At the secret base in Kemarang

Li Fushou personally sat in charge, held several meetings one after another, instilled a full of chicken soup for the soul to the technical leaders and main scientific researchers of more than a dozen research institutes, commended the advanced, brought a big red flower to the technical personnel with outstanding contributions, rewarded the maid's mansion car, issued a certificate of technical personnel with outstanding contributions, and solemnly promised;

People are young and old, and the nation is inside and outside, and those who make significant scientific and technological contributions will be rewarded, and the title of nobility is not impossible to consider, as long as you have the ability to take it.

This tube of chicken blood is really screaming, which arouses the excitement of the crowd!

What does it mean to be a significant contributor to science and technology in the Ocean Empire?

There is a clear criterion, that is, the scientific and technological experts who can win the "Tesla Prize", or the experts who can win the "Curie Prize", which are two world-class scientific awards open to the world.

For their outstanding contributions to the field of nuclear physics, the Curies won the second "Tesla Physics Prize", which represents that they have reached the world's top level in the field of physics.

Einstein won the 3rd Tesla Prize in Physics, and he personally traveled to Australia to receive the prize, and was a visiting professor at Imperial University and Red Valley University for a year and a half, impressed by the beautiful city and hard-working students.

When Curie, head of the physics department of the Imperial University, died in 1905, the Royal Academy of Sciences proclaimed; The Curie Prize is set up to reward scholars who have made outstanding scientific and technological achievements in various fields.

This soothing gesture reinvigorated Marie Curie from grief, and she accepted the appointment of the Imperial University as the head of the physics department, devoting herself to the research and training of students in the frontier field of nuclear physics, and worked diligently to erase the sadness in her heart.

No word for gossip

After the inspection of Qimarang Town, Li Fushou and his entourage drove to the Lemarang base, which is the base of the Electronics Research Institute, and the main research and development projects are radio rangefinders, military and civilian radio stations of various powers, and an important civilian project is radio.

At the beginning of the 1900s, a man named Greenleaf Whittier Pickard made the world's first ore radio.

The birth of the ore radio heralded the beginning of an era, an era in which the radio became a consumer product into thousands of households, the ore radio was a simple radio receiver consisting of a long wire antenna, a tuner for selecting the signal frequency, and a geophone composed of a diode demodulator.

The most important feature of this radio is that it does not need any batteries or electricity to work, which gives it a great advantage in an era when electricity is not common.

The disadvantages of the ore radio are also obvious, that is, the signal is poor, the sound is blurry, the noise is loud and cannot be eliminated, and you can only listen to the noise and liveliness.

The development of the Lemarang base is not an ore radio, but an electronic radio using electronic vacuum tubes and batteries, after the development of electronic vacuum tubes simultaneously with Citigroup scientists, the Lemarang base preemptively registered a patent for invention, and on this basis, the development of electronic vacuum tube radio, has achieved great success.

It won't be long before this new electronic radio will quickly become widespread and become another unique export product of the Ocean Empire.

At present, the first "Voice of Australia" radio station in the empire has begun trial broadcast, ready to start the era of audio broadcasting.

After Li Fushou personally visited the Lemarang base to warm his words and encouragement to the relevant scientific and technological personnel, he quickly patted his ass and left, and rushed to the Emang and Semarang bases, where more scientific researchers were looking forward to it, waiting for His Majesty's visit.

The last stop of the inspection was the Ermarang base, which is a bay col not far from the Tau Porang base, with a small wharf and a cave base of considerable scale, which is the secret of the research and development of submarines, and is also a highly secret unit.

Over here

Li Fushou saw the 300-ton offshore submarine imported from France, the 450-ton submarine recently imported from the United Kingdom, and the 1,100-ton technical verification submarine designed and produced by the base itself.

It is not equipped with weapons in the verification boat, but only verifies the submarine's navigation ability, floating and diving, rudder efficiency, high-pressure drainage system, lock and raft pipelines, propulsion system, etc., which is only used for technical verification.

With the strength of the shipbuilding industry, the technicians have thoroughly understood the key points of submarine design and are preparing to start designing the first 1,500-ton submarine.

The reason why it is designed to be so large is because the sea area of the Ocean Empire is really vast, and the cruising mileage is often thousands of nautical miles, and it requires real ocean submarines to patrol the sea frontier, and the kind of small bean dices of three or five hundred tons are useless at all, they are just a bunch of port guards, what is the use?

In the long-term plan

The Ermarang Submarine Research Base will design and build ocean-going submarines of 2,000 tons and 3,000 tons to better meet the needs of the Royal Navy and become a loyal guardian of the Empire's maritime frontiers.

Li Fushou gave warm words of encouragement to the scientific and technological personnel as usual, instilled a chicken soup for the soul of "determined to defend the imperial maritime frontier and strive to be an unsung hero", personally commended the relevant scientific and technological personnel who have made outstanding contributions, and then patted his ass and left, not taking away a trace of clouds, leaving only a group of scientific and technological workers who were full of admiration and excitement in their hearts.

Two months later

March 17, 1906

Li Fushou has just completed a three-month tour, this time he has visited Australia, Borneo, Luzon and Shangri-La, and visited Adelaide, Pas, Balikpapan, Palangkaraya, Quezon and Cebu. Zhonghai, Longmen, Lumen, Tianquan, Moresby, Darwin and other important cities in the region, traveling 13,200 kilometers, went deep into the fields along the way, understood the main difficulties of the current real rural development, people's livelihood needs and voices, and provided a solid basis for the next decision-making.

