The Jinzhouwei Shipyard, which undertook the construction of the Dreadnought battleship, held a lively launching ceremony for the new battleship in the cold winter months.

The shipyard manager invited the commander of Liaodong to preside over the launching ceremony.

Set up altars, sacrifice to the dragon king, burn paper money, and set off firecrackers.

The commander is in charge of offering incense to the Dragon King, and a child from a craftsman's family goes to light firecrackers.

Amid the crackling sound of firecrackers, the dock, which had been filled with water, opened the gates, and the tugboat slowly left the dock with the Dreadnought and moved to dock on the dock.

After the launching ceremony, the Jinzhouwei shipyard was also fully closed.

The subsequent interior renovation of the Intrepid will have to wait until the end of the year.

The Royal Jiangnan Shipyard, which undertook the construction of the exploratory aircraft carrier Dinghai, was already on holiday in the twenty-third year of the lunar month.

Because of the construction progress of the aircraft carrier Dinghai, it is impossible to launch it before the end of the year anyway, so there is no need to rush the construction again.

The design of the battleship Dreadnought was based on the original battleship, changing the layout of the main guns, adding two main guns, and abolishing the second main gun.

The technology is very mature, the armor and the main gun are ready-made, and there is no need for special production.

The craftsmen and workers are also very skilled, and the unification of the main gun makes it less difficult to build, and it is basically completed in one year.

However, the aircraft carrier is a new type of ship, and the entire superstructure is a completely new design, and most of the accessories have to be specially produced.

It was the first time for craftsmen and workers to build such a structure, and the speed of construction was naturally much slower.

Although the tonnage of several early aircraft carriers in history was much smaller than that of battleships of the same period, the construction period was all one and a half or even two years, all because of unskill.

The original historical Jiangnan Shipyard was originally located in the Huangpu River in the urban area of Shanghai.

After 05 years, it moved to Changxing Island in the mouth of the Yangtze River.

The Jiangnan Shipyard in this world is the name personally set by Emperor Zhu Cihong, who placed the site directly in Baoshan, and upgraded Baoshanwei to Baoshanwei.

At that time, Baoshan was not the Baoshan District on the northwest bank of Wusongkou in later generations, but the northernmost Gaoqiao Town in Pudong New Area on the southeast bank of Wusongkou.

Changxing Island was not fully formed at that time, and the three sandbars of Chongming Island had just been connected.

At that time, Shanghai was still a county, under the jurisdiction of the Songjiang Prefecture of Nanzhili.

Songjiang Prefecture was located in Huating County, which was later known as Songjiang District, Shanghai.

Wusongkou where the Wusong River and Huangpu River enter the sea, Baoshansuo and Wusongjiang on both sides of Wusongkou, as well as all the sandbanks at the mouth of the Yangtze River, these places that later belonged to Shanghai, belonged to Suzhou Prefecture in the early Ming Dynasty, and later came under the jurisdiction of Taicang Prefecture under Suzhou Prefecture.

By the time of the Renwu Dynasty, Emperor Shizu withdrew Taicang Prefecture and placed the newly formed Chongming Island, as well as other islands and sandbanks in the mouth of the Yangtze River, under the jurisdiction of Tongzhou in Jiangbei.

In order to avoid confusion with Tongzhou in Shuntianfu, Tongzhou was changed to Nantong, and the southern part of Yangzhou was split out to Nantong for jurisdiction, and Nantong Mansion was established.

Emperor Shizu also specifically asserted that the sandbar at the mouth of the river would be connected to the north bank in later generations, so it was placed under the jurisdiction of Nantong on the north bank.

Observations over the next 100 years showed that the sandbar at the mouth of the river was indeed getting closer to the north bank, and it was only a matter of time before they were truly connected.

Later generations of geographical researchers mentioned related stories, and they all said that Emperor Shizu was really a god.

After the Ming Dynasty completed industrialization on its own, Yingtian, Suzhou, Songjiang and other areas with relatively developed commodity economies became important industrial and commercial centers.

Among these cities, Yingtian has a special status, Suzhou occupies half of the Yangtze River estuary, the best economic base, and the largest jurisdictional range.

Songjiang faces the East China Sea and is the most suitable to go out directly, but it has not been invaded by foreign countries in modern times, and it has no advantage of giving priority to opening a port, and it has always been slightly weak in the face of Suzhou and Yingtian.

The goal of Songjiang's successive prefects was to surpass Suzhou, but unfortunately it was never achieved.

Nantong, which originally had the weakest foundation, because it got all the sandbars at the mouth of the Yangtze River, theoretically the entire Yangtze River Estuary was under the management of Nantong, which rubbed more advantages of the Yangtze River Delta, and the industrial and commercial development was also quite rapid.

In particular, Chongming Island, which has been formed in the mouth of the Yangtze River, has become an important trade center in Nantong.

