The first item in the report sent back to the Military Commission by the naval experts of the Republic of China was 'the characteristics of German warships,' which made the people in the military commission who tried to attack Yao Bang find it very difficult. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The German Navy used an oil-fired boiler, an armored box design. If the shipbuilding experts had not specifically pointed out that both of them had a strong British style, the Military Commission would have been able to put the pot on Yao Bang's head immediately. However, the shipbuilding experts of the Republic of China were very professional, which allowed the Republic of China to understand some of the British shipbuilding level from the side. The foundation of the navy of the Republic of China, which boasted of being unparalleled in the world, was undoubtedly material science and warship design, and it was difficult to determine the level of materials in Britain, but the level of British design seemed to have made great progress.

Weeser could certainly understand the nervousness of his comrades, but historically, the armor box, oil-fired boiler, and steam turbine were all developed by the British. In 1905, the British revolutionized the design of the Dreadnought-class battleships, and after seeing the speed and combat effectiveness of the battleships of the Republic of China, Weeser did not believe that the British would be completely uninspired.

Yao Bang didn't expect that the navy would be a little reluctant to deal with the previous matter, and what he didn't expect was that the navy actually sent someone over to talk to Yao Bang about how to collect German naval intelligence. Sure that the navy really had this plan, Yao Bang almost wanted to scold. More than half a year ago, the navy had a hard fight with Yao Bang over this matter, and after Yao Bang finally settled the matter, the navy even thought of using the relationship established between Yao Bang and the Germans to find out the inside story of German shipbuilding.

"I want to talk about this matter, let the political commissar of your navy come to see me!" Yao Bang said angrily.

At this time, Weeser was attending a meeting of the water conservancy department, which had done many studies in the past few years on the large-scale adjustment of waterways in China. The first thing that was determined at this meeting was to restore Yunmengze. The natural environment in the southwest region has been restored, and the water quality entering the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River has become clear. For the current Republic of China, it is not a matter at all that 100 square kilometers of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River have changed into lakes. The officials of those provinces all knew what Governor Wei Ze thought of Yun Mengze, not to mention 100 square kilometers, even if tens of thousands of square kilometers turned into a lake. Since it is a policy favored by the governor, with good cooperation, there will be a chance to be promoted and make a fortune. In the future history, I wonder if I can still leave a good reputation as the 'savior of Yunmengze'.

The Yangtze River basin can still be regarded as a natural process, but the Huai River basin has to rely on manpower. Fortunately, the policy of planting mulberry trees on both sides of the Huai River has been implemented, and the people can pick mulberry and raise silkworms. The people on both sides of the Huai River who have suffered for a long time are very unkind to the Diao people who cut down their own forests, and it is common to beat the Diao people who are discovered, and beating and beating to death often occurs. Fortunately, with government education, public security arrests, especially after planting mulberry trees, the income has increased, and the actions of the people who plant trees have gradually become less radical than in the past. The middle and lower reaches of the dredger stepped up their work, and under the clear water washing, the Huai River channel has been more than one meter deep on average in recent years, and this benign change continues.

Even though there are good changes in the Yangtze River and Huai River basins, no one in the water conservancy department dares to judge the Yellow River basin. The more you read history, the more you realize that the Yellow River has been so raging on the Hebei Plain. If we cannot solve the problem of soil and water conservation on the Loess Plateau, there is no way to ensure that the Yellow River will not have problems on the Hebei Plain. The Yangtze River and the Huai River can still be washed by natural clear water, and the restoration of the Yellow River needs to be excavated. The amount of work is staggering. When the meeting was over, Wei Ze didn't dare to talk nonsense. Wei Ze felt that he could not afford this responsibility.

After the Zhengzhou Water Conservancy Conference, Wei Ze returned to Beijing. The Central Military Commission hopes to conduct a full-scale defense survey on the shipbuilding capabilities of European countries, and it can be seen that everyone is quite nervous. This made Wei Ze feel very unhappy at first, but when he calmed down and thought about it, Wei Ze was also relieved. As a person in the lower reaches of history, Wei Ze is familiar with the trajectory of history and knows the limits of development. The comrades of the Republic of China did not have such insight and mentality. It can be seen that the speed of development of the British Navy has made the Minchao Navy feel strong pressure and a strong sense of crisis.

"Comrades, I can understand the uneasiness you feel, but it's completely unnecessary. In addition, I would like to ask if the military spending has been cut in the past few years, does it make everyone feel very dissatisfied? Weeser posed a question that he had carefully considered. In normal times, when the comrades of the Military Commission heard Wei Ze's questioning, they always instinctively denied it. Now the comrades are like old monks and do not say a word. It is also a fact that the Navy's military spending has been cut very much in recent years.

Weeser had to give the military a clearer idea of the future prospects, "The latest communication equipment and automatic computing equipment are being studied, just like the tube computer we just completed. ”

The comrades in the army were deeply impressed by this tube computer, and in order to accurately fire artillery of various calibers and types, it was necessary to accurately calculate and draw up "firing charts." Only by checking the table can the angle of the muzzle be determined so that the shell fired can hit the flying target. However, each number has to be done thousands of times to get the four operations, and a dozen people use a hand-cranked mechanical computer to calculate for several months to complete a "chart". This is only a small part of the army's needs, which require a lot of calculations in a vast area. After the life of the diode in the Republic of China was improved, he began to do research on electronic computers. After more than ten years of hard work, it has finally come to fruition.

