Chapter Twenty Encircling America

  Yang Da Boss returned to Sweden after the New Year and first contacted the Swedish military to help him with the cruiser, all of which were trivial matters for the currently hottest foreign investor in Sweden, Yang Da Boss's every request would be satisfied.

  Then there's the production of modern weapons, which is not difficult at all. The main problem with hand grenades in this era is filling them with explosives. You can't have a soldier running around the battlefield with a grenade filled with nitroglycerin or picric acid, it's hard to say whether he'd blow up others or himself, just look at those comrades of Cannon Brother who blew themselves up.

  With the development of modern grenades, there is no such worry. This thing still uses a wooden handle grenade, with an iron shell and steel balls inside, its performance is not much different from that of World War II-era grenades. Anyway, within a range of 5-6 meters, the lethality is still quite comforting. The only drawback is that the price is a bit high, at this time, modern grenades have just begun to be applied in the military, and the high cost is unavoidable.

  The production of mortars is crucial to steel, and providing a little technical improvement to Bofors, Yang Feng easily got the alloy steel he needed. The 82mm mortar processed from it can't reach the five-kilometer range of his modern alloy steel, but it's still very easy to hit two kilometers away.

  This is already enough, a Type 82 cannon that can run with one shoulder can shoot two kilometers, which makes the latest Krupp 75mm field gun that needs to be pushed and pulled by people and horses feel ashamed.

  As for machine guns, there's no need to study them anymore. Anyway, nobody likes this thing now. If you have the energy, it's better to let Bofors replicate the Type 75, which will be wildly sought after. After all, this is still an era of big cannons. A land-based heavy artillery piece that fires 15 rounds per minute would drive people crazy just thinking about it.

  In addition, it was his turbine. The Yangtze River Power System Company and Parsons Turbine Company jointly established the Yangtze River Turbine Company, but not in the UK, but in Sweden. As a compromise, Parsons got 15% of the shares, and another turbine inventor, Laval, got 5%. The company's general manager was appointed by Eriksson as a Swede, with Parsons as chief engineer and deputy general manager Laval cooperating on research. Yang also provided them with some technical assistance, such as condensers and Laval's later invention of high-temperature nozzles. With this help, the research work naturally progressed rapidly, and a sample with a power of over 1,500 horsepower has been manufactured and is being installed on a 50-ton small boat at the Yangtze River Shipyard.

  Apart from the steam turbine, his diesel engine and tractor production had also fully entered the right track, including a matching rubber tire factory, which was named Goodyear Tire Factory. The products were immediately sought after by enthusiasts as soon as they came out. Carbon black rubber, tread pattern, inner tube fabric... A series of new technologies made tires take a big step forward, almost twenty years later, including Mercedes-Benz and other automobile manufacturers swarmed in like flies smelling blood.

  In addition to tires, manual transmissions were also wildly sought after. With these two things, the automotive industry immediately entered a whole new era.

  This result made Yang Feng very satisfied, making cars by himself can't compare to controlling the upstream, BMW and Mercedes-Benz are nothing in front of Bosch. Turning back to establish a high-end car brand again, just for showcasing new technology is enough.

  In addition, his diesel engine has also made rapid progress. Under the condition of providing drawings and samples, Yang's company engineers have already built a four-cylinder diesel engine with a power of over 100 horsepower. Although it is still slightly larger in size, it can be used on trucks without any problems. However, considering the current road conditions, if they produce trucks with a load capacity of several tons, it would be difficult to sell them. Therefore, Mr. Yang's next goal is still tractors, large-tonnage tractors. Anyway, at this time, oil is cheap, so there is no need to worry about fuel consumption and other things.

  Actually, at that time, the production of crude oil was a bit excessive. The main product of the petrochemical industry is now kerosene, and the most widely used is also kerosene. Rockefeller made his fortune by selling kerosene, and Mobil's iconic product in China is lamp oil.

  The use of gasoline was only recently discovered, and due to distillation technology, the output was not high until 20 years later with the invention of cracking technology, gasoline truly entered a period of great development. As for diesel, it is not even called an industrial product now, but rather industrial waste, petrochemical plants used to burn it as fuel, however, with the emergence of diesel engines, this thing has started to make money.

