Valley Emperor

The navy's armored steel and even hull steel business has always been controlled by Jiangnan Iron and Steel Company. It can be seen that today's navy is also dissatisfied with Jiangnan Iron and Steel Company's lack of progress.

If it goes on like this, sooner or later the name of a major domestic steel company will have to be replaced.

After visiting Xuzhou Iron and Steel Company, Li Xuan came to Nanyang Rubber Company. Compared with the previous two companies, Li Xuan paid more attention to this rubber enterprise which is wholly-owned by the Royal Assets Division and not well-known in the outside world.

Nanyang Rubber Company is an enterprise mainly engaged in rubber planting and processing. Their company owns rubber plantations in Luzon and Banten provinces in Nanyang and Qiongzhou in Guangdong. Although the total output is still not much, its natural The annual production of rubber accounted for more than 70 percent of the empire's total annual rubber production.

The company's rubber currently mainly uses rubber to produce rain cloth, and there are some fragmented products, such as hoses, rubber boots, pots and the like, but limited by the level of contemporary technology, they can only use early solvents Softening and processing rubber, the performance of rubber products is actually quite limited, and there is still the problem of raw rubber becoming sticky and brittle, so it cannot be used in large-scale industrial applications.

But even so, Li Xuan still attaches great importance to it, because he is very aware of the huge role of rubber in the industrial age.

It also instructed the Royal Institute of Technology to conduct research on the industrial application of rubber. Now the Royal Institute of Technology has adopted vulcanization to obtain rubber with better performance, which has initially solved the problem of rubber becoming sticky and brittle.

It's just that this kind of rubber product is still only in the laboratory, and the production cost is very high, so large-scale industrial production cannot be achieved.

But Li Xuan knows that this is only a matter of time. Sooner or later, the problem of industrial mass production of rubber vulcanization can be solved, so that rubber can truly enter into industrial production widely.

At that time, as the largest and absolutely dominant Nanyang Rubber Company in the country, its strategic task is very heavy.

Why Li Xuan attaches great importance to rubber, some people know, some people don't.

But this is not important. The important thing is that now they know that Li Xuan attaches great importance to rubber. Many people are already thinking about whether it is time to increase investment in the rubber industry.

Build a rubber processing factory, or go directly to Nanyang to open a rubber plantation.

However, this is also the effect Li Xuan hopes to see. Through his own attention, others will also pay attention to it, thereby driving the development of an industry. This is also the main purpose of Li Xuan's special visit to Nanyang Rubber Company today.

After all, relying solely on the Nanyang Rubber Company alone cannot support the entire rubber industry. Once rubber vulcanization can be industrially produced, the entire empire will have a huge demand for rubber.

After inspecting these three companies, Li Xuan did not go back immediately, but strolled slowly along the Yanjiang Road in the North Shore Development Zone, watching the boats coming and going up and down the Huangpu River, and the busy green on the side of the Yanjiang Road. The wharf, all these made Li Xuan quite gratified.

The next day, Li Xuan and his party took the navy warship to the Wusong port naval base, and briefly reviewed the navy fleet.

This time to review the navy, the navy has selected all the main ships that can be deployed, and listed a huge fleet at the mouth of the Yangtze River for Li Xuan to inspect.

Although these battleships are still a little small in Li Xuan's eyes, they still make him feel relaxed and happy!

In particular, the Henan battleship, the second Hebei-class battleship, which has the largest tonnage and was called a failed work by the navy, has some defects in one way or another, and there are no revolving gun chambers and rear-mounted artillery now, but the light Just the huge 4,000-ton hull and the all-steel ship still made him nod his head frequently.

At that time, Li Xuan said to a high-level general of the navy: "Although the battleship Hebei failed, failure is the mother of success. If you continue to work hard, you will always succeed. You cannot give up the future because of temporary setbacks."

"Steel hulls, pure steam-powered propulsion, rotating turrets, and rear-mounted artillery are still important development directions for warships in the new era. The Navy will continue to work hard in this regard, and strive to build a new era of warships as soon as possible!"

Li Xuan was afraid that after they were trapped by the Hebei, he would not want to build any more steel battleships, but instead focused on building half-hearted battleships like the Jiangnan class.

So although the Hebei failed, Li Xuan did not get angry, but continued to encourage them.

Never give up the future just because of a momentary failure.

Fortunately, the senior navy will not give up easily. When reviewing the naval fleet, the senior navy said that they have already started to design the second generation of a new generation of warships.

