Chapter 82 China's Sea Wolves: Submarines(1/2)
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"...Yesterday afternoon, District Chief Zhang Shusheng attended a meeting on the implementation of school-age education in Dongchuan District and most areas of Guangxi. At the meeting, District Chief Zhang made it clear: poor places must provide good education, and rich places must have better education.
We need to run education. Those who have no money contribute, and those who have money pay taxes. Even if we all work together to sell iron, we cannot let the children's tomorrow be dark...
... Nian Lake at the junction of Huize and Qiaojia will extend the fishing ban period. Fishermen who were registered before the fishing ban period can go to the local government to receive basic living subsidies...
The following is the recruitment information for this period:
The Ministry of Transportation is recruiting a large number of workers, and the long-distance highway project from Xiaoqingshan to Nanlin will start on June 5th...[
Minsheng Washing Machine Factory is recruiting a group of junior technical workers, citizens who have a first-level junior technical certificate issued by the district government or a junior high school education or above. Interested parties can go to Puxi Road, Huize County..."
On the radio, the announcer's soft voice read out the radio scripts one after another. The radio waves spread throughout Dongchuan District. Privately purchased radios, street radios purchased with government funding, and outdoor radios also issued the same message at the same time.
the sound of.
This is a town at the junction of Huize and Qiaojia counties. The town placed one of the several radios purchased with government subsidies in this street-facing teahouse, making the business here boom every day.
The Dongchuan District Government broadcasts several periods of broadcasts every day, which are divided into: policy interpretation, government affairs reports, recruitment information, and entertainment programs including traditional operas, new songs and some educational crosstalk.
The simple and efficient radio not only delivers useful information to the poor areas in Shili and Baxiang every day, but also brings them some basic entertainment elements, such as listening to the radio, listening to operas, and learning to sing, especially those popular songs.
His simple new songs have fascinated many people. Occasionally, there will be one or two elegant tunes, or erhu, pipa, guqin, or piano light music, which can make people sit down and drink a cup of tea after a tiring day.
, take a short nap.
Broadcasting is slowly uniting them into a whole. Many people don't even know who the current president is, nor do they know the situation between the north and the south, but they know the district mayor Zhang Shusheng and many Dongchuan District government's policies to benefit the people...
"Old man Tong, I see you coming to drink tea every day now. You don't have to go into the water to fish for fish anymore?" An old Miao man wearing a turban walked into the teahouse, and the familiar tea guests immediately greeted him loudly.
"Nianhu Lake has been closed, and there are no fish. The government has arranged for me to guard the forest for one night. I can't sleep this afternoon, so come sit down and listen to the radio." Old Tong asked for a pot as usual.
Half a can of green tea, this hand-made rough tea, is cheap and has a unique flavor.
"The current government is weird. In the past, officials took the lead in cutting down trees. Those big trees that could not be hugged by a few people were cut down by hundreds by the old bully from the town hall. Now it is better, who will cut down the trees in the public house?
The trees were cut down, and the town police came to the door the next day." Teagoers commented one after another.
"Yes, I heard that we are preparing to build a nature reserve in the future."
"Mr. Tong, why do you think Nian Lake has been closed for so long? Is there any explanation?"
"What's the point? Now the land within two miles is a restricted area. It doesn't matter if you don't fish. It's exhausting. It's not as good as working." Old Man Tong said with emotion.
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"General Manager, this is the budget of Pan American Ken's International and Pan Eurasian Trading Company for the second half of the year." Sun Laixi came to Zhang Shusheng's office with a document marked top secret. These two companies are secretly controlled by Shusheng Company and are in the West.
Registered companies have a budget review every six months.
Zhang Shusheng took the budget and looked at it, changed a few inconspicuous figures, added two more paragraphs, and then handed it to him: "The treatment of the two company's top executives is the same as the domestic vice president level."
Increase it a little bit. After all, the cost abroad is too high. Don’t be too stingy with special operations funds and reimbursement expenses. As for the total budget given to their branches, it must be controlled in detail and strictly. The auditors at the headquarters must not let it go hastily.
pass."
"Yes, don't worry, boss, their treatment will definitely not be bad or outrageous. As for the auditors, we will replace them every two months to prevent unnecessary situations."
After Sun Laixi left, Zhang Shusheng pondered for a while. The experience of later generations told him that everything is difficult at the beginning, and these overseas agencies must be controlled from the very beginning, whether overtly or covertly. Just because they have the opportunity to access large sums of wealth, the sky is high and the emperor is
Once the system fails to keep up, corruption can easily occur. However, if the salary is too high, it will breed a privileged class prematurely, which is detrimental to the development of the company.
