Li Weiguo always paid close attention to the sea trials of the first domestically built dreadnought in the Chinese Empire, and immediately after the end, he summoned Lin Jiyun, Minister of the Navy, to inquire about the sea trials.

"What were the results of the sea trials?"

"Your Majesty, the sea trial was a success, the speed reached 21.5 knots, exceeding the expected 0.5 knots, and all other performance parameters reached the design indicators!"

Hearing this result, Li Weiguo immediately breathed a sigh of relief, and the dreadnought that had been brewing for ten years finally succeeded, and from then on, the Chinese Imperial Navy would once again set a new world record and throw the navies of Europe and the United States out of the street.

"Your Majesty, do you allocate funds for large-scale construction?"

Lin Jiyun also asked excitedly, hoping to allocate funds for the large-scale construction of this epoch-making advanced battleship as soon as possible.

"Of course!"

Li Weiguo nodded, completed the sea trials of the first dreadnought, and the next step must be to allocate funds for the large-scale construction of dreadnought battleships.

"At present, the navies of Europe and the United States have successively obtained all-steel battleships, and the British Navy has 4 ships in service, 6 ships completed, and 6 ships under construction; 8 ships are in service with the US Navy and 8 are under construction; 8 ships are in service with the French Navy and 4 are under construction; 8 ships are in service with the German Navy and 4 are under construction; 4 ships are in service with the Italian Navy and 4 are under construction; 2 ships are in service with the Austro-Hungarian Navy and 3 are under construction; 2 ships are in service with the Russian Navy and 2 are under construction; The Japanese Navy has 2 ships in service and 2 ships under construction. Our Imperial Navy has only nine all-steel battleships, and counting the training ships, it is only ten, and the strategic pressure on the sea is unprecedented. ”

Lin Jiyun immediately said his thoughts, undoubtedly crying for the Imperial Navy, hoping that Li Weiguo could allocate more funds to the Imperial Navy to build more advanced battleships.

Of course, Li Weiguo is paying attention to the movements of the navies of European and American countries, and he knows the number of all-steel battleships in the navies of various countries that Lin Jiyun said.

"The sea trials of our dreadnoughts are highly concerned by the European and American powers, although they keep provoking in the newspapers, but in fact they are very nervous, after all, our battleships are equipped with 12 main guns, and one of our battleships is equivalent to the firepower of three of them, and the military pressure on the navies of Europe and the United States is bound to be unprecedented. In particular, the design of our triple artillery and knapsack turret will inevitably set off a new round of imitation climax in Europe and the United States. ”

Lin Jiyun said with a smile: "Your Majesty, Shengming, with a dreadnought-type battleship, it shocked the navies of Europe and the United States, so that their original thoughts were instantly suppressed. It's just that it's time for the Imperial Navy to replace the capital ships, after all, the Hsiungfeng-class battleships are also approaching their service life. ”

Lin Jiyun is inseparable from building a new building, which shows how much he is looking forward to the new round of ship building in the Navy!

"Look at your little bit of interest!" Li Weiguo scolded with a smile, and was immediately happy.

Lin Jiyun said embarrassedly: "This, Your Majesty doesn't know, in the past few years, the naval officers and men have been harassing the ministers for three days, looking forward to the Imperial Navy replacing more powerful capital ships as soon as possible." ”

Li Weiguo nodded and said, "Don't worry, you go back and report immediately, and I will help you say hello to the Congress!" ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty! The minister's report has already been written, so I'll send it over! Lin Jiyun was suddenly elated, and he retired in a hurry.

Li Weiguo smiled slightly, pressed the button on the table, and soon the door of the study opened, and two female soldiers walked in.

The second daughter looks beautiful and beautiful, and she is even more heroic in military uniforms, and the most rare thing is that the two daughters look exactly the same, and they are twins.

"Your Majesty!"

The second daughter came to Li Weiguo and gave a military salute, and her voice was as crisp and pleasant as a yellow bird.

