Office of the Minister of the Admiralty

"Bo Fang, this trip is too far, and my impression of Nicholas II is also very vague. I only remember that he is an extremely proud tall white man, walking like a rooster, and I don't like him at all, let alone go."

Li Siyuan sat on the high leather chair behind the desk, pulled He Fang's sleeve with his hands and said begging, and shook it hard.

If you don't go, how can you do it?

Although His Highness is tall, he is still a young man's home-loving character.

General He Fang deliberately raised his face and said, "Your Highness, this trip to Europe is not only an important royal diplomacy trip, but also very beneficial to your growth. It is the best opportunity to broaden your horizons and increase your knowledge. How can you not go if you don't go? It's not feasible."

"Brother Fang, please help me. I haven't seen my mother for half a year. It took another half a year to go there. Whenever I think about not being able to perform filial piety in my father and mother's back, I feel so sad."

"Don't make trouble, you are not an ignorant child. You must know the principle that good men are determined to be in all directions." General He Fang was entangled by Li Siyuan and had no choice but to glance at Lieutenant Colonel Jansen-Adenner and Major Geng Chengen with a stern look.

The meaning is very clear; what are you two watching? Can you repair the two of you if you can’t do anything to you?

Lieutenant Colonel Jansen Adenner and Major Geng Chengen looked at each other and saw the helplessness in each other's eyes;

Your Highness is a middle-aged and superior. He is diligent and studious on weekdays and can endure hardships. However, he is still young and has the occasional slutty nature of his elders.

Alas, I originally agreed to leave here and click here, but his highness changed his mind and got involved again.

It is not easy for these royal children to really talk about it. They start teaching English words at the age of three and enlighten them at the age of five. They have to get up before dawn every morning, exercise first, and then start teaching, regardless of wind and rain.

The courses I learned are mainly Confucian classics, with the intention of laying a good foundation for Chinese literature, adding etiquette at the age of 6, riding lessons, poetry and music at the age of 7, Chinese art, English at the age of 8, archery at the age of 9, history at the age of 9, history at the age of 10, geography at the age of 11, German at the age of 11, European history, European literature...

At the age of 14, in addition to serving daily, he also has to study more than a dozen subjects, even if he sails on the sea, it is really hard. Attached to his family is just a normal teenage emotion.

We went to Fuso to carry out the Weishe voyage mission. It was the hot July climate. The sun was exposed during the day to make the thick iron plates hot. Below were the power cabin and dense high-pressure steam pipes baking. The temperature in the cabin was as high as 40℃, so we could only fan the fan to cool down. Sweat flowed from morning to night. The taste was imagined.

After all, the Qinglong heavy cruiser is a combat ship, and there are few considerations for comfort. Moreover, the rules of the warship are extremely heavy. Even when ferrying, they are not allowed to move around casually. This is really too difficult for a teenager, and it is normal to have some fear of difficulties.

Under the gaze of General He Fang, Lieutenant Colonel Jansen Adenner and Major Geng Chengen coaxed and dragged His Highness away.

Strangely, after leaving the office door, Crown Prince Li Siyuan immediately stood up straight, looking heroic, and no longer had his previous lazy expression.

These royal children are all good at making superficial pros.

General He Fang finally dealt with this little ancestor and returned to quiet in the office. He sat down and opened the drawer, took out half of the memorial to apologize, and began to continue to think hard.

Long Yan was furious and was not a joke. Since the entire cabinet was denounced by His Majesty, he issued a deep reflection and everyone had to write a memorial of apologies with sufficient depth, which really stumped a large group of court officials.

Who really feels full of resentment towards the Chancellor of the Finance Minister Kester, if you are an old guy, give up your position to others, don’t harm us anymore, okay?

This memorial for guilt is very particular. It is definitely not said that corruption and abuse of power or use power for personal gain. Doesn’t that mean you are seeking death?

But it must be profound enough. If it is blocked and rejected and rewritten, it will be a loss to the adults.

General He Fang is worthy of being a talented academic master. After a while, a memorial for apologizing was written with thousands of words.

The main focus is on the implementation of naval construction that is not firm enough and persistent enough. If this affects the country's major plans, it will be impossible to redeem them if they die.

At the same time, General He Fang also carries private goods and strongly reports to the country's heavy weapons. Steam armored battleships should emulate the precedent of Italy and do not pursue the construction of large-scale battleship fleets. They must pursue the performance advantages of a single ship.

Because in the foreseeable future, the Ocean Kingdom will not build first-class steam iron armored battleships on a large scale, so it will build a ship that will have a deterrent and influence far exceeding one ship, in order to maximize the realization of the interests of the kingdom.

A steam armored battleship from the Ocean Kingdom set sail. Because a single battleship is powerful, a battleship from other countries (meaning Britain, France, and the United States) cannot deal with it, and pursues quality but cannot pursue quantity.

Of course, the strange demands of Italian battleships carrying tens of thousands of troops across the Mediterranean will not appear in the design of the Ocean Kingdom battleship.

This will also bring high construction costs, but after the Navy receives high war compensation, it is confident that it will develop such expensive battleships.

