readx; On the day the first fierce general-class battleship was launched, Xia Jun boarded the battleship and conducted an in-depth inspection and inspection of the battleship. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The results of the inspection made Xia Jun very satisfied, Qi Jiguang was manufactured in strict accordance with the design requirements, as long as necessary, Xia Jun was able to smash a large amount of points to upgrade Qi Jiguang's technology beyond the times, thus becoming a terrifying steel monster.

Although the battleships are about to be eliminated, it is simply a big and small to use the technology of the sixties and seventies to be installed on the battleships to deal with the aircraft carriers and submarines of the thirties and forties, as well as the battleships.

Qi Jiguang will be the pinnacle glory of the Imperial Chinese Navy in the battleship era, and it will also be the swan song of battleships.

In terms of naval development, in fact, for Xia Jun at this time, the development of aircraft carriers is not a long-term way, and it makes sense that the Soviet Union does not develop aircraft carriers, and the Soviet Union believes that aircraft carriers are just iron coffins on the sea, this is because science and technology have developed to that extent, and the actual combat significance of aircraft carriers has been very bad.

The reason why aircraft carriers are still equipped by the navies of various countries in later generations is because aircraft carriers are used to show off their strength, and it is still very useful to invite them to invade and threaten small countries, but in the real superpower confrontation, aircraft carriers are indeed just a group of iron coffins.

However, at this stage when science and technology have not developed to that height, it is indeed a period when aircraft carriers replace battleships, and the development of aircraft carriers is the correct route.

In order to provoke a naval battleship race, the Chinese Empire built a batch of shell ships to induce Britain and the United States to build a pile of scrap iron.

And it would be a pity to build a battleship of Qi Jiguang's level and build a scrap iron, so Xia Jun simply decided to upgrade Qi Jiguang with technology beyond the times.

According to the information obtained by the spies, Britain and the United States said that after the Qi Jiguang was launched, they also built a sea power.

Xia Jun said at an internal meeting of the Navy: "It seems that the battleship race is still relatively ideal, and perhaps Britain and the United States will devote more resources to the battleships." Therefore......"

Saying that, Xia Jun smiled with a hint of schadenfreude: "Let's build a few more shell ships of the fierce general-class battleships." ”

The Admiral-class battleships did receive a good start, and the rapid follow-up of Britain and the United States is a good phenomenon, and if Britain and the United States do not follow up, then it will not make much sense for the Admiral-class battleships to be built.

It is naturally not cost-effective to build only one, after all, this Chinese Empire is also built with real materials, and it also needs to be maintained.

Build a few more ships and let Britain and the United States follow up, and this can be regarded as achieving the goal.

Even if the Chinese Empire builds an empty shell ship, and Britain and the United States say that they build a real Sea Power-class battleship, this is also a victory, and the empty shell ship is different from the real battleship.

Although the battleships of this class of the sea power class are thicker and rougher, they also do not play much role in naval battles, and at most they act as frigates for aircraft carriers.

The Imperial Chinese Navy still mainly invests resources in the research and development of aircraft carrier technology, more powerful carrier-based aircraft, more powerful aircraft carrier technology!

At present, the number of second-generation aircraft carriers of the Chinese Empire has risen to eight, of which six are hidden in the secret naval bases of the Nanyang Republic.

This secret naval base is located on a number of islands, an area that has been cordoned off and is devoid of humans within a 100-kilometer radius.

The officers and men of the Navy who were sent to this base were all radicals who were born from good backgrounds and could not have any problems.

Even in terms of logistics and supply, personnel are strictly controlled.

At the same time, these officers and soldiers generally do not leave the base.

…… Britain and the United States soon obtained another piece of information through spies, and the Chinese Empire planned to build battleships again, and this time the Chinese Empire planned to build five general-class battleships by 1933, so as to surpass the British and American alliance in the naval power of the Chinese Empire in one fell swoop.

