It's just that this cruiser is much more expensive, and the four countries on the east coast are poor, and most of their military spending has to be spent on the army, and there is not much money that can be spent on the navy, so it is also very troublesome to talk about.

At the beginning, the Daheng Imperial Arms Trading Company showed them the '9,000-ton high-freeboard armored cruiser' designed and built for the Orr Kingdom, that is, the 'Garin-class armored cruiser' ordered by the Orr Kingdom.

The four countries on the east coast were satisfied, but as soon as they asked the price, they shook their heads and left, this thing actually cost four million Heng Yuan!

Poor, can't afford it!

The person in charge of Daheng Arms Trading Company looked at it, this is not good, and if it goes on like this, I am afraid that it will scare people away, so I don't want to take any design, and directly ask you how much your budget is, we will design warships for you according to your budget, rest assured, the level of our Daheng people to design warships is just now, and there have been many foreign trade warships designed over the years.

The joint representatives of the four countries on the east coast counted with their fingers, and then said that our budget is only six million Heng Yuan, but we hope to obtain at least two capital ships, so that we can form a most basic tactical formation.

Six million, that's three million.

The head of the Daheng Arms Trading Company said no problem!

Then the Daheng Arms Trading Company found the three major weapons companies and the Navy Ship Administration Department: The people from the four countries on the six east coasts said that there are two capital ships for six million, and you should come up with the design quickly, and the God of Wealth is still waiting.

Moreover, this is the first time in the history of the Great Heng Empire that there is hope to sell capital ships to countries other than the Orr Kingdom, and the trading company hopes to make a good start and strive for more warship orders for the future!

In this regard, the battleship designers of the Ministry of Ship Administration are also very difficult!

Because at the price of a contemporary warship, three million is already difficult to buy an advanced capital ship of too large tonnage.

The Endless Sea-class improved battleship ordered by the Orns from Daheng, the initial contract was a standard displacement of 10,500 tons, equipped with four 300 mm 300 times the caliber naval guns (Cole gun mount, two rounds per minute), multiple 150 mm single-mounted guns (non-rapid-fire guns, Cole gun mount one round per minute), a new power system, the speed of the battleship reached 16 knots, and the strong wind would be higher, and the battleship cost 4.7 million Heng Yuan.

Later, because of the outbreak of the Battle of Ian, the Orr Kingdom proposed to modify the design, modify the low freeboard to a high freeboard to adapt to ocean-going operations, and increase the number of secondary guns against torpedo boats, for which the tonnage rose to 12,000 tons, and the selling price also rose to 5.4 million.

It is also a Garin-class armored cruiser designed for the Orns, with a standard displacement of 9,000 tons, and is equipped with the top medium-caliber main gun in the Daheng Empire, that is, a naval gun of 200 mm and 40 times the caliber, although the gun is not a rapid-fire gun, but it is also equipped with a hydraulic stationary thrust, which is a half-rapid-fire gun, and at the same time is equipped with a specially designed bomb machine, the rate of fire can achieve one shot per minute, which is basically the limit of medium and large-caliber half-speed fire guns.

And the ship asks for four million Heng Yuan!

Therefore, three million Hengyuan is already difficult to buy a capital ship with too much tonnage, but this does not mean that it cannot be built!

As for how to design and build, how else can you do it, reduce the tonnage!

Warships are worth what you pay for, and it's not nice to say, but now large-tonnage warships, they are all sold according to their displacement!

For example, the improved high-freeboard version of the Endless Sea battleship and the Garin armored cruiser that are being negotiated with the Orns are basically four hundred and fifty constant dollars a ton.

According to the standards of the Garin-class armored cruisers, these three million Hengyuan can actually build a 6,600-ton armored cruiser!

The only question is how to achieve sufficient protection and firepower in the tonnage of more than 6,000 tons, as well as the power that they value more, to meet the basic requirements of the four countries on the east coast.

These poor bastards not only need two capital ships, but also require that the performance should not be bad, and even the main guns are designated with 200 mm and 40 times the caliber of naval guns, and the armor must also be made of steel and iron armor, with a speed of 20 knots and a cruising range of at least 6,000 nautical miles.

Just look at this power demand, people are planning to use this armored cruiser to break the relationship!

That's a lot of money!

But none of this is difficult for Daheng's battleship designers!

They carried out reduced firing on the basis of the foreign trade Garin-class armored cruisers, equipped with one or three 200-millimeter and 40-fold main guns in the front and two in the rear, and then tossed and made seven or eight 150-millimeter secondary guns, and then got a bunch of small-caliber machine guns, but the internal magazines and hoisting machines were very reluctant.

The armor protection also looks like an armor box, and the thickest part is also thick, and because of the limited tonnage, the armor is still relatively thin overall, in order to improve the protection ability, the designers have adopted an inclination design on the side armor to increase the protection effect.

The speed is also 20 knots, the endurance is 7,000 nautical miles and 10 knots, and the power data is also the most eye-catching part of the ship!

In those days, not many warships could reach a speed of 20 knots, and many of the newly launched second-class cruisers had a speed of only about 18 knots, and only some of the latest cruisers had a speed of 20 knots.

How to put it, the ship spends quite a lot of its tonnage on the power system.

This armored cruiser, its protection concept actually follows the key protection concept of the Chongke-class armored cruiser, and it is also the key protection concept commonly used by armored cruisers in other countries, but the more special thing is that the armor with an inclined angle is used, and the effect is very good when used to resist ordinary armor-piercing shells.

As for not being able to stop the battleship, this is for sure, even the large-thickness hardened armor of the Fengyang-class armored cruiser could not stop the 300-millimeter 35-fold main gun of the Jingzhou-class battleship with smokeless gunpowder and the bombardment of armor-piercing shells.

But armored cruisers are not used to fight hard with battleships, in many countries armored cruisers are specially used to break relations, even if they are on the list, it is only an auxiliary battleship fleet, used as a high-speed guerrilla formation.

What the four countries on the east coast want is a very pure broken armored cruiser, and they don't plan to rely on two armored cruisers to fight in line with the naval powers, that would be a miserable death.

As a broken ship, this firepower and protection are stronger than cruisers, and the focus is on speed and endurance!

The speed of 20 knots and the endurance of 7,000 nautical miles of this class of ships are undoubtedly able to meet the needs of breaking diplomatic relations, and the endurance even exceeds the needs of the four countries on the east coast.

Although the final designed tonnage exceeded 6,000 tons and reached 7,000 tons, the price was also exceeded, reaching 3.15 million Hengyuan per ship.

However, after seeing the general design, the admirals in the delegation of the four countries on the east coast were extremely satisfied, and they insisted that this was the warship that the East Coast Alliance needed most!

Although the price is over-the-top, it is still within their affordability!

As soon as they gritted their teeth, they finally signed the contract after slashing the price of 100,000 Hengyuan with a dead face!

6.2 million Hengyuan, ordered two armored cruisers, this type of ship they themselves clearly called "Boogier armored cruisers".

This is also the first time that the Great Heng Empire has exported large-tonnage capital ships to countries other than the Orr Kingdom!