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After Li Anmin made a record, Lin Haijiang waved his hand and said, "I didn't come to you tonight for anything else, but about the Imperial Navy's shipbuilding plan!" ”

As soon as he heard the Führer mention the Imperial Navy's shipbuilding plan, Li Haibo was like a chicken blood, and immediately cheered up, looking at Lin Haijiang intently, and Li Anmin was also straightened up, he was the chief of the imperial general staff, both the army and navy were within his jurisdiction, and the navy's shipbuilding plan was the top priority of the empire, and the Führer actually chose to discuss with himself and the Minister of the Navy alone in the room where he was staying. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Lin Haijiang took a deep breath and said: "The primitive accumulation at the beginning of the empire should all be very clear to you, now the empire has formed a complete economic system and operation mode, but the empire's economic capacity is really unable to afford such a huge shipbuilding plan, the cost of a Zhenyuan-class battleship is about 2.6 million imperial silver dollars, and the cost of the Nanhai-class battlecruiser is only 11% cheaper than the Zhenyuan-class, but the equipment cost after that is nearly 22% more expensive than the Zhenyuan-class, If the huge cost plan is compared to the speed of construction of the Empire's three major shipyards, the Empire's finances are in danger of collapse as a whole! ”

Lin Haijiang's words made Li Haibo and Li Anmin stunned for a moment, the head of state knew that approving such a huge plan to build ships and expand the army would drag down the empire's economy, so why did he approve that?

Looking at Li Haibo and Li Anmin, who were puzzled, Lin Haijiang cleared his throat, and then deliberately reminded: "We will always be the world's largest armored cruiser formation in terms of tonnage at that time, can we use our maritime superiority to generate income with such combat power?" Let the fleet go from a big gold eater to a big profit? What do you think? ”

Li Haibo and Li Anmin are facing each other, and in their opinion, the Führer seems to be a little too wishful thinking and whimsy? The navy is an absolute big consumer of money for any sea power in the world, but the specialization of the development model of the Chinese Empire has also led to the inability of the Chinese Empire to apply or emulate the development experience of other sea power powers in the world, after all, the sea power powers are formed through long-term continuous development and accumulation, rather than the Chinese Empire suddenly rising rapidly after several battles and confrontations in a few years.

Lin Haijiang fiddled with the globe beside his desk with his hand and said, "Isn't it possible that the huge fleet of the Imperial Navy can't have any additional effect?" The Imperial Navy should take advantage of its own existence, open its minds, and make more contributions to the Imperial Economy flexibly and mobilely, and escort the development of the Navy! ”

After listening to Lin Haijiang's almost naked plundering declaration, Li Anmin hesitated for a moment and said very depressedly: "Führer, our Imperial Navy has always followed the route of regularized construction, and its officers and soldiers have all undergone systematic political propaganda education, especially the officers are all graduates of the Imperial Navy Military Academy, so I am afraid it is very inappropriate to let them engage in the kind of looting in the past, right?" Moreover, in the whole East, only our Chinese Empire has large surface armored cruisers and battleships, and if we send a fleet to plunder with open fire, it will be equivalent to three hundred taels of silver here! Once the incident happens, it will be a fatal blow to the empire's international image, commerce, and diplomacy! ”

Li Haibo also continued to add: "The characteristics of the ships of the Imperial Navy are very obvious, and it is easy to be seen through once dispatched, and in addition to the vicinity of the Strait of Malacca, the pirates in the South China Sea have long been eliminated, which is already a well-known thing, and once the Imperial Navy carries out raids, it is a bit far-fetched to be entrusted to the pirates." ”

Lin Haijiang looked at the two of them who were singing and harmonizing, shook his head and said: "You don't understand what I mean correctly, I don't mean to let the Imperial Navy go out to plunder, but to let the Imperial Navy get better benefits in training, do you understand?" For example, the Pacific Fleet can sail out and charge similar fees for maintaining the safety and stability of the route? ”

