What the hell is a private enterprise?

Chapter 289 Naming Contest
The unexpected events on the last day of the park's closure kept Tang Wen busy again, mainly considering the application to expand the flight area, occupy more beaches, and build a seaplane dock.

The secretary ship was completely incapable of doing any secretary work, and Tang Wen spent a few rare days staying at the company.

However, this does not affect the training flights of the Liaoyue and Youyi ships.

Standing on the spacious bridge of the Liaoyue, Bai Hantao glanced with awe at Chen Quanrong, who had a stern face beside him.

Although Chen Quanrong had the old C-class naval style, he was very good at training people. During the 10-day assessment and training, the local club members really showed some skill, reaching almost 80% of the level of rookie sailors.

Among them were indeed talented individuals. When selecting technical positions, 20% of the positions were won by club members, making the losing naval academy students feel very embarrassed.

He believes this is all thanks to the realistic shipboard training and the benefits of living and eating on the ship.

Within the navy, sending a ship with over 90% of its crew at sea would be considered murder, and even more so, irresponsible towards the warship.

Bai Hantao was initially worried, but after seeing the significant results achieved by the local members of the club, he withstood the pressure and chose to accept it.

He looked at the helmsman, one of the first outstanding students to arrive early. He was noticeably more mature than before, and even his arrogance had vanished.

At first, he looked down on the local self-taught students, but after witnessing the artillery department's practice of firing more than a hundred shells in an afternoon of training and taking it for granted, he realized just how stingy the Daryan Naval Academy was.

He glanced at the training plan log, which was divided into several stations. Only if there were no unexpected incidents and the training was completed satisfactorily would he proceed to the next station.

The first destination was neither too far nor too near... Dongsha.

……

Huangpu.

Smith strolled through the bustling night market, flanked by various snack and fast food carts.

The vendors watched as the foreigner rudely looked around, until he stopped in front of a relatively clean stall. Pointing to the fried noodles a customer was eating next to him, he finally managed to utter a few words:
"that."

"Fried rice noodles, right? Please have a seat."

Smith nodded. He could understand most of Chinese, but he wasn't very good at speaking and writing it.

"That" was a little trick he learned from a colleague; the pronunciation was exactly the same as Nig's and it was the easiest to master.

After finishing his noodles, he took a walk towards the center of the river. Not far away was a kitchen and bathroom supplies store that was being renovated.

In order to come to the mainland to investigate in person, Smith needed to disguise his identity. Since his family was doing business in the mainland, he simply took on the role as an agent.

Now, he is Smith's domestic distributor for water heaters, aiming to establish experience showrooms to test local demand and prepare to build a factory by taking advantage of the cheap labor force here.

And right across the direction he was walking was the Huangpu Shipyard, the birthplace of battleships and aircraft carriers.

Of course, you can't see any intelligence at night, but as a well-trained agent, it's essential to familiarize yourself with the terrain beforehand.

"Drip-"

A car passing by him nearly hit a pedestrian crossing the road, and the driver honked the horn several times.

Smith looked over and saw a very luxurious Buick Park Avenue, a car that not many people on the mainland could afford.

The back window was open, revealing the faces of a young man and woman.

In the light of the streetlights, Smith felt a strange sense of familiarity.

……

Because he was staying at a hotel open to the public, Smith received a newspaper every morning.

Flipping through the local newspaper, a few lines of large print caught my eye:

Battleships and aircraft carriers are now available to everyone!

Continue reading:

"The Greater Bay Area Tourism Zone has reached a cooperation agreement with Huangpu Shipyard to replicate cement models of the Type 001 battleship and Type 011 aircraft carrier in the tourism zone to meet the needs of more tourists." "Huangpu Shipyard will send instructors to Gaijin Shipyard to guide the model casting and restoration, and it is expected to be cast in a 1:1 scale."

Tang Wen, Deputy General Manager of the Greater Bay Area Tourism Zone, has signed a formal agreement to contribute more to naval-themed education in China.

Below the text is a photo of Tang Wen and Yang Shengli shaking hands and facing the camera.

Memories flashed through my mind like lightning, and this face matched that of the young man from the night.

Given the current scarcity of luxury cars in mainland China, it's almost impossible to mistake one for the other.

Cement model?

Smith didn't ignore it, thinking that the next stop was the Greater Bay Area.

He saw the message below, still from the warship:
[Naming competition open for the first battleship (Type 001) and the first aircraft carrier (Type 011)]

“征名活动从1月26日持续至2月26日，通过信件方式参与，排名前10将会进行第二轮投票。

Note: The naming results are not the final name, but only suggestions. The final decision rests with the naming committee.

……

Gaijin Shipyard.

Two Tianjing II dredgers sailed out of the dock under cover of night, once again emptying the huge dock.

The walls surrounding the shipyard were raised again, and even the part facing the sea was closed off by a pier, turning it into a complete information island.

In the empty dock, a huge object suddenly appeared.

This is the HMS Yorktown, which was just salvaged from the seabed and is about to undergo modernization.

The Yorktown occupied a small portion of the space, and the remaining space was used to begin hull construction for the first Type 055 destroyer.

As for the Musashi, Tang Wen didn't plan to use it immediately after salvaging it, but rather to explore how to sell it.

A major reason why China is reluctant to buy battleships is that retrofitting them is very troublesome, requiring a lot of effort in areas such as circuitry and superstructure.

The reason for buying the Yamato in the first place was that we were in dire need of ships. We would definitely not be willing to buy another one, even if it were the 100,000-ton Hanover.

Tang Wen has two options: convert the aircraft carrier or carry out its own modernization upgrade.

The biggest problem with converting an aircraft carrier is the hangar. Converting a battleship requires reconstructing the entire superstructure to accommodate jet aircraft, which is much more complicated than converting one during World War II.

The amount of engineering work involved is too large, and it's better to just buy a native aircraft carrier. Instead of buying a modified one that's been modified halfway through its development, the Navy would be better off buying another Essex or Midway.

The second path is easier. Although missile and electronic technology were no longer up to par in the 60s, it is not a problem to simply upgrade the underlying systems and power systems, and provide a ready-made platform, just like the hull of the Type 055 destroyer.

Compared to the six-month construction period at the Darian shipyard, the Geiger renovation can be completed in less than a month.

Considering that communication with the Navy would take too long, Tang Wen decided to use his own technology to upgrade the equipment as much as possible.

"The power system was replaced with the United States' 28-horsepower steam turbine and an 8000-horsepower diesel generator set."

The exterior remains largely unchanged, but all turrets, except for the ammunition handling mechanisms, have had their interiors hollowed out and merged to make room for vertical launch systems. The entire ship's electrical system has also been upgraded, and communication cabling has been pre-installed.

Tang Yi brought over the latest 97 version of the Musashi modification plan, and Tang Wen nodded in approval.

All the gun turrets on the Musashi were just unusable decorative frames fixed on the gun mounts. The interiors were all redesigned to be reserved for missiles, and the ship's electrical and propulsion systems were all upgraded to the top level of the 60s, and are still usable today.

However, the biggest change is in the power system. After being replaced with 28-horsepower steam turbines, the basic speed is expected to increase from 27 knots to 33 to 34 knots, making it a truly high-speed warship.

If the modification proves feasible, it will be marketed and the Gaikin Shipyard will undertake the further modification. If it cannot be sold, it will remain in the sea off Tai Wan as a hotel and training ship.

(End of this chapter)