readx; The Nationalist Army accepted several gunboats from the former Qing Dynasty during the Fuzhou Uprising, and set up a naval department on this basis, formed the Fuzhou Fleet, and in the following years, it successively accepted most of the naval forces of the former Qing Dynasty, and after controlling all the naval forces of China, the combat goal of the Nationalist Navy was also from assisting the army to win the Beiyang and slowly changing to assume the heavy responsibility of coastal defense of the whole of China. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

In order to develop the navy, Sa Zhenbing, Cheng Biguang and others not only worked hard to fight for military spending for the navy in front of Chen Jingyun, but also spent a lot of effort to cultivate other aspects of naval strength, such as the Shanghai Arsenal, which was single-handedly supported by the navy, which can be said to have turned the Shanghai Arsenal into an exclusive arsenal for the navy. For the navy, guns and torpedoes are very important, but the direct construction of warships is more important, in the era of the Fuzhou fleet, the national navy has begun to build an 800-ton Changle-class gunboat in the Mawei shipyard, and after accepting the Jiangnan shipyard, it also continued to build the two gunboats. Subsequently, a large amount of money was invested in upgrading the equipment of the Jiangnan shipyard and designing and building a 400-ton ocean-going destroyer, a small destroyer based on a destroyer ordered from Germany.

The construction of this destroyer has played a great role in promoting the design and manufacture of the entire Chinese [***] ship, and the Shanghai Arsenal at that time has carried out a lot of technical research in order to provide three-inch naval guns and torpedoes for the destroyer, and finally although the Shanghai Arsenal was not able to complete the development of the three-inch naval gun due to the problem of Southeast Iron and Steel, it has also accumulated a lot of experience.

At that time, the Shanghai Power Company, which had just been established recently, also provided this destroyer with a qualified three-expansion steam engine, although the power was less than that of the German-built destroyer, only reaching 6,200 horsepower, but it also allowed the ocean-going destroyer, which was only 400 tons, to reach a high speed of 31 knots.

Soon after its completion at the beginning of this year, this destroyer joined the First Destroyer Group of the First Fleet, replacing the Flying Eagle, and five other ships of the same class from Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy formed the First Destroyer Group.

After the completion of this small destroyer, the Nationalist Navy quickly put forward a plan to build a 1,000-ton destroyer, and because Chen Jingyun personally maintained a supportive attitude towards the development of the navy, especially the self-built warships, he even allocated a special fund of 2.5 million yuan for building ships in addition to the 6 million naval military expenditure in 1914. The new destroyer is based on the six American-made Suiding-class destroyers in service in the Nationalist Navy, and the domestically produced 1,000-ton destroyers are required to be no weaker than these six destroyers in terms of surname, that is, they are required to be equipped with four 4-inch and 50-fold caliber main guns, two three-inch secondary guns, and eight 533-mm torpedo tubes. The speed shall not be less than 33 knots, and it is also required to have a cruising capacity of 5,000 nautical miles at a speed of 16 knots.

This surname can data is basically the data of the year, China wants to build this kind of destroyer, the difficulty is very great, the problem of naval guns is easy to solve, Southeast Iron and Steel Company after two years of precipitation, has been and the introduction of many patented technology to absorb almost has been able to provide qualified steel for artillery, even Southeast Iron and Steel Company even CKC armor has been imitated with the help of American experts, so as long as it has qualified design capabilities, Then it is not too much of a problem to build the hull and naval guns.

But where is the problem, it lies in the powertrain!

At present, China has large-scale power production and research and development experience only the integration of Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, Mawei shipyard and other former Qing enterprises of the power department of Shanghai Power Company, although the original intention of the establishment of Shanghai Power Company is only for the production of aero engines, but they also have the experience and technology to build steam engines, aero engines can not be solved at the same time, their steam engine department is developing rapidly, in addition to providing steam engines for many factories and Fule Electric, Their marine power department also designed and built the three-expansion steam engine for many freighters at Jiangnan Shipyard and Mawei Shipyard, and then provided the three-expansion steam engine for the Changle-class gunboat at Mawei Shipyard, and designed and developed a new three-expansion steam engine specifically for the 400-ton ocean-going destroyer.

