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- ""good. //www.//Britain is currently at the end of - how should I put it - a chain of working buckets of ships. This is the position it often finds itself in. Nowadays, the buckets are being knocked off all the time, and the chain is still lengthening. There are never enough buckets to install on the chain, and the chain is lengthening much faster. The tonnage of British merchant ships was now increasing rapidly. But the rate of increase cannot meet domestic demand? How many tons of merchant ships do we need to add now? "
The officer yawned secretly.
"This is secret. Victor has heard a lot about it in London, and he already knows it."
"good."
"Good. Then you know the curve is going up. In this war, nothing else matters. Britain will soon run out of fuel and food, and then she will be finished. Once her machinery stops turning, Once its warships are not burning and its people are without food, the British government will collapse. There is no other way out."
"Is there no other way out? My country still has plenty of fuel and food - as well as steel and shipyards - and we are open to foreign trade."
The banker smiled coldly.
Another doctor interrupted and said:
"Now the growth rate of the materials we need to consume every day has exceeded our transportation capacity, and the number of merchant ships that need to be replenished exceeds our shipbuilding capacity. Do you know?"
"I know this,"
A colonel said.
"Except for coal and iron, Britain needs to import everything else. Without enough merchant ships, it is impossible to win this war."
The silence in the room lasted for a long time, and then a vague rustling sound came from deep in the chair.
"That won't happen. By the first month of the year, we will have new merchant ships."
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After any merchant ship sails into Lianyungang Yingyoumen, they often don¡¯t have much direct impression of this large port. In addition to the scale of the terminal being the largest in China, I am afraid that it is also the equipment such as tower cranes and so on. Apart from the 6 kilometers of pier coastline, there seems to be nothing to attract people's attention.
But if the ship enters the port at night, when they pass the Liandao seawall, they will be surprised to see that the area around Haitoujiao is brightly lit, half of the sky is illuminated white by the lights, and the exposed On more than a dozen berths, welding arc light flickered, and welding sparks were like fireworks, falling from both sides of the merchant ship under construction.
This is Yingyoumen Shipyard, now the largest shipyard in Asia. Although the shipyard occupies a small area, this shipyard with twelve large slipways and six large docks has outstanding shipbuilding capabilities. , but it is ranked first in Asia, and even compared with other shipyards in the world, it is not inferior.
Every day, thousands of tons of steel plates and steel products are transported from Lianyun Iron and Steel Company to Yingyoumen Shipyard. After the steel materials are processed into components in the workshop, they are towed to the slipway by a flatbed trailer and lifted by a crane. Large components are assembled on the slipway. In fact, Yingyoumen Shipyard is more like an assembly plant, with only cranes and slides.
Just two years ago, Yingyoumen Shipyard started a revolution, a revolution in the shipbuilding industry, that is, using the "building blocks" originally provided by Li Zicheng and some technical information to start trying to assemble "Ford-style large-scale assembly" "Production" is applied to the field of shipbuilding. First, Yingyoumen Shipbuilding draws out ton drawings. At the same time, the shipyard's technical department also produces precise models of various parts. Take the engine room as an example. The model is so detailed that it even includes the number of boiler water pipes and the direction of cables. to a degree of accuracy.
These precision models were produced for a revolutionary, new way of building ships. The experimental cargo ship was divided into several different departments, such as the bow, cargo hold, mid-hull, stern, and bridge. The engine room, main engine, boiler, etc. were subcontracted and built by 11 companies in Lianyungang. They were finally sent to the shipyard on wheeled flatbed trailers and assembled together with the help of cranes and traveling cranes.
Finally, in July of the third year of the Republic of China, the first experimental merchant ship started construction. It only took three months to complete the construction of three merchant ships. And that was just a test. According to the shipyard's speculation, they could build it in a shorter time. Within, it even takes just one month to complete the construction of a merchant ship.
At this time, various countries are building merchant ships with excellent quality and expected service life of up to 30 years according to traditional shipbuilding techniques. However, their construction cycle is too slow, generally more than 9 months, or even more than a year and a half.
After the war broke out in Europe, Britain and France faced their own shipping capabilitiesIn December of the third year of the Republic of China, hundreds of thousands of tons of commercial ships were sold to China Ocean Shipping Company at three times the pre-war price. Even so, it was still unable to meet the rapidly increasing transportation demand.
At this time, the London branch of the ** Company submitted a report to the British Admiralty: "a merchant ship that meets the basic requirements for transportation can be designed, but a merchant ship with slow speed, crude equipment, and rough structure has to be urgently produced. Judging from these two requirements and mass production, the design of this ocean-class cargo ship can be said to be practical. In an emergency, this kind of cargo ship can be built, and of course it can still be used in peacetime."
At first, the British Admiralty refused. They had entrusted American shipyards to build cargo ships for them. At this time, British shipyards were ramping up their efforts to produce battleships, cruisers, destroyers and escort ships. Therefore, they put their hope in the United States. In terms of shipyards, the huge shipbuilding capacity of American shipyards is used to meet the needs of the United Kingdom. Not only the United Kingdom, but France also places its hopes on American shipyards.
Faced with orders for merchant ships of up to one million tons, almost every shipyard in the United States from the east coast to the west coast has received orders, ranging from cargo ships of 10,000 tons to cargo ships of 10,000 tons. For a time, the shipyards and slipways of American shipyards were full of orders. Merchant ships from Britain, France and other countries were under construction, but the demands of the war exceeded everyone's imagination.
