Chapter 512 Ghost Ship (Tenth Update)

 Mingzhou Group Guest House.

“Hayang, 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 not very steady yet. He just took a few steps and moved forward faster and faster, and then he threw himself into Zhao Ling's arms.

Zhao Ling held Qin Haiyang in her arms and then picked him up.

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 and do your work, I won't leave."

Xu Zhengyang said with a smile: "I just think of it as resting here."

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 slowly became confused: "Brother Zhengyang, why hasn't Brother Tao come back yet? What is he doing?"

“Let me ask you.” Xu Zhengyang picked up the phone.

After finishing the phone call, Zhao Ling's face looked a little ugly: "Humph, how could he do this? He drove me back, but he went to audition himself. It's too much, it's too much!"

Xu Zhengyang was speechless. Qin Tao's double standards were indeed a bit unethical. However, as Qin Tao's secretary, Xu Zhengyang couldn't say anything.

“Humph, I want to go take a look.” Zhao Ling said and wanted to go outside.

"Gong Zhao, the ship has already gone to sea. It's useless for you to go!" Xu Zhengyang still remembered his mission and quickly stopped him: "You should stay here. By the way, we have another mission. If you are interested, You can work here.”

 “What task?”

 “Ghost ship.”

Zhao Ling frowned. Isn’t this name too scary? However, when Xu Zhengyang explained the idea of ​​​​the ship, Zhao Ling's eyes slowly lit up.

“Ocean, would you like to watch your mother draw pictures on the computer?”

Hayang nodded and pointed to the computer desk with his finger.

 At sea, No. 138.

“The power system is really good. When we drove back, we didn’t start the accelerating gas turbine. We were worried that its power would not meet the demand. Now it seems that there is no need to worry at all.” Zhang Zhen said with pride on his face.

The verification of the most critical power system has just been completed. After the accelerated gas turbine was started, it provided surging power and pushed this 10,000-ton destroyer to a speed of 32 knots!

"Yes, Lao Maozi's power system is not built. With four M8KF gas turbines, the speed increase 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 will The gas turbines produced by ourselves can also achieve this performance. Two units can drive a battleship of six thousand tons, and four units can drive a battleship of more than ten thousand tons!"

Marine gas turbines are the heart of warships, and they were once a difficulty that plagued the development and growth of the domestic navy. Two modern destroyers were built for the 052 and two for the 051C, and then there were no more!

 Corgates have been being built in the past two years because of the lack of qualified gas turbines.

However, this problem will soon be solved. The design institute in the north has begun to test-run its self-produced gas turbines, and the country is about to obtain qualified naval gas turbines!

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

Qin Tao nodded: "Yes, the heart problem that troubles us is no longer a problem. Next, all our main destroyers will be equipped with gas turbines. We are now ready for everything and only need the east wind."

 The east wind, of course, is the wind blowing from the east. This storm will excite some people, and then allow the navy to usher in a great development.

   Light blue smoke came out of No. 138’s chimney, the accelerating gas turbine had been shut down, and the sky was already dark.

“Today’s sea trial ends here. Tomorrow we will begin to verify the effectiveness of the radar and other combat systems. This must be negotiated with the navy and asked to send out target drones.”

 “No problem, I’ll contact you after I get back.” Zhang Zhen said.

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

I haven’t seen my wife for a long time. When I come back this time, of course I have to make out with her.

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 going on? Why are you working again? You don't obey even if I ask you to rest."

"How can I rest peacefully while you are working?" Zhao Ling said, "Besides, we still have important tasks to do."

“Hmph, you disobey me, I’m very unhappy, I’m going to spank you later!” Qin Tao said angrily.

Zhao Ling blushed with embarrassment. Although Xu Zhengyang left, the child and the nanny are still here. Is this appropriate for you to say?

Qin Tao said as he went to hold the child.

Although he has been away from home for a long time, Haiyang is very sensible and knows Qin Tao, so he stretches out his hands for a hug.

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

"No, if he hadn't told me this, I would have gone to the 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: "Just in time, there are some questions about the ghost ship that I have to discuss with you."

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

Zhao Ling smiled. Her husband was already the boss of a multinational group, but he still acted like a child.

　　"Okay, okay, if you don't want to talk about it, we won't talk about it, eating, the ocean, your father is so majestic."

After a few months, the family finally sat at the same table and had a meal. Qin Tao looked at the table full of food and felt very touched in his heart.

“Xiao Ling, I always run around and let you carry the ocean, thank you for your hard work.”

 “What’s the hard work? The ocean is mainly a small red (nanny’s name) belt.”

