Open an aircraft carrier to fight against Japan

Once Uliasutai was taken down, the two cores of the entire Mongolia were pacified, and Lin Yuan's disaster relief and reform work went smoothly. Lin Yuan completed the plan and handed over the specific implementation to his subordinates.

Seeing that there was nothing to do in Mongolia, Lin Yuan prepared to take Shen Wanqing back to the Northeast. Before returning to the Northeast, Lin Yuan decided to go to Beijing first. The first thing he did when he arrived in Beijing was to ask the housekeeper Liu San to give Sanduo a gift, so he said I apologized for the Mongolian incident.

Sanduo had no choice, he vaguely guessed that those so-called horse bandits were pretended by Lin Yuan, but he didn't have any evidence. After Lin Yuan apologized, he sent a memorial to Emperor Guangxu, saying that Mongolia suffered a rare encounter in a hundred years It is hoped that the imperial court will provide relief for the snow disaster.

How could the Qing court manage it, so he put Lin Yuan's book aside. Of course, Lin Yuan knew that the Qing court couldn't control it at all, so he didn't care, and his original intention was not to let the Qing court take care of it. The real intention was to belittle the status of the Qing court, and then win the hearts of the people for himself. Lin Yuan secretly let people spread how he rescued disasters in Mongolia, which greatly increased the people's favor for Lin Yuan.

Lin Yuan paid attention to the international developments again. Western countries only expressed their concern about the situation in Mongolia, and did not say much. Then Lin Yuan started to implement the establishment of embassies in European countries. Mongolia has already started preparing for the site selection and construction of the embassy before, and now various countries have completed the construction of the embassy, ​​just waiting for Lin Yuan to send someone there.

Lin Yuan had already thought about the candidate for the ambassador. He selected a group of people he trained and sent them to various countries. The ambassador's entourage was basically all intelligence personnel. After they arrived in Europe and the United States, they quickly Now that he can start working, Lin Yuan is no longer in the dark about the situation in Europe.

However, the communication cable from France to China has not yet been opened. The reason is very simple. There are no ocean-going ships to lay cables, and the shipyard is still in preparation; however, the railway from China to France has been built. A railway is still very hard.

France also returned a batch of cultural relics to China, and also sent a performance team. Lin Yuan also sent the Ulan sisters and some carefully selected people to go to France. At the shipyard in Lushun, the construction of the warship is finally about to start!

In the expert center in Lushun, experts and high-level officials on the Beijing ship gathered together. This day was November 1896, 11. On this ordinary day, a new Chinese navy will be born. From then on, the fate of China and the world will be determined. There will be radical changes!

Lin Yuan first said: "Today we have only one topic, and that is what kind of navy we want to build? Including naval strategy and ship types. To inform everyone, for the convenience of description, I will introduce it in the form of total score, first introduce the situation of the whole ship, and then introduce the situation of each system of the warship. After introducing the situation of each sub-system, we will introduce our research progress , and in comparison determine our naval strategy."

"First of all, let's talk about the progress of the whole ship. When I was in the UK, I saw that the British had already built dreadnoughts. Just like our era, their dreadnoughts adopted the design of 'full heavy artillery'. The large artillery The calibers are all the same, it seems that our previous work was not in vain, and the development of the world's navies has indeed been led by us to the road of giant cannon ships."

"Introducing the complete ship, let me introduce the various subsystems, first of all, the power system. When I was in the UK, I visited their dreadnought's sailing test. As a result, their dreadnought easily ran at a speed of [-] knots , If you use a piston steam engine, you can’t run at such a speed anyway, so I conclude that their warship must be equipped with a steam turbine.”

"Not only that, when I visited the dreadnought, I didn't find a coal bunker, and there was no trace of cinders on the deck. We also saw it when we used the captured Japanese warships. There was a lot of cinders and dust on it. No matter what Cleaning is very difficult to wash off completely, so I think that the British Navy is already using oil as fuel. My guess is not unreasonable. We saw it when the Japanese transport ship was captured, and their ship was already equipped with Gasoline-burning engine."

"Another component of the power system is the propeller. As we all know, the propeller is a tool that directly propels the ship, which has a great impact on the speed of the ship and the efficiency of the main engine. It is a pity that the British used a shield when the dreadnought was launched. The propellers are blocked, so did they use the most basic propellers? Or did they use more advanced distance-adjustable propellers? We don’t know.”

At this point, Lin Yuan made a gesture of invitation to Wan Ling, a ship expert, and said, "Now we have invited Academician Wan Ling to introduce the latest achievements of ship power systems to us."

Everyone applauded, Wan Ling stood up and smiled at everyone, and then said: "I am engaged in ship design, and ship design does not include power system design. What we have to do is: select the ship that has already been built. As for the power system, since Kobayashi asked me to talk about it, I have no choice but to do it for me.”

"Just now Kobayashi also mentioned that the British used steam turbine technology. I can tell you with relief that we have mastered the gas turbine technology. The British steam turbine needs water as the working medium, while our gas turbine can use air as the working medium, saving The seawater purification system is installed, which is of great benefit to the weight reduction of warships."

"Our naval gas turbine is also modified from the turbofan-25 engine used by the J-30 fighter jet. I heard from Academician Liao Ming that an aero engine is a type of gas turbine, and it can be converted into many power machines. We have modified it before. A few are used for power generation, and now we have overcome a series of technical difficulties and converted the WS-30 into a naval gas turbine."

"The gas turbine does not need to turn water into water vapor, which saves a thermodynamic change process, so the thermal efficiency is much higher than that of the steam turbine, and it saves a lot of fuel than the steam turbine under the same conditions. This is a big improvement in endurance, and our gas turbine can Let our [-]-ton battleship reach a speed of [-] knots, and it can completely form an aircraft carrier battle group with an aircraft carrier!"

Lin Yuan nodded and said: "After introducing the power system, I will introduce the weapon system to you. The dreadnought has already used large-caliber artillery. According to my visual observation, the caliber is more than [-] mm. This is the artillery. As for the shells, I have seen cap-piercing shells when I was in Germany, and I have reason to believe that the British are fully equipped with similar armor-piercing shells."

Lin Yuan said: "Do you think I want to ask our artillery expert, Academician Luo Chaoying, to introduce our artillery progress? Hehe, everyone guessed wrong. I think so. We still widely equip the army with artillery. As for the navy, we have done it in one step and directly equipped with large ship-to-ship missiles!"