In order to deal with the threat of the navy of the Kingdom of Krull, the Orrs needed a group of warships that could be used directly, and they were capital ships.

They offered to purchase a number of active capital ships in the Great Heng Empire's navy.

At the same time, there was a group of torpedo boats that they also desperately needed.

Torpedo boats don't matter, the Daheng Imperial Navy is equipped with dozens of torpedo boats of all kinds, and this thing is simple to produce, and it is easy to replenish, which can be replenished soon after selling a batch, just take this opportunity to replace a new batch of offshore defense ships.

Since the summer exercise in the seventh year of Qiansheng, the outstanding performance of the torpedo boat fleet in attacking the main fleet of the exercise has made the navy attach importance to lightning strike operations, in addition to preparing to build ocean-going mine strike ships, that is, destroyers.

Plans are also being made to upgrade the offshore torpedo boat unit with higher speed and greater power torpedo boats to protect the country's coastal waters.

Torpedo boats are trivial, even if they want a cruiser, they can sell it, it's a big deal to sell them two early Luohai-class cruisers, and even the Pingbo 2nd class battleship and a cruiser that is about to be completed can be sold to them.

But the Orns proposed to buy the two Unity-class second-class battleships.

They didn't dare to say that they wanted the Endless Sea battleship directly, and they also knew that the Great Heng Empire itself only had a total of four active Endless Sea battleships, which were the pillars of the Zhenguo and could not be sold casually.

Moreover, even if they bought it, they had never come into contact with such a large battleship of more than 10,000 tons, and they had to train and adapt to it for a long time if they wanted to form combat effectiveness.

However, the Unification class battleship is an early second-class battleship, and it has also been in service for many years, and the main gun on it is still 300 mm and 25 times the caliber of the naval gun, which is already behind the mainstream level of the world.

However, they also have four princess-class second-class battleships, and this princess-class second-class battleship is actually an improved version of the unification-class battleship, which has strengthened protection, shortened endurance and seaworthiness, and uses a 300-millimeter 25-caliber main gun.

In this regard, the Daheng Empire was a little hesitant, although the performance of the Unity-class battleships lagged behind, but it was also the capital ship, one of the only seven active battleships and four armored cruisers in the empire.

Now that the Orrs have bought the second-class battleship Pingbo, and if they take the two Unification-class battleships with them, it will reduce the existing strength of the Daheng Imperial Navy by a part.

But at the same time, the Daheng Imperial Navy has fully implemented the third phase of the naval development plan, and after the shipbuilding plan in the third phase of the naval development plan is completed and put into service one after another, these old warships are basically useless, and even the Endless Sea-class battleships will have to take a back seat at that time, let alone the unity-class battleships.

This is also something to consider if these old warships are sold in exchange for funds to build new ones.

Because of these two Unity-class second-class battleships, it has caused controversy within the Navy and even at the top of the Empire!

In the Mirror Palace, there was a heated discussion on this matter among the top echelons of the empire!

Lin Yongtong, director of the Department of Naval Strategy, said: "With the third phase of the development plan in full swing, we have begun to build a new generation on a large scale, including the epoch-making Jingzhou-class battleships. ”

"From the moment our Jingzhou-class battleships are built, we will officially enter a new era, and all other battleships in service, under construction, and even on the drawings of other countries will all be outdated and backward overnight."

"These include our own Endless Sea-class battleships, Unity-class battleships, and the Chongke-class series of armored cruisers."

"Many of them are new ships that have only been in service for a year or two, and there are even two Endless Sea-class battleships that are still in the final stages of outfitting and are not yet in service. And what will we do with so many obsolete warships then? ”

"These old warships can no longer meet the strategic needs of the navy, and when the time comes, they will not have much effect except for cruising in the coastal waters to protect their own waters!"

"The Endless Sea-class battleships and Chongke-class armored cruisers are the main warships in active service, and they can be used even if they are relegated to the second line in the future, but the second-class battleships of the Unity class are already too far behind, if they are let in the wind and rain at the dock or even directly decommissioned in the future, it is better to sell them directly in exchange for funds to build new warships!"

"After all, the sincerity of the Orrs is very strong, and the battleship, including ammunition, they gave a price of three million, which is already very good for an old battleship that has been in service for many years!"

Lin Yongtong Shaoqing's statement is also what many people think!

In fact, in the summer, many people in the Navy have already called for the cancellation of all the warships under construction, even if millions have been invested now, but it is much better than continuing to spend millions and then build a bunch of useless steel costs!

But in the end, he chose to continue to build, this is to continue to maintain the size of the fleet, and more importantly, the construction volume of those warships is basically more than half, and it is too serious to cancel it now.

