The imperial court wants to form a Beiyang Naval Division? Lin Haijiang calmed down slightly after hearing the news, it seems that because of the strong appearance of his Nanyang Naval Division, there has been a major turning point in history, that is, the Beiyang Naval Division came out in advance!

The historical Beiyang Naval Division, also known as the Beiyang Fleet and the Beiyang Navy, was the first modern naval fleet established in the late Manchu Dynasty of China, and it was also the largest of the three modern navies established by the Qing Dynasty.

On December 17, 1888, the Beiyang Navy Division was formally established on Liugong Island in Weihaiwei, Shandong. The total annihilation of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 marked the defeat of the Westernization Movement. As a result, the Qing Dynasty signed the Treaty of Shimonoseki, which was humiliating and humiliating.

Lin Haijiang remembered that the history was until May 30, 1875, the Qing court issued an order by Shen Baozhen and Li Hongzhang to serve as ministers of the North and South Oceans, and quickly built the North and South Ocean Naval Division, and decided to extract 4 million taels of silver from the customs and gold revenue as the navy's military expenses every year.

Qing Zhengaxe considered that the main imaginary enemy of China at that time was Yueben, and the Beiyang Naval Division was responsible for guarding the Beijing Division, so he adopted Shen Baozhen's suggestion to first create the Beiyang First Army, and after the Beiyang Naval Division was strong, it was decided to give priority to the construction of the Beiyang Naval Division, and the road to Beiyang's army began.

The Qing Navy was divided into three seas: the Beiyang Naval Division was responsible for Shandong and the Yellow Sea to the north, the Nanyang Naval Division was responsible for the East China Sea south of Shandong and beyond the Yangtze River, and the Guangdong Naval Division was responsible for Fujian and the South China Sea.

But at this moment, Lin Haijiang's Nanyang Naval Division has been under the jurisdiction of the Guangdong Naval Division and the Fujian Naval Division, the Nanyang Naval Division is completely an ocean-going naval structure model, not the inland naval division of later generations, the emergence of Lin Haijiang and the result of the Great War of the British and French Coalition in Dagukou is to turn the Sanyang Naval Division fleet in the history of the Qing court into the current Eryang, and the birth of the Beiyang Naval Division made Lin Haijiang feel some pressure and threat more or less.

Lin Haijiang was most worried about the peace between the Qing court and the foreign powers, once the Qing court betrayed the national and national interests in exchange for the support of the Western powers, then under its full strength, a Beiyang naval division to defend Gyeonggi and deter the South Seas would appear, and the North Ocean had a unique advantage that the South Sea could not match, that is, the North Ocean could openly form a land camp.

Submit this information to the General Staff Headquarters for analysis, how to weaken the influence of Beiyang as much as possible, and let Wang Faren strengthen the work of intelligence on Su Shunde, I must know the content of the conspiracy between the Qing court and the foreign powers as soon as possible.

Lin Haijiang's move was to give strategic attention to potential enemies, and tactically, he was skeptical about whether the Qing court could build an imaginary Beiyang naval division, after all, the navy composed of modern armored cruisers needs professional personnel to command it.

Building a warship may be considered simple, but this is precisely the key to reflecting the overall level of a country, from basic industry to metallurgical processing, to metal smelting and deep processing, every step is inseparable from the industrial base, it can be said that the ultimate embodiment of science and technology in the nineteenth world is warships and cable telegraph and radio.

Who will be the admiral of the Beiyang Naval Division of the Qing court? Lin Haijiang couldn't help but think of a famous person in history, that is, Li Hongzhang, but at this time it was the beginning of 1858, and it was not until the beginning of 1859 in history that Li Hongzhang, who was almost desperate, would enter the Zeng State Domain under the recommendation of his brother Li Hanzhang. In the shogunate of the Zeng State Domain, Li Hongzhang, who had been trained for several years, showed his outstanding ability to do things, so he was deeply respected by Zeng. However, Li Hongzhang, who was very ambitious, was not submissive to the master, but was very assertive, and left in a bad mood because some suggestions were not used by Zeng Guofan. Soon, Zeng Guofan remembered his talents, and Xiushu urged him to return to his own curtain. And Li also realized that it would be difficult for him to achieve great things without Zeng Guofan, so the good horse also ate back to the grass, did not be stubborn, and happily returned to the shogunate of Zeng Guofan.

