At a time when turmoil broke out in Japan due to excessive populist agitation, the Great White Fleet sent by the United States to circumnavigate the world arrived in Qingdao and began a visit to the government in East China.

Originally, the East China Government's visiting fleet was also responsible for welcoming the US Great White Fleet from Japan to Qingdao, but due to the outbreak of the Nagasaki Incident, the East China Government's visiting fleet had to leave Japan and return to Qingdao before the US Great White Fleet.

However, when the US Great White Fleet arrived in Qingdao, the East China Government still dispatched a huge fleet of 10 battleships and 10 armored cruisers to a distance of more than 100 nautical miles to welcome the visit of the US Great White Fleet. This is also the largest fleet assembled by the navy of the East China government since the Battle of the Taiwan Strait, and if we do not count the modern warships that crossed the battle, the scale of the main warships dispatched this time has already exceeded the number of warships at the time of the Battle of the Taiwan Strait.

In the battle of the Taiwan Strait, in addition to the modern warships that crossed, the KPA naval fleet had a total of 8 battleships and 9 armored cruisers. Among them, the battleships Aoyang and Yuanyang were too old, and in the post-war naval reorganization, they were transformed into fire support ships of the Marine Corps, thus withdrawing from the sequence of naval combat ships.

However, in the battle of the Taiwan Strait, the KPA Navy captured a large number of enemy warships, and after the end of the war, repair work began immediately, and by this time 4 battleships and 3 armored cruisers had been repaired, and they were renamed according to the naming rules of the KPA Navy and incorporated into the KPA Navy fleet for service, respectively: battleships: the Russian ship Glorious, newly named Guangyang, the British ship Discord, newly named Heyang, The Majesty was newly named Yanyang, the Mars was newly named Xingyang, and the armored cruisers were the British ship Berwick, newly named Behai, the French Kleber and newly named Kehai, and the Russian Warrior, newly named Yonghai.

So far, the main warships of the KPA naval fleet have a total of 10 battleships and 12 armored cruisers. This scale is the fifth largest in the world after Britain, Germany, the United States and France, and surpasses the Russian and Japanese navies, which were badly damaged in the war in the Far East. Moreover, the French Navy is currently only temporarily ahead of the KPA Navy by a very narrow margin.

However, at this time, the construction of the third ship of the famous sword-class battleship Longquan has already begun at the Qingdao Shipyard; the No. 4 ship, the Juque, will also start construction at the Jiangnan Shipyard in Shanghai, which has completed the initial renovation, at the beginning of next year; and the No. 3 and No. 4 ships of the Mingju-class armored cruisers, the Huang Bi and the Wu Hu; the No. 3 and No. 4 ships of the Jinan-class armored cruisers, the Kaifeng; The Luoyang has also been built or will be built, and there are also 5 battleships captured in the Far East War, which will also be repaired in the next 2-3 years and put into service in the naval sequence, after the completion of this batch of ship-building plans, the People's Army Navy fleet will have 17 battleships and 16 armored cruisers, which is quite a considerable scale. Moreover, the size of the fleet of the People's Army Navy surpasses that of France, which is also just around the corner. In a maximum of 3 years, the KPA Navy will squeeze out France and rise to 4th place.

Although after the end of the war in the Far East, France also formulated a shipbuilding plan to restore its naval strength, and will build five battleships and five armored cruisers in the next six years, but it has been too long, and after France completes this shipbuilding plan, the East China government has already entered the next shipbuilding cycle; second, France is still facing the military threat from Germany on land, and it is difficult to invest more resources in the navy, so it is difficult to compete with the East China government in naval construction. In the foreseeable future, it is basically impossible for Japan to catch up with and surpass the KPA Navy.

On the one hand, this is to show the grand reception specifications of the East China Government for the visit of the US Great White Fleet, and on the other hand, to ensure that the fleet is not inferior to the Great White Fleet in terms of momentum.

The United States sent the Great White Fleet to circumnavigate the world this time, on the one hand, to review its own naval construction achievements, and on the other hand, to show its muscles to other countries in the world. At present, the relationship between the East China government and the United States is very delicate; although the economic and trade relations between the two sides are very close, and both sides have the intention of further strengthening economic and trade exchanges and scale, in terms of geopolitical competition, both sides pose a potential threat to the other side. Because after the victory of the East China Government in the Far East War, it obtained the entire territory of Borneo and put the Philippines, a US colony in Asia, in an unfavorable situation of being attacked by the north and the south, which posed a serious threat to the Philippines, and the East China Government demanded Borneo and also showed interest in Southeast Asia, which naturally aroused the vigilance of the United States. When the government had not yet completed its reunification, it did its best to curb the development of the East China government, and Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan, who wrote the famous "Theory of Sea Power," was active and published an article pointing out that the East China government would be the greatest threat to the United States in the future, and the United States must make preparations as early as possible and try its best to contain the East China government before it has sufficient capacity to threaten the United States.

