Chapter 483 Peace is over

@@@@@@@@@@ On the blue sea, a small peninsula embraces the only harbor on Ishigaki Island like emeralds. The low but lush mangroves on the island add a little vitality to this place.

But after the destroyer bypassed the peninsula, the tragic scene made all the people who saw it couldn't help but be worried. They only saw the place about two kilometers away from the dock, as if it had been washed by the battleship with cannons. There were ruins and broken walls everywhere, and the huge scorched black mass was even more eye-catching.

What kind of explosion will produce so much power?

When the destroyer landed, Li Mo rushed to the shore one by one and walked to the place of the explosion. After entering, he found that a familiar figure in front of him was wrapped in a thick bandage in his left hand and hurriedly ran over.

"Lao Tan, what's wrong with you?"

Tan Xiaozeng was directing everyone to clean up the scene and digging out important things. When he heard the call, he hurriedly turned around and found that the emperor had come in person. He quickly prepared to salute. Unexpectedly, this action involved the wound and he couldn't help shivering his teeth.

"All right." Li Mo quickly interrupted him and asked, "Why are you here? What's wrong with the hand?

"Xiao Zeng, thank you for your concern." Tan Xiaozeng smiled and said, "Ha ha, didn't I happen to be there that day when I exploded?"

"Are you there too?"

"Yes, I wanted to see the progress, but I didn't expect to encounter this, hey!" Speaking of this, Tan Xiaozeng couldn't help sighing, looking at the rubble on the ground, and said sadly, "The machine and equipment have all been destroyed, and more than a dozen technicians have died, and even hundreds of workers have died!" There are also more than 80 injuries.

'It's really serious!' As Li Mo said, he walked forward. After walking to the center of the explosion, he knew why it was so powerful and so many people were killed and injured!

It turned out that not only the laboratory exploded, but also the small oxygen plant next to it. It was estimated that it was caused by the detonation, and the explosion should have been very sudden, so so many people were killed and injured.

Looking at the wreckage on the ground, Li Mo couldn't help sighing. Before, he was not too worried about the sea of ships of the United States. Among them, it was one of the killers being developed here, but he didn't expect that when he was cruel, there was another disaster.

It's not surprising that there will be an explosion here, because things here are too dangerous. There have been fires and other accidents before, but I didn't expect the explosion to be so strong. It also ignited the supporting oxygen factory next door, destroying all the efforts of several years, and almost caught a lieutenant admiral.

When will my own oxygen torpedo be completed?

Li Mo shook his head, found a big broken stone and sat down. In fact, he had always wanted to make an oxygen torpedo, so he named the torpedo a spear.

There is no need to describe the power and effect of oxygen torpedoes. In the previous life, the 93 oxygen torpedo in World War II was almost a man who killed the Buddha. How can you give up such a good thing as a traveler? And compared with the thermodynamic torpedoes that are beginning to be used in various countries at present, because oxygen can dissolve into the sea water, you can hardly see the flight. Traces are simply a must-have for sneak attacks and robberies.

Li Mo checked the information of this kind of torpedo in the naval database in his previous life, and also saw the remaining imaginary design sketch and a damaged physical photo. So when the spear type 2 thermodynamic torpedo gradually touched the barrier a few years ago, he immediately set up a new furnace to look for it and quietly established a special torpedo research institute here. It's just to get this kind of big killer.

But now five years of hard work have been destroyed by an explosion. The most important thing is the loss of those front-line technicians and workers, which is really heartbreaking.

"Your Majesty, don't worry, we have a backup of all the materials and design manuscripts, and several main designers were not present at that time, so we can start again soon." Seeing Li Mo's distressed face, Tan Xiaozeng had to come up to comfort him.

Li Mo nodded and built a piece of metal from his feet. He still sighed from the bottom of his heart. Although the information was retained, the main designer was fine, but after all, all the front-line technicians and workers were almost dead, and the explosion was too big. He had to rebuild the research institute, find the cause of the explosion, redesign the new plan, and so on. It takes a lot of time.

