Beijing City, Admiralty, Shangshu Hall.

Today is the day of the arms conference again, although there is some news of relaxation from Europe, but the "deception" of the British cannot deceive the Zhuge military divisions who can pinch the Ming side.

And...... The main purpose of the Ming Dynasty in launching this world war, that is, to seize British Malaya, the Dutch East Indies, the Western South Luzon, the British Southern Continent, the British Oregon, and the division of the unified Greater India, only completed the capture of British Malaya, how could the war end?

Therefore, the research and development and production of armaments, that must not be relaxed!

However, this world war is obviously different from the two world wars in another timeline in terms of rhythm, much slower, and will talk while fighting, giving the opponent a possibility of "surrendering and losing half" or "negotiating and winning three percent".

After all, the distance between the two sides is too far away to send a large number of land forces over. Therefore, there is no possibility of completely conquering the opponent in one go. The main purpose of the war was to fight or defend overseas territories. From this point of view, there are more imperialist elements of this world war than the two world wars combined!

In addition, Britain and the Ming Dynasty both had two very important "small goals" to achieve in this war. That's the India and the United States problem.

Britain clearly wanted to use this war to turn both India and the United States into its reliable "sons". With the help of these two "son countries", the weakness of Britain's narrow mainland and too small population will be filled, even if Britain loses Australia and Malacca in this war, as long as the two "son countries" are done well, there will be a chance to take revenge in the future!

The Indian and American goals of the Ming Dynasty are, of course, the opposite of those of the British. For India, the goal of the Ming was to liberate ...... It is a complete liberation, and all countries in India must "solve all problems", and at least twenty or thirty "little Indias" must be liberated!

If this goal is not accomplished, and the Indian Empire, with a population of 200 million and millions of square kilometers of land, does not finally disintegrate, then in less than a hundred years, a big India with the entire South Asian subcontinent and a population of more than one billion people will pose a real threat to the Ming Dynasty......

For the United States, the means of the Ming Dynasty are, of course, the Americans' favorite "containment", "weakening", and "proxy war"! Moreover, Daming is also ready to let the old friends of the American people, "Lao Mo" and Japanese devils, teach them the truth of cherishing peace and staying away from war.

However, it is really not easy to teach Americans to love peace and stay away from war. In particular, this generation of Americans coincided with the good era of their country's "abuse" and rapid expansion on the North American continent, and the degree of belligerence may be far greater than that of the American empire in the 21st century, which has dominated the world in another timeline. Just look at the current President of the United States, Andrew. Jackson's resume, I know it's not easy to deal with.

Born in 1767, the founding ancestor of the American Democratic Party participated in the American Revolutionary War at the age of 13, and after the war, he studied law, became a lawyer, and entered politics, all the way to the federal congress, Senate and state superior court judges in Tennessee, and became a militia commander in Tennessee since 1801.

And from 1813 onwards, Andrew. Jackson led the Union army into battle, first leading the Creek War, which violently attacked the native Creeks and seized 92,000 square kilometers of land. In 1815, he led his troops to fight the Battle of New Orleans, defeated the British army, and saved New Orleans, which was bought back from Napoleon at a low price. After fighting the Second Anglo-American War, Andrew . Jackson turned his head to print the natives again, led his troops to start the Seminole War, and took the opportunity to forcibly occupy Spanish Florida, which he led his troops to defeat! After conquering Florida, he also served as the first governor of Florida and returned to politics.

By 1828, the prodigal of the Democratic Party, who had won nearly 250,000 square kilometers for the United States and killed an unknown number of Indians (there were no Indians in the land he had seized anyway), was elected the 11th president of the United States.

In the original timeline, there were two things he did most successfully during his presidency. The first is to forcibly relocate a large number of Native Americans living in the eastern and central United States to the western United States and leave them to fend for themselves; The second is to fan the independence of Texas from Mexico...... Although the United States did not immediately annex Texas out of the "slavery and abolition dispute", it was already a sure thing.

And Andrew. Jackson was able to do so many things to open up territory and exterminate and expel the Indians, and he couldn't do it alone, and it would take more than 120 million Americans with guns to follow him so that the United States of America could swell to its size like baking powder.

If no one can stop them, the United States will continue to expand in the coming decades until it becomes a complete body that "embraces two oceans."

At that point, the United States will be the true chosen nation!

Therefore, for the Ming Dynasty, the two small goals of "liberating" India and teaching the United States to love peace must also be accomplished!

Therefore, at today's armaments meeting, Zhuge Weidao, who was going to Pearl Harbor in a few days to take up his post, came up with a copy of the "Texas Haizi Armaments" that he and his staff had carefully prepared -- the so-called Texas Haizi was actually the Caribbean detachment of the Pacific Fleet of the Ming Navy, so the Ming Dynasty was responsible for armaments and funds, and Japan only had to deal with the devils.

But how to equip this "self-defense fleet" made Zhuge Weidao and others think a lot.

First of all, the strength of the "Texas Sea Self" should not be too strong, not because it is not because it is worried that the tail will not be too big, but because the industrial base on the Mexican side is too poor to maintain too many and too good warships.

Secondly, Zhuge Weidao also did not want the "Texas Haizi" to beat the United States with three blows and a swollen face. Because then there will be no "American threat theory", and without the American threat theory, Mexico and Gran Colombia will have no "anti-American demand". What the Grand Canal, what anti-American package, all of them don't need it.

In the end, because the time was too tight, there was no time to build a new one, so we could only take the old ships that the Ming Navy eliminated to the second line were refurbished and rebuilt.

"Aircraft-carrying frigates...... This was changed with the Liaodong class, which was originally a training aircraft carrier, and being put into combat was actually an emergency. Now the four Shu Zhong kings have been put into service. The lead ship of the Taiwan-class aircraft carrier, also developed on the basis of the South Island-class hull and equipped with a straight-through and angled deck, has also been trialed at sea. Therefore, HNA can keep one Liaodong to train pilots, and the other two ships can be changed to aircraft-carrying frigates and renamed as Akagi and Kaga respectively. ”

In the Shangshu Hall of the Admiralty, Zhuge Weidao was holding a baton and pointing to the two "frigate models" placed on the long conference table, introducing the situation of the "special ship for the sea" to the naval armament commissioners attending the meeting.

Zhuge Weidao continued: "These two frigates are only the first batch of frigates to join the Texas Haizi, and there will be 4 frigates of the same style to join the Texas Haizi, and they will be named Canglong, Feilong, Ruihe, and Xianghe...... A total of six frigates, forming the main force of the Texas Sea!

And in cooperation with these six frigates, it is an armored torpedo destroyer converted from our Guogong-class armored cruiser...... The 210 mm main gun will be retained, and the ear stands will be converted into torpedo pads, fitted with three packs of 450 mm steam gas torpedoes. Such firepower is enough to protect aircraft-carrying frigates from enemy light ships.

We hope that 6 aircraft-carrying frigates can be equipped with 2 armored torpedo destroyers each, thus forming a fleet size of 6 plus 12. Not big, not too small, just right. ”