Bian Chunsong walked into the second floor study with brisk steps. Two important letters were placed in the center of the desk, just stacked on a pile of newspapers. He looked at the hot paint stamp, picked up the silver letter knife and opened the first letter from Somalia.

This is a letter sent by a friend in Xi'an who is engaged in European trade. It is mainly about exporting European walnut trade. In this era of information blocked, similar commercial information is quite valuable.

According to this friend, nearly one-third of the European market is occupied by walnut vendors from Citigroup. The market price is quite good. Each pound of peeled walnuts can reach between 2 shillings and 5pence to 2 shillings and 8pence. The price is quite stable and has not changed for more than three years.

Xi'an is on a busy Asia-Europe trade route. Many Chinese businessmen in the region do international trade, making a fortune by using the convenience of information and logistics, and their business is very booming.

For such a price, Bian Chunsong was neither surprised nor disappointed, and took the envelope and thought it seriously;

It is normal for peeled walnuts to be more expensive, because they require a lot of labor and have a relatively large loss. In the Australian local market, they also have to be sold for 100 cents to 90 cents per pound, which is about 1 shilling between 80 and 100 cents, which is about 30% cheaper than the European market.

If the shipping fee is added, the price difference is not large.

But considering that the high prices in Australia cannot last for a long time, Xingxing Lake Ranch is the first to grow walnuts and is listed first, so it has a bonus period of about five or six years and can enjoy exclusive excess profits.

In the future, the area of ​​the walnut orchard in Xingxing Lake Ranch will quadruple in the future. In addition, many pastures in Victoria are following the trend and planting. In 6 to 7 years, a large area of ​​walnut production will be launched, which will inevitably lower prices and may exceed the demand in Australia.

Then after walnuts return to their own value, exporting to Europe becomes a profitable trade.

The key is that Europe has a large demand and stable price, which is a worthwhile option in the long run.

Don’t expect huge profits when trading agricultural products, because there is no threshold for this itself. You can grow it even if you plant it. The main thing is to make money by making a lot of money from the production.

Think about it for a while

Bian Chunsong has not made a decision for the time being, because in the next two or three years, his ranch will still enjoy the dividends of the walnut industry alone. There is no need to worry about this matter, just reply a letter when you have time.

He picked up the second letter and checked the hot paint stamp. He immediately realized that this was a letter sent from the military base in Seven Marang, Tasmania. Specifically, it was a letter written by his mentor Professor He Zuguang.

Similar letters will be subject to security inspection before they can be sent, using the stamps of local garrison troops.

I opened the letter and saw it, and it was true.

After reading carefully for a moment

Bian Chunsong put down the letter in his hand and fell into consideration;

After the design and shape of the "Tiger Cub" medium tank, the Semarang Army Department secret scientific research base was divided into two teams in the research and development of the tank project.

A new project continues to use the chassis of the "Tiger Cub" tank to develop a series of transformed vehicle players, such as 95mm car-mounted cannons, 122mm open self-propelled cannons, medium-sized tank engineering vehicles, ammunition delivery vehicles, etc.

The fixed "Tiger Cub" tank is produced at a rate of 55 vehicles per year, and the number of related series of deformation vehicles is relatively small. The total annual output is between 10 and 15 vehicles, and they are basically sealed in the strategic reserve library.

In addition, after moderate improvement, the light "wild wolf" tank vehicles are also continuing to produce, with an annual output of about 80 to 90 vehicles. Except for 15 to 20 vehicles that enter the army every year, all the others are included in the strategic reserve warehouse for sealing.

The second scientific and technological research and development team is to carry out the research and development of the "Heavy Armored Tank Vehicle Project". Taking into account tactical needs and practical use experience, the Army Department has proposed quite high research and development indicators.

Project code t ~ 1 tank

The total weight is not less than 19.5 tons, not more than 21 tons, and there are four crew members. The main weapon is a 60mm short-barrel howitzer and the secondary weapon is a heading machine gun.

It is required that heavy tank armored vehicles can withstand bombardment from 40mm artillery on the front, side defense can withstand the shooting of 12.7mm heavy machine guns, and rear armor can withstand the shooting of 9.8mm rifle bullets.

in terms of mobility;

The off-road speed is required to reach 30 kilometers per hour, cross the barrier wall 0.55 meters, cross the trench width 1.78 meters, wading depth 0.7 meters, climb 22 degrees, and cruising range of 150 to 170 kilometers (if no additional fuel barrel is carried).

In today's era, this technical requirement is a very high standard.

As the highest commander of the tank armored corps and an academic authority in military affairs, Brigadier General Bian Chunsong served as deputy director of the Review Committee of the "t~1 Heavy Armored Tank Vehicle Project" during his teaching at the Royal Whampoa Army Officer School, and personally led and passed the technical plan for the design indicators of the Army Department.

The reason why high mobility and heavy firepower is due to the high maneuverability strike theory he advocates. The newly developed T-1 tank should obey the needs of the army.

After the wild wolf light tank emerged, it gave great inspiration to the army of countries around the world, which was 20 years ahead of the original world line. The current world's combat theory against tank armored vehicles is mainly divided into two factions;

Yisan believes that high-mobility fire strikes should be paid attention to, mainly based on the Ocean Empire and France, and advocates the development of small and medium-sized armored tank vehicles with strong off-road performance.

