The early morning in Dartmouth is soaked in slightly umami-smelling air, and the evaporating salts from the sea are quietly corroding everything they can.

Even the best guns can only be used for 2-3 years after being loaded, and the shiny bronze will be completely dull in less than two days, and it is difficult to imagine how the shiny bronze handrails on the battleship can remain shining.

Lin Haijiang got up very early, as a professional soldier, sleeping lazy is a deadly vice, now Lin Haijiang is full of how to make money, if he returns to China soon, he needs a large amount of money to buy the ships he needs, without ships all his ideals and ambitions can only be utopian.

After returning home, expect the rotten imperial court to pay for ironclad ships? Lin Haijiang knew that this was impossible, so he was very depressed.

The subconscious of the Chinese kings of the past generations did not have the concept of sea power, and even the Zheng He fleet, which was absolutely ahead of the world for a while, was just to declare the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty, and sea power was really a useless thing for the Chinese emperors!

From the perspective of Lin Haijiang in later generations, the main reason is that China at that time was too rich, it can be said that it was a vast land, and in Confucianism, China is the center of the world, and the emperor of heaven is mighty, so he doesn't need to pay attention to any Haijiang theory!

Lin Haijiang understands that it is very simple to have his own fleet and establish his own forces, but it is indeed extremely difficult to do.

However, a first-class battleship that cost as much as a million pounds and has fallen behind in technology is not a goal he can imagine in terms of price or the equipment of sailors and sailors, and even the third and fourth ranks can only be a luxury, because these large battleships are not something you can buy with money.

In Dartmouth Harbor, there were more than 3,000 Chinese laborers who worked as coolies or sailors in the harbor, eating like pigs' food, but doing the heavy work to pay off the growing cost of their journey.

Through inquiry and observation, Lin Haijiang determined that a small number of these people still have training value, but he knows very well that if a so-called sailor is to become a battleship sailor, it seems that this road is still very long, and only a sail chief or deck chief requires more than ten years of experience accumulation and training.

Because of the roles of deck captain, gun chief, and observation post chief, the training of professional personnel cannot keep up with the speed and scale of the Royal Navy's expansion, and in order to break this taboo rule, this is the ultimate purpose of the existence of the Dartmouth Naval School.

Lin Haijiang didn't wake anyone up, walking alone on Filden Street heading to the port, Lin Haijiang has been paying attention to all the news of the attached ironclad ship and the ironclad ship recently, and what shocked him was that the ironclad ship in particular, the ironclad ship powered by the steam engine driven by boiler combustion could be built in many shipyards in Europe at this time?

This seems to be a serious violation of the historical knowledge in his memory? He even heard that some small and medium-sized shipyards in Spain, Portugal, and the Netherlands could even build ironclad ships with a cruising speed of about 10 knots of 3,000 tons.

Combined with the unspoken rules of the arms manufacturing industry in later generations, Lin Haijiang suddenly understood, the original ironclad ship has been researched and formed, and the mature technology has reached the level of mass manufacturing and equipment, but the original large shipyard does not want this type of ship that applies new technology to be promoted, if the ironclad ship is soon accepted, then their monopoly position will be shaken, and they may even be out of the competition in the future.

In the era of political procurement, coupled with the upgrading of the retired artillery, and the unreasonable layout of the gun emplacements of the ironclad ships, etc., which limited the initial ironclad combat effectiveness and firepower output efficiency ratio, so that it is normal for the so-called ironclad darlings of the new generation to be ignored in the boudoir.

Just like in the middle of World War II, the U.S. military was fully capable of equipping the assault rifle series of medium-caliber guns to unify ammunition to reduce logistical pressure, but it still used the M1 Garand semi-automatic rifle, the M1 carbine, the M1A1 Thomson submachine gun, and the Browning heavy tube rifle to form the weapon composition of the tactical assault squad.

You must know that the ammunition used in these weapons is different, and at the same time it brings huge pressure on logistics, the combat effectiveness of these weapons has not been fully utilized, and the only explanation is that the political axe needs to take into account the manufacturing capacity and purse of several major arms dealers, and arms procurement is always under the maximization of politics and interests, and it is not a new thing to spend more money to buy rags!

I'm afraid that in addition to the war, there is no other force that can promote the upgrading of weapons, Lin Haijiang smiled depressedly, even if it is an ironclad ship with a speed of 3,000 tons and a speed of 10 knots, it still costs about 600,000 pounds, plus the unique improvement and the updated equipment of the main gun and secondary artillery, the recruitment cost of sailors, one million pounds is just the beginning, and it takes at least three to five ironclad warships to truly form combat effectiveness.

Thinking of the huge expenses incurred in training, Lin Haijiang almost gasped, for a self who is almost equal to a poor egg, this is undoubtedly an astronomical amount of money, what he thought before was tantamount to a fool's dream!

This made Lin Haijiang sigh, what is the navy? Whether it is the nineteenth century or the twenty-first century, the navy is destined to be made of silver!

Where's the clue? Where do you start? Lin Haijiang has no score at all!

Is it really as the housekeeper said, after completing his studies, he will return to China to fill the gap in Guangdong Sailor? Lin Haijiang is really unwilling, since God has let himself come to this era that does not belong to him, he will continue to do nothing? Or witness the rise and fall of the Beiyang Naval Division, the most powerful modern naval fleet in Chinese history?

It is a taste to live happily for a day, and to live a life of grievance is to suffer! Lin Haijiang obviously belongs to the former, and creating a fleet belonging to the nation is undoubtedly the long-term dream of every Chinese Navy soldier in later generations, even in the 21st century, the Chinese Navy is still dreaming of blue water, besieged by many chain islands at home.

Countless people in later generations are clamoring for the construction of aircraft carriers to safeguard the country's maritime rights and interests, and Lin Haijiang, as a naval soldier, is extremely helpless and painful, because the entire Southeast Asia, Taiwan, and the island of the local chain have divided China's long coastal defense line from a strategic point of view.

In peacetime, there is little problem in passing through, but once war breaks out, it is very likely that an aircraft carrier and a large surface ship will be blocked at home and sunk, and the aircraft carrier, an ocean-going attack ship, may be attacked before it can play its role, resulting in the first unprecedented huge loss of the People's Navy since its establishment.

If he was born in the family of ordinary people, even if he was born in the family of princes and nobles, it would be difficult for him to realize his wishes, you must know that a person, even a group of people, even a generation of strength is not enough to compete with the entire era, although the wheel of the times is rolling forward, but the cost of pushing the wheel has anyone imagined?

What did the tragically dead Copernicus try to prove? He just realized that the earth was round for hundreds of years before anyone else!

Lin Haijiang was very fortunate that he was born into a relatively enlightened family, and in order to protect his family's shipping in the South Seas, they sent their children to England to learn the most advanced naval technology, and after completing their studies, they let these children enter the navy to escort the family's merchant ships.

In the process of thinking about brewing, Lin Haijiang suddenly realized that he had already walked to the dock, and several sailors in the distance were looking at him!

Lin Haijiang walked quickly to the dock, after the sailors saluted with guns, Lin Haijiang replied with a chic salute, after boarding the Phoenix, Lin Haijiang found that the sailors still started the day's cleaning work, large pieces of deerskin were wiping the copper work and silver corners, the luxury of ships in this era was completely a European-style excessive luxury waste in Lin Haijiang's view.

In the leisurely stroll, Lin Haijiang was quietly calculating how much the cost would drop if these unnecessary things were removed? And this modification is undoubtedly a thorough training for Lin Haijiang.

A few seagulls soared in the distance, and the cheerful chirping made Lin Haijiang's expression perk!

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