On May 11, 1855, after a lot of hardships, two armored cruisers with a displacement of 3,880 tons and a full displacement of 4,125 tons that had been manufactured at the Marboxun shipyard in the Netherlands returned to the old port.

After asking the reason, the British learned the news of the two ships, first informed the Dutch political axe to detain the two ships, and then made it difficult all the way, and had to pay a large fine for entering the port to replenish fresh water and coal, and then simply did not allow them to enter the port.

The indignant Lin Haijiang also scolded for a while, and then suddenly remembered that Lawrence seemed to be like an Englishman? Lawrence, who was also aware of this, immediately declared that he was originally an Englishman, and now a native of Old Hong Kong, and Lawrence's sense of belonging made Lin Haijiang very happy.

Two sister ships manufactured by the Dutch Ma Boxun shipyard with a displacement of 3,880 tons and a full load displacement of 4,125 tons are named Weiyuan and Laiyuan, and will install Krupp's latest ten-millimeter cannon in the Old Port Shipyard, which is also the first big business received by the Old Port Shipyard As the financial director of the Old Port, Cloner calculated an account for Lin Haijiang, and the shipyard can make a profit of at least 200,000 taels of silver during the entire refit process.

As soon as he heard that his shipyard could earn 200,000 taels of silver at once, Lin Haijiang was so happy that he kissed Clouna in public, he wanted to know that the first pot of gold in this shipyard was to earn that fool.

Clona, on the other hand, wiped her face expressionlessly and said, "Your kissing skills are very poor, how can you leave saliva on Miss's face?" If you need to practice, you can come to me after dinner and let's work together. ”

Lin Haijiang's face turned red, and then Clouna poured a basin of cold water on Lin Haijiang, telling him that the fool was him, because he needed to come up with 450,000 taels of modification fees and naval gun purchase fees.

Hearing this, Lin Haijiang was shocked, and Clouna had to calculate them for him one by one, such as the technician's salary, overtime allowance, etc., all of which should be reflected in the profits, and these systems that lead to high labor costs are formulated by yourself.

Lin Haijiang was speechless and retreated!

Lin Haijiang, who returned to Guangzhou, was blocked by Fu Shanxiang, and now Lin Haijiang can be said to be the first and second big, Monk Greenqin, Zeng Guofan, Ma Fuming, Xiang Rong, etc., are all putting pressure on him, asking him to help purchase foreign guns and cannons, advanced weapons are naturally impossible, half of Lin Haijiang's orders in the old port military factory are unrifled old-fashioned rifles, but the monthly output of 2,000 is far from meeting domestic demand.

For this reason, Lin Haijiang also placed large orders in European countries, ordering rifled rifling rifles and artillery, but these weapons were stored by Lin Haijiang, and Lin Haijiang was waiting for a large buyer, the Southern Union in the American Civil War in 1861.

Fu Shanxiang was really angry at the Admiral of the Nanyang Navy Master in front of her, she couldn't remember how many times she had been turned away, if it weren't for the help of the two little girls Zijuan and Lily, I am afraid that she would not be able to see Lin Haijiang now.

Lin Haijiang naturally knew the purpose of Fu Shanxiang's trip, and the order to tighten the neck of the Taiping army was given by him, and what he hoped was that the Taiping army and the Qing army would form a continuous attrition, rather than the rise of one side over the surname.

Lin Haijiang, who had poured a lot of bitter water, finally said frankly to Fu Shanxiang: "I am taking a big risk to buy your weapons, and borrowing the hands of foreigners is to avoid you from doing anything crooked, haven't you been making your own recently?" So what else to buy? ”

Fu Shanxiang was shocked when he heard this, Tianjing didn't want to be choked, and he had been secretly trying to imitate foreign guns and cannons, but the craftsmanship was not refined, and the rough imitation was useless, how did Lin Haijiang know such confidential news? Is it inside the kingdom of heaven? Fu Shanxiang broke out in a cold sweat behind his back.