Li Weiguo smiled and asked, "How is it?" It's hard work! ”

"It's not hard!"

"So happy! When the civil and military officials saw us, they were like mice seeing cats, so frightened that they didn't even dare to raise their heads, haha! ”

These twin sisters are completely polar, the older sister is quiet and calm, and the younger sister is hip-hop. One is quiet, the other is active.

Li Weiguo likes the second daughter, and he won't get bored when he hugs left and right.

That's right, the twin sisters were concubines chosen through a national beauty pageant. At that time, Empress Fu Shanxiang selected a total of twelve beautiful women, and the twin sisters Zhao Li and Zhao Ying were two of them.

Originally, Empress Fu Shanxiang only planned to choose three or five Han women to enrich the Han forces in the harem. But for some reason, domestic public opinion has been great, exposing the defeat of many beauties from ethnic minority families, and some people secretly pointed to the three Han queens in the harem, which immediately aroused strong dissatisfaction among ethnic minorities across the country.

Fu Shanxiang was helpless, and after discussing with Shen Ziyan and Su Sanniang, he had to relax the quota limit, and finally selected 8 Han women and 4 ethnic minority women to enter the palace together and was named Jieshu.

Among the twelve new concubines, Li Weiguo only likes the twin sisters Zhao Li and Zhao Ying, and arranges a secretarial work for the second daughter, and takes them with them all day long, inseparable.

"Okay, if you like it, Li'er will go to the Congress in a while and tell them not to make things difficult for the navy this time, the new shipbuilding plan must be approved, otherwise it will affect the national security of the empire. And Ying'er went to the Lifan Courtyard and asked Zhang Peilun to release the news as originally planned. Go early and come back early, there's nothing to do today, I will take you to fly when you come back. ”

Li Weiguo said with a smile, he always wanted to stop this twin sister. Maybe this is the joy of the old cow nibbling the tender grass!

"Yes! The concubine will do it! Sister Zhao Li immediately accepted the task, and her pretty face instantly turned red and delicate.

"Your Majesty, are the concubines going to fly now! Don't you have a phone, just make a phone call! ”

Zhao Ying immediately bypassed the desk, sat on Li Weiguo's lap, hugged his neck and said coquettishly.

Li Weiguo smiled bitterly, slapped Zhao Ying****, and said: "Now the phone line is easy to be tapped, and it is best not to say confidential matters on the phone, and we can only do it after a while after we have an anti-eavesdropping encryption system, you know?" ”

"Got it!"

Zhao Ying said very reluctantly, asked Li Weiguo for a deep kiss before stopping, took her sister Zhao Li's hand, and happily went to do something.

The congressmen once again received the naval shipbuilding plan submitted by Minister of the Navy Lin Jiyun, and were about to find an excuse to shirk it, but Zhao Li suddenly came over.

"Say hello to Concubine Li, I don't know what Concubine Li's daughter is doing!"

A group of congressmen saw Zhao Li coming and immediately stepped forward, this is the most popular Concubine Li Niangniang around His Majesty recently, these parliamentarians naturally dare not slack off.

"You ministers don't have to be polite, this palace is just to pass on the message to Your Majesty, this time the naval proposal is related to the rise and fall of the empire's future maritime hegemony, I hope that your lordships will raise your noble hands."

The congressmen were taken aback, feeling that this time His Majesty the Emperor helped the navy speak, this is a clear signal!

After all, the great cause of the Chinese Empire is great, and economic development is the focus in peacetime, and the land area of the Chinese Empire is more than 20 million square kilometers, with a population of 300 million Chinese, 10 million territory, and 100 million vassal countries.

Regardless of the fact that the Chinese Empire's current annual fiscal revenue is as high as 1 billion yuan, there is not much that can be allocated to all parts of the country, and the fiscal deficit is also small when combined with economic aid to the vassal states. Therefore, every time the imperial military submitted a proposal to increase military spending, the congressmen would basically reject it, or take it for a year and a half to approve it.

