In mid-September of the second year of Xinghua, the first cruiser "Linyue" built by the Chinese Empire was completed and officially delivered to the South China Sea Fleet of the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

In the Chinese Empire, warships were mainly divided into battleships, cruisers, destroyers, cruisers and submarines, submarines were not counted, battleships with a displacement of less than 2,000 tons were frigates, destroyers had a displacement of 2,000 tons to 5,000 tons, cruisers had a displacement of 5,000 tons to 10,000 tons, and more than 10,000 tons were battleships, of course, this was only a temporary division.

The first battleship built by the Shencheng Shipyard in the Chinese Empire was originally set to be 2,000 tons, but after it was completed, the displacement was only 1920 tons, almost reaching 2,000 tons, and it was also because of this that the first battleship built by the Chinese Empire was divided into frigates, and the naming method of the cruisers was to use the names of the counties in the empire, Yan Xueyi named the first battleship "Linyue", which belonged to the first "Class A" cruiser.

Linyue County is a county seat near Yuanhe City, and it is also before Yan Xueyi started the incident, he lived in Linyue County, with the Yan Xueyi uprising, more and more people came and went to Linyue County, and Linyue County rose.

The Chinese Imperial Navy has two fleets, namely the Pacific Fleet and the South China Sea Fleet, the gap between the two fleets is obvious, the strength of the Pacific Fleet is far superior to the South China Sea Fleet, the Pacific Fleet also has two ironclad ships, and the largest warship of the South China Sea Fleet is a cruiser of more than 2,000 tons.

The delivery of the Linyue frigate to the South China Sea Fleet can effectively enhance the strength of the South China Sea Fleet, and after the Linyue cruiser joins the South China Sea Fleet, it will basically be one of the main forces of the South China Sea Fleet.

The successful construction of the first warship of the Chinese Empire was a cause for celebration, so a battleship delivery ceremony was held on the Shencheng pier, which was attended by the top officials of the Imperial Navy and some senior officers of the South China Sea Fleet.

Although the displacement of the Linyue cruiser is only 1920 tons, it is already the most advanced warship built in China, at least the Manchu Dynasty has not built such an advanced warship, and compared with the warships of the same specification in Western countries, the combat power is not much worse, and even the Linyue cruiser has a certain advantage in speed and gun rate of fire.

Nearly two thousand tons of warships have been built, and even larger ones are not far off.

The battleship delivery ceremony did not refuse outsiders to visit, not only the Chinese people can solve the ceremony site, but also foreigners, although the distance is a little far, but you can also see the black-painted Linyue cruiser on the pier.

The Chinese people talked happily about the Linyue cruiser, but the foreigners in the crowd did not care about it, and even despised the Chinese in their hearts.

"Just a small battleship of less than 2,000 tons makes the yellow-skinned monkeys happy like this, our British Empire was able to build a battleship with a displacement of more than 9,000 tons a few decades ago, and the ship-building technology of the yellow-skinned monkeys will never be able to catch up with our British Empire."

Of course, foreigners only dare to think in their hearts if they really say it and be known by the Chinese, then this foreigner will be unlucky.

The status of foreigners in the territory of the Chinese Empire is even inferior to that of ordinary citizens, once a foreigner causes trouble, even if he is beaten violently, no one will care, as long as he is not beaten to death, if the foreigner really has a problem, the security police will arrest him, or deport him, or sentence him according to the law.

Not only did the foreign businessmen in the Chinese Empire not care about the first warship built in the Chinese Empire, but even the high-level officials of Western countries did not care about this matter, after all, it was only a small warship of less than 2,000 tons, and now the main force of naval warfare was a large battleship of 8 or 9,000 tons, and Britain was building a giant ship of 10,000 tons, and it did not look down on such "gadgets" as the Linyue cruiser.

However, the Linyue cruiser was only the beginning of the shipbuilding industry of the Chinese Empire, and there would be successive launches of warships with a larger displacement in the future, and when one day, the Chinese Empire would build warships larger than those of Western countries, and the whole world would eventually be amazed by the achievements of the Chinese Empire.

At the end of the handover ceremony in the morning, in the afternoon, the senior management of the Pacific Fleet, the South China Sea Fleet, the Shencheng Naval Academy, and the Fuzhou Naval Academy appeared at the Jiangnan Shipyard.

The first batch of four training submarines built at the Jiangnan Shipyard has also completed sea trials and can be officially delivered to four units for training crews in preparation for the future installation of more advanced submarines in the navy.

A total of 12 training submarines will be built in three batches, and they do not have clear names, but only serial numbers: Zi, Chou, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu, and Hai.

Now the first batch of four submarines, "Zi, Chou, Yin, and Mao," has been built, and although they are only training submarines, if necessary, they can be directly engaged in naval warfare, and their appearance will even determine the outcome of naval warfare.

Although the top brass of the two fleets of the Imperial Navy did not like submarines, Yan Xueyi's will and the combat effectiveness of the submarines themselves made them attach importance to submarines and carry them out as a task.

Yan Xueyi has been watching the performance of the senior officers of the navy, and their faces are not much revealed, but Yan Xueyi has made up his mind to eliminate the "old era" soldiers in the imperial navy as soon as possible and replace them with naval talents cultivated by the Chinese imperial system, even if their experience is still a little immature, with the advantage of technology, the imperial navy will not be afraid of any opponent in the future.

There were no outsiders present, and the submarine delivery ceremony was quick and short.

Subsequently, Yan Xueyi asked Ding Ruchang, Liu Buyun, and Zhang Zhidong, three high-ranking naval officials, for their opinions, and finally made a decision: Shencheng Shipyard will use two other docks to build three batches of a total of six improved A-class cruisers, two of which will be installed in the Pacific Fleet and four in the South China Sea Fleet, so as to increase the strength of the fleet or eliminate the old warships.

The two docks of Shencheng Shipyard are used to build Class A cruisers, and the remaining dock is used by Meng Fanxuan's team to build warships with larger tonnage.

Shencheng Shipyard and Jiangnan Shipyard have made certain achievements, and the Mawei Shipyard has not pulled down far, less than a month after the Linyue cruiser was launched, the Mawei Shipyard also launched a cruiser with a displacement of 870 tons, this class of cruisers is a "B-class" cruiser, and the warship with a displacement of less than 1,000 tons will no longer be installed in the naval fleet, but will be equipped with the coast guard force for coastal protection.

Yan Xueyi also placed an order with the Mawei Shipyard to build nine more B-class patrol ships to form the Imperial Coast Guard.

In addition to the construction of Class B cruisers, the Mawei shipyard will further build larger warships.