The Naval Design Bureau submitted two aircraft carrier design plans. These international students who already have certain design experience have been divided into two groups A and B. Wang Pingxuan is the leader of Group A, and Ye Zaifu is the leader of Group B. Compared with Ye Zaifu who tried hard to wear a beard and wanted to pretend to be mature, but you can still see from your eyes that the tender Ye Zaifu, the thirty-four-year-old Wang Pingxuan first went to work in the Jiangnan Shipyard and then sent him to the United States to study. Because after working in the shipyard for a few years, he gave people a more capable feeling and his design was quite mature.

For example, this is the case with kerosene mixed fire. At present, battleships that use oil-fired boilers have not appeared. As a designer who strives to be safe, although China produces oil, based on the fact that there are no gas stations in each port, he chose the current mainstream design: oil-coal mixed fired boilers; in addition to boilers, many armors, power chambers, oil depots, ammunition depots, hangars, etc. In order to protect these important facilities, under the wooden deck in the middle section of the aircraft carrier, a 150-meter-long three-inch horizontal armor and a 1.5-inch hangar deck will be laid. Important areas not covered by these two decks are also laid on the upper end of the four-point five-inch armor, and the side side is also inclined by 14 degrees of lightning protection armor.

These armors protected important parts of the entire aircraft carrier, but the armor of more than 5,000 tons increased the cost of the aircraft carrier by 20%, and the center of gravity was raised due to the heavy weight of the flight armor. In particular, the carrier-based aircraft on the Shenwu was too small to sail far away. The newly designed carrier-based aircraft was a whole circle larger than before. Even if the two elevators were installed on the side of the ship, the area of ​​the single-layer hangar was only a pitiful 3,300 square meters. It was not much larger than the Shenwu hangar, and its carrying capacity was only forty-two and twelve single-layer hangars were available.

Compared with the design of Group A, Ye Zaifu's Group B has apart from the side tilted armor. The horizontal armor only protects key positions such as power warehouses, aviation oil warehouses, and ammunition warehouses. The armor weight has been reduced by more than 2,000 tons. Thanks to the low center of gravity, a double-layer hangar was arranged. The area of ​​the upper and lower hangars is 5,400 square meters, the carrying capacity reaches 74 aircraft, and twenty aircraft are reserved.

Perhaps it is expected that the single-layer hangar will greatly reduce the capacity of the aircraft. Group A has added a floor plan to express their remediation plan, which is to tie the aircraft on the deck. The total length of the aircraft carrier's flight deck is 264 meters, which is 29.5 meters. Considering that the rear end of the flight deck needs 50 meters as landing space, the front end needs 120 meters for takeoff, and there is 94 meters of space in the middle of the flight deck that can be used to tie the aircraft. In this way, the 2,800 square meters on the flight deck, the hangar area of ​​the entire aircraft carrier actually exceeds the 400 square meters of Group B, and the total carrying capacity reaches 74.

The tying of planes on the deck was something that the US empire often did during World War II. I didn’t expect that Wang Pingxuan and others would be self-interpreted. Perhaps this was also forced by a single-layer hangar, but in this way, the planes on the deck would be exposed to the wind and sun, and suffered from sea salt corrosion. So the final plan was: if it weren’t for wartime, the tying of planes on the deck would be removed, and the daily carrying capacity would be forty-two.

Armored aircraft carriers have always been the favorite of the British, but this design is on Yang Rui's desk. In order to solve the problem of small aircraft carriers carrying armored aircraft carriers, the deck-tethered aircraft that the US emperor often worked on was also made out. Although he read a lot of World War II military articles, the plan of Group A was not known to Yang Rui. He was just thinking: Why did the British, the United States and Japan not expect this method? Could it be that the British were too stupid and the Japanese felt sorry for the planes. The Americans were too careless and unwilling to wear armor?

No one answered him, nor did anyone tell him that the Japanese aircraft carriers in the Pearl Harbor movies were actually all played by the Essex-class aircraft carriers built by the United States World War II. The Essex-class aircraft carriers were only one hundred and seventy meters long, twenty-one meters wide, and five-point four meters high. Other aircraft were tied on the deck.

