On June 19, Guanghua 7, the midterm election of the third National Assembly of the Chinese Empire officially came to an end in the Great Hall of 10,000 people in the Imperial Capitol.

The People's Livelihood Party won 6,324 seats in the House of Representatives and 233 seats in the House of Councillors, while the Cook Party and the Civil Rights Party were the second and third largest parties respectively.

Zhang Feng continued to serve as prime minister, and the other cabinet members changed slightly, but not much.

The National Assembly was originally a place for Wang Chenhao to imitate Louis XIV and ban the officials of the previous dynasty, but with the death of senators Liu Kunyi, Li Hongzhang, Zhang Zhidong and other veteran-level figures one after another, the other veterans of the former dynasty in the parliament saw that Wang Chenhao was sitting on the throne day by day, and they had no hope of turning the tables, so they either returned to their hometowns or chose to be loyal to the Chinese Empire and join the three major parties to find another background. Congress has become clear.

The three major parties of the empire and dozens of other parties, large and small, competed in all provinces and administrative regions of the country, with members of the Minsheng Party winning the provincial council elections in 28 provinces across the country, and the other 12 provinces won by the People's Rights Party, the Ming Cooking Party, and the Republican Party. For the first time, the party gained control of a provincial parliament, and Republican leader Kang Youwei was elected governor of Outer Mongolia.

The process of boiling the Chinese Empire was very fast, thanks to the enlightened political system and efficient and strict surveillance system of the Chinese Empire. The Chinese Empire implemented a policy of high salaries and incorruptible pensions, which greatly curbed the [***] situation of political officials. Since the first year of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Supreme Procuratorate and the Independent Commission Against Corruption have punished a total of 32,415 corrupt officials and dereliction of duty, with the highest level being Senator Shengyun, the former governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, and the amount of crime was as high as 30 million dragon coins. In the seventh year of Guanghua, in the first half of the year, a total of 9 corrupt officials were punished, and 245 people were dealt with for dereliction of duty, the highest level was Chen Keqing, director of the Finance Department of Dengzhou Prefecture in Shandong Province, and the family property of 20,000 dragon coins could not be explained (the amount of income exceeding 200 dragon coins per year could not be explained, that is, it was listed as corruption by the Independent Commission Against Corruption).

The political axe is politically clear, honest and honest, and brings a high level of trust to the people of the empire. At the same time, the Imperial Axe severely cracked down on all forms of criminal activity. In the first year of Guanghua, there were more than 60,000 criminal cases and 420,000 civil cases, and the processing efficiency was only less than 11%, and in the seventh year of Guanghua, the incidence of various cases was significantly reduced, and in the first half of the year, there were 5,400 criminal cases and 130,000 civil cases, and the completion rate of handling has reached 80%.

According to a poll conducted in 37 provinces, the Imperial Central Committee reported that the public was confident in the Imperial Axe, with 82% support for the PPP cabinet.

The political openness of the Chinese Empire, the freedom of speech of the people, and the people's comments and accusations against the political axe became the best way to promote the continuous improvement of the imperial political axe.

However, the high degree of political openness has also caused some hostile forces to constantly create incidents in China, incite public opinion, and smear the image of the political axe.

In this regard, the political axe of the Chinese empire resolutely dealt a blow. Among them, the CIA and the Homeland Security Agency have done an excellent job in this regard, arresting tens of thousands of [***] hostile forces at home and abroad.

Among them, the most serious infiltration into China is the spies of Yuben. Because the two countries share the same race, skin color, and similar cultures, some specially trained spies have infiltrated China since before the First Sino-Japanese War, and some have even penetrated into China since their grandfathers' generation and carried out long-term strategic lurk.

The spies of the political axe are mainly in the special high school, and the non-governmental spy agencies are mainly the Black Dragon Society and the Ronin Society, and these spy organizations use the consulate in China as a cover to steal information from all over the world.

The CIA and the Homeland Security Agency have repeatedly destroyed their sites in the confrontation with the spies, but the spies have always had an opportunity, and it didn't take long for another batch to appear, and it seemed that they could not be caught and killed.

In order to further prevent the infiltration of foreign spies into China, the Chinese Empire began to rectify the chaotic household registration system left over from the Manchu Qing Dynasty in August 1907 and implemented a new type of household registration and resident identity card system.

