The war between the British and the Boers was in full swing, attracting the attention of countries around the world, and then an invitation letter from the Chinese Empire caused a violent response from Western countries. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

After the fifteenth day of the first month of the eighth year of Xinghua, the Chinese Empire sent an invitation letter to the heads of state of the world, inviting them to attend the ceremony of the first battleship of the Chinese Empire on May 1.

As soon as this invitation from the Chinese Empire was revealed, it quickly spread.

"Will the Chinese Empire be able to build a two-thousand-ton warship? Not to mention that the Chinese Empire called a battleship that was only a few thousand tons large a battleship, haha. ”

"The Chinese Empire will not build a 10,000-ton wooden battleship, this is several times larger than our steel battleship, and the body is so large, the combat effectiveness must be very strong."

"The Chinese Empire is so powerful, it can actually build battleships, Emma, no, let me laugh for a while."

The Western world did not pay attention to the first battleship that the Chinese Empire was about to enter service, but talked about it as a joke, and most Westerners did not think that the Chinese Empire, which was founded less than ten years ago, could build a 10,000-ton battleship.

Even the newspapers of some Western countries published this news at the same time, accompanied by the image of the battleship of the Chinese Empire in the minds of Westerners.

Although in the West, the first battleship of the Chinese Empire has become a joke, the Chinese Empire officially sent invitations to various countries, and all countries had to reply, most heads of state would not attend the battleship commissioning ceremony, but would send their ambassadors to the Chinese Empire to participate, and the United States, Yueben and other countries also sent naval professionals to the Chinese Empire to participate in the ceremony.

The United States and Japan also believed that it was impossible for the Chinese Empire to build a 10,000-ton battleship, perhaps just a few thousand tons of battleship, which was called a battleship by the Chinese Empire, after all, in the second year of Xinghua, the Chinese Empire had been able to build nearly 2,000-ton warships, and after six years, the Chinese Empire's ship-building technology would develop to a certain extent, but it was impossible to build a 10,000-ton battleship.

Even so, these countries sent naval professionals to inspect the extent to which the warship technology of the Chinese Empire had developed, after all, the United States, and the Chinese Empire were separated by a sea and all had conflicting interests.

Fortunately, Britain and France intervened, and with the support of large sums of money from Britain and France, the economic and industrial strength of Ben was able to recover, and far exceeded the pre-war level.

The United States and the Chinese Empire have a lot of conflicts of interest, both countries want to get Hawaii, but the Chinese Empire took the lead and first established the Republic of Hawaii with the Chinese as the main body, over the years, Southeast Asian and native Chinese have immigrated to Hawaii, making the proportion of Chinese in the Hawaiian population increase rapidly, and because of the indigenous reasons of Hawaii, Westerners have left Hawaii, making the Hawaiian Chinese family dominant, but the United States has no way to solve it.

If the United States wants to obtain Hawaii, it can only do so through war, but the Chinese Empire has absolute air superiority, and the United States' naval superiority has little effect.

On May 1, the eighth year of Xinghua, the Shencheng wharf was crowded with people.

The first battleship of the Chinese Empire, the "Qin Shi Huang", is about to enter service with the Pacific Fleet of the Imperial Royal Navy. The military high-ranking people came, the ambassadors of the world to the Chinese Empire and some naval professionals also came, in addition to people from all walks of life in the Chinese Empire who were invited to come, and the rest were ordinary citizens who came from all over the world.

The battleship "Qin Shi Huang", as the protagonist of this ceremony, has not yet arrived at this time.

As the first battleship of the Chinese Empire to enter service, the battleship "Qin Shi Huang" will become the flagship of the Pacific Fleet after entering service.

When the ceremony of the inauguration of the battleship "Qin Shi Huang" was about to begin, the Pacific Fleet appeared, and the Pacific Fleet, under the leadership of the cruiser "Zhou Yafu", which temporarily served as the flagship and had a displacement of 8,430 tons, slowly drove towards the Shencheng wharf with black smoke.

With the appearance of the Pacific Fleet, the crowd on the pier of Shencheng showed a variety of expressions.

The top brass of the Chinese Empire knew that the battleship "Qin Shi Huang", with a greater tonnage, would soon appear, and the Pacific Fleet, which appeared now, was only a small child and not worth excite.

The citizens of the Empire were thrilled to see such a large fleet and the tall size of the flagship, and the unique charm of the steel battleship was displayed.

Although the ambassadors of the invited countries were surprised that the Chinese Empire had such a large fleet for the research of naval warships, most of them were not too excited, because the fleets of Western countries were even larger, and 10,000-ton battleships were even more rare.

Navy professionals from the United States, Japan, and other countries who attended the scene carefully looked at the warships of the Pacific Fleet with binoculars in hand, and the Pacific Fleet gave Yue himself a tremendous shock and made him feel his own insignificance.

The navy before this was completely wiped out by the air force of the Chinese Empire, and now it is relying on the purchase of a number of small and medium-sized warships from Britain and France to re-establish a warship that is a few points stronger than before the war, but compared with the Pacific Fleet of the Chinese Empire, the Japanese navy seems to be very descriptive.

Don't forget, the Chinese Empire also has a South China Sea Fleet, and the strength of the Chinese Imperial Navy has far surpassed that of the Chinese Empire, coupled with the superiority of the Chinese Empire's air force, how can the Chinese Empire break out of a way out?

The Americans are also carefully observing the Pacific Fleet, and they can roughly see the degree of development of the Chinese Empire's shipbuilding technology from the Pacific Fleet, and the United States can follow up and make countermeasures, after all, both countries want to get more benefits from the Pacific Ocean, and only strong military strength can suppress the other side.

"Could it be that the battleship is the battleship of the Chinese Empire?" A foreigner muttered to himself, pointing at the cruiser "Zhou Yafu".

The person next to him gave him an answer: "No, it shouldn't be the battleship of the Chinese Empire, the two battleships next to this battleship are about the same size as it, this should be the heavy cruiser of the Chinese Empire, I didn't expect that the Chinese Empire has been able to build such a large battleship, maybe the tonnage of the battleships of the Chinese Empire will exceed 10,000 tons." ”

Some of the old battleships also had a displacement of only eight or nine thousand tons, which was not much different from the B-class cruisers of the Chinese Empire.