On May 9, Su Du had already communicated with Lin Youde and told Lin Youde his plan, and Lin Youde also agreed to Su Du's proposal to rebuild the Beiyang Fleet. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 With the approval of this collaborator, Sudo took the initiative to invite the French Minister to Shanghai, Shi Allan, and the British Minister to Shanghai, Paul Kele, to his villa to discuss the purchase of the ship.

Shi Alan and Bao Kle, since they had contact with Su Du before, were transferred from the imperial capital to Shanghai as the exclusive contacts between the two countries and Su Du. Since everyone is an acquaintance, after a little greeting, the two sides sit separately and start negotiating.

Su Du sat on the sofa, and Chen Hao, the former staff officer who had just been promoted to assistant, opened the document in his hand and said: "Mr. two ministers, there is no need to say anything superfluous, you have already read the purchase plan we proposed, I don't know what you think?" ”

When he invited Shi Alan and Bao Kele to come over, Su Du had already sent his military purchase plan, but that plan made the two of them feel embarrassed.

Shi Alan and Bao Kele glanced at each other, then Bao Kele lit a cigar and looked at Su Du with his eyes and said, "Mr. Su Du, I have some doubts about the plan you proposed, I wonder if you can explain it to me?" ”

Sudu sat up straight, "Please speak." ”

"We in the British Empire have the most powerful navy on the planet, and we also have the best warships." "I'm sure you know this, so why don't you choose the shortcut to buy an active warship directly from the Royal Navy?" Instead, choose the time-consuming and laborious way of building a ship from a dock? ”

I'd be stupid to buy your tattered second-hand goods. Su Du complained.

"Mr. Brooke, have you seen the battleship drawings I gave you?" Su Du showed a smile, he is very aware of the history of the development of future armaments, if possible, he naturally hopes to be able to get nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, ribbon Ji and other big killers, but the limitations of the times and technology, so that the battleship is the mainstream military force on the ocean in this era of this world, and there is no way to mass-produce the third generation of jet aircraft in this world, aircraft carriers and old aircraft can not challenge the absolute supremacy of Shenji. Since you can only choose battleships as the main force, then Sudu naturally wants the best, and the warships that are now in service with the British Royal Navy fleet are all old-fashioned ships in the 19th century, and Sudu prefers the most brilliant models of battleships to these old antiques, such as Sister Li, Sister Li, Sister Li, Sister Li, or something.

Out of some bad taste, the battleship drawings that Sudu provided to Britain and France were the most famous battleships in their country in the future, such as the George V class in Britain and Sister Li in France.

"This kind of battleship is one of the latest types of battleships designed by our side, with a standard displacement of 35,000 tons, a full load displacement of 43,000 tons, a length of 227.4 meters, a width of 31.4 meters, a draft of 8.4 meters, a main engine power of 112,000 horsepower, a maximum speed of 28 knots per hour, and the ship's armament is equipped with 10 356 mm caliber guns, 16 133 mm caliber guns, 40 40 mm caliber guns and 70 20 mm caliber guns. Presumably, this statistic is even more powerful than the most advanced warships in service in the Royal Navy! Sudo only said the relevant data of the George V class, but Bulkel already understood what he meant, if he could really have such a battleship, the other battleships of the Royal Navy could basically be decommissioned.

It's just that Bockle didn't believe that China could design such a powerful battleship, he preferred to believe that this thing was nothing more than a pile of scrap paper, but reason told Bouckle that this drawing was very likely to be true.

"This is a battleship designed by the team that created the IS armor, so don't worry about their rationality. Mr. Buckerer, Mr. Shi Allan, let's talk about how to work together first! Su Du didn't want to argue with the two about the authenticity of the design drawings, so he simply made up a team of non-existent things to fool Bao Kle and Shi Alan.

The two of them stared, and their hearts suddenly increased the importance of the warship drawings provided by Su Du.

