Before it was taken over by the rebels, the most high-tech product produced by the Tianjin Machinery Bureau was the original Makqin machine gun (black powder bullet) that could not be used, and the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau had already built four 305mm breech guns before the First Sino-Japanese War (this is controversial, but the authorities on the battleship forum said that there was, and I couldn't find any information that could prove it, so let's assume that this matter is true.) Due to the larger diameter and heavier shells (all compared with domestic shells), their range and power surpass the Dingzhen main guns of the same caliber!

Also before the First Sino-Japanese War, the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau also successfully copied the Armstrong 120mm rapid-fire gun, not to mention other military enterprises in China, even Japan, which was earlier in the Restoration, could not make its own 120mm rapid-fire guns at that time!

If Li Hui, a traverser, had not changed history, the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau would have imitated a 150mm rapid-fire gun in 1898, which was also the largest rapid-fire gun made in the history of old China!

The steel mill of the Tianjin Machinery Bureau was postponed because of Li Hui's advice, but the steel mill of the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau had already been built. Even those 305mm caliber cannons are made of cannon steel produced by the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau Steel Mill itself!

With the guidance of Li Hui, the Tianjin Machinery Bureau, the mass production of smokeless gunpowder was only realized after it was recently taken over by the rebel army, and the time was almost the same as that of the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, but the latter relied on their own research, and the gap was huge.

The gap is even greater, is the machine, which is not to say that the machinery and equipment used by the Tianjin Machinery Bureau is not as advanced as the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, but the former machines are all imported, while the latter has been able to manufacture various machinery and equipment by itself, so far, the total output has reached several hundred.

At this time, the shipyard of the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau had not been separated from the General Administration, and its ship repair and shipbuilding capacity was also considerable.

The Tianjin Dock can only accommodate 2,000-ton ships, but the dock of the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau can allow a 10,000-ton giant ship such as the Haitian-class Loading and Patrol to go in for maintenance, even compared with the Lushun Dock that Li Hongzhang wasted a lot of effort to build, it is not inferior.

In terms of shipbuilding, Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau now actually has personnel and equipment conditions that are not inferior to those of Fujian Mawei Shipyard, but it lacks design talents and construction experience, so there are no successful works like Pingyuan.

But in any case, the foundation is there, and Li Hui chose Shanghai as the location of the second shipyard in the foundation plan early on, largely because of this.

Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau is not only a high level of technology, her production capacity is also considerable, which can be seen from the 12 120mm rapid-fire guns that it produced before the First Sino-Japanese War, in fact, if it were not for Liu Kunyi, an idiot, who listed the outdated gun as the focus of production, it would not be difficult for the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau to produce forty or fifty or even more 120mm rapid-fire guns a year

In terms of talents, the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau not only ranks first in the domestic arsenal with more than 3,000 employees, but also its average quality is also unmatched, according to the report sent back by the biochemical soldiers in charge of the assessment, and even a few technical backbones have the level of senior technicians, no wonder the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau can rely on the simple way of measuring the various parts and components to draw a scoop according to the gourd to copy out such "high-tech" products as 120mm rapid-fire guns.

However, the strength is only relatively speaking, in Li Hui's eyes, the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, like the Tianjin Machinery Bureau, has many problems.

The first is poor management, on the one hand, a large number of related households have increased operating costs, and on the other hand, it has also affected the enthusiasm of those real technical backbones.

In addition, like the previous Tianjin Machinery Bureau, the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau does not have a production quality management system that can be implemented, so not only the product cost remains high, but the quality is generally unsatisfactory.

However, the more important factor affecting the quality of the product is still a weak foundation, although the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau's cottage ability is good, but can be copied only the appearance design, the material technology used in the weapon can not be copied, with the extremely backward material technology of China at that time, to imitate the world's advanced level of new weapons, no problem is no wonder!

Take the rifle as an example, because the smokeless gunpowder produced by the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau is not up to par (it should be mainly a problem of gunpowder, after all, 15 rounds is too little, and the barrel material does not have such a big impact on heat dissipation. Generally speaking, after firing 15 rounds in a row, the barrel is too hot to use, and you need to wait for it to cool down before you can release the gun again.

The same poor quality gun steel material makes the defect that the barrel is easy to heat up more fatal, especially the Manlixia rifle with a straight-pull bolt and the fast rifle improved by the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau on this basis, which is easy to get stuck, and the quality of the wrench ball is also poor, and the powerful soldier may even pull it off directly in a hurry

At this level, if Li Hui asked them to imitate the Jiawu type water-cooled heavy machine gun, even if they could "succeed", they would only make a product that could not be used in actual combat at all

Fortunately, after the rebel army took over, these problems were not difficult to solve, but Li Hui did not want to build the arsenal in Shanghai, the economic center, so the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau finally failed to avoid the bad luck of splitting.

The steel mill of Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau was relocated to Laizhou and merged into the "Laizhou Special Steel Plant" that had just been built not long ago, and the reason why it was not merged into Tangshan Iron and Steel or Hanshan Iron and Steel was because Jiangnan Steel Mills were acidic open-hearth furnaces and had a very low tolerance for harmful impurities in raw materials, which was suitable for Laishan Steel, which was mainly responsible for the production of high-grade steel.

The main military production has also been moved to the old base area in Jiaodong, of which the part of the army has moved to Dazeshan, and the part of the navy has been moved to Qingdao, the main base of the future ocean fleet, contributing a lot of bricks and tiles to the establishment of the Qingdao Navy Arsenal.

However, it was only the part that produced naval artillery and other ancillary equipment that moved to Qingdao, but the shipyard in Jiangnan remained, and the company that inherited the name of "Jiangnan" had the ability to produce 10,000-ton giant ships after the completion of the first phase of the expansion project, and later became the world's largest shipyard, but for a long time, she only built civilian ships until after the outbreak of the world war (to be continued. )