Chapter 32 Expansion Plan
"When done well, in special times, everything needs to be handled specially. Killing chickens and terrifying monkeys is necessary, and being cruel is a last resort."
"What are you talking about so much?" At this time, Tan Jianye pushed the door and entered the office, looking dusty. It seemed that he had gone to do business.
"Mr. Tan is back. Has everything been done?" Li Tiancheng saw that Tan Jianye had entered and immediately stood up expectantly and asked. He was used to calling Tan Jianye the title of Mr. Tan in the Zhu family.
"Don't worry, is the chairman and chairman still worried about me, Tan's ability? I have opened up the officialdom and agreed on the matter of running an industrial park. We have obtained approval to build a shipyard in Changxing Island, Shanghai County."
Regarding the talent needed by local factories, Li Tiancheng considered the complexity of the problem and decided to cultivate talents in Songjiang first, and then delegate them to various places because he did not want to make a lot of noise in every place.
"You have many corrupt officials who give me some benefits, right?"
"Damn it, this society is so perverted. There is no way. Tan's self-proclaimed aloofness is useless. If he is too noble, he will not be able to do anything. When the Qing government is removed from power in the future, we will deal with these corrupt officials who are sucking people's blood."
"Honest it first. If the world becomes ours, then the rules of the game will be determined by us." Li Tiancheng then said.
"Without any time, we will leave in two months and move our headquarters to the industrial zone in Shanghai, where we will build a larger steel plant and open a shipyard. The scale of the arsenal will also increase. Mr. Tan will go to promote me and hold a mobilization meeting to arrange for the main person in charge of the work in Songjiang after we leave and various work matters."
"Yan Lisan, please stay in Songjiang for the time being. I am not at ease with these 5,000 people to be commanded by others. After the team in Shanghai is gathered, all the teams will be left to you. During this period, you will devote yourself to cultivating a few capable generals in Songjiang. In the future, I will find someone with high ideological awareness, strong military command ability, and loyal to the Military Commission to replace your position. Then let go of Songjiang's team to him."
"Okay, then when you two arrive in Shanghai, I will be lonely alone."
"Big man, what are you doing with sentimentality? We're not going to be farewell forever. You'll be transferred to the headquarters soon." Li Tiancheng patted Yan Lisan's shoulder and smiled.
"Yes, Brother Yan Lisan, we are waiting for the moment when you, the chief of staff, come to Shanghai to raise your glass to drink." Tan Jianye also smiled and echoed.
Two months later, all the preparations in Songjiang were completed, and Tan Jianye had gone to Shanghai in advance to handle land renting, factory building and other matters. Due to the Zhu family's relationship, he went out to do business, and the matter was generally smooth.
After Li Tiancheng arrived in Shanghai, the main funds were placed on the shipyard, renting land, building factories, and buying equipment. It would be impossible to get it without hundreds of thousands of taels of silver. Then he had to build a dock and a warship, and the subsequent investment was huge. He had no money to build an aircraft carrier at this time. He knew that it would be impossible to build a decent aircraft carrier formation in the future without hundreds of billions of yuan. If it were exchanged for silver, it would cost tens of millions of taels or even hundreds of millions of yuan. He did not have the spare money to build an aircraft carrier.
So in Li Tiancheng's plan, he took a fancy to a naval equipment, that is, a submarine. Building several conventional-powered submarines with small displacement is not too expensive and can launch torpedoes. The attack power is of course unrivaled in this era and cannot be detected at all.
Although Li Tiancheng is fine to build warships now, the electronics industry is lagging behind and the missile technology is not mature. In the future, radar can be installed on warships first.
But after Li Tiancheng considered it, he compared the total tonnage strength of the Japanese Navy of nearly 600,000 tons. It is impossible to build such a huge fleet to compete with Japan in the near future. Building such a huge fleet requires a huge amount of money. A battleship worth tens of thousands of tons costs millions of taels of silver. It is okay to build a few ships by himself, but its combat effectiveness is very limited, so it is better not to build it.
Another option can be considered, that is, to build several submarines. At present, the development of world submarines is still in its infancy. It was not until a few years after the war in World War I that submarines truly showed their skills. The Japanese Navy currently only has a few experimental small-tonnage submarines, and submarines have not yet become practical equipment. Therefore, after Li Tiancheng built a submarine, he was able to attack the other party unexpectedly in a naval battle, but the other party could not find his own position, and his advantage was obvious.
Li Tiancheng has ordered the engine research center to create military helicopter engines and automobile engines as soon as possible. The subsequent airborne electronic equipment can be reserved first, and the fire control system can be simplified, and can launch machine gun bullets and small-caliber artillery. A few transportation helicopters can be built temporarily, and the models do not need to be too advanced. When his strength has not yet expanded to compete with a strong country, too advanced technology will be made. If he cannot protect himself, it will be easy to be taken over and imitated with a large amount of equipment.
