Entering November, with the arrival of British upper echelons in North America, the navy on the west coast of the North Atlantic became active. Pen~Fun~Ge www.biquge.info Although Gotham City, one of the best ports in North America, has become an enclave of the Republic of China, there are still large ports in New England that can be used as bases for the British Grand Fleet.

Although the British Dreadnought-class battleships were launched a month later than the German battleships of the same technical point, the British worked very the subsequent construction, and the British battleships were much larger than the German ones, both in terms of tonnage and artillery.

At this time, there was no concept of a 200-nautical-mile economic zone on the planet, and the great powers also had huge differences on the division of territorial waters. The extreme powers even thought that three nautical miles of territorial waters would be enough. Sitting on heavy ships and huge guns, the territorial waters of other countries are naturally as close to the shore as possible. It wasn't until the rise of the navy of the Republic of China that the European powers began to think that territorial waters were still better.

The fleet led by British battleships sailed on the sea, and the behemoth did not come too close to the sea. There is no point in moving too close when it is not necessary. On the way south, the British Navy lookout saw a fleet. Without looking at the flag, just looking at the faint outline of the warship, the British fleet can roughly judge that it is the navy of the Republic of China. More than 100 kilometers away from the coast of the Republic of China, there are probably only the Navy of the Republic of China and the British Navy. If other countries were not fed, they would not have come here to drop.

Soon, the lookout determined that there were four new destroyers in the fleet of the Republic of China. The British fleet also saw that kind of destroyer up close, and they had the impression that it was a 'good and inexplicable ship'. There were two twin naval guns on the foredeck, and the rest of the guns made the British feel underutilized. The warship style of the Republic of China was known for its high efficiency and refinement, and the British could not understand this.

As for the naval gun, the British had never seen such a slender two tubes. What kind of power this thing can exert in battle, Britain really doesn't dare to have any illusions.

The eyesight of the lookouts was very good, and after just a few glances, the lookouts shouted at the interlocutor: "I found that there is a Chinese warship ......, and I have never seen a ship type!" ”

When the command tower heard the news, the captain immediately shouted: "The lookout will observe carefully, immediately organize people to observe, and immediately take pictures." Our fleet is close to the Chinese fleet. ”

Even if they happened to encounter the British fleet, the Chinese warships were not shy. The two sides were generously staggered by naval queues, and the British took a lot of pictures. By the next day, the photos were developed. A meeting of British naval personnel was held.

It was a battleship of more than 10,000 tons, with a single chimney and a slender hull. Compared to the inexplicable and ultra-inefficient destroyer, this warship is densely packed with weapons. There are two triple batteries in the front and rear, and if you look closely, it is a 150 gun with an ultra-slender barrel. On each side of the hull there were two slender 125 guns equipped on the destroyer.

The British and the Republic of Korea had fought many naval battles, and they could be sure that from 1875 to the present, this newest warship was the most muzzle of the Republic of China. The muzzles of the guns are like hedgehogs, which is not the style of the warships of the Republic of China. The British Royal Navy has a lot of discussions, and two warships that completely deviate from the tradition of the Republic of Korea have appeared before and after.

If the British had seen the warships that Weeser had boarded in Shanghai at this time, they would probably have thought that the navy of the Republic of China had changed its style. It was a 20,000-ton heavy cruiser with three triple guns in the front two and one in the rear. Six 125-gun ships have one in each bow and stern, and two doors on one side of the central part of the hull are symmetrically distributed.

The core engineers of the shipyard were surprised to get the basic design drawings at first, and after the Navy invited them to see the latest aircraft, the group understood the prediction that "the enemy of warships in 20 years will be aircraft", and also understood the idea of adding future air defense to the design of warships.

Weeser didn't care more about these warships, he was destined not to see the era of aircraft carriers galloping on the battlefield. An important trip from Weize to Shanghai was to inspect Baoshan Iron and Steel Group. The iron ore used by Baoshan Iron and Steel Group comes from Australia, and the Republic of China and the British government signed a 200-year agreement, and the prospecting and preemptive rights in Western Australia will not end until about 2190.

To build a railway from the port to the mine, it takes real money to smash it in, and the other expenses are mainly maintenance. The top iron ore in Western Australia's uninhabited area is loose ore powder, and the import cost of the Min Dynasty is a little more expensive than no money. As long as you feed the British, who are in charge of the colonies, you can dig as much as you can.

