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Chapter 1341 Small Goals of the Admiralty

"Nine-ton artillery..." Nelson circled around the 203mm naval gun. He didn't know what to say other than shock.

This kind of artillery is simply a perfect handicraft, with a huge and refined gun body and a steel gun mount, what ship in this era can withstand it?

"The 178mm and 203mm front-loading rifled guns can be loaded with spherical solid bullets and simple explosive bullets filled with black powder. They are currently the most powerful artillery in our arsenal. Of course, as the price of increased firepower, the inertia of such artillery is amazing. It takes 2 to 3 minutes to reload and aim." The general office said to them quite confidently.

The solid shells used by both guns already weighed more than 100 pounds, and the lethality against wooden ships may have surprised everyone.After all, the imaginary enemies of warships in this era are all about 24-pound artillery, and no one thought that there would be such a large-caliber artillery.

Although smokeless gunpowder is still being developed, black gunpowder and its improved products are enough to defeat any enemy who challenges the Kyushu Army.

"Wooden sailboats may not be able to withstand the huge recoil brought by nine-ton artillery. No, it is better to say that wooden warships equipped with such perfect cannons are a luxury. Only ironclad ships can match them!" Nelson revealed in his eyes Out of frenzy.

He thought of the first-generation capital ship Daqin-class armored ship that the steward of the Dalian Shipbuilding No. 9000 Factory had sold to him. Only with an iron-clad ship of about [-] tons can it be equipped with the two heaviest artillery pieces produced by the Kyushu Army so far.

Chu Yun was somewhat shocked when he saw the nine-ton cannon. This kind of artillery was much larger than the field artillery he had seen.Generally speaking, such heavy artillery will be used as naval artillery or coastal defense artillery.

The army he led invented the sharpest spear and the strongest shield of this era.

The ironclad ship combined with the two can run unimpeded on the ocean without fear of any enemy ships at all.

"It's a pity that the only ironclad ship capable of carrying these two types of artillery has been sent to the West. We can only continue to improve the artillery as we accumulate the technology of front-mounted smoothbore guns. We will develop even larger caliber artillery." Said.

"How is the research on conical shells?" Chu Yun asked.

"Still in research and development." The general office replied.

"Um……"

Chu Yun has no urgent requirements for the development of larger and stronger artillery. If the current technology is put into actual combat on a large scale, it can clean up all the European fleets several times.

"Master, I have a report from the Dalian Shipyard. They have reconsidered the design of a larger ironclad ship." Nelson just came up with the plan proposed by the Dalian Shipyard.

"A 9000-ton main ironclad ship?" Chu Yun fell into a brief silence when he saw the first-generation main ironclad ship proposed by Dalian Shipyard.

Of course, the reason for the silence was not that he didn't know how terrifying this new generation of ironclad ships called the Daqin class was, but that the budget amount in the report made him fall into a brief silence.

The manufacturing and maintenance costs of such a large tonnage ironclad ship are quite high.

"Great Qin class...then find a way to get one?" Chu Yun said after hesitating for a while.

"Where does the money come from?" Nelson was also a little hesitant.

"It would be nice to allocate more budget to the Ministry of the Navy in the next two years. The Ministry of the Navy does not need to add new wooden sailboats. We will gradually replace wooden sailboats with steam ironclad ships." Chu Yun said.

Increase the budget of the Admiralty!Nelson knew that with Chu Yun's strong support for the sailing cause, the ironclad ship would be stable.

"Investing in the sea is like pouring boxes of gold and silver into the sea. Many officials who came out of the imperial examination repeatedly advocated reducing overseas investment and fleet construction, but I scolded them all."

When Chu Yun mentioned the matter of building the fleet, he was somewhat embarrassed.

As a large agricultural country with land power, many scholars in China dismiss the ocean. Many people still hold a conservative view, thinking that the world will be ruled if no one starves to death. However, Chu Yun knows that the ocean will be the most important thing in the next 200 years. battlefield.

The early deployment of colonies and naval bases on four oceans and seven continents, maintaining the stability of the route is very costly, but what it brings is the deterrent force that offenders will be punished even if they are far away, monopolize global trade, and plunder raw materials and markets from all over the world— — This is something that a land power country cannot do.

"If some officials object too much, the construction of our Daqin-class ironclad ship can be temporarily put aside, and we can postpone the construction of the Daqin-class ironclad ship for three to five years." Nelson said.

"Don't worry about this. We have a tight budget for the production of ironclad ships in the early stage, but as our productivity increases, we can gradually increase the production of steamships," Chu Yun said.

He knew that in the mid-19th century, Britain could have more than 200 steamships with a displacement of more than 60 tons by virtue of its native land and colonies.

Now the Kyushu Army has four fleets, only one 3000-ton ironclad ship, one 1000-ton steam trainer ship, two 1200-ton shallow water steam frigates, and four 400-ton steam gunboats on the production line. The gross tonnage of the ship is less than 10000 tons.

As for the sail battleships and frigates of the four fleets, the total displacement is less than 5 tons.

In other words, the naval fleet still has a lot of room for development, but it only needs the wealth brought by economic development as support.

"In the future, the total tonnage of our navy must be greater than the total tonnage of warships in all other regions of the world." Chu Yun said his small goal of building a navy.

The navy does not need to be too strong, as long as it exceeds the sum of the navies of all other countries in the world.

"The tonnage remains above the sum of all other countries?" Nelson was shocked by Chu Yun's ambition.

"Actually, the good thing I want to show you today is not these two giant naval guns..." Chu Yun said.

The general office of the arsenal heard from Chu Yun that what he wanted to see was not naval guns, so he couldn't help being surprised. The military lord came here with the Minister of the Navy, not to inspect the latest giant guns produced by the arsenal, but why?
"It's that thing, the gadget I entrusted you to produce last time." Chu Yun said.

The general office seemed to remember something, and suddenly realized: "That thing has been fixed, and the officer will take you there."

They left the artillery factory, and the general office took them to an inconspicuous factory.

Nelson was a little curious, what would have something to do with their Admiralty, and it seemed that Chu Yun was more concerned about it than the larger caliber artillery?
The general office led two people and guards into the factory, which had the same heavy machines and busy workers as the artillery factory.The difference is that it doesn't seem to be a place where weapons are produced.

(End of this chapter)