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Opportunities are always for those who are prepared. Just when the "uranium watch" and other national gifts that Emperor Zhu Da gave to Meiji were embarked on the journey back to Japan by special personnel sent by the mission in Linhai, Emperor Zhu Da took a special train from
Ying Tianfu arrived in his Nanhua again.
I came to Nanhua again to participate in the launching ceremony of the "No. 1 Combat Ship" at the shipyard.
Like the usual great engineers, the royal photographer used multiple movie cameras to record the scene of the emperor's arrival. Now for the subjects of the Ming Dynasty, what are they watching in the movie?
Of course, the Ming Empire is building day by day, but what else should we look at?
See the penguins in Antarctica?
Watching penguins, there is nothing more exciting than watching these scenes! Let alone this era, even the scenes of those grand projects more than 100 years later are shocking.
In this era, those grand projects will only make people feel more shocked. Those films can enhance people's national pride.
Compared with other things, this is the most important thing. For a nation that has been in decline for more than two hundred years, what is more important to boost people's national self-esteem and national self-confidence?
Aren't those engineering constructions and these industrial achievements the best propaganda tools?
"It looks like, it looks really similar!"
Standing in the dock, Zhu Xianhai stared at this warship with a displacement of up to 7,300 tons. Its ship shape looked very similar to the "Zhenyuan" that would be familiar to later Chinese people.
The same "central armored fortress", the same diagonally placed main gun, and even the main gun is the same twin 305mm - with the efforts of the Krug Arsenal, the 30x 305mm naval gun was finally installed
The warship was finally launched without any delay.
However, its main guns are not concentrated on the bow of the ship like the "Zhenyuan", but are located at the bow and stern of the ship, and its freeboard is higher. It looks more like a "Zhenyuan" than a "Zhenyuan".
Like the "Maine", when the warship was designed in Ruanda, Zhu Xianhai did give a lot of suggestions, including the layout of the main gun.
At this time, the ship had been named "Nanhua". In addition to being decorated with colorful flags, a large colored ball was hung on the bow of the ship, like a lantern.
What should the launch of a warship look like?
Zhu Xianhai naturally borrowed doctrine and directly copied the launching style of the People's Navy of later generations.
The big colored ball on the bow, plus... well, champagne.
He threw the "champagne" in his hand and hit the port chord of the "Nanhua". When the warship slowly launched, the colorful ball on the bow of the ship opened, and the five-color paper and other decorations contained inside it. At the moment of explosion, the colored paper
Flying all over the sky, the scene is very spectacular.
The battleship "Nanhua" has been launched!
What does the launch of this battleship with a displacement of 7,300 tons, two twin 305mm main guns and eight 150mm secondary guns mean?
The people cheering at this time had no idea what this meant. The engineers and workers of the shipyard as well as the naval officers and soldiers were cheering there. In the cheers of the people, the huge hull of the "Nanhua" rushed out of the dry dock, and then
Floating steadily on the sea.
Then the piercing whistle sounded, reminding the onlookers that it was heading towards the ocean!
Toward the ocean!
According to the warship naming rules drawn up by Zhu Xianhai, the main battleships of the Ming Dynasty will be named after provinces, and the cruisers will be named after cities, and it will be named "Nanhua". This shows how much the Ming Dynasty valued it!
It's no wonder, after all, the "Nanhua" is the largest warship built by the Ming Dynasty, and it is also the world's first all-steel armored battleship. Although its steel armor is only 300 mm thick, it is equivalent to a 350 mm
armor.
Two steam engines with a total power of up to 10,000 horsepower roared. Although its speed was very slow at this time, according to the design, its maximum speed was as high as 16 knots. Once it entered service, it became the fastest warship in the world, even if it was
Cruisers can't compare.
"The Ming Dynasty's armored ships!"
Zhu Xianhai looked at it a little proudly, with an expression of approval on his face. He didn't even notice that Luanda beside him didn't let out a sigh of relief until the warship floated steadily on the sea.
As the chief designer of the "Nanhua", he knows better than anyone that this warship is actually a bit oversized - the design displacement is only 6,800 tons, but due to the design, its tonnage is "somewhat" overweight.
……all the best!
Zhu Xianhai, who didn't know that the chief designer was unsure, stared at the graceful warship on the water with a smile on his face.
"Nanhua" should be the most modern warship in the world!
With a slight twist of his head, Zhu Xianhai gave instructions to the commander of the First Fleet, Li Xuelin.
"Although the trial voyage is completed, if possible, we will lead him to visit Russia next month!"
"next month!"
Li Xuelin's heart tightened, and he couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed when he stared at the "Nanhua" that had not yet undergone sea trials.
"Isn't it too hasty in such a short time?"
"It just proves our shipbuilding capabilities to the whole world!"
Zhu Xianhai said with a smile.
"Visit France first, then Russia, and the most important thing is to promote the "Nanhua-class" combat ship to Russia."
"What! Your Majesty, we...are going to sell the "Nanhua Class" to Russia?"
Li Xuelin said in surprise.
"Your Majesty, this, this is the most advanced battleship in the Ming Dynasty!"
Not only is it the most advanced warship in the Ming Dynasty,
How can you sell the most advanced warships to others?
"I know, it's just because it's advanced that I want to sell it to them!"
Zhu Xianhai smiled.
"On a global scale, only Russia will buy combat ships from us. Although they used the "Franco-Prussian War" two years ago to break through the restrictions of the Paris Peace Treaty, they wanted to expand their navy. However, the British and French
But they unanimously refused to sell warships to them. The Russians...such an opportunity is rare right now!"
The opportunity is rare because it is really not easy for Russians!
After the failure of the Crimean War, Russia not only sacrificed a tsar, but also according to the Treaty of Paris signed between Tsarist Russia and Britain, France, Sardinia, Turkey, Austria and Prussia on March 30, 1856, the Russian Imperial Navy was in the Black Sea.
It is not allowed to maintain more than 6 ships of 800 tons and more than 4 ships of 200 tons, and it is not allowed to establish naval arsenals and naval fortresses on the Black Sea coast.
The signing of the Peace of Paris left the Russian Navy's Black Sea Fleet with only paper significance. It was not until 1870 that Russia took advantage of the favorable opportunity of the Franco-Prussian War to issue a notice to the signatories of the Peace of Paris, announcing restrictions on Russia's fleet in the Black Sea.
And the provisions on the neutralization of the Black Sea expired.
However, due to serious financial difficulties, the most important of which was the United Kingdom and France, they successively refused to sell ironclads to it. As a result, Russia could only explore the construction of ironclads on its own. It had built a 10,000-ton ship that was nominally capable of long-distance voyages, but had poor wave resistance and could only
The "Peter the Great", which stayed offshore and paddled, also built a weird disk battleship.
Therefore, Ming Dynasty must seize this opportunity to sell Ming Dynasty's advanced iron-clad ships to Russia.
Is there anything better than using other people's money to develop your own navy?
If we don't take advantage of the "embargo" imposed on Russia by various countries now and take a bite of meat from this polar bear, can we be worthy of God?
Of course, there is another unknown reason for sending a special envoy to visit Russia.
This chapter has been completed!