New Ming Empire mixed in America

After the discussion, Song He went to prepare the target boat.

There is no need to change the flags on the target ship. It still looks the same as before, but the ship's steam engine and naval guns have been removed.

Song He also knew where to save when he was a prodigal.

The marine steam engines were sent directly to the battleship design bureau. This was Li Mingqi's order. He wanted to see how far Dai Ying's steam engine technology had developed.

Even the captured Black Prince did not escape the fate of being studied.

After all, as an ironclad ship, various technologies used on the Black Prince can also be used for reference.

Of course, the luxurious conference room on the ship was canceled and turned directly into a public restaurant.

The officers' lounge did not escape the fate of being renovated. After being opened up, it was turned into an operating room.

The operating room on the Black Prince was so simple before. It wasn't even a dedicated operating room, just an empty cabin.

Just kidding, the officers of the Xin Ming Empire now pursue the goal of being in line with the soldiers. How could they let the soldiers sleep in hammocks while they live in double rooms?

The special treatment of the officers of the Xinming Empire is invisible and is not shown at all.

For example, various benefits after retirement, various benefits for family members during service, and even generous allowances.

The background of Kuhaha is different from that of Daiying's officers and nobles, so no officer raised any objection to the renovation of the Black Prince.

In addition to the Black Prince, there are two severely damaged Daiei second-class ships that are receiving special care.

In addition, a third-level ship that lost power during the melee was captured.

During the pursuit after dark, a third-class ship was also captured that was raising the white flag along with the flagship.

Two third-class ships under repair were also captured in the Mexican port.

By the way, there are also the third- and fourth-level ships that I surrendered, more than 20 various transport ships, and six steam gunboats.

The rest of the ships that led the British expeditionary fleet either ran away or were sunk. The worst thing was that the Argentine navy was completely destroyed.

Now the number of warships in the Xinming Empire has more than doubled after this battle. After the transformation of those warships is completed, the navy will be able to form a second fleet.

Now the new ironclad ships cannot be used collectively as capital ships. They are the trump card of the Xin Ming Empire and will be used as flagships for the time being.

After the new Ming Empire's dreadnoughts are produced, they will take a back seat and become the main battleships.

Just like the fleet with the British, the second-level ships are the flagships, and the third-level ships are the main force of the fleet.

As for the first-class ship...that is a divine weapon for ruling the country!

And except for Daiying, who needs second-level ships to serve as the flagship of the expedition fleet to maintain the colonies, the other countries do not have second-level ships.

If the British were not brought in to consolidate their influence in the Americas this time, and if they were accompanied by the Queen's envoys to visit various countries, it would be good to have one second-level ship dispatched every day.

The construction cost of the second-tier ship is less than that of the first-tier ship but much higher than that of the third-tier ship. The waterline length of the second-tier ship with three continuous artillery decks is not as long as that of the first-tier ship. Its draft is deeper and its maneuverability is poor.

The ship is tall and has a large wind surface. It will tend to yaw to leeward when sailing, and there is a risk that the lower gun doors will not be opened due to bad sea conditions.

Overall, the second level ships are quite mediocre, but they do have room for improvement.

It at least looks more deterrent than a third-tier ship. A second-tier ship with three consecutive artillery decks will be mistaken for a first-tier ship and act as a deterrent.

Therefore, after being sent to the battleship design bureau, the second-class battleship, which has more status than actual use, caused a lot of complaints among the engineers responsible for the transformation.

Currently, most of the engineers in the Battleship Design Bureau are real engineers who came to work in the Xinming Empire from various European countries on a "voluntary basis".

After their families were 'settled', these engineers settled down in the Xinming Empire 'willingly'.

Most of the shipbuilding workers came from Tsarist Russia, and these workers who were packaged and sold were relatively casual.

Their life in Tsarist Russia was not as good as it is now, and their family members could also find jobs on the construction site, so they were loyal supporters of the Xinming Empire.