In particular, the navy has a money-swallowing machine, and the annual cost of the navy just for the maintenance of warships and the supply of coal and fuel is as high as several million yuan, not to mention the navy's shipbuilding, even if the shipbuilding technology of the Chinese empire has greatly improved and the cost has dropped by a large margin, it will cost hundreds of thousands to build a cruiser, and a battleship will have to be millions of dollars. Especially the dreadnought-class shipbuilding plan submitted by Lin Jiyun recently, to build twelve dreadnought-class battleships, the construction cost of one dreadnought-class battleship is as high as 2 million yuan, and 12 ships are built in one go, it will cost 24 million yuan, plus various supporting facilities and weapons and personnel supplements, 30 million can't stop it!

The members of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly are elected by the people of all parts of the country, and they represent the interests of the people, with economic construction as the focus, and they are very disgusted by large-scale military spending.

This is also a common problem all over the world, the common people never know how important national defense is, especially if the peace time is too long, the whole people are war-weary, and they do not know the cruelty of war, let alone know that war will actually break out at any time.

The common people of the Chinese Empire are now in this state, and they have long been not afraid of war, because they are convinced that the Chinese Empire's Shence Army will be victorious, and the Chinese Empire is now the most powerful empire in the world, and who would dare to go to war with the Chinese Empire now after defeating Britain four times?

It is with this kind of thinking that the people of the Chinese Empire do not think that any country dares to go to war against the Chinese Empire, just like the powerful Tang Empire in history, the common people think that no one dares to fight the Tang Dynasty, so they emphasize literature and light on military force, and only know how to make money and have fun.

At this moment, the members of the National Assembly learned about the attitude of His Majesty the Emperor from Concubine Li, although they were a little reluctant, but they did not dare to go against Li Weiguo's will, because Li Weiguo is the god in their hearts, what he said is not only the emperor's will, but also the will of God, and I believe that God is right!

Concubine Zhao Li rushed back after conveying Li Weiguo's will, and the House of Representatives of the National Assembly directly passed the Jianyuan 3980 naval defense budget submitted by Lin Jiyun by unanimous vote, allocating 66 million yuan in three years for the construction of 12 battleships, 24 anti-submarine destroyers, 24 ocean-going submarines, and supporting auxiliary hospital ships, supply ships, tugboats, etc.

Among them, 12 capital ships are all dreadnought-class battleships, with a standard displacement of 16,000 tons, equipped with 12 305 mm 50 times the diameter of the first class guns, four triplets, raised turrets, the front two and the rear two are arranged along the central axis. 8 x 203 mm 50x 2nd stage guns, 8 x 75 mm 3rd pole close-fire rapid-fire guns, 12 x 20 mm heavy machine guns. It is powered by a steam turbine, propelled by four axles and four propellers, and has a speed of about 21 knots. The main armor is 320 mm uniform steel armor China Special Steel No. 9, the central key part is the thickest 320 mm, 305 mm is extended forward, and 280 mm is extended backward. Covering 100% of the length, the horizontal armor is 80 mm, the front armor of the conning tower, ammunition depot, and engine room parapet are all more than 350 mm, and for the first time, the design of the horizontal isolation watertight compartment is adopted to ensure that it will not sink if it is attacked by 2 fish radium at the same time.

24 anti-submarine destroyers, modeled after the Seahawk-class reconnaissance ships, with a standard displacement of 1400 tons, two sets of steam turbines in parallel, twin shaft propulsion, 4 oil-fired boilers, 2 chimneys, carrying 400 tons of kerosene, a maximum speed of 32 knots, and a cruising range of 3600 nautical miles at 14 knots. It is equipped with four 50-caliber 128 mm single-mounted rapid-fire guns, 3 sets of 533 mm twin fish and radium launchers, 12 mines, 2 50 heavy machine guns, and 4 sets of deep-water egg smashing launchers.

24 submarines, redesigned on the Jaws-class submarines, Holland improved on their performance in the Battle of the Solomon Islands.

