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With the current shipbuilding capacity of the Tang Dynasty, or the current strength of the coastal civilian shipyards under the control of the Tang Dynasty, there is no problem in building a ship of one or two hundred tons, and it is okay to barely build a ship of four or five hundred tons, as for how big it is, it will be very difficult, which is not only limited by the limitations of shipbuilding technology, but also by the strength of the shipyard.

Therefore, the tonnage of Datang's first ocean-going warship will not be very large, it will be 500 tons at the top, and for the sake of insurance, it should actually be more suitable for less than 300 tons.

Because according to the plan, the first battleship has a great experimental nature, because Li Xuan has extremely high requirements for battleships, and there is only one design standard, that is, it is born for combat!

Any ship that can fight and carry a lot of cargo has to get out!

All the designs of warships are for combat, which is the premise that all subsequent warship designs of the Datang Navy should follow!

Obviously, Li Xuan's request is that traditional Chinese-style ships such as Fuchuan and the armed merchant ships of foreigners currently operating in the Nanyang region are actually not up to the mark.

For this reason, the craftsmen of the Navy Department and the Naval Department of the Navy have been thinking for many months about the battleship designers and some civilian officers of the Navy, and finally put forward two candidates.

The first plan was to build a third-class cruiser with a displacement of 500 tons and more than 30 guns, focusing on speed and seaworthiness.

The second plan is to build a third-class frigate with a displacement of 300 tons and 20 guns, trying to achieve a balance between firepower, speed, and seaworthiness at a relatively small tonnage.

The first option is relatively risky to build, because the shipyard under the command of the Tang Dynasty does not have the ability to build, and can only be built by the private shipyard in Guangzhou, and it is difficult to say whether it can be built.

The second plan, in fact, is a conservative plan, a 300-ton hull, although the shipyards of the Ministry of Industry still can't build it, but many private shipyards in Guangdong have this technical ability.

In the end, Li Xuan personally made the decision and chose the second plan, so that the steps were smaller, and it was not easy to pull the egg, and the first ship was a test ship, so it was easy to control the risk if it was smaller.

After the successful construction of the third-class frigate of the second option, it will be possible to build a third-class cruiser of five hundred tons using mature experience.

There are design plans for frigates and cruisers, but there are no design plans for battleships, because this kind of ship is too big, far exceeding the current shipbuilding capacity of the Tang Dynasty.

However, as a substitute, shallow sea gunboats can be built several, and the third class frigate is the same as the hull of 300 tons, but the shallow sea gunboat is ready to be stuffed with 30 guns, the firepower is comparable to that of a third-class cruiser, and the defense is even more than that of a third-class cruiser.

It is that the seaworthiness is extremely poor, and if you sail in the open sea, you can't resist the strong winds and waves in the deep sea, and you won't be able to sink.

And the river gunboat is simple, and the original Weilong-class gunboat will continue to be built.

Of course, the construction of this kind of warship is a matter of the future, and now to improve the strength of the Datang Navy, the quickest way is to directly use the ready-made civilian ship hulls to be simply modified, sacrificing the ability to load more artillery, and convert them into military armed merchant ships.

This refit plan is intended to refit five second-class armed merchant ships, ten third-class armed merchant ships, and more than 20 fourth-class armed merchant ships.

As for the hull, there are many in Guangzhou, as a traditional maritime trade port, but there are a large number of sea ships coming and going all year round.

The unparalleled Datang tax inspection team alone has confiscated more than ten sea ships in Guangzhou, all of which are merchant ships of more than 100 tons!

The rest of the people, naturally, can't be copied directly, it's too ugly to eat, the Tang Dynasty is a regular dynasty, and it's no longer a bandit!

This is to be modified with civilian ships, and naturally real money will be used to purchase the hulls of civilian ships, and then refit, preferably those hulls that have not yet been completed are more suitable.

This time, the meeting lasted only a little more than two hours, but there were a lot of things to say, and many of them were very important things.

However, this is still not the focus of Colonel Bao Yifen, his real focus is the reform of the naval system!

After the end of the Imperial Naval Strategy Conference, on the third day, Li Xuan officially issued a holy decree, announcing the complete separation of the land and sea of the Tang Dynasty, the independence of the Navy Department belonging to the Privy Council, the establishment of the Tang Navy Command, and stipulating that the Navy Command was directly under the emperor's jurisdiction, and the emperor was the supreme commander of the navy, with supreme power over the navy.

The independent Navy High Command has set up the Navy Command Department, the Navy Staff Department, the Navy Logistics Department, and the Navy Ship Administration Department

At the same time, the War Department of the Cabinet was divided into two, and the War Department and the Navy Department were set up to be responsible for the support work of the Army and Navy

In addition to the changes in the high-level structure of the navy, Li Xuan also made changes to the fleet establishment, aiming to build two fleets, namely the Pearl River Fleet, which is responsible for inland river operations such as the entire Pearl River Basin, and the Nanyang Fleet, which is responsible for ocean-going operations!

