responsibilities itself. In this way, you can know what operators in each position need, what they don't need, what needs to be improved, and how they need to be avoided, which in the final analysis is that quality management is everywhere. ”

Yang Rui decided on the plan, and he wanted to say something to motivate them, but he didn't want to talk about quality management again. He hurriedly pulled the topic back and said something macroscopic and abstract: "Some people say that the century-old navy, I think this is completely bluffing!" The history of the growth of the navy is actually the history of building ships, and when you cooperate with the officers and men on the ships to build warships that surpass the current level, then the navy will be basically trained. Because the foundation of your shipbuilding is based on the deep understanding of their own positions by the officers and men of the navy, if they do not understand what they want to do and how they should cooperate with other departments and other ships, then you will not be able to understand the essence of warships and break through the existing shackles.

From not knowing how to build a ship to being able to build a ship, to building a good ship, to finally making a breakthrough, I think it will take at least 30 years. Without the accumulation of 100 years, a country's naval bases cannot be spread all over the world, and a navy that is only in a corner of the country cannot be regarded as a real navy in the eyes of everyone. It is said that it is so ambitious, but the reality is that we can't even guard the door of our home, and we can only rely on the strange weapon of the submarine to win. Now, if you want to change this qiē, it is up to you, aircraft carriers are the future development direction of the navy, without air supremacy, there is no sea supremacy, what we want is a fleet that can control the sea and sky. ”

Yang Rui sent Zhu Lu and this group of designers away, and from today, the shipbuilding plan will officially begin, and the plan to build standard merchant ships will also be signed and started. The next thing for him is to sit back and wait to make money.

But he wants to be idle, but the case of land reform compensation in Shanghai is constantly fermenting. Creating public opinion is Liang Qichao's forte. At the beginning, he didn't choose the two paths of entering Yunnan and Beijing, that is, he decided that he and Yang Ruidou must use his own way to govern his body - a legal breakthrough. At first, he found the largest and most prestigious law firm in Shanghai, Harvato. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Harvato Law Firm became a full-time legal adviser to the Shanghai listed government, and the Shanghai municipal government paid more than 300,000 yuan in legal advice fees every year.

The municipal government values the British background of Hatohua Law Firm and the tacit understanding reached through years of cooperation, while Hatohua values the official background, Shanghai is becoming more and more prosperous, there are more and more cases, foreign law firms, Chinese law firms will be more and more, how to maintain the position of the largest law firm in Shanghai and achieve long-term success. It is the thing that he is most concerned about after more than 40 years in China.

"......, that's the way it is." On a sunny spring day, the person in charge of the city's land reform in the Shanghai municipal government concisely described to the foreigners in front of him the rules for the verification and compensation of cultivated land in the land reform. Like the land reform yamen in other places, the one who has full authority to manage the land reform work in Shanghai is also a cold and silent woman.

After she finished speaking, Mayor Fei Yugui hurriedly added, "After the constitution of the House of Representatives is amended, the rules of land reform are also voted on by the House, which is equivalent to the ...... of law."

"Nope. Mr. Mayor. "No law can contradict the Constitution, even a little." The amendment to the constitution only states that the cultivated land in Greater China belongs to the ...... owned by all the people, and the land owned by each household cannot exceed the limit set by the province. The excess is paid to the landowner by the cultivator of the land, i.e. the tenant farmer,......。 The specific compensation methods and rules are formulated and implemented by the specialized agrarian reform department......

The words are vague," Hatowa reads the constitutional amendment. "Mr. Mayor." This is probably the habit of you Chinese. In my opinion, even the constitution should write out its fine rules so that no loopholes are found. ”

"However, the amendment has already stipulated that the specific compensation rules will have the provisions of the land reform yamen......" Fei Yugui still didn't feel that the problem was there, and he brought Hatohua here this time, which was already a bit routine.

"Mr. Mayor, if the amendment to the Constitution says that cultivated land and tenant cultivated land in excess of the prescribed area will be transferred to the cultivator of the plot without compensation, then he has no loophole, but here he is talking about compensation, and it does not oppose the inviolability of property rights, but respect property rights. It's a good thing for everyone, but it's a bad thing here. Article 13 of the Constitution, which states that 'the Government shall protect the lawful private property of its citizens from infringement, shall give reasonable compensation if it is necessary for the Government to expropriate lawful private property in the public interest' remains valid.

To put it simply, the constitutional amendment only addresses the question of whether tenant farmland needs to be expropriated compulsorily, but does not address the question of how much compensation should be given for the expropriation of such farmland. Of course, this may be true, because the situation of each piece of land is completely different, and it is only reasonable to set up a special department to actually evaluate it. "The question now is, how can the agrarian reform department prove that its nuclear price and payment methods are appropriate and constitutional?" That's why we became defendants, and the plaintiffs argued that the compensation we gave was unreasonable. ”

"How can that be considered reasonable?" Fei Yugui asked patiently.

"This requires the Supreme Justice's ruling." Hatohua Road. "Only they can judge what kind of compensation is appropriate. If we lose the lawsuit, then the government will pay a large amount of money or grain to the landlords on top of the previous compensation, and there is a precedent in Shanghai, then other provinces will follow suit, and the end result will be that all the landlords will have to increase the compensation.

