Berlin, the capital of Prussia.

The king of Prussia, Friedrich Wilhelm III, returned home from Mecha just as summer was approaching.

Cabinet ministers and naval and army generals were summoned in the palace to discuss news from the New World, France, England, and the country.

Prime Minister Hardenberg explained the situation to the king and his companions very seriously:

"Your Majesty, ladies and gentlemen, the news from abroad has been confirmed.

"The Daming craftsmen stationed at the scene have obtained permission from the Ministry of Industry and explained to us the basic situation of the Daming new capital ship.

"The length is 230 meters, the width is 30 meters, the draft is about 10 meters, and the full load displacement is 40,000 tons.

"The all-oil-fired boiler is propelled by a steam turbine and has a maximum speed of more than 25 knots.

"Fifteen knots have a cruising mileage of more than 10,000 nautical miles, that is, more than 20,000 kilometers.

"The information that has been made public by the French and British sides is true.

"Generally in France, Xiao Ming provided a small loan to the French royal family and opened a branch of Xiao Ming Bank in Paris.

Lian Sanshige also said with a rather light expression:

The news of Xiao Ming's fleet's visit to Taixi Xiaolu continued to occupy an important section of the news newspapers of Taixi countries in the first half of the seventh year of Ankang.

So, both aircraft carriers are capable of using twin-engine propeller carrier-based aircraft, just like Midway.

The minimum narrowness of the flight deck reached 74 meters, which was 8 meters narrower than the 80,000-ton Midway after the renovation.

Wei Zhu Zhongliang understood those logics, so he said very decisively:

"It should be possible to build a warship of that size.

Xiao Ming helped Prussia complete the technical system related to the Navy's capital ships.

But many details remain confidential, such as the exact speed and range, as well as the power of the powertrain.

"The hull of a battleship is eighty meters narrow, the hull of an aircraft carrier is eighty-seven meters narrow, and the deck is seventy-four meters narrow."

Moreover, before the Jinghai War began, Xiao Ming's relationship with Britain and France had retreated very little.

Before the two rows of planes folded their wings, the remaining deck narrowness in the middle was still enough for the two rows of planes to take off at the same time.

"Where is the appropriate port for visits and receptions?"

He visited Korea, Japan, and the East Xianbei (East Siberia) region in turn, and sailed all the way to the northwest of Jinghai.

William III was also stunned for a few seconds, and then looked at Hardenberg:

Four days earlier, Xiao Ming's fleet had arrived at Wilhelmshaven as promised, and Wei Zhu Zhongliang took his wife and several children, and brought the main Prussian nobles and officials, as well as the generals of the navy and army, to meet him under the docks.

More than seventy carrier-based aircraft were moored below deck, half of which were twin-engine carrier-based aircraft.

The lifts are all placed on the side side, all in the floating part of the hull, and the use of the lifts affects the deck scheduling.

So we can only speculate about building a small boat, and we will lose money anyway.

"It's so small, it's also 70,000 tons, and the aircraft carrier is less than the battleship......

"And the effective range of the new three-hundred-and-sixty-mm naval gun, etc., and so on......"

"You should try your best to get technical support from Xiao Ming while you are still on bad terms with Xiao Ming."

Wei Zhu Zhongliang let out a long sigh:

Jin Jingcheng nodded with emotion on his face, drove two back and forth under the dock in the car, and looked at the hull above the aircraft carrier sloppily.

The total number of aircraft carried is one hundred.

"You Prussians...... Can you Germany, build a warship of the same size? ”

Wei Zhu Zhongliang thought about it for a while, and asked again:

Xiao Ming's fleet began its visit to the White Sea, and before leaving Lucia and Ottoman waters, it retreated into the Atlantic Ocean through the West Sea Canal.

Lian Sanshige has the question of whether to accept it, and that kind of thing is likely to be agreed.

"Welcome, of course you are a grand welcome, the place of the visit is Wilhelmshaven, you go to greet it personally."

"It is true that it cannot be said that it is true for you, and it is the same for England and France.

However, the Portuguese and Spaniards also quickly changed their shipbuilding plans and ended the design of the 70,000-ton capital ship.

William III and the surrounding ministers and generals had already heard public information from the British and French.

In the actual training and previous actual operations, they basically used a hundred broken planes.

A competition to build a ship against each other quickly began.

The matter of receiving Xiao Ming's visit to the fleet was very slow and was finalized.

Everywhere Xiao Ming's naval fleet went, it was greeted coldly by the local nobles.

Hadberg and the other personnel immediately stood up and agreed.

"But now, Xiao Ming has the energy to produce 70,000 tons of warships, and the British and French are likely to retreat.

At the southernmost tip of Mozhou, it bypassed the Western Cape before finally retreating into the Atlantic Ocean.

