Chapter 370: Prosperous New Orleans

"You are really rich in imagination, can't you live a quiet life quietly." Harry Sheffield shook his head. "There will be death in the war, my father can't blame anyone."
"You can't persuade your grandmother, run to convince me? I just know that society is going against the wind." Sheffield said nonchalantly. He and the old man were different. I admire this kind of open-minded hatred very much, but in order to successfully accept the power of the joint company, we should still stand on the side of Lafayette.
Harry Sheffield promised his son that he would pay more attention to the news of submarine technology after returning to Paris.
Slave owners have always thought that Germany is the country with the leading submarine technology. I never imagined that now the submarine technology is really French, and there are also double-hull submarines.
France has wrapped an outer shell on the outside of its inner shell. This makes the submarine not only have an outer shell resembling a torpedo boat, but also an inner shell designed according to the requirements of the submarine. The crew and all equipment are contained in a pressure-resistant inner shell. The space between the inner and outer shells is used as a ballast tank to control the submarine's diving and floating. When the boat drains the water in the ballast tank, it can have good seaworthiness like a torpedo boat. This submarine was later inherited by countries affected by the Soviet Union.
Sheffield kept the old man on board the ship in Houston, waiting for Anne and her mother to say goodbye. He came directly to the Houston Shipyard. Although he has never visited other shipyards, he can feel that the equipment of the Houston Shipyard is really not very good. It is very very difficult to build some large battleships such as battleships.
This requires a different approach. Aircraft carriers and submarines, the types of ships that have just appeared or have not yet appeared, can now be tried to build. After thinking about it, Sheffield admits sadly that he will have to spend money again.
"Who wrote a letter to Arlington to make the product?" Sheffield asked as he walked through the greasy workshop.
"It's a person who hasn't been in our factory for a long time. It's called Lake." The director of the Houston Shipyard replied, "This man decided that the submarine is good for the country, but the navy people are not interested in the submarine in his mouth."
"Bring me your resume, I want to see it!" Sheffield nodded, first looking at the person's resume, with the halo of the king of the emerging industry on his head, and there were many people who came to cheat. It is that there is no such thing as a land swimmer for the time being, and the slave owner is regarded as a king fish.
Simon Lake, influenced by 20,000 miles of French sci-fi under the sea, borrowed a sum of money from relatives, and worked hard to build the first submarine ten years ago, which looked like a cabinet. He then installed air compression equipment in the submarine and set up an air lock cabin.
Lake makes the air pressure generated by the compressed air equipment equal to the pressure of the seawater outside the boat, so that the door of the air lock cabin can be opened, and people can walk out of the boat in a diving suit without the seawater flowing into the lock cabin. People call this kind of sluice door that prevents seawater from flowing into the boat and people can freely enter and exit from the boat's hatch. With the help of valves.
Therefore, it is entirely possible to send people for underwater operations, mine clearance and mine laying. But the US Navy Department rejected Lake's good intentions.
"Call him to come and let me talk to him." Sheffield read his resume and knew that the person who advocated the construction of submarines was actually preparing to leave for Europe, just came to Houston to take luck and see if he could pay more attention to emerging industries. The slave owner is recognized here.
With an old-school beard like William II, Lake is less than forty years old. From the appearance, he is older than the actual age. Standing in front of Sheffield, he is also examining him.
"I heard that Mr. Lake is going to Europe. I don't know if it is true." Sheffield motioned to sit down and started communicating in a very easy way.
The next scene shocked the slave owner, and Lake reprimanded the bureaucracy of the US Navy department and adhered to the rules. Europe pays more attention to the development of submarines and is worthy of being the center of the world today.
Sheffield took an awkward sip of water, and the inventor was a little bit flamboyant. He changed a few words in his speech, that is, after 100 years of being touted, the air is sweet and beautiful.
"Mr. Lake!" Sheffield reached out and had to interrupt a cynical, fierce attack on the inventor of the United States system, and turned to the topic, "Is the speech more intense."
Just the remarks just now, a hundred years later, I can do a middle blow, maybe it can also be mixed in the republic ’s barrage website, at least there is no problem.
"This project can be started!" Sheffield King Douyu possessed, so that Simon Lake calmed down.