As the monarch of a country, Li Fushou is not high above and does not eat the fireworks of the world.

He will conduct an inspection every 2~3 years, go around the field, listen to the report of the senior officials of the ruling party, and hand it over to the cabinet for handling after the collection, and then the secretariat will regularly return to give feedback.

Therefore, most of the imperial officials maintained a down-to-earth style, and the exaggerated style did not work, because the supervision mechanism was very perfect.

There are city councillors at the city level, state councillors at the state level, and parliamentarians at the national level, plus the supervision of the Ministry of the Interior, and the monitoring of the Independent Commission Against Corruption at any time.

After returning to Daming Palace, after resting for a few days, Li Fushou was in a very good mood.

Thanks to the improvement of the situation at home and abroad and the factors of the Russo-Japanese War, the economic situation of the empire in 1905 was very good, and all fields made great progress, and the economic aggregate further distanced itself after surpassing France, and caught up with the United States, Germany, and Britain all the way.

The next target to surpass should be the United Kingdom, right?

In this historical period

Britain lacks Australia and the Western Xiangzhou of Shangri-La Island in its economic map, and it also faces economic competition from the oceanic empire on the Chinese mainland, which is much weaker than before.

According to the current development momentum, it is possible to achieve surpassing in the next 8~10 years.

Under the wave of the second industrial revolution, the European and American powers have a strong momentum of development, with an average annual growth rate of more than 10 percent, and it is not uncommon for the economic scale to double in six or seven years.

When the great opportunity comes, it surpasses some, such as the second Anglo-Boer War in South Africa, 1904, and 1905 during the Russo-Japanese War, the economic growth rate is 4~5 percentage points higher than that of ordinary years, and the annual growth rate generally reaches more than 22%, ranking first in the world.

Every time he thinks of this, Li Fushou can't help but feel a little regretful.

With the world's fourth-largest economy, the economic growth of a Russo-Japanese war is already weaker than nothing.

If you really want to make a fortune, you have to wait until the vigorous First World War 8 years later, and Europe that has accumulated for hundreds of years is fat and oily, and you can eat a belly round belly that can be eaten in just one bite, and even have severe indigestion.

If you want to eat more when the time comes, then you have to exercise now.

Otherwise, when the staggering demand in Europe cannot be supplied, it will be a real happy annoyance.

Even with Citigroup's strong industrial power, it was only at full capacity to meet the basic needs of Europe, which shows how fat this vote is.

Daming Palace

East Pavilion, also known as the East Pole Palace

Under the leadership of the rotating secretary Li Xiaozu, the Minister of the Admiralty He Fang entered the palace to meet him, and after stepping into the palace, he respectfully saluted, and now His Majesty's majesty is getting heavier, even if it is Admiral He Fang, the founding father of the country, he does not dare to be too slow.

"Excuse me, give a seat, brother, why should you and I be courteous for decades?" , Li Fushou was in a good mood today, took a sip of the fragrant tea on the table, and then pointed his finger casually, meaning to let Admiral He Fang sit down and talk.

"Thank you." Admiral He Fang sat down, and said with his hands clenched into fists with a respectful expression; "The ministers are not abandoned, and they are simply pulled out in the grass, although there is a little bit of work, it all depends on ......"

Li Fushou didn't want to listen to these tricks, waved his hand, interrupted him and said; "Brother He, there is no need to say these words, is there anything wrong with this time?"

Admiral He Fang clenched his fists and said;

"Wechen again, although the war in the Far East has stopped, on the surface it seems that the Haiyan River is clear, in fact, Japan and Russia have been vigorously developing armaments, and they are enemies of each other, and it seems that they are going to fight again.

On the basis of the original more than 10 battleships, the number of battleships under construction and planned to be built in the dock has reached as high as 10, of which four cutting-edge battleships will be launched this year, and the rest will be completed in the next two years.

At that time, Citigroup will have a huge lineup of more than 21 battleships, and the situation in the eastern Pacific is facing changes, which makes Weichen restless.

The British Dreadnought-class battleships, which are under construction, have a distinctive all-heavy artillery scheme, with a displacement of 17,900 tons, a speed of 21 knots, and a full load displacement of more than 20,000 tons.

It was planned to equip 10 305-mm main guns, 24 76-mm secondary guns, 5 underwater torpedo launchers, 280 mm thick armor on the sides, turrets and conning towers, installed in five turrets.

From a professional point of view

Although the weapon performance of the "Dreadnought" class battleship on paper is not very powerful, relying on advanced design concepts, learning lessons from the Russo-Japanese naval war, and using advanced steam turbines as power, the average speed reaches a high level of 22 knots, and its combat effectiveness is more than 1 times stronger than that of the old battleship armored ship.

Britain's battleships have reached a high level of 56, and this year it is planned to build 6 more battleships, and Germany has also come up with a plan for "Nassau" class battleships, which will reach as many as 36 battleships. Citigroup launched the "South Carolina-class" battleship program in response, and the world's naval powers have been surging, and they have successively invested in this shipbuilding tide, and each has come up with a new shipbuilding plan.

Foreign naval powers are frequently moving, which makes us restless!

Your Majesty, the Royal Navy's shipbuilding plan can not be delayed any longer, and now the situation is changing every year, in the past, Wuxia Amon was already covered in the blink of an eye, armed to the teeth, we can't be indifferent! ”