"It's tantamount to extortion for protection money, right?" Li Anmin's explanation made Lin Haijiang a little depressed, and nodded helplessly: "I can't say that, but in a practical sense, it is almost the same, and it should be defined as a paid military operation to protect the international shipping routes in the Pacific Ocean!" ”

Li Haibo hesitated a little and said: "If the other party's ports and ships are not willing to take the initiative to pay the so-called security escort fee, we will easily cause diplomatic disputes and even disputes between the empire and its merchant ship registration country!" ”

Lin Haijiang coughed and said: "Now the Far East, even including the British fleet, uses old-fashioned wooden hull sail battleships, for example, we can sell all those sail ships eliminated by the empire through the Imperial Intelligence Headquarters?" A massive exorcism of the pirates in the Strait of Malacca, driving them all out of the Empire's territorial waters, and allowing them to enjoy the scenery of the ocean? With the murderous pirates, there is no need to worry that no one will pay for the escort, of course, what I am talking about is just one of the ideas, and I asked you to come here so that you can work together to come up with more good ways to get all the ships of the Imperial Navy moving!

Li Haibo and Li Anmin finally looked like they suddenly realized, Li Haibo thought for a while and said: "Führer, I think that since the navy's shipbuilding plan has been approved, why don't we not temporarily mothlock the extra warships, but sell them to countries that are in need but have the ability or are eager to buy large weapons platforms such as warships?" ”

It is also expensive to rebuild some of the previous ships that have not yet fully matured in design to replace the weapon system and power system, and not all cruisers have the potential and value of modification, so it is indeed a good option to sell some of the ships.

Lin Haijiang hesitated for a moment and asked: "This method is not bad, otherwise the weapon of warships can only become more and more backward and eventually become obsolete, but does the navy have such a bad deal with foreign relations that is willing to pay for it?" You must know that the price of the Empire's warships is not cheap! ”

Li Haibo smiled and said, "America! The Northern Federation Political Axe, which had recently been defeated in the Battle of Fort Pierce, purchased two light cruisers from the British, namely the Perseverance with a displacement of 3,600 tons and the Optimism with a displacement of 2,700 tons, both of which were equipped with six 150-mm main guns and eight 75-mm secondary guns, which constituted an absolute advantage over the Pioneer class gunboats with a standard displacement of 1,300 tons exported by the Empire. Therefore, the Southern Political Axe has been seeking to buy warships in Europe recently, but European countries are busy expanding their armies, and they are also worried about British interference and threats, so the American Southern Political Axe has turned to the imperial side and has been seeking to buy warships, and the Admiralty has sent people to make secret contact with it in advance, and the secret envoy of the Southern Political Axe of the United States has a very strong tone, and it seems that its funds must be very abundant, and they are ready to buy five to seven large surface ships, but they ask the Imperial Navy to escort them to the United States for handover, The Southern Axe, fearing interference from the British, made this request. ”

For Lin Haijiang's readily agreed, there is such a precedent for naval ships in the international trade activities in which the ship-building country handed over the ship escort, and for the ships sold to the southern political axe of the United States, Lin Haijiang instructed Li Haibo to give the Americans a price that makes them feel painful in terms of price, and in history, the warships sold by Britain and Germany to the Beiyang Navy of the Qing court were relatively backward, which was in line with the so-called technological superiority of the world's sea power at that time, but the two ships Dingyuan and Zhenyuan were an exception. It can be said that Germany and Britain had a fierce competition at that time, and won the order by lowering the cost, and the Germans adopted the most advanced design and manufacturing technology at that time on the Dingyuan and Zhenyuan ships.

