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After Li Haibo left, Lin Haijiang decided to go to Mawei for a trip, and then inspected the shipyards in Guangzhou and Hainan, where he wanted to see with his own eyes the process of building warships, and whether the multi-pole duplex steam turbines manufactured and installed by the General Administration of Science and Technology could really meet the physical installation standards. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The Imperial Navy can be said to be the lifeblood of the Chinese Empire, Lin Haijiang naturally does not dare to ignore it, for many vital aspects, Lin Haijiang has always adhered to the three-level audit and control system, and finally he personally inspected as the head of the empire, so as to avoid the so-called face project, the battleship is not a face, but the key to the life and death of the country, naturally not sloppy!

However, the purpose of Lin Haijiang's trip to Mawei Shipyard was because he had seen the Imperial Navy's shipbuilding plan before, because in the entire plan, the Imperial Navy focused almost all its attention on battleships, so to speak, in the first battle of the South China Sea, the two battleships Zhenyuan and Dingyuan of the Zhenyuan class can be described as the pillars of optimus, turning the tide!

As the head of the empire, Lin Haijiang felt a little depressed, because the imperial navy has no shortage of tactical wizards and strategic commanders, but there is a lack of guides with a vision of strategic construction.

Torpedo boats cannot carry out ocean-going operations, which determines that they can only carry out short sorties in the sea area with complex currents, but if the Imperial Navy crosses the ocean to attack the Imperial port or the mainland, it is easy to be attacked by enemy torpedo boats, you must know that torpedo boats and battleships are not proportional at all, even if dozens of torpedo boats are sacrificed, even if one battleship is sunk, it will be a great success.

Therefore, before the visit, Lin Haijiang asked the Mawei Shipyard to design a mine-striking ship with a tonnage of 2,500 tons and a speed of 30 knots after installing a multi-pole compound steam turbine that can follow the fleet to sail to the ocean, and specially launch torpedoes to destroy the enemy's large warships, and install a number of 150-millimeter naval guns on the ships to intercept enemy torpedo boats and carry mines for mine-laying and mine-sweeping work.

It can be said that the torpedo boats were expelled in the sense of existence, allowing the destroyers and the integrated supply ships to act in unison, escorting the capital ships and carrying out lightning strikes on the enemy's main ships.

Now that the multi-pole duplex steam turbine technology has entered the installation and testing stage, it is only natural that I should visit the Mawei shipyard to inspect their design!

On July 5, 1862, after Lin Haijiang arrived at the Mawei Shipyard, he did not alarm the whole factory, but only notified the factory director, representatives of the Admiralty, chief engineer and others to go to the conference room for a meeting.

Feng Guogang's eyelids have been jumping again since yesterday, the left eye has jumped enough to the right eye, almost overnight, the armed gendarmerie special forces of the Imperial Command arrived at the Mawei Shipyard in advance to make security arrangements, for the Führer's sudden arrival at the Mawei Shipyard for inspection, Feng Guogang was more or less nervous, and more was an accident!

Feng Guogang naturally knows the current situation of the Mawei Shipyard, but he doesn't think there is any problem with his management, for a shipyard, as long as the guards watch the workers who steal from themselves stealing more valuable raw materials such as brass every day, even if it is okay, after all, in Feng Guogang's opinion, this is just a shipyard and not a barracks, which makes him nervous and uncomfortable.

The first impression of Mawei Shipyard to Lin Haijiang was that the management was chaotic, and the roadside at the gate was full of vegetable vendors and snack shops? The people in and out of the factory area seemed very casual, although the sentry at the door was trying their best to hold their chests and stomachs, but their open discipline buckle made Lin Haijiang frown involuntarily.

Moreover, Lin Haijiang found that the guard post at the gate of the Mawei Shipyard was not a navy or an army unit? But the local garrison in Mawei, Fujian? The soldiers all wore grass-green uniforms and Y-shaped canvas combat vehicles? The Imperial Type 1 rifle on his shoulder looked very new, and Lin Haijiang was very skeptical that this gun had not been wiped as necessary.

