Admiral Brady's words made Emperor Penelope gasp, you must know that in addition to the twenty-four Admiral-Gelman-class super dreadnought battleships and twenty-four fast-class battlecruisers currently under construction, among the active service of the Royal Navy of British Ropa, there are a total of twenty-four super dreadnought battleships, thirty-six dreadnought battleships, sixty former dreadnought battleships and seventy-two ironclad battleships.

Although the number of capital ships of the Royal Anglopa Royal Navy still exceeds that of the independent fleet under Su Yi, don't forget that among the active capital ships of the Royal Angloba Navy, there are seventy-two ironclad battleships, and only in terms of very backward ironclad battleships, the Royal Angloba Navy has a huge advantage in front of the independent fleet.

In the comparison of the three most powerful capital ships, the super dreadnought battleship, the battle cruiser and the dreadnought battleship, the Royal Navy of Yingroba can be said to be at a disadvantage.

At this time, August, the prime minister of the Yingluoba Empire, suddenly hurriedly walked into the main hall and came to the body of Emperor Penelope, and after bending down and bowing, Prime Minister Auguste said urgently: "Your Majesty, the intelligence department has just received a news that the royal family of the Noomi Empire has allocated a large amount of money to the Noomi Navy not long ago for the construction of super dreadnought battleships and battle cruisers, and the Noomi Navy is actually preparing to build twenty-four super dreadnought battleships with 45 times the caliber of 356 mm guns at the same time, And twenty-four battle cruisers with 45 times caliber 356 mm guns! ”

The Noomi Empire is the largest country in the world in terms of land area, adjacent to the Yingluoba Empire, with the world's No. 1 army and the world's third-ranked navy.

When Emperor Penelope heard this, he asked in surprise: "Hasn't the royal family of the Noomi Empire always been poor?" A super dreadnought battleship with 45 times the caliber of 356 mm guns costs at least two and a half million British dollars, and a battle cruiser with 45 times the caliber of 356 mm guns costs more than two million British dollars, how can the royal family of the Noomi Empire come up with such a large sum of money at once? ”

Navy Minister Brady also asked in surprise: "Prime Minister, as far as I know, the entire Noomi Empire has a total of twenty-four docks that can build super dreadnought battleships, not to mention that sixteen of the docks are also building eight Boiling Class Super Dreadnought battleships and eight Pathfinder-class battlecruisers of the Noomi Navy, how can the Noomi Empire build twenty-four super dreadnought battleships and twenty-four battle cruisers at the same time?" ”

The Noomi Empire's Boiling class super dreadnought battleships have five twin 45 times caliber 343 mm main guns, a full load displacement of 26,200 tons, and a maximum speed of 20 knots, and the Pathfinder-class battlecruisers have four twin 45 times caliber 343 mm main guns, a full load displacement of 27,000 tons, and a maximum speed of 26 knots.

Prime Minister August immediately said: "The intelligence department has not yet found out the source of this huge amount of funds from the Noomi Empire's royal family, but the fact that the Noomi Navy is preparing to build twenty-four super dreadnought battleships and twenty-four battle cruisers at the same time is absolutely true, and the Noomi Navy has invested a huge amount of money to start building or renovating a number of docks that can build super dreadnought battleships and battle cruisers, and this cost is also provided by the Noomi Imperial Family." ”

Emperor Penelope suddenly sneered, "It seems that our Royal Navy of Yingluoba will have one more fierce opponent in the future, and now not only the independent fleet that has appeared out of thin air has threatened the number one position of our Royal Navy of Yingluopa, I didn't expect that the Noomi Navy would also want to wrestle with our Royal Navy of Yingluopa, which made me feel a little excited!" ”

Then Emperor Penelope asked Prime Minister Auguste: "How is the development of the 381-mm large-caliber naval gun by the scientific research department?" ”

Prime Minister August immediately said: "Your Majesty, the scientific research department has successfully developed a twin-mounted 45-fold caliber 381 mm large-caliber naval gun, but this twin-mounted 381 mm naval gun is heavier, if a super dreadnought battleship is equipped with five twin-mounted 381 mm main guns, maybe the standard displacement of this super dreadnought battleship will exceed 35,000 tons." ”

Emperor Penelope smiled and said: "It doesn't matter if the twin 381 mm naval guns are heavier, anyway, many docks in our country can even build battleships with a displacement of 40,000 tons, and if it is not possible, some 30,000 tons of docks can be renovated." ”

Then Emperor Penelope turned to the Admiralty Minister Brady and said: "I hope that your Admiralty will design super dreadnought battleships and battle cruisers equipped with twin 381mm guns as soon as possible, as for the cost of construction, your Admiralty does not need to worry, I will be fully responsible, our British Royal Navy number one position in the world must be maintained forever, and the British Royal Navy's four-strong standard must continue to be implemented." ”

When the Admiral Brady heard this, it seemed that the royal family was about to hemorrhage again, but for the Royal Navy of Yingluopa, it was a better thing, and Brady couldn't help but ask: "Your Majesty, how many super dreadnought battleships and battle cruisers equipped with twin 381mm guns are you going to build?" ”

Emperor Penelope pondered for a moment and said, "Since our Royal Navy at Innova wants to maintain the standard of the top four, then I am going to build twenty-four super dreadnought battleships with twin 381 mm guns and twenty-four battle cruisers with twin 381 mm guns at once. ”

The Admiralty Chancellor Brady and the Prime Minister Auguste were immediately stunned by Emperor Penello's generosity, and they not only secretly wondered how much wealth the royal family of the British Empire had?

