It is also a common practice in various countries to fish out the sunken warships and reuse them, and the Japanese actually captured the Zhenyuan ship and incorporated it into the combined fleet during the First Sino-Japanese War. In 1912, the Japanese dismantled the Zhenyuan, but the beasts humiliated the Chinese by placing the anchor and chain of the Zhenyuan in Ueno Park, Tokyo.

In addition, it is rumored that the Japanese even removed some parts from the Zhenyuan ship and made houses, and the heroic spirits who died with the ship wept day and night in a foreign country, which is simply outrageous. Feng Shui took turns, and in the battle with the Feng army, the Japanese also lost two battleships, and they were both big guys of more than 30,000 tons, which were more shocking than the Zhenyuan ship.

At the end of the war, Zhang Tinglan immediately ordered the King Kong and Kirishima to be fished out, and after several months of hard work, the two large ships were finally out. Among them, the King Kong was relatively badly damaged, it had been blown up from the middle, and it lost its value, so it was only treated as scrap steel and recycled.

However, according to the practice of the Japanese, Zhang Tinglan also sent the iron anchor and chain of the King Kong to the Fengtian Military Museum at that time, and after entering the Central Plains, it was sent to the National Military Museum, and used the steel of the King Kong to smelt ten exquisite accessories and gave them to the meritorious officers of the navy.

As for the Kirishima, due to the sinking off the coast of Arthur, the hull damage was very serious, but it did not damage the structure, and there was still use value, and the huge hull remained in the Arthur shipyard, and Chinese engineers also studied the battleship many times to find out the weaknesses of the Japanese warship.

Wu Yulin said to Zhang Tinglan with a smile: "Vice President, in the past, we wanted to repair the Kirishima to fill the gap in our sea liliang, but because the power system of large warships cannot be produced in China, this wish has not been realized." Just over a year ago, we finally made progress. It's a fluke to say that the Kirishima was successfully repaired. ”

The power system of a large warship is not an easy thing, to make tens of thousands of tons of behemoths, fast and stable driving on the sea, the material, the process, there are quite a few countries, Shijie can produce large warship power equipment only a handful, although Germany has a similar jishu, but due to the problem of the Mackensen. The Entente had tightened its restraint on Germany, and large equipment was not allowed to be exported to China.

The shipyards had no choice but to turn to other areas, and they targeted General Electric in the United States. In the later generations of the famous general, at this time was not the most important military enterprise.

They were responsible for supplying the US Navy warships with steam turbines, and the Americans were also faced with two options. One is a reactionary steam turbine and the other is an impulse steam turbine. The reactionary steam turbine was the jishu scheme of the early steam turbines. Because it's relatively simple and easy to implement. The representative is the British steam turbine.

However, the reactionary jishu is relatively simple, but its disadvantage is that it is difficult to increase the power. Instead of being reactionary, GM adopted the impulsive one. Later marine steam turbines were all impulse steam turbines, which were more efficient. However, the Americans encountered the problem of strong vibration at high speeds, and the relationship between the high speed of the impeller and the vibration was not fully understood on the jishu, and the general-purpose impulse steam turbine was not mature. It has become a chicken rib that is not high or low.

The American battleships are all slow turtles, but the Americans have to adopt them in order to encourage domestic production, in fact. In any industrial country, there is such a process.

After some trade-offs, although the Americans' gadgets are flawed, this is already the only realistic choice, if it is perfect and good, people may not sell it to you. Therefore, Wu Yulin gritted his teeth and introduced a full set of jishu and production lines from GM.

The deal was completed in 1923, and after getting it back, the Chinese side hired a large number of ship power experts from Germany to carry out joint research, but it was just at a loss and there was no progress. A paper published by the Englishman Wilfred Campbell at the American Society of Mechanical Engineers solved the problem of rotor rotation stability at high speed. It has played a crucial role in the development of contemporary impulse steam turbines.

General Motors relied on his achievements to make rapid progress in impulse steam turbines. At this time, GM felt regretful, but there was no way, their full set of jishu had fallen into the hands of China, and because of this layer of window paper, the Chinese side also instantly figured out the key.

And thanks to the help of a large number of German experts, China has not only trained its scientific research team, but also made hundreds of improvements. At the time of the launch of the Mukden, the Chinese side finally made decisive progress in the power of large ships.

All of a sudden, China threw off Japan in this field and squeezed into the ranks of shijie. However, because there was no actual verification, Wu Yulin did not dare to rashly use it on the new ship, but chose to repair the Kirishima first and practice his hands.

After the repair, the Kirishima had its armor strengthened and a large number of anti-aircraft weapons were added, making the battleship a true fire hedgehog, and its displacement was increased by 3,000 tons, reaching 39,000 tons at full load.

