Chapter 432 Science and technology are the first productive forces!
"Your Excellency, you mean..." Sun Shijie felt that his heartbeat was suddenly much faster, and his originally tanned face overflowed with a trace of excitement.
Liang Pengfei's eyes glanced at the confidant staff in the council hall, looked at the eager and expectant faces, and thought of the Chinese compatriots who are now in deep trouble. Liang Pengfei really had an impulse to shoot the case, but reason told himself that it was not enough.
Liang Pengfei now has ships, soldiers, resources and factories and mines. It can be said that his current strength does have the capital to fight against the Qing court, but the problem is that Liang Pengfei's strength is not enough to use the withered fighting method to end the Manqing for this land in the shortest time and the fastest speed. Rule, and in the shortest time, so that this nation that has survived in the land that has suffered countless hardships can live in peace without being swept up in the long whirlpool of war.
This is the reason why Liang Pengfei has not made up his mind for a long time, because the Chinese nation has suffered enough, long enough. He does not want countless innocent people to destroy their families and their wives and children are separated because of their own behavior. At least, he should do his best to reduce the suffering of those ordinary people who have the opportunity to overthrow the Manchu Qing Dynasty.
"If you can help me prepare better and our strength is stronger, I will consider starting in advance. However, I hope you will remember what we should do and what we should do after overthrowing the Qing Dynasty. Have you considered it?" Liang Pengfei's words made the fiery beating heart stop in an instant, and then cool down, as if their hot minds had returned to a clear.
"Your excellency's words are very good. It should be like this. It seems that we are really too anxious to wait." After taking a deep breath, Ni Ming saluted Liang Pengfei: "It is indeed the blessing of the people of the world that adults can think of the people of the world so much, and the blessing of China is even more fortunate for me."
"Okay, okay, don't flatter me. To be serious, although our strength seems to be strong now, it is far from the standard I expected. Therefore, whether it is armaments or other aspects, we need to speed up again." Liang Pengfei waved his hand with a smile and said in a low voice.
Ni Ming raised his eyebrows and said loudly, "Your Excellency, don't worry, but in terms of armaments, is Crab King Island investing too much power in research and development? A large number of excellent technicians and craftsmen are concentrated in those research institutes. If they can also be put into arms production, I believe that the output will not be doubled, and it will at least increase by 30% to 50%.
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Ni Ming and others are very clear that Liang Pengfei invests a huge amount of money in the dense research institute on Crab King Island every year, and the craftsmen and technicians in the research institute are absolutely top talents. And the number is very large, and the number of research institutes with strange research directions is so large that even Ni Ming, who often traveled between Crab King Island and the mainland, felt a little scalp numb.
There are research institutes for artillery and musket barrel alloys, as well as research institutes for the production and improvement of current large machine tools, as well as research institutes for the development of drugs, as research on how to improve the efficiency of steam engines, and research institutes for the large-scale steam engines, and There are some research institutes that study how to make the fuse of the shell safer so that it will not explode when firing, and there are also studies on the improvement of rice hybridization and rubber vulcanization production... In short, Ni Ming feels that if he really calculates it, he is afraid that he can't count his hands and feet.
However, I have to say that those research institutes have indeed made Ni Ming and many people see many benefits, such as mortars and revolvers, such as the rifles that have just been equipped with two divisions, and the one that is said to be close to success with a recoil device composed of a ** pneumatic rewinder and a recoil machine. Powerful rapid-fire artillery.
Of course, there are also helmets as small as soldiers, front-covered armor, hand shovels, kettles, and magazines. Although these things seem to be very inconspicuous, when you go to the battlefield, you find that the use of these things is unimaginable. And a lot of equipment was developed after Liang Pengfei's proposal or even participating in and guiding the design.
This makes Ni Ming and others, who know the inside story, sincerely admire Liang Pengfei's military talent, but they also don't understand that Liang Pengfei has always regarded those messy research institutes as more important than the arsenal.
"It's impossible. There must be no delay in every job in the research institute, let alone pull people out of the research institute for these things. I absolutely don't allow this." After hearing Ni Ming's suggestion, Liang Pengfei immediately rejected his suggestion without thinking about it.