One faction believes that survival should be given priority. Considering the harsh land war environment in Europe, defense should be given priority, firepower should be given second, and mobility should be given second.

This faction is dominated by Britain and Russia. As the original historical line, Britain is still interested in the development of diamond-shaped tanks, while the Russians are too ambitious and spend huge amounts of money on the development of heavy tanks with a height of more than eight meters and weighing hundreds of tons.

This super heavy tank has two 76mm cannons, the bottom of the tank is four meters high from the ground, and is equipped with a small short-barrel cannon.

Under this concept, heavy tanks should be mobile fortresses, heavy steel punches for large army forces when attacking, and support points for defense.

In this case, priority should be given to strengthening the defense so that the tank can defend against frontal bombardment of 60mm artillery. As for the low speed requirements, 12 to 15 kilometers per hour is enough, just be able to keep up with the speed of infantry advancing.

The "wild wolf" light tanks revealed by the Ocean Empire did arouse the interest of some European army powers, but after a little research, they immediately lacked interest.

This ultra-light machine gun car has low defense and can easily penetrate with a heavy firearm of 14.5 mm, and basically has no survivability in the European battlefield where artillery fire is dense.

With the pride of industrial countries such as Britain, France and Germany, they are still disdainful of introducing this kind of small bean den, and they need to develop a tank that meets their own army needs.

Bian Chunsong was the pioneer of the former theory. He had experienced the fierce Civil War and knew that with the defense of tanks, no matter how strong they were, he could not withstand the frontal bombardment of large-density artillery. Only high maneuverability could improve survivability.

In the French Army

The intensive firepower of 76mm field howitzer is highly praised. The army has equipped more than 3,000 pieces. When attacking, it directly puts down the cannon barrel to bombard the enemy's positions, and the distance is even closer to 3 to 4 kilometers, and uses fierce artillery fire to destroy the enemy's will to resist.

Faced with such fierce artillery fire, even the T-1 tank has heavy armor, but the slow-moving tank is the best target for the gun, and there is no survivability at all.

The theory of Bian Chunsong's school has been recognized at the top. The T-1 tank design indicators issued by the Army Department are based on this high-mobile firepower strike tactical theory, which requires sufficient protection to achieve a balance between the three elements of maneuverability, firepower and armor protection.

Today, Brigadier General Bian Chunsong received a letter from his mentor Professor He Zuguang, saying that it was too difficult to achieve this design goal, and hoped to achieve the goal of reducing some design goals.

The power composition of the engine, gearbox and clutch that drives a 20-ton tank is a very difficult scientific and technological research project. It is extremely difficult to achieve reliable, durable and high speed.

In order to achieve bulletproof performance in the design indicators, the front armor of the tank must be between 80 mm and 90 mm, and the side and back armor must also be between 20 mm and 30 mm. In addition to the 20-ton chassis and heavy-duty walking mechanism, it will occupy more than 14 tons of dead weight. In addition to the 60-mm short-barrel cannon and other equipment, the experimental prototype car is easily overweight.

In Professor He Zuguang's letter, the experimental tank prototype reached 23.4 tons, with a minimum weight of 2.4 tons, which is very arduous.

However, there are also some workarounds, such as reducing the design speed from 30 kilometers to 23 to 24 kilometers, reducing the off-road mileage from 170 kilometers to 120 kilometers, and reducing the failure rate per 100 motorcycle hours, etc. Anyway, that's what it means.

Such an outrageous request posed a big problem for Bian Chunsong. He was even more unlikely to agree to such excessive requests without this right. How to reply is a headache.

He thought for a moment, picked up the letter and stood up and walked downstairs.

At the entrance of the main building, Bian Saner was washing the car with two servants. Suddenly, he saw the Lord Jue strode over, and quickly stood up to wipe the hot sweat from his forehead, and came up to ask, "Lord Jue, I'll be fine for a while..."

"I'm going out and I'll wash it when I come back."

"Oh, I got it."

"By the way, I may not come back to have a meal in the evening. The old lady comes back and tells them not to wait for me."

"Yeah, I understand."

Bian Chunsong opened the car door and sat in. Bian Saner quickly picked up the shaking handle and started the car in front, then sent the shaking handle back into the car, and closed the car door.

Bian Chunsong drove the vehicle lightly around the fountain in front and drove all the way to the distance.

The place he was going to is Lijiabao Town, 6 kilometers away. This is the viscount fief of General Li Shuanzhu. He owns a ranch with an area of ​​more than 140 square kilometers here, and is the third largest ranch in Victoria.

Lijiabao Town is 57 kilometers east of Melbourne. The coastal railway passes through the town, with a railway platform here. It has now developed into a large town with a population of 34,000 and is one of the satellite towns around Melbourne.

General Li Shuanzhu is now one of the military leaders who is highly respected by the current emperor. He just came to Victoria and Tasmania for inspection not long ago, and now he is in Lijiabao Town.

Taking advantage of this excuse, Bian Chunsong happened to get close to him, wouldn’t he kill two birds with one stone?
Chapter completed!