Beiyang reactionaries

Although Spain has declined, Spain's shipbuilding capabilities are still very strong, and there are many shipbuilding experts in the country.If it weren't for Spain's lack of money, otherwise, with Spain's shipbuilding capabilities, the Spanish navy would have a place in the world.

Now the Spanish Civil War, those shipyards are not open.And Franco doesn't know when the current Spanish Civil War will end.One month, six months, one year, or even two or three years, he is not sure.And even if the Spanish Civil War ends, given the current situation in Spain, it is impossible for many shipyards to start construction in a short period of time.

Since these shipbuilding experts will not be needed within a few years, it is not a big deal to give them to China.It is also a good deal to use these shipbuilding experts in exchange for China's support.

"With such a friendship between our two countries, we should help each other. As for shipbuilding experts, I will immediately ask someone to count a quota and give it to Ambassador Wei. As long as your country gives enough treatment, I will definitely support it."

At present, whether it is the Republican government or Franco's side, they have spent too much money for the war, and they have no money at all.Those shipyards in Spain are not working, and those shipbuilding experts have no wages to work.These shipbuilding experts are not only able to work in Spain. If the Spanish government does not give money, they will easily go to work in other European countries.Anyway, it is very difficult for Spain to keep these shipbuilding experts.

If China can take them away and pay them back their wages, it will reduce their own burden and help Spain retain these shipbuilding experts.After this period of time, when I regain my strength and Spain needs to develop the shipbuilding industry, I will call them back.It is easier to recall them from China than after they have defected to other European powers.

Therefore, he happily agreed to Wei Chen's group.

"Thank you General for your support."

"Should be."

"Chengzhang (Shen Honglie), this is a telegram from Berlin, take a look."

Since entering 1937, Duan Xun has frequently met with military leaders.All for the upcoming war.This time Duan Xun met Shen Honglie, the current deputy commander of the navy and the acting commander of the navy.

Shen Honglie took the telegram from Duan Xun.

After looking at it, he said, "Ambassador Wei has brought in so many shipbuilding experts and workers from Spain?"

"How is it, are you satisfied?"

"of course."

Shen Honglie nodded repeatedly.

Wei Chen's team is very decisive in handling things, and it is very good. Duan Xun likes Wei Chen's team very much.In these years of negotiations between China and Germany, many of the Wei Chen Group personally came forward and made great contributions to the relationship between China and Germany.In the past year, the Wei Chen team has negotiated with Italy again, and it has also helped China get enough benefits.

This time, Wei Chen's team was negotiating with Franco again.

It worked out great.

Although the Wei Chen Group secretly promised Franco to assist Franco with his army weapons.But Duan Xun didn't blame the Wei Chen group, because this is also the power of the Wei Chen group.Since he was given the right to make decisions on the fly, some decided that Duan Xun could not settle accounts later.Although it is necessary to restrain the front-line personnel from messing around, it is also necessary to give them enough power in many cases to allow them to exert their abilities.If there are too many restrictions on them, too much management, and they are not given power, they will not be motivated.Therefore, after Duan Xun became the prime minister of the cabinet, he just made some general strategies and didn't care about everything just like he did in previous wars.

And Wei Chen's telegram explained it well.Now that the world is in turmoil and all countries are on the verge of war, there is no such thing as public opinion.Germany and Italy sent troops to openly join the Spanish Civil War, and the Comintern also called on the International Brigades to support the Spanish government.There is no such thing as "justice" at this time.It is very common for countries to turn their heads and sell their allies for their own interests.

Just like Britain and France completely sold the Netherlands in the Far East.

Duan Xun didn't want to be completely bound to Germany, so he had been hesitant before.But judging from the current situation, Spain does not want to be too deeply bound with Germany and is willing to cooperate with China.This is considered a cooperation between China and Spain, and has little to do with Germany.

But Wei Chen's group got more benefits.

After the Wei Chen team and Franco reached an agreement this time, China immediately got more than 200 Spanish shipbuilding experts.Including more than 1800 skilled shipyard workers.Don't think that these skilled workers are easy and anyone can do it.