The plan was again 1933, three years later than before.

Britain and the United States only thought that the strategy of doubling the strength of the navy had worked, but the problem was that this time the Chinese Empire was going to build five general-class battleships.

In other words, in the future, the Chinese Empire will have six fierce general-class battleships.

According to the original double policy, Britain and the United States said that they had to build 11 more Admiral-class battleships, and the cost of one Admiral-class battleship would reach $50 million, that is, they would have to invest $550 million.

Britain said that the two countries were suddenly overwhelmed, because Britain had not yet recovered from fighting World War I, and in addition it had been dragged into a naval arms race and had to repay its debts, its finances were already very difficult. In addition, the unemployment rate in Britain has remained high since the war, and many traditional profit-making projects have been seized by China and the United States, and the gross national income has been greatly reduced.

And the book is even more frustrated, Britain with many colonies is still like this, how much better can the book be?

But one of the characteristics of Ben is that they have a kind of madness that the British don't have.

In 1923, an unprecedented earthquake struck Tokyo, killing more than 100,000 people, and turning the entire Tokyo into ruins, which greatly increased the sense of crisis of the rulers of Tomoto, and made them frantically want to expand outward.

But at this time, the position of the book was too embarrassing, and the road to their eastward expansion had been blocked by the Chinese Empire, and if the book wanted to expand eastward, it would inevitably be ruthlessly hit by the Chinese Empire.

As a country that was rapidly prospering and becoming powerful, the Chinese Empire had long been afraid, but the Chinese Empire did not accept it, which forced it to embark on a crazy path.

If the Chinese Empire was willing to accept the Yueben, the road to the expansion of the Yueben into Southeast Asia would be smooth, but unfortunately the Chinese Empire did not accept the Yueben at all.

In order to protect himself, he has spared no effort in investing in the navy, and at the same time frantically encouraging Britain and the United States to invest more resources in naval construction.

He understood that if the Chinese Empire fought, there must be a naval force that could compete with the Chinese Imperial Navy, and if it was to be safe, it would be at least twice the size of the Chinese Imperial Navy.

Because the navy, which is twice the size of the navy, is actually scattered.

However, both the United Kingdom and the United States have moved most of their naval forces to Asia, but they are still in a relatively dispersed state, with the British Navy in the waters of the Philippines, the United States Navy in the waters of the Philippines, and the British Navy in the waters of Malaysia.

Both the British and American navies were very close to the Imperial Chinese Navy at this time, with the British Navy in the waters off Malacca and the Imperial Chinese Navy also having a naval base on the island of Sumatra.

The U.S. Navy is in the waters of the Philippines, while the Imperial Chinese Navy has deployed forces in the Nanyang Republic and Taiwan.

Normally, the Chinese Empire would say afterwards that it was a problem with the navigation equipment, which rushed into the Yuebenhai.

Who believes this nonsense?

Basically, this is the pattern of the world's navies, with all the major naval powers deploying their forces in Asia to contain the Chinese navy.

However, the Chinese navy is still running around, often breaking out of the encirclement range, and last year the main force of the Chinese Imperial Navy even ran around the Indian Ocean.

As for other frigates or something, they are running around the world.

The tonnage of merchant ships in the Chinese Empire has become the largest in the world, and it is natural to have a large number of frigates and cruisers to escort everywhere, and for these escorted warships, countries naturally cannot stop them.

This so-called containment is nothing but a gesture.

And the power of the Chinese Empire is not something that can be bullied at will, so even if the Chinese Empire crosses the line of encirclement, Britain and the United States will not dare to fire at the Chinese Imperial Navy.

If the warship of a small country dared to be so arrogant under the siege, it would have been shelled a long time ago, and you don't need a reason to hit you, or directly tell you that you have crossed the line!

On the question of whether or not to build 11 more Sea Power-class battleships, he said that the forces of the Anglo-American naval alliance are relatively scattered, and if they do not double their forces, they will inevitably suffer defeat.

