"Mr. President, our ship-building technology has been ahead of Europe, and now the problem is that artillery research and development cannot keep up, in my opinion, ship-building technology is mainly for the service of artillery. A sailing ship like the one we now have with such great power equipment as the steam engine can sail at sea at a speed that is unmatched by the ships of any country. Jinnige said to Wei Bao.

Wei Bao didn't know what to do, the Zhenyuan ship he brought only had some small antique guns, which had a look and could be imitated.

If you talk about warships, only the Zhenyuan ship remains.

But the Zhenyuan ship is just showing you a shell and architecture, and many of the things in it are not original equipment from the late nineteenth century, but are all things from later generations.

For example, gasoline engines and diesel engines, with the current level of industrial manufacturing in Weijiazhuang, it is impossible to imitate the engine.

Even the construction of a Mauser rifle and the simplest mountain cannon cannot meet the technical standards, and how can you build machinery and equipment that requires very high accuracy.

Well, there are a few drawings, but they are very superficial, and they can only show them some pictures to see what the warships built in the later part of history look like.

But there is no physical object as a reference, and the scientific and technological strength is very weak, Wei Bao is talking about the sky, and others can't quite understand what he means, and he himself feels that he can't say it clearly.

On the contrary, it is as if he is dissatisfied with the work of scientific and technological workers, and is nitpicking on them, as if he is too impatient.

In the 18th century, the cruiser was a class of cruisers par excellence.

A cruiser is a small, fast, long-range, lightly armed, single-deck battleship, mainly used for reconnaissance, transporting letters, disrupting enemy trade lines, and so on.

The other main type of cruiser was the monorail schooner, but a wide variety of other ships were also used as cruisers.

In the 19th century, steam-powered warships began to be used in the navies of various countries, and in the forties of the nineteenth century, experimental steam cruisers and monoplanes began to appear.

In the mid-fifties, the British and American navies began to create steam cruisers with very long hulls and heavy guns.

In the 1860s, ironclads took to the stage of war.

Now if Wei Jiazhuang can help Wei Bao get the ironclad ship out, the treasure army can walk sideways on the earth.

Starting with the launch of the Belliqueuse in 1865, the French built a number of smaller ironclads for ocean cruises.

These "station ironclads" were the beginning of the development of armored cruisers.

An ironclad built for the task of a traditional cruiser that is fast, independent, search, and patrolling.

The first armored cruiser in the true sense of the word was the Russian General-Admiral, completed in 1874.

The HMS Shannon in the United Kingdom entered service a few years later.

For a long time, cruisers filled the gap between very light ships, such as torpedo boats, and battleships.

The cruisers were more than enough to withstand the attacks of small ships, they were too slow and required too much fuel, especially after the use of steam turbines, making them very dependent on the supply fleet when fighting at long distances.

For most of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, cruisers were a long-range deterrent weapon for a fleet, while battleships stayed close to their bases.

The main role of the cruiser was to attack the enemy's caravans.

Cruisers were designed with speed in mind, and their elongated, streamlined hulls were particularly conducive to high-speed sailing.

To reduce fluid swirls, their bow and stern are tapered.

In the period 1880-1910, many much smaller protective cruisers were also built.

Due to their small amount of armor, there was no side armor, but horizontal armor in the bow type was provided in the deck.

At the same time, cruisers were also incorporated into the main fleet for reconnaissance and patrol purposes.

As the battleships grew, so did the displacement of the cruisers.

After the sails were replaced by steam engines, armored cruisers appeared, which in fact were relatively small, fast battleships.

At the end of the 19th century, the pace of development of battleships was so rapid that the cruisers launched a few years later surpassed the previous battleships.

The American White Fleet was already obsolete a few years after it was launched. During this time, a fleet often consisted of very old ships, as well as very new ships, and the new ships were often much larger than the old ones.

From this time onwards, people began to distinguish between light cruisers and heavy cruisers.

Both concepts were defined in different arms limitation treaties after the First World War.

The caliber of the main guns of light cruisers was 6.1 inches, below 155 mm, and the caliber of the main guns of heavy cruisers was above this, 8 inches, or 203 mm, was the most common.

In the Washington Naval Treaty, 8 inches was the upper limit of the gun diameter for heavy cruisers.

Only five cruisers had a caliber of main guns on top of this, three German German-class armored ships and two Alaska-class large cruisers used by the US Navy in World War II.

In fact, none of these five warships were exactly cruisers by nature, but simply called cruisers for various reasons.

The Royal Navy of Great Britain paid special attention to cruisers.

