In the end, Guo Ye set his eyes on Ding Ruchang and said, "Yu Ting, how is this naval fleet commander doing?" ”

Ding Ruchang's face turned red, and he replied: "Your Majesty, it wasn't for your vigorous support all the time that the minister has today's achievements?" A few years ago, the minister was just a small twisted army small flag master, only a few hundred people under his hands, although some knowledge, but also a frog at the bottom of the well, now follow you like a dragon into the sea, the trip to the United States, the minister opened his eyes, only to know the world, it turned out to be so big, but also to see that the gap between us and foreigners is really not a good idea, our Chinese Empire's fleet, even against an Asian fleet, are a big difference, let alone others? Now that Chen Xi is the chief of the navy, he is really trembling, walking on thin ice......"

Guo Ye nodded and replied, "Yes, that's it!" Trembling, walking on thin ice, will be ashamed and brave, keep moving forward, Yu Ting, presumably others, your burden is the heaviest, the 40,000 miles of the Chinese Empire will all depend on you, don't let me down......"

"Yes, Your Majesty, the minister will do his best to live up to His Majesty's expectations of the minister!"

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Guo Ye continued: "Now the affairs of the navy are mainly three, the first is to prepare for the establishment of a naval academy, recruit naval officers in service or retired from Britain, the United States, France and other countries as instructors, open courses, and train naval commanders and ship technical personnel, the location is in Tianjin, it is also five years, and a large number of naval talents must be trained for the country. ”

Ding Ruchang hurriedly agreed and replied: "Your Majesty, the minister recommended Lu Changhai, the chief soldier of the Shandong Naval Division, to prepare for the establishment of the Naval Academy. ”

Guo Ye nodded, and then said: "The Naval Academy alone is far from being able to meet the needs of our navy, especially now that the navy is too weak, we need to grow up as quickly as possible, and give the order to transfer one hundred potential low-level generals from the Yangtze River Naval Division and the Shandong Fleet, who are not more than thirty years old, to send naval students to the United States and Britain for training in Britain and the United States!" ”

Ding Ruchang frowned and hesitated: "Your Majesty, studying in the United States, this is easy to say, with our relationship with the United States, as long as we make a request, we can definitely reach an intention, and we now have two or three batches of international students studying in the United States, including those who are studying the navy, but studying in England, I'm afraid it's difficult, we don't see each other with England, can people accept our international students?" ”

Guo Ye smiled: "What's not to do?" Now that I have just ascended the throne, as a rule, the ministers of Western countries will come to congratulate me, but I am afraid that the ministers of these countries are anxious to see me! ”

Guo Ye is right, just this big war, all Western countries have been beaten by the heavy machine guns of the Lu army, it is too fierce, and the lethality of this thing to soldiers is even far above the artillery! It is the trump card of positional defense, only a hundred and ten heavy machine guns swing at the front of the position, then the enemy is unlikely to rush to the position at all!

What soldier is not red-eyed? However, the red-eyed is one thing, the difficulty lies in how to produce, the mature heavy machine gun production technology, only China has! The patents are also all in the hands of the Jinan Arsenal, and it is almost impossible to get a large number of heavy machine guns in the short term, and even if they can be produced, they will have to pay a large amount of patent fees to China!

Presumably, Britain, France, Prussia, Russia and the United States and other powerful countries will try their best to get a large number of heavy machine guns from China, this is the condition for Guo Ye to be sold at a price, if you want a trump card weapon, then exchange the conditions!

Guo Ye continued: "The second is our naval fleet, our warships are too few, and they are simply not enough to defend the entire sea frontier, so it is imperative to expand our naval fleet!" From this year onwards, the navy will be equipped with two armored ships and two gunboats every year, and the estimated cost will be within two million taels of silver, which is acceptable, and within ten years, we must surpass all navies in Asia, and ensure that our navy can run rampant in Asia, even the British Asian fleet cannot organize our operations! ”

Everyone's hearts were shocked, and Li Hongzhang muttered, "Your Majesty, is this possible?" Britain's Asian Fleet has no less than 30 large and small warships, and it is also the best military in the world at naval warfare, and it is too difficult for us to suppress the British Asian Fleet......"

Guo Ye replied lightly: "Quan Shuai, of course it's difficult, if it's easy, I don't need to solemnly bring it up." However, as you said, the Asian Fleet, with more than 30 warships, has been devastated by us this time, and even if the English mainland will send new warships to replenish it again, it will only be very powerful, and there will be no more than 40 warships. Now we already have more than a dozen warships, plus this war we have captured Spain, Britain and France three ironclad ships, three gunboats, although the damage to the battleships is more serious, but it can still be repaired, Yu Ting, find a way to transport these warships to the United States, ask the Americans to help repair them, in this way, we have more than 20 warships, with our annual increase rate of four warships, within six years, we can keep pace with the Asian fleet! Within ten years, it will not be too difficult to complete the overtaking of the fleet of the Asian fleet! ”

"The question is - will they sell us a lot of warships?"

Zuo Zongtang said in a deep voice: "Presumably, the British don't want an opponent in Asia who can compete with them, right?" This would undermine their strategy in Asia! ”

"This is the third strategy that our navy needs to implement -- the establishment of a shipbuilding bureau, with the establishment of Tianjin, Qingdao, Shanghai, and Fuzhou in the future, four large shipyards, Tianjin and Fuzhou are oriented to the military industry, Qingdao and Shanghai are oriented to the private sector, warships and merchant ships can be started at the same time, you can buy ships in advance, learn each other's technology, once you have thoroughly understood the technology, you will start to produce on your own, this time will not be too long, of course, it will not be too short, six to eight years, we can see our own production of ironclad ships......

Guo Ye knows very well that building giant ships and warships is almost the most complex and systematic industry in the world today, and it is impossible to build first-class warships without a deep heritage, even if the United States has worked hard for so many years, their warships are still far from England, and I have to say that the British have too many advantages in the ocean.

(To be continued.) )