For Meng Yuling, the dinner she attended that night was worth remembering for the rest of her life.

Because when Lin Ziran invited her for a walk, he officially proposed to her!

And for Lin Ziran, this is just one of the many things he handles!

After he returned to Luohai City, he needed to deal with many important matters, including proposing to Meng Yuling, determining his marriage events, and then creating a more mature and stable image of a politician, and making preliminary preparations for the subsequent unification of Daheng and the establishment of the emperor.

A young single man who is not married can easily be identified as immature and unstable by those people.

And an emperor without a wife and a son is even more unacceptable!

The entire interest group of the Daheng Unification Army is working towards the unification of Daheng and the establishment of their own Seventh Dynasty.

At this time, Lin Ziran, as the leader, is extremely important, and many seemingly personal issues will become important political issues.

Especially the issue of heirs, which is a top priority.

If there is no heir, if Lin Ziran suddenly hangs up on that day, wouldn't the Daheng Unification Army be split in an instant?

Even if Daheng has been unified and a new dynasty has been established, but Lin Ziran dies without an heir, the new empire will also fall back into civil strife.

For the sake of subsequent stability, Lin Ziran must have an heir!

If you want an heir, then you naturally have to have a legal and reasonable wife first, which is why Lin Ziran proposed directly after returning to Luohai City.

After the formal marriage proposal, the next thing is relatively simple, and many processes are naturally organized by subordinate officials, and Lin Ziran still continues his busy work.

On the tenth day after returning to Luohai City, Lin Ziran went to the dock of Luohai Navy Port to participate in the commissioning ceremony of the new-generation battleship Luohai cruiser.

The tonnage of the cruiser Luohai is not large, only 2,500 tons, and the tonnage is not even half of that of the new battleship Pingbo, which was commissioned half a year ago, but this cruiser Luohai is of great strategic significance.

Because this is a battleship designed from the beginning to exert the firepower of breezed rifled guns, and it is also the first ocean-going warship that is actually not a traditional shipside gun.

Last year, the design of the ship began, and the basic design was quickly completed and put into construction, and after more than a year of intense construction, the construction was completed half a month ago and sea trials were carried out.

Because it was a war period, the sea trial time was also shortened, and half a month later, the navy officially included the ship in active service and incorporated it into the First Fleet.

This First Fleet is actually the original First Detachment of the Escort Fleet.

However, when Lin Ziran set up the Marshal's Mansion and reorganized the Southern Navy Fleet Command into the Navy Command, the name of the escort fleet, a fleet with a strong transitional meaning, was also revoked.

Its three sub-fleets were renamed the First Fleet, the Second Fleet, and the Third Fleet, and these three fleets were actually ocean-going fleets.

At the same time, the reform was also carried out in various local fleets, such as the former Luohai County Fleet, Luo'an County Fleet, Anlong County Fleet, Gwangan County Fleet, Hetai County Fleet, and a number of local fleets in Dongdingzhou.

The coastal and inland river vessels in the original local fleets were under unified jurisdiction and were organized into two patrol fleets, namely the First Coastal Defense Fleet stationed in Nanhai Prefecture and the Second Coastal Defense Fleet stationed in Dongdingzhou.

The responsibilities of these two coastal defense fleets were newly established and clarified, that is, coastal patrols, naval base protection, coastal defense batteries, and inland river operations.

And ocean-going operations are not under the jurisdiction of the coastal defense fleet!

The ocean-going fleet, which is the sole responsibility of the three fleets!

The new battleship Luohai, a battleship named after Luohai City, a city in Nanhai Prefecture, is only a 2,500-ton cruiser, but it represents the latest naval combat concept and technical level of the Daheng Unification Army.

Power and protection technology are on behalf of the contemporary first-class level, although this first-class is only the last stream in the first-class, but it can also keep up with the first echelon.

And its most special layout is the firepower layout.

The ship adopts a special gun layout, and its guns do not adopt the layout of the ship's side guns like the previous warships, but adopt the front and rear amidships layout.

This gun is also the main gun of the Pingbo armored ship, the main gun of the army train gun, and it is also the largest caliber, the largest range, and the most powerful gun that Nanhai Prefecture can mass-produce at present.

It is worth noting that these two guns were deployed in the front and rear positions of the battleship, and they were mounted on rotatable gun mounts, which could be rotated during battle, adjust the angle of fire, and concentrate fire to the left or right at the same time.

Artillery shields were deployed to protect the enemy from direct fire.

On either side of the ship's amidships, there were also two protruding semi-enclosed armor protective gun emplacements, each with a 150 mm long-barreled naval gun, which could fire forward or backward because the gun emplacements were protruding.

In this way, when the whole battleship is fighting, it can use three main guns to fire at the same time, forward, backward, left and right.

In addition, there were six 75-mm naval guns and eight 40-mm small-caliber guns.

There are only two main guns and only two large-caliber secondary guns, adding up to only four, and it seems that the main artillery is a little less.

But the caliber is big!

The designers took the approach of replacing quantity with caliber.

This is to take into account that the protection of ironclad ships in various countries and even in the northern feudal towns is very thick, and the guns with small calibers are difficult to penetrate the enemy ships even if they are breezed rifled guns, and in order to penetrate the armor belt of the enemy ships, the designers began to consider using larger caliber main guns.

So even if it is only 2,500 tons of Luohai, the artillery on it is a 200 mm caliber main gun.

The pursuit is to hit an enemy ship with one shot, and even sink it!

In order to match such tactics, the speed of the Luo Hai was quite fast, reaching sixteen.5 knots.

The most important thing is that the ship has also adopted the latest improved sextant rangefinder of the South Korean Navy to measure the range and calculate the firing elements, and to pursue the destruction of enemy ships at a distance of more than 1,500 meters or even more.

Although this improved sextant rangefinder was still far from primitive, and required a large number of professional officers to carry out calculations, and it took a relatively long time to get results, it was difficult to keep up with the fierce naval battles.

However, this is already the most advanced auxiliary fire control equipment that Nanhai Prefecture can come up with at present.

And these are all things that the previous Pinnau did not have!

Although the Pingbo armored ship, many of the technologies are the top in Nanhai Prefecture today, including power technology, armor technology, and even hull construction technology and firepower.

However, it was not designed as a battleship with breezed guns in the first place, and even if it was retrofitted halfway, it had great limitations.

At the beginning, the ship's firepower was to prepare for the front-loading rifled guns, using the ship's side gun layout, although it was later modified, the installation of the breech-loading rifled guns, but also slightly changed the layout of the guns, and the guns were also deployed in the bow and stern, but it still could not be changed, this is still a battleship with a shipside gun layout, at most it is an improved type.

The ship still can't fully exert the power of the breech-loading rifled gun!

Since last year, the former Nanhaizhou Fleet and the current Daheng Unification Army Navy have pursued a tactical system that can give better play to the firepower of rear-loading rifled guns, and this tactical system includes a series of things such as formation, warships, firepower, observation and sighting, and command.

The cruiser Luohai is an important part of this new naval tactical system.

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