444 Yangtze River level

In the semi-circular chamber of the House of Commons, a circle of chairs is mounted on a downward sloping floor, enclosing the front of the parliamentary rostrum like waves on the sea, so that even if you sit in the back, you can see the front clearly. 【 I want: super fast update 】

The seat was already crowded with people, Xiong Xiling glanced at the 549 colleagues around him, and his face couldn't help but flash a trace of excitement, starting from the Hua army entering the southeast, he became the mayor of Changsha because he advocated national unification and performed well in Changsha, and later joined the Grand National Party led by Li Enfu, in this year's reshuffle, he was elected as a representative of Hunan, for a member of the lower house.

Like him, many of his 549 colleagues did not understand what a parliament or a political party was at the time, but their enthusiasm did not diminish at all, and although they are now divided into two parties, they are very active in working together to advise the country.

China has adopted a constitutional monarchy similar to that of the United Kingdom, where the emperor is the country's top leader, with a prime minister and a bicameral system, which has achieved the purpose of mutual control.

At present, China has a total of 45 provinces and 10 municipalities directly under the central government, so there are a total of 550 seats in the lower house and 16 seats for observers, but it is not simply an average of provinces and cities, but according to the proportion of the population, similar to the ten provinces of Siberia that have not yet been inhabited, all of which have only 40 seats, and the members of the parliament are not locals.

Among the twenty observer seats, in addition to representatives of the Royal Family and the Prime Minister's Office, there are also representatives of the military and the judiciary outside the two houses and the Prime Minister's Office.

Of course, compared to countries such as Britain and the United States, these are still very rudimentary, and even this parliament is elected by both parties and governments, and the first real general election will not take place until five years later, but this is still a step forward.

Xiong Xiling glanced at several parliamentarians who were muttering in a whisper, they were representatives from Luzon, and several of them were famous local gentry in Luzon, such a method of involving other ethnic groups was a means to release ethnic antagonism, so that ethnic minorities could feel that at least the emperor and the government had not ignored them, and let them have a place to express their wishes.

However, the two bills proposed by the emperor and the prime minister's office to be reviewed today have made it a little tricky for these minority groups, especially the representatives of the Nanyang region, because one is the anti-secession law and the other is the national defense mobilization law.

Especially the former, once they vote to raise their hand, it means that they have legally identified with the country

It's still the emperor's cleverness

Disagree? If they agree, the newspapers will immediately publish the voting process, and the reality that they recognize themselves as members of China will be confirmed

Xiong Xiling guessed correctly, in fact, at this moment, far away in Dalian, Li Mo, who inspected the construction progress of the first generation of light patrols with McKinson, also attached great importance to whether these two bills could successfully pass the review of the House of Commons, the House of Lords and the House of Commons are different, the House of Lords is basically composed of nobles, and they are the vested interests of Hua, so as long as the House of Commons is passed, these two bills can be very effective. (Full text reading, all in. (.i. Want. Wen. Learning Network)

In the past five years, the parliament has passed a large number of bills, from medical care to education, from patent protection to monopoly crackdown, from criminal law to traffic law, all of which have been drafted, in order to refer to mature foreign laws as much as possible at the moment when the country is initially decided, and then slowly revise it according to the actual situation in the future.

This is very important, it is very important to give the country and the people a clear code of conduct, not to mention that there are a lot of restrictions in the rules and regulations, so that there will inevitably be constraints in doing things, but without these bills, then there will be a coherent chaos.

The anti-secession law, which is undoubtedly important, and the national defense mobilization law is also crucial, once passed, it indicates that the state has the right to conscript men between the ages of 18 and 25 to fight in an emergency, including ethnic minorities, this is an extremely large number, for a few years, the Minister of Health Lin Lianhui almost boiled his hair white, not only established a special university of Western medicine and traditional Chinese medicine, but also basically completed the construction of health facilities in major cities, so that the birth rate of China's population has increased significantly, This means that if the war were to start according to history ten years later, the Chinese Empire would have at least 20 million soldiers.

Not counting weapons and other factors, it is enough to flood the world

This is the real power of many

Emperor Li smacked his lips, but he didn't plan to play crowd tactics, advanced equipment is still the key to ensuring victory, such as the two Yangtze River-class light cruisers in front of him.

The Yangtze River class light cruiser is an important part of the 10-year naval plan.

The role of the Jinghai-class light cruiser in the Chinese Navy is obvious to all, as a very important in the navy, but also a multi-purpose first-class warship, Li Mo is very partial to it, but after all, the Jinghai-class began to be designed ten years ago, and the technical level at that time is not the same as now, plus the sea area is huge, so the navy proposed a plan to build a light cruiser two years ago.

After more than ten years of polishing, coupled with a series of exercises such as the Zhonghua Ship, the Jilin class and the Dalian class, the Navy Ship Design Department headed by McKinson has been able to grasp the context very well, and after learning about the needs of the Navy, after a year of design and experimentation, finally came up with the plan in front of it.

