There is little disagreement within the Navy about the construction plans of the three new capital ships, but there are some disagreements on the new cheap and unprotected steel-hulled cruisers.

The main reason is that the previous design plan could not satisfy the navy, Duan Hongxiao simply calculated the cost, and threw the design drawings of this thing directly into the garbage heap.

If this is really to be built, it is not cheap at all, and it does not meet the needs of the navy to control costs.

Because the first unprotected steel-hulled frigate was designed to reach a speed of fifteen knots, which meant that a new power system with high horsepower was needed, and the steam unit was expensive.

At the same time, it is also prepared to be equipped with a number of 150 mm naval guns and other small and medium-caliber naval guns, and the firepower looks very strong, but the price of these new naval guns is not cheap.

Coupled with the steel-hulled hull, the cost of the entire thousand-ton frigate came up at once.

This failed to meet the cheapness required by the navy, and the tactical positioning was too vague, and the high could not be low.

Because there is no waterline armor belt, not even a dome armor, only a weak steel shell, it belongs to the standard unprotected battleship.

If this thing participates in a decisive battle at sea, it will be too scummy in the face of the protection ability of the modern new naval guns.

But if it is purely used for patrolling, it is a bit wasteful, so the tonnage of more than 1,000 tons is placed there, and it is equipped with a lot of new rear-loading rifled guns and new power systems that can run fifteen knots.

If it's just for patrols, there's no need for it.

This kind of ship is not high or low, and it is better to build a few more perfect dome cruisers to waste this money, so the navy plans to take a look at the situation of the perfect dome cruiser Ansu class first, and if the design is perfect, the follow-up will directly add orders.

As for offshore patrols or something, just engage in offshore patrol ships, that thing doesn't even need a few guns, just get a mature old steam engine, it's not worth a few dollars.

So those people in the Ministry of Naval Affairs were ruthless, and casually designed a 1,000-ton displacement offshore patrol ship, which only had a speed of 12 knots, and was equipped with sails, which could run up to 16 knots if it was downwind, and the guns casually threw a 150-mm rear-loading naval gun to decorate the façade, and then matched it with some 100-mm naval guns.

This ship has no advantages except for being cheap!

However, when the navy's top brass saw it, they thought that this ship was good and cheap enough, and that it could be built to replace all kinds of messy old ships that were more than 10 or even 20 years old, so as to maintain the size of the fleet, and when the time came, it would be enough to engage in coastal patrols and anti-smuggling.

However, because this kind of 1,000-ton offshore patrol ship is very weak in combat power, it is basically unable to go to sea to cooperate with the main fleet of the ocean to fight, so the navy is trying to find a type of ship that can cooperate with the main fleet in a decisive battle, that is, torpedo ships.

The torpedo is still a new thing in Blue Star, and it has not yet appeared on Daheng's side, but special torpedo ships have appeared in several other naval powers.

However, Daheng currently does not have torpedo technology, so the Navy intends to find a way to introduce technology.

But the navy is reluctant to spend this money, I heard that it wants to get some small means!

But this is all the navy's own toss, and Lin Ziran doesn't bother to do what they do!

Lin Ziran has set the tone for the overall development of the navy, and in the next few years, his efforts will be focused on developing and building armored ships of about 8,000 to 10,000 tons and 3,000-ton armored cruisers.

As for the other types of ships, most of them are auxiliary ships, and the navy will naturally do it step by step, and Lin Ziran is too lazy to pay attention to it.

According to the possible financial situation in recent years, Lin Ziran's idea is to first build a new type of ocean-going fleet that is small in scale but capable of fighting a war, and by the way, promote the dual development of technology and scale of related industries, and at the same time explore and study new naval tactics and cultivate talents.

Wait for three or five years, it is estimated that the internal stability of the Daheng Empire is also there, and the money is there, well, it is estimated that some technologies have also made breakthroughs after a few years of accumulation, and then there will be a vigorous development, so that the Daheng Navy will be first-class again.

When the time comes, I don't dare to say that I will restore the maritime status of the overlord of the Endless Sea, but I will also become one of the naval powers at best.

