What Lin Yuan said came from modern economic theories, Weng Tongyi couldn't understand it, so he had to reluctantly nodded, and Emperor Guangxu said on the side: "What Lin Aiqing said is very true, I have been reading foreign history books recently, and I found that the Taixi countries are strong and powerful, and they have never bought warships from foreign countries, and they all build factories and design and manufacture warships by themselves, so I also want to build my own warships." ”

Xu Jingcheng hurriedly said: "Shengshang Mingjian, this warship is related to the navy, and the navy and military are related to the national fortune, so this matter must not be sloppy, we do not have the absolute ability to build a warship ourselves, so it is better to buy it from a foreign country." ”

Emperor Guangxu said angrily: "A few years ago, we invested a lot of money to build the Fuzhou Shipbuilding Bureau and the Jiangnan Shipyard, can't they build warships for me in the Qing Dynasty?" ”

Xu Jingcheng said: "These two shipyards are just a façade, the equipment in the shipyards are all purchased from foreign countries, as for the skilled craftsmen are also foreigners, we have very few people, most of the warships built by these two shipyards are copied from foreign countries, and we will create what other people's drawings look like." ”

"But even if there are drawings, you have to rely on foreign craftsmen, battleships are often very large, there are many parts up to more than ten meters, but the drawings are not so big, so on the drawings can only be drawn according to the scale, but many parts on the hull are curved, the parts on the drawings are made into real parts, straight lines are easy to do, but curves are not easy to do, so this process must have skilled technical workers to operate, none of our workers have such ability."

Lin Yuanzhi said that Xu Jingcheng said that the process of building a warship is the "discharge" process, which is also the first step in shipbuilding, as Xu Jingcheng said, this step needs to transform the parts on the small drawings into life-size parts, in the past this process was operated by skilled workers, but in modern times, advanced mathematical methods can be used to achieve this process.

Emperor Guangxu didn't understand shipbuilding, so he looked at Lin Yuan with inquiring eyes, and Lin Yuan smiled: "If these two shipyards are handed over to me, I will definitely have a way to solve these problems." ”

Xu Jingcheng said again: "Lord Lin should not confuse building a battleship with designing a battleship, you only need to assemble the parts to build a battleship, but it is even more difficult to design a battleship, you must know the purpose of each part, and you must also clarify the relationship between this part and other parts, and only then can you determine the size of this part." ”

Lin Yuan replied: "Lord Xu, don't worry, I have built a shipyard in Dalian now, and I have a group of strange people who know how to design warships, so Lord Xu can rest assured." ”

When Emperor Guangxu heard this, he laughed and said, "That's right, Xu Aiqing, Lin Shuai, can't you believe it?" When did he say big things. ”

Xu Jingcheng said: "Wechen doesn't believe in Lord Lin, Wechen is worried that Lord Lin underestimates the difficulty of designing a battleship, the hull is only one aspect of the battleship, the battleship must also have a steam engine and artillery, without these warships can not fight at all, but the design and manufacture of steam engines and artillery and battleships are far from each other, they are completely different industries, as the saying goes, 'interlaced lines are like mountains', so the shipyards of Taixi countries do not manufacture steam engines and artillery factories at all." ”

"In their place, artillery and steam engines are produced in special factories, and after they are produced, they are transported to shipyards, and then they are installed in shipyards, so to build warships, you must be able to build steam engines and artillery, and we know very little about these two things."

Lin Yuan knew that Xu Jingcheng was right, not only in this era, but also in modern shipyards, they do not produce the main engine and weapon system, the shipyard's job is only to install the main engine and weapon system on the warship, without waiting for Lin Yuan to speak, Xu Jingcheng said again: "Not only can we not build these big things, but we also can't build many small things." ”

"To take the simplest example, what kind of gunpowder did our shells fire from? Black powder, but the burning speed of black powder is too fast, and the shell cannot reach a fast discharge speed when used to fire cannonballs, so the British have developed a new gunpowder, which burns much slower than black powder, so it can push the cannonball in the barrel for a long time, and the speed of the cannonball is much faster, and we can't make this kind of gunpowder. ”

Lin Yuan thought to himself: "When it comes to propellants and explosives, we have already used Hei Sokin, Tai'an and Tquit, they have just started to use TNT. "Hei Sokin, Tai'an and Tku'er are all explosives with explosive power stronger than TNT, but Lin Yuan didn't say it, but smiled: "You can rest assured, although there are many difficulties in building a battleship, they can't stop me." ”

Emperor Guangxu smiled and said, "That's right, Xu Aiqing, don't you know Lin Aiqing's style of acting?" Since Lin Aiqing is so confident, I believe in him, and I have decided that we will build a navy! ”

Weng Tongyi didn't say much more, and thought to himself: "Since Lin Yuan said that he can build a battleship, let him build it, and when the time comes, I will find that I can't build it, and then I will take a good look at him!" ”

Lin Yuan said: "The construction of the navy needs the support of the social environment, and the first thing we need to do is to make some changes in the social environment. ”

The term "social environment" was a little too new for Emperor Guangxu, so Emperor Guangxu asked: "What does the social environment mean?" ”

Lin Yuan said: "Let's take an example...... After Lin Yuan finished speaking, he looked around, and happened to see a warrior with a sword standing at the door, so he said to Emperor Guangxu: "I want to borrow that warrior's knife and use it." ”

When Weng Tonggong heard this, he frowned, and shouted: "Ridiculous, how can you use a knife in front of the saint." ”

Guangxu stretched out his hand and picked up a short knife from the dragon book case, and said, "If you want to use a knife, I don't know if this knife will work?" This knife is called 'Seven Star Blade', according to legend, at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Wang Yun and Cao Cao designed to assassinate Dong Zhuo, Wang Yun gave this knife to Cao Cao, but when the assassination was discovered by Dong Zhuo, so Cao Cao escaped in the name of offering a knife. ”

After Emperor Guangxu finished speaking, he handed the short knife to the little eunuch on the side, and the little eunuch held the knife in a plate of golden silk nanmu and handed it to Lin Yuan.

Lin Yuan looked at the scabbard of the knife and couldn't help but admire: "It's really a good knife." It turned out that the scabbard was inlaid with gold, and it was inlaid with seven night pearls, which emitted a dazzling brilliance against the background of gold, Lin Yuan held the scabbard, pulled out the blade, and suddenly a cold light flowed through the whole house like a rushing river.

Emperor Guangxu said: "Lin Aiqing, what do you want to say? Can you say that this time? ”

Lin Yuan put the knife back into the scabbard and said, "Isn't it amazing that you can put this knife back into the scabbard?" ”

Everyone laughed when they heard this, and Emperor Guangxu said: "What's so magical about this, aren't all knives in the world like this?" ”

Lin Yuan said with a smile: "This is a person who creates the blade and scabbard, so it can be made according to the size of the blade, let's imagine, if it is two people who make the blade and the scabbard, how to put the blade into the scabbard?" ”

Emperor Guangxu smiled: "It's not easy, let the person who built the blade measure the size of the blade, and then tell the person who built the scabbard, won't it be able to build it?" ”

Lin Yuan said with a smile: "Then how should the person who made the blade measure the size of the blade?" ”

Emperor Guangxu said with a smile: "This three-year-old child knows the way, of course he uses a ruler." ”