In the next few months, former American scientists Nikola Tesla, Reginald, and Fessenden were all conquered by Li Ningyu using carrots and sticks, and various things were purchased from various countries.
After that, Li Ningyu started to return home.
On the deck of the Yangtze No. 7 iron-clad cruiser, Li Ningyu was shirtless, gritting his teeth, doing sit-ups one after another, and then surrounding the 130-meter-long cruiser, running in circles after a while.
I was sweating profusely.
"Master!" Tie Bing, who had been standing beside him, took a towel and a bucket of water and walked to Li Ningyu's side after seeing Li Ningyu collapsed on the deck from exhaustion.
Then Li Ningyu directly poured a whole bucket of water on himself, and at this time the Iron Soldier Army on the side said with some emotion: "Alas! We finally have our own big iron ship, but Master, you said such a big one
How can an armored battleship float on the sea and not sink?".
Hearing Tie Bing's words, Li Ningyu rolled his eyes at him, but at this moment Tie Bing seemed to have something more to say, so Li Ningyu continued to listen without interrupting.
"And young master, you have been really busy recently. Now you have to draw drawings, and now you have to look at the geographical location maps of various countries! Although I am ignorant and don't know what the young master is drawing and what the content is, but since I went to Shanghai with
After marrying the young master, I went to the southwest to defeat France, and sent troops to Korea to overthrow the Japanese, but I kept seeing that young master, you never had a good night's sleep!"
"I originally thought that you could have a good rest when I went abroad with the young master this time, but I know that you started to care about the South China Sea again. I said, young master, although you are young, your health is very important!".
After Tie Bing finished talking, Li Ningyu's eyes felt a little itchy, but he still resisted it. Then he wiped his body vigorously with a towel, then patted Tie Bing's shoulder and said, "Thank you.
, I understand, I will pay attention to it, you can remind me at any time!".
But then, Li Ningyu returned to the cabin to find a few scientists. In the small laboratory in the cabin, Li Ningyu was discussing with them short waves, medium waves, and long waves. In the next three months at sea, Li Ningyu
He has been staying in various countries, sometimes buying land, and sometimes leaving silently. At the same time, according to Tie Bing's understanding, there was about a battalion of more than 500 people who broke into pieces and entered the four annexes around the Qing Dynasty.
country, but Zhang Jun is responsible for the area of activity, contact time, location, secret codes, logistical support, and transportation of strategic materials.
In 1885, on the sixth day of September in the eleventh year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu, in order to regain the unified command of the navy, the late Qing government established the Prime Minister's Naval Affairs Office in Beijing, with Prince Chun Yixuan as the prime minister, Wang Yikuan of Qingjun, and Li Hongzhang, minister of Beiyang, as the general office.
Shanqing, the commander of the Han army under the Zhenghong Banner, was assisted by Zeng Jize, the right minister of the Ministry of War.
The real power was still in the hands of Li Hongzhang. Later, Li Hongzhang used the naval office to rectify coastal defense, vigorously purchased foreign ships, and allocated all the better ships of the Nanyang and Fujian navies to Beiyang to expand the Beiyang Navy. In the name of benefiting coastal defense,
, manages the establishment of railway affairs.
However, Li Ningyu, who is familiar with history, has a general understanding of the future situation of the Beiyang Navy. The Beiyang Navy, the first modern naval fleet established in the late Qing Dynasty, is also the most powerful and powerful among the three modern navies established by the Qing government.
The largest one.
The Beiyang Navy was formally established in Weihaiwei, Shandong Province in December 1888. It has two battleships (ironclad ships): Dingyuan and Zhenyuan. It has a displacement of 7,000 tons, a speed of 15 knots, 22 guns, and 3 torpedoes.
Cruisers (armored cruisers): Jingyuan and Laiyuan. Displacement of 3,000 tons, speed of 16 knots, 16 guns, and 4 torpedoes.
Offshore cruisers: Jiyuan, Zhiyuan, Jingyuan, Pingyuan (self-built naval warships of the Qing Dynasty) with a displacement of 2,300 tons, a speed of 18 knots, 18 guns, and 4 torpedoes.
Impact cruiser: show off its power, super brave, displacement of 1,300 tons, speed of 16 knots, 18 guns, and 3 torpedoes.
Iron-walled wooden hull cruiser: Guangjia. Torpedo cruisers: Guangyi, Guangbing. The total number of ships of the Beiyang Navy has reached more than 50, with a displacement of more than 40,000 tons.
But in the end, because the old Buddha in the Forbidden City wanted to build the Summer Palace, and after embezzling a large amount of military pay from the late Qing Navy, coupled with the corruption of officials in the late Qing Dynasty and the lack of daily training for naval soldiers, the once famous naval fleet in Asia was finally
Buried in the ocean in front of his own home.
Li Ningyu sighed in his heart, but on the 10th day after he left Germany, the coastal defense heavy artillery purchased had begun to be shipped to North Korea. Since Li Ningyu signed four warships in Germany and the United Kingdom, Li Ningyu began to work hard on the
Various European countries were sweeping goods, and almost all relevant industrial manufacturing machines were purchased in large quantities. At the same time, they also began to reserve large quantities of iron ore and ammonium nitrate explosives.
By the way, he arranged to purchase two oil fields. Based on some history and partial memories of ships, Li Ningyu customized four cruisers, with a standard displacement of 3,500 tons and a full load displacement of 4,000 tons. They were propelled by two axles. The speed was reduced by removing torpedoes and the armor was reduced.
Thickness, maximum speed of 23 knots, and maximum range of 28,000 nautical miles when cruising at 13 knots.
The main gun was also changed to a 305 mm caliber, twin main gun rotating turrets, one at the front and one at the front, with fully protected turrets. In terms of secondary guns, Li Ningyu gave up the ten 152 mm multi-layer firepower configuration, and instead used more
Abnormally, it uses ten 52mm secondary guns with the same 20 times the caliber, five of which are installed on each side.
Nowadays, various countries like to install torpedo tubes on battleships, but Li Ningyu decided to give up because in his opinion, it is more practical and more practical to have a few torpedo ships to carry out torpedo attacks on cruisers.
After finishing the four cruisers, Li Ningyu actually wanted to buy a battleship, but then he thought about the situation he wanted to be in, so he decided to wait. Fortunately, these days, whether it is the United Kingdom, France, Germany or the United States, they are all buying battleships.
China has its own embassy, so it is very convenient to buy warships from these countries.
At the same time, when signing the purchase contract in Germany, he also made two requirements. The first was to train sailors and naval officers, and the second was to purchase shipyard facilities and establish a place in North Korea that could be used for maintenance and assembly.
Britain and Germany have no objections to Li Ningyu's two proposals.
"Speed!" A red sun rose slowly. Standing on the deck of the Yangtze River No. 7, Li Ningyu was thinking deeply about naval theory. However, he never expected that at this moment, far away in the Jinluan Temple in Bauhinia City, for his
There was already a quarrel over the name.
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