It didn't take long for the net to open. The bad in the north is a festival that is warm and cold. But the spider area has gradually warmed up, and at noon, most of the jackets on this body must be taken off.

Yang Wangpeng took off his shirt and only wore a shirt. Once the jacket is folded and packed into the suitcase. So he sat down again. Picked up the half-warm cup of tea in front of him and took a sip. Then he held the teacup and looked out the car window, and the greenery in his eyes made his mood somewhat better.

The train continued to speed south, and in the sonorous sound, most of the passengers in the carriage were a little drowsy, Yang Wangpeng was one of the few passengers who remained awake, and opposite him, sat an old man who was also awake, his name was Wei Han, the director of the Shipbuilding Department of the Admiralty. He is also Director of Naval Architecture at the Admiralty.

This time on the southward trip to Guangdong, Yang Wangpeng and Mr. Wei Han came out of Beijing together, and the two got on a train to Wuhan at Beijing Railway Station, and then transferred to Wuhan Railway Station to catch this express train from Wuhan to Guangdong.

Although it is an express train, but for Yang Wangpeng, the degree of this train is still not fast enough, he just wants to rush to Guangzhou as soon as possible, and then buy a direct ticket to Sumatra as soon as possible, and then. He would immediately embark on the southbound route to the South Seas, adrift for several days in the South China Sea, where the German Navy submarines were fabled, on a steamer. Then he met with Xiong Chengji in Sumatra.

As for Mr. Wei Han, he had another task in Guangzhou this time, he did not go to Nanyang, but to a shipyard in Huangpu, Guangzhou, to preside over the launching ceremony of a steamer.

It is said that in Wei Han's identity, the launching ceremony of a civilian steamer originally did not need him to attend in person, but the civilian steamer that is about to be launched in Guangzhou Huangyu is not a civilian ship in the general sense, this steamer is a new concept of "general purpose ship", which adopts a new concept of shipbuilding methods and specifications, that is, the so-called "standardized assembly line shipbuilding specifications".

In fact, standardized assembly line manufacturing specifications have long been used in machine manufacturing by Western industrial countries. The industrial products manufactured according to this manufacturing process have uniform specifications, and the parts and components of the same specifications can be used interchangeably, for example, all the motives of Ford and model cars can be used interchangeably, or all the bolts of the new Hanyang-made rifles manufactured by the Hanyang Arsenal can be used interchangeably, and only one product is produced by an industrial department or a factory. Then these products are assembled in the main factory, which can not only reduce production costs, but also increase output, which is the so-called "standardized assembly line manufacturing specifications", which is not only an important symbol of modern industry, but also has vital significance for improving the output of industrial products and the pass rate.

However, no one has ever tried to use this kind of standardized manufacturing practice in the shipbuilding industry before, and Chinese shipyards are the first of its kind.

In fact, it is not uncommon for anyone to promote this new process in the shipbuilding industry, such as the British Admiralty, which can improve the degree of shipbuilding. There have been attempts to implement standardized manufacturing practices in the British shipbuilding industry, but the problem is that in order to implement standardized shipbuilding specifications, it is necessary to transform British shipyards first, and the processes and equipment of each shipyard are not exactly the same. Including the structure and size of slipway and slipway, these key processes and equipment related to shipbuilding cannot be unified.

New standardized shipbuilding codes mean new processes, and for an old naval and shipbuilding power like the United Kingdom, the renovation of old shipyards often means that large sums of money must be invested, and this is obviously not something that shipyard management is willing to accept, so. The older the shipbuilding powerhouse, the more difficult it is to accept standardized shipbuilding specifications. This is not only related to industrial thinking, but also to cost.

However, unlike the United Kingdom, China has only a handful of shipbuilding industries in the past, which is not a fraction of that of the shipbuilding power, and for China's shipbuilding industry, it is always easier to adopt new technologies and new specifications than the old shipbuilding powers.

It is precisely for this reason that from the moment of the revival of China's modern shipbuilding industry, the central government and the Admiralty have made clear the basic position, that is: resolutely adopt standardized assembly line shipbuilding specifications, build the fastest shipbuilding with the cheapest cost, and not only a shipyard, but all public and private shipbuilding enterprises in the country, not only the shipyard itself, but also the entire industrial chain closely related to the shipbuilding industry, must accept this new standardized assembly line shipbuilding specifications, any shipyard after receiving raw materials, Ships can be built quickly according to drawings, and if necessary, different shipyards can build different parts of the ship, and these parts can be assembled together to create a usable ship.

In a word, all universal steamers built according to this new specification are exactly the same. Moreover, seafarers who can drive this ship can easily drive another ship of the same type, which can not only improve shipbuilding. Moreover, it can also reduce operating costs, and it is suitable for rapid expansion of the merchant fleet in times of war.

The person who came up with this idea was none other than that. It was the great president Zhao Bei.

China's technical strength alone is not enough to complete the idea of technological innovation, so German technology plays a key role in it, in fact, the relevant standards for the new concubine standardized assembly line shipbuilding specifications are formulated by German shipbuilding experts, from the length and diameter of a rivet to the thickness, weight, and arc of a hull steel plate, from the steps of loading the hull steel plate from the steel mill to the train and ship to the stacking procedures and steps after the hull steel plate arrives at the shipyard. From the types of welding techniques used by welders to the welding equipment...... A different experience at the Fishing Book Bar! From the selection of the power system to the seaworthiness requirements of the ship, the plan has been formulated, and even the order of the use of the slipway, the way the ship is launched and loaded from the slipway have been accurately calculated.

