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"On the Hawaiian side, the navy has already sent a detachment to arrive for reinforcements, if the Americans still oppose the Hawaiian Kingdom joining our Greater China, they will at least send a battleship detachment over, and with the current naval strength of the Americans, they should not have the courage to start a war with the Imperial Navy!" Lin Yan said as he looked at his father opposite.

Now Lin Zhe is seventy-one years old, and he is no longer young because of the heavy state affairs of the past few decades, his physical condition is not as good as before, since the Sino-British War in 1896, Lin Zhe has rarely personally dealt with some trivial government affairs, and began to transfer part of the state affairs to the crown prince Lin Lian to deal with.

The affairs of Hawaii are also led by Prince Lin.

After 1896, taking advantage of the victory in the Sino-British War, the empire increased its control over the vast colonies and introduced many measures to encourage local nationals to emigrate to overseas colonies.

For example, if the domestic people take the initiative to move to the Philippines and Indonesia, they don't have to pay anything, and they can immediately get 50 acres of land per person for free.

In order to effectively manage these two large colonies, and more importantly, to thoroughly digest these regions, the Empire did not treat these two regions as colonies, but as native territories.

In the Philippines, Luzon Province and Medan Province were established in the south and north, and in the Dutch Indonesia region, Borneo, Suman, Java, Sula and New Guinea were newly established.

The reason why there are only two provinces in Luzon and Indonesia is not directly established is to prevent the independence movement in these two regions in the future, so from now on these regions will be divided and dismembered, so that they will no longer be a single unit, but multiple independent provinces.

With the creation of these new provinces, the empire began to strongly encourage native immigrants to new territories overseas, and nothing was more attractive than land.

The empire directly prepared to give all the land to the new immigrants for free, as for the original owners of these lands, that is, those natives, what to do, for this reason the empire followed the example of the United States, claiming to promote the so-called 'inner 6 movement', that is, to encourage new immigrants to march to the inner 6 of the new territories, and the new land occupied is also the land released to the new immigrants!

Because of the desperate thirst for land among the people of the country, every year a large number of landless or landless peasants came to the Nanyang provinces on free emigrant boats, registered as militias, received free guns and ammunition, and then embarked on the march into the islands of the new territories.6

In just five years, the number of Chinese in the Nanyang provinces has increased to more than 2 million, and it is still increasing, and in the process, the uncivilized natives, like the Indians in North America, gradually disappeared into the long river of history, and after a few decades, only a few indigenous people can be seen in a few specific 'aboriginal reserves'.

In 1898, Lin pushed the Chinese immigrants in Hawaii to carry out a coup d'état, expelled the king of the Hawaiian Kingdom, and proclaimed the Republic of Hawaii.

But it didn't take long for the industrial nation of Hawaii to be incorporated into the Chinese Empire, becoming a new territory of the Chinese Empire.

The Americans, who also immigrated to Hawaii and other Westerners, formed armies and Chinese armies to fight several skirmishes.

However, with the cooperation of the local garrison of the empire, the resistance of these Westerners gradually disappeared, and the Americans began to send warships to come.

In response, the Imperial Navy also reinforced a detachment to strengthen the Hawaiian task force.

In this case, if the Americans do not have the determination to go to war with the Empire and defeat it, then the annexation of Hawaii by the Empire will become a given, and the Americans will not be able to resist even if they want to.

Lin Zhe took the report in Lin Lu's hand, and after a slight glance, he put it down: "You did a good job in this matter, you look at the arrangements in the future, no matter what, Hawaii must be in our hands!" ”

At this time, Lin Yan said worriedly: "It's just that we will not excessively stimulate the United States and the British in doing this, according to intelligence, the Americans and the British have been in very close contact in the past two years, and if they join forces in the Pacific, the situation of the empire will be a little difficult, and the Americans and the British have been vigorously developing their navies in recent years."

The Americans already have at least thirteen battleships, the British have more than thirty new battleships, and their new armored cruisers are more than ten, and the cost plans of these two countries have not stopped, and there are not a few warships in service every year. If they join forces, I'm afraid the pressure on the Imperial Navy will be very great! ”

Prince Lin's fears were justified, since after the Sino-British War in 1896, the British and Americans, stimulated by the naval battles in the South China Sea, were drugged and built far more dreadnought battleships and armored cruisers than at the same time in history.

As for the Imperial Navy, although the expansion of the fleet did not stop after 1896, it was still somewhat weak compared to the British.

As of 19o1, the Imperial Navy's new battleships, including even the Yandi-class battleships that had been more than ten years old, were only eighteen and ten armored cruisers.

Although the strength is strong enough, if Britain and the United States unite, it is estimated that it will still be enough!

However, seeing Lin Li's worried face, Lin Zhe didn't care: "Don't worry, let them build a few more ships, they will all be targets in the future!" ”

"Didn't I let you go to Qingdao to see the new warships, and when this kind of heartfelt battleship comes out, all the other battleships will pass through!"

Lin Yan still found it a little hard to believe that he had seen the 'new type of battleship' in his father's mouth at the beginning of the year, and he also knew some basic information, this battleship was personally formulated by his father, and then let the navy design and related technical research according to the standards.

The ship's best feature is: full heavy artillery!

The group of people in the navy said that they would install at least eight 12-inch 45 times caliber guns, and when he first heard about the number of main guns, he wondered if the designer's brain was broken, and the battleship could still float against so many guns? I'm afraid the keel will be broken when this cannon is fired!

But what surprised him was that the Ship Administration Department really designed it.

This design scheme is also very exaggerated, the standard displacement is as high as 19,000 tons, which is 2,000 tons larger than the battleship of 17,000 tons before the largest tonnage of the Imperial Navy.

Moreover, the 250 mm secondary guns installed in the previous two new battleships were abolished, but the number of 12-inch main guns was increased from four to eight.

With a displacement of 19,000 tons, there are only three shipyards in the empire that can undertake the construction of such warships, that is, the three largest shipyards in China, Guangzhou Shipyard, Shanghai Shipyard, and Qingdao Naval Shipyard, because only these three shipyards have the capacity to build nearly 20,000 tons of warships.

According to expectations, this kind of battleship, which was praised by the father as once built, all modern warships, whether they were already in service or on the slipway, or simply still on the design drawings, would pass through overnight.

At that time, the empire will be able to rely on its superiority to lead the establishment of a main fleet composed of new warships to ensure the empire's naval supremacy in the Pacific.

At this time, Lin Zhe looked up at Lin Lu, who was still a little reluctant to believe that the new battleship could hold up a piece of the sky of the Imperial Navy, this son was already not young.

Lin Luan, who was born in 186o, is forty-one years old this year, and Lin Luan's eldest son is eighteen years old this year.

Perhaps, it's time to entrust him with the burden, he can't work until he dies of old age, he is now seventy-one years old, and his health is not as good as before, and he Lin Zhe has been in this time and space for nearly forty years, and he has basically spent it in a busy life.

Sometimes looking back, he now that he is really tired after he arrived in this time and space, and he has never been idle, either busy with military affairs, or thinking about how to intrigue with his courtiers and keep the empire's carriage safe and stable.

Perhaps, it's time to let go! (To be continued.) )8