After adopting the opinion of Emperor Long Yufei, the battleship design engineers redesigned the first heavy cruiser of the Imperial Navy, and half a month later, they re-came up with the design drawings. The displacement of the battleship has not changed, but the main gun has adopted Long Yufei's opinion and has become a three-seat twin 210 main gun, with a layout of two in the front and one in the back. In addition, the armor of the battleship has been improved to a certain extent. The biggest change is the speed, which has been increased from 24 knots to more than 26 knots.

This made this class of heavy cruisers the fastest ships in the Imperial Navy, faster than the theoretical speed of the 'Earthshatter-class' destroyers. Of course, the Reich was also planning to build new light cruisers and destroyers. When the time comes, both types of battleships will surpass heavy cruisers in speed.

This heavy cruiser was named the 'Yangtze River class' heavy cruiser by Long Yufei. The 'Yangtze River-class' heavy cruiser has a full load displacement of 9,500 tons, a speed of more than 26 knots, and the main five times is three twin 210 mm guns, two in the front and one in the rear. On each side were two twin 155-mm guns. In addition, in the bow there were four 450-mm medium torpedoes. The first batch of Yangtze River-class heavy cruisers is planned to be built eight ships, which will be named the heavy cruiser 'Yangtze River', the heavy cruiser 'Yellow River', the heavy cruiser 'Pearl River', the heavy cruiser 'Huaihe', the heavy cruiser 'Lancangjiang', the heavy cruiser 'Qiantangjiang', the heavy cruiser 'Minjiang' and the heavy cruiser 'Heilongjiang'. After completion, these eight heavy cruisers will be allocated to the 1st and 5th fleets respectively as the main battleships for encircling and suppressing the enemy's broken battleships.

The main guns and defenses of the 'Yangtze River-class' heavy cruisers could not stand up to the enemy's battleships. However, it was able to take advantage of its great speed and calmly retreat when encountering enemy battleships. The 210 mm 45 times caliber main gun makes its effective killing distance reach 10,000 meters. With a powerful fire control system, it is possible to carry out precise strikes against enemy ships at a distance of more than 10,000 meters. With the exception of battleships, no battleship had a defensive power that could withstand 210 mm guns. The 'Yangtze River-class' heavy cruisers and those that followed. will be a powerful protector of the Empire's sea transport lines. Once Germany carried out a war to break the diplomatic relations with the Chinese Empire, the 'Yangtze River-class' heavy cruisers would make them suffer.

"陛xià. The ambassador of the Ottoman Turkish Empire to China yesterday proposed the marriage of His Majesty to their princess Hedis and Princess Lefia. The two princesses have passed their fourteenth birthdays. According to our agreement with the Ottoman Turkish Empire, the two princesses will marry His Majesty in the first half of this year. Do you have any other requirements regarding our marriage with the Ottoman Turkish Empire this time? Imperial Prime Minister Lin Zihao asked.

Emperor Long Yufei married twin princesses of the Ottoman Turkish Empire, which was agreed upon while the war was still going on. The Chinese Empire and the Ottoman Turkish Empire will marry and close the relationship between the two countries. However, at the Istanbul Peace Conference, there were some conflicts of interest between the Ottoman Turkish Empire and the Chinese Empire. This casts a shadow over the marriage between the two countries.

At the peace conference, the Ottoman Turkish Empire received enormous benefits. As much as 2.1 billion Chinese dollars in war reparations made the Ottoman Turkish Empire rich. The Ottoman Empire, which had deep pockets, had its problems solved at home, and the Ottoman Empire had been enhanced. This made the Ottoman Empire's position in the Middle East even more important. For the sake of financial interests, the Chinese Empire also hoped to improve relations with the Ottoman Turkish Empire, at least not to make the Ottoman Turkish Empire fall to the German Empire. Otherwise, it will make the empire face even more powerful enemies in the future.

"I don't have any requirements, there's no need to complicate it. It's nice to keep it simple! Long Yufei commanded. He was already forty-five years old, and the two princesses were only fourteen, which made him a little speechless. But. For the sake of the empire, he really can't refuse this marriage. Not to mention that with the help of this marriage, Iraq was also exchanged from the Ottoman Turkish Empire. Others don't look down on Iraq with yellow sand, but Long Yufei is different. He knows what kind of treasure is buried under the soil of Iraq. At a time when the Empire's automobile industry began to develop rapidly, the Empire's demand for oil also increased. So far, the empire's oil has come mainly from the South Seas. Next, the empire will focus on developing oil in the Persian Gulf in the Middle East. When the time comes, there will definitely be a lot of questions. If the Empire and the Ottoman Turkish Empire marry. At least show that the Upper Ottoman Empire would not do anything about it.

"Yes, Your Majesty! And who will the one who will be chosen to go? Lin Zihao asked.

