Beiyang added a new ship, not only the center, but also Liu Kunyi, as the boss of the Nanyang Naval Division, was also troubled, and Beiyang quietly added 3 fast cruisers. The strength of its new warships has already surpassed the Nanyang naval division under its command, not to mention that there is also a treasure in Beiyang - the second ship of Dingzhen. Beiyang has purchased warships to replace them with artillery, and even the Guangdong Navy Division and the Penghu Navy Division, which have always been out of sight, plan to order patrol ships from the Fuzhou Ship Administration Bureau on their own, and their own Nanyang should also make some moves. Therefore, after careful consideration, at the beginning of August 1890, Liu Kunyi and Zhang Zhidong finally gave the center an excerpt, the content is very simple, the Qing Beiyang Fleet purchased a lot, and the Nanyang Fleet, as the maritime pillar of the imperial court, should also add some ships? The requirements are not high, just buy an ironclad ship. With the 5 unprotected cruisers that Shangnanyang has itself, it can be regarded as a thing of the past. To say that the requirements of Nanyang are indeed not excessive, when Lao Li took advantage of the old Li skillfully, there were eight great distances in the Beiyang, and the largest ship in the Nanyang is now only 2200 tons, or an unprotected steel-hulled ship, and from the perspective of checks and balances, the Nanyang Naval Division does need to be strengthened, and more importantly, this time it is Liu Kunyi and Zhang Zhidong who are on the post together, and the two admirals are on the post together, and it is difficult for the court to refute it. A governor of Liangjiang and a governor of Huguang. Is this worth it? However, the imperial court really can't come up with more money to buy ships for Nanyang, so in desperation, they have to agree to buy more warships in Nanyang, but the cost is difficult for the imperial court to afford, at most 300,000 taels of silver to show support, as for other expenses, you can raise your own ideas!

If you want to talk about money, the governor of Liangjiang is still quite rich, in history the Qing Dynasty Liangjiang Governor was in charge of Jiangsu, Anhui and Jiangxi, not to mention Jiangsu, the land of wealth of the Qing Dynasty, Anhui's Hui merchants are also rich lords, with the support of these two forces, plus the funds of the Nanyang Naval Division and the 300,000 taels of silver allocated by the imperial court, it is basically not a problem to buy an ironclad ship. But the question is what kind of boat to buy and how to go about it? This purchase of warships is generally done by Beiyang, and Nanyang has no actual combat experience in this area, and there is no such way. And just when Liu Kunyi and Zhang Zhidong were worried, Li Hongzhang's telegram made the two stunned, the Huai and Hunan departments have never dealt with each other, when Zeng Guofan was alive, the two sides also estimated some face, but after the death of Zeng Wenzhenggong, the two sides demolished each other, stumbled, and beat the stick. Although some of Li Hongzhang's recent gestures of goodwill have alleviated the contradictions between the two sides, the direct relationship between the two factions is far from going to Beiyang to help Nanyang pay 100,000 taels of silver, and said that he can use Beiyang's connections in Europe to help Nanyang purchase additional warships! Liu Kun was stunned when he saw it, what kind of world is this? If you want to say that it is a weasel to give a New Year's greeting to the chicken, it is impossible, if the South Ocean is strong, he will be relatively weak in the North Ocean, and it will be good for him Li Hongzhang? But you're going to say no, right? That's even more no, Li Hongzhang, the first governor of the world, the boss of Huaijun, personally repaired a book to help you, but you, as the boss of the Hunan family, directly refused, and this became a bad thing to spread to the ears of the world. What's more, people have returned the money. Moreover, Nanyang is indeed a smear in Europe, and even more so in shipbuilding. If you don't rely on Beiyang, do you rely on those insatiable foreigners? In Liu Kun's eyes, Li Hongzhang is also a member of the Qing Dynasty if he doesn't deal with the Hunan army. It's a hundred times stronger than that foreign barbarian. So Liu Kunyi asked Peng Yulin to contact the Beiyang side about the purchase of ships.

