Chapter 119: The Navy's "Houyi" Plan

On the third day after Qin Yu was confirmed, he officially announced to the whole country that he would be crowned a concubine, with Erin as Concubine De, Zhang Xinyue as Concubine Yue, Qin Xiaozhu as Concubine Qing, and Qin Xiaolan as Concubine Lan, and the marriage was completed and the canonization ceremony was held a month later; Abolish the title of queen, and from now on there will be no queen in China, and all imperial concubines will have equal status. In addition to this, Qin Yu also canonized his daughter as the princess of tomorrow, his son as the prince, the son will be crowned king at the age of sixteen, and Mrs. Qin is the queen mother.

When this news was published by the Huaxia Daily, the people of Huaxia were excited, and the great emperor Xià finally fulfilled his previous promise, and now they are looking forward to the three Huaxia imperial concubines to be able to conceive the prince with enthusiasm.

The newspaper also published the identity information of each imperial concubine, from birth to the present basic information, when I saw that there were two women who were dressed in their own clothes since childhood, they were very envious, and they all felt that this was a blessing that they had cultivated in the tenth generation.

As for Zhang Xinyue, a woman who has not seen much of the people, but she didn't expect that she was a classmate of Her Majesty when she was studying abroad, it is really incredible, and the Zhang family in Shandong is about to soar.

Irene's identity was known by the people of the whole country in the turmoil of remarrying before, although Erin gave birth to a dragon and phoenix fetus for Qin Yu, but the fact that she is German is also a big shortcoming, fortunately, Qin Yu said that he was a good friend of Germany when he was in Germany during the founding ceremony, and now the people have basically accepted Irene, and there is no strong resistance before the two.

Regarding the abolition of the queen, most of the people understand that Qin Yu is compensating Erin, and this people have no objection, and they can't force it anymore, otherwise it will backfire.

At this time, the Zhang family in Shandong, Zhang Xinyue's father Zhang Da was drinking tea in the hall, and during the national land reform, he left a small part of the land under his daughter's construction and handed it over to the government, and then developed business in an all-round way.

Now that his daughter is a senior official in the government department of the empire, he is simply happy, and he can't imagine that the empire doesn't mind his daughter using his daughter heavily.

"Master, master, great joy, our Zhang family is about to soar, look at it......" The housekeeper rushed in with a newspaper.

"What a great event, I'll see!" After saying that, Zhang Da grabbed the newspaper and looked at it, and when he saw his daughter being canonized as the imperial concubine, he was speechless with excitement, and touched his forehead with one hand, and then felt that the troops reached out and slapped him.

"Ouch, it hurts me to death, hahaha, it's true, God bless my Zhang family! Come on, hurry up and take out all the firecrackers in the warehouse and set them off. ”

According to the emperor's statement, there will be no queen, the emperor only has four wives, and his daughter is one, it is really the ancestor apparition, and the Zhang family will be able to leap into the sky from now on.

Not only the Zhang family is burning firecrackers, but the people of Shandong are burning firecrackers, especially the people of Jinan, the imperial concubine, what an honor it is to have an imperial concubine in their own place.

Just when the whole country was cheering, Qin Yu took the train to Tianjin, and this time he took Sa Bingzhen and a high-ranking navy to the Beiyang Naval Division's "Dagu Dock", which has been renamed Tianjin Shipyard.

It was created by Li Hongzhang in 1880, it was built specifically for the Beiyang Navy Division to repair ships, and after Qin Yu dissolved the Beiyang government, it was built into a shipyard, and a large number of shipbuilding machines were transported here from East China, and it will be an important shipyard in the Chinese Empire.

This time, Qin Yu came to check the construction of the "aircraft carrier", as well as how the submarine was manufactured, the shipyard in East China was too far away for Qin Yu to watch, so he could only come to the Tianjin shipyard.

According to Qin Yu's order, the construction of the aircraft carrier had begun in October last year, and in order not to cause panic in Japan, Russia and other countries, it was specially built separately, ostensibly saying that Huaxia was building the Intrepid, and the shipyard was surrounded by the Wehrmacht for several kilometers, and the workers involved were all inspected for generations before entering, and their movements were monitored, and they were not allowed to communicate with the outside.

Now it is the first aircraft carrier built by Britain in World War I, the "Hundred-Eyed Giant" aircraft carrier, which is an improved aircraft carrier, it has added a crane to the stern, and has also been refitted twice to solve the problem of excessive center of gravity and insufficient stability of the hull, and the full load displacement has increased to 17,020 tons, 20 carrier-based aircraft, 12 oil-fired boilers, a speed of more than 20 knots, a total length of 173 meters, a crew of 400 people, and a power of 20,000 horsepower.

It is now named "Tiantai" aircraft carrier, and East China is also manufacturing an aircraft carrier, that is, "Tiantai" No. 2, Huaxia is concentrating all its forces to build these two aircraft carriers, and Qin Yu wants to build them before 1915.