There is quite a tendency to develop into a second umbrella academy, which makes the members of the Umbrella Youth League who give lectures to them very satisfied and consider them to be their confidants.

Not to mention those Tsarist Russian serfs who were treated as big animals and sent to work in the New Ming Empire. After learning that their work visas were only valid for two years.

These people are now obsessed with getting the Xinming Empire Yellow Card within two years.

In their eyes, coming to work in the Xinming Empire was much better than continuing to be a serf in Tsarist Russia. At least they could have enough to eat and even save some wages.

Although the death rate was higher when the railway was being built, after being deceived by the Homestead Law and moving to the west, they were captured by the Ming Xie Army and some white people with lofty ideals, and were captured and sent to the New Ming Empire as free laborers.

The serfs in Tsarist Russia found that they were no longer required to do dangerous work, and some even became overseers, supervising the work of free workers, both black and white.

How could they give up on a day like this, so now they will wander around the factories of the empire's people when it's vacation time, hoping to be favored by the boss and become employees of the factory so that they can stay in the Xinming Empire.

For this reason, they are the most diligent people in learning Chinese. Even the shipbuilders do not learn as fast as they do.

They even pooled their money to hire Ming Xiejun who had passed the Chinese language test, or some close Ming officials who wanted to make extra money to teach.

This trend once made the sales of various works of the Xinming Empire extremely popular, and even various Chinese-style items were sold very well.

If you don't greet each other in Chinese with your tongue shaking when you go out to meet each other, you will be embarrassed to say that you are a worker.

This kind of behavior made the white people stranded outside the port area of ​​San Francisco hate it with hatred.

In other words, white people working in the Xinming Empire are now very deeply involved.

In the past, you could get into work simply by speaking some Chinese, but now simple communication in Chinese has become the basis. If you want to stand out among workers, you must have additional skills.

For example, you can speak Chinese proficiently and can memorize a few ancient poems or the revised version of the Analects of Confucius.

If you don't know how to do these, you can only join the peripheral organization of the Ming Association Army and go to the west to catch those short-sighted Northern Federation people in exchange for bounties.

This situation caught Li Mingqi off guard. This is one of the reasons why Li Mingqi vigorously promoted the school. It cannot be that the Chinese level of the people of the empire in the future is not as high as the standards mentioned by the white workers.

Among them, the most injured were the Irish immigrants. They were bullied by the British in their hometown, looked down upon by both the North and the South when they came to the United States, and now when they came to the New Ming Empire, they found serious infighting among the white workers.

Except for a few who are still persisting, many people have followed the merchant ships out to sea to go to various countries in the Americas to mine ore for the New Ming Empire.

Those who go to sea to work for the Xinming Empire do not need to understand Chinese, just have a lot of strength. For example, Guano Island, which is now back in the hands of the Xinming Empire, needs a lot of manpower.

The railways of the Xinming Empire made rapid progress in this positive atmosphere of white workers.

Not only railways, but also widening of waterways and construction of canals, asphalt roads, various bridges, town construction, well digging, and sewer excavation.

If you are not afraid of death, you can also find work on the battlefield, such as helping the Wehrmacht dig trenches before the war, and helping clean the battlefield and build the Beijing Temple after the war.

As for the telephone and telegraph lines in various places, they were built by free laborers, because the lines in the Xinming Empire are now routed underground, requiring them to dig trenches two to three meters deep along the way.

Nowadays, the construction of the Xin Ming Empire is just like one day at a time.

Except for those more sensitive construction sites, the rest of the construction sites are outsourced to white businessmen.

They hire free workers themselves, and can get more or less jobs as long as they participate in tenders.

After the project is completed and passed the acceptance inspection, you can go to the bank to collect the project payment you deserve, so some white-collar contractors have also emerged.

Of course, at the Xinming Empire contracting site, if you cut corners and cut corners to cope with the problem, it will not be as simple as losing money and reworking the work afterwards. Most of the time, someone will die.