"Let the Ministry of Foreign Affairs send a deputy minister! Lord Wei has just returned from Istanbul. It's too hard to go again. Long Yufei said. Because the foreign affairs of the empire are very complicated, some of the affairs of the colonies. At present, it is also the responsibility of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Therefore, there are two vice ministers in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to assist Foreign Minister Wei Yuan in his work.

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Lin Zihao nodded.

"Your Majesty, the Ottoman Turkish Empire has paid seventy-nine million for the purchase of ships, and we ask us to transfer them the ships as much as possible. Also, I hope we will train qualified naval officers and sailors for the Ottoman Turkish Empire! "The war reparations obtained by the Ottoman Turkish Empire have already been received, and they naturally don't care about the tens of millions of ship purchase funds. Originally, the cost of purchasing ships was 89 million Chinese dollars, but 10 million Chinese dollars were the cost of the empire's purchase of Crete. Although, the Ottoman Turkish Empire was very tempted to repent, fearing that after the Empire took control of Crete, it would pose a threat to the Ottoman Turkish Empire. However, considering that the relationship between the two sides has deteriorated somewhat, if we go back, it will inevitably make the relationship between the two countries even worse. So, in the end, the Ottoman Turkish Empire chose to fulfill the agreement.

As for the threat that the Chinese Empire might pose to the Ottoman Turkish Empire in the Eastern Mediterranean, they chose to respond to the threat by strengthening their army and navy. After all, the warships purchased from the Chinese Empire this time made the Ottoman Turkish Empire have two 'Western Han-class' battleships and three 'Qin-class' battleships, making it the current naval power second only to the Chinese Empire and the Kingdom of Spain. Next, the Ottoman Turkish Empire also planned to order more advanced warships from the Chinese Empire or the German Empire respectively to strengthen their armaments.

"When we get married, we will hand over all the warships to them! However, those cruisers and destroyers should be refitted and torpedo tubes should be eliminated! Long Yufei admonished. The cruisers and destroyers sold by the Reich to the Kingdom of Spain and Belgium were equipped with torpedo tubes. However, the Ottoman Turks were not hardcore allies of the Empire, and if they were supplied with warships with torpedo tubes, it was possible that soon the Germans would have such weapons on their warships. This will be no small threat to the Empire. As for what kind of reaction the Ottoman Turkish Empire would have after being pitted, this is not something for the empire to consider.

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Marshal Wei Yong nodded.

On February 22, 1856, Fang Minghong, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Imperial Empire, took the royal cruise ship 'Oriental Emperor', under the protection of two cruisers and two destroyers of the Imperial Navy, to the Ottoman Turkish Empire to marry two princesses of the Ottoman Turkish Empire for the Imperial Emperor Long Yufei. Both the Chinese Empire and the Ottoman Turkish Empire's Foreign Ministries announced that the Chinese Empire and the Ottoman Turkish Empire would enter into a marriage.

This news shocked the world. The Chinese Empire has become the world hegemon, and the Ottoman Turkish Empire is one of the most powerful countries in the world. After the marriage of the two countries, they can almost completely control the situation in the world. Of course, this would undoubtedly pose a great threat to the German Empire, and the ambassador of the German Empire to the Ottoman Turkish Empire immediately urgently asked for a meeting with Mustafa, who was in charge of foreign affairs in the Ottoman Turkish Empire. Lester. Pasha.

However, when the German Empire received a promise from the Ottoman Turks that they would not ally with the Chinese Empire, they were relieved. After all, at the Istanbul Peace Conference, contradictions arose between the Ottoman Turkish Empire and the Chinese Empire.

The people of the Chinese Empire had no objection to the emperor marrying a princess of the Ottoman Turkish Empire. Even the princess of the Ottoman Turkish Empire was only fourteen years old. In the eyes of all the people, it is normal for the Emperor Xià to have seventy-two concubines in three palaces, six courts, and even more so, especially the Emperor Xià, the emperor who has established great achievements.

Sultan Abdul of the Ottoman Turkish Empire. Mejid I always had a pimple in his heart about marrying his favorite daughter to the Chinese emperor, who was already an old man. In particular, the envoy of the Chinese Empire was only a vice minister of foreign affairs, and he felt that the Chinese Empire had neglected the Ottoman Turkish Empire. However, now he can't repentance of this marriage, otherwise, it will be an insult to the Chinese Empire.

On March 23, 1856, the imperial in-laws returned from Istanbul. Mustafa of Ottoman Turkish Empire Father and Son Foreign Affairs. Lester. Pasha traveled to the Chinese Empire as an ambassador to see off his family.

On May 2, the wedding of Emperor Long Yufei and the two princesses of the Ottoman Turkish Empire took place. The Chinese Empire and the Ottoman Turkish Empire, officially married. (To be continued)

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