While Xu Jie was busy maneuvering between Italy and Germany, Beiyang's war preparations were also in full swing in early 1891. After more than a year of preparation (from the end of 1889, before Xu Jie left Beiyang. ）。 The Gun Production Department of the Tianjin Machinery Bureau finally decided to switch to the 1889 series of light weapons invented by Xu Jie, except for retaining the maintenance capacity of some other guns that had been in service in large quantities. And began to produce grenades, mines and other explosives. After the newly established artillery production department introduced the German Krupp 75MM line gun production line, with the help of German technicians and some technicians from the Jiangnan Bureau, the Beiyang Artillery Production Department was finally able to mass-produce 75mm guns and began to try to produce 12-pounder rapid-fire guns for ships. The Picric Acid Explosives Factory and the Silent Gunpowder Factory in Weihai, Tianjin, finally began small-batch trial production in early 1891 after one year of preparation.

Echoing Beiyang, Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau and Jinling Manufacturing Bureau have also begun to transform. When Ding Yuqian sent Xu Jie's replacement of the gun to Liu Kunyi with a little polish, Liu Kunyi was definitely very reasonable, why did he say that this feudal official who didn't understand foreign affairs would also agree with Xu Jie's point of view? First of all, Liu Kun has a tendency to follow the trend, after seeing that there are 2 ironclad ships in Dingzhen in Beiyang, he also wants to have such one, at least he thinks it looks good, and when he sees the large-scale replacement of British Armstrong guns in Beiyang, Liu Kun is naturally very dissatisfied when he sees that he is still a backward annealed artillery, and after seeing Ding Yuqian's folds, he also feels that these old guns that are almost smoothed out should be replaced, and then he patted his head, and it was decided. Another reason is that when Beiyang's order came, the two major design bureaus could not change their ways. When Ding Ruchang handed over the spare bombs of the Beiyang ships. When Zhang Peilun sent the quality assessment of the artillery shells produced by the Tianjin Machinery Bureau for Beiyang to Lao Li, one of the folds said that there was an extreme lack of high-explosive shells, and the other fold said that the shells produced by the Tianjin Machinery Bureau were unqualified. These two folds directly made Lao Li's blood pressure jump by no less than 30!! On the one hand, I don't know when the war will start, and on the other hand, my own fleet is not even enough shells!! How can this keep Lao Li from getting angry. In a fit of anger, Lao Li decided to take advantage of the opportunity to change the guns on the one hand to store some shells for the new guns of the Beiyang Fleet, and on the other hand, Lao Li straightforwardly said two things to the newly appointed assistant of the Tianjin Machinery Bureau, (the meeting office is the name of Xu Jie, although it is the assistant but directly directs the domestic production of the Tianjin Machinery Bureau. The first thing was that the former assistant of the Tianjin Machinery Bureau "contracted the disease and died" in prison. The second thing is that Beiyang recently wants to order a batch of ammunition from the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau and the Jinling Manufacturing Bureau, if the Tianjin Machinery Bureau can't come up with a better product, from the assistant to the staff will be ready to go home to see the children!! When Beiyang's order was placed in the Jiangnan Bureau, the meeting offices of the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau and the Jinling Manufacturing Bureau seemed to be stunned by the gold nuggets.

