The East China-class battleship is a 35,000-ton behemoth, which belongs to the super senseless ship class, and it is the pinnacle level of the super senseless ship.

Twelve 360mm main guns, as well as twelve 135mm secondary guns, two quadruple 60mm anti-aircraft guns, and four five-pack 30mm anti-aircraft guns.

With great firepower, powerful armor, and a speed of more than 25 knots, it is the fastest ultra-dreadnought battleship at the moment.

A battleship is an extremely complex thing, and in order to create such a complex war machine, it is necessary to have a long accumulation of technical experience.

However, China is an exception, and in just six years of naval development, it has already built its own battleships.

Whether the battleships can be used and what the quality is is the issue that the top level in East China is most concerned about.

At the beginning of July, Britain and Germany broke out in the famous Battle of Deland, which was more than a month ahead of the original history, but in this naval battle, the British navy was even worse than in history.

Because Germany put a large number of submarines into naval warfare, and Germany also dispatched airships and bombers, which is completely different from the original history of airships hiding in ports and sleeping.

Inspired by the Sino-Japanese War, the German Navy used airplanes and airships in naval warfare, and while fierce artillery battles broke out between the two sides in the German area, German bombers inflicted heavy damage on British warships.

However, the battle was still a fruitless naval battle, and although the British had twice as many warships as the Germans, they lost tactically and suffered twice as many losses as the Germans. However, the British Navy succeeded in blocking the German Navy, and strategically the British Navy won.

However, the losses of the British Navy were much more serious than originally planned, especially since the British Navy did not pay attention to torpedo protection, and as a result, it caused very serious losses.

After the end of the naval battle, both the British and the Germans boasted that they had won the naval battle. From a tactical and strategic point of view, both sides can indeed be said to have won.

It was only after the end of the Battle of Teland that other countries realized the problems of the battleships at this stage.

In contrast, the East China-class battleships have long corrected these problems, increasing the caliber of the main guns, and improving the protection of turrets, powder magazines and other parts; Adopt key protective measures to thicken the armor of important parts and reduce or eliminate the armor of non-important parts; Emphasis was placed on horizontal protection, as well as protection against torpedoes below the waterline.

This kind of battleship is also known as the 'later Deland-type battleship', and the East China-class battleship belongs to this kind of battleship, so it is extremely advanced.

On 16 July, the East China-class battleship was officially launched.

On this day, there was a sea of people outside the Mawei Military Shipyard in Fuzhou, and the top military and political leaders of the East China Political Axe, as well as officers at all levels of the Navy, shipbuilding workers, and responsible persons of the East China Shipbuilding Company and other parts manufacturing companies were all present at the scene.

The companies responsible for the construction of the warships will participate in the subsequent acceptance work, the companies that do not have their turn will stay in the hotel on the shore, and those who have their turn will go to sea with the ship to test the relevant links, in short, it is a very tedious and complicated process.

As soon as the auspicious time came, thirty-six gun salutes roared one after another, followed by a huge whistle, and the Fujian battleship moored in the shipyard let out a roar, and the slowly starting Fujian began to slowly sail out of the dock.

The launch went smoothly, and the Fujian sailed smoothly.

The crowd on the shore suddenly burst into enthusiastic cheers, Xia Jun applauded warmly in the crowd, and Xie Baozhang beside him shed tears of excitement at this moment.

When Xie Baozhang came to the stage to speak, he choked up and said: "When the Sino-Japanese War was defeated, I thought at that time, maybe China will never have advanced warships, because the Manchus have never regarded themselves as Chinese, they still position themselves as the alien race that rules China, this thinking has not changed in the past three hundred years, and the Manchu Qing have never integrated into China, so they have no bottom line." It was only when I met the chairman of the committee that my hope was rekindled. The chairman of the NPC National Committee led us to complete the beginning of the national rejuvenation that overthrew the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and led us to establish a new order, a nation that was rejuvenated with vigor.

Today, our Navy has the most advanced battleships in the world, which are the most advanced in terms of firepower, speed, and armor. Moreover, this is a battleship made by China itself, which witnesses the growth of China's science and technology, industrial technology and national strength. It also witnesses China's new steps towards becoming a world power.

