Yingtian Heavy Industry is an important enterprise under Yang Feng. Its main business is large-scale engineering machinery, such as bulldozers, excavators, and even giant gantry cranes in shipyards. In short, it is just a big deal. However, the main factories have been moved to Fengtian City. After all, the closer this kind of factory is to rely on the steel plant, the better. Fengtian Steel there has been put into production, with an annual design output of 10 million tons, but iron ore cannot be supplied.

There is also a headquarters and a special military department that is currently on the island, which is actually Yang Feng's tank research institution. His thin-skinned and large-filled main battle tank has entered the sample manufacturing stage. Because of his suggestions from time to time, the engineers under him who developed the Black Panther tank then designed this tank into a replica of almost Leopard One.

It was just because his soldiers were shorter, so they were a circle smaller than the original Leopard. However, because they were a circle smaller, the thickness of the front armor of the vehicle body reached 100 mm and the front of the turret was 150 mm, barely keeping up with the current mainstream tank armor, but it was still much worse than the latest Soviet T54.

Fortunately, Yuan Yang didn't expect this layer of armor.

All the information and a batch of corresponding equipment of his Chobam composite armor have been handed over to the Chinese engineers under his command. They are currently experimenting with how to make it in a research institute on a nearby island. According to the experts in charge of this work, they will be able to make armor of the same level as the sample within two years. This thing is what Yang Feng really uses for his tank in the future.

As for the artillery, it is very simple. The basic model of l7 has been handed over to the tank development team and can be installed soon. There is no need for more advanced ones yet. The basic model is enough. If you change the extended body tube in a few years, it is completely unnecessary now.

But he was not here to see the tank today. There is a special factory behind this factory that occupies more than two square kilometers of precious territory of the Ming Empire. In this factory, a large number of workers were busy surrounding a huge steel castle, but they were still under construction, covered in rusty steel. It is difficult to recognize what it was.

"Cole, how long will it take for my baby to complete?"

Yang Feng asked the engineer who was carrying a helmet and was commanding the workers with drawings. When the latter saw him coming over and said in stiff Chinese: "Honor-in-chief, it will take at least one and a half years for your genius invention. I have to say that this is really an amazing great initiative, and language can no longer describe it, but there is one thing I have always wanted to remind you, but your time is too precious, so I have not received any notice of seeing you yet."

"Well, I need to apologize to you about this. In the future, Mr. Cole wants to see me, so he doesn't need to make an appointment to arrange time. As long as I'm not meeting guests."

Yang Feng immediately said to Hu Hao.

At his level, of course not everyone can see it casually. Then you have to apply first and then look at the arrangements of the servant room.

Hu Hao quickly took out a small notebook and wrote it down.

"So Mr. Cole, what do you need to remind me?"

Yang Feng asked him the former Wilhelmshaven shipyard expert, who was said to have been involved in a series of constructions from the Scher to the Tirpitz.

"How do you transport this behemoth to where it wants to go?"

The latter said.

“Can’t you tow?”

"Do you want to drag it from here to the Persian Gulf? That's impossible, Mr. Yuan, it weighs more than 10,000 tons, and it is not designed according to the sea navigation. Its wind and wave resistance is poor. You can drag it to move close to the shallow waters offshore. But you can't drag it to sail for a long distance, and once you encounter larger wind and waves, it must sink."

Cole said with a smile.

Well, Yang Feng's treasure is a jack-up offshore oil platform. Strictly speaking, he really developed it. Because this thing is too heavy and exceeds the ability of the Voyager to absorb, it is impossible to drag one from there directly. He can only find the design drawings and materials, and then provide them partly to his experts for research. At most, some key things will be put on the Voyager. Fortunately, the technical content of this thing is not high. The first one of the Americans was successfully built in 53 years. Although his work is deep, he made do with it after three years of hard work. He planned to drag it to the coast of Abu Dhabi to recycle oil.

However, as soon as Cole said that, he suddenly remembered that he had overlooked an important issue. Indeed, what should I do if transportation is done?

"It seems that I still need to build a special transport ship for this kind of thing!"

Yang Feng said with a deep face as he touched his beloved mustache.

“Special transport ship?”

Cole said in confusion.

"Yes!"

Yang Feng nodded deeply when he pretended to be silly.

