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With the shogunate’s own officers, the original Dutch officer corps, Keunaga Matsudaira was about to be fired. This old man smashes the barbarians, he can hold his nose to hold back when he is learning European style exercises, and let the foreigners dangle under his eyelids.

Now that the shogunate's wings were stiff, he was able to flutter and start flying, and he was about to kick him away with one kick. Good guy, this is a scumbag who throws it away when it's used up.

Chungemon finally felt that there was no need to fire, but before we could speak, Matsudaira Qixuan ran and blushed with Matsudaira Keunaga. He only worried that he was not enough for officers, so how could he be willing to fire people?

However, he couldn't twist his elbows in his thighs, and Matsudaira Keunaga's reasons were very bright. The army of the shogunate is handed over to the commander-in-chief of foreign foreign barbarians. When the war with foreign barbarians is finished, how much combat power can this army display? Will they be sold by these foreign barbarians in order to win their glory and wealth in their own country?

The soul asks questions and hits people's hearts directly, and Songping Qixuan can't guarantee it. As the saying goes, foreigners are foreigners. How can one expect them to fight to the end for the shogunate?

The result of the dispute between the two was that Pedro and others were no longer allowed to directly serve as officers of the training team, and the training team was all handed over to soldiers promoted by the shogunate and military academies studying in Britain. However, these people can still be retained, and the shogunate will continue to invest and hire them, and will only take care of the recruit training in the future, and then serve as the staff officer of Matsudaira.

The result was not bad. After Chuemon heard about it, he did not go to Matsuhira Keunaga and said that the focus of work continued to shift to Yokohama's construction.

Tadasun Oguri has been appointed as a foreign minister, but he is not responsible for shipbuilding and merchant shipping schools, but only for the construction of a steel mill in Yokohama. The establishment of steel plants is either on the production site of coal and iron ore, or on the seashore where shipping conditions are very good. You can save freight costs at the place of origin, and you can use foreign resources at the seaside.

Each has its advantages!

After walking around Yokohama, Oguri shook his head by the way. Although Yokohama can obtain iron ore and coal from the West by sea, the level of shipping in Japan is too poor and the volume is not enough. The current construction of a steel mill in Yokohama is very untimely, and production will be very difficult.

He did not say the remaining half of the sentence, that is, unless you trade with foreign countries, you can directly obtain cheap pig iron from foreign countries, and then smelt steel.

Judging from the current situation of the shogunate, it is best to establish a steel plant in Nagasaki. Nagasaki itself produces high-quality coal, and it is close to the iron ore producing areas in the West, which is convenient for transshipment.

The Kobe Steel Works in history developed using extremely convenient shipping. Since the shogunate did not have this foreign shipping condition, Tademon finally accepted Oguri Tadatsu's suggestion.

It is not impossible to forcibly establish a steel plant in Yokohama, but you must first wait for the black ship to sail, then wait for the two sides to sign a treaty, and finally conduct trade and trade. There must be twists and turns in the middle, and it won't happen overnight. I can’t build a factory, and then just leave it there and wait for foreign shipping.

That's it, Tadaoemon immediately wrote to the shogunate, supporting Oguri Tadsun's opinion, and first prepared for the establishment of a steel mill in Nagasaki.

The down payment for running the Steelmaking Office does not require much, and tens of thousands of them were taken out by the shogunate. There are also skilled hands of Saga Clan, as long as the steel is trained, there is always no worries about sales. Take it step by step, step by step.

Going back to the shipyard and merchant shipping school in Yokohama, the merchant shipping school is set up directly next to the shipyard. According to Sheng Haizhou, classes in the morning and training in the afternoon are definitely better than just reading books. The shipyard built the ship, and it is also convenient for the trainees to board the ship and test the ship directly.

This proposal was unanimously agreed by others, and Chuemon was not an expert, so he followed the policy. To the so-called Jiangtian Island Naval Academy, I am afraid that this time and space will no longer exist. It was the Yokohama Naval Academy that left the name behind.

After talking about the most basics, Chuemon began to introduce his shipbuilding development ideas to everyone.

In the second half of the nineteenth century, the development of naval ships was really changing with each passing day. Often ships were still built on the berth, and they had become useless in the backward era.

Let's summarize the development ideas of the entire navy ship, first of all, the steam power of the ship. Everyone knows this. First, the steam paddle steamer, and then the paddle wheel developed into a propeller, which is not only safer, but also more convenient to use.

This step took decades before and after it was just a small improvement, until the important naval battle of the Crimean War, the sea battle of Sipuno occurred. The blooming bomb made all the wooden battleships become useless. As long as one blooming bomb, it is possible to destroy a two thousand-ton sail battleship.

So France and the United States began to cover the exterior of wooden warships with wrought iron plates. This technology continued to develop, from wrought iron armor to steel armor, to steel-faced armor, and then to carburized armor, which was developed step by step.

This brings about a problem, artillery can not keep up with the development of ship armor!

Originally, a ship might be equipped with dozens of cannons, but even if it is greatly reduced, many ships are equipped with several large-caliber cannons. For nothing else, it's purely to not penetrate other people's armor, and it's useless for your **** artillery to bring it on board.

In the early iron-clad battles, they fought each other from morning to night, and the shells of both sides couldn't hurt each other. In the end, the ammunition ran out and each other retreated in scolding.

Until the occurrence of the Battle of Lissa, during the Prussian-Austro-Prussian War, the Kingdom of Prussia and the Austrian Empire fought a large-scale maritime battle in the waters off Lissa Island in the Adriatic Sea. UU reading www.uukanshu.com

At the beginning of the battle, the two sides fired guns at each other as we said before, and then the shells hit the armor. It was useless. So Tegthov of the Austro-Hungarian Empire ordered the ship to launch a firm impact on the Italian navy's flagship "Italy".

Italia sank!

At the end of the battle, the Italian Navy was defeated, losing three iron-clad ships and killing more than a thousand people. The development trend of the world's navy has changed in an instant. Building a large iron-clad ship may not work well. It is better to build a fast-moving collision warship.

The cannon that was originally installed on the side is also useless, because it can't penetrate the armor. The cannon now only needs to be set behind the collision angle of the bow to facilitate fire attacks after striking the enemy ship. It is better to arrange artillery at the stern, and after the ship collides with it, make up the knife.

A series of actual combat has continuously improved the design of naval ships. What we learn now will soon fall behind. You must have a long-term perspective.

Forget it, has the torpedo invented? I still want to build a torpedo boat!