[In the pre-dreadnought era, battleships had torpedo tubes, and the first battleship would not be maverick, and it was one thing to use torpedo tubes, but dreadnoughts would be built soon, and in addition, Heng Yi didn't have a code word for a day today, looking at the dismal subscription, Heng Yi was thinking about going out to find a job]

The battleship "Qin Shi Huang" can be regarded as the most advanced battleship in the world at present. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

In 1892, the British built the world's first all-steel hull battleship "Sovereign" battleship, which was the starting point of the new battleship, and the powerful "Sovereign" battleship appeared and immediately became a model for the design of battleships in various countries.

The main features of the new battleship were: a tonnage of more than 10,000 tons, a large-caliber heavy gun as the main gun, a reinforced steel armor, and a coal-fired steam engine.

After the appearance of the battleship "Sovereign", Germany, the United States, Russia and other countries set up their own plans to build new battleships, and then France, Italy, and Austria-Hungary also prepared to build new battleships, and even the island nation wanted to build new battleships.

It is said that its own country obviously does not have the technical level to build new battleships, and that it is an island country, with strong neighbors (the Chinese Empire and the United States) on the left and right, and is in the middle of a two-sided attack, and it can not have a strong army and a strong air force for the time being, but it must have a strong navy to defend the land like Britain.

In the last war, the Chinese Imperial Navy's blockade of Yueben was vividly vivid, once Yueben did not even have a navy, and was blocked by other countries with their navies, there was no need to send troops to attack Yueben, and it would not take many times, and Yueben himself would have to become chaotic.

In desperation, the king could only call on the whole country to be frugal, and use the money borrowed from Britain and France to buy new battleships from Britain.

The two new battleships were based on the British Majesty-class battleships, and some modifications were made according to his own ideas, and they became Fuji-class battleships, namely the "Fuji" and "Yashima".

The battleship "Fuji", with a displacement of 12,533 tons, started construction on August 1 in the sixth year of Xinghua (1894) at the Thames IronWorks factory in London, England, and was launched on March 31 this year, and is expected to be officially completed in August and September next year.

The battleship "Yashima" with a displacement of 12320 tons. Construction began on December 28 at the Whitworth plant in Elswick, England, and was launched on February 28 this year, which is expected to be not far from the completion time of the "Fuji".

Originally, he thought that with the "Fuji" and "Yashima" purchased from the British, he would be able to build a navy stronger than the Chinese Empire, which would make him feel a little more at ease, after all, the Chinese Empire was almost half surrounded by the Empire, and he could attack the Empire at any time, while the strength of Britain and France in East Asia had plummeted, and it was impossible to prevent the Chinese Empire from attacking the Empire in time.

I didn't expect that now that the new battleships built by the Chinese Empire itself and the "Fuji" and "Yashima" were not inferior to the "Fuji" and "Yashima" in the same way as they were officially put into service not long after the "Fuji" and "Yashima" were launched, and the "Fuji" and "Yashima" were still being intensively outfitted in British shipyards, and they could not be officially completed and returned to China more than a year later.

On the surface, next year it will be said that Ben will have two new battleships, and the Chinese Empire now has only one battleship, who knows how many battleships the Chinese Empire is secretly building, you must know that the Chinese Empire is building its own new battleships, and the Chinese Empire, which is vast and rich, will build as many ships as it wants in the future, and even the emperor of the Chinese Empire, Yan Xueyi, said that the Chinese Empire will build a navy with 16 new battleships in the future. Neither can Ben do it.

Because the cost of the new battleship is very high, the cost of the model ship "Sovereign" battleship is as high as 1.1 million pounds, which is equivalent to about 5 million US dollars, 33 million Chinese dollars, and the cost of the new battleship built after is basically about 1 million pounds.

With the current economic strength, it is simply impossible to build ships on a large scale or purchase warships.

When the news of the official commissioning of the first self-built new battleship of the Chinese Empire, the "Qin Shi Huang" battleship, was transmitted back to the country, it caused a panic in the upper echelons of the capital, but there was not much turmoil in the lower echelons of the capital, and the ordinary people only cared about their own lives, and the major affairs of the country were handled by the upper echelons, and they had nothing to do with them.

After learning the news, the Emperor immediately convened a cabinet meeting to discuss how he should deal with the matter, but not long after the meeting began, the cabinet members were silent in the face of the eyes of the Meiji Emperor.

The way to deal with the Chinese Empire is very simple, that is, to continue to invest a lot of money to build a powerful air force or navy, the former can not even be done by the Western powers, let alone the Ben, and the latter can buy new battleships with the relationship between the Ben and the Western Powers, but the biggest problem "money" cannot be solved.

Even if the king takes the lead in reducing food and clothing and calling on the people of the whole country to donate money, I am afraid that he will not be able to get the money to buy a new battleship, because the king has done too many such things, and the money in the hands of the ignorant people at the bottom of the world has basically been squeezed out, and no matter how ignorant the people at the bottom are, they will not donate the money they keep for food.

Headache, very headache, the members of the cabinet of this government have a headache at the extreme.

As a small island country, even if it has the support of Britain and France behind it, it is a very difficult time to compete with such a powerful country as the Chinese Empire.

If there is no support from Britain and France behind the book, perhaps after the Chinese Empire defeats the Chinese Empire, the Chinese Empire will kneel down to join the Chinese Empire, just like in the history of the Chinese nation, the Chinese nation has repeatedly worshiped the strong country established by the Chinese nation, and the country is a country that worships the strong, even if the Chinese Empire has brought many traumas to the Chinese Empire, the Chinese Empire will quickly forget about it and turn around and kneel down to join the Chinese Empire.

You don't see that in another world, the United States planted two mushrooms, and suffered heavy casualties, but the defeated Yue Ben knelt down to add the United States as the victor.

Both are the same.

The Meiji Wawang and the cabinet members discussed and discussed, but did not find any feasible way, and finally said that the top management could only wait in silence, waiting for the British and French side to make some moves, as a British dogleg, said that Ben only needs to follow the British, no longer need to have a headache, the sky is falling, there is a tall man on top, and Ben is just a dwarf.

(Note: Some readers don't understand the currency exchange rate in this book, I have already talked about it before, and now I repeat it again, 3 taels of silver = 1 pound = 4.5 US dollars, 10 Chinese dollars = 1 tael of silver = 1.5 US dollars, this is just an approximate exchange rate, the real exchange rate is too troublesome, and the value of Chinese dollars is set so low that people use more "yuan" instead of "cents", and the monthly salary of ordinary workers is only 20 Chinese dollars)