In June 1909, as the war between Italy and the Ottoman Empire had directly covered the entire Mediterranean Sea from the land, the Beijing government sent a note to the British Minister to China, Power, requesting the Royal Navy to provide military protection for Chinese merchant ships passing through the Suez Canal in accordance with the trade protection agreement between the two countries, so as to ensure that Chinese merchant ships were not threatened by the naval war between Italy and the Ottoman Empire.

Although Sir Herbert Henry Asquith, the Liberal Cabinet of London, was somewhat dissatisfied with the Chinese's interference in European affairs, but considering the commercial interests of the Far East and the necessity of military protection, he immediately agreed to the request from China, and this paper document immediately made the Mediterranean detachment stationed in Egypt begin to be busy, and the Far Eastern merchant ships that came in droves were almost all flying the Chinese red flag, which was a difficult task!

After fully mobilizing the enthusiasm of the Royal Navy, the situation in the Mediterranean Sea became a little more chaotic...... And just a week later, the German navy suddenly appeared in the Moroccan port of Agadir, which had been entangled with the French, and stationed it in the name of protecting German merchant ships, which immediately aroused great anger among the French, but because the Germans came up with an agreement with the Moroccan crown, for a while, the French were helpless.

Germany's actions were obviously completely out of the expectations of countries around the world, including the Beijing government, and Xu Shoushan, the chief of the military and political department who was mobilizing people to study the Ottoman and Italian wars, also scratched his head at this messy Mediterranean situation, God knows which of the Germans was confused, and they actually ran to Morocco at this moment to make trouble, the last round of Moroccan crisis seems to have only passed more than a year, and the British, French, and Germans have appeared to try to improve their control over the Moroccan royal family for the sake of the crucial Strait of Gibraltar.

"The actions of the Germans only angered France, although the French fleet was stronger than Germany in the Mediterranean, however, it was obviously impossible for the two countries to go to war for the right to garrison a colonial port, and Germany had no point in the Mediterranean at all, and Morocco was clearly not a good position!" Xu Shoushan stood in front of the sea map and carefully studied the coastline of Morocco, if he could garrison Agadir, it would obviously be enough to threaten the British-controlled Gibraltar and many Mediterranean ports in France!

"The garrison is in Morocco...... This position is not bad, but once there is a battle, it will be the end of being dumplings! Unless Morocco is directly annexed, the army is stationed, and a permanent military port is built, there is not much point in fighting for this port close to the French mainland...... But to annex Morocco, let alone France...... Britain, Italy, Greece, these countries, will jump out! Hearing Xu Shoushan talking to himself, Lu Han, who was making tea on the side, turned around and said his opinion without hurrying.

Xu Shoushan laughed, turned sideways and asked: "Gengtang, we can see clearly from more than 10,000 miles away, the German Navy and Kaiser Wilhelm II, I don't think we will be confused about this Cheng dù!" ”

"That's ...... I guess the Germans, like us, have also seen the Ottoman snake that is about to finish tossing, the Ottoman Empire has the longest coastline in the Mediterranean, and any port is enough for Germany to build a big fortress! Lu Han walked to the map in a few steps, and both heads approached the map, staring at Tel Aviv and other good ports near Suez.

At this moment, there was a sound of hurried footsteps outside the house, and then the guards' loud salutes came one after another, the two looked at each other and smiled, and immediately walked out of the conference hall side by side, and in a moment, Qin Kai turned around the corridor door in a summer military uniform, and behind him, a group of neatly dressed officers followed, shining awe-inspiring generals on their shoulders.

Qin Kai suddenly appeared here, naturally he didn't go back to Beijing City to cool off, this season Beijing is hot to death, although he is wearing a thin cotton uniform, if it weren't for the wind on the convertible car that came all the way, he might have been sweating profusely, however, this is obviously an insignificant detail, seeing the two love generals appear at the door, he laughed, and immediately took the arms of the two into the house.

There was a room full of high-ranking officers, among whom the lowest rank was also a major general and staff officer, and almost all the senior generals of the Beijing and Northern Army Corps gathered, and even the commander of the Pacific Fleet, Liu Hetu, and the commander of the Home Fleet, Chen Ming, who had already heard the news from Singapore, South China, and Guangzhou......

"Looks like the chairman is really going to announce that big event today!" Rear Admiral He Rin, who was sitting on the first row of benches in the conference hall, raised the corners of his mouth slightly, and muttered to Ma Zhen next to him.

"It's a real battle, it's ironclad, our fleet has been suffering for more than ten years, and the benefits have been for Tang Qingshan's old goods, and today I have a chance, but I have to toss a few more battleships for our fleet!"

