In the beautiful port of Ningbo, five destroyers slowly approached the dock, and the damaged appearance and stained hull did not make people feel embarrassed, but made those young sailors who entered the port and changed into military uniforms and still stood upright on the deck with a kind of admirable and enviable toughness. (Full text reading, all in. (.i. Want. Wen. Learning Network)

When the Wei Qing was the first to dock, Li Zhen, the emperor who had been waiting for a long time, immediately stepped forward and helped the boatmen fix the cables.

Some people may say that this is contrived, but in the eyes of those shipwrights and naval officers hired by the military, it represents the high honor of His Majesty the Emperor for his own soldiers, just like in ancient times, when the generals returned from the victorious expeditions, the emperor himself led the horse to show his glory.

This is an era of the navy, and no one can deny this, not that the army and air force are not good, but the navy's natural platform advantage, showing sovereignty, patrolling the sea frontier, and can also follow warships to any coastal country in the world.

After Li Mo took the lead in proposing the military concept of fighting a decisive battle abroad and resolving crises and wars outside the country a few years ago, the navy was a big beneficiary, because this military combat concept made the navy pursue the purpose of long endurance and the presence and reach of the whole sea area when designing every kind of warship, even when building frigates for the Royal National Coast Guard.

However, the Air Force and the Army are not idle, and under the strategic thinking of fighting a decisive battle outside the country, the Air Force has already begun to develop two large twin-engine and four-engine aircraft.

The army has a congenital inferiority, but that does not mean that it does not have an advantage, and its four armored divisions and mechanized infantry divisions, which were formed in full accordance with the standards known to Li Mo in later generations, could not be compared with later generations in terms of firepower and mobility, but from the beginning of their formation, they put forward the concept of embodying the concept of speedy operations.

In addition to these eight core divisions, the War Department also set up special operations units such as mountain divisions and speed infantry divisions for the first time, and a large number of trucks and jeeps began to equip troops one after another, making the concept of speed more and more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

There is no doubt that the five young captains who are stepping off the deck are the products of the first batch of the speed era, and they combined the concept of speed and decisive battle abroad, "taking advantage of the superiority of equipment, with a weak force, rushed 3,000 nautical miles, and launched a short but classic strait assault battle."

The impact of this small battle is incomparably profound, and China's unique attainments in ship power have been made public, and in addition to increasing intelligence spying, various countries are also developing ship power one after another.

Germany put the main direction of attack on diesel engines, and Fisher, as a fighter of the British navy, came up with a plan for 1,500 stewed destroyers in just one month after receiving information that the speed of China's five small warships was not lower than that of Zhaojie.

In order to increase the speed, he resolutely chose to force the steam turbine design when the design was not perfect, and installed six units in the narrow ship, and finally came up with a 30-knot high-speed ... class destroyers, and in one fell swoop placed an order for fifty ships to major shipyards.

However, this news did not make Li Mo feel too worried, compared with the Weiqing class, which has reached a single 33,000 horsepower, the British only has 4,300 horsepower, and too many boilers and steam turbines, so that the endurance of the class is only 12 knots and 1,500 nautical miles, and the average trouble-free interval is 170 to 15 hours.

At present, the fifth generation of Hua Li Mo pirated the superheater in later generations with the increase of the superheater, whether it is thermal efficiency, power output and reaction speed, are far more than the small water tube boiler of this era, with the continuous improvement of technology, Hua has even been infinitely close to the metamorphosis supercritical boiler technology. ※※※※※ I ※ I ※ ※

The republic of later generations has suffered enough of the engine, so after Li Mo returned to this era, he focused on solving the core power technology and research, and now the power test room of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China has gathered no less than 5,000 experts of all kinds, including boilers, steam turbines, internal combustion engines, aero engines and even rocket engines, and what makes him happy is that more than seventy percent of them have been trained by themselves over the years.

Compared with foreign countries, these people are not very strong in terms of open thinking and technology", but they have a high starting point, and they usually hear and see the core high-end technology, so the progress is still great.

Since 1893, Li Mo has been on the ship power for nearly 20 years, and has brought the golden finger to today, "ten years of which have been spent on polishing skilled workers, and now it is finally the season to enjoy the results."