To transport such things, of course you have to use a semi-submersible ship. However, it seems that no country has built such ships at this time, but this is no big deal. Now even a 50,000-ton aircraft carrier can be built, so you can't build a semi-submersible ship with a load of 20,000 tonnes. It's just a little special. In addition, the structure is a little more strengthened, and the water injection and drainage requirements are higher. In short...

Anyway, he didn't build it. The level of this kind of thing is too high. The largest ship his shipyard has built so far is only a merchant ship of more than 10,000 tons. It is not that technically not possible. His technology has no problem with his technology, but that it is not that big dock at present. He must first build the dock. He has no time to wait. He can't wait to go to the Middle East to collect crude oil!

What's more, he didn't have so many workers. Four large destroyers are now being built in the dock of Shuntian Shipyard, and there are six frigates for offshore anti-submarine and patrol. Of course, they are frigates. In fact, the tonnage should still be considered large destroyers at this time, with a full load displacement of nearly 3,000 tons, not even inferior to his current main combat-class destroyer.

Well, what he built was actually the Leander-class frigate of the British later.

So many warships are under construction, and he has trained them for a total of five years. How could so many workers build another semi-submersible ship worth tens of thousands of tons?

His time was very urgent. He pulled down the oil price one day earlier, and the Ming Dynasty economy would be free from the constraints one day earlier. So even if this one was not used, the next one had to be sent off the coast of Abu Dhabi. So the easiest way was to hand it over to others and the Prussians. In fact, he had already ordered two 50,000-ton tankers at the Bromforth Shipyard. Since this was the case, it would be better to hand it over to the Prussians.

They are still very conscientious when it comes to asking prices, and they are much more conscientious than the British.

"Doctor! You can put your work here for the time being, go back to Europe for me, help Miss Yang Hongqi, and sign another order with Bromforth Shipyard. I need them to build a special transport ship, a semi-submersible ship for me."

Thinking of this, he immediately said.

"Semi-submersible?"

"Yes, you can sail on the water surface or you can semi-submersible after filling water. The hull structure must be strong enough to be able to load the platform directly. In this way, I just need to drag the platform above it, and it can lift it up by drainage and then transport it to the place I need. Then, by pouring water into submersibles, it will be towed from the ship to one side, so that all loading and unloading transportation can be completed. In fact, such a ship seems to be able to transport a lot of things, such as transporting submarines are also pretty good."

Yang Feng said as he drew a sketch of a semi-submersible boat for Cole. When he finished drawing, the latter's mouth was almost unable to close.

"Your Excellency, you are such a genius!"

Cole sighed after half a minute.

"Of course, I think I am."

Yang Feng said proudly, but as soon as his eyes turned to the oil platform being built, he immediately changed into a melancholy expression.

Of course, this oil platform is also of great use. If you can't go to the Middle East, you can't go to the nearby sea. You can just drag it back to the coast of Annan or to the coast of North Borneo to rent scallops. This will also be a good idea to form cooperation with scallops in this regard. First exercise your skills, and then everyone will go to the Beihai to collect oil happily.

He is a small-scale fight in other places, and only by creating the Beihai oil field is the most lethal.

He was watching, and a servant hurried to Hu Hao and handed him a telegram. Hu Hao only glanced at him and immediately exclaimed with irrepressible excitement: "It's oil out, Head of State, we have discovered oil in the oil off the coast of Chilegon."

Well, the Ming Empire Oil, which has been exploring the coast of Java for many years, has finally started to produce oil.

"It's beginning! It's time to start!"

Yang Feng didn't have any expression of joy, but was just talking to himself with a sinister smile.

More than a thousand kilometers away, northwest of Java, guarding the sea off the Chilegong, the export city of Sunda Strait, on the Ming Navy Red 4 missile speedboat, several sailors were looking speechlessly at a distance from them. There was an old cargo ship anchored on the sea, but there was a drilling device on it. Now dozens of workers were singing and dancing on the deck, and behind them was black crude oil gushing out from the ground like a fountain.

The Azhouna Oilfield, the largest offshore oilfield in Indonesia in history, began its first gushing.

Of course, the Imperial Oil Exploration Team members who were cheering did not know that the oil well they mined also kicked off a bloody war. The Ming Empire, which had just been established for only five years, will face the worst crisis, and the director behind this crisis was their head of state.
Chapter completed!