Compared to a decade ago, the port area of Yokohama has almost doubled, and even when there is not enough land, the extended breakdown has been used, and it is the largest port in Japan, just like Shanghai, China.

Under the parasol of the chrysanthemum coat of arms, King Fushimi Shrine Hiroko and Prince Kanin Palace Zaihito were looking at a cruise ship entering the harbor in the distance - it was Yang Rui's ship, which was basically converted from a Hongyuan-class heavy cruiser, and the guns were all replaced with armor, and it was high-speed. The hull, painted milky white, has a small italicized ship name: Redstone Cliff.

Because of the previous explanation of the Japanese royal family, the ship was not routinely quarantined, but was led to this relatively remote wharf by the designated pilot -- neither China nor Japan wanted Yang Rui's visit to Japan to be too public, and the beautiful animals were watching.

"Your Excellency has worked hard!" After Yang Rui walked down the suspension ladder, the Japanese waiting on the dock bowed to him, and Fushimi, an old acquaintance in a kimono, smiled at him, while Xianyuan completely followed the etiquette of receiving his head of state, and his face was meticulous.

Japan does not have an air force, Fushimi is a naval admiral who is responsible for helping the emperor master the navy, and Kanin is an army general who helps the emperor master the army. It can be said that in addition to the Imperial Household Ministry and the emperor's lineage in the cabinet, these two princes are enough to represent the emperor. If you can add the chaebol and the head of the House of Representatives, Duke Saionji Kobo, then the political forces in Japan will be all together.

The Japanese like to bow, and the Chinese have always bowed, and after the two sides saluted, Yang Rui got in the car and went to the Niju Bridge, where Hirohito was waiting. After the two parted ways more than 10 years ago, the gap between China and Japan became even more obvious -- Japan gradually became an exporter of light industrial products, and because of the high wages of its personnel, it was gradually squeezed by the goods of small Chinese private factories. The chaebols rely on learning the management skills of Chinese companies to survive; And China's mainstream industries, heavy industries and emerging industries are getting bigger and bigger. It has become the world's electrical appliance production center, and it earns a large amount of foreign exchange every year. Therefore, many Japanese economists are worried. In another ten years of development, Japan will gradually become a province of China, in addition to helping the Chinese weave cloth, produce matches, and provide kabuki.

As for North Korea, because of the low starting point, the infrastructure construction alone is enough for them to eat for 20 years, so it doesn't matter how it develops, but Japan ......, in short, Hirohito has always wanted to meet Yang Rui again. I wonder what Japan can gain if this alliance continues, which is only a barrier to the east of China against American animals? Is Asia the Asia of the Sino-Japanese alliance, or is it just China's Asia?

If the 19th of July is calculated according to the calendar of Jesus, it is the 4th of September, and the summer has passed, and then it will be white dew. Although it is still hot during the day, it is cold in the morning and evening. As soon as the car crossed the double bridge, Yang Rui looked at the chrysanthemums planted on both sides of the palace wall. Looking at the little yellow chrysanthemum swaying in the wind, he felt that it was already autumn.

"Sir......" Dressed in a general's dress and walking with him, Bei Shoutong saw Yang Rui staring at the palace and asked in a low voice.

"Hmm." Yang Rui responded: "It's okay." After speaking, he said: "This is the Japanese Imperial Palace, how does it compare with the Forbidden City?" ”

There are few trees in the Forbidden City. The Imperial Palaces of Japan, on the other hand, are ancient and towering. If you want to talk about style, it is naturally the style of the Forbidden City, which is layered and tightly regulated, but at this time, it is a Japanese driver who drives in the front row. Pei Shoutong had to say: "This is Chunlan Qiuju, each has its own strengths." ”

"Huh." Yang Rui guessed Bei Shou's thoughts, and smiled without saying a word. If it was before. He likes the Forbidden City, but as he gets older, the more he feels that the Forbidden City is uninhabitable, but it is similar to mountain hotels and tourist resorts in the Japanese Imperial Palace. Of course, he couldn't say this in front of the Japanese, so the teacher and student had to look at each other and smile.