The early appearance of Beiyang can be said to have changed a lot, Li Hongzhang lost the stage where he was supposed to show his strength, will Zeng Guofan be the governor of Beiyang? Will the unknown Li Hongzhang still fall under the shogunate of Zeng Guofan? Lin Haijiang is not without considering the collection of talents, but those who have been trained in the four books and the five classics are difficult to use for themselves, under the impact of new and old concepts, for Lin Haijiang, all he can do is to choose extreme methods, destroy or even sacrifice a generation, and rebuild society, so that the price will undoubtedly be the smallest, and the time is the shortest.

However, for Lin Haijiang, it was not only bad news from the Qing court, Prussian optical experts and technicians in the old port successfully developed the first valuable artillery optical aiming command instrument after repeated research and calculation, this system uses a gravity balance system, and the installation of optical sights on the artillery uses a hand hydraulic system for aiming and shooting.

Starting from the principle of naval gun fire control, using coordinate conversion technology and differential theory, the formula of angular velocity and angular acceleration of artillery aiming under the condition of two-axis and three-axis stability is derived.

Lin Haijiang profoundly realized that the development of weapons and equipment is not only a new way to develop weapons, but requires low cost, low risk, and quick results, and improving and perfecting existing equipment is a better choice. Throughout history, the development of advanced naval guns in various countries in the world has such a common characteristic, that is, on the basis of prototype naval guns, the use of high and new technology has been gradually developed and perfected, so that the degree of automation, combat skills, and reliability of naval guns have been continuously improved, and the tactical use indicators have been continuously improved.

In order to test this set of fire control command optical aiming system, which was named Huaxia No. 1, Lin Haijiang personally returned to the old port to check the test results, and this shooting system can be said to refer to the azimuth disc shooting device, and theoretically the longer the baseline of the rangefinder, the higher the measurement accuracy.

After the test, Lin Haijiang was quite satisfied with the effect, after all, these designs were the products of the pre-dreadnought period, and before the industrial technology fully met the needs of Seiko manufacturing, some small errors were also allowed to exist, and what was needed was to be able to continuously improve and improve.

For the transformation of existing warships, the installation of Huaxia No. 1 fire control optical sighting system at the same time, but also the replacement of the turrets of each ship, the latest naval guns of 260 mm 35 times the caliber produced by Krupp have completed the test, it can be said that the old port has become a testing ground for all new weapons in Prussia, Krupp brothers even put forward a design scheme for a double-mounted giant gun with a caliber of 360 mm, they proposed that this turret weighing 600 tons can only be installed on warships with a displacement of more than 7,000 tons, Krupp himself claimed that this artillery could sink all warships sailing on the sea in the next few years, and Lin Haijiang understood this suggestion as Prussia's desire for him to order warships of greater tonnage, and Lin Haijiang did not know whether he should be happy or sad.

The four capital ships with a tonnage of more than 7,000 tons ordered in the Hamburg shipyard have begun to lay keels, but what makes Lin Haijiang more headache is the Prussians' gun installation design for the full heavy turret, if a dragon-class armored capital ship with a full load displacement of 8,000 tons is equipped with six twin heavy turrets, other Lin Haijiang dare not guarantee that this ship will definitely become a standard heavy artillery submarine, and the original draft of 5.5 meters may be doubled.

Lin Haijiang knew very well that the main gun layout of the armored capital ships in the 19th century has always been a matter of great distress to the navies of various countries, although the capital ships are huge, it is very difficult to achieve the best balance between firepower, protection, seaworthiness, and speed, and blindly listing the artillery will greatly reduce the stability of the battleship, and it is even difficult to ensure normal shooting, and it is also difficult to ensure protection under a certain tonnage ratio.

However, in Lin Haijiang's view, the most mature and the most learned by later generations is in 1906, the Russian [***] ship designer Gulev proposed a knapsack turret scheme, that is, one of the two tandem turrets arranged along the central axis is raised, so that the gun can play the front and rear sides of the firing ability.

After the Battle of Dagukou, most of the British Royal Navy was already an old-fashioned bronze cannon, and the original cannon or cannon itself was the most primitive collective name for artillery in history, and later with the increase in the types of artillery, the Royal Navy began to use the cannon as a flat-fire gun.