From the current point of view, the main business of Shanghai Power Company has become ship power, although the three-expansion steam engine produced by it is worse than the products of the great powers, but it is cheaper and self-produced, and the slight surname energy gap is also tolerable, so at present, all the ships produced on the Jiangnan Shipyard and Mawei Shipyard in China are using the steam engine of Shanghai Power Company. The other two major divisions of Shanghai Power Company are making slow progress, the aero engine of the aviation department has been developed a long time ago, but due to material and other problems, it has been unable to come up with a qualified aero engine, and now after the outbreak of war in Europe, France itself has begun to produce aircraft in large quantities, and the same is true for the United Kingdom. As a result, China's main source of aero engines will be cut off, and the Americans will not be able to count on it in a short time, and their level of aero engine research is not as good as that of Shanghai Power Company's own. However, although the Americans can't come up with a qualified aero engine for the time being, it doesn't mean that they don't have enough technical ability, but they didn't have this demand before, in order to solve the source of aero engines, Shanghai Power Company has cooperated with several companies in the United States to prepare an empty engine.

As for the remaining automobile power department, it is this year's domestic industrial development of the initial program to introduce an automobile factory and a tractor factory, in order to solve the power demand of automobiles and tractors, Shanghai Power Company is to set up an automobile power department, with the introduction of technology to begin to imitate gasoline engines and diesel engines.

Although the ship power of the three major departments of the Shanghai Power Company has developed most rapidly, their latest three-expansion steam engine cannot meet the power needs of the Nationalist Navy for the power of the new destroyer, and the only way to equip a 1,000-ton destroyer with at least 15,000 horsepower can only be achieved by using a steam turbine.

Although according to the Sino-US naval cooperation treaty, there is the introduction of navy-related technology, but the steam turbine is not said to be able to be imitated after getting the technical drawings, and the many technical difficulties involved in it are not so easy to solve, at least not Shanghai Power Company can handle it, which involves many basic materials disciplines.

In order to smoothly imitate the steam turbine, the Shanghai Power Company and several other heavy industry enterprises in China launched joint cooperation, and even the private Nanjing Machinery Factory entered and provided a small number of parts, for this steam turbine, Huaxia Bank has invested in the construction of several factories.

The power system has always been a combination of a whole industrial system, whether it is an aero engine or a steam turbine, the imitation of the huge steam turbine involves almost all the existing industrial sectors in China, dare not be the Southeast Iron and Steel Company or Sanshi Chemical Company or Wuhu Heavy Machinery Company have contributed to the imitation of the steam turbine, after the joint work of a number of industrial departments, as the assembly plant of Shanghai Power Company finally in July 1914 trial production of a steam turbine. It is also the first steam turbine made in China, although the quality of this steam turbine is miserable, not only the strategy is only about seventy percent of the same level products in the United States, but also frequent failures, but as a test product this steam turbine is undoubtedly successful, it allows Shanghai Power Company to gain experience in building steam turbines for the first time, and many related industrial departments have gained experience in building these steam turbine parts, and now what they lack is experience, after the first time, Then the second time will naturally be much smoother, and it will be possible to make improvements according to the many problems in the first construction. Therefore, after the successful imitation of this experimental steam turbine, the Shanghai Power Company immediately patted its chest to ensure that it would be able to provide qualified power for the new destroyer in time.

And after the successful imitation of this experimental steam turbine, it also relieved the group of people in the navy. You must know that the Navy's 1,000-ton destroyers have been designed since the beginning of the year, and the Jiangnan Shipyard has begun preparations for the construction work in the middle of the year.

Fortunately, although there are many difficulties, it is finally possible, and as for the gap in the surname, although the navy is not satisfied, it has to pinch its nose and admit it. Chen Jingyun had already told the group of people in the navy a long time ago that he would use domestic goods if he could make them, and he really couldn't import them.

Although no one has imposed a so-called scientific and technological blockade on China these years, only money can buy anything, and battleships can be directly bought as a sharp weapon for the town, let alone a steam turbine. However, the reason why Chen Jingyun provides millions of dollars to the navy every year for building ships is not to expand the navy on a large scale, but to directly provide China's industrial level through a small number of ships, and the manufacture of a warship drives the progress of the entire industrial system, and this role is definitely not something that can be achieved by directly importing warships.

Therefore, when the Shanghai Power Company guaranteed that the subsequent mass-produced steam turbine would not fail as frequently as the current test product, the navy finally gave up the idea of importing the power system and prepared to use the domestic steam turbine.

Admiral Sa Zhenbing, the Chief of the Admiralty, personally presided over the groundbreaking ceremony!

The construction of this 1,000-ton destroyer represents China's first step towards becoming an industrial country!