"If Huaguo wants to really gain a foothold in the world, it is absolutely not enough to protect itself."
President Meng looked at the huge world map and lamented the lack of national strength and the lack of military strength.Princess Katrina Kafu smiled, "We must take one step at a time, as long as we can maintain stability, within ten years, I am confident that we can catch up with the weakest of the great powers, the Tsarist Russian Navy and the American Navy." ”"I hope so, too, but I think you're too optimistic, don't forget, we have to build everything on our own now, and no country will sell us finished warships anymore."
President Moe shook his head.Even the car has not been able to come out until now, and President Meng really doesn't dare to hope that a large warship can come out, "President, don't be pessimistic, there is nothing in the world that money can't buy."
Whether the key president is willing to spend money or not, the president has always wanted to produce it himself. ”Princess Katrina Kafu smiled."
You don't have to produce it yourself."
President Meng sighed, but stood up with a smile on his face, and walked back and forth a few steps, "Contact the ambassadors of various countries in Beijing to see if there is any possibility of buying warships, the key depends on the attitude of the Germans." ”"Yes, President."
Princess Katrina Kafu finally relented when she saw that President Meng was willing to buy warships, and she was relieved.It is very difficult for a business to start from scratch, or it is easier to imitate, Huaguo Industry should still be in the stage of imitation, otherwise the car will not be so difficult to come out, because there is no model for the car to imitate, step by step to rely on their own research and development.The Chinese Navy now has a total of two medium-sized cruisers, ten light cruisers, 20 frigates, and the number of warships has reached 33, which can already rank among the top 10 Chinese army in the world, and now there are 26 field divisions, plus an artillery brigade, 600 artillery pieces, plus more than 10 garrison regiments, and the garrison regiment has also begun to uniformly replace the president's 1874 rifle, not counting the construction corps, and the full-time military establishment is nearly 600,000 troops.Each squad is equipped with two grenadiers.President Moe's plan is to gradually build the ships needed to fulfill the mission of the ocean-going "fleet decisive battle", which can be roughly divided into four stages.The first is the construction phase, which is dominated by armored cruisers.And began to develop submarines in this era, only civilian research and development of submarines, really to the stage where countries began to pay attention to submarines, it will take 20 years, this point, the Chinese Navy is the earliest to wait until the ability to build warships, the first batch of steel warships to build double-layer bottoms and watertight compartments, open up a new era of "steel warships".Armored cruisers, unarmored cruisers, steel gunboats, heavily armored cruisers, and low-sided ironclads are all part of President Moe's plans.The second is the construction phase dominated by battleships.Battleships of the first rank, battleships of the second class, heavy cruisers, armored cruisers.President Moe's goal is to complete the first phase of the plan and start building battleships.During this period, the main focus was on the construction of battleships with powerful firepower, which were required to be very close to the navies of European powers in terms of ship design, ship power, shipbuilding technology, displacement, armament, and ship armor, and the Chinese navy would initially have a certain ocean-going combat capability.The third is the construction phase dominated by the "Dreadnought" class battleships.President Meng knew that in the original history, in 1906, the appearance of the British battleship "Dreadnought" dwarfed the previous battleships.Fourth, the stage is dominated by anti-submarine warfare equipment.In the original history, after the outbreak of World War I, in order to deal with the threat of submarines, the construction of destroyers, submarine hunting and other specialized surface anti-submarine combat forces will become the main theme of naval development.China's military industry has made great progress in the past three years.The Type 1871 rifle has been updated for three generations, which is impossible to happen in a newly established country, and only a large country like China has such financial resources.The President Type 1874 rifle has been perfected and has reached the pinnacle of manual rifles.In 1876, Carl Benz, an engineer recruited from Germany, successfully tested a two-stroke experimental engine for the first time.German engineer Wilhelmheim Daimler began research on internal combustion engines.He invented an automatic ignition device for igniting an engine with an electric spark, and then, on the basis of this invention, an excellent gasoline engine was created.At 900 rpm this engine, it is simple and compact, and it can produce a lot of power.Daimler completed this gasoline engine, which began to be assembled on two-wheelers, three-wheelers, and four-wheelers the following year, making gasoline-powered cars.In particular, a gasoline-engined four-wheeled cargo car, built in 1877, had a 5-horsepower engine and reached a speed of 18 kilometers per hour.President 1875 Mortar: The 75 mm infantry gun used by the Chinese army began to be developed in 1874 and produced in 1875, named the President 1875 Infantry Gun to equip the troops.After the completion of these three designs, in 1859 the British army used the armored target ship "Trussie" TRTY to test various types of Armstrong guns with live ammunition., none of which were found to be able to penetrate the 102 mm wrought iron armor of the Troussy.However, during the tests, the British considered the gun to be very satisfactory in terms of range and accuracy.It was decided on these reasons to adopt the gun.With the exception of a 20-pounder short-range field gun designed for New Zealand, it was basically adopted by the British Navy.After the British adopted this gun, they were initially equipped with only about two large warships such as cruisers.Over the next three years, Sir Armstrong perfected the 7-inch Armstrong gun on the Warrior and succeeded in designing a thicker version.The new version ended up being a combat Armstrong gun.The Warrior, launched in 1861, was equipped with about 10 guns.Subsequently, the British fleet gradually increased the amount of equipment of such artillery.However, because the gun is too sophisticated, the production volume cannot be increased, so it is still the equipment used by large warships.After the end of the Saxon-British War in 1862, the British government decided to form a committee to deal with the Armstrong artillery problem because of the repeated problems of the Armstrong guns during the fighting, and the doubts about the reliability of the artillery within the British army.In 1863, the British Ordnance Seectittee