On the afternoon of the 19th day of the first lunar month, after inspecting the Pacific Fleet, Yan Xueyi set off for Shencheng to begin his inspection of the main shipyards of the empire. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

In the "Five-Year Development Plan of the Chinese Empire", the development plan of the shipbuilding industry of the Chinese Empire for the next five years is specifically listed.

Over the next five years, the Chinese Empire will develop five shipyards within the empire: the Fuzhou Shipyard and Jiangnan Shipyard (located in Shencheng), which were built during the Manchu Dynasty, the Shencheng Shipyard, which began construction in 1888, and the Dalian Shipyard and Tianjin Shipyard, which had just begun construction with German help.

These five shipyards are the shipyards that the empire will focus on developing in the next five years, and the ownership of the five shipyards is in the hands of Gan Merchant House and belongs to the royal enterprises.

Yan Xueyi's first target during his inspection of the imperial shipbuilding industry was the Shencheng Shipyard, which was under construction.

During his tenure as director of Shancheng Shipyard, Shancheng Shipyard built 12 560-ton gunboats and 16 steamships with a tonnage of less than 600 tons.

After the Han army captured Shencheng, Meng Fanxuan, under the order of Yan Xueyi, led his students and a group of workers to Shencheng to build a new shipyard.

After Meng Fanxuan and others came to Shencheng, with the huge financial support of Yan's firm, a large number of manpower and material resources were mobilized to build Shencheng Shipyard, and it is expected that in the middle of the first year of Xinghua, Shencheng Shipyard will be able to complete the construction, and after completion, Shencheng Shipyard will have a 10,000-ton and two 5,000-ton docks.

Theoretically, a 10,000-ton dock can build ships of less than 10,000 tons, and a 5,000-ton dock can build ships of less than 5,000 tons.

In the future, the Shencheng shipyard will mainly build warships.

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Seeing Master Yan (Yan Xueyi) again, Meng Fanxuan burst into tears and couldn't speak with excitement.

At the beginning, Meng Fanxuan brought his students to Shancheng and established the Shancheng shipyard from scratch, and now Meng Fanxuan has taken his students and his workers to build a new shipyard in Shencheng, and Meng Fanxuan's dream of building a steel giant ship is being realized.

Over the years, Meng Fanxuan has been working hard, striving to improve his knowledge level, learning more shipbuilding knowledge, and verifying his ideas in the process of building ships.

Working so hard, Meng Fanxuan, who was just over thirty years old, looked at his vicissitudes of life, as if he was forty years old, but Yan Xueyi could see that Meng Fanxuan was full of energy, for the dream in his heart, Meng Fanxuan was full of motivation, and if he did not achieve the dream in his heart, Meng Fanxuan would not stop moving forward.

Under the leadership of Meng Fanxuan, Yan Xueyi and his entourage visited the Shencheng Shipyard, which is still under construction.

Seeing the emperor and empress of the empire come to the Shencheng shipyard in person, the construction staff in the shipyard were very excited, as ordinary people, they never thought that they would have the opportunity to see the emperor and empress with their own eyes, and what made a small number of people unexpected was that the emperor of the empire would open his mouth to talk to them.

After Yan Xueyi and his entourage left Shencheng Shipyard, the construction staff of Shencheng Shipyard burst out with enthusiasm, and the construction speed of Shencheng Shipyard increased rapidly.

In the morning, Yan Xueyi visited the Shencheng Shipyard, and in the afternoon, Yan Xueyi came to the Jiangnan Shipbuilding Bureau, no, now it has been renamed Jiangnan Shipyard, Jiangnan Shipyard and Shencheng Shipyard are located in Shencheng.

At present, the director of the Jiangnan Shipyard is an old man named Zhu Qingshan, who is 48 years old this year, but the deputy director of the Jiangnan Shipyard is a young man named Xu Xiake, who is 26 years old this year.

