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The production line with ten times the production capacity, this is not the excavation project when the river is repaired, you add ten times the manpower input, you can get ten times the output, even in the Guhe canal, ten times the manpower, many times, can only produce five or six or six or seven times the efficiency.

How much input, how much output, how much to pay, how much to gain, in the industrial field, sometimes, is not proportional, sometimes, one or two silver input, can be exchanged for a hundred taels of silver output, but sometimes, hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, it is just a waste!

Guangzhou's tinplate is already one of the most technologically advanced iron factories in the world, and it is likely to be the only one in the world to build a production line with ten times the capacity, which requires not slogans and spirit, but rigorous argumentation and practice!

Yang Meng's question, Li Mingfu didn't know how to answer, he was afraid that he wouldn't be able to do it, but who knew if he didn't do it?

"Mingfu, there is going to be a war recently, you know? Lao Tzu is going to fight a national war with Britain and France, and it is estimated that this war is about to start, and I don't know how long it will last! ”

His own requirements are a bit excessive, Yang Meng is clear, an iron plant from design, demonstration to construction, production, need to go a long way, some things are not what you want to do, strength, luck are indispensable things, however, the upcoming war needs a large number of anchor mines, and export and civilian use, but also to support the war can continue to carry on the economic guarantee, although there is a saying that fish and bear's paws can not have both, but in the future war. What Yang Meng wants is to take both!

"Know! Third Master. We don't have any difficulty with the equipment. No matter how big the rolling mill is, we can build it now, but the iron furnace is the key, ten times or more than ten times the iron furnace, it is difficult to say whether it can be completed, it takes time to do! ”

After listening to the words of the third master, Li Mingfu also felt a little pressure, but the pressure is pressure. The matter of building a new iron factory must be cautious and cautious, and the investment of tens of thousands of taels of silver is not a small expense, and Li Mingfu will not dare to do it with the silver.

"Lao Tzu's request is that on the premise of not delaying export and civil use, you Guangzhou Shipyard, Dawan Shipyard, and Xishan Academy will make the greatest efforts and speed to complete the design and planning of the new iron factory in the shortest possible time!

Lao Tzu is fighting a battle of blood and fire in the front, and you will also fight a war of foreign affairs in the rear!

Time. Now it is the most expensive thing, and the income of silver money is the guarantee that the war can continue. In the shortest possible time, put the things needed for the war into production, and meet the needs of the battlefield for factories and mines without affecting the profits, this is the Westernization war you want to fight!

The construction of guns, the improvement of artillery, and the logistical support, the soldiers are working the front line, and those of you who are in charge of foreign affairs also need to work hard in the rear.

The diving suits and improvised submarines just now, the tinplate and foreign medicine needed to make anchor mines, you must meet the needs of the battlefield in the shortest possible time!

If you are slow for a day, the front line may have to pay hundreds or thousands of lives, or even tens of thousands of people, and what is more valuable than human life?

In order to win this war, not only the soldiers on the front line need to fight for their lives, but also the people in your rear must also fight hard to win the victory in this war of foreign affairs!

Compared with the industrial base, maybe after three or five years, we will not be able to catch up with Europe and the United States and other countries, but compared to the population, given Europe and the United States a hundred years, they will not be able to catch up with us!

Make full use of the population advantage of the Qing Dynasty, which is also the only place where we have an absolute advantage now, make use of our strengths and avoid weaknesses, and win this war! ”

In the war, Yang Meng is not lagging behind the British and French coalition forces in terms of weapons, and even in Yunnan, Yang Meng still has a large number of equipment far beyond the British and French coalition forces in the warehouse, but this war is not enough for Yang Meng to fight to the death, many things, Yang Meng still intends to hide.

War is not only a hell of blood and fire, but also a university hall for countries to bring the level of military industry closer, many things, once used, there is no suddenness, for the number of more than 200,000 British and French troops, use their own secret weapons, so that the whole of Europe and the United States, into the tide of weapons reform, Yang Meng absolutely does not want.