Strict scrutiny is imposed on everyone throughout the country, requiring the presentation of proof of relationship within three generations, proof of neighborhoods in towns, and certificates from villages and villages, and those who cannot provide these certificates are separately filed for investigation and determined that they are not spies before they can take the political axe agency personnel examination.

After a series of preventive measures, the number of spies in the empire dropped significantly, greatly narrowing the scope of foreign spies' activities in China, and in particular, several spy organizations in the empire were dealt a heavy blow.

On October 13, 1907, Mieko, the head of the first section of the Shanghai branch of the special high school, was arrested in China, and he used Meise to get close to Lin Fanfu, the ship designer of Shanghai Shipbuilding Heavy Industry, and stole the technical drawings of the Shangwang-class battleship of the Imperial Chinese Navy.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Chinese Empire immediately met with the ambassador to China, and took the opportunity to lash out at him, accusing him of stealing information from the Chinese Empire's navy with the intention of developing a navy and seriously threatening the security of the Chinese Empire. He accused the Consulate in China of being an espionage intelligence station, and demanded that Congress enact legislation to expel some suspicious people from the Embassy. At the same time, the Chinese Empire demanded that the navy provide a report on the development of the navy's military strength, and demanded transparency in the military spending of the navy and the army.

In accordance with the requirements of the Homeland Security Bureau of the Chinese Empire, the embassy of the Imperial Chinese Empire was abolished in Shanghai, Tianjin, Shenyang, and Wuhan, and only one embassy in Yanjing was retained, and the embassy staff was reduced from the current 55 to 12 people, except for two diplomats, there were only ten bodyguards left, and all the miscellaneous servants were assigned by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Chinese Empire. This makes it difficult for the embassy to engage in espionage activities under the noses of the Chinese in the future.

At the same time, in order to avoid being listed as a hostile country by the Chinese Empire and to avoid being used by the Chinese Empire as an excuse to impose military, economic and political sanctions, Xiyuan Temple Gongwang was forced to disclose the military expenditure items and military development plans for the 07 year.

The groveling of the Xiyuan Temple Gongwang cabinet led to the information of the Yuben military being known to the Chinese Empire, which was a huge threat to the development of the Yuben military. There is no secret to the Chinese emperor [***] in military spending, which is a huge threat to the security and defense of the Chinese emperor.

The weakness and incompetence of the cabinet of the Saionji Gongwang suddenly aroused the anger of the people.

In November 1907, the public hope of Xiyuan Temple could not withstand the political pressure of the country and was forced to resign. Subsequently, Emperor Komoto appointed Katsura Taro as prime minister. This is the second time that Katsura Taro has formed a cabinet, and as an unscrupulous person, Katsura Taro can appease the Chinese Empire's concerns about the former Saionji Gongwang's Constitutional Political Friendship Association, and on the other hand, the non-party Katsura Taro cabinet can also balance the confrontation between the left and right groups in the country.

The primary goal of the Katsura Taro cabinet was to develop the economy, expand cooperation with the United States, and strive to reach the level of a strong country economically, and then develop the military when it had the money, and then compete with the Chinese Empire.

Katsura Taro's wishes are good, but the military will not be so honest to report the real military expenditure items to the cabinet, so it has also concealed the Chinese emperor's [***] side.

Since the replacement of submarines with large ships is an asymmetric combat advantage in future naval warfare, the submarine faction of the Admiralty has the upper hand and has defeated the giant ship artillery faction, thus making the Admiralty approve the vigorous development of submarines.

The Imperial Chinese Navy knew that the Imperial Chinese Navy had won two large-scale naval battles with submarine sneak attacks, so the Imperial Chinese Navy had done a very meticulous job of keeping submarines secret, and no matter how powerful the intelligence force of the Chinese Empire was, it only knew the tip of the iceberg.

As early as during the Sino-Russian War, before the great role of submarines was realized, some officers of the navy had actively introduced submarine technology from European and American countries, but at that time, the navy did not attach importance to submarines, just like the Qing government built submarines just for fun.

