By the time the Jingzhou Machinery Company's naval gun factory delivered the 300-millimeter and 35-caliber naval guns, the Jingzhou had been waiting for the naval guns for two months.

However, it was then discovered that there was a problem with the hydraulic transmission of the main gun turret, which could not withstand the enormous pressure when pushing the turret to rotate at maximum speed.

It was again an urgent organization of technical personnel to carry out public relations, and it was only in April that the hydraulic device was solved.

The battleship Jingzhou did not encounter any problems in the early stage of hull construction, but there were frequent problems in the outfitting process, resulting in repeated delays in the outfitting progress, and even delayed for more than half a year.

This also made many high-level naval officials very dissatisfied, and many relevant persons in charge continued to be criticized.

But this is also a matter of no way, the basic industrial level of the Daheng Empire is relatively weak, even if it is to exchange grain and oil exports for a large amount of foreign exchange in recent years, in order to import a large number of advanced equipment and imported technology, but the background is too weak, so it is very difficult to digest even the introduced technologies.

The Jingzhou-class battleship is a top-level weapon that integrates various top-level technologies of contemporary Bluestar, and has extremely high requirements for all kinds of technologies.

Therefore, it often appears, designers have designed it, and the industrial department is also swearing that there is no problem and can make it, but in the actual operation process, there will always be one or another problem, resulting in repeated delays in the progress of R & D and production.

This is the consequence of the lack of basic industry and the lack of solid foundation, but they have to be forced to board the Majingzhou-class battleships.

However, the decision of the Daheng Empire to build the Jingzhou-class battleships was firm, and a problem should be solved when it arose, and for this reason, the Ministry of Defense Industry, the supreme command of the Daheng Empire, had already organized more than 20 large-scale technical breakthroughs for the production of the Jingzhou-class battleships.

Every time a technical breakthrough is tackled, technical experts are dispatched from all over the country to carry out concentrated research.

It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a teacher who moves the people!

With such a national effort, the empire finally solved many technical problems that arose in the construction process of the Jingzhou-class battleships.

In June of the ninth year of Qiansheng, the battleship Jingzhou began sea trials after it was officially outfitted!

In fact, not long after the Jingzhou battleship underwent sea trials, the second ship of the Jingzhou-class battleship, the Nanhaizhou, had already completed outfitting and started to work.

Therefore, the difference in sea trial time between the two ships is only half a month!

Half a month after the completion of the sea trials of the Jingzhou battleship, the Nanhai Zhou battleship also completed the sea trials.

The two ships are still about to be officially delivered to the Navy after completion!

Because the sea trials of the two ships were completed at roughly the same time, both in August of the ninth year of the Qiansheng Dynasty, the Navy decided to recommend the commissioning ceremony for the two ships at the same time.

Due to the importance of the Jingzhou-class battleships and the fact that the two ships were in service almost at the same time, Emperor Lin Ziran also decided to personally go to the Quping Naval Base to preside over the commissioning ceremony of the two ships.

On August 26, the ninth year of the reign of Qiansheng, Emperor Lin Ziran took some important ministers and took a special train to the Quping Naval Base in Jingzhou, where he presided over the commissioning ceremony of the two ships, the Jingzhou and the Nanhaizhou.

After arriving at the Quping Naval Base, Lin Ziran saw two huge warships moored on the port dock at a glance!

When Lin Ziran came to Quping Naval Base last year, he also visited Quping Naval Shipyard, and at that time, the Jingzhou and Nanhaizhou had not yet completed the hull construction.

But now, these two battleships have appeared on the dock.

The huge hull is moored on the pier, giving a great visual impact!

Moreover, the high freeboard hull also makes the lines of the battleship look more graceful, which is much more ugly and beautiful than those low-freeboard battleships in the past.

Coupled with the two twin-mounted huge main gun turrets above, people can know at a glance that this big guy is strong in combat!

After Lin Ziran saw the two battleships on the bow, he couldn't help but nod, and then said: "Such a battleship can be worthy of the four words of Zhenguo's sharp weapon!" ”

Hearing Lin Ziran say this, a group of senior admirals behind him all smiled!

For the navy, there is nothing more important at this stage than satisfying the emperor Lin Ziran, the emperor approves and is satisfied, and the follow-up naval funds can be obtained, and with more funds, bigger and more warships can be built.

Although the third phase of the Navy's development plan has already been decided, only the construction plan of six Jingzhou-class battleships and four Fengyang-class armored cruisers has been determined.

However, it is worth noting that the sixth Jingzhou-class battleship has already started construction in December of the eighth year of Qiansheng, and from December last year to the present, the Daheng Empire has not started even a new battleship.

On the one hand, this is due to the shortage of large dockyards, and on the other hand, it is also due to the Navy's desire to improve the design on the basis of the Jingzhou battleship, and the Navy is still a little uncertain about the subsequent improvements, and has not yet been able to determine the final design.

The direction of improvement of warships in the future was also affected by the Orr War, as well as rapid-fire guns, especially now that the concept of rapid-fire is more important than caliber is very popular in the navy.

