Chapter 812 The efficiency of the Ming Dynasty in the first year of Dingxin, on May 24, the ship number was "Wang Jian", and a secret sea trial was conducted in Shanhaiwei.This Wang Jian is a Shark-class Type III battleship, because the main battleship of the Ming Navy of the whole clan is named after the famous generals of the past dynasties, Wang Jian is actually a famous general in history, a famous general in the Southern Song Dynasty.However, his fame is not as great as Yue Fei and Han Shizhong, and there is no way to compare with Di Qing, but as a famous general in foreign wars, he still obtained the naming right of a capital warship.This naming right, in fact, is all made up by Quan Xu, this ship was launched in November of the fourth year of Chongzhen, and it is already five years old.Many people think that wooden sailing warships must be easier to damage than steel warships.In fact, it depends on the maintenance situation, the British battleship Sea Monarch, which was used for more than 60 years, until more than 60 years later, was sunk by the French Navy in the waters of Chatham.The oldest warship of the Royal Navy of the Ming Dynasty is no more than ten years old, and the size of this navy is the largest in the world.What the Spanish Armada, in front of the naval fleet of the whole clan, that will always be just a younger brother.Even if the Royal Navy of the British Empire and the Spanish Navy are combined, they are barely half of the number of the Ming Navy.As for the main battleship, it was only about a third.Quan Xu, Chief of the General Staff Zhu Zhaoyi, and Vice Minister of the Navy Mao Yuanyi visited the sea trial, at this time, the seven masts and nine auxiliary masts of the Sea Shark class were all gone, and they were replaced by a huge oar.Due to the existence of Quan Xu, when the Ming Navy developed steam engine warships, it did not transition from double paddle wheels to propellers like history, and it was directly in one step.This is the second time Quan Xu came to Shanhaiwei, the last time he came, it was three years in Chongzhen, and he came to Shanhaiwei again after seven years.The original Shanhaiwei is just an ordinary Acropolis City, the only difference is that the wall of the Acropolis City is a blue brick structure, watered with glutinous rice juice, and the hardness is no less than that of reinforced concrete.Of course, at that time, Shanhaiwei had nothing to hold on except for the city wall, the houses were dilapidated, the roads were potholes, especially the houses where the soldiers lived in the guards, many of them only had a roof frame left, and some cracks could allow children to enter and exit freely.At that time, when Jeon Wook was spent, the half-grown children were still wearing blue clothes that showed their buttocks, and there was not a single woman in sight on the street.It is said that many families do not even have a set of clothes for each person.As for the docks, they were all simple docks, and the battleships were pulled to Lushun by Quan Xu, so there were only a few dozen dilapidated gunboats left.Now Shanhaiwei has exceeded 10,000 households, as many as more than 40,000 people, especially the newly built dock, which can already produce steam engine ships.The biggest difference is that the streets are wide and smooth, the houses are all new, and they are small three-story buildings made of reinforced concrete.If it weren't for the lack of telephone poles, many people would have thought that they would have arrived in a small town with good economic development in the future.The red bricks and tiles are neat and tidy, which is pleasing to the eye.Mao Yuanyi didn't just come here seven years ago, he came here last year, and in about ten months, Shanhaiwei had become a little unknown to him."
Incredible, right?"
Sun Yuanhua, who was in charge of the steam engine ship project, said a little Versailles: "In fact, there is nothing incredible, this is the real Ming speed!"
”In order to develop Shanhaiwei, there were almost 30,000 prisoners of war working on the Shanhaiwei construction site at that time, and at the same time, about 700 large steam machinery, including 20,000 (horse) cattle, horses, mules and other livestock, finally achieved the current achievements under the continuous work day and night.In order to increase the progress of construction, Shanhaiwei even built two railways specially built for the Shanhaiguan project at the cement factory 30 kilometers away and the brick and tile factory 25 kilometers away.Seeing Quan Xu emerge from the Acropolis of Mountains and Seas, thousands of engineers and technicians such as Mao Yuanyi and Sun Yuanhua saluted Quan Xu."
Meet Your Majesty, long live my emperor!""
You're flat, you've worked hard!""
Serving the Empire, not hard!"
Quan Xu looked at everyone: "You don't need to say polite words here, we can be polite at the celebration banquet for three days and three nights, now it's important to get down to business!"
”Sun Yuanhua looked at a technician who looked like an old farmer beside him and said, "Mr.
Huo, you are in charge of this project, or you can introduce it!"