After the Sino-Russian War, Kawasaki Shipyard obtained two blueprints for the design of the "Holland" submarine from the Chinese Empire after discovering the asymmetric combat capability of submarines, and on the other hand, under the mediation of Lieutenant Colonel Kenji Ide, adjutant of the Admiralty of the Admiralty of the Chinese Empire, Kawasaki Shipyard obtained two blueprints for the design of the "Holland" type submarines from the Chinese Empire. As a result, Kawasaki Shipyard began construction of improved "Holland" class submarines based on these two design blueprints.

Although the Chinese Empire has restricted the export of submarines, and the export of submarine equipment and technology that does not have real combat effectiveness, it is still a treasure for the Navy.

In general, improved submarines are often based on prototype submarines, with increased displacement and main dimensions. However, the Navy's improved submarine of the "Holland" type of the Chinese Empire is just the opposite, and its displacement and main scale are much smaller than the prototype submarine. In order to increase the radius of the combat activities of the improved "Holland" submarines, according to the original plan of the Navy, the "Holland" improved submarines were to use large motherships to carry the "Holland" improved submarines to the operational sea area.

Therefore, the No. 6 submarine, the first submarine of the "Holland" improved submarine, is much smaller than the "Holland" submarine, and the second submarine of this class was named the No. 7 submarine by the Navy, which is only slightly larger than the No. 6 submarine, with a displacement of 78t/95t, and a main size of 25.47m×2.43m× 2.33m.

The standard gasoline engine on the submarine of the "Holland" modification is very reliable. When the boat descended to a design depth of 30.5 m, the bow and stern ends of the hull were deformed considerably, so the submersible depth was limited to a depth of 20 m. In addition to this, the boat also has a number of problems in terms of overall family name.

On April 5, 1904, submarine No. 6 sank during a submersible test in the waters off Hiroshima, causing seawater to sink through the snorkel on the boat, killing all 16 crew members, including the captain. Later, the boat was salvaged and repaired, and then returned to service in the Navy.

After the failure of the Navy to improve the Holland-type submarines, it continued to import submarines from abroad. At this time, the Chinese Empire had already relaxed the export level of submarines, exporting Shang-class and Zhou-class submarines to Europe and the United States, and it also imported a number of "streamlined" Shang-class and Zhou-class submarines from the Chinese Empire, and found some technical supplements from Britain and the United States.

In the course of practice, he finally discovered that his country did not have sufficient strength in the design and construction of submarines. As a result, it was decided to continue to purchase submarines directly from abroad. In Meiji 37 (1904), he decided to purchase five C1-class submarines from the United Kingdom. The C1-class submarine is a submarine designed by the British Vickers Shipbuilding Company based on the Chinese Imperial Shang-class submarine. At that time, according to the contract signed between the company and the British company Vickers, among the five submarines purchased from the company, the first two submarines were delivered to the company after they were completed in the United Kingdom, and the first two submarines were called C1-class submarines. The second batch of three submarines was only purchased from various equipment on the boat, while the construction of the hull and the loading of the equipment were carried out in the second batch, and the three submarines of the second batch were called C2-class submarines.

The displacement of the C1-class submarine is about three times that of the original "Holland" type submarine, the number of torpedo tubes has also been increased to two, and the boat is also equipped with two periscopes. The boat is equipped with horizontal rudders and rudders, and the underwater maneuverability can be significantly improved and enhanced, and the surface and underwater endurance have been greatly increased. In terms of overall ability, the C1-class submarine is a considerable improvement over the "Holland" submarine.

In Meiji 38 (1905), Vickers Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. built two C1-class submarines and delivered them to the Saimoto Navy. In April of the same year, the two submarines of the C1 class were reorganized into the 2nd Submarine Squadron by the Navy, and the two submarines were named Submarines No. 8 and No. 9 respectively. Since then, the Navy has submarines that can really participate in actual combat.

The navy purchased important equipment such as the main engine, periscope, and gyroscope for the C-class submarines, while the hull and weapons and equipment on the boats were manufactured by the navy itself. At that time, the task of building three submarines of the C2 class was undertaken by the Kure shipyard in Yuben.

