In the cold season in the north, Xu Shoushan, chief of the Military and Political Department, appeared at Yingkou Port with a group of staff officers and generals, and only came to the headquarters of the Northern Military Region in Liaoyang City after taking a train for more than half a day and squatting in a military car for a whole day.

When Qin Kai saw this, he immediately understood his intention, it was obvious that the movements in the whole of Europe had made these navy-born bigwigs completely unable to sit still, even if he had made a series of situation assessments before, and clearly stated that he had a plan to comprehensively promote the national economy for several years, he could not dispel the worries of these generals - after all, being prepared for danger in times of peace is definitely a quality that these soldiers who have come out of the war must have.

"Yushan, you're still worried about the situation in Europe......" Qin Kai laughed and recruited this favorite general into the warm barracks of the headquarters, although the high-horsepower military vehicle has already entered the army, but sitting in a canvas-wrapped military vehicle in a temperature of more than minus 20 degrees is definitely not a good errand.

Xu Shoushan gave a standard military salute to Qin Kai, and immediately unceremoniously immediately got into the house, and when he got inside, the furnishings in the room were completely beyond his expectations, except for a map of Greater China, Qin Kai's favorite large global situation map in the Prime Minister's Office in the past was gone, and the map was no longer marked with armies and fleets, but dense patterns of various colors.

"Chairman!" After taking a cup of hot coffee handed by Qin Kai, after taking a few sips, his whole body immediately warmed up, and now Qin Kai has stepped down as prime minister and concurrently serves as the leader of the Baath Party, but he has not held any actual government position, so Xu Shoushan can only open his mouth with this title, "I'm not worried about the situation in Europe." Rather, they are worried that our naval construction will not be able to keep up with the competitive dynamics in Europe. As soon as the war broke out. It's probably not a good idea to build a ship on a temporary basis! ”

Qin Kai nodded, as a general in charge of the highest body of China's military power, he naturally needs to have this sense of distress, and he obviously will not pretend to be a god stick who predicts the future, but he is naturally prepared!

Several reports on the situation in Europe forwarded by the Ministry of Military Affairs were taken out by Qin Kai and were still on the table, "Yushan." It seems that there have been a lot of young people with good consciousness in the General Staff Department recently, and I look at this report of Staff Officer Wu Peifu which is very interesting, and I basically agree with his point of view, in terms of the army, our main enemy in the future is probably the Russians in the northeast! ”

Xu Shoushan smiled, he naturally knew that he had only been in the staff department for more than a year, and he was already up-and-coming, although he was not from the army. But that doesn't affect your eyesight...... And Qin Kai's meaning of taking out these reports is obviously very clear. That is, for the time being, the expansion plans of the military will not be agreed!

But he obviously didn't give up, he took off his military hat and scratched his head, stomped back and forth, and then had an idea, "Chairman, I heard that our new high-speed battleship is being built, can you see if you can configure some of the four fleets first, so that they can practice first...... I'm not afraid of 10,000, I'm afraid of what if! ”

High-speed battleship ...... Qin Kai naturally understood what Xu Shoushan said, although the navy's plans to install new warships have been temporarily shelved, but this has not affected the warship research and development of the four major shipyards at all, and the Ministry of Finance has not allocated funds, but the four major heavy industries in Mawei, Beihai, Jiangnan, and North each have huge machinery industries, and almost all of them have their own magic to carry out technology research and development.

After the battleship Dreadnought entered the service test of the Northern Fleet, the four major heavy industries immediately smelled the future of the navy, except for the overseas military orders they were building, they immediately colluded with each other, and then Mawei and Beihai, Jiangnan and North respectively launched several new warship plans, and began to build prototype ships at Jiangnan Shipyard and Beihai Shipyard respectively.

The new battleship of Jiangnan Shipyard is a bigger and stronger routine, while the super battleship that is being built by Beihai Shipyard and is larger and faster than the Dreadnought battleship is another routine of being bigger and faster.

