indianbanksassociation Chapter 260 Ship Name 'Longwei'
Chapter 260 Ship Name 'Longwei'
Chapter 260 Ship Name 'Longwei'
Xiao Qi suppressed his excitement, and took out the blueprint of the primary industrial machine tool from the warehouse. After careful study, he took out a pen and paper and copied a few copies of the blueprint.
Then excitedly took a picture that he thought was the best, and rushed to the Dasong Foundry Bureau. He wanted to select some senior blacksmiths to build this elementary industrial machine tool as soon as possible.
When he came to the Great Song Foundry Bureau, Xiao Qi immediately summoned all the senior craftsmen who made machinery, selected more than [-] people, and handed over the blueprints to them.
Let them build this machine tool as quickly as possible, and at the same time build the power transmission system to match the size, so that it can be connected to the steam engine and it can run immediately.
There are drawings of industrial machine tools, and the steam engine and transmission system have been built long ago. It is only necessary to change the connection between the transmission system and the industrial machine tool to the same size.
After just over a month, Xiao Qi got the news that the industrial machine tool had been successfully manufactured.
After Xiao Qi rushed to the casting bureau to have a look, he was very satisfied.
After all, the steam engine, the power transmission system, and the rudimentary industrial machine tools all have mature drawings.
After these three things are connected, once they are started, they run very smoothly, as if a machine is working, which is much more stable than driving a loom.
Xiao Qi ordered that the Foundry Bureau first build two sets of intermediate schools and send them to Pingjiang City.
He knew that since the process of industrialization had already started, the maintenance fitter, a doctor who specializes in treating machine diseases, must be trained a lot. Otherwise, if the machine fails, the foundry bureau will have to send someone to deal with it, which will delay things too much.
It just so happened that the elementary school and intermediate school in Pingjiang City had just been built, and they were now recruiting students.
Xiao Qi immediately asked the intermediate school to recruit 100 students in two separate classes. The enrollment requirements for these 100 students are very strict, and the minimum must be junior craftsmen to be eligible to sign up.
Even those children who came out of the elementary school who are only better than apprentice craftsmen are not eligible to enroll, but only those who have studied in the intermediate school for one or two years are eligible to enroll in these two classes.
Although many people don't understand why Xiao Qi wants to get these two, they have never heard of the so-called maintenance fitter class.
But those senior craftsmen who have stayed in the Great Song Foundry Bureau for a long time know the magic of King Zhenbei very well, especially every time King Zhenbei takes out the drawings he designed for everyone to make new things according to.
Every time they successfully built something according to the drawings, it made people feel that even the god of craftsman in the hearts of craftsmen, Mr. Lu Ban, might not be able to come up with such a magical thing.
Now seeing King Zhenbei enrolling maintenance fitter classes with great fanfare, these high-level craftsmen immediately asked their nephews to sign up for the study, and some even forced themselves to be the sons of intermediate craftsmen to sign up for the study.
Then a strange situation appeared. The 100-person maintenance fitter training class has the shortest time to recruit students and the highest requirements, but it is the fastest to recruit the number of students.
In less than five days, all 100 trainees of maintenance fitters were recruited, and not only junior craftsmen signed up, mid-level craftsmen accounted for one-third of the [-] people!
Xiao Qi counted the days. Although the steam-powered ship has been built, it still needs a period of trial voyage.
So he simply served as a temporary instructor for the two maintenance fitter classes, while explaining the steam engine, power transmission system, and the structure and maintenance knowledge of looms and industrial machine tools to these one hundred students.
While taking the time to write teaching materials for maintenance fitters, I will prepare for others to take over the work of teachers in the future.
After two months of explanations, these young junior and middle-level craftsmen have basically understood the structure of these machines, and then Xiao Qi began to lead them to disassemble and assemble these machines.
There are only these types of machines now. Even if there are slow-minded students in the first batch, after a long period of rote memorization and disassembly and assembly of these machines, they must become more and more familiar with these types of machines.
Seeing that these students have basically mastered the structure of these machines, and can almost disassemble and assemble these machines proficiently, Xiao Qi found a senior craftsman who is good at imparting technical experience and can read.
Let him copy a copy of the textbook he wrote, and then hand over the hundred students to him, and ask him to supervise and assess the theoretical knowledge and practical knowledge of these students every day.
