() Now let’s talk about Liu Fu’s life-saving plan. According to Liu Fu’s idea, he will first use Liu Mingchuan’s cover here in Keelung to build a steel, machinery manufacturing, shipbuilding, chemical industry, mining, and scientific research center in 10 years.
An integrated industrial base. The role of this base
It is to develop two defensive weapons in the shortest time: submarines and torpedo boats. Liu Fu repeatedly weighed his own strength and the wars of this era, and felt that submarines and torpedo boats should be the most effective, cheapest, and most suitable for Taiwan.
A defensive weapon.
Battleships and cruisers are good things, but Liu Fu can't build them, and he doesn't have the conditions to buy them. Although he hasn't tried them, Liu Fu will definitely go to the UK or Germany to find the Armstrong or Volcan shipyards, and order them at twice the cost. 2
For a battleship, people would take the money and pretend nothing happened, or they might be more righteous and ask the security guards to throw them out.
Some readers have said, let your father Liu Mingchuan buy it. This idea is even more idiotic. Do you think it is reliable for the governor of Hainan Province to spend his own money to buy an active aircraft carrier from the United States and bring it back to his son to drive it on the beach?
Even if the Chinese government is willing, the U.S. government and the governments of Southeast Asian countries are still not willing. What if your son drinks too much one day and presses the launch button of the missile in the weapons control room with a beautiful woman in his arms? Who is responsible?
This responsibility?
Another official said, let your father represent Qingzheng
go buy it; this idea is also a bit stupid. The Qing Dynasty had very strict control over the feudal officials, for fear that you would rebel or something. Unlike the period of melee between civil warlords, you could recruit a few thousand people and occupy a piece of land and you could become a master.
Lord; again
By the way, when brothers Li Hongzhang and Shen Baozhen are here, why don't you go and buy warships? Then what use are the Beiyang and Nanyang Navy? Since ancient times, destroying a person's wealth is like killing his parents, so why don't these two brothers fight for your Liu family?
And the official said, then you should also go to Li Hongzhang to write a plan, look into the future, fool Lao Li, maybe you can inherit Beiyang. This idea is not stupid, it is simply no brainer, as I said before
The same as before, if you are not sure how to deceive your own father, how can you still deceive outsiders? Whether it is the Qing Dynasty or the Ming Dynasty
In the Chao Dynasty, there may not be any official with a low IQ, and no one who is not a professional toy with people. If you want to fool a group of old people into being your stepping stone, you are too confident. They may not understand your intentions and cannot imagine it.
You have far-reaching plans, but with their senses, they can also smell whether something is beneficial to them or not.
Stop talking about it, readers. Besides, it’s not writing a book, it’s just making a post to complain. Originally, I thought it was a bit far-fetched to ask David, a young nobleman, to go to Europe to sell medicine and purchase equipment, but there is really no way. I really want to
I can't think of a more suitable way. I think writing novels is just making up lies. It must be well-written before people will believe it. If it doesn't make sense logically, it won't work even if the lies are written with great literary talent. Let's continue talking about submarines.
matter.
Why is it said that submarines are more reliable? First of all, they are small in tonnage and can be manufactured without a large shipyard. With the current time and economic and industrial conditions, it is unreliable to build a huge shipyard. That thing requires a complete industrial system.
, only after a long period of accumulation can a certain effect be achieved.
Secondly, submarines do not need naval guns. When comparing torpedoes and naval guns, Liu Fu feels that torpedoes are much easier to study. Finally, submarines require fewer personnel. Compared with warships that often have hundreds or thousands of crew members, the number of people on submarines
None of them are worth mentioning, there are only dozens of them, and they are much easier to raise in comparison.
Let’s talk about torpedo boats. They are simpler to build and have fewer operators. Although they cannot fight in oceans, as defensive weapons, if the number is large enough, they are also very scary.
Both submarines and torpedo boats need a strong heart, that is, an engine. Liu Fei asked David that in fact, at least France already has submarines in this era, but the speed above and below the water is too slow, only a few knots, making it difficult to fight and chase.
It can't catch others, it can't run away from others, its duration under water is short, and the torpedoes are not very powerful. They seem to be able to hit a few hundred meters, but they may not explode when hit. It is these shortcomings that make submarines useless.
It is favored by the navies of various countries.
But Liu Fu has the confidence to make up for these shortcomings. So where does Liu Fu's confidence come from? Does he know about submarines? He knows a thing. Except in movies and on the Internet, he has never even seen a real submarine. Everyone may have forgotten,
What did Liu Fu come across in time? Yes, it was that fishing boat. First of all, why are submarines in this era so slow and small in tonnage? That's because the diesel engine has not been invented yet.
David once asked Liu Fu why his ship could be operated by one person without anyone burning the boiler. Liu Fu carefully inquired about the situation of the ships in the Far East Fleet. As far as David knew, there were no pure oil-burning ships in various countries.
Ships, generally large ships use steam boilers and burn coal... Although the ship that accompanied Liu Fu across the journey was a fishing boat
, but Liu Fu had read the fishing boat's manual. It was an ocean-going fishing boat. It was not only equipped with a high-power diesel engine unit, but also had various ocean-going supporting facilities. There were many motorcycles and cars in the cabin. It was very important to develop a long-range fishing boat.
The marine diesel engine that surpasses this era cannot be said to be easy, or it can be said that it is just a copycat of difficulty.
There is also the issue of underwater duration. Submarines in this era cannot last long underwater because they need oxygen underwater, and snorkel technology has not yet been invented. Furthermore, battery technology is not available, and electric motor technology is not available either. And these problems rely on
The equipment on imitation fishing boats can be solved. Fishing boats also have battery packs, and fishing boats also have electric motors of various sizes.
Let’s talk about the issue of torpedoes. A submarine without good torpedoes is like a gun without bullets. Liu Fu doesn’t know much about torpedoes, but he probably knows that it’s just a power unit pushing a big bomb, and it still needs power.
Finally, Liu Fu also has a trump card, which is mines. This was inspired by the article "Ship Knowledge" on the fishing boat. The book said that the United States dropped tens of thousands of mines at Japanese ports during World War II.
Mines sank hundreds of ships in Japan. Although Liu Fu didn't understand mines, he could probably tell that this mine was much easier to make than submarines, speedboats and torpedoes.
With the three weapons of submarines, torpedo boats, and mines, Liu Fu felt that it would still be possible to defend the base in Taiwan. Taiwan is an island, and no matter who you come to, you have to come by boat. As long as they can sink you, there will always be enough.
No matter how powerful your army is, how hard you train, or how terrifying your combat effectiveness is, if you can't get to land, what can you do to me?
Liu Fu thought over his life-saving plan again and again, and felt that the logic was quite reasonable. It could be solved economically and technologically, but he didn't know if he had enough time. In the introduction of Taiwan attractions in the travel brochure, the Jinguashi Gold Mine was introduced.
There is a saying "After the Sino-Japanese War of 1898-1895,
, Taiwan was ceded to Japan in 1895..." In other words, by 1895 at the latest, a sufficient number of submarines, speedboats and mines must be built, a sufficient number of crews must be trained, and a sufficient number of ships must be stored.
