Chapter 804: Armored Cruiser
Zhao Xin's arrangement was a conspiracy, and he opened all the things of the Dinghai Navy to Han Qi to see, Han Qi may faintly feel that there is something different, but out of concern for these secrets, he happily comes to see these things.
But in this way, Han Qi looked at everything in the navy step by step, and it was not until a few months later that he clearly explained everything to Han Qi, and he talked about it openly, and even took out the problems of the Northern Song Dynasty.
The problem of the Northern Song Dynasty, it seems, the Ding Navy has been solved, but the Ding Navy has been solved, and it is solved with money, and the salaries paid to each person in the Ding Navy are much higher than those of the Northern Song Dynasty.
The income of the Northern Song Dynasty is not high enough, and now the deficit is very large, and the income is not enough, maybe in a few years, the growth of this income will be a huge problem, which is also the fundamental reason for Han Qi's resignation.
But in Dingjun, there is no problem at all, as long as the income level exceeds this, the salary of 1.5 million civil servants alone exceeds 18 billion, and then many projects are higher than one another.
Dingjun does this, he doesn't control it at all, and every once in a while, he also raises some wages, which in itself is the welfare of Dingjun, but it has become the biggest difference between Dinghai and the Northern Song Dynasty in Han Qi's opinion.
With the rise in wages, some price levels will increase a little, but compared with the increase in wages, it is still acceptable, which is the root of the happiness of Dingjun, all workers.
Han Qi also understood this point, and felt strange, the development speed of the Northern Song Dynasty was fast enough, but compared with the Ding Navy, it was not a little bit worse, it was the difference between heaven and earth.
After asking the reason, Zhao Xin just replied, to maximize everyone's initiative and improve production efficiency, it seems that the wages paid to everyone are very high, but every worker can create several times, or even dozens of times the benefits.
This is the root cause of the high salary of the Dinghai Navy, and even from the point to the surface, from the individual to the factory, the general factory to the industry, and then to the entire ranks of the Dinghai Navy, these are the root of the high income of the Dinghai.
It took so long to finally find a solution to the problem, which was what Han Qi had been looking forward to, but he didn't feel happy at all.
This sentence is easy to say, but it is difficult to do, this point, he also wants to promote it in the Northern Song Dynasty, but there is no way, he can't figure it out, and after coming to Dingjun, especially after Zhao Xin selectively let him see some things, many things will be understood.
Even lowering wages and getting through the difficulties was difficult in the Northern Song Dynasty, not to mention increasing the enthusiasm of workers in the case of paying money.
It is impossible to make a worker's income higher than that of a manager and a higher than that of an official, this is the style of officialdom in the entire Northern Song Dynasty, and it is also a problem that Han Qi cannot solve.
Similarly, Han Qi also found that it was not only the gourd painting scoop, or the purchase of machinery from the Dinghai Navy, the machinery of the Dinghai Navy was researched and made out of thin air, and the reason why the Dinghai Navy could do it, but the reason why the Northern Song Dynasty could not do it was because of the investment in learning.
The driving force for the continuous development of the Dinghai Navy is research but science, which sounds very incomprehensible, but after really understanding it, the driving force for the development of the Dinghai Navy is not the imperial examination, but mathematics, physics, and chemistry.
Mathematics is the foundation of data and development, and many things, theories, will be used in the basic fortifications of mathematics, so that the results can be defined from the complex appearances.
However, physics is simply the theory of matter, and the development of trains, ships, and all kinds of machinery and equipment is inseparable from physics.
As for chemistry, it is more like a magical academic, he can turn one substance into another, what the Northern Song Dynasty can understand, is steelmaking, but these do not represent the whole of Dinghai, chemistry is integrated into the various chemical industries of Dinghai, as well as the field of petrochemicals.
At present, chemistry has become more and more the most important cornerstone of the Ding Navy, and the use of places is very large, almost all over the field of the Ding Navy.
