[I'm very busy today, the update is a little late, there should be a plus in the evening, sorry brothers! ] 】

In charge of the construction of this ironclad ship is a ship research team led by Wang Ruijie, a senior technical engineer of the shipmaster, and the members are all Chinese skilled workers with years of experience in the manufacture of ironclad ships.

Andrew, a German ship mechanic, wrote in his diary: "My colleagues in the Mawei Ship Administration, who are completely caught up in a shipbuilding frenzy, consider it a shame to have any unmastered shipbuilding skills after analyzing and partially dismantling an ironclad ship by hand...... It seems that what they need is an ironclad battleship made by his own hands......"

"When they work 18 xiǎo a day, they build the hull on the dock during the day, and gather together at night to discuss and study the problems in the construction of ironclad ships, and then we technicians from Germany have the opportunity to express their opinions...... Although the skilled workers of the Chinese Mawei Shipyard started late, they Chinese have incomparably intelligent wisdom and dexterous hands, so they have made amazing progress in no time......"

Wang Ruijie pointed to the drawings designed by the ship's research and development team, explaining to Qin Kai the current progress, due to the successful research and development of CG80 marine structural steel in the steel mill, it has reached a relatively high level in terms of hardness, tensile strength and yield strength, and has completely reached the quality of German ship structural steel after comparing with the structural steel of the 501 ship.

The latest mass-produced nickel steel armor (codenamed CT31) has achieved very good results in the violent destruction test, and has been able to completely resist the shè attack of the heavy gun equipped with 25425 times the caliber of the 501 ship at 3 km, even if it is close to the shè hit at 1,000 km, it only caused tearing, and was not destroyed.

The high-carbon nickel-manganese steel codenamed CT32 (i.e., the later Harvid-style steel armor) that has completed the technical research and development cannot be mass-produced due to the complexity of the production steps, but the results in the destruction xìng test are staggering, and the 254mm heavy guns that are close to the shè cannot penetrate this steel armor, but only cause some deformation.

The quality of the steel armor has improved, so that the tonnage of the steel armor required to achieve the same level of protection will be reduced by more than 2 percent, but Qin Kai has also vetoed this mentions, as far as the current point of view, the nickel steel armor wants to increase the protection power of the original wrought iron steel armor to 5 percent, and the increase compared to the steel mixed armor is also two percent. But he was well aware of the rapid development of artillery in this era, and that the shield made today must be measured by the enemy's guns tomorrow to be meaningful.

Therefore, the tonnage of steel armor on the design drawings remains unchanged, and the key parts, such as the command room, the bullet warehouse, the boiler steam engine room, and the frontal protection area of the turret are all protected by the best CT32 steel armor, and the overall protective surface is all CT31 nickel steel armor, and the internal water compartment is made of CT10 shipbuilding steel produced by Mawei Steelworks, which is obviously a luxurious configuration that shocked Wang Ruijie directly.

At the meeting held the next day, Wang Fei, Qian Qing, and Lin Yongping, the three directors of the Mawei Iron and Steel Plant, immediately raised objections, and now the Mawei Steel Plant is in full production, but the productivity of the two blast furnaces is already in three shifts for 24 xiǎo.

Although the industrialized production process of nickel steel armor has been realized, the complex production of steel rolling and processing is destined to be impossible to meet the production of such an all-nickel steel armor ironclad ship, and it is initially estimated that it will take at least six months for the nickel steel armor of the entire battleship to complete production, which is obviously unable to keep up with the production progress of the battleship.

This made Qin Kai scratch his head, if it is according to this progress, it will take more than half a year for the hull of this self-produced ironclad ship to be launched, and it will take at least 9 months to a year to carry out internal installation and weapon platform testing, and it will be said that the hundred-year-old navy is really not so easy to do, even if you have a full range of technical support, there is no step-by-step process in terms of technology, this thing can't be in a hurry!

Fortunately, the next few supervisors brought a few pieces of good news, otherwise Qin Kai would really have a few gray hairs.

On the side of the Artillery Bureau, in accordance with the ideas formulated by Qin Kai, the plan to continue to expand the caliber of the artillery was temporarily stopped, and the caliber of the artillery was temporarily controlled at 280mm, which was also convenient for the Bomb Bureau to supply bombs in a unified manner, and now the focus of artillery development has shifted to the high-caliber artillery, because the GT10 artillery steel has entered the stage of stable production, the first 280mm, 35 times the caliber of the artillery has completed the production of four mén guns, after the use of the new mononitro smokeless shèyào, The results are very encouraging.

