Chapter 149 Dingyuan, Dingyuan

In the end, Tang Ming went to the steel rolling plate acceptance officer to secretly inquire about the yield rate, a total of 252 carburizing steel were produced on the six rolling steel lines in the morning, the excellent product rate was 15, the pass rate was 99.6, and the only steel plate was because of a small mistake in the excessive quenching of the salt water pool

And after the hand, Muller let Tang Ming feel the whole quenching process on the spot, Tang Ming's watch Xiàn made the Germans very surprised, only two times cào, Tang Ming can master the time of process control zhì and the thickness requirements of the quenching steel plate, for which the Germans gave a thumbs up and said: "Tang, you Chinese are so smart, I used to learn from my technical teacher, just this process practiced for a week, you actually watched it for half a day, it's not simple"

However, Tang Ming smiled bitterly, he was also secretly surprised, he had done the whole process, and it was almost in line with the norms set by the Germans, but he obviously felt that the norms formulated by the Germans had even considered factors such as the height and arm length of the Germans, and he drew a scoop based on the gourd...... He thought about it, even if he was skilled in doing it, he would have to deal with the steel plate in the morning so meticulously, and the difference would definitely not be small.

That night, the workers were obviously very excited when they returned to the dormitory, today they were able to see the craftsmanship skills of the Germans, and they were also surprised by the meticulous and almost rigid workflow design of the Germans, but in the internship, they also realized that the Germans' seemingly dull design has another element of genius, and they have integrated these German national characteristics into their craftsmanship and processes, which made all the workers feel extremely shocked.

In addition to Jiāoliu's internship experience today, it became the mainstream of the night, and they put forward ideas for improvement one by one for the familiar process of Mawei, and then overturned and then proposed a new yì, and then overturned and overturned ...... Some of the wisdom of the collective effort was eventually preserved

After the first month of internship, Tang Ming finally felt that he had comprehended some of the magic of German craftsmanship, but in fact, every day after that, when he looked at this small branch in Hamburg from a new perspective and perspective, he was able to discover something he had not cared about before.

At this time, he realized how far-sighted Master Qin's original instruction was to "learn from the experience of the Germans"-

Completely different from Tang Ming's feelings, it was a group of skilled workers who went to Szczecin along the Oder River, this group of people was the largest group of workers who went to Germany for training this time, naturally they were the skilled workers of the Mawei Shipyard, and the leader was Wang Ruijie, this time I heard that he was going to the German shipyard to learn shipbuilding experience, and he asked Qin Kai to come several times.

The huge difficulties encountered in the imitation of the 501 ship made him and his R&D team realize that there are still problems in the ship technology of the Mawei shipmaster, and the technology and technology that he has mastered now cannot build the battleship designed on the drawings, and it is obviously not a good idea to build a car behind closed mén, which makes him determined to leave Mawei temporarily and come to Germany for a period of study.

What he brought this time was the members of a whole R&D team, but fortunately, the new cruiser based on the 501 ship had already entered the outfitting stage, so he didn't need to continue to be careful.

But as soon as he arrived in Germany, Qin Kai sent an urgent telegram, and he obtained a German license through Minister Guò Schleier to enter the Volkeng Shipyard, Germany's largest military shipyard on the Oder River.

This made them very excited, knowing that the hull of the 501 ship was made in this shipyard that was not very famous in this era, but the results of the actual battle confirmed the excellent xìng ability of the battleship, and of course there were important factors in this, such as the heavy guns of the Mawei Artillery Bureau and a series of modifications.

But this excitement and jī move...... It's just getting started

The Wolkeng shipyard is strategically located, with a 10-meter deep-water channel, close to the Oder River, to the open sea of Szczecin Bay, and then into the Sea of Ronaldo, and very close to Berlin, and has long been thought of by railway, this way, mostly by new trains, so that these shipbuilders full of giant ship cannon dreams for Mawei industrial dream a little more expectation.

In the morning, outside the Volkeng shipyard, a calm and wise man in his early thirties was looking thoughtfully at the road in the distance, but it was Xu Jianyin, who had been away from Mawei for more than a year, and in the past year or so, his footprints had traveled all over the major shipyards in Britain, Germany, and China. ,

The British were far more conservative in terms of technology than he expected, and even refused to visit the two thousand-ton armored cruisers Chaoyong and Yangwei, which were rebuilt at that time, and the Chinese completely refused his visit because of the delicate hostility with the Qing Dynasty.

At the beginning of the expedition, Vice Admiral Conrad, commander of the German Navy, accompanied him all the way, and the German Emperor Wilhelm I's imperial ship, the "Hoen Chuliang", hoisted the green dragon flag on a yellow background for the first time and provided it to the Chinese envoys.

In the military port, Xu Jianyin saw for the first time the prototype of the Chinese ironclad ship that would become the prototype of the Chinese ironclad ship in the future -- the latest German ironclad ship "Saxony", and the commander of the Kiel military port who accompanied him on the tour took the trouble to explain to him the design rules and operational essentials of the ironclad ship, the so-called muzzle forward tactics.