Therefore, Lin Haijiang also planned to refer to the Germans' practice of Beiyang in those years, and sell two heavy cruisers with a standard displacement of about 7,000 tons and five light cruisers with a standard displacement of less than 5,000 tons to the Southern Political Axe, so that the Americans could have a good time, and the Northern Federal Political Axe that had been beaten would inevitably buy more warships from Britain for use in the war. Let the warships of the Chinese Empire change their identities and battlefields, continue to fight with the British warships, and at the same time collect the relevant tactical and technical parameters of the British warships, which can be described as killing multiple birds with one stone!

Lin Haijiang's decision to sell heavy cruisers to the southern political axe of the United States frightened Li Haibo and Li Anmin, and Lin Haijiang smiled very calmly: "The price of a heavy cruiser can be placed at the price level of 2.6 million to 3 million imperial silver dollars, while the price of a light cruiser can be placed at 1.8 million to 2.2 million imperial silver dollars. The Chinese Empire could also conclude a commercial treaty with the political axes of the North and the South on an equal footing! ”

Li Haibo nodded expressionlessly, in fact, the price of the warships in his stomach was ruthless enough, especially the light cruisers, and the price of the heavy cruisers almost exceeded the cost of the Nanhai-class battlecruisers, if the transaction could go smoothly, Li Haibo was eager to sell all the warships of the Imperial Navy except for the Zhenyuan and Dingyuan ships at this moment, and he had heard that the empire's arms sales business was almost equal to the huge profits of robbery, and now it seems that this is really true!

Li Anmin saw that the head of state and Li Haibo were talking very eagerly, so he seized the opportunity to interject: "In fact, if funds are raised in the short term, I think that by using the Marine Corps expeditionary reconnaissance unit and the armed gendarmerie special forces to carry out a plundering war on the Indochina Peninsula, our army has already deployed two marine brigades and one army division on the Indochina Peninsula as a training ground for the Marine Expeditionary Reconnaissance Unit and the armed gendarmerie special forces. It can also further stimulate and intensify the hatred of various countries and ethnic tribes in the Indochina Peninsula, otherwise the forces of all parties in the Indochina Peninsula have entered a period of fatigue in recent times. ”

Lin Haijiang nodded with satisfaction and said, "Hmm! This is a very good suggestion, and you can continue along this line, and you can use the military superiority of the Empire to communicate with the local people everywhere except the inland and overseas provinces! Its ultimate goal is to make everything else our own, with our needs as the first need and the interests of the empire as the supreme interest. ”

Lin Haijiang's final order to the Chief of the General Staff and the Minister of the Navy can be described as extremely simple, that is, I don't care what you think of, what means you use, get the money back for me! Lin Haijiang is the most dignified head of an emerging empire, but what hurts his mind the most is the lack of money? This also made Lin Haijiang feel helpless, after all, the foundation of the Chinese Empire is too thin, and there are many enemies, not only from the land, more threats come from the sea, with Lin Haijiang's surname is categorically intolerant of the need to give up the southeast province and Hainan province and coastal sea control once the foreign invasion, the imperial navy from the beginning of the definition is an ocean-going strategic navy, fear of the enemy outside the country is the basic requirement of Lin Haijiang, the enemy is blocked at home and beaten is the ultimate goal of Lin Haijiang.

In order to cooperate with the overall ocean strategy, when the United States was still mired in endless civil wars, Lin Haijiang believed that the time was ripe for the Imperial Navy to enter the Pacific, but the empire's economy could not support such a large-scale and long-term military operation of the Imperial Navy and Army.

For this reason, Lin Haijiang asked Li Anmin and Li Haibo about whether the Imperial Navy could establish a Hawaii forward base in several supporting points in the Pacific Ocean, to which Li Anmin said that as long as the Supreme Command issued an order, the General Staff would immediately cooperate with the implementation, and Li Haibo naturally did not refuse to come, the more the merrier, the Imperial Navy's Pacific Fleet said that the biggest military activity was to drive out the pirates in the Strait of Malacca, due to the rise of the Chinese Empire, and the change of the surname of the imperial fortress, a large number of pirates were registered as legitimate merchants. However, there are also some stubborn bandits still haunting the Strait of Malacca, although the Pacific Fleet of the Imperial Navy has cleared it several times, and the effect of the clearance can only last for a few dozen days, because of the huge profits that make the pirates operating in the Strait of Malacca endlessly.

