Cross the Songhu battlefield and rise to become the most powerful warlord

657 Secret Construction

“Because this submarine is the latest research product of our group, all the employees and management involved in its manufacturing are very grateful to the group.

A confidentiality agreement needs to be signed.

If someone leaks the information, they will face a huge penalty.

Of course, all employees involved in manufacturing will receive double the pay.”

Ye Qingfeng said to the factory director Poke with a stern face.

“Please inform the employees who are willing to participate in this work and sign this new contract.

If they don’t want to, I will transfer them to other shipyards later.”

Factory Manager Poker picked up the contract and read it quickly.

Then, he signed his name without hesitation.

“Manager, CEO.

I took the lead in signing.”

Factory Manager Poker laughed.

As for this kind of confidentiality agreement, they have no idea how many times they have signed it.

The shipyard already had many similar confidentiality agreements, but the penalty for breach of contract this time was higher.

However, faced with the double salary offered by Ye Qingfeng, they really had no reason to refuse.

As for what Ye Qingfeng said, the company’s new product.

It was still a military submarine. In the eyes of the factory director Poke, there was no worry. Instead, he saw it as an opportunity.

It is an opportunity for their Shipyard No. 3 to rise again.

Afterwards, the factory director Boke summoned the old masters in the city who had experience in submarine manufacturing to come and sign a confidentiality contract.

Then, Ye Qingshan took out the design drawings of the Type XXI U-boat and showed them.

"Look, can you build this kind of submarine?"

Ye Qingshan asked several engineers who had experience in submarine manufacturing.

"What kind of submarine is this? It's of this design?"

After reading the design drawings of the Type XXI submarine, several engineers were also amazed. It was the first time they had seen such a strange submarine.

Several submarine engineers even started a discussion.

Ye Qingshan watched quietly from the side without disturbing them. He had time now.

After half a day of arguing, an old engineer in his fifties walked up to Ye Qingshan and said, "We have seen the design drawings of this new submarine.

It is indeed much more advanced than the submarines we built back then.

It is a very novel design.

Many of the instruments and equipment inside were not available on the submarines we built back then.

Our shipyard can manufacture the main body of the submarine.

Some instruments and equipment can be purchased from the market.

However, there are still some instruments and equipment that are not available on the market and the company needs to set up its own supporting factories to manufacture them.

We have listed these.”

Ye Qingshan took the list handed over by the engineer and saw that there were about twenty kinds of instruments and equipment listed on it.

These are unique instruments on U-boats. They need to be manufactured separately and are not available on the American market.

“Fortunately, these submarines’ unique instruments and equipment have detailed design data on the design drawings.

Just give it to a large military enterprise and it should be able to manufacture it."

“Okay, the company will figure out how to manufacture these instruments.

You should start building the main body of the submarine first."

Afterwards, Ye Qingshan asked Ye Qingfeng to call the company and arrange someone to handle these matters.

Now, the group has several military-industrial enterprises under its jurisdiction.

It is not a problem to arrange a military-industrial enterprise to manufacture these supporting instruments and equipment.

Afterwards, Ye Qingfeng was responsible for having all employees of the shipyard sign the new contract.

Enticed by the offer of double the salary, all employees in the factory signed confidentiality agreements and new contracts.

Although some of the terms in the new contract are a bit harsh.

For example, in the next few months, employees are not allowed to leave the factory without permission, and if there are overseas work transfers, they must obey the arrangements.

But with the incentive of double salary and generous bonuses, these are not difficult.

Employees will find ways to overcome it themselves.

Ye Qingshan, led by the factory director Poker, inspected the shipyard, especially the dock.

When he saw the huge steel frame structure that would cover a vast indoor dry dock, Ye Qingshan nodded with satisfaction.

The scale of the indoor dry dock at Shipyard No. 3 is sufficient to easily build several Type XXI submarines at the same time.

After all, the Type XXI submarine is only about seventy meters long, and this indoor dock can easily handle it.

Outsiders cannot see what is going on inside.

This greatly enhances confidentiality.

Ye Qingshan stayed at the No. 3 Shipyard for two days, arranging everything before returning to the city.

When Ye Qingshan returned to the Golden Manor, someone also sent it to Ye Qingshan, which he had applied for through Charles before.

Regarding the approval documents for his subordinate shipyard to manufacture S-class training submarines.

In this way, Ye Qingshan’s No. 3 Shipyard’s construction of submarines had a cover on the surface.

With the power of the West Coast United Consortium led by Ye Qingshan at this time, it is easy to solve this small problem.

It's just a phone call.

Even Charles and local officials didn't think there was anything wrong.

Anyway, in the United States, there are countless private companies that can build airplanes and tanks, and Ye Qingshan is not lacking in one.

Ye Qingshan also gradually realized that many things in the United States are different from those in China.

Here, the power of the consortium is greater than he expected.

Even if the manufacturing of the Type XXI submarine was later discovered by the US officials, it would not have any impact on Ye Qingshan.

After all, the military-industrial enterprises under that consortium don’t have any secret products.

Even the American military and government are unaware of the secret projects of these military-industrial giants.

In the consortium's small piece of land, the consortium is the boss and can do whatever it wants.

Even if the American military and government wanted to investigate, it would be very troublesome because the procedures alone were extremely complicated.

Especially at this time, the United Consortium is omnipotent in California and even in the West Coast area.

It is still possible to call the wind and rain.

It is precisely because of the protection of the joint consortium that Ye Qingshan dared to secretly build the Type XXI submarine in California.

“However, the secret construction of Type XXI submarines at Shipyard No. 3 can only be a transition.

Just for the purpose of verification, relying on the capabilities of the factories under my name, whether I can independently produce the Type XXI submarine.

If successful.

When the Type XXI U-boats are subsequently mass-produced, they cannot be placed in California.

It’s more reassuring to keep it in Western Australia.”

Ye Qingshan thought about it in his mind, and then sent a telegram to Ye Qinglan in Western Australia.

Tell them to speed up the construction of the large shipyard there, and also ask the group to increase its support for Western Australia.

“We need more transport ships.

Ah Shan, our group’s fleet that travels back and forth to Western Australia is no longer sufficient.”

In the evening, after Ye Dakang returned to the manor, he said to Ye Qingshan.

“Then buy it.

Add your own, the sooner the better, time waits for no one! "