As the new commander of the Xuanyuan Battle Patrol, Ma Zhen is undoubtedly a young admiral in the Pacific Fleet who has quite a development intention, but the current situation of the fleets in recent years, there is a way to toss the opportunity to transfer the Northern Fleet, and there is no doubt that a few new ships over there are hot! Speaking of which, both of them coincidentally looked towards Tang Qingshan, who was sitting in front of the speaker at the moment, looking at the situation, they couldn't wait to get a sack for this person to load and transport away!

Qin Kai still slowly took a sip of the big teapot in front of him, and muttered two words to Lu Han sideways, and the admiral immediately got up and loudly announced the start of the meeting, and at the same time asked very strictly to ensure the confidentiality of the content of the meeting that day......

"Ladies and gentlemen, you must have heard the rumors before, according to the resolution of the Cabinet and the Ministry of Military Affairs, no later than the 20th of this month, a new reorganization plan for the army, navy, and air force will be announced, and the main big move will be the navy, after all, the army will only increase and reorganize some new corps as planned, and the large military region will not make changes, and the air force will mainly cooperate with the reorganization of the navy and the army, and will split the two new armies of the navy and the army, but our large navy will be fully commissioned with new warships within a few years......

Nowadays, the establishment of the Chinese Navy, almost continues the size of the earlier fleet, in the first ten years of the century, among the warships launched, the largest output is actually the economical Kunlun-class destroyer, because the four major heavy industries can mass-produce this type of destroyer, the Kunlun-class destroyer with excellent design has undoubtedly become the most economical weapon of the Chinese Navy, in the past ten years, the cost of less than 400,000 yuan, but with the highest speed of 33 knots destroyer built a total of more than 53 units.

But in addition, the navy has only received a total of two poor Chang'an-class battleships, two wolf-class battlecruisers, and one dreadnought-class battleship, plus the Guangzhou-class battleships that were just launched this month and were once again acquired by the Northern Fleet.

After listing the current situation of the navy, Lu Han, as the chief officer of the naval committee, immediately asked the officers on the side to hang out a large wall chart, and everyone's eyes were immediately attracted by a huge five-star symbol on the map, and there were also a few exclamations in the conference hall, which was still very quiet just now, because, in this new naval force deployment, there were only two directions left in the main arrangement of the Grand Fleet.

"In the past 10 years, the construction of the military port of Hawaii and the military port of Panama has been completed, and we predict that the possibility of future conflicts will mainly come from two directions - the North American Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean, and the Australian direction, Australia has just been established, and the navy is insignificant, but the British detachment stationed there has the strength to threaten China's South Sea region! But the real threat comes from the US Navy, which last month announced the construction of two battleships with a displacement of 24,000 tons at the Brooklyn shipyard, which is likely to be their first dreadnought, and this is already the US Navy's Serial No. 33 battleship! ”

33 battleships...... Of course, the four Indiana-class ships that were sunk by China in the Cuban crisis should be removed, which is also 29 battleships...... This is not 29 sampans, all of them are big guys of more than 12,000 tons! Regarding the Yankees' current industrial strength and economic strength, to be honest, Qin Kai is also quite helpless.

Although the United States continues to profit from the U.S. market through trade, and in fact, from the information Qin Kai has learned, the economic recovery and growth of the United States are indeed somewhat lower than the history he knows, but the military spending that the U.S. government can draw today is still surprising, and the concept of the Yankees building ships is obviously a stupid and crude example without restraint.

Today's U.S. Navy, although it has been attacked after the battle of Cuba, but its strength has risen instead of falling, and the construction of Chishach-class battleships and Maine-class battleships has exceeded the historical number, which directly leads to the strength of today's U.S. Navy battleships, compared with the U.S. Navy in this era in history, instead of declining but rising.

In any case, the huge main fleet of 29 battleships cannot be underestimated in any way...... The only thing that reassures Qin Kai is that due to the technical barriers in the shooting command instrument and fire control system, the Yankees can only get the relatively outdated Dreyer shooting command instrument from the British, and according to the investigation of the Intelligence Department, the United States is also carrying out technical research, after all, the Cuban crisis has left a deep pain for the US Navy.

"According to the current naval positioning, the current four major fleets will be reorganized, except for the warships that will be retired at that time will be incorporated into the home fleet, the rest of the warships will be assigned to the Pacific Fleet and the Indian Ocean Fleet, no later than 1914, the Pacific Fleet will be equipped with 20 main battleships, 5 battle cruisers, 70 destroyers of the main fleet of the main fleet, responsible for the defense of the Pacific Ocean, and the Indian Ocean Fleet will be equipped with no less than 8 battleships, 2 battle cruisers, relying on the Strait of Malacca to ensure national security ......."

28 battleships...... Today's Chinese Navy can be regarded as the main battleship is probably a fraction, this news immediately shocked everyone present, you know, one more battleship, that means one more battleship commander...... For a guy like Xiang Tang Qingshan, the temptation of the battleship commander may not be very great, but the other generals who did not have the opportunity to command the battleship obviously saw their glorious future. R1152