"Gee, you don't have to pull and pull. What a system this becomes. ”

"No, really no. I thought I'd tell you again. ”

"Tesla, you let it go. I still have a lot of state to attend to. ”

On June 8, Guangxu happily participated in the inauguration ceremony of the Chinese Royal Laboratory specially established for Tesla. Due to the need for secrecy, the ceremony was held in a small area with a simple reception. Of course, Guangxu knows the important surname of scientific and technological secrecy. Therefore, the Chinese Royal Laboratory was built next to the secret arsenal of the Ming Tombs in the northwest of Beijing, so that the security work can be combined with the arsenal to reduce personnel, and the arsenal can also make some tools and parts for the laboratory.

There were very few people attending the ceremony, but the entire lab was brightly lit because of the full use of alternating current from Tesla. Not only that, but even the arsenal next door uses AC lighting throughout. What the? AC electric machine tools, you say? Don't talk nonsense, these two units are probably the first large-scale use of alternating current in the world, and it is unrealistic to submit flow electric equipment without even putting together the electricity safety specifications. The invention of a technology has to go too long and too long to be used on a large scale. Even the steam engine used for power generation was "snatched" by Guangxu from Lushun.

For this matter, Li Hongzhang complained for a while. At the end of last year, Lushun Shipyard was ordered to start the construction of a mine-striking ship, and for this reason, Guangxu transferred a group of designers and workers from the original Mawei Shipyard at the request of Li Hongzhang to strengthen the capacity of Lushun Shipyard. Finally, at the end of April, the lightning strike ship built by Lushun Shipyard had a shape, and when it was about to install the steam engine, Guangxu "snatched" the steam engine. Fortunately, I was planning to build two ships at the same time, and I bought two sets at once. In the end, because of the large number of people sent to study in the UK, it affected the start of construction and finally only built one. I heard that Li Hongzhang is now contacting everywhere to buy and buy another set of steam engines.

But even so, Tesla still complains that the electricity is not enough. While the ceremony was still going on outside, Guangxu discussed with Tesla alone in the small room. Tesla's request is that according to his plan, the electricity will be increased to five megawatts on the current basis. To this end, Tesla also mapped out the location of a power station around the laboratory, and five 10,000-horsepower reciprocating steam engines alone were needed. Impossible, Guangxu was straightforward with his refusal. How big is the piece of land you specified, can you fit it? Tesla pouted: It was originally used to put two three-megawatt steam turbines, but now it doesn't have that much power, so it can only settle for the next best.

Steam turbine? This is a good thing, Guangxu nodded hurriedly when he heard the name. Not to mention the small size and large power of this thing, later generations of power stations powered by steam turbines were everywhere, and there were many of them in the early twentieth century. To put it most clearly, the power core of the British Dreadnought-class battleships is this thing. But when he thought about it, Guangxu's face immediately darkened. Parsons' ten-horsepower reactionary steam turbine did not appear until 1884, and as for the megawatt class, it was not until 1897. Your lion's big mouth is three megawatts. This is 1893, not 1993. The workers of the Qing Dynasty didn't even know what was going on with the reciprocating steam engine, so they had to get on the steam turbine? Even Britain, which has the best manufacturing technology at present, has no technical and technological capacity to process megawatt steam turbines, otherwise the Dreadnought class would not have had to wait until the beginning of the 20th century to start construction.

If you can't figure it out, that's not going to work, and it's going to affect future experiments. However, Tesla is not unreasonable, Tesla said, it's okay if you don't have it! I've got all the design and ideas, give me a million dollars, and I'll do it myself. Tesla actually came up with his blueprints.

"Why don't you die? You can't grab that much money even if you go to the bank. Guangxu took Tesla's drawings with a dark face, and scolded Tesla angrily at a glance, what kind of bullshit is this. When it comes to mechanical engineering, you don't look at your brother's background. This was followed by several fatal flaws in the design. Steam turbines are no longer a secret in later generations, and although Guangxu has not engaged in steam turbines, he has engaged in supporting equipment. Therefore, the principle, main structure, and working method of the steam turbine Guangxu are clear, and the results make Tess happy and convinced of Guangxu.

A mechanical engineer doing the emperor's work made Guangxu worry for a while, this will be here, what he learned in his previous life finally has a place to use, and Guangxu burst into tears for a while.

