Chapter 790: Ships and Airplanes
Dingjun, under the impetus of Zhao Xin, began to develop rapidly, without wasting a little bit of strength, all of them were rapid and rapid development, so that Dinghai Navy underwent rapid changes, all kinds of new things, constantly appeared, and the frequency of updates was very fast.
Only in the country of Dinghai will you experience such a rapid development, maybe an otaku, if you don't go out for a month or two, you will see countless fresh, never-before-seen things.
These promoted the development of the Dinghai Navy, but also let the Chinese begin to lead, it can be said politely, the strength of science and technology, step by step, and faster and faster, for the rest of the world's nations, it is a nightmare, they simply cannot catch up.
In the case of other nations in the world, most of which are still slash-and-burn, Dinghai has formed a mechanized planting method, as well as a large number of machinery and equipment, using all kinds of machines, creating terrible wealth, cities are getting bigger and bigger, transportation is becoming more and more developed, and some of the prosperous scenes of later generations.
This must be mentioned in the middle of Shenyang, now Shenyang has 6 ring roads, the distance between each ring is 3 kilometers, that is to say, Shenyang has almost formed a diameter of 36 kilometers of urban area, this is more than 1,000 square kilometers of the city.
If it is like Bianliang, the city is low-density, this population is not much, but Shenyang is the center of the Dinghai Navy, popularizing a large number of high-rise buildings, the average building height is about 7 floors, the highest building, even reached 26 floors, 100 meters high, which was unimaginable before.
On the premise of Shenyang, there are too many people, as the center, especially during this period of development, Shenyang has gradually concentrated, and now, it has a population of 30 million.
Compared with before, when the population was 70 or 80 million, the proportion of Shenyang's population of 15 million was declining, but the city was becoming more and more congested.
Although there is no large-scale appearance of motor vehicles, but a large number of carriages, so that the originally wide road, in the rush hour, become congested, although Zhao Xin thought of some solutions, but the natural characteristics, or let this congestion aggravate, no way, only the use of rail transit, public transportation, and underground transportation methods, diversion of this congestion, unfortunately, with more and more population, this situation is not good.
Shenyang's population of 40 million, of which the labor force is only 5 million, but these 5 million people have created an output value of more than 1 trillion guan, with an average of 200,000 guan per person, which is much higher than before.
This is not only the gradual investment of the navy, the establishment of a series of industrial systems in Shenyang, but also the development of science and technology, a large number of new science and technology investment, so that the level of productivity is getting higher and higher, and it has surpassed ordinary people by much, many times.
The development of Shenyang is like this, on the large amount of land in the whole Dinghai Navy, on the construction of many cities, large cities are emerging in an endless stream, and the superiority of the city's industry far exceeds that of planting and service industries.
Outstanding in civilian use, in military affairs, equally outstanding, the emergence of war weapons led by armored trains, the power is already very terrible, this is no longer a generational difference, that is to take the weapons of the 20th century, to deal with the people of the 11th century, they do not know at all, this is the strength of the navy, the whole world does not have any opponents, the tactics of the sea of people can not play any role.
For Zhao Xin, the only problem is that there is no way to complete the development of the battleship, and in the center of the ship, in the large-scale and intensive experiments, something has been summed up.
In terms of basic theory, the theory of waves, as well as some laws of fluid mechanics, have begun to be summed up, at least, if possible, the Dinghai Navy can now make at any time, ocean-going ships with a displacement of 2,500 tons to 5,000 tons, and even a little effort, to produce a higher standard of ocean-going cargo ships, is not impossible.
However, there is no need for such a construction of ships, and the Dinghai Navy has now adapted to the ocean-going ships with Spanish sailing ships as the main body, and most of them are completed and put into use within 10 years, according to the life of wooden sailing ships, at least within 10 years, and some of them are not very economical, and even produce a lot of waste.
In the early days, in order to catch up with some progress and improve its own strength, the Dinghai Navy has produced a huge waste, but the premise of insufficient strength, even in terms of strength, a slight improvement can increase security.
But now, the Dinghai Navy is already the first in the world, especially in shipping, it can support the North American route, and transport tens of thousands of tons or even more materials to North America through this mature route to support the construction of North America.
This kind of transportation capacity is now in surplus, because the exploration and development of North America has reached its limit when it discovers the Americas, and there is no need for this after the discovery of the Americas, and under the premise of gaining a firm foothold in the Americas and gradually developing.
Many things, in a large number of mechanical equipment, as well as engineering equipment, after being transported to the Americas, there is no need to transport them, although North America produces a lot, but not every one of them needs to be transported back.
Although it is said that the Dinghai Navy developed the technology of the 19th and 20th centuries in China in the 11th century, the world's demand for ocean transportation has not yet been produced to the extreme, and there is no need to improve the capacity of ocean transportation on a large scale.
Under the premise that China has a large land and abundant resources, and the development of all aspects is very good, it is worth shipping back to China that is some grain, or basic raw materials, similar to iron ore, or other minerals, etc., which are not worth transporting back, and the mining of these ores in China is far from reaching the limit.
Although Zhao Xin also knows that in Australia, there is a large amount of iron ore, of which high-grade abounds, but because of the geographical location of Australia, although it has been discovered, there is no suitable waterway, and it is expected to take two or three years to arrive.
Of course, it is not useless, large ocean-going ships are not suitable, and some small ones, small ships that walk on rivers and lakes, are very suitable.
Compared with the original river boat, the power system of the ship is very in place, different from the sea, the river on land, there is little wind, most of the river boat movement, are dependent on the pulp, or the effect of the water flow, along the water is a little better, once the countercurrent, it will be very troublesome.