Improved displacement (surface/underwater): 1210 tons/1600 tons, replacement of the latest Staley NC modification 6-cylinder 2-stroke diesel engines (for surface navigation), 2 Plante X6 motors (for underwater navigation), dual propulsion shafts. Power (surface / underwater): 4500 horsepower / 2000 horsepower, speed (surface / underwater): 15.6 knots / 11 knots, fuel loading: diesel 100 tons ~ 112 tons, endurance: surface speed of 15.6 knots, cruising distance of 3000 nautical miles, underwater speed of 11 knots, endurance of 13 hours, armament: 6 533 mm Fish Radium launch tubes, all in the bow, cancel the superstructure aiming tail 2 units, load 16 Fish Radium, 1 128 mm 50 times the diameter of the naval gun, Reserve 150 rounds of ammunition, safe diving depth: 51 meters; Standard crew number: 49.

Compared with the larger White Shark-class submarines, the most significant place is to increase the underwater speed and diving time, cancel the superstructure of the two fish radium launch tubes, reduce the number of operators, so as to increase the space, increase the fuel storage tank and air compression box, so that the diesel engine has more air when diving, can increase the diving time.

For submarines, the most important thing is the diving time, because it involves whether they can successfully escape from the enemy's pursuit after attacking the enemy, the longer the diving time, the faster the diving speed, the greater the chance of escaping.

However, due to technical reasons, in order to increase the diving speed and diving time, the submarines of the Chinese Empire could only adopt the method of enlarging the volume of the submarine and increasing the air capacity, which brought about the negative effect of the high cost of the submarine. Compared with the submarines of European and American countries, their submarines generally have a displacement of only three or four hundred tons, and the diving speed is slow, and the diving time generally does not exceed two hours. The advantage is that the cost is low and can be built in large quantities, but the disadvantage is that once exposed, there is only two hours of diving time, and it is difficult to escape from the encirclement of surface warships.

When the Congress passed the defense budget for the Navy in 3980, it quickly attracted the attention of countries around the world, and a large number of newspaper reporters gathered in the press office of the Imperial Court of China, waiting to ask about the specific situation.

And Zhang Peilun also got a notice from Concubine Ying Zhao Ying, arranged everything, and then announced it at the daily regular press conference.

Of course, the data released by Zhang Peilun have been processed, and the key military secrets have been hidden.

For example, the Chinese Imperial Dreadnought-class battleships only reported the basic data, deliberately concealed the speed of 21 knots, and only claimed 18 knots to the outside world. The thickness of the armor protection is not said, only that it can block the attack of the main guns of any warship in the world at present.

As for anti-submarine destroyers and submarines, of course, it is a response to the growing number of submarines in the navies of various countries around the world in recent years.

However, even vague remarks have caused a high degree of tension among the European and American powers.

Because one of the contents Zhang Peilun did not hide, the budget figures. The shipbuilding budget of up to 66 million yuan, according to the current international exchange rate of RMB, 66 million yuan is equivalent to 330 million pounds or 660 million US dollars, not to mention the global strength of the yuan, not to mention the degree of significant depreciation of the pound and the dollar, just look at the cost of one of Britain's most powerful monarch-class battleships is only 500 pounds, guess that the cost of the Chinese Empire's dreadnought-class battleships should be about 2 million yuan, according to the exchange rate of one to five, it is 10 million pounds, which is twice the cost of the monarch class, and the shipbuilding technology of the Chinese Empire is higher than that of the British Empire, so the same construction of a warship, the cost of the Chinese Empire's shipbuilding is much lower than that of the British Empire, so the reverse reasoning, the cost of a dreadnought-class battleship is equivalent to 2.5 Sovereign-class battleships, and the cost gap is so large that it will definitely be reflected in the quality of the battleship.

In other words, the quality of the Chinese Empire's dreadnought-class battleships must be a bargain, and the cliffs make it difficult for the British monarch-class battleships to match.

At the thought of this, the British's face turned green. (To be continued.) )