The news of the official commissioning of the first self-built new battleship of the Chinese Empire, the battleship "Qin Shi Huang", also returned to Britain, and Britain attached great importance to this news, and the British cabinet held several special meetings to discuss the matter. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

As the hegemon of the earth and sea, Britain did not attach importance to the first self-built new battleship of the Chinese Empire, the battleship "Qin Shi Huang", and the British high-level attached importance to other information derived from this information, such as the new battleship was built by the Chinese Empire.

The Chinese Empire was founded less than eight years ago, and the shipbuilding industry actually developed to the point of building new battleships, which had to be taken seriously by the British.

Of course, the British top brass did not believe that the battleship "Qin Shi Huang" was built by the Chinese Empire under its own strength, and perhaps there was help from the Germans and Americans.

All countries in the world can see that the Western countries that are relatively close to the Chinese Empire are Germany and the United States.

Germany was the first country to cooperate with the Chinese Empire, and on the surface, everyone can see that the cooperation projects between Germany and the Chinese Empire include the military, because the standard equipment of the German Army is basically evolved from the standard equipment of the Chinese Imperial Army, and the appearance is slightly different, which is mainly due to the further design of the shape of the weapon by the Germans and the shape suitable for the Germans.

On the other hand, Germany aided two large shipyards of the Chinese Empire, although these two shipyards currently only build civilian ships, who knows whether the Germans behind the scenes have given the technology of new battleships to the Chinese Empire, after all, Germany is also a naval power, and Germany's new battleship technology is not bad.

There is also the United States, the United States also has new battleship technology, and it is very likely that the Chinese Empire will get new battleship technology from these two countries, so as to build the battleship "Qin Shi Huang".

The official commissioning of the battleship "Qin Shi Huang" means that the Chinese Empire has completely mastered the technology of new battleships, and in addition, the Chinese Empire has a vast land and resources, and can build more new battleships at any time, which is a very important issue.

As the supremacy of the sea, the total tonnage of the British fleet and the number of capital warships have always ranked first in the world, and the plan formulated by the United Kingdom is that these two indicators are one line higher than the sum of the second and third in the world, which means that the British Navy has the strength to suppress the navies of other countries in the world combined, and Britain has been working hard to maintain this level.

Under normal circumstances, for every additional battleship built by Britain's rival Germany, Britain would then add two or three more battleships to maintain a pressure on the navies of the rest of the world.

The Chinese Empire was capable of building new battleships on a large scale, and once the Chinese Empire began a large-scale shipbuilding program, Britain, as an adversary, would also build a large number of new battleships in order to maintain the absolute superiority of the British Navy.

However, at present, Britain is still at war with the Boers, and more than 200,000 British troops are fighting with the Boers on the battlefield in South Africa, so the British government needs to allocate a large amount of military spending.

Yan Xueyi, the emperor of the Chinese Empire, has already said that the Chinese Empire will have 16 new battleships in the future, which means that Britain needs to build 16 to 32 new battleships, and the Chinese Empire and Britain will not build so many new battleships at the same time, even this will have a relatively large impact on Britain. In order to maintain its position as a maritime hegemon, Britain could only do so and could not turn back.

Unless Britain can stop the Chinese Empire's shipbuilding program, which is obviously impossible, Britain is the supremacy of the sea, and the Chinese Empire is still the supremacy of the air.

For more than 100 years, Britain has maintained its maritime supremacy, and it has obviously taken a lot of effort, as can be seen from the current strength of the British navy.

After the Chinese Empire entered service with the battleship "Qin Shi Huang", the total tonnage of the Chinese Empire's surface ships has reached 180,000 tons, and the total tonnage of underwater ships and submarines has also reached 18,000 tons, which is 200,000 tons together.

When the Imperial Chinese Navy reached this tonnage, it was already close to catching up with the United States and Germany, and in front of the United States and Germany were Russia, France, and Great Britain, and the British naval strength was almost equal to that of France, Russia, and Germany combined.

However, compared with the British Navy, the total tonnage of the Chinese Imperial Navy was less than one-fifth, and the proportion of capital warships was even lower.

At present, the total tonnage of British Navy ships has exceeded one million, and the number of new battleships is as many as 12, namely the Sovereign, the Revenge, the Resolve, the Counterattack, the Remilis, the Empress of India, the Royal Oak, and the Hood Eight Sovereign-class battleships, the Captain Centurion and the Pavrell two Captain Centennial-class battleships (a reduced version of the Sovereign-class, with a tonnage of only 10,500 tons), and the two Majestic-class battleships (standard row of 15,000 tons), in the second half of this year, Two more Majestic-class battleships will be put into service, the Prince George and the Victory.

This is the strength of being the supremacy of the sea, no country's navy dares to confront the British Navy, even if the navies of other countries in the world are united, it will be difficult to beat the British Navy, after all, the multinational combined fleet will be more chaotic, and Britain has always been one country.

In order to maintain a large and expanding navy, the British government needs to allocate a large amount of military spending every year.

In 1857-1858, the British Navy spent 8.44 million pounds, in 1870-1871 it was 9.01 million pounds, in 1880-1881 it was 10.32 million pounds, and in 1890-1891 it was 12.7 million pounds, but by the previous year, the British navy had risen to 22.6 million pounds.

It can be seen from this that with the rise of the tonnage of the British Navy, the military expenditure of the British Navy has increased rapidly, especially since the birth of new warships, the growth rate of military spending has been even faster and alarming.

However, Britain must continue to increase its naval military spending and purchase new ships for the navy every year, because Britain has huge colonies around the world and needs naval fleets to protect it, so that the British navy needs to contend with countries all over the world, and Britain must go down one road if it wants to maintain its position as the boss, until the day when it can no longer go on.