Chapter 334: 334 go back
Chapter 334 Chapter 334 Go back
With the arrival of Tang Mo, the construction speed of Longdao has also begun to accelerate crazily. The scale of the tail port is already quite huge. Its shipyard has even been built and mass production of the free ship that Tang Mo needs most now has begun.
The current Datang Group has 9 Bunas-class battleships and 3 Wolf-class battleships. It is the most powerful maritime force in the world.
There is no doubt about this, because one Wolf-class battleship combined with three Bunas-class battleships destroyed Talon, the maritime power that dominated the southern part of the Endless Sea.
If Tang Mo assembled these 12 warships, he could capture almost any port in any country, or completely destroy the maritime trade routes of this hostile country.
However, not all the warships in Tang Mo's hands actually belong to him - among the 12 warships controlled by the Datang Group, one belongs to the Kingdom of Wright, or the future Lions Empire.
In addition, one ship has been sold to the Dwarf Ice Kingdom, and the other has been sold to Dorne. In the future, this warship will serve as the flagship of the Dorne Kingdom and serve in the Dorne Navy.
At the same time, one battleship will be sold to the Pinewood Kingdom in the future, and another may be sold to the Poplar Kingdom.
This is equivalent to saying that of the 9 Bunas-class ironclads in the hands of the Datang Group, only 5 are actually their own.
And the Datang Group has no plans to keep these five warships at all. They have already planned to sell all the Bunas-class warships in their hands.
Lines Empire is interested in purchasing, and Nanla Empire is also preparing to purchase blueprints and build more Bunas-class battleships.
Also interested in purchasing is Dorne, which has become a maritime power. This country is not what it used to be, and its coastline is actually longer than imagined.
Previously, Dorne was a seaside country, and one of its important ports was the Rewind Port that was permanently sold to the Datang Group.
Going south along the coastline, Dorne is actually bordering the Kingdom of Talon, and these coastlines now belong to the Kingdom of Dorne.
Most of the islands in the Tarun Kingdom have been permanently owned by the Datang Group and serve as the private territory of Tang Mo, the owner of the Datang Group.
But other land ports already belong to Dorne, so Dorne needs to build a large and powerful navy to protect its coastline.
Hence, Dorne’s envoys have been active, hoping that Datang Group can sell more warships to help Dorne build a modern and powerful naval force.
To be honest, Tang Mo actually hopes to sell more steel battleships, because selling naval battleships is a super profitable business even on earth in the 21st century.
Didn’t you see that Russia sold an aircraft carrier to India for US$1, but then defrauded the other party of US$3 billion in renovation costs?
Didn’t you see that Russia blackmailed China and sold a not-so-advanced modern-class destroyer for a sky-high price of hundreds of millions of dollars?
Didn’t you see that the Beiyang Navy spent a high price to purchase warships, but others still had the ugly face of not selling them if they didn’t want to? …
In short, the business of selling modern warships is definitely profitable. And now Datang Group seems to have entered a stage of relative lack of money.
The investment in aviation will definitely not see a return in a short period of time, and it is almost wishful thinking for railways to recover costs.
Most of the reserves of Datang Bank dare not be used casually, and Tang Mo must also ensure that the "Tang banknotes" that have become the legal currency of the Lions Empire continue to be stable.
The mine in Tang Mo's hands is expanding production, and it is impossible for Tang Mo to make money by selling raw materials for a while - he doesn't even have enough for himself.
The shipbuilding industry is all serving its own family. The Wolf-class battleships it manufactures are not for sale, and the Liberty Ship can only be used exclusively for its own fleet for the time being, so shipbuilding is also a "losing money" project for the time being.
The production capacity of automobiles has been maximized, and it is still transforming to produce new trucks and cars with better performance. In addition, Tang Mo has set a very low price in order to popularize automobiles, so making money from automobile projects is profitable, and it is indeed profitable. not much.
In addition, the war has ceased recently, and the arms business can only provide stable supplies step by step. Therefore, Datang Group has been spending money recently, but there have been very few projects that have made money recently.
Hence, Tang Mo could only place his hopes on his own chemical factory. Medical drugs and fertilizers are almost his life-saving means to feed most of the group.
In this environment, the naval battleships in Tang Mo's hands have become a cash cow - as long as everyone is willing to pay, he doesn't mind selling all the redundant Bunas-class battleships!
The railway on Longdao has connected Weigang and Longcheng, but there is only one - the early railway did not actually need to build two round-trip railways. It only needed to build parallel tracks in a few specific sections to accommodate two trains. The trains are meeting.
