Long Hao has laid the foundation for these two things in front of him. At present, Hong Zaimo took the lead, and more than ten people whispered to each other, communicated with each other and discussed the details.

For example, the Hongmen where Hong Zaimu is located is responsible for making bridges. With old Mayor Stevenson in the shipyard, the qualifications and venues of the new shipyard will not be a problem.

For example, the steel needed to build 4 10,000-ton cargo ships requires Long Gan Ruo and Rong Shangqin to contact Carnegie's new and old nest. Only high-quality steel can create high-quality cargo ships.

For example, how did Long Ganruo cooperate with Kunpeng Shipyard to properly handle the tail-off work of the shipwrecked by the cleared ship in the name of Huaxia Town, so as not to cause dissatisfaction among workers and thus cause unnecessary riots.

For example, how did Gao Tianyang's intelligence personnel use Kunpeng to reorganize, discover hidden hidden lines around him, and use these changes to lead to the unscrupulous minions that are ready to move by hostile forces.

...Wait, wait.

The big discussion took two hours to end. Long Hao also interjected a few words in the middle, and he said nothing more than a word: You just need to discuss how to ensure that the 10,000-ton freighter is successfully put into the construction stage, and how to ensure that the changes in the two shipyards will not cause major riots... As for the technology to build a 10,000-ton freighter, I emphasize again that I will solve these, so you don’t have to worry about it.

The discussion ended, everyone was dry and the time was approaching evening. At this time, Abin also sent someone back to report to Longhao the latest progress in preparing for the empty warehouse and white paper.

There are ready-made warehouses in Kunpeng Shipyard, which can be used after cleaning, without worrying.

However, I encountered some trouble in purchasing white paper. In two hours, Abin swept the paper shop in San Francisco and searched the warehouse, but only found less than a ton of white paper. It was far from the dozens of tons that Long Hao asked for.

Fortunately, Abin had contacted several paper mills in nearby cities through Hongmen's route and the San Francisco city government. At the latest, he could get ten tons of white paper the day after tomorrow.

Enough to deal with Long Hao's startup needs.

The news that Abin reported was good. Long Hao heard it. Rongyan was very happy and waved: "Okay, the meeting was over. It's getting late. After everyone goes back, they all make preparations according to the meeting's discussion... I won't care about the meal tonight. Haha, if you don't understand anything, you can come to the shipyard to ask me at any time... By the way, Uncle Hong. Please step slow down. I want to say something to you!"

Hong Zaiyingnuo stayed, and Rong Shangqin looked at the seventh young master of the Hong family with a sour look, muttering in his stomach: Women of the right age, climbing the dragon and supporting the phoenix... and then he also left the conference room with the large army.

Hong Zaimo said: "Young Master, what's the matter?"

Long Hao fiddled with his fingers, waited for a while, then suddenly looked up and said, "Uncle, how powerful is your navy's combat power?"

Hong Zaimu was slightly stunned. But he immediately replied: "Young Master, the navy training is not as good as an infantryman. I started practicing from scratch, and my days are shorter... Now I can barely go out to sea!"

"oh!"

Long Hao asked again: "Can you run a long voyage?"

Hong Zaimu replied: "Yes, thanks to Kunpeng providing the training ship, a month ago, he had conducted several short-distance training."

The short-distance training that Hong Zaimo refers to is to ask sailors to drive the training ships out of the harbor and conduct naval combat drills such as chasing, queuing, turning, and shelling within a range of 100 nautical miles west of San Francisco.

The reason for the short distance is that the sailors are still very fresh and cannot adapt to the ever-changing climate on the ocean. In addition, because the navy that Hong Zaimo tinkered with is considered an "illegal organization", if it is too far away from the radiation circle of San Francisco, it is easy for those who are interested to seize the handle and take the opportunity to attack.

For example, the US Navy that has been staring at San Francisco like a falcon... If Hong Zaimu dared to drive a hundred nautical miles, they would never mind dispatching several cruisers to feed Hong Zaimu's "Three No Black Ship" with several large-caliber shells.

Long Hao knocked on the table, thought for a while, and asked, "Uncle, if I want your navy to leave the port and fight for me now, can you do it? With the existing personnel, how many training ships can you mobilize?"

"Fight?!"

Hong Zaimu was shocked and blurted out: "Who are you fighting? Master, have you received the message that someone is going to deal with us?"

Hong Zaimo is very well-informed. The US government is increasingly concerned about San Francisco and the US Navy's bad intentions towards the port of San Francisco.

However, it is normal to say that the atmosphere is tense and the clouds are covered with dark clouds, but if there is an external force attack now, the first thing he will do is not believe it!

