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For the Imperial Admiralty's Xiaojiulin Haijiang, it is naturally clear that a large number of battle cruisers are built to replace the existing Glorious-class heavy armored protection cruisers, and some ships are mothballed after the transformation, which is tantamount to expanding the military reserve in disguise, but as the head of the Empire, Lin Haijiang knows that the empire's economy and national strength are far from reaching what the Admiralty hopes!

However, Lin Haijiang was finally tempted to build the battle cruiser, Lin Haijiang knew the decline process of the battle cruiser, but at present, this type of ship is very suitable for the national conditions of the Chinese Empire and the surrounding conditions, and there must be a risk for large-tonnage ships to pass through the Suez Canal, so this is destined to be doomed to the future If there is a war with Britain and France, in addition to dealing with the Russian Far East Fleet, the British and French fleets faced by the Chinese Empire are basically composed of heavy armored protection cruisers, and the strategic center of gravity of Britain and France is in Europe. It is impossible to devote the main forces of its navy to a strategic decisive battle with the Chinese Empire in the Far East!

However, the empire maintains the main force of the imperial navy composed of twelve battleships, fifty-five cruisers, sixty destroyers and eighty river gunboats, which can be said to be almost smashing the pot and selling iron, so Lin Haijiang plans to change the original twelve battleships to four Zhenyuan-class and two empire-class, a total of six battleships, and replace the construction share of all heavy armored protection cruisers with ten Nanhai-class battlecruisers!

Lin Haijiang carefully reviewed all the data and information about the Nanhai-class battlecruisers, compared with the same tonnage of the empire's main battleship Zhenyuan-class battleships, the Nanhai-class battlecruisers will have faster speed, more fierce firepower, and have excellent defensive capabilities than heavy-weight armored protection cruisers, Lin Haijiang knows that at least in the next 40 years, before the 40,000-ton battleships cannot reach the combat speed of 30 knots, the battlecruisers still have a great need for existence. Especially for an island country like Britain, which relies on the transportation of materials itself and lacks resources, its sea lines of communication are equivalent to its lifeline, and if the sea lines of communication of the British Empire are cut off, then the so-called British Empire, which is known as the Empire that will not fall for a while, will also collapse without a fight. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Lin Haijiang is serious Britain and the British can be said to be very similar to this to some extent, both belong to the island country, the same are extremely scarce resources, the British are aware of this, their own inferior roots also determine the British love for bloody pirate plunder, in the foreign plundering of the British found that plundering is far easier than their own business construction, so the development of the navy with reckless force, anywhere they can reach, the use of strong ships and cannons to transport a large amount of wealth back to the mainland, In using this wealth to continuously manufacture more advanced weapons and ships, so as to be able to plunder more wealth, it can be said that the so-called British plunder model was imitated by later generations, but it is a pity that he learned too late, and it is absolutely not allowed to rise up in the club of international powers, and it will also stifle all attempts to redivide forces and interests.

The rise of the Chinese Empire and Prussia can be said to have withstood such a test, just like snatching a piece of cake in the hands of a group of hooligans, do you want to eat it? Then you have to show strength! Like the Chinese Empire, swallowing a cake stained with the blood of itself and its enemies, although the European powers are not dead, they are already terrified!

For the vigorous development and construction of the navy, Lin Haijiang still has some headaches, the reason is very simple, the navy's shipbuilding plan has completely exceeded the empire's economic capacity, if Lin Haijiang insists on going his own way, then the empire's overall economic and financial order will face a complete collapse, Lin Haijiang has only issued personal credit checks and imperial official checks, and the main reason why paper money is not issued is because the credibility of the empire's economic system is not enough to support a large number of paper money into the market for circulation.

In the evening, Li Anmin also arrived at the Haikou fortress, it can be said that Li Anmin came for the Fujian incident!

After dinner, after returning to his room, Lin Haijiang ordered someone to find Li Anmin and Li Haibo, for his own Minister of Navy, Lin Haijiang was very dissatisfied with his performance in the Hou Wenjing Fujian incident, although Lin Haijiang knew that Li Haibo was afraid that a wide range of involvement would lead to instability in the hearts of the imperial people, but Lin Haijiang's heart was still very uncomfortable! In contrast, although Li Anmin, the chief of the general staff, is incompetent, he can faithfully perform every task he has assigned, and Lin Haijiang is loyal to this!

