Traveling through the sword to engage in military industry

#455 - pattern

After changing their approach, Wu Chaoyou and his partner's target became much easier to pinpoint.

Switching to anti-materiel armor-piercing rounds, the two directly aimed at the speedboat and opened fire!

With two loud 'bang' sounds, two large holes suddenly appeared in the speedboat, immediately shocking the pirates on board!

Under the high-pressure water cannons, they finally discovered that someone in the air had launched an attack!

Looking at the helicopter in the sky, although they didn't know when it arrived, the group of pirates frantically fired their submachine guns at it for a while in a fit of impotent rage. After realizing they couldn't do anything to their opponent, the speedboat was quickly hit twice more. This time, the shots were even more precise, hitting the fuel tank and causing it to explode in flames!

Watching the pirate speedboat being blown up, those vicious pirates sank into the sea one by one.

On the oil tanker, the previously panicked sailors dropped their high-pressure water cannons one by one. They danced and cheered on the ship, raising their hands and waving frantically at the helicopter in the sky.

This was simply a divine intervention, pulling them back from the sea of suffering.

Although there were a few bullet holes on the oil tanker's舷侧, it was insignificant for such a giant ship. As long as the oil transport area wasn't hit, it was fine. Moreover, the thick steel舷侧 couldn't be easily penetrated by submachine guns.

"01 reporting, the pirate speedboat has been blown up, all pirates have abandoned ship and jumped into the sea. Requesting instructions!" Seeing the pirate speedboat burning and sinking, the helicopter co-pilot began to report the latest situation to headquarters.

"01 return to base, repeat, 01 return to base!" The order came back from headquarters, and the helicopter immediately returned in the direction it came from.

Since they had completed their combat mission, not to mention that the helicopter didn't have the ability to rescue people at sea, even if it did, Wang Peng wouldn't risk his life for a few pirates in the water.

It was just a coincidence that they passed by. This matter was a trivial matter for both Wang Peng and Li Yunlong. As for those few pirates, no one would care, and the sailors on the oil tanker wouldn't be foolish enough to be Mother Teresa.

About half an hour later, when the Haidao met the oil tanker, the captain of the oil tanker sounded the horn to show his respect to the fleet that had rescued them. Although it was just a small battle, the East Sea Fleet's ability to resolve the enemy cleanly and efficiently won the approval of everyone on the oil tanker.

Such a small episode, for Wang Peng and Li Yunlong, was just something to write in the航行日志.

It just made the long voyage a little less boring for Li Yunlong.

After all, their round-the-world voyage would not be interrupted this time. Except for stopping at ports for replenishment and for people to visit, everyone stayed on the ship doing their own thing.

On the other hand, Ren Zhong, who had been studying the historical development of the main world, discovered that new problems were about to arise.

In the same period in the main world, because the Three Germans and the Japanese were disarmed, their defense expenditures were almost completely saved. They only paid a little protection money, so they went all out to develop their economies. Relying on the low wages of these two loser alliances during this period, these two losers began to explode with huge production capacity after more than ten years of hard work from the ruins.

They took down a lot of the market share of the Western powers, and became industrial powers in one fell swoop.

But it also created the first economic crisis after the war.

In this timeline, the previous story is similar, but the later story has an extra upstart, East Sea. In this way, the market competition in this world is even more brutal.

But after carefully comparing the two worlds, Ren Zhong was a little confused again.

On the one hand, in this world, in terms of bulk products, such as the steel industry, East Sea also has a lot of high-quality alloy steel. They fill the international market, taking down most of the high-end steel market, and competing with the Rogue Eagle steel industry.

In terms of low-end crude steel, East Sea is now also expanding its production capacity like crazy. Two ten-million-ton-level steel conglomerates have blast furnaces put into production every month. East Sea's 30,000-ton and above ro-ro cargo ships are continuously traveling back and forth between Australia and East Sea's ports.

Originally relying on the monopoly of the two major mining companies, the Rogue Eagle's steel conglomerate controlled the source.

But when the Rothschild family came out and entered the mining industry, these two mining giants couldn't hold on. After all, there are so many iron ore mines in Australia that no one can finish them. The Rothschild family not only has huge connections, but also has strong financial capital. Now there is an opportunity to make money, so according to the speed of capital chasing profits, they bought some mature small and medium-sized mines and started supplying directly, and now they have reached a production capacity of several million tons.

Now the second channel in Black Africa has been opened. The Nigerian iron ore mine is not small, and the confirmed reserves are several hundred million tons. When the heavy-duty railway is built, this will also be a good source of supply.

