In this era, if an industry can maximize the comprehensive industrial level of a country, it is undoubtedly shipbuilding, especially warship construction.

A large ship, especially a warship, covers almost all industrial departments, from design, to construction of ship platforms, to installation, to sea trials, including ports, shipyards, supporting factories, docks, and ship platforms, and involves basic science and applied technology in all aspects.

During the manufacturing process of a ship, the design stage is based on system engineering as the organizational method, including oceanography, physics, fluid mechanics, blasting, etc.: the construction and launching stages of shipboard construction and drainage are designed to be metallurgy, riveting, electroplating, electrical, steam power, gunmaking, optics, measurement, standardized interchangeable parts, construction control and supervision and other soft and hard sciences.

The development of the shipbuilding industry can drive the progress of countless surrounding industrial chains and can subtly improve a country's overall industrial level and process technology. Therefore, self-built warships are much more than saving a few money and strategic security.

This is a real big article.

The shipbuilding industry in the imperial court, which originated from the sea defense and the Chinese Empire, started from imitating small inland river gunboats to imitating shallow water heavy gunboats, and then developed to designing and building shallow water heavy gunboats by themselves, and then lightning strike ships and cruisers. Today, with the help of advanced concepts and more than 30 years of solid efforts, it has already occupied the forefront of this era in terms of overall shipbuilding standards.

This is the industry that Zheng Ying and others invested the most resources and placed the greatest hope for. It is China's leading industry in the past 30 years. Although compared with the UK's huge shipbuilding capacity, China's shipbuilding industry is far below the scale, but the foundation has been laid and the accumulation of technology and technology has reached the critical point of explosion. Now it is the time to soar.

The implementation of the subsidy for domestic ship purchases for twenty years has gradually come to an end. This is not because the government no longer focuses on developing the shipbuilding industry, but because China's civilian ship industry and warship manufacturing industry have become so strong that it does not require government protection: they have already gained an absolute advantage in cost, and they have already looked down on their peers in terms of energy.

With Xu Fan and Zheng Yu organized manpower, the shipbuilding industry of the Chinese Empire has sought a new shipbuilding idea in the past two years: assembly line method.

Specifically in terms of operation, it is to design some standard models on various ships, the Ministry of Defense and the Navy's Shipbuilding Office, and complete all construction details in the sample construction, and realize standardization of parts and modularization of structures.

The shipyard is no longer responsible for all manufacturing links, but mainly assembly. Most of the parts are interchangeable standard parts, and the castings are also prefabricated. These parts are uniformly produced in assembly lines in each factory and then transported to various ships for assembly.

This production model originated from the "freedom wheel" of the United States during World War II in another time and space.

In that era, Americans who were accustomed to assembly line operation mode used large industrial assembly lines to the extreme. Unlike German-style workshop supporting and hand-made, and from Soviet-style one-stop factory completion from screws to machines, the foundation of American industry is that parts can be interchanged and parts can be made. With a large division of labor, large flow and large supporting models, it not only promoted product quality and process improvement, but also greatly improved the speed of mass production.

The American freewheeling is the outstanding crystallization of this tenon idea: xing's ability is not outstanding, but due to all standardization, its construction time has dropped from the early 230 days to only 45 days. The fastest record is that it only takes 15 days and 30 minutes from laying the keel to launching the water. In the middle and late stages of the war, the United States had three freewheelings launched every day. Such a terrifying shipbuilding speed made the German "wolf pack" Ambush the submarines of Japan themselves, and all of them became clouds.

Limited by the industrial foundation, the maturity of the process, especially the welding technology, is far from standard, and China cannot achieve such a terrifying speed. However, the new bulk carrier, known as the "standard wheel", achieved the fastest speed of 120 days of water launch in this year with a standard displacement of 8,200 tons, which is enough to shock the entire Chinese shipbuilding industry.

This production model has also been tried to be used on warships, especially light warships.

〖China's Chunyu-class destroyer and Battle Knife-class light cruiser have been proven to be very excellent and reliable weapons. After modifying the data on naval combat, especially redesigning the construction ideas of the standard wheel, the new "cloud" class destroyer "Sword" class light cruiser began to produce the first batch of sample ships in the naval factory.

However, in terms of heavy warships, the large-scale assembly line production of standard wheels is obviously not suitable.

After all, warships are updated too quickly in this era. Even if Zheng Yu has absolute confidence in his country's design concept, it is impossible to open an assembly line to produce luxury goods that are soon outdated like battleships.

At present, the Shipbuilding Department of the Ministry of Navy of China has designed six dry bulk ocean transport ship types, four offshore dry bulk cargo ship types, and four river ship types, and has completed the accumulation of detailed construction and construction drawings of sample ships.

The interchangeable parts of these ships are bid by different manufacturers and basically adopt standard assembly line operations. Due to the uniform specifications, large production volume, and assembly line operations, the time occupied by the ship platform is greatly reduced, and the single ship cost has plummeted.

This also brings another benefit, which is that it has recently lowered the technical requirements for shipbuilding staff.