Some weapons can not be used, then in the war, you can only fight for manpower and logistics, the existing weapons are not backward, which means that the war has a certain chance of winning, then the war has to fight for population, national strength and response speed.

The population of the Qing Dynasty is 40,000, which is an absolute advantage, and today's national strength is enough to deal with this big war, but the speed of response is something that Yang Meng and his new army lack.

The speed of response of military generals and the speed of logistics support, the former is a war of blood and fire, and the latter is a war of technology.

The Westernization War may be the key to this war, right? The original handicraft industry of the Qing Dynasty could not meet the needs of the war at all, except for grain production and countless soldiers, the war relied on the original structure of things, but for foreign affairs, the war had to rely on many things.

the construction of paper shells, shells, and weapons, and new weapons against the tactics of the Anglo-French forces; medicines, food, and armor to protect the lives of soldiers; The means of transportation to ensure the supply of the army, these are linked to foreign affairs, everything can not be on the battlefield in time, the success or failure of the war will be affected, and the lives of countless soldiers will be needed to make up for these shortcomings of foreign affairs.

"The third master, Mingfu and Guangzhou belong, must be desperate!"

The reason, what Yang Meng said is already very clear, Li Mingfu also felt the huge pressure brought about by the war, it seems that what Guangzhou belongs to is still far from enough!

"I love to hear this! Don't be afraid to spend money, try to improve speed and efficiency, don't be afraid to spend money, Lao Tzu is not letting you spend money unlimitedly!

I don't know how long this war will last? Limited funds, sufficient manpower, and scarce time are where you belong in Guangzhou. and the conditions that Xishan and Huang'e have. Under these conditions. Do as much as you can!

Maybe Lao Tzu's requirements are too high, but! If you can't do what Lao Tzu asks you to do, many, many people will die on the front line! In the battle of Bali Bridge, 200,000 people died before and after, and now in the area of Beijing, Lao Tzu has arranged more than 600,000 horses, and the follow-up people and horses may exceed one million!

The lives and deaths of these millions. It's in the hands of you people, once there is a loophole in logistics, there will be thousands of dead people on the front line, and these of Lao Tzu will be conveyed, and how many people will die on the front line is determined by the faction to which you belong!

In this war, Lao Tzu is afraid that he will use ironclad ships, what is the condition and performance of those ten ironclad ships? ”

After saying the truth, Yang Meng also began to pay attention to the details, and the anchor mine was not enough to block the Bohai Sea. What if you add the navy?

"What the third master said, Mingfu will definitely convey it to your colleagues! Third Master. Raising soldiers for a thousand days and using soldiers for a while, Guangzhou will live up to the trust of the three masters!

The ten ironclad ships we built used a two-rise engine on the steam engine, and the speed was comparable to that of a sail warship in the storm, but now Europe and the United States have a three-rise engine, although it is still not perfect, but its power and horsepower are more than the two-rise engine!

Today's Guangzhou shipyard is developing a three-rise machine suitable for ironclad ships, within half a year, Guangzhou shipyard will be the third master, come up with ten three-rise ironclad ships, 50 within three years, 100 within five years! ”

Li Mingfu's bold words are a cover in Yang Meng's eyes, it seems that the ironclad ship he worked so hard to plan still has weaknesses!

"Five years? Too long! To give you a year and a half, the more than 100 wooden-hulled sail merchant ships captured in Jinkou must all be converted into ironclad ships, did you forget what Lao Tzu just said? There are a lot of us, and when we built those ten ironclad ships, I am afraid that we already had a lot of mechanics in reserve, right?

Today's Guangzhou shipyard has more than 100,000 people, and then expand! Expand again! Lack of technology, manpower to make up! If 100,000 people are not enough, there will be 1 million, if 1 million is not enough, 10 million will be 10 million, and if 10 million is not enough, all the people in Jiangnan and Southwest will be mobilized!

