Chapter 512 Ghost Ship (10th update)

  Mingzhou Group Guest House.

   "Haiyang, are you happy that your father is back?" Zhao Ling looked at her toddler son and said with a smile.

  The son's walking was still not very stable. He just walked a few steps, and then moved forward faster and faster, and then threw himself into Zhao Ling's arms.

  Zhao Ling held Qin Haiyang in her arms, and then hugged her.

  The nanny was already busy cooking. Zhao Ling took her son to play in the suite, and looked at the door several times: "Brother Zhengyang, go get busy, I won't leave."

  Xu Zhengyang said with a smile: "I'm here as a rest."

  Since Xu Zhengyang refused to leave, Zhao Ling could no longer urge him: "Then come in and sit down."

  Xu Zhengyang shook his head again.

   Time passed like this.

  Zhao Ling gradually became confused: "Brother Zhengyang, why hasn't Brother Tao come back? What is he doing?"

   "I'll ask you." Xu Zhengyang picked up his phone.

  After making a phone call, Zhao Ling's face was a bit ugly: "Hmph, how could he do this? He drove me back, but he went to the sea for the test himself. It's too much, too much!"

  Xu Zhengyang was a little speechless. Qin Tao's double standard was indeed a little outrageous. However, as Qin Tao's secretary, Xu Zhengyang couldn't say anything.

   "Hmph, I'm going to take a look." Zhao Ling wanted to go outside as she said that.

"Gong Zhao, the ship has already gone to sea, it's useless if you go!" Xu Zhengyang still remembered his mission, and hurriedly stopped him: "You should stay here, by the way, we have another mission, if you are interested, Can work here."

   "What task?"

   "Ghost Ship."

  Zhao Ling frowned, isn't the name too creepy? However, after hearing Xu Zhengyang tell the idea of ​​the ship, Zhao Ling's eyes slowly lit up.

   "Yang Hai, can you watch your mother draw pictures on the computer?"

   Haiyang nodded and pointed to the computer desk.

   Sea, No. 138.

   "The power system is really good. When we drove back, we didn't start the gas turbine to accelerate, and we were afraid that its power would not meet the demand. Now it seems that there is no need to worry at all." Zhang Zhen's face was full of pride.

   Just completed the verification of the most critical power system. After accelerating the start of the gas turbine, it provided surging power, pushing this 10,000-ton destroyer to a speed of 32 knots!

"Yeah, Lao Maozi's power system is not covered. Four M8KF gas turbines are used, and the speed-up and top-speed performance are just right." Qin Tao also sighed: "However, we don't need to be too envious. It won't take long. We The gas turbines produced by ourselves can also achieve this kind of performance, two can drive warships of 6,000 tons, and four can drive warships of more than 10,000 tons!"

  Marine gas turbines are the heart of warships, and they used to be a difficulty that plagued the development of the domestic navy. For modern destroyers, two were built in 052 and two in 051C, and there will be no more after that!

   In the past two years, frigates have been built because of the lack of qualified gas turbines.

  However, this problem will be solved soon. The design institute in the north has already started to test the gas turbine produced by itself, and the domestic gas turbine that is qualified for naval use is about to be obtained!

  Beside the two of them, Mutisin opened his eyes wide: "You already have a qualified naval gas turbine?"

  Qin Tao nodded: "That's right, the heart problem that plagued us is no longer a problem. Next, our main destroyers will be powered by gas turbines. We are now ready for everything and only owe Dongfeng."

  East wind, of course it is the wind blowing from the east. This storm will stimulate some people, and then the navy will usher in a big development.

  Light blue smoke came out of the chimney of No. 138, the accelerated gas turbine had been shut down, and the sky had already darkened.

   "Today's sea trial is over here, and tomorrow we will start to verify the effectiveness of the radar and other combat systems. This has to be negotiated with the navy, and they are asked to send out target drones."

   "No problem, I will contact you when I get back." Zhang Zhen said.

  No. 138 returned smoothly, and the huge hull gently leaned against the pier. Qin Tao jumped off, got into the car, and headed for the guest house.

   I haven't seen my wife for a long time, and this time I'm back, so of course I have to make out.

  With such an eager mood, Qin Tao returned to the guest house. After opening the door, he saw Zhao Ling working at the computer desk.

   "What's the matter, why are you working again? You are not obedient if you are asked to rest."

   "You are working, how can I rest at ease?" Zhao Ling said: "Besides, we still have important tasks to do."

   "Hmph, I'm very upset that you are disobedient, I'm going to spank you later!" Qin Tao was furious.

  Zhao Ling blushed. Although Xu Zhengyang is gone, the child and the nanny are still there. Is it appropriate for you to say that?

   Qin Tao went to pick up the child while talking.

  Although he was away from home for a long time, Haiyang is very sensible. He knew Qin Tao and stretched out his arms for a hug.