So, until now, the two most important Western companies are apparently controlled by two foreign spokesmen. In fact, the most confidential situation is that they only get a few dividends every month. The financial process and the goods process,
The head office has always been directly responsible, and they only play the role of spokesperson.
Thinking of going to Nianhu Research Institute in the afternoon, Zhang Shusheng took a nap for a while, and then he was woken up by Mao Yun first and took a car to Nianhu.[
Nianhu is a large plateau lake closest to Huize County. Its hydrological conditions and geographical location are relatively suitable as a research site. After the lake was closed last year, 2201 and 2202 Nianhu Research Institutes were established here.
If an agent of the Special Intelligence Department of the militia hears this code name, he will definitely know what it represents. In the current Dongchuan system, the research institutes starting with 1 are civilian science and technology or high-end basic science and technology research institutes, and the research institutes starting with 2 are
It is a military research institute. And this military research institute is also different. If it is 21xx, it is an army research institute, if it is 22xx, it is a naval research institute, and 23xx is an air force research institute...
Then, if there are intelligence personnel here, they will immediately react. Here are two top-secret research institutes of the militia: the First Navy Research Institute No. 2201 and the Second Navy Research Institute No. 2202.
No one believed it when I told you that the Dongchuan Militia had basically occupied Guangxi three or four months ago, and its sphere of influence extended to the sea for the first time. I didn't expect that a naval department would be established so quickly.
After several hours of turbulence and a rigorous inspection, Zhang Shusheng and his party finally entered the top-secret Navy No. 1 laboratory.
Zhang Shusheng attaches great importance to this 2201 Research Institute. Just for the preliminary theoretical basic research, he has carried out talent reserves for four to five years and recruited a group of loyal and completely trustworthy overseas Chinese scientists and senior researchers from Southwest University.
After recruiting outstanding talents from technical schools, the Navy Laboratory No. 1, which did not have a single foreigner, finally moved to Nianhu in 1924, officially established the No. 1 Research Institute, and began to conduct verification research work.
In order to carry out his research work better, Zhang Shusheng bought a U9 submarine from Germany at a high price as soon as he established the Nianhu Research Institute. It was such a broken submarine. It was turned over several times at that time. First, the Americans came forward.
I bought it, changed hands several times, and shipped it to China.
Although in Zhang Shusheng's opinion, this kind of submarine can be directly sealed and stuffed into a museum in the future, the 2201 Nianhu Research Institute, which has just started, urgently needs to use it as a basis to verify some advanced submarine theories.
Although there are two Chinese scientists in the institute who have conducted similar research in the United States, in general, most of them have only studied some relevant knowledge at Southwest University or a technical school. Of course, some of them have studied for four years.
He graduated from the School of Naval Engineering of Southwest University, which was newly established in 1920.
Zhang Shusheng did not have high demands on them, he just hoped that they could be done as quickly as possible. After all, let alone the Sino-Japanese War, the Chinese had lagged behind on the ocean for hundreds of years. After the Ming Dynasty, naval construction had never been close to the level of the great powers. When he thinks of the Sino-Japanese War,
He was so ashamed that he always felt like he was holding a tight breath in his chest that he couldn't let out.
Regarding that naval battle, and even the comparison of the Chinese and Japanese navies of that era, later theorists, military scientists and military enthusiasts have done too much research and comparison, and Zhang Shusheng did not want to review or regret too much.
He only knew that the Chinese navy was not strong enough. Whether it was human factors or equipment factors, the overall backwardness led to the final failure.
Therefore, he did not hesitate to invest a huge amount of money, opened the ship engineering major a few years in advance, and recruited naval research talents everywhere, just to establish this submarine research institute. Judging from the current situation of China's navy, which is almost zero, after much deliberation, he can only
This asymmetric warfare method will allow China to catch up first in terms of its navy. After all, large-gun battleships are no longer outdated, and aircraft carriers were not built in a day.
Therefore, he launched the 2201 and 2202 Research Institutes in 1920, but the progress was very slow. In the previous few years, the two research institutes could be said to have been conducting some theoretical research and model verification work. Until the 2201 Nianhu Research Institute
With the emergence of the J-1 fighter jet, the two major research institutes 2201 and 2202 officially started to work at full speed and entered a new era.
The entire huge Nian Lake is divided into two parts, the north and the south, which are relatively independent. There are relatively few buildings in the south. Except for some research institute buildings, only one pier can be seen on the entire lake. The north is much more complicated.