The reason was that Britain had a large number of colonies and needed to maintain a large number of cruisers to keep the colonies safe.

These cruisers could reconnoiter the enemy, protect fleets of battleships from afar, and attack large enemy ships in groups.

For example, in May 1941, the heavy cruisers Norfolk and Suffolk followed the German battleship Bismarck until the British battleships and aircraft carriers arrived and finally sank the Bismarck.

In the Battle of La Plata Estuary in December 1939, the British heavy cruiser HMS Exeter and two Leander-class light cruisers were able to distract the superior firepower of the German Admiral Graf Spee.

Although the British ship was damaged, the German ship did not dare to fight, and finally decided to flee to the port.

The cruiser is one of the older types of ships in the Navy, and it was born and developed at about the same time as the battleship.

As early as the 17th and 18th centuries, cruisers were fast gunboats that were equipped with fewer guns and generally did not directly participate in battle line battles, but mainly performed patrol and escort duties.

The best cruiser of that time was the British Alabama, a multi-masted schooner propelled by a steam engine with a displacement of 1040 tons.

What Wei Bao asked for was to build such a cruiser, the displacement of which could be close to a thousand tons was enough, and the caliber of the main gun was 155 mm.

Because others can't imitate the steam engine, Wei Bao believes that as long as the most basic cruiser can be built, within a hundred years, no country on the earth will be able to pose a threat to heaven and earth at sea, and this is enough.

Not to mention a hundred years, that is, only twenty years, Wei Bao is sure that he can build Weijiazhuang and southern Liaoning, as well as the expanding Daming Pass, to the point that other countries will never be able to catch up.

At that time, Daming has been developed terrible, what competitors are you afraid of?

The laws of the world are formulated by yourself, and when the time comes, let alone war, even regional disputes will help you eliminate them all.

"Mr. Kinnige, I don't have much time to work with you, but the requirements I put forward will definitely be done, you should put more effort into the quality of fire and steel, cruisers and trains, get them out as soon as possible, the artillery is not in a hurry, but the grenadiers and mortars used by the army should be applied to actual combat as soon as possible." Wei Bao instructed: "We must strengthen the use of chemicals!" ”

At this time, there is no international law to curb Wei Bao, just fool around.

The rifle bullets of the Baojun are all lead bullets, which can maximize the lethality, and the addition of chemical agents to the shells is equivalent to fighting chemical warfare, which increases the power, low consumption, and huge lethality, which has always been the goal pursued by the military industry of the Baojun.

"We have been working hard, please rest assured, Mr. President." Kinney Pavilion nodded.

Wei Bao nodded, continued to visit the dockyard, and made a lot of requests.

Wei Bao only made requests, and tried to make as few suggestions as possible, because he himself was only a second knife, and he didn't have much factory experience at all, and he was a layman in machinery manufacturing.

"Increase the year-end bonus for all workers in the military industry, as well as personnel in scientific and technological research and development, and the most senior scientists, according to my rank, will be given 100 oceans during the New Year, and other workers at all levels will formulate a bonus system according to this ratio, and those who have made outstanding contributions will not be rewarded heavily." Wei Bao said to Fan Xiaolin.

"Yes, I wrote it down." Fan Xiaolin nodded.

Wei Bao is not satisfied with the progress made in science, but he is barely able to take over, after all, he is starting from scratch, everything is starting from scratch, and he can let hundreds of thousands of industrial workers have something to do, Wei Bao is already satisfied.

"The problem now is that many of the daily necessities we make cannot be exported to other places. The market is too small, the North Korea is too poor, they are all shipped over, and the North Koreans cannot afford it. Fan Xiaolin said.

"In the future, we will gradually increase the sales of Hejian Mansion, Cangzhou Mansion, Shandong Province and Denglai Theater in the areas we have actually controlled, and then expand to the whole country through these areas, especially Jiangnan and Southwest China." Wei Bao is very confident in the market: "The key is that the products are good and cheap, competitive, and there is no need to worry about the unsuitable localities, or the artificial barriers created by the local government. ”

"Got it, President." After Fan Xiaolin agreed, she recorded them one by one in the small notebook she carried with her.

Until Luo San was stunned and urged again, saying that he should not let the president's parents wait.

President Wei left Weijiazhuang Shipyard, the largest shipyard in the world in this era!

In fact, if Wei Bao's requirements are not too high, with the current wooden structure, the outer bread with iron sheets, and the steam engine as the power of the sail battleship, coupled with the not yet very mature 155 mm breech gun, it is already the most powerful warship in the world, not to mention the crushing situation of the Portuguese, Spanish and Dutch warships, it is not a problem to beat five or six people at a time.

