Chapter 111 Sigh (Ask for a monthly pass!) Read! ）

Compared with the imperial palace located in the city, the annex located in the Purple Mountain, those Western-style palace-style buildings, on the contrary, are more royal, although the "Xilan Palace" was built before the recovery, but the European-style palace architecture and the subsequent jīng heart decoration make almost every corner here look magnificent, especially those gold-clad wooden mén, wooden windows, wood carvings, anyone who comes here will be amazed by the luxury and magnificence here.

The luxury and opulence here are deep in every corner, even the most inconspicuous corners, sometimes it will make people shine, compared to the palace Qinzheng Building, which can be described as a simple movie screening room, located in the basement of the "Xirun Palace" film screening room, but it is extremely gorgeous, jīng beautiful wall skirts, gorgeous decorations, plus those European-style soft seat sofas, this is the real place to "watch movies", of course, if there are so-called "blockbusters" in this era.

However, the screening room was in darkness, with no white light reflected on the white screen, and some reflections reflected in the gorgeous lighting around it, which surprisingly seemed a bit strange in the room.

The movie screen went black, revealing a row of powerful block letters.

"Launching Ceremony of the Largest Warship in East Asia"

Seeing these words, Chen Moran's brows furrowed, this is the news that various domestic newspapers are vying to report today, and even some envoys in China are constantly inquiring about the news, and before the newspaper reports, he turned out to be "ignorant".

It is precisely because of this that there will be unhappiness at this time, and it can even be said to be anger, but anger always needs to be restrained, restrained, at least after watching this movie. The film's drawings begin with a line drawing of a warship, followed by several designers surrounding the plates, seemingly discussing something.

At this stage, Feng Xìng's picture is undoubtedly showing the decision-making, design, and construction process of this warship, and the corresponding subtitle commentary will appear every dozens of seconds, judging from the picture, Chen Moran can feel that the people who made this news film are very attentive, at least this movie has made great progress in shooting skills compared with those movies in the past.

"Well, this picture is good, it's spectacular......"

Looking at this movie with the eyes of watching hundreds of movies, although it is inevitably a little amateurish, but occasionally some pictures still make Chen Moran slightly praise in his heart.

"Your Majesty, the Admiralty Advisory Office has planned to copy 500 newsreels and send them to the nation as newsreels"

Zhang Jing, who was sitting behind him, whispered, but this sentence came to Chen Moran, who was in a more relaxed mood, frowned again, does the navy just want to use this kind of instant accompli to "bully the king"?

At this time, the dock is crowded with people, and a huge hull is slowly floating up with the water injection in the dock, which is the "water injection dock launching", after the water injection is completed, the hull should be towed out with a tugboat, which is a news that has long been common.

Dozens of seconds later, Ye Zugui's figure appeared on the screen, seeing his figure, Chen Moran turned his head slightly to look at him, and by the light of the movie, he could see that he seemed to be a little nervous or even cramped.

As the battleship slowly descended, on the pillars of the various cranes in the dockyard, pieces of paper, perhaps sè, were sprayed from time to time, and the scene looked spectacular.

"Zhiyuan"

The two big characters reflected on the movie screen made Chen Moran stunned, and the warship and that person came to mind, when the navy proposed to build two "heavy armored cruisers", the navy and themselves had some disputes over the name of the ship, according to the original plan, the name of the heavy armored cruiser should be named with the names of the Chinese provinces, but the navy chose "Zhiyuan", "These two names are not "auspicious", and finally they compromised, people always need some memory.

In Chen Moran's silence, the newsreel, which was only ten minutes long, was finished, and in the idling sound of the movie machine, the electric lights were turned on again in the dark screening room, and everyone in the screening room looked at His Majesty.

Ye Zugui, Shi Tiange and others looked at His Majesty with an expressionless face with some anxiety, who is the person who conceals this trick? is the majesty in front of you, in the past, this was a crime of deception, and it was a great crime to punish the nine clans.

"This ......"

Finally, Chen Moran's voice broke the dead silence in the projection room.

"Is this a so-called heavy armored cruiser?" ,

A rhetorical question made Ye Zugui and Shi Tiange look at each other, is there a cruiser of almost 18,000 tons? The tonnage of this "heavy armored cruiser" is almost equal to two Japanese armored cruisers, is there such a large armored cruiser? At least before it, there really were no such large "cruisers".

"Back to Your Majesty, according to the passage of various countries, armored cruisers should be warships with certain armor protection, equipped with strong firepower, with high speed and seaworthiness, and capable of long-term ocean-going operations under harsh climatic conditions.

At this point, Shi Tiange knew that he had no way out, and it was he who had agreed to build this "advanced" "cruiser" at the beginning, so it would be up to him to explain

"What a big cruiser a cruiser."