I didn't rebel, why should the United States hit me? Is water in my head?

"Don't be nervous, it's not that someone wants to attack us, but that I want to send troops to attack people!" Long Hao smiled.

"Who are you hit?"

Upon hearing this, Hong Zaimo quickly thought in his mind that the map around San Francisco seemed to have a searchlight in the air, with the aperture from east to west, from north to south... to south?

Hong's mind flashed with inspiration, and he thought of an information, and unconsciously blurted out: "Is it...Graga?"

Long Hao clapped and said, "That's right, it's Going to Alaska! Viscount Savi has sent back the news. President Diaz of Mexico finally agreed to rent the Going to Spain. But I heard that there are some indigenous people living in the country and the people are so tough that you need uncle, your navy and some American and Western infantry to go and clean up, settle in Going to us, develop Going to Going to clear the obstacles..."

That's right, as the domestic war situation evolved in Mexico, Diaz had already let go and promised to rent the land in Jaga to Spain, which Long Hao had coveted for a long time.

The nominal tenant is Spain, but with Viscount Savi, the "Western traitor", in the middle, the actual owner of this well-area land - of course, Long Hao!

Long Hao called Hong Zaimo to find work for him.

It is a lie to say that Long Hao, the navy trained by Hong Zaimu, doesn't care at all. Taking advantage of the opportunity of this southern expedition, this "rookie navy" can be taken under the stake.

And from another perspective, this expedition is also of great benefit to this rookie navy. First of all, it enriches practical experience. Secondly, their ships do not need to leave the coast too far. They can go south along the west coast of the United States, cooperate with infantry, and sweep the West Bank of the Lower Canada without any defense ability. This is simply a risk-free monster-brushing mode.

After listening to Long Hao's idea, Hong Zaimo's eyes lit up.

To be honest, he didn't care that the navy he trained was assigned to the tent by Long Hao using this opportunity. Hong Zaimo had no ambitions, and training the navy was originally a reserve for the Longlin Navy. Long Hao's scruples and Long Bo's worries were all judged by the heart of a villain.

Of course, Hong Zaimo didn't care, but he knew in his heart that his extensive training of the navy had already attracted the fear of some people led by Long Bo. The first two times he refused to hand over some unformed rookie sailors to the Long Lin Navy who were nearing the port, and had already offended Long Bo. This time he went to the expedition to Xiajia was a good opportunity, and he was able to hand over the navy to Long Hao legitimately, so as not to be suspicious and make a grudge between his father-in-law and son-in-law.

Due to the above reasons, Hong Zaimo agreed with Nanzheng Xiajia, but after he was happy, he rubbed his forehead with trouble and said, "Young master, there is no problem when going to the battle. If those new recruits have problems sailing near the sea, just feed the fish... However, our ships are all training ships, and the firepower is not enough. Well, it is not close!"

Hong Zaimo is the truth. The eight training ships used by his navy for normal training did not have permanent firepower devices on it (Stevenson, the old man, could not stop the US Navy from routine inspections of ships docked at the port. It was to install fixed artillery on the training ships, which was confiscated and killed by themselves). Only by sailing to a safe area during short-distance training will the detachable artillery be installed. A few hollow bullets will be used to train them to achieve the goal of doing it.

The detachable artillery has a small caliber, and the caliber is not large, which means that the shell is not powerful.

Long Hao issued a message to this: "It's okay, this time I brought back a batch of weapons from Europe. Among them are large cannons with a caliber of more than 10 inches, and in addition, there are many secondary cannons above 80mm. Uncle Hong, just pick out some and install them on the training ship!"

10 inches?!

80mm!?

Hong Zaimo was startled and said, "With such a large caliber, it seems that the main gun of the British battleship is only of this size, right? Master, how did you get it?"

When it comes to warship technology, Britain is much more than the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Hong Zaimo completely disbelief of such a "tabolic" artillery was able to be given by Joseph I. Could it be a Victorian woman... No, nor is it. Britain's naval artillery technology may have reserves, but it is impossible for it to spread the main and secondary artillery of such a caliber before the front-line navy "changed" it.

Will Long Hao tell Hong Zaimo that these artillery were sponsored by Kalanka? So he smiled: "The mountain man has his own tricks. Uncle, go find a pole and ask him to give you these artillery, and then you ask Kunpeng Shipyard to install these artillery on the training ship... Use fixed ones, and after taking over the Gap, these training ships will not have to come back and be angry with the Americans."

The Hakata is an industrial base that Long Hao had long set. With Spain's "strong flags" that are currently effective, the training ship stopped at the Hakata, so he didn't believe that the United States, which was not prepared enough, dared to send a navy to attack at the risk of being alerted.