When Qin Yu arrived at the shipyard, he immediately went to see how the "Tiantai" No. 1 was doing, and when he arrived at the construction site, he saw a large number of workers assembling and welding the hull.

The approximate hull has almost been completed, and it is estimated that the keel will be issued soon, which makes Qin Yu very satisfied, there are many senior German technicians among these workers, and these technicians were all abducted from Germany by Qin Yu, otherwise he would not be able to build an aircraft carrier at all.

The person in charge of the construction of the aircraft carrier came over and explained: "Your Majesty, this battleship can already put down the keel, but our keel has not been built yet, and the domestic steel cannot meet our needs at all, if the keel is done in time, we guarantee that it will be launched at this time next year." ”

"Well, I know this, I will have people contact Germany and the United States to solve the steel matter, can you speed up a little while ensuring the quality, this is too important to the empire, please everyone." Qin Yu looked at the aircraft carrier under construction and said sincerely.

"It is our honor to serve the Empire, and we will do it as fast as we can, even if we work twenty hours a day, we will do it on the appointed date, and I guarantee you with my personal life." The person in charge said very excitedly, His Majesty the Emperor actually asked them personally, can they not work hard to complete it, maybe there will be a rich reward after completion.

Qin Yu took a look at the aircraft carrier and began to go to the submarine manufacturing base, the strength of the submarine had already exerted its amazing strength during the South China Sea War, and some of the problems of the submarine in that war were also discovered, and after modification, it began to be produced in large quantities.

Now there are more than 100 submarines in Huaxia, but Qin Yu still feels that it is not enough, he thinks that before the First World War, there should be less than 500 submarines, one is to deal with Japan in the future, and the other is to sell at a high price during the First World War, so that he can earn a lot of foreign exchange reserves and even gold.

The manufacture of submarines is very smooth, after all, when I was in Germany, I began to build submarines, and many people in the shipyard have worked in German shipyards, so it is not difficult to build, the only thing is that the resources and funds can keep up, and China did not cooperate with Germany in this matter.

Many of the warships of the British Far East Fleet were confiscated by the Chinese captives, and after the construction and improvement of these warships were merged into the Chinese Royal Navy fleet, the strength of the Chinese Navy rose sharply, and the total tonnage has reached more than 400,000 tons.

Some of the warships have been transformed into platforms suitable for aircraft take-off and secretly carry out carrier-based aircraft training, this is Qin Yu's opinion, although the aircraft carrier has not been built, but it does not hinder the training of pilots, only after skillfully controlling the performance and flight of carrier-based aircraft can they hit enemy ships more accurately.

In order to support his "Hou Yi" plan, Qin Yu specially racked his brains to roughly draw the water fly, which was copied from the British World War I Felixstowe F.3 seaplane, which was powered by two 320 hp (239 kW) Sunbeam Cossack engines and added an HP Eagle engine.

It has been named "Waterfowl" seaplane by Qin Yu, with a crew of 4 people, a length of 14.99 meters, a wingspan of 31.09 meters, a load of 5550 kg, an altitude of 2438 meters, a range of 6 hours, and can carry up to 920 pounds (418 kg) of bombs under the wings, 4 × Lewis cannons, 1 in the nose, and 3 in the middle of the hull.

Since Qin Yu didn't remember it completely, the people in the research department were still sorting it out, and they had already started to build two training planes as training pilots.

Qin Yu repeatedly expressed his strict secrecy, and specially sent a large number of people from the intelligence department to guard against spies from Japan, Russia and other countries entering the shipyard near the shipyard, and after having dinner in the shipyard, Qin Yu set foot on the journey to Beijing.

The navy's "Houyi" plan was specially established to deal with the Japanese navy, with the purpose of concentrating China's forces to crush the Japanese navy, or even destroy the Japanese navy.

According to normal times, Huaxia would not be able to make this plan at all, because Huaxia's steel and technical personnel were not enough to support this plan, and it would not invest so much military expenditure to develop the navy. Originally, Qin Yu wanted to figure out some interests to come to Germany to invest more talents and funds in China, but he didn't expect the arrival of the Jews to solve this problem, which made him very excited.

In order to ensure the safety of the Tianjin shipyard, Qin Yu specially transferred a fleet to monitor the Japanese navy in Lushun to prevent the Japanese from discovering the contents inside, no matter what the fleet is, as long as it passes by, it must be inspected, and if there is resistance, it will be sunk directly.

The Navy's movements were discovered by the Japanese Navy, and after the Japanese Navy reported it, a large number of Japanese spies wanted to go to the Tianjin Shipyard to investigate, but they could not enter at all under the guard of the Chinese intelligence department.

After analysis, the Japanese believed that Huaxia was building warships, which shocked them, and they panicked and increased the military spending of the navy, and begged the owner Britain to give them the blueprints for the new warships of the Huaxia warship, or Britain to help build the warships.

In the end, the British still gave the drawings to Japan, they wanted to see the arms race between China and Japan, and it was better that the two countries could fight to the death, so that they could enter the Far East again to clean up China or Japan.