Parsons's surrender was already expected by Yang Feng. As for his Yang's Steam Turbine Company, there were still details of cooperation between the two parties. It was enough to just send a telegram to Erikson and let him take charge. Anyway, if

The joint venture partner is Yang's Marine Power Systems Company, so he also has a stake in it. Boss Yang has important things to do.

He took advantage of the opportunity of being in Newcastle to confirm his cruiser with Armstrong Shipyard. Yesterday, he had already revealed that he was going to order a latest cruiser for the Chinese Navy here as an agent. Otherwise,

Armstrong Shipyard would not be so generous, throwing a welcome dinner and sending beautiful women to his bed.

You must know that he is still the translator of the Chinese Embassy, ​​and he also owns a small shipyard. The British are even more familiar with the internal affairs of the Qing Dynasty officialdom. If such a person obtains a high-priced cruiser order from China in some special way, the low price

If we outsource the price to Armstrong Shipyard and then divide the price difference with certain court ministers, we can basically say that we are more than 60% sure about this matter, so Armstrong Shipyard takes it very seriously.

"First of all, the length of this cruiser should be about 130 meters, the power of the main engine should not be less than 15,000 horsepower, the front and rear dual main guns must be closed turrets, it must have waterline armor and a central fortress, and the speed cannot be

Less than twenty-five knots." Boss Yang was no longer satisfied with the Blanco Calada, he found that he could buy one using the things he had on hand.

"This is impossible, Mr. Yang, you are just a standard armored cruiser. It is no different from an armored ship. A warship with 15,000 horsepower cannot even run twenty knots, let alone twenty-five knots."

It's a holiday." Wolf, the shipyard manager who was in charge of receiving him, shook his head without hesitation and said, at the same time, he despised Yang Feng for not pretending to understand and being so whimsical.

"You guys can make the armor a little thinner! It doesn't have to be too thick, just a one or two centimeter carburized steel plate is enough." Boss Yang said with a smile.

Woolf took a sip of coffee and almost spit it in his face. This guy looked at Yang Feng with disbelief. Although he knew that he was using this business to defraud the court, but damn, you don't have to be so arrogant, right?

With less than one inch of armor, what's the difference between you and an unprotected cruiser? With that thickness, not to mention the six-inch cannon, even the two-pounder anti-torpedo cannon can't stop it.

"Mr. Yang, I must remind you that such a warship cannot participate in a naval battle." Woolf said very meaningfully, and the meaning was very clear. Brother, I know you are fooling your emperor, but there is no need to fool you.

Are you so arrogant? You have no problem with it. If there is a fight and someone is killed with one shot, I don't think you will have any good results, right?

"No problem, this thickness is perfectly fine. With this thickness, can the speed of this cruiser exceed 25 knots?" Boss Yang asked curiously.

"You should say it won't be less than twenty-five knots," Woolf said firmly.

"If we add a few hundred tons of weight, can it exceed 23 knots during forced ventilation?" Yang Feng then asked. This data is very important. Of course, he would not use an armored cruiser with an armor thickness of one centimeter to single it out.

Pick Yoshino, he plans to rivet ten centimeter thick tank armor steel plates on the outside of the original armor after it is completed. There are thousands of tons of this stuff in his shuttle.

This is much stronger than the current best surface-carburized iron-nickel alloy armor. With this kind of armor, the Japanese high-explosive bombs will not cause any damage at all.

"Now that this is settled, let's discuss the issue of artillery. First of all, the front and rear dual-mounted main guns don't need to be too large in caliber. Your six-inch rapid-fire cannon is perfectly fine." Yang Feng added.

"Mr. Yang, is this caliber too small? You should understand that the caliber of artillery now represents strength. For such a large warship, even if it does not use twelve-inch guns, it is reasonable to have at least ten-inch guns, or even eight-inch guns.

They're a little too young." Woolf was almost crushed by him, so he almost pulled Yang Feng's neck and asked: "Brother, what exactly are you going to do?"

From his less than one inch armor, it can be seen that this guy is ready to trick their court to death, but since you are tricking people, you have to prepare the surface well and get two 305mm main guns to make your emperor look majestic.

What's going on with how many 152's you have?

"No problem. I still trust your company's rapid-fire cannon. The four six-inch main guns must all have closed turrets." Yang Feng said nonchalantly.

"The thickness of the turret armor is also one inch?" Wolfe asked cautiously.

"Yes, one inch or one centimeter is fine!" Boss Yang said with certainty.

Well, Wolfe is already desperate for this thing. As for the rest, he doesn't want torpedo tubes, two-pounders and one-pound rapid-fire guns. There's no need to ask too much about these.

