Since Lin Shuo took over the Fujian Governorship, he immediately began to reorganize the Fujian Shipbuilding School and purchased more than 2,600 acres of land on the riverside to build a naval school. The new naval school is divided into the Naval Command College, the Naval Engineering College and the Naval Officers Training School to train junior naval officers. School, coupled with Mawei Sailor Training Camp, a naval training system from officers to soldiers was initially established.
Navy name Qi Sa Zhenbing was appointed as the first president of the Naval Command College, former Yangtze Fleet Commander Shen Shoukun was appointed as the director of education, Naval Engineer Vice Admiral Chen Zhaoqiang was appointed as the principal of the Naval Engineering College, and Xie Baozhang, the former supervisor of the Yantai Naval Academy, was appointed as the principal of the Naval Officer School. Each naval school recruits students from all over the country. The first batch of 300 students entered the school in March 1914. After that, new students entered the school in September every year, and the number gradually increased.
Since it is a four-year schooling system, the first batch of freshmen at the Naval Academy had to wait until 1918 to graduate. Before then, the Navy of the Republic of China could only rely on these current people.
The original site of the Fujian Shipping Administration has been transformed into the Naval Memorial Hall, the Majiang Naval Battle Memorial Hall and the Sino-Japanese War of Sino-Japanese War Memorial Hall to enhance the navy's national awareness.
When the memorial hall opened, representatives of naval officers and soldiers and representatives of the first, second and third phases of the Naval Academy lined up in the square in front of the gate to listen to Lin Shuo's lecture:
Dear officers, soldiers and naval cadets:
Today is the opening day of the Naval Memorial Hall. Most of you are from the shipbuilding industry. In front of the door stand two bronze statues of great men who have made outstanding contributions to the shipbuilding industry. One is Duke Zuo Wenxiang and the other is Duke Shen Wensu. The two bronze statues The bases of the statues are engraved with the favorite inscriptions of the two princes during their lifetimes. The inscriptions on the Zuo Gong statue are: Living and dying for the benefit of the country, how can one avoid it because of misfortunes and fortunes. The inscription on the Shen Gong statue is: Heaven is moving vigorously, and a gentleman is constantly striving for self-improvement. .These two articles are also the school mottos of the Naval Command College and the Naval Engineering College.
Since the Opium War in 1840, the Chinese nation has experienced humiliation. Our ancestors have constantly strived for self-improvement in order to explore the path of national rise and national prosperity.
In 1866, Zuo Gong was in charge of Fujian and appointed Shen Gong as Minister of Shipping. After going through many hardships, he started to open Fuzhou Shipbuilding and School, which was the beginning of modern China's shipbuilding industry and modern education, and established the first modern navy.
Fifty years ago, when Duke Zuo and Shen Ergong founded the Shipbuilding School, dozens of passionate young people, represented by Liu Buchan, Lin Taizeng and Deng Shichang, entered the Shipbuilding School with the ambition of learning advanced technology to serve the motherland. School.
After that, during the Jia-Shen Majiang Naval Battle and the Jia-Shen Yellow Sea Naval Battle, naval officers who were shipowners fought bloody battles for the nation and the country and sacrificed their lives bravely. Next to us is the Zhaozhong Temple on Maxian Mountain, where 772 The souls of the martyrs who lost their lives in the naval battle of Majiang are guarding the tranquility of Majiang.
Not long ago, the Zhaohe incident occurred in Shanghai, and I was very sad to hear about it. What hurts was not the damage to the ship, but what you did. When the Kuomintang can easily bribe the crew with white flowers, when General Sa has to pile money in front of him before he will obey the order. Your behavior has exceeded the bottom line of a soldier!
The navy is the most important weapon of the country. However, some people regard warships as tools for pursuing personal gain. Please ask yourself, is this worthy of the heroic souls of the martyrs who sacrificed their lives for the country in the Majiang naval battle, the Yellow Sea, and Liugong Island?
Death is inevitable for everyone, and it may be lighter than a feather or heavier than Mount Tai. The names of Zuo Gong who helped Zi out of the fortress, Liu Zhuangsu Gong in the bloody battle at Keelung, and Deng Zhuangjie Gong who died heroically in the Yellow Sea naval battle will be remembered forever. History. If a person has done something meaningful for the nation, our nation will never forget them.
In China's territorial waters and inland rivers, the warships of the great powers show off their power, and the country is bullied. As a navy, we should be ashamed of this, unite sincerely, work hard, take the rejuvenation of the nation as our own responsibility, and be a person who is beneficial to the country and the nation!
I’m just saying this, and I’d like to encourage you all!
