Hearing that the construction of an ironclad ship was about to start, Xu Shouchang asked: "Master, how can we solve the problem of the power system and twin-mounted naval guns?" Fang Xiaoyu said: "Don't worry about the power system. I asked Benz before I came here, and he said it would take up to half a year.
It can be completed within a few days. The twin-mounted artillery has been built, but the tube retraction technology has encountered a bottleneck. Only the spring brake can be used, and the hydraulic type will take a while, so it can only be given to your secondary main gun.
Equipped with a barrel evacuation device, the main gun will have to wait for a while."
Xu Shouchang nodded and said: "It's nothing. After all, we don't need to build warships with full-caliber naval guns. No matter how powerful the recoil of the main gun is, there are only four guns, which is easy to solve." Xu Shouchang paused and said, "But
Once such warships appear, other countries will surely imitate them. Once there are more such warships, the cruisers we build will be unable to fight back."
Fang Xiaoyu wanted to say that it was not certain, the cruiser could still sink the armored ship. As he spoke, he suddenly remembered that the reason why the cruiser was unable to fight back was because it lacked a crucial weapon, which was a torpedo. Fang Xiaoyu secretly decided
After returning home, tell Feng Jingru everything you know about torpedoes and ask him to study torpedoes.
Fang Xiaoyu still has some experience in the research of torpedoes. The simplest one is to use an air compression engine. However, this oldest torpedo has a range of only 600 meters and a speed of only 11 knots. It has little practical value. Fang Xiaoyu thinks that it can be equipped first.
This kind of torpedo was an emergency, and thermal power torpedoes were being developed at the same time. Therefore, Fang Xiaoyu asked Xu Shouchang to notify various shipyards first to set aside space on the cruiser to prepare for the installation of torpedo launching devices.
With Fang Xiaoyu, torpedo development will naturally no longer take the detour of using pointed torpedoes, but directly use round-nose torpedoes. I believe that in the near future, Fang Xiaoyu's cruisers will surprise the enemy.
On the way back, Fang Xiaoyu decided to stop at the Goblin's Boli City to see the progress of the construction. When he heard that Fang Xiaoyu had arrived, Anglo immediately went to greet him. When he arrived at the city lord's palace in Anglo, Fang Xiaoyu sat on the main seat with a golden sword.
Anglo stood aside with a flattering look on his face and said, "Why does the young master have time to come to my place?"
Fang Xiaoyu is now used to these expressions of Anglo: "I went to the harbor to have a look and came here by the way." Anglo said: "By the way, the harbor doesn't have a name yet. Can you please give me a name?" Fang Xiaoyu thought for a while and said.
: "The harbor there is shaped like an unsealed lake and is rich in sea cucumbers, so let's call it Vladivostok." Anglo said, "What a good name. It's really a good name."
Fang Xiaoyu rolled his eyes. He only named it because he thought the terrain there was very similar to the Vladivostok seaport on Earth, and he didn't think the name was very good. Fang Xiaoyu looked at Anglo, who still had a disgusted expression on his face, and asked: "You guys
How is the construction going in the territory?”
Anglo said: "Thanks to the young master, we have built a large number of villages and towns, and also built a Chita Castle near the border of the Cossack Empire to defend the Cossack Empire. We are also preparing to form a force for defense.
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Speaking of this, Anglo glanced at Fang Xiaoyu. He knew that it was very taboo to build an army privately, so he came to ask him for instructions. Fang Xiaoyu glanced at him and said: "There is no need to form an army. I can allocate two troops to you."
Ten thousand breech guns allow you to establish some militia organizations. After a while, I plan to incorporate the territories of goblins, dwarves and elves into my Chinese territory. By then, I will station troops in Chita City. You only need to build the city and
Just build fortress groups secretly in the border areas."
Anglo nodded and said: "I will definitely follow the instructions of the young master and do it immediately." Fang Xiaoyu said: "The main body of the Cossack Empire is in the Western Continent. The transportation on the Eastern Continent is very underdeveloped and the population is small. It is not possible for us at the moment.
If it poses a threat, we can build it slowly, but we must hurry up on the railway. As soon as our railway is connected, you will immediately join the Chinese collar, and I can start industrial construction here." Anglian nodded and said: "Don't worry, young master.
I will definitely build the railway as soon as possible." Fang Xiaoyu nodded. The food must be eaten one bite at a time, and the construction must be done bit by bit. Some things cannot be rushed.
Taking advantage of the opportunity to visit the shipyard in Vladivostok, Fang Xiaoyu briefly inspected the northern subcontinent. This inspection gave him some understanding of the actual situation in the subcontinent. He did not waste any more time and returned directly to Tongjiang Fucheng.
The first thing Fang Xiaoyu did when he returned to Fucheng was to send the torpedo development plan to Feng Jingru, and asked him to step up the development. At the same time, he built a torpedo manufacturing plant in Songjiang Industrial Zone to first produce the most primitive cold-powered compressed air torpedo. Although this kind of torpedo is practical
It has poor performance, but its advantage is that it is simple to manufacture and can be put into mass production without research and development. It is a good emergency product.
Spring is warm and flowers are blooming, and the sowing season is here again. This time, the cultivated land in China is fully prepared, and Fang Xiaoyu has asked Xiaofeng to produce a large number of new crop seeds in advance. After several years of development, the level of Xiaofeng's agricultural products has increased several levels, even though
Without chemical fertilizers, the average yield per mu of rice has reached 700 kilograms, that of wheat has reached 500 kilograms, that of corn has reached 900 kilograms, and that of potatoes has reached 1,500 kilograms.
With the large-scale planting of these crops, Fang Xiaoyu believes that as long as the crops are ripe this season, even an additional 10 million people will be enough to feed. In terms of animal husbandry, in addition to continuing to expand the scale of raising pigs and chickens, Fang Xiaoyu began to raise cattle and sheep.
, with a large amount of corn and other coarse grains as feed, large-scale breeding is not a problem.
Before the spring sowing was completed, Deng Jiaxiang brought another piece of good news that excited Fang Xiaoyu. After a long period of development, smokeless gunpowder and solidified nitroglycerin explosive were finally successfully manufactured and could be put into large-scale industrial production. It turned out that Deng Jiaxiang had passed
After countless experiments, a practical granular smokeless gunpowder was finally obtained by heating nitrocellulose, nitroglycerine and alcohol under high pressure.
The success of solidified nitroglycerin is somewhat dramatic. Deng Jiaxiang had previously created a new substance called celluloid. Once, when his assistant was making celluloid, he mistakenly added liquid nitroglycerin, resulting in a colloid.
The object was later discovered by Deng Jiaxiang. This object was a solid explosive that was more stable than liquid nitroglycerin. This discovery made Deng Jiaxiang overjoyed. After in-depth research, Deng Jiaxiang canceled the camphor in the formula, causing the colloid to explode.
It was more powerful, and he later named this colloid substance colloidal dynamite.