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What Lin Yuan said came from modern economic theory. Weng Tonghe couldn’t understand it, so he nodded reluctantly. Emperor Guangxu said: “What Lin Aiqing said is true. I was reading foreign history books recently and found People with strong national power have never bought warships from foreign countries, they have built their own factories, designed and manufactured warships, so I also want to build warships by myself."

Xu Jingcheng said hastily: "My lord, the warship is related to the navy, and the navy is related to the country's fortune, so this matter must not be sloppy. We do not have the absolute ability to build warships. It is better to buy them from foreign countries."

Emperor Guangxu said angrily: "A few years ago we invested a lot of money to build Fuzhou Shipping Bureau and Jiangnan Shipyard. Can't they build warships for us?"

Xu Jingcheng said: "These two shipyards are just superficial. The equipment in the shipyards is purchased from foreign countries. As for the skilled craftsmen, they are also foreigners. We have very few people. The warships built by these two shipyards are mostly They are all imitated from foreign countries, and we will create what other people’s drawings look like.”

"However, even if there are blueprints, we still have to rely on foreign craftsmen. Warships are often very large, and many parts are more than ten meters long, but the blueprints are not that big, so we can only draw in proportion on the blueprints, but many parts on the ship are It is curved, and the parts on the drawings are made into real parts. Straight lines are easy to make, but curves are not easy to make. Therefore, this process must be operated by skilled technical workers. None of our workers has such ability. "

Lin Yuan knew that what Xu Jingcheng was talking about was the "unloading" process of building a warship. This process was also the first step in shipbuilding. As Xu Jingcheng said, this step required converting the parts on the small drawings into real-scale parts. The process is operated by skilled workers, but in modern times, advanced mathematical methods can be used to realize this process.

Emperor Guangxu didn't know anything about shipbuilding, so he looked at Lin Yuan with inquiring eyes, and Lin Yuan smiled and said, "If these two shipyards are handed over to me, I will definitely have a way to solve these problems."

Xu Jingcheng said again: "Master Lin, don't confuse building a warship with designing a warship. To build a warship, you only need to assemble the parts, but designing a warship is even more difficult. You must know the purpose of each part, and you must also be clear about this part. The relationship with other parts can finally determine the size of this part.”

Lin Yuan replied: "Lord Xu, don't worry. I have built a shipyard in Dalian now, and I have a group of strange people who know how to design warships under me, so don't worry, Master Xu."

Emperor Guangxu laughed loudly when he heard this, and said, "That's right, Xu Aiqing, can you still trust Lin Shuai? When did he say big things?"

Xu Jingcheng said: "It's not that I don't believe Master Lin, but I'm worried that Master Lin underestimated the difficulty of designing a battleship. The hull is only one aspect of a battleship. A battleship must have a steam engine and artillery. Without these battleships, it is impossible to fight. But steam engines and The design and manufacture of artillery and warships are very different, and they are completely different industries. As the saying goes, "lines are separated by mountains", so the shipyards of various countries in Thailand and the West do not manufacture steam engines and artillery factories at all."

"In their place, artillery and steam engines are produced by special factories. After they are produced, they are transported to the shipyard, and then installed on the ship in the shipyard. Therefore, to build a warship, you must be able to manufacture steam engines and artillery. Things we know very little about.”

Lin Yuan knew that what Xu Jingcheng said was right. Not only in this era, but also in modern shipyards, mainframes and weapon systems are not produced. The work of shipyards is only to install mainframes and weapon systems on warships. After speaking, Xu Jingcheng said: "Not only are these big things we can't make, but we can't make many small things either."

"To give the simplest example, what kind of gunpowder are our shells fired from? Black powder, but the burning speed of black powder is too fast. If it is used to launch shells, the shells cannot achieve a fast discharge speed, so the British researched There is a whole new gunpowder, which burns much slower than black powder, so that the cannonball can be propelled in the barrel for a long time, and the cannonball will come out of the chamber much faster, and we can't make this kind of gunpowder. .”

Lin Yuan thought: "When it comes to propellants and explosives, we have already used Hexogen, Tai'an and Tequier, and they have just started using TNT." Hexogen, Tai'an and Tequier are all explosive power Explosives stronger than TNT, but Lin Yuan didn't say it out, but said with a smile: "Don't worry, although there are many difficulties in building a warship, I can't help it."

Emperor Guangxu laughed loudly and said, "That's right, Xu Aiqing, don't you know Lin Aiqing's behavior style? Since Lin Aiqing is so confident, I will trust him, so I have decided that we will build a navy!"

Weng Tonghe didn't say any more, and thought: "Since Lin Yuan said he can build warships, let him build them. I'll give him a good one when I find out that I can't build them!"

Lin Yuan said: "The construction of the navy needs the support of the social environment. The first thing we need to do is to make some changes in the social environment."

The word "big social environment" was a bit too new for Emperor Guangxu, so Emperor Guangxu asked, "What does the big social environment mean?"

Lin Yuan said, "Let's give an example..." After Lin Yuan finished speaking, he looked around and saw a warrior with a sword standing at the door, so he said to Emperor Guangxu, "I want to borrow that warrior's sword. "

Weng Tonghe frowned when he heard this, and shouted sharply: "It's ridiculous, how can you use a knife in front of the Holy One."

Guangxu reached out and picked up a short knife from the Longshu table, and said, "If you want to use a knife, I don't know if this knife will work? This knife is called 'Seven Star Blade'. It is said that it was designed by Wang Yun and Cao Cao at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Assassinated Dong Zhuo, Wang Yun presented Cao Cao with this knife, but Dong Zhuo noticed him during the assassination, so Cao Cao escaped in the name of offering the knife."

After Emperor Guangxu finished speaking, he handed the dagger to the little eunuch next to him. The little eunuch held the knife on a golden nanmu plate and handed it to Lin Yuan.

Lin Yuan looked at the scabbard of the knife, and couldn't help admiring: "It's really a good knife." It turned out that the scabbard was inlaid with gold, and there were seven night pearls inlaid on it, shining dazzlingly against the gold background. Hold the scabbard, pull out the blade, suddenly a cold light flows through the whole room like a rushing river.

Emperor Guangxu said: "Lin Aiqing, what do you want to say? Can you say it this time?"

Lin Yuan put the knife back into the scabbard, and said, "Isn't it amazing that this knife can be put back into the scabbard?"

Everyone laughed when they heard this, and Emperor Guangxu said: "What's so magical about this, aren't all the knives in the world like this?"

Lin Yuan smiled and said: "The one who made the blade and the scabbard is one person, so the scabbard can be made according to the size of the blade. Let's imagine, if two people make the blade and the scabbard, how can the blade be put into the scabbard?" where?"

Emperor Guangxu said with a smile: "It's not easy, let the person who made the blade measure the size of the blade, and then tell the person who made the scabbard, wouldn't it be able to make it?"

Lin Yuan smiled and said, "Then how does the person who builds the blade measure the size of the blade?"

Emperor Guangxu said with a smile: "This three-year-old child knows it all, of course he used a ruler."