Chapter 128 Change the Railway

Historically, the Soviets have visited Germany, but that was after the Soviet Union and Germany signed the "Soviet-German Nonaggression Pact", and Germany began to provide the Soviet Union with some advanced military-industrial technologies and samples.

That is, during this period, the People's Commissariat of the Soviet Shipbuilding Industry formed a delegation to visit various German shipyards in 1939 and inspected the latest German warships, including the aircraft carrier "Graff Zeppelin" under construction.

At that time, the Soviet delegation included the designers of the 45th Central Scientific Research Institute, who greatly appreciated the "Graf Zeppelin"'s complete aviation outfitting, first-class self-defense weapon system and advanced welding technology. Therefore, the Soviet delegation immediately proposed to buy a ship of the same type from Germany, but the German side politely rejected this request.

At the same time, as compensation, the German side agreed to provide the anti-aircraft guns and fire control system of the "Graf Zeppelin". This is the only shipborne anti-aircraft gun in the world with a two-way stable structure, which can reduce the impact of ship swaying on shooting, and has first-class overall performance. British and American similar products.

And now, it's only the summer of 35 years!

This is no exception, mainly because of Cyric's trip to Moscow last time, which laid a good foundation. Germany has helped the Soviet Union build two warships, and the Soviet Union is quite satisfied. At this time, it just caught up with Germany. The aircraft carrier Zeppelin was launched, and the Soviets were quite shocked, so they came again!

Soviets, what are you doing here? Of course the same aircraft carrier was ordered from Germany!

During this period, Stalin's mind began to gradually change. With the continuous development of the Soviet Union's domestic economy, the Soviet Union should have a powerful fleet!

The battleship plan has already been launched in the Soviet Union. When this plan started, the Soviet Union finally realized that it was really too difficult to independently build a 10,000-ton battleship by relying on its own industrial level!

If nothing else, the hull of this kind of battleship is already quite difficult, and the Soviet Union does not have enough steel!

And the planned aircraft carrier, it is impossible to start construction, the Soviet Union can not afford.

At this time, they finally remembered Cyric's promise that as long as the Soviet Union provided enough mineral resources, they could exchange battleships from Germany! Even if it is an aircraft carrier, Germany can also make it for the Soviet Union!

In the past, two warships were built in this model. Germany strictly abide by the contract, completed all the construction work according to the normal process, and handed it over to the Soviet Navy. This is also a prerequisite for the continued cooperation between the two parties!

So, the Soviets came again, led by Tukhachevsky!

The current Tukhachevsky has become a Soviet marshal. He is burly and has a broad face. After seeing Cyric, he immediately shook hands with Cyric cordially.

"Cyric, it's nice to meet you," Tukhachevsky said.

"Yeah, I heard that it was you, and I came right away." Cyric said, "Now, please let me lead you all to visit our warship together."

In fact, it was also the second time for Cyric to come. Under the leadership of the factory staff, Cyric took Tukhachevsky and his party through the huge crane on the dock and entered the aircraft carrier that was being outfitting. superior.

At this time, the upper deck of the aircraft carrier has been laid. In order to increase the strength of the warship and deal with the possible dive bombers, this aircraft carrier does not use wooden decks like other aircraft carriers, but has thick layers. The steel deck is enough to block the bombing of ordinary bombs!

And now, standing on the deck, you can feel the spaciousness of this aircraft carrier! In particular, the front deck looks so weird!

"I really hope that our navy can also have such an aircraft carrier." After inspecting the aircraft carrier for more than an hour, all the people came to the conference room at the dock, and Tukhachevsky said enthusiastically: "This time we have Come, I would like to ask you to help us build a similar aircraft carrier."

As soon as he finished speaking, Tukhachevsky saw Cyric's face, and there was helplessness.

"What, are you having trouble?" Tukhachevsky said.

Wasn't this proposal discussed in the past? Moreover, the previous contract was completed very well. The big deal is that the Soviet Union exported more minerals, can't it make up for it?

"Yeah." Cyric said, "Right now, our naval construction is going on vigorously, and our shipyard is running at full capacity. You should be able to see that in our shipyard, there are still Workers from other countries even come from China."

"Moreover, building an aircraft carrier requires a lot of resources." Cyric said: "If you still pay in the previous way, then transporting minerals will require dozens of times more. With the existing means, you can Too difficult. Unless…”

"Unless what?" Tukhachevsky asked.

"Unless we can unify the railways." Cyric said, "The current transportation, if you use trucks, is too wasteful, you must use railways, but the Soviet railways are not compatible with European railways. If you can use Soviet railways If the railway is rebuilt to the same width as in Europe, then it will be very convenient to transport minerals.”

This time, Lao Maozi came here with a request, and taking advantage of this opportunity, we must get the railway thing done!

Although the reasons are very good, Lao Maozi must be prepared. Everyone knows what the railway specifications mean.

In later generations, the railway built by Yan Xishan on his own site is not suitable for the outside world. He just doesn’t want outside forces to infiltrate. Now, if it is the same as the European railway, it is convenient to transport minerals, and it will be more convenient for future transportation strategies. Supplies are up!

Cyric did not give Tukhachevsky time to think at all, and Cyric continued to put forward his conditions: "The railway must always travel from the border to the Ural Mountains, and transport all kinds of minerals in the Ural Mountains continuously. Come over, even so, we have to wait a year or two, when these minerals are enough to maintain the cost of the aircraft carrier, we can start construction, and by that time, our aircraft carrier has also been built, just to vacate the slipway."

Cyric made it very clear that even if a large amount of ore was imported, it would have to wait!

Now, Germany is nervous and has no time! Only when the Soviet Union has shipped enough minerals first, can this side be freed up for the construction of the slipway! If the Soviet Union wanted Germany to build an aircraft carrier, it had to agree to these demands!