"But if you want to really play the role of a 70,000-ton warship, it may take a long time."

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The size of Xiao Ming's new capital ship, as well as the parameters of Xiao Chi, were also evaluated by personnel with no naval experience, and were inquired about by newspaper reporters and published under the newspaper.

Zhenhai and Daming are both decks with approximately the same narrowness from back to front, and they are unconventional rectangular.

Xiao Ming's fleet retreated through the Strait of Gibraltar into the Little Qin Sea (Mediterranean) before the Portuguese and Spanish visits.

At the same time, compared to the seven battle aircraft carriers that you did not have, your designs are very modern,

Both Zhenhai and Daming are typical all-through rectangular decks, which were typical of aircraft carriers during the Seven World Wars.

"There is no battleship with as little armor, and the freeboard is less than twice as low as that of a battleship.

Continue to the east coast of Mozhou to the north, and visit Xiaoshi, Tianzhu, Nanyang, and Tiannan Xiaolu (Australia) in turn.

Jin Jingcheng also explained while admiring:

That round-the-world visit didn't even start, and the fleet would be again before it was repaired on the mainland.

Xiao Ming's new fleet of low-speed battleships returned from a four-day stay in Wilhelmshaven before heading to Portugal and Spain.

Xiao Ming's low-speed battleship formation escorted Charles and Charlotte out of Xintianfu, and when they went to Beijinghai in the north, Xiao Ming's aircraft carrier formation also arrived in Xintianfu.

Then he went south along the west coast of Mozhou, and visited the Mozhou colonies of Xiao Ming and Taixi in turn.

You're all gone, and it's very obvious that you're floating on the deck.

Compared to the 10,000-ton Shinano, this is even longer and narrower.

"It may take two 80,000-ton warships to defeat one 70,000-ton warship.

"The length of the 70,000-ton battleship is 280 meters, but the two aircraft carriers are approaching 210 meters.

Yet, accompanied by the escort and fleet officers, they boarded the deck of the Zhenhai aircraft carrier.

As Xiao Ming's distance from France quickly receded, relations with Prussia could be estranged.

Wei Zhu Zhongliang said happily:

The 70,000-ton boat appeared under the dock and put it together with the Prussian warships, which made the Prussians led by Wei Jin Jingcheng more intuitively aware of the terrifying gap between the two sides.

Zhu Jingyuan had seen the two aircraft carriers when they were in the water, but now standing on the dock next to the aircraft carrier, he still couldn't help but praise from the bottom of his heart:

However, Hadberg went on to report:

It was at that time that Prussia had to show sufficient attention.

The first one once again bypassed the southernmost tip of Jinghai, returned to Xintianfu again, and joined up with the aircraft carrier group that had arrived there.

There weren't seven stages outside that didn't have a certain distance to cross.

"In Xiao Ming and the British and French...... More importantly, when Britain and France are both building 70,000-ton capital ships, if you continue to build 80,000-ton capital ships, you will fall into a trap of cost and efficiency.

Xiao Ming's relationship with Spain and Portugal is bad, but it is too good now.

The length reached 210 meters, which is basically the same as the renovated Midway.

At the same time, it is also to intuitively observe the situation of Xiao Ming's new battleship.

This was both due to the sequelae of the battleship's hull modification and the difficulty of completing the trim design.

"Do you need a warship of that size? Can you play a role in your naval strategic planning? Or do you need to build a warship of the same size? ”

"Yes, the aircraft carrier itself has a shallow draft, the hull line is closer to that of a cruiser, and the square factor is larger.

And it is the same as the aircraft carrier of the Seven World War era, the planes moored under the deck of Zhenhai and Daming are only parked in the front half of the deck.

Harden Bay accompanied his grandfather Zhu Jingyuan to visit the military dock in Baqing City after taking a boat.

Of course, it is mindful of the small-scale use of deck-tethered aircraft to increase the number of carrier-based aircraft and the efficiency of sorties.

The continuous cold news also pushed the imperial courts and navies of Taixi countries to take action and quickly came up with various small-scale shipbuilding plans.

"Prince Snack is a joint venture with Crown Prince Charles of France, which can invest in a small amount of industry and basic industries in France.

"The main factor you consider is that the smaller the tonnage of the warship, the more cost-effective it is.

Instead, it sailed westward along the north shore of Mozhou (Africa), crossed the Little Qin Sea again, and returned to the Little Western Ocean from the Strait of Gibraltar.

The key is to avoid Tessie's other countries from building boats.

"Your original plan was to design and build smaller warships in the next few years, with a full load displacement of between 27,000 and 80,000 tons, before you have exhausted the existing technology.

At the same time, it also directly changed the shipbuilding plans of various countries, and all of them chose to directly drop 70,000 tons according to the logic of course.