Lin Haijiang smiled and said: "It's not difficult for me to be for you, you tell Yang Xiuqing that prices have continued to rise recently, the quality of living standards has dropped sharply, and the price of all guns and ammunition has risen by 20%, and the shells of the Krupp cannon are not easy to buy, at most only 200 rounds, and the silver taels you owe plus interest must also be paid together." ”

Fu Shanxiang took a deep breath, she knew that it was useless to be angry with someone like Lin Haijiang, it was likely to backfire, so she said lightly: "I will reply to the adult as soon as possible!" ”

Wrap him around with your own body? Contribute to the kingdom of heaven? Fu Shanxiang smiled bitterly, does he have that much charm? And Fu Shanxiang doesn't believe that Lin Haijiang is a person who is easily fascinated by women, and he is a little puzzled by Lin Haijiang Fu Shanxiang, who forced himself to come to Guangzhou by shouting and screaming ghosts, which is known to the world, and many people misunderstand what it has to do with it, but his own people came, and they only met a few times, and they didn't say a word about themselves, let alone hint at teasing? What does Lin Haijiang want to do?

How did Fu Shanxiang know that for Lin Haijiang, seeing is not equal to possession, appreciation is not equal to possession, and Lin Haijiang can be regarded as a maverick in this era.

In order to speed up the construction of the Mawei Artillery Factory and independent research and development, Lin Haijiang took the two treasure-level old guys from the old port to Mawei, and divided the Krupp Research Institute in the old port into two, and built a branch in Mawei.

Lin Haijiang gave them great respect and honor to Padino and Alem, and first held a grand and grand welcome party in Mawei, at which he awarded them the Gold Science Lifetime Achievement Medal of Honor! This Lin Haijiang's self-made medal made the corners of the two old guys' mouths twitch with joy, and Lin Haijiang can be regarded as his favorite!

Padino and Alem, one is Prussian, the other is British, Germanic and Anglo-Saxon were originally two people who disdained each other, Lin Haijiang originally thought that they could cooperate with each other to learn from each other's strengths, but as a result, the two nostrils did not give face, and they each engaged in their own research and improvement.

Lin Haijiang didn't understand, why did the pirates from all countries and nationalities from all over the world cooperate together and live in harmony, but those who are engaged in scientific research can't get along together?

Lin Haijiang has no way to do this, it is normal for the so-called people who are engaged in scientific research to have a little temper, and Lin Haijiang also knows that he is a little impatient now, after all, the development of artillery is inseparable from the industrial base, and only the perfection and maturity of metallurgical and metal processing technology can completely promote the upgrading of artillery.

Regarding his previous development misunderstandings, Lin Haijiang made a review at the meeting of all researchers of the Artillery Research Institute, Lin Haijiang knew that everything could not be separated from the actual foundation, even if he had the knowledge and ideas that were ahead of the times, he could not create advanced weapons that were ahead of the times.

Just like the time-traveling novels he read in his previous life, the protagonist's character is so good that he can completely ignore the manufacturing capacity of the industrial base, and he himself is obviously an extremely bad character, and it is trivial to be made a warship, and he just wants to build a gun with a control device, and it is difficult to climb to the sky.

And those grenades and mines that are regarded as magic weapons by the traversers, and even pressure-launched mines that use thunder mercury as fire, have appeared and have been used in actual combat.

Through cooperation with Prussia, Lin Haijiang changed the arquebus grenades used by the grenadiers of the 18th century to a time-delay fuse of the white phosphorus tube, just a few times!

However, a miniature mortar used by the Prussian army in the 18th century inspired Lin Haijiang, and this Rugoff mortar is undoubtedly the prototype of the mortar in Lin Haijiang's eyes.

Lin Haijiang remembered that howitzers and mortars were directly evolved from mortars, and since they could not essentially improve the effectiveness of weapons, why didn't he use his brains more creatively?

This is really a helpless move, so Lin Haijiang decided to use the existing conditions to create some simple and reliable weapons, such as mortars, Lin Haijiang knows that the principle and process of mortars are very simple, and the difficulty lies in the touch fuse, you must know that even in the early days of the Liberation War in later generations, our army is still unable to manufacture artillery fuzes by itself.

Since mortars are mostly smoothbore, most mortar shells do not rotate in the bore, and the bore pressure is low, the fuze becomes especially crucial, and Lin Haijiang described the principle of the mechanical fuze to several ammunition researchers.

