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After the garrison command issued a certificate, Lin Haijiang was able to cross the cordon and enter the first gate post of the Haikou fortress base, Lin Haijiang was not angry at this, but also vigorously rewarded the iron-faced and selfless second lieutenant, for Lin Haijiang, the old section of the high-ranking officer being intercepted by the sentry is really a bit cheesy, and in the later generations of the outbreak of information, it is more of a show, after all, the senior officer will not come down alone, and the sentry does not know the senior officer and does not know the accompanying commanders at all levels? It is important to know that the sentries at such fixed guard posts are on duty for a long time, and rarely carry out transfers and major changes, and similarly, not every commander can praise the sentinel's dedication after being intercepted by the sentry, and it is likely that this behavior will be regarded as an insult or an embarrassment to himself. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Therefore, the second lieutenant who intercepted Lin Haijiang today was lucky, because his strict inspection and attitude towards the serious inspection of the train cargo made Lin Haijiang very satisfied, so Lin Haijiang also remembered the name of the second lieutenant, Zuo Ke!

Hainan Shipyard can be said to be the latest shipyard built in the empire but with the most complete facilities and the most powerful technical force, and all its dock and dock facilities are in the garrison area of Haikou Fortress, and the degree of security can be said to be very different from that of Mawei Shipyard.

Accompanied by Wang Dehui, deputy chief engineer of the General Administration of Scientific Research, Hu Jun, director of Haikou Shipyard, Du Ming, representative of the Navy Department, and Hu Kefeng, commander of the Haikou Fortress Garrison, Lin Haijiang inspected in detail the three 10,000-ton docks of Haikou Shipyard and a floating dock in port.

After the random inspection of the garrison and reserve forces of Hainan Province, Lin Haijiang decided to establish Hainan Province as a model province of the empire, and to increase investment in the empire of the model province, and to give preference to the policy of the model province of the empire, and to concentrate on a large-scale thorough rectification of the chaotic management of Fujian Province, including the replacement of a large number of officials in the military and political system who are not suitable for lack of ability.

After strict accounting and evaluation, Lin Haijiang believes that the multi-pole duplex steam turbine has met the basic requirements for installation and commissioning on the ship, but still requires Wang Dehui, deputy chief engineer of the General Administration of Scientific Research, and Hu Jun, director of Haikou Shipyard, to work together. The continuous improvement of multi-pole duplex steam turbines to provide heat utilization efficiency is a long-term scientific research and practice topic.

Because Lin Haijiang dealt with the director and deputy director of the Shipbuilding Department before, it can be said that it has greatly touched the Hainan Shipyard, and it has also made the Hainan Shipyard have to actively contact and cooperate with the Navy.

The Führer's Mawei inspection has taken down almost an entire province of Fujian's military and political officials, and it is said that military and political officials in various places are not allowed to take up posts in their hometowns, and they will have to carry out a major transfer and blood exchange.

On the same day, Lin Haijiang inspected the empire's largest artillery and naval gun production plant in the empire, the empire's Hainan Military Industry No. 1 Branch, where Lin Haijiang met two of his old friends, Padino and Alem, Lin Haijiang naturally knew very well that there were about more than 3,000 outstanding foreigners with Chinese imperial nationality engaged in technical guidance and research work in the imperial scientific research front, military industrial front, and metallurgical manufacturing industry, and Padino and Alem were undoubtedly leaders in the artillery profession.

The topic that the two of them were working on also frightened Lin Haijiang, that is, the hydraulic body tube artillery retractor and the new large-caliber naval gun with a caliber of 320 mm at 40 times! Lin Haijiang knew that the total weight of this kind of 40 times caliber 320 mm naval guns far exceeded the 380 mm naval guns of 30 times caliber that the Imperial Navy was now equipped with, especially the design of the so-called triple turret, which was completely for the technical reserves of the Empire-class battleships.

Padino also took the opportunity to propose to Lin Haijiang that since soldiers have medals to receive, why not give them honors to these scientists and technicians, especially these naturalized foreigners? This will make them feel more like they belong.

Lin Haijiang hesitated for a moment, he thought that Padino's proposal was very good, could it be similar to Western countries to award special honors to some talents with outstanding performance in the field of scientific research and technology? For example, a title or a medal?

