In addition to the above two major industrial categories, the most headache is the development of the machine tool industry, in this field, Australia needs to catch up from a blank start.

The royal family fund with strong capital has begun to look for appropriate merger and acquisition targets, and is ready to adopt a merger to obtain a higher starting point and cultivate the development of the domestic machine tool industry.

But it is still very difficult to achieve such a goal.

European and American countries with advanced industrial technology are willing to sell machine tools, but they are not willing to sell key enterprises that produce machine tools, everyone knows that this is a hen that can lay golden eggs, and the stupid thing of killing chickens and eggs can not be done.

Compared with the machinery industry, large enterprises that can produce industrial machine tools and high-level boring machines, milling machines, punching machines, and grinding machines are cutting-edge science and technology in their respective countries, and are the key objects of protection.

Even if the production and operation are not good, they will look for buyers in the country.

Summing up the achievements of social development, industry and urban construction in the past 24 years, it is gratifying to see the great progress, but at the same time, there are many deficiencies, which need to be improved one by one in the future.

Daming Palace, Qinzheng Palace

Li Fushou closed the thick statistical case file, and a smile of satisfaction appeared on his face, after 24 years of hard development, the country is now strong, the people's life is thriving, and they are on the track of correct development.

This is inseparable from the hard work of tens of thousands of administrative personnel across the country, from grass-roots tax personnel to police officers to middle- and upper-level officials, to establish a complete set of clean and efficient administrative system, clear responsibilities and powers, with a supervision mechanism formulated by the government, clean government departments, and judicial departments to jointly maintain the health of this administrative system, and accept citizen supervision and parliamentary constraints.

Now it seems

Every year, the clean government departments investigate and deal with hundreds of cases of corruption and dereliction of duty, violations of discipline and law, and more than 100 cases of serious cases are handed over to the judicial departments.

Zhang Li, the chief of the royal secretariat, walked into the hall with the old Earl Xin Changjun, Li Fushou stood up when he heard the sound, and saw that Count Xin Changjun wanted to pay a big salute, so he hurriedly stepped forward two steps to support him, and said with a smile; "Brother Changjun, you and I don't need to be so polite."

"Thank you, Your Majesty, Long."

"Come, sit down and talk."

The monarch and the minister sat down and exchanged a few words.

Xin Changjun said with a somewhat heavy face; "Your Majesty, I visited Brother Mozhou's sickbed, the situation is not optimistic, he had malaria during his time in Africa, and he was fundamentally injured, I am afraid that his life will not be long!"

"It's not a holiday, what can I do?" Li Fushou was also embarrassed when he heard this.

Wu Mozhou was one of the first high-ranking officials to follow him, and he has worked hard for more than 20 years to make significant contributions to the development of the royal family Songjiang and the development of Mozambique in Africa.

It's a pity that although there are royal doctors to treat him, he can't recover from his serious illness, and he sees that his days are running out.

"Aftermath, does Mo Zhou have any wishes?"

"Back to Your Majesty, the main thing is to inherit the title, Mozhou is intended to be inherited by the eldest son Wu Chengen, the fief is all owned by the eldest son, the second son Wu Chengde, and the third son Wu Chenghuan each get a part of the property, and the distribution is already clear, we old guys preside, and the children of his family can't make trouble."

"Well, that's very good."

For this kind of family matter, Li Fushou is not good at putting too much beak, just divide it if you like, anyway, it is absolutely impossible to have a bowl of water, and contradictions are absolutely indispensable.

After chatting for a while, the topic was that Prime Minister Fan Zhongzhai visited Britain, France, Germany, Austria and other countries, and Tsarist Russia sent an invitation for a formal state visit.

"Let's go for a trip, anyway, St. Petersburg is not far away, Nicholas II and I have always had an old friendship, and it is reasonable for Zhongzhai to go to maintain the friendship between the two countries."

"Your Majesty, the British may not be too happy, they have always been wary of us getting closer to Tsarist Russia."

"Leave them alone, although our foreign policy is based on the close alliance of Great Britain, it does not mean that we have to listen to London's nonsense in everything, and it is also in the country's interest to develop friendly and good-neighborly relations with all countries in the world. We have no direct conflict of interest with Tsarist Russia, and we can be completely detached. ”

"Your Majesty." Xin Changjun nodded very approvingly, and then said with an angry face; "In the House of Nobles, there is always a handful of people jumping up and down, saying that the empire should have its own independent foreign policy, not to follow the British and smell the chickens, I think this old bastard is purely afraid that the world will not be chaotic."

"Huh...... If you listen to it, you will know it, and if you listen to it, you will believe it, and he also has the right to express his opinion! ”

"Your Majesty, you don't know, this old bastard used his status as the leader of the military group to give the green light to a military plan to carry out submarine equipment, planning to introduce submarine technology from France and Germany and other countries to equip the naval fleet.

"Oh, and what's going on?" Li Fushou asked with interest.

"Why not!" Xin Changjun saw His Majesty's concerned eyes, and suddenly became energetic, so he said a lot.

