For these broken matters in the agreement, diplomatic and military departments usually come forward to coordinate. It is inevitable that a family and mother-in-law and daughter-in-law will be quarrels when they are together, not to mention such a large national alliance, but there are few major events at the highest level.

Li Fushou has been in power for many years and has long known this. Even if military generals in the empire compete for merit and civil officials to compete for favor, open and secret struggles have never stopped, let alone between countries.

What we are fighting for is the glory of the country and the decency.

But the British insistence on the pound in trade settlements really touched the cake of the Ocean Empire, which made Li Fushou more vigilant and more wary.

The Ocean Empire and the United Kingdom are both competitive and cooperative. Jinyang began to rise rapidly in 2015, but in just three years, it was enough to threaten the pound's international financial hegemony, which made London deeply worried.

Today's world economy is in a pattern of one super strong. The Ocean Empire has surpassed its competitors with its strong economic performance and has ranked alone in the ranks of economic superpowers.

Britain, Germany, the United States and France are at the second level, with GDP above US$10 billion and below US$20 billion. If the UK includes colonial output from Shanghai, Guangzhou and around the world, its economic output is about US$53 billion, ranking second only to the Ocean Empire.

If France includes colonial output, its total economic output is about US$18.5 billion, which is equivalent to that of the United States and Germany.

In the face of a new round of divisions between the United Republic of the South, the United States' comprehensive strength has declined again, and it is only a little stronger than France.

With the strong push of the Jinyang Settlement Act for several consecutive years, Jinyang, which has a strong currency value, has been growing rapidly in international trade settlement.

The Imperial Ministry of Finance predicts that by the end of 2017, Jinyang's proportion in international trade settlement will rise to about 40%, surpassing the British pound and thus promoting the status of the world's largest currency in trade.

As for how much it can be achieved in the end, 378% or more or more than 40%, it depends on the evolution of the international situation and the politics and financial fields of related trading countries, rather than only the trade field.

Overall

The Ocean Empire's gold reserves have accounted for more than half of the world, with a total volume of more than 8,700 tons. The position of Jinyang in international trade has been rising, which is an irreversible trend.

With the chaos in the domestic situation, the Russian ruble has depreciated rapidly, and the entire country's credit system has almost collapsed.

While the United States is still in constant wars, it not only fails to seize the extraordinary opportunity of the world war to develop, but instead falls into heavy debts, and the US dollar is even more weak.

Years of war have caused the francs and German marks in Europe to depreciate significantly compared with Jinyang. With its strong economic performance and more than half of the world's gold reserves, Jinyang has become an absolute strong currency and a hard currency that is rushing internationally.

Compared with the British pound, Jinyang's currency issuance scale is larger, with better international liquidity, more guaranteed reputation and more demand, so there is a broader prospect in international trade.

According to the provisions of the Jinyang Trade Act, when purchasing goods from the Ocean Empire, the country's currency must be used to exchange equivalent gold oceans, which requires countries to reserve certain gold oceans for international settlement.

If there is not enough reserve currency, there are several ways to obtain Jinyang, one is trade surplus, one is huge Jinyang loan, one is reserve gold exchange, and the other is resource trading.

For example, Fuso Country sells large quantities of copper and oil resources located in Arizona, thereby obtaining valuable Jinyang Foreign Exchange.

For example, the UK sold a large amount of South African gold and Indian gems, and borrowed large amounts of financial loans to maintain massive war expenses. It has changed from a creditor's country to a net debtor's country, and its international financial status has been greatly reduced.

With Britain's current strength, it is no longer possible to stop the strong rise of the Ocean Empire.

Now, at Li Fushou's hands, there is a 10-year Royal Navy development plan, which has been approved by the House of Commons and entered the review process of the Military Equipment Review Group of the Noble House.

This is a comprehensive plan aimed at strengthening the Ocean Empire's development plan mainly based on battleships and heavy cruisers, covering aircraft carriers, general cruisers and destroyers, landing ships and other types, and is aimed at the comprehensive plan in the 1920s and 1930s.

The report proposes to develop a 406mm full-caliber heavy artillery battleship with a displacement of 46,000 tons, named the "Duke" class, the first ship "Duke of Palawan" with a standard displacement of 46,300 tons, and a total of three triple main turrets with a front 2 and rear 1. The design maximum speed is 28 knots per hour, and it is a decisive battleship of the ocean.

This class of ships is planned to build 6, each of which will have a slight improvement. Its performance level and combat effectiveness are ranked among the top in the world. It will first be equipped with the world's leading communications and sighting equipment such as range-based radar, gunsight radar, and medium-wave radio stations, thereby establishing the powerful strength that the Royal Navy of the Ocean Empire can compete with the British Navy.

