Chapter 193 New Ship Press Conference in the Eighth Year of Taiping (Please subscribe, please vote)

"I can keep up, I can keep up," Zheng Guoxian nodded repeatedly. "In order to send immigrants to Texas better and faster, the Emperor purchased two of the latest South Island-class cruise ships from my family's Nanyang Cruise Company. Then

However, a large ship with a light load of 14,500 tons and a full load of 25,000 tons can provide up to 33,000 horsepower with its two oversized three-expansion reciprocating steam engines, with a maximum speed of 22.8 knots. It is only a little slower than the Hero class.

, much faster than the Hero class! One of these two ships has now been renamed Yamato, and the other has been renamed Musashi. Taking them on a long voyage is really smooth, fast and comfortable, just like staying in a hotel.

"

Well, Yamato Hotel and Musashi Hotel are here again!

But Zheng Guoxian was right. These two ships are indeed flat, fast and comfortable. Of course, this is based on many current navigation and shipbuilding technologies. It is impossible to build a 100,000-ton super luxury cruise ship with a full load of 25,000 tons.

A cruise ship with a ton capacity is already the limit in the cruise industry.

To be honest, many of the technologies used by luxury cruise ships of this era are no less than those used by warships. In terms of the "briquette stove" and triple-expansion reciprocating steam engine used by the Nandao class, they are more powerful than those used by the Hero class battleships.

Much bigger - bigger means more power! The space on a cruise ship is much wider than that on a warship, and of course larger equipment can be installed.

In addition, battleships and cruisers of this era are generally "fat". For example, the width of the "Nandao" class cruise ship with a full load of 25,000 tons is only 20 meters, while the width of the Hero class (Hongwu modified one) with a full load of 20,500 tons is 26.8 meters.

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The wider the ship, the greater the resistance. With the same main engine power, the speed is relatively slower than that of a narrower ship.

Therefore, fast cruise ships these days are basically faster than warships. In wartime, it would be ideal to use them to transport personnel or be used as hospital ships. Not only are they comfortable, but they also run very fast. Submarines cannot catch up with them. Even if they are

The enemy's destroyer ships may not be able to catch them either.

But this kind of fast cruise ship is not cheap. One ship costs five to six million silver dollars, right?

Zhuge Weidao glanced at Zheng Guoxian and said in his heart: "That emperor sister of yours only took a total of 10 million from the Ming court. Two large cruise ships cost 12 million. Plus the money for building houses and hiring northern warriors, it seems like

It’s not enough! Isn’t it already heavily in debt?”

Just as he thought of this, Zheng Guoxian smiled again and said: "Brother Daozi, you are taking the Grand Duchess back to your parents' home this time. You have to travel about 80,000 kilometers along the way, and it will take you half a year anyway. You are a navy,

Of course it doesn’t matter, but how can those female relatives bear it? It’s inconvenient. Why not let them take the ‘Yamato’ or the ‘Musashi’!”

"That's not bad! Brother Shenshan is very thoughtful!" Zhuge Weidao smiled and nodded, "I'll also examine the long-distance navigation capabilities of the Nandao class. If it is a good ship, the navy may have to order ten or eight of them.

!”

Zheng Guoxian smiled and said: "Then I have to thank Brother Daozi. This Nandao class is the flagship product of our Zheng family's Yanping Heavy Industry. The two ships Yamato and Musashi are currently anchored outside the Dagu Port of Tianjin, waiting to enter.

The naval factory in the naval port is being remodeled and a few self-defense artillery pieces are installed. In fact, there are several shipyards in Japan that can do this kind of modification business, but they are all busy moving now."

According to the agreement reached between the Ming Dynasty and the Tokugawa Shogunate, Japan's domestic shipyards must move out of Japan and move to Hawaii, New Manchuria and California to engage in ship repair and ship breaking business - this arrangement is of course for the purpose of

When war breaks out in the future, Ming Dynasty will have factories in the central Pacific and the west coast of America that can overhaul ships.

But from Zheng Guoxian's tone, it seems that he wants to keep one or two families behind.

"Sacred Mountain," Zhuge Weidao certainly would not accept this question, "I will give a message to the Navy Factory and ask them to take over these two ships first. By the way, what is the condition of these two ships? How new are they?