The car soon stopped outside the inner garden, and the place to meet was the Matsunokaku of the main hall, and Hirohito, dressed in a kimono, had been waiting for him. Yang Rui smiled when he saw him dressed like this: "The last time I saw Your Majesty, Your Majesty was still wearing a suit. ”

His words made the people in the palace around Hirohito look sideways, feeling that this was very rude, but these people knew who this person was, so they could only hold back, but Hirohito didn't mind but smiled a little embarrassed - after the European war, the wind of democracy **** blew all over the world, and Japan, as a country that broke away from Asia and joined Europe, was naturally deeply affected by it. However, Hirohito, as the emperor, of course, did not want Japan to completely become a completely parliamentary country of the British or Chinese style, and he could not take the lead in believing in Marxism. Kimono wearing, samurai reappearing, and the Yamato nation has a ......long history, this is the mainstream public opinion in Japan at present, and Yang Rui's first sentence made Hirohito's back sweat slightly.

"Is the Duke safe all the way?" Hirohito spoke a word in Japanese, and the general next to him translated loudly, and the accompanying Fushimi Palace and Kanin Palace stood aside with a half-bow.

"Thanks to Your Majesty, I will have a safe journey when I come." Yang Rui was unrestrained, "This time I came from the fiefdom Sakhalin Island, the sea of whales is calm, but the whales are surging overseas, and the midsummer has passed, but the Pacific Ocean is still restless!" ”

Unexpectedly, Yang Rui didn't want to go around in circles and wanted to go straight to the topic, and Hirohito, who wanted to pull the friendship between China and Japan, was immediately stunned. After being silent, he waved away the irrelevant people and others, and then said: "I will go to London next month to attend the naval disarmament conference, and some people hope that Japan will withdraw from the treaty, so that the navy will not be restrained; On the other hand, some people believe that once they withdraw from the treaty, the two countries and the United States will repeat the shipbuilding race between Britain and Germany 30 years ago, and a major war is inevitable. What does the Duke have to teach me? ”

"Of course, you can't withdraw from the treaty!" Yang Rui was blunt, "But the United States will not agree to this." If we do not dissolve the alliance, the end result will either be no treaty negotiations, or the Americans will not sign a treaty with us. ”

"But the United States has passed the second naval bill." Hirohito seemed to be able to understand some Chinese, and before he could finish translating, he hurriedly opened his mouth to ask.

"With the United States, the best strategy is to maintain the treaty and develop itself; The next strategy is to withdraw from the treaty and then enter into an arms race with the Americans. Yang Rui said, "As for the middle strategy, that is to start a war." ”

Fushimi and Xianyuan lowered their heads, but when they heard Yang Rui say, 'The middle strategy is to start a war', they immediately looked at him in great surprise. Especially Fushimi, he remembered that Yang Rui tried his best to avoid war a few years ago.

"Compared to the United States. China and Japan are indeed great powers, and the resources of the entire East Asian continent are not inferior to those of the Americas. Our people are not the lazy people of South Asia, South Seas, and South America, from this point of view. East Asia will certainly be able to build an industrial civilization that is even more developed than Europe. But what we lack is time, and we are poor.

The Americans have money, and they can carry out an incomparably costly arms race, but we have no money, and even if we do, we only have money to build ships, and we have no money to maintain ships. So here's the next step. At the same time, this is for the United States, he only needs to save a steak can make it difficult for us to cope, the country is poor, the economy is sluggish, and at the same time he does not need to shed blood, do not want to die, this is basically a kind of soft war with zero casualties, the Americans like to fight like this the most, so, no matter how you choose. None of us can afford to fall into the quagmire of the arms race of the Americans,"

"Your Excellency, then we ......" Before Hirohito could reply, Fushimi Palace spoke in disregard of etiquette.

"If the London Naval Disarmament Treaty cannot be signed, the Americans will build ships on a large scale. For example, if the third and fourth Carl Vinson Naval Acts are passed, then let them build ships. What we planned before, we plan after that. Yang Rui said.

"Ke ......" knows through the Iwo Jima exercise that aircraft carriers are the main combat force of the Navy. But thinking of the Americans' second naval bill to build six Hornet-class, Fushimi couldn't help but speak out. He said, "Your Excellency, after the Second Navy Act. The U.S. Navy has 12 air carriers, while we have only 10. They will also build ports and airports on a large scale in the Philippines and in Guam......"

"What?" Yang Rui interrupted, "Can the Americans still land on our mainland?" Forty years of colonization like the Philippines? Ports and airports are not a problem, the Philippines became independent after eight years, and it is useless to build ports and airports in the Philippines, even Guam, which is too far from Pearl Harbor, and how many people is the United States prepared to send as hostages on the island in the event of a war?

