You must know that Huang Xiaoli is a dignified veteran and the supreme head of the Ministry of Education. Unless these naturalized citizens want to commit suicide, how can they dare to say such words as Si Chen in front of her?
But after she really went deep into the grassroots level, she realized that this era was too unfriendly to women.
Although she has many noble auras surrounding her, when she went to the school to inspect her work, when she met the former Nanming officials who were undergoing training and education, the former Nanming officials still had a look of astonishment on their faces.
Obviously, for those former Nanming officials, the fact that a woman was a senior official of the Xinghai Kingdom was even more unacceptable than Wu Zetian ascending the throne as emperor.
Fortunately, just like those naturalized citizens, these former Nanming officials did not dare to do anything rude, they just had some shock in their eyes.
But it is also conceivable that even these former Nanming officials who have received training and education for a long time cannot accept women as officials, let alone ordinary people.
Therefore, it is very difficult to get these people to change their minds and accept that girls should go out to study.
Compared with Huang Xiaoli's troubles, the progress Xinghai Kingdom has made in industry is satisfactory.
After half a year of hard work, the first warship was officially launched. After waiting for half a month of outfitting, it can be officially handed over to the navy for use.
This battleship is the proud work of Li Mengbing, the veteran of the Ministry of Industrial Affairs.
Li Mengbing, who was a mold designer before time travel, was once an avid military model enthusiast.
The study room of his home is filled with various ship models and airplane models he made.
There is no doubt that having such a hobby coupled with his own profession has many advantages when transforming into a ship designer.
This warship design is a design draft solicited by the Ministry of Military Affairs from all veterans.
Giant ships and cannons have always been one of the passions of men.
After the Ministry of Military Affairs issued a notice soliciting battleship design drafts, many veterans who were interested in this project joined in.
Although Fang Xiaoyue did not participate because she was too busy with work, she paid close attention to the matter as a project instructor and naval gun designer.
To put it bluntly, this battleship designed by Li Mengbing is a modified version of the Wangfu-class ironclad ship of later generations.
The Wangfu-class ironclad ship is not an ironclad ship in the true sense. Its hull is still a wooden structure, but the outer shell is covered with a layer of iron armor.
The main hull structure of Li Mengbing's warship is mainly that of the Wangfu-class ironclad, but the original two-layer artillery deck has been eliminated, and a Chinese-style watertight cabin structure and steel keel have been added. As for power, it still uses a steam engine.
After the battleship was finalized, it was named Lingao Ship, a second-level battleship of the Navy. Therefore, this series of battleships are all high-level battleships, and subsequent new ships of the same class will be named after the Nanhai Island County level.
Its displacement is 1,200 tons. In order to improve the battleship's defense capability, the hull was specially covered with 200 tons of iron armor, and eight 88-1 guns were arranged on the deck.
The 88-1 gun is an improved version of the 88 gun. Its characteristic is that it can use explosive bullets.
There is no doubt that in the current naval battle environment, naval guns that can use explosive shells are almost invincible.
Therefore, even if only eight naval guns were deployed, Navy Commander Wang Haitao was still extremely excited.
Of course, as the navy's first warship, it has a weapon system in addition to eight naval guns, and an experimental rotating machine gun is placed at the bow and stern of the ship.
This rotating machine gun is a new gun designed by Fang Xiaoyue in her spare time to help the Ministry of Military Affairs.
Its original purpose was originally designed to make up for the lack of direct firepower of company-level troops.
However, due to the poor quality of the steel, this rotary machine gun with twelve barrels weighed 350 kilograms after it was manufactured.
Well, weight is actually not a big problem. After all, the Army's 88 gun is not lightweight either.
But in order to achieve the continuous fire effect, the rotating machine gun uses a special twelve-hole magazine. Not to mention that loading is extremely troublesome. The key is that the 120-round magazine is not light. According to the current standard, dozens of bullets can be loaded on one basis.
The Army standard for cartridges will cause huge troubles for Army logistics and machine gun teams to carry ammunition.
In terms of carrying weight and cost-effectiveness, this rotary machine gun is actually not as good as carrying more projectiles.
But naval ships are different. What does it matter if the magazine of the rotating machine gun is heavier? No matter how many magazines are installed on the ship, it doesn't matter.
After the Lingao was equipped with two rotating machine guns, it undoubtedly made up for the shortcomings of the Lingao in close combat.
At least, when encountering fire ship tactics and gang-hopping tactics, the rotating machine gun can let them know what the power of technology is.
In addition, the four steam engines located at the stern can provide 600 horsepower, allowing the Lingao to have a top speed of 20 knots and a cruising speed of 14 knots. However, considering that there are many problems with the existing high-horsepower steam engines, the Lingao is still
It was equipped with sails and adopted some designs from later generations, allowing the Lingao to reach a maximum speed of 11 knots and a cruising speed of 8 knots without using the steam engine.
This speed is not low for a sailboat. After all, a displacement of 1,200 tons is almost a giant ship weighing nearly 5,000 tons in this era.
In terms of sails alone, it is basically the principle that the bigger the ship, the slower it will go.
In addition, if the Lingao was not equipped with sails, Fang Xiaoyue, who had worked so hard to spin a single thread, would be scolded.
There is no doubt that the Lingaohao is a black technology produced in this time and space.
Therefore, when it was officially launched into the water, the Ministry of Military Affairs held a grand launch ceremony for it.
As the commander of the Navy, Wang Haitao smashed a bottle of Xinghai City's home-grown potatoes on the bow of the ship to the cheerful erhu and suona duet, causing waves of hallucinations among the onlookers.
As the gate opened, turbulent seawater poured into the dry dock, lifting the battleship bit by bit.
The battleship, whose hull had been covered with a layer of iron sheet, immediately started its steam engine as the water level rose, and then slowly sailed out of the dock amidst the whine of the whistle.
Next, the Lingao second-class battleship docked at the cement pier built by the shipyard.
Since the shipyard is now the first need of the Ministry of Military Affairs, the Ministry of Construction Affairs gathered the most skilled engineering team to seize the time to tackle the problem and built the dock in the shortest possible time.
At the same time, within half a year, more than two-thirds of the cement output on Nanhai Island was allocated.
Of course, the quality of this pier is far inferior to the modern piers that came through.
After all, the cement used in modern docks has high corrosion resistance, impact resistance, etc., but the cement used in this dock is just the most common Portland cement.