In the past few months, Han Qi has been like a sponge, absorbing frantically, but the more he absorbs these things, the more confused he feels.
Why do some scientists feel that the more they study, the deeper their understanding of the world and science will be?
There will be more and more awe, the reason is very simple, a scientist once explained that knowledge is like a circle, and the small circle is in contact with the outside world, which is much smaller than the big circle.
This is the case with Han Qi now, before, his understanding of the Dinghai Navy was in the clouds, and he felt that the Dinghai Navy was powerful, but he didn't know why it was strong, let alone how strong it was.
What I thought of as much as I could in the past is now in front of everyone, but this result, which is unbelievable, is so real.
Not to mention, the combat effectiveness of the Ding Navy, that is not comparable to the Northern Song Dynasty, even a few years ago, the Ding Navy at that time could destroy the Liao State, at that time, there was no problem in dealing with the Northern Song Dynasty.
Han Qi knew before that in terms of strength, it was not comparable to the Dinghai Navy, and in this aspect, the Northern Song Dynasty could catch up, at least, there was room for self-preservation. But now, he really doesn't know what the Northern Song Dynasty will use to deal with the Ding Navy, and the more he knows, the heavier this sense of powerlessness becomes.
Not to mention the financial revenue, it is a world of difference, let's talk about the manufacturing industry, whether it is a steel plant with an output of more than 10 million tons, or a variety of machinery and equipment, it is not comparable to the Northern Song Dynasty.
For example, an automatic machine tool, as long as one person controls it, can process an iron rod into various tools in a short period of time.
These coupled with the previous thermal weapons, artillery, and transportation capacity, Han Qi suddenly felt that he didn't know where the Northern Song Dynasty was resisting, even if the Northern Song Dynasty had no deficit, it was the same, not to mention, the Northern Song Dynasty still had a deficit and was on the verge of collapse.
An idea suddenly rose in Han Qi's heart, how about joining the Dinghai Navy, such an idea has never appeared in Han Qi's heart in the past 15 years, from the establishment of the Dinghai Navy to the present.
Whether it was when the Dinghai Navy was just established, or when the Dinghai Navy won the Liao State, it did not shake the thoughts in Han Qi's heart.
However, 10 years later, ten years after the establishment of the Dinghai Navy, it was a very short time, but the development speed of the Dinghai Navy was to make the entire Northern Song Dynasty sideways.
It's really not an order of magnitude change, the thought pops up, and it seems to be nostalgic.
But Han Qi knows very well that in the Northern Song Dynasty, Renzong's kindness to him, he can't give it up, plus his entire family, the huge family is in the Northern Song Dynasty, and it is impossible to do it casually, so only by taking this opportunity can he figure out how powerful the Dinghai Navy is and what the root cause of its strength is.
In a few months, Han Qi gained a lot, and he basically traveled to various areas of Shenyang, and began to gradually spread, and began to investigate the area that originally belonged to the grassland and belonged to the northeast.
If you say, Shenyang, there is still a certain foundation, after all, it is the Tokyo of Liao, although the Tokyo of Liaoguo was nothing at that time, but it is finally a city, but on the other grasslands, in the northeast, there is no city,
Where will it develop from the foundation of poverty and whiteness, and will these cities be as big as Shenyang?
Of course, it won't be so big, after entering a small grassland next to the city, I feel much smaller than Shenyang, but soon, after looking at the whole city seriously, he found that the city is still good, combining animal husbandry and processing, is a core of Dinghai here.
At this juncture, he got an invitation, and after reading it in a city on the border of Inner Mongolia, he hurriedly returned.
Directly do the train south, the train passes through Shenyang, but does not stop too much in Shenyang, passes through the city, and then goes straight to Huludao, which is hundreds of kilometers away.
Huludao, the largest military port and shipbuilding base in the Dinghai Navy, has been significantly different from before after ten years of development.
In the Bohai Bay, in some small rivers that flow into the Bohai Sea, a series of shipbuilding bases have been built after widening and reconstruction.