In fact, in the process of building the three C2-class submarines, the original British C-class submarine design was modified a number of times, so there are some differences between the C2-class submarine and the C1-class submarine. The superstructure of the C2-class submarine is much longer than that of the C1-class submarine, extending all the way to the bow, which can improve the seakeeping ability of the C2-class submarine when navigating on the surface. In addition, the size of the podium has also increased considerably.

In fact, in terms of talents, because the education reform was far more thorough than the reform of the Qing Empire, in terms of talents, it did not lag much behind the Chinese Empire. At the same time, the economic support of the United States and the technical assistance of the United Kingdom have saved the navy many detours.

Not long after the Navy purchased the C-class submarines from the United Kingdom, he was still eager to try and planned to design and build completely domestically produced submarines with roughly the same displacement and main scale as the C-class submarines, and to make a comparative study of the surnames of the two submarines. Since the design and construction of the locally-built submarine was undertaken by the Kawasaki Shipyard, this type of submarine was named the "Kawasaki" class submarine.

The Kawasaki-class submarine was the first submarine designed and built by Saymoto on his own, and it was equipped with a standard gasoline engine made in the United States, which was powerful and had a small mass. Due to the continuous failure of the main engine during the trial operation on land, the loading time of the main engine at the Kawasaki shipyard was delayed a lot, and finally the completion date of the boat was seriously delayed. Construction of the Kawasaki-class submarines began in 1905 and was completed in June 1906 after one and a half years. After the boat was delivered to the Navy, in the actual operation process, its speed did not reach the design index, and it was lower than the speed of the C-class submarine, and its maximum surface speed could only reach 10kN.

On the whole, the "Kawasaki" class submarine is an example of design and construction failure, and the reason for this is mainly caused by the improper selection of the main engine of this class of submarines.

The failure in the design and construction of the "Kawasaki" class submarine was a heavy blow to the determination of the submarine to be designed and built on its own. Therefore, in addition to ordering two experimental submarines built by France at that time, the Navy, which was in a state of flux, maintained a wait-and-see attitude toward the development trends and trends of submarines in other countries in the world.

However, during the Sino-British War in 1906, the Eastern Han class submarines of the Chinese Imperial Navy were active in all seas of the world, and the military potential of submarines in naval warfare was recognized by all countries in the world and attracted the attention of all countries in the world.

Therefore, the navy sent spies to the Chinese Empire at all costs, and spent huge sums of money to smuggle a number of key submarine equipment from the Chinese Empire's civilian population. Britain's anger at the Chinese Empire led the British Navy to transfer all of its most advanced submarine achievements to Yueben, and the fear of the United States for the Chinese Empire also caused the American Navy to transfer their most advanced submarine technology to Yueben.

Relying on its own talent reserves, the Navy quickly mastered these technologies, improved and perfected the design of the C-class submarines that were originally imported, and built new submarines by using its own technology. This new type of submarine is the C3-class submarine.

The displacement of submarines of the C3 class is (surface / underwater): 290t/323t; Main size: 43.73m× 4.14m×3.43m; Main engine: 1 Vickers gasoline engine, single propulsion shaft; Power (surface/underwater): 600 hp/300 hp; Speed (surface/underwater): 12kn/8.5kn; Fuel loading: gasoline 18.2t, endurance: 660nmile at 12kn speed on the water; At a speed of 4kn underwater, the endurance is 60nmile; Armament: 2 450mm bow torpedo tubes, 2 torpedo tubes in the superstructure, 4 torpedoes; Safe diving depth: 30.5m; Number of crew: 30.

The main feature of the C3-class submarines was the enhanced attack capabilities, and the number of torpedo tubes on the C3-class submarines was doubled compared to the C1 and C2-class submarines. On the C3 class submarines, the bow of the boat is equipped with 2 torpedo tubes, and in the superstructure, 2 extra-boat torpedo tubes.

Judging from the latest submarine technology in the world, the C3-class submarines of the Yuben Navy are no longer lagging behind Britain, France, Germany, and the United States, but compared with the most advanced submarine technology of the Chinese Empire, the world's submarine power, the C3-class submarines of the Yuben Navy still seem relatively backward.

However, the C3-class submarines already have combat capability, so the C3-class submarine was built on a large scale, and it was planned to build six submarine fleets to be deployed around the waters of the country to guard against the Imperial Chinese Navy.

(To be continued)