The barrel has been amazing9, the effective range of the gun is 7.5 km, and the maximum range is 10 km, and the power of the test shell can easily dòng 310mm wrought iron steel armor at a distance of 5 km, and 310mm nickel steel armor can also penetrate within 2 km. ,

And for the 80mm mortar that Qin Kai specifically requested additional research, the key to the mortar lies in the shell, the technical aspect of the barrel, which can be easily completed with the machinery of the horsetail or the artillery bureau, and the shell has been developed with the personal participation of Lin Deping, and some progress has been made, but it has not yet been finalized.

The "soda ash chemical system" on Chen Tongpu's side is working very well, the design and installation of the equipment in the early stage are from Qin Kai's personal participation, and Xu Guofang has deployed a lot of good hands to assist, as well as the participation of German technicians, and the machine of the chemical plant can almost be said to be very jīng good.

After one month of trial operation, it was directly put into formal production, and now the output has reached the initial construction expectations, which can be described as one of the most used raw materials in the chemical era, plus the associated nitric acid, ammonium nitrate, sulfuric acid, sulfur and other by-products, just calculating the raw material price of production is amazing.

However, Chen Fatzi seems to have lost a lot of féi now, which makes Qin Kai worried, this is a chemical talent he finally found, they are all in the chemical factory, but this fat man is the most obscene of the three, I didn't expect to do some chemical experiments to be the most capable one, but I can't get sick.

After asking a few words, I found out that the fat man had lost weight, and that was because of another reason, it was said that the fat man found the fat sister-in-law, and under everyone's questioning, the fat man resolutely refused, and did not say the origin of the fat sister-in-law, and the scene was much easier for a while.

He Xing finally talked about the latest Mawei shipyard income, toothpaste, chemical dyes have grown steadily, looms have recently been in a period of expansion, the monthly growth rate is more than 20%, and the monthly income is close to 200,000 taels, but the fastest growth is the income of stainless steel products in xiǎo hardware products, which have been out of stock in Guangzhou port. It is no wonder that now in the whole country, Mawei Shipbuilding can produce alloy steel.

Since mastering the technology of alloy steel, the steelmaking plant's research team has tackled a variety of alloy materials, some of which have no military value, and electrolytic metallurgical technology has innovated a metal refining platform, and now it has been successively refined in the local ore A variety of metal elements such as chromium, copper, titanium, etc. are also produced in small quantities.

According to the alloy steel technology provided by Qin Kai, the alloy steel of these elements has a variety of genera, and the biggest feature of alloy steel containing chromium is that it is not easy to rust, and the alloy technology is simple, which can be completed directly through the steel rolling process. Now the whole set of stainless steel stamping tableware has reached an astonishing two hundred taels of silver in the market, and the cost is only a few taels of silver if you count the labor.

This kind of windfall profit made Qin Kai almost drop his jaw, he immediately instructed to make a comprehensive plan for the production of stainless steel, the chemical technology in this era is not yet developed, but it is obviously impossible to monopolize this technology for too long, but it is estimated that in a few years, this is a profiteering product. And for stainless steel stamping products,

He specifically instructed that he immediately set up a research and development team to develop the market demand for stainless steel stamping products, what the market demand, what is produced, and the recent trade of Mawei shipping can also bring stainless steel products, these things add copper, titanium, gold, silver alloys, showing a special pattern, which is really eye-catching. For the first time in history, stainless steel was developed, and that was not until the First World War.

Xu Guofang's side is now mainly cooperating with equipment research and development, but there are no big results, Qin Kai pondered for a while, "Guofang, I have an important research and development plan, you may need me to preside over it personally, I need a technician who understands the electromagnetic principle, this time it is a research and development in a related area, who do you have to choose?" ”

Xu Guofang is born in machine tools, steam power is also a product, naturally understands some of the processes in this area, but when it comes to mechanical and electrical principles and technologies, he is not an expert, he pondered for a moment and did not think of any suitable candidates, shook his head and said: "Supervision, this steam and electric machine tool is still a few people who understand, but what electromagnetic principle you are talking about, it seems that there is no candidate!" ”

Qin Kai was also relieved to think about it, electromagnetism has had a great practical application in this era, and motors are quite common things, but the understanding of the principle of these skilled workers in Mawei is indeed very poor! Since there is a lack of theory, let's start training theory!