Therefore, Ben was determined to build eleven seapower-class battleships.

As for whether the United States can contribute money, then it doesn't matter. Naturally, there are ways to threaten the United States, and to a certain extent, the economy of the United States has been kidnapped by the United States, but to a certain extent, the politics of the United States have also been kidnapped by the United States.

If the United States does not agree, it can do something that is painful to the relatives and enemies.

At the strong request of the United States, the United States and Britain still adopted the proposal of the meeting, and once again spent $550 million to build 11 Haipower-class battleships, and planned to complete and launch all 11 battleships in 1932, one year earlier than the plan of the Chinese Empire.

In their view, Xia Jun, the head of state of the Chinese Empire, was a dictatorship and a military element, and it was normal for him to develop sea power and build battleships.

…… In 1927, the economies of China and the United States were still extremely prosperous, while the economies of Britain, France, Germany, and Russia were relatively prosperous, but the unemployment rate was high, mainly because the export of goods from China and the United States squeezed jobs in these countries.

The trade deficit between China and the United States is very large, with China reaching a trade deficit of $2 billion a year, while the United States has a trade deficit of $800 million a year.

These trade deficits illustrate a big problem, and they can also explain why the domestic unemployment rate of other major powers was around 10% during the prosperous period of China and the United States, and the unemployment rate in Sweden has never been lower than 10%.

The material living standards of the people in China and the United States have developed rapidly, and large and comfortable houses, family cars, and all kinds of large electrical appliances have entered the homes of ordinary people.

Just like the refrigerator, it was still a new product in 1916, when the Chinese Empire invented the home refrigerator, and by 1927, it had gradually become a must-have household appliance for the American people.

In the Chinese Empire, refrigerators also entered many people's homes, and with the prosperity and development from 1925 to 1927, refrigerators gradually became essential appliances for life, but the popularity was still lower than that of the United States.

By 1927, the population of the Chinese Empire had grown to 600 million, while the population of the United States had grown to 150 million.

The whole country of the Chinese Empire can be described as prosperous, and it is common for each newlywed family to have at least two children, and it is very common to have three.

And with the development of the Chinese Empire, the people's material living standards have improved, and the improvement of medical standards has also made the average life expectancy of the people begin to increase rapidly, becoming the country with the fastest growth rate of national life expectancy in the world.

The Führer said that there is great strength in numbers, and the people are working hard to create people.

For the Chinese Empire, the traditional value of fertility is to have more children, so that the family and clan members can prosper.

In the old society, the infant mortality rate was higher and the chance of premature death was higher. At this time, the chance of infant death in the Chinese Empire was very small, almost only about 1%.

In order to encourage multiple births, the Empire has significantly increased its rewards.

From 1909, when the imperial political axe was founded in Jian'an, in just 18 years, the Chinese population increased by 160 million, strictly speaking more than 160 million, from the Xinhai Revolution to the establishment of the empire, China experienced wars and some [***] bureaucratic scourge of nomads, etc., which reduced the population by a part.

In 1927, the Chinese Empire also saw a general improvement in the quality of its citizens, and the illiteracy rate dropped from 90 percent in the old era to 18 percent in 1927.

Although there was one illiterate among the five, it was mainly the elderly and some women who were bound by tradition.

Regarding the traditional problem of female surname bondage, the empire advocated equality between men and women at this time, but it was not blindly pursuing equality, the division of labor between men and women is still eternal, and the division of labor is irrelevant. Equality between men and women is not what men can do and women can do anything.

When it comes to cheating, men are less constrained by cheating, while women are greatly constrained. After all, a man's cheating is not about chastity, and a woman's cheating is about chastity.

For many traditional women in the old society, many still retain their original habits, although they are still illiterate, do not go to the factory to work, but concentrate on their husbands and children at home to take care of housework, but they may not be unhappy. It's just a matter of values, if you look at it with the values of strong women, their lives are indeed sad, but they feel very happy when they look at their own lives with their values.