As the gangway was lowered, the first thing that caught my eye was the cold coffin with the golden dragon flag on a red background and carried on the shoulders of the soldiers.

Li Mo paid special attention to this detail, compared with the military cemeteries that lacked management in later generations and were repeatedly forcibly demolished by local governments, and even those who were still erecting monuments for the invading enemy and making jokes about history, he not only planned a small special cemetery, but also treated it completely beyond the specifications, even if it was a small soldier who died and had the right to be buried in it.

At the same time, he also forcibly stipulated that the navy, army, and air force would never allow the bodies of their comrades to be left behind unless they had to, and strict regulations were also made in military regulations.

Soldiers, no matter when and where, are the backbone of the country, and no matter whether they sacrifice or survive until the next moment, they will fight bloodily for the country and the nation.

Such a person, no matter what age it is, must be respected and worthy of being looked up to.

The banging guard of honor and gunfire is to see off these young sailors, and at the same time, the long whistle is to bless them, the dead have gone to be able to give them, in addition to the generous pension, we must also tell the generations that everything they have today is bought with the lives and blood of these young faces!

Solemnly bid farewell to their comrades-in-arms, watching them be buried on a specially carved hillside lawn in Ningbo Port, the beautiful environment made the comrades-in-arms and relatives who came to bid them farewell relieved.

The personal greeting of the fleet commander and the emperor, and the high-standard burial ceremony, allowed the young naval officers and men, who were nicknamed the Guards, to receive a psychological baptism, and what they did not expect was that after the meritorious soldiers arrived in Beijing on a special train, His Majesty the Emperor also personally received them in his busy schedule, and hung military merit medals representing honor on their chests.

If it weren't for the fact that these young people still needed to exercise, Li Mo wouldn't even be able to get a matching reward, because they not only opened the door to Persia for the country, but also allowed Hua to control thirteen percent of the world's oil reserves in one fell swoop!

The five captains, including Li Xiuyan, were all awarded the rank of colonel "according to the regulations of the Chinese army", which means that they can already lead the battleship.

However, although they fought a wonderful battle, the main reason was that the British were not well prepared, and the equipment also had certain advantages, the main thing was that compared with the captains with old qualifications in the navy, they were more passionate but less steady, so the Admiralty considered and sent them back to the Dalian Naval Academy first, and took the opportunity of the warship to be repaired to continue their studies for half a year. Then he was sent to various capital ships for a period of internship.

After solving this important matter, Li Mo finally had the opportunity to calm down and watch the already hot arms race in Europe.

The farce in the Balkans intensified like history"Before the Gunton Peace Conference reached an agreement, the Ottoman al-Shabaab staged a coup d'état at the instigation of Germany, and Enver, who had cooperated with the Chinese army in North Africa, led about 40 radical members to storm the council hall with guns, and beat the Ottoman military minister Nazim Pasha on the spot, forcing the resignation of the Kamil Pasha government and restoring the power of the al-Shabaabs.

Li Mo did not like this radical party, and when it was in the interests of the country and the future distribution of power in the Persian Gulf, he still promoted military aid of 300 million blue coins.

In order to solve the transportation problem, "Li Mo once thought of providing 10,000 trucks to Kuwait, but then the total number of troops would exceed the standard, which would inevitably lead to a conflict with Britain.

With the arrival of ocean-going freighters in Kuwait, "the role of these small ships began to be played, and since all the locals were employed, the British had no choice but to watch as a large number of military supplies continued to flow along the Euphrates River towards the Ottoman interior."

As far as Germany is concerned, Britain's unexpected loan to China is unexpected" and the Baghdad railway has once again been disappointed in vain, so that they have completely calmed down from their anxiety.

Calm Germany is extremely terrifying, and this country, which currently has a strong comprehensive technological capability in the world and also has the world's second largest equipment manufacturing capacity, has changed from constant clamor to full preparation.

At the same time that the last four ships of the Bavarian class were immediately put on the slipway, Germany also clearly realized that "in the event of a war, he would not receive any outside assistance, so he took this opportunity to start an all-out strategic reserve."

The key to this is oil and food!

On the day that the "Gulf Agreement" was signed, the German envoy quietly boarded a train bound for the Urals and "arrived in Beijing along the Trans-Siberian Railway, and on the day of his arrival, he held closed-door discussions with Tang Shaoyi, Chen Ping, and Li Enfu, a special adviser to the imperial family."

