The sea and the sky suddenly turned into a dazzling golden curtain under the rising sun, Lin Haijiang covered his eyes with his hand, and after stepping onto the helm platform on the Phoenix, Lin Haijiang looked around, and the sailors who were busy were quietly looking at him, a seemingly extraordinary corporal of the Royal Navy.

Lin Haijiang knew very well that the reason why he was extraordinary was not because of his own ability, but because of his race, the status of the Chinese in Dartmouth was extremely low, and the sudden appearance of a Chinese Royal Navy corporal with a rifle and a short sword was enough to attract everyone's attention.

At this moment, Lin Haijiang's attention was focused on the helm platform of the bridge, and the almost fully open helm platform can be said to make Lin Haijiang very unaccustomed, because most artillery in this era is still using melee grape scatter bombs to kill personnel, or using chain bullets to hit the opponent's mast as the main means of engagement.

Once the fully open bridge and helm platform are within range of the enemy's grape shots, there is no doubt about its tragic fate.

However, after a while, hundreds of workers and technicians of the Atwin Royal Artillery Factory came to the dock with dozens of carriages, and for a while, the voices of people were loud and the horses neighed!

Lin Haijiang communicated with a supervisor of the Etwin Royal Artillery Factory for a long time, and only then did he understand that the main project of the Phoenix refit was to close the bridge and helm platform, and to install riveted iron oak between the waterline and the second-floor gun emplacement, as well as in important parts such as the bridge.

At the same time, the thirty-six twenty-four pound breech-loading chain-mounted steel mounts of the Mod were replaced with Ettwin cannons of smaller caliber and longer range, which could use both solid and flowering shells.

Lin Haijiang is not familiar with the so-called Ettwin cannon, because he knows that the twenty years between 1850 and 1870 can be said to be the twenty years of rapid development of the world's ocean-going navy, and it is also in these twenty years that a number of famous naval battles broke out in the annals of history. It is common sense that many models are not clear to themselves or even heard of.

However, when Lin Haijiang saw the so-called Ettwin cannon produced by the Royal Artillery Factory, he was still deeply shocked, and the Etwin cannon was actually the famous Rycot breech fixed gun!

Lin Haijiang remembered that in history, in 1846, the Italian artillery reserve officer Ricott made the world's first breech-loading rifled gun, which had significantly improved accuracy and firing speed. This was a major change in the structure of the artillery for the breech-loading rifled gun, and the basic structure of the gun remained unchanged until the 21st century.

However, since there was no such thing as "improved" protection of patented technology at that time, dozens of people in Italy alone claimed to have improved their artillery, but a large number of these people were high-ranking officers in the army, and these claimants could not come up with the so-called improved model guns, and finally they did not give up.

However, in later generations, the descendants of these people who were born back then fought lawsuits all over Europe for the title of the father of artillery!

However, Lin Haijiang soon discovered that the difference between the Etwin cannon and the Rycot breech mounted cannon is that these guns do not have a fixed cartridge? Instead, the mode of isolation of two air-sealed bolts was adopted?

Lin Haijiang was a little angry for a while, he really admired the imagination of the British, in order not to use the mode of pre-loaded cartridges, he actually researched and manufactured this kind of sealing and air-sealing method with poor reliability and extremely complex process and high cost?

This so-called double-channel air-sealed bolt isolation mode Lin Haijiang has only seen in the information book, because the metal smelting and mechanical processing technology is not yet standard, so the reliable surname can not be guaranteed, so that the double-channel air-sealed bolt isolation mode of the cannon quickly disappeared, but he never thought that he would become the first batch of victims of the "new weapon"?

If Lin Haijiang stands in Edward. In Aiwen's position, he will definitely resist these latest Atwin cannons, but at the moment he is just a corporal who is responsible for monitoring the construction, and Lin Haijiang, who knows the stakes of officialdom, knows what he should say and do!

Just when the workers of the Atwin Royal Artillery Factory began to prepare for construction with great fanfare, a beautifully decorated carriage stopped on the dock, and a British butler with a straight face and a wig came to Lin Haijiang with an expressionless face, and a middle-aged butler in a blue short tuxedo, white tight leggings, bloomers, and pointed scalp shoes took a note and read it word by word, for fear that Lin Haijiang would not understand.

After the middle-aged British housekeeper finished reading it, Lin Haijiang understood the meaning, which basically means Edward. Evan has been very busy lately, to accompany a noble lady to hunt, and to accompany several earls and a prince back to London, the matter of the Phoenix is handed over to Lin Haijiang, and finally Edward. Ai Wen told Lin Haijiang in a rewarding tone, I have recommended you to be an alternate officer of the Royal Navy through Duke Shegufei.

After the bullish housekeeper left, Lin Haijiang muttered a sigh of emotion in Chinese, which the nearby British could not understand, and this classic national scolding made several Chinese sailors nearby look sideways.

There are grievances and grievances, but the identity of this Royal Navy alternate officer is hard, especially as a Chinese American who became an alternate officer of the Royal Navy, you must know that Britain in this era is one of the countries with the worst ethnic integration in Europe, and white supremacy has always been a so-called traditional concept of the British.

As Henry II once said, if you come from a humble background, then you have to find a way to turn everyone around you into a nobleman, then you will naturally become an aristocracy, and the British ruling class is constantly raising its own value, claiming that the bloodline that is so messy that it is almost [***] is still pure?

However, Lin Haijiang through Edward. Aven's attitude towards this matter is determined to be that Edward. Can Evan be a helpful person? It is actually not difficult to make a fortune, but the difficult thing is the first pot of gold.

And Lin Haijiang's biggest problem at the moment is how to get the first pot of gold, and then order the ironclad ship that has not yet been taken seriously, otherwise, let him graduate and return to China in a few months, and go to Guangdong Sailor to find a small wooden boat to use as a pipe belt? Drag a big hat with a tail? The wind blows and the rain blows? By 1860 when it was tyrannized by the British and French forces?

If that's the case, Lin Haijiang is willing to die now! Lin Haijiang already regarded it as his responsibility to speed up the end of the Qing Dynasty.

Looking at the workers who were demolishing the top gun emplacement, Lin Haijiang called his person in charge, Sigor, to the front, and since there were no construction and renovation drawings at all, Lin Haijiang directly falsely passed on Edward. Evan's order was to remove all the guns on the bottom and strengthen the bilge, placing all the guns on the deck.

Since there were only 36 guns, half of the gun emplacements on the entire lower deck were also furnished, and the original four guns on the upper and lower two aft floors were changed to eight.

The biggest role of the tail gun is actually its cover role when the battle situation is unfavorable and it is necessary to retreat along the sail, strengthen the tail gun? Are they going to face the enemy with the stern? This is tantamount to running away in a naval battle, although Sigor is not a navy, but he still understands this simple truth.

However, he didn't think much about it at the moment, the Phoenix was just a training ship, and everyone knew that the needs of the Royal Navy were the needs of Atwin, nothing more.

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