Happiness is often determined only by one's own values.

With the development of the empire, the constraints of traditional customs on women were gradually opened, and it was not unacceptable for women to go to work in factories.

For China, women go to work in factories, which in itself was not very binding in the old days.

Because China in the old era was a time of very poor life, housewives also had to share the responsibility of supporting the family, and in many areas of agricultural production, husbands and wives worked together in the fields.

In the Chinese Empire, it was normal for husbands and wives to go to work in factories together, and there were basically no obstacles.

In Western countries, most women do not go to work at this time, but concentrate on housework, and it is not in line with the traditional concept that women go to the factory to do things.

The U.S. economy will be left behind by the Chinese Empire, and the disparity in the role of women in social production is also one of the main reasons.

Under the propaganda of the idea of equality between men and women, the women of the Chinese Empire have been greatly emancipated in social labor production, and women in the old era have entered factories and construction sites in large numbers.

And the girls who received the compulsory education of the empire have also undergone a great change in their thinking, that is, they have retained most of the traditional virtues and liberated many shackles.

In fact, the United States is also higher than Britain, France and Germany in terms of the proportion of women's social productive roles, but Americans come from various Western countries, and most of these Americans from Western countries retain their original traditional concepts, while those black Africans have not yet achieved equal treatment, and the main role is still played by black women.

At this time, there were already a large number of female surnames with higher education in the Chinese Empire, and there were many female surnames who no longer studied after receiving compulsory education, and most of them were also involved in social production.

The virtues of traditional Chinese female surnames are highly retained in these educated female surnames, and at the same time they keep pace with the times, destroying many decadent ideas.

The degree of emancipation of female surnames is largely related to the development of a society.

Because the female surname is liberated, it will be able to share a lot of jobs, so that the male surname can devote itself to those jobs that are more suitable for them.

This is of great significance for enhancing the war potential.

In wartime, a large part of the military production could be done by women, while men went to the battlefield.

On the question of the emancipation of the women's labor force, the imperial axe was more rational and did not rush too hastily, in short, it was sufficient to emancipate to a certain extent before the outbreak of war.

In the area of literacy, the Empire focused on a number of special tutoring policies for those who did not solve the literacy problem, mainly with male surnames under the age of 40.

Mandarin has also gained a great deal of popularity, and at least in many areas people may not speak Mandarin, but they can understand it.

This is due to the opening of a large number of Chinese language popularization classes, as well as radio, radio, film screenings and so on.

With the advent of television, the popularization of standard Chinese has been another powerful weapon.

Television was a new product in 1922, and by 1927 it had become popular to a certain extent.

With the vigorous development of the television industry, the East China Group has raised a large amount of funds in this regard, and has smashed these funds into the construction of the infrastructure of the television industry, and a large number of radio stations and signal stations have been established, and telephone lines are used for those who cannot receive radio signals in some mountainous areas.

The material foundation necessary for marriage in the Chinese Empire has also been improved, and in the period of the political axe in East China, it may be a bicycle, or any house.

In the early days of the Chinese Empire, there were certain requirements for houses, and bicycles were upgraded to motorcycles.

By 1927, it was necessary to have a house and electrical appliances such as a television to get married, and in the earlier coastal areas, it was already necessary to have a car to get married.

Of course, this kind of necessary things for marriage may not be borne by the man on the one hand, but may be jointly handled by the parents of both men and women.

After all, the welfare of the empire is good, and people in many regions are not too big for money, and the empire is not more men than women at this time.

Although there are still many areas of the empire that favor sons over daughters, they have changed a lot under the propaganda of the empire, and as life has become richer, many people prefer to have daughters.

In addition, the empire has introduced a lot of beauties from abroad, and the imperial female surname is ashamed to be the second wife, which greatly reduces unnecessary internal friction.

(To be continued)