As far as Weeser knew, the British, who were in charge, did not think that the British finances had suffered any losses, and the location of Western Australia was that the only buyer of minerals was the Min Dynasty. In this case, the steward only cares about how much he can hold. What's more, as an Englishman, the steward of the colony knew very well the virtues of imperialism, and killing people in Western Australia, where birds don't, was as silent as pinching an ant to death.

"Your Majesty, the quality of iron ore is so high, and the ingredients are so stable. We have already started to design furnaces that are ten times larger than they are now. Some people say that the price of transporting iron ore from overseas is high, and in terms of cost, the furnace life saved, the coke saved, the electricity, and many other things, especially the controllability of steel quality. All of this is calculated to greatly reduce the cost of using overseas iron ore. The person in charge of Baosteel said that his eyebrows fluttered, and it could be seen that these words came from his heart, and it was also what made him very proud.

"We must cooperate well with local steel-using enterprises in Shanghai and improve our steel processing capabilities." Weeser is a cliché.

"We get it!" The person in charge of Baosteel nodded again and again. No matter how low the cost is, the steel will lose money if it can't be sold. As the industrial center of the Republic of China, Shanghai needed a huge amount of steel every day.

"You have come out of the dual-track system and have experienced the taste of capital operation. As far as I know, international steel prices have plummeted in recent years. This is, of course, a crisis, and it looks terrible. But it also means more places where steel can be afforded. Just thinking about making profits from monopoly is a huge harm in the long run. Wei Ze still couldn't help but say a few words.

The person in charge of Baosteel straightened his waist and said loudly: "Your Majesty, please rest assured, the cost of ordinary steel is getting lower and lower, and we will make small profits but quick turnover." As for the monopoly, we rely on the technical monopoly of special steel, and we can definitely eat with a mouth full of oil. Your Majesty, we at Baosteel are an enterprising enterprise, and we will never sleep on the merits. There are many companies competing with us in the country! ”

Coming out of Baosteel and walking along the heat pipe, it will soon become a fortress-like enterprise. A steel mill is a place that generates a large amount of waste heat, which is fully utilized and supplied to the water and gas plant. Because of the danger of explosion, the construction of water and gas plants naturally has many safety facilities.

Water gas is an endothermic reaction, which passes water vapor into the burning coal to obtain carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide and hydrogen, and after multiple treatments, it is a large-scale hydrogen production method. Hydrogen, which is also the raw material for the production of synthetic ammonia, is also in huge demand for carbon dioxide in large industrial cities such as Shanghai. Millions of people drink even one glass of carbonated soda a day, which is enough for many companies to continue production.

Wei Zhen, one of the six children in the Wei Ze family, has been working as a technician, and he greeted his father, Wei Ze, at the construction site of the Shanghai fertilizer factory, where a new large-scale synthetic ammonia production line was under construction. Barrel processing technologies such as self-tightening are not only used in the military industry, but also have a greater demand for these processing technologies in the high-temperature and high-pressure civilian industry. The ability to process a 380-caliber gun barrel allows for the processing of a larger diameter synthesis reactor. Reactors with huge capacity and coarser high-pressure pipelines determine the output of large ammonia plants. Like most industrial products, ammonia synthesis is also the larger the production line, the lower the unit cost.

Shaking hands with hundreds of workers on the construction site, Wei Ze thought it could be done easily, but the fact that he felt a sore arm after the end made Wei Ze understand that he was really old.

Shanghai, Hangzhou, Suzhou, Zhenjiang, Nanjing, Wuhu, Anqing, Wuhan, Changsha, all the way to the past, these important cities in the Yangtze River basin have developed quite well. The inlets on the south bank of the Yangtze River, which are easy to carry a large amount of sediment into Poyang Lake and Dongting Lake, are blocked, helping the 800-mile Dongting not to perish. On the north bank of the Yangtze River, the Hanjiang Plain has recovered a lot, but the original Jingjiang Jiuxue Thirteen Mouths have recovered a lot, and now there is no possibility of restoring 300,000 square kilometers of Yunmengze, but it is no longer of any help to the middle and upper reaches of the flood discharge.

The water conservancy personnel who manage the Yangtze River basin happily explained, "Before the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Chinese population was completely saturated. With the development of the Republic of China, only forest rangers are left in the deep mountains and old forests, and the population is gathering in the plains and cities. Most of the sediment carried by the Yangtze River was washed into it by other rivers that had been destroyed. We are fundamentally solving the problem, and in a few decades, the situation of Yunmengze will probably be better......