However, due to the replacement of the new steam turbine, it reached 125,000 shaft horsepower, and during the sea trial, the speed reached 30 knots, which has exceeded the original design data.

After listening to the introduction, Zhang Tinglan was also extremely happy, it was not easy to take advantage of the Americans these days, and the new Kirishima not only took advantage of the Americans, but also slapped the Japanese in the face, which was really a great pleasure.

"Vice President, now that the Kirishima has been repaired, please change its name and officially join the naval formation, we can't wait!"

Zhang Tinglan also smiled and nodded: "I think it's called Changbai Mountain, and in the future, we will build battleships and battlecruisers, all of which are named after famous mountains." ”

"Vice President, are you saying that battleships are still going to be built?" Wu Yulin stared at the boss, after all, Zhang Tinglan also said that he would also focus on the development of aircraft carriers, and if he built more battleships, I am afraid that the funds would increase again.

"What warships to build depends on strategic needs, and at the beginning, the main consideration was to fight in coastal waters, which may be protected by shore-based aircraft, and the aircraft carrier formation does not need battleship escort. But now that Borneo has been taken, our navy has a mission, which is to maintain the security of the South China Sea routes. With a distance of more than 2,000 nautical miles, the island's terrain is very complicated, and there is no battleship to escort me, so I am worried that the aircraft carrier is too vulnerable. ”

Shen Honglie nodded frequently when he heard this: "The vice president's consideration is reasonable, in fact, building a battleship does not necessarily waste too much money, we position the battleship as the bodyguard of the aircraft carrier, the firepower does not need to be particularly prominent, as long as the speed can keep up and the protection is about the same, it is completely competent, and the main attack task is still handed over to the aircraft." ”

"That's right." Zhang Tinglan said: "The battleship shipyard will start to design, but it will not be able to start building after the aircraft carrier is launched. ”

Wu Yulin also nodded hurriedly, he was in charge of naval armaments, and the more he paid attention to it, the more funds he would get, and the happier he would be.

"Vice President, we have designed a new generation of aircraft carriers, with a standard displacement of 23,000 tons, a full load displacement of 27,500 tons, a flight deck length of 260 meters, a speed of 31 knots, capable of carrying 70 aircraft, and 90 in wartime."

Wu Yulin said and sent the drawings to Zhang Tinglan, and then continued: "This class of aircraft carriers is the first stage officially built in China, everything is mainly safe, and the main role is to accumulate jishu, so the tonnage has not been directly increased to more than 30,000 tons. However, looking around the United States, Japan and other countries, they have not yet officially built a truly large aircraft carrier, and at this point, we are again ahead of the curve. ”

Zhang Tinglan's mind turned the data of some early aircraft carriers, such as Japan's Soryu-class, the United States' Yorktown-class, and Wasp-class, and their displacement was also around 20,000 tons, or even less than 20,000 tons. With the current situation of carrier-based aircraft, a 20,000-ton aircraft carrier is enough, of course, by the time of World War II, it will be somewhat outdated.

But it doesn't matter if it's outdated, Zhang Tinglan is not ready to let these two aircraft carriers serve until World War II, such as the ambitious Italy, or Germany after the mustache took power, if there are aircraft carriers, it may bring greater losses to the West.

The Americans dare to claim the arsenal of democracies, and China will be the logistics department of the Nazis to see who can play whom. Zhang Tinglan had secretly made up her mind.

"The navy can increase investment, Lushun, Qingdao, and Jiangnan shipyards are all moving, and in addition to aircraft carriers, the rest of the escort ships and logistics supply ships must also speed up the construction. As for funding, you don't have to worry about it, it comes out of the Borneo Development Fund. ”

This so-called Borneo Development Fund is actually a huge loan borrowed from banks after the establishment of South China with the land and resources on the island, totaling more than one billion. For South China, the stronger China's navy is, the safer it will be, so it is a very natural choice to support the development of China's navy.

Zhang Tinglan stayed in Lushun for three days, and finally decided to build two aircraft carriers, four heavy cruisers, ten light cruisers, and five oil tankers. This huge order is scattered, and the entire military industrial enterprises are rejoicing, and there are thousands of shipbuilding supporting enterprises, and this order can at least increase hundreds of thousands of jobs.

After arranging everything, Zhang Tinglan hurriedly returned to Beijing, and as soon as he arrived in Beijing, Wang Yongjiang took the initiative to find him.

"In a humble way, I put forward a suggestion, that is, to encourage the country to marry Nanyang women and achieve national integration as soon as possible, I think this method is good. Just a Borneo, there are millions of natives, if they are all killed, not only will they attract criticism, but also a loss, I think it is better to use it, young and strong men try to consume them, and the old people will let them fend for themselves, and those children, they will fully receive Chinese education, as for women, they will try to intermarry, and within a few decades, they will all become mixed-race, and the ethnic problem will be solved. (To be continued......)