Daming 1805

Chapter 376 The Possibility of the Future of Oil Lake

Zhu Jingyuan is quite concerned about the waterway repair project of Shiyou Lake.

The impact on the local environment of this project team is secondary. The dredging project of the sea channel of Petroleum Lake is not a particularly important project in Xintianfu, at least it is not comparable to the Yinzhou Canal.

But Zhu Jingyuan has a new idea about this oil lake.

Zhu Jingyuan plans to build a naval museum in the future to store the retired and preserved naval meritorious ships and equipment.

Oil Lake was one of the prime candidates for this museum.

The biggest advantage of Oil Lake is that it can be directly connected to the sea, and it can be regarded as a freshwater lake in theory.

The salt content of the oil lake is not high, and it will continue to decline after the channel is repaired.

Salt water corrosion is one of the important factors affecting the life of warships, and the life of freshwater inland ships is usually higher than that of sea ships.

In Zhu Jingyuan's previous life, the warships preserved by various countries in the world are usually stored in inland rivers.

Compared with warships parked in inland rivers, warships placed in coastal cities will have a shorter maintenance cycle and higher costs.

In the future, the sea channel of Petroleum Lake will be dredged to a water depth of 16 meters, which is enough for 10,000+ tons of warships to drive directly in.

At the same time, compared with normal inland rivers, the area inside the oil lake can be said to be very vast.

The length from north to south is more than 180 kilometers, and the width from east to west is also 110 kilometers.

What's more, the depth of the lake in most areas exceeds 20 meters.

The main fleet of Ming Dynasty can conduct actual combat exercises in the lake.

If a naval museum is built here, the decommissioned warships will have the opportunity to run in the lake.

It will not increase maintenance costs due to seawater erosion, nor will it significantly affect the storage time.

It can keep the warships in need for a longer period of near-service status.

It can be pulled out directly for re-service when necessary.

The other two candidates, one is Nantong or Suzhou in the mouth of the Yangtze River, and the other is the Five Great Lakes of Beiyinzhou.

The advantage of being in the mouth of the Yangtze River is obvious. It is located in the most prosperous area of ​​Ming Dynasty, and the passenger flow is relatively easy to guarantee.

However, the Yangtze River Estuary is very busy. At the same time, the Yangtze River Estuary is just a river after all. Those warships that have been turned into museums cannot run around here casually. They have to soak in salt water when they go out to sea.

The advantages of the five great lakes in Beiyinzhou are also obvious. They are all pure freshwater lakes with a wider internal area.

The total area of ​​the water area is 24 square kilometers, which is equivalent to two chief ministers in the eastern part of the Ming Dynasty, and more than ten times the area of ​​the oil lake.

However, the Great Lakes are relatively far away from the open sea, and the drop between the outermost Lake Ontario and the four inner lakes is more than 100 meters, requiring additional special canals and ship locks to pass through.

To allow tens of thousands of tons or even [-] tons of warships to enter the Great Lakes, the cost of dredging waterways and building canals will be very high.

Although this level of waterway repair is very beneficial to the development around the Great Lakes, inland waterway shipping does not require this level of waterway.

The oil lake is a compromise choice, and the cost of construction and maintenance is relatively controllable.

The length of dredging required for the sea channel of Petroleum Lake is about [-] kilometers.

The key point is that there is already a large-scale export of oil here, and channel dredging must be done.

In the future, the tonnage growth of tankers will also exceed that of warships, and sending warships into the oil lake is completely a free ride.

Therefore, Zhu Jingyuan has basically delineated the Petroleum Lake. If there is no accident, planning and construction will gradually start in the next few years.

As for Zhu Dijin and Wang Jinpeng's report, Zhu Jingyuan approved it directly after reading it.

Zhu Jingyuan's original plan was to pay a small amount of wages and provide food from Xintianfu.

Now the entire canal project has directly reached a state of self-sufficiency.

Zhu Jingyuan also understands that this state cannot be maintained for a long time, and it is a natural choice to pay wages gradually in the future.

However, Zhu Jingyuan gave a suggestion, the wages should not be paid on a monthly basis, but paid on an annual basis or even when the workers leave.

Time passed, and in October of the fourth year of Ankang, Zhu Jingyuan received two more important news.

The construction of the experimental two-ton electroslag remelting furnace was completed, and attempts were made to use electroslag remelting steel to manufacture small and medium-caliber artillery.

Another month later, the first batch of experimental guns using electroslag remelting steel, hydraulic single-body tube self-tightening technology, and inner bore chrome plating technology were manufactured by Xintianfu's arsenal.

Of course, it is only a cannon in a laboratory state and can only be used for research and verification

The two-ton electroslag steel ingot can basically produce most of the artillery between 120 and [-] mm.

This weight and caliber cover a very wide range.

From the secondary guns and anti-aircraft guns of battleships, aircraft carriers, and cruisers, to the dual-purpose guns of destroyers and frigates.

From tank guns and anti-tank guns, to self-propelled artillery and anti-aircraft guns.

The weight is basically between one to two tons.

The upgrade of artillery technology is the most obvious and most intuitive improvement in combat capability.

Electronic computers and atomic weapons are things of the distant future.

Even a turbojet engine will take a long time to research and realize.

But the improvement of artillery performance is very simple and rude.

The performance of the artillery is directly affected by the quality of the barrel steel.

The electroslag remelted gun steel can improve the power of the gun and reduce the weight, and the effect is immediate.

The two technologies of electroslag remelting and barrel self-tightening are the most important technologies at present.

Zhu Jingyuan met his grandfather Zhu Zhongliang and went to the shooting range to watch the artillery test together.

Zhu Zhongliang sat in the middle of the viewing platform, flipping through the predictions provided by the craftsmen, and soon his eyes widened:

"The weight of the 120mm artillery is directly reduced to the level of the original [-]mm artillery.

"The muzzle velocity soared from 800 meters per second to over 1000 meters per second.

"The most incredible thing is that while reducing weight and increasing power, the barrel life has doubled.

"This forecast data is not nonsense, how can this be true?"

Zhu Jingyuan smiled and nodded and said:
"If our theory is not wrong, the actual situation is what you saw, Grandpa.

"And this kind of result is the benefit of upgrading the basic technology, which can make the existing equipment achieve leapfrog improvement.

"For the three guns that will be tested today, if the muzzle velocity is reduced to the original seven or eight hundred, the theoretical life of the guns under the same standard may exceed five thousand rounds."

Zhu Zhongliang couldn't help feeling instinctively:
"This technology is really too powerful. Light tanks can mount [-]mm guns, and medium tanks can mount [-]mm guns. Compared with the previous ones, it has been directly improved by a whole stage..."

Zhu Jingyuan and Zhu Zhongliang were chatting on the management platform, and the next test was finally ready.

After Zhu Jingyuan gave the order to start the test, the artillery that had been prepared for a long time began to load and test fire immediately.

There is no obvious difference between the final result and the report submitted by the craftsmen.

Electroslag remelting, self-tightening of the barrel, and chrome-plating of the inner chamber, these three technologies have directly raised the performance of Daming's artillery to a higher level.

But what Zhu Jingyuan is thinking about now is when will these gang cards be produced in energy and when can they be used on battleships.

How to quickly increase the tonnage of the electroslag furnace, and when will the 420mm naval gun of the battleship be completed.

　This is half a chapter, there should be more in the evening, and it won't be delayed until the second half of the night.

　　The author's life is completely messed up these days, but now most things are done.

　　Now try to correct the pattern of life, and strive to restore the daily update of [-] to [-] words this week.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)