"These cannons are powerful, but the young master..."

When Hong Zaimo saw Long Hao pointing out the mountains with great enthusiasm, he couldn't help but smile bitterly: "The tonnage of the training ship is not enough. If you install these artillery, you're afraid that we will all go to the sea to take a shower in one volley!"

"Oh, I was negligent!"

Long Hao slapped his head, stuck out his tongue, and smiled a little embarrassedly.

That's right, the caliber of the gun and the ship's tonnage complement each other, which is common sense for the navy.

If a warship with a displacement of less than 10,000 tons is equipped with first-class main guns, it is a child who plays a meteor hammer. It will be a pleasure to hit it with one hammer, but the consequence is that it will break the head when it rebounds.

If you shoot out with one shot, the counter-shock force will directly overturn the warship with insufficient tonnage!

It’s also a distress to have a good weapon. Is this a distress to be happy?

"It seems that there are smaller caliber artillery, but it doesn't seem to be many. Uncle, please find a rod to count it."

Long Hao made up for the loss of the sheep, but he remembered that before leaving, Kalanka sent all the top weapons of this era, and there were only a few small-caliber artillery: "If there is really not, I will buy it from nearby arms dealers. I don't believe that they will not sell it? In addition, when the 10,000-ton cargo ship is built, the 10,000-ton warship can also be built. At that time, these large-caliber artillery can come in handy..."

The southern expedition cannot be completed overnight, nor will it set out tomorrow. Long Hao and Hong Zaimu discussed that the navy will leave the port for about one month, which is enough for him to transform the firepower output.

I heard that the young master was preparing to build a 10,000-ton battleship. Hong Zaimu was so excited that he could not help himself. He said that he defected to this future son-in-law to wait until he could control the battleship and fight with the world's great powers on the vast blue ocean one day?

"Is the money enough?"

While Hong Zaimu was excited, he did not forget to care about his future son-in-law's money bag.

It is said that building a battleship costs millions of pounds, totaling five to six million US dollars. The subsequent maintenance, training, and supply costs are astronomical.

Hong Zaimu is not worried about the expenses of this level.

Yes, Young Master Long has the hen that lays golden eggs at Azhou Gold Mine, but Huaxia Town is also very burdened and the expenses of other industries are also very high. Can he bear the rebuilding of battleships?

Even if it can be withstand it, will one or two battleships be built?

What about the cruisers and torpedo ships that are rationed?

Is it standard according to world naval practices? Or is it simple? Or... not worthy?

Hong Zaimu felt at this moment like a rich second-generation who followed me to buy a car at the 4S store. The rich father agreed to buy a sports car, but the difference between the luxury version and the ordinary version is more than one million!

"money?"

Long Hao wanted to laugh a little. Not to mention anything else, the 150 million pounds given to him by Kacapulos is enough to build a new ocean fleet.

Well, although 100 million of them were given to Joseph I to fight for military service, Long Hao still had a check worth 50 million in his pocket. This check does not have a limit on installment payment, as long as Long Hao wanted to, he could take it out at any time and "smash it out" Hong Zaimu.

"Money is not a problem, uncle, as long as you prove that your navy is a qualified and combat-capable force, four battleships, are my lowest guarantee!"

Long Hao raised four fingers.

“4 ships!”

Hong Zaimu's breathing became even more rapid. He could not wait to turn around and leave. He was preparing to rush back to Beigang to train the new recruits. He had decided that if anyone dared to drag him down during the southern expedition, he vowed to soak him in the sea where sharks were most common!

"Uncle Hong, don't worry. I haven't finished talking yet!"

Unexpectedly, the battleship was so tempting to Hong Zaimo. Long Hao smiled bitterly and quickly called out to his future father-in-law.

What would happen if he knew that he would not plan to rebuild the four battleships after he built them...

"Young Master, what else do you have to tell me? Say it quickly, say it quickly!"

Hong Zaimo stopped reluctantly, and he rushed to find Long Ganruo to choose artillery for the training ship to install!

If you can start construction of battleships one day earlier, you can start construction as soon as possible!

"This time, the enemy is an uncivilized native in this southern expedition. The difficulty of winning is close to zero. Therefore, I hope that the uncle will discuss with the American and foreign infantry, fight and practice while fighting, and use fighting instead of training to develop a set of combat methods that cooperates with sea and land. Everyone is a brother army. If you can give up some of the credit, don't rob it randomly..."

Long Hao's words are considered to be a point that Hong Zaizhao should communicate more with the US Army temporarily led by Gao Tianyang before going to war, discuss the timing of sending troops, and clarify their respective division of labor. Don't cause unnecessary misfortunes to seize credit at that time.
To be continued...