Helicopters have special uses. When they need emergency retreat, search and rescue, they can load important people and items from any battlefield and land, and then quickly leave the dangerous area. This is of strategic significance. Of course, after its natural enemies appear, their use will be greatly reduced.
However, helicopter manufacturing is more difficult than jet aircraft. The main reason is that helicopters have complex transmission systems and rotor systems. The rotor twist of the rotor system is very complex, the design, maintenance and maintenance are relatively complex, and the manufacturing of key technical components is also relatively difficult. The vibration of the fuselage has high requirements for material strength and fatigue resistance, so durability and life will be affected, and the distribution of internal oil circuits and pipelines is also more complicated.
In addition, the aerodynamics of helicopters are also complex than fixed-wing aircraft and have many restrictions. Therefore, there are more countries that can build jet aircraft in later generations, but few of them have developed self-developed helicopters. China is also far behind in this regard. However, in 2011, some advanced achievements have emerged, such as the emergence of Wu Zhisheng. However, the heart part of Wu Zhisheng is not its own technology and needs to be improved.
Although there are many difficulties, Li Tiancheng decided to increase investment and create several experimental helicopters first. Because he already has the knowledge of helicopter manufacturing, Zhenhua Steel Plant has also obtained some advanced metal material manufacturing processes in later generations, so it is not a big problem to build the first generation of piston helicopters, but there are still difficulties in large-scale equipment, and it takes years of hard work.
Other equipment is still under consideration. After factories are developed everywhere, the funds will become more and more abundant, and the equipment will become more and more advanced.
Li Tiancheng in Shanghai is still familiar with him. He went to Shanghai several times in later generations. His footprints were left in the Pearl of the Orient, Disneyland, Century Park and other places. At that time, Shanghai was full of tall buildings and prosperous in economy, making it the largest city in the country.
In the late Qing Dynasty, Shanghai County was under the jurisdiction of Jiangsu Province and its administrative division was under the jurisdiction of Susong Taidao. Dao was the name of the jurisdiction of the Qing Dynasty and had an official position of Taotai, which was equivalent to the level of deputy governor in later generations.
Su Songtai refers to Suzhou, Taicang, Songjiang, and Taicang in later Jiangsu Province. Songjiang belongs to Shanghai, and Suzhou is also a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Jiangsu Province. Suzhou is currently the location of the Jiangsu Governor's Office.
Li Tiancheng took a fancy to Changxing Island, which was a barren land at that time. Changxing Island is located at the mouth of the Huangpu River, not far from Wusongkou. It is an island on the Huangpu River, sandwiched between Pudong and Chongming County. The Jiangnan Shipyard was in the area of Huangpu and Yangpu. Later generations moved to Changxing Island because it has excellent deep-water port conditions and is suitable for building giant ships of more than 100,000 tons.
Li Tiancheng chose this place because it has a unique geographical location and excellent deep-water port conditions, which can be built and moored docks and ports for large ships.
This place is also very hidden, and is separated from Pudong and Chongming County by rivers. It is convenient to make some secret things here by yourself, and of course the rent for rent is also cheap.
At that time, Shanghai was generally not developed. Pudong was full of rural wilderness. Puxi was divided into two parts: South City and North City, roughly bounded by Suzhou River and the foreigners' concession. The foreigners' concession in the Shiliyangchang in Shanghai was in the downtown area of Puxi, with public concessions shared by Britain and the United States, and French concessions.
Tan Jianye had already enclosed a large yard on Changxing Island, about 20,000 square meters. Li Tiancheng quickly brought a group of technicians and guard platoons to Changxing Island and settled down.
Although the power has been turned on here, the thermal power plant started construction more than half a year ago and has just been built, but the light bulb factory invested by Li Tiancheng in Puxi has just been built, so he can only replace it with kerosene lamps. In the past, there was also a light bulb factory in Songjiang, but it only produced lighting equipment for the factory. Civilians have not yet been produced. The laying of civilian power lines is a huge project and there is no energy to develop for the time being.
In the past two years, new inventions of Zhenhua Group have been released, which has caused panic among scientific research in the great power countries. Because after he worked hard to develop a scientific research result, he was replaced by an advanced product of Zhenhua in the near future. The other party was more than one generation ahead of him, and those scientific researchers were in a miserable way.
Therefore, European powers have sent people to Zhenhua for on-site inspection and study. Although Zhenhua's confidentiality technology is available, there are still many products that can be bought and researched and copied. Although Zhenhua has applied for a large number of patents, the world is so big that some things are difficult to manage, just like the fake Adidas in China in later generations, who can control it?
Li Tiancheng, regardless of whether others have made great progress in technology after being inspired by his own inventions, or whether many technologies in the world have been developed in advance because of his own arrival, just like helicopters have been planned to study helicopters. Originally, helicopters did not appear until the 1940s, but if he developed such things in advance, other countries in the world would also take them as key research objects, and the emergence of helicopters in other countries will be many years ahead of history.
Chapter completed!