After review, Li Fushou reviewed the report on the "Ocean General Destroyer Plan" submitted by the Navy Department; he could, and the funds were allocated to be implemented as planned.

The first phase of this class ship is planned to be built with a construction period of three and a half years. It will be built in various Australian local shipyards and will be put into service one after another before the end of 1905.

The second phase improvement plan will make local details adjustments and improvements based on the actual use of this batch of ocean-going general destroyers, appropriately amplify the displacement, and start construction before 1906. The number is also 12, and the possibility of additional orders of 6 to 12 is retained.

At this point, the scale of the future fleet of the Royal Navy has begun to take shape.

Considering that the current era is in a period of fierce change and the changes in the international situation may have a significant impact on the future development of the fleet, this unknowable factor will not be considered for the time being.

The Royal Navy has suffered such a great loss. At that time, the Metropolitan-class battleships planned to equip the 343mm large-caliber main gun produced by the British Armstrong Company. The alternative was the dual-equipped 44 times the caliber 305mm main gun that was initially developed by the Blue Weapons Company.

Who knows that the introduction process is quite unsuccessful.

In 1896, the Ocean Empire secretly supported the development of Vietnam in the Indochina Peninsula, which made Britain, France and other countries suspicious of it. The technology introduction process was full of twists and turns, and finally it was finally Huang Tang. The shipbuilding plan wasted more than a year.

Therefore, it is very unreliable to develop to the current national scale, and it is a very unreliable thing to be sure of key equipment.

The Imperial military research and development gradually formed a project commissioned research and development system, with both the army and the navy proposing project needs, and private companies with strong participation in bidding, both at home and abroad, and domestic enterprises are preferred for support.

The new steam turbine project used by the Metropolitan Class battleship is a joint bid by Hongshan Heavy Industry and the British Acaste Power Company, and is manufactured by British technology at Hongshan Heavy Industry. All indicators have reached the world's advanced level, bringing strong power to the main battleships.

With the strong support of tax cut policies, the domestic machine tool industry has developed vigorously and is getting better and better.

In foreign trade

The most dazzling performance is the Kalimantan Petrochemical City project, which replaces imports in the fields of oil and petrochemicals, saving the empire hundreds of millions of dollars worth of foreign exchange every year, invisibly further expanding the trade surplus.

The inflow of large amounts of wealth has made the domestic economic development prosperous.

It's May 1901 now

The war in the north has stopped. As Tsarist Russia sent 200,000 troops to occupy the three northeastern provinces and created the Hailanpao tragedy, it caused strong dissatisfaction among countries such as Britain, the United States, Japan and Germany, and put pressure on them.

Under the strong opposition of other great powers, Tsarist Russia was forced to agree to withdraw its troops from the Northeast, but in fact, the Tsarist Russian army legalized the occupation of the three northeastern provinces under the name of protecting railways.

At the same time, Tsarist Russia actively supported pro-Russia forces in North Korea, trying to replace Fuso's position in North Korea.

Tsarist Russia's aggressive expansion in the Northeast and North Korea has made the contradiction between the two sharp.

The Fusang government and the opposition have regarded Russia as the biggest imaginary enemy. In the eyes of the Fusang people, "the intervention of the Three Kingdoms to return Liao" is tantamount to the great humiliation imposed by the great powers. Under the slogan of "sleeping on firewood and tasting gall", Fusang carried out "post-1895 operations" centered on expanding the army and preparing for war, preparing to launch a decisive battle against Russia and realize its "mainland policy".

After years of development and meticulous military preparations, the economic strength of Fusang State has been significantly improved, and its navy and army facilities have expanded rapidly, becoming a military power in the Far East, laying a material foundation for the war against Russia.

On January 30, 1902, the British-Japanese Alliance was officially signed for a period of 10 years.

On March 12, 1902, Russia and France issued an edict in St. Petersburg, claiming that when changes in the Far East or China in the future, they will retain room for freedom of action to protect the interests of the two countries.

Two years later

The conflicts between Japan and Russia in the three northeastern provinces are irreconcilable. Tsarist Russia is forced to riot and resist at the bottom of the country, and urgently needs a war to divert the attention of the domestic people and gain a chance to breathe for the aristocratic ruling class.

As the Siberian Railway continues to extend, the top leaders of the Fuso Country realized that "every day, or even an hour, it will enhance Russia's chances of winning."

Therefore, during the negotiations between Japan and Russia, Japan continued to raise the asking price. At first, it asked Russia to recognize its "protection" of North Korea, then to invade "Southern Manchuria", and finally to demand rights in "Northern Manchuria" and other regions.

Although the Tsarist government played diplomatic tricks and deliberately delayed negotiations to gain time, the senior officials of Fuso Country were very decisive and determined to take advantage of the favorable international situation at that time and the fatal weakness of Russia's lack of preparation to start a war as soon as possible.

On February 6, 1904, Fuso announced that it had formally severed diplomatic relations with Russia.

The battle was undeclared on the night of February 8, which triggered the unprecedented bloody Russo-Japanese War in modern history...

Time flies, from May 1901 to the present, three years have passed in a blink of an eye.

Due to its early development, the Ocean Empire became the world's most powerful automobile producer and consumer country. Australia's local automobile ownership exceeded 120,000, which is called the "country on the wheel".