Gas turbines must be carried out, not to mention that once the construction of steam power stations starts, the research and development of new boilers and large-scale marine steam turbines will also be of great help. Therefore, Guangxu and Tesla reached an agreement, and this agreement is to use a reciprocating steam engine as a power station first, and Tesla will take the lead in setting up a steam turbine research team, and Guangxu promised that the arsenal will fully cooperate with the development of the steam turbine. And Guangxu is the off-site technical guidance, first of all, to help Tesla modify the drawings.

Guangxu put away Tesla's drawings and asked casually: Do you want to use so much power? Tesla says it will be used for long-distance radio transmission experiments. This guy also proposed to build a 20-meter-high tower in the laboratory, in Beijing, and in Tianjin.

Radio! This is a good thing, and it must be supported. What the? And more money? Okay, I'll put up with it, I'll give it, but forget about Tianjin, can Jinzhou do it? There is no way, there are too many people in Tianjin, if you don't pay attention to let the foreigners know, it's a shame. As long as the transmission tower can be built, Tesla will not care where it is! Anyway, the farther away the better, so I agreed.

Guangxu cautiously asked a few words about the radio, but he didn't expect to turn over the argument and make Tesla unconvinced. Guangxu even put forward a possible solution to the radio signal amplification problem that Tesla has been plaguing, that is, to use an electron tube, and the key is that even the working principle and schematic diagram of the electron tube have been drawn. Tesla talked about the electromagnetic induction and missiles he envisioned, but Guangxu directly affirmed and encouraged him to lead the team to research. Fortunately, Guangxu reminded him that a person's energy is limited and he cannot start multiple tasks at the same time. Let's get these two things right in front of us first.

At this time, Tesla's eyes looked at Guangxu as if he saw God. He was called a scientific madman in the United States because of his too advanced ideas, but he did not expect that the emperor of the Qing Kingdom had a more crazy plot than him, and the Qing Emperor said that within a hundred years, mankind would land on the moon and begin the life of human colonization of alien planets. You must know that at this time, human beings can't even go up to the sky. It's crazy, it's exciting.

Tesla pulled Guangxu, who had only eaten breakfast, to chat until the time of the lamp, but still refused to let Guangxu leave. This brings us to the previous plot.

It's good to say that Guangxu finally returned to the palace, and he didn't see the minister and didn't see the excerpts. Climbed on the table and drew a drawing, which was three all-nighters. The direct consequence was that because Guangxu slept in the morning and didn't sleep in the next court, he was pulled by Cixi to lecture.

The first half of the million dollars and a large number of drawings and instructions from Guangxu's hand finally sent Tesla away. Immediately afterwards, Guangxu came to the military school.

The training of the new army has ended, and the problems and improvement plans that have arisen in the training have been dealt with by officers such as Horst, Michael, Ouyang Zhenhua, and Wang Shizhen, and Guangxu, a layman, naturally will not bother to ask. This time he went because of the reorganization of the new army.

"As for the problems that arise in the training, it has been discussed many times in previous meetings. The minutes of each meeting were also distributed to all of you. I hope that you will carefully read the resolutions of the meeting and fully implement the resolutions of the meeting when you return. The issue of training will not be discussed at this meeting. Let us now turn our attention to the reorganization of the military structure of the new army. ”

All the officers of the new army who won the bid and above were all present. There was not a single bannerman among them, because the priest had organized them into a battalion alone. Naturally, these people are not qualified to participate in this meeting. Unlike other troops, the battalion leaders had low training intensity and loose management. That's how most of the flagmen who were selected at the beginning withdrew one after another because they couldn't bear the hardships here. Those who remained were all those who had some skills, and there were also the group of people from the palace and the big family selected by Shiduo, and the number was less than 300. It can be said that neither the German instructors nor the [***] officials have taken these people who claim to be masters every day in their eyes. Even the camp is a separate district. Of course, it can't be said that this battalion is full of people who are self-sustaining and have some skills above the top, for example, the two Tieliang brothers go to the big camp every day to train with ordinary soldiers, and the results are also very good. In addition, they also participate in military training courses, but their thinking is a little old. Still obsessed with the years of the old swordwork iron horse.

Michael stood up: "In view of the situation of this training, and combined with the opinions of everyone here. After the deliberations of the General Staff, we have drawn up the following set of plans for the reorganization of the new army. After saying that, an adjutant sent down the reorganization plan drawn up by the General Staff.

