If anyone wants to know which department has the highest quality of workers, which department has the best wages and benefits, and which department has the highest administrative level in the industrial system of the Chinese Empire, the well-informed old workers in the industrial system will tell you that this department must be the shipbuilding department.

From 1619 to the end of the Ming Dynasty, Wang Shuhui began to establish a shipyard to train shipbuilders and technicians.

The original shipbuilding enterprise of the Baath Party has now become a small shipbuilding plant, but it has trained a large number of workers and engineers in the shipbuilding field of the Chinese Empire.

Although the scale of this enterprise is not even comparable to that of the nearby Wuchang shipyard, this enterprise, which mainly produces steam-powered ships on inland rivers of less than 1,000 tons, is still the veteran of the Baath Party shipbuilding enterprises.

It took 20 years for Wang Shuhui to lead a group of Ming Dynasty natives, relying on the intellectual support and equipment support of modern society, to finally establish a modern shipbuilding industry in China in the 17th century, which could at least reach and surpass the level of the last years of the Qing Dynasty.

By 1638, the Baathists had established a modern shipbuilding industry that was complete, self-sufficient, and capable of developing and producing independently.

Among the tens of millions of industrial population of the Chinese Empire, the shipbuilding industry, with a total number of more than 300,000 people, is the industrial field with the largest number of high-level skilled workers and engineers (more than 60 percent of the skilled workers above the third level, more than 2,000 junior engineers with technical secondary school education or above, 67 intermediate engineers, and 129 college graduates). ), which is the industrial field with the highest literacy of workers (more than 70 percent of workers have passed the primary school diploma examination, and more than 30 percent of the workers have passed the junior high school diploma examination. 100% illiteracy. ）。

It was under these conditions that the shipbuilding level of the Chinese Empire developed rapidly, and the modularization of the shipbuilding industry was realized early (although the level was very low).

Today's China is no longer a country that simply produces iron-ribbed wood-hulled ships. By the beginning of 1638, the entire Chinese navy had basically realized the iron-hulled warships of the four naval regions (the North China Naval Region, the East China Naval Region, the South China Naval Region, and the West China Naval Region) and the 16 naval fleets.

The average displacement of the first class battleship is more than four thousand tons, and the displacement of the second class is more than two thousand tons. All auxiliary warships (including coal carriers, troop carriers, maintenance ships, supply ships, communication ships, etc.) are unified and fully steam-powered large iron-ribbed iron ships.

Among them, the ironclad fleet, which embodies the highest level of the shipbuilding industry of the Chinese Empire, the capital ship of the Chinese Empire's far-sea fleet, the battleship "Seven Great Sages" (the seven warships named after the Seven Great Sages in "Journey to the West", the Great Sage of Pingtian, the Great Sage of Covering the Sea, the Great Sage of Chaotian, the Great Sage of Moving Mountains, the Great Sage of Ventilation, the Great Sage of Exorcism and the Monkey King), are all iron and steel structures, with a standard displacement of more than 4,000 tons (it can be regarded as a reduced and proportionally reduced, very thin armor, very small caliber of naval guns, and a fake and shoddy version of Dingyuan Zhenyuan).

Although the development of the military industry has not caught up with the shipbuilding industry, the ironclad ships with advanced rotating turrets still use twin-mounted guns with a maximum caliber of only 200 mm. However, the shipbuilding technology of the Chinese Empire was already very developed.

In terms of civilian ships, the civilian ships of the Chinese Empire are getting bigger and bigger, and there are even special immigration ships with a displacement of 7,000 tons, fully steam-powered iron-ribbed wood-hulled structure, and iron-clad structure.

The armed merchant ships of the Chinese Empire, which are now trading all over the world, are cargo ships with an average displacement of 4,000 to 5,000 tons using a hybrid of sails and steam.

The reason why the Western colonizers who are currently stopping off the coast of India obediently bow their arrogant heads in front of the Chinese Empire is that the four or five thousand tons of heavily armed merchant ships that can be seen everywhere along the coast of the Indian Ocean play a direct role.

You must know that after seeing these huge merchant ships that are more advanced and countless times more powerful than the most powerful warships in their own country, the Western colonizers have no way to have any idea of disobeying the will of the Chinese Empire.

And the reason why the vassal states of the Chinese Empire in the South China Sea region obediently signed various vassal treaties with the Chinese Empire was also because they really felt the "justice" under the "giant ships and cannons".