Weeser was willing to believe in that possibility. After returning the mountainous area to nature, nature makes it very easy for the mountainous area to become beautiful and full of vegetation again. Clear water and dredging slowly but non-stop so that the Huai River channel gradually deepened, Shouzhou there newly excavated several artificial rivers more effective communication of the Huai River and the Yangtze River water system, in the Anhui people's enthusiasm for mulberry planting, Anhui has also become the largest production area of raw silk in the Republic of China.

After inspecting the south, Weese went to Burma Province. After completing his visit to Burma in February 1908, Weese hesitated between the complete annexation of Burma and the abandonment of the populous plains of Burma. In March 1908, Weser inspected the new battleships "Bangkok" and "Chiang Mai" at the Dalian Shipyard. According to the regulations on the order of warships of the navy of the Republic of China, the battleships were named after the provincial capitals of the provinces of the Republic of China. Siam is not the territory of the Republic of China, and there is no chance of being shortlisted at all.

He was theoretically the Emperor of all the countries of the Western Pacific, and the King of Siam presented a golden Buddha and a gold brick on his birthday a few years ago. At the same time, it was requested that warships with the name of Siamese city appear in the Chinese navy as a sign of Siam's loyalty to the emperor of the Min Dynasty. Siam's rice trade was of great significance to the Min dynasty, which eventually agreed to the request.

The development of the single-layer 380 gun was not successful, and the relevant technical departments are still working hard to tackle key problems. The latest 380 cannon is a layer of steel wire winding between the two layers of self-tightening barrels, and the barrel of this three-layer casing is much lighter and thinner than the current mainstream four-layer barrel in various countries. The weight saved by the turret was used for armor, and the horizontal movement speed was not increased much, and the vertical movement speed was significantly increased.

"Governor, if there is another breakthrough in the barrel processing technology, we can install a triple gun. With the current state of equipment, we were able to enter the Mediterranean Sea in 1909 to receive Crete. Deputy Commander of the Navy Deng Shichang introduced the latest developments.

Faced with the seemingly not vigorous enough statement, Wei Ze was not angry, he smiled: "It's okay. In 1908 there was the Paris Olympics, and there was no need for us to start a military conflict this year. Crete has been sold to us, and Britain, France, Italy, and Russia are not happy enough to drag the island away from the Mediterranean. ”

Deng Shichang was amused by Wei Ze's words, "Haha, don't say they can tow Crete." These countries were able to maintain large armies in Crete for four years in a row, even if they were capable. We have received information that the British have withdrawn their troops, and now the Russians have also withdrawn their troops from the island. The consumption of the army outside is quite a lot. ”

Wei Ze shook his head slightly, "The Tsar's gray cattle are very famous, don't look at the Russian army from the perspective of our Liberation Army." Take the navy as an example, in the British warship intelligence that we have learned so far, the British did not use air conditioning and heating equipment. Instead, the Germans used a similar technique. However, the British Navy had hot cocoa to ward off the cold, and the German Navy was not so high. ”

Because Wei Ze's expression was calm, Deng Shichang didn't dare to laugh a few times. In fact, the treatment of the navy of the Republic of China is not necessarily infinitely high, but everyone has always regarded soldiers as human beings. On the newest battleships, in addition to air conditioning and air conditioning, there are cabinets for personal use, and laundry once a week. Unlike the European navies, the officers and men of the navy of the Republic of China were integrated, and there was no equipment such as an officer's canteen. Don't look at such a difference, the cabin arrangement of warships in the Republic of China is very different, and the utilization efficiency is much improved. Coupled with the parity commissary on the account, life on the warship is still quite good.

Just when Deng Shichang was thinking about what to say, Wei Ze quietly ended the inspection. The construction of warships went exactly according to plan, and the slowest battleships were completed in 1915. Whether the First World War of this time and space will break out, and in what form, Wei Ze is not sure. He is 75 years old, and even if he doesn't have mobility problems, Wei Ze's fitness activities have changed from gunsmithing to tai chi, sword taijiquan and calligraphy. After this round of inspections, Weeser was ready to devote his energy to a limited number of directions. Even if the Navy is important, Weeser will not interfere or even pay attention to it again.

The news of Governor Wei Ze's return to Beijing did not spread very much, and on the day the Governor returned to his residence in the Old Summer Palace, the central government issued an order to 'restore the old course of the Yellow River'. The rectification of the three major water systems of the Republic of China was all started at this time.