Looking at the two drawings for a while, Yang Rui suddenly laughed and said, "The aircraft carrier can be said to be something I invented. No one in the world understands her better than me. But now I am confused by the designs of your two groups."

Yang Rui admitted that he was confused, and everyone around him laughed. Zhu Lu and Lieutenant General thought that it was too rare to make Yang Rui confused. He reached behind his back and raised his big fingers at the two groups. Yang Rui asked at this time: "If Group B's plan also tied aircraft on the deck like Group A, would it mean that Group B's carrying capacity would still be greater than Group A?"

"Return to Prime Minister," Ye Zaifu endured the trembling teeth. He didn't know who moved him before he started answering: "The oil depot, ammunition depot, various supplies, and crew cabins of the aircraft carrier are all fixed. Although the design of this group can also ties the aircraft on the deck, the added aircraft is limited, and at most fifteen to twenty aircraft can be added. However, the plan of Group A has not stopped in the landing area. If it is a multi-aircraft carrier formation in wartime, the aircraft can also be tied there, or if the catapult is used, the space for aircraft on the deck will be more, so the carrying capacity of Group B can also be increased to more than ninety aircraft."

"That is to say, in addition to the higher cost, Plan A is basically the same as Group B?" Yang Rui asked.

"The Group A solution has another better aspect than this group, that is, the single-layer hangar is obviously simpler than the double-layer hangar and the manufacturing speed is faster." Ye Zaifu humbly said the advantages of this Group A. However, before his words fell, Wang Pingxuan also humbly said: "The armor under the flight deck will increase the weight of the hull structure, and once severely attacked, the hull may be completely deformed; and the aircraft tied to the deck will also be corroded due to salt spray. If the ground staff cannot maintain it properly, the performance of the aircraft will be greatly damaged."

Both sides were saying that the other party had a good design. Yang Rui smiled but said nothing. He asked Zhu Luhe: "How much is the cost of the two designs?"

"From the quotation coefficient given by the Japanese shipyard last year, the Group A plan costs about 17 million yen, while the Group B plan does not have so much armored steel, and the cost is about 14 million yen." Zhu Luhe said. The general manager is responsible for the arms procurement, and he is now the focus of arms dealers around the world.

"Why is it so cheap?" Yang Rui was very surprised. Even if he did not consider the depreciation of the yen, it was cheaper than the Shenwu number. "Is that right?"

"Sir. This is the price before the price of steel plates rises. Judging from the current price, each ship will increase by about two million to three million yen. It depends on the price of steel for ships given by Benxi Iron and Steel Plant. The price they quoted is so low. It is because Japan's finances were urgent after the war last year, and the navy had no money to build ships, and the boilers, steam turbines, armor, and shipbuilding stations used for warships can also be produced by themselves without purchasing from outside, which saves a lot of money." Zhu Luhe said.

"Now we have signed a contract with them to build a merchant ship together. Will the price increase and will the work be lost if the order is placed to build a warship?" Thinking of China and Japan's efforts to build a standard ship, Yang Rui was not only worried about money but also time.

"Sir, the standard ships built in partnership are all merchant ships under 10,000 tons. Besides, no matter how fast the merchant ships are built, they are not as profit as warships. Japanese shipyards are not all state-owned like us. Private shipyards cannot get the profits of merchant ship shipping, and are forced to suppress prices by the government and chaebols. Those private shipbuilding ships with docks with more than 20,000 tons will be happy to accept our orders; as for Japanese state-owned shipyards, they will also be very interested in aircraft carrier construction and will not miss this opportunity." Zhu Luhe said.

"Then let's talk to the Japanese immediately." Yang Rui said: "It may not be necessary to complete the construction in two years, but it's okay for three years. Our time is not too tight. If we really can't build the second batch, can Nanjing Shipyard lay its keels first?"

"Which plan should I choose?" With Zhu Luhe's voice, the members of Group A and B who were standing on one side looked over.

"What is the speed of the two groups A and B? How much horsepower is there?" Yang Rui asked.