Tens of thousands of people always have geniuses, there are always neat hands and feet, a year and a half, a hundred ironclad ships, whether the technology is mature or not, Lao Tzu doesn't care, Lao Tzu is in charge of offshore combat power!

Those dozens of sail battleships of the British and French forces, don't destroy them for Lao Tzu, they are useful! ”

The problem that Li Mingfu wants to cover up, Yang Meng probably knows, is nothing more than the range and stability of the ironclad ship, although the newly built ironclad ship took several years, but the Qing Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty! I don't have enough sailing experience, but it's impossible to turn an ironclad into a full-fledged technology in a short period of time!

However, now is not the time to take into account whether the technology is mature or immature, Yang Meng can ignore the combat power of the far sea, but the defense of the coastal sea must be done, and the defense of the near sea, just pointing at the fort, is simply impossible to complete!

The construction of countless coastal defense batteries along the sea frontier and the construction of 100 ironclad ships on the basis of wooden-hulled merchant ships cannot be compared with the manpower, material and financial resources invested.

Large-scale construction of coastal defense batteries, Yang Meng has to pay too much, and the effect will not be very large, for the sake of the fort, and the construction of a coastal army of millions of people is definitely not worth the loss!

The sea frontier of the Qing Dynasty is too long, and such a fort project cannot be completed within three or five years, tens of thousands of forts, hundreds of thousands of coastal defense cannons, millions of ordinary artillery, millions of artillery, enough earthwork for reclamation, such an investment, enough to build thousands of ironclad ships, a hundred ironclad ships, even if the technology is not mature, is a more cost-effective deal than building forts!

"Third master, I can't help it! The technology of this ship's steam engine is not complete, the boiler is very easy to explode, and it is limited to the amount of fresh water and coal on board, today's ironclad ships, it is difficult to sail far, without two or three supply ships, it is difficult for ten ironclad ships to patrol the Bohai Sea!

The speed of the ironclad ship is true, but the range is limited, in the naval battle, the ironclad ship and the supply ship can not cooperate well, and the ironclad ship is built in large quantities, our time is not ripe! ”

Under pressure, Li Mingfu also spit out the shortcomings of the ironclad ship, the British and French forces did not have ironclad ships, but why didn't they come to the Qing Dynasty? Flight limits! Supply is limited!

Now that more than 100 ironclad ships are being built, Li Mingfu can predict their future, and I am afraid that in a few years, they will be eliminated!

"Then don't fill the ship with fresh water, just use seawater! The steam engine can make fresh water, go to the fresh water tank, turn it into a coal bunker, so that the range of the ironclad ship can be at least doubled!

Remove the deck of the gunwales and change it to a coal bunker, and turn all the guns of the ironclad into deck guns, except for the two heavy guns, and add some auxiliary guns on the decks on both sides!

This ironclad ship, at the beginning of Lao Tzu's construction, was to destroy the sail battleship with deck main guns, and all the useless ones were removed to increase the amount of coal!

As for the problem of boiler explosion, we should hurry up and solve it, and if it can be solved, the 100 ironclad ships will use the new type of three-rise engine, and if it cannot be solved, the old type of two-rise engine will be used.

Coastal protection is the key, and these investments are beyond our reach! ”

For Yang Meng, it is not difficult for him to manage, these things are the problems that Guangzhou Shipyard, Dawan Shipyard, and Xishan Academy want to solve, as for him Yang Meng, he is just asking for it! The rest of the things, whether they succeed or not, have nothing to do with him!

As for whether it can be used or not, it is not his Yang Meng's matter, but the matter that Li Mingfu and others have to solve, what he wants is only a year and a half, on the basis of the wooden-hulled merchant ship, to transform a hundred ironclad ships with combat effectiveness, no less than sail warships, and can fight all weather! (To be continued......)