Seven months ago, he personally signed the contract for the current new ironclad and personally supervised the design and construction of the vessel. Two days ago, he suddenly received an urgent telegram from Qin Kai, and the Mawei Shipmaster had obtained an agreement with the German side on the training of ship technicians, and the German side agreed that these workers would intern on the new ironclad ships made for China.

The number of words in the telegram is very small, naturally not much content, but Qin Kai's enthusiasm for technology overflows between the words, which makes Xu Jianyin quite moved, as a Chinese who has opened his eyes to the world, his inspection experience in Europe, let him see the new factories that are being built everywhere, and the increasingly dense railways.

And the huge hull of the Inflecil white ironclad seen in the British port made him realize the challenges facing China, and as a person, what he can do...... It's just that he is more dedicated to the supervision of the new warship, but for this shipbuilding industry, he is just a halfway monk, and he is frantically learning related knowledge, but in this era, there is too little information that can be understood, and the only thing that can be used as a reference is his inspection notes along the way.

Recently, he just read the news of the war in Germany from a German newspaper, thinking of this, he smiled slightly, this Qin Liefeng is really an inscrutable talent, more than a year ago only two months of working together, originally thought that he was also a foreign fanatic like himself.

Unexpectedly, just over a year later, when he saw Qin Kai's name in a German newspaper, what was associated with his name was not the artillery industry that Mawei was proud of, but a desperate battle that even Europeans admired......

At this time, the sound of the wheels of the carriage came from afar, and after a while, more than a dozen carriages of all kinds stopped, and the first to come down was a young man who was in his early twenties, but had a military temperament, this young man's dress was very ordinary, but it was very decent, and after coming down, he saw Xu Jianyin not far away, and hurriedly stepped forward and made a unique military salute with a ponytail.

"There are a total of 56 technicians in the 7th group of Master Xu Mawei Shipbuilding, transfer to you"

Xu Jianyin looked at the face in front of him who seemed to be somewhat familiar, "Little brother, your surname, do you know me?" ”

"Lord Xu, I am Wang Li, a student of Lord Qin, I often see you when you are in Mawei" It was Wang Li who was in charge of Berlin affairs.

"Oh......" Xu Jianyin smiled, Qin Kai's group of students was indeed quite a lot, and they all practiced every day, but I didn't expect to see one of them in Berlin a year later, it was really a life experience, "Wang Li, you brought some skilled workers to Germany?" ”

"Lord Xu, no," Wang Li shouted at the top of his voice, "Wang Ruijie...... Wang Ruijie"

After a while, a young man came out of the crowd, still holding a book in his hand, looked at Wang Li, and walked over, Wang Ruijie didn't know Xu Jianyin, but he had heard it on the way, this is Lord Qin's best friend, and he also bowed down to give a salute, "Lord Xu, I am Wang Ruijie, the ship supervision supervisor of Mawei Shipping Administration, Lord Qin takes special care, please arrange the internship of this batch of skilled workers."

Xu Jianyin heard Wang Ruijie's self-introduction, but he was also happy, he happened to have a lot of questions about the battleship and needed to communicate with someone, which was a good object, "Wang Ruijie, these people are all from the Mawei shipmaster?" ”

"Yes," Wang Ruijie pointed to the workers behind him, at this time, the team leaders were forming a team and carrying luggage, in an orderly manner, "Lord Xu, this batch includes me a total of 56 people, of which 27 belong to the ironclad ship R&D team led by me, and the other 29 people belong to the ship design, outfitting and other R&D teams, all of which are the technical backbone of our Mawei Shipbuilding."

These words immediately attracted Xu Jianyin's attention, this is a complete set of shipbuilders, Qin Kai can be sent out to study for a year and a half, how much strength has this horsetail shipbuilder expanded to now? However, these questions did not seem to be suitable for such a straightforward question, so he thought about it and beckoned the workers to enter the factory with him.

As an important warship production base in Germany, the Volkeng shipyard can be described as heavily guarded, and the mouth of the mén are guarded by German soldiers with loaded guns, after mentioning the official document of the German Foreign Ministry, the workers were taken to a dormitory area in the west, after a simple arrangement, Xu Jianyin took out Qin Kai's telegram, and during the internship and training here, he made specific arrangements.

Wang Ruijie has no objection to this point, he needs to solve the problem now exactly the same as several other groups, or the language problem, but he does not have the relaxed conditions of the Krupp steel plant, so he can only rely on himself, fortunately, they have a lot of skilled workers here who have experience working with German engineers and have some language foundation.

On the ship of the great sea, everyone is required to speak German unless there is nothing in German, no matter how lame the spoken language, must speak and learn to listen, everyone understands that whether they can understand the words of the German engineer will be an important factor in their lives, along the way, everyone has a certain degree of familiarity with the basic sentences, but the language training is still carried out unremittingly.

