Chapter 17: A Little Trouble
Bai Jun thoroughly checked the accounts of the household department, and soon it was over, and there was a lot of nonsense on the twists and turns for Xianfeng, but there were only two sentences to sum up: The Qing Dynasty cannot be without the household department for a day, and the household department cannot be without a family for a day. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Xianfeng can not be rewarded for his merits, and ordered to worship Weng Xincun as a scholar of Tirenge University and still serve as a scholar of the Ministry of Households, and reward the yellow coat with a double dazzling superproduct.
Weng Xincun didn't chase Bai Jun hard, after all, the people finally softened, besides, in the final analysis, they are full people, banner people, and slaves of the emperor.
Speaking of slaves, I was proud to be a slave in the Qing Dynasty. It is true that slaves are the property of the master, but how many losers are willing to set fire to the house?
This kind of thing is not only in the Qing Dynasty, but in the United States across the sea, slaves can eat more than 300 pounds of meat every year, an average of one pound per day, and this kind of life is not even the small landlords of the Qing Dynasty. And for those farmers who are also slave owners, slaves must be well fed to work, and when they are well fed so that they will not flee, why should they abuse their property?
After the end of the Civil War, the slaves were free, only to find that they still had nothing, and they had to work to fill their stomachs, and at this time life had to rent a house, support their families, and spend money on food, clothing, housing and transportation. It's hard for a person's salary to feed a pound of meat per person a day, even though meat in the United States is dyingly cheap.
After living in Sijiu City for more than half a year, the two 5,000-ton ironclad ships ordered by the Qing Dynasty also arrived at Jinwei Port. The two ships were all designed by Lin Haiyang, referring to the world's first-class ironclad ships in the history of the Qing Dynasty - Zhenyuan and Dingyuan as the reference blueprint.
After the construction of the ship, it was naturally a little larger. However, if the price does not change, the Qing court probably has no opinion. Two ironclad ships, with a total length of 94.5 meters, a width of 18 meters, and a draft of 6 meters. The main gun is a 305 mm rear-loading rifled gun with a twin turret, 25 times caliber, and hydrodynamic power assisted.
The secondary guns were 150 mm breech-loading rifled guns with two 35 times the caliber, one in the bow and one in the stern.
The above data is exactly the same as the original ship, and the rest is designed by Lin Haiyang himself. For example, the ship is powered by a steam turbine with three boilers, which can easily reach 26,000 horsepower and a maximum speed of 25 knots. The unladen displacement is 6500 tons, and the full load displacement is 7860 tons.
There are eight two-string 75-mm secondary guns and 16 37-mm machine guns. The two main turrets are designed along the central axis and can fire at the enemy from the battle line. The armor thickness is a uniform 300 mm, because of the use of special steel armor, its defensive power is equivalent to the armor thickness of the original space-time Dingzhen 2 ship 600 mm.
As for fish, Lin Haiyang thought that it was too dangerous to have a time bomb in this thing in the artillery battle, so he did not design torpedo tubes on board, but the ship carried two torpedo boats with a displacement of 100 tons, each equipped with a triple 50 cm fish launch tube and a 37 mm machine gun.
The torpedo is still the compressed air torpedo of this era, and the oxygen torpedo is too dangerous, and it is not known how many Japanese warships were blown up just in the storage state - even in non-war times, Japanese warships will have inexplicable explosions, and many explosions have led to the tragic end of ship destruction and death.
It is true that these two ships are called the largest ships in Asia, and the Japanese fleet itself has not yet equipped them. Song Haiping and Lin Haiyang left Sheng Haizhou with the task of training, the navy is not the army, pick up the gun and train for a month to go to the battlefield to fight, the navy is a technical arms training takes a lot longer.
The training slogan of the Japanese Navy in the original time and space is "Moon, Moon, Fire, Wood, Earth, Gold, and Gold", and in Japan, Saturday is Toyo Day, and Sunday is Sunrise Day, which means that there is no holiday for the Japanese Navy to train.
As for Beiyang, because the British instructor Lang Weili was too strict in management, he was squeezed away by a group of naval officers in Beiyang through the flag removal incident. Everyone relaxed and only did some superficial work in training, so it seemed that the outcome of the First Sino-Japanese Naval Battle had been decided long before the war began.
Or the head of the regiment said it well: "The Chinese people like comfort the most, and they would rather die than be comfortable." But soldiers should be most afraid of comfort. ”
The Qing Dynasty Royal Navy finally has six warships, although there are Japanese instructors to teach, but the Japanese instructors themselves are novices who have been on the ship for a few months, and the apprentices are the "elites" selected from the Eight Banners.
The only good thing is that their equipment is actually more advanced than the Europeans, ranging from more than a dozen years to several decades. It's worrying that the imperial court doesn't know what to think, and the two ships were named Dingyuan and Zhenyuan, which is really providential. Although this name is not as auspicious as the Xuefeng and Danyang, Song Haiping, who is familiar with history, always feels that history is going to repeat itself.
Sure enough, after the arrival of the new ship, the Qing court naturally selected personnel to go up for practical training, but within a month, bad news came from the Jinwei naval station. A Japanese instructor on board slashed a resident officer who was training on the ship, Yellow Belt (Zongmu).
The full name of the yellow belt who was cut is Aixin Jueluo. Yixuan, who is still the great-grandson of Lord Qianlong, is an auxiliary general at a young age of less than twenty, and it can be said that he has a great future, but he was cut off a finger by a Japanese naval instructor.
The reason is that the trainees who have just boarded the ship should start with the most basic tasks such as cleaning, deck cleaning, and coal transportation. There are such rules on the ships, and there is nothing strange about it, but many of the students on the first four ironclad ships couldn't stay up and ran away, and then they were replaced.
On the Dingyuan ship where the accident occurred this time, the auxiliary general Yixuan was persuaded by his family, and he thought that he would be an official when he came to the ship, but he knew that he had to wipe the deck and carry coal bags and other dirty work, so he let the servants he brought to do it. When the Japanese instructor saw this, he asked for an understanding and immediately drove the idlers and others (servants) out of the ship. Let the auxiliary general Yixuan do it himself, and he can't get out.
As a result, General Fuguo's petty temper was committed, and he stretched out a finger and scolded the Japanese instructor for something, and even instructed me to love the people of the Xinjue Luo family, the descendants of Lord Qianlong, to do the cheap work.
This Japanese instructor was not only a temperamental, but also a kendo master in Ju Huiliu, and instantly drew his sword and cut off the fingers that the auxiliary general stretched out and pointed at him.
Of course, the news could not be blocked, and people talked about it for a while. It is said that in this era, the apprentice who is a master deserves to be killed. Chop off a finger, and that's mercy. Apprentices all sign life and death contracts, and they don't care about being killed.
However, the matter involves the clan, and theoretically only the Zongren Mansion has the right to dispose of the clan, which round to get outsiders, let alone Orientals.