In fact, these experienced technical workers in shipyards are very rare.With so many shipbuilding experts and shipbuilders, they can completely rebuild a shipyard after they come to China.

"How is the reorganization of the national shipyards going?"

"Prime Minister, the current situation is going well. After the cooperation with Japan this time, we established the second Dalian Shipyard on the basis of the Dalian Shipyard, named Lushun Shipyard. The Dalian Shipyard mainly undertakes the import from Japan. Aircraft carriers and destroyers built with advanced technology. Lushun Shipyard mainly undertakes heavy cruisers built with technology imported from Japan. The plan of the Navy Command is that until 1939, Dalian Shipyard and Lushun Shipyard will build two aircraft carriers and six A destroyer, a heavy cruiser."

The country's shipyards were overhauled.

Not only the original military shipyards are undergoing a major rectification, but even some private shipyards are also undergoing rectification this time.Some private shipyards were purchased by the government and merged into the army's shipyards.

In fact, the purpose is very simple.

It is to gather more shipbuilding forces to serve the manufacture of warships.Of course, not all shipyards have been reorganized.There are dozens or hundreds of private shipyards in China, and there are countless ship repair yards. How could they all be merged into the military.The shipyards participating in the military's rectification this time either have a certain scale, or occupy a good location, just where the military is developing shipyards.These are all related to the Navy's shipbuilding plan.

The first thing Shen Honglie introduced was Dalian Shipyard.

This is one of the two major shipyards in China and an important destroyer manufacturing base in China.This time, because of the introduction of a large amount of Japanese technology, Dalian Shipyard established the second factory, which is Lushun Shipyard.

Originally, Dalian Shipyard was of Japanese descent.The Japanese have controlled Kanto Island for many years. The Dalian Shipyard built in Dalian became an important shipyard in China after it was taken back by China.Now it is accepting a large number of Japanese technologies, so the warships built by Dalian Shipyard are all warships of Japanese origin.

Not only aircraft carriers, but also heavy cruisers will be built here.As well as destroyers that have been in production for many years.These will become the main warships of the Chinese Navy.

"Jiangnan Shipyard will also add a branch, named Huangpu Shipyard. Jiangnan Shipyard will continue to manufacture aircraft carriers and try to build the battleships we imported from Germany. Huangpu Shipyard mainly manufactures this cooperation with the United Kingdom and purchased from the United Kingdom. We will build light cruisers with advanced technology. Our plan is that in 1939, Jiangnan Shipyard and Huangpu Shipyard will build two aircraft carriers, one battleship, and four light cruisers."

Jiangnan Shipyard is one of the two largest shipyards in China with the same reputation as Dalian Shipyard.

If Dalian Shipyard is of Japanese origin, the ships currently planned are all warships built with Japanese technology.Moreover, Dalian Shipyard also has a large number of Japanese technicians.Then Jiangnan Shipyard is a shipyard of British origin.

This has something to do with the fact that China was deeply influenced by the United Kingdom back then, and the Yangtze River Basin was the British sphere of influence.When the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau was established during the Westernization Movement in the early years, a large number of British technicians were hired.Therefore, many technicians in Jiangnan Shipyard either returned from studying in the UK or studied under British technicians.Most of the technicians speak very good English.More than ten years ago, China cooperated with the United Kingdom and purchased the complete technology of the aircraft carrier from the United Kingdom.

At that time, the Jiangnan Shipyard was chosen. So far, three aircraft carriers have been built, and another aircraft carrier is under construction.Later, it won the complete technology of the German battleship of World War I. Jiangnan Shipyard is currently trying to manufacture a battleship.Although the technical parameters are already backward, and the Chinese navy does not have much demand for battleships, Jiangnan Shipyard is still asked to try to manufacture a battleship.

And the newly established Huangpu Shipyard did not appear out of thin air.In fact, there are many shipyards in Shanghai, including the shipyards built by European and American countries in Shanghai in the early years. They are shipyards in name, but most of them are ship repair yards.Some tycoons including Shanghai also invested in the shipbuilding industry.During the rectification this time, many small shipyards were merged to form the Huangpu Shipyard.