Qin Tao hugged his son, looked at the computer screen, and then was taken aback: "Are you drawing a ghost ship? Damn it, Zheng Yang must have said it! When I see him tomorrow, I will criticize him severely! "

   "No, if he didn't tell me this, I would definitely go to sea to find you." Zhao Ling said: "At least I can stay at home with peace of mind."

   "Okay, stop working now and have dinner with me."

  Zhao Ling put down the mouse obediently: "It's just right, there are some questions about the ghost ship, I have to discuss it with you."

  Qin Tao shook his head: "No, I don't talk about work when I'm eating."

  Zhao Ling smiled, her husband is already the boss of a multinational corporation, yet he still plays childish temper.

   "Okay, okay, don't talk if you don't talk about it, eat, ocean, your father is so majestic."

   After a few months, the family finally sat at the same table and had a meal. Qin Tao was also very touched when he saw the table full of food.

   "Xiaoling, I always run around and let you take the ocean, thank you for your hard work."

   "What's the hard work, Haiyang is mainly led by Xiaohong (nanny's name)."

  Qin Tao was even more emotional: "Ocean, you are so pitiful. Your parents weren't around much when you were young, just like your parents when you were young."

  In later generations, some people gave birth to a child and quit their jobs to take care of the baby at home. The reason is very good. The child’s childhood is too short, and the child grows up inadvertently, so it is necessary to give the child a complete childhood.

  However, in this day and age, there are many people who work desperately for work, and children lack too much care from their parents in their childhood.

   While talking, the door outside rang, and Xiao Hong quickly ran to open the door.

   "Mom?" Qin Tao looked at the people coming in outside: "Why are you here?"

"Of course I'm coming, no matter how late it is every day, I have to come and see my grandson." Cao Yuru said with a smile, "Your father is still busy in the shipyard and has no time to come over. As a grandma, I can't treat Haiyang badly." ah."

   "Mom, let's sit down and eat together." Zhao Ling greeted with a smile.

  The eight wolves men's clothing has been on the right track, and now it is exported overseas. Cao Yuru, the factory manager, is also busy every day, but after all, it is all trivial matters, so I can spare time every day.

  A small garment factory is nothing, but his son's Mingzhou Group is an important multinational enterprise. His son is busy every day, and Cao Yuru, a mother, must pay more attention to family affairs.

  Now, Cao Yuru looks at her son and then at her grandson, feeling indescribably happy.

   "Mom, how is everything in your garment factory?" Qin Tao asked.

  Zhao Ling looked at Qin Tao with contempt in her eyes, what did you just say? You said you don't talk about business at home, but now, you actually proposed it yourself?

snort.

"Well, it's good. The market in the Rainbow Country is huge. Thanks to the advance preparation and layout, we rely on the long-staple cotton from the Pyramid Country to weave cloth, and then make clothes and sell them to the Rainbow Country. Because the market in the Rainbow Country The expansion of our domestic cotton prices keeps rising, and the long-staple cotton from the Pyramid Country has helped us a lot.”

Qin Tao nodded, all of this was arranged by him, and it happened at the right time at the time. He did not expect such an operation to have a good effect. Now, seeing his mother's satisfaction, he continued: "Mom, the market in Rainbow Country will be in It will be saturated within two or three years, but don’t worry, our brand of eight wolves men’s clothing has already been launched. Next, we have to make preparations. After joining the WTO in another two years, we will be able to export a large amount to the West. To occupy the European and American markets."

  Europe and America?

   Now even Zhao Ling is curious: "Can our products enter these markets? Will Westerners like them?"

"Of course. Although we are still inferior to the West in terms of high technology, we have an absolute advantage in terms of daily necessities. As long as we join the WTO, we can sell them in large quantities to the West." Qin Tao Said: "After all, we have a labor cost advantage, but, mom, we will never fight a price war, we still have to go high-end, let Europeans know our brand of eight wolves men's clothing."

  Cao Yuru nodded, what her son said would definitely achieve something, as a mother, as long as she obeyed, she was absolutely right.

  The factory has expanded its production capacity. If the Rainbow Country market shrinks after two years, it means that the factory will have to lay off a large number of employees. Now that Qin Tao has spoken out, the market will not disappear, it will only grow bigger!

   This meal has become an issue of how to develop the garment factory. Although Zhao Ling is a little dissatisfied, she can't argue with her husband in front of her mother-in-law. However, in the dead of night, Zhao Ling can still express her dissatisfaction through non-violent non-cooperation.

  Qin Tao is very helpless, and wants to be a monk for another night?

   "Okay, let's talk about the ghost ship." Qin Tao couldn't force himself, so he had to change the subject.

   As a result, Zhao Ling was satisfied, and she finally ate meat before dawn.

