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Ding Ruchang, Liu Buyun, and Zhang Zhidong saw the power of the submarine, and finally attached importance to the submarine, and when they returned to the Jiangnan Shipyard, they also personally entered the inside of the submarine to take a look, but they stayed in the submarine for a while before coming out, in the small space of the submarine, not everyone can stay, especially when the submarine dives underwater, it will make some people feel chest tightness and uncomfortable. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

To become a qualified submariner, you need to train for a long time, and you must know that when it comes to war, submarines need to be lurking underwater for a long time.

Yan Xueyi's inspection of the Jiangnan Shipyard was coming to an end, and before leaving the Jiangnan Shipyard, Yan Xueyi placed the first submarine order with the Jiangnan Shipyard: twelve training submarines.

The training submarine is the name of the improved version of the No. 2 submarine, and the Jiangnan shipyard has a total of five docks, except for one dock used to build larger submarines, the rest of the docks are used to build training submarines.

It is expected that the construction time of the first batch of four training submarines will be five months, the second batch will be only four months, and the third batch will probably be less than four months.

There are 12 training submarines, three each of the Pacific Fleet and the South China Sea Fleet, with six remaining, and three each from the Shencheng Naval Academy and the Fuzhou Naval Academy.

The crew of the submarine tried to exclude the original "old era navy" as much as possible, and mainly newcomers.

In fact, if the "old navy" saw that life in a submarine was very uncomfortable, it would definitely not be willing to become a submariner.

If this submarine meets Yan Xueyi's requirements, then the other four docks of the Jiangnan Shipyard can be vacated, and the five docks can build the latest submarines together, so that a large number of submarines can be installed in the navy in the shortest possible time, so that the naval strength will increase rapidly, so that the coastal defense of the Chinese Empire will be foolproof.

After Yan Xueyi and his entourage left Jiangnan Shipyard, they went to Shencheng Shipyard, which was in the same city as Jiangnan Shipyard.

In front of the gate of Shencheng Shipyard, Meng Fanxuan took several of his students to wait for the arrival of Yan Xueyi and his party.

"Greetings to Your Majesty!"

"No courtesy."

Yan Xueyi looked at Meng Fanxuan carefully, Meng Fanxuan was a student taught by Yan Xueyi, Yan Xueyi's own appearance did not change much, but Meng Fanxuan became more and more vicissitudes, often working overtime, making Meng Fanxuan look many years older.

Meng Fanxuan led the way, and the group walked towards the interior of the Shencheng Shipyard, and while walking, Meng Fanxuan told Yan Xueyi about the changes in the Shencheng Shipyard.

The completed Shencheng shipyard has a 10,000-ton and two 5,000-ton docks.

Although Meng Fanxuan and others stayed in the Shancheng Shipyard before, and only built twelve 560-ton gunboats and 16 steamships with a tonnage of less than 600 tons due to geographical reasons, in the past five years, Meng Fanxuan's shipbuilding theory has grown rapidly, and Meng Fanxuan has been dreaming of one day being able to build a steel giant ship, and even designed a number of battleship design drawings in advance.

When the construction of the first 5,000-ton dock in Shencheng Shipyard was completed, Meng Fanxuan and his team couldn't wait to start building a larger warship, the first time it was built, it was a 2,000-ton warship, but before that, Meng Fanxuan's team had already carried out theoretical demonstrations: build a 1000:1 or 100:1 model for experiments.

After the experiment passed, construction began.

However, in more than a year, the construction of this 2,000-ton warship has not yet been completed, and the main part is currently 80 percent complete, and it is expected that this battleship will be completely completed by the middle of the year, and then Yan Xueyi and the senior management of the Imperial Navy will visit the Shencheng Shipyard again.

Jumping from a 560-ton gunboat to a 2,000-ton battleship at once, this is a great leap forward, in the process of really building this battleship, Meng Fanxuan's team encountered a lot of difficulties, although it took a lot of time, the difficulties encountered were solved, and the extra time was used to accumulate experience.

A 5,000-ton dock was used by Meng Fanxuan's team to build warships, and the other two docks were not empty after they were completed, and both docks were built for civilian ships under the leadership of Meng Fanxuan's students.

The construction of civilian ships is not as troublesome as warships, and the construction of civilian ships is not a step to the sky, but step by step, before they have only built steam ships of less than 600 tons, in the Shencheng shipyard, they first started to build only a 1,000-ton civilian steamer, and the difficulty of construction is far lower than that of the 2,000-ton warship under construction.

In less than half a year, a steamship with a displacement of 1,047 tons was successfully built at the Shencheng Shipyard and passed the sea trials, and has now been delivered to the Royal Commercial House.

This steamship was the first steamship built by the Chinese Empire, and was named the "Starting Point" by Yan Xueyi (embarrassment, and submarines are not counted).

When the ship was delivered to the Imperial Merchant House, although the Empire was at war with Russia, the Empire had normal trade with other countries in the world, but the Empire itself lacked ships, and most of the merchants from other countries came to the Chinese Empire to trade, and the merchants of the Empire could only order ships from the shipyards of other countries if they wanted to own ships.

The successful construction of the Qiqi Steamship represented the rise of the shipyards of the Chinese Empire, and the merchants of the empire could order ships in the shipyards of their own country.

In fact, not only the Shencheng Shipyard, but also the docks of the Jiangnan Shipyard and the Mawei Shipyard are also building ships when they are not working.

It didn't take long for the group to come to a dock, and they could clearly see that there was a steel battleship under construction in the dock, and the general outline of the steel battleship had appeared, and only 20% of the work was left.

Although the steel battleship has not been completely built, seeing this unfinished steel battleship, Ding Ruchang, Liu Buchan, and Zhang Zhidong have become excited, compared to the submarine lurking underwater, they prefer the cannon of the giant ship.

Even though this unbuilt steel battleship has a displacement of only more than 2,000 tons after completion, it is an all-steel battleship, and after it is completed, it basically belongs to the more advanced warships of the same ton in the world.

Whether it was in the Manchu Qing Dynasty or the Chinese Imperial Era, Ding Ruchang, Liu Buyun, and Zhang Zhidong never saw an advanced warship appear in their hands, and basically Western countries would only sell warships that were a generation or even more generations backward to China, and the most advanced warships would only be used by themselves.

Unexpectedly, the empire is about to build a relatively advanced warship now, and this warship must be equipped with a navy, can this not make them excited?

The construction of a two-thousand-ton warship is about to be completed, and a warship with a larger tonnage is still far away?