The purpose is simple.

In the agreement reached between China and the United Kingdom last year, the United Kingdom handed over the complete technology of their light cruisers to China.The Ministry of Military Affairs decided to hand over this task to the newly established Whampoa Shipyard, and let the Whampoa Shipyard manufacture light cruisers.

"Both Wuhu Shipyard and Wuchang Shipyard are on the key expansion list. The submarine manufacturing plant of Jiangnan Shipyard moved to Wuhu Shipyard, and Wuhu Shipyard became my country's submarine manufacturing plant. Wuchang Shipyard undertakes a large number of transport ships for the Navy. , the navy's demand is increasing. So we plan to focus on expanding the Wuchang Shipyard, so that the output of the Wuchang Shipyard will be more than doubled. In addition to transport ships, we are going to let the Wuhan Shipyard start manufacturing torpedo boats and gunboats. According to the Navy Commander According to the Ministry’s plan, in 1939, Wuhu Shipyard would build 12 submarines, and Wuchang Shipyard would build 8 torpedo boats and 11 gunboats.”

Wuhu shipbuilding industry is a leader in China's ship repair industry, and has a very long history.

With the increase of China's industrial strength, shipping has developed rapidly.Therefore, China's ship repair industry is also developing vigorously. At present, there are two largest ship repair cities in China, one is Chongqing and the other is Wuhu.

A large number of private ship repair yards are gathered in Wuhu area, and one third of China's ship repair business is completed by ship repair yards in Wuhu area.

This time, the submarine manufacturing plant of the Jiangnan Shipyard was moved to Wuhu. In order to complete this, several large-scale ship repair yards in Wuhu were merged and the Wuhu Shipyard was established.In addition to undertaking some ship repair business, Wuhu Shipyard will become China's submarine base.

Then there is the Wuchang Shipyard.

This is a cooperation between the Chinese government and British businessmen, and the major shareholders in it have government shares, as well as Swire Group shares.At the beginning, most of the technology in this shipyard came from the Swire Group.

In these years, it mainly produces ships and conducts ship repair business.

However, with the increasing demand of the navy, Wuchang Shipyard has gradually become a supplier of the navy.The Swire Group's Schwier family does not want to do business directly with the Chinese military, especially the warship business.But now the Swire Group has too much business in China, and they are too deeply involved with the Chinese government, and they are already inseparable.The better China is, the better Swire Group is, and the better they are, the Schwier family.Therefore, we can only agree to the military's request and ask Wuchang Shipyard to provide the navy with the ships it needs, and even agree to Wuchang Shipyard to build warships such as torpedo boats and gunboats.

"Mawei Shipyard continued to produce torpedo boats and produced 1939 torpedo boats in 14. In this way, our navy was able to have 1939 torpedo boats in 54. There are basically no problems in the defense of our country's coastal waters."

"54 torpedo boats, good plan."

What the Chinese navy lacks is battleships and cruisers, the main ships of the world navy.However, apart from battleships and heavy cruisers, there are not many other Chinese ships.

Starting from aircraft carriers, there are destroyers, frigates, torpedo boats, submarines, gunboats and the like.And because there are no main ships like battleships, more funds are invested in other ships instead.

In particular, torpedo boats and submarines are China's key developments.

"This time the naval command is going to rebuild the Guangzhou Huangpu Shipyard, which mainly produces a batch of escort destroyers with a tonnage of around 1000 tons. The destroyers we manufacture at the Dalian Shipyard are all large destroyers with a tonnage of 3000 tons. It can be called a light cruiser, and it is a waste to use it as an escort. It’s just that we are currently expanding the scale of the shipyard, and there is a serious shortage of shipbuilding technicians. It just so happens that this time we can introduce so many Spanish shipbuilding experts and skilled workers. For our expansion this time The Guangzhou Huangpu Shipyard is really beneficial. Prime Minister, in order to strengthen the relationship between our country and the Nanyang region, the Navy Command believes that the Navy should have at least 10 escort destroyers."

"Good plan. Do you have enough men? So many warships, enough trained navy?"