Lin Haijiang walked up to the sentry and smiled slightly: "Soldier, can you show me your weapon?" ”

The sentry was slightly stunned for a moment, probably never thought that the Führer would actually talk to one of his soldiers! The sentry stammered nervously: "Report, report, report, report to the Führer!" The gun is new! ”

After taking the Sentinel's Imperial Type 1 rifle, Lin Haijiang said to the Sentinel with a smile: "You don't have to be nervous, the head of the empire is also an ordinary person, I, like you, serve the people of the empire, only the division of duties is different, and there is no distinction between high and low, understand?" ”

The sweaty sentry nodded indiscriminately, and the officials of the ponytail shipyard standing behind the sentry stood not far away looking at the scene in front of them with very ugly faces, and the traders on the side of the road before were already kneeling on the ground at this moment, shouting Long live the Führer, long live the emperor, and even shouting the chaos of the true god manifestation! Lin Haijiang hurriedly asked the guards to persuade the people who knelt down.

Turning around, Lin Haijiang pulled back the handle with a neat click, and sure enough, as Lin Haijiang expected, the butter in the barrel of the gun had not been wiped yet? And the butter has been mixed with a layer of dust, and the position of the handle has been stained with rust, it is obvious that this rifle has not been maintained once since it left the factory, and looking at the Y in front of the gun number, Lin Haijiang knows that this is a rifle specially equipped for reserves and garrisons.

Lin Haijiang threw the rifle to the sentry with a gloomy face and said, "How much training subsidy do you get a month?" ”

When the sentinel saw that the Führer seemed to be angry, he hurriedly said: "A piece and a half of imperial silver dollars, enough!" It has always been sent on time on the fifteenth of each month, and it is on time! ”

As soon as the sentry's words came out, even Li Haibo, who was the Minister of the Admiralty, couldn't help frowning, because one of the imperial garrison and reserve forces was a private with six silver dollars per month, and the other was a monthly subsidy of four and a half silver dollars, and there was no one and a half pieces of silver, and this sentry was not a private, but a senior private, Li Haibo knew that this time the matter was probably going to be a big deal, and it was bad that there would be many people's heads to the ground.

Lin Haijiang turned to Li Haibo, who was accompanying the inspection, expressionlessly, and said, "Let the chief of the Wang guard go, and within two hours, I will see the captain of the Fujian Provincial Garrison and the head of the reserve force!" ”

At this moment, Lin Haijiang's mood can be described as very bad, this is tantamount to fooling the first level to engage in image and face projects, and under the upward and downward effects, how many of his garrison troops and reserve troops who claim to be millions can be solidly trained? How many troops can be pulled out to replenish the main force in real time in wartime? The gap between the reserve garrison and the front-line troops at the time of the Battle of Changsha was only in military uniforms and weapons, and the quality of the officers and soldiers themselves was almost the same. Is it that successive victories have bred arrogance below?

This kind of deception made Lin Haijiang feel very frightened? This is the reserve force of the Imperial Army, which he has devoted himself to building?

After about two hours, Hou Wenjing, the captain of the Fujian Provincial Garrison, walked into the large conference room of the Mawei Shipyard tremblingly.

When Hou Wenjing saw Lin Haijiang, whose face was pale, his legs suddenly fell to his knees with a puff, and he lost his voice: "Führer, I'm sorry for you!" You'll just spare me once, won't you? I didn't mean to withhold military pay! I didn't participate in the theft and sale of arms from the North Warehouse! ”

Lin Haijiang was completely unfazed at the moment, looked at Hou Wenjing and said, "How did you get into my Chinese Imperial Army?" You give me an honest account! Otherwise, I'll skin you alive today! ”

Hou Wenjing was suddenly paralyzed by fright, and said in horror: "Li Cong is my brother-in-law, Li Cong is my brother-in-law!" ”