The shipbuilding industry in the East and West is basically practicing the master-apprentice system to train shipbuilding technical workers. Due to the complex and high requirements of shipbuilding, it often takes more than five years to train a qualified technical worker, or even more than ten years to start taking an apprentice. In Japan, due to the high labor intensity of the shipbuilding industry and the work is too intense, the apprentice under the master-apprentice system, the apprentice under too much pressure, which eventually leads to a very high proportion of withdrawals in the middle.

In China, the British system was also used to imitate the British system. Graduates who had the ambition to enter the shipyards were started at the age of twelve, learning cultural knowledge while learning craftsmanship from their masters. In order to prevent the huge investment from quitting in the middle, China adopted a long-term contract system, provided various entertainment activities, vacation systems, and reward systems to provide more labor and social security for shipbuilding skilled workers, and gave high salaries, and finally accumulated a large-scale shipbuilding team.

However, the rapid expansion of shipbuilding scale has caused even the Chinese shipbuilder training system, which focuses on "scale" as its main theme. On the one hand, the country's naval orders and German orders have squeezed out a large number of shipbuilding resources. On the other hand, state-owned and private shipping companies have tides of merchant ship orders, and all shipyards in China have begun to poach people's brains. Seeing that the entire industry is about to fall into a fierce battle for talent, the base camp, which has not yet been laid off, had to urgently reorganize resources, and accelerate the introduction of manpower from overseas, including absorbing a group of shipbuilding backbones from Japan to join Chinese shipbuilding companies, and making full use of Japan's shipbuilding industry production capacity.

However, the in-depth practice of assembly line shipbuilding has given the entire shipbuilding industry new hope. Due to large-scale decomposition and division of labor and cooperation, the requirements for many processes have been greatly reduced.

Due to the unified ship type and sufficient division of specialized labor, the repetition of workers' labor has been greatly improved, the degree of specialization has been improved, and the difficulty of cultivating and becoming a material has also decreased in geometric range.

By adopting continuous photography technology similar to assembly line decomposition, professional research institutes capture and scientifically decompose workers' movements in key processes, and the technical processes of each process have also obtained technical specifications, which are improved and promoted by the shipyard's technical training classes. Although the training of personnel is still not a matter of overnight success, this path has been clear and has gained more and more recognition.

In early 1906, with the help of the war in the United States, Britain, Fagu and Nordic countries, they used the low-mi state of the economic crisis to buy a large number of merchant ships at low prices, including purchasing a large number of oil tankers from Batumi Port through intermediaries and then building them in their own manufacturing, as well as the merchant ships seized from Japan and Russia. The tonnage of the merchant ships of the Chinese Empire had expanded to 4.6 million tons, of which 4.05 million tons of steam ships were 4.05 million tons.

With the beginning of the post-war construction tide, and the revision of contracts with the great powers brought about an increase in import and export trade, these huge transportation capacity quickly filled the demand gap.

In Europe and the United States, European and American seafarers who have suffered from economic crisis and trade wars and have been in unemployment and semi-unemployment for a long time found a new job in the East, and soon fell in love with the "Japanese cuisine" of the "Yamato Hotel" in the Oriental port "Shiwa Hotel" and fell in love with the colorful Chinese food. The retired Chinese seafarers who failed to join or were unwilling to join the "Japanese" naval force after they withdrew from the "Japanese" naval force, and students who graduated from major Chinese navigators from China and Japan, flooded into the rapidly expanding Chinese merchant fleet.

The rapidly extending railway lines and the rapidly developing industry and commerce and construction industries have not only increased onshore logistics and transportation, but also put forward higher requirements for inland shipping and offshore transportation. In a country with vast land like China, the extremely unbalanced resource and population distribution also leads to the development of internal industry and commerce that inevitably requires large logistics and large transportation.

The coallou in the north is transported by railway from Datong and Gyeonggi Hebei to Qinhuangdao, the main coal port, where it is shipped to the southern coastal areas, southern Korea and even Vladivostok. The wheat, flour, corn, cotton huā and cotton yarn in the north are shipped from various ports in the north, and even transported to Southeast Asia, India, Australia and New Zealand.

In addition to being transported by train, rice, raw rubber, medicinal materials, various commodities, fuels, and fabrics in the south are also transported to the mainland through the Yangtze River and various tributaries, or traveling north by offshore routes.

As economic development has completely broken the barriers of the natural economy, and the government guidance of the early economic development of the Chinese Empire, especially wartime controls, has distributed local economies based on the theory of comparative advantages according to natural endowments to form the agglomeration effect of industrial clusters. The rapid economic development accompanied by increasingly specialized regional division of labor, the requirements for logistics are simply a little bit higher.

Although the speed of laying railways in China has been called "magical" dredging, dock planning and construction, and offshore dock preparations have not stopped for a moment, they are still unable to do so in the face of unprecedentedly large and rapidly rising logistics requirements. Due to the limitations of internal logistics, a large number of materials have to seek exports, which further stimulated the construction of deep-water docks and port logistics. In addition, the increase in import demand directly triggered the takeoff of the entire shipbuilding industry.

