Rebirth of South America as King

In the second half of the 19th century, the major European and American powers formed an industrial system based on six major industrial categories, including steel mining and smelting, mechanical machine tool production, steam ship manufacturing, chemical textiles, railway manufacturing, and telegraph information transmission. From the colony, the metal ore was transported to the sovereign state in large quantities through improved steam ships, which provided a powerful driving force for the development of the European powers.

South Rio Grande spent valuable gold reserves and purchased Prussian industrial equipment, mainly focusing on the four aspects of steel mining and smelting, mechanical machine tool production and processing, chemical textile manufacturing, and military weapon production.

The iron and steel and machinery industries are the core of the development of heavy industry. Sun Bin directly purchased from Prussia the next large steel plant, three medium-sized coal mining plants, two mineral waste processing plants, and three machine tool production and processing plants.

Among them, with sufficient raw materials, the maximum output of pig steel and pig iron can reach 10,000 tons per year.

The three coal mining plants have a total capacity of 450,000 tons.

At the end of 1868, the annual steel output of the main European countries in the Austrian-Hungarian Empire was about 400,000 tons, France 900,000 tons, Prussia 920,000 tons, and Britain 5 million tons.

British colonies are spread all over the world. The British Empire ’s navy ranks first in the world. The naval power is stronger than the sum of the four countries behind it. It has a strong navy. British merchant ships transport various raw materials around the world and then process them in factories. Produced products, sold to India, Manchuria-controlled mainland areas, and earn huge profits.

Rio Grande do Sul has a small population and a small country. It cannot make steel as large as the European powers and rapidly increase industrial output. However, although the total plant with an annual output of 10,000 tons is not as strong as the European powers, it is also the largest large-scale steel smelter in the major countries in South America. It is only slightly smaller than Brazil and Peru's steel-rich countries.

Weapons military factories are involved in national defense security, chemical textiles, and are related to the daily lives of ordinary people. Therefore, factory equipment in these two areas is also indispensable.

The establishment of a telegraph line is conducive to the transmission of military information. However, due to the sparse population of the Rio Grande do Sul and the main force of the army is concentrated in several major bases, the equipment purchased is not large. Shipbuilding requires a lot of technical accumulation and financial support. The fleet capacity is limited, so only two small shipyards were purchased to produce commercial vessels below 1,000 tons.

Iron and steel mills, mechanical processing plants, weaponry factories, and textile mills were all set up in Paso Fondo, and two small shipyards were set up on the west coast of Lake Partos. The excellent port of Porto Alegre was used nearby. Inside Lake Stu, you can avoid maritime attacks from hostile countries.

The second half of the twentieth century was the era of the ocean. Limiting manpower and financial resources to the establishment of only two commercial shipyards did not mean giving up the development of naval power. On the contrary, the two civil shipyards were used to accumulate shipbuilding technology and wait for fiscal ample. Rio Grande do Sul can buy a warship shipyard to produce warships made by the Chinese themselves.

In the afternoon of December 12th, the machinery and equipment above the fleet were completely unloaded to the shore for four and a half days. More than fifty inland river vessels carrying the dismantled machinery and equipment parts docked at the Guaiba estuary. The river heads for Passo Fondo.

The Guayba River in December is in the dry season. The water volume has decreased and the water depth has fallen. Here, orders from the fleet to be pulled out, and tens of thousands of Brazilian prisoners of war gathered by the river began to pull down the ropes for the ships to urge the Chinese soldiers to move forward. .

"Kaka", under the heavy pace of the Brazilian prisoners of war, the first inland river vessel loaded with machinery sailed out of shallow water, and slowly accelerated forward by the sails on board.

The first ship departed, and the prisoners of war pulled the ships one by one in order. Two hours later, all fifty ships docked out of the shallow water. The Brazilian prisoners of war who completed the task left the port in batches and went to another construction site. .

The Brazilian prisoners of war still participated in the labor before the Brazilians redeemed them, but after the peace talks agreement was signed, the labor time and intensity of the prisoners of war would be reduced, not as hard as it was at the beginning.

Most of the fleet is loaded with mechanical equipment, and the size of rifles and artillery only accounts for a small part.

Ten thousand Draper rifles, four infantry divisions each had 1,500 shots, three mixed brigades each had 1,000 shots, and the remaining 1,000 shots were equipped with a small amount of gendarmerie, engineering corps, and communications battalions.

For artillery, the artillery purchased will form a new artillery unit according to the following:

65mm Artillery Company: 6 small 65mm mountain cannons, 120 in number, not equipped with guarded soldiers, generally belonging to Army combat units,

75mm field artillery battalion: 15 artillery, 500 people,

105mm Howitzer Regiment: 24 cannons with a population of 1500,

155mm heavy artillery regiment: 15 artillery, with a number of 1,800.

Three different sizes of artillery units make up the main service of the Rio Grande do Sul artillery,

Among them, the artillery brigade was reorganized. The new artillery brigade includes a 105mm howitzer regiment, two 75mm artillery battalions, five 65mm artillery battalions, a brigade security company, a communications company, a battalion, a medical company and a total number 4000, keep the full state.

The missing artillery units in the field army were also supplemented: each division was equipped with a 75mm artillery battalion and five 65mm artillery companies.

Each hybrid brigade is equipped with a 75mm artillery battalion, three 65mm artillery companies,

The 155mm heavy artillery regiment is separately arranged and directly under the jurisdiction of the National Defense Forces headquarters.

The rifles and artillery were updated. Although the number of the National Defense Forces decreased by about 5,000, the overall combat effectiveness was increased, and the corresponding National Defense Forces' dependence on logistic ammunition supplies was also higher.

Dresser rifle production lines and three types of artillery factories will be built ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ Under the guidance of Prussian technical experts, Chinese apprentices can master the machine operation methods for half a year to about a year. The 155mm heavy artillery has high technical requirements, and Prussia considers heavy artillery manufacturing as its core military technology. It has no plans to sell it to the Chinese for the time being.

As a result, 155mm artillery repairs and shell supplies still have to be paid for in Prussia.

A large transaction was completed. As part of the transaction, seven hundred Prussian skilled workers, three hundred technical experts, and two hundred military commanders also arrived with the fleet in Rio Grande do Sul, and they will stay here for the next year. , Responsible for teaching Chinese apprentices to use machinery and equipment. After one year, some technical experts continued to stay, and most of the Prussians left Rio Grande do Sul according to the transaction contract and returned to Europe.

While the 1,200 Prussians stayed in Rio Grande do Sul, their salaries were paid by the Chinese. At the same time, considering the poor working and living environment in Rio Grande do Sul, their wages were paid at 2.5 times the Prussian average.

After spending a lot of gold to buy equipment, Li Mingyuan didn't care about spending more money on technical experts. Therefore, after the 1,200 Prussians disembarked, Li Mingyuan first settled them in the new capital. Huagong set out to select a specific factory construction site, and then put it into full-scale construction.