Lin Haijiang announced on the spot that he had decided to adopt Padino's suggestion, not only for naturalized scientific research and technical personnel, but also for the scientific research and technical personnel of various industries and industries throughout the empire, and the first batch of commendations would be given before the end of the year, and honorary titles and medals and medals would be awarded to individuals and collectives with major inventions and outstanding contributions, and then relevant policies would be introduced to encourage scientific research and invention and major technological breakthroughs.

In the evening, Lin Haijiang, who was slightly tired, returned to the main conference room of the Hainan Shipyard in the Haikou fortress to hold a secret meeting, and the participants were eating the working meals distributed in the canteen, studying the Admiralty's discussion on the need for a new type of ship with stronger firepower and protection than cruisers and much faster than battleships in future strangulation operations at sea.

Regarding this so-called new type of ship proposed by the Admiralty, Lin Haijiang immediately thought of the short-lived battle cruiser!

The biggest difference between a battle cruiser and an armored cruiser is the armament, the main gun caliber of the battle cruiser is larger than that of the armored cruiser, and the battle cruiser is designed with reference to the battleship in terms of the size and power of the main gun, but the protective armor is thinner than the battleship, and the weight saved in the armor is used to install a more powerful drive, which provides the battle cruiser with a much higher speed than the battleship in order to catch up with the armored cruiser.

The main idea behind the design of the battlecruiser was that it could easily hunt the cruiser, as its main guns allowed it to attack enemy ships before it was within range of the cruiser, and its high speed allowed it to hunt down ordinary cruisers, evade its nemesis battleship, or attack damaged battleships in naval battles.

But Lin Haijiang knew that there were basically no brilliant achievements of battle cruisers in history, and almost all of the British, French, and German battle cruisers in history could not escape the doom of being sunk, because the battle cruiser's simple pursuit of speed and firepower was like a thin-skinned tin can, which would leak when poked! As the speed of the battleships in the later period became faster and faster, the battlecruisers naturally withdrew from the stage.

However, it is now 1862, and battleships are still a rare thing for the world's major sea powers, before the great development of aviation technology, the main force of the decisive battle on the ocean is still the battleship, but as a country to maintain its maritime interests and rights and interests are the largest number of armored cruisers of various classes, so in response to this situation, can the empire stop building heavy cruisers, and replace light and heavy armored cruisers with battle cruisers?

Lin Haijiang has not done a relative study on whether this plan is feasible, but the research and data done by the Admiralty are not particularly detailed, according to the technical parameters proposed by the Admiralty, the Nanhai-class battle cruisers can easily destroy the Glorious-class heavy armored protection cruisers, and the armor of its main parts can resist the fire of guns below 300 millimeters, while the main guns of armored protection cruisers in various countries around the world are around 150 mm to 240 mm caliber. This meant that when the Empire's battlecruiser formations encountered the cruiser formations of the hostile nation, it would create an overwhelming advantage.

Lin Haijiang asked Wang Dehui, deputy chief engineer of the General Administration of Scientific Research, Hu Jun, director of the Haikou Shipyard, and Du Ming, representative of the Admiralty, that this plan was drawn up by the Admiralty three months ago, because the Admiralty knew that the Empire would not engage in an endless arms race with Europe to build ships, and that with the overall economic situation of the Empire, it was already difficult to maintain a main force of the Imperial Navy consisting of 12 battleships, 55 cruisers, 60 destroyers, and 80 river gunboats. It is not too much to say that it is a reckless force.

You must know that the completion of the construction and sea trials of a warship and the transfer of equipment to the navy are only the beginning, and the long training, maintenance, maintenance, replacement of spare parts, replacement of boilers and new guns, partial modification, and so on are the real big ones.

Therefore, the Admiralty hoped to reduce the number of heavy armored cruisers from the number of warships that the Imperial Navy could maintain, and replace them with the so-called battle cruisers, so that they could firmly occupy an absolute advantage in the future naval battles, but this premise was whether the multipolar compound steam turbine could be successfully installed on the ship.

If there is no excellent power system, then the battlecruiser can only be a paper idea, Lin Haijiang knew that the Germans and the British had also achieved certain success in multi-pole duplex steam turbines, how could they learn from the successful experience of the two countries to improve their own multi-pole duplex steam turbines? For a while, Lin Haijiang was also a little helpless!

Lin Haijiang made a rough calculation, if a battle cruiser with a standard displacement of about 12,000 tons reached a speed of 30 knots, it would have to follow at least 40 boilers, and Lin Haijiang was also taken aback by his own idea!

(To be continued)