"It's your turtle grandsons!"

After receiving the telegram from London, Tang Haoran scolded hatefully, and now someone finally bites into that piece of fat, although he has long been mentally prepared, he still can't help but scold.

Is it easy to do something these days?

Not to mention that the dark and decaying "I Daqing" is difficult, even in the so-called "free world", there are also a group of wolf-like guys staring, here is just a little bit of something, and people over there will remember it, eager to eat it clean with meat and bones.

But what can be done if the strength is not good?

Tang Haoran was not naïve enough to think that the British would sit idly by and watch South African mining companies become assets for Asians, and that the best, if not the only option, for him was to sell their shares when their stock prices were at their highest.

In history, the stock market value of the gold mining companies in the Whitewater Ridge area exceeded 300 million pounds at its peak, but the second Boer War destroyed a qiē, although Britain won the war, the Transvaal and the Orange Republic became history, but the South African gold mining company was not brilliant, the Boer War not only consumed the wealth of the British Empire, but also squeezed the bubble of the South African gold mines, from a speculative industry to a real industrial and commercial industry, its market value after the Boer War was only more than 40 million pounds, Not even a fraction of what it was at its high value.

It is precisely because of this period of history that Tang Haoran regards the South African gold mine as a "cow", a cow that can provide him with huge amounts of money, and constantly sells shares of mining companies through guò to obtain huge funds. to support the industrial construction of the Special Zone. There is even armament building.

"Looks. The oil field has to wait a little longer! ”

After calming down, Tang Haoran's lips sighed helplessly, the oil field in his heart refers to the Borneo oil field closest to China, before the discovery of Daqing oil field, Borneo oil field is the largest oil field east of Iran, and even it is the Borneo oil field that has achieved the famous "Shell Oil" in the "Seven Sisters of Oil", Tang Haoran, who knows the importance of oil, will naturally not give up this large oil field that is extremely important to China and also contains huge wealth. Originally, Tang Haoran had included the oil field in the "development plan", but now he has to abandon this plan for the time being, given the example of the mining company.

"Before a strong navy, there is no ...... at all"

Navy!

Thinking of these two words, Tang Haoran thought of the Russo-Japanese naval battle that took place in the Pacific Ocean, the scale of the naval battle was not large, it was only a small-scale naval battle, but the Japanese Navy's latest cutting-edge "Chiyoda" protective cruiser was sunk in the naval battle, and the "Naniwa" was also heavily damaged. The current Japanese Navy is far from being able to compare with the huge Russian Navy. It is even more impossible to compare with the Russian Pacific Fleet, after losing a cruiser, the weak Japanese Navy does not even have the courage to go to sea to fight, while the strength of the Russian Pacific Fleet is constantly expanding, and now the Japanese Navy has even become a Beiyang naval division in another time and space, and in the face of a powerful enemy force, it has to choose to "avoid war and protect the ship."

The war changed many things. Originally, this year, Guangxu would approve the "Please Stop Purchasing Ship Machinery and Reducing the Yongying Fold" submitted by his teacher, the leader of the Qing School and the head of the household department, Weng Tongyong, to control the Yellow River The funds are not enough, and the announcement of stopping the import of ship artillery should be this month, but after Russia declared war on Japan, although it seems that the external pressure has dropped sharply on the surface, Li Hongzhang, who knows that Weng Tonggong will never let go of this opportunity to go to the "Please Stop Purchasing Ship Machinery and Reduce the Yongying Fold" again, did not sit still.

In the midst of some controversy, not only did the "Please Stop Purchasing Ships and Armaments" that was supposed to be approved this month was gone, Li Hongzhang even won 4 million taels of coastal defense expenses a year for the construction of warships, and also approved an additional "coastal defense donation."

With this amount of money, Li Hongzhang immediately said that Beiyang would build two combat ships and four cruisers, and this huge order immediately attracted the attention of Britain and Germany, and the two countries launched various tricks to try to seize this huge order. In Tang Haoran's view, if nothing else, this order is likely to be divided equally between Britain and Germany.

Not only did the great god have a benefit, but even the note and himself have all benefited, and the household department released 1 million taels of silver as a special fund for military training of the Korean Unified Supervision Office, which is not much, and the key is in the name of military training, especially in the name of training the navy.

"Navy!"

Saying this word, although the coast guard school is still "preparing", as for the major from Majifen who is still training senior sailors for Beiyang shipping in the coastal waters, he can face the "pressure" of the Beiyang Naval Division, especially in the face of the Beiyang Naval Division, which suddenly expanded several times after a few years, but Tang Haoran had to put the matter of preparing for the Navy on the agenda.