As for the ones that have just started, they have long been canceled, and there is no need to wait for the discussion later.

However, even so, the upper echelons of the Empire had some different opinions about selling the Unification-class battleships.

At this time, the opinion of the cabinet was different, and Foreign Minister Jiang Wanye did not discuss the Unification-class battleship itself, but emphasized one point: "The Orr Kingdom is an important partner of the empire and our largest arms importer, and everyone knows how many weapons and equipment they have imported from us over the years. ”

"At the same time, the Kingdom of Orr is one of the few countries that has fully opened its markets to us, and we export a lot of industrial products to them every year."

"In addition, their newly discovered oil fields are also developed in cooperation with our oil company!"

"In addition to the cooperation in the trade domain, the Orr Kingdom is also an important military partner of the Empire, and we decided to sell four Princess-class second-class battleships and coast-class ironclad ships to the Orr Kingdom, in addition to earning foreign exchange through exports, the more important thing is to strengthen the strength of the Orr Kingdom's navy, so as to contain part of the attention of the Orissa Imperial Navy and the Krull Kingdom Navy."

"We need the Orr Kingdom to continue to contain the above two countries and even the entire Southern Continent!"

"The Orr Kingdom has always been an important strategic partner of the Empire, and now that the Orr Kingdom is in crisis, the Empire, as a global power in charge, needs to assume its own responsibilities!"

Speaking of this, Foreign Minister Jiang Wanye looked around and said, "Now, the entire Blue Star is looking at us!" ”

The Orr Kingdom is the younger brother of the Lin Dynasty of the Great Heng Empire, which is clear to many people, the Daheng people themselves know, the Orr people themselves know, and even other countries know it.

Now the younger brother of the Great Heng Empire, the Orr Kingdom, is in crisis, and the main reason for this is of course that the Krull Kingdom is for gold and oil, but this is still an act of slapping the face of the Great Heng Empire!

It is naturally unreliable to directly declare war on the Kingdom of Krull, and there will not even be diplomatic accusations, after all, this is a dispute between other countries, and the Empire has not signed any military alliance agreement with the Kingdom of Orr.

But that doesn't mean the Great Heng Empire can stay out!

Otherwise, with such a big country as Blue Star, why did Crown Prince Orr only bring two hundred tons of gold to Daheng for urgent purchases, instead of going to other countries, such as the Walya Empire, which has been hostile to the Krull Kingdom for hundreds of years.

It's because the Orr Kingdom is the younger brother of the Great Heng Empire!

In the past seven or eight years, a large amount of gold mined by the Orr Kingdom every year, a considerable part of which eventually flowed into the Great Heng Empire through international trade.

In this case, can the Great Heng Empire stay out of the matter?

No!

I can't even keep my little brother, how can I mix on Blue Star in the future!

The people of Daheng are already very unlikable on the Blue Star, and the seven or eight industrial powers on the Blue Star are all not related to the Daheng Empire, and many countries actually have no conflict of interest with the Daheng Empire, and people simply hate the Daheng people!

For hundreds of years, the impression of the Daheng people to outsiders is that they are brutal and warlike, and many foreigners look vigilant when they see the Daheng people, as if the Daheng people on the other side will copy the guy and cut him every minute.

In recent years, the Daheng Empire is also ugly in international trade, and it can quickly grow into the third largest trading country in Blue Star, which is not so simple behind industrial development, and there are Daheng businessmen who play low-level dumping at every turn with cheap costs......

Don't look at the fact that it has only been six or seven years since the reunification of Daheng, with the rapidly growing naval strength, the navy of the Daheng Empire has already played naval artillery diplomacy several times.

The traditional impression is not good, and in recent years, the appearance is too ugly, and it is normal for Daheng people to be annoying on contemporary blue stars.

What, the reputation of the Great Heng people in the international community is not good, and there are few friendly countries, and the Orr Kingdom is already the only country with friendly relations in the Great Heng Empire.

Now that this little brother has been bullied, if you don't help the boss of the Daheng Empire, there will be no one to follow the Daheng Empire in the future.

Taking into account the current situation of international relations and the navy, after careful consideration by the top of the empire, the top of the empire finally decided: sell!

After deciding to sell the two Unification-class battleships and some other old battleships, the money for the sale of the old ships has not yet arrived, and the Navy turned around and added an order for two Jingzhou battleships and a Fengyang-class armored cruiser!

In this way, the order for the Jingzhou battleship has been added to as many as six ships one after another, and these six Jingzhou-class battleships are not completely consistent, and the follow-up ships will have some changes in some details compared with the previous ones, but they are only limited to some details of the modification, and the overall design has not changed.