"Knock Knock ......"

The sound of nails in the dock echoes day and night, although it seems to be a voice, but if you savor the dry sound of various machinery such as pneumatic rivet guns, drilling machines, cutting machines, etc., it is all like music, and it seems to store a rhythm, a rhythm full of energy, which symbolizes the power of industry. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

After nearly three years of development, the Incheon shipyard at this time has disappeared from the initial shabby, as the first and basic shipyard of Beiyang Shipbuilding, from the beginning of its planning and establishment, the company has invested a lot of money, so that it can introduce the latest technology and new equipment, and even unprecedented large-scale docks, slipways to lay the foundation for future development, and the relatively abundant funds enable it to introduce technology and personnel from Europe and the United States to make up for its own shortcomings, after the follow-up large-scale investment and expansion, At this time, the Incheon Shipyard gradually formed a modern factory with a complete ship development and construction system.

However, although the shipyard has the most modern shipbuilding equipment in East Asia, it initially focused on ship repair, and it was not until Beiyang Shipping adopted coal carriers and passenger and cargo ships that it really entered the shipbuilding industry. After the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War last year, the Incheon Shipyard received an export order for the first time to export merchant ships to Russia, and in the process, warships of the Russian Navy also went to Incheon for repair and maintenance.

It was the large amount of maintenance work that made the workers of the Incheon shipyard understand the warship, and it was at this time that the plan to build a 1,000-ton gunboat was put on the design room of the shipyard, which also meant that the shipyard began to enter its main business - building ships! The goal of the Beiyang shipbuilding industry is not only to be able to build gunboats and cruisers, but also to be able to build capital warships

Undoubtedly, in this day and age. Battleships are the most deterrent and complex of all warships. The requirements for construction conditions are undoubtedly the most stringent. At the same time, there are also extremely high requirements for the design and manufacturing capabilities and integration capabilities of armament, armor, power plant, hull and other subsystems, and the equipment of Incheon Shipyard is precisely planned from the construction of warships.

However, limited by technology, more accurately limited by experience, this shipyard that can build battleships until today only builds small warships such as merchant ships, gunboats and lightning ships, and even the "Pingbo" class armored cruisers that the shipyard and the navy hope for are only a few "small cruisers" of more than 2,800 tons.

For the Incheon shipyard, though. Building small warships is undoubtedly accumulating experience for future development, and sometimes, the accumulation of experience can be obtained through other channels.

"This plan is a bit too conservative!"

William? Shi Si, the chief engineer who graduated from the Rapau School of Naval Engineering, the only ship engineering school in Germany, looked at the plan proposed by Stenger and put forward his idea straightforwardly.

"Now the shipyard has a large dock and the corresponding slipway and berth, it seems that the shipyard is newly built, and the workers are inexperienced, but don't forget that in addition to the thousands of workers hired from Hong Kong, there are more than 400 shipbuilders hired from Britain and Germany......"

In order to master shipbuilding technology as soon as possible. In addition to recruiting workers directly from Hong Kong, Shanghai and other places, the company even hired extremely experienced shipbuilders directly from Europe at any cost. It was those excellent workers who made it possible for the shipyard to now build large merchant ships of 5,000 tons.

Unlike the European and American technical experts hired by the company, most of these workers have now applied for Chinese citizenship – the price of succession, and the European workers hired by the company often only sign five-year contracts, after which they need to return to China. But the lucrative pay, especially the stable work and pension system, appealed to some of these workers, who wanted to get a permanent job, like the Chinese workers, rather than waiting outside the shipyard gates every once in a while, as in England – at this time, European shipyards, and even some factories, adjusted their demand for workers according to the volume of production, so that many workers had to travel back and forth between factories, even if they were familiar with them.

In contrast, the stable, pension-based jobs in the factories of the subsidiaries of the Beiyang Company are also so attractive to these foreign visitors that many technicians choose to exchange for long-term contracts by naturalization after working for a period of time.

If the introduction of industrial product patents and foreign technicians in the factory, so that the factory has mastered the knowledge of various manufacturing aspects such as production process, metal processing, quality control, etc., then these skilled workers have brought indispensable manufacturing experience to the factory, and even to a very extent, it is those skilled foreign technicians who have ensured the processing level and product quality of hundreds of new factories.

Now the reason why Shi Si will directly point out the "flaws" in the Stenge plan is based on the 400 skilled craftsmen in the shipyard, who have participated in the construction of the "Zhenyuan" ironclad ship and the construction of the Brandenburg-class ironclad ship, but he has a reason for saying this.