"

Zheng Guoxian sighed: "The two Nandao-class ships sold to Sister Jingzi are new ships that just started operating this year, and they haven't attracted many customers."

The new ship that had just started operating was resold. Obviously there was no business!

Zhuge Weidao thought to himself: "It's okay if there is no business. The economy is in a recession recently! But this recession should be over soon. One is Japan's large infrastructure, the other is the naval arms race, and the third is the expansion of American immigrants.

Chao. All three are needs! We need to discuss it with Manager He later, and the family’s investment needs to be increased.”

Thinking of investment, Zhuge Weidao turned his attention to Dahei Changshi.

Dahei Chang said with a smile: "Taozi, my cash flow was not working well a few days ago. I didn't even pay A Kong's dowry. It's really ridiculous. Now the 1.18 million silver yuan has been transferred to your account at Yangtze River Bank.

"

Daikokukong’s dowry totaled 1.88 million, of which 1.18 million were silver yuan. The remaining 700,000 was given to shares in Ginza and Daikokuya and a house in Shanghai. The shares and the house had been transferred, and the 1.18 million silver yuan was because

The Daikoku family wanted to advance military expenses for the Tokugawa shogunate, and they were a little nervous for a while, so they owed money first.

As he spoke, he glanced at He Tianran.

He Tianran immediately said: "Dong Weng, I have already been to the bank, and the funds are indeed in place. Look."

Zhuge Weidao smiled and said: "This is A Kong's money. I opened two accounts in her name at the Yangtze River Bank and Yangtze River Investment. Among them, the Yangtze River Bank kept 180,000 for her as pocket money. The rest was transferred to

Yangtze Investment, buy Feilong Industrial, Tongling Telecom, Jiangnan Heavy Industry, Yanping Heavy Industry. Oh, Shenshan, Mr. Dahei, do you have any good investment directions that you can recommend?"

Hearing Zhuge Weidao's words, Zheng Guoxian quickly shook his head: "Taozi, don't buy my Yanping Heavy Industry. It has been losing money for several years, and it's bleeding! My Yanping Heavy Industry and your Jiangnan Heavy Industry are not the same thing.

Jiangnan Heavy Industry can build the best warships and oil tankers. These two businesses have high thresholds and high profits. The demand for oil tankers is growing rapidly, and there is no need to worry about bad debts. But our Yanping Heavy Industry mainly builds passenger ships and

Ordinary cargo ships, in recent years.”

That's right, if he had his way, he wouldn't trick his sister Jingzi!

"Holy Mountain," Zhuge Weidao smiled at Zheng Guoxian, "Don't worry. The Yanping Heavy Industry Union has an order, and it's a warship order!"

"Warship orders?" Zheng Guoxian was stunned, "Your Jiangnan Heavy Industry, Zhang Zhennan's Southeast Heavy Industry, the Navy Department's Lushun Naval Factory, Qingdao Naval Factory, and Guangzhou Naval Factory are not doing it?"

"They can't finish it!" Zhuge Weidao said with a smile.

"Daozi, are you talking about the 1,000-ship plan?"

Zhuge Weidao waved his hand: "No more. This time we are going to take orders for warships from all over the world! When the orders come, the five major factories will not be able to finish them all, and other factories will also be able to get a lot. Yanping Heavy Industry is not bad, 25,000

The Nandao-class can build tons of tons, so why are you worried about not being able to get orders? And the Nandao-class itself is also first-class! It has high speed, long range, and a deadweight of more than 10,000 tons! If it is used to transport troops, it can transport 3,000 people at a time.

It’s more than enough, and maybe we can sell a lot of them. Let’s see, Yamato and Musashi will also participate in the new ship launch conference in the spring of the eighth year of Taiping. Armed high-speed troop carriers! Isn’t this a good concept?”

"What is a 'new ship launch conference'?" Zheng Guoxian felt fresh when hearing these words.

"It is to display and sell the best and latest battleships, armored cruisers, cruisers, destroyers and fast troop carriers." Zhuge Weidao said with a smile, "This time we will first invite naval attachés from various countries to Shanghai to see it! Then we will

Then they opened door-to-door sales on the ship and let their navy executives come to see it. I estimate that this two-class ship, "Hero" and "Hero", could sell 108 units! With so many orders for building warships, how could it be possible?

Can you allocate twenty items to Yanping Heavy Industry?"
Chapter completed!