The preliminary plan is to build the second two Metropolitan-class battleships, the Songjiang and the Melbourne, with a displacement of more than 16,000 tons, equipped with one front and one rear, and two double-equipped 343 mm main guns, totaling four.

Equipped with four double-mounted 234mm second-level main guns, a total of ten.

Equipped with ten 152mm rapid-fire guns, such a firepower configuration can form dense firepower, and the 234mm second-level main gun can effectively compensate for the low-fire speed of the 343mm large-caliber main gun, forming a powerful firepower coverage.

To be honest, this is a fire monster.

The type of ship planned by General He Fang actually has a combat power far exceeding the "Red River Valley"-class battleship, and its displacement has also been increased from 13,000 tons to 16,500 tons, and its combat power is far better than the latter.

The new battleship adopts a two-axis and two-slurry structure, a three-expansion vertical boiler, with a rated power of 18,800 horsepower and a speed of 19 knots.

If the above design indicators are achieved, it will become the backbone of the main battleship of the Ocean Kingdom Navy, dominating East Asia from the west coast of the United States to the Western Pacific, and is unparalleled in the entire Pacific surrounding countries.

The construction of the two "Songjiang" and "Melbourne" will be completed, and two "Beilun" and "Tianquan" will be added later, which will achieve 6 powerful battleships in service, which will be enough to maintain the Pacific maritime military hegemony of the Ocean Kingdom within 10 years.

Realistic

The Ocean Kingdom can be said to be a maritime military power in the Pacific region, but it is just a short person who picks generals. When it comes to the Atlantic Ocean where monsters gather, it will not work well and it will be ruined in minutes.

Take the UK as an example;

Battleships with a service age of less than 10 years include the monarch-class battleship, centurion-class battleship, reputation-class battleship, majestic battleship, and the old star-class battleship under construction. If the old ship waist gun room battleships that are still in service are still in service, the total number will reach an astonishing 52.

The Old Man Star-class Battleship is planned to build 8 ships. The subsequent Fear-class battleships and Duncan-class battleships have also entered the project review stage, and the first-class new shipbuilding starts with 8 ships.

This is incomparable, it's too bullying.

Although the world's naval powers such as France and Germany are not as rich as Britain, they have also proposed their ambitious shipbuilding plan, which is far beyond the size of the Ocean Kingdom.

Therefore, the Ocean Kingdom can only pursue quality.

Steam armored battleships have developed to this day. The first-class battleships in Europe and the United States have basically discharged between 11,000 tons and 13,000 tons. There are 4 to 6 main guns, the main gun caliber ranges from 343 mm to 305 mm, and the weaker ones also have the main gun caliber of 281 mm.

The speed is basically between 14 knots and 16 knots, and the defense thickness of the main armor belt is between 285 mm and 450 mm.

From this perspective

The design indicators of the new battleship construction plan proposed by General He Fang are quite high, far exceeding his peers, and are also among the top among the world's navy.

In fact, naval construction is a very forward-looking planning project, and it must have a certain cutting-edge vision. Otherwise, with the rapid development of science and technology, the built warships will be lagging behind.

Take the Tsarist Russian Navy as an example;

After joining forces with France and Germany to conduct strong intervention and force Japan to withdraw from the three northeastern provinces, Tsarist Russia clearly realized that a head-on battle with Fuso in East Asia seemed inevitable.

Without moving this stinky and hard stone, you will not be able to occupy the rich three eastern provinces and expand your power to the Jiaodong Peninsula. The "Yellow Russia Plan" will inevitably become a silence.

Not only did the Tsarist Russian army begin active war preparations, but specifically accelerated the Siberian Railway, the Tsarist Russian navy also took concrete actions, that is, actively participate in the arms race and use foreign shipyards to build warships.

The new "Fujima"-class battleship built by Fuso Country in the UK has an astonishing displacement of 14,650-14,850 tons. According to the amazing shipbuilding capabilities of British shipyards, such a giant ship was launched in just 4 to 5 months.

In other words, the Fusang "Fudao" class battleship and its subsequent Six Six Fleet plan will be able to form and form combat effectiveness within 3 to 5 years, and the speed is very fast, which will seriously threaten the security of Vladivostok, an important Russian port in the Far East, and Tsarist Russia will never accept it.

The Tsarist Russia's shipyard on the Black Sea coast is full of naval warships under construction. In addition to battleships, there are also plans to have more than 30 cruisers and more destroyers, which are simply unable to build the main ship for the Far East.

Therefore, it is imperative to seek help from foreign shipyards. Tsarist Russia has only two goals to consider, one is the Ocean Kingdom and the other is the United States.

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To be honest, with the significant improvement in ship power technology, the trend of steam iron armored battleships becoming larger and larger in the future is inevitable. The world's naval powers are aiming at the development of main ships between 15,000 tons and 16,000 tons. There are not many technical obstacles, mainly because there is a demand for huge investment in development.

There is no Britain for the time being, but there is definitely an Ocean Kingdom, because the Fuso Kingdom around me is catching up, the Tsarist Russian Kingdom is not giving in, and the United States is also developing a large steam battle fleet, and the situation will be different every year.

Being self-support means being behind, which is a very dangerous signal.
Chapter completed!