"If you don't need to use a mixed-fired boiler, the two assembled are the Japanese-type specialized heavy oil boilers, with a total of 18 seats and four-axis steam turbines. The total output is 140,000 axes and horsepower, and the speed is more than 33 knots." Zhu Luhe said. "In addition, some new technologies, especially those related to pipe damage, such as carbon dioxide filling, and automatic monitoring of sensor fires, will be used this time, but this will be installed independently by us after it is launched. We do not share the technology with Japan."

"Then build one according to this plan." Yang Rui's decision was unexpected. "This time, there is only accumulating experience next time. We have to take a walk of the seemingly right path, and we have to try the seemingly wrong path. Although I understand better than you, I am not a designer. This ship will eventually be designed and supervised by you. No matter how good you think, it cannot be made in vain. If it cannot achieve the effect during use, it will be in vain. If it is made and used, it will be effective, but it will be useless in wartime.

The battlefield is changing rapidly, and the battlefield on the ocean is even more complex. What kind of design is useful and effective can only be summarized bit by bit. Before, you asked you to go to the production management and quality management training courses and learn factory action analysis. You must understand: no matter how this ship is built or used by humans, and it is necessary to consider the operational issues based on the job responsibilities themselves. Only in this way do you know what operators in each position need, what they don’t need, what needs improvement, and how to avoid it. In the final analysis, quality management is everywhere."

Yang Rui decided on the plan and wanted to say something to motivate them, but he didn't want to talk about quality management again. He hurriedly brought the topic back and said something macro abstract: "Some people say a hundred years of navy, I think this is completely a fool! The history of the navy's growth is actually the history of ship building. When you cooperate with the officers and soldiers on the ship to create a warship that exceeds the current level, the navy will basically be trained. Because your ship building foundation is based on the deep understanding of the naval officers and soldiers of their positions. If they don't understand what they are going to do, how to cooperate with other departments and other ships, then you will not be able to understand the essence of the warship and break through the existing constraints.

From not knowing how to build ships to know how to build ships, to building good ships, to final breakthroughs, I think it will take at least thirty years. As for a century-old naval, it is more about naval bases. Without a hundred years of accumulation, a country's naval base cannot be spread all over the world, and a navy that is only in a corner cannot be considered a real navy in everyone's opinion. It is so grand, but the reality is that we can't even defend our homes, and we can only win by relying on submarines and other strange weapons. Now, if we want to change all this, it depends on you. Aircraft carriers are the future development direction of the navy. Without air supremacy, there is no sea supremacy. What we want is a fleet that can control the ocean and sky."

Yang Rui sent Zhu Lu and the designers away with one trick. Starting today, the shipbuilding plan will officially begin, and the plan to build a standard merchant ship will also be signed and launched. The next thing for him is to wait for money.

But he was thinking about leisure, and the case of land reform compensation in Shanghai was constantly fermenting. Creating public opinion was Liang Qichao's specialty. He didn't choose the two paths of entering Yunnan and Beijing, but he decided that he had to use his own way to deal with Yang Rui to make a breakthrough in law. At first, he found the largest and most famous Hawato Law Firm in Shanghai. He didn't expect that Hawato Law Firm has been a full-time lawyer for the Revival Association since the Su Bao case. After the founding of the country, Hawato Law Firm became a full-time legal consultant of the Shanghai Listing Government. The legal consulting fee paid by the Shanghai Listing Government for this year exceeded 300,000 yuan each year.

The municipal government values ​​the British background of Hartohua Law Firm and the tacit understanding reached by many years of cooperation, while Hartohua values ​​the official background. Shanghai is becoming more and more prosperous, and there are more and more cases. Foreign lawyers and Chinese lawyers will become more and more. How to maintain the position of the largest lawyer in Shanghai and achieve eternal growth is the most concerned thing for him after more than 40 years in China.

"..., that's how it is." In a sunny spring, the Shanghai Stock Exchange Government, the person in charge of land reform in charge of the city, briefly explained the rules for evacuation of cultivated land during land reform to the foreigners in front of him. Like the land reform yamen in other places, the Shanghai people who are fully in charge of land reform are also a cold and taciturn woman.