"Even in Germany, in the shipyards of Szczecin, when the Brandenburg-class ironclads were being built, the factory had only about 100 skilled workers at most, and the rest of the workers were recruited entirely from outside the factory gates, and although there were skilled workers among them, a considerable number of them had almost zero experience......

Shi Si said that no company in the world will employ a large number of workers for a long time like Beiyang, and in some factories it is because of long-term production, while at the Incheon shipyard, which has nearly 10,000 workers, it only needs 3,000 people to meet the current production needs, but they have hired three times as many workers. In order for these workers to gain work experience, they actually work less than 18 hours a week, and the rest of the work is spent more on studying. However, the additional workers are hired on a subsidized basis from the government.

It was this kind of worker cultivation that made Shi Si full of confidence in the Incheon shipyard, believing that he could build larger warships, and even build capital warships. Provided, of course, that they are willing to build their own. In fact, as a shipbuilding engineer sent by the company to China, Shi Si is more eager to show his value to the company by building a type of warship.

Shi Si and his more than 30 colleagues were not hired by the Beiyang Company, but were sent by the German company in the form of technology exchange, and they would assist the Beiyang Company in mastering the technology of shipbuilding and machinery production, while the German company obtained a variety of technologies, including low-alloy steel and carburizing technology.

However, the Germans did not send the best engineers, but chose the best engineer from Rudolf? Huck was always the "deputy chief engineer" of the ship engineer. If you were an ordinary engineer, you might simply look at "overseas work" in the past five years.

However, for Shi Si, a ship engineer who has been hidden in the shadow of the "giant" for the past ten years, he regards these five years as an opportunity, and even thinks that this may be his last chance to realize his life dream, as long as he seizes this opportunity, he can become the best ship engineer in Germany, instead of hiding in the shadow of the giant.

"Since there is no problem with the equipment and experience, then why be so conservative?"

Looking at the sketch of the 6,500-ton armored cruiser on the table, Shi Si felt that Stenge was too conservative, just as the "Pingbo-class" cruiser was a smaller version of the Amiralcharner-class armored cruiser, and the large armored cruiser designed was just an enlarged version of the Amiralcharner-class armored cruiser.

A copy without any novelty at all!

"Not conservative, but safe!"

Facing Shi Si's rhetorical question, Shi Tenge took out a cigarette from the cigarette case on the table, lit it silently, and then expressed his concerns.

"I also know that now the equipment, workers, and even technology of the shipyard can meet the needs of building capital warships, but ......"

After a slight pause, Stengge took a deep puff of his cigarette.

"Things are not so simple, according to the introduction of the Japanese engineers in the shipyard, when they built Itsukushima, although there was the guidance of French technicians, but still encountered a lot of technical problems, although it was not completed, but they believe that its quality is far from comparable with the Matsushima built by the French, each ton of warships costs a few hundred yuan, it is better to build two armored cruisers to test, it is better than building two battleships for testing, so slowly, although it is a little slower, but the risk is also very small......

Stengge's idea is very simple, since it is just an attempt, then save some money, and the two cruisers are only 13,000 tons, and the money saved is enough to build a capital ship, and when the experience is accumulated, it is not too late to mount the battleship, at least it will not cause too much economic pressure on Fuzhong.

Of course, more importantly, the cruiser has never been the main force of the fleet, so naturally it does not need to shoulder heavy responsibilities, but the battleship is different, it is not only the main force of the fleet, but also the symbol of the fleet, and naturally needs to shoulder heavy responsibilities, and how can a poor-quality battleship shoulder heavy responsibilities in a war?

On the other hand, because the shipyard has built the "Jinghai" armored cruiser under the guidance of French technical experts, it has gained some experience in building a 4,700-ton warship, and it is undoubtedly more prudent to build a 6,500-ton warship.

Undoubtedly, Stengge's idea is very realistic and extremely feasible, and even this is also the normal development process of the shipbuilding industry in various countries, which is to move step by step from building small ships to large ships, and gradually complete the accumulation of technology.

But Shi Tenge's explanation could not convince Shi Si, and before Shi Tenge could finish speaking, he interrupted him.

"But the question is, did someone else leave you so much time?"

(Double 11, Singles' Day, when did this day become a carnival of consumption...... Hey, let's return to its essence and let the big guy "strip naked" today, male and female singles are a couple! Happy Singles' Day to all...... (To be continued.) )