Fuzhou Shipbuilding Bureau has a long history and a profound foundation. It trained China the first batch of shipbuilding technicians with a total of 143 people, of which 32 were studying in France. As of the demise of the Qing Dynasty, a total of 78 warships were built.

, the main technical engineering personnel and business managers of Far East Shipbuilding Industry Corporation, as well as the teachers of the Northeast Shipbuilding College and the two branches all come from the Fuzhou Shipbuilding Bureau and its subordinate Fuzhou Shipbuilding College

But for China's future shipbuilding industry, this foundation is far from enough and cannot support the mother's dream. China's shipbuilding industry will still depend on the development of the Northeast shipbuilding industry in the next ten years or even twenty years.

After meeting Sa Zhenbing, Wei Han and others in the new Longmen Port in Jinzhou, Song Biao continued to visit the Far East Shipbuilding Industry Corporation, and brought Cheng Biguang, Sa Zhenbing, Wei Han and Chen Zhaoao together.

After six years of preparation and development, the Jinzhou Shipbuilding General Company, located in the northern part of Dalian Bay, already has 8 docks. The two main dry docks have a foundation of 6,000 tons of ship manufacturing, and through a large number of hirings.

American technicians and joint ventures with San Francisco shipyards to produce 5,000 tons of merchant ships

The reason why China's shipbuilding industry hopes depends on the Northeast is because at this time, Northeast already has the ability to produce marine steel, boilers and small and medium-sized carrier-based guns. Among the two military thousand-ton docks, Jinzhou Shipbuilding General Factory has already

In trying to produce six-ton ​​displacement patrol ships suitable for Yangtze River and offshore routes

Interestingly, Hu Weiqiao, the director of Far East Shipbuilding Industry Corporation, also graduated from the second manufacturing class of Mawei Shipbuilding School. Chief engineer Zheng Qinglian, Deputy Chief engineer Wang Qiaonian, and Yang Lianchen were the first graduates of the manufacturing class.

for many years

Private enterprises and state-owned Shipping Bureaus are obviously different, from management to salary, and with the strong support of the Far East Consortium and the joint venture cooperation of the San Francisco Shipyard in the United States, Jinzhou Shipyard started with the earliest dock maintenance business.

, In just six years, it has been possible to build 6,000 tons of merchant ships, ship steel, and boilers, which has made Wei Han and others envious. He and Zheng Qinglian are old friends for many years and have worked together to build several warships.

This meeting was filled with sighs and feelings

When it comes to the foundation of the port and shipbuilding industry, the conditions of the Jinzhou Shipbuilding General Factory located in the deep sea area of ​​the northern Dalian Bay are much better than those of the Fuzhou Shipbuilding Bureau and Huludao Port. The conditions here are enough to build a 300,000-ton giant ship.

As the largest foreign trade port in Northeast China, there are many local ship business and abundant profits. Jinzhou Shipbuilding Corporation invests a lot of capital every year in infrastructure construction and equipment introduction, and it still does not lose money. With the support of the consortium, the new ship dock under construction at this time is being built.

It is a 10,000 tons class and can build up to 130,000 tons of merchant ships and warships with a displacement of up to 130,000 tons.

Therefore, it is more efficient to spend money on private companies

Accompanied by the company's director Hu Weiqiao and chief engineer Zheng Qinglian, Song Biao was very interested in visiting various new equipment and production workshops in the factory, as well as several new docks with the most superior conditions, Cheng Biguang, Sa Zhenbing, and Wei Han.

Chen Zhaoao has been accompanying him to visit, and they both sighed abnormally

There is actually an interesting thing here, that is, after Hu Weiqiao became the factory director, he not only invited Zheng Qinglian, but also Wei Han, Chen Zhaoao and others, probably because they were reluctant to leave the official titles of the Qing Dynasty and the court's court's court, or they really wanted to build warships, or

Wei Chen and others refused because of other reasons. Except for Zheng Qinglian, the most famous and the highest level, the consortium hired them at all costs, most of the other technicians who came from Fuzhou Shipbuilding Bureau were only second-rate.

As time went by, Wei Han looked at the deputy chief engineer Wang Qiaonian, Yang Lianchen and others, and felt a little uncomfortable. If he had agreed to accept the high-paying offer from the consortium, there would be no such thing as these people? shuda8..

Don’t he know the level of these people?

Although Hu Weiqiao deliberately avoided those foreign experts and technicians who were hired when introducing the situation, he just visited the shipyard for a while, Wei Han and Chen Zhaoao both knew that the Jinzhou Shipbuilding Plant mainly relied on engineers from the United States and France.

There are two types of internal bulletin boards in the shipyard, which is enough to show how many American engineers and technicians there are. Along the way, Wei Han has seen as many as fifty or sixty people.

In front of the emperor, Wei Han didn't want to expose Hu Weiqiao's tricks. Anyway, he was able to hire so many foreign technicians.