Then stay up for a few more years, and wait until there are new technologies, such as fire control systems, large-caliber tube guns, etc., and then there will be a wave of ship-building peaks, completely leaving other countries behind, and then starting the flat push mode......

Lin Ziran himself imagined that when the Daheng Navy was playing in the future, in a factory on the edge of the port of the Krull Kingdom in the eastern part of the distant Dayang Island, the admirals of the Red-nosed Krull Kingdom looked at a huge cannon in the factory with a calm expression!

Someone on the side was introducing: "This is our self-designed 300 mm caliber 30 times the naval gun, using a wedge bolt, well, this is thanks to those constant brutes, otherwise we are still painstakingly researching the threaded bolt."

This new naval gun is even more powerful than our previous 400mm front-loading rifled guns, not only is this gun large-caliber, powerful and long-range, but it can also be combined with our newly developed special steel conical armor-piercing projectile, which can penetrate the armor of all modern warships! ”

"More importantly, the gun's extremely large range plus the sextant rangefinder, the effective distance of naval warfare will be greatly increased from the current within 500 meters, we used a 150 mm rear-loading rifled gun for testing, the error at a distance of 4,000 meters is only 4.2 percent, which means that under the premise that everything is good, our hit error can be controlled at about 170 meters, if supplemented by a high-powered telescope for observation, according to the observation of the impact point and walking, If you further correct the shooting element, it is possible to get a hit at a distance of 4,000 meters.

Of course, despite the data obtained in the test, we do not think that it is possible to get a hit at a distance of 4,000 meters or more in actual combat, which is much more complicated than our live-fire test.

We suggest that in the actual combat of rear-loading naval guns, the engagement distance should be controlled between 1,000 and 2,000 meters, especially around 1,500 meters, so as to achieve a good balance between the hit rate and the distance between the gun! ”

"Once this large-caliber naval gun is paired with high-strength cone armor-piercing shells and a sextant rangefinder to form a naval artillery system and successfully installed on our new battleship King, combined with other new technologies of the King, including the strong protection brought by the subversive steel-faced ironclad composite armor, and the high mobility brought by the strong ventilation technology of the boiler!"

"By the time the King is completed and launched, all the warships in the world, including those being built on the slipway, will become obsolete overnight!"

"The Imperial Navy has taken advantage of this opportunity to once again be able to open up the gap between several major competitors!"

At this moment, if the generals of the Great Heng Empire Navy saw this 300 mm and 30 times caliber naval gun of the Krull Kingdom, I am afraid that their saliva would flow.

If they were to see the secret on the slipway, the King, which had been built two years ago, and know that the ship was made of steel-faced ironclad composite armor and adopted a new steam engine power system, it would probably be even more desperate.

You know, the people of Daheng have just made a fortune in the wrought iron hardwood composite armor and applied it to several new warships, but they don't know that the Krull Kingdom, a first-class naval power, has begun to abandon this old armor and begin to use steel-faced iron armor.

The same is true for the steam engine, the steam engine technology on the side of the Daheng Empire is in the stage of barely usable, with a high failure rate, large volume and weight at the same power, and even the time to maintain the maximum speed is one-third less than that of foreign products of the same level.

But the Krull Kingdom has gone one step further and has begun to apply strong ventilation technology.

Although during the civil strife in the towns of the Great Heng Domain, many of the Great Domains even pressed agriculture and light industry, and concentrated their resources on the defense industry in order to create more advanced weapons and equipment to maintain their hegemony war.

However, the civil strife still made the technological development of the Daheng Empire backward in all aspects!

In the face of this situation, the monarchs and ministers of the Xinlin Dynasty of the Great Heng Empire are all well aware, but they are fearless!

What if the technology is lagging behind now?

What else can you do, bury your head in hard work to catch up with the technology, and when the technology catches up, you don't even need to be technologically ahead, as long as the technology is on par with the enemy, even if it is slightly worse.

At that time, the Great Heng Empire will be able to kill all the enemies with their numbers with their huge population and industrial scale!