  There is an extra barge on the outfitting pier of Mingzhou Shipyard.

   This is a catamaran barge. After Mingzhou Group started building catamarans, many domestic manufacturers followed suit. Although they couldn't build 022 missile boats, ordinary catamarans are still fine.

  Ordinary barges generally have no power and need to be towed by other ships, which also makes it cheaper. As for the double-hull layout, it can reduce the draft of the hull, increase the area above the hull, and increase the ability to transport goods.

   This barge has been in operation for about three or four years. The paint on the outside of the hull has been mottled, and the side of the hull has even been hit and scarred. What is such a barge doing at the outfitting dock all of a sudden?

   Everyone is curious.

   Its modification progress is very fast. First of all, dozens of masts were simply and roughly welded on its deck. Is this going to be a propaganda ship?

  The installation is still going on. On these masts, some uniquely shaped metal plates have been installed. These metal plates are shiny and so conspicuous in the sun.

  This is not a propaganda banner!

   Then, in the middle of the hull, a platform was built. On the platform, a ball was squatted. The big guy still knows this ball. This is a radome.

  Satellites in the sky pass over the Mingzhou Group from time to time. This unique equipment has finally attracted the attention of some people.

  USS Independence, Ship Island.

  Swift smoked a cigar, looking at the information he had just harvested.

   "What are they doing? Is this learning from the experience of the British in the Falklands War?"

   Outsiders don’t know, but Swift knows that these shiny things are corner reflectors, and their function is to reflect the incoming radar waves.

  The principle of stealth design is just the opposite.

The stealth design is to minimize radar reflections. In this way, a 6,000-ton destroyer will be regarded as a hundreds-ton missile boat, and a hundreds-ton missile boat may be directly hidden in the clutter of the waves. hard to spot.

  The corner reflector is to increase the radar reflection wave as much as possible, so that a barge with a displacement of several hundred tons will become a warship of thousands or tens of thousands of tons.

  Looking at the number of corner reflectors equipped on this barge, you can know that it is probably similar to the reflected echo of an aircraft carrier.

   This is to simulate a large warship.

  What is the purpose of simulating this kind of warship?

  In the Falklands War in the 1980s, the British Navy did this. They used some unimportant merchant ships or helicopters to install corner reflectors to attract anti-ship missiles fired from the opposite side and protect their warships from harm.

"That's right, if they build a large number of these ships, and each warship drags one behind, then our Harpoon missiles are likely to pounce on targets with a larger radar reflection area, so that they can protect Their warships are gone." Swift said to himself, affirming his speculation: "So many ships, like ghosts, interfere with our Harpoon missiles, so they are called ghost ships."

   "It's not like learning from the experience of the British. If you want to interfere, you just need to put a corner reflector. Why do you need to put a radar? In that big ball, although I don't know the specific model of the equipment, it must be a radar."

   That's right, the ghost ship doesn't need radar either!

  Swift got curious.

  Time is passing day by day.

  Qin Tao has always stayed at Mingzhou Shipyard, amazed by the people around him, but thinking that the New Year is coming soon, Mr. Qin must stay at home for the New Year, so he can understand.

   On the twenty-eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, Qin Tao came to Mingzhou Iron and Steel Plant.

   "Boss Qin, long time no see, you are finally here." When the factory manager Zhang Jinxi saw Qin Tao, he immediately greeted Qin Tao with a smile, his face was full of excitement.

   "Well, Director Zhang, your steel plant is currently our company's second largest profit maker, of course I have to come and have a look." Qin Tao said with a smile: "This year's group meeting must focus on you."

  Mingzhou Shipyard is the most profitable, followed by the Iron and Steel Plant. Needless to say, just providing Invar Steel to the brother units is enough for their Iron and Steel Plant to obtain a steady stream of profits.

   Their profitability makes others jealous, especially those units in Huating, some of which are still burning money.

"Farewell, Mr. Qin, we are just following your development path, but we haven't done any major things. We are not as good as a machinery factory in terms of innovation, and we are not as good as a chip factory in terms of high technology. We just engage in our own production honestly, but there is nothing to show off." Zhang Jinxi is very humble.

   "Chips are high-tech, and advanced high-performance steel is also high-tech. Your research and development is not easy. By the way, how is the progress?"

   "Mr. Qin, our current important research and development project is the four-roller reversible double-stand wide and heavy plate rolling mill. All the design tasks have been completed so far, and the construction will officially start after the construction of the special rolling mill workshop is completed."

  Qin Tao nodded: "Well, yes, it's just in time, did we design it ourselves?"

  Zhang Jinxi was embarrassed: "No, we asked the German company SMS Siemag to help with the design, and now there are still a group of Germans helping in our steel plant."

   "Learning from the barbarians to control the barbarians, this is not shameful, let's go, let's take a look."