Hearing Liang Pengfei's answer, it was not surprising that Ni Ming could only shake his head: "Well, we can only transfer people from the technical school. However, although those apprentices can also join the factory for production, the probability of waste will certainly be very high."
"I have no problem with the transfer from the technical school, but the teacher can't transfer. After all, I have to keep the school. As for the increase in the waste rate, it doesn't matter. As long as it takes a month or two, as long as they are not stupid, they will definitely become skilled workers." Liang Pengfei sighed for a long time.
His army dare not say much, but there are not many, but the problem is that the armaments can't keep up. Now, the army under Liang Pengfei, excluding the navy, is 70,000 troops recruited and trained in the Zhongnan Peninsula alone, that is, Annan, port countries and other places, and there are 15,000 troops stationed in India, and various in the Nanyang. There are nearly 100,000 troops on the main islands. In addition, there are nearly 25,000 troops stationed in northern Australia.
And on Hong Kong Island, there is a 30,000 elite army here. There are also those soldiers who have become bravery in Guangdong and Fujian, which add up to more than 250,000 people, but the problem is that only 30,000 elites and marines stationed in Hong Kong are actually equipped with continuous firearms.
The weapons used by the 15,000 troops in India, the 70,000 troops in the central and southern peninsula, nearly 50% of the 100,000 troops in the Southern Ocean, and the 25,000 garrisons in Australia are all that kind of flannel guns. Of course, their guns are of better quality and the failure rate of firearms is lower than Western flom guns. .
And many soldiers are still using big knives and spears. Although they often take weapons from Pao Ze, who has guns, to train firearms to fight, the problem is that armament production is still a bottleneck, so Liang Pengfei had to stop and continue at the beginning of last year. The idea of expanding the army. Efforts have been made to expand the production capacity of armaments and repeatedly expanded the capital and human resources of technical schools.
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There are many things studied in those research institutes. Only Liang Pengfei knows what progress and change they will bring if they succeed. As early as a year and a half ago, the maintenance terminal of Crab King Island has become the site of the ship research institute where technicians and excellent craftsmen use steel to build ships, or how to use steam engines as power, so that warships can still sail at a very high speed when there is no wind. . Moreover, it is getting closer and closer to success.
And after the large-scale development of the steam engine, the production of artillery can be faster, and now in Crab King Island, it has begun to test-make railway tracks and develop trains. You know, in a few years, an Englishman will use the Watt steam engine to make the first train that can run on the tracks, and the emergence of the train will greatly change the world's traffic pattern and trade pattern.
In addition, there is electricity. Liang Pengfei knows how the hand-cranked generator is made, and with the steam engine and the river, the production of electricity will be possible. However, how to use this electric energy is not what Liang Pengfei can understand. However, Liang Pengfei is not worried, because a group of scientists are crazy about this new energy. They are trying to use electric energy to decompose and melt as Liang Pengfei said. Metal, or looking for other uses.
In a word, Liang Pengfei now insists on building Crab King Island into an island of science and technology and research. At present, there are no less than 200 people with the reputation of scientists on the island, and there are thousands of technicians.
The residents who originally lived on Crab King Island have completely moved out of here, leaving only those scientific and technological workers, and of course a large number of soldiers to protect the island with constant vigilance.
"Compared with Laozi's Crab King Island, Oxford is a bird." Liang Pengfei thought with dark eyebrows. Thinking that it took me only a few years to rely on the scientific research power of Crab King Island to develop so many things, which greatly improved the combat effectiveness of my army, which gave Liang Pengfei a sense of satisfaction.
Science and technology are the first productive force. Liang Pengfei has always kept this in mind and regarded this sentence as the motto of the technical school. Moreover, Liang Pengfei has been telling the people around him that he wants to overthrow all the heavy pressure that dares to bully us and sweep away all that hinders us from moving forward. In addition to the firm will and the courage to devote themselves, the obstacle to the pace is to have better weapons and better equipment than the enemy. Only then can you destroy more enemies and opponents while preserving your living power to the greatest extent.
Although these people have not fully understood Liang Pengfei's intention, he is not in a hurry. Rome is not built in a day, and beautiful girls can't be soaked in a day, so patience is needed. I still have time to wait for them to wake up. Liang Pengfei said to himself.
(to be continued)