In May of the eighth year of Xinghua, the first new battleship of the Chinese Empire, the "Qin Shi Huang", entered service with the Pacific Fleet of the Imperial Royal Navy. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

After that, Yan Xueyi announced to the world that in the next five years, the Chinese Imperial Navy will purchase a total of 16 new battleships, and all countries were shocked by the huge ship purchase plan of the Chinese Empire, after all, a fleet cannot be composed of all battleships, but also has to be matched with a certain number of cruisers and destroyers, and the total tonnage of the Chinese Imperial Navy may exceed 700,000 tons in five years, becoming the third naval power in the world after Britain and France.

Moreover, not long after the battleship "Qin Shi Huang" entered service, the Admiralty of the Chinese Empire officially announced to the outside world that the Chinese Empire will build a powerful navy with 16 new battleships in the next five years to safeguard the interests of the Chinese Empire, and this year the Chinese Empire will build four more Qin-class battleships, and next year will start to build the next generation of battleships, and even the Shencheng Shipyard has made a false shell, so that Western countries think that the Chinese Empire really wants to build so many battleships.

In order to cope with the growing Chinese Imperial Navy, the world's major naval powers also began to purchase new ships for their own navy, Britain announced the construction plan of four Majestic-class battleships, and then added two more because of the shipbuilding plans of various countries, followed by three French, three American, two Russian, and two German, the world's top five naval powers because of the Chinese Empire's shipbuilding plan, have introduced their own shipbuilding plans, a new round of naval arms race is rapidly expanding, and the remaining countries are powerless to look at the shipbuilding plans of the six major naval powers.

Seeing the plans of the world's major naval powers to purchase ships, the top brass of the Chinese Empire laughed.

The Chinese Empire did not want to build so many new battleships for the time being, and only two Qin Dynasty-class battleships would be built, and these two would only be temporarily used as the flagships of the two major fleets of the Navy, and in the Shencheng Shipyard, there were still two larger new battleships under construction, which were the second-generation battleships of the Chinese Empire - Han Dynasty-class battleships.

There were two Han Dynasty-class battleships, namely "Han Gaozu" and "Han Huidi", both of which were built at the beginning of the ninth year of Xinghua, and were launched around March of the tenth year of Xinghua for outfitting and other follow-up processes.

In the eleventh year of Xinghua, the two Han Dynasty-class battleships have been built, officially undergoing various tests, and will soon enter service.

Han Dynasty class battleship

Displacement: 13,962 tons unladen; standard 15,166 tons; Full load 15,893 tons

Main scale: length 143.20m, width 22.80m, draft 7.9m;

Maximum speed: 19.00 knots

Endurance: 10 knots 5000 nautical miles

Coal capacity: 1,200 tons

Power: coal-fired boiler, combined reciprocating steam engine 16400 horsepower, 2 shafts and 2 propellers;

Armor: broadside strap 228mm, deck 63mm, turret 254mm

Crew: 730 people

Armament: 3 twin 40x 350 mm guns, 6 single 150 mm secondary guns, 8 47 mm anti-aircraft guns. (without torpedo tubes)

As a new type of battleship, the Qin Dynasty class can only be at an average level among the new battleships that have been put into service by the world's major naval powers, and there is still a big gap between it and the latest British Majesty-class battleships.

However, the Han Dynasty-class battleships are different, the Han-class battleships are definitely the top level among the new battleships in service in various countries around the world, and even the new battleships under construction in shipyards in various countries cannot surpass the Han-class battleships.

In May of the 11th year of Xinghua, the Chinese Empire once again held a grand ceremony for warships to enter service, and the protagonists of this ceremony were two Han Dynasty-class battleships.

When the two Han Dynasty-class battleships appeared in the distance of Shencheng Port, the representatives of various countries looked at the two huge Han Dynasty-class battleships in amazement, you must know that in terms of standard displacement, the Han Dynasty-class is 2,500 tons more than the Qin-class class, that is, the Han-class is larger than the Qin-class class, and even the British Majesty-class battleships are about the same size as the Han-class battleships.

The construction of the Qin Dynasty-class battleships by the Chinese Empire has surprised all countries, but I did not expect that three years later, the new generation of battleships of the Chinese Empire will also enter service, which is an even better battleship than the Majesty class.

Looking at the Han Dynasty-class battleships, the British and French looked at them seriously, the Americans sighed, saying that they were extremely envious and jealous, while the Germans looked at the high-ranking leaders of the Chinese Empire, and the Germans increasingly hoped that the Chinese Empire would become a formal ally of Germany.

Before the ceremony of the Han-class battleships entering service, the Minister of the Navy announced that three Han-class-class battleships will be built at the Shencheng Shipyard this year, and four more Han-class-class battleships will be built at the Mawei Shipyard next year.

At present, the shipyards of the Chinese Empire that can undertake the construction of new battleships are not only the Shencheng Shipyard and the Mawei Shipyard, but also the Guangzhou Shipyard from which the Shencheng Shipyard is separated, and the three shipyards are all able to build new battleships on their own.

On the other hand, the "shipbuilding plan" of the Chinese Empire is unfolding in an orderly manner, and the three docks in the Shencheng shipyard have begun preparations for the construction of battleships, and a rough picture has also appeared in the Shencheng newspaper, which will not let outsiders get much useful information, but they can learn that the Chinese Empire is going to start building battleships.

Coupled with a number of other actions, the countries finally decided that the Chinese Empire had a plan to purchase ships, and the Chinese Empire really wanted its navy to have sixteen battleships.

In response to the Chinese Empire's ship purchase plan, the major naval powers also listed their own ship purchase plans: Britain added five new Dreadnought-class battleships, France and the United States three, Germany two, Russia one, and even more cruisers and destroyers supporting the battleships.

The Chinese Empire's ship purchase plan further intensified the naval arms race among the major naval powers, and a large amount of capital poured into the shipbuilding industry, which also made the shipbuilding industry of various countries extremely prosperous.

At a time when various countries are frantically building all kinds of warships, Baron Meng Fanxuan, director of Shencheng Shipyard, is leading his team to finalize the next generation of battleships in the empire.

With Yan Xueyi's guidance, Meng Fanxuan wants to lead his team to build an epoch-making battleship, Meng Fanxuan believes that when this battleship comes out, other battleships in service or under construction in the navies of various countries will be outdated, and the next naval era will be dominated by the Jin Dynasty-class battleships of the Chinese Empire!