Hearing this news, Li Xuan said to let them take it easy. Li Xuan didn't want them to give up, but he didn't want to let them go to the sky in one step. It's a mess, causing the Navy to directly and indirectly lose millions of military expenses, and it also delays the development of the Navy.

Now, Li Xuan hopes that they will continue to develop, but also need to be cautious, don't be too radical, if the technology is not mature, don't force it.

But this time the navy is more optimistic than Li Xuan.

Coming with him, Admiral Bao Yifen had already retired from the front-line high-level, and he told Li Xuan about the plan of the navy this time.

Bao Yifen had already retired from the position of the former head of the naval command department and the former duty minister of the imperial study several years ago, but after all, he is still young, and he is only in his fifties this year, so he can't retire directly from active service, so Like several other admirals, he holds the title of deputy envoy of the naval command, but this title is just like the title of deputy envoy of the Army's Privy Council. It is an honorary title and does not have any real power in itself.

Therefore, although Bao Yifen has not yet retired from active service, he is actually no different from retiring from active service.

Even though he is retired, this person is a naval veteran after all. This time, as one of the admirals on land and sea, he is naturally a chauffeur. Well, he is the kind that can't even come if he doesn't come.

Li Xuan brought a total of more than 20 active-duty generals in the navy and army, as well as more than 30 retired generals, all with him on patrol, and none of them were pulled down.

Bao Yifen told Li Xuan that the design of the new warship this time was a design plan that was finalized after fully considering the industrial level of the empire, and the technical indicators would not be too radical.

But when Li Xuan heard their specific technical parameters, he felt that the navy was trying to **** again.

In the last second, he said that he fully considered the industrial level of the empire, and he said that it would be conservative, but this technical parameter is not conservative at all.

Listen, this standard displacement is 7,000 tons, which is more than 2,000 tons larger than the failed Hebei-class battleship. Is this conservative?

And they continued to prepare for the use of revolving turrets and breech-loading rifled guns.

As for the hull and power, not to mention that, with the current technical level of the Tang Empire, there is no way to build such a huge warship purely out of wood, and there is no way to use pure sails to propel such a huge warship to obtain a considerable speed.

Therefore, this new ship will still be made of all-steel, and in terms of power, the Navy will continue to cancel the sails and prepare to be equipped with super-high-horsepower steam engines.

In Li Xuan's view, this kind of battleship is completely an enlarged version of the Hebei-class battleship.

However, after carefully listening to the Navy's explanation, Li Xuan did not object, because the Navy said that the Hebei battleship was designed in the 22nd year of Xuanping.

The technical level at that time was not passable, but it does not mean that it is still passable five years later.

What's more, the construction of the ship is not now, but is planned to be next year. At the same time, this time the Navy intends to adopt a method of continuous research and development while building, and the entire construction process may last about three years.

In this way, there will be enough time for R&D institutions to develop advanced and qualified equipment.

Li Xuan said so, and the key point is that they did not ask for any special construction funds for this brand-new warship, but planned to use the ship-building military funds within the Navy's military expenditure, so Li Xuan didn't care much. .

It's just that he is still a little curious, who is the Navy going to fight with such a large-tonnage battleship?

This is a 7,000-ton behemoth. The 1,000-ton sail wooden warship that the Navy intends to use to fight Europe?

It feels a bit like killing a chicken with a knife!

Not to mention the 7,000-ton behemoth, even the current Jiangnan-class warships of over 1,000 tons can hoist a single sail wooden warship in Europe!

Even at the extreme, cutting-edge steel warships such as the Jiangnan class are not needed. Today, the large number of sail-powered wooden warships that are widely equipped by the Navy can even beat the parents of a single European warship.

Alas, there is no way, who made the development of the Datang Navy surpass those of the so-called maritime powers in Europe for several generations!

However, when Li Xuan looked down on these European countries, in the outskirts of London, England, two Britons carefully started a seemingly simple steam engine~www.wuxiaspot.com~ The few people next to them were nervous. They looked at them, but when the steam engine was running successfully, these British people hugged each other excitedly!

"John, we succeeded, we really succeeded!" An old man in gorgeous clothes said excitedly to a young man beside him.

John also showed a shy smile and said, "Yes!"

"Okay, I spent a lot of money on the steam engine I got from the Portuguese, and there are so many books!" The old man in gorgeous clothes raised his cane and pointed to another steam engine and many books on the bookshelf next to him. .

On this steam engine, there are also engraved inscriptions: Zhaoqing Machinery Company Xuanping fifteen years.

And the many books on the bookshelf beside it are all Chinese books, and the top one is titled 'Medium Physics'.

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