The Navy can only control sea power, and the Japanese mainland is only separated from Korea by a sea, and the US Navy cannot completely blockade the whole of Japan, and it is necessary to use the land force to occupy our territory, and it can only use the land force. The question is: how many people are the Americans going to die in order to occupy our three countries? And how many deaths can they endure? Don't forget that although the Americans believe in the call of destiny, once there are huge casualties, the people at home will attack them en masse, and the scene that appeared in Britain and France during World War I will be repeated in the United States, and by then, how long can the war last? ”

Yang Rui is basically quibbling, but the image of rice animals greedy for pleasure and unable to endure hardship is deeply rooted in the soul of the devil, and Hirohito nodded one after another when he said this, in his opinion, the Japanese are as tough and forbearant as a katana. However, Fushimi and Xianyuan are not easy to deal with, and Xianyuan Palace, who has been silent, said: "Your Excellency, as soldiers, are we just watching the people of the United States occupy the sea and land on our land?" ”

Chinese speak calmly and pleasantly, but Japanese speak like a steam engine spraying, with a high pitch, muffled middle, and rapid tail tone, which sounds extremely harsh.

"Of course not!" Yang Rui flicked his sleeves, "In terms of weapons, when the Dreadnought was launched, all other battleships were outdated; And while monoplanes soar through the skies, all biplanes are obsolete. Another example is the mode of warfare, when the aircraft carrier gallops on the ocean, the combat mode of firing the big ship and the giant cannon is also outdated; And once several armored divisions are deployed to assault, the infantry tactics of thousands of years will disappear.

With every step forward in technology, weapons, and even the entire mode of warfare, undergo a massive revolution. Competing with the United States to build ships is only competing with each other at the level of old weapons. It's a lethal drain for us, but it's a great boost for us if we turn it into a technological competition. And with the mastery of new technology, even if the US Navy has more ships, he will not necessarily win the war, and this is enough for us. ”

The world's first aircraft carrier was invented by Yang Rui, and even now, the world's air carriers still follow the style of the Shenwu; The steel chariot is also said to have been invented by Yang Rui, and even now, the chariots around the world are similar to the wolf chariots seen during the military parade in Beijing twenty years ago. There are also submarines, which China and Germany cooperated to build diesel submarines 30 years ago, which almost changed the current mode of naval warfare, and the radar used by the Chinese Navy during exercises a few months ago......

Truth be told, these weapons have profoundly changed the pattern of warfare, and even changed the history of the world. If the Risorgimenist had not occupied Verdun that year, perhaps the French army would have been dispersed. The British have been driven out to sea. With this aura shining, Yang Rui's words had to make the Japanese think deeply.

"Your Excellency. Are there any new weapons? Fushimi immediately asked.

"Absolutely." Yang Rui said with a smile, "Against the U.S. Navy, three weapons are enough." The first, a jet that flies faster than a propeller plane, can reach speeds of more than 800 kilometers per hour, and if research continues, it will be even easier to break the sound barrier. Naval warfare has changed from artillery fire to aircraft fighting, that is to say, aircraft have replaced artillery shells, and if the performance of aircraft greatly exceeds that of the US Navy's carrier-based aircraft. Then we don't have to worry about it. ”

At the same time as Yang Rui introduced the jet fighter, Pei Shoutong presented two large photographs and a box of film rolls, all of which were about jet fighters -- after the prototype came out last year, although the Air Force was very interested, the Navy did not respond, and this kind of oil tiger did not mention its weight, and its range greatly reduced the combat efficiency of the aircraft carrier, so they did not want it at all.

The Japanese have also heard of jet planes, and at this time they saw real photos. It's like a treasure now. As soon as Fushimi Palace wanted to speak, Yang Rui said: "This is the image of the plane during the test flight, and there is an introduction to the aircraft on it. The second weapon is the latest generation of soundpo......"

Acoustic scouts aren't as tall as jets. So as soon as this thing came out, the Japanese couldn't suppress their disappointment. Yang Rui said: "Jet aircraft are being studied in Britain and Germany, just like electric exploration. We're only temporarily ahead, but the latest generation of sound scouts is unique. Its material is not quartz, not potassium sodium tartrate crystals. Rather, ceramic.

Specifically, no matter how good quartz is, it can only detect objects one kilometer away; The sodium potassium tartrate crystal is better, and it is only slightly optimized, and the detection distance will not exceed three kilometers, but if ceramics are used, the detection distance will be more than ten kilometers, and the horizontal distance will be more than thirty kilometers......"