Although the freight will be several times higher, for the safety of iron ore supply, the increased freight is still worth it.

In this way, East Sea is stronger than the little days in the historical timeline in terms of the steel industry. However, due to East Sea's rapid development, the imported goods have also expanded countless times compared to the historical timeline, driving the exports of the great powers. In addition, the technology output of the Qianlong Project, although there are still relatively few individual leading companies in the West, the total output value of all successful companies in various countries has accumulated to increase these countries' GDP by hundreds of billions of dollars.

Overall, this is a more prosperous world than the same period in the main world.

Ren Zhong carefully compared and observed the economic indicators of the two worlds. Except for the fact that John Bull's finances seemed to be on the verge of collapse in the Suez Canal War, and was tricked by Rogue Eagle but directly pulled back by East Sea and Rothschild and other major forces, the rest of the economies are still operating well.

The Three Germans, who were intercepted a lot of automobile output value, and the little days, who were completely suppressed, developed far less than in the historical timeline of the main world.

The Three Germans are okay, just a superficial injury, but for the little days, it is almost a comprehensive suppression. Whether it is steel or shipbuilding, they are suppressed by East Sea.

Now East Sea's shipbuilding industry, the advantageous ro-ro cargo ships, has begun to develop towards super-large diversification. The three major series of ro-ro cargo ships of Liming Shipbuilding Company have been upgraded to two major categories of ro-ro cargo ships and bulk cargo ships. The fourth generation of Liming-class has been updated to 30,000 tons to 50,000 tons, while the fourth generation of Xiwang-class covers the 50,000-ton to 80,000-ton range, and the fourth generation of Yuanxing-class covers the super-large cargo ship range of 80,000 tons to 150,000 tons.

Liming Shipbuilding's 150,000-ton Yuanxing-class ro-ro/bulk cargo ships are being produced in batches. Now the company's 5 super-large docks are not idle, and they are constantly building, launching, and delivering ships, replenishing the fleets of Asia Shipping and Global Shipping, the new era shipping hegemons, at a rate of 3 to 5 ships per year. At the same time, the construction of 2 berths for 200,000-ton ro-ro cargo ship docks has been completed, and they are now entering the design and construction stage of the fifth generation of Yuanxing-class new ships.

From 3,000-ton to 150,000-ton Ro-Ro/bulk cargo ships, Dongda Shipbuilding now offers optimal solutions. With a complete and well-established industrial chain and mature technology, Dongda's Ro-Ro ships are unparalleled in terms of quality and cost-effectiveness. Not only domestic customers, but also overseas customers are willing to wait in line, even if the waiting time is longer.

Of course, on the demand side of the shipbuilding industry, thanks to Ren Zhong's continuous promotion of foreign trade, Dongda's commodities are now going abroad more fiercely than expected. Among them, automobile exports have exceeded everyone's expectations. Relying on the success of Golf and JETTA, Dongda's automobile exports have exceeded one million vehicles. In this way, the Ro-Ro cargo ships transporting cars from Dongda can transport the cars to Europe and then conveniently transport back machine tools, large diesel engines, large thermal power generators, and other products.

By using large bulk cargo ships, grain and other goods can be transported to Black Africa, and then iron ore can be transported back to China from Nigeria. According to this seamless transportation arrangement, the freight costs can be reduced somewhat.

Zhang's and Chen's families, the two major giants in the global shipping industry, were originally supported by Ren Zhong. They have reached a scale that they could not have imagined at the beginning.

The pursuit of profit is no longer the top priority. As the main force for Dongda's import and export transportation, these two companies now have to re-calculate transportation prices every year according to Dongda's domestic import and export trade to ensure the competitiveness of domestic enterprises, and they will naturally try every means to save on freight costs.

Even operating with a slight profit during special periods is acceptable.

The transportation of iron ore is naturally mainly carried out by these two companies.

Now Dongda's transportation demand has jumped to the top few in the world, far beyond what these two companies can handle alone. Therefore, in addition to the two giants, Zhang's and Chen's families, several large shipping companies from Xiangjiang have also emerged. Everyone is relying on the golden opportunity of the prosperous East-West shipping, and each of them is making a lot of money.

In this way, the main demand for the shipbuilding industry is concentrated in Dongda.

Of course, due to demand, Dongda basically has no large-scale oil imports now. Oil transportation is still monopolized by the great powers, including everything from oil tankers to shipping companies.