After visiting the production workshops of several newest docks and marine boilers, Song Biao felt a sense of real hope. Therefore, it is still the efficiency of private enterprises. It has only been six years since the development speed is so

quick

After all, it is his own factory, so he couldn't help but ask Wei Han a little proudly: "Director Wei, what do you think the current level and conditions of Jinzhou Shipbuilding General Factory are like?"

Wei Han couldn't figure out the emperor's intentions for a while, so he could only answer cautiously: "Report to the emperor, the mechanical equipment of Jinzhou General Factory is indeed very good, all of which are the new equipment introduced in the latest years, our Shipbuilding Bureau's latest

The hand tools introduced were purchased in wholesale ten years ago, and they really can't compare with each other, and the gap is huge."

Song Biao nodded and asked Cheng Biguang again: "What do you think?"

Cheng Biguang exclaimed: "I used to think that the shipbuilding ability of Fuzhou Shipbuilding Bureau is the best in China. I never thought that the Far East Shipyard had higher conditions and capabilities. It might be possible to build cruisers in the past two years. If this is true,

, even if our empire’s central navy has its roots.”

Song Biao is in a happy mood

Due to his limited energy, he had almost no time to seriously ask about the domestic ship manufacturing industry in the past few years. He only explained to Rong Xingqiao, Hu Weiqiao and others that he would do everything possible to do this matter well and achieve real work.

Scale of

The view he and Rong Xingqiao explained is that the long-term development of China's economy will be determined by the development of the ship industry and the strength of the navy in the next few decades. For the Far East Consortium, the same is true for the problem.

At this moment, in front of the newly built 10,000-ton dock, Song Biao looked at the surrounding tilted boat platform, half-dock boat platform, keel pier and the soon-to-be-finished dock ceiling, and from Germany

With various equipment purchased in the United States, special large rivet pile machines can rivet 50-cm long steel rivets into the ship's steel and seal and press on both sides. This is a special equipment completely used for warship manufacturing.

The factory has been electrified on a large scale. The 3,500-ton driving system purchased from the United States is electric motor-driven. Even the carbon polar arc welding machines and aluminum thermal welding machines that have only started to be used in the shipbuilding industry in recent years.

Appeared in the shipyard

Song Biao was satisfied, but he still needed a higher and larger scale and prospect.

Everyone surrounded him, looking up at the spacious roof above, watching it together as if it was too advanced for everyone to doubt whether they were in the new dock in China. At this moment, everyone was in his heart with Song Biao.

Also full of bright hope for China's future

It was not until this moment that Song Biao slowly said to Cheng Biguang, Sa Zhenbing, Wei Han and Chen Zhaoao around him: "The reason I brought you here is to come here to see it, because this is the Chinese navy and ships.

The hope for the future of industry is that our Chinese navy is still small and down. Almost all military ports are forced to be given to foreign countries, so that they can stand on our military ports. It mocks our Chinese nation as a weak and humble nation. It mocks this.

The incompetence of the empire, mocking us for being corrupt, mocking us for being ignorant, mocking us for being unable to build a cruiser, but it doesn't matter, because we can definitely be the most powerful naval power in the world, I believe my life

It will be long. Even if your generation is buried in dust, only I can remember you. Your heirs will continue to work hard to realize our dreams before I am buried in dust. Even if I leave this empire.

, My heirs will work harder to make the empire more prosperous and brilliant, and make the empire's navy and army more powerful. This is our dream of restoration and the dream of restoration of this nation and restore the strength of our Chinese nation during the Tang and Song dynasties.

And the glory ahead of the world, this is our Chinese dream.”

Listening to such words, everyone around Song Biao felt infinite excitement, and the rushing blood surged violently in his body, as if countless passion and energy were about to erupt.

Song Biao raised his eyes and calmly glanced at everyone present, and continued, "I invite you to come here, just to say such things to you, and I hope you can work hard with me for this and for this."

And encourage each other”

After he said that, everyone couldn't wait to applaud warmly and was very excited

It was at this moment that Cheng Biguang became more aware of how lucky it was to announce his participation in the Restoration Revolution and serve the new empire and the new emperor. Even Sa Zhenbing, who was still in his heart, felt ashamed, and truly

Aspirations and hopes

Cheng Biguang immediately led everyone to bow to Emperor Song, and his voice trembled and loudly replied: "Please rest assured, the emperor, we must sacrifice our lives for the great restoration of the Chinese nation, shed our blood, devote ourselves to our efforts, and die until we die.

You must also serve the emperor with death, and do your duty to the emperor without regrets."