According to Lin Haijiang's plan, the first to seize Hawaii and other strategic pioneers, even if the United States stops the civil war, it will at least take a long time to recover, and he uses this time to buy gold mines on the east coast of the United States and several large oil fields in Mexico and the United States, and blocking the economic lifeline of the Americans is tantamount to stifling the possibility of the rapid rise of the Americans.

The successful occupation of the Hawaiian Islands and the establishment of large fortresses and military ports is equivalent to putting artillery on the doorstep of the Americans, just like the Americans blockaded China's facility chain islands in later generations, first adding a big lock to the gate of the Americans, so that the Americans' future Pacific Fleet can only swim in the bathtub, and when the future era of precision-guided long-range attacks arrives, Lin Haijiang couldn't help but laugh out loud secretly at the thought that the warships parked by the Americans in their harbors were within their own attack range!

Li Anmin and Li Haibo on the side had no choice but to cough awkwardly and pretend not to see this abnormal performance of the Führer!

On August 17, 1862, Lin Haijiang returned to Guangzhou after inspecting the Imperial Fortress Shipyard, after the inspection of the Guangzhou Shipyard, Lin Haijiang's heart that had been hanging was finally completely put down, and the three major shipyards of the empire did not appear in the management of Fujian Mawei Shipyard and other phenomena, it seems that the Mawei Shipyard is just one of the special cases of the inland provinces, but this special case really scared Lin Haijiang out of a cold sweat, the Imperial Navy is the solid backing that the Chinese Empire relies on, The shipyard is the location of the most secret in the Chinese Empire, and the chaotic management of the Mawei Shipyard has undoubtedly become a leak center, and the high-ranking officers of the garrison and reserve forces in its province are derelict in their duties, embezzlement and theft of arms, each of which is so shocking!

However, the outbreak of the Fujian case also made Lin Haijiang determined to completely rectify the collusion between the township party and local forces within the empire, generally according to common sense, in order to quickly stabilize the provinces recovered by the empire, the imperial receiving committee will generally combine with the local local forces, with their cooperation to receive, so that although the empire can quickly stabilize the local order, but there is no doubt that the local consuls have become the spokesperson for the interests of local forces, and in the general provinces, the military and the government check and supervise each other. On the Fujian side, due to the negligence of the Supreme Command, almost all the officials in the province were all family.

After returning to Guangzhou, Lin Haijiang has not had time to go home, and his parents at home, as well as Shen Yilan, Zijuan, Lily and others, also know that Lin Haijiang is busy with official business, and they don't dare to disturb him, most of them send someone to bring some snacks and soup in the evening.

Lin Haijiang naturally understands the careful thinking of women, but the five cans of soup in the past have turned into six cans today? Lin Haijiang is a little curious? Asked the chief of the guard, the chief of the guard actually said with a surprised expression that he didn't know? Lin Haijiang was suddenly surprised? An extra can of soup of unknown origin on the Führer's desk? The chief of the guard didn't even know?

Lin Haijiang counted several different soup cans, the white and elegant ones were Wanxin, the golden and gorgeous ones were Shen Yilan, the purple sand ones were lily, and the fine yellow mud ones were purple juan's, and those who used the incomparably valuable Yuan blue and white as soup cans didn't need to look at it to know that it was Jiang Rong'er's, and now there is an enamel filigree?

After Lin Haijiang asked with a calm face, the chief of the guard whispered to Lin Haijiang, looking at the latest soup can, Lin Haijiang was extremely surprised? She even started to learn to bring soup to herself? It seems that he didn't do anything to others, huh?

(To be continued)