Lin Shuo's speech had little effect on the less educated sailors on each ship. It was supported by some officers such as Li Dingxin and Zeng Zhaolin who still harbored national justice. The biggest response was from young officers and naval cadets at school.
We, this article was later included in the textbooks of various military academies and became a must-read for military academies.
Lin Shuo wanted to send party representatives to the ship, but Liu Guanxiong was afraid that he would take control of the navy, so he transferred the fleet to Shanghai and stationed it, leaving only the training fleet in Fuzhou.
Under the banner of nationalism, Lin Shuo won enthusiastic support from young people in the country, especially young soldiers.
The level of industrial technology in the early Republic of China was not as backward as later propaganda and people imagined. Hanyang Arsenal, Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau and Dexian Arsenal could all imitate relatively sophisticated internal combustion engines, and their power performance was no worse than foreign products of the same period.
.The overall backwardness of domestic industry is caused by decades of war and has nothing to do with the "dark rule" of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and Beiyang.
The first time the Chinese conducted an air show on their own land was around the Qingming Dynasty in 1911. Qin Guoyong, a mechanic who studied in France, brought back an aircraft when he returned to China and performed an air show at the Nanyuan Training Ground in Beijing. At that time, in addition to the army and navy
Officials from the ministry also invited some foreign envoys to visit. On the day of the performance, there was a lot of traffic and a large number of spectators.
Since Qin Guoyong had been serving in Beiyang, those who later wrote history deliberately ignored this historical moment that made the Chinese proud due to political influence.
After Yuan Shikai came to power, he began to focus on aviation construction. In 1913, the Nanyuan Training Ground was converted into an aviation school, airport, aircraft repair factory, etc. The Nanyuan Aviation School was affiliated to the General Staff Headquarters.
Nanyuan Aviation School purchased twelve Gaudelon-G four-type aircraft and twelve bi-wing trainer aircraft and maintenance equipment and equipment from France. Qin Guoyong, Li Ruyan, Bao Bingchen, Pan Shizhong, Jiang Bingran, Yue Ganchen, the pioneers of China's aviation industry, etc.
They all hold important positions in Nanyuan Aviation School.
In September 1913, Nanyuan Aviation School officially opened in Beijing. The first batch of 50 trainees were selected from graduates of the Army and Navy Military Academy. Wang E was appointed as the director of education. The curriculum was divided into two parts: aeronautics and mechanics.
, power, meteorology, army tactics, foreign languages, etc., mainly train aviation technicians, the technical department mainly focuses on flight practice, engine repair and aircraft manufacturing and repair, and mainly trains pilots.
Under the auspices of Pan Shizhong, Nanyuan Aviation School produced China's first aircraft - Plane No. 1. The aircraft was equipped with a heavy machine gun produced by Hanyang Arsenal, and also used an 80-horsepower gasoline engine copied from Hanyang Arsenal.
This is the first military aircraft designed and manufactured by China itself.
Later, Lin Shuo built a naval aircraft manufacturing plant and Fuzhou Aviation School in Mawei, and hired naval students who studied aircraft manufacturing from the United States and former American engineers Wang Zhu, Bayuzao, Zeng Yijing, Wang Xiaofeng and others to take charge of the aircraft manufacturing plant and aviation school.
Regarding school affairs, due to sufficient funds, Fuzhou Naval Aircraft Factory and Fuzhou Aviation School soon surpassed Nanyuan Aviation School in scale and technology.
In terms of internal combustion engine manufacturing, Shanghai Hudong Machinery Factory has always led the country. The products of Fuzhou, Wuhu and Hanyang Arsenal are slightly behind Hudong Machinery in performance. Shanghai still has the best technical talents and the best technical workers in the country. As for
The two internal combustion engine factories in Taiyuan and Baotou have just opened and still rely on technical support from Shanghai and Fuzhou.
The development of China's aircraft manufacturing industry has quickly kept pace with the world. The performance of the aircraft produced by the Fuzhou Aircraft Manufacturing Factory has not lagged behind the aircraft used on the European battlefield. During the entire World War I, the Fuzhou Aircraft Manufacturing Factory exported to Britain, France and other countries.
Lin Shuo built a total of more than 600 biplane reconnaissance and attack aircraft with a total value of more than 15 million yuan. Later, Lin Shuo built two aircraft manufacturing plants in Nanchang and Baotou.
Most of the army divisions under Lin Shuo are equipped with an aviation squadron of 24 aircraft, which are mainly used for military reconnaissance and occasionally carry out ground bombing and attack missions.