After she finished speaking, Mayor Fei Yugui added, "After the House of Commons amendment, the rules of land reform have also been voted by the House of Commons, which is equivalent to the law..."

"No. Mr. Mayor," said Hathowa, "no law cannot be contrary to the Constitution, even a little bit. The constitutional amendment only says: Greater China's cultivated land belongs to all citizens..., and the land owned by each household cannot exceed the limit stipulated by the province. The excess is the farmer of the land, that is, the tenant farmers, and the specific compensation methods and regulations are formulated and implemented by the special land reform department...

These words are very vague," Hartohua read the constitutional amendment and was very upset. "Mr. Mayor. This is probably the habit of you Chinese. In my opinion, even the Constitution should be written out in detail so that people can find loopholes."

"The specific compensation rules stipulated in the amendment will have regulations on the land reform yamen..." Fei Yugui still did not feel the problem. This time he found Hartova and felt a bit of a routine.

"Mr. Mayor, if the constitutional amendment states that arable land exceeds the specified area and arable land will be transferred to the farmer of the land for free, then he has no loopholes, but here is compensation. It does not object to the inviolability of property rights, but rather respects property rights. This is a good thing for everyone, but it is a bad thing here. Article 13 of the Constitution states: The government protects the legal private property of citizens from infringement, and if the government needs to expropriate legal private property for the sake of public interest, it should give reasonable compensation to the same as it is effective.

Simply put, the constitutional amendment only solves the problem of whether the tenant-leased farmland needs to be expropriated, and does not solve the problem of how much compensation is required to be given for expropriation of these farmlands. Of course, this may be correct, because the situation of each piece of land is completely different, and only a special department can be established to conduct actual assessments to make sense." Hartova quipped for a long time and was still talking about the compensation issue. "The problem now is, how can the land reform department prove that its verification and payment methods are appropriate and in line with the constitution? This is why we became the defendants, and the plaintiffs believe that the compensation we gave is unreasonable."

"How can I think it is reasonable?" Fei Yugui asked patiently.

"This requires the ruling of the Supreme Justice," said Hathowa. "Only they can judge what kind of compensation is appropriate. If we lose the case, the government will pay a large amount of money or food to those landlords based on the previous compensation. If there is such a case in Shanghai, then other provinces will follow suit. The final result is that all landlords will have to add a compensation.

This seems unreasonable to me. China is very large, and Shanghai is the most prosperous port. The prices of grain and cotton here are very high. The appropriate compensation that Shanghai believes is difficult for inland provinces. Even if judges from all over the country can consider this fact, they cannot go deep into the countryside to understand the real situation. The cases in Shanghai will also make public opinion condemn the government even more, although the views they say are wrong."

"Mr. Havato, can the Supreme Justice not obey the parliament? Just like your country, the Supreme Court must obey the parliament unconditionally, why..." Fei Yugui was very puzzled. He had received legal training before taking office and knew that the highest authority of the country was the Juyi Academy. But now the Dali Temple in Tingwei Mansion actually opposed the Juyi Academy, which is quite impressive.

"Mr. Mayor." When talking about this, Hathaway felt a sense of arrogant pride, so he rudely interrupted Fei Yugui's speech. "The biggest difference between Britain and other constitutional countries is, cough cough..." Hathaway cleared his throat again, and his gray beard also raised high. "The biggest difference between Britain and other constitutional countries is that she has no written constitution!

It is precisely because there is no written constitution that the laws promulgated by the parliament are the supreme laws. The Supreme Court cannot question them. In countries with written constitutions, the right to interpret the constitution belongs to the Supreme Justice. Because the constitution is the basis of all laws, the Supreme Justice has the right to interpret all laws and even oppose the parliament. This is true for France and the United States. Their president is just a slave to the parliament, and the Supreme Justice is a completely strict dictator with the right to interpret the constitution and lifelong system.