The Yingluoba Empire has been rich in gold and diamonds since ancient times, and many mining areas that produce gold and diamonds are owned by the royal family of the Yingroba Empire, which can be described as the richest royal family in the world.

Emperor Penelope then said to the Admiralty Minister, Brady: "By the way, don't forget to add anti-aircraft guns to warships, many countries now have load-loaded airships that can drop aerial bombs." ”

Admiral Brady hurriedly nodded and said: "Your Majesty, rest assured, our Admiralty has not only installed three 75mm anti-aircraft guns on the twenty-four Admiral-class super dreadnought battleships and twenty-four fast-class super dreadnought battleships under construction, but also installed anti-aircraft guns on most of the warships currently in service in the Royal Navy of Yingroba to prevent the enemy's airship troops from flying to the sea for aerial bombardment. ”

Then Emperor Penelope turned to Prime Minister August and said, "I am very curious, where did the huge amount of money of the Noomi Empire's royal family come from? Prime Minister, let the intelligence services go all out to investigate this matter! ”

In the palace of Kay City, the capital of the Noomi Empire, Edgru, the emperor of the Noomi Empire, said to Prime Minister Julian with a smile on his face: "Presumably, the whole world should know about our Noomi Royal Navy, and then we are going to build twenty-four super dreadnought battleships and twenty-four battlecruisers at the same time, right?" ”

Prime Minister Julian said with some excitement: "Your Majesty, our Noomi Royal Army has been recognized as the No. 1 Army in the world in recent decades, if our Noomi Royal Navy can also become the No. 1 in the world, then our Noomi Empire will deserve to become the No. 1 power in the Western Continent again, and even the No. 1 power in the world, and even have a chance to completely defeat the two old enemies of the Yingroba Empire and the Sharad Empire!" ”

Emperor Edgru's eyes also flashed with excitement, "Since God has given us such a large fortune in the Noomi Empire, if I can't lead the Noomi Empire to dominate the entire Western Continent, then I'm sorry for this gift from God!" ”

The Noomi Empire is located between the Yingroba Empire and the Sharad Empire, although the Noomi Empire is currently the largest country in the world, but more than a hundred years ago, the Noomi Empire was 10 million square kilometers more than now, and the Noomi Empire was also the first power in the Western continent at that time.

However, more than 100 years ago, the two emerging industrial countries of the Yingluoba Empire and the Sharad Empire joined forces to wage a seven-year war with the Noomi Empire, because the industrialization of the Noomi Empire had just begun at that time, resulting in the weapons and equipment of the Noomi army being much worse than the Yingroba army and the Sharad army.

In the end, the Noomi Empire became the defeated of the Seven Years' War, and was forced to cede 5 million square kilometers of land to the Anglopa Empire and the Sharad Empire respectively.

The Yingroba Empire and the Sharad Empire also suffered a lot of losses in that seven-year war, otherwise these two countries would definitely not have let go of the Noomi Empire by claiming only five million square kilometers of land each, and the original intention of the two countries to launch the war was to completely divide the Noomi Empire.

In the following 100 years, the Noomi Empire broke out border conflicts with the Yingroba Empire and the Sharad Empire many times, and even small-scale border wars.

However, due to the mutual containment of the three kingdoms, the Noomi Empire has never had a chance to regain the lost 10 million square kilometers of territory, which has made several emperors of the Noomi Empire linger.

As for the gift from heaven mentioned by Emperor Edgrew of the Noomi Empire, he was referring to a mining area found in the Noomi Empire.

This mining area was originally a ranch belonging to the Noomi Imperial Family, and in September last year, the Noomi Imperial Family discovered a gold mine with an astonishing reserve in this ranch, and soon after, an even more staggering silver mine was discovered in this ranch.

Explorers have measured that the mine has reserves of more than 100,000 tonnes of gold containing between 10 and 40 grams per tonne, while the mine has reserves of more than 3 million tonnes and contains between 300 and 1,000 grams of silver per tonne.

What makes the royal family of the Noomi Empire even more excited is that the gold and silver mines found in this ranch have a large part of the reserves, which are very easy to mine, which is simply a gift from God to the royal family of the Noomi Empire.

The gold mine was named the Royal Gold Mine by Emperor Edgru, and the silver mine was named the Royal Silver Mine by Emperor Edgru, and this gold mine and this silver mine were found in the royal ranch after all, and should have belonged to the royal family of the Noomi Empire.

Aside from the preliminary work of mining, it is now only half a year of mining, and the royal family of the Noomi Empire has obtained 1,200 tons of gold and 15,000 tons of silver from the royal gold and silver mines.