BMW Automobile Company was the first to start production of automobile assembly lines in early 1903, which more than tripled the production of automobiles that year, from 147 BMW trucks per month to 1,200, with an amazing improvement in efficiency. It also implemented the first large-scale price cut, using price tools, harvesting competitors' market share, and expanding rapidly in the scale of the enterprise as a balloon.

As Japan and Russia fight against each other, BMW Automobile's innovative automobile production line technology shocked the home and abroad, triggering a revolution in production efficiency, and promoting the domestic economy to achieve an air relay takeoff.

For large enterprises in the automotive field, BMW Automobile's innovative production line technology is a revolution in production efficiency and a crisis of life and death.

They clearly saw that the freight cars produced by major automobile companies were defeated by BMW freight cars, and BMW cars were the only ones, quickly occupying a large number of domestic and foreign markets.

Be prepared for danger in times of peace. If BMW switches from the freight field to produce cars and expands its product line, then the real crisis will come.

The "catfish effect" prompted major automobile manufacturers to follow up quickly and formulated automobile production assembly line processes with their own characteristics. Following this trend of efficiency revolution, Dasi developed.

The consequence was the tide of automobile production, and then the round of price cuts, which quickly captured the automobile markets of European and American countries.

The New York Times lamented the report on this;

We regretfully heard the news that Oldsmoby Automobile was acquired. This Citigroup auto manufacturer, founded in 1887, had just launched its own "doctor      coupe" brand single-cylinder engine car in 1903, and was also the first batch of cars produced by the company, and was flooded by the tide of imported cars in Australia.

In terms of car styling, performance and price, imported cars from Australia are widely loved and have unquestionably strong competitiveness, as if they are not a product of the same era.

The poor Citigroup Automobile Industry just pulled out its tender seedlings and was trampled under the boots by overseas barbarians.

This is the first Citigroup Automobile brand to be acquired?

By the way, Ford Motor Company was acquired last year, oh... it was just a small workshop with dozens of cars a year, and there was nothing to regret.

Volkswagen bought him for only $176,000, and then put the Ford brand on sale in North America, and now it has become the top sedan brand.

Australian automobile products are conquering cities and regions such as Britain and the United States, which pursue a free economy, and have merged leading automobile companies to eliminate potential competitors and nipped them in the bud.

This strategy has been severely hindered in France, Germany, Italy and other countries. Compared with the free trade policies that Britain and the United States have been vigorously promoting, France, Germany, Italy and other countries have many tariff barriers, and they have strong protection for their growing machinery companies, which is difficult to get into the pocket.

Even so, it will have a serious impact on the automobile markets of European countries mentioned above.

It is expected that in 1904, with the implementation of new automobile assembly line technology and the production efficiency will be greatly improved, and the cars produced in Australia will more than double from the previous year, reaching an annual output of nearly 90,000 vehicles.

In response to this major scientific and technological innovation, the Ministry of Economics and the Ministry of Industry jointly issued a document to guide various domestic industries to widely promote production lines through policies. This is a golden period for the machinery and equipment industry to take off.

Mr. Frederi Smit, chairman of BMW Automobile Factory, was highly commended by the royal family for his revolutionary innovation. His Majesty personally awarded him the title of Baron Noble (Lifelong Noble), "Excellent Entrepreneur of the Empire", and rewarded a Crown car, covering an area of ​​30 acres of manor, and a bonus of 10,000 gold to encourage him.

The role of role models is unlimited. Under the call of the government and encouragement of policies, all walks of life in the empire carried out "industrial assembly line transformation", which covered manufacturing, food processing industry and other related industries, and carried out a vigorous industrial revolution transformation.

These changes that have occurred in Australia have not been transmitted to Europe and the United States as soon as possible.

For the proud powers of all countries, "eyes are above the top" is the most vivid metaphor. It will not change if you don't suffer a big loss or hit the south wall.

The decadent and backward and weak Qing Dynasty deepened their stereotype and looked down on the Chinese a little unintentionally.

When Japan and Russia fought to death in the three northeastern provinces, the Ocean Empire seized the opportunity of development and ushered in another golden era of economic development. The scenery here is unique.

The Second Boer War, which lasted more than three years, damaged Britain's vitality. The direct war expenditure alone exceeded 240 million pounds, which was more than in history.

Find out the reason

It was the rampant smuggling on the southern border of Mozambique, which continued blood transfusions to the Boer guerrillas, which made Britain and the Ocean Kingdom exhausted. London's losses were real and were simply angry.

The Ocean Kingdom also launched a butcher knife in response to this and cracked down on border smuggling gangs.

There were more than 370 criminals hanged alone, and more than 2,100 people were put into hard labor camps. There were white people and Chinese people here. Of course, most of them were Chinese who took risks and got rich. The empire was never ruthless about this and used thunder to stop this evil trend.

Unfortunately, it was too late and it did not play much role in the end of the war. The benefits were truly in the hands of the Mozambique side. Many bold Chinese made a fortune through smuggling and became rich overnight.

In the final analysis, the Boers were neither short of gold nor diamonds. In the difficult times of war, they continued to fight the war in order to purchase supplies, which really brought out their wealth.

Tell me, can you not get rich?
Chapter completed!