From Li Mo's point of view, the Yangtze River-class light cruiser is very similar to the famous British Southampton-class light cruiser, with a length of 180 meters, a width of 20 meters, and a draft of 65 meters, which is almost a copy of the Southampton-class.

The standard displacement of 9,550 tons, the large full load is 11,600 tons, which is about 2,000 tons larger than the Jinghai class.

Four triple L52/152 mm guns, four twin L47/130 mm naval guns, all of which are upgraded versions of the Jinghai class, are arranged in the same way, plus six single-mounted 76 mm naval guns, six twin 37 mm rapid-fire guns, and twelve twin Viper machine guns, two five-pack 550 mm spear torpedo launchers, two Hummingbird water reconnaissance aircraft, and 40 depth charges equipped for the first time.

It's like a big steel hedgehog with bared teeth.

Although it seems that the firepower of the naval guns has not increased, there is one extremely important point, that is, all the naval guns are equipped for the first time, and for the first time, the fleet has held up an anti-air defense umbrella.

These are just places that can be seen, in fact, in the places that can not be seen, the change is big, the key speed indicators, the Yangtze River class has also made a great breakthrough, although the eight three-cylinder oil-fired boilers are four less than the Jinghai class, but with four steam turbines, it can still reach a record 75,000 horsepower, so that the design index of the Yangtze River class broke through the dividing line of 30 knots of large warships for the first time, reaching 31 knots for the first time, and the endurance has also become 15 knots / 8,000 nautical miles.

Under the guiding ideology of Li Mo's small steps, the Yangtze River class also adopted two technologies for the first time, the first is this class of warship, completely abandoned the riveting technology, and adopted the full welding technology.

The surfacing method is not complicated, mainly the skill, as long as the middle of the steel plate to be welded is set aside five millimeters, and then the oblique lines on both sides cut out a slope for the welding rod to stretch into the middle of the five millimeters, after connecting, and then gradually install the vacant places on both sides layer by layer with material welding, because it is a layer of stacked welding, so it is called surfacing welding, and the quality of welding is also quite excellent.

Wait until the middle five millimeters are completely welded, which ensures that it is completely incompatible, and then the space cut out on both sides of the middle is surfacing with materials to ensure the strength of the weld.

In fact, at this time, European countries are looking for ways to apply welding technology to large warships, because rivets are too displacement, 10,000 tons of warships at least two or three hundred tons to be occupied by rivets, as the ship is getting bigger and bigger, the armor is getting thicker and thicker, which means that the number and weight of rivets are also increasing, and the space and weight are extremely tight, rivets have become the thorn in the eyes of experts from all over the world.

After this technology was applied to shipbuilding from welding, it took Germany ten years to explore and finally find out, and now it has been shamelessly pirated by Emperor Li.

In addition to welding, another item can be said to be top secret, because a large underwater microphone was installed for the first time in the Yangtze River class.

The Greyvertebral Shark-class submarine has proven its capabilities, and this is only the second generation, the third generation is already under development, and countries are now gradually paying attention to submarines, so the underwater threat is becoming more and more serious.

Li Mo really wanted to make sonar, but it was January 1906, although he had a Tesla, Einstein, and the world's leading electrical technology, but he had not yet reached the standard of being able to make sonar, so he could only accept a sonar.

The principle of the microphone is not complicated, anyone who has seen the earpiece worn on the ear in Western medicine knows it, but it is difficult to apply it to the warship, first of all, the warship itself has a strong noise, how to reduce the interference is enough headache, McKinson even used the shock absorber valve and other things that Li Mo made for the submarine to the Yangtze River class, and the Ministry of Science and Technology also organized public relations, and finally came up with a physical test half a year ago.

At this moment, the underwater microphones are like three super-large doctor's earpieces installed on the bow and both sides of the ship, they are tightly attached to the hull of the ship, and the surrounding area is soundproofed with rubber as a medium, although the specific effect remains to be verified, but during the test, the two listeners worked together to find out the results of a gray spine shark within a kilometer, so that Li Mo decided to use it.

Technology can only be technology in the laboratory, Li Mo knows this very well, without a listener, there can be no sonar behind, so this is a process, and it can only be perfected in use.

The Yangtze River-class light patrol is one of the key projects of the navy, but the cost is also huge, due to the use of a variety of technologies, the cost of each ship reached 7 million blue coins, about 1 million pounds, you must know that the Dalian class heavy patrol is only 1.5 million pounds.

Because there is no too urgent external threat for the time being, the country's 1 billion income should give priority to ensuring domestic construction, so it can only take out 1.5 billion military investment every year, of which the navy accounts for sixty percent, which seems to be a lot, but in fact, in addition to daily expenses, only two capital ships and two Yangtze River class light cruisers can be built every year, so the construction speed has been slowed down a lot, according to the plan, twelve Yangtze River class will be built in Dalian, Huludao and Ryukyu respectively, from January 1908 to deliver three ships a year, completed in four years.

On January 1, 1896, when Li Mo clapped his hands and came out of the belly of the Yangtze River-level light patrol with satisfaction, he finally got the good news that the two bills had been passed unanimously, which meant that he had entered a crucial ten-year period.