In general, the development of China is to make Liu Xian happy.

At present, China's steel production ranks fourth in the world, second to the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom; Coal production ranks third in the world, lower than the United States and the United Kingdom.

The country's total economic output ranks second in the world, second only to the United States, and has surpassed the United Kingdom in economic weight. Of course, this Britain is not connected with its vast colonies. If this is counted, Hugh said that it was Britain, and France would be able to crush China to the death. Germany can also be the best in China!

This year, the Italian Garibaldi-class armored cruisers also finally began to lay keels. But they only built one, apparently practicing their hands. At the same time, they are also buying the right to use Harvey armor with the Americans!

Harvey armor is the best armor that has just appeared on the market. In 1891 and 1892, all the armor-piercing shells that swept the United States and Britain were swept away, and the Kruber armor-piercing shells were defeated in the German test, and the shells were all broken, compared with the best composite steel armor before, it has a coefficient advantage of 2.0, that is, the previous Saxony-class armor belt is replaced with Harvey armor, and the thickness can be reduced by half with the same protective force!

As a result, Harvey's patent quickly became popular within the armor monopoly, and the five major British armor manufacturers, Italy's Terni, Austria's Witkowitz, and France's armor manufacturers all bought Harvey's patent.

No one knows that the Chinese make nickel alloy steel no weaker than Harvey armor, and no one knows that the Chinese are now working with Krupp to fund Hans to study their own carburized case-hardened nickel-chromium alloy steel process, and to study the Krupp armor steel that Liu Siam is familiar with. That's 6 inches of Krupp steel armor, which is equivalent to 16 inches of wrought iron armor. That's a factor equivalent to 2.66 times the thickness.

In the simplest language:

American Harvey Steel. Carburized case-hardened nickel alloy steel, 6 inches of Harvey armor defense is equivalent to 10 inches of composite armor.

German Krupp Steel. Carburized case-hardened nichrome steel, 6 inches thick Krupp armor is equivalent to 7.5 inches of Harvey steel armor. Or 12.5-inch composite armor, or 16-inch wrought iron armor.

It's really not something you know the name and can do with the money. This requires more foundation and sufficient scientific research strength! Otherwise, Liu Xian would be stupid and would partner with Krupp.

Therefore, these hard powers, coupled with the example of the Wehrmacht's defeat of Tsarist Russia, China's momentum in the past two years has become more and more powerful.

China has exploded four Garibaldi-class armored cruisers like dumplings, all of which are seven or eight thousand tons, especially these two improved ones this year, one with a displacement of 7,800 metric tons, and the other directly crossed the 8,000-ton threshold. The displacement reached 8,200 tons, and the full displacement went straight to 8,700 tons.

The effect of the flying shear bow is well documented, and the speed is a little faster than that of the original Garibaldi. The effect of a water-tube boiler is needless to say. Breaking through the pressure limit, it can meet the requirements of steam supply above 2.5MPa. Compared with fire-tube boilers, the only drawback is that they are larger. Under the same output, the shape and equipment weight are lower than that of the fire-tube boiler, and the volume is larger, and more space is required for the placement of superheaters.

The Chinese Navy built four armored cruisers of this tonnage in two years, and the United States hurriedly launched its own large armored cruisers. At the same time, there has been another wave of opposition to China in the United States. In Europe, the Yellow Peril theory and the China threat theory complement each other and appear in newspaper public opinion from time to time.

The next armored cruiser of the Chinese Navy. It is also the first ironclad battleship to break through the 10,000-ton class, and it is still under intense design. Not surprisingly, it's next summer. When the two armored cruisers of the year were all completed and launched, it was time to lay the keel.

Liu Xian was still ordering Shi Jingshan to hurry up the study of steam turbines. In Europe. In 1882, C.G. Pde Laval of Sweden built the first 5 hp (3.67 kW) single-stage impulse steam turbine. And solve the problems related to nozzle design and strength design. 1884 year. Britain's C.A. Parsons built the first 10 hp (7.35 kW) single-stage reactionary steam turbine. The turbine was leading the way in terms of power and efficiency at that time.

Liu Xian didn't have a whim, and at this time, he made a high-power steam engine wheel suitable for warships, and everything had to be done step by step, step by step. In the last decade of the 19th century, the great development of science and technology laid a solid foundation for the next breakthrough innovation of the world's navies.

China's medical care has also developed greatly. Liu Xian has money in his hands, and when he knows that the price of silver will fall, if the Qin consortium can't make money, it will really be a waste. What's more, South Africa's gold has also replenished the treasury over the years, don't look at China's fiscal deficit of 60 billion yuan, this does not mean that the country has no money, let alone Liu Xian himself has no money in his hands. Only the current capital of the Qin consortium is more than 100 billion. Banks, railways, electricity, machinery manufacturing, import and export trade, what to make money, what the Qin consortium does, by the way, there is also land. Now the assets are more than 100 billion Chinese dollars, which is really not much.

However, the money of the royal family is the emperor's, but the country's money is not the emperor's. This nature and concept are not the same.

Although the Chinese emperor has always claimed that the whole world is me, the establishment of the internal treasury was established in the Qin and Han dynasties. And how the Chinese court judges whether an emperor is wise or not, it is a very clear measure to see whether the emperor takes money from his own pocket to reward ministers and troops, spends himself, or takes money from the treasury to spend himself.