But this is far from enough for Wei Bao, what Wei Bao likes is to crush, and what he likes is that once a war, others have no ability to fight back.

Therefore, Weibao attaches more importance to economic development and internal stability.

On the way back, Wei Bao and Luo San were stunned and talked about the structure of the party and government organizations at all levels of the Tiandi Society.

The organizational officials at all levels of the Heaven and Earth Society are all appointed and elected, and they are elected in two ways.

Luo San was stunned and talked about some things to Wei Bao, not all of them were smooth sailing, they were all peaceful development.

There are also some bad signs.

In the past six months or so, a series of events have occurred in Weijiazhuang that have highlighted the two "bad things" of "democracy."

First, people can hold high the banner of "democracy" and claim that their actions represent "democracy", disrupt social order, destroy public and private property, and hinder social and economic development.

Second, in "democratic elections", people who advocate democracy and hinder social development can be elected as councillors, or even become the majority of parliaments, although only "district councils" that do not have real powers.

"Democracy" should be "the people are the masters," "serve the people," "be conducive to the interests of the people," and "be conducive to social development."

But the "bright spots" of the Heaven and Earth Society show paradoxical results.

The reason lies in the three misunderstandings of unsound democratic theories, and the behavioral traps that lead to theoretical misunderstandings.

Misconception 1: The majority rule advocated by democratic theory has formed a "self-weakening mechanism" that tends to be centralized.

Democracy is "conformity to the majority" and "conformity to the majority", and it is to let the opinion of the majority become the decision-making opinion of society.

Most people are not the smartest and most virtuous people in society, they are not the people who can analyze problems rationally, and they cannot make the best decisions for society.

Many of the majority of people tend to be quite emotional, especially when they are affected by the emotions of other people, and tend to make decisions based on emotions rather than deep and complex rational thinking.

The emotions of the majority have expanded their influence, and the fragmented information on social media is very conducive to the timely dissemination of emotions, which is not conducive to rational analysis and expression, everyone can shout on social media, and there are no professionals to do "quality identification" and "hierarchical screening", so that the "majority" emotions can resist the rationality of the "minority".

For the development of the social economy, letting the smartest and most virtuous people make decisions is conducive to the development and strength of the society; Allowing the emotional majority to make decisions weakens rationality and deviates from the track of developing a strong force, which is the "self-weakness mechanism".

When other surrounding societies do not have this kind of "self-weakening mechanism", the society affected by the "self-weakening mechanism" will be in a very disadvantageous situation if it competes with them.

Wei Bao knows this problem and has always had a headache.

Because his society is inherently deformed.

He planned it single-handedly and took the lead in making it.

The foundation is still the original Weijiazhuang of those ordinary people who don't know a few words.

Once these people become the mainstream ruling class, even if Wei Bao tries his best to make these people rich first, and these people are also very loyal to Wei Bao.

Moreover, most of the assets and resources of the Heaven and Earth Society are also firmly grasped in Wei Bao's hands.

The society, cohesion and dominance built by Wei Bao are unquestionable.

Therefore, Wei Bao will appear to be more emperor than the emperor in the area ruled by the Heaven and Earth Society.

Everywhere there was a cult of his personality, everywhere there were portraits of President Wei, and everyone used the ocean, silver dollars, and banknotes printed with President Wei's surrender.

But these have little to do with social development.

Social development still depends on the enlightenment and evolution of these people, and on society itself.

What Wei Bao wants to do is to educate everyone in this society, at least no more ignorant than himself.

How many years it will take, Wei Bao himself can't say.

Anyway, according to the Tiandihui education system of three years of elementary school, two years of junior high school, and two years of high school.

It only takes three years to train a person who looks almost like modern times, five years to train an official, and at least seven years to train a person who is already considered to have modern characteristics and is more enlightened.

And because the economic conditions do not allow, the vast majority of people do not have the opportunity to go to high school, and those who go to high school must go to a junior college or undergraduate college.

It will take at least two more years.

It takes at least nine years to make someone exactly like a modern person!

Now the Heaven and Earth Society has only been developing for more than a year, and it has been less than two years.

Most of the officials only attended literacy classes, and even if they went to night school while working, they still did not even graduate from elementary school.

Expecting a group of people who have not graduated from elementary school to lead the development of society, and even counting on these people to engage in democracy, I am afraid that only Wei Bao can think of this kind of thing.

If it is known by modern people, I am afraid that it will have to die of collective laughter.

"We can only put the framework together first, and you have to try to solve the specific problems encountered in the work." Wei Bao could only say this to Luo San stunned.