After the review, Li Fushou reviewed the report on the "ocean-going general-purpose destroyer plan" submitted by the Admiralty; Yes, it will be implemented according to the planned allocation.

The first phase of this class of ships is planned to be built 12 ships with a construction period of three and a half years, which will be built in various shipyards in Australia and will be put into service by the end of 1905.

The second phase of the improved plan, depending on the actual use of this batch of ocean-going general-purpose destroyers, will be adjusted and improved in local details, appropriately enlarge the displacement, and start construction before 1906, the number is also 12, and the possibility of additional orders for 6 ~ 12 ships will be retained.

At this point, the scale of the Royal Navy's future fleet began to take shape.

Taking into account the fact that the current era is in a period of intense change, due to changes in the international situation, it is possible to have a significant impact on the future development of the fleet, such an unknowable factor will not be taken into account for the time being.

The Royal Navy had suffered such a big loss, and at the beginning, the Metropolis-class battleships were planned to be equipped with 343 mm large-caliber main ship guns produced by the British Armstrong Company, and the alternative was the twin 44-caliber 305 mm main guns initially developed by the Azure Arms Company.

Who knows, the process of introduction was rather not smooth.

In 1896, the Ocean Empire secretly supported the development of Vietnam in the Indochina Peninsula, which made Britain and France and other countries suspicious of it, and the process of technology introduction was full of twists and turns, and finally the soup was lost, and the shipbuilding plan was delayed for more than a year.

Therefore, it is very unreliable to develop to the size of the country today, and it is very unreliable to ask for key equipment.

On the imperial side, the R&D of armaments has gradually formed a system of entrusted R&D projects, in which the army and navy put forward project needs, and powerful private companies participate in the bidding, both at home and abroad, and domestic enterprises are preferentially selected for support.

The new steam turbine project used in the Metropolis-class battleship is an advanced steam turbine jointly bid by Hongshan Heavy Industries and Acastel Power Company of the United Kingdom, and is manufactured by British technology in Hongshan Heavy Industries.

With the strong support of the tax reduction policy, the domestic machine tool industry has developed vigorously and vigorously, and the momentum is getting better and better.

In foreign trade

The most dazzling performance is the Kalimantan Petrochemical City project, which has greatly replaced imports in the oil and petrochemical fields, saving the empire hundreds of millions of dollars worth of foreign exchange every year, and virtually further expanding the trade surplus.

The inflow of a large amount of wealth has led to a boom in the country's economic development.

It's May 1901

The war in the north has stopped, because Tsarist Russia sent 200,000 troops to occupy the three northeastern provinces, and created the Hailan Pao tragedy, which caused strong dissatisfaction in Britain, the United States, Japan, Germany and other countries, and exerted pressure one after another.

In the face of strong opposition from other powers, Tsarist Russia was forced to agree to withdraw its troops from the northeast, but in reality, the Russian army legalized the occupation of the three northeastern provinces in the name of protecting the railway.

At the same time, Tsarist Russia actively fostered pro-Russian forces in Korea in an effort to replace Fuso's position in Korea.

Tsarist Russia's aggressive expansion in the Northeast and Korea sharpened the contradictions between the two.

In the eyes of the Fuso people, the Fuso government and the opposition have already regarded Russia as the biggest imaginary enemy, and the "intervention of the three countries to return Liao" is tantamount to a great humiliation inflicted by the great powers; under the slogan of "lying on the salary and tasting the guts," Fuso has carried out a "post-war operation" centered on the expansion of armaments, and is preparing to launch a decisive war against Russia to realize its "mainland policy."

After years of development and meticulous military preparations, the economic strength of Fuso was significantly improved, and the naval and army armaments expanded rapidly, and it became a military power in the Far East, laying a material foundation for the war against Russia.

On January 30, 1902, the Anglo-Japanese alliance was formally signed for a period of 10 years.

On March 12, 1902, Russia and France issued a proclamation in St. Petersburg, declaring that they reserved freedom of action in the event of future changes in the Far East or China in order to protect their interests.

Two years later

The contradictions between Japan and Russia in the three northeastern provinces were irreconcilable, and Tsarist Russia was forced by the continuous rebellion and resistance of the people at the bottom of the country, and urgently needed a war to divert the attention of the domestic people and win a respite for the aristocratic ruling class.

With the continuous extension of the Trans-Siberian Railway, the top management of Fuso realized; "Every day, or even an hour, of delay increases Russia's chances of victory."

Therefore, in the course of the negotiations between Japan and Russia, the Japanese side raised its asking price, first demanding that Russia recognize its "protection" of Korea, then demanding entry into "South Manchuria", and finally demanding rights in "North Manchuria" and other areas.

Although the tsarist government played diplomatic tricks and deliberately delayed the negotiations in order to gain time, the high-ranking people of Fuso were very decisive and determined to take advantage of the favorable international situation at that time and the Achilles heel of Russia's lack of preparation to start war as soon as possible.

On February 6, 1904, Fuso announced the formal severance of diplomatic relations with Russia.

On the night of February 8, war was undeclared, which led to the Russo-Japanese War, which was unprecedented in modern history......

Time flies, from May 1901 to the present, three years have passed in a blink of an eye.

Due to its early development, Ocean Empire has become the world's most powerful car producer and consumer, with more than 120,000 local cars in Australia, known as the "country on wheels".