However, when Yang Feng said that he did not want secondary guns, Woolf couldn't help but remind him that four main guns were not enough anyway.

"Of course, I don't really need the secondary gun. You also know that I am still the chairman of Bofors Company, and I will soon test a new 130mm cannon at Bofors Company, so I plan to use the secondary gun.

For this thing, your company must reserve ten turrets for me on both sides of the hull, and at the same time create rotating gun emplacements, semi-open turrets, and ammunition supply systems on the turrets." Yang Feng said, he was going to put it

He installed ten of his 130 cannons, and there were a total of forty in the shuttle. These cannons were idle, and he was reluctant to sell them to others. He might as well install them on warships, but even if there were no cannon shells, this would still be necessary.

He needs to produce it himself, so the power will definitely be weakened, otherwise he will even want to use this for the main gun.

However, he also has a solution for the power of artillery. It is just to put some effort into the artillery shells. A soft cap and a delayed fuse should be enough. Besides, the Japanese do not have any thickly armored warships.

The range and rate of fire of the 130 cannon, even with the propellant of this era, is enough to ravage them with a hail of bullets from a long distance. As for the steam gas torpedo at close range, it can kill them instantly.

In this way, Yang Feng's battleship was determined. As for the tonnage, he had no requirements. Anyway, with its one-inch armor and the weight reduction of the artillery, it is estimated that it will not exceed 4,000 tons. In fact, Woolf's estimate was

Thirty-five hundred tons, so that enough armor weight can be reserved for him. When the time comes, he can even rivet two layers of 20-centimeter-thick tank alloy armor for important positions, which is estimated to be Dingyuan's 305-mm main body.

Cannons can be blocked.

In this way, Boss Yang returned to London with satisfaction. Now he is waiting for the reply from Li Ergui. But at this time, it is a wired telegram, which needs to be transmitted from London to China one station after another, and then transmitted back one station after another.

It would take more than a week to go back and forth, so he might have to wait a few more days, but this also reminded him that he had missed something very important.

Wireless telegraphy, even the great gods like myself and Marconi will stand aside. I will sell wireless telegraph machines all over the world this year, so that you will not have to fight over the patent rights. I think of it and grab it again.

After taking Edison's job, Boss Yang smiled happily.

As for how to make a wireless telegraph machine, this is not difficult. Even if you don’t use a beautiful woman’s avatar, Boss Yang can save it by himself. An old spark is not a problem. When he was young and ignorant, he also participated in a radio interest group.

A third-rate college student, although there really weren’t that many accessories to choose from at this time, he still made it himself.

In the next few days, Boss Yang devoted himself to the cause of invention and creation with great enthusiasm, and he couldn't even think about rekindling his dream with Lin Luoke, who had been separated for more than a month.

A week later, on the lawn of Young's Manor, a dozen wealthy London aristocrats, including two members of the House of Lords, gathered under the autumn sunshine and looked at a strange machine placed among them.

"What is this thing you made?" Lin Luoke looked curiously at the crude version of the spark transmitter he made with the help of several engineers from General Electric Company. He had already finished it before it was finished.

I couldn't wait to apply for a patent, and today I specially invited some friends from London to demonstrate it.

"A brand new era, the era of wireless communication." Yang Feng put his arm around her waist and whispered into her ear.

What he wanted to do was not an amateur invention like Marconi's. This thing was directly used for high-power cross-ocean communications. When he was demonstrating the transmitter in London, a General Electric employee had already brought it with him.

We took the receiver to Calais, France, more than 100 kilometers away.

"Okay, dear, what can you say?" Under the gaze of his friends, Boss Yang took Lin Luoke's little hand and said.

"Ah?" Lin Luoke looked at him blankly.

"Just say anything." Yang Feng said.

"Well, that bird is very beautiful." Lin Luoke said looking at a little bird on the grass.

"Okay, that bird is very beautiful." With the sound of Yang Feng's hand tapping the keys, radio waves penetrated the air at a speed of 300,000 kilometers per second and were transmitted to the Calais cable telegraph office.

Under the watchful eyes of the guests who were also invited, the receiver trained by Yang Feng immediately drew long and short lines on the paper based on the Morse code he heard in his ears, and then compared it with the code pad next to him and quickly read out the message.

Immediately afterwards, this sentence was transmitted back to London by wire telegraph. Half an hour later, one of the guests at Young's Manor, a member of the House of Lords, received a telegram sent to him from Calais by a member of the French Parliament.

"That bird is very beautiful." He read out the contents of the telegram with a dumbfounded expression. All the guests were stunned. Yang Feng could not cheat. He could not cheat on his fiancée's reputation. In other words, he
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