Zhu Qingshan is an old man of the Jiangnan Shipbuilding Bureau, with high qualifications, honest, kind, and able to convince the public, so Yan Xueyi appointed Zhu Qingshan as the director of Jiangnan Shipyard, in fact, Zhu Qingshan, the director of Jiangnan Shipyard, is nominal, Zhu Qingshan manages Jiangnan Shipyard, and also discusses with Xu Xiake, the deputy director, and important things are subject to Xu Xiake's opinion.

Who is Xu Xiake?

Xu Xiake was a student of Meng Fanxuan at Shencheng Shipyard and studied beside Meng Fanxuan for many years.

Xu Xiake is different from his teacher Meng Fanxuan, Meng Fanxuan dreams of building a steel giant ship, while Xu Xiake wants to build a steel battleship that sails under the surface of the water - a submarine.

After learning about this situation, Yan Xueyi ordered Xu Xiake to serve as the deputy director of Jiangnan Shipyard, but Zhu Qingshan, director of Jiangnan Shipyard, obeyed Xu Xiake's orders, after all, Xu Xiake's age is too young, for Jiangnan Shipyard, a shipyard that has been born for a long time, age and seniority are an important factor, so now Xu Xiake is serving as the deputy director instead of the factory director.

With Xu Xiake as the deputy director, in the future, the Jiangnan Shipyard will mainly build submarines, supplemented by the construction of warships of less than 2,000 tons and civilian ships.

After Yan's firm took over the Jiangnan Shipyard, it invested a lot of money in the expansion of the Jiangnan Shipyard, and now the Jiangnan Shipyard has two 5,000-ton and three 3,000-ton docks.

In 1865, the Jiangnan Shipbuilding Bureau appeared, which was subordinate to the Jiangnan Machinery Manufacturing Bureau.

In 1868, the Jiangnan Shipbuilding Bureau produced China's first self-built steamboat (wooden hull) Huiji, and then built several steamboats, but the speed of shipbuilding was not fast, and the overall production cost and fuel consumption were high, and the result was not as good as buying directly from foreign countries (the money for building a self-built ship could buy about two ships from the British).

The high production cost of the Jiangnan Shipbuilding Bureau has many aspects: first, almost all the production raw materials are imported; Second, the salary of personnel is high; 3. Floating purchase funds; Fourth, the number of personnel is too superficial: In addition to the increasing number of foreign consultants, many Chinese officials and staff members have taken advantage of their connections to enter and receive salaries.

After Yan's firm took over the Jiangnan Machinery Manufacturing Bureau, it carried out drastic reforms to the Jiangnan Machinery Manufacturing Bureau, and cleared out all the people who were indiscriminate. Jiangnan Shipyard.

Although the Jiangnan Shipbuilding Bureau has such and such defects, it cannot deny the achievements of the Jiangnan Shipbuilding Bureau.

From 1868 to 1884, Xu Shou, known as the originator of modern Chinese shipbuilding, presided over the design and construction of more than 10 military ships in the Jiangnan Shipping Bureau, from paddle to dark wheel, from wooden hull to iron armor, from 600 tonnage to 2800 tonnage, making great contributions to the construction of steamers by the Chinese themselves.

In particular, in 1868, China's first wooden mobile troop ship "Tianji" (later renamed "Huiji") made a sensation in Shencheng.

The Tianji is 185 feet long, 27.2 feet wide, with 392 horsepower and a deadweight of 600 tons. The hull is wooden, the boiler is self-made, and the main engine is modified with old foreign machines, because it has changed the history of China's warships only relying on imports and cannot be built by themselves.

Since then, the Jiangnan Shipbuilding Bureau has built a number of warships such as "Hai'an" and "Yuyuan", the boilers and main engines are self-made, and the ships can be equipped with 26 cannons and carry 500 sailors.

In 1876, China's first ironclad warship "Jinou" was born in the Jiangnan Shipbuilding Bureau.

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