Chapter 3 The assembly line is fast

Song Haiping continued: "However, there must also be a condition for education for all, that is, to ensure that there are enough teachers. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoFor the time being, the shogunate still doesn't have this power, but the teacher can be cultivated. I think that if we start running education now, we will have enough teachers in five years to start education for all. ”

Katsu Haishu nodded and said, "My lord is really a visionary, and the shogunate's important minister, Masahiro Abe, also opened the Seino Pavilion in the last year, and you can study regardless of your status." This is the model of education for all. ”

Song Haiping didn't expect the Japanese to think about education very early, and he also said: "It's a pity that Masahiro Abe has limited ability and only has a Seino Pavilion, and other people don't have such foresight." Ten years of cultivation, one hundred years of education. It is very good to invest in the vision of education, but it is very late to wait for the education industry to produce good social effects.

I'll take these books back to you, and I'll give you a word. We are now homeless, and we have some money for this boat. I want to help the shogunate build a modern navy and carry out industrial reforms for free. ”

Of course, Sheng Haizhou knew that pies would not fall from the sky for free, and asked, "What do the two of you want?" ”

Song Haiping: "There is no shortage of gold and silver for our brothers. If Japan is going to carry out reforms, I would like to be the head of this reform office, and there will be three deputy team leaders, namely Naobu Ii, Masahiro Abe, and Katsukaishu-sama. ”

Sheng Haizhou bowed: "I can't be an adult, what about Lord Lin?" ”

Song Haiping: "In the future, after the Manchu Qing Dynasty is overthrown, Lin will be the head of the China Reform Office. Now, he is still needed on board. ”

Fooling around to win the sea boat, Song Haiping and Lin Haiyang thought that since they wanted to prepare for a modern Japanese navy, they would build ironclad ships step by step. The two men checked the computer data and analyzed the contemporary form of ironclad ships, and found that in addition to the Frenchman's Napoleon ironclad steam battleship, most other countries were still groping for the road of ironclad ships.

This era is also changing with each passing day, otherwise the second ship of Dingzhen would not have been launched and would have fallen behind in a few years. During the Battle of Dadonggou, the firepower of the Japanese Combined Fleet was ten times that of the Beiyang Fleet, and the picric acid used by the Japanese Combined Fleet was dozens of times more powerful than the Beiyang black powder. It can be said that on paper, this battle has already been lost before it was fought.

After analyzing various data of Beiyang Badayuan that year, Song Haiping and Lin Haiyang first built 3,000-ton and 2,500-ton ironclad ships. That is, the Laiyuan ship, the Jingyuan ship, the Zhiyuan ship, and the Jingyuan ship.

Among them, the 3,000-ton ironclad ship is characterized as a protective ironclad ship, and the 2,500-ton ironclad ship is characterized as a high-speed ironclad ship.

Among them, the hull of the 2,500-ton high-speed ironclad ship is ready to be riveted with 50 mm steel plates, and the 3,000-ton protective ironclad ship is riveted with 100 mm thick steel plates. Both are propelled by two reciprocating steam engines with twin shafts and four coal-fired boilers. Although the design has been careful not to be too advanced, the power is still more than 10,000 horsepower, and the full power output of the pressure is about 11,000 horsepower. Among them, the 3,000-ton protective ironclad ship can theoretically run at a high speed of more than 20 knots.

The maximum speed of the measured pressurization after launching is 23.5 knots, of course, this maximum speed can only be maintained for a short period of tens of minutes. The 2,500-ton high-speed ironclad ship is even faster, and the boiler pressurized to run a maximum speed of 29 knots after the launch test - in fact, this maximum speed will decrease with the extension of the launching time, and the attachment of barnacles and other attachments to the bottom of the ship will affect the speed of the ship for a long time.

Regarding the armament of the ironclad ship, Song Haiping and Lin Haiyang's design is such a small ship, so don't use heavy artillery, and the small boat frame cannon cannons will not be mosquito ships. There was a twin 120-mm turret with 360-degree rotation in the bow and stern, and eight 120-mm guns with 50-mm gun shields on both sides of the ship. In this way, there were still 8 120-mm guns fired together to one side.

There were also 16 37-mm water-cooled guns with 20-mm gun shields on board. Artillery full picric acid charge, nitrocellulose ******. The 120 mm gun was also equipped with solid training shells. Picric acid is a good thing in war, and the lethality integrates killing, burning, and poisoning, and is it a safety issue, and it is not a big problem to blunt it a little. Song Haiping, Lin Haiyang, judging from the data, bitter acid was used until the end of the 20th century to make artillery shells in an arsenal. The grenade has a very good lethal effect on those wooden-hulled iron-wedged ships.

The maximum firing range of the ship's 120-mm guns was more than six thousand meters, and the theoretical maximum rate of fire was three rounds a minute. However, at this time, the general naval combat distance was within 2 kilometers, which just gave the 37-mm machine gun an opportunity to play, the maximum flat fire range of the 37-mm machine gun was 3,000 meters, the effective killing distance was also 2,000 meters, and the theoretical rate of fire was 300 rounds per minute -- the rate of fire in actual combat dropped to one or two hundred rounds per minute. The 37mm cannon was not a great threat to the structure of the Iron Jacket, but its high rate of fire was still quite lethal to the personnel on the deck, and it was too powerful to deal with ordinary pirates in this era.

Each ship was equipped with two 60-ton torpedo boats, which in those days were called mine-striking boats and the like. Each torpedo boat is equipped with a 37-mm cannon with a gun shield and two 450-mm white-headed torpedo tubes.

In fact, in these years, the white-headed torpedo was not a big threat in naval battles, after all, it only had a range of less than 500 meters, the torpedo speed was not so fast, and the compressed air torpedo route was not concealed enough. However, Song Haiping and Lin Haiyang believed that after the naval guns sometimes knocked out the enemy's main guns and most of the firepower, they could let the torpedo boats go on the field to carry out the final strike mission.

Because the torpedo boat is small enough to be carried on an ironclad ship (which can be used as a lifeboat), there is no need to worry about any range problems, so the speed can reach an ultra-high speed of 33 knots. Theoretically, it can bring some variables to the monotonous artillery battle.

As for equipment such as ramming, it is not considered, Song Haiping and Lin Haiyang have never heard of it, and there may be deeds of winning by ramming horns in modern naval warfare, but it is not too much to take hundreds of thousands of taels of silver to collide with a warship with a crew of several hundred people.

Ships are gone, they can be built, industrial ships can build such ironclad ships, and the speed of entering the drawings and pressing a button is almost like a dumpling - the various elements needed are sucked and filtered from the sea and the seabed. If the person is gone, then it must be re-trained, how can it take several years for a qualified naval officer and sailor to be trained, the premise is that this guy is not too stupid and not illiterate -- even if he is not too stupid and not illiterate, but if he is familiar with the four books and five classics, he is good at writing eight articles or poems and songs.

Not only were the scholars of the Qing Dynasty useless, but the traditional Japanese intellectuals, including monks, ministers, various tea ceremony masters, calligraphers, painters, etc., could be used for a few years of training on a ship.

The ship-building speed of the 072 industrial ship was quickly reported by the spies who were staring at it, and in the dispute between the high-level of the shogunate, reformers such as Katsukaishu, Ii Naobi, and Abe Masahiro were given great support. Every report of an ironclad ship entering the water was a blow to the diehards within the shogunate.