This does not seem reasonable to me, China is very large, Shanghai is the most prosperous port, the price of grain and cotton here is very high, and the appropriate compensation that Shanghai thinks is unacceptable to the inland provinces, and even if the judges in various places can take this fact into account, they will not be able to go deep into the countryside to understand the real situation; The Shanghai case will also make public opinion more condemned of the government, even if they are wrong. ”

"Mr. Havato, is it possible for the Supreme Justice to disobey the Parliament? Just like your country, the Supreme Court must obey the parliament unconditionally, why ......" Fei Yugui is very puzzled. Before taking office, he had undergone legal training and knew that the highest organ of state power was the Inspector's Court. But now the Dali Temple of Tingwei Mansion actually opposes the Suspicion Academy, which is worth it.

"Mr. Mayor." As soon as he said this, Hatohua felt an unstoppable pride, so much so that he rudely interrupted Fei Yugui's speech, "The biggest difference between Britain and other constitutional countries is that ahem...... "Hatohua cleared his throat again, and some gray beards were also raised high, "The most daring difference between Britain and other constitutional countries is that she does not have a written constitution!"

It is precisely in the absence of a written constitution that the laws promulgated by the parliament are the supreme laws. The Supreme Court could not challenge it. In countries with written constitutions, the power to interpret the constitution belongs to the Supreme Justice, because the Constitution is the basis of a law, so the Supreme Justice has the right to interpret a law and even oppose the parliament. This is true in France, and it is also true in the United States, where their president is only a slave to the parliament, while the Supreme Justice, with his power to interpret the Constitution and his life rule, is a harsh dictator.

However, I think your Prime Minister discovered this very early, so the Supreme Justices of your country are only serving for a term of ten years, and after ten years the Parliament has the right to decide whether they are re-elected to the next term of the Supreme Justice, although their salaries will remain the same whether they are re-elected or not. But if he can't be re-elected, he will just be a retiree. The idea is good, but this arrangement is not comfortable for some unexpected events. Your country's Supreme Justice, like the President of the United States, actually has a term of office, as it is often said: for the duration of the term. Even if a dog becomes the president of the United States, everyone can only endure it patiently for four years, and cannot be overthrown at any time like a parliamentary country. ”

"Anyway. This matter is very tricky, can you make the government go bankrupt? Fei Yugui finally understood that those regulations of the land yamen were just waste paper until the Tingwei Mansion ruled that they were valid. He wanted to see what the person in charge of the land reform yamen next to him would react to. But he didn't want this person to be gone when he listened to it, and only the cup of tea was still there.

"Yes. 70 million acres of arable land. More than a billion pounds, that's a lot of money, and even Britain can't afford to pay it calmly! Hatohua said. The plaintiffs are well assured that the government or the farmers will not be able to pay the money, and if they win the case, the current cabinet will fall on the table, whether the farmers protest because they cannot accept higher compensation, or the land reform bill will eventually fail to be implemented. With all due respect, Mr. Mayor, this is a partisan struggle and there are people who want His Excellency Prime Minister to step down. ”

"Thank you, Mr. Hatohua, I think I know what to do, and you must help us win this case." Knowing the key to the matter, Fei Yugui knew that this matter was not something he could solve, all he could do was to actively respond to the lawsuit and report to the top.

"I will do my best, may God bless us." Harvato, who wanted to get up, took the top hat handed over by the secretary, nodded to Fei Yugui and left.

After Hahuatuo left, a long telegram was sent by the Shanghai city government to Yin'an Temple, and in addition to Shanghai, Nanjing, Ningbo, Xiamen, Guangzhou, Yingkou, Tianjin, Chongqing, Changsha, Jilin, and ......almost all the treaty ports, there were groups of landlords who submitted petitions to the Dali Temple, and they all complained that the land reform yamen violated the constitution and did not give reasonable compensation for the expropriation of cultivated land.

At the same time, the national land reform work suddenly became silent, no one violently resisted the law, and the landlords disappeared completely—the landlords who fled to the concession hurried to the state capital; The landlords who stayed in the countryside disbanded the nursing homes one by one, carefully hid the guns they had smuggled with great effort, and then changed into decent clothes and went to the state capital in a sedan chair.

At this time, no one cared about the news of the European war, nor did the news of unlimited submarines, and literate people all over the world followed the land reform compensation lawsuits on the front and second pages of the major newspapers. In order to increase sales, all the major newspapers invited legal experts to comment on the case. What is strange is that foreign experts, who have often criticized the Chinese government in the past, seem to be unanimous in their voices this time, praising the wisdom of the land reform implemented by the current cabinet, believing that if China does not implement land reform, the current situation of national poverty will not change.

In the harmonious atmosphere of the foreigners singing praises, only a few uninteresting American lawyers produced a report on the income of the tenant farmers in Shanghai, arguing that the compensation for cultivated land approved by the land reform department was too low and did not follow the principle of reasonable compensation at all. One stone stirred up a thousand waves, and more reports appeared in the newspapers that the government was unfair in nuclear prices. In the almost one-sided turbulence of public opinion, the landlords who felt that things were becoming more and more scoreful, one by one, were full of red light and joy, waiting for the court to open in Dali Temple in Shanghai after the Dragon Boat Festival.

In line with this, the Constitutional Protector Party has opened party branches in various places, and because of the establishment of constitutional study meetings in various places, the sales of the constitution of the Great China have suddenly soared. In the teahouse restaurant, the poetry is outdated, and the most fashionable thing is to talk about his own experience of reading the Constitution, whenever someone talks about the wonders, the people present clap their hands and applaud like drinking nectar. In this case, the Imperial Daily commented: For the landlords, the 'Huang Bao Shu' has become as precious as the Western Bible, and the way of salvation is all in it. (To be continued......)

PS: Note: The cover of the Constitution of the People's Republic of China is bright yellow