But I think your prime minister discovered this very early, so your country's highest justice only has ten years of term. After ten years, parliament will have the right to decide whether they are re-elected as the next Supreme Justice. Although their salary remains unchanged, if they cannot be re-elected, he will be just a retiree. The idea is good, but this arrangement cannot be handled freely for some emergencies. The highest justice of your country actually has a term like the US president. As people often say: During term of office, even if a dog becomes the US president, everyone can only patiently endure for four years, and cannot be like a parliamentary country that can be demolished at any time."

"Anyway, this matter is very difficult. If the government fails to go bankrupt?" Fei Yugui finally understood that the regulations of the Land Order were just waste paper before the Tingwei Mansion ruled to be valid. He wanted to see what the person in charge of the Land Order next to him was reacting. However, he didn't expect that this person had left when he was so obsessed with him, and only the cup of tea was still there.

"Yes. Seventy million acres of arable land. More than one billion pounds, this is a big money, and even Britain cannot pay it calmly!" said Hathowa. "The plaintiff is completely sure that the government or farmers cannot pay this money. If they win, then whether the farmers protest because they cannot accept higher compensation or the land reform case cannot be implemented in the end, this cabinet will be overturned. Mr. Mayor, please be honest, this is simply a party struggle, and some people hope that the Prime Minister will step down."

"Thank you, Mr. Hartohua, I think I know what to do. You must help us win this lawsuit." Understanding the key to the matter, Fei Yugui knew that this matter was not something he could solve. All he could do was actively respond to the lawsuit and report to the upper hand.

"I will do my best, and God bless us." Havato, who wanted to get up, took the hat handed over by the secretary, nodded to Fei Yugui and said goodbye.

After Hahuatou left, a long telegram was sent to Yin'an Hall by the Shanghai Stock Exchange Government. Except for Shanghai, Nanjing, Ningbo, Xiamen, Guangzhou, Yingkou, Tianjin, Chongqing, Changsha, Jilin..., almost all trade ports, there were groups of landlords who filed complaints to Dali Temple. They all sued the land reform office for violating the Constitution and did not provide reasonable compensation for the expropriation of arable land.

When all Dali Temples in these cities accepted appeals and filed a case, more landlords in Dali Temples in the prefectures were crowded with complaints. At the same time, the national land reform work suddenly became quiet and no one violently resisted the law. The landlords disappeared completely and fled to the concession and rushed to the prefecture; while the landlords left behind in the countryside disbanded the recruited guards one by one, and the guns that they had smuggled were carefully hidden, and then changed into decent clothes and sat in a sedan chair to the prefecture.

At this time, no one cared about the news of the European War, and no one paid attention to the news of the unlimited submarine. People who read all over the world were following the land reform compensation litigation cases on the front pages and second pages of major newspapers. In order to increase sales, major newspapers all invited legal experts to comment on the case in detail. What is strange is that foreign experts who used to criticize the Chinese government seemed to have unified the caliber this time, and they praised the wiseness of the land reform implemented by this cabinet, believing that if China does not implement land reform, the current situation of national poverty will not be changed.

In the harmonious atmosphere where foreigners sing praises, only a few ignorant American lawyers came up with an income report of Shanghai tenant farmers, believing that the compensation for arable land approved by the land reform department was too low and that the principle of reasonable compensation was not followed at all. A stone caused a thousand waves, and more reports of government price verification appeared in the newspapers. In the almost one-sided public opinion, the landlords who felt that things were becoming more and more proficient were all red and excited, waiting for the courtroom of Dali Temple in Shanghai to begin on the Dragon Boat Festival.

In contrast, the Constitutional Protection Party has opened party branches in various places. Because of the establishment of constitutional study meetings in various places, the sales of the Greater China Constitution suddenly increased. Many landlords had such a book of Huang Baoshu in their arms. When they were fine or bored, they would take out a few paragraphs to read. In the teahouse and wine shop, chanting poems and essays were outdated. The most popular thing was to talk about a passage of their own reading of the Constitution. Whenever someone talked about the wonderful things, the people present clapped and clapped like drinking nectar. In this case, the Empire Daily commented: For landlords, Huang Baoshu has become like the Western Bible, and the way of redemption is all in it. (To be continued...)
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