Chapter 191: Go back to your parents' home, travel the world, sell battleships, and pit Yingyi! (Ask for a subscription, ask for a monthly pass)
Hearing Zheng Guoxian mention "by the way", Zhuge Weidao couldn't help laughing.
It's really a drop-by...... It's not easy for Natalie to go back to Rakshasa's mother's house, and she has to go to many places along the way!
The first stop is of course Japan, then the Hawaiian Islands, then Mexico, then Peru, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, the Brazilian Empire, Gran Colombia, then the Caribbean, then to the Atlantic side of the Mexican Empire, and of course to Texas under Mexican rule! So Zheng Guoxian's proposal to take a few boats to Texas along the way is not wrong, it is indeed a stop!
After leaving Texas, Zhuge Weidao had to take his fleet on a free voyage along the long coastline of the United States! In the course of freedom of navigation, it is necessary to visit New York Harbor to show the friendly attitude of the Ming Empire towards the United States of America......
After coming out of New York Harbor, Zhuge Weidao was about to take the fleet across the Atlantic to Europe for free sailing! Because the Ottoman Empire had closed off the Turkic Straits, Zhuge Weidao's fleet could not enter the Rakshasa Kingdom through the Black Sea. Therefore, he had to go to the North Sea and the Baltic Sea through the English Channel...... Then visit France, England, the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Sweden, Prussia, and then enter the territory of the Rakshasa Empire, follow the coastline of the three Baltic countries into the Gulf of Finland, and finally dock at the Admiralty Pier in St. Petersburg.
After ending his visit to Rakshasa to "return to his mother's home", Zhuge Weidao had to leave the Baltic Sea with his fleet and re-enter the Atlantic Ocean through the North Sea and the English Channel. This time, however, I will not go to the Americas, but will go to the Mediterranean Sea and visit Portugal, Spain, the French port of Marseille, the Kingdom of Sardinia, the Papal States, the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, the Austrian Empire, Greece, ...... If it still exists! This was followed by Egypt under Ali Pasha, and then left the Mediterranean Sea and entered the Indian Ocean via the Suyinz Canal.
There's no reason not to visit the South Asian power, the impressive Indian Empire, in the Indian Ocean, – and now is India's highlight! All the assets of the British Empire in the Indian Ocean, including the Malay Peninsula, were transferred to the Indian Empire. India has become one of the four great powers in the world that can compete with the Ming Dynasty, the Great Britain and the Rakshasas!
After visiting India, Zhuge Weidao will take his fleet through the Strait of Malacca into the South Seas...... There are the Ming and the British, no, the front line of the confrontation with India! It is also the defense area of the powerful Ming Nanyang Fleet. So after entering Nanyang, Zhuge Weidao is considered home.
And going to Rakshasa actually traveled around the world "by the way", of course, not for public travel, but for a few very important things to do.
First, of course, to help solve Hawaii's small problems...... The power of the Ming Empire actually infiltrated the Hawaiian Kingdom very early, but the Ming Dynasty has been a "civilized country" since Queen Wuzhong, and it will not roll up its sleeves and do it brutally.
Therefore, what the Ming did in the Kingdom of Hawaii was to invest in infrastructure, build education, develop industries, and encourage immigrants (half of them were Korean immigrants), and did not directly send troops to overturn the Kingdom of Hawaii, nor did they declare that the Kingdom of Hawaii was a colony of the Ming Dynasty.
According to the meaning of the Ming court, the Ming had to help the Hawaiian Kingdom meet the criteria for becoming a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, and then the Kingdom of Hawaii could make a request before the Ming Dynasty could agree to accept it as a vassal state.
However, this kind of civilized people's play has encountered the British Empire and Japan, the two barbarians who stirred up the situation, and these two countries have given Hawaii a "forced entry", each occupying several islands in Hawaii and saying that they found it, and they also beat a rake to oppose the Ming invasion of Hawaii.
However, now with the Ming Dynasty completely subduing Japan, the Hawaii problem will naturally be solved, and the Japanese troops stationed in Hawaii have become the Ming people, and the British will naturally not be able to play. Therefore, Zhuge Weidao will take a hand to send a Hawaiian Kingdom supervisor over this time, and then "please" the small British fleet stationed in Hawaii to leave.