Another highlight in the plan is to develop a special aircraft carrier with a displacement of 42,000 tons and can be equipped with more than 220 aircraft of various types, with a combat power of quite strong.

This type of aircraft carrier is named "Rain Tide" class with a speed of 34 knots. A total of 6 ships are built. It is planned to be equipped with three Pacific Fleet, two Atlantic Fleet and one Indian Ocean Fleet.

The "Raging Tide" class aircraft carrier is not the giant ship that the Royal Navy wants. With such an equipment budget, they would rather build several more "Duke" class battleships.

The huge role of aircraft carriers in war was not fully understood by the Royal Navy of the Ocean Empire, and they were only used as auxiliary ships for anti-submarine escort.

The generals of the navy generally understand that the decisive battle at sea also depends on battleships equipped with giant cannons.

This cannot be blamed for the short-sightedness of the navy. Fighters and bombers of today's era are limited by performance and cannot pose a fatal threat to the huge iron-armored warships. The 100-pound bomb was thrown on the battleship equipped with heavy bulletproof armor, just to tickle it.

Li Fushou knew that aviation technology was developing rapidly, and this situation would not take long to change.

A dedicated dive bomber is being developed at Semarang Secret Aviation Base. This concept was originally proposed by the British Air Force, but it was established in the Ocean Empire and was being secretly developed.

According to project research and development needs;

This type of dive bomber has a range of 1,200 kilometers and can carry a maximum of 500 kilograms of bombs (about 1,100 pounds). It dives and bombs enemy targets at a 45-degree angle and implements precise bomb drops.

Once such a powerful bomber is designed and produced, it will completely change the situation of maritime hegemony.

The Ocean Empire began to design and produce special aircraft carriers earlier to seize the commanding heights of future technology. This is one of the few benefits that Li Fushou could leave to the empire.

With the wealth and power of the Ocean Empire, it is not afraid of launching a maritime arms race with Britain. In today's world, Britain, Japan, and Germany are top naval forces on the same level.

The British navy is larger in scale, the Royal Navy of the Ocean Empire is more advanced in technology, and the German navy is more rigorous in training, and there is no big difference.

After Churchill became the Minister of Navy in September 1911, the British Royal Navy proposed the "strong standard" officially proposed by the Navy Department with Germany as the only opponent of Britain, that is, to exceed 60% of the German capital ship on the main ship, and officially announced this standard on March 18, 1912.

Churchill once explained his policies like this;

"If our naval hegemony is damaged, then the future of our nation and empire and the wealth accumulated by life and success over the centuries will no longer exist and be swept away. Therefore, be prepared as Germany will attack tomorrow."

With Churchill's efforts, the naval budget increased from £32.2 million in 2008-09 to £48.7 million in 2013-14, and by 1914-1915, it had exceeded £50 million, reaching the highest point in history.

The proportion of the Navy budget in the entire British military budget is also far exceeding that of other services. In 2009-15, the net increase in the entire British military budget was 77.4 million pounds, and the Navy accounted for 70.7 million pounds.

The increase in the budget ensured the implementation of the Royal Navy expansion plan and technological transformation. The cost for battleships and battlecruisers was 28.1 million pounds from 2005 to 2009, but it increased to 34.7 million pounds from 2009 to 2013, an increase of 23%.

The number of orders for the Royal Navy battleships has also increased from 12 to 24, doubled.

By the time World War I broke out, Britain had 417 warships of various types, including 31 modern battleships (there are another 16 under construction), and 39 former dreadnoughts, which far exceeded Germany's 176, achieving the "strong standard" of 60% advantage over German battleships.

After the outbreak of the world war

The UK set its naval strategy to control local waters, block the enemy's route into the world's oceans, and seize the most favorable position for the fleet's final battle when the German ocean fleet leaves the base.

The "blockade strategy" became the basic strategy of the British Navy in the early stages of World War I.

After two major naval battles between the Battle of Jutland and the Battle of the North Sea, the power of the Royal Navy was severely weakened, and the battle-sinking and severely damaged main ships reached half of the fleet size. Many experienced naval officers and soldiers died in the North Sea, which was a huge loss that the Royal Navy could not recover.

Being hit

The British Royal Navy's strategy was transformed into working closely with allies to block the German route into the world ocean, and to find an opportunity to win the decisive battle when the German high seas fleet was far away from its base.

The new naval strategy abandons the single-handed model. It is under this situation that the four "Princess Elizabeth-class battleships of the Ocean Empire, France and Italy each have two main battleships, and jointly participate in the blockade of the German high seas fleet.

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