"Guofang, then you Chōu transferred 20 students and skilled workers to me, you have to be active and willing to delve into problems, I will teach in person, there is no talent, we can only rely on ourselves to train...... In addition, you asked He Xing to send a telegram to Consul Schleier in Guangzhou, why hasn't the things this guy promised to provide us have yet arrived! Let's just say I'm annoyed......",

"Okay, I've got a student with a lively mind!" Xu Guofang smiled.

The next day, I don't know if it was a prophet, He Xing's telegram had not yet been sent, but a German passenger ship was ushered in on the dock, Schleier actually ran to the horsetail, and after seeing Qin Kai, the Germans gave Qin Kai a hug very warmly.

"Lord Qin, don't you welcome your German friend's visit?" Schleier could tell it was feeling good.

This German guy sent Mén again, Qin Kai was secretly amused, thinking about what he should ask for this time, "Consul Schleier, the friendship between you and me, do you still need these courtesies!" I have already booked the best Ruifu restaurant in Fuzhou, and we will not get drunk today! ”

Hundreds of Germans followed Schleier off the ship, and Schleyer's deputy was counting the names one by one with the roster in his hand, and at the same time introducing the skills of German technicians to He Xing and Xu Guofang, who were standing on the side, not far away, rows of carriages were waiting to recruit these from Germany...... Of course, there were also German technicians recruited by Schleier in the port of Guangzhou and sent to the new factory of Mawei Shipyard, where good dormitories had already been built for German technicians.

They will be given a job contract in their new place of residence, of course, the contract is only based on their skills and knowledge, such as Andrew, a naval architect who has become a representative of German technicians, who has played a very large role in assisting in the technical research of the 501 and the design of the new ironclad ship.

Qin Kai has hired him as a lifelong engineer in Mawei, enjoying a salary of 400 taels of silver per month, of course, this is also a benchmark set by Qin Kai for the Germans, which allows German technicians to find a goal to strive for in Mawei, in the early stage of each new project, these German technicians have played a good leading role, after all, they come from all walks of life in Germany, and some have more advanced industrialization experience than Mawei Shipbuilding.

But in this group of Germans, He Xing and Xu Guofang both unexpectedly saw a Chinese man, in his twenties, wearing Western-style short clothes, looking around curiously at the largest industrial area in Fuzhou, Xu Guofang glanced at the list, and the introduction was very simple, "Zhang Siqi, graduated from the University of Cologne, Germany!" ”

Schleier came suddenly today, obviously not to chat and drink with Qin Kai, the composite armor technology, single-base smokeless pyrotechnic and catalyst technology provided last time really shocked Prime Minister Bismarck for a while, because these technologies have been identified by German experts, just the multi-group catalyst in ammonia production, German fire experts are amazed as priceless!

Germany has always been plagued by the lack of minerals, and the largest consumption in the war is the bombing, this time Qin Kai provided a single nitro fire and ammonia industrialization program undoubtedly completely solved a short leg of Germany, through the improvement of the chemical industry, soon they will be able to obtain the synthetic ammonia industrial products needed to fry the yào from the nitrogen flowing in the sky, no longer from the underground minerals, the strategic significance of this, even the Kaiser of chemical mén is also amazed.

He came here to receive a special authorization from the Prime Minister, hoping to establish a technical jiāo flow mechanism with Qin Kai, and the old fox Bismarck even proposed that the personnel of both sides should jointly participate in the research and development of new technologies or projects, and the research and development results would be shared by both sides!

Qin Kai laughed, this old Mai classmate is also a good seedling of Tiegong Jī, the first payment was quite refreshing, and then it began to procrastinate, it turned out that there was still this plan, I wanted to come to Bai to learn our advanced technology! That's something that nature doesn't have! But...... Since you want to establish a technical cooperation relationship with Mawei Shipyard, this is a face-saving thing.

He slapped the table and said with a smile: "Mr. Schleier, this matter is exactly what I want, you probably don't know, the official in charge of the Mawei Shipping Administration is the Governor of Fujian and the Minister of Shipping, Lord Ding Richang, about the establishment of the Sino-German Technical Cooperation Treaty, I think it should be signed by Lord Ding, then it is appropriate, what do you think?" ”