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After the Polish War, because the Soviet Union and Germany carved up Poland together, the whole world thought that Germany and the Soviet Union had formed a military alliance, and the major powers in the world, including the Chinese Empire, regarded them as enemies. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info╔╗

The Chinese Empire first declared that it was strongly concerned and worried about the Soviet-German "alliance" relationship, believing that the Soviet-German alliance would greatly reduce the security of the western and northern parts of the Chinese Empire and other regions adjacent to the Soviet Union. On the other hand, the countries of the Anglo-French Entente camp in the West said that the establishment of an alliance between the Soviet Union and Germany would make Germany no longer have military pressure on the eastern front, and it could concentrate its forces on the western front, posing a huge military threat to the Anglo-French Entente camp on the western front.

For this reason, the German Führer Adolf Hitler and the Soviet Chairman Stalin had an emergency meeting and decided that the cooperative relationship between the two countries would go underground and secretly carry out Chapter 545 The Advent of the Nuclear Age, the ultimate nuclear-powered battleship of the Chinese Empire, and the two countries would ostensibly engage in a state of hostility in order to dispel the tension and worries of the Eastern and Western worlds about the Soviet-German alliance.

After the Soviet-German leaders met in Warsaw, Hitler returned to Berlin and immediately played the card of resolute production, openly declaring that the Soviet Union was Germany's enemy, and the German General Staff Headquarters, under Hitler's instructions, even "accidentally" leaked the battle plan for attacking the Soviet Union, in order to appease the tension and worries of European countries, including Britain and France.

At the same time, more than 100 senior military officials of the German General Staff Headquarters headed by Gore visited the Chinese Empire and held a ministerial-level meeting with the General Staff of the Chinese Empire. During the meeting, Gore, on behalf of the German General Staff Headquarters, had an in-depth exchange of views with the General Staff of the Chinese Empire represented by Wang Shizhen, and Gore proposed a secret alliance between China and Germany. And the battle plan for the joint partition of the Soviet Union. Meantime. Gore conveyed to the Chinese Emperor Wang Chenhao a letter from the German Führer Hitler. In his letter, Hitler spoke highly of the friendly and cooperative relations between China and Germany, assured that the so-called alliance between the Soviet Union and Germany did not exist, and assured Wang Chenhao and the Chinese Imperial Government that Germany, as a capitalist, would never form an alliance with the socialist Soviet Union.

Wang Chenhao's promise to the advent of the nuclear age in Chapter 545 and the ultimate nuclear-powered battleship of the Chinese Empire is believed in the whole because the rise of the Soviet Union also threatens Germany's national defense security and national interests, combined with history, Wang Chenhao believes that 80% of Hitler's promises are credible. But Hitler was also hostile to the Chinese Empire, and Wang Chenhao was sure of this. The Chinese Empire's economic sanctions against Germany triggered a serious economic crisis in Germany, and the losses caused to Germany were huge, according to the style of Hitler and the Nazi Party. Sooner or later, they will find an opportunity to take revenge on the Chinese Empire.

Therefore, Wang Chenhao believes that the alliance between Germany and the Soviet Union cannot be ruled out, and it is a strategic purpose to use the Soviet Union to confront the Chinese Empire. Hitler's ambitions would not be confined to Europe. The fangs of the Chinese empire competing for world hegemony have gradually been exposed, so it cannot be ruled out that Hitler has a set of political deception tactics in the open and in the dark, so Wang Chenhao will not fully believe Hitler's words.

Regarding Hitler's plan to propose a Sino-German alliance to carve up the Soviet Union, Wang Chenhao believed that this was just a tactic by Germany to instigate the Chinese Empire and the Soviet Union to fight each other, and if analyzed from Germany's standpoint, the Sino-German alliance could only make the Soviet Union and the Chinese Empire completely hostile, and even if a war broke out between China and the Soviet Union, Germany might not attack the Soviet Union at the first time. Therefore, Wang Chenhao's attitude was that the Chinese Empire strictly maintained neutrality and prevented it from falling into Hitler's trap.

But. The General Staff of the Chinese Empire was still discussing with the German General Staff Headquarters a plan for the joint partition of the Soviet Union. Because long-distance and close attacks have always been eternal international politics, this premise applies to the current strategic deployment of the Chinese Empire to contain the rise of the Soviet Union.

