57. On the Development of the Navy
With the shogunate's own officers, Matsuhei Keinaga was about to fire the original Dutch officer corps. This guy is expelling the barbarians. When he was studying European style exercises, he could pinch his nose and let foreigners wander under his nose.
Now that the shogunate wings are hard, it can flap and start flying, so I am ready to kick the person away with one kick. Good guy, this is definitely a scumbag who throws it away after using it.
Tadaoemon felt that there was no need to fire, but before we could speak, Matsuhira Qishin ran to make a fuss with Matsuhira Keiyen. He was worried that he was not enough for the officers, so why would he be willing to fire someone?
However, he couldn't twist his thighs, and Matsuhei's reason was very glorious. The shogunate army was handed over to the commander of foreign foreign barbarians. After fighting with foreign barbarians, how much combat effectiveness could the army show? Will it be sold by these foreign barbarians to gain their glory and wealth in their own country?
The soul asks questions and hits people's hearts, and Matsuhisaki cannot guarantee that they can't help. As the saying goes, people's hearts are all foreigners. How can they expect them to fight to the end for the shogunate?
The result of the dispute between the two was that Pedro and others were no longer allowed to serve as officers of the teaching team, and all the teaching teams were handed over to the soldiers promoted by the shogunate and the military academy students who were in the UK. However, these people could still be retained and the shogunate continued to invest and hire them. In the future, they only trained the recruits and then served as the staff officers of Matsuhei Shizuo.
The result was not bad. After hearing about it, Tadaoemon did not go to Matsuhei Kyonaga and said that the focus of work continued to shift to Yokohama's construction.
Tadasuzu Oriri has been appointed as a foreign power, but he is not responsible for shipbuilding and merchant ship schools, but is only responsible for the construction of steel mills in Yokohama. Establishing steel plants are either at the production sites of coal and iron ore, or at the beach with very good shipping conditions. Freight costs can be saved in the place of origin, and foreign resources can be used at the beach.
Each has its own benefits!
After a walk around Yokohama, Tadashi Oriki shook his head. Although Yokohama can use sea transportation to obtain iron ore and coal from Western countries, Japan's shipping level is too poor and the transportation volume is not enough. It is very inappropriate to build a steel plant in Yokohama now, and production will be very difficult.
He didn't say the remaining half of the sentence, that is, unless you trade with foreign countries, you can directly obtain cheap foreign pig iron and then smelting steel.
Judging from the current situation of the shogunate, it is best to establish a steel factory in Nagasaki. Nagasaki itself produces high-quality coal and is close to the iron ore production area of the West, which is convenient for transportation.
The Kobe Steel Institute in history developed by using extremely convenient shipping. Since the shogunate does not have the conditions for foreign shipping, Tadaoemon finally recognized Oriki Tadasushi's suggestion.
It is not impossible to force the establishment of a steel factory in Yokohama. However, you have to wait for the black ship to sail, then wait for the two sides to sign a treaty, and finally trade. There must be twists and turns in the process and will not be achieved overnight. You can't build a factory and then just leave it there and wait for foreign shipping.
After that, Tadaoemon immediately wrote a letter to the shogunate, supporting Oriki Tadaru's opinion, and first planned a steelmaking office in Nagasaki.
The first payment for the steelmaking office is not required to be too much. It can be taken out by tens of thousands of taels of shogunate. People also have experienced Saga's masters. As long as they practice steel, they will never have to worry about sales. Step by step, just take it step by step.
Back at the shipyard and merchant ship school in Yokohama, the merchant ship school was directly run by the shipyard. According to Katsuhibashi's meaning, classes in the morning and training in the afternoon are definitely better than just reading books. The shipyard has built a ship, which is also convenient for students to board the ship directly for test ships.
This proposal was unanimously agreed by others. Tadaemon was not an expert, so he acted according to the strategy. As for the so-called Etashima Naval Military School, I am afraid that this time and space will no longer exist. The one who cannot be sure of the name of the Yokohama Naval Military School in the end was the Yokohama Naval Military School.
After talking about the most basic thing, Tadaoemon began to introduce his shipbuilding development ideas to everyone.
In the second half of the 19th century, the development of naval ships was changing with each passing day. Often, ships were still built on the ship platform, and they had become useless things in the backward era.
Let’s roughly sort out the development ideas of the entire naval ship. First, it is steam dynamics of the ship. As we all know, first the steam paddle ship, and then the paddle wheel has developed into a propeller, which is not only safer, but also more convenient to use.
This step took decades, but it was just a small improvement, until the important naval battle of the Crimean War and the Battle of Sipuno. The flowering and blasting bomb turned all wooden warships into useless things. With just one flowering bomb, it was possible to destroy a 2,000-ton sail battleship.
So France and the United States began to cover the outside of wooden warships one after another. This technology continued to develop, from dry iron armor to steel armor, to steel-surface iron armor, and then to carburized armor, developing step by step.
This brings up a problem: artillery cannot keep up with the development of ship armor!
Originally, a ship might have dozens of cannons, but it was greatly reduced. Many ships were equipped with several large-caliber cannons. For nothing else, it was simply not enough to penetrate other people's armor. It would be useless to bring your bullshit cannons onto the ship.
In the early battles of armored ships, they fought each other from morning to night. Neither of the shells from both sides could hurt each other. In the end, the ammunition was exhausted and they stopped each other while cursing.
Until the Battle of Lissa, during the Prussian war, the Kingdom of Italy, the Prussian ally, and the Austrian Empire, conducted a large-scale maritime battle in the waters near Lissa, Adriatic.
At the beginning of the battle, both sides fired fire at each other as we said before, and then the shells hit the armor, which was useless. So Tegerthof of the Austro-Hungarian Empire ordered the ship to launch a firm impact on the Italian Navy's flagship "Italy".
The Italian sank!
At the end of the battle, the Italian Navy was defeated, losing three ironclad ships and killing more than a thousand people. The development trend of the world's navy changed instantly, and building large ironclad ships may not be effective, so it is better to build fast and maneuverable impact warships.
The cannons originally set on the side are useless because they can't wear armor after fighting. The cannons now only need to be set behind the impact corner of the bow to facilitate fire attacks after hitting the enemy ship. If you are better, then arrange artillery at the stern of the ship, and wait for the ship to hit and finish the attack.
A series of practical combat has led to the continuous improvement of the design plans of naval ships. Now I will soon fall behind. Everyone here must have a long-term vision.
Forget it, was the torpedo invented? I still want to build a torpedo boat!
Chapter completed!