Of course, according to Qin Kai's historical plan for the development of the navy, this will be a new type of warship concept with both speed, firepower and defense, in fact, it should be included in the category of super dreadnought, but, considering the current tonnage problem, it is really far from super dreadnought, and the Chinese navy has always focused on the concept of speed, which has made the design encounter unprecedented difficulties.

However, in the end, the fanatical designers of the Beihai Shipyard led by Qing Ying naturally fully borrowed the advantages of the Intrepid battleship, and extended the length of the battleship to an unprecedented 170 meters, and the displacement reached an unprecedented 25,500 tons, which is more than 3,000 tons more than the tonnage of the Dreadnought, in addition to the necessary armor, almost all of them were allocated to the boilers, and the Dreadnought installed 28 kerosene mixed fuel boilers produced by Jiangnan Heavy Industry, and the new battleship was increased to 40 in one fell swoop, for such a design, Even Qin Kai can only give these shipyard guys two words - change? State!

However, in the case of no breakthrough in the caliber of the main gun and armor, the biggest innovation of the new warship naturally comes from the power system, 40 Jiangnan III booster boilers, due to the first use of cyclone burner technology and multi-pot drum technology, not only in terms of steam pressure has been surprisingly improved, but more importantly, when using heavy fuel fuel, it can quickly output maximum warship power.

What Xu Shoushan said is naturally this type of new warship that is being built secretly, but this type of Beihai-class test ship that has not yet been named, just the preliminary estimate of the construction cost of 7 million yuan is enough to make the Ministry of Finance crazy, which is also an important reason why Xu Shoushan wants to come to Qin Kai, without the nod of this big guy, Tang Shaoyi's miser will definitely try his best to deduct another 10% of the military expenses, instead of sending millions!

Qin Kai originally had no idea of giving Xu Shoushan a dime at all, and it was obviously impossible for the war in Europe to burn now, ...... Britain was not prepared at all, and even Germany and France had no intention of fighting, although both of them wanted to compete with Britain for the interests of Africa and the Americas, but they never considered sending a fleet now.

Therefore, even if the British roared loudly, in fact, it was just John Bull flexing his muscles in Europe, and the news from London from Chen Bo also confirmed the current embarrassment of the British, in view of the huge profits of the British Empire of nearly 160 million pounds, so the British are not enough to go bankrupt now, but in fact, the financial situation of the Balfour cabinet has reached the point of madness, unless the British are crazy, they will definitely not start a huge sea steel machine war without raising military funds.

However, the large package of staff reports brought by Xu Shoushan, the names of two young soldiers who graduated from the Nanyang Command Academy and entered the staff department, surprised Qin Kai for a while...... In the introduction of Ouyang Geng, the deputy chief of staff of the same company, these two officers, who are known as the "New Nanyang Double Heroes", have names familiar to Qin Kai - Cai Yi and Xu Shuzheng.

To tell the truth, the growth of the Nanyang army has always relied on the self-growth of this group of officers in the system, thanks to the continuous external expansion of the exercise, so that a large number of young soldiers have quickly grown into independent generals, but although Qin Kai has a good concept for the entire country's industrial construction, but thinking of the upcoming world war pattern, he is more looking forward to the country has more elites.

It's just that I don't know if it's because I have changed too much history, or because of other reasons, most of the lists secretly investigated by Qin Kai and now through the Guò Intelligence Department have never been found, and this time, these two appeared as "New Nanyang Shuangjie", which is still quite surprising.

Of course, Qin Kai did not make any more statements except for leaving these reports of the Ministry of Military Affairs, and after Xu Shoushan and his entourage visited the new armament for several days, he quietly issued an order to transfer Cai Yi to the commander of the 1st Regiment of the 17th Division of the Tangnu Wulianghai Corps in Northern Xinjiang, and Xu Shuzheng to be the commander of the 2nd Regiment of the 45th Division of the Xinjiang Corps. (To be continued......)