Germans have always been rigorous, even rigid, and it was fitting that the Germans should develop this new norm.

With this set of standardized assembly line shipbuilding specifications carefully developed by German shipbuilding experts, it is not only possible to build ships in batches in a short time. And it can reduce the cost of shipbuilding to a minimum, just like a cannefactory makes cans, and each ship of the same type is almost identical in structure and appearance.

This is only the manufacture of civilian ships, and as for the manufacture of military ships, the requirements of quick manufacturing in wartime are also taken into account, and in fact, the new destroyers of the Chinese Navy that played in the Sino-Japanese and Northeast Asian wars have partially adopted this standardized shipbuilding specification.

As for the manufacture of civilian ships, it is even simpler, in such standardized assembly line shipbuilding specifications. The degree of shipbuilding comes first! As for the rest. It is completely subordinate to the degree of shipbuilding. Therefore, this kind of "general-purpose steamer, small use of knotted hull, and the power system uniformly uses coal-fired boiler steam engine, this is to take into account the tight supply of oil in wartime, if necessary, the ship can even use firewood as fuel."

I understood the importance of shipbuilding. It is also possible to understand the value of such a "universal ship". Especially in times of war, this kind of steamship can be manufactured in batches and quickly, which can ensure the logistical needs of the state and the military system.

Now, in the Atlantic theater, the submarines of the German Navy are taking the Entente with a surprising degree

The standardization of assembly line shipbuilding specifications, then, Britain will not be surprised by the huge losses of the merchant fleet.

It is also for this reason that when the Chinese shipyard announced that it would take fifteen days to build a completely new general-purpose vessel, it immediately attracted great attention from the British government and the Admiralty, in fact. The launching ceremony of the new ship at the Huangpu Shipyard in Guangzhou was attended by the British Consul General in Guangzhou and the military attache of the Consulate General in Guangzhou, with the aim of examining the practical value of this new shipbuilding code.

Of course. It takes fifteen days to build a general-purpose vessel, which means from the time the keel is laid to the time when the ship is launched, not including the loading time, but the perching time is much less than the hull construction time.

If Wei Han can arrive at the shipyard on time today. and presided over the launching ceremony of the ship. So. Chinese shipyards were able to set this record, and the general-purpose steamer that was about to be launched at the Huangpu Dock in Guangzhou was named "China Degree".

"China degree" standard displacement of 5,000 tons, the use of the same use of standardized manufacturing specifications of coal-fired boilers and steam engines, the fastest degree is only 11 sections, a total of five cargo holds, can not only load goods, but also can load personnel, is a very versatile ship, especially suitable for wartime maritime transport tasks, although the degree is slow, but because the deck is reserved for the installation of small and medium-caliber naval guns, so it can be easily transformed into an armed merchant ship, self-defense capability is much higher than ordinary merchant ships.

Adopt standardized assembly line shipbuilding specifications. Easier said than done, due to the use of part of the structural assembly process, and part of the use of new welding process, which has a high requirement for precision, in order to train qualified workers, the Admiralty and related technical schools have even specially trained a group of technical backbones, and slowed down the pace of fully implementing this new process, and formulated strict reward and punishment measures, and because of this, until now. China only created such a universal steamer.

In fact, the "China Du" was only the first general-purpose steamship to be completed and launched, and at present, shipyards in Fuzhou, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Tianjin are also rushing to build general-purpose steamers of the same type at the same time, and these ships have all been booked without exception, and the buyer is the United States, which has officially severed all diplomatic relations with Germany. As for the end of these general-purpose steamers, which are made like cans, they will sail directly to the United States. Whether it will be sold by the United States to Britain, which is seeking to buy ships all over the world, no one can say clearly, just like China has sold to "

From a certain point of view, the Germans somewhat resembled themselves in a cocoon, which, of course, was in the context of China's non-joining of the Allies.

Although these ships were not sold directly to the British, these contracts of sale by Chinese merchants were undoubtedly detrimental to the general war of Germany. But since it is a businessman, then, naturally, it will put its own interests first, as for the Sino-German "friendship, small and so on." It's just a matter of deceiving students. It is too difficult to deceive a shrewd businessman.

Similar to the ideas of the merchants, Mr. Wei Han does not believe much in Sino-German "friendship." In order to continue for a long time, he has repeatedly advised the top of the Admiralty not to blindly rely on German naval technology, and Britain has always been superior to Germany in terms of naval technology.

It is precisely for this reason that the pro-German generals of the Admiralty have some opinions about Mr. Wei Han, if it were not for the President and the Admiralty to defend them. Perhaps now that Wei Han has returned to his hometown, where can he continue to serve as the director of the Shipbuilding Department of the Admiralty?

Wei Han also understood this, but he didn't mind, he insisted that he was just a technocrat and everything he said was related to technology. It has nothing to do with politics, so if others don't like him, others don't like him, and he is still him. Or the shipbuilding expert who admired British technology.