10 Downing Street, United Kingdom.

Britain is ....... again and again It's a change of prime minister!

However, the prime minister who was replaced this time did not remove the prime minister's throne, but stood up and left by himself. However, the reason for his resignation had nothing to do with the aggressive Ming Dynasty, and the reason for his resignation was the "Catholic liberation issue" in Britain...... It's a matter of not giving Catholics and Protestants equality!

This matter is actually a problem in the "tall, big, and upper" British Isles! More than ten years after the emperor swept across the continent and sent the idea of freedom and equality all the way to the Rakshasa country, British Catholics would still be discriminated against in law! The three prime ministers who advocated giving Catholics more equal status (Jenkinson, George. Canning and Robinson), both had to back down because the opposition was too loud. The Robinson Cabinet, which was largely unstable, simply resigned because of the split within the Tory Party caused by this issue...... He was succeeded as prime minister by the Duke of Wellington, who returned from the Indian Empire with his predecessor, Emperor Akbar II.

Although the duke did not dare to send troops to Peshawar to fight against the king of the peace of the West, Wu Fax, he helped Prince William to legitimately usurp the throne, and of course the meritorious man had to do it for a big official.

Therefore, King George IV of England made a rare comeback, suggesting that the dragons were leaderless and refused to hand over power to the Tories MPs of the rival Whigs, and the Duke of Wellington, who supported the partisan but at the same time had great prestige, to become the prime minister and clean up the mess.

And the Duke of Wellington, who sat on the prime minister's throne as he wished, encountered a new accident unsurprisingly.

And this unexpected event is that the Ming Empire is selling the world's best battleships and armored cruisers!

"This, this, is this the best battleship and armored cruiser in the world?" The Duke of Wellington frowned as he looked at the report sent by the Lord of the Admiralty, the First Sea Secretary, and the Permanent Secretary of the Admiralty.

"Unfortunately, they are the best!"

"By far the best ......"

"Especially heroic...... The ship did not use any cutting-edge technology, except for the radio station that was only available in the high-end version, had no steam turbines, no oil-fired or co-fired boilers, and did not adopt a piggyback turret layout. However, this battleship has taken its mature technology to the extreme, and it has also shown super quality control and integration capabilities. According to the secret reports of the envoys of France, Prussia, the Netherlands, Austria and other countries who boarded the ship, the workmanship of this battleship was excellent, and it was as fine as a work of art. The hull is smooth and simple, and it is very beautiful.

The noise emitted by the main engine when sailing is not too loud and it is very calm. The black smoke coming out of the chimney was not too big. It ran at top speed at over 22 knots, two knots faster than the expected top speed, which also shows that the Hero's boiler and steam engine are all excellent!

The battleship Hero also had a layout of 6 main gun turrets...... Four main gun turrets were arranged on the left and right sides of the battleship, and the whole ship had six twin 280 mm 45x diameter guns...... The firepower is great! ”

The old man, the Earl of Nelson, had a greedy look on his face as he spoke, and he asked Wellington to approvey some money to buy two for fun.

"Earl, with the current strength of the Royal Navy, can we defeat it?" The Duke of Wellington asked with a frown.

"It's hard, it's very hard, it's very, very hard!" Earl Nelson shook his head again and again, with a serious face, "Earl, this is not who is bluffing, but the most real strength of the Ming Navy and shipbuilding industry!" ”

"Can't we build such a ship?" The Duke of Wellington asked rhetorically.

"Of course we can make it....... But not now, not three months from now, not even two years from now, but at least three years from now! ”

"How long does it take?" The Duke of Wellington frowned.

"Yes," said Earl Nelson, "we haven't even begun to design yet!" Although we can improve on the basis of the Sovereign class, a battleship with a standard displacement of nearly 20,000 tons will take a year to design, even if it does not adopt too many new technologies. It also takes almost two years from laying the keel to completing the outfitting of the first ship. So at the earliest, we will have to wait until three years before we can get a large number of 20,000-ton monarch reclassifications available. At that time, Da Ming is afraid that ......"

"But Da Ming is now selling this kind of heroic ...... everywhere," the Duke of Wellington frowned, "what does this mean?" Do they have such a large capacity to meet both domestic and international demand? ”

"Mr. Prime Minister," said George. Yilu took over the British Prime Minister's question, "There is a practice in the development of naval ships in the Ming Dynasty, which is said to have been practiced since the time of King Zhuge Wuzhong. That is, the service generation, the development generation, the pre-research generation, and the exploration generation...... This is done on a rolling basis from generation to generation. ”

This righteous law turned out to be an expert on the Ming problem of the British Navy! The Ming Dynasty's armament development line is extremely well studied.

George. Yoshiro continued: "Now that they have put the Hero class into production, it means that the battleship that is a generation ahead of the Hero class has already begun to be developed, and it is likely that they have made quite good progress, and may be about to be put into production."

In addition, the first generation of battleships of the Ming Navy cannot have only one project, but will advance several projects at the same time...... Some projects are more radical, others are more conservative. They will also have several projects compete against each other to choose the best of them. ”

"Heroism is the best of the best?" The Duke of Wellington asked.

"Probably not, this heroic class obviously adopts a conservative design idea, which is to guarantee the radical line. The reason why Daming is now exporting a large number of heroes to the outside world means that the development of better battleships than the heroes has been completed or is about to be completed!

It is possible that it was and the Heroic generation, but took an aggressive course of battleships...... It could also be a battleship that is a generation ahead of the Hero. But no matter what, it is impossible for the Ming Navy to be equipped with a large number of hero-level and hero-level. This is also the practice of the Ming Dynasty, the capital ship type for its own use is not exported before it is outdated, and the ship type exported is rarely used for its own use. ”

The Duke of Wellington looked at Earl Nelson again, and the Earl just sighed, and then nodded—his old man looked at the battleship he coveted, but Da Ming didn't look at it.

"That'...... And what is the purpose of their massive export of heroes? The Duke of Wellington asked.

Viscount Palmerston, Minister of the Admiralty, said: "Prime Minister, I think they are handing knives in France and Rakshasa countries...... Especially when handing knives to the Rakshasas, we want to encourage the Rakshasas to march into Constantinople and change from Eastern Rome to Eastern Rome! ”

Wellington frowned: "But haven't we already agreed to attack the Turkish Empire together?" The marriage of Princess Victoria and Archduke Alexander was also agreed. ”

"But we're still not ready to attack together!" "And the English arms and the French Bonapartist are still entering Constantinople...... It is believed that the tsar will not be ignorant. ”

Britain will not agree to the Rakshasa taking Constantinople unless it is absolutely necessary. And the continued implementation of the British policy of procrastination would of course make the Tsar impatient. And Nicholas I was not a fool either, he, of course, could see the mind of the British. And the reason why he did not go it alone was, of course, because he was afraid of the British Navy.

"Really......" the Duke of Wellington pressed his forehead, he now also somewhat understood Jenkinson and George. Why did Canning fall and why did Robinson resign. The Prime Minister of the British Empire is really not easy to be!

Just when Wellington was wondering whether to learn from Robinson to "resign first for respect", Viscount Palmerston suddenly changed his words and said with a smile: "Prime Minister, I think the Ming Empire's practice of selling battleships and armored cruisers is actually completely wrong, they have made a serious mistake!" ”

"Wrong? What's wrong? ”

Time Window...... They gave us a window of time to beat them! ”