Chapter 230: Navy
After three years of development, the current Fuzhou Aircraft Manufacturing Company has a monthly production capacity of 30 fighters of various types. But this production is far from enough, even a fraction of the little devil, even if our pilots are all one as ten, they can't fight the little devil! So Jin Zhao ordered to continue to expand production capacity and expand the factory. What? There is a serious shortage of technicians, there is a serious shortage of skilled workers, and even the number of pilots is far inferior to that of the little devils. It doesn't matter, I have my own way to do this, Jin Zhao confidently assured. Jin Zhao's so-called method naturally refers to summoning through the system, whether it is a technician or a pilot, as long as there are enough summoning points, these are not a problem, of course, Jin Zhao did not give up his own training. After all, China lacks everything, that is, there is no shortage of people, although the general cultural level of China at this time is low, but the huge population base is here! A group of talents can always be scavenged, and those that are not enough will be supplemented through the system.
In terms of navy, Fuzhou Mawei Port is the cradle of China's modern navy. In 1840, during the Opium War, China was forced to open up five ports of trade. Fuzhou is one of the five ports, and the soldiers and merchant ships of all countries come to Fuzhou to anchor in Mawei Port. In 1866, the Westernists founded the shipyard in Mawei, hired the French to build a factory to manufacture ships, and founded the shipbuilding school the following year, which became the foundation for the germination and formation of China's modern scientific and technological team.
After the construction of three warships in a row, the Mawei Shipyard was approved by Shen Baozhen, the Minister of Shipping, to form a fleet of warships and set up a steamship commander for unified management, and the first steamship commander was Li Chengmou, the former commander of the Fujian Navy. In the thirteenth year of Tongzhi (1874), the ships owned by the Fuzhou Shipbuilding Bureau have begun to take shape, including 15 ships, including Wan Nianqing, Meiyun, Fuxing, Fubo, Anlan, Zhenhai, Yangwu cruiser, Feiyun, Chaowu ship, Jingyuan ship, Zhenwei ship, Ji'an, Yongbao, Chenhang, Daya, etc., and purchased 3 ships of Haidongyun, Changsheng and Jianwei from abroad, with a total of 17 warships. After several years of development, by the time of Peng Chuhan, the third steamship commander, the Qing court issued an edict on July 4, 1879 to strengthen the defense of the Taiwan Strait. Before the Sino-French War, the Fujian Naval Division had become a fleet with the largest tonnage in China, although the Fujian Naval Division had more than a dozen main warships, but all of them were wooden and wood-hull structures, with a total displacement of only 9,900 tons, carrying 47 ordinary artillery pieces, and 1,100 officers and men.
In order to achieve colonial rule over Vietnam and invade southwest China as soon as possible, the French invaders began to use all their strength to deal with China. The Sino-French War was launched in 1883! In 1884, the commander of the French Far East Fleet, Gu Ba, led six ships to invade the port of Mawei in Fujian Province and anchored near Luoxing Tower, waiting for an opportunity to attack the Qing warships. The enemy has already entered the house with a butcher's knife, and the ridiculous thing is that the imperial court actually issued a bullshit order of "if he does not move, I will not send it", so Zhang Peilun, He Ruzhang, Mu Tushan and others ordered that "no cannon must be fired first, and the enemy ship must be allowed to open fire, and the violator will be killed", such a bullshit order directly led to the destruction of the Fujian Navy. On the third day of the first month of July, the French ships first attacked, the main generals of the Qing army were afraid of the battle, abandoned the ships and fled, the ships of the Fujian Navy Division were leaderless, and they responded to the battle in a panic, and the ships of the Fujian Navy Division did not have time to anchor, and were sunk by the shells of the French ships, and many ships were heavily damaged. The Fujian Navy Division launched a heroic counterattack on the French [***] ship, but because it did not make any military preparations, coupled with its backward equipment, it was at a disadvantage in firepower. In less than 30 minutes of the naval battle, 11 warships of the Fujian Navy Division (9 ships of Yangwu, Ji'an, Feiyun, Fuxing, Fusheng, Jiansheng, Zhenwei, Yongbao, and Chenhang were destroyed, and two ships of Fubo and Yixin were sunk by themselves) and many transport ships were sunk, 760 officers and men were martyred, and almost all the troops of the Fujian Navy Division were destroyed. In less than 1 hour of fighting, the Fujian Navy Division almost lost its combat effectiveness. The French only 5 were killed, 15 were wounded, 3 warships were damaged, and the Mawei shipyard and the batteries on both sides of the strait were destroyed. On the ninth day of the first month, all French ships withdrew from the mouth of the Min River.
Although efforts were made to recover after the war, production capacity was much lower than before. In mid-1894, after the First Sino-Japanese War, it was even more declining. In total, from 1866~1907, the shipyard built a total of 40 ships of various kinds. Among them, during the period of Yigu's supervision (1866~1874), 15 wooden steamers of different sizes were created. From 1874, the shipbuilding business was changed to the management of self-trained technicians, and by 1895, it continued to produce 19 ships, including the Tetsuwaki military ship and the Tetsuwaki patrol clipper, and built its own duplex engine, and the technical level of the shipyard was significantly improved. After the First Sino-Japanese War, from 1907 to 1907, 7 more ships were built. After the Xinhai Revolution, the Harbour Administration Bureau was under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of the Navy, and it was stipulated that the shipbuilding fund of 30,000 yuan per month was allocated from the national tax paid to the central government by the Fujian Provincial Department of Finance. In the early days of the Republic of China, the political situation was turbulent, the funds were not continued, the host of the shipping bureau changed repeatedly, and the manufacturing business did not make any achievements. In 1928, it was renamed the Naval Shipyard.
After Jin Zhao took over Fujian, he also took over the naval shipyard at the same time. And on the basis of the original foundation, a large-scale expansion will be carried out. After several years of development, it is now possible to produce a number of small torpedo boats, river patrol boats, landing craft and other ships. And began to design and build destroyers, light cruisers and other light warships. Considering the current strength of the Huaxia Navy, Jin Zhao did not plan to fight hard with the combined fleet of the little devils in the early stage of the war. The construction of the navy is only to prepare for the future counteroffensive on the mainland, so Jin Zhao is not particularly anxious, but the century-old navy can not be established overnight, on the one hand, Jin Zhao gradually expanded the production capacity of the Fuzhou shipyard, and on the other hand, established a naval academy to train naval personnel in advance. In addition, Jin Zhao also plans to exchange a few destroyers and cruisers for the training of cadets of the Naval Academy in 37.
Jin Zhao had already exchanged several submarines for naval cadets for training, and Jin Zhao planned that he would not be able to develop a naval force that could compete with the combined fleet in the short term. Therefore, Jin Zhao naturally thought of submarine warfare, and in the early stage of the war, he could use submarines to contain the navy as much as possible. Therefore, submarines have become one of the priority research projects of the current Fujian shipyard, and Jin Zhao specially summoned a group of submarine manufacturing experts to develop and develop submarines. Some progress has been made. However, Jin Zhao is not too worried, even if he could not mass-produce submarines before the war, Jin Zhao can be exchanged through the system. As for the soldiers, Jin Zhao, who has a talent summoning system, doesn't have to worry about it, and only then does Jin Zhao really appreciate the strength of this system. (To be continued.) )