He himself went back to the Foundry Bureau to set the laying route of the Shanghai-Pingjiang City Railway that had been explored, and let the craftsmen start laying the railway according to the route.
However, in this era, steel is still a military material that is not available to ordinary people, and it is certain that the steel rails for laying railways will be taken by people who like to fish for sideways.
For this reason, Xiao Qi asked his father-in-law, Zhao Shen, to issue an imperial edict and post it along the lines where the railway was to be laid.
The imperial decree strictly prohibits anyone from destroying the railway, and anyone who violates the order will be punished as treason and executed!
In order to frighten those who want money but not life, Xiao Qi even mobilized [-] cavalry troops, stationed in sections along this route, and patrolled every day.
As long as someone steals the steel rails, he will be beheaded directly and never be lenient.
Now, the people around the railway line know that this thing called the railway should never be touched.
I didn't see that the shop hadn't started yet, did the most elite Changsheng battalion cavalry in the Song Dynasty have already started stationing and patrolling here?
After arranging everything, Xiao Qi bid farewell to his wife and children, and set off for Shanghai Port with his relatives.
It has been sailing for more than two months, and it took some time to correct all the problems found. The first steam ship in the world has already docked there, waiting for Xiao Qi to inspect it.
Arriving at the Shanghai Port Wharf, Xiao Qi saw this big ship that looked strange to him.
The bow of this ship is wrapped with thick steel plates, most of the exposed hull is wooden, and there is another section of steel-wrapped hull in the middle and rear of the ship.
Xiao Qi knew that the reason why the large part of the middle and rear part was all covered with steel plates was because the steam boiler was located at this position. In order to prevent the high temperature of the boiler and the burning cinders in the boiler from falling out and igniting the big ship, steel plates were laid around the boiler. .
Because the position here is a bit behind, the bow of the ship is covered with thick steel plates in a large area for counterweight, which is to balance the weight of the hull.
Another advantage is that in naval battles, the hard bow can be used to ram enemy warships.
In today's world, there should be no one built that can survive being hit by such a huge iron-clad ship.
After getting on the ship, Xiao Qi didn't go to see the steam power system first, but went down to the bottom of the ship to check the keel of the giant ship.
Xiao Qi had warned the craftsmen of the shipyard before that this ship would be very heavy and must be built solidly. It was required that the ship must be laid with the thickest and strongest keel and the thickest and strongest planks.
After going down to the bottom of the boat and inspecting the keel and planks, Xiao Qi was very satisfied.
When this steamship was originally designed, Xiao Qi wanted to directly build it bigger, so as to increase the cargo capacity, so that this warship could carry more supplies and reduce the number of supply ships.
But then Xiao Qi thought about this era, the navigation on the whole earth is still very primitive, if the ship is too big, even a large steam boiler and transmission system can be built.
However, docks around the world simply cannot dock such a huge ship. A normal [-]-ton ship has a draft of more than nine meters. Although the current technology cannot build a [-]-ton ship.
However, according to the previous ideas, it is still very possible to finally build a giant ship of seven or eight thousand tons.
In that case, this warship basically has few harbors and wharfs in the world where it can dock, and the draft is too deep, so it is very easy to run aground on rocks when sailing in unfamiliar seas.
Xiao Qi studied and discussed with those old craftsmen of the ship for a long time, and finally designed this giant ship with a displacement of about [-] tons, which doesn't look like a warship, but looks like a big-bellied merchant ship.
This design is also to increase the contact area between the hull and the sea water, so that the ship can gain greater buoyancy, so as to increase the amount of supplies the ship can carry, to make up for the tonnage occupied by the addition of a lot of steel plates and steel machines to the hull.
Moreover, this ship uses steam power and does not require manpower to paddle, even if the forward resistance increases due to the increased contact area with sea water, it does not matter.
This ship really runs, and there is really no ship in this world that can run faster than it.
Because this ship was the first steamship, it was not possible to build an all-steel ship due to today's technology. Therefore, due to various restrictions, the appearance of this battleship was a bit poor.
However, this did not delay Xiao Qi from equipping it with a ferocious force value.
The ship is thirty feet long and four feet three feet wide. There are upper and lower layers of muzzles on both sides of the ship. There are thirty cannons on each layer. There are sixty artillery pieces on one side, and a total of 120 artillery pieces on both sides. Huge fort.