"Governor, how big will the new computer be?" The tone of the commissar of the Navy was not optimistic. The impact of computers was huge, but the Navy was concerned about how useful it would be. The first-generation computer covers an area of 170 square meters, with a total weight of 30 tons, and uses 18,000 tubes, 6,000 switches, 7,000 resistors, 10,000 capacitors, 500,000 wires, 140 kilowatts of power, and 5,000 additions per second. There's no way this stuff could fit on a warship.

Weeser knocked on the conference table, "The volume will probably be so large, 100,000 calculations per second, 20 times that of today's computers, and the power consumption is 40 kilowatts per hour." Weight several tons. Best of all, don't worry about the turbulence at sea that makes the calculator fail. Do you think it's acceptable? ”

The Navy has never doubted Weese, and for many years everyone has known that the Governor is the one who can really solve the problem. So after Wei Ze said this, everyone was stunned for a moment, and then began to giggle. The naval commander, who was not at all optimistic, rubbed his hands like a simple peasant, grinning uncontrollably.

The navy of the Republic of China has a history of several decades, and everyone knows their own affairs very well. The navy is a branch of the army that relies on accumulation, and all the officers on the entire ship need to accumulate for a long time. The strength of the Min Dynasty to the present depends on the present technology. Warships have a large tonnage, run fast and fight fiercely. It's different from the hundreds of years of accumulation in the UK. It was precisely because they knew their own affairs that the navy of the Republic of China was worried about the development of British naval technology. It is precisely because they know their own affairs that the upper echelons of the navy of the Republic of China know very well what kind of changes Wei Ze said the computer can bring to the navy.

A qualified gunnery has to record a large amount of data in his head, and according to the judgment of various ranges, he can remember an artillery parameter. And the sea is rough, the hull is constantly shaking, and the distance from the enemy is constantly changing, it is difficult to train a gunnery officer as good as a god, and the hit rate of a gunnery officer as good as a god is also very low. If the shelling parameters can be calculated at any time according to the situation on the site, the accuracy of the shelling will be greatly improved. Humans make mistakes, but machines don't. This change is bound to be revolutionary.

The naval commissar was the commissar after all, and he asked, "Governor, don't you want us to carry out intelligence work against the British?" ”

Wei Ze smiled: "It's not that I don't want to, of course intelligence work must be done." I now want you to focus on yourself. It is never the enemy's mistakes that decide things, how much do we know about the latest British warships when we first enter the Indian Ocean? I didn't know until I hit it. At all times, we need to increase our strength. ”

The comrades of the navy looked at each other, and the political commissar said: "Governor, we know that you have always said it when you have done it, and you may not even say it when you have done it. For example, please give us a preview of the computer first. Otherwise, we only look at military spending and think that the navy will not develop in the next ten years. Only now do we know that in the next ten years, the combat effectiveness of our Navy will not only increase, but also improve much. ”

Wei Ze replied calmly: "The army itself also needs to have ideas about scientific and technological progress. ”

Yao Bang didn't know that the matter had been resolved, and he was still waiting for new movements from the navy. The navy did not come, but the situation on the Japanese side came. When Governor Wei Zedu was passing through Japan, he talked about the issue of work visas for Japan to the Republic of China, and the Japanese were very concerned about this, which annoyed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for several months.

After negotiations, the two sides finally reached an agreement to establish a communication platform. Yao Bang looked at the final agreement and said very unhappily: "The Japanese came to us to beg for food, and they actually put forward conditions. Salary and number of people requested. This is absolutely not a no-go! ”

This time, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs agreed with Yao Bang. It was that year, and at that time, the Republic of China had a lot of dirty work to deal with, so it was given a high price, and the quantity was also very lenient. The Japanese did make a great contribution. Now that the Republic of China has entered the stage of peace, where is there still dirty work for the Japanese. And the Japanese side even wanted to distribute it according to the standards of the North American war.

"We will tell the Japanese that only part of the employment will be provided on the Min-Korean side. Whether there is a unit to recruit people depends on the needs of the people on their side. As for wages, hmph, it's up to the Japanese side to speak. "The person in charge of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs who came to liaise was also angry.

Yao Bang also had a feeling of hatred at this time, he just snorted and signed the document.

Around this time, a distinguished guest came to Edo Castle, and although the Japanese side received it in a low-key manner, it was also very serious. The receptionist was instructed from above, but the guest was reluctant to show off, so he used the Japanese name 'Tokuhei Taro'. The purpose of this trip is to recruit workers.

Thinking of the large amount of money and loot brought by the Japanese servant army when they returned home a few years ago, and thinking of the pull of this money and booty on the Japanese economy, the reception staff was particularly attentive. The economic boom that had been propped up by this ticket had come to an end, and the pressure in Japan was enormous.