The formulation and discussion of the shipbuilding plan were attended by the Military Command, the Ministry of Navy, the Shipbuilding Headquarters, the Aviation Headquarters and the main officials of the Joint Fleet, but no one expected that the quarrel would start so soon. Kusato Renyi, who was in the joint fleet's representative seat, was very anxious. He accompanied Hori Teki to attend the meeting. However, because Hori Teki wanted to accompany the German envoy Kerr with Foreign Minister Masayuki, Kusato Renyi said the next stage of the revision, but after a few discussions, the situation arose.

No matter who said anything, Kuro was slight, he could not suppress the scene, but he could not fail to complete the task assigned by Hori Teiki, so he was eagerly looking forward to the other party appearing.

While anxious, a loud singing reputation finally sounded outside: "The Marshal, Navy General, and the Commander of the Joint Fleet Chief Hori Teiki are here!"

This is a real skill to sing a name. On the one hand, you must have enough energy and on the other hand, you must be familiar with the characters. Singing the wrong name or position is a disrespectful act, but Hori Teiki's title is obviously not wrong.

Everyone stopped immediately when they heard the argument. Ren Yi and the other officers stood up to welcome him. According to the rules, the only ones in the venue were Fushimi Miyaki Hiroki and Yamamoto Izuru. However, everyone never expected that Yamamoto Izuru also stood up and looked at Fushimi Miyaki Hiroki with a smile, which led to a situation where everyone stood and only Fushimi Miyaki sat alone.

This trick made the latter very annoyed. Now the scene is very passive: If he doesn't stand up, someone will accuse him of neglecting the heroes in two days; if he stands up, why should he welcome his subordinates? The embarrassing scene continues until Hori Teiki's footsteps appear at the door of the conference room, and Fumimiya stands up reluctantly.

"Sorry, everyone, I'm late." Horitiki was stunned when he saw this scene, and then saw Yamamoto Iroku's expression of smiling and Fushimi Miyaki Hakukyu's angry look. He immediately guessed something and bowed slightly to the two of them, "Please, your highness, please sit down."

After the two of them sat down, he followed him and said, "Please sit down."

Kusato wiped his cold sweat, and he witnessed all the scene just now. Unexpectedly, even the small things like sitting up were faintly filled with a strong smell of gunpowder. More importantly, the shipbuilding meeting was clearly dominated by the Military Command, but Minister Yamamoto put pressure on the Military Command through this approach just now. In addition, the meeting was chaired by Minami Inoue (the deputy naval officer and the minister of Shimamamama), it was obvious that he could be the Minister of the Shanghai Army. As expected, there was no fuel-efficient lamp for being a minister of the Shanghai Army.

The system of the Japanese Navy is very strange. As a whole, the Shipbuilding Headquarters is under the management of the Navy Ministry. However, the Fourth Department, the Shipbuilding Headquarters, is responsible for the warship construction affairs of the Military Command, for combat preparations. This is a typical manifestation of expanding the functions of the Military Command to erode the Navy Minister over the years. However, Yamamoto did a great job this time. He did not let the head of the Fourth Department preside over the meeting, but instead let the highest chief of the Shipbuilding Headquarters Headquarters, Minami Inoue, who was also a hard-core confidant, presided over the meeting, and his attitude was very obvious.

"Do you need to report the content discussed at the meeting first?" Inoue Narimi turned her head and asked Hori Teiki.

"No need, please tell me the consensus opinion."

Inoue Narimi nodded and instructed the staff responsible for the record to read it out.

"First, given that Wanwu, Wanlin, Wanxin, Wanxu, Wanzhong, Wanzhong, and Wanzhong, and the various plans of the Wanzhong plan were uneven and the relationship was chaotic, it was proposed to re-establish a new Wanzhong plan..."

After the Japanese Imperial Conference in 1940 determined the "Imperial National Policy Implementation Outline", given that the war between Japan and the United States is inevitable, and the US military has expanded its naval military equipment on a large scale, in order to make up for the shortcomings of naval military equipment and to achieve a situation where it can compete with the US military in the Pacific soon, Japan has successively proposed plans such as: (Maruri) military defect supplementary plan, (Maruri) wartime emergency construction plan, (Maruri) additional plan, and then after the war started, the Maruwu and the Fifth level plan was proposed, but none of the plans were truly realized, and it was basically a situation of change and change. The joint fleet had the least adjustment in the past year.

"Second, due to the improvement of national situation and the increase in military expenditure, Maruxin plans to use a budget of 9.2 billion yen, and the overall expected 1.38 million tons of warships are completed, which does not include the warships currently under construction."

Hori Teiki nodded calmly: He knew that the military budget was 6.24 billion yen when the plan to change the fifth-year plan was 6.24 billion yen, and the overall tonnage was 1.15 million tons. Now it seems that the situation has changed again. Although this plan has greatly improved from the plan mentioned by Japan, compared with the 60 billion marks proposed by Hoffmann every year (of course it is impossible to use all to build ships, but the content of building ships is no less than 15 billion). Moreover, judging from the fact that military expenditure has increased by nearly half and the tonnage is only 20% more, the domestic inflation index is continuing to rise.

