super god warlord

"It's natural." Shen Shoukun felt that he had the urge to do something big again, and perhaps this would be the pinnacle of his career.

"Captain, I have a merciless request." Liu Guanxiong said suddenly, cupping his hands.

"Brother Liu, be more casual. It's not about commanding a war and issuing orders, so there's no need to be so serious." Zhao Shouhong laughed.

Liu Guanxiong said: "I am asking the governor for something, so I have to be serious. I want to be the deputy commander and leave the position of commander to one person."

Chapter 434 Aircraft Carrier

"To whom?" Zhao Shouhong was taken aback.

"Cheng Biguang." Liu Guanxiong replied word by word.

"It turned out to be Lao Cheng. He is now taking the Haiqi to visit the New World, and he probably will be back soon." Shen Shoukun patted his thigh and said.He was secretly ashamed that he had experienced so many things these days that he even forgot his old buddy.

"Okay, it's rare that Brother Liu is so generous. Let's contact Cheng Biguang. If he wants to join our Dashu military government, let him be the commander of the Lanfang Republic Navy."

"Thank you, Commander." Liu Guanxiong and Shen Shoukun saluted together.

After the ship stopped, everyone abandoned the boat and landed. At this time, Wei Han was waiting on the pier with several people.Seeing Wei Han, Zhao Shouhong stepped forward and said cordially, "How can we let Elder Wei wait here?"

"It's okay, it's okay." Wei Han said with a smile: "I have something good to tell the governor, I'll change the boat you want for you."

"Really?" Zhao Shouhong's eyes lit up: "Then let's go and have a look."

Everyone went ashore one after another Liu Guanxiong had sharp eyes, and he said to a young man behind Wei Han, "Feng Ru, why did you come here?"

The person behind Wei Han is Feng Ru, and Liu Guanxiong has lived in Zhongchuan for a long time. He is very interested in airplanes flying freely in the sky, so he often goes to Feng Ru's aircraft factory to watch the excitement, and everyone is naturally familiar with him. up.

Seeing Liu Guanxiong, Feng Ru smiled and said, "Brother Ziying is here too. I am here at the invitation of Old Wei. Without me, this new warship cannot be used."

"And me, I'm here too." A voice with a strange tone came, Liu Guanxiong turned his head and found that it was Sikorsky.Sikorsky could speak Hualan originally, and he has lived in Zhongchuan for two years. Now his Hualan is becoming more and more fluent, but the tone is still a bit unnatural.

"The two masters from the aircraft factory are here. I wonder if Ai Triqi is here?" Liu Guanxiong knew them very well, and immediately asked with a smile.

"No, when the new model of aircraft was in short supply, Ai Triqi stayed here to tinker with the aircraft. If we hadn't had to come here, who would come here." Feng Ru shook her head and said.While they were talking, they followed Zhao Shouhong and Wei Han towards the shipyard near the port.

The Kyaukpyu Port Shipyard is smaller than the Jiangnan Shipyard, and the number of docks alone is nearly half, but the docks here are all extremely well repaired, and three of them are even [-]-ton class.Wei Han led the crowd into a large dock where a large ship was about to be launched.

Looking at this large ship with a flat surface and a bloated body like a merchant ship, Shen Shoukun asked curiously: "Brother Wei Han, you are leading the wrong way, no matter how you look at it, it looks like a merchant ship."

Wei Han laughed and said: "It's not the wrong way. This is the warship that the governor specially designated me to modify when he came last time. These days, I lead people to concentrate on the modification, and it has been installed in just over a month."

Shen Shoukun looked again curiously. The ship had the characteristic bloated figure and rounded bow of a merchant ship, and the bridge could not be seen at all.Steel beams are used as supports on the deck, and flat planks are laid, and there are two large hoisting frames on each side of the ship.No matter which direction you look at it, the ship has no place for a turret.

"Wei Han, don't tease me, this can't be a warship." Shen Shoukun said.

"How can this not be a warship?" Zhao Shouhong walked to the railing, looked at the strange ship and smiled.

"Is it a transport ship? Otherwise, how to install the turret?" Shen Shoukun asked.

Zhao Shouhong smiled and said: "Who said that warships for combat must be equipped with turrets? This warship is a warship that I newly designed without turrets."

"How to attack without a turret?" Shen Shoukun asked.

"Use an airplane." Zhao Shouhong replied without hesitation.

"Airplane?" Shen Shoukun had never heard of such a thing as an airplane, and immediately looked at Wei Han suspiciously.

The fact that Shen Shoukun has never heard of airplanes does not mean that Liu Guanxiong has never heard of them, otherwise he would have been wandering around in the aircraft factory for several months in vain.Hearing what Zhao Shouhong said, Liu Guanxiong's eyes lit up: "Using an airplane? This big flat panel really looks like a runway for an airplane. I understand, put cannons on the airplane, and then let the airplane fly into the sky to attack enemy ships. Why don't you get beaten, the governor is really powerful."