This extremely bold move "made all three men realize that Germany could no longer wait, so they had to reach Beijing as fast as possible, even through enemy territory."

The news brought by Germany is clear, buy at least 10 million tons of grain and 5 million barrels of crude oil!

Grain is not a big problem, although China's statistical methods are different from those of foreign countries, and miscellaneous grains such as sweet potatoes and barley are also included in grain production, but with the reclamation of a large amount of land in the South Sea and the north, people. After dilution, the pressure on the Central Plains production areas was reduced, and then the tractors and various agricultural tools were used on a large scale, and chemical fertilizers began to be popularized, and after meeting the domestic grain demand and national reserves, 10 million tons of grain could still be taken out.

Crude oil is a problem.

At present, there are four oil companies controlled and directly owned by the emperor, Thomas's Texas Oil Company has become a major supplier of crude oil in Europe and the United States, and Media Asia Oil Company's main business is in Australia and the South Seas, but because of the resource purchase strategy of Saudi Arabia and other parts of Persia, its reserves are abundant, accounting for 30% of the world's reserves, but it has not been exploited.

The Royal Persian Gulf Oil Company has taken this opportunity to not only occupy 13 percent of the world's reserves, but also to be the largest producer at present, surpassing Baku in scale, with a daily output of up to 10,000 tons of crude oil, or about 70,000 barrels. (Seven barrels equals about one ton)

The small is the newly established domestic northern oil company, which mainly relies on the oil resources of the northwest and Siberia, but because Li Mo attaches great importance to the protection of domestic strategic resources, its scale is not large, and it was established mainly to alleviate the trouble of transportation difficulties in the north.

China is not short of oil, is currently the world's largest exporter of oil resources, but the problem is that the country has become the second largest consumer of crude oil on a par with the United States, the country has a total of all kinds of cars, tractors more than 300 hundred, coupled with the army's large fuel consumption, the annual oil consumption has been as high as 10 million barrels.

This is not counting the wartime, after the United States entered the war in the late World War I, Britain, France, and the United States consumed an unthinkable 12,000 barrels of oil per day in the Western Front offensive.

And that's just the Army and Air Force!

Take a Beijing-class battleship as an example, it takes nearly 28,000 barrels to drink it at one time, and all the current and ongoing warships of the Navy combined, it will take 3 million barrels at one time!

The General Staff Department once made a deduction that due to the increasing fuel consumption in the Chinese army, even according to the calculation of the wartime economy, the minimum daily demand for China is 100,000 barrels of crude oil, and if the war lasts for four to five years, it will be nearly another barrel of consumption!

Excluding Thomas, China currently produces more than 35 million barrels of oil a year, of which 30 million barrels need to be transported overseas.

According to the plan, by 1916, China must have at least 300 million barrels of crude oil reserves, although the reserves have been in Honolulu since the time they moved in, but the world's crude oil production at that time was not high, so far only 150 million barrels, which will need to increase at least 30 million barrels a year from now on.

To this end, the emperor has begun to transport oil from the Gulf of Mexico to the country through Thomas.

From an economic point of view, this is a big business, and at present, except for the Northern Petroleum Company, which is slightly more expensive because of its geographical price, the rest of the four major oil companies are three yuan per barrel including transportation costs, and six yuan for external sales.

But now that both the Entente and the Allies have begun to reserve oil, especially after Britain adopted oil-fired boilers, oil consumption has increased greatly, so they have just received a loan to buy 10 million barrels, and now they have to transfer another 5 million barrels from the already tight reserve plan to Germany, which will be a major decision, so none of the three dare to make up their minds, so they have to turn to Li Mo for help.

On February 3, 1913, on the eve of the Chinese Chinese New Year's Eve, Li Mo made the decision to sell 10 million tons of grain and 5 million barrels of oil to Germany, and used reserves for the first time in order to speed up delivery.

At the same time, Zhang Zuoshuang had also returned to Beijing with the third protection agreement signed with the local chiefs in Greater Kuwait.

When the sound of firecrackers sounded from every corner of the land of China, and when the Balkan Peninsula peace talks broke down and the smoke rose again, Li Mo realized that the countdown was about to begin!

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