This greatly reduces the consumption of steel for rail tracks and saves laying time, but it does also reduce transportation efficiency.
Therefore, the construction of the second railway has begun on Longdao. The two parallel railways can perfectly increase the transportation capacity. At the same time, Longcheng has also built a university, a comprehensive, more complete and larger university.
Tang Mo wants to cultivate more professional talents here, because with the development and progress of technology, he will need more and more modern talents.
Without the support of 100,000 technicians, engineers and scholars, he may not be able to develop an atomic bomb by himself in his lifetime.
And just by himself, he can't create any high-tech toys such as stealth aircraft, super aircraft carriers, artificial satellites, and space stations...
So, he needs more subordinates, more technical talents, more senior workers, and more grassroots support.
He needs the entire world to enter modernization so that he can make more money relying on technology. If the world stays at its current stage, then even if he develops anti-aircraft missiles, who can he sell them to?
Longcheng University naturally needs to be built, and Weigang University naturally needs to be built. Refeng Port and Osa also need to build schools to select and train more local talents.
Even if these talents cannot be used by Datang Group, if they are dispersed, they will promote the progress and development of the entire world. They will become an invisible driving force in the future, pushing the world onto the fast lane of development.
In order to support the growing population, Longdao's infrastructure is also being expanded and reformed. Larger generating units are being built, and more power will allow Longdao to develop faster.
Compared with Bunas, Dragon Island actually has certain advantages in development. It is a city built from scratch on flat ground. Everything in it is built according to the plan, so it saves the effort of renovation. .
Everything here is changing rapidly, and the development here is more than twice as fast as Bunas. The most important factor restricting the development here is population, and Tang Mo is working hard to transport the population to Long Island.
Ossa, Hot Wind, Neverwinter City, Everwinter City, including Bunas, there are ships full of people going out to sea every day.
Orcs, elves, dwarves, humans... groups of people who hope to find gold will try their best to board the ship to Dragon Island.
Even sometimes, a whole boatload of criminals from Zheng State would be directly throttled, and then a ship would be found to send them to Long Island.
In short, although the composition is very mixed, the population of Kelon Island has increased. From the original hundreds of thousands, it has recently expanded to an astonishing more than 250,000.
"Dorn is willing to provide 1.5 million gold coins, 500,000 in cash, and 1 million in paid loans to purchase the Bunas 2 ship... They agreed to our delay in delivery." Now that Roger has returned to Tang Mo, these reporting tasks It was all handed over to him.
Harry has been in charge of work in Bunas recently, and Loew, as the chief of staff, followed him to Dragon Island. As a result, Tiger, the most reassuring person, became the Dinghai Shenpin again and was driven back to Bunas to take charge of military affairs.
Tang Mo stood at the window, looking at Lin Hai outside, and asked without looking back: "Including this one, they have already bought three Bunas-class battleships, right?"
"Yes!" Roger nodded, then looked down at the report: "Lines wants to buy 2 ships...Next month, according to the previous contract, we will hand over the Bunas 7 to them. . Another one, the Bunas 1, they want us to deliver at the same time.”
"Give them! It doesn't matter. In two months, more Wolf-class cruisers will be launched. Our most difficult period has passed." Tang Mo thought for a moment and decided to meet the other party's request.
Anyway, a war is unlikely to break out in the near future. Even if someone dares to use a few Bunas-class ironclads to challenge Datang Group's sea power, the three Wolf-class warships in Tang Mo's hands are enough to teach the other party how to behave.
“We are thinking of ways to transport gold to Longdao, but because of fear of shipwreck loss, we can only transport about 5 tons at a time.” Roger continued to report.
Since the core of the Datang Group has been moved to Long Island, it seems that the most important treasury should also be moved to the safer Dragon Island.
Tang Mo is planning to build Longdao into the world's only financial center. In the future, world trade can only be completed on Longdao.
So, building a world central bank here to collect all the gold in the world has become the preparatory work to be carried out.
Tang Mo still stared at the jungle in the distance and said to Roger: "Okay, it's not a bad thing to be safe."
“According to your instructions, we are going to send a fleet to Zheng Guo. Lord Leo wants to go back and have a look.” Roger mentioned another thing.
"There's nothing wrong with letting him return home in fine clothes, but it's better not to let him go this time." Tang Mo thought for a while and gave his own opinion: "Tell him not to worry... Next time, I will accompany him back and sit down Wolf 1...go back.”
Roger was stunned for a moment, then laughed: "I understand."
(End of this chapter)