After all, the rhetorical progress of civility, righteousness, honesty and shame and the progress of civility of propriety, righteousness, honesty and shame preached in the shadow of the "giant ship cannon" are completely persuasive at two levels.

In June 1638, at the request of the vassal kingdom of Unzen, the Chinese Empire launched the "Asian Co-Prosperity" campaign against the Tokugawa shogunate.

The main fleet that carried out this operation was the Chinese Imperial Ocean Fleet. However, this fleet consisted of a total of twelve warships and a large number of logistics ships, and only one capital ship was the latest Seven Saint-class battleships installed in the Chinese Imperial Ocean Fleet. Because of the seven battleships of the Chinese Empire's ocean-going fleet, only this one is a battleship that can operate normally relatively well.

Although the shipbuilding industry of the Chinese Empire has developed rapidly, it still requires a long-term practical process for the production and manufacture of such "high-tech" products at the modern level.

Because the production of this newly designed warship is not so proficient, among the seven battleships with the latest design, only the "Monkey King" battleship has successfully passed the sea trials and actual combat exercises. In the course of sea trials and exercises, the other six warships all had problems of varying degrees.

The most serious of these was the terrible accident of the battleship "Covering the Sea" in the course of its first sea trials. The two main boilers actually exploded at the same time as soon as the battleship began to operate. If it weren't for the timely rescue, the thinly armored iron-hulled ship would probably have sunk in the sea.

This serious accident made some old workers at the Dalian shipbuilding base a little muttered about the military commission's naming of these warships. Many people have muttered to their wives at home, is it a bit inappropriate to name a warship after the big demon king in the seven gods and demons novel.

As a result, at the end of the Spring Festival, Wang Shuhui published a poem in the "People's Daily" after meeting Xu Tiancao, which put an end to the turmoil.

In this poem titled "Congratulations to the Shimabara People on the Victory of the Anti-Feudal Revolution" that Wang Shuhui copied from the old man Mao, Wang Shuhui used "white bone spirit" and "ghost" to describe the feudal rule of the Tokugawa shogunate over the people of the Japanese state.

On the one hand, he used "the golden monkey to rise up a thousand sticks, and Yuyu clarified thousands of miles." "To praise the victory of the people of Shimabara in their armed struggle against the reactionary government of the shogunate. On the other hand, he used "Hail Sun Dasheng today, only because the demon fog is coming back." It is pointed out that the action initiated by the Chinese Empire against the Tokugawa Shogunate at the request of the Unzen Kingdom was a righteous action to completely break the feudal oppression and exploitation of the people of the Wa Kingdom by the Tokugawa Shogunate.

The publication of this poem and Wang Shuhui's subsequent inspection of the Dalian Shipbuilding Base, during which he expressed his condolences and affirmation to the workers and technicians of the Dalian Shipbuilding Base, made the workers and technicians of the Dalian Shipbuilding Base completely relieved.

In particular, the Propaganda Department of the Chinese Empire took advantage of this turmoil to release a cartoon called "Havoc in Heaven" across the country, which set off a wave of "Monkey King" throughout China.

For a time, in the whole of China, the revised version of "Journey to the West" became completely popular. In the Boys' Army barracks across China, teenage students wearing Monkey King masks and their classmates playing with wooden sticks can be seen everywhere. The battleships of the Chinese Imperial Ocean Fleet, named the "Monkey King" by the Military Commission of the Chinese Empire, have also become the object of the people's pursuit of the whole country.

Things have to be looked at from two sides.

The "Monkey King" was loved by the people of the whole country, and the actions of the Chinese Empire against the Japanese were enthusiastically supported by the people of the whole country, which was a good thing for the Chinese Empire, but it was definitely not a good thing for the Tokugawa Shogunate, which ruled the Japanese Kingdom.

In the original historical time and space, the American warships, under the command of Commodore Perry, bombarded the country of the Japanese with huge ship cannons, which opened the prelude to the end of the shogunate. In this plane, the same thing will be done by the Chinese Empire.

In the fifties of the 19th century, the four "black ships" of the U.S. East India Fleet led by Commodore Perry, which were sought after by later generations of Japanese people, were very backward and shabby compared with the warships of the current naval fleet of the Chinese Empire.

In "Black Ship Attack", the most advanced flagship of the U.S. fleet is the backward out-wheeled fast sailing ship "USS Mississippi" with paddle wheel drive, a hybrid of sails and steam, a speed of only 8 knots, a full load displacement of only 3,220 tons, and a crew of only 380 people.

The fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy, which came to carry out the "Asian Co-prosperity" operation this time, not to mention the most powerful "Monkey King" with a displacement of 4,334 tons, 4,000 horsepower, a speed of 12 knots, a main gun caliber of 200 mm, and a propeller powered by full steam. Even the four troop carriers responsible for troop transport work are all advanced armed troop carriers with iron ribs and wooden hulls clad in iron, with a displacement of 5,000 tons, equipped with four or eight 150 mm cannons in the front and four in the rear, and rotating turrets.

If you really compare it, even the other second-class warships are much more advanced than Old Man Perry's black ship.

You must know that these second-class warships, all of which have a displacement of more than 3,000 tons, are equipped with a twin 200 mm caliber main turret, equipped with two front and two rear guns, four 150 mm caliber twin turrets, and eight powerful cruisers with 360-degree rotating cannons.

Although these warships, whether they are capital ships or cruisers, are "thin-skinned" (thin-armored), "small-mouthed" (small guns of small caliber), and "small factory" goods, it is important to know that this comparison is for the warships of another great power country in the late nineteenth century.

If you take the same things more than two hundred years ago, these things can only be more powerful and more invincible than the American black ships of the original time and space.

One battleship, six cruisers, one maintenance ship, four troop carriers, and a series of supply and coal carriers that were not included in the battle sequence, the Tokugawa shogunate had no way to respond effectively when this "huge" fleet appeared in Edo Bay.

In the original history, in July 1853 (the sixth year of Kaei), the commander of the U.S. East India Fleet, General Matthew Calbraith Perry (1794~1858), led four warships to the mouth of Edo Bay and threatened the shogunate with force.

The black modern ironclad warship in the fleet was the first time in the life of the Japanese people. Perry gave the shogunate a model train locomotive and a telegraph to show industrial civilization, but the shogunate could only show his strength by carrying the rice that was given back by the laborers. The arrival of Perry's fleet shocked the Japanese people, and they deeply felt the huge gap between the Japanese and foreign countries.

The Japanese called this incident "the coming of the black ship".

Since these four warships had a total of 63 cannons, and the range and firepower of the coastal defense guns in Edo Bay at that time were only about 20 guns, the shogunate did not dare to refuse the request for the opening of the country under the threat of opening fire without opening the country, but it was afraid that after accepting the credentials brought by Perry, it would be criticized by the whole country, so the chief of the shogunate at that time, Nakabe Masahiro, excused himself to obtain the emperor's approval before accepting the treaty, and agreed that Perry would reply in the spring of the following year.

In this time and space, the naval fleet of the Chinese Empire is countless times more powerful than Perry's fleet of black ships. The performance of the Imperial Chinese Navy was also more "direct" than that of the American Navy.

After destroying the Tokugawa shogunate's shabby coastal defense forts, and clearing the arquebus and bronze cannons of thousands of people sent to the beach to their deaths, four troop carriers carrying 2,000 Imperial Chinese marines and 18,000 southern Kyushu naturalized troops landed in Edo without any harassment or obstruction.

Unlike the wrecked descendants of the wreckage more than 200 years later, the Tokugawa shogunate led by Tokugawa Iemitsu was a vigorous feudal ruling group in the rising stage.

Tokugawa Iemitsu, a well-known gay man in his thirties, is on the rise of his career. Although Hokkaido, Shikoku, and Kyushu had been effectively occupied by the Chinese Empire, he still firmly controlled the entire Honshu and the main part of the Wa Kingdom.

Therefore, after facing the armed attack of the Chinese Empire, Tokugawa Iemitsu did not immediately wither like his wrecked descendants. Instead of immediately surrendering to the attack of the Chinese Empire, he continued to send more than 50,000 shogunate troops who had already gathered in the Edo region to the slaughterhouse again.

The main force of the army carrying out the "Asia Co-prosperity" mission is not the 2,000 soldiers of the Reconstruction Army Marine Corps who were transferred from the Minami-Kyushu Naval Base.

In order to test the actual combat capability of the naturalized Japanese troops that have undergone a year of formal training, the main force of this land battle is the soldiers of the "Loyal and Brave Army of the Chinese Empire," which is composed of naturalized Japanese soldiers from Satsuma, Osumi, Hinata, and other places in southern Kyushu.