But what can I do?

"Let's start over." Li Mo threw away the fragments, got up and looked at Tan Xiaozeng, who was holding a thick bandage, and said, "Lao Tan, you are not young. Just let the next person do this kind of thing. Go back to have a good rest and recuperate."

"Your Majesty, don't worry. I'm idle in the navy all day long. It's not a way. It's better to go out for a walk." Tan Xiaozeng said with a smile, "When I come out, I feel much more relaxed."

"You!" Li Mo smiled bitterly and suddenly asked, " By the way, I heard that Tan Wang went to the sea to test the landing ship in person?"

"Yes, your Majesty." Hearing Li Mo talking about his eldest son, Tan Xiaozeng was angry and scolded, "That rebellious son can't let him fight, and it's even worse to lead soldiers!" I can only do this kind of thing, alas! I lost all my face to him!"

"Ha ha, Lao Tan, don't scold me." Li Mo smiled and finally felt better. He smiled and said, "I have told Chen Ping that we have just decided to gather all the transport ships and support ships of the navy to set up a special transport fleet. Let Tan Wang have a try. He has studied with Lin Yongxiang for many years, and he should be able to manage it."

"That's great. It's just that bastard in my family. I'm afraid he can't do it!" Tan Xiaozeng was excited. Over the years, Tan Wang has always shot in the east and the west. He has never been fixed. If he can really become a full-time logistics fleet commander, he will inherit his father's business.

"It's not up to you. It's up to him!" Li Mo walked to the depths of the explosion scene and said, "After cleaning up, we should hurry up and rebuild. This project is very important to us."

"Your Majesty, don't worry, I'll catch it myself."

"Well, I'm relieved that you keep an eye on me. By the way, I'm going to Shanghai later. You can go with me and go to the hospital for a few days. Seeing that Tan Xiaozeng was going to speak, Li Mo waved his hand: "That's it!"

"Yes." -

In Jiangnan Shipyard, Zhu Shunyi put down the mask-like face protector in his hand, got up and wiped his sweat, and let the waistbone relax after squatting for a long time.

The Huangpu River in the distance can be faintly seen. The row of Western-style large houses left by the Bund foreigners now have a few more, but they are not built by foreigners. They are built by real Chinese people, and they are all large high-rise buildings with more than ten floors of full-use of foreign ash and steel.

Unfortunately, this scenery will not be seen in another two years, because the factory has begun to build a factory area on Changxing Island. In the future, everyone will move there. In order to keep it secret, their military industry department will take the lead in withdrawing from the Huangpu River.

On the Bund, today is a colorful flag. You can guess without looking at him that everyone will definitely wear all kinds of new clothes, take their children's wives out of the house, and enjoy this rare holiday.

Today's National Day is almost lively for the second year.

Zhu Shunyi scratched his head. According to the theory, today is the National Day. Originally, he could also have a holiday, but due to the strict requirements of this group of military products and tight time, he had to work overtime.

The colleagues around me either sat or squatted, under the long welding gun in their hands, a mass of ss bursting and flashed. With this spark, the steel plate tightly burst into a whole.

This is only the first process. After the welding is completed, it still needs to be polished and other processes, and then strictly inspected. The navy supervisors have sharp eyes, and a little sand hole will require rework.

However, everyone has nothing to complain about, and they are also very conscious of working overtime, because after entering the Ministry of Military Industry, their monthly blue money of 10 yuan has soared to the current 20, all of which are brought by the warships in front of them.

Since the new emperor ascended the throne of the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau and changed it to Jiangnan Shipyard, it has been adding equipment, training workers, and building some civilian ships. Although it has also built more than ten tons of big man, it was not until more than two years ago that it began to receive military work again.

This time, it was very gratifying for everyone, but I didn't expect that the work had not yet started. The emperor and the political axe sent a large number of specialized old workers and a large number of technicians, which was enough for them to train them for a year before they returned to work.

