The officers and men of the cruiser Qingdao had already cheered many times before they saw the port of Tianjin, cheering in triumph when they hit the enemy's ironclad ship, cheering proudly after annihilating the enemy's fleet, and cheering excitedly when they learned that the Qingdao was about to return to the motherland. Since leaving the port of Tianjin to carry out a military mission in the Tsugaru Strait, in order to avoid being seen as much as possible the true face of this epoch-making new warship, the Qingdao has not docked. The North Pacific Ocean is turbulent and stormy, and it has been more than a month to carry out combat missions in such an environment, and the hardships can be imagined.

When entering the Yellow Sea through the Guò Tsushima Strait, the turbulence was obviously alleviated a lot, and after entering the calm Bohai Sea, the 4,000-ton warship felt like flat ground when sailing. When the tall lighthouse outside Tianjin Port on the coastline appeared dimly in the eyes of the officers and men, the officers and men of the navy who had no task rushed to the deck and cheered for the motherland and the home port. Returning to the motherland and returning to a peaceful life, even if there is no upcoming merit evaluation and promotion, is enough to make these naval officers and men aspire to it.

The officers and men were greeted not only by the political commissar and commander of the North Sea Fleet, but also by the generalissimo of the Liberation Army, Wei Ze, and the political commissar of the Northern Military Region, Nguyen Hey Ho. After stepping on solid land, the officers and men of the navy were floating under their feet one by one and stood unsteadily. The troops still tried to stand up straight and were inspected by the generalissimo of the Liberation Army.

Watching the Qingdao return safely and listening to the captain's proud report that the Japanese fleet had been annihilated, Wei Ze's heart became rare excited. The Tsingtao's exploits were not the reason for Wei Ze's excitement, and he knew very well that as long as there were no special accidents, there would be no warship in Japan that could escape under the Tsingtao. To Weese's chagrin, he felt that some things were still too conservative. The situation at sea is unpredictable, and now radio technology may be called a little breakthrough. But out of the principle of confidentiality, Wei Ze really didn't dare to take out the things at hand. This is a trump card to be used in preparation for the Sino-British war. In the event of a technology breach, the consequences can be significant. If you don't dare to use new technology, you can only take risks. It's a dilemma.

Before leaving, he received Wei Ze's inspection, and when he returned home, he was greeted by Wei Ze. The comrades on the Qingdao were all very excited, and as soon as they got off the ship and fainted on land, some comrades were so excited that their heartbeats increased and they couldn't help but vomit. When almost everyone in the dock looked at the comrade with reproachful eyes, Wei Ze stepped forward and gently patted the comrade on the back. When the comrade came to his senses, Wei Ze handed over a handkerchief, and then turned to the officers and men on the Qingdao and shouted: "Comrades have worked the ship!" ”

"Serve the Motherland! Serve! The officers and soldiers answered the standard answer in unison.

Wei Ze listened to this neat answer, and looked at the purged army with satisfaction. Regardless of whether or not we can understand this standard answer, as long as every answer is this standard answer, coupled with political and ideological work, the concept of the people's army will be rooted in the military soul of the Liberation Army. The Wehrmacht was stronger than the feudal army, and the people's army was far more powerful than the Wehrmacht. "History" amply proves this.

The Qingdao is a real training ship, and we will not mention how good the Qingdao is for the time being, but after arriving at the station, the first thing the troops discussed was the main problem of the Qingdao now. This problem has been summed up along the way, and the first place is naturally "the cannon is too small", the second is "the poor quality of high-explosive shells", and the third is "when will a new warship of the same type come out".

After listening to this, Wei Ze immediately gave an answer: "The first question you raised involves the mechanical processing industry, the second question you raised involves the chemical industry, and the third additional problem you raised is the problem of the entire shipbuilding industry." I don't have any information on the first two questions yet, but I can answer the third question now, and the second ship will be launched for sea trials by January next year at the latest. ”

The first two issues are related to the enhancement of the combat capability of the Qingdao, and the third issue is related to the status of these outstanding personnel in the navy on the Qingdao. Before boarding the Qingdao, because of the strict implementation of the confidentiality agreement, everyone thought that this was just a further training. After boarding the Qingdao, everyone found that one captain had been equipped with four deputy captains, the wheel commander of the other warship who burned the boiler, and the artillery commander of the other warship who filled the shells. For the few elites of the Navy, this configuration is an incomparably extravagant waste. And the more extravagant is still to come, each post is a double post, and the outstanding graduates who graduated from the Naval Academy can only be a double post deputy on the Qingdao if they have practical experience on a warship.

After a brief period of discomfort, not a single officer or soldier objected to this. This warship, which has transcended the times and the limits of the imagination of the Chinese Navy servicemen, has such "luxury" qualifications. Every Navy member who served on the Qingdao knew very well that they would be the seed of the crew of the new Chinese warship of the future. After the Qingdao is fully loaded with officers and men and enters service, the Chinese Navy will no longer build old warships. The current elite of the Navy is the commander of the warship of the future.