The next day, after going through the tedious formalities, the German factory issued a temporary permit to each Chinese worker to enter the dockyard, and this moment was undoubtedly the time for everyone to move, and they had to carefully study the German construction techniques in this place every day for a year and a half, so that after returning home, the German craftsmanship here could be transformed into the craftsmanship of the horsetail

As the technical director of the German side, accompanied by a design director of Volken Shipyard, the little old man Brück, Wang Ruijie also naturally went up to greet warmly, but the little old man did not say much about the arrival of the Chinese, but only maintained a polite greeting.

After entering the dock, the huge production scale of the Volkeng shipyard still shocked everyone, along the deep-water channel of the Oder River, 10 huge docks were built along the way, Xu Jianyin pointed to the farthest docks, and introduced all the way that these large docks can even accommodate huge ships to complete outfitting in the dock, so that the progress of outfitting will not be affected by weather and other factors.

This is definitely some new concept, Wang Ruijie secretly wrote down, must immediately build a similar dock to Lord Qin, and also start construction of a similar dock in Mawei along the way, all kinds of ships are being built in the dock, there are commercial cargo ships, there are also warships, depending on the size, almost all of them are more than 5,000 tons. Xu Jianyin said that on another deep-water channel, there is also a part of the medium-sized dock, which can produce ships under 5,000 tons.

Everyone came to a large dock, which is obviously the kind that Xu Jianyin mentioned, which can be outfitted internally, in addition to a huge dock, the huge roof even covers a waterway, and the huge and thick keel of a battleship is being laid, just from the length of the huge keel, this battleship far exceeds the flagship of the Nanyang Naval Division, No. 501.

The German workers were busy loading and working on the steel keel, and it was obvious that this was a very delicate and rigorous work, and at this time, the little old man Brück showed his bearing as the master, and very politely began to introduce the battleship under construction, while Xu Jianyin made a cameo appearance.

"Dear Chinese friends, what you are seeing now is laying the keel is that the new "Saxony" class ironclad battleship, which symbolizes the friendship between China and Germany, will have a full load displacement of 7,700 tons, a length of 94.5 meters, a width of 18 meters, and a draft of 6 meters, and the key parts of the warship are made of steel composite armor produced by the German Krupp Iron and Steel Plant, and the armor thickness reaches more than 300mm."

Seeing the shocked expressions of the Chinese workers present, the little old man Brück smiled a little proudly, "Ladies and gentlemen, according to the agreement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Empire, you will participate in every process of learning on this warship, and the Volkeng Shipyard will provide you with a first-class internship environment."

By now, everyone has understood that this huge battleship that has just begun to be built is actually built for the Great Qing Dynasty Naval Division, which is a giant that completely surpasses the 501 ship of the Nanyang Naval Division, even if the 501 is proud of the key protective armor, it is completely different from this battleship. ,

To be able to participate in this important project, everyone felt extremely excited and moved, and for Qin Kai to have such a ability to make such an arrangement, it was even more surprising that the Germans were extremely friendly to the Qing Dynasty, and even allowed them to participate in this kind of project involving extremely high technical secrets, Wang Ruijie heard the news, and was even more moved, if he participated in the whole process of making this battleship, he could almost make a military order, and he would be able to thoroughly understand all the technologies here.

Xu Jianyin was somewhat surprised to see the fanatical expressions of these workers, these people showed the same dedication to technology as he did at the beginning, I really don't know where Qin Liefeng found such a group of talents, under the system of the Great Qing Kingdom, there can be such a group of people who are so crazy for technology...... It's an outlier.

It was only after a long time that Xu Jianyin learned in the jiāo flow with Wang Ruijie that in the process of developing the imitation of the 501 ship, they used to sleep with iron plates almost every day, and woke up to continue to study the craftsmanship of the Germans, and studied the materials of horsetail steel and steel plates, hoping to solve those seemingly simple, but insurmountable problems in the manufacture of warships.

Ship engineering, is definitely a system engineering, involving the whole body, any link of disconnection and insufficiency, all make the Mawei ship technical research team difficult, now finally get such an incomparably precious opportunity, how can they not be crazy

After the little German old man Brück finished speaking, in his surprised eyes, those workers poured into the dock like hungry locusts, and looked around one by one to check the process of the Germans...... He shook his head, really crazy Chinese

Xu Jianyin did not despise the enthusiasm of the workers at all, but felt extremely moved, mastering technology is the most important thing, on this point, he and Qin Kai have always agreed, and now, he finally saw the hope of Chinese industry from these persistent skilled workers

He looked at the other telegram he had just received this morning, this was a reply from the Minister of Beiyang, Lord Li Zhongtang, the ironclad ship under construction, Lord Zhongtang decided to name it "Dingyuan", and at the same time agreed to immediately order a second new ironclad ship of the same class to Germany.