Although they are all old workers in the factory, they have always been here with braids, and have built warships and cannons for the Qing Dynasty, but they are all old almanac. Compared with the rising stars in the north who can build tens of thousands of tons of warships, they have no advantage here.

This kind of day that was suddenly robbed of scenery is not easy, so I heard that after re-establishing the warship, everyone was very happy. In order to practice excellent welding skills, many people put their hot arms full of blisters, but everyone did not complain. For nothing else, they could compare with other workers every month after practicing. Ten yuan more than 10 yuan is enough to make everyone play with their lives.

Even at this time, those backward new workers are not red-eyed, looking for relationships, entrusting friends, quietly practicing welding behind their backs, and even sheet metal technology are all to squeeze into the military construction department.

Zhu Shunyi sniffed and felt that his mouth was a little thirsty, so he went to the pergola 100 meters away to drink water. He also took the opportunity to smoke a cigarette to moisten his throat. Because he was worried about the fire, the factory strictly stipulated that smoking must be in the designated rest area.

After taking out a wrinkled cigarette and taking two deep breaths, Zhu Shunyi felt much more comfortable. After pouring a bowl of water and drying it, he grabbed the protective gear and was ready to dry again. Suddenly, he saw a large number of soldiers and big men walking into the dock and coming here.

Zhu Shunyi, who has never seen so many guns, was shocked. Did something happen?

Before he could react, he saw the big leader of the factory, the designer and several naval supervisors coming in with a man in his thirties. After seeing the other party's face clearly, he was stunned.

Your Majesty!

When I saw the emperor, I saw the emperor!

Not to mention Zhu Shunyi, those workers who were interrupted at work couldn't believe their eyes. Some people even knelt down directly and shouted long live the emperor.

"Get up, get up quickly." Li Mo smiled and picked up a recent welder and said with a smile, "It's a big holiday. You work overtime for the country. I'm right to thank you."

"I dare not, I dare not." It's a big deal to see the emperor at all times, so when the workers gathered around heard the emperor thank them, they couldn't even say anything, but just didn't dare to say anything.

"Hehe. It's the holiday. Everyone has worked hard to work overtime. I brought some small gifts and went to the door to get them later. It's my thanks. After Li Mo finished speaking, he took a few engineers into a destroyer that was about to be launched, leaving dumbfounded workers on the ground.

The emperor gave himself a gift?!

"Brothers, work hard! What are you waiting for when the emperor treats us like this!" Zhu Shunyi shouted excitedly, and the first one rolled up his sleeves and grabbed the welding gun again. This sentence also attracted everyone's cheers, which Li Mo did not expect.

He came here today mainly to see what the old factory, known as the cradle of Chinese skilled workers, looks like now. From the perspective of equipment and technical capabilities of the workers, it is not weaker than the two major shipyards in the north, but the scale is slightly smaller, mainly because it is not facing the sea, and the place is narrow and some exhibition. If you don't open it, it will be much better after two years to move to the new factory in Changxing Island.

At the foot is the third-generation Weiqing-class destroyer, which has just started to be built on a large scale, with a standard displacement of 2,000 tons and a full load of 2,450 tons. It adopts the outer flying scissors and square sterns, and adopts the new five-leaf propeller. Under the design with a maximum width of 12 meters, the maximum speed still reaches 40 knots. The endurance is 15 knots/5000 nautical miles, and 10 knots/7000 nautical miles.

For the first time, the ship type of the central bridge building was adopted. In short, it is the front and rear bottom, and the middle is high. It seems that the layout of the whole ship is very compact, which is more similar to later ships.

This is a carefully built destroyer. In addition to speed and endurance, the whole ship is equipped with three double L47/130mm guns, the front two and the rear layout, six four combined 37mm machine guns, eight double 12.7mm large viper machine guns, and two chimneys are equipped with a zigzagzag 5 There are two 50mm torpedo launchers, which are wrapped in 203mm armor plate. In addition, there are two mined rails and four deep-water bomb launchers.