  Germany SMS Siemag has been committed to machinery manufacturing since 1872, and is an internationally renowned manufacturer of metallurgical equipment. Their business scope includes smelting and rolling technology, press forging and forging technology as well as plastics technology. Therefore, if you want to manufacture the most advanced steel plate rolling mill in the world, it is the best way to cooperate with SMS Siemag.

After all, Mingzhou Group makes steel, not steelmaking equipment. It is the most suitable solution to ask SMS company to help design, and at the same time purchase some parts from SMS company, and Mingzhou Group to produce other main frame and other parts. .

  Mingzhou Iron and Steel Works has a special laboratory, and there is also a special computer room in the laboratory. At this time, some Germans are busy in the computer room.

   "Mr. Hubert, let me introduce you. This is Mr. Qin of our group." Zhang Jinxi said to a tall German.

A German engineer named Hubert raised his head, looked at Qin Tao, and said with excitement on his face, "You are Mr. Qin? It's an honor to meet you. You created Mingzhou Group, a powerful shipbuilding group, so that People admire."

   "I just did what I should do." Qin Tao said, "I heard that our wide-body rolling mill has been designed?"

   "That's right, all the designs have been completed, and we are reviewing." Hubert said: "We are also very honored to be able to personally design this king of rolling mills."

   "The king of the rolling mill?" Qin Tao was a little curious.

"That's right, apart from our Dillingen steel plant in Germany, there is no other steel plant in the world that can directly roll steel plates with a width of 5,500 mm. Yours is the second one, but your rolling mill can For processing steel plates over 40 meters long, the Dillingen Steel Plant can’t compare to that, so the rolling mill here is the king of rolling mills in the world!”

In 2020, there are a total of six rolling mills with a width of 5500mm in the world, but in 1996, only Germany had it in the world, and here is the second one here, and it can process longer. Therefore, the title of the king of rolling mills in the world is well-deserved .

  Qin Tao nodded: "Our Mingzhou Group will either not do it, or we will be the strongest in the world if we do it. With the steel plate produced by this rolling mill, the production efficiency of our shipyard will be even higher!"

  The width is 5.5 meters and the length is 40 meters. This steel plate is equivalent to the area of ​​a dozen ordinary steel plates, which means that there will be fewer welds and the workload of welding will be greatly reduced.

  Especially the deck of the aircraft carrier, which is originally flat, and there is no need to use a bending machine, just weld it directly! If there is no jumping deck, it will be completely flat.

  The deck of the aircraft carrier, of course, the fewer the welds, the better.

   "Mr. Hubert, can you introduce our king of rolling mills to Mr. Qin?" Zhang Jinxi suggested excitedly.

Hubert nodded, and pulled out the main design drawing from the computer: "Its full name is 5500mm four-high reversible double-stand wide and thick plate mill, which is currently the world's largest wide and thick plate mill. It consists of a 5500mm four-high Type rough rolling mill and a 5000 mm four-high finishing mill and 2 walking heating furnaces, phosphorus removal box, hot straightening machine, 3 cooling beds, cutting head shears, cut-to-length shears, flame cutting machine, 4200 tons It consists of more than 40 supporting equipment such as flattening machines and quenching machines, with a total of more than 100,000 parts and components. It is definitely the best in the world."

  This is a complete production line, not just one rolling mill, but a lot of follow-up equipment.

"Among them, two rolling mills occupy an area of ​​200 meters long and weigh nearly 7,000 tons. The entire project poured 160,000 cubic meters of concrete, hoisted 32,400 tons of steel structures, and the equipment weighed 18,000 tons." Hubert continued, these data, all It is the best in the world.

"The main parts are developed by our SMS company." Hubert said: "Those ordinary steel structure frames are directly made of steel manufactured by Mingzhou Iron and Steel Group. This equipment has many challenges, complex systems, and precision requirements. It’s tall, and many of the parts are oversized for transportation.”

  Qin Tao nodded: "Yes, it seems that we have to build the railway from the steel factory to the shipyard as soon as possible."

This idea has been around for a long time. The iron and steel factory has a lot of transportation tasks every day. It needs to transport iron ore from the dock and steel from the steel factory. In the past, it was transported by road and transported by Mingzhou Transportation Group. But now, with ultra-wide steel plates about to be produced, road transport is no longer convenient.

   The railway must be repaired quickly!

  In the past, state-owned enterprises were all transported by railways. The Mingzhou Group has risen rapidly, and the railway has not yet been repaired. It seems that we have to go to Mingzhou City to negotiate.

In fact, Qin Tao can just make a phone call. Those people dare not cause trouble for Mingzhou Group. However, Qin Tao still has to be polite to them. Everyone carries the sedan chair, so that it is convenient to come and go. Anyway, during the Chinese New Year, you have to walk around. Time to mention a few words on the line.

  (end of this chapter)