It is important to reform people ideologically, but there must be someone who can change them!
In fact, whether he is weak or gentle, or docile, for Zhu Xianhai, there must be enough people. This is the most important thing. As for the other things, they are secondary.
Only with people can we have the opportunity to use whips, sticks, laws, and discipline to transform their thoughts and behaviors.
But without people, everything is just talk on paper and a castle in the air.
Since that long-term simulation, facing the reality of Nanhua's limited human resources, how to increase the population has always been the most important issue before Zhu Xianhai. Military and national education is to achieve the goal of having the whole country in arms, to increase national defense strength, and to truly
What is China's defense strength?
Still human!
Without people, everything is just talk!
How to increase immigration is a problem that Zhu Xianhai has been trying to solve in the past few months. Increasing immigration ships and buying the Great Eastern are all solutions to the symptoms rather than the root cause.
What is Ben?
The "origin" of immigrants from South China is in China, in the Qing Dynasty. Only by opening the door there can there be a steady stream of immigrants. How to let them open the door, unlike in the simulator, which prohibits workers from coming to South China, there is only one way - that is, let them open the door.
The Taiping Rebellion continued.
To put it bluntly, it is necessary to increase assistance to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom! In order to allow the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to continue fighting, Zhu Xianhai took great pains and even considered purchasing weapons in the UK to "aid" them. However, this is not realistic. Fortunately, Nanhua's industry
It has already begun to have a foundation and can realize some of his ideas.
"Speaking of which, I should thank the Taiping Army. If it weren't for them, you probably wouldn't be able to come to Nanhua."
Standing in the dock, listening to the sound of "dong, dong" hitting iron nails, Zhu Xianhai smiled at Liang Mingwei.
"What my boss said is true. If it weren't for the Taiping Army, how could I have arrived in Nanhua!"
Liang Mingwei smiled helplessly.
"Originally, the villain was doing a good job at Cheung Chau Dock Company, but unexpectedly, he was robbed here by them for no apparent reason."
Liang Mingwei, who speaks Cantonese Mandarin, is still a little confused even now. He was just eating hot pot and singing... No, he didn't eat hot pot at that time, but as an employee of the American boss Novi, he was working in Ningbo City
He was negotiating with the landlord to buy land. Novi was the owner of Cheung Chau Shipyard and planned to open a shipyard in Ningbo, so he was sent to Ningbo. He had just bought the land, but before he could recruit masons to build a dock on the seaside, he encountered
When he arrived at the Taiping Army, he was unable to escape and became a prisoner together with dozens of shipwrights from Hong Kong.
Although Changmao did not behead them directly as the legend said, he "sold" them overseas. For Liang Mingwei, who can speak fluent English, this is not only not a bad thing, but a good thing!
After all, after arriving in Nanhua, because he spoke English and knew how to repair ships, he went directly to the shipyard and became a junior engineer.
"It's a mistake. If it weren't for this, how could Akihito show what he had learned?"
Zhu Xianhai laughed and said. In the Hong Kong shipyards in the 1860s, there were actually Chinese engineers, or Chinese technicians. This was a bit beyond his imagination. However, the scale of Hong Kong shipyards in this era was far beyond his imagination. There were more than a dozen
In shipyards of various sizes, there are tens of thousands of shipwrights engaged in ship repair and shipbuilding work. This seems to be natural. After all, those ocean-going ships also need shipyard repairs after sailing to China, and those shipyards are basically built in
Over the past decade or so, Hong Kong has not only trained a group of skilled shipwrights, but also a group of junior Chinese technicians.
This group of people must find a way to get a batch, and they can't just waste it in Hong Kong. This is a complete surprise!
"Even if you learn shipbuilding in Hong Kong, in a foreign shipyard, you will just be a job for foreign engineers. After graduating from a missionary school, I worked as an apprentice in the shipyard for six years. If you were a foreigner, I would have recommended you to go there.
British engineering schools are not available there. Not only is it not possible, foreigners do not believe that we can build ships..."
Shaking his head, Liang Mingwei suddenly said.
"Okay, I kept complaining and almost forgot to make it official. Boss, look, the keel of the "Taiping" gunboat has been installed now. Its length is 38.1 meters, its width is 9 meters, and its draft is 2.41 meters.
The power system uses two compound steam engines, with a speed of about 10 knots..."
Pointing to the gunboat under construction in the dock, Liang Mingwei seemed a little proud. Although the idea for this ship came from the owner, he was one of the direct designers. Well, the chief designer was Mr. Harris.
"...Although it is an iron-ribbed wooden hull ship, we have wrapped a one-inch-thick iron plate outside the wooden hull of the hull, that is, on the waterline. This can increase its protection, save labor and materials, save money, and reduce the weight of the ship.
The ship's tonnage makes navigation easier, and coupled with the ten-inch Dahlgren cannon, it is definitely a military weapon."
Such a small boat actually carries a ten-inch cannon!
In fact, when Zhu Xianhai proposed this idea, everyone including the shipyard chief engineer Mr. Harris was shocked.
How big is this boat?
The displacement is about 400 tons, but a ten-inch Dahlgren cannon needs to be installed. Is this possible?
There are indeed so-called "mosquito ships" and "mosquito gun ships" in history. The Beiyang Navy purchased them in the early days of its formation. It is also the "Randolph gun ship", which itself is used for offshore defense and is characterized by its small size.
Ship-mounted cannon. At that time, the Qing Dynasty bought this kind of gunboat simply because it was cheap. The biggest feature of the mosquito gunboat was that it was equipped with naval guns that could suppress the firepower of ironclad ships. However, this kind of gunboat was too small and was not suitable for ocean warfare.
In the late Qing Dynasty, Li Hongzhang and others introduced this kind of warship because they thought of the effect of asymmetric warfare-with the cooperation of coastal forts, small ships can defeat big ships. But facts have proved that this kind of gunboat is useless and can neither hit big ships.
, and it doesn’t work well with the turret.
But this did not prevent Zhu Xianhai from taking out this kind of gunboat - its technology is simple, and it is essentially a small boat with a displacement of several hundred tons, with just a layer of iron plates nailed on it.
Technically speaking, except that the iron rib technology is slightly more complicated, there is no essential difference from the wooden ship.
Even the iron ribs are not complicated. After all, they are just wrought iron forged with a steam hammer.
What is the only thing about such a technically simple boat that makes people look at it differently?
It's just that he installed a cannon that looks very scary.
That's right, it was "bluffing" - during the entire Sino-Japanese War, several "mosquito ships" never played any role. Even if they fired a few shells... they all failed.
But, the ten-inch cannon is really "bluffing"!
What’s more “bluffing”?
It's that armor of his!
There are not many armored ships in these days. Even though they are just a layer of iron nailed on the wooden shell, no, it should be said to be armored, but it is also an armored ship!
This is Nanhua’s number one ironclad ship!
Invulnerable iron armor plus a ten-inch, or 254mm, Dahlgren smoothbore cannon. How intimidating would the two together be when placed on the sea?
It can scare someone to death!
"Well, this is also an ironclad ship. Let's do it step by step!"
This chapter has been completed!