  It seems that it's time to enter the petrochemical industry. Looking at the tractors being assembled in his factory, Boss Yang began to consider the next direction of development. He was preparing to bring the world into the era of oil as quickly as possible, which would be a key factor in triggering a major reshuffle of the global order. If he could make cars run all over the streets by 1900, it's possible that World War I wouldn't have waited until 1914 to break out.

  With the cracking technology and additive technology, he can build the most advanced refinery in Sweden, then use this refinery as a technical logo to cooperate with those oil giants, all of whom will cooperate to make gasoline spread in the shortest time.

  "Yang, now there are more and more American businessmen who want to buy tractors. Why don't we sell some to them?" Erikson didn't know that this guy was studying how to wreak havoc on the world. The tractor sales were very hot, but Yang Feng always insisted on not selling to the United States, which was a bit regrettable. Not selling to Russia could be understood, after all, his best friend and first love had died at the hands of Russians, but not selling to the United States was a bit unreasonable.

  "Haven't they agreed to our patent application yet?" Yang Feng asked, now that most European countries had already granted him the majority of patents, but the US had not made any moves, which was not surprising at all. The European nobles and tycoons were increasingly dependent on his special medicine during this period, but Americans didn't have much to do with him.

  "No, it's still in the approval process," Eriksson said with a shake of his head, not thinking it was a big deal, as patent approvals usually took a long time anyway, let alone for a foreigner's application.

  "This is forcing me to deal with them!" Boss Yang sighed emotionally.

  "Have someone help me book a ticket, I need to go to the United States for a trip." He immediately said to Erickson.

  In this era, America has many things waiting for him to take action. To mention nothing else, just buying the big oil field in East Texas would be a huge profit. Now that place is simply a vast wilderness, and the land is not worth much money. Buying all the land in the entire oil field area wouldn't cost much either, probably no more than a few hundred thousand pounds at most.

  Of course not, in this era, believing that going to the United States to encircle land and dig oil will make a fortune is foolish. The United States of this era is purely a country of flowing money, and for the sake of making money, they can say anything without any means or bottom line, completely different from Europe. If a Chinese person really owns a large oil field in the United States, he will be dead the next day, not even leaving any residue, even if he has an army to protect him. The Americans will use the military to deal with him, and it's easy to get rid of a foreigner in this matter, as long as Congress passes a law at will, all American capitalists will support it.

  In front of these ruthless profiteers who wouldn't mind dying for money, Yang Feng's meager control over the medicine was very pale and powerless.

  So he wants to go and enclose land, on a large scale in the United States, oil fields, iron mines, aluminum mines, everything that can be enclosed will be enclosed, and then just raise cattle and plant trees there, do nothing but put up walls and let sheep graze, and hire mercenaries to herd sheep. Private property prohibits any mining exploration personnel from entering. With his current identity plus the power of medicine control, even if he buys a county or even a state in the United States to raise sheep in the wilderness, Americans will not have any opinion on this. This is a great way to drain the water from the bottom of the pot. The development of American industry relies not on technology but on resources, and it is precisely the vast territory with inexhaustible cheap resources that allows them to win out in competition with the old continent. If we can use this method to slow down their development as much as possible, it will undoubtedly be very helpful for our future strategy.

  Moreover, doing so can also serve as an exchange to obtain convenience for oneself in terms of patent rights from the Americans. A big spender who throws money around everywhere is someone who would be warmly welcomed by anyone. As a return, giving him some things that should have been his in the first place is only natural.

  He's going to the United States, so of course he can't go alone. Financial staff, lawyers, bodyguards, maids, secretaries, even private chefs... especially the bodyguards. Yang Feng recruited a whole squad of mercenaries in Sweden, with Strongson as their captain, equipped with Enfield rifles, automatic pistols, and even hand grenades. They also made titanium alloy plates for each person to wear as bulletproof vests. These are all big guys who don't care about carrying extra weight on their bodies.

  That place in the US is quite chaotic, with insufficient security guarantees. He doesn't want to risk his own life. This guy even wore his golden dragon collar, but to cover up that golden dragon with sharp teeth and claws, some exquisite embroidery was specially pasted on the outside, making it look like those nobles in the Middle Ages.

  Upon learning of this news, Baron Rothschild also specially assigned a bank manager to him, who was responsible for his banking business in the United States.