Therefore, from December last year to the present, the construction of the capital ships of the Daheng Empire has suspended the battleships, but put them on the armored cruisers with smaller tonnage, on the basis of the Fengyang-class armored cruisers, the Imperial Navy designed last year, and this year has started construction of two large-tonnage armored cruisers, because the design changes are not too much, so they are still classified as Fengyang-class armored cruisers, but the displacement has reached 13,000 tons, and it is equipped with a huge number of 150 mm rapid-fire naval guns.

At the same time, it was based on the foreign trade battleship Boogier armored cruiser, after the design was improved, a self-used armored cruiser was finalized, a Crane-class armored cruiser with a displacement of 8,000 tons, and its battleship design was very similar to the Boogier armored cruiser, except that the steel-faced iron armor was replaced with hardened armor, and the half-rapid-fire gun was replaced with rapid-fire guns.

The construction of three armored cruisers in a row has begun, which to a certain extent also reflects the fact that the rapid-fire faction within the navy has overwhelmed the main gun faction, otherwise it would not have been possible to start the construction of the 8,000-ton Crane armored cruiser.

And in addition to factors such as the lack of large docks and the theory of rapid-fire guns, there is also a key factor that the Navy does not have enough funds!

Battleships are extremely expensive Zhenguo weapons, six Jingzhou-class battleships, plus four Fengyang-class armored cruisers, plus two Klan-class armored cruisers, the Daheng Empire started in August of the seventh year of Qiansheng, and now in August of the ninth year of Qiansheng, in two years, twelve capital ships have been started one after another!

Just for the construction of these twelve capital ships, the navy has to throw in more than 70 million Hengyuan in shipbuilding funds!

In addition, it does not include other ancillary items, such as so many capital ships have been built, you must have enough deep-water berths to moor, the naval base must have matching maintenance facilities, there must be coal bunkers and other supply facilities, and some gun barrels, ammunition or something.

And then in order to make these capital ships exert their power, they have to match a large number of cruisers and destroyers, and in the past two years, the Daheng Empire has built more than 20 cruisers and more than 30 destroyers.

These cruisers and destroyers are also very expensive!

All in all, the empire has already smashed more than 100 million in the third phase of the naval development plan.

This is not counting the follow-up costs, this naval fund is not for some ship-building funds, just build the ship, and the follow-up maintenance and use costs of these warships are also very high.

These are all serious squeezing out the military spending of the Great Heng Imperial Navy!

So much so that after entering the ninth year of Qiansheng, the ambitious Daheng Empire Navy had to suspend the construction of new battleships, and instead chose to use cheaper armored cruisers, especially the Crane-class armored cruisers.

The reason why the navy built this ship was influenced by the rapid-fire theory, or even more so because of a lack of money.

This Klan-class armored cruiser is much cheaper, with a displacement of more than 8,000 tons, it can achieve the performance of a battleship of more than 10,000 tons, and the cost is only more than 3 million Hengyuan, which is only half of the Jingzhou-class battleship!

This was due to the high cost of the two warships of the Jingzhou class and the Fengyang class, and the imperial navy, which had made its head bigger, sighed when it saw that this ship cost more than 3 million Hengyuan!

This boat is really cheap!

More than three million Heng Yuan in this year is nothing, and many weak and small countries are looking for the Great Heng Empire to buy warships, which are three or four million.

The Daheng Empire built a test of the 'unified caliber full rapid-fire gun large cruiser' Hetai, this more than 8,000 tons of broken things are still on the slipway, because the triple knapsack turret has not been successfully developed, so the outfitting of the ship is also far away, but the navy has paid more than two million Heng Yuan for this, and it is estimated that it will have to fill in another two or three million, and it is estimated that there will be no four or five million in the end.

The continuous postponement and high cost of the Hetai made the navy a little worried about the prospects of a new type of cruiser like the Hetai, and if it were not for the emperor's personal request to continue the construction and continue to improve and develop, I am afraid that the navy would have to directly rebuild this broken ship into an ordinary first-class dome cruiser halfway.

But in the end, it's all about money!

Now the navy is pinning its hopes on the commissioning of the two Jingzhou-class battleships to stimulate His Majesty the Emperor, so that His Majesty the Emperor can allocate more funds for their naval expansion, so that the sixteen capital ships in the third phase of the plan can be completed.

However, their worries are obviously unnecessary, although the empire's finances are indeed relatively tight, but it is not so much that the tens of millions of battleships cannot be taken out, the reason why Lin Ziran dragged it was just that he wanted the navy to slow down, and not to build all the Jingzhou-class battleships in one go.

This thing is the technology of two years ago, and now the technology is changing day by day, you have to keep up with the times, and continue to improve!

In particular, rapid-fire guns were made two years ago with 150-millimeter rapid-fire guns, but now larger-caliber rapid-fire guns are still not available.

In the past two years, some people in the navy have already become complacent, believing that the existing Jingzhou-class battleships are already very powerful, and that the current 150-mm rapid-fire guns are already very good.

Lin Ziran was very dissatisfied with this!

Since some people in the navy don't take the initiative to do it, Lin Ziran directly used funds to force them to do it!

If it doesn't work, he'll do it instead!