Why did Li Hongzhang suddenly want to help Nanyang? Improving the relationship between the two is one aspect, after all, a lot of armaments in the Beiyang and Huai systems still need to be imported from the Jiangnan Bureau and the Fuzhou Shipbuilding Bureau. But this is by no means the only reason, what prompted Li Hongzhang to make up his mind was the actions of the Japanese in Britain, since Xu Jie and Gaylin cooperated, Xue Fucheng, the ambassador to the United Kingdom, felt that his heart suddenly brightened, and his every move in Britain gradually became clear, which naturally has the credit of Gaelin, and recently, the Japanese in Britain to buy ships made Xue Fucheng very uneasy, and Aoki Shuzo, who had received domestic support, not only went in and out of the Armstrong shipyard all day long to fight with Sir Watts, but also went in and out of the British Admiralty. Later, Xue Fucheng used his relationship to investigate and learned that the British had to deal with a batch of old ships! And Japan intends to pick up this foreign fall. Why did the British Empire suddenly decide to dispose of old ships? Actually, it's the Russians who made trouble. …,

The Russians, stimulated by the Italians, decided to build armored cruisers of the Sea of Azov and Rurik types, but as everyone knows, the actions of the Russians irritated the British. Who was the Royal Navy's biggest potential enemy in 1890? One is France, the other is Russia. Russia has specially created a cruiser of these two kinds, is this not clear that it is preparing to do the work of breaking diplomatic relations in the ocean? And what is further than the French is that the Russians not only intend to break diplomatic relations, these two types of cruisers, especially the latter, Rurik type is a kind of battleship that can not only break diplomatic relations, but also decisive battles, if the diplomatic relations are broken, the existing first-class cruisers of the British Empire will definitely not be able to beat, and the battleships will not be able to catch up. This makes the British feel very tricky, the British Empire's sea power is not only to ensure that the fleet can defeat the opponent in a decisive battle, but more importantly, to ensure the safety of its own sea transportation lines, Britain is an island country, once the communication lines are cut off or greatly disturbed, Britain will be nothing if it loses the resources and markets of its colonies. So the British decided to respond to the reckless actions of the Russians with a tough posture! Expand the cruiser fleet and build new fast warships to deal with the Sea of Azov and Rurik. However, the navy has always been a money-burning army, although the British Empire has money, but it is definitely not a bottomless pit, in this case, it is very necessary to open up sources and reduce expenditure, and deal with some old ships. What about those ships? First of all, there are those who can't beat and run. Some of the coastal defense ships will be dismantled, and some of the cruisers will also be laid off. And among them is the arrogant class that the Japanese value.

To say that this barbarian class is the work of Barnaby, the master of shipbuilding, but the British Royal Navy is quite dissatisfied with this ship, for three reasons: first, the seemingly beautiful cross-shaped main gun layout is actually a lot of problems, and the small firing range of the 9.2-inch main guns on both sides is a very strict problem. Second, the armor protection area is not enough, this can not be blamed Barnaby, the armored ships at that time were like this, because of the weight, and at the same time in order to ensure the safety of ocean navigation, can only be set at the waterline is not a high layer of armor, this situation can only be fundamentally solved after the appearance of hardened armor, the main belt is greatly weakened. Thirdly, it is the ship that is strictly overweight! An 8500-ton battleship is 900 tons overweight! The proportion of overweight is as high as 12.5%! Although it is better than the French, who have always been overweight, this ratio still makes the Royal Navy very unhappy! It is said that Master Barnaby should not make such a mistake, in fact, he can't be completely blamed for this, the British have been adding armament and armor to it, this is not overweight!! And this battleship with thick armor and heavy guns was classified as an armored cruiser after it was built, but the speed of this cruiser was only 16 knots!! It's a bit of a shame for the word cruiser. This is especially true when the new ships of the Russians come out! Can't catch up with the Sea of Azov, can't beat Rurik (and certainly can't catch up--! ）。 What's the use of it? Coupled with a series of previous problems, the British Empire finally learned from the pain and decided to retire these 2 warships ahead of schedule, and resold them to the end!! And that's exactly what gives the Japanese a chance!!

Let's support it, the collection rose by less than 10 in one day yesterday--! The author's heart is cold!!