Overall, the development of the area has been fairly even.

At the same time, the Ming Dynasty Jingshi Forbidden City, Qianqing Palace.

Wang Lai, director of the Ship Department of the Ministry of Industry, brought a few people to send a model of the new warship.

High-speed battleships were fearless: 32,000 tons empty, 40,000 tons full, 30 knots at maximum speed, nine 360 mm 50 times the diameter of the naval guns.

Aircraft carrier Zhenhai: 30,000 tons empty, 40,000 tons full, maximum speed of 30 knots, is expected to carry 100 combat aircraft.

The two epoch-making warships designed by Zhu Jingyuan were finally completely finalized.

In the current era, with the difficulty and complexity of the design of such a "cutting-edge" class of warships, it is definitely overspeeding to complete it all within a year.

It was mainly Zhu Jingyuan who led the team, using the experience of later generations to make direct decisions and directly finalize the correct direction.

There is no need for ordinary technicians to convince each other, and then the time is running out.

In this era, the tonnage data of naval ships are most commonly used in no-load displacement and full-load displacement, and in daily communication and publicity, only full-load displacement is basically mentioned.

The tonnage is big, and it sounds good.

The "standard displacement", which is often mentioned in the parameters of naval ships in later generations, appeared after the naval treaty and is used to calculate the displacement under the standard used by the treaty to limit the tonnage.

Why did the Naval Treaty have a "standard" displacement?

Why not continue with a full load displacement?

Because different warships, when fully loaded, carry a lot of fuel weight.

The Veneto class has a capacity of 4,100 tons.

Bismarck had an oil capacity of 7,400 tons.

Iowa has a capacity of 9,000 tons of oil.

These battleships of the same era were inferior in fuel by almost five thousand tons at most!

The fuel load is directly related to the range.

The needs of the navies of different countries for range are completely different.

It is good to play in the bathtub of the Great Qin Sea, and it is enough for the battleship to have a range of five or six thousand kilometers.

The United States wants to fight two oceans, and it will be transferred from Norfolk on the east coast to San Francisco via the Panama Canal, and the shortest voyage on a single line is more than 10,000 kilometers, which is equivalent to the voyage from Zhanjiang to Djibouti.

If all of them use the full load displacement as the standard, and they can only build ships of 50,000 tons, then the weight of the weapons and equipment of the Italian short-legged warships will be four or five thousand tons more than that of the American ships.

That's enough to upgrade the main gun from fifteen to eighteen inches.

The combat effectiveness will be directly opened by two levels.

So there is the treaty standard displacement, that is, the displacement without fuel oil.

Now there is no naval treaty, and of course no one mentions any standard displacement, although the data in the design indicators are readily available.

The daily use is still empty and fully loaded.

Zhu Jianyan circled around the two models of battleships more than two meters long, and couldn't help but admire:

"The form of this battleship...... Unlike previous warships, the lines of this hull look very smooth and graceful......

Wang Lai also smiled and echoed the admiration and said:

"Yes, Your Majesty, His Royal Highness Prince Daishi presided over the design of these two new ships, and compared to all previous warships, there is hardly anything that is exactly the same.

"The shape of the outer waterline of the hull, the distribution of the internal compartments of the hull, the layout of the hull defense structure design department, the layout and command of the turret, the matching of the power system, etc., are all completely different.

"These are two truly brand new warships, warships of an extremely aggressive exploratory nature."

Zhu Jianyan listened to these data, and didn't ask about the performance details of this ship at all, and he had basically understood the industry before, but cared about what the price of such a radical design was:

"So...... How much does it cost to build? ”

The smile on Wang Lai's face suddenly became a little stiff:

"The estimated total cost of the battleship Fearless is one million gold bills, or fifty million silver bills.

However, in the total cost of this cost, the early warship design and various new equipment research and development costs account for a large part.

"Therefore, as a completely new type of ship, although the aircraft carrier does not have a large-caliber main gun, and the armor materials used are not as good as those of battleships, the cost is not low.

"In addition, there are new shipyards and machinery factories everywhere, the price of materials needed for shipbuilding such as steel continues to rise, and the wages of workers have doubled compared to before, so the cost of building new ships is so high.

"If we continue to build multiple similar ships in the future, the comprehensive cost will continue to decline."

1,000,000 gold notes, directly converted according to the gold content, is equivalent to 7.32 million pounds sterling in the same period.

For comparison, the Queen Elizabeth-class battleship cost £2.4 million per ship.

Prestige and counterattack two battlecruisers for a total of £6.2 million.

The battlecruiser Hood, the cost of a single ship was 6.02 million pounds.

Zhu Jingyuan's two new ships, each ship is one-fifth more expensive than Hood, and one cut more expensive than the two prestige sisters combined.

For a battleship of the same size and class, the cost of an aircraft carrier should have been lower than that of a battleship.