In the past, there was no name, but now there is a name, only ...... Or do you want to squeeze some money out of it? Faced with a "sudden" huge sum of money, Tang Haoran, who had been suffering from insufficient funds, suddenly had the idea of founding a navy.

Beiyang Shipyard, which is the first modern shipyard engaged in shipbuilding and maintenance on the Korean Peninsula, although it has just been established, it can be talked about the factory equipment and technology is first-class in East Asia - the equipment in the shipyard is the first-class shipbuilding equipment made in the United Kingdom, in addition to the shipyard equipment, it also has two large docks up to 150 meters long, which are standard modern docks equipped with various power pipes and auxiliary equipment such as lifting, rust removal, painting and boat leading.

Since the completion of the two large docks, they have also been called "the largest docks in the Far East", but their "largest" names will soon be replaced by the Nos. 3 and 4 docks in the factory, and the two medium-sized docks will be converted into a large 700-foot dock for future maintenance or construction of large ships, and the slipway will be expanded accordingly.

In addition to the hardware facilities, most of the 2,600 workers in the shipyard are skilled craftsmen hired from Hong Kong, Shanghai and other places, so that almost as soon as the shipyard is built, it began to undertake the shipbuilding task - two 1,000-ton coal carriers ordered by the Beiyang Shipping Company.

Unlike other shipyards in East Asia, the steel raw materials required for shipbuilding at Incheon Shipyard come from the Seoul Machinery and Steel Factory, and then the wrought iron workshop of the shipyard makes iron plates and iron ribs for shipbuilding. Although the two iron-hulled ships are not advanced, they also made the Beiyang Shipyard officially open.

The two brick stoves next to the dock are blazing, there are countless palm-long, finger-thumb-thick rivets burned red in the stove, the workers continue to pick the picks and nails with the fire to pick the smoldering stove into the dock, the workers wearing asbestos gloves, take out the fiery hot rivets, stand on the side of the feet, "Hi! With a sound, the fiery rivets were thrown high, and the partners who worked on the shelves more than several meters high caught the rivets accurately and quickly inserted the rivets into the connecting holes of the iron frame while they were hot.

"Bell, bell, bell......"

The workers with the pneumatic rivet gun constantly hit the fiery rivets, and the red rivets were deformed and rounded under the hammering of the rivet gun, and an iron plate several meters long was fixed to the keel under the connection of the rivets.

Standing on the edge of the dock, witnessing the merchant ships being manufactured in the dock, Tang Haoran's brows were frowning from time to time, and the reason why he frowned was not because the shipyard, which had invested more than 2 million yuan in total, had only built a 326-ton small steamboat, nor because these two thousand-ton coal carriers were a "breakthrough" for the shipyard.

As an engineering student, Tang Haoran naturally knows what is step by step, and cannot blindly seek speed, otherwise it will inevitably backfire, because of this, the steam engines and boilers of these two coal carriers will be imported from Britain and France, and then assembled by the shipyard, and the steam engines and boilers are assembled by the shipyard, and the steam engines and boilers are assembled by the workers to familiarize themselves with their structures, and finally the steam engines and boilers are designed and produced with the help of foreign technicians.

The reason why I frown is because it relies on the process of riveting the ship plank, not only is it riveted here, but anywhere else in the Special Economic Zone, where the steel structure is used, rivets are used, and how long does it take to hit a rivet?

Looking at the workers who were desperately rushing for time to beat the rivets while the rivets were not cooling, Tang Haoran naturally thought of shipbuilding in later generations, to be precise, welding. Compared with riveting, welding can not only save man-hours, but also save a lot of metal materials, which can not only effectively reduce shipbuilding costs, but also reduce man-hours.

"Electric welding, electric welding......"

Manual arc welding is the most common shipbuilding technology even in the 21st century, and in World War II, not only the free wheel was welded by workers with arc welding guns, and the free wheel was welded with welding rods, battleships and cruisers were also welded by it.

"Arc welding has been invented!"

Thinking of the introduction I read in a British scientific magazine a few months ago, Russian shipyards use arc welding to repair steam engines, Tang Haoran's eyes are bright, if electric welding is introduced into shipbuilding, then not only can speed up the speed, but also reduce the cost of shipbuilding, the only problem that needs to be solved is...... It was not until the Swedes invented this electrode in 1907 that arc welding slowly became popular, and it was quickly popularized all over the world because of its simple technology and ease of use.

Silently recalling the contents of electrode manufacturing and coating formula design in the electric welding knowledge he had read in the school library, just when Tang Haoran wanted to take a piece of paper to write down the formula of the coating, the words around him interrupted his thoughts.

"My lord, did Ni Zhong touch it?" (To be continued......)