Liu Xian would not take money from the treasury, even if the royal family did not receive one percent of the royal legal income that year. But Liu Xian must open a white slip in the treasury. He has money in his hands!

Although the royal family's money will not be given to the treasury, the Hope Charity Foundation established by Liu Xian sows a lot of real money every year on education and medical care. Liu Xian established a number of medical schools and health schools, and organized Chinese and Western medical universities in China to jointly compile the "Handbook for Grassroots Doctors". He knew that in the early days of New China, the national health guidance manual with a circulation second only to the "Selected Works of Mao and Taizu" - the "Barefoot Doctor's Handbook". It has been translated into more than 50 languages and distributed all over the world. In the 21st century, the Barefoot Doctor's Handbook can still be found in English in bookstores in some Western countries.

Illustrated. It can be called a treasure book of "general practice medicine". From common cough and vomiting to complex cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and cancer; From the knowledge of disease prevention to the protection of nuclear weapons and biological weapons; From acupuncture and herbal medicine to commonly used Western medicine. Clear, simple and effective.

Liu Xian still remembers that Du Niang commented on this treasure book - at that time. It is very convenient for almost every city dweller to have such a book. At that time, children often made some small mistakes, and parents and adults were used to finding countermeasures from the manual, such as how to pinch the spine after accumulating food; What to do if you have chickenpox; What medicine to use for aphthous sores is learned from the manual.

In the past half century, it has not only made great contributions to solving the medical problems of hundreds of millions of people in the era of extreme poverty, but has also been a national health guidance manual for Chinese!

Extremely high rating, extremely valuable treasure book. It's a pity that Liu Xian didn't study medicine, and only read the catalog. When I was still a lady encyclopedia, I took a look.

At this time, Liu Xian summoned a group of Chinese and Western medicine masters. Asking these people to compile the content according to a table he has listed also requires that it be illustrated, clear, simple, and practical.

Chapter 1: Diagnosis and management of common symptoms

Chapter 2 Common Pediatric Diseases

Chapter 3 Emergency Treatment

Chapter 4: How to Prevent Disease

Chapter 5: How to Recognize and Treat Disease

Chapter 6: Acupuncture and Tuina

Chapter VII Western Medical Law

Chapter 8 Commonly Used Chinese Herbal Medicine

Chapter 9 Accidental Injury Rescue and Precautions

Chapter 10 Infectious Diseases

Chapter 11 Parasitic Diseases

Chapter 12 Internal Medicine Diseases

Chapter 13: Women's Diseases and Midwifery

Chapter XIV Surgical Diseases

Chapter 15 Traumatology

Chapter 16 Eye Diseases

Chapter 17 Otolaryngology and Oral Diseases

Chapter 18 Skin Diseases

Nineteen chapters appendice

This list is not something that Liu Xian can list alone, and this also includes the imperial doctors around him. It was also with the help of a few people that I got this out, covering almost all the problems that can be encountered in daily life.

The compilation of the book took a year. Then in the 16th year of Xinqin, it officially became a common book for all medical schools. And just like the "Barefoot Doctor's Handbook" in the original time and space, it quickly became a hit across the country.

Priced at only 12 yuan for a book, how many families can't afford it? Don't underestimate Liu's prestige in China. This book is his rallying man. If you invest in compilation, then the natural one is equivalent to making a big advertisement. It's like a set of CCTV propaganda at 19:58 every day in later generations. As soon as it was listed, 100,000 copies were printed in the first edition. It was snatched up by the people, and later reprinted several times. In the end, more than 2 million copies were printed, and that's for later.

Liu Xian should allocate 2 billion yuan to the following provincial capitals. It is dedicated to the construction of health schools, and in the future, he will also allocate funds to local villages to establish rural health stations and health points. Although he will not be angry that 95 percent of the country's medical force is concentrated in cities and towns, he is also concerned about the medical and health care of hundreds of millions of rural farmers.

And the village elementary school. There are at least 6 million school-age children in the country of 50,000,000 people who should go to school every year, and even if there are 300 students in a school, 20,000 schools are needed. But now there are 5,000 new primary schools in the country? Possibly. But it will definitely not reach 10,000. China's illiteracy rate remains high. In the United Kingdom, there is now a national compulsory education at the primary level.

This is where the gap between China and the old empires such as Britain and France lies. Although China's illiteracy rate has been declining in recent years, falling below 70 percent, Liu Xian felt very uncomfortable after watching the progress of the new education in Japan.

As early as the year when Liu Siam repaired Little Japan, in 1873 (Meiji 6), there were 12,558 new-style elementary schools in Japan, with 25,531 teachers and 1145802 students. The enrolment rate of school-age children is close to 30 percent, but after 20 years of development, the enrolment rate of school-age children in Tokyo exceeded 50 per cent last year, of which 66.72 per cent were males and 32.23 per cent were females. These two figures are far higher than those of China today. Of course, in terms of overall and high-end technology, Japan is far inferior to China today. Otherwise, there would not be so many Japanese students studying in China.

Don't look at the fact that China has completely suppressed Japan now, but if the current situation continues, if the north and south of Japan are not unified in a hundred years, it is really possible that they will become the Netherlands and Belgium in Asia. (To be continued......)