Chapter 287: Meritocracy
These three ships have been renovated and have strong combat power, but there are not enough coast guard vessels, and now these 20 Hainan-class hunting submarines will all be used for the coast guard.
In addition, there is one Aegis destroyer, 10 Hamilton patrol ships, and 150 small boats of various types under construction in the United States.
Once all these arms are delivered, Ming's military ranking in the world will inevitably increase.
The coast guard of the Ming Kingdom is actually the water police of the Ming Kingdom, which is subordinate to the Ministry of Traffic Safety of the Ming Kingdom, which has jurisdiction over the Coast Guard, the Civil Aviation Administration, the Road Administration Bureau, the Ocean Bureau, the Railway Bureau, the Meteorological Department, the Fire Department and other six major institutions.
The Coast Guard is under the command of the Department of Traffic Safety in peacetime and the General Staff in wartime.
It can be said that it is an extremely important department of the Ming Kingdom.
The Coast Guard is divided into two garrison areas, the Dongsheng Shenzhou Garrison Area and the Yingzhou-Xuanzhou Garrison Area.
The main mission of the Coast Guard is to carry out law enforcement, patrol, and vigilance in the exclusive economic zone of the Ming Kingdom, mainly against foreign fishing vessels, whaling vessels, non-intrusive vessels, aircraft, and illegal immigration vessels.
At present, there are about 1,500 members of the Guard, which is a big gap of 12,000 from the Japan Coast Guard and 7,000 from the Korea Maritime Police. Not to mention the 42,000 men of the U.S. Coast Guard.
However, one-third of the Ming Maritime Guard are strong genetic fighters, and the other two-thirds have also undergone three months of basic training. The training includes courses in transportation, firefighting, first aid, gun handling, military training, counter-terrorism, sports and seamanship skills, and boat operation.
The Coast Guard Yingzhou-Xuanzhou Garrison Headquarters is located on the seaside on the outskirts of Xizhi County on Yingzhou Island, an hour and a half drive from the downtown area of Jianing City.
The headquarters can be described as tall, with independent docks, hangars, airports, training grounds, buildings, dormitories, restaurants, and so on.
Yue Kong, the head of the coast guard, was very happy this time, and he was so excited that he couldn't sleep for two nights, Yue Kong was a genetic person, and he was a well-known right-winger in Mingguo. There is no way, the Emperor of the Ming Kingdom is a right-winger, and the officials he reuses are all right-wing, and the genetic people he created are also right-wing, so Yue Kong is famous for opposing illegal immigration, anti-whaling, and anti-Japanese fishing boats.
"Lord Yue, congratulations on getting a fat difference." Wang Gou, the Zhengyan (councilor) of Xizhi County, who came to sit as a guest, sat opposite Yue Kong and said to Yue Kong with a smile. Wang Gou, a Chinese immigrant, recently started the first election of the Ming Kingdom, and he is in dire need of votes now. If he can get to the big ticket warehouse of the coast guard, he will be half the success if he becomes one of the 100 righteous words in Menxia Province.
Yue Kong said: "What kind of fat is this, just do things according to the rules, you don't know what the coast guard has become, for two years, the coast guard has not even had a boat, and has always relied on the only few US2 seaplanes purchased from Japan and a few Bell police helicopters to enforce the law." It's simply not a deterrent."