BMW Automobile Company in early 1903 took the lead in the production of automobile assembly lines, that year the automobile production more than tripled, from a monthly output of 1.5 tons of BMW trucks 147 to 1,200, the efficiency has been amazingly improved, and the conditions to implement the first large-scale price reduction, the use of price weapons, harvest the market share of competitors, the scale of the enterprise balloon-like rapid expansion.

At a time when Japan and Russia are fighting a sea of corpses, BMW's innovative automobile production line technology has shocked both home and abroad, triggered a revolution in production efficiency, and promoted the domestic economy to achieve a relay take-off in the air.

For large enterprises in the automotive field, BMW's innovative production line process is not only a revolution in production efficiency, but also an existential crisis for the enterprise.

They clearly saw that the freight cars produced by major automobile companies were defeated by BMW Cargo Cars, and BMW Cars stood alone and quickly occupied a large number of domestic and foreign markets.

If BMW switches from the freight field to the production of cars and expands its product line, then the real crisis will come.

The "catfish effect" prompted major automobile manufacturers to quickly follow up, and have formulated their own characteristics of automobile production line technology, following the trend of this efficiency revolution, the development of the big house.

The consequence was a tidal wave of automobile production, followed by rounds of price cuts, which quickly conquered the auto markets in Europe and the United States.

The New York Times' lamenting coverage of this;

We regret to hear the news of the acquisition of the Alzmobile Motor Company, which was founded in 1887 and whose 1903 brand of single-cylinder engine cars was the first to be mass-produced by the company, which was inundated with the tide of imported cars from Australia.

In terms of car styling, performance, and price, imported cars from Australia are widely loved and have undoubted strong competitiveness, as if they are not products of the times.

Poor Citigroup's auto industry has just pulled out its tender seedlings and is trampled under the boots by overseas barbarians.

This is already the first Citigroup car brand to be acquired?

By the way, Ford Motor Company was bought last year, oh...... It was just a small workshop with an annual output of dozens of cars, and there was nothing to be sorry about.

Volkswagen pocketed him for just $176,000 and sold it under the Ford brand in North America, and is now the leading sedan brand.

Australian auto products in the United Kingdom and the United States, which pursue a free economy, and other countries, and merge with the head car companies, in order to eliminate potential competitors and nip them in the bud.

This set of strategies has been seriously hindered in France, Germany and Italy and other countries, compared with the free trade policy pursued by Britain and the United States, France, Germany and Italy and other countries have many tariff barriers, and the protection of their growing machinery enterprises is great, and it is difficult to pocket.

Even so, it has had a serious impact on the automotive markets of the above-mentioned European countries.

It is expected that in 1904, with the implementation of new technology in the automobile assembly line, the production efficiency will be greatly improved, and the number of cars produced in Australia will more than double on the basis of the previous year, reaching an annual output of nearly 90,000 vehicles.

In response to this major scientific and technological innovation, the Ministry of Economic Affairs and the Ministry of Industry jointly issued a document to guide the domestic industries to widely promote the production line through policies, which is a golden period for the machinery and equipment industry.

Mr. Friedrich Schmidt, Chairman of the BMW Automobile Factory, was highly recognized by the royal family for his revolutionary innovation, and His Majesty personally awarded him the title of Baron Noble (Life Noble), "Outstanding Entrepreneur of the Empire", a crown car, a 30-acre estate, and a bonus of 10,000 gold for encouragement.

The role of role models is unlimited, and under the call of the government and the encouragement of policies, all walks of life in the empire carried out "industrial assembly line transformation", which affected the manufacturing industry, food processing industry and other related industries, and implemented a vigorous industrial revolution.

These changes in Australia have not been transmitted to European and American countries for the first time.

For the proud powers of all countries, "the eye is above the top" is the most vivid metaphor, and it will not change without suffering a big loss and hitting the southern wall.

The decaying, backward and weak Manchu Qing State deepened this stereotype even more for them, and unintentionally looked down on the Chinese by a point.

When Japan and Russia were fighting for life and death in the three northeastern provinces, the Ocean Empire seized the opportunity of development and ushered in another golden age of economic development.

The Second Boer War, which lasted more than three years, devastated Britain, spending more than £240 million on direct war funding alone, which is more than in previous history.

The reason for this

It was the rampant smuggling on Mozambique's southern border, the constant blood transfusion for the Boer guerrillas, that left Britain and the Ocean Kingdom exhausted, and London's losses were so real that they were simply annoyed.

In this regard, the Ocean Kingdom also sacrificed a butcher's knife and severely cracked down on border smuggling gangs.

There were more than 370 criminals hanged alone, and more than 2,100 people were put into the hard labor camps, there were whites, there were also Chinese, of course, most of them were Chinese who took risks to get rich, and the empire was not soft on this, and put a brake on this unhealthy trend through thunderous means.

Unfortunately, it was too late, and it did not make much difference at the end of the war, and the benefits really fell into the hands of the Mozambican side, and many bold Chinese made a fortune through smuggling and became rich overnight.

In the final analysis, the Boers were not short of gold or diamonds, and in the difficult times of the war, in order to buy supplies to continue the war, it was really a blow to the bottom of the family.

Tell me, can you not get rich?