"Third, through a batch of old warship renovation cases, including: 1, Chitose and Chiyoda, two watercraft carriers, converted into light aircraft carriers, with a construction period of 7 months; 2, Shototsu overhaul and installed imported German catapults, with a construction period of 5-6 months; 3, three 17,000-ton mail ships (maximum speed of 21 knots) Asamamama, Ryuta and Kamakuramama were transformed into auxiliary aircraft carriers according to the German plan, with a construction period of 9 months; 4, Condor, which has been modified according to the aircraft carrier standards, adjusted the drawings and transformed into auxiliary aircraft carriers, with a construction period of 3 months; 5, Rijin was transformed into a watercraft carrier (it was originally the successor of the USS Ruisui watercraft carrier, used for high-speed mine laying, and is currently mainly used for transporting Arctic targets), with a construction period of 3 months; 6, Beyon overhaul and transformed into a medium-sized aircraft carrier, renamed the Falcon, with a construction period of 10 months."

To be honest, many people are puzzled by the motive of the joint fleet's proposal to ask for five auxiliary aircraft carriers in one go. Although several battles proved that auxiliary aircraft carriers were easy to use, but the five seemed to be too large in number, Caolu Renyi believed that two of them should act as training ships and three were used for fleet combat, especially integrated operations. It was urgently needed, and finally passed.

"Fourth, accelerate the construction of existing warships, including: 1. The Dafeng aircraft carrier is equipped with imported catapults and ensures completion by the end of December this year; 2. Using German imported armored steel, prefabricated components and other equipment to ensure that the Shinno battleship is completed ahead of schedule before March 1944; 3. The Yunlong-class aircraft carrier that has started construction requires one ship to be completed in spring, summer, autumn and winter in 1944; 5. Accelerate the construction of the Ibuki heavy cruiser to ensure completion as scheduled before March 1945; 6. The latter two ships of the Agano-class light cruiser require one ship to be completed in this year and 1944; 7. Complete the relevant destroyers, spy ships, submarines and other construction projects as required..."

Unlike in history, after the Battle of the South Pacific, the Japanese Navy cut off many messy renovation projects without repairing too many existing warships (except for the scarred Yamato). After the Shanghai Land coordination, a large number of skilled workers returned from the army. In addition, after the gradual withdrawal of troops from mainland China, the supply of relevant materials was guaranteed. The ship construction speed was accelerated and the construction quality also increased. Especially for the Dafeng, which is regarded as the top priority, the Shinon Shinon was faster than in history and had better quality.

But soon Hori Teiki spoke: "I'll interrupt, how many ships are involved in the construction of the submarine?"

"The small submarine (550-ton Lu-100) was originally planned to add 9 new ships, but then all were cancelled; the medium submarine (1000-ton Lu-35) was originally planned to add 43 new ships, and only 4 are currently completed, and it is expected that 4-5 will be completed in the end this year; large submarines, including 72 2200-ton Yi-15/16 type, and 6 2500-ton Yi-9 type, currently only 1-2 are completed, and about 3-4 have been started; there are also submarine Type D (1500-ton Yi-361 type) and so on... "

"Cut them all." Horitiki explained, "I just accompanied the German envoy to the palace to meet His Majesty. The Envoy of Corr reported on the recent exchanges between the two countries. The German side has received 100 tons of gold from us (50 tons were originally agreed by the Boss government, and the other 50 tons were the funds returned by Japan). Out of thanks for the joint fleet's cooperation and combat, the German side presented us with 10 German submarines, the 700-ton Vii submarines; it also stated that German submarines can be sold to us. In addition to the Vii series, it also includes 1000-1500-ton IX type and 2000-2500-ton Xiv type... The German side is willing to provide a special credit of 300 million marks for this."

"Where is the price?" someone asked nervously.

"Because most of them are used old ships, the price is very cheap. The early Vii submarines were 3 million marks per ship, and the late 3.5 million marks per ship, the most expensive is no more than 4 million marks."

Inoue Narimi's eyes lit up: "It's cheap!"

"Yes, it's cheap!" Everyone agreed in unison.

Officials who understand submarine warfare all know that Germany's 700-ton Vii submarines are obviously stronger than the 550-ton Lu-100, but the production cost of the latter is about 5.5 million yen. According to the current Japanese yen mark, it is almost half more expensive to build on your own than to buy it. What's more, I sent 10 ships first, which is simply a cheap delivery. If you consider purchasing directly without taking up construction costs and labor, it is simply a great news.

But they never expected that Germany's new one now costs 2.5-3 million marks, in other words, Hoffmann not only used these old submarines for a whole year, but also sold them to Japan for a good price. More importantly, the focus of German submarine construction has long been shifted to the xxi submarine type, and it is also a burden to keep the old model, so it is better to clear it to the Japanese.

As soon as these few sentences were said, the atmosphere suddenly became lively, and many people were happy... (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!