Zhao Zhenzhong had previously visited Nanyang with Zhou Tian in the name of visiting Huamei Company's industries, and not only discussed the matters related to the establishment of the country with Chen Jiongming, the leader of the Nanyang Zhigong Party. Taking this opportunity, he had a real understanding of the development of industries in Nanyang, Australia and other places, and made some adjustments to related matters.

After visiting the Philippines' industries, Zhao Zhenzhong and his party rushed to Singapore. Before meeting Chen Jiongming, Zhao Zhenzhong visited Chen Jiageng first and reached an agreement on the joint establishment of the industry in the United States and Australia to produce radial tires.

After Roosevelt came to power, the US economy had begun to emerge from the trough. In contrast, Australia's economic situation was even better. After more than a year of development, Australia's industry began to revive. While fiscal revenue increased, revenue and expenditure became increasingly balanced, and it had basically escaped from the economic crisis.

In original history, the US economy began to recover in 34 years, while Australia achieved a win-win situation in the national budget and final accounts in 34 years, becoming the first Western country to completely escape from the great crisis.

Under such circumstances, Zhao Zhenzhong relied on the patent for radial tires and joined forces with Chen Jiageng to establish and expand related industries in the United States and Australia, which would definitely be a sure profit. Moreover, with the tire industry that has his own core technology as support, the tires needed for manufacturing cars and aircraft will not be a problem in the future.

After reaching an agreement with Chen Jiageng, Zhao Zhenzhong did not stay in Singapore for too long. Instead, he took Chen Jiongming, Chen Qiyou, and Situ Meitang who came from the United States to the ship and took everyone to Sumatra, Australia and other places for a walk.

While letting everyone appreciate Huamei Company's strength in oil development, steel metallurgy, mechanical processing and other fields, and enhancing the confidence of several bigwigs in establishing the country, they also discussed related issues during the trip. From the introduction of Chen Jiongming and others, Zhao Zhenzhong learned that from the early 30s to the second half of 33, the Zhigong Party members did a lot of things in Nanyang.

Borneo is facing the sea and has a long coastline. Most of the British and Dutch people are concentrated in the northern and western Borneo, and they don’t pay much attention to the low-lying wetlands that often cause earthquakes in the south and the deep mountains and dense forests in the east. This provides Chen Jiongming and others with a good opportunity to secretly transport personnel and materials to the island.

The people entering Borneo are basically victims who have moved to Nanyang in the past few years. In recent years, there have been wars and famines in China, especially the 31 years of major floods across the country, and tens of millions of victims have been homeless, which provides Chen Jiongming and others with the opportunity to immigrate to Nanyang. In the name of Nanhua Company established by the Gongdians, Chen Jiongming and others have secretly sent more than 3 million young men and women to Borneo and nearby islands in the past four years, and trained about 200,000 armed forces. Wenwang lacks experienced combat command personnel at all levels, but with such an armed force, Chen Jiongming and others have become much more confident.

As for the supplies, they naturally come from the United States, Australia and other places. Ships from Huamei Company and Nanhua Company are responsible for transporting equipment, raw materials and some finished products to the eastern coast of Borneo, and then organized forces by the Zhigong Party to transport them into the island. In the past four years, the materials accumulated in Borneo have been enough to support about a year of combat consumption. In addition, several bases on the island are using foreign raw materials to produce weapons, mortars, ammunition and other weapons and equipment, which is completely fine with the Dutch one or two years.

Of course, it is impossible to consume a country by consumption alone, and it is also necessary to have the power to attack the Dutch in other parts of the South China Sea. To this end, Zhao Zhenzhong built 6 2,000-ton offshore fast merchant ships through the Australian shipyard, providing them to Nanhua Company for transportation. Then, Boston Zhigongtang came forward to purchase the idle 105 artillery production line in Fat Jack's hand and then transported it to Borneo for production. Large-caliber artillery was difficult to obtain for a while, so it was good to install more 105 artillery and some large-caliber machine guns onto the merchant ship to deal with the Dutch's maritime power in the South China Sea. Besides, 105 artillery was enough for land operations in Borneo.

Since there is army and maritime power, the air force with extremely strong mobility will naturally not let it go. What's more, at the beginning of its establishment, Chen Jiongming sent people to the Americas to reach the establishment of an aviation school with the Greater Victoria Zhigongtang of Canada. At the end of 29, when Chen Jiongming went to the United States to meet with Zhao Zhenzhong and others, he reached an agreement on the establishment of a sailing, aviation, machining schools, etc. Huamei Company and Zhigongtang opened relevant schools in San Francisco, New York, Boston and other places in the name of cultivating commercial talents. By the summer of 2013, the first batch of sailings trained by the Zhigongtang, a total of more than 300 people had successfully completed their studies. After a period of training, there would be no problem in starting combat next year.

It is a bit regrettable that Chen Jiongming and others have only purchased about 40 biplane trainers, and it is difficult to buy a truly co-operated fighter jet. The Folk Aircraft Company, which was acquired by Antai Machinery in 1931, is developing and producing commercial transport aircraft, and will have to wait until the end of next year to produce results. It will definitely not be able to catch up with the battle that will start in July next year. Fortunately, the Netherlands does not have decent air power in the South China Sea. After the rainy season at the end of next year to the beginning of the year after, the Dutch will mobilize troops to fight in Borneo, the air power of the Zhigong Party should be improved.