From north to south, the joint-stock private Vladivostok shipyard that was just repaired after the bidding, the Lushun Naval Shipyard Royal Northern Shipyard Dalian Shipyard...Huludao Naval Shipyard, the state-owned Tiandangjin Shipyard,

The private Yantai Jinping Shipyard, Royal Northern Shipyard Qingdao Shipyard, Royal East China Shipyard Wusong Shipyard, Wusong Naval Shipyard, Jinning Group Shanghai Shipyard, Royal East China Shipyard Keelung Shipyard, Banqiao Group Kaohsiung Shipyard, Jinning Group Fujian Mawei Shipyard, Banqiao Group Xiamen Shipyard, Guangzhou Huangpu Naval Shipyard, Annanhai Defense Naval Shipyard, Royal South Shipyard Guangzhou Shipyard, Zhanjiang Naval Shipyard... There are hot scenes everywhere. Rows of keels are laid on countless ship platforms, and the outfitting site is even more busy. A large number of standardized prefabricated parts can be transported to the ship platform along the railway, and are installed by huge gantry cranes or other loaders. Then countless workers immediately took their place and were skilled in the willow connection operation.

This scene shocked the delegation of the New York Shipyard in the United States who came to inspect business.

Although New York shipyards have also begun to implement the prefabricated shipbuilding method (historical fact), compared with the systematic, thorough division of labor, and scale of assembly line decomposition, even the American shipbuilding elites, who have always claimed to be the leader of the Western Hemisphere shipbuilding industry, are amazed.

〖China's shipbuilding industry hired only about 400,000 people in early 1906, but by the end of the year, it had rapidly expanded to 780,000 (including apprentices). Many universities also opened ship design and manufacturing majors, and major shipbuilding groups' professional schools also began to expand and enroll.

An external recruitment team organized by the imperial government launched publicity in developed areas of shipbuilding in Europe and the United States. Under the generous treatment, many senior technicians and skilled technicians from the European and American shipbuilding also traveled across the ocean to teach or go online directly, bringing many latest developments and technological progress in the overseas shipbuilding industry.

On the other hand, the rapidly expanding China's shipbuilding industry has also attracted the attention of Britain and the United States. Seeing that the risk of talent loss has become a reality, the US shipbuilding industry had to raise salaries and promote key personnel on a large scale. At the same time, it also began to counter-poach Chinese shipbuilding companies.

The salary competition between the two sides gradually escalated, and in the end, the shipbuilding companies in both countries were also a little scared and had to reach an agreement through diplomatic means: to stop all poaching people with high salaries, and finally ended this "human war".

As the world's largest shipbuilding power and powerful country, Yinggu's attitude is relatively calm. But seeing that China's shipbuilding ability expands rapidly like a bubble, especially since China and the United States have launched a low-key but fierce competition from warships to merchant ship construction, the British have had to start considering some realistic issues: Britain's maritime power.

After China's defense outline shocked the entire British government and the opposition, the American Navy Act made the entire British Royal Navy lose his speech again. It seemed that this year was destined to be a turbulent year for the British Navy to rest. The unwilling German Emperor William II also launched the huge "Shipbuilding Act" of 1906 and formulated a six-year shipbuilding plan of "eighteen new warships, thirty-six new cruisers, and 72 new destroyers" (of course, this includes

The German shipbuilding industry, which had been rapidly expanding due to the rapid expansion of warship orders from Russia and Japan, was immediately injected with chicken blood under this terrifying plan. Under the red, white and black flags of the German Empire, German shipyards began a 24-hour three-shift operation. A huge number of marks hit the ship platform and machinery manufacturing plants. The shipbuilding machinery, like flowing water, quickly armed the newly built ship platform and outfitted docks.

The slogan "Fight for Germany for living space under the sun" has become the creed of the German shipbuilding industry. Every German shipbuilder in it proudly believes that he is "contributing to the German nation's glory", and victory will definitely belong to "the supreme under the sky" and "the successor of the Romans".

Faced with the embarrassing mantisses attacked from three sides, the British political and shipbuilding circles had to start emergency consultations.

According to the intelligence provided by British naval observers and naval intelligence authorities, the Guangzhou-class modified battleships that China has already served may be above the Fearless, which has just been launched in the water, and even surpass the Bellero intermediate level, which is laying keels on the ship platform. The Changsha-class battleships currently being equipped "apparently far exceed all the current plans of the British warships."

The proud British immediately decided to "design and start construction of a batch of new warships that far exceed the Chinese in both firepower and tonnage," and "regain the crown of the naval battleships."

The British genius battleship designer Dain Cote, an Italian-born designer, and other genius designers who once designed the "Sammo Class" came up with multiple plans. The final selection was the Ba-1302 design plan provided by Kudicini: a displacement of 29,000 tons, four triple-mounted main turret installed on the central axis, adopting a steam turbine, driving around, with a maximum speed of 23 knots, and the thickest part of the main armor belt on the side on the side was thirteen inches.

The Royal Navy immediately placed two orders for the warship "emotional" and asked the Vickers Shipyard and Armstalang Shipyard to start construction "must get them before His Majesty the King's birthday in 1909".!
Chapter completed!