I Build an Aircraft Carrier in the Ming Dynasty

With the Chinese New Year approaching, Dahua officials have to start making annual summaries again.

In the three years of Yongxing, Dahua has achieved leap-forward development again.

The Jingsong Railway, which lasted for one and a half years, has been completed and officially opened to traffic.

In addition, the speed of the train has also been increased from 20 kilometers per hour to 40 kilometers per hour, and it can reach 35 kilometers per hour when fully loaded.

This is a leap, relying on the technological development of high temperature and high pressure boilers.

Now Dahua's steam engine technology has entered a mature stage, and some ultra-high temperature and high pressure steam engines have been manufactured.

Moreover, steam engines have been used in various industries to provide power, which greatly saves labor.

In the past, it took at least three or four days from Nanjing to Shanghai.

And now it is enough to take the train for seven or eight hours. This is a qualitative leap, which closely links Shanghai and Nanjing.

From Nanjing to Shanghai, the transportation cost of goods has more than doubled directly.

In addition to the route from Nanjing to Shanghai, Dahua also built several sections of railways from Nanjing to Wuhu, Nanjing North Bank to Yangzhou, and Shanghai to Hangzhou during the year.

These are some of the sections of several major lines. Currently, they are building railways and running them at the same time.

Therefore, at present, there are several places in Dahua connected to the train, and the train has become a part of the life of Dahua people.

Hearing the roar of the train again, not many people would feel curious.

No matter how new things are, they will get tired of seeing them for more than a year.

Thanks to the improvement of steam engine technology, Dahua's shipbuilding industry has improved even more this year.

This year, the number of merchant ships has greatly increased, and the tonnage has also greatly increased. Thousand-ton cargo ships have appeared.

This kind of merchant ship can transport nearly 1,000 tons of goods at a time, and its transportation capacity is sky-high compared to horse-drawn carts pulling one ton at a time.

Due to the advent of bicycles, trains and steam ships, the price of horses in Dahua has dropped to a certain extent.

In the past, the horses were very precious, and they were strategic materials. In times of war, money was often unable to buy them.

Now, horses have gradually become unpopular.

In terms of transportation with horses, I no longer like to use horses for transportation, and the cost is too high.

Of course, shipping needs rivers, and railways only benefit the surrounding area. There are many places where Dahua needs horses.

Horses are only slightly less popular, but it will take many years to completely eliminate them.

The development of ships has not only greatly improved in number and tonnage, but also in other aspects.

For example, a large number of paddle drives have been changed to propeller drives, which are safer and more convenient.

The Navy's warships have all been changed to propellers, so the probability of being destroyed by enemy shells is greatly reduced.

In addition to installing propellers, naval warships also install iron sheets on their surfaces to increase the protection of warships.

After adding the iron sheet, the general small-caliber artillery can't even cause damage to it.

In the face of large-caliber artillery, the protection ability is also greatly improved.

This kind of pseudo-iron armored ship, or semi-iron armored ship, is already in an invincible state in the waters near Dahua.

That is, the British navy, with its number, can beat Dahua's navy by a dozen.

However, for the time being, Dahua has not had any head-on conflict with the United Kingdom, and the navy building these warships can only increase some loneliness.

This situation also greatly dissatisfied the people in the army, and felt that the navy was simply wasting money.

The warships built with huge sums of money are useless.

Of course, the army also has such a problem.

The arsenal has developed a 20-pound cannon, which is powerful enough to destroy the world.

However, the Hua army was basically useless. The strongest enemy, the Qing Dynasty, had been crippled, and some of the remaining enemies were weak.

For the Huajun, now there is only one factor that restricts them from attacking cities and territories, and that is logistical support.

If the logistics can keep up, they can take down Xinjiang and Tibet within a month.

In addition to cannons, in terms of guns, the arsenal has also produced hand-cranked multi-barreled machine guns, which can fire more than 100 bullets in one minute.

When using a rifle, they don't yet feel how expensive bullets are.

But when they calculated the bullet consumption rate of the machine gun, their scalps went numb.

In the end, that is, each main division was equipped with more than a dozen aircraft, and the other troops were not equipped.

In fact, equipped, but also pretending to be lonely.

This hand-cranked multi-barreled machine gun is a bit useful when defending, but it is not easy to use when attacking because it is extremely cumbersome.

But the problem is that now all the forces can't hide from Dahua, how can they dare to take the initiative to attack them.

Therefore, they have nothing but defensive weapons, but no chance for defensive operations.

It is precisely because of this crushing strength that the Air Force has not received any more investment this year, nor has it developed much.

In the words of other arms, your Air Force is already invincible anyway, so why continue to improve?

The arsenal is still developing more advanced aircraft, but after the research is done, it will not equip the troops because there is no money.

Everything that is newly researched will have a common feature.

That is expensive.

In the absence of special needs, the arsenal is only for research and development, and does not give troops mass equipment.

Like mortars, the technology in the arsenal is now very mature.

However, only the seven or eight main divisions in the army were equipped with new-type mortars, and none of the other troops.

The only one who can completely change their clothes without any scruples is the Guards.

Their current equipment level has almost reached the level of the army in the first battle in the original time and space.

The guns are already semi-automatic rifles with full metal bullet casings, smokeless powder, and their rate of fire is much faster.

A well-trained soldier can fire a dozen shots a minute.

The machine gun is equipped with one in each company. Their task is to defend, and they do not need to attack very much. The demand for machine guns is very large.

The grenade is also an improved version, which is lighter in weight and more powerful, and a soldier can carry four or five at the same time.

In addition to these conventional weapons, the Guards were also equipped with real sniper rifles with scopes and a range of four or five hundred meters.

Well-trained soldiers, accurate shooting from 500 meters away is no longer a joke, and even if you are lucky, you can kill at 700 to 800 meters.

Other mortars, rocket launchers are also a lot.

It can be said that if Dahua's guard division is sent to fight the Fusang people head-on, and neither side uses tactics, a guard division can at least defeat an army of 200,000.

They are invincible until the ammo runs out.

However, the Guards Division has never been to fight foreign enemies, and its only role is to defend against its own troops.