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However, as Dongda gets closer to Europe, importing oil from the Middle East has also begun to enter Dongda's plans. Even though domestic oil is still in a self-sufficient state due to the discovery and exploitation of various oil fields and the relatively small number of cars currently owned.

But now the price of oil in the Middle East is not expensive, and appropriately controlling the pace of domestic oil exploitation will leave room for imported oil. There is no shortage of foreign exchange now, so it is a good time to save domestic resources.

These are the situations of two changing factors.

On the other hand, Ren Zhong is also studying. In order to keep the trade between the two sides in a dynamic balance, Ren Zhong has made a plan for the overall trade planning according to the needs of development. A large number of heavy-duty vehicles that Dongda lacks are now open for import. After all, in this regard, Dongda's automobile industry is still much weaker. After opening up the thinking, small cars can overtake on curves, but large heavy-duty vehicles have a complete set of technical foundations, and it is impossible for Ren Zhong to get a large transport vehicle from the main world to the Bright Sword world.

Therefore, taking advantage of the opportunity, a large number of large transport vehicles, large diesel engines, large gas turbines, and large thermal power units, which are Dongda's weaknesses, are imported to balance trade on the one hand and supplement the shortcomings of domestic infrastructure construction on the other hand.

At this stage, thanks to Ren Zhong's efforts, Dongda has completely independently developed 50,000-kilowatt to 100,000-kilowatt thermal power units. However, the current world's advanced level is 200,000-kilowatt subcritical and 300,000-kilowatt supercritical and even ultra-supercritical high-efficiency power generation units. The difference in technical level is still very obvious, and it is necessary to introduce advanced units to develop electricity.

Although thermal power is not very environmentally friendly now, as a large coal-producing country, the cost advantage and power generation stability advantage of thermal power are unparalleled. It is still the largest source of power in the country, and Ren Zhong is sparing no effort to support the development of thermal power.

Because at this stage, there is almost no other choice for energy supply besides this. In addition to persistent technological research, the Thermal Power Research Center is constantly researching higher power and more environmentally friendly thermal power generation technology, and is now starting to attack 150,000 units based on 100,000 units.

However, the introduced units are now concentrated above 200,000 kilowatts, and the construction of the latest thermal power plant is aimed at the newly released supercritical 300,000-kilowatt unit.

In addition, on the other main energy source, hydropower stations, construction is of course also constantly underway, and even cascading super-large hydropower stations on the Yangtze River have begun to be planned. However, that construction affects the whole body and cannot be effective in the short term. Hydropower stations that are easy to build on tributaries cannot meet the rapidly growing energy demand.

At this stage, only thermal power is the main force in energy development.

As for nuclear power, limited by current technology and raw material supply, Ren Zhong is vigorously promoting compact reactors, because this is to meet the needs of mobile sea fortresses and island construction. Due to the lack of 100,000-kilowatt or higher steam turbine technology, the construction of large nuclear power plants is still in the research process. Except for special areas where it is not suitable to build hydropower and thermal power stations, such as the plateau where new railways need to be built and the energy supply for large steel plants needs to be built, a nuclear power plant will be built as the energy supply core of the plateau. After all, there is currently no ability to pull the power grid to the plateau for connection. In addition, commercial nuclear power plants will not be widely promoted until 300,000-kilowatt or higher units have been developed. After all, in the balance between commerciality, safety, and feasibility, nuclear power is more difficult to assess than thermal power, and Ren Zhong will not rashly launch uncontrollable nuclear power plants.

This is the main situation of the energy industry now, and the overall pattern will not change for the time being.

Because of the complementary advantages of each of the great powers, the trade between the East and the West is now generally in a dynamic balance, with very few trade deficits.

However, now Dongda's dependence on the great powers in terms of importing core technologies is not very strong. Dongda does not look down on inferior technologies, and others will not sell top-notch technologies.

For example, in the energy industry, Dongda still lacks large power generation units such as 200,000 kilowatts. However, the great powers will not use this world-leading technology for export; they will only sell finished products.

In addition, under the conditions that Dongda has independently mastered 100,000-kilowatt power generation units, the selling price of large power generation units of the great powers does not dare to be too outrageous. They basically follow a premium of about 15% more than the unit cost of 100,000-kilowatt power generation units, which Ren Zhong can also accept.

After all, the construction cost of a 200,000-kilowatt power generation unit is definitely much higher than the construction cost of two 100,000-kilowatt power generation units, and the subsequent operation and maintenance costs will also be much higher.

Because you are in me and I am in you, the current trade is generally maintaining a relatively balanced growth state.

From a large perspective, the current world economy does not seem to be about to have problems.