The upper cannons on both sides are located slightly higher, which is convenient for long-range shooting. The caliber of the cannons is one circle larger than that of the lower cannons, and the barrels are longer. They are responsible for bombarding long-distance targets. Attack each other together.
What makes Xiao Qi slightly regretful is that the current primary industrial machine tools have just begun to be used, many machines have not been produced, and seamless steel tube artillery has not yet been released.
Otherwise, the ship only needs to arrange a layer of seamless steel tube cannons on the left and right sides of the upper deck, and this warship will be invincible in this world.
Because there were no sails on the ship, a total of five catapults were erected on the deck avoiding the chimney and the ship's cab, which had been improved many times and the throwing distance had increased a lot.
At this time, the cast iron bombs used by the trebuchet had made great progress in the development of yellow explosives, which nearly doubled the power of the cast iron bombs.
If it wasn't for its large size, the power of this thing could already be regarded as the grenade of Xiao Qi's previous life.
Visited all the cabins on the ship, and listened to Zhang Dali, the former captain of the Qilu ship and now the current captain of this giant ship, introduce the situation of the ship.
According to Zhang Dali, this giant ship has a self-weight of 400 million catties, and can carry a maximum load of 600 million catties, because the son-in-law said that there should be 100 million to 200 million catties of room to withstand wind and waves.
Therefore, when this large ship is fully loaded, it will carry 100 million kilograms of coal, 50 kilograms of cast iron bombs, 25 kilograms of gunpowder, 25 kilograms of artillery and musket pellets, and 150 million kilograms of grain, water, vegetables, etc.
There are more than 400 soldiers of various types on board, and the full load is controlled at about 200 million catties. If there is no emergency, the ship will have 100 million catties of wind and wave resistance. In case of emergency, there will be [-] million catties of wind and wave resistance. .
Xiao Qi calculated silently in his heart, 600 million jin was [-] tons.
100 million jin of coal is 150 tons, cast iron bomb gunpowder and various projectiles add up to 750 tons, and [-] million jin of grain, water and vegetables is almost [-] tons.
Eight hundred people counting weapons and so on, based on five people per ton, it is 160 tons, which is definitely less than [-] tons, and there is absolutely no problem in leaving a thousand leeway to resist wind and waves.
Xiao Qi was very satisfied with this. It was at this weight when they set off. After a while, the food, water and coal on board would be consumed quickly.
Even if there is an accident, as long as no more than [-] tons of people or goods are on board at once, the ship should be fine.
At this moment, Zhang Dali bowed to Xiao Qi and said: "My lord, this ship has not been named yet, everyone has been waiting for you to come and name this warship."
Xiao Qi was stunned for a moment and said to himself: Why did I feel so strange when I first saw this ship? It turned out that it didn't have a name. At that time, I actually thought that the ship was too ugly and ignored the fact that it didn't have a name.
After bowing his head and thinking for a while, Xiao Qi thought to himself: After finishing my work on the railway in a few days, I must take this warship to go to the west, and call those boys to come down from the tree to practice walking upright. Those who go to the east should be called Longwei!
Thinking of this, Xiao Qi turned his head and said: "This ship is the first warship that my Great Song Dynasty will conquer overseas alien races in the future. Since we represent the great power of the Great Song Dynasty, let's call it 'Longwei'!"
After Zhang Dali heard Xiao Qi's words, he was immediately excited: "My son-in-law! When are we going to show off my Great Song's prestige? But are we going in three or two months?"
Xiao Qi looked at this old subordinate who was selected from the Ever Victory Battalion to be the general of the navy with a funny face, shook his head and said:
"General Zhang, don't be too impatient. This naval operation is different from the land battle in the Ever Victory Camp. You have to take the ship out for more drills.
In order for the soldiers on board to be familiar with their responsibilities on this ship, not only that, but you also need to calculate how much food and water they consume every day.
Carefully calculate how much coal will be consumed for how far the boat travels. If you don’t understand these, the coal will run out in the middle of the journey. Do you want to swim back? "
After Zhang Dali heard this, he immediately knew that he was too hasty in his haste to invite the battle this time, and he had just taken over this battleship not long ago.
Not to mention his soldiers, even the captain himself has not fully figured out how this warship will fight.
Zhang Dali hurriedly bowed to Xiao Qi and said: "What the commander taught is that the last general was reckless. After today, the last general will definitely remember what the commander said, step up practice and get familiar with recording all the things that need to be remembered on the 'Longwei' .”
(End of this chapter)