Song Biao nodded slightly, he was very happy that Cheng Biguang could say that

He didn't want to say such words just to attract Cheng Biguang and Sa Zhenbing as confidants of the imperial party. This is his inner thoughts, but in this semi-feudal empire that was actually still centralized, there was only one

These true important officials are all loyal to him, so that he can lead these people and China to the great path of national rejuvenation

As an emperor who was born in a military family and was such an outstanding military commander, Lieutenant General Cheng Biguang, the former Qing Dynasty naval commander Sa Zhenbing and the Song Emperor, had many common languages. It can even be said that the Song Emperor is the first in all ***

Human idols represent the most powerful image of the most powerful person

Speaking of China's dream of a strong naval country, Sa Zhenbing couldn't wait to buy a battleship, and immediately suggested to Song Biao: "Emperor, if our navy wants to rise, we must first purchase first-class fearless battleships with foreign countries as the main force, and then

The country organizes various factories to build cruisers, combining external purchase and internal manufacturing, and within ten years, it will definitely be among the world's naval powers. The Japanese Navy will not dare to underestimate our navy at that time."

Song Biao and Cheng Biguang both looked at each other and were not in a hurry to explain to Sa Zhenbing. After all, there were a lot of information and decisions that Sa Zhenbing had no idea at this time.

The conditions of Jinzhou Shipbuilding General Factory are much better than those in Huludao.

Jinzhou was a Zhili Prefecture in the past, but now it is a Zhili County. It is equivalent to a "provincial county" in administrative level. It is not a high level, but it is one of the economic leaders of the three northeastern provinces.

This is mainly because Dalian is not within the jurisdiction and control of the three northeastern provinces. For tax considerations, the investment scale of Jinzhou by the three northeastern provinces has always been very high, making Jinzhou replace Dalian Port in a short period of time and become the three northeastern provinces.

Important seaports for import and export of materials

Compared with Dalian Port, Jinzhou has more ports and better conditions. Whether it is Dayaowan, Xiaoyaowan, Dalian Bay North Bay and Zhongwan, or Jinzhou Bay, they are all very good ports, especially Dayao.

Bay and Dalian Bay North Bay, two ports are separated from north to south of the Dongshan Peninsula. The docks built along both sides have exceeded Dalian several times, and the annual throughput is also greater than Dalian.

Because of this, Russia and the three northeastern provinces have had many negotiations.

Song Biao and his party arranged to stay at the Jinzhou Bay Hotel near the shipyard. After the dinner, Song Biao generals Cheng Biguang, Sa Zhenbing, Song Hui, Wei Han and others continued to convene in the hotel conference room to discuss the purchase of new naval ships.

plan

After repeated discussions during this period, Song Biao has already made a relatively comprehensive plan for this matter. He means to tie up 175 industrial plans and purchase of new ships, and introduce light armor with side armor from abroad.

Cruisers, don't care about battle cruisers that are currently popular and are believed to change the direction of the world's navy's development, because the Chinese Navy has no such capital and significance to install battle cruisers.

The light armored cruisers introduced should have two levels: 3,000 tons of water displacement and 7,500. The former must purchase design drawings and manufacturing drawings, and require the state-owned consultants to be appointed to China to guide production. Starting from the construction of the light armored cruisers with a displacement of 3,000 tons, gradually

Develop to the higher level

In addition to purchasing light armored cruisers, it is also required to continue to purchase destroyers with displacement of 400 tons and 1,000 tons, and it is also required to continue to produce and improve locally.

In the design of light armored cruisers and destroyers, good speed and airworthiness are required, and the focus is on speed and protection, as well as good comprehensive uses such as submarine reconnaissance, mine laying, and demining. Steam turbine power and diesel engine power are required as much as possible.

And transfer this technology to produce imitation in China

On this basis, after roughly 12 light armored cruisers are put into service, the Navy will further consider battleships and battlecruisers. The so-called battlecruiser is the strengthening of light armored cruisers, but the caliber of the gun is further unified and the power is improved by using new technologies to improve

, ensure more space to strengthen protection, on the basis of speed and light armored cruisers, it has artillery equivalent to battleships and excellent comprehensive armored protection

For the Chinese Navy, Song Biao's idea is to focus on protection and speed, and only the last limit is to consider firepower. Therefore, even if the battleship cruiser is purchased, the main guns of the Chinese Navy needed for the battle patrol were relatively smaller to break through light.

Armored cruisers and other combat patrols are basic standards, and the battleships are not considered

The weight of the main gun on the warship is amazing. For every one inch of caliber, six to eight main guns will increase by 10% of the total net weight.

During this period, Song Biao had already considered developing and transitioning to the aircraft carrier era as soon as possible after the end of World War I. By purchasing and building some battleships in small quantities, he began to fully invest in the development of aircraft carriers and was responsible for protecting aircraft carriers.

It is also mainly equipped with light cruisers that focus more on armor protection, and a small number of battleships are equipped with a small number of battleships to act as deterrent effects of artillery output and close-range naval combat.

Song Hui did not object to Song Biao's idea of ​​focusing on protection and speed. For the Chinese Navy at this time, it was really a beggar who didn't pick on food. It would be great if he could have a new ship.

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