What Li Mo didn't expect most was that under such a compact layout and tonnage, the young designers had originally dug out their minds to place a seaplane and a five-person crew between the No. 3 turret and the No. 2 torpedo launcher, but the destroyers of this era were assault warships. Once they entered the torpedo attack, they basically belonged to The throat was sealed with a knife, or the gambling moment of being sunk. If it was hit, it would only lead to the sacrifice of the pilot in vain, so it was finally rejected by the Admiralty.

This level of destroyer is the crystallization of Xinhua's many years of technical preparation and Li Mo's thought, and it also uses a large number of mature equipment, which controls the construction price very well, so Li Mo dares to approve the construction of 40 ships at once. However, in order to be safe, ten batches were used to build in order, and each batch of sea tests can be completed. Build the next batch to avoid a lot of waste caused by design problems.

When Li Mo finished inspecting the shipyard, a triangular formation of 15 biplanes had appeared in the sky, passing through the Huangpu River at a low altitude. This scene attracted the curiosity and shouting of countless people. Li Mo was even more happy, because they were not military pilots, but all Ben Flying enthusiasts on the ground.

With Li Mo's opening of the civil aircraft market, many private flight schools and enthusiasts have appeared in Xinhua, the largest of which is his own Royal Flight Club. The total membership of the country exceeds 10,000, so these big guys in the sky are no strangers. Newspapers and magazines have been introducing them, even in the north. In Fang and other places, there are also aircraft service companies specializing in spraying fertilizers and pesticides.

At the moment when fifteen planes crossed the Bund complex, the four balls under the wing suddenly opened, and the fairies threw countless colorful ribbons like scattered flowers, and the pieces of paper filled the sky, which suddenly pushed the atmosphere of celebration and joy to the most **.

The National Day in 1910 was relaxed and cheerful. Like the situation in the world, it was an unforgettable and peaceful period. The gradually affluent life gave people time to enjoy it. Although the ship-building competitions in various countries splashed with Mars, the people realized that there would be almost no war in a few years.

Just like those pilots flying in the blue sky, this is a season of dreams. Inventing, creating, learning and farming, as long as you pay, you will be rewarded!

But under the cheers and joys, Li Mo knows better than anyone that crisis and cruelty are coming.

On October 4, 1910, on the first day after the public holiday, the new Prime Minister Tang Shaoyi sworn in to Li Mo in the Hanyuan Hall of the New Garden. He basically retained the team left by Li Enfu.

In addition to the addition of three ministers of northern Xinjiang, southwestern Xinjiang and Nanyang to assist him in managing the country, the position of the original foreign minister was unexpectedly handed over to Feng Qi. After Yan Fu resigned as the Minister of National Defense as the full-time Minister of Northern Xinjiang, the successor of the only military Minister of Defense Minister in the cabinet was actually the Deputy Chief of Staff of the Army. Duan Qirui, the commander of the 6th Infantry Division, and his successor was the rising star Wu Peifu.

A large number of the original policies and officials have been retained, which has calmed the people who were worried about the turbulence after the election. The country has once again made full momentum and rushed forward under the leadership of the new Prime Minister and the Cabinet.

On October 8, 1910, Long Guozhang, the commander-in-chief of the Xinhua Empire, visited Europe, and there were also 50 civilian pilots who dreamed of flying planes to challenge the desert.

On November 8, after escorting the pilot to Kuwait, Long Guozhang arrived at the first Ottoman Empire, met with Mohammed V, and actively promoted two improved Duke-class battleships to him and the parliament controlled by the Turkish Al-Shabaab.

However, at this time, Turkey obviously did not expect anything and was still pursuing a larger super battleship, so it rejected Long Guozhang's kindness.