On the other hand, after returning to Moscow, Stalin actively cooperated with Hitler and declared that industrialist Nazi Germany was an enemy of the Soviet Union. The rapid expansion of Nazi Germany's territory made the Soviet Union feel threatened, so Stalin also sent a special envoy to visit the Chinese Empire at the same time, reiterating that the Soviet Union did not take back the territory seized by the Chinese Empire during the Tsarist era, saying that it was already a historical problem, indicating that the Soviet Union had no intention of challenging and threatening the Chinese Empire. Obtain the understanding of the Chinese Empire.

The singing and harmony of Hitler and Stalin temporarily stabilized the tension and anxiety of the Eastern and Western worlds about the Soviet-German partition of Poland. ╔╗

However, the Soviet Union and Germany also had their own evil intentions. Stalin also did not believe in Hitler, and the Soviet Union cooperated strongly with Germany, and the relationship was close because Germany and the Soviet Union did not share a border. There is no possibility of a direct outbreak of war. However, with the partition of Poland by the Soviet Union and Germany, the rapidly expanding Germany has created a 2,400-kilometer border with the Soviet Union. The Soviet-German became neighbors, and the possibility of war breaking out was very high.

God knows whether Hitler really did not invade the USSR or not. Since the Soviet Union and Germany could deceive the countries of Europe and the Chinese Empire, it could not be ruled out that Germany and other countries would join forces to deceive the Soviet Union, so Stalin had to be wary of Germany as well.

Of course, Stalin was also a political master, playing the German card against the Chinese Empire, seeing through the mentality that the Chinese Empire did not want the Soviet-German alliance, so to a certain extent forced the Chinese Empire to ease its attitude towards the Soviet Union. For example, the Soviet Union showed the Chinese Empire that Germany was not really hostile to the Soviet Union, that the invasion of the Soviet Union was fake, that Germany was secretly exporting a large amount of high-tech technology and equipment to the Soviet Union, and that the Chinese Empire's technological export control over the Soviet Union was meaningless. And because the Chinese Empire did not believe in Germany's promises, when the Soviet Union told the Chinese Empire this, the Chinese Empire had to relax restrictions on the Soviet Union in some areas in order to prevent the formation of a Soviet-German alliance. As a result, the Soviet Union used the German card to benefit from the Chinese Empire, which could import some advanced technology and equipment.

It can be said that the great power game between China, Germany, and the Soviet Union has gained the greatest benefit from the Soviet Union and Germany, and the Chinese Empire, faced with this situation, can only choose the lesser of two evils and stabilize the union of the Soviet Union and Germany by appropriately relaxing export restrictions to the Soviet Union.

Stalin decided to take advantage of the Chinese Empire and Germany's accommodation to the Soviet Union and intensify efforts to import advanced equipment and technology from Germany and the Chinese Empire. Previously, the Soviet Union mainly relied on importing advanced technology and equipment from Germany to develop its industrial economy and military power, but now most of Germany's technology is acquired by the Soviet Union, and the technology of the Chinese Empire is more advanced in comparison. The equipment is more sophisticated. Therefore, Stalin took the opportunity to ask the Chinese Empire for help.

In the face of the German Navy's construction of a number of Denburg-class battleships, the Soviet Union felt the huge military threat brought to the Soviet Union by the excessive expansion of Germany's military strength, and Stalin was no longer satisfied with the Soviet naval strength with German technical assistance, and decided to vigorously develop the Soviet Navy so that the Soviet Navy would conform to the same status as the Soviet Union's national strength.

At this time, Stalin's status in the minds of the Soviets was quite high, and his will was the will of the Soviet people. After a series of internal and domestic purges, Stalin led the Soviet Union to a rapid rise in a short period of time and became the object of frenzied worship of the Soviet people. Thus, to a certain extent, Stalin's ambition and arrogance were stimulated.

Stalin was very dissatisfied with the pace of development of the Soviet Navy, believing that the eight А battleships with 35,000-ton 406-mm guns and the 18 heavy cruisers of 26,000 tons that the Soviet Navy was planning to build could not compete with the world's five major naval powers. Therefore, he demanded that the Admiralty under the People's Commissariat of Defense of the USSR revise its plan for rebuilding its naval expansion and that the Soviet Navy be maintained at least 80 percent of the strength of the German Navy, so as to ensure the Soviet Union's hegemony in the Baltic Sea.