Steamships, a good solution to this problem, do not rely on the wind, but also can have a strong power, in the rivers and lakes are very widely used.
However, it is a pity that the most suitable is Jiangnan, and even the Yellow River and the Huai River are more suitable, and then it is not good, the Haihe River in the north can also be used, but these are not within the control of the Dinghai Navy, which is the territory of the Northern Song Dynasty.
At present, the rivers above the Dinghai Sea are only located near the Hetao, part of the Yellow River, and the northeast rivers in the north, and then the Siberian rivers, these rivers located in the high latitude zone, the ice period is too long, not suitable for the use of small steamers.
Fortunately, in addition to rivers, there is also a part of the ocean, for example, the shipping lanes from the Liaodong Peninsula to Korea, and the shipping lanes between the various inland seas of Japan, which are more suitable for small steamers, and a large number of these are made, and the small steamers are tried and recorded to speed up the whole research process.
Dinghai's research on ships continues, along with ships, as well as container technology, container technology, as early as the Spanish sailing era, has appeared, but because of the small cabin of Spanish sailing ships, there is no way to use the standard containers of later generations, but small, which will increase the difficulty of loading.
The most suitable container is a large bulk ship, which was drawn by Zhao Xin as early as the early stage of the research of the ship, and handed over to the Ship Research Institute for research, the 2000-ton bulk ship completed in the experiment, the performance is very good, the weight of the hull is very small, but it can drag several times the weight of the hull, which is the advantage of this type of ship, if you add the facilities and standardized containers, simplify the time of loading and unloading, which is very good for long-distance transportation.
10 years will be a natural node, on the one hand, the life of most Spanish sailboats, has exceeded 15 years, for sailboats, this is a very critical year, long-term service, will make the performance of the sailboat decline, the accident rate increases, the same, 15 years, if it is a long time of operation, the sailboat has earned enough money, can be replaced.
Similarly, in 10 years, under the current scientific and technological system of the Dinghai Navy, if the steamship technology line continues to rise, not to mention 5,000 tons, 10,000 tons, or even 20,000 tons, it is possible to complete, ocean-going ships, the larger the tonnage, the lower the cost of transportation, this is an objective law, when the time comes, the performance is more outstanding, the same larger ships, will make the shipping of the Dinghai Navy, on a higher level.
Finally, there is a final expectation, that is, in 10 years, as far as the area currently controlled by the navy is concerned, North America, not only has successfully occupied the bridgehead, but also with the gradual migration and development, gradually encroaching on the northern region, perhaps, for security reasons, will not be with the Maya in Central America, but in North America, more than 19 million square kilometers of land, southern Canada and most of the United States, still have to be taken.
Here, in later generations, is the territory of the superpower United States, but in this era, this is a fertile soil given by God for planting, and the cultivation of a large number of cash crops and food crops will allow him to form a huge granary that the navy can control.
Not only North America, but also in the future, Australia will also find that the natural conditions, full of pasture environment, but the paradise of grazing, coupled with a variety of mineral resources, under the premise of the development of the navy, these will provide a large amount of food, raw materials and ores, which require huge ocean transportation.
When the research on these steamships, especially those of more than 20,000 tons, is completed, and at the same time, on the basis of the steam engine, the development of two swelling and three expansion steam engines, and even the development of steam turbines, when all this is already in place, will the battleship be far away?
The appearance of battleships is almost inevitable, and it is a dreadnought in one step, and even to the extent of ultra-dreadnought, after all, armor and weapons are already in place, and the next is speed and integration, which should have solved more than half of the problem, and the most critical one, left to the ship research institute, has a full ten years, no matter what, ten years, it is enough.
Zhao Xin did not insist on how long it must take, the problem of getting the battleship out, and even the research on large-caliber artillery, began to stop.
400 mm, although it is not the limit of battleship artillery in later generations, there are still 460 mm guns in the Yamato, but that problem is about the same as the 406 mm of the American army.
Although it is said that battleships appeared almost a thousand years in advance, if the line of aircraft not lit up, aircraft carriers may not appear for a long time, and along this direction, larger and more terrible ships, will definitely appear in large numbers,
Zhao Xin will definitely light up the line of airplanes, not only because aircraft carriers are more powerful weapons of war than battleships, this weapon is very useful for controlling the sea, but also because airplanes are also the fastest means of transportation in the world.
As far as the position of the navy is concerned, not to mention the Americas, let's talk about Asia, and the area currently controlled by it already includes Sakhalin, most of Siberia, Outer Mongolia, and then Southeast Asia.
That is to say, it turns out that East Asia, Southeast Asia, Central Asia, and the huge Siberia are all within the scope of control, and in such a huge landmass, the northernmost point to the southernmost point may exceed 10,000 kilometers, at this time, the role of the train is relatively limited.
Even if the telegraph was distributed everywhere, without a quick means of transportation, it was not conducive to the development and stability of the empire.
With the aircraft, it has the ability to project and deploy quickly over long distances, which is very useful for stabilizing the huge territory, not to mention, the Dinghai Navy may also control the land of the Americas and even Australia, and only more than 300 kilometers or even 400 kilometers per hour of the aircraft can play a little bit of surface control needs.
Now there are no ships, and the aircraft is a little early, but in the laboratory of the Dinghai Navy, the project of flying has already been established, and some research has been carried out according to some drawings and basic descriptions given by Zhao Xin.
Dingjun, there are many similar cutting-edge research, Feitian may be one of the inconspicuous projects, but it is a very interesting project, even, because of continuous investment and research, has basically gone to some results, at least, human beings' desire to fly, is basically realized.
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