The Han-class battleship Chang'an appeared on the African coastline, and this news was quickly transmitted to the top level of European countries as confidential information, and the Chinese Grand Fleet, which was still ostentatious in the Mediterranean, has allowed Europe to witness the rise of a new power, and China once again led the new trend of naval warship construction.

The smoke of gunpowder in South Africa and the diamonds in the Kimberley were suddenly completely annihilated by this sudden situation, and the successive defeats faced by the British Empire in South Africa became somewhat insignificant in this sudden situation, after all, although the Boer coalition forces of the Transvaal and Orange had achieved initial victories, for the deep-rooted British Empire, as long as there was a buffer in time, he could mobilize the world's troops to deliver a fatal blow to the opponent.

However, the combat power shown by the Chang'an-class battleships has comprehensively surpassed the Dreadnought-class battleships, especially the gap in the main guns, the 13.5-inch main gun has comprehensively crushed the Dreadnought-class 12-inch main gun, and what's more, the Chang'an obviously has 2 more main guns...... Lord Fisher was able to immediately assess the difference in the projected firepower between the two sides without any calculations - the tonnage of shells projected by a Chang'an-class was 2.5 times that of the Dreadnought.

This means that with the same number of battles, this new battleship can theoretically confront two and a half times the British battleships of the latest model, which means that if the German Empire gains the ability to build new types of battleships, it will be enough to surpass the British fleet in firepower projection with only half the number of British battleships!

On the same day, Lord Fisher wanted Prime Minister Salisbury to report the shocking news from Cape Town, and as the helmsman of the Admiralty, he also proposed the Admiralty's response. The 5 Dreadnought-class battleships under construction can no longer be canceled. Therefore, the Admiralty planned to immediately suspend the King-class battleships, which had just completed the design order. and carry out a comprehensive upgrade modification.

The national battleship is a new type of battleship carefully designed by Lord Fisher to comprehensively suppress the German Navy, the original design is to have both protection, speed and firepower, and the original history of the Edward VII class battleships is very different, because the Chinese Navy advocated 6 main guns have become the mainstream design, the Royal Navy in the comparison of the four main gun design, has completely abandoned the old design, Fisher can be said to have worked hard to transform this new type of battleship into 6 12-inch main guns. At the same time, it is equipped with 6 234mm secondary guns and 10 120mm secondary guns.

The displacement also increased sharply to 19,500 tons due to the main gun and the second main gun, and at the same time, in order to take into account the needs of high speed, Felsher inspected the Humphreys on the Thames? For the first time, Tennant Power, Scott Marine Power, and Parsons Steam Turbine upon Tyne agreed to purchase Tennant Row Water Tube Boilers, Scott Four-Expansion Steam Engines, and Parsons Steam Turbines' PSS-I Multistage Turbines to build two King-class battleships.

But now, Fisher had to start thinking about how to increase the main guns of the King-class battleships from 6 to 8 or even more, but for the new battleship, which had completed the overall design, adding a main turret that ran through all parts of the battleship from top to bottom was by no means a problem that could be solved by patting the head, in fact. Due to the fact that there was no breakthrough in the technology of the gun bolt, although the British shipyards made many new achievements in raising ammunition and auxiliary reloading. However, the rate of fire of the main gun still did not achieve satisfactory results, and it was not ripe for Fisher to make up his mind to abandon the secondary gun.

At a time when the Admiralty was working hard to improve the battleship Chang'an, Prime Minister Salisbury's troubles were obviously worse than Fisher's, and the War Department's plan to deal with the Boer War had greatly exceeded earlier expectations, and the successive victories of the Boer coalition army made the entire empire jump, and the military budget given by Chancellor of the Exchequer Panston had exceeded 60 million pounds by the end of the year.

This included six large British merchant fleets that were being assembled towards Cape Town, the first expeditionary force of 80,000 men, six months of war food, munitions, and medicine supplies, huge compensation for the restoration of the Cape Town rail and road transport, and pensions for wounded soldiers.

The expected quick strike, less than two months after the start of the war, turned into a national war involving the entire empire on which the sun never sets, this unexpected change obviously caused a great crisis to the cabinet, and Prime Minister Salisbury obviously no longer expects a quick solution to the battle, and the first plan is to last for half a year, and it will be extended depending on the situation of the war.