After several revisions within the Soviet Defense Committee, the plan for the Great Navy was finally decided to build four 80,000-ton super-battleships. 8 fast battleships of 40000 tons, 24 heavy cruisers of 26000 tons, and 60 destroyers and light cruisers of 500 to 3000 tons, as well as 20 submarines for coastal defense.

Although the heavy industry and shipbuilding of the USSR developed a lot with the help of German technology, it was still impossible to independently carry out such grandiose plans. Therefore, the Soviet Union, like in the days of Tsarist Russia, first sought help from Britain, Germany, and Italy, trying to build a few battleships with the assistance of foreign technical forces, and then thoroughly understand the technology to achieve the purpose of self-construction. ╔╗

But the demands of the Soviets were first rejected by the British, who simply dealt with the Russians casually. For this reason, Stalin complained in a letter to the British ambassador: "I do not understand why your country is unwilling to help us build battleships. We are happy to first order a battleship with a 500 mm gun in your country at a cost of 200 million dragon dollars, and we very much hope that after the first ship is completed. Your country's engineers and technicians will come to the USSR to help us build another sister ship". But at Britain, ideological battles trumped monetary interests, and British shipyards were forced to abandon the order under pressure from the British government and citizens. At the same time, the Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact signed between the Soviet Union and Germany, as well as the covert collusion between Germany and the Soviet Union, made the British government very dissatisfied. Therefore, Britain was not at all willing to discuss with the USSR any surface ships larger than destroyers, let alone the fact that the USSR wanted to build super-battleships with 500-mm guns, which was even more impossible. Especially when the Soviet Union was at odds with Finland, and after the Soviet Union carved up Poland with Germany, it planned to attack Finland. This led to greater dissatisfaction with the Soviet Union in Europe, and at this time, Britain was even less likely to cooperate with the Soviet Union. Even, in order to unite the countries of Europe, Churchill announced a total embargo and blockade of the Soviet Union. Several high-ranking delegations of the Soviet Navy that visited Britain ended in vain. I had to go back in vain.

Subsequently, the Soviet Union set its sights on the traditional partner countries of Germany and Italy. Unfortunately, however, the German shipyards were too busy with their ultimate battleship business to take care of anything else. The Italian Kingdom class battleships in Italy were nothing more than a façade and simply did not have the ability to build super-battleships for the USSR. In the end, only the Italian company Anchaldo completed the design of the 40,000-ton battleship of the UP-41 second class on July 14, 1935, but it was still far from the ultimate battleship of 100,000 tons demanded by Stalin.

As a last resort, the Soviet Union had no choice but to cheekily turn to the Chinese Empire for help.

Although the Chinese Empire was wary of the rise of the Soviet Union, when a delegation of the Soviet Navy went to China to ask for help in building super-battleships, the Chinese Imperial Government unexpectedly agreed.

It turned out that Wang Chenhao believed that the Soviet navy could only be confined to the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea, and did not conflict with the global maritime hegemony of the Chinese Imperial Navy. Helping the Soviet Navy to build the Baltic Fleet could counterbalance the growth of the German Navy on the one hand, and on the other hand, it could win huge foreign exchange earnings for the naval industry of the Chinese Empire.

Therefore. With the approval of Wang Chenhao. The Chinese Empire relaxed restrictions on the export of naval equipment to the Soviet Union, but the restrictions on the export of the army and air force to the Soviet Union were tightened, indicating that the Chinese Empire was still on high alert against the Soviet Union.

Stalin naturally did not know Wang Chenhao's thoughts, Stalin was bent on restoring the Russian Navy's most victorious state, and the Soviet Navy, which had no experience in aircraft carrier operations, was a staunch supporter of the theory of victory of the giant ship cannon doctrine, so when the Chinese Empire approved its own shipyards to build capital ships for the Soviet Union, they frantically shouted: "I love China!" ”

Of course, the Soviets also understood that the products produced by the Chinese Empire must be high-quality, but the prices are also outrageously high. According to the provisions of the Sino-Soviet naval cooperation agreement. The Chinese Empire will build two Soviet-class ultimate battleships and two second-class battleships for the Soviet Navy, with a cost of 800 million dragon dollars for a single ultimate battleship and 120 million dragon dollars for a second-class battleship, and the Soviet Union will pay a 30% down payment to the Chinese Empire first. The balance is repaid in five six-month instalments. The Soviet Union should strengthen patent control, require the payment of relevant fees to the Chinese Empire for projects involving the technological property rights of the Chinese Empire, and prohibit Soviet departments from illegally copying the products of the Chinese Empire.