"Ladies and gentlemen, now I'm going to explain them one by one." Wang Shizhen stood up and said, "If you have any objections, please wait for me to finish talking before discussing." I'll start with the first ......"

Guangxu carefully looked at the reorganization plan and listened to Wang Shizhen's explanation. This plan is indeed very detailed, and special departments are arranged in the military system to be responsible for command and control, battlefield information exchange, firepower distribution, personnel and logistics supply, etc., and there is also a good explanation of the specific work process. During the ensuing discussions, officers at all levels also raised various questions, and the General Staff gave them as detailed explanations as possible. In this meeting, Guangxu didn't say a word, just silently took notes and wrote his thoughts on the plan.

Finally, after everyone finished discussing, Guangxu walked to the front of the stage: "I said that I will not ask about the training of the army. But the army must be our Chinese army. As an emperor, I have a different view of the military system than yours. ”

"In this exercise, the town cooperation system of the Qing military system was exposed to be far from being able to meet the needs of modern warfare. As for the main plan for the full adoption of the German division and regiment system, I believe that it can be implemented in an all-round way. As for the divisions, regimental headquarters and communications logistics units mentioned in the plan, I believe that this is customized according to actual needs, as long as you here think it is feasible. But I do have some ideas that are different from the German [***] system. ”

"In the plan drawn up by the General Staff, the distribution of firepower among divisions, brigades, and regiments is equal. The purpose is to enable units at all levels to have a certain degree of individual combat capability. In your opinion, this plan is valid and the best choice in the current situation where battlefield communications are still basically relying on roaring. Guangxu's humorous sentence made the atmosphere on the field obviously relaxed.

"The plan wants to make a regimental-level unit capable of reading combat units, but in my opinion, it is not enough. In future wars, especially in large-scale all-out wars, regimental combat units will still be too small. With the division as the basic unit, the vertical command between divisions and regiments, and the horizontal cooperation between various regiments are accomplished. ”

"But I still think that this equal distribution of firepower is unreasonable, why can't the main forces, especially artillery, be concentrated and used." Guangxu stretched out his five fingers: "Concentrate the power and use it, just like retracting the five fingers into a fist." In this way, the power of each attack is enough. ”

"The art of war is cloudy: to coincide, to win. What I see in this plan is all a frontal confrontation at the regimental level, and I can't see anything surprising. ”

"Pooling artillery allows for a comprehensive artillery superiority on a local battlefield, like a fist blow that penetrates the enemy's defenses. Start from one point, and then lead to the collapse of the enemy's entire line of defense. ”

"So my opinion is: abolish the brigade command unit. Brigades will be formed only as special military units in future army formations. The unit will be divided into divisions, with one division under three infantry regiments and one artillery regiment under the direct command of the division headquarters, each regiment under the jurisdiction of three infantry battalions, one artillery company directly under the regiment, and one reconnaissance company. Each battalion has three infantry companies, each with three infantry platoons and one reconnaissance squad. Each platoon has three squads and one heavy machine gun squad. Here's the key. I wanted to make sure that each squad of infantry was supported by two machine guns on the battlefield. ”

After Guangxu finished speaking, he walked down, and all the officers were sweating profusely and calculating. Horst was the first to react: "Your Majesty, although I admit that what you just said is very reasonable and far-sighted. But I must remind you that, according to you, the formation of a division requires 56 artillery pieces, 650 machine guns, and more than 10,000 rifles. The number of personnel has reached 11,000. This is really too luxurious, and the supply consumption of such a force is an astronomical amount. And a country as large as the Qing State needs at least 80 to 100 divisions of troops. Even the richest of Americans, cannot afford it. ”

"Who said that all units are built according to this standard, this is only the standard of the main field A troops." Guangxu smiled slightly: "If the Qing Dynasty needs 100 divisions, then according to this main force standard, 20 to 30 A divisions will be equipped to form three to five main army corps." It would be nice to cooperate with the B unit that lowers the requirements. Of course, this is just an assumption. My idea was to first build the 1st Division into this type of type A unit with an offensive focus, and the 2nd Division into a type B unit with a defensive focus. ”

"Artillery and ammunition should be bought, and the question of money will be dealt with by me. Let's do it in this sense. ”

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