Chapter 790: A New Era of Automobiles

After the live-fire test was over, the news of the success of the unified fire control test was transmitted to Lin Ziran, the emperor of the Daheng Empire, through wireless telegraphy.

Lin Ziran looked at the telegram sent by the navy that the test was successful, and immediately gave instructions to immediately increase the improvement and equipment of the unified fire control system, and strive to equip the capital ships with this kind of mass killing weapon as soon as possible.

Yes, unified fire control is a big killer for the current Daheng Empire!

Whether it is the Jinghe or the four active six-gun warships, after installing this kind of unified fire control, the combat effectiveness will be greatly improved.

But Lin Ziran also knew that even those battleships with six main guns were the Jinghe, which were actually half-hung battleships, and they were just a transitional choice that had to be made in the early days.

And what the Imperial Navy can really count on is the Ning Yu-class and the subsequent Zhongluo-class battleships, this batch of battleships is the real unified all-heavy artillery battleships, born for long-distance combat.

Lin Ziran is looking forward to it, when the navies of the Krull Kingdom and other countries have worked hard to get a large number of mixed main gun battleships, will they regret it in the face of the birth of the unified all-heavy artillery battleships of the Great Heng Empire.

Since the 11th year of Qiansheng, the Krull Kingdom has unswervingly walked on the road of mixed main gun battleships, and has started to build 22 mixed main gun battleships of the fourth class, and I heard that last month, they just started construction of a mixed main gun battleship with a standard displacement of more than 20,000 tons.

If we add more than a dozen large-tonnage armored cruisers according to the same design concept, the more than 30 capital ships designed and started by the Navy of the Krull Kingdom in recent years will all fall behind and become obsolete overnight.

The same is true of other countries, whether it is Kekel, Gafia or Orissa, they have been working hard to develop mixed main gun battleships since the eleventh year of the Reign of Qiansheng, and they are desperately engaged in large-caliber rapid-fire guns.

There are quite a few capital ships that are under construction or have just entered service.

Among them, in order to compete with the Krull Kingdom, which is only separated by a strait from them, the Kekel Empire has also vigorously developed its navy in recent years, and has successively started construction of twelve mixed main gun battleships.

Since the defeat of the Gafia Empire in the 12th year of the Qiansheng Incident, the phenomenon of shrinking clothes and dieting to build a navy and control the sea frontier has emerged throughout the empire, and they have started construction of a total of seven battleships in the 12th year of the Qiansheng and the 13th year of the Qiansheng, and at least two more have been started this year, which is nine battleships.

A battleship with mixed main guns.

The Orissa Empire was no exception, and in recent years they have begun construction of seven battleships with mixed main guns.

In addition, the naval strategy of the Olissa Empire has always been different from that of several other major powers, they pursue a regional defense strategy, so their warships are basically biased towards coastal defense, so in addition to these typical mixed main gun battleships, they also have second-class battleships that are rarely built by major powers today, they call them offshore battleships, seven or eight thousand tons of hull with 300 mm main guns, used as offshore batteries, directly into the endless strait in wartime, and with torpedo boats and other auxiliary warships, it is enough to completely block the endless strait.

But if they knew that the scheduled engagement distance of the Great Heng Empire's navy was already planned to be more than 10,000 meters, or even 15,000 meters, they didn't know how they would feel.

Lin Ziran couldn't help but feel good when he thought that a large number of warships with mixed main guns built by these countries at great cost in the future would become waste!

After being in a good mood, Lin Ziran also temporarily put down the affairs of the navy.

Although the development of naval affairs is important, the development of national defense still needs to be based on the development of domestic industrial and commercial economy, otherwise it is rootless duckweed, and if it dies, it can only be the same as the Orr Kingdom, and can only rely solely on money to purchase warships.

However, now that the technology of warships is changing so quickly, even if the Orr Kingdom is rich, it is not yet unable to keep up with the pace of the times.

After nine years of Qiansheng, they began to rebuild the navy, drawing up a plan to build four battleships and eight armored cruisers, and so far, three battleships and seven armored cruisers have been delivered, leaving only one battleship No. 4 and one large-tonnage armored cruiser undelivered.

But it won't be long before it is estimated that it will be fully delivered next year.

However, by the time next year, many of the four battleships and eight armored cruisers in the Orr Kingdom are actually outdated and backward, especially the two battleships and four armored cruisers that were commissioned in the past few years are still battleships with steel faces and iron armor and focus on protection.

At the beginning of this year, the Orr Kingdom has proposed to purchase new warships to maintain normal replacement, but the price of new warships is getting more and more expensive every year.

Because of the continuous development of new technologies and the increasing advancement of warships, even if the Great Heng Empire does not make much money from the Orr people, but a battleship now has to cost tens of millions of Heng Yuan, such an expensive price, even if their Orr Kingdom prides itself on being a local tyrant, but it can't support such a consumption year after year.

On the other hand, those big countries, although the pressure is also great, but if they really grit their teeth, they can still start building new warships one by one.

After all, the heritage of a great power is there, which is incomparable to a country like the Orr Kingdom, which has no industrial base and only gold and oil.

And the Great Heng Empire is the great power of the great powers.

The industrial output value is already comparable to that of the Krull Kingdom, and it is still maintaining rapid growth, and it is only this year that it surpasses the Krull Kingdom.

The huge industrial output value is the confidence to support the continuous expansion of the navy of the Daheng Empire.

After putting down the navy's report, Lin Ziran picked up the report of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, which was a report on the construction of power facilities.

In the past few years, the five wholly-owned power companies under the National Assets Management Commission of the Daheng Empire have built a large number of thermal power plants around major cities and major industrial areas, and built power supply networks to provide power supply to major cities.

At the same time, the empire is also promoting the entry of electrified facilities into the field of industrial production, urban public services.

The most typical feature is that the streets of many cities have begun to appear on the streets of electricity as energy, using electric motors as the power of public trams.

Trams in cities, along with electric lights, have become an important feature of the new era of electrification.

In addition to these two typical characteristics, there are other parts of the power equipment that have begun to appear on a large scale and directly improve people's lifestyles.

In addition to these electrical equipment, there is also a new gadget that is starting to appear on the streets of Jingshi!

It's a car!