"The plane is so small, how can the naval guns move? Anyway, it's in the sky. Don't you just carry the shells and throw them vertically? It's like raining." Feng Ru explained with a smile.

"Yeah, I'm really confused." Liu Guanxiong laughed and said, "This plane can fly much farther than a cannon. If the plane directly puts the shells on the warship from above, it will save a lot of trouble."

Zhao Shouhong glanced at Liu Guanxiong approvingly. This titan of the Northern Navy is indeed extraordinary and has the potential to become the commander of an aircraft carrier.Zhao Shouhong nodded and said: "Brother Liu is right at all. I call this kind of warship an aircraft carrier, which is designed to use aircraft to fight against the enemy. Nowadays, the performance of aircraft is not good enough, so we can only use seaplanes, and take off and land in water. Moving up and down, the ship is a container for carrying aircraft, so the flying speed will not be very fast. And the seaplane is small, and it is difficult to load too large bombs. But as long as the research continues, I believe that one day, this type of aircraft carrier will replace the battleship Become the overlord of the ocean."

Everyone nodded in amazement. Although everyone was nodding, Zhao Shouhong knew that the idea of ​​a giant cannon ship was deeply ingrained. Among these admirals, those who could see the future development of aircraft carriers must be a minority. Guns and thick armor.

Zhao Shouhong will not impose his thoughts on others, this requires everyone to realize it slowly in actual combat, at least the current navy is still dominated by giant ships and cannons.In fact, this kind of prediction of the future development direction of warships is also of great benefit.At least the technical threshold of the initial aircraft carrier is not high, and it can bypass the steel and large-caliber artillery manufacturing problems that are difficult to solve today, allowing Hualan to stand on the same starting line as the big powers. This is also the most effective way for backward countries to catch up with developed countries.

"Brother Wei, don't you have other good things here? Show everyone?" Not wanting to get entangled in the issue of aircraft carriers, Zhao Shouhong proposed to see other warships.

Everyone went out in a panic, but they didn't notice that Sikorsky said to himself in a daze: "Throw the shells directly on the warship's bow, the plane is not big enough? If I build a big plane, it is enough to load a lot of large calibers." Shells, whether thrown over the bows of warships or infantry, will have disastrous consequences. The plane is not big enough because it is not powerful enough, and if one engine is not powerful enough, use several more."

Chapter 435 The government that lacks money

No one heard Sikorsky talking to himself, and no one knew what kind of monster he would create today, because everyone had already walked out of this dock and walked to the next dock.

The following visit greatly boosted everyone's confidence, because they saw two large battlecruisers like the Jiangnan Dock being built.It's just that the construction of these two warships is slower, and the keels have just been laid.As for the other docks, there are at least six cruisers and ten destroyers lying on their hulls, all of which are under intense construction.

Shen Shoukun and other admirals who have just joined the navy still saw submarines here. This kind of submarine was designed and manufactured by Simon Lake. After building ten for the navy, the Jiangnan Shipyard will no longer manufacture it, while Kyaukpyu Port is preparing for the Kingdom of Kokang and Lanfang. The navies of the republics each built eight ships.After seeing these powerful warships in the dock, everyone's confidence has increased a lot. Shen Shoukun immediately said that he would recruit old troops from all over the country, and strive to build a fleet lineup as soon as possible.

"I don't think it will take long before we can drive the big powers out of Hualan and take back the concessions." Liu Guanxiong said.

Zhao Shouhong shook his head: "War is not a matter of will, and the rise and fall of a country cannot depend on personal likes and dislikes. We are not yet strong enough to challenge the great powers. But as long as everyone works hard, I believe that one day we can reach our goal. Purpose."

"Captain, our navy is never afraid of death. If the big powers dare to come, we will make them never return." Liu Guanxiong shook his fist.

"Everyone is a member of the navy. Naturally, we should know that combat at sea is not a lie. It is a contest of strength and a competition of spirit. Naval battles cannot be won by desperate efforts. Before our navy is not strong enough, everyone should be patient. " Zhao Shouhong poured cold water on everyone, he still has a long way to go to let everyone know that Hualan is strong, and it is definitely not something that can be achieved overnight.At this critical moment, feverishness is absolutely unacceptable.

After looking at the warships in the shipyard, Zhao Shouhong left all the admirals here, and he took the guards and boarded the train to go north.This time when Zhao Shouhong came back, he brought not only naval officers and soldiers, but also another group of special people. They were the students trained by the Kokang Kingdom in Guanghai City.

Because he was afraid of exposing himself at the beginning, Zhao Shouhong didn't let them go to Zhongchuan to study, but divided them up in Guanghai City.Some of them entered Hujiang University to study management, some studied navy at the Maritime Academy, and some studied in the crash course of the Army University established by Zhao Shouhong's temporary instructors.Now that they are successful in their studies, they happened to be brought back by Zhao Shouhong.

