More than a year of talent training has made talents in all aspects no longer so stretched, but it is unrealistic to say that there are enough talents. The training of workers, soldiers, teachers, management personnel, drivers, etc. also needs a long-term process, which cannot be completed in one or two years, and this is also the reason why there are no large-scale ships in steel bases and shipyards, and there are not so many skilled workers and qualified sailors, so they can only come step by step.

After leaving Zhanjiang Port, Lu Liang came to Huizhou Port again, and warships were still his most important link. According to the current situation, defeating the Manchu Qing Dynasty and unifying the whole country is not too long-term thing, and it is necessary to take precautions now, after all, Lu Liang's eyes are not only on the country, hundreds of millions of people, and more than one billion people in the future need a broader living space.

Even with only two cruisers and three destroyers, Lu Liang was full of confidence, they were World War II-level warships, and their technical level was more than 30 years ahead of this era. A battleship not only looks at the caliber of the cannon, the rate of fire, the firing range, and the accuracy, but also the armor, speed, structure, etc., which is a systematic project. If there were no steel bases, even if Lu Liang was a ship expert, it would be impossible for him to build those warships, let alone battleships, in China in this era.

Battleships, the hegemons of the seas, a kind of mass killer that can dominate the fate of nations and the world. Nowadays there are only a few countries that can build battleships, they are a symbol of national strength, a pile of steel. Lu Liang's shipyard is not yet capable of building that kind of mass killing weapon, but in the dock of the steel base, a battleship is under construction. With the production capacity of the steel base, including steel plates and many other spare parts, provided by the factory, it will take eight months for the battleship to be launched - the production capacity of the steel base cannot be used entirely for this battleship, the manufacture of genetic people is now the majority, and there are still many machinery and ores that need to be provided by the steel base.

The purpose of Lu Liang's visit this time is not the battleship, it can be built slowly, not to mention that talents also need to be accumulated. His purpose was a submarine that had just been launched in a secret dock in the shipyard.

The cliff next door to the shipyard is not abnormal at all from the outside, but the interior has been hollowed out. In the huge space, many workers are busy, preparing for the launch of the first submarine.

Even if the French submarine sank the British battleship "Mačenta" with a torpedo in 1899, the countries did not really face up to the submarine as an underwater killer, and it was not until Germany used submarines to sink a large number of British merchant ships during World War I, causing immeasurable losses to Britain, that countries really paid attention to the application of submarines, and the tactics of submarines were also mature at that time.

Submarines are not weapons for seizing sea power, but weapons for destroying sea power, especially for countries with weak surface strength. For Guangdong, the long construction period of large warships, the difficulty in training sailors, and the lack of combat experience have made submarines a powerful supplement under such circumstances.

Named the Seawolf-class tuna, the submarine was built over a period of three months and was modeled after the German U-boat from World War II, and could carry five torpedoes at a speed of 7 knots underwater and 12 knots on surface. Of course, the workers and technicians of the shipyard can borrow the technical data of the steel base to produce more advanced submarines after they are mature, but that situation will be at least more than ten years later, when education is popularized and several rounds of personnel training are completed.

According to the plan, the Seawolf-class submarines will become the main battle submarines of the Navy for a long time, so it is planned to produce the first batch of ten, and the exact same construction mode will greatly reduce the construction time of the submarines, and when the workers are skilled and the crew is sound, the second batch of thirty will also begin, and then East Asia will become the hunting ground for these sea wolves!

Lü Liang's shift of focus to the navy was also a last resort, and according to the original plan, the navy was slowly expanded, and the land side would begin to take the initiative in January 1902, attacking the Guangxi region to the west. However, the news from Britain and Japan forced Lu Liang to change his plan, speed up the construction of warships, vigorously develop submarines, and enter the war of armament.