Fifteen thousand tons of silver is about 30 million British dollars in the British Empire, and at the exchange rate of about 30 to 1 in this world of silver to gold, 1,200 tons of gold is about 72 million British dollars in the British Empire.

In just over half a year, the royal family of the Noomi Empire has obtained a huge wealth of hundreds of millions of dollars, and such an income can be maintained for a long time, which suddenly made the emperor of the Noomi Empire, Edgrew, unabashedly began to invest heavily in the Noomi Royal Navy.

Emperor Edgrew asked Prime Minister Julian, "By the way, how long will it take to build eight Boiling Class Super Dreadnought Battleships and eight Pathfinder-class Battle Cruisers?" ”

At present, the Royal Navy of Noomi has eight Boiling-class super dreadnought battleships in active service, and the other eight Boiling-class and eight Pathfinder-class battlecruisers have all started construction before the official mining of gold and silver, and the cost is paid for by the Noomi Empire's treasury.

Prime Minister Julian then said: "Your Majesty, the eight Boiling Class Super Dreadnought battleships will all be completed in early February next year, and the eight Pathfinder-class battlecruisers will be almost all completed by mid-May next year." ”

Emperor Edgrew asked again: "Eight Boiling-class and eight Pathfinder-class occupy sixteen 30,000-ton docks, so is there a problem with the construction of our new twenty-four Ocean-class super dreadnought-class battleships and the new twenty-four Fighter-class battlecruisers of our Noomi Royal Navy at the same time?" ”

The Ocean-class super dreadnought battleship has five twin 45 times caliber 356 mm guns with a full load displacement of 31,800 tons and a maximum speed of 20.5 knots, and the Gladiator-class battlecruiser has four twin 45 times caliber 356 mm guns with a full load displacement of 29,300 tons and a maximum speed of 26.5 knots.

"Your Majesty can rest assured that the Admiralty is currently building and renovating a number of docks, and it will definitely not delay the construction of twenty-four ocean-class super dreadnought battleships and twenty-four Fighter-class battlecruisers, but because of the new construction and renovation of many docks, the one billion dollars allocated by His Majesty to the Admiralty may not be enough to build twenty-four ocean-class and twenty-four Fighter-class ships in one go."

The Nobel Dollar was the currency issued by the Noomi Empire, and the exchange rate of the Nobel Dollar to the British Dollar was about 10 to 1, and the exchange rate to the Silver Dollar was 1 to 1.

Emperor Edgrew smiled and said: "According to the output of the Royal Gold Mine and the Royal Silver Mine, I can allocate at least 150 million Nou Yuan a month to the Admiralty, so the Prime Minister does not need to worry about the problem of funds, of course, our Noomi Royal Army will also be appropriately expanded, and it is impossible for me to allocate all the gold and silver produced every month to the Admiralty." ”

Prime Minister Julian immediately said: "In fact, the funding gap of the Admiralty can be completely solved by relying on our Noomi Germany's finances, but because the army wants to form an airship force and the navy wants to form a submarine force, I have to let Your Majesty spend some more money." ”

Emperor Edgrew said indifferently: "I am not a miser, as long as I can regain the 10 million square kilometers of land occupied by the Yingroba Empire and the Shalad Empire, I am willing to use all the output of the Royal Gold Mine and the Royal Silver Mine for our Noomi Royal Army and Noomi Royal Navy." ”

After a pause, Emperor Edgrew asked Prime Minister Julian: "By the way, let the War Department send a few more infantry regiments to the border areas adjacent to the Sharad Empire as soon as possible to contain more Sharad Army troops, I am very willing to see that the forces of the Sharad Empire are driven out of the Cangyu Empire by that Su Yi!" ”

Prime Minister Julian hesitated for a moment and said: "Your Majesty, after all, our Noomi Royal Army only has a total of twenty-three standing infantry legions, and now there are thirteen infantry legions gathered in the border area adjacent to the Sharad Empire, it is difficult for the War Department to draw out a few more infantry legions, and it is not easy to even transfer another infantry legion, after all, our Noomi Royal Army still needs to maintain a certain number of troops in the border area adjacent to the Yingluoba Empire." ”

Emperor Edgrew pondered for a moment and said: "Then let the War Department use the officers and soldiers of the reserve to expand ten new infantry regiments as soon as possible, and we must ensure that in the border areas adjacent to the Sharad Empire, we must give enough military pressure to the Sharad Empire, and as for the cost of this military expansion, I can be responsible for it." ”

Prime Minister Julian nodded and said: "According to the information obtained by the intelligence department, because of the competition with the Su family army for the Cangyu Empire, the Salad Army has expanded to the size of forty infantry regiments and sixteen independent infantry divisions, and our Royal Noomi Army should indeed carry out some expansion." ”

Emperor Edgrew said indifferently: "Our Noomi Royal Army has tens of millions of reserve officers and soldiers, if necessary, in a short period of time, our Noomi Royal Army can expand hundreds of full infantry corps, so the army, I don't need to worry, the key is the navy, after all, building a warship is not an overnight thing, and the next focus of our Noomi Empire's military development will be on the navy, and strive to make our Noomi Royal Navy, Win the title of the world's number one Navy in the British Roga Navy! ”