Conflict sometimes comes so suddenly.
It’s just a bit unexpected!
A war started by a ship?
Zhu Xianhai's mood instantly became a little helpless.
In helplessness, his brows furrowed, which was precisely the inevitable development of some kind. Buenos Aires's reaction now just proves one thing - they will not sit back and watch the development of Nanhua.
There is not much time left for Nanhua!
With a cigar between his fingers, Zhu Xianhai frowned.
"It's a bit difficult to handle!"
Taking a puff from his cigar, he said again.
"After all, if we accept it, it means that we have given up the legal principles. After all... I have never admitted that this land belongs to Argentina! This is an ownerless land. Since it is ownerless, then whoever occupies it owns it.
This is the legal basis for us to own this land!”
Where the law lies!
The so-called "legal principles" are actually the rules of the game set by the imperialist powers. Is it important? Very important
"Although it is said that "a hundred volumes of public law are not as good as a few cannons, and a few volumes of peace and affinity treaties are not as good as a basket of ammunition," but what are the rules of the game in the world now? Who possesses, who owns, this basic legal principle will not be violated by any country, because this
When it comes to their own colonies and their core interests, even if they don't agree with our occupation, they will solve it in another way instead of denying the legitimacy of our occupation."
What is another way, of course, is war, which is a military threat, but the "legal principle" is related to their vital interests, and they will be very smart not to touch this principle. Otherwise, France today denies the British attack on Canada
If Britain denies France's possession of North Africa tomorrow, the international colonial order will be thrown into chaos.
All those imperialist powers are so smart!
Why do the great powers sign treaties and formulate one rule after another? To put it bluntly, it is for the purpose of "unanimous external relations" and to avoid internal friction among the great powers.
"This is probably why my lord asked us to learn the public law of all nations!"
Fang Zhanbo thought for a while and said.
"The purpose of studying the Public Law of All Nations is not to obey it, but to use it to interact with great powers within the rules of the game of the Public Law of All Nations. But what is the core of the Public Law of All Nations? It is the use of public law by the strong to oppress the weak!"
Not only the public law of all nations, but also domestic lawsuits brought to the yamen are still "official in two words", helping the rich but not the poor, and the strong but not the weak.
justice?
This is "justice" in the world!
"Hey, the so-called public law is nothing more than this."
After Qian Deshan sighed, he said again.
"Then it seems that we can't accept it!"
Zhu Xianhai nodded and said.
"Legal principles... are the basis for our foundation here, but what is the basis? We still have to rely on force!"
The corners of his lips were raised slightly, and Zhu Xianhai's eyes were cast into the distance.
"We can rely on the public laws of all nations to occupy this land, but if we want to hold it, we must have enough power to defend it. Otherwise, in the end, it will just be a wedding dress for other people. The so-called "legal principle",
It is nothing more than providing a reasonable basis for others' military occupation - others can turn your "legal principles" into theirs through military threats or invasions!"
"The weak prey on the strong", this is the essence of this era. The so-called "international order" written in hundreds of volumes of public laws of all countries, the so-called "public law morality" is essentially "the weak prey on the strong". If you really think that "public law can protect the world"
, that is really childish.
"Can……"
Sun Muli said from the side.
"My lord, what the foreigners are sending now are warships. The foreigners always have strong ships and powerful artillery, and we don't have warships. How can we stop them?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Fang Zhanbo said regretfully.
"Hey, it's a pity that the "Taiping" is there. If it was here, there would be no need to worry."
When he said this, everyone looked pity, that was an "iron-armored ship"!
It's solid.
But what if it was strong? The ship had long been taken away by the Great Eastern and was on its way to China.
"Don't worry!"
Zhu Xianhai smiled.
"As long as there is a factory, there is no need to worry! As for the ship, you can build it if you don't have one!"
"But, lord, is it too urgent to create energy now?"
"It's definitely too late to build a ship, but it's not necessarily the case for other things!"
Zhu Xianhai pretended to be mysterious and smiled.
What to build?
Of course it's a cannon!
As early as when he came back from Araucania, Zhu Xianhai had already included cannon-making in his plan. Although he had already begun to cast cannons before that, they were just bronze smoothbore cannons, which were sold to Taiping.
The army just earns some money.
What kind of cannon is the future?
Of course it is a breech-loading rifled gun like the Armstrong cannon, but the Armstrong cannon is too expensive. The 110-pound Armstrong cannon installed in the coastal defense fort actually costs thousands of pounds. Spending 1,500 pounds to buy such a cannon is like paying an IQ tax.
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Moreover, the seemingly perfect Armstrong cannon is very prone to explosion accidents due to the insufficient rigidity of the material. Zhu Xianhai is not surprised by this, because its barrel is made of Bainite converter steel, which is not rigid enough, and
The hoop used to reinforce the gun body is made of wrought iron in order to reduce costs.
Since Nanhua has open-hearth steel with better performance and a large-tonnage steam hammer for forging gun barrels, why can't it make cannons?
Therefore, replicating the Armstrong cannon was naturally included on the agenda.
The imitation work was extremely smooth. After all, the tools and raw materials were readily available. After the cylindrical steel cannon blank was cast from open-hearth steel, it was directly hammered into shape with a large steam hammer. After the cannon blank was made, it was drilled with a drill press.
Pipe, process the inner bore, rifling, and finally insert it into the outer steel hoop through inserts. The steps may seem complicated but are actually no different from processing the transmission rod of a steam engine.
Even the reason why the cannon was able to be manufactured so quickly was precisely because of the experience accumulated in the previous processing of steam engine transmission shafts, cylinders and other parts.
In the forging workshop of Zhenhua Iron and Steel Plant, with the hammering of a 30-ton steam hammer, red steel ingots are forged and shaped like dough.
After looking at the workshop for a while, Zhu Xianhai asked.
"This is the barrel we use to make a 110-pound cannon?"
Zhu Xianhai pointed to the cylindrical steel billet that had just been processed. It looked like just a steel column, an ordinary steel column. Even in terms of quality, it was similar to the construction steel of later generations, and maybe a little worse in quality.
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However, in this era, the materials they used were first-rate, because only Nanhua could provide open-hearth steel with excellent performance. Even ordinary carbon steel was still an extremely excellent raw material for artillery in this era.
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"Yes, sir, this is the inner barrel. After grinding and processing, the outer barrel is inserted. This is the complete inner barrel. At the breech, there are two layers of outer barrels, two layers of hoops, and
The difference with the British is that our inner and outer tubes and gun hoops are all made of steel."
Pierre said quite proudly.
"I'm sure our cannons are definitely better because we said we used them far more than they did."
His words brought a smile to Zhu Xianhai's face.
"So our cannon must be able to withstand higher chamber pressures?"
This chapter has been completed!