After Li Haibo entered the room, he first snapped and saluted, Lin Haijiang nodded and said, "Sit down!" Come with a cigar? ”

Li Haibo smiled slightly: "If the head of state knows me, I like your cigar smoke, it is a fragrance, especially flavorful!" ”

Lin Haijiang smiled helplessly and said, "What's particularly tasteful?" You're still fooling me? I'm afraid this tastes cheap too, right? Let me tell you, I also bought my cigars with my own salary, seven oceans each! It's like grabbing money! Why didn't I find out that our empire had such a lucrative industry? ”

Li Anmin smiled and interjected: "Why not? Führer, you forgot? The Empire's arms deal is much more profitable than this tobacco! In addition, our textile industry has been greatly developed due to the situation of imperial investment and individual participation, and now the scale is enough to compete with European countries, in addition to the low price of foreign cloth from India, our prices are very competitive in the world, porcelain and tea are also our major exports. ”

Lin Haijiang sighed and said, "You guys are all right, but what is the actual situation?" We lack a large number of skilled industrial workers, resulting in high labor costs, we export are lack of technical content of local products, industrial we still have to import, 10,000 tons of hydraulic presses? Hydraulic presses? Large-scale precision vehicles and ships, now Haigang is finally able to produce high-carbon and high-manganese added alloys, otherwise our weapons steel and shipbuilding raw materials still need to be imported, what a terrible thing! ”

Lin Haijiang paused again and continued: "Not long ago, at the meeting of the commanders of the imperial garrison area, I was ambitious to unify the whole country in two to three years, but I checked a Mawei shipyard and caused so much trouble? How many of my million garrisons and reserves are real? How many can be called upon and able to fight? Can you win the battle? Our first priority now is to strengthen the education and management of the empire! ”

Lin Haijiang's words made Li Anmin, the chief of the general staff, a little embarrassed, and the Minister of the Navy Li Haibo on the side was also quietly silent, after all, the management of the Mawei Shipyard was chaotic, and the Admiralty Military Representative Office also had certain responsibilities, but the previous Shipbuilding Administration and the Admiralty were not clear in defining their functions, so it led to a dispute between the two sides, so that the shipyards below also followed suit, but the internal management of the Hainan Shipyard was in good order, and the factory cooperated with the General Administration of Science and Technology and the Admiralty Military Representative Office. This shows that the problem of Fujian's horsetail is likely to be a local surname, and the management of the inland is far from that of the overseas provinces, or it can be said that the relationship between the inland provinces in all aspects is intertwined, and the overseas provinces are all developed by one effort, and there are no chaotic social relations involved, and the Guangzhou Shipyard naturally does not dare to make too much trouble under the nose of the head of the empire.

Immediately, Li Anmin reported to Lin Haijiang the history of Hou Wenjing's case, and Major General Li Cong of the International Strategic Center of the General Staff involved in the case was somewhat implicated in this matter, Hou Wenjing was Li Cong through personal relations without going through the three-level review of the Imperial Supreme Command, but directly bypassed the Military Command Office to issue an order, so Hou Wenjing dared to do anything wrong, Li Jiexin, the consul of Fujian Province, was Li Cong's uncle, and Li Changfu, the head of the Fujian Provincial Reserve Force who was wanted and captured, was Hou Wenjing's relative. The case of arms theft and sale has also been fully investigated, and it was Li Changfu's personal act, and the arms stolen and sold are said to have been bought by people with strange accents; intelligence from the intelligence headquarters shows that the buyers are likely to be North Koreans, and five of the 67 people involved in the case are still at large, and the rest have all been arrested and brought to justice, but the whereabouts of the Koreans who bought the arms are still unknown, and the arms that have been resold include 800 Imperial Type 1 rifles, 10 Dai Type 1 light machine guns, 2,000 hand grenades, and 200,000 rounds of ammunition. ”

Lin Haijiang has been thinking with his eyes closed in the process of listening to Li Anmin's report, and in just over a week, the Fujian case was solved, and the personnel handling the case below understood their intentions and spirit, and turned all Fujian provinces upside down, Lin Haijiang believes that the intelligence department has long been aware of these things, but why didn't Wang Faren report it in time? Is the time not yet ripe? Or did its intelligence department have other plans, but the outcome of this case also shocked Lin Haijiang, and the officials in Tong Province are all related? That's a little too scary, isn't it? The regional and township parties have endangered the life and death of the empire!

Lin Haijiang hesitated for a moment and said: "Major General Li Cong of the International Strategic Center of the General Staff Headquarters has been stripped of his military post, the consul of Fujian Province has been dismissed from his post on the spot, Li Jiexin has been sentenced to 20 years in prison, Hou Wenjing, Li Changfu and other 68 people have all been sentenced to death, and the five people who have fled abroad must be arrested with all their might, and no matter where they flee to the ends of the earth, they must also be brought to justice. The positions of the transferred personnel will continue to be promoted according to the downward trend of the first to second grades. ”

Li Anmin already had a certain degree of psychological preparation for Lin Haijiang's severe punishment of the officials in the Fujian incident, but he shot sixty-eight of them at once? Seems a little too shocking? But now that the Führer has given instructions, he is not in a position to give advice.

(To be continued)