Lin Haijiang frowned and said, "Is it Li Cong from the International Strategic Center of the General Staff?" ”

Before Hou Wenjing could speak, Li Haibo suddenly flew up next to him and kicked Hou Wenjing on the heel, picked up Hou Wenjing and said in a very low voice: "You are already a mortal person, what are you doing with others?" Make your questions clear! ”

Lin Haijiang looked at Li Haibo, who was panting, hesitated for a moment, waved his hand, and said: "Immediately send someone to interrogate Hou Wenjing, find out the case of corruption in military salaries and arms theft and trafficking, Major General Li Cong, who is the center of the international strategy of the General Staff, immediately stop it, expel him from the military and take him into temporary custody, and when the incident is clear, if he has nothing to do with the corruption of military salaries and the theft and sale of arms, he will be dismissed from the military and released, and if he is implicated, he will be severely punished." ”

Lin Haijiang paused for a moment and continued: "Immediately arrest the commander of the Fujian Provincial Reserve Force, no matter how many people are involved in this case, it must be investigated to the end, even if it is found by the Command, it will be severely punished!" ”

Everyone present was stunned at this moment, a rifle that was not wiped clean led to such a shocking case? I'm afraid that this time the entire Fujian province will be involved, and the military and political officials in the province will probably be more than lucky!

With anger, Lin Haijiang then inspected the Mawei Shipyard, and during the inspection, he found that the secret room of the factory was empty? The guards on duty don't know where they went? The drawings of the Empire's latest river gunboats are placed on the table in a big way, and they look like they are pleased? At this moment, Lin Haijiang was really angry! When Feng Guogang and others were about to be removed from their posts and investigated, Lin Haijiang had already decided to set off a large-scale storm of rectification and completely cut the empire and regenerate the new!

The inspection of the Mawei Shipyard made Lin Haijiang extremely surprised and shocked! Compared with Mawei, what will the three pillar shipyards of Guangzhou, Hainan and the Imperial Fortress be?

After inspecting the Mawei Shipyard, Lin Haijiang felt that history is really not deceiving, and the steel, materials, and equipment required by the Mawei Shipyard all need to be transported from outside, and there is no steel smelter that has formed a system nearby, and now it is a little unable to manufacture an inland river destroyer of about 2,000 tons, and if it was originally determined to build a large-scale shipyard in Mawei, then the overall investment may be greatly affected by the overall construction and production of the shipyard because of the sluggishness of the transportation route.

Although the main road between the imperial provinces has been under the assault construction of the production and construction corps, more needs to be the amount of maintenance, so Lin Haijiang handed over the new construction and maintenance of the road to the provinces along the route for management and development, and the central government of the empire carried out unified strategic control.

Then Lin Haijiang went to the Imperial Haikou Fortress almost non-stop, he wanted to personally test whether the actual efficiency of the reciprocating steam turbine researched and designed by the General Administration of Scientific Research could reach 56 percent of the report claimed, if this technical index could really be reached, then the Imperial battleship would no longer be just a concept, if the entire process of the Imperial battleship from drawing to construction and commissioning could be completed within two to three years, then the Imperial Navy would still be able to lead the entire world navy and become the object of imitation. This can't help but remind Lin Haijiang of a sentence in later generations, that is, it has been imitated and never surpassed!

For Li Haibo, as the Minister of the Imperial Navy, accompanying the Führer to inspect the Imperial Shipyard was originally a light errand, but at this moment, Li Haibo's mood was not relaxed in any case, although the Führer's enthusiasm for production was extremely high when he inspected the Mawei Shipyard, there was a relatively chaotic and wasteful phenomenon of overall management, and the military representatives of the Admiralty in the shipyard were useless and did not play a supervisory role at all.

On the foredeck of the Zhenyuan, Lin Haijiang walked on the roundabout of the No. 1 turret, and Li Haibo and the guards behind him were looking at the head of state with concern, because when the battleship was sailing at cruising speed, it was an extremely dangerous thing to walk on the roundabout channel of the turret, almost everyone sweated for Lin Haijiang, and they didn't even dare to call out loudly, for fear of distracting Lin Haijiang, Li Haibo could only let the first mate slow down the speed of the battleship.