The implication is nothing more than that Britain, the naval hegemon in the world today, has never attached importance to submarines, and undoubtedly vigorously develops submarines, for the ocean-going navy of a great power; The big ship and the big cannon are the king, and the submarine is the small road.

It is precisely on the basis of this concept that the Admiralty is deeply resentful of this military law, and they would rather build a few more destroyers than such small reptiles hiding in the sea.

Yes, it's a little reptile.

This is the general view of the world's naval powers on submarines today, that is, small reptiles that do not enter the stream.

Xin Changjun is now the leader of the dove faction in the House of Lords, and as the head of the Foreign Affairs, Appropriations, and Fiscal Policy Group, he has the power to convene a parliament to answer relevant issues, and the prime minister and relevant ministers must go to the upper house of parliament to answer questions on relevant issues, which is very powerful.

Count Conrad Adenauer is the hawkish leader of the House of Lords, the head of the military and industrial development policy group, and a powerful figure.

Count Conrad Adenauer had the right to intervene in all plans and bills concerning the development of armaments of the army and navy, and without his nod, it would be difficult for proposals for important naval equipment to pass the vote of the House of Lords, let alone the financial appropriations.

The premise of all this is that ~ Your Majesty did not make a clear statement.

Xin Changjun and Conrad Adenauer, the two old guys, fought happily in the noble house, with compromise and cooperation, which can be regarded as exerting their residual heat.

Li Fushou did not say anything about his complaint, but he was thinking in his heart that Admiral Geng Guigui was already 54 years old, and Admiral He Fang was one year older than him, and that this year's government change should allow Admiral Geng Guigui to resign from the post of Minister of the Navy and go to the House of Nobles to exert his residual heat, and Admiral He Fang should take up the post of Minister of the Admiralty.

The reason for such consideration is not that Admiral Geng Guigui is a resolute supporter of big ships and huge artillery, but that he refuses to accept the new changes in military science and technology at sea, stubbornly sticks to the old ways, and is no longer able to adapt himself to the development of the navy in the new century.

Early 20th century

New technologies have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, and their impact on society and the military is revolutionary, subversive and huge.

As the Minister of the Admiralty, you must have a forward-looking vision, you must have the courage to try new technologies, and you can't despise submarine technology because it is a small bug now, what impact will that have on the Imperial Admiralty?

The upward and downward effects will naturally form a bad atmosphere of contempt for new technologies.

Pinch your fingers and count

If you don't count the wooden-shelled "Nautilus" human-powered submarine during Citigroup's Civil War, the real mechanical power submarine technology exploration has a history of nearly 40 years.

In April 1863, France successfully built the submarine "Diver" with a displacement of 420 tons, which was the world's first submarine powered entirely by mechanical power and the largest submarine at that time.

It is able to dive 12 meters, imitating the shape design of dolphins, the shape is very beautiful, using compressed air power, it can sail underwater for 3 hours, and the underwater speed is 2.4 knots, which is also the beginning of the French Navy submarines, and got the number of "Q00", after which the submarines of the French Navy are numbered and sorted by Q+ numbers.

Subsequently, in 1888, France built the Q1 "Electric Eel" submarine with a displacement of 33 tons, which was not only the first all-electric submarine, but also the first submarine to be equipped with torpedoes, armed with two 355-mm torpedoes.

same period

In 1886, the British built the submarine "Nautilus", powered by batteries and with an underwater speed of 6 knots.

During this period, although the French Navy was constantly building submarines, it was still in the stage of exploration, and successively built Q2, Q3, and Q4, and the displacement of submarines continued to expand, and technology and experience were also accumulating.

By 1900, the French Navy was building the Q5 "Mermaid" class submarine, and the technology was relatively mature, which attracted the attention of the navies of all countries in the world, including the Ocean Imperial Navy, so there was a proposal to introduce relevant technology and develop experimental submarines

The French Mermaid class is planned to build 4 ships, with a displacement of 213 tons, a power system of three expansion reciprocating steam engines and 2 electric motors, a surface speed of 9.75 knots, an underwater speed of 5.8 knots, a maximum endurance of 930 nautical miles (about 1722 kilometers), equipped with 4 450 mm torpedoes, and limited offshore combat capabilities.

In the eyes of the Admiralty, which advocates the concept of large ships and huge guns, these submarines of tens of tons and hundreds of tons are not just small insects?

The Ocean Imperial Navy is deeply influenced by the British Navy, and in the Royal Brisbane Naval College that is now being built, only British instructors account for more than 1/3, and more than 7 percent of the instructors have received formal education from the British Navy, and the rest are instructors with experience in naval academies in the United States, Germany, France and other countries, which have a distinctive British Navy imprint.

Let these naval officers who advocate chivalry and pride get into submarines and secretly hide in the sea to ambush enemy ships, this huge gap is really better than killing them.

In order to truly develop the combat effectiveness of the submarine force, it is also necessary to establish a special submarine specialty and train specialized personnel.

Of course, it's too early to say that.

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