However, although Zhu Jingyuan's aircraft carrier and battleship have the same tonnage as the battleship, the hull of the aircraft carrier is larger than that of the battleship.

So the last two ships cost about the same.

Although Zhu Jianyan has a certain amount of mental preparation, he is still a little embarrassed when he listens to this cost:

"Two million—gold money......

"A 24,000-ton test ship in front of it cost less than 300,000 gold bills.

"The cost of the traditional capital ship in the past is only 250,000 gold bills or even less.

"If you look at the average cost per ton, is this a direct double?"

Wang Lai was very embarrassed to explain:

"The average cost per ton has indeed doubled, and the cost per ton of the previous capital ships was basically between twelve and thirteen gold bills, and the cost per ton of the two new ships has reached twenty-five gold bills per ton."

Zhu Jianyan's expression became solemn when he looked at this ship model:

"According to my understanding, the greater the tonnage of the battleship, the lower the unit cost should be......"

Wang Lai nodded lightly and said:

"If it's the same technical standard, that's true.

"The greater the tonnage, the greater the proportion of the hull steel structure, and steel is the cheapest material for the ship as a whole.

"So the larger the gross tonnage, the lower the comprehensive unit price.

"But the Fearless and Zhenhai are completely redesigned new warships, and they barely use any of the original weapons and equipment, which is why they are so expensive.

"When the relevant technology on these two ships is popularized, the cost of similar new ships can be reduced in the future.

"At the same time, if the number of buildings increases, the average price can be spread out a little.

"If two ships of the same type are built at the same time, the cost of the second one can be reduced to 800,000 gold bills, and if it is three ships of the same type, the price of the third ship will continue to drop to 700,000 gold bills......

Zhu Jianyan nodded lightly when he listened, and did not make a decision immediately, but returned to his desk first and flipped through the year-end statement submitted by the Ministry of Finance.

"In the 33rd year of Taiping, the gross national product is about 1.6 billion gold bills, and the fiscal revenue is 100 million gold bills.

"In the 34th year of Taiping, the total production value of allergies has increased to 2.2 billion gold banknotes, and the fiscal revenue has increased to 180 million gold banknotes......

"It is expected that the data for the coming year will be able to maintain the current growth momentum and even continue to improve the ......"

The data of the 33rd year of the Ming Dynasty is slightly lower than the data of Britain and the United States before the First World War in Zhu Jingyuan's previous life, and five times that of the weakened version of Britain in this world.

Thirty-four years of data is more than half of the pre-World War I Britain and the United States combined, and considering the economic growth of the world's Britain, it can reach more than six times that of Britain.

In the past 34 years, the gross domestic product has skyrocketed by 50 percent, and the fiscal revenue has skyrocketed by 80 percent.

Because the war was already over at the beginning of thirty-four years.

At the same time, at the beginning of the year, the royal family opened up six major industries and began the de facto withdrawal of the world.

In the second half of the year, the Ming began to receive a large amount of land and population, and four new vassal states were added.

The number of private factories and production orders have exploded throughout the year.

The level of wages of ordinary workers returned to their pre-war level in the spring and doubled again in the second half of the year.

Therefore, the overall data of the entire Ming Dynasty has shown a restorative and retaliatory growth.

And this growth has just begun, and it will be fully released in the second half of the year to the end of the year.

Next year, the numbers are likely not to be lower, and may even be higher.

And this is also the most important reason why the Taixi countries dare not continue to fight with the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Jianyan looked at these data and roughly estimated:

"The cost of each new ship is one million gold bills, which is almost four ten-thousandths of the gross domestic product of Taiping in thirty-four years, and if there is one aircraft carrier and one battleship, it is eight ten-thousandths.

"Two aircraft carriers and two battleships will be built, and the total cost of the four ships will be 15/10,000 of the gross domestic product, that is, 2 percent of the total fiscal revenue for 34 years."

When Japan built Nagato, the cost of a single ship was almost 4 percent of that year's fiscal revenue.

Daming had to directly place an order for eight ships before he felt the pressure of one Nagato on Japan's finances.

When the British built the Hood, the cost of a single ship was almost 15/10,000 of the gross domestic product of that year.

Daming had to place an order for four ships at the same time in order to feel the pressure of one Hood on British social production.

Although Zhu Jianyan does not know the historical data of Zhu Jingyuan's previous life.

But looking at the price comparison with the current data of Daming, you can understand the pressure on Daming's financial and social production by building these ships.

Zhu Jianyan pondered for a while and made a decision:

"If you can save a little by building two at the same time, then build two battleships and two aircraft carriers, anyway, the old ships have all been stopped......

"You don't have to be busy before the year, wait for the fifteenth year after the year to go through the formalities.

"There are also models of these two ships, send them to the Emperor Taishang as soon as possible......"

Wang Lai immediately agreed happily:

"Your Ministers obey."