began to investigate the Armstrong guns and compare the respective merits of breech and breech guns.In 1864, the British government announced the cessation of the manufacture of Armstrong rear-loading guns because of their performance in the Sarco-British War.Subsequently, the Commission issued a report in which it theoretically supported the Government's decision.The report of the commission found that the new characteristics of the Armstrong gun, the multi-rifling, lead-coated and reloading design were quite complex and inefficient.Despite its power, the Armstrong cannon was expensive due to its new characteristics and was not suitable for mass production.And because of the artillery accidents in the Sath-British war, its reliability was questioned.Therefore, the committee considered that the Armstrong gun was not suitable for use as the main artillery on the battlefield.The report does not rule out the possibility of malicious slander by Armstrong's competitors, and the committee is very optimistic about the front-loading gun, because the front-loading gun technology is relatively mature, reliable and cheap.Therefore, the committee considered that the front-loading gun was more suitable for the needs of the battlefield.However, despite the fact that the front-loading gun had the advantages of being cheaper, safer, and more sophisticated, the committee lashed out at the Armstrong gun.However, in the end, in the report, the committee still spoke highly of the power and advanced nature of the Armstrong gun.The most criticized problem of the difficulty of eliminating delayed and jammed shells was resolved in the later design of the 100-ton Armstrong heavy gun, and although the subsequent investigation was positive about the rear-loading system, the high cost of the rear-loading gun led the commission to recommend that the government adopt the front-loading gun.Following their advice, in 1870 the British began to remove the rear-loading guns, replacing them with the front-loading guns.In order to allow rifling to be used for front-loading guns, Armstrong submitted his front-loading design to the War Department in 1866.In the design, modifications were made to the shells.On the shell casing, the car is raised to match the rifling.However, during artillery tests it turned out that this design was very bad.Firing armor plates from a 100-pound front-loading gun found that even a 4-inch armor plate could not penetrate within 50 yards.This proves the failure of this design.In order to make up for the shortcomings.Armstrong then began a new design.In 1876, Armstrong submitted to the British Admiralty a design for a heavy gun weighing 1002 tons and caliber 4501776 inches.This is the hundred-ton Armstrong heavy gun.However, since the commission reported that the Admiralty was not interested in this design.So in 1880, Italy ordered a batch of 100-ton front-loading Armstrong guns from Armstrong, which were equipped with two new battleships, the Duiio and the Dandao.1776 inches.The cannon set a world record at the time.Equipped with such heavy artillery, Italy's naval power posed a threat to Gibraltar and Malta, the British protectorates at the time.But at the outset, the British did not believe that the Italian navy would be able to pose a great threat to Malta and Gibraltar.Because both Italian ships were 22-inch ironclad and could not withstand the shore fire of Gibraltar and Malta.The guns recommended by the Commission for both were 160-200 ton guns, powerful enough to destroy Italian warships.Confident Britain, began to invest in the production of heavy artillery recommended by the Strength Production Committee in order to maintain military superiority.However, despite the efforts of the British, the 100-ton Armstrong gun was already the natural limit of the technology of the front-loading gun at that time.So British developments continued to fail.In the end, Britain had to abandon the development of a commission-type heavy artillery.The British, who had no replacement for a while, had to order 4 hundred-ton Armstrong guns from the Armstrong company.In Gibraltar, the British deployed one each at the Victoria Fort and the Magdanaper Battery.A is equipped with a gate near Fort Cambridge.A gate is placed at Fort Raynyra near Kakara in the south.These were all built by the British in support of Malta's defence at a total cost of £18,890.Later, the guns of the Victorian Battery were blown up.At the end of the 70s of the 19th century, when the British army was equipped with large-caliber rear-loading guns, the development of new types of artillery was made possible by the birth of linear smokeless gunpowder.So Armstrong threw itself into the development of a new rear-loading gun.The cannon and became famous again.The equipment of the Chinese infantry is now at the forefront of the world, and the equipment technology of the British, French, and German armies is roughly the same.The key is still the navy."
In the past few years, the Chinese army has made great progress, and the overall industry cannot keep up, and it is still necessary to follow the path of imitation, which may be that I myself overestimated the speed of scientific and technological development."
President Meng smiled bitterly.Princess Katrina Kafu smiled: "President, it's not slow, we have only been a few years, from the first batch of international students sent in the Tianjin era, it has only been more than 4 years now, and there have been international students returning to China one after another."
Basically none of our international students want to stay in the United States and Europe, and when the number of students reaches a certain size, it will naturally change qualitatively. ”"That's a good point, from quantitative change to qualitative change," President Meng smiled.President Meng asked Li Hongzhang to meet with the ambassadors of various countries, and Li Hongzhang was also in charge of this aspect of affairs.The consuls of several countries all looked at Li Hongzhang in a daze, and they never expected that Li Hongzhang would propose arms purchases on behalf of the Chinese government.In particular, they are all European countries, and the friction between China and the British, as well as the French, has caused tension between China and the whole of Europe.The German consul looked at Li Hongzhang in surprise.Li Hongzhang smiled faintly, from the conversations with the ambassadors of several European countries just now, he had already tested the bottom line of each country."
I'm sorry, Mr.
Foreign Secretary.We in Germany are, after all, Western countries, and we cannot separate ourselves from the Western world.Because of the tensions between China and Britain and France, I don't think Germany can afford to export weapons to China," said the German consul."
I know, my friend.I can understand," Li Hongzhang's serious face squeezed out an ugly smile."
Well, thank you for your understanding, Advisor, we have been old friends since the Qing court in the past, is there anything else you need my help with?"
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