Qin Tao was even more emotional: "Hai Hai, you are so pitiful. Your parents haven't been around you much since you were a child, just like your parents when they were young."

 In later generations, someone gave birth to a child and quit his job to take care of the child at home. The reason was very good. The child's childhood was too short, and the child grew up inadvertently, so it was necessary to give the child a complete childhood.

 However, in this era, there are many people working hard for work, and children lack too much care from their parents in their childhood.

Just as he was talking, the door outside rang, and Xiaohong quickly ran to open the door.

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

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

“Mom, let’s sit down and eat together.” Zhao Ling greeted with a smile.

 Eight Wolf men's clothing has been on the right track, and is now sold overseas. Cao Yuru, the factory director, is also busy every day, but after all, it is all trivial matters, so he can find time every day.

  A small clothing factory is nothing. My son’s Mingzhou Group is an important multinational company. My son is busy every day. Of course, Cao Yuru, a mother, has to pay more attention to family matters.

Now, Cao Yuru looked at her son and then her grandson, feeling extremely happy.

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

Zhao Ling glanced at Qin Tao with contempt in her eyes, "What did you just say?" You said you don't discuss business matters at home, but now, you actually brought it up on your own initiative?

snort.

"Well, it's good. The market in the Rainbow Country is very big. Thanks to the advance preparation and layout, we rely on the long-staple cotton from the Pyramid Country to weave cloth, and then make it into clothes and sell them to the Rainbow Country. Because the market in the Rainbow Country With the expansion, our domestic cotton prices continue to rise, and the long-staple cotton from the pyramid countries has helped us a lot."

Qin Tao nodded. He arranged all this. It was just the right time. He didn't expect that such an operation would have a really good effect. Now, looking at his mother's satisfied look, he continued: "Mom, the market in Rainbow Country will be in It will be saturated in two or three years, but don’t worry, our Eight Wolf men’s clothing brand has been launched. Next, we have to be prepared. After joining the WTO in two years, we will be able to export a large amount to the West. To capture the markets in Europe and America.”

 Europe and America?

Even Zhao Ling was curious now: "Can our products still enter these markets? Are Westerners interested in them?"

"Of course. Although we are still not as good as 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 large quantities to the West." Qin Tao Said: "After all, we have a labor cost advantage, but, Mom, we will never fight on price. We still have to go high-end and let Europeans know our Eight Wolf men's wear brand."

Cao Yuru nodded. Whatever her son said, it would definitely come true. As a mother, she would be right as long as she obeyed.

The factory has already expanded its production capacity. If the Rainbow Country market shrinks in two years, it will mean that the factory will lay off a large number of employees. Now, Qin Tao has spoken out. Next, the market will not disappear, but will only get bigger!

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

Qin Tao is 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.

Zhao Ling was satisfied with the result. She finally had meat before dawn.

There is an additional barge on the outfitting dock of Mingzhou Shipyard.

This is a catamaran barge. After Mingzhou Group started building catamarans, many domestic manufacturers followed suit. Although they cannot build 022 missile boats, ordinary catamarans are still no problem.

Ordinary barges generally have no power and need to be towed by other ships, which also makes them cheaper. As for the catamaran layout, the draft of the hull can be reduced, the area above the hull can be increased, and the capacity of transporting goods can be increased.

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 sides of the hull have even been hit and scarred. What is such a barge doing suddenly at the outfitting dock?

 Everyone is curious.

Its modification progressed very quickly. First, dozens of masts were welded on its deck simply and crudely. Is this meant to be a propaganda ship?

 The installation is still going on. Some uniquely shaped metal plates are installed on these masts. These metal plates are shiny and are so conspicuous in the sun.

 This is not a propaganda banner!

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

Satellites in the sky passed over the Mingzhou Group from time to time. This unique equipment finally attracted some people's attention.

 Independence, ship island.

Swift smoked a cigar and looked at the intelligence he had just harvested.

“What are they doing? Are they following the British experience 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 exactly the opposite.

Stealth design is to reduce radar reflections as much as possible. In this way, a six-thousand-ton destroyer will be considered a several-hundred-ton missile boat. A several-hundred-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 several thousand 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 are you doing simulating this kind of warship?

During 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.

"Yes, if they build a large number of such ships, and each warship tows one behind, then our Harpoon missiles are likely to attack targets with a larger radar reflection area, thus protecting Their warships." Swift said to himself, confirming his speculation: "So many ships, like ghosts, interfering with our Harpoon missiles, are called ghost ships."

“It’s not like learning from the British experience. If you want to interfere, you just need to put a corner reflector. Why put a radar? In the 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 became curious.