Wei Ze told everyone that there will be a trial voyage of a new warship early next year, and some of the soldiers on the Qingdao will become officers on that warship. Nothing excites everyone more than this news. Even in the face of Wei Ze, everyone couldn't help but start talking to each other, and even connected with each other, hoping to stay on the Qingdao together, or go to the new warship to serve together.

"You are all outstanding comrades in the navy, and the reason why you are allowed to serve on the Qingdao is not only to let you realize all the potential of this warship. What is more important is that everyone should be able to sum up the rules and regulations for the operation and use of such warships. With regulations in place, training can be carried out against them. As soon as Wei Ze spoke, the noisy venue fell silent in an instant. Everyone listened carefully to Wei Ze's story. Everyone wants to remember every word Wei Ze said from the bottom of their hearts, because everyone knows very well that it was Wei Ze who proposed the overall design of the old warship, and that it was Wei Ze who proposed most of the improvements on the old warship and the use of new equipment. The design idea of this Qingdao was also proposed by Wei Ze.

The Navy now has a naval commander, and the army also has an army commander, and no one in the army regards the people in these two supreme command positions of the army and navy as the founders of the army and navy. This recognition is not because everyone is afraid of Wei Ze's status and has to say so, Wei Ze is the founder of the Liberation Army, the leader of the army and navy tactics and even weapons and equipment, this is just an irrefutable fact.

"We have a strict confidentiality system, but there is always a limit to this confidentiality. When our warships challenge the world's great powers, the great powers will see our warships with their own eyes and experience the power of our warships. I believe that when comrades see the appearance of those wrecked ships in Japan, they can immediately imagine the internal structure of those broken ships, right? Weeser asked at the end.

There was a burst of chuckle below, even if everyone had never served on a paddle steamer, but after seeing the drawings of the paddle steamer, everyone could basically imagine a paddle steamer.

Wei Ze didn't laugh, he finally overcame a lot of difficulties in his thinking, so he didn't want to let himself continue to fall into the dream of equipment crushing, "At least 40 years before our Guangfu Army began to build our Chinese steamships, the British steamships were able to cross the ocean. We must admit that they have more experience than us, even if they lag behind us in some parts, it is only the backwardness of design ideas, after fighting with us, they can immediately see through a lot of our advantages, and will quickly learn our equipment design advantages, so our equipment advantages can not be stored indefinitely. At that time, how can we proudly claim that the Chinese Navy is still the world's largest navy? At that time, we could only rely on the combat training that our comrades had tempered a thousand times, as well as the rules and methods of combat, and the experience of various emergency situations. This kind of accumulation is the slowest, but I firmly believe that this kind of accumulation is the most fundamental, and this kind of accumulation is unsurpassable. ”

The Qingdao has always adhered to extremely high standards of secrecy, and the Chinese Navy members on board understand why such strict secrecy standards are enforced. The Qingdao that transcends the times has this value and this must. Not only did Wei Ze feel the pressure of being chased by technology, but the comrades on the Qingdao also discussed such a problem many times. But I couldn't find a perfect idea. The only solution is probably for our leader, Visé Governor, to constantly introduce new equipment and technologies to lead the world forever. But the Qingdao itself has already surpassed the limits of the imagination of naval personnel, and everyone can't imagine how to continue to surpass.

People with advantages can best understand the fragility of this advantage, and many times what seems insurmountable is often a window paper. After listening to Wei Ze's account, some officers had very approving expressions on their faces, while some officers had disappointed expressions. If it was before, Wei Ze would have used guò to observe words and expressions as part of the basis for selecting talents, but now he should not see it. After the establishment of the system, all those who cannot be selected through the guò system will be excluded, and the big waves will wash the sand, and the big waves will not care much about the feelings of the core of the sand, and those who are unqualified will be eliminated, and those who do not want to be eliminated will work hard to transform themselves.

From this point of view, the guys with disappointed expressions may have a stronger sense of initiative, so they will be more eager for quick success. If they had been able to realize in practice the inadvisability of quick success, their achievements might have been even greater.

The last part of the Qingdao affair is to establish a naval academy in Lushun, although Tianjin is also a good place, but there is a greater need to develop industry here, and it is more appropriate to put the naval academy in Lushun. After Arthur, it will be the home port of the Yellow Sea Fleet, and the North Sea Fleet will later set up a base in Vladivostok. The next thing Weeser has to deal with is the northern issue, and when those issues are dealt with, the North Sea Fleet's area of operation will go north from the Goryeo Sea (Sea of Japan) to the Bering Sea, and the future North Sea Fleet will become a veritable North Sea Fleet.

In order to achieve this goal, the next step is to solve the Goryeo issue.