Three months ago, British Vice Admiral Seymour was greatly reprimanded when he returned to London on the Centurion, and his failure to lead the coalition forces in Tianjin, China, was well known, but it was not enough to affect him. What gave Seymour a headache was the disappearance of the treasure transport fleet, yes, missing, Seymour was in charge of the treasure transport, and after its disappearance, he mobilized warships to launch a search for more than two months, from the East Asian sea to the Taiwan Strait, and even the South China Sea, they searched for traces, but never found traces and clues of the fleet, three warships and ten transport ships seemed to have evaporated on the sea.

The disappearance of the treasure was not only a loss for Britain, but also very dissatisfied with the rest of the coalition forces, and unanimously turned their guns on Vice Admiral Seymour, the commander of the coalition navy. If it weren't for the outbreak of the Cantonese Revolutionary Uprising, the coalition forces would have added the loss of the treasure in the treaty, and it would not have been as simple as 400 million taels of silver.

The transport ship is just that, how can a few warships disappear for no reason? It's unbelievable! If you can't find a fleet, you can only think of it as a storm and sink, but Vice Admiral Seymour was used as a scapegoat, so he could only leave the navy in gloom.

The loss of treasure is an intolerable shame for the British Empire, and although it is possible to ignore the accusations of other countries, it is still necessary to save face, and even if it cannot be found, it must be made up elsewhere. The Seymour family also wanted to salvage their lost reputation, and under the manipulation of many parties, the British upper echelons targeted the Provisional Government of Guangdong. They claimed that the Provisional Government of Canton had attacked the transport convoys of the coalition forces, and in retaliation, the British would organize a military strike against the Provisional Government! In this way, at least the dissatisfaction of countries with Britain can be diverted, and domestic accusations against the Seymour family can be reduced.

Since the rise of Lü Liang's Ziqiang clique, many British merchants have been operating to combat this emerging commercial power, and sales of many of their goods, including cotton cloth, have almost come to a standstill in Guangdong, although sales in other parts of China have had little impact, and Guangdong is not the most important market, but the losses are still there. Later, the goods of the self-powerful group began to penetrate into the interior, and the discontent of the British merchants increased day by day, and through the huge political and business relations, the discontent of the merchants extended to the upper echelons of the British government.

At that time, the war with the Manchus was not over, South Africa also involved a lot of energy, and the Ziqiang group did not threaten their fundamental interests, coupled with its American background, Britain temporarily put aside the Guangdong matter. Unexpectedly, the boss of the Ziqiang Group, a Chinese landlord, would directly launch an armed uprising and occupy Guangdong! This is intolerable to the British, it is impossible for them not to expand, if they defeat the Manchus, then the Western market in China will be completely lost, the British intelligence officers know the horror of the expansion of the factories in Guangdong, and if this continues, it is difficult to say whether a strong country will rise in the Far East.

Under British leadership, the West provided the Manchu court with large military loans and transported large quantities of advanced weapons to arm the Manchu army. But this is not enough, the leader of the Conservative Party, the current British Prime Minister Marquess Salisbury, believes that the strength of the Manchu army will not affect the revolutionary government of Guangdong in the short term, and now it cannot wait for the growth of Guangdong, and substantial measures must be taken to contain this emerging force.

The problem was that Britain was also in deep trouble, with the Second Boer War in full swing and a large number of Army soldiers being sent to South Africa to suppress the Boer guerrillas. The hateful Germans, looking for trouble with the British Empire all over the world, and facing the threat of the German High Seas Fleet at home. Attacking Guangdong must use a large number of land troops, which is impossible for the British, and it is not necessarily beneficial to reap much after capturing Guangdong, and there are many factories in the British mainland, and it is troublesome to loot money.

As for the reorganization of the coalition forces, it is impossible to say that other countries cannot be moved without huge gains. Therefore, the best way is to move Japan to attack Guangdong. Japan already occupies Taiwan, and Russia also has huge interests in the Northeast, where the two countries have recently revealed their contradictions. Britain's Far East policy is to use Japan to restrain Russia's expansion, but Japan's little brother seems to be too weak, and in the face of a behemoth like a polar bear, even European countries are a little chilled, let alone Japan. If you want to agitate Japan, you must give him more benefits, and the wealth of Canton is an excellent opportunity.

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