After that, he also visited Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Austria and other countries. He not only visited the battleships under construction in various countries, but also visited some Nordic countries for the first time. He also visited the former enemy Spain, the Netherlands and even Russia, expressing Xinhua's desire to establish a comprehensive new country relationship with Europe, and ended. The previous unhappiness.

Finally, Long Guozhang also crossed the Atlantic Ocean, visited Canada, the United States, Mexico and Colombia, and went to the top three in South America. He didn't think that this slow and empty-handed visit had gained great gains in Chile.

Because Brazil and Argentina have ordered their own super battleships, Chile finally couldn't sit still and was ready to build two battleships. Originally, the country was inclined to Britain, but the Chilean navy was very dissatisfied with the previous seizure of two fast-class ships. It happened that Long Guozhang arrived at this time, and the design style of Xinhua got After the actual combat test, Chile immediately fell to the Far East.

On the one hand, he is in a hurry, and on the other hand, he is trying to find a way to accumulate wealth.

At the beginning, the naval design department that got the news only took out the Jilin-class export model, but the L50/305mm naval gun obviously could not satisfy the South Americans' enthusiasm for large caliber.

But the problem is that it is impossible for export battleships to use supercharged boilers and steam turbines that are still confidential. If the power is not strengthened, if a larger caliber naval gun is used, it will inevitably lead to a serious lag in speed and armor, and the endurance will not be guaranteed.

What is shocking is that these three problems are nothing in the eyes of the Chilean navy. Speed? The duke level is only 18 knots, and I only need 17 knots. No matter how strong the armor is, it can't stop the attack of naval guns, so as long as it is not less than 200mm. As for the horizontal armor that Xinhua began to strengthen on the capital ships at all levels, the Chileans did not mention it. Finally, it was the Dragon Constitution kindly reminded that it was not less than 100mm in terms of endurance. Chile What's more, it means that as long as you can drive two laps along the domestic coastline!

Customers are God, not to mention the big business of two super battleships!

After not considering the armor and speed, McKinson and the design department almost set up all the horsepower. Just three days later, they faxed the draft of the new plan to Long Guozhang, who was anxiously waiting in the embassy.

The design is almost similar to that of the historical Chilean Admiral Torare-class battleship, with a standard of 28,000 tons and a full load of 32,000 tons. It is powered by Germany's latest reciprocating steam engine technology, with a maximum speed of 18 knots and a endurance of 10 knots/5000 nautical miles.

The main armor belt is 220mm, the horizontal armor is 100mm, the turret is 254mm, and the command tower is 280mm. The design of five double L45/14-inch guns with Jilin Type I layout, plus four double 152mm guns, and eight single 76mm guns, immediately made Chile The navy is drooling.

Fortunately, the Chilean navy studied Xinhua and cancelled the torpedo tube of the capital ship. Otherwise, these two thin-skinned battleships would be the most huhaining barrels in history.

Of course, the huge price is also expensive. Although Simmons continued to bargain shamelessly with the friendship and personal relations of the two countries, he only weighed down 100,000 pounds in the end, and still reached a sky-high price of 2.4 million pounds per ship!

and the cost budget of 19.6 million blue coins is about 2.8 million pounds (the data in the previous chapter here is wrong and has been modified. It is the hippo that calculated the wrong exchange number, sorry) but the data has not been released so far, but it is certain that compared with the Hebei level armed to the teeth, these two thin skin stuffing do not even have an optical rangefinder. The battleship asked Li Mo to return all the money that was blackmailed by Chile earlier, plus interest.

However, this deal did not make Li Mo feel very happy. As Long Guozhang began to embark on a long journey with the contract, he said that it was torn off page by page.

Because for him, every time he tore one, it indicates that the first domino that caused the catastrophe will fall!

The day of peace has come to an end!

In the early morning of June 30, 1911, Li Mo in the bedroom held a cigarette. In Fang Xianqi's surprised and puzzled eyes, he tore off the expired calendar paper and walked to the balcony

(to be continued)