With a cold snort, Chen Moran turned his gaze to Shi Tiange, who was full of sarcasm.

"Your Majesty, it seems that there is no regulation in the world, more than 10,000 tons are battleships, and less than 10,000 tons are cruisers, fifteen years ago, battleships were no more than 10,000 tons, cruisers were only thousands of tons, and the caliber of artillery was still dominated by 152 mm, and 7 years ago, Japan customized 10,000 tons of armored cruisers, and the caliber jumped to 203 mm. Now, with the progress of the times and the needs of naval warfare, the tonnage of armored cruisers has naturally increased by leaps and bounds, and for the long-term development of the imperial navy, it is natural that it will lag behind the countries of the world as soon as it is built, so it is natural to make long-term considerations, so the construction of this kind of armored cruiser is in line with the development of science and technology and the needs of naval warfare."

Shi Tiange's words only made Ye Zugui stunned, he was so clever that he was asking for trouble, seeing His Majesty's face but it was cold, Ye Zugui knew that he could be silent any longer.

"Your Majesty, please calm your anger, this fact is ......"

When the words came to his lips, Ye Zugui didn't know how to explain it.

Self-confessed deception? No, if you don't admit it, you can't find Ye Zugui for a while, you will almost sweat on your forehead.

"Calm the anger...... Why am I angry?"

Chen Moran snorted coldly, holding the newspaper in his hand, if he hadn't seen this newspaper, he was afraid that he really didn't know that the navy had built the "largest ship in East Asia", and built a battleship in the name of a cruiser, it was really a shame that they could come up with it. It seems that the appropriation is too lenient for the Navy, to be precise, with the guarantee of the Naval Foundation's funds, the Navy can build large warships as they wish, if they want, even beyond their own spend.

I have always thought that I am very relieved of the navy, even more assured than the army that I started from, the most powerful navy of the navy, leaving the land is also rootless, the quality of the navy, the special nature of the officers determines that the navy can only rely on the state, it is the special characteristics of the navy, that makes themselves mixed with sand in the navy, before the "aristocratic naval officers" take charge of the navy, they regard it as a subordinate of the humerus, but they repay themselves in this way.

The navy wants warships, this can be ideal, not to mention that the neighbors of the East Ocean have a huge fleet, even if they don't, whether it is for self-protection or for the need to "raise the country's prestige in the sea", China must build a huge fleet, a powerful navy that can even rival the British Navy.

It is not incomprehensible that coastal defense is more important than land defense, but it ...... It is by no means that everything has to be prioritized now, and the recklessness of the navy is to ignore the overall situation of the country

"The Navy gave these two great gifts to the Empire, and I have to thank you very much."

His Majesty's sneer made Ye Zugui's forehead even denser, there was no imaginary thunder rage, but some were more chilling than thunder rage...... Once the navy loses the trust of His Majesty.

This will Ye Zugui really want to kneel, but he knows that now is not the time to kneel.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty...... The minister has something to say."

"Speak"

Staring at Ye Zugui, Chen Moran still had some anger in his heart, the reckless action of the navy destroyed his most important plan in the future, and this plan may even affect the fortunes of the country.

"Your Majesty, at the beginning, it was planned to build a large number of cruisers for the training of officers and sailors, and at the same time to improve the level of shipbuilding in the country, so as not to arouse the vigilance of the great powers for the expansion of our navy, but...... If China is not at odds with Japan, then the construction of cruisers is undoubtedly in line with China's actual needs, but now it ......"

Raising his head and looking at His Majesty, Ye Zugui's words were filled with some sincerity. ,

"There is no doubt that Japan is the biggest enemy of our country in the future, and this time forcing Japan to return Taiwan to our country has made it impossible for China and Japan to compromise on peace; last year Japan had only four battleships and eight armored cruisers, and after it conquered Arthur, it captured as many as four battleships and one armored cruiser in Lushun, and in one year, the Japanese Navy will have eight battleships and nine armored cruisers, making it the fourth most powerful navy in the world, and our navy is not even among the top ten.

The voice paused slightly, but Ye Zugui was secretly changing the concept of time, when the "Zhiyuan" class began to be designed, China and Japan had not yet been evil, and the "Zhiyuan" had already begun to be designed before that.

"This time with the Japanese jiāo evil, although the United Kingdom, the United States and other countries have broken the treaty protection, but if the Japanese are desperate, how can our country give the navy to other countries to protect, but now the enemy's plan is nothing more than a powerful fleet to deter it, so this is the far-reaching, in order to ......"

"Hey......"

When Ye Zugui said the reason for building the ship, Chen Moran let out a long sigh and looked at him and said a word.

"It's easy to build two warships, it's easier to buy, you only see the strength of the Japanese Navy, but you don't see it, these two warships seem to be a guarantee for coastal defense, but it's ......"