Lin Haijiang smoked a cigar for a while, and walked down the roundabout very comfortably, it can be said that whether it is in the past life or in this life, Lin Haijiang likes the feeling of the battleship galloping against the wind and waves, this feeling makes him very obsessed, or a challenge to himself, this is a way for Lin Haijiang to decompress himself.

Lin Haijiang was relieved, but then Li Haibo was offended, Lin Haijiang ordered Li Haibo to rectify all the military representatives in the naval arsenal and shipyard within a time limit, and told Li Haibo that if the Imperial Admiralty carried out the orders of the High Command in this way, it would be equivalent to letting the entire empire take risks, and the embankment of a thousand miles would be destroyed in the anthill! The major case in Fujian may not be alone, so how many things are still deceived and concealed? Lin Haijiang didn't even dare to think about it anymore!

Lin Haijiang found that he was really right about this inspection, the empire had only been established for a few years, but the overall bureaucracy seemed to have been formed and began to corrupt, and a large number of vested interests were reattached to the main industry that the empire regarded as the lifeline, and these new vested interests were even more crazy and unscrupulous in some respects than the original classes under the old system.

This made Lin Haijiang involuntarily think of the iron-clad fact that there was faith when he didn't win the world, and he didn't have faith in the world, which made Lin Haijiang even more determined to launch a revolution in spiritual belief to purify the existing system of the empire.

Lin Haijiang's rectification movement to Wang Faren was also based on this, Lin Haijiang felt that he was a little alarmist at the time, but now it seems that the situation is far more serious than he said, taking Mawei Shipyard as an example, from roads to transportation, raw materials, steel, etc., all are monopolized by the so-called personal forces and township party forces, and the management chaos within the shipyard is mostly caused by the nepotism of managers!

Therefore, this time he went to Haikou Fortress Lin Haijiang deliberately and tightly blocked all the news, and released the news to the outside world that the head of state had returned to Guangzhou.

When the Zhenyuan ship appeared at the Haikou wharf, Hu Weimin also inspected the installation and commissioning of the newly built 105-millimeter howitzer production line at the No. 1 Ordnance Branch of the Empire, and the steel, gold, copper, and coal mining in Hainan Province can be said to have been fully rolled out, and the steel output has also increased from 200,000 tons a year to 500,000 tons. And the concern is that the cost of polluting the environment seems to be paid too soon?

Lin Haijiang did not wait for Hu Weimin, and went directly to the Haikou Shipyard to inspect the situation, Wang Dehui, deputy chief engineer of the General Administration of Scientific Research, Hu Jun, director of the Haikou Shipyard, and Du Ming, a representative of the Navy Department, and others went to the gate of the factory to greet them, although it was a temporary surprise inspection, but Lin Haijiang still waited patiently for the person in charge of the shipyard to come to greet him, the reason was very simple, because the head of state escort failed to pass through the first security gate in the fortress area, and the Haikou shipyard was different from the general management chaos of the Mawei shipyard. There are vegetable vendors and all kinds of snacks at the gate of Mawei Shipyard, and there are even street girls?

And Haikou Shipyard because in the fortress area, the fortress range of five kilometers are divided into military control areas, not a pedestrian can be seen, the train transporting steel accessories is also parked in the warning area, the fortress garrison is leading the wolf dog to inspect the car body and goods, the escort soldiers are a little disdainful of this, thinking that this is delaying time, but the second lieutenant in charge of the guard still earnestly performs his duties, and after the inspection, both sides sign and release.

Soon, 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, the commander of the Haikou Fortress garrison who came in a hurry, came to the gate of the base, and Lin Haijiang looked at the iron-faced and selfless second lieutenant on duty in front of the No. 2 main gate with interest!

(To be continued)