I believe that this is just the beginning for us, and we will have many more powerful and advanced warships in the future. However, we can never ignore the merits of Chairman Xia, who not only reborn the whole of China, but also gave a new life to the Chinese Navy. ”

Xie Baozhang shouted loudly in his slightly choked voice, "All Navy personnel, salute ......"

Then Xie Baozhang saluted Xia Jun beside him, and all the navies present also followed Xie Baozhang to give a military salute to Xia Jun.

Xia Jun smiled and saluted in return, and then he came to the microphone, and everyone in the audience looked at him with strong support in their eyes.

Today, Xia Jun has become the source of faith, he is one of the beliefs of many people, and he is the backbone of all people.

"It has been more than seven years since the establishment of the East China Navy, and in the past seven years, the navy has achieved a record no less than that of the army, and has made great contributions to the defense of the maritime frontier and diplomatic contention. Today, the Navy has built the world's most powerful battleship. What I want to say is that I hope the navy will not be complacent, because the world is constantly progressing. The progress of the world will not stop because our pace stops, and the fact that the Navy has the most advanced battleships in the world does not mean that it will always be the most advanced.

Just like the Qiangua cloud in "Zhou Yi": Tianxingjian, a gentleman is constantly striving for self-improvement. This sentence tells us that the movement of the day is strong and vigorous, and the turnover is endless. Correspondingly, a gentleman should be like the sky, strive for self-improvement, be resolute and persistent, be indignant, and never stop. ”

As soon as Xia Jun's words fell, there was a warm applause below, which could not be stopped for a long time.

When the applause gradually stopped, Xia Jun continued: ""Zhou Yi" Kun hexagram cloud: The terrain is kun, and the gentleman carries things with virtue. The momentum of the earth is thick and smooth, and a gentleman should thicken virtue and contain all things. At the beginning of this new century, changes in military technology are changing with each passing day, and new military weapons are constantly emerging. We should not subconsciously suppress the possibility of subconsciously replacing the mainstream non-mainstream military technology just because we have made advances in the mainstream field, because these are not mainstream military technologies, but are very likely to replace the original mainstream military technology. If we take a closer look at the European war, we will find that both the Entente and the Central Powers made such mistakes.

China was the first country to use submarines on a large scale, the first country to use aircraft for large-scale military operations, and the first country to develop aircraft carriers and combat vehicles. The reason why China has been able to rise militarily is precisely because we attach importance to military technological innovation, dare to try to use new military technology, and have a rigorous attitude of managing the army.

The Navy is a field that is more sensitive to new technologies, and it is more important than the Army's military technology. I hope that the Navy will continue to carry forward our glorious tradition in the future, and not reject those emerging military technologies. However, I also firmly believe that we can do it in the past, and we can also do it in the future. ”

Xia Jun's speech greatly inspired the officers and men of the navy, and Xia Jun's speech was also cited by the navy as the wisdom of educating the officers and men of the navy.

At its core: self-improvement and tolerance.

Two simple points, but they cover the main factors in the development of the Navy. It also covers many fields, which is one of the main reasons why Zhou Yi can become the foundation of Chinese culture.

Tests of the Fujian were soon launched, the Fujian was the first battleship to be completed, so it is highly likely that some major problems would arise, so the Fujian could also be the weakest of the seven battleships built, and the battleships that started later could make easier changes to the problems that arose in the design of the Fujian.

However, subsequent tests proved that there were no major problems with the Fujian, and there were many minor problems, but they were all easy to solve.

The launch of the Fujian also boosted the morale of the people, and the day after the Fujian was launched, many newspapers reported that many newspapers were sold out of stock on the same day.

The development of the Chinese Navy has become a hot topic when people are chatting about it.

…… Lijiang, Yunnan, after the Spring Festival, became a large construction site, under the auspices of the county magistrate Sun Youxiu, soon started the construction of railways and highways.

One of the most important is the road to Myanmar, which is a national project.

After a simple road expansion in the early stage, cars have been able to reach northern Myanmar directly.

The Han Chinese armed groups in the Kokang region of Myanmar have grown rapidly, annihilating the Tusi tribe in the south since the beginning of spring, and the surrounding Burmese indigenous tribes have been subjugating one after another.

