"How could the Chinese design such a powerful warship?" The Marquess of Salisbury couldn't believe it, but he had to believe it from William White, the world's most famous warship designer.

At this time, William White shook his head and said, "Just by designing, it is impossible to have such exaggerated performance, I think the Haitian-class patrol must also have the best artillery, armor and power system in the world." Judging from the currently known Haitian-class patrol size, her designer should have taken into account the practical difficulties of the lack of deep-water ports along the coast of China, kept the draft as low as possible, and at the same time designed the warship to be quite stubby and short in order to balance the negative impact on seaworthiness, which had a negative impact on its overall performance. But even so, the Haitian class still has excellent performance enough to be proud of the world, which is enough to show how good the subsystem she uses is."

"It's hard to believe that an organization of unknown origin has so much power. An industrial system capable of producing 10,000-ton ships is not so easy to establish, not to mention that they can build several ships at the same time, and the technology is so advanced, at least a few million people must be supported by a population of several millions. I don't understand, how can so many people have been silent for so many years, and only recently suddenly appeared? The Marquis of Salisbury was puzzled, "I doubt they were sent by Satan, so that it can be explained." ”

"Maybe God sent it." , Fisher laughed after hearing this, Britain has been full of evil deeds in the past few hundred years, whether it is abroad or at home, even if God does not treat pagans as human beings, he cannot completely wash away the sins in them, and it seems to make sense to send people down to punish them. However, Fisher's cold joke was obviously a little out of place, and the atmosphere was a little cold for a while.

"Well, whether it's sent by Satan or sent by God, at least it didn't destroy us directly, but just some advanced weapons, and it didn't make people despair." , William White hurriedly came out and said, "Okay, compared to the power of gods and demons, I still prefer to believe that it is really that mysterious organization that has secretly developed the power of the world powers, the ocean is too vast, even now, there are still large areas of sea that have not been explored, not to mention that the organization has a strong armed force, even if there are expedition ships close to their base, the result will only be killed and destroyed, right?" This corresponds to the extremely fast patrol speed of the Haitian-class equipment they designed, not to mention civilian ships, even if the warship is targeted, don't want to get away. Especially if you don't know anything about it beforehand, even if you see it, you will only think that it is the navy of a certain power, and then it will be approached and attacked, and there will be no more."

"It's true that there is such a possibility, but even if the people outside can't detect it, their own people haven't defected? The organization's physical control over its members is too strong, right? The Marquess of Salisbury nodded lightly to William White, but only partially in agreement.

Fisher showed his erudition at this time, "Defection? Where to go? It is impossible for the Chinese to enter the upper class society in our white country, and the Qing country was still barbaric and ignorant at that time, and the gap between the scientific and technological level displayed by that organization was too great. What's more, according to William's inference just now, this organization is very ruthless externally, and it is likely that the same is true internally, if it defects and is caught, it will definitely not end well. If you succeed in defection, you will suffer by yourself, and if you fail, you can't even save your life, how many people will be so stupid? ”

This makes sense, but why did they wait until not long ago to return to China to rebel and overthrow the Manchus? With their power, they must have had this power a long time ago, right? The Marquess of Salisbury still had difficulty accepting the two men's statements.

Fisher immediately explained for the "venture capital firm", and by the way, reiterated his point again, "It is easy to overthrow the Manchus, but what about the great powers? If I'm not mistaken, this organization has developed an extremely cautious style because of its long-term covert activities, and it will not act without the certainty of victory. They did it not long ago, and they should have been able to deal with the worst-case scenario, and we cannot win this war. ”

"You see, they first borrowed the hands of the Qing Beiyang Fleet to completely annihilate the Japanese Combined Fleet, so that there was no strong maritime opponent in East Asia, and at the same time contacted the people of the Beiyang Fleet, and then they were able to completely accept the Qing Navy, and the elite soldiers who had accumulated experience and self-confidence after two naval battles plus the advanced weapons possessed by this organization, the Chinese Navy immediately became one of the top powers in the world. And then as long as they have the power to control the sea, the great powers are powerless to interfere with the Chinese revolution, yes, I prefer to call it a revolution, they are by no means ordinary rebellions, but they should be organized revolutionaries with a program and ideals! Although he is thousands of miles away, he can rely on that incomplete information to roll out Li Hui's original plan almost completely, which is really remarkable.

The Marquis of Salisbury was dumbfounded, and no longer knew what to say.

At this time, Fisher suddenly slapped his thigh and said, "No, we may have thought wrong before, they should not have a population of several million, otherwise they can build a strong navy by themselves, and there is no need to retain a large number of Qing officers and soldiers." ”

The two of them immediately understood, but without a population of several million, how can they support a complete industrial system?

"No, a 'small but complete' industrial system doesn't actually need millions of people, their final products are mainly the six Haitian-class cruisers, plus some other munitions, and the island doesn't need too long a railway, only 100,000 tons of steel production capacity can be supported, at most 200,000 tons. Assuming that their labor productivity is comparable to ours in our own country, then only five or six hundred thousand laborers are sufficient, and considering that the quality of the personnel of this organization should be very high, the labor productivity may surpass ours, and that many industrial sectors can be omitted in small places and islands, so that only a hundred thousand laborers are needed. If the age structure is relatively young, the population of 300,000 can be completely self-sufficient. There are not many islands that can live in millions of people, but three or five hundred thousand is different, and even those indigenous tribes have this population. If Li Hui hears Fisher's analysis, he will definitely feel a sense of sympathy, and the population of the "Xia Ke Island" he set up was calculated according to this idea, which is actually similar to Fisher's estimate, which can really be described as "the hero sees the same" (to be continued.) )