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On the morning of 17 July, the Navy Department, the Ministry of Finance, the General Administration of Military Industry, and the General Staff of the Strait held another joint meeting. The main topic of the meeting was the plan to repair and transform the ship.

Facts speak louder than all words. Xiang Xiaoqiang explained everything with ironclad facts - so far, the aircraft carrier formation has sunk one Japanese battleship (Hiei), damaged one battleship (Nagato), two heavy cruisers (Nachi, Furutaka), sank one light cruiser (Tatsuda), and sank five destroyers. In addition, 128 Japanese fighters, 4o bombers, and 3 transport planes were destroyed (both in the sky and on the ground). This is only the number directly destroyed by the Tianshu detachment, not including the 4o Okinawa Japanese fighters that were chased and entangled by Taiwan's Ming Army's 6-base planes, causing them to run out of fuel and crash into the sea.

The price paid by the Ming army was only 16 fighters, 15 dive bombers, and 18 torpedo bombers to achieve the above results.

Of course, on the way back, it is likely that there will be an encounter with the Japanese fleet, and the results of the battle will be expanded. It's just that the Japanese army has also sent aircraft carriers, and the exchange ratio may not be so beautiful.

There is no more convincing result. Everyone was impressed with the aircraft carrier. Although the meeting had to go back and forth on the details, calculating the tonnage, the amount of work, the budget, the change in the construction period, and so on, and it would take at least a few days to reach a final decision, at the beginning, basically everyone agreed to set the general tone: the original plan was to focus on battleships, and now it was to focus on aircraft carriers.

But there were also fierce divisions at the meeting. Some people are "absolute aircraft carrier factions" who insist that the original plan of the three battleships be changed into aircraft carriers, and also advocate that one or two more aircraft carriers should be built, so that the Ming Navy can quickly change from a "navy centered on battleships" to a "navy with aircraft carriers as the main force."

The other part of the people is the "relative aircraft carrier faction", advocating that even if the aircraft carrier is good, it should not be so extreme and hasty and cut all the battleships at once. Although the aircraft carrier is good, it is a new thing after all, and it has only experienced one battle, and there must be many problems that have not been exposed. After all, battleships have been the main force of the navy for hundreds of years, and they are mature in technology, strategy, and tactics, including the cultivation of talents, logistics systems, and so on. Now when you suddenly see something good, you immediately abandon it and replace it with a new one, which is too risky. They argued that the shipbuilding program could be mostly converted into aircraft carriers, but at least one battleship should be retained.

And that's not all. Because battleships cost two to three times as much to build as aircraft carriers of the same tonnage, this means that every battleship that becomes an aircraft carrier saves a huge budget. And now how to spend these saved budgets has also become one of the points of contention at the meeting. There was a disagreement between the two branches of the first Cabinet: the Admiralty advocated that these budgets should be diverted to other types of ships. The "absolute aircraft carrier faction" advocates using it to build aircraft carriers, and the "relative aircraft carrier faction" advocates building cruisers and destroyers.

And the Ministry of Finance hopes that if the money is saved, it will be saved. It's not easy to save some money, and since it's saved here, it should be used in other places where it's more needed. For example, it is allocated to the 6th Army, for example, it is used in domestic construction, and so on.

The General Staff of the Navy also sided with the Admiralty and wanted to keep these budgets on the head of the Navy. It is true that the enemy is Japan now, and the most important thing in dealing with Japan is the navy. Now that the importance of battleships has decreased, then aircraft carriers, cruisers and destroyers have become even more important. In addition to the fact that there is some controversy about building more aircraft carriers, there is no controversy that cruisers and destroyers should be built more. Both of these are "universal ships" and are of great use in naval warfare, reconnaissance, patrolling, search and rescue, mine-laying, temporary transportation, sabotaging the enemy's sea communications, and protecting one's own sea communications. For the navy of any country, cruisers and destroyers are never enough.

……

Unlike previous similar meetings, Xiuxiu was also able to participate in this time. Although she is only a captain, as a princess, her status is high. More importantly, she is now the "Adjutant of Her Majesty's Navy", and she can attend the meeting on behalf of Her Majesty. Xiang Xiaoqiang was very interested in the ship-building plan, and specially arranged for Xiuxiu to participate as "His Majesty's Adjutant".

When the meeting was adjourned at noon, Xiuxiu called Xiang Xiaoqiang and told him about the morning meeting and the opinions of all parties. Xiang Xiaoqiang pondered for a moment and said:

"Xiuxiu, I was expecting at least someone to advocate building more submarines, but now no one has mentioned the word submarine. If no one has mentioned it, I will talk to Xiong Dingming in the evening and ask him to instruct the representative of the General Staff Department of the Taiwan Strait to raise it. Anyway, I'm living in the fortress now, so it's easy to find them. …… Just kidding, if you want to completely subdue Japan, you have to use a blockade. If you want to blockade Japan, how can you do it without submarines? ”

Xiuxiu was stunned, thought for a while, and asked carefully:

“…… My lord, blockade Japan? Who said that Japan should be blocked? ”

"Huh? Didn't anyone say that? Xiang Xiaoqiang was also stunned, and then said, "Well, then I'll say it now: blockade Japan." ”

Xiu Xiu was speechless for a long time.

Xiang Xiaoqiang saw that she was silent, and asked:

"Hey, Xiuxiu, what's wrong with you?"

Xiuxiu took a deep breath and whispered:

"My lord, aren't we looking for an opportunity to seek an armistice with Japan now? Why is there a blockade of Japan again? ”

Xiang Xiaoqiang smiled:

"Hehe, it's just wishful thinking on our part, what if he doesn't stop fighting with you? …… At least he won't have an unconditional truce with you. You say yes, right? He would have said: a truce is fine, but you have to keep me where I want. Japan is the most cunning in this regard, and once it sees that there is an opportunity to take advantage of it, it will definitely not let go of any opportunity to extort money from the woods. With the character of the Japanese, in the current war situation, they are far from taking the initiative to come to us to sue for peace. And if we take the initiative to go to them, they will have to be decided. Just as the Soviet Union now took the initiative to come to us and was determined by us. ”

Xiuxiu was a little dizzy:

"That'...... Submarines ......"

Xiang Xiaoqiang says:

"Submarines are not as good as warships, the construction cycle of submarines is very short, and with the ability of the Ming Dynasty to build ships, a lot can be built in a few months. In addition to what we have now, when the time comes, we will scatter dozens, hundreds of submarines to Japan's western Pacific coast...... Tsk tsk, only by striking the Japanese both on the battlefield and logistically can they know that it hurts. Otherwise, we will not be able to afford to lose troops on the battlefield alone. Even if we recover the entire Northeast at that time, what should we do next? Can't get into North Korea?

"If we don't enter North Korea, Japan will still not necessarily bird us, it will still be stinky and hard. If we march into Korea, we will face casualties several times higher than those in Manchuria. Korea has been operated by Japan for decades, and not to mention the dense fortifications, Korea has long been regarded as part of the Japanese mainland, and even many Koreans think they are Japanese. With the ruthlessness of the Japanese army now, how many people do you think we will have to die? So subduing Japan, a naval blockade is king. ”

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