On 7 September, the British House of Commons held a heated debate on the new war bill, and although the Liberals and other opposition parties were very dissatisfied with the huge military spending, after Salisbury's cabinet presented a series of evidence that the Boers were the first to go to war, they finally reached a strong counterattack against Boer on the second day, and at the same time passed the cabinet's proposal to appoint Admiral Buller as the supreme commander of South Africa.

Two days later, the Admiralty came up with a new naval proposal to build a super-battleship proposed by First Minister of the Navy by Fisher, but it was completely rejected under the current very difficult financial pressure of the government, and on the same day, the House of Commons passed a bill to suspend all battleships that had not entered the construction stage.

An enraged Fisher immediately asked Prime Minister Salisbury to raise a parliamentary hearing, and although the Cabinet had reservations about this, just as the Prime Minister was considering how to balance naval spending, unexpected news came from South Africa again......

At the end of August, Lieutenant General Mayhew, stationed in the Western Cape Town, commanded more than 9,000 men of the 1st Infantry Division from the Cape Colony to march on Kimberley City to relieve the Boers of the siege of the mineral town, but on 1 September he met the more than 1,000 Orange cavalry troops under General Princelow in Ensling.

The Orange Militia cavalry attacked the Northampton Regiment on the right flank and fled, luring the British into the rain to reach the small town of Magsfontaine, about 20 miles south of the Kimberley, revealing a continuous hill ahead of Lieutenant General Mayhew.

That night, behind the hill lay an ambush of the Boer field troops in the rain in the pre-constructed trenches, and successfully evaded the detection of the British scouts, in the night fog, the Boer horse riflemen suddenly appeared in front of the unprepared British troops, on both sides and behind them, the British troops marching in dense formations were completely crushed by the attack, and when the sun rose, the Boer artillery also joined the battle, and Mayhew ordered the whole army to retreat in the case of heavy casualties, and hurriedly retreated to the Cape Town camp, and was constantly harassed along the way, When the infantry division returned, it lost almost a quarter of its strength.

Vice Admiral Mayhew's defeat once again put Salisbury's cabinet in the limelight, and the prime minister had to ask Lord Fisher, who was bent on revising the navy, to suspend plans for new warships and devote his attention to southern Africa, while Fisher had to improve the two King-class battleships without increasing funds...... And this, obviously, is an almost impossible task.

When the depressed Fisher left the Prime Minister's Office and was preparing to open his mind again for his dream of sea power, a major event with far-reaching impact occurred in the South China Democratic Republic, which was the political center of the entire Nanyang region of Greater China.

At the end of August, more than 500 indigenous aborigines stormed several farms of newcomers on the outskirts of the city, destroying some estates, killing seven newcomers and two indigenous people, and then sparking riots in East Java in early September.

After learning of this, He Xiaojun, minister of war of South China, immediately dispatched three marine divisions and four regiments of armed police on September 5 to quickly prosecute Surabaya, Panyue, Malang, and major cities throughout Java, and on the same day announced that the entire island of Java would be militarily quitting smoking, and within two days of that, nearly 700 people involved in the riots were arrested, and a public trial was held in Jakarta on September 8, during which all 25 of them involved in the murder were shot, and the remaining 600 people were all sent to Siberia.

After the news was reported to Beijing, Qin Kai once again convened the high-level officials of the Prime Minister's Office to carefully study the land policy of the new territory, and he immediately realized that this was obviously not a simple national riot, but a sign of national independence in the early 20th century, which he was familiar with.

In addition to providing extremely favorable conditions for immigrants, the aborigines and local tribes adopted the means of envy and power, in addition to allocating land according to regulations and providing infrastructure support to the tribes, they were relatively polite to the natives, of courseThe resolution of the 30-year military administration of the Federal Republic of South China, which he passed on to the National Assembly, was to fully ensure that there should be no damned national ideology in these lands.

Therefore, he immediately instructed He Xiaojun to ask the Republic of South China to immediately implement legislation at the national level on the "Anti-National Secession Law" and "Subversion of State Power Law", and at the same time speed up local immigration to ensure that Chinese Americans can complete the ability to dominate the local government and economy within 10-20 years, and on the same day, the Intelligence Department also sent news from the United Kingdom. (To be continued......)