Chapter 477: NATO is founded

Seeing that the Three Kingdoms were indeed sincerely taking refuge, Fang Xiaoyu was relieved, and the Three Kingdoms soon announced the news of joining the Chinese Empire. The four countries joined the Chinese Empire one after another, which surprised the politicians of the Western Continent, who could not figure out why some people did not want their own country and wanted to join the Chinese Empire, and finally they agreed that this was the result of the Chinese Empire's coercion and inducement to the allies in the consideration of its own strategic security.

The Chinese Empire has a clear conscience, but it cannot ignore the feelings of its allies, and if the allies think that the Chinese Empire is bullying the weak and forcibly annexing its allies, they will definitely have different intentions. Therefore, Fang Xiaoyu not only sent a special envoy to explain the ins and outs of this incident to the remaining five allies, but also invited all countries to send special envoys to Beijing, the capital of the Chinese Empire, to hold a meeting to discuss the revision of the constitution of the Eastern Ocean Entente Alliance.

Although the discussions at the meeting were basically dominated by Wu Qiong, the foreign minister of the Chinese Empire, he did not use the strength of the Chinese Empire to bully the allies, but on the contrary he put forward many proposals in favor of the allies, and finally in a very relaxed atmosphere, the six countries re-signed the "Beijing Comprehensive Cooperation Treaty".

The Chinese Empire clearly stated in the treaty that the Chinese Empire would never oppress its allies and would never force its allies to merge into the Chinese Empire. In addition, among other provisions, the Chinese Empire also put forward many preferential conditions for the five allies, so that the economies of the five countries could be integrated into the Chinese Empire more quickly, and they could accelerate the economic development on the basis of their own superior economies and with the assistance of the Chinese Empire's economic system.

If these treaties are realized, the six countries will be able to achieve a good situation of financial commonality, economic co-construction, resource sharing, and military coexistence, and all the strengths of the six countries will be completely integrated together to achieve a powerful alliance that surpasses the rest of the world.

This organizational restructuring is a step further than the previous ASEAN, allowing the strength of several countries led by the Chinese Empire to be more closely integrated in all aspects, which has brought great pressure to the major powers of the white world, especially the Boston Empire.

In order to cope with the increasing pressure from NATO, the first thing the Boston Empire thought of was to defend its own maritime frontiers, so in order to strengthen its naval strength and find a way out of the surplus domestic steel production, the Boston Empire began a huge shipbuilding program.

In the first phase, Boston announced plans to build eight new Chinese ships and 20 heavy cruisers, in addition to 80 destroyers to escort these large warships. At the same time, 30 submarines and one aircraft carrier, which are in an experimental nature, are also on the construction schedule.

Seeing that the Boston Empire began to expand its navy by relying on the large wealth obtained during the war, Fang Xiaoyu was also a little unable to sit still, with the addition of several countries and the complete control of the Eastern Ocean and the Southern Ocean, the Chinese Imperial Navy, which was already relatively weak, became even thinner. In order to enrich his strength and have enough ability to protect the sea frontier, Fang Xiaoyu also began to prepare for a new round of naval expansion plans.

The sea territory controlled by the Chinese Empire is already the largest in the world, and it is not enough to rely on only eight Shannan-class battleships and sixteen Chinese-class battleships, plus five aircraft carriers, to control such a large sea area, and those destroyers and cruisers can patrol in peacetime, but once they face a maritime threat, they can only fight.

To this end, Fang Xiaoyu immediately released a huge shipbuilding plan, which included adding eight new battleships and eight aircraft carriers, and he also planned to replace the cruisers and destroyers to replace the old 'Wanghai' class cruisers and 'Swordfish-class' destroyers.

After the end of the world war, when the navy of the defeated country was secretly divided by the Grand Duchy of Sardinia and the Kingdom of Habfsburg, Fang Xiaoyu knew about it. The reason why he didn't intervene was because he knew very well that the cost of these outdated warships was too low, and they would not be able to play their due role in future naval warfare, and their maintenance costs in peacetime would definitely be a headache for any country.

Sure enough, less than a year after the end of the war, the Grand Duchy of Sardinia was the first to withstand. The Grand Duchy of Sardinia had a weak domestic economy, and the number of warships they looted was too large.

The Saar Empire originally had the largest naval fleet in the world, and when the Cossack Empire was in civil strife, its main fleet also went to the Saar Empire to avoid being captured together, plus the navy of the Nantes Empire, although it had been heavily damaged, but the emaciated camel was bigger than a horse, even if it suffered heavy losses due to the naval air raid of the Chinese Empire, and some of them chose to sink themselves before being received, but there were still a lot of warships left, so many warships just let the Grand Duchy of Sardinia and the Kingdom of Habfsburg divide the two countries equally, The number of warships allocated to each country can be imagined.

