In fact, Li Hui did not dare to fight with Britain before, not because he was worried that he would not be able to fight, but because he believed that the Chinese Navy could only use its geographical advantages to bully the British and it would be difficult to send the Grand Fleet to the Far East, and it would not have the ability to fight too far and make Britain hurt.

But now that he knows that Britain is only a foreign power, Li Hui's confidence in the Chinese Navy has naturally increased greatly, "Now this point in time is really wonderful, a few years ahead in technology, and in actual combat, you can get several times, or even more than ten times the advantage." What's even better is that in the past ten years, the world's navy has developed rapidly, and a warship will often become obsolete within a few years after it is completed, and the huge number of warships of the British Royal Navy has not only not helped much, but has become a great burden. ”

What's more, if the Sovereign-class battleship is sent to the Asian theater, it will also expose a huge flaw, its tonnage is too large, the draft is too deep, even in the usual sense of light load, it will not be able to cross the Suez Canal, unless some more radical special means are adopted. If the British Grand Fleet had to take a detour through the Cape of Good Hope, not only would the voyage be extended by nearly 5,000 nautical miles, and it would have been necessary to waste an extra month on the road, but also leave the port of Durban at the southern tip of Africa and not be able to call until Mumbai, India, because there was no port between the two places that could accommodate the bloated Sovereign-class battleships!

From Durban to Mumbai, the voyage is no less than 4,000 nautical miles, although the endurance of the Sovereign is barely enough, but after sailing in the sea for such a long time, the condition of the ship must drop significantly, and the Chinese navy has a greater chance of winning. And when they were about to arrive in Bombay, the British fleet would certainly not have much coal left, and if the Chinese fleet met it at this time, they would face an extremely awkward position, and if they lost, they would definitely be wiped out (because there was not enough coal to go to another supply port), not to mention, and even during the battle, they would be tied up, fearing that they would run out of coal before the battle was over

If the British fleet had not ventured along the oceanic route, but had gone north along the east coast of Africa and solved the problem by transporting supplies and supplies in small boats, it would have avoided such an embarrassing situation, but it would have taken more time and would have been more strategically unfavorable to Britain. Moreover, the Sovereign-class battleships were still not maintained after all, and the time they stayed at sea was even much longer, and the condition of the ships in the battle was naturally worse

Thinking of this, Li Hui asked Yan Fu to be invited, and Yan Fu also felt that his eyes lit up after hearing this, and he immediately proposed to discuss the matter at the first national congress of the Datong Party, which was about to be held.

In Yan Fu's view, to what extent we want to fight with Britain, we must not only consider the probability of winning a naval war, but also need to have an overall plan and arrangement for the economy, diplomacy, and even the land battlefield and public opinion propaganda, especially considering that Britain, as the world's largest maritime hegemon in shipbuilding capabilities, once fully mobilized, its potential is unfathomable, so it is necessary to analyze in advance the possibility of protracted war and the cost that China needs to bear for it, so as to make a decision that is most conducive to ******** development.

Li Hui was worried that this would delay the operation of the Ocean Fleet and make it lose its secrecy, but Yan Fu pointed out that the Ocean Fleet should also be maintained and repaired for a short time after it was stationed in Hong Kong, after all, it had been floating at sea for a long time and had just fought a battle.

Coupled with the fact that there were no ports available at the time of the march into Malaya, it took at least ten days to prepare for the landing, and a month was considered fast when the time required for sailing, landing battles, and the march into Singapore was too fast, so it was impossible to take the military action by surprise as before.

In that case, why bother waiting for two or three days?

Two days later, the first national congress on behalf of the founding of China's Datong Party was officially held in Laizhou, and the choice of this location was also a small benefit from Li Hui's old base, so that Laizhou could have one more tourist attraction in the future, but in fact, it would be more convenient to hold it in Tangshan.

Since the party program and party discipline and other systems of the Datong Party had already been formulated, and the first batch of party members had actually been determined long ago, the initial stage of the first party congress was very dull, and the only thing that surprised everyone was that the number of party members in the first batch was much smaller than they thought at the beginning.

"Why are there only hundreds?" , Zhan Tianyou, who seemed to have lost a lot of weight because of his hard work, asked, if there are only such a few people, he, a new recruit, is actually among them, which is enough to show how much Li Hui values himself.

Yan Fu, who knew Li Hui best, was also surprised, because he remembered that Li Hui had planned to recruit at least tens of thousands of people to join the party when he was a big boy, but why did he change his mind now?

"Only those who are willing to fight for their lives to build China into a Datong society can become our comrades, but how to see whether a person is qualified to become our comrades is not to see what he says, but to see what he does, that is, he must be tested." In the face of everyone's questioning, Li Hui calmly said his thoughts, "Including all of you here, these hundreds of comrades on the list have already passed a lot of tests, so they have naturally become the first batch of members of our party, as for those comrades who are willing to join the organization but have not yet undergone enough tests, they will be designated as probationary party members for the time being."

The reason why Li Hui suddenly changed his mind was that he thought that because his revolution was systematically helped and the Manchu Qing was too weak, the process was so smooth that it would not play much of a role in testing and selection, and it was inevitable that there would be a mix of good and bad, and setting the standards for the first batch of party members a little higher would somewhat alleviate a little hidden danger.

Moreover, the current situation in China is that there is still a little bit of elite talent, but there is an extreme shortage of talents available at the middle and grassroots levels, and if according to the original plan, more than 95% of the first batch of party members are biochemical soldiers, then this organization will be too lifeless.

In addition, the first batch of people to join the party should be veterans and backbones, too many of them are worthless, and they seem very unserious, which will have a little negative impact on the image of the Datong Party (to be continued). )