While the construction and production of military factories were in full swing, the major fleets of the Qing Dynasty were not idle, and the eight major fleets of Beiyang were all improved accordingly. The 12-inch 25L gun in Dingzhen will eventually be replaced by the 12-inch 35L long gun of the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau. The artillery has been shipped, the blueprints have been completed, and the construction is just waiting. THE 150MM KRUPP GUN IN THE BOW AND STERN WAS DISMANTLED AND REPLACED WITH A BRITISH 6-INCH RAPID-FIRE GUN. In the place where the torpedo boats were originally placed, it was planned to install three 6-inch rapid-fire guns. Although the construction is a little more difficult, considering the demand for combat power, Lao Li still decided to install these three 6-inch guns. IN THIS WAY, THE SIDE-FIRE OF THE DINGZHEN REACHED FIVE 6-INCH GUNS AND 2 12-INCH GUNS, AND AT THE SAME TIME, THE 75MM SAMPAN GUNS ON THE BATTLESHIP WERE REPLACED BY 75MM RAPID-FIRE GUNS. Although it seems a bit nondescript after the improvement, the combat power has indeed been greatly improved. At the same time, part of the boiler was replaced, and the speed was increased to about 14 knots. Zhiyuan and Jingyuan, as the most advanced protective cruisers in Beiyang, are also the focus of this improvement. IN ADDITION TO REPLACING THE 210MM KRUPP GUNS AT THE END WITH THE NEW ARMSTRONG 8-INCH 40L TUBE GUNS, THE SIDE CHORDS ALSO ADDED AN EAR MOUNT, AND ALL 6-INCH RAPID-FIRE GUNS WERE USED, AND THE SIDE-CHORD FIREPOWER REACHED AN ASTONISHING 3 8-INCH GUNS AND 2 6-INCH GUNS, AND AT THE SAME TIME, THE NUMBER OF 57MM AND 47MM GUNS ON THE SHIP WAS REDUCED, AND THEY WERE REPLACED WITH 12-POUND 75MM RAPID-FIRE GUNS. Compared to the displacement of 2300 tons of Zhiyuan, this firepower is already quite strong. Of course, because the 8-inch gun was a terrace gun and not a turret gun, the rate of fire could not be compared with the newly ordered cruisers in Beiyang. THE TWO ARMORED CRUISERS JINGYUAN AND LAIYUAN WERE UNABLE TO INCREASE THEIR ARMAMENT BECAUSE THEY HAD TOO HEAVY ARMOR, AND THEY ONLY REPLACED THE 210MM AND 150MM KRUPP GUNS WITH ARMSTRONG-TYPE 8-INCH GUNS AND 6-INCH GUNS. After the completion of the refit, the battle grouping of the Beiyang Fleet has also changed, with Dingzhen and Jiyuan in one group, while the Zhiyuan and Jingyuan classes will be separately organized into a longitudinal array to play the side-chord artillery. …,

In the far south, Liu Mingchuan and Li Hanzhang finally began to act, and the Chinese merchants who migrated from the Dutch East Indies colonies brought more than just modern industries. It also brought a lot of wealth and taxes. Because the benefits brought by the construction of modern industry and commerce are unimaginable to Li Hanzhang and Liu Mingchuan, the two more traditional Qing officials, Liu Mingchuan once engaged in some foreign affairs in Taiwan, but now it seems that this kind of foreign affairs industry under the guidance of the government in the case of insufficient funds can not change the original economic structure at all, and now, when the Chinese businessmen with thousands of pockets "parachuted" to several specific areas of the Qing Dynasty, with the help of the local governor and commander, The huge energy generated is enough to make a qualitative leap in the local economic development!! And suddenly there is money in Liangguang and Taiwan. In accordance with the agreement reached with Li Hongzhang, the construction of a new army and naval division began. Liu Mingchuan first ordered two 1,570-ton patrol clippers at the Fuzhou Shipbuilding Bureau. Although this 1570-ton boat is far inferior to the battleships ordered by Beiyang in Italy, and it cannot be compared with the existing improved Zhiyuan in Beiyang, this is after all the first batch of more advanced warships of the Penghu Naval Division under Lao Liu. According to Xu Jie's setting, once something happens in the future, these 1570-ton warships will play two roles, one is the fleet's reliable reconnaissance avant-garde. The other is to strike at the enemy's damaged ships that have withdrawn from the battle line when necessary. Take on the role of a hyena on the prairie. Subsequently, Li Hanzhang, the boss of the Guangdong Naval Division, was not to be outdone, and ordered two warships of this type, and the 1570-ton light dome cruiser of the Guangdong Naval Division and the Penghu Naval Division under Liu Mingchuan became a powerful auxiliary to the main fleet of the Qing State in the First Sino-Japanese War in the future. And under the acquiescence and promotion of Liu Mingchuan, Peng Haifeng and others' paramilitary organizations with Nanyang Chinese as the main body also began to appear on the stage of the late sun, in Liangguang, in Taiwan, these Chinese armed forces were scattered in various places as a company unit, carrying out basic tactical training, and over time, began to form battalions and even regimental units, although these Chinese armed forces did not have the support of the local government, but because the Chinese business leaders who funded the preparation were not short of money, so their equipment was much stronger than the training army. There are even quite a few people who specifically order weapons for their own use.

However, a series of abnormal actions of the Beiyang system of the Qing Dynasty were transmitted to Tokyo through the Japanese spy network in China, and this kind of simultaneous reorganization of various feudal towns attracted the attention of the Japanese high-level. The prelude to a new round of arms race is gradually opening, and in the eyes of the Japanese, it is uncertain whether the Nanyang Naval Division, or Liangguang, will be engaged in the battle in the future Sino-Japanese War, but for the sake of insurance, the Japanese must take these variables into account!

Ready to go to war~~, everyone has waited for more than 300,000 words and is finally ready to go to war!! Let's support it~~. The First Sino-Japanese War I conceived is absolutely different from other books!! Today's double update,Because there is a problem with the computer,So the update may be unstable dìng~~ but the missing chapters,You can definitely make it up! ~！