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    By carrying forward its advantages and discarding its shortcomings, a nation should be good at learning from other nations, especially its enemies. Only then can a nation be mature, advanced, rational and hopeful.

    ¡°In ancient times, China was Japan¡¯s mentor, but in modern times, Japan was China¡¯s mentor.  It beat us, messed up our house, caused heavy losses, and caused a blood feud. Can we still call it our mentor?

    Yes, it is still a mentor!  Gratitude is kindness and hatred is hatred. They cannot be offset or obliterated.  Even though it has done countless bad things, we still cannot deny that the things it teaches us are too valuable.  We have paid a bloody price for this. If we discard it easily, it will be the greatest misfortune for the nation.

    Zhang Hanqing is rational, so the People¡¯s Party under his leadership can also be rational.  All advanced industrial technologies, management methods and humanistic trends of thought can be brought to my use with confidence.  Taking advantage of the opportunity of world peace, the spirit of self-reliance and hard work, the guarantee of advanced systems, and the Chinese people who are smart and dare to be the first in the world, China's development is not a miracle.

    In the Northeast, Beijing-Tianjin-Tangshan, Yangtze River Delta, Pearl River Delta and major provincial capital cities, telephones have become an important guarantee for communication convenience.  Later, Shenyang, Harbin, Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Nanjing and Guangzhou also had direct international calls to Europe.

    The Republican government's plan for the telephone was that by 1926, the length of calls nationwide would be at least 100,000 kilometers. In 1927, county-level administrative centers could directly make telephone calls to the central government, and counties had post offices and could send telegrams.  ¡ª¡ªOf course, eastern coastal cities have already reached this standard.

    The communication system in the military has also developed by leaps and bounds: following the Unicom of the Chengdu Military Region, secure telephones have been set up between each military region and the Ministry of National Defense. Radio stations have been set up at the regiment level, while at the battalion level, a mixture of wired and manual communication systems have been installed.  Communication class.

    The motorcycle industry has driven almost all heavy industrial projects. Machine tool factories, steel rolling mills, seamless steel pipe factories, cast pipe factories, steel pipe factories, steel wire factories, galvanizing factories, refractory materials factories, machinery factories, medium plate factories, etc. have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain.  It blossomed all over China, making the huge steel production in 1925 completely in short supply. It also promoted the continued prosperity of industry, especially heavy industry, and accumulated a large amount of reserve power for China's military industry.

    China has successfully trial-produced steam turbines equipped with oil-fired boilers, which are crucial to the power system of ships, especially large ships. It was the universal power system for the world's heavy cruisers and above in the early stages of World War II.  It generally uses heavy oil, which is petroleum that has not been deeply processed and has a high carbon content, as fuel, so it produces a lot of thick smoke.

    This project is what Zhang Hanqing attaches great importance to, and it is also what Chen Shaokuan, the Minister of Naval Equipment and Munitions, dreams of.

    If you want to develop large ships, you must develop this thing.  Didn¡¯t you see that ninety years later, China¡¯s first aircraft carrier ¡°Liaoning¡± in official history is still using this similar power system?  The country will definitely build large ships, but without "heart", how will it play in the future?  So planning ahead is necessary.

    As for medium-sized diesel engines, China has already had this capability. The first replica of the "Jiujiang-class" destroyer that now guards thousands of miles of sea territory uses this kind of diesel engine.  Wuhan Shipyard's development of large diesel engines is nearing completion. It won't be long before the "Haichen" class armored cruisers purchased from Germany in the late Qing Dynasty can be equipped with Chinese engines.

    However, for ships now, China's industrial manufacturing capabilities can only be compared to the ocean - destroyers of more than a thousand tons can be produced with some effort, but large and super-large warships that are of a slightly larger scale and can gallop across thousands of miles of ocean do not have this capability.  .

    This is also a lesson that China has to make up for in decades. It certainly cannot be accomplished overnight. With the current financial investment in the navy, Commander Guo will be happy to wake up from his dream if he can build a "Jiujiang class" on a large scale.

    Of course, Zhang Hanqing will not stop the process of exploring large warships just because the current conditions are not met.  Amidst the busy state affairs with everything waiting to be done, Zhang Hanqing did not forget to cultivate naval talents. He made a request to the German government to build a training ship for China.

    Although we disdain the construction of battleships that will soon become "useless", the construction trend of the world's navies must be towards larger tonnage and more advanced equipment (not just about firepower).