After the eighteenth century, there were three classifications of artillery, mortars, howitzers, and cannons, howitzers belonged to almost mortars, and cannons were weapons, characterized by short barrels, curved ballistics, and low muzzle velocity. In the 19th century, the breech guns of the Royal Navy were classified as cannons according to the past, and the trajectory was still relatively straight.

In the aftermath of the Battle of Dagu and Malacca, both the Royal Navy and the Navy of the French Republic were aware of the tremendous changes and impacts that the new breech-loading guns and armoured cruisers had brought to naval warfare, and this impact had shaken even the very foundation of the maritime power of the two old colonial empires.

Lin Haijiang believes that at this moment, Britain, France, Russia, the United States, and other countries must have mentioned the manufacture of a large number of armored protection cruisers, because of the problem of single engine horsepower, even if Britain has the ability to build a capital ship of more than 10,000 tons, its speed will definitely be turtle speed, at best it is a floating battery, before the arrival of the era of dreadnoughts, it is the armored protection cruiser that really has the ability to fight ocean-going battles.

Compared with the two or three thousand tons of armored cruisers built by Britain and France earlier in history, Lin Haijiang's warships not only have the advantage of tonnage and firepower, but also have the advantage of speed, so the four large capital ships ordered at the Hamburg shipyard this time, Lin Haijiang asked Prussia to install the latest boilers and steam engines, and optimize the space structure of the ship's interior, so as to ensure that the battleship has a speed of 12 knots.

Lin Haijiang's imaginary enemies were British, French, and Russian to add a Beiyang that had not yet been skimmed.

For the technical indicators of the battleship, Lin Haijiang has always asked the Prussian side to use the latest design to maintain the advanced surname of the battleship, and the Prussian side is also very happy to do so, they make a lot of money by manufacturing battleships in the old port while constantly improving the design and manufacturing process, in order to make a perfect battleship belonging to Germany in the near future.

Due to Lin Haijiang's huge arms order, Prussia completed the overall industrial revolution earlier than in history, and the Prussian Army, which had replaced a large number of artillery and rifles, began to quietly expand its army, and what Lin Haijiang, a butterfly, did on the other side of the Pacific Ocean has affected the end of the Atlantic.

And in Yanjing City, Su Shun was rewarded by Xianfeng with a mansion that originally belonged to the prince of the old palace, Su Shun looked at the vermilion lacquer gate inlaid with ninety-nine and eighty-one copper nails at the gate, three beams and three roads, six pillars and seven pillars of the coin wall in his heart infinitely sighed, the four unicorn beasts at the door are not to mention, this house inside and outside are all the prince's specifications, Xianfeng did not tell the internal affairs government to do the rest and reform when he gave the house.

It must be against the rules to live in like this, suddenly, Su Shun was slightly stunned, could it be that Xianfeng Ye wanted to make himself a prince? Su Shun suddenly remembered the news that there was news from the inner court some time ago that Monk Lingqin wanted to be crowned the prince!

The huge surprise made Su Shun force himself to calm down, now the emperor has entrusted himself with the important task of forming the Beiyang Naval Division, and he is also a first-class celebrity in the court, and now even Jingshou has to bow his hand first when he sees himself, but how can there be a crisis below?

According to Su Shunde's calculations, the imperial court must come up with at least four million taels to five million taels of silver every year, so that it is expected to support the shelves of the sailors within three years, and the selection of foreign students to study abroad cannot be delayed.

Su Shun rubbed his forehead, Feng Guoju, who was sent to contact Britain, France, Russia, and the United States, has no news, but what makes Su Shun angry the most is that Zeng Guofan hasn't been at the door since that day? Su Shun pondered, is this not quite the same as Zeng Guofan's behavior?

"Could it be that he once wanted to wait for me to look at the thatched house?" Su Shunmeng slapped the desk and beckoned to the big butler outside the door: "Let Commander Wang lead a team of Goshhado to find Zeng Guofan with fire oil, and tell him what Zeng Guofan wants to do?" Is there enough to wear the top? Want me to help him pick it easy? He was not Zhuge Liang, and I was not Uncle Liu Huang, so I didn't have the spare time to play with him in the thatched house, so I burned down his Deju thatched cottage tonight! ”

However, after a while, a team of angry horses and fresh clothes urged the horses to gallop straight to the Deju thatched cottage of Zeng Guofan in Ear and Eye Hutong.

(To be continued)