The weapon tycoon who traveled to Daqin

Please remember the URL of this website: It may be inevitable that the Qin Navy was suppressed by the Chu Navy. This inevitability lies in the natural difference between the two military services of "sea" and "water". The navy was established based on the Yangtze River waterway, while the Qin Navy was established on the Yangtze River waterway. The Chinese Navy has regarded going to sea as its historical mission from the beginning. However, the fact is that the combat area takes place on the mainland's freshwater waterways, that is, the Yangtze River system, rather than on the sea surface as the Navy planned from the beginning. This gap in the combat area has caused internal problems within the Qin Navy. Two factions were born

The Big Ship Faction and the Small Ship Faction. The Big Ship Faction is mainly a unilateral view by high-level officials. This understanding may come from Shangwen's strategic planning. Qin's ultimate goal is to go to sea, which means that larger ships are needed. Small ships cannot meet the requirements for going to sea.

In terms of combat, the Qin Navy believed that the bigger the ship, the better, so that more artillery could be installed. They believed that the advantage of artillery was the biggest advantage of the Qin Navy, especially the improvement of artillery accuracy. The emergence of Qin's steel cannon greatly increased the accuracy. This kind of accuracy can directly sink the opponent's wooden boat. Exaggeratedly speaking, one shot should be enough.

The idea of ​​simply building big ships and installing artillery should be correct, but the reality is that Qin's shipbuilding industry has just started, and the quantity and quality of sailors seriously affects the development of the navy, especially the shipbuilding industry. They are already used to making small ships. Large ships require a period of research. Manufactured and with the advancement of artillery technology, especially the emergence of some new functions, such as cannons, they need dry storage space, and for safety reasons, generally cannons must be separated from the cannon, which requires a good transmission device.

This requires changing the space setting and layout of the ship, especially the overall design of large ships. These are the requirements of the Qin State's Shipbuilding Technology Law. Faced with this situation, the senior officers put forward their own views, that is, to use small ships.

The starting point of Qin's shipbuilding industry was lowered. One or two cannons were installed on each ship, and then more machine guns were installed. It was also best to use mechanical power to install diesel engines, improve underwater propulsion devices, etc. Such shipbuilding problems were solved by Qin's reliance on new technologies. Can make up for combat missions

This idea is that large ships cannot adapt to the current requirements for fighting on the river. Although their firepower is powerful, they also have the number of artillery that cannot be met by the current law. The Qin State can produce hundreds of various artillery pieces in a month, but the number of artillery shipped here is limited. But there are very few. The transportation here is extremely underdeveloped.

In addition, since the combat area is on the river, the width of the waterway does not allow for the firepower advantage of a large number of surface ships to appear at once unless it is a shore attack. Therefore, the number of large ships should be reduced a lot, and more energy, financial and material resources should be concentrated on small ships, especially small ships. Another reason for fast gunboats, which are ships that also have the advantage of speed and firepower, is to build small boats by taking advantage of Qin's accumulated shipbuilding experience. From simple to easy training, the sailors' command and understanding can be greatly alleviated. Most of these sailors were born as fishermen. They are not adapted to the operation of large ships. Sometimes they don’t even understand their own positions. The use of small ships can greatly alleviate this situation.

But this situation is not recognized by the higher-ups, especially since the Xiaochuan faction is a low-level officer, they simply cannot convince the higher-ups.[

No matter how the two factions argue, the status quo of Qin's navy cannot be changed. Qin's military expenditures are arranged according to actual needs. For example, although the army's military expenditures have been cut several times on a large scale, the proportion is still very large and cannot be changed in a short period of time. This is because more than 98% of Qin's resources currently come from land development, which means that the army occupies a large area of ​​​​Shangwen. These areas are very important to Qin. Railways, roads, steel plants, power plants, etc. all exist in Qin. On land, horses are still the main combat transport platform. Enemies are mainly concentrated on the Eurasian continent. Even the heavenly army has its huge uses.

Laying cables, telephone lines, erecting various overhead devices, especially the expansion of air transportation, the area covered by the road and railway network law, airships can be completed faster than horse-drawn carriages, and the most important thing is that their routes can be straight lines, while horse-drawn carriages are much inferior. The powerful Naofumi military branch will be born. The need for security in transportation requires the army to protect the navy. The demand is latent and not actual.

The supply of resources in the south mainly depends on the supply of the Chu State. For example, the copper ore comes from the Jiujiang area of ​​the Chu State, and the tungsten ore doped in the ore. The non-ferrous metal ores in the south are what the Qin State needs most. These things are from the Chu State. The country uses ships to ship from the Jiujiang area across the river and then transports it by ox carts to Xinzheng. From Xinzheng, it is transported by train to the steel plants in Taiyuan and other places in the north, where Qin produces various steel products and then uses them for domestic construction in Qin or for some exports. Among the six countries, the Yangtze River waterway transportation played a very important role. It was precisely because of the need for the Chu navy that it was necessary to exist. On the contrary, the existence of the Qin navy was somewhat redundant.

The Chu State occupies a prime position in the middle and lower reaches. The fishery there can feed the entire waterway area, while the Qin State's navy is located above it. The population living here is medium, but there is no need for transportation. At most, it is timber transportation upstream, but this is not enough to support a large navy. At most, we only need a naval army similar to the Chu army.

If changes are needed, transportation must be changed, using the convenience of waterways to change horizontal transportation to vertical transportation. Qin State uses convenient railway transportation directly to the naval base. Non-ferrous ores in the Jiujiang area are directly loaded on trains from here and transported to Qin State's factories. Return various products. Only in this way can the navy survive and develop.

The lack of development in the south is the root of the problem. Shangwen is changing this situation. The Qin State wants to build railways and highways in the south and lay cables to control the south. In addition, the development of the south is also progressing steadily. Sugar cane has already gained a certain area in the Bashu region. Orange planting is also being transplanted. Wheat is expected to be harvested for the first time in April or May due to the special geographical environment. The two-crop system was first born in the Bashu region. These are changing the economic situation in southern Qin. This is a direct way to improve road conditions. For economic reasons, the Qin Navy will benefit from this