    Only with large tonnage can the navy go further. The 1,200-ton "Jiujiang" class can only barely cruise in offshore waters, which is indeed not enough.

    The reason why Germany was chosen is because other countries do not allow China to develop its navy at all, especially Britain, the United States and Japan.  After China's army becomes stronger, their attitude towards other countries was clearly seen in the "May 30th" incident. If the navy can only have half the strength of the army, can they still show off their power in China?  Therefore, whether in terms of technology export or direct purchase of finished products, they are fully blocking China.

    &nbsp? This discovery was of considerable significance, so much so that Felix, a German technician and retired submarine mate, said happily: "With this thing, the submariners' hope of returning home safely has more than doubled!"

    In addition, the Chinese Navy, which has basically understood the "Jiujiang" class destroyers, has begun to prepare for the construction of larger tonnage ocean-going destroyers.  The power system is not a problem. The shipbuilding capabilities of small and medium-sized warships are also available. It is time to try this aspect.  Otherwise, it is not enough for the army to be strong while the navy remains a landlubber.

    China has a vast coastline, and a lame navy will greatly restrict the use of the army. The only way is to develop both legs and advance hand in hand.  Whether the idea of ??"land guns on ships" can be matched with warships needs to be carefully discussed. It is not about building a large scale, but just to reserve technology and experience for the future.

    Similarly, the construction base of the new destroyer is located in inland Wuhan, not Shanghai, which Zhang Hanqing most expected.

    The country has not yet been liberated, the navy is better than nothing, and the weak air force is only enough to keep an eye on the Beijing-Tianjin area. It costs so much to expand the shipyard on the seaside. Once it is swept away by the enemy's navy, won't all the hard investment be destroyed?

    ¡° Moreover, warships are not very big at this time, and only the Wuhan shipyard in China that does not rely on the seaside has the foundation and conditions to take advantage of the work.  Besides, it has the Hanyeping Iron and Steel Plant, and its industrial system is the strongest outside of Shenyang, Shanghai, and Tianjin.

    In fact, according to data records, in 1931, the American 10,000-ton oil tanker "California" was traced from the Yangtze River Estuary to Wuhan, which shows that this problem is actually not big.  If you want to go overseas, you can wait until the flood season, which is from May to September every year.

    Technology is developed slowly and requires continuous investment.  In the short term, the Chinese Navy will not resort to militarism to build fast ships. Therefore, for the sake of technical reserves and survival, the Wuhan Shipyard focuses on civilian ships.  Relying on the golden waterway of the Yangtze River and the water network extending in all directions, water transportation, an important supplement to land transportation, is in the ascendant here.

    In inland cities where there are no direct railways or highways to Shanghai and the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, floating docks and boats floating on the water closely connect the central and western regions with the east.

    Shanghai¡¯s influence is growing, and the development of central China is becoming more and more promising.  If there were no influential cities in Hubei that could replace the role of the provincial capital, Zhang Hanqing would not hesitate to make Wuhan a province directly under the central government.

    After the focus gradually shifted to Guanhai, the development of the three northeastern provinces showed no sign of weakening: in 1925, China's first radio station, Harbin Radio and Television Station, was established and started broadcasting;

    Back then, Harbin Binjiang Customs firmly occupied the top spot among the six major customs offices in the country based on the comparison of exports and actual benefits, becoming the country's largest flour production and export base, alcohol and beer production base;

    In May of that year, Harbin Station could already sell direct tickets to European cities.

    After Shenyang became the largest heavy industry town in China, Harbin has also emerged as a new force after years of hard work, becoming a commercial hub integrating industry, trade and transportation, and becoming a new engine for Northeast economic growth.

    In this way, with the two ends of the Shenyang-Harbin Line as the link, the Northeast Industrial Zone, the Beijing-Tianjin-Tangshan-Qinhuang-Bohai Economic Circle, the Jiangsu-Zhejiang-Shanghai Economic Circle, and the Pearl River Water Belt Economic Circle are the leaders, and the major cities of Qingdao, Wuhan, and Lanzhou radiate to the surrounding areas.  The economic layout of the three major construction corps' continuous export of agricultural products to stimulate blood has been formed, and the achievements of Huaxia China are changing with each passing day.

    For several consecutive years, China¡¯s industry has grown at a rate of more than 30%.  This includes the release of the pent-up economy in previous decades and overtaking in corners.  Almost every three years, a new China is created.

    No wonder all foreign media are exclaiming: "China has entered the fast lane of industrial development"!  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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