Second, it is to promote the latest types of battleships, armored cruisers, cruisers, destroyers, gunboats, and airships of the Ming Dynasty...... Well, no matter whether it is a big country or a small country, whether there is a sea or not, there is always a suitable one. And the price is good, the package will be educated, the delivery is fast, and the children are not bullied!
Among them, the battleship that Zhuge Weidao wants to sell is, of course, the Hongwu type. The Admiralty of the Ming Dynasty also gave it a very nice name - Hero! Quite a hero? Let's get a few heroes!
If you are shy in your pocket and can't afford to buy a hero, then you can also get two of the latest 10,000-ton armored cruisers! This kind of armored cruiser is not a large light cruiser as planned, the latter will use a high-power oil-fired boiler plus a steam turbine, and it cannot be built yet, and it will not be cheap, so it is not suitable as a foreign trade ship. Therefore, the shipbuilding engineers of the Ming Dynasty made a reduced version of the hero ship, named the Haohan class...... If you can't afford heroes, let's have a few heroes!
The standard displacement of the Haohan class is the same as that of the planned Daqing Cruiser, which is also 12,000 tons, and uses the same power system as the Hero class, which is a coal-fired boiler to push a three-expansion reciprocating steam engine, and the main engine power is 22,000 horsepower. Because the hull is 6,500 tons lighter, the maximum speed can reach 23 knots.
It is armed with 2 240 mm main guns, 12 155 mm secondary guns, 16 50 mm high-level dual-purpose guns, 24 13 mm anti-aircraft guns, and 2 450 mm torpedo tubes.
The thickness of the armor was also decent, the armor belt 50 - 150 mm, the deck 25 - 75 mm, the turret 150 mm, the conning tower 300 mm, the bulkhead 125 mm.
And the purpose of Daming's invention of these two "heroic ships", in addition to making money, is of course to pit Yingyi...... It's to use industrial strength to pit Yingyi!
If you don't use steam turbines and oil-fired boilers (kerosene mixed boilers), the "heroes" are basically the top battleships and armored cruisers of this era. That's the highest level that Great Britain, the world's second most industrialized country, has been able to achieve in the past two years...... The standard displacement of warships with briquette furnaces and steam engines has almost reached the top when the standard displacement reaches 20,000 tons, which is the standard of hero ships. If you want to run faster, you have to reduce the weight of protection and firepower, and that is the Haohan-class armored cruiser.
And this kind of top-of-the-line battleship and patrol should have been a heavy weapon of a great country and a treasure to protect the country.
As a result, Daming had a big sale...... Doesn't this mean that a few stinky countries will be able to catch up with the British Empire in terms of the level of equipment of their navies?
Can this Royal Navy not be in a hurry to get on fire? Can you not do it quickly?
Wait for the technology of steam turbines and oil-fired boilers (kerosene mixed boilers) to mature before exploding warships? Can you afford to wait? If the Ming Dynasty sells the "heroes", I am afraid that it will not be able to wait for the technological breakthrough of British marine steam turbines and oil-fired boilers (kerosene mixed boilers), and the English Channel will be full of French, Prussian, and Rakshasa "heroes".
How can the British lord and monarchy fight with others?
So the British have to bite the bullet and follow up! Otherwise, without waiting for their breakthrough in oil-fired boiler (kerosene mixed boiler) technology, the British Empire would have been destroyed by Louis XVII...... Hehe, landing in England and avenging France's deep hatred for hundreds of years, this is going to be done, Louis XVII will be directly promoted to Louis the Great, and there will be no need to worry about any Bonapartists, republicans, or Orleans in this life.
However, Daming does not have to build "heroes" ships quickly, but can first use the expanded production capacity for foreign trade ships, and build a few fewer "heroes" by himself, mainly relying on "old, broken, and small" to take the lead for a while. When the steam turbine and oil-fired boiler are completely done, the 30,000-ton battleship, the 30,000-ton battlecruiser and the 20,000-ton aircraft carrier will be directly destroyed...... Isn't this a wyvern riding face? It's a sure win!
As soon as he thought of this winning game, Zhuge Weidao couldn't help but feel proud, because ...... This bureau was figured out by him and Zhuge Weiyi and Zhuge Weiyong.
"Okay!" Zhuge Weidao smiled, "Next fall, let's go to Mexico together!" But...... The fleet is running fast, can your ships keep up?"
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