Such a high cost of building a ship really made Stalin feel a pain in the face for a while. However, in order to obtain the shipbuilding technology of the Chinese Empire and to realize the dream of a strong Soviet navy, Stalin had to call on the Soviet people to continue to carry forward the spirit of not being afraid of hunger and tighten their belts to raise the necessary funds for building ships.

And in return, the Chinese Empire will build the strongest capital ships for the Soviet Navy, at least to ensure that the battleships of the Soviet Navy can dominate Europe. Although Stalin was skeptical that the Chinese Empire was so "kind" to help the Soviet Union build its navy, he thought that the Chinese Empire did have the technology and industrial manufacturing capacity. He still chose to believe.

On October 12, 1935, the construction of the Soviet Union, the lead ship of the ultimate battleship of the Soviet class, was started at the No. 5 dock of the Shanghai Shipbuilding Industry of the Chinese Empire. At the same time, in the No. 2 dock of the Second Branch of the Royal Shipbuilding Industry in Qingdao, the No. 2 ship of the Soviet-class battleships, the Soviet Ukraine, also began construction.

Four Soviet-class battleships were built in the same class, two were built in the Chinese Empire, and the other two were built in the Soviet Union, and the construction period was 6 months behind the two that started in the Chinese Empire, mainly because Soviet technicians needed to learn shipbuilding technology in the Chinese Empire, and more than 60% of the shipbuilding equipment had to be imported from the Chinese Empire, and it would take time to transport them back to the Soviet Union and install and debug.

Other than that. The eight 40,000-ton second-class battleships required by the Soviet Navy were also started in the Chinese Empire, and the design was improved based on the Tang-class battleships of the Chinese Empire, and the remaining six were built by the Soviet Union itself. The Soviet Union asked the heavy cruiser to refer to the Typhoon-class heavy cruiser of the Chinese Empire for design, but the Chinese Empire refused, and in the end the Soviet Union had to refer to the German heavy cruiser for design and construction.

The Soviet-class battleships designed and built by the Chinese Empire for the Soviet Navy were based on the Ming-class battleships as a reference standard. Due to the great importance attached by the Soviet Navy to the armor of battleships, the sea conditions of the Baltic Sea did not require long endurance, seaworthiness and speed. Therefore, the Soviet-class battleships sacrificed these conditions in exchange for the powerful firepower and armor protection of the Soviet-class.

Due to the dispute between the Imperial Chinese Navy over the construction of the ultimate battleship by Germany, Britain, Italy, and France in Europe, the BB party demanded the construction of the ultimate battleship of the Chinese empire to demonstrate that the empire's strong naval power was not challenged, but the CV party objected, saying that the construction of the ultimate battleship was a waste of money, and it was better to build a few more large aircraft carriers. The two sides are at loggerheads, and the same is true when it comes to Congress. Some members of the Reichstag supported the construction, but the opposition was also very high, and the number of votes did not get two-thirds of the votes.

There were disputes within the Chinese Empire, so the Imperial Navy Minister Lin Jianzhang and others set their sights on the ultimate battleship built for the Soviets, planning to use this as an experiment to sum up the experience by building the ultimate battleship for the Soviets, combined with the intelligence of the ultimate battleship of European countries, and finally provide experience for the design and construction of the Empire's own ultimate battleship.

Therefore, with the tacit approval of Lin Jianzhang and other high-ranking officials of the Imperial Navy, the designers and engineers of the Imperial Ship Administration were free to conduct experiments on the ultimate battleships of the Soviets.

In the end, the design parameters of the Soviet-class battleship were taken out by the General Administration of Ships of the Chinese Empire, and the Soviet Admiralty agreed to it. The final design displacement of the Soviet-class battleships was 96150 tons. The speed was set at 25 knots. A four-seat triple 508-mm gun system was used.

Compared with the German Navy's Hindenburg-class battleships, the Soviet-class battleships adopt stronger comprehensive heavy armor protection, and their main armor belt protection is up to 560 mm of Chinese special steel, which is enough to resist 20-inch 508 mm armor-piercing shells fired from 12 kilometers away, ensuring that the Soviet-class battleships cannot be sunk by the shells of ultimate battleships such as the Hindenburg class, making the Soviet-class battleships invincible.