Probably because the attitude comparison with the Admiralty was too obvious, Lake looked at the slave owner with a stunned face, with an unbelievable expression on his face, "Boss, is it really fake?"
"Really, you can't blame the Admiralty. With the national strength of our country, we must definitely develop a large navy. We pay more attention to surface power and don't care about these submarine with immature technology. It is normal." Sheffield said comfortingly. Any new things will always be tested by practice and time to decide who can live to the end. However, I have a little improvement suggestions, I hope you can do it. "
Sheffield knew that submarines of this era were actually diving warships. Water has a higher combat effectiveness than underwater, and there are remnants of the times in appearance. The same bow has the same design as the surface battleship, making it suitable for surface navigation. There are also guns on the submarine.
The slave owners hoped that the inventor of this initiative submarine, and the submarines produced, would mainly focus on underwater. The outer shell is more similar to the shape of a cigar. The side shape of the current submarine is similar to that of surface ships. In order to reduce the wave-making resistance during navigation, the head is made into a shape similar to that of surface ships. Good seaworthiness, the head has a large ridge arc and is equipped with a buoyancy cabin, relying on the buoyancy provided by the buoyancy cabin to improve the submarine's head buried in the wind and waves.
Sheffield will try his best to meet all the requirements and support. In this project, he is ready to lose money. "I have invited some talents to come through the contacts in France. You can be with many people who also like submarines. the study."
This may be the most fully supported by Lake in his lifetime, and now it seems to be okay not to go to Europe, and he said with emotion, "If you can develop in the country, who would like to go to Europe?"
Sheffield smiled and did not speak. Europe in this era still has a lot of appeal. For many high-end talents, Europe is much more attractive than the United States. Airplanes and submarines appeared very early in the United States. As a result, they were later ranked higher and developed better by European countries.
If the United States can never turn over the big mountain of Europe, it may be a little stronger than other civilizations. By proving that we invented aircraft and submarines, we can prove that our ancestors are also wider.
The slave owner's requirement for the submarine is that the displacement should be at least 500 tons, because 500 tons of submarines have appeared in France. The cigar type double body shell, I believe that even if the wolf pack tactics are applied, it should be enough.
"Come out, wait for a long time." Annie said with some complaints, and then covered her nose, "This is so oily."
"The shipyard is like this, the working environment is purely too much." Sheffield replied, "Is my dearest wife having a baby?"
"I don't know, I never gave birth again." Annie heard shyly and timidly. "If I know, I will tell you immediately and make you happy." Anne's desire to have a baby is much stronger than slaves. , She really hopes that her husband is a proverb.
"I thought you were going to take some time in Arlington." Gael's information was circulating, knowing that the owner of Oak Manor was back, he came over as a guest immediately, "I came back myself, and I don't accompany your wife."
"All brought! All. Evelyn and Natalia, accompanied Anne to take a walk" Sheffield pretended to hold back, "Just seeing the newspaper, Governor Lange Hunt celebrates New Orleans population breakthrough 800,000, our governor is very proud. "
"The governor has been very smooth in the past two years. I can't imagine what New Orleans will look like. The house is also selling a lot, and the flow of people has become larger." Gael also said very happy, "It is also easier to do business. , I do n’t know what the future holds? "
"The future will create a poverty zone around New Orleans, sucking blood from all around." Sheffield directly pointed out what Gael's future is like.
"No! The word blood-sucking is not good," Gail said a little unbelievably, "how could this happen."
"Any big city is sucking blood, and there are no exceptions." Sheffield said unhurriedly, "but we were sucked away by the Yankee without sucking blood. That's not as good as we keep people. And new Orleans ’position is based on this."
Although the words are unpleasant, some of them can't be accepted by Gail, but this is the fact that every big city is sucking blood from the surroundings. Jiangsu, which wants to learn the Soviet Union, is blooming, and not all places have this superior geographical condition. Therefore, a province in the southwest gathers the strength of the whole province to build the provincial capital to prevent the population from leaving the province's labor service.
From now on, New Orleans has already seen a siphon effect, and it has begun to gather people from the southern states. These converging populations will make the city more developed, thus vacating the nearby population.
"Don't think about it, it's the same in New York!" Sheffield comforted Gail. This is a historical process. The states around New York aren't the rust bands that later rang.