Not to mention a concrete runway, there is also a huge floating platform standing in the lake. This huge floating platform is pulled by several thick steel cables, and is occasionally pulled back and forth to make it move on the water.
"Buzz buzz..."
Hearing the familiar sound of the engine coming from above, Gan Chuanrui, director of the 2201 Research Institute, said with some envy to Zhang Shusheng on the side: "Oh, every day when I hear the big noise from the north, the boys below are almost sick.
coming."
Having said that, there was a sense of confidence on his face. The district mayor would come to inspect in person today and there would definitely be a surprise.
"Don't be too hasty about the No. 1 boat. We all have a background in research. We should know that the taboo in scientific research is impetuousness and blind rashness. How about using animals for experiments this time?"
It would be a lie to say that he is not in a hurry, but Zhang Shusheng is still rational. Blindly rushing to make progress will only lead to counterproductive results. Taking small steps to run faster, which is commonly used in later generations, has a miraculous effect. Normally, the staff of the Special Intelligence Department
I reported to him that the people in the 2201 and 2202 research institutes were working very hard, almost working in three shifts.
The method he taught the 2201 Research Institute was very simple, that is, build a model first, and then use the full-scale model to complete other theoretical data. So, after several years of preliminary preparations and half a year of actual preparations, there was a physical
After obtaining the U-type submarine and the submarine information provided by Zhang Shusheng, the 2201 Research Institute finally ushered in this day.
Of course, the development of every advanced technology is an arduous systematic project, and breakthrough progress can only be achieved after each subsidiary industry reaches certain conditions.
Therefore, there were countless difficulties during the period. The problem of steel strength alone dragged on for a long time. It was not until the new steelmaking plant was put into operation in 1923 that qualified pressure-resistant steel for ship hulls was produced.[
It has to be said that the occupation of Guangxi has been huge for the development of the militia. Minerals alone are extremely rich. The reserves of manganese, aluminum, iron, tin, lead, zinc, antimony, tungsten, copper, vanadium and rare earth minerals are all very huge.
In particular, Zhang Shusheng did not have to go to the ground one by one to find out. Within half a year of occupying Guangxi, several important mines were put into construction. In addition, the discovery of the Tiandong small oil field in Guangxi allowed Zhang Shusheng to see the opportunity to reduce oil imports.
hope.
Today, these simple researchers did not even prepare any ceremony. They just declared Zhang Shu's birth and then conducted this real-person underwater test.
Coming to a building facing the lake, it is not so much a research laboratory as it is a huge production workshop. In the middle of the workshop, there is a 20-meter-long cigar-shaped submarine with a dark hull. Although the entire submarine has a displacement of only 100
It is more than a ton, but it is a standard water-drop submarine. It already has the advanced design concepts of later generations, but the displacement has not yet increased.
And parallel to it is a model that is obviously made of wood, exactly the same size as this black submarine, and seems to be a model for verification.
"Yes, at least it looks more pleasing to the eye than that U-shaped boat, but I don't know how it will actually work." Zhang Shusheng walked over and touched the black hull of the boat, feeling the touch of steel on his hands, a kind of vitality.
The desire to build a powerful navy has never been stronger.
"Don't worry, District Chief, the designed working depth of Boat No. 1 is 2050 meters. Because of the use of a new alloy steel pressure-resistant hull, the maximum diving depth of our Boat No. 1 is 247 meters. This data has reached or even exceeded today's
The advanced level of foreign countries." Gan Chuanrui, director of the institute, said proudly, "It is all the credit of the district chief that our Chinese submarines were able to reach an advanced level from the beginning."
"What I can do is only part of it. The key is for you to do it step by step." Zhang Shusheng is very satisfied with the fact that the No. 1 boat can maintain a partial lead. Although it is only a verification boat, it will be a scientific research idea for future generations to speed up the pace in small steps.
It is indeed the most suitable for China's current national conditions. Of course, Zhang Shusheng does have a huge role here. After all, without the technology he provided, the 2201 Research Institute was completely started from scratch. It is estimated that it would be difficult for even Mendou to get into it.
Can start by building a submersible boiler...
"Boys, everyone is ready! Today the district chief personally watched our No. 1 boat launch test. Everyone must show 12% of their energy." Gan Chuanrui said encouragingly.
Zhang Shusheng also cleared his throat and said a few words: "I won't go into details. Please experiment boldly and operate with caution. I believe you all."
The test began quickly. With an order, about 10 researchers got into the dark No. 1 verification boat. After a few clicks, with everyone on tenterhooks, the No. 1 verification boat slowly walked along
The track slid down and successfully slid into the water through the open gate.
To be continued...