However, armor protection of up to 34,000 tons accounted for a third of the ship's displacement, resulting in the fact that the Soviet-class battleships did not have more displacement to allocate to the boiler and engine rooms, so only 12 oil-fired boilers and 4 steam turbine units were installed, and the maximum output could only allow the Soviet-class battleships to reach a speed of 25 knots. It can't be raised any more. The sea conditions of the Baltic Sea do not require the bow of the Atlantic, they are fighting at home, and they do not need ocean-going performance. Therefore, the Soviet-class battleships were designed to be very compact. The extra space was eliminated and used to install more armor. However, the current strategic goal of the Soviet Navy is the supremacy of the Baltic Sea, so the requirements for speed, seaworthiness and endurance are not high.

The main gun system is one of the cores of the Soviet-class battleships, and the Imperial Chinese Navy also designed four triple 45-diameter 20-inch main gun systems for the Soviet-class battleships in order to test the performance of the 20-inch main guns on the ship. With the Chinese Empire's advanced shipboard fire control command instrument and fire control radar system, the comprehensive firepower can be described as very ferocious. The accuracy of the shelling greatly exceeded that of the main guns of the German Hindenburg-class battleships, and the firing range also reached 32 km.

The Soviet Navy, having received these performance parameters of the Soviet-class battleships, was overjoyed and unanimously agreed that with the Soviet-class battleships it would be enough to dominate the Baltic. No longer worried about the threat of the German Navy. Moreover, the Soviet Navy sent a large number of naval technicians to the Chinese Empire to follow up and study at the shipyards. These personnel will bring back the advanced shipbuilding technology of the Chinese Empire to the Soviet Union, and every time the Soviet Navy thinks of this, the pain of being slaughtered by the Chinese Empire will be forgotten.

Six months later, preparations for the construction of the remaining two Soviet-class battleships began on the Soviet Union itself. However, from the very beginning, the progress of the homegrown "Soviet" class works seemed rather slow, and the reasons were many. Although the shipbuilding industry in the USSR developed greatly, it suddenly jumped directly from the 10,000-ton "Red Caucasus" cruiser after the founding of the People's Republic of China to a 90,000-ton super battleship. The span is just too big. The shipyard simply did not have the experience of building such a large object. Secondly, the local "Soviet" class was constantly plagued by a shortage of raw materials in the construction, because the import of materials from the Chinese Empire was too expensive, and the Soviet finance minister asked the mainland to provide as much as possible. According to the plan, the Zhdanov Inola plant in Leningol and the Maripov steel plant were asked to supply 30000 tons of armor steel. But in fact, only 1,800 tons were delivered, and the strength and toughness of other steels were not up to par. Some cheap Krupp steel was imported from Germany. However, after testing, it was found that it was no longer the same grade as the special steel of the Chinese Empire, and it was too much worse. But something is better than nothing, and the financially strapped Soviet government had no choice but to use Krupp steel to make up for it, but Germany was also building ships on a large scale, and the export of steel was also restricted, and the Soviet Union could only get half of the steel at most. Both the Enola and Maribov plants were not good at producing armor plates with a thickness of more than 230 mm. And the Kirov plant, the strongest, was too busy with the T-34 tank project to take care of anything else. As a last resort, the designers had to switch from all high-strength carburizing steels with thicknesses of more than 200 mm to simple case-hardened steels. As a result, until the completion of the two super-battleships of the Chinese Empire, the Enola and Maribov plants could no longer guarantee a continuous supply of high-quality large-thickness armor steel.

The native Soviet-class battleships also encountered insurmountable difficulties in the power system, and the installation was scheduled to be planned for the Soviet Union to copy eight high-power steam turbines made by the Chinese Empire in 1938. In fact, until the outbreak of World War II, the Kharkiv plant did not build a single steam turbine. The boiler was originally intended to be tested on the first shore in September 1937, but it was not until early 1939 that all tests were completed. Due to the heavy burden on domestic enterprises, high-tech equipment cannot be imitated. The Great Purge in the Soviet Union led to the loss of a considerable number of technicians, and there were even young designers who did not graduate from elementary school, and they were basically laymen, except for their allegiance to Stalin. The turret factory in Nikolaev was not able to assemble a single triple turret in the end. Not even a 20-inch sample barrel passed the test. Basically, a few cannons were scrapped, and there were even oolong incidents where the shells glided into the middle of the barrel and got stuck.

As a result, the Soviet Union had to order a large number of important components, including the main gun, steam turbine, and propeller, from the Chinese Empire.

