[253] Shipbuilding Competition

Seeing that China is advancing all the way to Annam, Saigon.

The French colonial infantry was killed in a river of blood and collapsed.

Due to successive defeats in previous naval battles, the British Admiralty has issued a strict order to prohibit the Royal Navy from launching any form of attack on China until the details of the Chinese Navy's secret weapons are known.

Britain and France were anxious at the moment, and after uniting Germany and Austria to put pressure on Russia to no avail, Britain decided to support the rise of Japan to deal with China's strength.

The British Foreign Office, after consulting with the Japanese ambassador to the United Kingdom, quickly issued a loan to Japan for the construction of four ironclad ships and the training of crews for Japan on British soil.

As soon as this news was disclosed in the newspapers, it was simply a play against the news that China had just announced about its loans to Russia.

Yao Fanting admired the speed of the British's reactions.

Some people say that the most remarkable thing about the country of Britain is not the establishment of the empire on which the sun never sets, but the grace, calmness, and orderliness that he showed in the decline of the empire all the way, without too much anger and hysteria.

But Yao Fan thinks this is nonsense, as an international banker entrenched in the world's financial center, a European continent's number one-stirring stick, Britain's elegance is a kind of helplessness.

When the Jewish banking syndicate shifted its strategic focus and assets to the United States, the illegitimate son of the same language as the British, what could the United Kingdom, which had hollowed out its body in World War II, do not serve to be helplessly pretending to be elegant? After all, the masters behind the New World Hegemon have not changed, and there are still so many Jewish banking families.

Yao Fan knew that the British would never give up, they were waiting for the opportunity, as long as they did not move the buffer zone of Thailand, then for the time being, they would not threaten Burma to the west of Thailand and Malaysia to the south, and there would be no losses to the British in India and South Asia.

As for France, Yao Fan directly ignored that this country, which was counting on reviving on the thighs of Britain, needed to ask for more blessings.

As a result of the collapse of the Royal Chinese Fleet and the Royal East India Fleet, the British Navy was already feeling a great pressure, and this great pressure came in part from the impatience of the European countries.

After the news that the Royal Navy had been crushed by the young Chinese Navy spread throughout Europe, Germany launched a shipbuilding program to build 22 new warships, including 4 main armored gunboats, 6 cruisers, and 12 Fish #Mineboats. Obviously, the excellent performance of the Chinese Navy's Fish # Mineboat Brigade made the Germans feel as if the Fish #Mineboat was an excellent weapon for small and big.

Despite the financial constraints due to the 10th Russo-Turkish War, Russia, after reaching a loan agreement with China, still decided to build 12 new ships in St. Petersburg in the Baltic Sea, including 2 armored iron warships, 2 cruisers and 8 Fish # Mineboats, to supplement the Black Sea Fleet, which was clearly inferior to Ottoman Turkey in the Russo-Turkish war. The existence of the Black Sea Fleet has been a tragedy, as Russia was only able to maintain 10 small boats in the Black Sea due to the restrictions imposed by the Peace of Paris until 1871, which greatly delayed Russia's shipbuilding capacity in the Black Sea region.

The Ottoman Turkish navy, with the support of Britain and France, had 22 Anglo-French armored iron ships and 82 unarmored ships, and if it were not for Russia's bloody way out of the land with gray cattle and human steamrollers, the Russian Black Sea Fleet would not be able to break out of the Bosphorus Strait on its own strength and fulfill Peter the Great's last wish to rush out of the Black Sea, let alone compete with the British and French fleets.

In order to be able to preserve the fruits of the victory of the "San Stefano Treaty" under the pressure of Britain, France, Germany and Austria, and to hold the right to access the Bosphorus Strait in his hands, so as to fulfill Peter the Great's long-cherished wish, and at the same time to ensure China's respect and dependence with strength, Russia can be said to have gone all out.

In order to ask the British to put pressure on Russia and compress the Russian navy in the Black Sea, the Ottoman Turkey promised Cyprus to the British, but seeing that the Russians did not accept the soft and hard, and did not let go in the face of the pressure from Britain, France, Germany and Austria, the Ottoman Turkey did not hand over the island of Cyprus to Britain as it did in history, but still held it in its hands.

Although France lost its pants in the Franco-Prussian War because of the huge indemnity, it suffered from the destruction of the Far East Fleet, so it had to tighten its belts to start the shipbuilding program, and at the same time raise domestic taxes again.

As expected, not long after the new prime minister, Jules Simon stepped down, and the seventh prime minister, Broy IV, came to power, but the country was still boiling, so a month later, the eighth prime minister, de Rochebuel, came to power, and the country was still in turmoil, and a month later, the French Third Republic finally gave birth to the ninth prime minister, Jules Duvre.

This is the third time that Duvre has served as prime minister since the birth of the French Third Republic in 1871. It is not surprising that for France under the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, there were always a few aristocrats and big capitalists who were supported by the bankers in the selection of prime ministers.

Yao Fan felt that he could even recite one or two candidates for France's prime minister in the next year, and he didn't have to go through any trouble to win over someone.

After the Franco-Prussian War, France was already a puppet of Britain, and it could not challenge Britain and Germany, its century-old enemy, and Germany, and of course could not calm the nationalists internally, and now it was even bullied by China. Being prime minister of France is a real physical and mental torture.

In the 69 years from 1871 to 1940, the short-lived French Third Republic had 87 prime ministers, royalists, republicans, left-wing socialist parties, far-right militarist forces, slippery moderates, etc., etc., all forces were trained by the British-stirring stick behind their backs.

Yao Fan knew that unless there was an earth-shaking change in the world political pattern like World War II, the Gallic chicken would not be able to escape the palm of the cow's hand, and could only be pinched to death by the international banking group of the Jewish family with Britain as its base camp.

Although Yao Fan ignored the French, he was still very concerned about the actions of the British.

Sure enough, Britain not only gave Japan a loan to build warships, but also angrily accelerated its own shipbuilding program in the face of the imminent action of European countries.

At the same time, Britain transferred five warships from the Atlantic Fleet, the USS Agincourt, HMS Belesle, HMS Captain, USS West Crops, and HMS Ravage to supplement the Royal Navy's Far East Pacific Fleet stationed in Malaya, and at the same time officially split the West Indies Fleet to fill the gap left by the demise of the East India Fleet.

At this time, China, with the support of the 21st century, already has 160 Fish # Mineboats, a full 16 Fish # Mineboat Brigades!

In addition, the young Chinese Navy is also equipped with 10 second-hand Type 037 hunting submarines, the main guns are two twin 57mm naval guns in the front and rear, and the close defense guns are two Type 61-1 twin 25mm naval guns in the front and rear. The North Sea Fleet, which is the incubator of the Navy, is also rapidly carrying out the training and mastery of these 10 submarine hunting submarines.