 Time passes day by day.

 Qin Tao has always stayed at the Mingzhou Shipyard, which amazed people around him. However, considering that the New Year is coming soon, it is understandable that Mr. Qin must stay at home to celebrate the New Year.

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

"Mr. Qin, I haven't seen you for a long time, you are finally here." When the factory director Zhang Jinxi saw Qin Tao, he immediately came up to him with a smile, his face full of excitement.

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

 Mingzhou Shipyard is the most profitable, followed by the steel plant. Needless to say, just providing Invar steel to brother units is enough for their steel plant to gain continuous 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 anything big. When it comes to innovation, we can't compare to machinery factories. When it comes to high technology, we can't compare to chip factories. We just carry out our own production honestly, and there is nothing to show off." Zhang Jinxi was very modest.

“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-high reversible double-stand wide and heavy plate rolling mill. All design tasks have been completed so far, and construction will officially start after the construction of the special rolling mill building is completed.”

Qin Tao nodded: "Well, that's right. We just had enough time. Did we design it ourselves?"

Zhang Jinxi had an embarrassment on his face: "No, we asked the German SMS company to help with the design, and now there are a group of Germans helping in our steel plant."

“It’s not shameful to learn from the barbarians and use their skills to defeat the barbarians. Let’s go and have a look.”

 German SMS company has been committed to machinery manufacturing since 1872 and is an internationally renowned metallurgical equipment manufacturer. Their business areas include smelting and rolling technology, press and forging technology and plastics technology. Therefore, if you want to build the world's most advanced steel plate rolling mill, then cooperation with SMS is the best way.

After all, Mingzhou Group makes steel, not steel-making equipment. It is the most suitable solution to ask SMS to help with the design and purchase some parts from SMS. Mingzhou Group will produce other main frames and other parts. .

 Mingzhou Steel Plant 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 to you, this is President Qin of our group.” Zhang Jinxi said to a tall German.

The German engineer named Hubert raised his head, looked at Qin Tao, and then said with excitement on his face: "Are you Mr. Qin? It's an honor to meet you. You single-handedly created the Mingzhou Group, a powerful shipbuilding group, which made People admire it.”

“I just did something I should do.” Qin Tao said: “I heard that our wide-body rolling mill has been designed?”

"Yes, the entire design has been completed and we are reviewing it." Hubert said: "We are also honored to be able to design this king of rolling mills ourselves."

“King of rolling mills?” Qin Tao was a little curious.

"That's right, except for 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 the rolling mill you have here can For processing steel plates over 40 meters long, even the one at Dillingen Steel Plant cannot match it, 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 5500 mm in the world. However, in 1996, only Germany had them in the world. This is the second one here, and it can process longer. Therefore, the title of King of the World's Rolling Mills is well deserved. .

Qin Tao nodded: "We at Mingzhou Group either don't do it or we have to be the strongest in the world. With the steel plates produced by this rolling mill, the production efficiency of our shipyard will be even higher!"

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

Especially the deck of the aircraft carrier is originally flat, so there is no need to use a bending machine, just weld it directly! If there were no jump deck, it would be completely flat.

On the deck of an aircraft carrier, the fewer welds, the better.

“Mr. Hubert, would you like to introduce our king of rolling mills to Mr. Qin?” Zhang Jinxi suggested excitedly.

Hubert nodded and pulled up the main design drawing from the computer: "Its full name is the 5500mm four-high reversible double-stand wide and heavy plate rolling mill. It is currently the largest wide and heavy plate rolling mill in the world. It consists of a 5500mm four-roller Type rough rolling mill and a 5000 mm four-roll finishing mill and 2 stepping heating furnaces, phosphorus removal boxes, thermal straighteners, 3 cooling beds, cutting shears, cut-to-length shears, flame cutting machines, 4200 tons It consists of more than 40 supporting equipment such as flattening machines and quenching machines, and the total number of parts reaches more than 100,000. It is definitely the best in the world."

 This is a complete production line. It is not just a rolling mill. It requires a large number of subsequent equipment.

"Among them, two rolling mills cover an area of ​​200 meters 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 are all It is the best in the world.

"The main parts are developed by our SMS company." Hubert said: "Those ordinary steel structural 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 very high, and many parts are too large to be transported easily.”

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

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

 The railway must be built quickly!

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

In fact, Qin Tao can just make a phone call. Those people don't dare to cause trouble to the Mingzhou Group. However, Qin Tao still has to be polite to them. Everyone carries the sedan chair so that it is easier to come and go. Anyway, you have to move around during the New Year. Just mention a few words when the time comes.

 (End of this chapter)