There was a serious quality accident with the "Soviet Belarus" built at the 402 plant, and technicians found more than 70000 substandard rivets and bolts on its hull. Due to the lack of raw materials and no time for rework, the work on the "Soviet Belarus" was stopped, 4,648 tons of steel were wasted, and the distressed Stalin punished the owners of the 402 plant for 3 days without eating.

Of course, all this was the result of Stalin's cultism and the influence of the Great Purge. ╔╗After 1935, due to the increase of economic strength of the Soviet Union, the Soviets embarked on the road of the Great Leap Forward of rapidly strengthening the country and the army under the call of Stalin, so that the Soviets finally tasted the bitter fruit.

Originally, the Soviets thought that building their own would save money. But in the end, the result of the Great Leap Forward was the construction of two Soviet-class battleships on the Soviet Union itself, with a total cost of 1.8 billion dragon coins, far exceeding the price directly ordered in the Chinese Empire. Not only did it delay its service time, but it also had to spend extra money to import equipment from the Chinese Empire to reassemble it, which was more than worth the loss.

"Your Majesty. The CIA and the Air Force have confirmed from the ground and the air, respectively, that the German Navy is indeed building the 100,000-ton Hindenburg-class Ultimate Battleship, the British Navy is building the Great Britain-class Ultimate Battleship, the French Navy's France-class battleship and the Italian Navy's Kingdom of Italy class battleship are all under construction, while the US Navy seems to be planning to build the ultimate battleship. In addition, the fact that the Reich built the ultimate Soviet-class battleships for the Soviet Union was stimulated by the naval shipbuilding programs of the major European powers is enough to prove the accuracy of the intelligence. ”

After reading the data of the main ultimate battleships submitted by the emperor and the intelligence department, Wang Chenhao was suddenly overjoyed. Wang Chenhao thought that since various countries had built the ultimate battleship on a large scale, this was exactly what he was looking forward to. Because this will be enough to consume a large amount of national strength of various countries, the purpose of Wang Chenhao's order to unseal 27 super warships is to stimulate the development of battleships in various countries. And then to achieve the strategic goal of misleading the development direction of the navies of various countries, which has always been the global layout that Wang Chenhao has considered.

"Isn't that good? That's what you want! ”

"But!" Wang Shizhen said with a wry smile: "Your Majesty, the Imperial Navy cannot understand the mystery of your strategic deployment on the Navy, and we cannot inform the hundreds of thousands of officers and soldiers of the entire Imperial Navy, which will definitely be detected by the navies of the European and American powers." ”

Wang Chenhao nodded, he knew this very well in his heart. At this time, there was a great disagreement within the empire about the idea of the victory theory of the battleship-dominated giant ship cannon doctrine and the aircraft carrier-dominated winning theory. The BB Party demanded the construction of the Ultimate Battleship, while the CV Party opposed it and demanded the construction of aircraft carriers, which made the Admiralty's shipbuilding plan very difficult.

"The Congress has been discussing it for more than half a year, have you come up with a result?" Wang Chenhao turned to Tang Shaoyi, he wanted to know the attitude of the congressmen.

Tang Shaoyi replied, "Your Majesty." After more than half a year of discussion, the Senate and the House of Representatives have just reached a result, and the Senate and House of Representatives unanimously passed a resolution to allocate funds for the construction of the ultimate battleship. ”

Wang Chenhao paused for a moment, thinking that the group of politicians would continue to spit. Busy asked: "Didn't the vote not reach two-thirds in the first two days?" How did it turn around in a few days? ”

Tang Shaoyi smiled bitterly and said, "One person's speech has changed the attitude of the members of the Senate and the House of Representatives!" ”

Wang Chenhao suddenly came to his senses. "What's going on?" he asked. Who is so capable? ”

Tang Shaoyi then explained: "Your Majesty, it was the Nine Emperor Princes who came to the Congress to give a debate speech at the request of the Admiralty. He said that all countries are building their ultimate battleships, and this is no longer a purely military issue, but a matter of national honor. If the Empire does not build the ultimate battleship, then what is the face of the Imperial Navy? The ultimate battleship is not just built for the navy, but for the honor and face of the empire, and at a time when all countries are preparing to challenge the supremacy of the empire, the consequences of showing weakness can be imagined. ”

The Nine Emperor Princes Wang Guoming is only 24 years old this year, the third son of Li Youyi, the queen of the main palace, who has been smart and clever since childhood, and his form and style are quite the shadow of Wang Chenhao. Therefore, he won Wang Chenhao's favor. At the age of eighteen. Wang Guoming has already completed his university courses and completed the basic course of naval training in his spare time. According to royal custom, those who reached the age of eighteen were required to serve in the military and go to the army for training. But instead of serving in the Royal Praetorian Guard, he concealed his identity and directly participated in the ordinary conscription of the Imperial Navy, and served in the Pacific Fleet, becoming an ordinary sailor.