Zhao Zhenzhong did not comment on the combat plan of Chen Jiongming and others on the grounds that he was not familiar with the actual situation in Nanyang. He only made some suggestions on the territory of the Lanfang Republic after the establishment of the future, and promised that before the war began next year, Huamei Company would increase its support in materials.

Borneo is located at the equator, and it is in the rainy season from October to March of the following year. With the current conditions, fighting in the tropical rainy season is a serious challenge for both the Dutch and the Zhigong Democratic League. Therefore, if Chen Jiongming and others want to make a difference next year, they must expel the Dutch from Borneo before the rainy season. For this reason, Chen Jiongming chose to start war from July to October.

After visiting the Minas Oilfield and the steel and shipyards in central Sumatra, which have been put into production in Adelaide, Australia, and received the promise of Zhao Zhenzhong's material support, Chen Jiongming and others are full of confidence in next year's combat operations.

Zhao Zhenzhong and Chen Jiongming did not talk much about how the Zhigong Party treated mainland China after the founding of the country. In addition to the fact that this issue was a bit too early to talk about it at this time, it was also because Chen Jiongming was still holding the wanted order of the Nanjing government, which was a "traitor" in the eyes of Lao Jiang and others. If the Nanjing government still did not change its original intention, even after the founding of the country, Chen Jiongming and others could only provide some help to the country in the form of folk.

In the long run, Zhao Zhen’s center has some considerations. He has tried his best to establish a Chinese country in Nanyang, and always included it in China’s sphere of influence. In the future, it is better to establish a federal republic dominated by mainland China, and include all areas outside the mainland that China is inconvenient to directly control. Of course, it is far from time to discuss this issue, Zhao Zhenzhong will not say much.

Since there was still something to do in Borneo, Chen Jiongming and others set off for the trip after visiting the Adelaide Steel Plant, Shipyard, and machining plant, and reached an agreement with Zhao Zhenzhong on matters related to the establishment of the country. Zhao Zhenzhong then went to East Samoa to learn about the construction of the submarine.

Since the start of construction in the second half of 2011, a large ocean-going transport submarine with a water displacement of 4,000 tons and an underwater displacement of 6,800 tons have been built and is now in the sea trial stage.

The speed of building a submarine in two years is far from fast. Although the detailed technical information provided by Zhao Zhenzhong and the ocean-going transport submarine has not been equipped with an armed system, it is now using the components processed in the United States and Australia to assemble and produce. In the past, it has only had limited experience in building surface ships. It is already very good to complete the first boat manufacturing in two years.

In original history, the largest submarine built during World War II was the I-400-class submarine built by the Japanese in 1943. Compared with the submarine in front of Zhao Zhenzhong, the I-400-class submarine was not only 10 years later, but also had a certain gap in displacement and speed.

The unnamed transport submarine in front of Zhao Zhenzhong has a maximum speed of 26 knots on the water and 12 knots underwater, with a range of 12,000 kilometers. Each time, it can transport 2,400 tons of supplies from Nanyang or East Samoa to the Dazhushan base. Although this quantity is not a large number, if the number of submarines is too large, it can complete more than two transportations per month. In a year, the total volume is still quite considerable. At least, the Yimeng base does not have to worry about insufficient resources during the war.

When he saw Zhao Zhenzhong coming to the dock for inspection, 400 people including Kuang Haicheng, who had arrived here since the second half of 2019, were ecstatic. Since arriving here, Kuang Haicheng and others not only regularly met the personnel transporting supplies and equipment, but also worked and studied with technicians in the dock. The almost closed environment really made these young people feel depressed.

"Sir, can we go back after this big guy is completed?" Kuang Haicheng asked eagerly after introducing the relevant situation.

"How can only one ship be enough? You have to build a few more ships for you to drive back." Zhao Zhenzhong smiled and asked again, "Have you been suffocated in the past two years?"

"It's a bit boring." Kuang Haicheng nodded honestly, and then asked with some anxiety, "However, this big guy can only be used for transportation. Will we become transporters in the future?"

"Haha, if you become a transporter, you will also be the most expensive transporter in the world." Zhao Zhenzhong laughed, looked at the submarine parked in the dock after the sea trial, and said, "Don't worry, after a few years, you will be the top sea killer in the world. Your target will be various warships and transport ships of the great powers. When you show your strengths' sharpness!"

Whether it is the Guards or the People's Army, they are land forces. If Zhao Zhenzhong and others want to build a navy, they can only start from scratch. In addition to personnel training and naval equipment, the sea conditions that Zhao Zhenzhong originally knew were too different from the sea conditions in this era, and they also needed a process of collecting and organizing them. All of this determines that naval construction cannot be achieved overnight.

The construction of ships below 10,000 tons is no longer a problem, and even a container transport ship of 50,000 tons will be built this summer. Although the naval surface equipment cannot be owned due to domestic conditions, the equipment construction technology is gradually mastering, and the biggest bottleneck in the future development of the navy has been overcome.

Now, ocean-going transport submarines have also been built, and it will be a natural thing to develop ocean-going combat submarines based on this. As for the torpedo and other military systems required for submarines, there are data that are ahead of this era, so there are not many difficulties in manufacturing them. However, for new combat submarines, Zhao Zhenzhong did not want to be built in East Samoa, but was preparing to be built in the dock of the Dazhushan underground submarine base.

After hearing Zhao Zhenzhong's promise, Kuang Haicheng's eyes shone and asked in disbelief: "Can we really send the big guys from the sea from the great powers to the bottom of the sea?"
Chapter completed!