1890 King of Southeast Asia

"What? Large power pack? This is not for sale, right?" Liu Yiming held a cigarette in his mouth and looked at Lin Anmin, hoping that he would say something.

It was already early May, and everything in Nanhua seemed so peaceful.

Internationally, there was no possibility of a war for the time being, as if the whole world had calmed down.

Today, Lin Anmin suddenly reported that the Germans wanted to buy a large marine power pack, and came to Liu Yiming with Xu Hui.

"He said it was not for military use, but for civilian use, a large power pack for cruise ships." Lin Anmin said.

"What conditions did they give?" Liu Yiming looked at Lin Anmin, a little curious.

The boundary between military and civilian use was very vague and clear. If it could be sold, Lin Anmin should not have come to him; if it could not be sold, he should have refused on the spot.

Lin Anmin's coming to him could only prove one thing-the Germans wanted something that could not be sold, but they offered too high a price.

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"Machine tools, a complete set of precision machining machine tool technology transfer, may not be the best, but we also have obsolete equipment. If it can improve the domestic processing capacity to a higher level, we think it can be traded."

"What level of machine do they want?" Liu Yiming touched his nose and was a little moved.

The Germans really grasped the life of Nanhua. Nanhua tried many times, hoping to transfer the technology of precision machine tools, but the Germans always disagreed.

The transfer is not to sell a few machine tools, but to sell a factory. People have to be sent to teach hand in hand until Nanhua successfully masters it and can use machine tools to produce machine tools. Only then can it be considered qualified.

Now Nanhua can only rely on senior technicians to rub a few parts by hand, and many precision instruments still need to be imported. After all, hand-rubbed parts are more individual, and maybe they can't be used if a part is replaced.

"Sixty thousand horsepower requires three steam turbines, a three-axis layout, and a total weight of no more than two thousand tons." Xu Hui rubbed his hands wrongly.

"Is this for civilian use? Sixty thousand horsepower, the only power unit that meets this standard is the Arabia, right?" Liu Yiming smiled.

The only ships that can meet this standard in Nanhua are the Arabia and Hawaii, which use pure fuel oil boilers.

Many countries have fuel oil boilers, but they have not been able to solve the problem of how to make the fuel burn to the maximum extent, that is, the atomizing nozzle.

Nanhua is made of high-strength alloy that is wear-resistant, high temperature and high pressure, and it will take many years for the West to solve this technology - mainly stuck in the direction. They have many solutions, and the nozzle is an inconspicuous one among them.

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The atomizing nozzle can maximize the advantages of fuel oil boilers. The greater the pressure the nozzle can withstand, the greater the advantage.

"Using sixteen old oil-coal mixed-fired boilers and improved steam turbines can meet this requirement, but the Germans may not agree." Xu Hui said.

The nozzle will not be stuck for a few years, and he wants to simply trade it out, but the navy may complain.

After all, power is Nanhua's biggest advantage. If this advantage can be maintained for a longer time, they will have more time to find ways to maintain the advantage.

"Disagree? Why?" Liu Yiming wanted to nod, but then felt a little awkward, and suddenly thought of the characteristics of the German battleship.

"We discussed it, and the Germans are likely to come for the oil-fired boilers. If we use coal-fired boilers, they may not be willing, and..." Lin Anmin was interrupted by Liu Yiming halfway through his words,

"You didn't ask?" Liu Yiming nodded, knowing what was awkward.

"Uh... it's like this. After all, although Germany is under the banner of civilian use, it is obviously a military standard." Lin Anmin realized that he had a preconceived idea.

"Go, reject Ambassador Hans, and let people see that we rejected them."

"Then quietly tell him that I will talk to His Majesty William II personally about this matter. I hope he can notify us in advance and keep it confidential."

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Lin Anmin and Xu Hui looked at each other, and Xu Hui hesitated and said:

"Your Majesty, do you think about it again? If Germany is equipped with oil-fired boilers, the British will definitely come to us."

The Germans have found Nanhua, and the British will definitely be suspicious. Although there is no evidence, they will not force Nanhua to do anything, but there will definitely be technical "cooperation".

In this era, Britain also has oil-fired boilers. Although the efficiency is improved compared to coal-fired boilers, it has not yet reached a qualitative level. The so-called cooperation is just to take Nanhua's experience package.

The UK mentioned it, and Nanhua refused.

"Don't worry, we are trading kerosene mixed-fired boilers, but we can use more advanced ones on steam turbines, such as Nezha 17. Anyway, they don't have to worry about endurance, and the horsepower can be improved.

If it doesn't work, put on the high-pressure ventilation and give them an irresistible horsepower." Liu Yiming said.

The Nezha 17 steam turbine is a very useless engine of the ship power laboratory, and it was an alternative power when building the Arabia class.

The high-power operation capability is still the best steam turbine of Nanhua, but it is difficult to process and consumes a lot of fuel.

Under the same conditions, the power consumption of medium and low performance is 10% higher than that of Nezha 16, but the output power is almost the same, and there is a 6% power output difference in high power.

In terms of top speed and endurance, Nanhua chose endurance.

After all, the Arabia is already the fastest large warship, and the extra point is not very meaningful.

After making the decision, Liu Yiming began to write a telegram to William II. He believed that William II would not refuse.

Germany also had a debate on the issue of fuel oil and coal, and the coal-fired faction won.

The most important point is that there are no large oil fields in Germany.

The Germans believe that using fuel oil instead of coal can certainly improve the performance of warships, but once a war breaks out with Britain, Germany will be blockaded and lose oil imports.

Germany still has a large number of machinery that needs to use oil. If warships are also converted to fuel power, they may face the possibility of insufficient fuel and unable to persist in combat.

A large warship can easily replenish fuel of thousands of tons, and ten ships can replenish 10,000 tons, and Germany will definitely have more than ten large warships in the future.

Germany is not conservative, but it is just an environmental choice.

After all, Germany is a late-developing country. In terms of naval construction theory, it focuses on the survivability of warships, and has always been crossing the river by feeling the stones in development.

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After all, no one expected that in just eight years, the tonnage of warships would rise from 15,000 tons to 30,000 tons.

Before this, both pre-dreadnoughts and ironclads had maintained a weight of around 10,000 tons for decades.

Germany is a cautious and radical country.

After the outbreak of World War I, the main guns of the Bavaria-class battleships designed by Germany increased directly from 305 mm of the King class to 380 mm, a huge span that is astonishing.

Liu Yiming's 16 kerosene-mixed boilers are better than the German Bavaria class, but I don't know if Germany will adopt it.

William II should be very interested, it depends on what price William II is willing to pay.