In the past six years, Wang Guoming has relied on his ability to go from an ordinary sailor to a major staff officer in the fleet war room, and his ability has been recognized by the navy.

Wang Chenhao was very happy when he heard that it was the Nine Emperor Prince Guoming who made the group of politicians in the Congress change their attitude. But think that because of him, Congress passed a bill to build the ultimate battleship. couldn't help but smile bitterly: "How can this be a show of weakness?" This kid is clearly deliberately saying things to mislead others! ”

Tang Shaoyi smiled: "But so! But at that time, the words of the Nine Emperors made the members of the two houses forget everything, and in order to protect the honor of the empire, they could give up all disputes. ”

Wang Chenhao sighed and said, "It's just a matter of face!" This may be a hurdle that Chinese people will never be able to pass! ”

Then. Wang Chenhao asked, "How much money has been allocated?" ”

Tang Shaoyi coughed dryly, and paused before saying, "That-1.3 billion!" ”

Wang Chenhao frowned and said, "What are you spending so much money for?" If you build one, you can build two? ”

Tang Shaoyi wiped the cold sweat on his forehead with his sleeve, and said weakly: "That-only build one!" ”

"What?" Wang Chenhao immediately stood up when he heard this, his face was full of surprise, and asked, "Don't tell me that you want to build a spaceship!" ”

Tang Shaoyi looked at Wang Shizhen next to him at this time, kicked the ball to him and said, "This has to be explained by Lord Wang!" ”

Wang Shizhen paused, and then said: "As far as the minister knows, the design index of the ultimate battleship prepared by the Navy Administration is a standard displacement of 130,000 tons and 12 20-inch 50-diameter main guns. Triple four-seater, 500 mm armor and 32 knots. ”

Wang Chenhao has studied warships for many years and has an understanding of the performance indicators such as firepower, speed, and armor of warships. After hearing Wang Shizhen's explanation, he immediately frowned and said: "It is very strong, worthy of the name of the ultimate battleship, but how can this be as much as 1.3 billion dragon coins?" And it's hard to achieve this indicator! Strengthened firepower and armor, 500 mm armor protection accounts for at least 40000 tons of displacement, where there is still excess space and displacement for the installation of the power system? It would not have been possible to reach a speed of 32 knots. ”

Wang Shizhen smiled faintly and hurriedly said, "What Your Majesty said is very true!" But that was before, and now the empire has new technology. On the basis of ensuring firepower output and armor protection, there is no need to sacrifice speed! ”

Wang Chenhao glared at Wang Shizhen angrily, and said, "Don't sell Guanzi, hurry up!" ”

"Yes!" Wang Shizhen hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, haven't you forgotten the nuclear reactor project that the empire has just completed?" ”

On February 4, 1934, nuclear experts from the Chinese Empire completed the test of a heavy water reactor and a light water reactor on Juehua Island. The last obstacle was achieved, and the nuclear fission chain reaction was controlled. The two nuclear reactors operated smoothly for 1 year and withstood various tests. Subsequently, more than 400 nuclear engineering experts, led by Mrs. Ree, officially announced that civilian nuclear energy could be realized, and both nuclear reactors could be used in nuclear power plant projects.

At that time, Wang Chenhao was so happy that he immediately set out to build the first nuclear power plant on an island in Daya Bay in the south, far from the city, in order to solve the problem of the extreme shortage of electricity in the southern part of the Chinese Empire, which seriously affected industrial development.

The first Daya Bay nuclear power plant project allocated 400 million dragon dollars, planning to build a nuclear power plant with a total installed capacity of 6 million kilowatts in five years, using the ultra-high voltage lossless power transmission system invented by Tesla, to completely solve the power demand of the six southern provinces, reduce the huge consumption of oil and coal and transportation costs, further reduce the burden on enterprises and factories, reduce the impact of the international economic crisis on the empire, and ensure the sustained and high-speed growth of the empire's economy.