"George V class, I need three; Richelieu, I want one. Su Du looked at the two and said lightly, he and Lin Youde planned to rebuild the Beiyang Fleet, and the most famous of the Beiyang Fleet was the "Eight Great Distances". Sudu and Lin Youde planned to rebuild Badayuan with three newly built George V-class, one Richelieu-class, two Bismarck-class, and two Montana-class battleships.

The next work will be negotiated by Chen Hao and other military attachés, the navy is not only capital ships, but also other destroyers, cruisers, and frigates, these warships are available in stock in various countries, and Su Du can use them to train his own navy after payment.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that the so-called Nanyang Fleet is actually the Beiyang Fleet, which was completely rebuilt in accordance with the Beiyang Naval Division that was destroyed in the First Sino-Japanese Naval War. Because in this time and space, the Beiyang Fleet did not abide by Li Hongzhang's order of "protecting the ship and controlling the enemy" and "avoiding the enemy and protecting the ship", bravely attacked and fought against the Japanese army, and finally the whole army died at sea, so the Beiyang Naval Division in this time and space did not bear the shame in another history, and all the Chinese regarded the Beiyang Naval Division as a national hero, and the destruction of the Beiyang Fleet was a tragic martyrdom.

Therefore, because of this announcement, the whole of China was jubilant, and as long as there was a trace of Chinese who still had a trace of blood, they rushed to tell each other. After the defeat of the Beiyang Naval Division by Japan, preparations for the construction of the more powerful Nanyang Fleet began, and the Chinese regarded the Nanyang Fleet as the successor of the Beiyang Fleet and regarded it as a hope of regaining China's maritime rights. All the Chinese were amazed, and the feeling of seeing the despair and then seeing the dawn of hope made them go crazy and shout the name of Sudu and Lin Youde. Compared with the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which embezzled naval military funds to repair the garden, Su Du and Lin Youde's practice undoubtedly completely bought the hearts of the people, and the hearts of the entire Chinese people gradually shifted to the east and south of China, and the imperial capital far away in the northeast, the Manchu Qing who stole the Shenzhou Dingqi, not many people still remember.

Naturally, the Japanese side lodged the strongest protests against Britain, France, the United States, and Germany, but unfortunately, this time these powers did not know whether they had taken the wrong medicine, completely ignored Japan's protests, and took a tough attitude to fulfill the agreements with the Nationalist Army and the Nanyang Army. According to the agreement, the eight main battleships, as well as the corresponding escort ships, were to be delivered over the next five years, until 1902, when the Germans completed the delivery of the last Bismarck-class battleship, and the deal was completed.

Su Du made Britain, France, the United States and Germany tempted, and even united to ignore Japan's conditions, naturally it was the design drawings of the strongest battleships from the main world, with these drawings, their scientific and technological progress on warships for more than twenty years. Sudo used these things to get the four countries to agree to the deal, and the Montana class that existed only on the blueprints was handed over to the United States, the Bismarck class to Germany, the Richelieu class to France, and the George V class to the United Kingdom.

The world of "The Republic of China" is a bit biased because the technology tree grows, and there is an extra fork of magic technology, so that the development of conventional technology is not as rapid as the main world, but magic technology can also do a lot of things that conventional technology in this era cannot do, so theoretically speaking, Britain, France, Germany, and the United States have the ability to understand and manufacture these four levels of battleships, and they can also modify them to the extent that they are based on magic technology. And this is also the reason why Su Du came up with four types of battleships, one is to satisfy his collecting habits, and the other is to see what the prototypes of the ship women such as Sister Li and Bismarck look like after the magic transformation. For these two reasons, Lin Youde said that he raised his hands and feet in favor. Well, it's two like-minded guys.

Su Du took out these drawings, not simply in response to Japan's beheading operation, but more importantly, he and Lin Youde sent a large number of students, engineers, and naval soldiers to Britain, France, the United States and Germany for corresponding training through this transaction, so as to reserve human resources for the development of the Chinese Navy in the future.