Ruan Jin walked into the palace study where Zhang Qiang was, stood up and saluted, and then said to Zhang Qiang: "Your Majesty, the new warship has been tested and the personnel training has been completed, and I request to enter service." ”

Zhang Qiang put down the jade rosary in his hand, raised his hand, and said: "Sit down, you are also with my old man, you don't need to be so restrained in the future, this new ship into service was originally supposed to be thirty-six ships separated from three fleets, and then equipped with the first, second, and third fleets, but now due to the development of the situation, I am not ready to separate,"

Ruan Jin was stunned for a moment, and then said to Zhang Qiang: "Your Majesty, there will be chaos in this way, the commanders of the three fleets will make trouble, they have been looking forward to the new warships entering service for a long time." The ships of their fleet are constantly being sold by Your Majesty, which has made the sailors' gang complain every day, and now that there are new warships that do not equip them, these people have not overturned the base, and there may be a crazy tide of retirement, which has caused our sailors to suffer serious damage, they are not like our group, they are all young people, and they are not as loyal to Your Majesty as we are. They will consider their own feelings, not your feelings about the Kingdom and Your Majesty. ”

Zhang Qiang looked at Ruan Jin with a gloomy face, this was not what he wanted to hear, but it was what he wanted to hear.

What I don't want to hear is that these people actually doubt themselves, and at the same time start to complain, how do they think, how to do, and still use them to command? As soldiers, they only have the part to execute, he doesn't want to hear the complaints of the people below, and where these officers and soldiers of the Navy Division and the Military Intelligence Department at a lower level should be able to react, Ruan Jin should send someone down to solve it, what he wants to hear is that Ruan Jin and the Military Intelligence Department can react a long time ago, and it is after the solution, not now, and there is no solution to the reaction, do you want to solve it yourself?

Ruan Jin saw Zhang Qiang's gloomy face, and hurriedly stood up, "Your Majesty, it is true that many sailors have retired or been idle in the past two years, and now one million officers and soldiers of our sailor division and their families have been idle, and looking at your trend, the entire sailor will be sold by you, so will our sailor have to rest for a few years before coming out again?" ”

Zhang Qiang shook his head, this is not good, except for the old retirement, or other retirements due to various diseases, psychological, physical and other reasons, he does not want the current officers and soldiers of the Navy Division to be idle, but at present, there are about 20,000 officers and soldiers of the Navy Division who are idle, and if this batch of Navy fleet is sold, there will be 5,000 officers and soldiers of the Navy Division or even more idle.

This is still a new warship is about to be put into service, and a group of personnel from among their people and the officers and men of the naval division who are not idle now have been selected for training, and then put into service on the new warship.

The officers and men of the naval divisions of these new warships numbered about 6,000 men, all sailors and gunners of the division, as well as personnel of all ranks, as well as some marine escort squads.

"Thirty-six ships, each with fifty more people on board, let them follow the study, our second batch of forty-eight ships have also begun to lay keels and build, it is expected that two more months will be able to conduct sea trials, and then send one hundred and fifty people to the shipyard to help build, and it is okay to start, and when the construction is completed, they will be able to immediately go to the new ship for sea trials, and then let the people of the thirty-six ships who have been sea trials and have experience send some people to the new ships behind as the backbone crew, From the idle people, some people who perform well and are loyal to us will make up for the lack of personnel in the 36 ships, and the new ships will be commissioned in the future, and the process will be followed. Zhang Qiang looked at Ruan Jin and said coldly.

"Yes, Your Majesty, but our old ships only need more manpower than the new ones, let's just say a thousand-ton warship, there are at least three hundred and sixty people on a battleship, except for some miscellaneous servants, galleys, apprentices, doctors, carpenters, breeding personnel, warehouse keepers, and so on, there are still about three hundred people, and the new ships are not even two hundred people, at most two hundred heads, even if we are equipped with as many ships as we are now, there are still more than a hundred people who have no way out."

Ruan Jin said.

"Send those who can be laid off to the marines of the navy, and send the old and weak to the treatment of retired soldiers, and send them to the base or port below you to find a place to arrange, and then arrange the extra to work in the shipyard, and the officials can arrange to be a section member in the government department. Leave it to the Cabinet. If it doesn't work anymore, let's go to the port bases stationed abroad in Xinlu Province or Shikoku Mansion and other places to be janitors, cooks, guard soldiers, or clerks for personnel management, and try our best to arrange it.

It really can't be done, so arrange for them to go to the Marine Division Coast Guard. Where a large number of personnel are needed, the funds will be borne by you and the local government, which can reduce the burden on your water division director department, anyway, now tell the local government of development that there is no shortage of money. ”

Ruan Jin wanted to say something, Zhang Qiang waved his hand to stop it, and the rest had to Ruan Jin to think about what to do with him, Zhang Qiang, as the king, would not listen to him continue to nag, so he said to him: "There will be some fierce naval battles in the South China Sea and the South Seas, so all these 36 warships will be assigned to the Fifth Fleet, and the ships below 180 tons of the Fifth Fleet will patrol the shore, and one hundred nautical miles from the coast, the Navy Division will keep five 1,000-ton warships and five 800-ton warships on standby to reinforce these small tonnage warships."

In the distance, it is necessary to patrol the waterways around Qiong Island towards the South China Sea and to Koh Kong Island in Cambodia, so 300-ton and 600-ton warships will patrol them, and the 1,000-ton warships of the Fourth Fleet will be 800-ton warships, and about 30 will support them in a mobile way.

In the open sea, the route from Treasure Island to Manila is patrolled by three sub-fleets of the Fifth Fleet, which rotate one every half month to come back for supplies and rest for half a month, so that all 480 warships of the Fifth Fleet have work to do, and the other 36 warships will stay in the harbor or wander farther away, patrolling farther places in the situation of the sub-fleet, and at the same time serving as a mobile support fleet when other fleets are attacked. ”

"Who will lead the new fleet?" Ruan Jin said.

"For the time being, the garrisons of the various sub-fleets of the current fleet will take turns to serve as the leading commander, each for one month. I'll arrange it when I've got it figured out. Zhang Qiang said to Ruan Jin.

"Okay, Your Majesty, I'll arrange it." Ruan Jin finished speaking and left.

Zhang Qiang sat back in his chair and propped up his elbows to think about something, the speed is fast, the minimum cruising speed can reach eight knots, the ordinary sailing speed is ten knots, and the maximum sailing speed is fourteen knots, which can only be implemented in downwind or high-speed combat, and generally cannot be implemented, and there will be some damage to the bearing capacity of the hull and canvas, which is not big but is fatal in critical situations.

But such a new warship is also proud.

Twenty-four of the thirty-six ships that can really fight, and the other twelve can only be assisted by the side, and those twelve can reach a speed of 16 knots at the highest time, and the cruising speed is also at a speed of twelve knots, which is mainly used as a liaison between fleets in peacetime, and transports some important people to and from various places.

(End of chapter)