Of course, Li Xuan's series of reforms to the navy system and reform actually affected the army, after the navy and army were completely separated, Li Xuan also made certain changes to the Privy Council, and the detailed organization remained the same, but the title has changed, and most of the departments under the Privy Council have been upgraded to ministries, such as the Operations Department renamed the Operations Department, and the Ordnance Department renamed the Ordnance Department.

But in general, the changes in the army are not big, the biggest change is just a change of title, and then by the way, the new ministers of various ministries are promoted, no longer colonels, but with the rank of major general.

In fact, the Privy Council and the Naval High Command are very similar in their institutional settings, except that one is in charge of the army and the other is in charge of the navy.

However, after the separation of the sea and land, various things also emerged, and the biggest disagreement was naturally the distribution of military spending.

In the past, the navy and the army were not separated, and the military expenses were used together, but now that the navy is living alone, it is natural to divide the military expenses, and the military expenditure is so much, the navy takes more, and the army naturally has less.

Therefore, after the separation of the navy and army, the first major event encountered by the Tang Dynasty was not to seize any important cities from the Ming army, or how many people the Ming army was annihilated, not to mention the fall of some political tycoons and the like, but the contradictions that broke out in the navy and army because of the distribution of military spending!

At first, this contradiction was only a joint arrangement of the army and navy to negotiate the distribution of military expenditures for the rest of the year, but at the beginning, neither side thought that any contradiction would break out, because both the army and navy believed that their conditions were reasonable.

But this kind of reasonableness is absolutely unacceptable in the eyes of the other party.

As for the army, in the distribution of military expenditures for the rest of this year, because of the heavy tasks, the army wants to launch military operations in Huguang, Yunnan, Fujian, Jiangxi, and other directions at the same time, and at the same time, with the expansion of the occupied areas, the number of troops that need to stay in the occupied areas is also increasing, and it is far from enough to rely on the existing troops, so it is necessary to continue to expand the number of the army in large quantities, and the scale of the army today is far from sufficient, and it needs to be doubled or even doubled at least.

And the navy is just to give the army a hand and help transport some logistics materials, and with the end of the war in Guangzhou, the navy basically can't help the combat direction of the Tang Army in the later period, and even the transportation of logistics materials can't be done.

Based on this reality, the army proposed that the next distribution of military spending should follow the principle of military expenditure distribution in the first half of the second year of Xuanping, and that the navy should continue to take as much as it took in the first half of the year.

This is not to reduce the Navy's military spending, even if it is to save face, as for wanting more, basically don't count on it

Therefore, the Army's proposed military expenditure allocation ratio is 95 percent for the Army and 5 percent for the Navy.

Yes, that's right, the army is so awesome that it only leaves the navy with a mere five percent of the distribution of military spending.

The navy believes that after taking Guangdong, the Tang Dynasty's coastal defense pressure is very great, and it needs a large amount of military investment to build warships and forts to consolidate the maritime frontier, and at the same time lay the foundation for the subsequent attack on Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangsu and other places from the coast, so it is necessary to vigorously increase the military spending of the navy.

The navy naturally does not expect to be able to share military spending equally with the army, after all, the main direction of the Tang Dynasty is Huguang now, and it is reasonable for the army to take more.

Therefore, the plan put forward by the navy is that the navy will get 30 percent, and the army will get 70 percent, 37 points, which is enough to show the navy's forbearance.

Five percent on the one hand, thirty percent on the other.

The gap is so big that there is no way to coordinate.

The army and navy tried several times but could not resolve it through friendly negotiation, and then it turned into a quarrel, at first they themselves sent people to each other to have a small-scale quarrel at the coordination meeting, and then the high-level of the army and navy personally went out to quarrel, and then it developed into a quarrel between the two sides in front of Li Xuan.

In this battle for military spending, whether it is a strong army or a weak navy, they will not give in at all, Rear Admiral Bao Yifen on the navy side and a group of middle and senior admirals in the navy are running for this matter every day, and Bao Yifen is looking for excuses to see Li Xuan every day, and he doesn't do anything when he goes, so he suffers how pitiful and pitiful the navy is!

The Navy firmly believes that crying children have milk to drink!

Faced with such a shameless cry of the navy, the army generals naturally lowered their face, and did not care about decency at all, headed by Zeng Ziwen, the head of the War Department, and a group of high-ranking army officials who stayed in Kyoto pestered Li Xuan every day, saying how hard the army was at every opportunity, and many army officers and soldiers had no guns to use, so they could only fight with the enemy's guns and artillery with flesh and blood, and they suffered heavy casualties in every battle!

So much so that Li Xuan was speechless: Army officers and soldiers used flesh and blood to fight against a large number of guns and cannons of the Ming army?

You're saying the opposite, aren't you?