The modern military is divided into the army, navy, and air force, and the military industry naturally has to produce and manufacture equipment for these three services. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Air Force, Yuanhe City has an air force establishment that is not considered an air force, with less than 300 people, and their equipment is like a behemoth-like airship.

The airship manufacturing technology of the airship branch of the Yuanhe Arsenal has matured and can produce advanced airships, but in the face of the four provinces that do not produce oil (it can also be said that the reserves are pitiful and do not have the value of exploitation), the airship does not use the internal combustion engine but the steam engine? This is indeed a big trouble, not that the airship powered by the steam engine cannot be used, but it is much worse than the airship powered by the internal combustion engine, so the status quo can only be maintained for the time being, and the airship can only be mass-produced and used after occupying the area with oil fields in the future.

Navy, navy is also a big problem, if you want to become a big country, the navy is indispensable, but Siqi Province is landlocked, there is no coastline without the sea.

There is a solution, though.

At the beginning, the second army of the Manchu Qing Dynasty wanted to take a steamer into the interior of Siqi Province, at least to the location of Chongqing City, which could pass ships of about 500 tons, and there were many shipyards in the Chongqing area in later generations.

Thinking of this, Yan Xueyi wrote in the Fourth Five-Year Plan that two shipyards should be established in the Chongqing area, ships of less than 500 tons should be built, gunboats of 500 tons should be designed and built, and a navy should be built at the same time.

Here you can explain why you want to build an arsenal in Chongqing.

The Chongqing Arsenal not only had to produce all kinds of artillery and ammunition for the army, but also naval guns for gunboats, as well as torpedoes and mines, because the shipyards were all in the Chongqing Municipal area, and according to the principle of proximity, the arsenal was also built in Chongqing Municipality, so as to save the trouble of long-distance transportation, especially when the railway was not connected.

Of course, the establishment of a shipyard in the Yangtze River basin of Chongqing can only be regarded as a miniature shipyard, and the first navy of the Han army can only be called a miniature navy or naval division, and because there are no gunboats in the early stage, it can only be trained on civilian ships, or can only be trained in the narrow waters of the Yangtze River, which may be the most tragic navy in the world, and even the real sea cannot be seen.

But all this is worth it, to build a shipyard from scratch, to build a navy from scratch, these are the seeds, waiting to take root and sprout, and when Yan Xueyi waved his hand, the Han army officers and soldiers who were ready to go recovered the land occupied by the Manchu Qing Dynasty and got access to the sea, then it was time for the shipbuilding industry and the navy to really develop.

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Preparations for the establishment of a shipyard and navy were the second of the projects that began in 1884 after Yan Xueyi came up with the Fourth Five-Year Development Plan.

The Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Military Affairs acted very quickly, and began preparations a few days after the April 15 Plan was issued.

The reason why Yuanhe City is called Yuanhe City is because Yuanhe City is close to Yuanhe, so that there is no shortage of water resources for the industrial development of Yuanhe City.

On the shore of Yuanhe City, there is a small poor factory, or called "Little Shipyard," the reason why it is so called is because this "Little Shipyard" has less than ten factory directors and processors, and sometimes the factory director also has to do the work of workers, and sometimes the workers will also become ship designers and discuss with everyone.

The director of this "Little Shipyard" is Meng Fanxuan, a student of the first phase of "Yanjiabao Primary School", and the workers of "Little Shipyard" are all former students of Meng Fanxuan, attracted by Meng Fanxuan's dream of building a steel giant ship sailing on the sea, and joined Meng Fanxuan's team to work in that direction together, they were once Meng Fanxuan's students, and they are still Meng Fanxuan's students, maybe they will become outstanding ship designers in a few decades.

In the past few years, with the help of Yan Xueyi, Meng Fanxuan built this "small shipyard" located on the edge of the source river from scratch, and he and several of his students worked hard to make models of small boats or large ships one after another, and then put them on the water to conduct various experiments to confirm the knowledge in the book and his own conjectures.

Meng Fanxuan had been waiting for an opportunity, waiting for an opportunity to allow himself to build a steel giant ship, and Meng Fanxuan knew that only his teacher could give him this opportunity.

In 1884, when the Spring Festival was still more than a month away, Meng Fanxuan suddenly received a notice with the seals of the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Military Affairs, as well as a notice appointing Meng Fanxuan as the No. 1 shipyard in Chongqing.

Meng Fanxuan knew that his opportunity had come.

Meng Fanxuan, who has read some geography books, also knows that the shipyard built in Chongqing may only be able to build ships of about 500 tons, but this is enough, enough to make Meng Fanxuan's dream a big step forward.

Meng Fanxuan also knew that the steel giant ship could not be built in a day, and he had only built some small boats with a maximum of ten tons before, and a 500-ton ship was also a challenge for Meng Fanxuan, but Meng Fanxuan was not afraid of challenges, he preferred to face difficulties.

A few days later, Meng Fanxuan, who couldn't wait, set off with his wife and two children, and this year Meng Fanxuan's family will spend a Spring Festival outside Yuanhe City.

After the Spring Festival, Meng Fanxuan's students and a group of hundreds of skilled workers will also go to Chongqing, under the command of Meng Fanxuan, they will build a real shipyard, and in the future, they will also build hundreds of tons of civilian ships and even military gunboats.

Like Meng Fanxuan, there were three other people who received the notice, one was Yan Ying, the political commissar of the Han Army Garrison Regiment, the other was Wang Xiao, the deputy commander of the Second Battalion of the Garrison Regiment, and the other was Lewis, who had just joined the Han Army for a few months.

The name Lewis sounds strange, in fact, Lewis is a Nanyang Chinese, it can also be said that he is a Chinese-British mixed race, because his mother is an Englishman, the 26-year-old Lewis graduated from the Royal Naval College the year before last and returned to China to see the hometown that his ancestors have always missed.

But all the way to see all kinds of tragic scenes, until Lewis came to Siqi Province, that is, his hometown, just in time for the Yan army to raise troops, Lewis witnessed everything under the Yan rule, gave birth to the idea of joining the Han army, and put it into action, and after a series of things, Lewis finally came to Yuanhe City, and was recognized by Yan Xueyi, and specially approved Lewis to join the Han army.

Yan Ying, a student of Yan Xueyi, although he served as the political commissar of the garrison regiment, longed for the sea and liked to read books on this subject in his spare time.

And Wang Xiao is the son of a fisherman, good at water, influenced by Yan Ying, he also yearns for the sea, and hopes that he can command a steel giant ship to sail on the sea.

These are three people who are not yet thirty years old, and under the order of the military department, they became the naval commanders of the Han army (this sentence is so awkward), and they took hundreds of veterans with better water characteristics to formally establish the navy of the Han army.

[Thanks to the "no vain" reward, there are more deacons in this book!] 】