Isolated overseas, and too close to the Northern Song Dynasty, after years of adjustment, has gradually become a civilian base, in terms of the number of shipbuilding, is still the first in the navy, but in terms of tonnage, as well as the share of warships, and Huludao, there is already a great distance.
After so many years of development, Huludao has formed a complete and strict shipbuilding base, in which there are too many things with too much technical content.
At the beginning, the construction of Spanish sailboats, clippers, tonnage is getting bigger and bigger, and the technical level is getting higher and higher, a year ago, Huludao began to public relations steamship project, after a long period of research and development, finally, completed the breakthrough of the steamship project, at the beginning of the year, launched a self-weight 2200 tons, but fully loaded with up to 11,000 tons of freewheel,
The carrying capacity is as high as 7,000 tons, and the launching of the ship has announced the arrival of an era, and the wooden ship has many shortcomings, for example, when the carrying capacity exceeds 3,000 tons, to complete a certain tonnage growth, it will require a larger volume and a larger investment, but the efficiency will be reduced.
The ship is different, the smaller dead weight, and the large carrying capacity, these are the advantages of the ship, the most important thing is that its construction speed is very fast, because of the relationship between the steel mill casting, the directly forged steel plate, faster than wood, can even be made without limitation, without waiting for the production of wood.
With the help of a series of processes such as welding and liuding, this manufacturing speed has also increased, not to mention the speed, and under the premise of no sail, it can still sail quickly, which is the advantage of the ship.
After absorbing many characteristics of the steamer, the construction of ironclad ships entered the stage of acceleration.
A 7,000-ton steamship, if slightly modified and with some turrets, a simplest ironclad ship has been formed. Don't look at this comparison of simplicity, but if you add a 260 mm or so battery, and some secondary guns, such a gunboat, their combat effectiveness will not be worse than that of the Beiyang Army's Dingzhen Second Ship.
Dingjun has reached this level, and the various sub-projects are already very strong, of course he can't stop here.
In Zhao Xin's eyes, perhaps, now, the navy can't make a dreadnought, the reason is very simple, artillery and batteries, this is no problem, full heavy artillery arrangement, there is no problem, but power is a key place.
There is no strong enough power, or in other words, before the appearance of steam turbines, it is difficult to increase the speed, when the heavy artillery battleship appears, under the premise of being very heavy, the speed will become very slow, not to mention compared with the clipper, that is, compared with the Spanish sailing ship, a little higher, that's it.
If he had made an all-heavy artillery battleship, his speed would have been much slower than that of a Spanish galleon.
This is unacceptable to Zhao Xin, in the later warships, speed is a key point, in this era, there is no need for such a high speed, but Zhao Xin is still willing to strengthen to a certain speed.
According to Zhao Xin's wishes, for the first time, the ironclad ship will go directly to the dreadnought, but in terms of power, the time to enter is too short, and to a certain extent, the upper part cannot reach the appropriate power, so there is only a gradual reduction, mainly armored cruisers.
Maintain a certain speed, reduce also a certain protection, there are enough some artillery.
Even so, it is very difficult to concentrate all of these into one system, but with the promotion of many researchers and enough funds, in the end, this battleship was finally made, a battleship with some distinctive characteristics and strong combat effectiveness.
The appearance of such a battleship can be said to be groundbreaking and extremely powerful, even in the well-informed Dinghai Navy, there is a huge shock, Zhao Xin also likes it, by the way, it happened that Han Qi was here, so he called Han Qi over.
Zhao Xin's purpose is very simple, to a certain extent, to make Han Qi realize the strength of the Ding Navy, and what is the most powerful ship, the largest creation that human beings can build, can appear on the calm sea of Bohai Bay.
At this time, Han Qi was still confused, looking at Zhao Xin, as well as many high-ranking officials of the entire Ding Navy, all standing on the dock, and under the confusion, the long whistle of the whistle came from afar, and a huge guy, with a whistling sound, rushed over from the far open sea.