Pit daddy's sonar! One of the least expensive (piezoelectric ceramics when you take apart the repeater headphones), but the most epoch-making thing. The sonar of this era was only a pitiful kilometer, and it was only two kilometers after improvement, but in order to give confidence to the Japanese, Yang Rui had to give them flying, diving, and fast. Among them, the jet is a semi-finished product, and the Japanese can only obtain the finished product when they join halfway, and the basic research has no foundation, and in the final analysis, it is still their own benefit; Sonar is different, it's all about the material.

The admiral Fushimi Palace still has a good memory and knows how far his ninety-three-style detector can probe, so he immediately bowed to Hirohito and said, "Your Majesty, it is extremely necessary to equip a new type of sound detector!" With a new type of acoustic detection, our submarines can avoid all enemy ships, and all enemy submarines will be discovered by our army. ”

There are new weapons in the air and underwater, and the surface of the water is naturally fortified with guns and torpedo boats, which will indeed ensure the peace of the Japanese mainland. But if the first two weapons are like this, what is the third weapon?

In anticipation of the Japanese, Yang Rui asked Fushimi with a smile: "Your Highness, how many docks over 200 meters are there in Japan?" ”

"Mud bombardment ......" Fushimi Palace didn't think that Yang Rui would ask this, he was surprised for a moment before he said: "Among the shipyards of the mud bombardment, there are ten docks that exceed two hundred meters. ”

"How many are more than two hundred and fifty meters?" Yang Rui asked again.

"This ...... Among the shipyards, there are four docks that exceed 250 meters. Fushimi replied. He also included slipway No. 2 at the Kawasaki Shipyard and dock No. 6 in Yokosuka, which is still under construction. Previously, it was expanded for the construction of Yamato-class battleships, but now it is known that battleships are useless, but since the dockyard has been opened, it has to continue.

"Then may I ask Your Highness, do you know how many docks in the United States are more than two hundred and fifty meters?" Yang Rui asked again.

Of course, "...... of the rice country" Fushimi knows about his own affairs, but the affairs of the rice country, "at least no less than ten!" He guessed.

"Based on the current dock expansion plan of the US Navy, there will be 11 docks in the United States that exceed 250 meters." Yang Rui said. "Three in Newport, two in Fall River, two in Brooklyn, two in Philadelphia, and two in New York Shipbuilding; There are 30 dockyards above 200 meters, including six in Newport, two in Fall River, eight in Hengberry, one in Brooklyn, one in Philadelphia, two in Vornock, and ten in New York Shipbuilding. ”

The value of the dockyard was clear even to Hirohito. Even if China's Nanjing, Shanghai, Jiangnan, and Dalian are added to China's dockyard of more than 25 meters, China and Japan can only be on a par with the United States, but who can guarantee that the United States will not expand during the war? And the 200-meter dock, China's military shipyard, is obviously deformed. The four largest shipyards: Nanjing, Shanghai Jiangnan, Shanghai Qiuxin, and Dalian, add up to only five. That's less than even in Japan.

"Based on the situation at the various naval shipyards in the United States, the judgment of our country is. In the event of war, the US Navy will further expand the dockyards, including 20 docks of more than 250 meters, 30 docks of about 200 meters, and 50 extremes. It can be said that, as in the last war, the Americans are not short of money, they lack shipbuilding docks and skilled shipbuilders, but docks and workers cannot be built overnight. In particular, the construction of military ships.

In fact, this is beneficial to us and harmful to the United States, because in building ships, its financial resources are limited. How many aircraft carriers there were before the war is not terrible, what is terrible is how many aircraft carriers can be replenished in wartime. With the number of American dockyards I just mentioned, he produces up to 13 20,000-ton aircraft carriers and 25 10,000-ton aircraft carriers a year, and that's it. ”

Thirty-eight large and small aircraft carriers are produced in a year! Even the army generals were about to fall out of their teeth, and Hirohito and Fushimi were even more discolored. Yang Rui looked at them and smiled. When they were shocked enough, he said: "If it is a national war like the European war, this is actually very rare." $100 million for a large aircraft carrier and $50 million for a small aircraft carrier. That's only $2.5 billion, plus the supporting cruisers, destroyers, merchant ships, tankers, submarines, ......, oh. Right! And carrier-based aircraft, which is also only half a billion dollars. compared to the economic power of the United States. This is actually a very small part, not to mention the United States. Even we can afford to pay for it.