By May 1955, the gap between the British mainland's material needs and transportation capacity exceeded one million tons for the first time, and France also exceeded two million tons. At this time, the American shipyards were already saturated, and the shipyards did not dare to accept any more. New orders, because they could not guarantee to provide ships within the specified time, Britain and France then set their sights on the Far East - Japanese shipyards became the first of Britain and France
But for Japan, which had just lost a large number of merchant ships and warships, they urgently needed to replenish their merchant fleets even more than Britain and France. In the end, the inspection teams of the two countries purchased a dozen ships from the China Ocean Shipping Company and were salvaged by China. While repairing Japanese merchant ships, they also inspected Chinese shipyards. As a try, the British placed an order for five 10,000-ton ships to Takayumon Shipyard. The contract stipulated a delivery period of twelve months.
Thirty-two days later, the first 10,000-ton ship was launched and delivered. In the next fifteen days, Yingyoumen Shipyard completed the production of five 10,000-ton ships. Although the British still did not trust "welded merchant ships" , but they were still stunned by the shipbuilding capability of "building five ships in forty-seven days, with a deadweight tonnage of 7,157 tons and a cargo carrying capacity of 10,170 tons."
When the first 10,000-ton ship "Guanfu" was fully loaded with supplies and arrived at Southampton Port in England from Lianyungang, at the Admiralty meeting, the captain used his credibility to guarantee that "this is an extremely sophisticated merchant ship." Subsequently, after a month of inspection, the British Admiralty finally recognized the "official-class" work. The British Admiralty ordered 60 10,000-ton merchant ships from Yingyoumen Shipyard. The total value of the 60 cargo ships ordered by the British was 10,000. GBP.
The cargo ship order with a total value of more than 10,000 taels is the largest industrial order in China's history. Not only that, this order alone is enough to consume 50ml of Lianyun Iron and Steel Company's steel output, and the specified delivery date is In ten months, the turnover was 20,000 yuan, and the net profit exceeded 50%. The words "ships make money" immediately resounded throughout the country. The subsequent order for fifty 10,000-ton cargo ships from France immediately made Yingyoumen Shipyard a well-known shipyard in the world, and it was also the shipyard with the largest number of orders.
It was also from that time that Yingyoumen Shipyard expanded its recruitment and built merchant ships day and night to complete orders from Britain and France before the contract expired.
"Prime Minister, last week, a delegation from the U.S. Department of Commerce visited the shipyard. They placed an order with us for fifteen 10,000-ton ships. The delivery date is June next year, plus four ships from Japan and two ships from Thailand. There are three ships in Brazil, five ships in Argentina, and five ships in Italy. The shipyard now has orders for 160 10,000-ton ships. If the shipyard does not expand, these orders will be enough for the shipyard to produce until the end of next year!"
In the office building of the shipyard, Wei Pingtao reported to the Prime Minister's Office who was inspecting the shipyard that in the eyes of outsiders, Li Zicheng may be the prime minister, but in this city, everyone knows that this little Prime Minister Li is everything in this city. developers and business owners, Yingyoumen Shipyard, is also one of them
"Expanding the shipyard?"
Frowning slightly, Li Zicheng looked out the window. From the window, he could clearly see a beach. This shipyard building was built on Haitoujiao. In fact, Haitoujiao is a dividing line. South of Haitoujiao is the reclamation line. , a deep-water port can be filled in, and with the help of seawalls, the shipyard coast can be dug out through deepening, but if it is to be expanded
"Prime Minister, the net profit of the shipyard this year exceeds 10 million yuan, and the investment to build a shipyard is only 5 million yuan. Taking into account other investments, it will not exceed 8 million yuan at most. Now it is impossible to expand the shipyard."?is appropriate¡¡±
When Wei Pingtao used the shipyard's profits to try to lobby the prime minister or chairman, Li Zicheng looked at him and asked.
"Taoping, do you think there is still room to build a new shipyard in Lianyungang?"
A rhetorical question made Wei Pingtao suddenly fall silent. Lianyungang no longer had a suitable coastline to build a shipyard. In fact, in northern Jiangsu, only the more than ten kilometers of coastline in Lianyungang was suitable for building ports and shipyards. Northern Jiangsu was once the Yellow River. At the seaport, there are a large number of dark sands and sandbars not far from the coast, which limits the use of the coast.
"But, Prime Minister, the profit of one ton of steel is now 97 yuan, while the profit of one ton of merchant ships is 20,075 yuan. Now the third phase of the steel company's project has begun, and the second phase of the project is nearing completion. By the end of next year, after the completion of the third phase of the project, The steel company will produce 3 million tons of steel. If the steel is exported, the profit will be only 30 million yuan. But if 2 million tons of it are used for shipbuilding, the shipyard's profit will reach 40 million yuan. The profit of industrial manufactured products is much higher than that of industrial products. Profit from raw materials.¡±
In fact, in Wei Pingtao's mind, there are more reasons to lobby the Prime Minister. For example, the price of iron ore has increased several times, but it is only 8 yuan, and coke is only 4 yuan, while pig iron is close to 86 yuan, and the profit is more than 70 yuan. If it is refined into crude steel, the profit can reach 80 yuan. For steel, the profit is close to a hundred yuan. This is a very simple formula.
¡°Then, Taoping, do you have any good suggestions?¡±
And he turned around with a smile, looked at Wei Pingtao and Li Zicheng and asked with a smile, he had never doubted that merchant ships were more profitable. In fact, the reason why it was built in the first place was - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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