Although President Roosevelt did not adopt these radical proposals, perhaps in the long run, the East China government can indeed become a threat to the United States, but it is not to be feared for a considerable period of time, and the current United States has limited capabilities, if most of its energy is invested in containing the East China government, it will only consume its own strength, so that Britain, France, Germany, Russia and other countries can reap the benefits, and now the United States has huge economic interests in the Chinese region. The bad relationship between the government is also a great loss to oneself, and as a president, he must take into account both short-term and long-term interests.

However, although Roosevelt decided to continue to maintain good relations with the East China Government, he could not be defenseless at all, and the Great White Fleet's visit to Qingdao was also considered as a demonstration to show its strength to the East China Government. Although the East China government defeated the expeditionary fleet in the Far East War, after all, its national strength is limited, and what the United States Great White Fleet shows is more of its own national strength, and Bi Jing's fleet was built by the United States in only 5 or 6 years, which is the embodiment of the strong national strength of the United States.

Although the United States has not shown much hostility to the East China government now, the elders have all experienced it from the old time and space, and they know very well the truth that "the husband is not guilty, but he is guilty", because it is in the old time and space, China and the United States have been fighting for many years, it is not that China intends to be an enemy of the United States, but that China has enough strength to threaten the United States, although the United States in this era is not equal to the United States in the old time and space, and the East China government also intends to strengthen development and relations with the United States, but it will always guard against the United States. Of course, the veterans all know that the visit of the US Great White Fleet is to show its strength to the outside world, and naturally no one will believe that it is really for friendship, but if the Americans do not fight the smiling face, even if the Americans are waving the banner of friendship, the East China government can only accompany them to perform, but it cannot lose its own atmosphere, so it has done its best to show the United States the strength of the East China government.

The two large fleets met on the sea, and after confirming each other's identities, the two fleets sailed side by side and headed in the direction of Qingdao, forming a huge phalanx of more than 7,000 meters horizontally and 15,000 meters longitudinally.

However, the commanders of both sides stood on the bridge at this time, observing each other's warships, in contrast, although the American warships had traveled tens of thousands of kilometers of long voyages, but the Bi Jing ships were all new ships, and they were painted white, so they still looked very new and shiny at this time, while the warships of the KPA Navy were much more shabby, since most of them were old ships that had been captured. A new ship like the Mo Ye has also experienced several major wars, the hull has been damaged to some extent, and it has been repaired many times, although it has been repainted, but there is a very obvious difference between the reinstalled armor steel plate and the original armor steel plate.

The commander of the KPA Navy felt that the United States would be able to build such a large fleet in five or six years, and when would the East China Government have such a powerful national strength? The commander of a warship, who does not want to command the fleet, drives a warship on the battlefield to establish meritorious deeds and achieve great achievements, and the "patches" on the opponent's warship are showing their bravery on the battlefield.

After more than six hours of sailing, the two fleets arrived at Qingdao and docked at the pier or anchored in the harbor as required, and the commander of the American fleet, Rear Admiral Charles Spare, disembarked and met with the Fleet Commander of the KPA Navy. At the same time, the People's Army Navy also held a grand welcoming ceremony on the shore, on the one hand, to show goodwill to the US fleet, after all, the East China Government does not want to have bad relations with the United States now, so although the momentum of the fleet cannot be lost to the US fleet, it should do its best in terms of reception specifications and etiquette, so that the Americans can feel their goodwill, and on the other hand, they also have the mentality of being somewhat compared with Japan, and they cannot be worse than Japan.

At the same time, the East China government has also learned the lesson of Japan, and it is best not to let the Americans go ashore, because if something happens again, it will really be difficult to clean up, so the location of the activities of the two sides is set on Xiaoqing, which is about 700 meters away from the coast and covers an area of 1.2 hectares. Because its shape is like a guqin, it is also known as "Qin Island". It is most appropriate to use this as a place for communication between the two sides. The U.S. fleet was indeed a little apprehensive and was very satisfied with the arrangement made by the East China government.