It can be said that the mechanical fuze is the only one that Lin Haijiang can manufacture in this era, and this kind of fuze is usually composed of protective hats, firing pins, acupuncture detonators, explosives and other parts.

After the ammunition is fired, when the projectile touches the target, the fuse protection cap is first flattened, the boss of the firing pin is crushed, the firing pin stabs the detonator, and then the explosive charge is detonated, and the detonation wave generated by the explosive charge detonates the projectile charge.

From the point of view of safety, the safety insurance of the mortar ammunition fuse usually adopts the simple form of transport insurance pin and habitual recoilless insurance, that is, the ignition mechanism is fixed by the safety pin, the movement of the firing pin is restricted, and the vibration caused by transportation, falling, etc., is not enough to trigger the explosion.

However, on the battlefield where the situation is changeable and extremely complex, no one dares to guarantee that there will be any situation in the next minute, according to some lessons learned from later generations, Lin Haijiang summed up some mechanical efficiency problems that mortars are prone to occur, such as due to bad weather such as rain, snow, wind and sand, it is easy to make the mortar that has just been discharged explode at the muzzle, or when the mortar suddenly needs to change the ammunition type or transfer the position, the handling of the shells that have been pulled out of the safety pin is very troublesome and dangerous, and because of the dampness of the propellant, etc., The muzzle velocity and low firing height of the shell will lead to sudden close fire, or accidental explosion of overhead close fire, etc.

It can be said that Lin Haijiang's reminders and improvements can save researchers from many detours, and at the same time, more importantly, the reliability of the weapons and ammunition they have designed is high, in case the quality of artillery and ammunition is not guaranteed, and the enemy does not fight, their own artillery will knock down a large area.

In this era when there is no concept of precision guidance, the quantity and quality of artillery can even determine the outcome of a battle or even a war.

However, the research and development of the detonator and the subsequent improvement also made Lin Haijiang have to bear the surname, after all, Rome was not built in a day.

The only thing that made Lin Haijiang happy was Wu Yuesheng, although he had not read mechanical theory from a young man in China, the speed of accepting new things was shocking, and he seemed to be born a genius engaged in ordnance research, and many of his ideas even Padino and Alem had a Mauser feeling.

Lin Haijiang specially approved a special fund for Wu Yuesheng to study artillery recoiling devices and mechanical repeating guns, and Lin Haijiang did not expect Wu Yuesheng to really make a surprise machine gun for himself, but hoped that his research could inspire and inspire Padino and Alem.

Just like art, a good weapon also needs inspiration! However, Lin Haijiang did not realize that the so-called treatment he gave Wu Yuesheng had already had a subtle impact among the Chinese workers in the old port, that is, some Chinese workers had begun to be dissatisfied with blindly learning, they needed to be recognized, and hoped to make breakthroughs and surpasses.

As the commander of the Nanyang Naval Division, Lin Haijiang began to be frequently busy between the three points and more lines of Mawei, Guangzhou, and the old port, and the four ships of Weiyuan, Laiyuan, Dingyuan, and Zhenyuan have begun to form combat effectiveness, and the only thing lacking is professional grassroots naval officers.

The Spaniards were more wary of the Old Port, while the British and French were assessed, and they would never sit idly by and watch the unbridled rise of a third power that had an impact on them, even if it was mixed with Dutch or Prussian power.

Four ironclad ships have become Lin Haijiang's reliance, and now the old port steelmaking plant is repeatedly attacking a new type of steel plate, Lin Haijiang has given strong support, but he has not much hope for the result, because Lin Haijiang remembers that in 1970, the domestic import of oilfield special Steyr off-road transport vehicle because there is no spare parts supply, can only be imported, and once the shock absorbing steel plate of the rear axle is damaged, it can not be repaired. The quenching cycle time, the subtle alloy ratio, and so on decided everything, and finally this same type of steel plate was successfully developed by Shanghai Baosteel in 2004 and was used in wheeled armored vehicles and military off-road trucks.

It can be said that the R&D process is an extremely long and iterative process, which requires not only patience and energy, but also some luck!

(To be continued)