When Zhao Shouhong went north by train to meet Chieftain Kokang, the domestic political situation changed a lot, and Sun Wenhai finally made a gesture.Sun Wenhai's assumption of the interim president was criticized by many people. These people believed that this would block Yuan Kai's path to peace talks and force him to continue to support the imperial court.After Yuan Kai announced the suspension of the peace talks and the withdrawal of negotiators, there were more such voices.Wang Zhaoming even directly pointed out that Sun Wenhai's reluctance to go to the inn was because of the position of the President.

Sun Wenhai couldn't argue with his words. In fact, he really didn't have much attachment to the position of President.After so many years of fighting for doctrine, Sun Wenhai's pursuit of power has long since faded away.Now that his lifelong revolutionary pursuit is about to be realized, what he wants most is the realization of a republic.

The reason why Sun Wenhai served as the interim president was that he wanted to establish the republic. Even if he gave up the position to Yuan Wei, the other party would follow this track so that the country would not return to the old path of the monarchy.However, since the founding of the Republic of China, the peace talks between the North and the South broke down, and the two sides were at war again. This was unexpected by Sun Wenhai.

Now, once the North and the South go to war, the Southern Army cannot continue to fight at all, because the newly established government of the Republic of China has no money.How money-poor the government of the Republic of China is, you can give an example. A few days ago, a special envoy from Jiangnan Province came to Wenhai City to ask for military expenses, and Sun Wenhai gave 20 yuan with a stroke of a pen.But when the special envoy went to the Ministry of Finance to collect the money with the approval slip, the other party refused to pay.The Jiangnan special envoy was furious. He claimed that the president had approved the other party to pay the military expenses. As a result, the officials of the Ministry of Finance did not talk nonsense with him, and directly took him to the treasury to see.After opening the vault, the special envoy immediately shut up, because there were only ten silver dollars in the huge vault.

The reason why the government of the Republic of China is so poor is because in this era, Hualan's industrial foundation was weak, and agriculture was the foundation of the country.Agricultural planting depends on the weather, and there is not much guarantee for the harvest. Even if there is a bumper harvest, most of them will fill the landlord's granary.The country can receive very little tax, so the country's tax revenue depends on two aspects: customs duty and salt tax.

Tariffs are the import and export charges of the customs. However, since the Boxer Revolution, the national tariffs have been controlled by foreigners. Most of the annual collections have been paid to the compensation of various countries, and there is not much surplus at all.As for the salt tax, don't even think about it. Now that the world is in chaos and illegal salt is flooding everywhere, there is no such thing as a salt tax.Even if there is a little bit, it has been filled in the big hole of compensation, so how can it be left.

The Southern Revolutionary Party occupies one side, although on the surface it obeys Nandu's dispatch, in fact, the Nandu government can neither dispatch them nor collect local taxes.The Nandu government had reached the end of its rope, and Sun Wenhai couldn't even afford the start-up fee when he wanted to start a war with the Northern Territory Army, so he could only borrow money.

Sun Wenhai sent people to travel among the major foreign banks in Guanghai City, hoping to provide loans to maintain the operation of the government.However, what Sun Wenhai never expected was that the Saargaul National Bank, which should have been very supportive in his mind, did not offer any assistance.There is nothing wrong with the bank's actions. The Wenhai City government has neither a strong army nor a stable territory, nor does it even have a reliable collateral.Once defeated by the Northern Territory Army, where will they go to collect the debt.

Just when Sun Wenhai was desperate, the Japanese government instructed Zhengjin Bank to contact him.For Sun Wenhai, who is already poor and crazy, Zhengjin Bank said that it can loan but there is a condition.Originally, most of the ore of Daye Iron Mine was controlled by Sheng Xuanhuai because of his blind expansion of production, but now they want the control of the entire Xia Yeping Company to mortgage 500 million Japanese dollars, and lease Manchuria for 99 years to mortgage another 1000 million Japanese dollars.

This money was very important to the government of the Republic of China, and Sun Wenhai was a little moved.Although Sun Wenhai knew that this was tantamount to selling out the country's sovereignty, he had to do it. After all, selling out the sovereignty was better than the collapse of the Republic of China government.Fortunately, Zhao Shouhong acted in time to prevent Sun Wenhai from becoming a sinner through the ages.

Chapter 436 Yuan Wei's Assassination

The Yamada consortium that controlled Zhengjin Bank was Zhao Shouhong's chess piece. Yamada Shigeru, a disguised biochemical man, immediately handed over the information to Zhao Shouhong, and then Zhao Shouhong controlled every step of Zhengjin Bank's contact with Sun Wenhai.When the two sides were about to reach an agreement, this news was timely uploaded from the declaration, which quickly caused a national sensation.Under the unanimous condemnation of the people across the country, Sun Wenhai had no choice but to give up.