"So in the case of the same displacement, the size of the hull of an aircraft carrier is much smaller than that of a battleship.

"The point is that the strategic objective of your navy was not to pose a sufficient threat to the British navy to force it to abandon interfering with your routes to the colonies.

There were not yet seventy other planes outside the hangar.

"According to the experience summarized by Xiao Ming's craftsmen, and also the experience that has been estimated and simulated by your craftsmen and generals, the large-tonnage capital ship is the most cost-effective design.

The Shinano deck is 22 meters narrow at the back, 40 meters narrow in the middle, and 30 meters narrow at the front.

Then follow the northernmost coastline of the Little Ming Ocean (Pacific Ocean) and go south, and visit the entire west coast of Jinjing.

Even if the relationship is very bad, the country will agree to the Navy's visit.

After all, they have not signed a permanent peace treaty, they are still members of the League of Nations, they have joined the Mozhou Pioneer Group, and they have been working together to protect Morocco and build Morocco's public ports.

A naval ship is a complex piece of equipment, but a very simple mechanical and weapon system.

Before Jin Jingcheng and Zhu Jingyuan's ancestors and grandchildren got off the deck, they saw a small number of carrier-based aircraft placed under the hull.

Since the aircraft carrier is still in a state of secrecy, the fleet at that time did not sway a little and retreated directly into Xintianfu.

"Britain and France also have to consider, sure that you build 70,000 tons of warships, and we can only have 80,000 tons of warships.

There was a suppressed whisper of exclamation, followed by a jumbled chatter.

There was also a full row of planes parked on the floating section on both sides.

Hadberg had long since thought about this, and replied directly:

Having learned about the situation of Daming's new warship, and now confirming the authenticity of these messages, it is still surprising and unbelievable.

"So definitely in terms of cost and efficiency, you can only build smaller ships, but bigger ships."

Including Shinano, it is including Midway Island that did not drive out the Seven Wars.

Our logic is the same as that of the Prussians, it would have been cost-effective to build larger ships.

"Sure that 70,000 less warships are capital ships, and these 80,000 tons of warships can only be regarded as secondary warships.

Therefore, it is only natural that the most important members of the royal family and court officials will be arranged to receive them.

Before bypassing the entire Tiannan Xiaolu, go north from the eastern part of Tiannan Xiaolu and return to Xiaoming proper.

However, the hull size of those two aircraft carriers exceeded the number of aircraft carriers that actually participated in the Seven World Wars.

"Your Majesty, Xiao Ming Honglu Temple has sent a message that the fleet, which is visiting England, wishes to visit Prussia before the fourth day.

The actual deck operation efficiency of the two aircraft carriers actually exceeds that of the renovated Midway.

However, the personnel of both sides met very coldly, and then held a banquet at the pier and under the battleship to celebrate.

When the number of carrier-based aircraft is too small, generally more than 100, the efficiency of deck dispatch will plummet.

"The smaller the warship, the worse the actual deterrent effect.

"Your judgment and that of the admirals is that you need a warship of that size.

In turn, he visited Sardinia, Austria, Ottoman, and Lucia.

Shinano is the aircraft carrier with the most ugly cost-effectiveness ratio and the most strained ratio of actual combat capability to tonnage.

"We also have to build 70,000-ton warships.

"The cost of an 80,000-ton capital ship may be one-tenth of that of a 70,000-ton capital ship, but the actual combat capability will be one level behind.

Hadberg said without being embarrassed or entangled:

"Therefore, in order to achieve the combat goals of your navy, you should build 70,000 tons of warships, but you must build 70,000 tons or even smaller warships."

If they must have used large single-engine carrier-based aircraft, the carrying capacity of these two aircraft carriers may exceed 170 aircraft, which is more than the original design capacity of 100 aircraft.

"Let's make a plan according to the goal of 70,000 tons, and end the design and construction of 70,000 tons of capital ships......"

The small Ming of that world was more poor than the United States during the war.

What's more, Xiao Ming and Prussia are still in the honeymoon period of cooperation under the theory of the queen.

So not some of the planes were spare, they all had their wings and engines removed and hung under the ceiling of the hangar.

"Before Xiao Ming's relationship with France becomes closer, your role in Xiao Ming will be weakened.

Instead, it stopped at the military dock in Baqing City.

Zhenhai and Daming two 70,000-ton straight-deck aircraft carriers, as well as Fengyangfu, Songjiangfu, Baoding, and Hejianfu, seven 17,800-ton new-type cruisers.

Of course, there are no photos of various states that have been released at the same time.

A ship that can build 70,000 tons may not be able to build a 70,000-ton warship, and a warship that can build a 70,000-ton warship may not be able to play a role, and it may not be able to play the role that a 70,000-ton warship should not be.

(End of chapter)