This armed group is actually controlled by the East China Political Axe, and the administrative aspect is under the control of Sun Youxiu, the magistrate of Lijiang County.

Burma's indigenous tribes that did not submit have been attacked, and with the expansion of military power, the Kokang Han armed group has taken control of the entire mountainous region of northern Burma.

Sun Youxiu adopted a policy of assimilation administratively, that is, sending teachers to Myanmar to sinicize the indigenous people, and this work was then taken over by the newly established International Culture Propaganda Department.

The integration of the Han Chinese with other ethnic groups has continued since ancient times, and there is no reason for this to stop the integration in this era, and the policy in Burma is to sinicize the indigenous people, thus making Myanmar a Chinese territory.

This policy has been personally affirmed by the chairman, Sun Youxiu has sent administrative staff to Kokang since the beginning of the year, and Yang Lianxing, the Kokang Toast, is very cooperative with this, he himself is a small Toast, and his mind is relatively simple, where would he think about so many messy things.

The British colonists have not yet reacted, because in the mountainous areas of northern Burma, the British generally do not care about such indigenous tribal disputes.

However, the Kokang Han armed group is making its way into the valleys of northern Myanmar, where the terrain is relatively flat and there are large tracts of uncultivated land.

The land is fertile, but uncultivated.

The indigenous people of Myanmar are not good at productivity first, and second is not good at medical care, so the population growth is very slow, and a large number of people die when they encounter any epidemic. As a result, there is no population pressure on the indigenous people of Myanmar, and naturally there is little interest in the uncultivated land.

Ancient China was able to develop an agricultural civilization, first of all, the existence of traditional Chinese medicine, so that the population can continue to grow, and secondly, the profound surname of culture, which has a promoting effect on agricultural productivity, so China's ecology has also been destroyed by ancient agriculture is not as bad as Myanmar, just like Fujian in the Tang Dynasty is still a miasma land, but by the time of the development of the Ming Dynasty, the situation has changed fundamentally. In the Ming Dynasty, the land of miasma was in Guangzhou, and in the Qing Dynasty, Guangzhou was no longer called the land of miasma.

Myanmar has a very good ecological environment at this time, but it is a poor mountain and bad water for human survival, and the environment in northern Myanmar is exactly that kind of miasma land, and the British do not attach much importance to northern Myanmar.

Externally, the Kokang Han armed group disguised itself as a local Burmese power, while concealing the fact that it was Han Chinese in essence, so as to paralyze the British.

If the British knew that this was a Han force, they would definitely encircle and suppress it as soon as possible.

At the same time as the Sinicization of the Burmese natives, the Kokang Han armed group established the banner of liberating the Burmese people, which was actually a cover.

Who will truly liberate the people of Myanmar! It is just a slogan used to incite the Burmese people, and by the way, the group is disguised as an armed group of Burmese people.

Shouting such a slogan, the British will definitely want to expropriate and suppress it, but as long as it does not have anything to do with China, China can stay out of the way diplomatically.

There is a balance between countries, you have what you are afraid of, others also have what others are afraid of, and the two sides can only reach a consensus and a balance between each other.

But it's okay to take advantage of loopholes, but you can't do it too obviously.

Just like supporting the Kokang Han in Myanmar, it is a kind of exploitation.

In contrast, the behavior of the East China Political Axe in Indonesia is more unrestrained, with a large number of Nanyang students graduating from 013 University, after they returned to Nanyang, they began to integrate the power of the Nanyang Chinese.

These young people had ideals and professional education, and they also received professional military training, and after returning to Nanyang, they began to conduct military training for Nanyang Chinese.

Among them, the most obvious is the Chinese community in Indonesia, and the number of smuggled guns seized by the Dutch police has reached three batches.

Indonesia is a Dutch colony, and those Nanyang students who returned to Indonesia dared to do such unrestrained activities, naturally they had no fear.

Just off the borders of Germany and Belgium, the Netherlands is an agrarian country, a small country of few words, and constantly facing the threat of the Germans.

The leader of the activities in Indonesia is called Xu Yuan, one of the most outstanding students among the graduates of 013 University, and he is a Chinese clan from Indonesia, with a wealthy family and more connections in Indonesia.

His activities soon attracted the attention of the Dutch colonists......

(To be continued)