"Of course, General, but my shipyard hasn't been renovated yet, so I haven't brought it up."
Wesley said generously.
William Benson choked on Wesley's words, what a shame this is, you're a soldier.
Wesley didn't care about the other party's eyes at all, and continued casually: "The development of the navy's ships is still in the exploration stage, this is my opinion, the current warships have not yet reached their peak, mainly technical problems, but these are not the slightest problem with me." ” "And I have divided the warships specifically, first of all, the first type is naturally battleships, and the development of battleships is inevitably an increase in the caliber of the main guns, which is inevitable.
And an increase in caliber is inevitably accompanied by an increase in tonnage, so the battleships are getting bigger and bigger. ” "The second is cruisers, I divide them into heavy cruisers and light cruisers, and the third is called destroyers."
Wesley's statement is actually divided into four types of warships.
"Can you elaborate on that?"
asked William Benson, impatiently.
Wesley thought for a moment and said, "General, I hope you don't spread the word after hearing about it, although other shipyards don't have my technology, but the design concept is still very important." ” "Don't worry, I will never pass this on, but you want to take all the orders of the navy" "Of course not, because the number of ships needed by the Navy is a huge number, and I can't eat it with one shipyard, but I need to make sure that my shipyard is the No. 1 shipyard in the United States."
"Okay, I see."
"Let's not talk about battleships, everyone knows this, it's nothing more than technology and design, if the navy needs the latest capital ships, our shipyard can participate in the bidding, I think there is no problem with those bids."
"A cruiser, as the name suggests, is a type of ship that has been on the sea for a long time, like the current armored cruisers, which requires separate combat capabilities, and heavy cruisers are designed for this purpose.
The light cruiser, on the other hand, follows the fleet and assumes the role of fleet vigilance. ” "Destroyers are divided into offshore destroyers and ocean-going destroyers, the offshore is mainly to defend the coastline and naval bases, while the ocean-going ones follow the fleet movement, and this kind of ship does not need to be equipped with oversized naval guns.
Their role is nothing more than protection against local lightning strikes, as well as patrolling the coast, and they can also be relied upon for lightning strikes on enemy warships after a battle. ” "The idea is very good, the division is very careful, can you produce these warships?"
"Of course, but my shipyard has only completed a 20,000-ton dock, and now a 30,000-ton one is being built, and it will take a few months."
"Hey, do you need that big?"
asked Benson in surprise.
"If it weren't for the technical problems of the workers, I would have directly built a 50,000-ton dock, and they now need to start production from small ships, which is not something that my technology can do."
"Okay, then the Navy can give you an order first, an order for four destroyers, what do you think" William Benson directly threw out the bait, which was small, but it also meant that if the Navy was satisfied, then follow-up orders would continue to come.
"No problem, we can start work right away."
Everything was done, Wesley went straight back to New York, he asked for a large number of cargo ships and oil tankers, all of them were 10,000 tons, the 10,000-ton cargo ships and oil tankers in this era are not too big, but it is a good choice to train the workers.
Wesley directly approached John Rist, "I have an order for four destroyers here, and they will be built directly with only a 5,000-ton slipway, and all the skilled welders will be gathered here." ” "What destroyers, we don't produce the designers of the army," John Rist shouted in surprise.
"I'm just, you go and arrange the workers, I'll be drawing in the office for the past few days, and then building according to my drawings, and the weapons will be directly thrown into the arsenal for production, they have equipment and technology, and I'll put them there."
"You've wanted to produce warships for a long time."
"Of course, otherwise I'd do what I'd do with a big shipyard," Wesley told John Rist to do the preliminary preparations, and he began to draw up the plans for the destroyer.
John Benson didn't organize people to argue at all, and there was a reason why he directly asked Wesley to build it, first of all, the price of four destroyers was not high, which was very cheap for the navy, and you could see new warships, and at the same time, the navy could not accept it if it was not satisfied, which was a test for John Benson to Wesley.
Wesley also understands the Navy's intentions, and he is full of confidence, the current battleship is very long because of the boiler and power system, the battleship will be three or four chimneys alone, and Wesley's design will be epoch-making.
Wesley was designing on the other side, and William Benson directly stopped the other warship orders of the Navy for the time being, and the construction was almost completed, and all the others were stopped.
"Don't worry, we stopped not to cancel the order, but to change something, I hope you will wait for more specific things, and we will give you news in three months at most."
This is the Navy's explanation.
Three months was the time for Wesley's side to produce warships, which were produced in full accordance with the wartime system, working in three shifts, using a large number of skilled workers, for which cargo ships and oil tankers were stopped, anyway, Wesley's own orders.
The same is true for the arsenal, but this time the four destroyers are not very well armed, so there is no need to rush, and the production will be in time for step-by-step, and the marine power system of the power company needs to be accelerated.
Naturally, there were people in the navy in the various shipyards, and they quickly inquired about the initiators of this incident, but none of them reacted aggressively, because these people saw great benefits.
The Navy is going to develop at a big pace, and it's not satisfied with the ships that are being built now, and if Wesley Gibson can come up with better ships, then they can share the same.
Don't look at Wesley expanding the shipyard, but a country's navy is not a shipyard that can eat, and Wesley will have new designs and technologies flowing out, even if they can't get the core aspects, but some corners are good.
These capitalists are too shrewd to see the benefits directly, and although they can't start work for three months, the losses are actually not big, and they are small compared to what they get. t1706231537: