"The Children of the Returnees - Fuxi, Nuwa!", "The World's First Battleship Returns to China!", "The World's Largest, Strongest, Most Advanced!", "Powerful and Invincible!", "Thirty Six Giant Cannons!", ......

When the six new ships returned home, it immediately caused a battleship frenzy. All the big newspapers, tabloids, and radio stations across the country are like crazy, and they are all covering these six giant ships in a series of articles. These newspapers were selling very well, especially several well-known military magazines, which were sold at a high price of Luoyang paper, and it took several reprints to cope with the enthusiastic readers. In less than half a month, countless "giant ships and artillery parties" have been created across the country.

Some people may find it strange, isn't it said that in the late Qing Dynasty, China's literacy rate was less than 1o%? How could so many people buy newspapers and periodicals?

This is not surprising, because since 19o6, Wen Desi has enforced a literacy system in his own territory, and forced the promotion of punctuation, simplified characters and Mandarin education, and the amount of money invested in education also moved and shocked the people at the time. The same was true of the Kyodo government, which took the lead in the rebellion, and later the southwestern and southern autonomous governments, and after the national government, the efforts to eradicate illiteracy and universal education were greatly strengthened. According to statistics at the end of last year, the national average literacy rate has risen from less than 5 percent at the end of the Qing Dynasty to 33. 5%。 In Hubei, Sichuan, and other old liberated areas, the literacy rate has reached more than 7o%, and the literacy rate of demobilized veterans has reached more than 99%.

Well, there is a saying that the literacy rate at the end of the Qing Dynasty was 16%-2o, but this is obviously unreliable, and I don't even know how many people in the country there are, let alone more in-depth statistics like the literacy rate. Of course, there may also be a reason for the difference in the statistical standards for "literacy" between the two regimes. According to the standards of the Qing Dynasty, it seems that as long as you can write your own name, you can write one to ten to be considered literate, and you are only counted as over 18 years old. The standards for "literacy" are much stricter, first of all, they can read and write at least 2ooo common words, can do simple four arithmetic, can write simple letters, and can read simple books and newspapers. Therefore, according to the standards of the Science and Technology Party, the literacy rate of my Daqing is indeed less than 5%.

With the increase in literacy rate and income, the sales of books, newspapers and books have also increased significantly. Even illiterate people can learn from the radio.

Although none of the six ships were fully completed, this did not affect the enthusiasm of the people. Although the navy was in the limelight during the last visit to the West and scared the Netherlands, those warships were basically second-hand ships, all of them were outdated. And this time, the six ships are new and cannot be new high-end cargo. It doesn't feel like that.

Taking advantage of this trend, several toy companies under the command of Xingke Group suddenly smelled business opportunities, and the birthday star, Bandai, and Lego (well, the Danes and the Japanese cried) have launched a variety of warship toys and models, of course, according to Xingke's consistent style, it is a high, medium and low all-you-can-eat. Shouxing Toys, which is famous for high-end toys such as dolls, has launched a set of 1:4oo high-imitation models of Chinese warships, and has all the current Chinese Navy warships. The cheapest torpedo boat model also costs 5 yuan a piece, and the most expensive Fuxi-class battleship model retails for as much as 12o yuan. Originally, it was just a high-end product, and I wasn't ready to sell much, but it turned out that many local tyrant fans spent thousands of yuan and saved up a full set of models.

These warships have not only caused tremendous repercussions at home, but have also attracted great attention abroad. In particular, the 2 Fuxi-class dreadnoughts aroused the interest of all the powers.

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Japan, Tokyo, Military Command Department.

"Baga, China, and Miju are too cunning! The number of warships they announced before has shrunk! Our Hanoi class has already fallen behind as soon as it is launched!"

"The fifth lesson of the military department, these wastes, can't even get this minimum intelligence, and they have to be announced by the branch and the rice animals themselves to know these numbers, why don't they go to seppuku!"

"A crossbow-class battleship like this, our Kongo-class is also very difficult to deal with! The Imperial Japanese Navy must have stronger warships!"

"Now it seems that the plan of the 88th Fleet is not enough, and it must be increased. China now has 2 crossbow-class warships, 2 crossbow-class warships, and 2 armor cruisers, all of which are the latest. They colluded with rice animals again, which is equivalent to us being flanked. We have to deal with the situation on both sides at the same time, so the number of ships must be increased!"

A group of young Zhuang officers of the Japanese Navy quarreled in the office. Their emotions are extremely restless, and although their mouths are loud, they give people a feeling of lust and guilt.

At this time, a Shao Zuo said: "Actually, don't worry so much, the warships of the people of China are not as powerful as you think." ”

When everyone saw it, it was Nagano Cultivation, a high-achieving student of the Navy Colonel, and asked, "Nagano-kun, what do you mean by this?"

Nagano Xiu smiled contemptuously, pointed to the photo of the Chinese warship on the table and said, "Gentlemen, the people of China don't understand the navy at all. You see, these ships of theirs are all triple turrets. Our navy has already done a solid job, due to the small muzzle spacing of the triple turret, the muzzle storm has a great influence on each other. So the dispersion of fire from the triple turret is very large, which does not guarantee an effective hit rate at all. That is, these battleships are just a bunch of spectacle. It looks majestic, but it's not like that......"

As soon as Yongye's words came out, everyone suddenly woke up like a dream. That's right, the Japanese Navy has already done a real thing, and the triple turret is indeed flashy. Not only did the Japanese do it, but other powers did it too. So even though Italy came up with a triple turret 2 years ago, so far only themselves and the Austro-Hungarian Empire next door have adopted this layout, oh, and now they have to add a China, and the navies of the other powers are still mainly twin.

This statement is indeed true, and the triplet was indeed unpopular in the early days of its appearance. However, this situation will change after the start of World War I, because at that time, the United States only needs to install a small delayed fire device on the middle artillery, so that the middle gun can delay the salvo by tens of milliseconds, and this problem of "the mutual influence of the muzzle storm and the excessive dispersion of the guide shot" can be satisfactorily solved.

Later, other countries also continued to show this technique, so the main guns of later battleships were mainly triple-mounted, but Germany and Japan were not included here, Germany was because of the interruption of the inheritance in the middle, and the technology was wasted too much, and the Bismarck class was still using double-packed. And Japan is because there is only one tendon in the brain, and it is not until the opening of the Kii level that the brain turns around and runs around to engage in a triple outfit. It wasn't until the Yamato class that the triple main gun was used. This is a later story, so I won't mention it for the time being.

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When the officers of the Shaozhuang faction were making noise on the first floor, several naval bigwigs were also discussing upstairs.

Goro Ijiin, the commander-in-chief of the Military Command Department, Shigetaro Yoshimatsu, commander of the Combined Fleet, and Minoru Saito, the Minister of the Navy, all gathered here, and they were all worried about the latest information coming from China.

"The intelligence has been confirmed, and this time it is completely accurate. China has already announced the continuation of the construction of two Fuxi-class crossbow-class warships and two Qingcheng-class armor cruisers, this time completely self-made, and the construction of Jiangnan Shipyard in Shanghai, Guangzhou Shipyard, Lianyungang Shipyard and Tianjin Shipyard respectively. ”

Ijiin Goro said with a blushing face: "There are others, 4 Zhuhai-class large destroyers in China have been launched, and 8 are still under construction. In addition, there are 4 Fuchunjiang-class light cruisers, which will be launched in the second half of the year......"

"In addition, China is also building a large warship at the Fangcheng Shipyard, because this factory is a new factory and is very heavily guarded. At present, our intelligence personnel are not able to find out the specific information, and they do not even know the types. Judging from the appearance, it should be a large ship of about 10,000 tons...... Moreover, China is still building small ships, and so far, at least 2o torpedo boats and gunboats have been built, and at least 2o more are under construction. The Wuchang-class destroyers, which are called frigates in China, will have at least six to eight more in service by the end of this year. ”

“...... In the past two years, the scale of shipbuilding in China has swelled so much that they still have the capacity to build a large number of merchant ships while they are building warships on a large scale. Last year alone, they launched 1o liberation ships, a 10,000-ton merchant ship that was built very quickly, and it took less than five months from the start of construction to completion. ”

After Ijiin Goro finished speaking, several people fell silent. They all know this information, but they can't think of any way to deal with it. There's no way, now Japan is poor, and they're all poor to sell. At present, it is only by banning the belt of the trousers that some money is deducted to build a new ship, and it is completely unthinkable to make dumplings like China.

The three of them stared at each other for a long time, and then Saito Minoru said in a sad and indignant tone: "Why? Why is Shina so rich? They didn't have money before, and the Manchu Qing and Beiyang both approached us to borrow money from Japan. Why is this CSD so rich?"

Everyone continued to be silent, and the topic became big, and it was really not easy to make it clear in a few words. Besides, Japan's information on China is very vague at the moment. Since the CSD came to power, the Japanese spy agencies, which had been at home in China in the past, have been uprooted by China's secret services, and even those organizations that have been lurking in China for decades have survived.

Not only Japan, but also other countries feel the same way. In the eyes of foreign intelligence services, the efficiency of China's counterintelligence system is even frighteningly high, and it is not known how many spies once they enter China and lose contact not long after. The same is true for the informants of the exhibition, and some information on the big road goods can still be obtained, but if it is a little more confidential, there is nothing that can be done.

Moreover, the current Chinese government does not show any mercy to these informants, and Wen Desi and his gang believe in "strict punishment and strict law", never talk about the "human rights of criminals", and the principle of "one person does things and one person is responsible", they talk about "one person commits a crime, and the whole family is unlucky". China now implements the law of joint sitting, and it is difficult to say how the crime will be sentenced once it is a vicious crime, but it will definitely affect the family, and the whole family, young and old, will have to go to the labor camp, and it is possible for the whole family to be killed.

Why is it that in just two years, the government of the Socialist Party has been able to reduce the nation's crime rate from "bandits and hooligans running rampant all over the land" to an unimaginable process of "never closing their doors at night"? In addition to the fact that they have invested a lot of manpower and material resources in public security, they have also raised the cost of crime to a daunting level, which is also a very important reason. The crimes of espionage and treason are precisely "vicious crimes" and are the targets of unforgivable crackdowns.

As soon as the CSD was so engaged, the number of people willing to be informants was greatly reduced. After all, most of those who are willing to do this are for profit, but with such a high cost of crime and such a low success rate, as long as they are not stupid, they will seriously consider it again, thinking about whether it is worth taking the risk of betraying the country with the whole family. Even if the very few are still willing to do it, the cost of buying has risen significantly, and the funds that used to be able to buy ten informants can now not be bought even one. This is also normal, people take such a big risk, you don't have more blood, the ghost is willing. Now that the cost of buying informants in China has risen almost exponentially, and the money of the great powers is not blowing in the wind, the efficiency of this intelligence acquisition is naturally so low that it is impossible to score.

Everyone was silent for a while, and only then did Yoshimatsu Shigetaro say in a low voice: "There was a revolution in China, and the powerful people of the previous dynasty were all wiped out, so they naturally have money......"

It is no secret in the international community that the CSD has raided the homes of countless powerful people and made a lot of money from them. This is also normal, which country does not take the family and kill the head after changing the dynasty?

However, in Japan at this time, the topic of "revolution" was taboo, and it was enough to talk about it, and not to go too deep.

So, Ijiin Goro diverted the topic and said, "The empire is now in a recession, and the amount of money allocated to our navy is now the limit. In order to revise the design of the Hanoi class, we bought drawings from the British, and it cost 4o million pounds alone. The total cost of the 2 Kongo-class ships built in the UK this year and the 2 Kongo-class ships made in China is 8oo0,000 pounds, which has already cost nearly 9ooo million yen, and the imperial government has no money for it...... His Royal Highness the Crown Prince even took out a batch of antiques from the palace and sold them to raise funds for us......"

Everyone's faces are not very good-looking, yes, Japan is really short of money! On the other side, China is so happy that the Japanese can only watch it.

After a long time, Yoshimatsu Shigetaro's mind opened up and said, "Isn't Shina buying women all over the world? There are at least a few million in North Korea, hundreds of thousands in the Ryukyus and Hokkaido, and hundreds of thousands in Kata (Sakhalin......"

Ijiin Goro glanced at him and said, "That's right, Shina has bought at least 100,000 women in various countries in the past few years. But Shina's vision is very high, and not all women can look at it......"

Yoshimatsu Shigetaro said unrelentingly: "My big Japanese women are famous all over the world, don't they want some Yamato Nadeshiko?"

Ijiin Goro just wanted to refute, but Minoru Saito interjected: "Yoshimatsu-san is right, we exchanged women for airships with Shina last year, why can't we exchange women for the money to build ships now? It is also a very honorable thing for the women of the Yamato nation to sacrifice for the country!"

As soon as Shigetaro Yoshimatsu saw that the Minister of the Navy supported him, he immediately came to his senses and talked about anything about selling women. Minoru Saito also joined in, and the two of them opened their minds excitedly, and you and I came up with a preliminary plan one by one. Ijiin Goro was next to him and wanted to say a few words, but seeing that this undisciplined guy was in his heart, and he didn't have a better way, he had to sigh and pretend to be dumb in the end.

Do you think it's too much to sell your own women? Anyway, hundreds of thousands of Japanese girls go to Nanyang every year to sell, and their main customers are Chinese. Now it's nothing more than changing retail to batches, what's the big deal. As long as you can make enough money, don't be cheeky.

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