With as many as twenty and former Chinese ships, more than thirty cruisers and more than fifty destroyers, and more than thirty submarines, plus its original naval fleet, the maintenance cost was enough to occupy nine-tenths of the annual budget of the Grand Duchy of Sardinia, which made the Grand Duchy of Sardinia how affordable it was, and the Kingdom of Habsburg was in the same dilemma.

The governments of the two countries could no longer sit still in the face of the new shipbuilding programs that both the Chinese Empire and the Boston Empire were about to embark on, and after communicating with the Yaman Empire, they issued an initiative to the Chinese Empire and the Boston Empire to hold a conference on naval restrictions for the sake of world peace.

Fang Xiaoyu was reluctant to participate in this meeting, but since the three wartime allies had invited him, if he did not go, he would be hostile to all countries, so Zhang Haiyang, the chief of staff of the Navy, was sent out as the plenipotentiary representative of the Chinese Empire, and the Boston Empire also sent Vice Admiral Dewey for the same reason. Soon five of the world's largest naval powers in the world gathered in Rome, the capital of the Grand Duchy of Sardinia, to discuss naval limitations.

As soon as the meeting began, the representatives of the Grand Duchy of Sardinia and the Kingdom of Habfsburg, which were the initiators of the conference, were the first to express their attitude. The representatives of the two countries, which consider themselves to be the top two in the world in terms of naval tonnage, have gone so far as to claim to be the world's first and second largest naval powers, and have demanded that each country make the same reduction in the same amount as it already exists.

Their wishful thinking is very loud, and if it is reduced in this way, I am afraid that the navies of all countries will be reduced and their navies will be reduced by a small amount. Zhang Haiyang, the representative of the Chinese Empire, is the chief of the general staff of the Admiralty, and he is quite clear about the scale of each fleet. As a soldier, he doesn't have so much to hide, hearing the rampant remarks of the two, Zhang Haiyang was about to slap the table and get mad, but he didn't expect that someone couldn't help it first.

The representative of the Boston Empire, the new Vice Admiral Dewey, the new Deputy Secretary of the Admiralty, was the first to quit, and he took the case and said: "Our Boston Empire has a long coastline, and the existing warships are no longer enough to protect it, as can be seen from the attack on our Thar Navy during wartime. ”

Speaking of this, he subconsciously glanced at Zhang Haiyang and said: "So we must increase the number of warships, my country plans to build eight 40,000-ton battleships, twenty cruisers, and about eighty destroyers. ”

Dewey had already seen through the intentions of the two countries, knew that their finances were already overwhelmed, and deliberately agreed to allow the two countries to increase new warships in proportion to make things difficult for the two countries.

The representatives of the Grand Duchy of Sardinia and the Kingdom of Habfsburg looked at each other, and both of them saw the bitterness in each other's hearts, if their own country had so much money to support the navy, why would they hold such a naval restriction meeting.

Looking at Dewey's angry eyes and Zhang Haiyang's contemptuous eyes, the two of them didn't dare to be so arrogant anymore, you must know that the Chinese Empire and the Boston Empire can be the two strongest countries in the world today, and it is not a good thing to provoke them, especially the Chinese Empire, don't look at the few warships, the strength is not low.

Seeing Vice Admiral Dewey's aggressive attitude, Marshal Raeder of the Jarman Empire said: "We are here today to be able to negotiate a proper way to solve the naval problem, after all, now that the war is over, there is no need to maintain so many navies in peacetime." ”

Zhang Haiyang stood up and said: "I very much agree with Marshal Raeder's opinion, but I think that the situation of each country is different, and it cannot be generalized, we should calculate the number of warships according to the proportion of the area of the sea area under control, after all, the more territorial waters you have, the more warships you need to defend." ”

When it comes to the area of territorial waters, who dares to compare with the Chinese Empire, now the Eastern Ocean and the Southern Ocean have almost become people's inland seas, and the area of territorial waters is definitely the first in the world. Vice Admiral Dewey immediately objected: "I don't think so, I think the naval strength should match the national strength, if a country's economic strength is not good, even if it has a wide territorial waters, it can't afford to build too many warships." ”

Zhang Haiyang said: "Although what Vice Admiral Dewey said is reasonable, China's territorial waters are too vast, and only a sufficient number of cruisers can defend them, so I propose that cruisers not be included in the list of naval restrictions." Zhang Haiyang put forward such a sufficient reason, and the countries had no excuse to oppose it, so it was decided that the cruiser would not be restricted.