Therefore, money is not the key to a certain extent in naval warfare, the key is how to turn this money into an aircraft carrier in the shortest possible time, without which the combat effectiveness cannot be improved. For example, the U.S. Navy has $20 billion in military spending, but the U.S. shipyards and shipbuilders can only spend $5 billion a year, and we can only raise $6 billion with the help of the whole country, but our shipyards can turn all this money into warships within a year, and the result is that our Navy has a numerical superiority rather than a numerical superiority in the US Navy's comrades-in-arms.

I know that although it takes two or three years to dig a large shipyard and two or three years to train a qualified riveter, if the United States is given a few years, its shipyard will no longer digest five billion dollars a year, but ten billion dollars a year or more. But in the past few years, as long as we can get enough blood from the Americans, as long as we can make the war weariness in the United States become more and more intense, then the war will end, and then the Western Pacific and the South Pacific will be ours, and Asia will be ours. ”

"Your Excellency, why can't we do what the rice shipyard can't do...... we can do?" Hirohito was tempted by the prospect depicted by Yang Rui, and he immediately asked the question that everyone was puzzled about - why we could do things with fewer docks.

"Your Majesty, this is the third 'weapon' -- the new shipbuilding method." Yang Rui said. "As we all know, to build an aircraft carrier of more than 20,000 tons, the dock time usually takes two years, but the use of the sectional construction mode supported by welding technology, outfitting and pre-painting, the required dock time can be reduced by at least half;

It is also well known that an aircraft carrier needs 80,000 parts and more than 30,000 pipes of various sizes, but the docking time required can be reduced by half by using the lane separation construction mode supported by group technology, optimizing parts, area outfitting and area painting;

It is also well known that shipbuilding is an integral project, each shipyard has design, lofting, including the parts manufacturers, the progress of all aspects of production must be coordinated, but the use of the integrated construction mode supported by the manufacturing resource system, the integration of construction, outfitting and painting, the required dock can also be reduced by half.

In this way, we can use one-fifth of the shipyards and one-fifth of the shipbuilders in the United States to build more aircraft carriers in wartime than all the shipyards in the United States, and victory in the war is not out of reach. ”

Everyone understands welding, but the Japanese don't understand the group technology and the manufacturing resource system, even if Bei Shoutong behind Yang Rui only understands the group technology, but does not know what the manufacturing resource system is.

Fushimi, who didn't quite understand it, still remembered the Fourth Fleet incident last year, and he said: "Your Excellency, the experience of the Japanese Navy shows that welding technology is still immature. ”

"Hehe, Your Highness, is the welding technology immature, or is the quality of the steel unqualified?" Yang Rui asked with a smile. He also knew about last year's Fourth Fleet incident, and the Navy Office was nervous to participate in the investigation afterwards, and it turned out that it was not a welding problem at all, and that the quality of the domestic steel used by the Japanese Navy, which saved money, was substandard, and the sulfur and phosphorus content exceeded the standard. "In addition, I can tell Your Highness that the last three batches of my country's Song-class destroyers are all welded, as well as the Hongyuan-class cruisers, and the last two are also welded."

Yang Rui's answer made Fushimi speechless, and then Hirohito asked again, "Your Excellency, what is the group technique?" ”

"Grouping technology...... Yang Rui thought about it and said, "Grouping technology is a mathematical merger of similar terms. Similar parts are classified into a parts family, which is convenient for production and management, and the 30,000 pipes needed by warships are now merged into four families and more than 30 process routes, which makes production extremely convenient and the cost is greatly reduced. ”

"The resource system...... What about manufacturing resource systems? Hirohito was confused, and he still helped him to add it.

"This is to connect all the factories and workshops related to shipbuilding with wired networks, that is, communication networks and fax networks. Every day, every hour, every factory, every workshop, will be fed back to the control center. The control center makes real-time adjustments according to the progress of all aspects, or makes changes according to the actual order demand, and adjusts the entire production plan. In other words, like a god who controls everything. Yang Rui said.

It is the favorite of those in power to control everything like God, even if it is just shipbuilding. Hirohito immediately asked, "How can we do that?" ”

"This requires your country to integrate shipbuilding-related factories into China's industrial information network, and key workers will also go to China for training for three years, and in addition, it is necessary to innovate the layout of your shipyards and increase various types of equipment, especially super-heavy cranes." Yang Rui said, "I have always believed that instead of building a few aircraft carriers to talk about comfort, it is better to completely reorganize the shipbuilding industry of our two countries and make a revolutionary improvement in shipbuilding efficiency, which is the ultimate solution to remove the threat of war from the United States." (To be continued.) )