”Mo Hua was also very pleased to see that the Mo family had the opportunity to perform like this.This is the prosperous age of the Mo family, because of Quan Xu's support, the Mo family can finally show up openly, and more than a dozen hidden Mo families have appeared one after another, and they either directly took refuge in the giant Mo Hua, or took refuge in other people's doors.For example, this Huo Disheng is the descendant of Zhao Mo during the Warring States Period, since the Han Dynasty began to hide in the world, hid in the Taihang Mountains, and directly established the Mojia Academy, Mohua, a Mojia giant, became a cabinet minister, and he dared to take more than a dozen apprentices to take refuge under Sun Yuanhua's door.The name Huo Disheng is also because his father's surname is Huo, and his mother's surname is Di, this name belongs to the popular name in Daming, for example, there are more than 30 people in the entire Daming Royal Academy.Huo Disheng was a little nervous, after all, he was a technical talent, he had no outstanding eloquence, and he had never seen anything in the world, especially when he saw Quan Xu, he was so nervous that he couldn't even speak.The more Quan Xu wanted to behave as approachable, as a result, Ho Disheng was already stammering and sweating coldly.Quan Xu smiled helplessly: "Mr.
Huo, you should know how big Daming is now, from south to north, just by sea will take more than a month, if you go to Europa, even if it is a tailwind, it will take eight months, Daming needs a kind of ship that can ignore the wind direction, ignore the wind, and be high-speed and fast, this is the importance of science and technology, and it is also the real value of you engineers and technicians!"
”With Quan Xu's encouragement, Hodison finally had the courage, although he still bumped and bumped, and finally explained the result, although the sailboat and the steam engine wheel, in short, this is a steam engine and a propeller.It can be said in three or two sentences, however, professional things need to involve too much professional knowledge, such as fluid mechanics, aerodynamics, thermodynamics and so on.This is not a simple matter of replacement.When it came to his profession, Hodison finally slowly regained his self-confidence, and the more he spoke, the more naturally he spoke, and the speed of his speech became faster and faster, and he spoke endlessly, like a continuous river.And Quan Xu, a layman, was confused.But fortunately, Sun Yuanhua was just a technical official, and he saw Quan Xu's impatience and wanted to signal that Huo Disheng could be shorter.However, he clearly misunderstood.A professional technical nerd, as long as he really enters his own world, the king of heaven, Lao Tzu, who he loves.Huo Disheng, the little old man, actually lost his temper because of Sun Yuanhua's interjection and scolded Sun Yuanhua.Sun Yuanhua was about to have a seizure, but Quan Xu motioned for him to be calm.Finally, after half a day of explanation, it was like a live practical class, he was explaining and teaching at the same time, and after gaining the understanding of most of the students, he started the experiment.Unlike most online articles, this experiment was not blessed by the protagonist's aura just because the protagonist was there, and as a result, the steam engine was full of smoke for most of the day, but the ship did not move at all.Hodison hurriedly took his apprentice to board the "Wang Jian", but the reason why it could not start was that the rotation mechanism of the steam engine failed, and there were casualties.The screw on the top of the gear was loose, and the screw that flew at high speed was like a bullet, hitting a technician in the jaw, and the screw injured the technician's jaw and needed emergency treatment.If you find the real problem, it's not that difficult to solve.After all, not being able to find the problem is the most troublesome problem.Sun Yuanhua took the technicians to carry out the night battle.Quan Xu and Mao Yuanyi chatted while walking."
Your Majesty seems to be very anxious about the steamer?""
We don't need much for ships now, whether it is a battleship or a transport ship, the number is enough to meet the demand, and we are not in a hurry to replace the capital warship!"
Quan Xu pointed to the ship and said: "The use of steam engines instead of sails is the main trend in the development of science and technology in the future, we are now trying to use the steam engine on ships, if we can succeed, then we can take advantage of the generation difference in science and technology, undertake orders to foreign countries, and sell our sail warships to Europa, in fact, now the Spanish have contacted us, hoping to buy warships, naval guns and equipment, but we did not agree, if we eliminate the main warship, sell to the Spaniards, Then it could have an impact on our interests in Europe. ”Jeon Wook was very proud.Because of his reasons, the Ming Dynasty occupied the commanding heights of science and technology, and the benefits brought by the steam engine revolution can be obvious, just like now, the construction of the entire Shanhaiwei can be seen.If a city of the same size is placed in Europe, let them use 100,000 people, and if it can be built within three years, they are considered awesome.However, it only took more than nine months for Daming.What makes Quanxu even more proud is the construction capacity of the navy, and now Daming has Lushun, Dengzhou, Shanhaiwei, Tianjin, Jiangnan Shipyard, Fujian Shipyard, Guangzhou Shipyard, if the manufacturing is released at full speed.Daming can now build one hundred and sixty-eight capital warships a year, so to speak, in one year, Daming can launch a Spanish Invincible Armada, if you count the accompanying Exocet warships, this time is only seven months.