Leaving the affairs in Beijing to his son to take care of, Zhang Qiang began his inspection of the land of the Huaxia Empire, since he entered Yanjing and the Huaxia Kingdom became the Huaxia Empire, he has not gone out, has not gone out to inspect his territory.

Because compared with the time of the Huaxia Kingdom, being able to enter Yanjing represents the formal establishment of a dynasty, not a separatist force, but a formal and legitimate dynasty recognized by the common people, and compared with the conservative and defensive policies of previous dynasties, the Huaxia army showed a desire for land and an aggressive offensive nature, so Zhang Qiang named his dynasty Huaxia Empire.

This may not be in line with the ideology and morality of the Chinese people, but it is in line with Zhang Qiang's inner needs, as a traverser who has crossed over in later generations, he has been aggrieved for a long time, a long time, dreaming that his country will one day be able to stand tall, above the rest of the world, become the world hegemon, and lead the world.

Of course this is impossible, and it may be possible to give him another seventy years.

Now that he is old, seventy years old, there is no longer any possibility, no more power, to lead a man of lofty ideals who usually has nothing but his life to overthrow a dynasty and fight the enemy.

He could only lead the Huaxia Empire to such a point.

The rest is either going into decay or under the leadership of the sons or grandchildren, or the new prime ministers.

The patrol team is large and secretive.

The huge is because it gathered nearly 10,000 people from the garrison, the guards, and the personal guards, as well as some accompanying privy councils and councillors, and even the old henchmen of the advisory house, as well as one or two secretaries of the cabinet.

The secret is that the team is divided into a team of 100 people, quietly walking, passing through the county without entering, passing through the city is only to the point, resting, to the city where Zhizhou is located, it is just called to ask, stay for a day, only to stop and circle carefully when you arrive at the state city, inspect the local work, and observe the people's feelings.

In fact, this is not Zhang Qiang's main purpose, the main purpose is the general direction, and the places that can reflect the strength of the Chinese Empire, places of glory, such as the sailors, the Dagu Fort closest to the capital, and the royal sailor fleet.

The Royal Naval Fleet, since its establishment thirty years ago, after the flying clippers and iron sail warships came out, the second batch of four warships, and then followed Zhang Qiang to fight against the Western coalition forces and the Spaniards against Zheng Zhi and Zheng Jing in the Luzon Island Naval Battle, after returning the Royal Naval Fleet has been stationed at the exit of the Yangtze River in Jinling Prefecture, helping the Yangtze River Naval Division Garrison to take care of the home and protect the sea.

Later, because it was really useless, it was to show the existence of the royal family, in fact, it was also to show Zhang Qiang's majesty, making it more and more luxurious and huge, but in fact, the performance was not as high as other warships, and the combat effectiveness was not as powerful as other warships, but because of the existence of being in the limelight, it stopped on the dock for many years, wasting a lot of money.

From the original four or five ships increased to twelve, and finally became thirteen, one flagship, two frigates, ten new warships put into use after each new improvement with excellent combat effectiveness, and the cruisers and battleships were expanded in size and decorated with more luxurious decorations.

The tonnage also rose from the original 780 tons, first 800 tons, 880 tons, 920 tons, then 1,200 tons, 1,380 tons, 1,500 tons, 1,800 tons, 2,000 tons, 2,100 tons, 2,300 tons, and by this time after 278 years, the expansion of the middle tonnage also stopped, but the luxury maintenance and gradual increase in height did not stop.

Every time the new warship comes out, the warships allocated to the royal fleet are always luxuriously decorated, and the appearance is majestic or gorgeous, and the combat effectiveness is actually half a percent lower than the new warship, and then the combat effectiveness is getting lower and lower, and the speed is not as fast as the new warship that has entered service, but it has dropped the speed of at least one section, the faster the speed, the more free it can advance and retreat in battle, the larger the artillery, but the artillery is getting closer and closer, and the configuration of the warship that other sailors need to fight is much lower than the new warship. It's just a big guy who looks powerful on the outside.

The combat personnel and command staff assigned to the royal fleet were originally just some experienced sailors and soldiers and officers with rich combat experience, but later because there was a fleet, the selected personnel became younger and more gorgeous, and eventually became a ceremonial fleet, and sometimes it became a place where sailors eliminated personnel or exiled some disobedient personnel, the old ship, maybe many people in it are very powerful, or experienced, but many people are actually not transferred here normally, Instead, they were despised and exiled by the naval battle fleet, or they came here to retire.

Zhang Qiang previously paid attention to the battle of opening up Australia, Indonesia, and marching into the Western Regions, and later paid attention to the immigration work in various places, thinking of using the population to occupy those newly opened territories, and at the same time attacking the Qing Dynasty, the sailors faced the battles on land, almost useless, the Westerners were beaten out of the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean, and India, the crown jewel of the British empress, was also confined to land, and there was almost no strength to fight with the Chinese sailors at sea, so the sailors became chicken.

In addition to transporting immigrants to Australia and Luzon, Malacca, Indonesia and other places, it is to transport soldiers, horses, supplies, or to clear out the small groups of pirates that are constantly popping up.

This is a few years to do something, when Australia is settled, Luzon is fully occupied, Indonesia is taken, Malacca has become the maritime gateway of the Chinese Empire, the immigration work is coming to an end after a few years, the sailor fleet has become the old fleet of patrolling, has been maintained development, but has been maintained a small scale of refitting, because of the cancellation of the mission, the fleet needs ships gradually shrinking, the number of new old warships produced is increasing, but the shipyard has built more and more civilian ships, and the Chinese Empire's sailors are also shrinking in an all-round way.

Up to now, the number of warships fully owned by the Chinese Navy Division is only 800, and the new warships that have been studied over the years, after the production of dozens of replacement battleships, they were immediately replaced by new warships, many wooden warships were sold, or dismantled, and then more and more warships with increased years were dismantled, and the number of new warships and new warships produced every year was very small, from the beginning of the new warships to the beginning of the replacement of new warships, and now, the latest new warships that can be used for ocean routes, steam ships, However, there are only 100 warships, and the rest are dozens of warships that have been eliminated every time they have been studied, and the level of combat effectiveness is uneven.

Although the most economical method was used to replace the old ships, the number of old ships was still quite a lot after 20 years of accumulation, exceeding the total number of warships currently in service, reaching more than 2,000.

The largest tonnage warship newly developed by the Chinese Empire was the 3,000-ton steam ironclad ship.

(End of chapter)