As for Beiyang, due to national financial difficulties, aircraft were only occasionally equipped, but they still played a significant role in the campaign to encircle and suppress the Mongolian bandits. Although Nanyuan Aviation School also received Lin Shuo's annual funding of 150,000 silver dollars, it could only
It can barely survive and only produces more than ten aircraft every year. Qin Guoyong, Li Ruyan and others are eager for the conditions of the Fuzhou factory and have been applying for transfer to the south.
Lao Yuan definitely cannot agree.
With the advancement of industrial scale and technology, the domestically produced internal combustion engines are not much different from the world level. Benefiting from the advancement of engine technology, the domestic automobile industry and aircraft manufacturing industry can gradually develop and grow.
Although their performance is lagging and they have constant problems during use, light-duty trucks with large cargo capacity and very economical are still more and more popular among merchants, and are slowly replacing China's huge fleet of mule carriages, donkey carriages and oxen carriages. Although
In terms of ratio, its share of total domestic transportation is still very low, but it is developing rapidly.
Although Lin Shuo shook his head looking at the performance of domestically produced cars, he was helpless.
Everything has its own specific development rules. It is impossible to create products that transcend this era. For example, engine carburetors and electronic spray are a good thing. It is estimated that even if you spend hundreds of millions of dollars, you may not be able to manufacture them in this era.
For example, in the case of airplanes, aluminum skins are good, but with the current level of metallurgical technology for aluminum products, the aluminum skin covering the fuselage will break into pieces of residue before the airplane takes to the sky.
Violating the laws of nature will naturally lead to punishment, and the result is that the gain outweighs the loss.
So Lin Shuo had to endure the deafening roar of the car engine and the bumps like riding on a fast horse, the cold wind blowing in from around the poorly sealed car body and the flying dust in the car.
It's not perfect, but at least we're on the way.
The one that made him most unhappy was the Zhenxing Iron Ore Company established by the Japanese in Anshan.
Lin Shuo successfully prevented another tragedy in the history of the world, when the great traitor Sheng Xuanhuai sold out all the rights to the Daye Iron Ore to the Japanese, making the Japanese gain more than 300 million yuan from iron ore alone during the European War. However,
In this history, the Japanese, who were eager to obtain iron ore resources, successfully found another traitor named Yu Chonghan.
In 1915, Manchuria Railway Co., Ltd. obtained the mining rights of eight large-scale iron mines in Anshan area in the name of Yu Chonghan, established the "Sino-Japanese Joint Venture Revitalization Iron Ore Co., Ltd.", and mined 180,000 iron ore that year.
tons, making a profit of more than 5 million yuan. In 1916, Zhenxing Company plundered Anshan's iron ore resources up to 1.3 million tons and made a profit of more than 40 million yuan. The huge profits made "Manchu Iron and Steel" quickly decide to build a large iron smelting plant in Anshan. The design
The annual output is initially 500,000 tons.
This is more than two years earlier than the original history.
By the end of 1915, China's steel production reached 570,000 tons, with a net profit of more than 100 million silver dollars, while Japan's steel production during the same period was 750,000 tons (half of which relied on iron ore produced in Anshan), and Japan's shipbuilding capacity was 388, with a total of 51
350,000 tons, while China’s shipbuilding capacity is 227 ships and 350,000 tons. The industrial capabilities of the two countries are rapidly approaching.
In terms of economic aggregate, China has always been far larger than Japan because of its huge population base.
The biggest gap between the two countries is armament. China's army is slightly larger than Japan's, but it is divided into two factions. The Beiyang clique and the warlords of the southern provinces are like a piece of loose sand. In terms of navy, the total tonnage of the Japanese navy exceeds 370,000 tons, while the Chinese navy is not enough.
A fraction of Japan.
If there is a stable domestic environment, China will soon surpass Japan in military strength. The lack of resources has greatly restricted the development of Japan, and the naval strength of 400,000 tons is not irreparable. Before the European War,
The construction cost of large warships is about 1,300 yuan per ton, and the total value of 400,000-ton warships is only more than 500 million silver dollars. The total compensation paid by the Qing Dynasty during the Gengzi period was more than twice this amount.
In fact, with the development of domestic industry and commerce, Beiyang's finances have always had a surplus since 1914. Of course, this surplus is based on the gradual decline of the country's dominance.
This is also true in history. 1914 and 1915 were the only two years when the Republic of China had a financial surplus. Afterwards, there was a war to protect the country, a war to protect the law, warlords' melee, the Northern War, the Central Plains War, and the civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party. There was no peaceful day in the country. Everyone
Finally the Japanese are here.
Historically, calling Yuan Shikai a national traitor was not unfair at all.
Because the root of all this originated from his "Hongxian Monarchy".