Wang Gou said with a smile: "So now there are 12 submarine hunters as law enforcement ships all at once, isn't it a great thing, Huaxia's Hainan-class 037 submarine hunting boats are quite good as law enforcement ships." I've heard that it's still very cheap because it's mothballed. ”
Yue Kong said: "Yes, I finally saw hope." By the way, I heard that it goes up to the door. When you go down to the county capital, you are now forming a party, how are you busy over there? ”
may have talked about Wang Gou's interest, and he said excitedly: "Lord Yue doesn't know anything. It's all a mess, and now I've been invited by several parties to join it, but it's all a mess. I don't see any hope. Later, a few of my fellow villagers invited me to join the SPD, and I am now a member of the SPD. ”
Yue Kong touched his chin: "What kind of party is the SPD?" ”
Wang Gou said proudly: "The Social Democratic Party, currently the second largest party in Menxia Province, is biased towards the people at the bottom. At present, he opposes the high annual military expenditure and military expansion, opposes His Majesty's religious and ethnic discrimination, and advocates freedom and equality. ”
Yue Kong was stunned for a moment, and said, "You are doing this against Your Majesty, aren't you afraid of accidents?" ”
Wang Gou laughed: "Isn't the Ming Kingdom a democratic country, Your Majesty wants to engage in a constitutional monarchy, and wants to engage in democracy and promote elite politics, we have risen to the second largest party, what are you afraid of?" We are not opposed to a constitutional monarchy like the Liberal Democrats, that is the act of seeking death. ”
Yue Kong shook his head: "You forgot, isn't there still the first major party, if the first major party is in power, do you have a chance?" ”
Wang said: "The first major party and the second largest party are indeed different in concept now, and most of them are mainly based on Chinese immigrants, but it seems that the ideas are very different, but the election does not depend on the number of party members, but on the number of people who support it." Isn't it? Hehe, so, Lord Yue, we have an old relationship, can you?"
"No, everything can only be done step by step according to the election law, so be it." Yue Kong is a right-winger, and it is impossible for him to support a left-wing party at all, even if it is an old relationship, the matter of principle cannot be changed.
Early the next morning, Yue Kong and Pan Lin, chief of the general staff of the Ming State, jointly received the submarine hunting submarines, first went to Daming Port to meet the Huaxia representatives, and then sent them to the Yingzhou Garden Hotel, where the Huaxia representatives would rest.
Pan Lin and others entertained the Huaxia delegates with delicious food and drink, and then went to Daming Port together, only to see that the hunting submarine had neatly sailed into the berth.
Pan Lin and Yue Kong also boarded the submarine hunting.
Although the name is a submarine hunting, it is not actually a submarine, but a small surface combat ship with anti-submarine weapons as its main equipment.
The Hainan-class 037 hunting submarine purchased this time has a full load displacement of 392 tons, and the ships are not small, and they are mainly equipped with front and rear naval guns, depth charge launchers, large depth charge launchers, throwing racks and mines.
In order to be suitable for the coast guard, 12 of them were completely modified in accordance with the requirements of the Ming Kingdom.
The ship retained the fire control radar, and the front guns were also replaced with 57-mm automatic guns.
The depth charge launcher, anti-submarine rocket, and rear gun behind the hull were all removed, and two pressurized water cannons were installed.
Then search and rescue equipment was added, as well as high-power searchlights, lifeboats, and ramming angles were installed in front of the ship.
Anyone who understands understands that law enforcement at sea generally does not use weapons, but uses water cannons to attack each other, especially to hit the corners, and if you don't accept it, you will be hit. This is the rhythm of defending the sea frontier.
The other eight hunting submarines allocated to the military have not been modified, and will be transformed by the main brain Bingxuan and used as small surface ships with high speed and high mobility.
Pan Lin and Yue Kong, with technicians, took five days to finally confirm that it was correct and received the ship.
As a result, the Ming National Defense Force's Ship Wing and Maritime Garrison Force have greatly increased their strength.
The newspaper immediately announced the heavy bomb news, Ming received 20 hunting submarines, and the surrounding countries were in an uproar, especially Japan, although Japan no longer cross-border fishing, but his whaling ships still often go to the high seas to hunt whales, and sometimes because of the pursuit of whales, they will enter the Ming country by mistake.
The theory of military threat from the Ming Kingdom made Japan uneasy, but on the other hand, many people in the Ming Kingdom and in China still believed that the Ming government was overly dependent on the United States and that it was an act of weakness.
In fact, for Zhu Wei, there are three forms of war between countries, and the strongest aggression is cultural aggression. Historically, the Christian invasion of Europe drove the Olympian gods out of sight. After the Arabs defeated the Persians, Turks, Sogdians, etc., they destroyed their traditional religions such as Zoroastrianism and Jacket Religion, and passed on the Donkey God Religion to them, thus creating the Arab world. (To be continued......)