Since the imperial government did not want the outside world to know that the Chinese Empire had successfully developed nuclear reactor technology, the news was tightly sealed. There was no large-scale celebration, and Wang Chenhao gradually forgot about it.

At this time, Wang Chenhao remembered and suddenly asked: "Don't you want to install a nuclear reactor on the battleship?" ”

Wang Shizhen was stunned for a moment, and then said in surprise: "Your Majesty is wise, but the Admiralty has planned it like this." ”

Wang Chenhao breathed a sigh of relief and said, "No wonder the cost is so high?" It's just that nuclear reactor technology is just getting started, can it be moved to a warship? ”

Wang Shizhen hurriedly said: "Your Majesty don't worry about this! The Admiralty has taken all aspects into account. Overall, after the installation of a nuclear reactor, there is no need for refueling for 10 years, and the savings in fuel costs are more than enough to cover the cost of building a reactor. The military value lies in the fact that the nuclear reactor is small, and the total weight including the containment is only 1,000 tons, and it can save 30,000 tons of displacement in the super battleship, which is used to increase armor protection and fire output, as well as increase ammunition supplies are quite abundant. At the same time, the instant power of the nuclear reactor is as high as 3000000 horsepower, and even a giant ship of more than 100,000 tons can reach an ultra-high speed of more than 32 knots, and the power is stable, and it can cruise any ocean at high speed. ”

Wang Chenhao nodded and said, "Nuclear-powered warships naturally have this advantage, there is no doubt about it!" ”

Wang Shizhen asked, "Your Majesty, do you agree?" ”

Wang Chenhao said with a smile: "Although I am not in favor of continuing to spend a lot of money to build the ultimate battleship, you can think of replacing the traditional boiler system with a nuclear reactor, which is worthy of praise." In addition, this is also caused by me, if it were not for my strong encouragement of the Navy to develop the Aegis air defense cruiser force, it would not have caused the Navy to be obsessed with the theory of victory of giant ships and cannons. ”

Wang Chenhao knew very well that the Imperial Chinese Navy and even the navies of all countries in the world were fanatical about the theory of victory over giant ships and cannons, and the biggest reason was that the Imperial Chinese Navy, with the strong support of Wang Chenhao, developed the Typhoon-class air defense heavy cruiser known as the Chinese Aegis, and the powerful Aegis air defense cruiser made any aircraft that wanted to approach the capital ship have to pay a heavy price, so it established the navy's absolute confidence in the battleships.

Wang Chenhao's unintentional move allowed the theory of the victory of the giant ship cannon to continue. Unless a decisive war breaks out and the aircraft carrier completely defeats the battleship, all the addicted people will be able to sober up, and the world's navy will always go to the end on the road of the victory theory of giant ships and artillery.

Wang Chenhao thought about it again, because of the powerful Aegis air defense cruiser, it seems that for a long time to come, the battleship will not withdraw from the stage of history, and her brilliance and residual heat, at least in the landing operation of the Marine Corps, the role of the battleship is indispensable!

Since the battleship still has a considerable use, Wang Chenhao has no reason to stop it. After all, as his Nineteenth Prince said, the political significance of building the ultimate battleship is actually greater than the military significance, which is a sign that the imperial Chinese navy is extremely strong and cannot be matched by other navies, and it is worth building.

Tang Shaoyi said at this time: "Your Majesty, I think that this ultimate battleship of the empire should be made public in order to further deter the navies of the great powers. The Empire only builds one ultimate battleship, but it can spur nations to continue down this outdated path. Other countries do not have a powerful fleet anti-aircraft firepower like the Imperial Aegis Air Defense Cruiser, so their battlefleet cannot stop the attack of naval aviation, so the more battleships they build, the greater the cost of national strength, and the heavier the losses. ”

Wang Chenhao nodded, agreeing with Tang Shaoyi's point of view. Then he asked, "By the way, what is the name of this ultimate battleship of the Empire?" ”

Wang Shizhen and Tang Shaoyi glanced at each other, and the former said: "Your Majesty, we unanimously agree that it will be classified as the Chinese Imperial Class, and the first ship is also the only one named after Your Majesty, the title of Guanghua Emperor. ”

"The Chinese Empire-class Guanghua Emperor nuclear-powered battleship!" Wang Chenhao muttered again, and suddenly smiled: "It can indeed be called the ultimate battleship!" Then let's settle it like that! ”