PS: There was something wrong last night, and it was delayed......

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August 15, Republic 2777 (1936), Sea of Japan.

Today's weather is clear, the sea is as calm as a mirror, the blue is translucent, and the shadows reflect the white clouds in the sky. The rising sun set a layer of brilliant gold on the blue sea, and the sea shone with sparkling waves, like a large number of gold chips from the sky, and the whole sea was dazzling with golden light.

At this time, a huge warship appeared at the junction of the sea and sky, with a huge hull like an island, a majestic bridge like a mountain, a thick gun barrel, and a heavy armor, which incomparably reflects that this is the highest masterpiece of human industrial civilization in this era - a battleship!

The battleship, which was far larger than its peers, large but not clumsy, was now galloping across the sea at a speed of 28 knots.

Its knife-sharp bow sliced through the calm sea, stirring up two snow-white waves. It was like a loose horse, galloping on the calm sea. The silver curtains of water on both sides of the bow of the ship rose high and fell to the surface of the water, turning into two long silver chains, which were dragged in the stern. It left a wide trail of white waves rolling on the surface of the sea, as if a white avenue had appeared on the blue ocean.

At this time, it turned slightly to the left, the waves gently lapped the bow and side of the ship, and the hull of the ship slightly left side, and then slid towards the left front, which appeared very agile, as light as a speedboat skimming water.

"It's amazing! This battleship is wonderful! It's as fast as a cruiser!" Colonel Yanagimoto of the Japanese People's Navy was as excited as a child.

At this time, there were also senior generals such as Keno Kurita, Mitsumasa Yonechi, Isoroku Yamamoto, Horikiyoshi, and Shiro Takasu in the bridge, and they were all very excited.

Since the Japanese Revolution, the army and navy of old Japan have been purged from top to bottom by the new government of the Japanese Socialist Party. General-level officers at the top were essentially purged by two-thirds, and by about a third at the middle level.

And the navy was purged much less. Because the navy is a technical branch, the brain is relatively flexible and the level of knowledge is higher. After all, Etajima is the most difficult school in Japan, and basically the top 10% of students are eligible to be admitted. Those who can be admitted to Etajima will not have brain-dead children.

Compared with the relatively simple-minded and many old Japanese Army, the Japanese Navy is where the elite people gather, and the vast majority of them are handsome people who know the times. Navy officers are relatively rational, and they are basically the type of "resolutely supporting the Party Central Committee, and whoever supports whom in the Central Committee." The targets of the Japanese Socialist Party's purge this time were mainly the chaebol elites and the old upper echelons, and there were only a few people in the navy with such backgrounds. Except for a few who are not sober-minded, there are not many diehards who are loyal to the black cards and chaebol elites.

Therefore, the officer lineup of the Japanese People's Navy (PJN) has not changed much, and it is not much different from the same period in the original time and space.

The whistle of "Woo ......" made a majestic roar, and the battleship was like a steel horse, chopping the waves and rushing into the distance.

If there are military fans of later generations, they will definitely recognize it at a glance, isn't this the Yamato-class? Although it seems that there are some small changes in the details, for example, the 155-mm triple-mounted secondary gun that has been sprayed for a long time has been canceled and replaced with a quadruple-mounted 40-mm anti-aircraft gun, but the general shape is exactly the same. In particular, the iconic single chimney that slopes backwards, like a tall tower, is so easy to recognize. If you get closer to the main turret and take a closer look, you will see that the nameplate of the main gun reads "Prototype 16-inch naval gun".

At this time, a burst of Chinese sounded on the bridge: "This No. 108 ship is really good, not only has powerful firepower and solid defense far beyond the existing battleships, but also has a speed comparable to that of a battlecruiser, it is a well-deserved super battleship......"

Well, yes, it's not just the Japanese in the bridge now, there are also a bunch of Chinese officers in it. In addition to the officers of the two countries, there were also a bunch of senior technicians on the bridge, including Xu Wei of China, Jean Hiraga of Japan and other senior experts from the two countries. Speaking at this time was Vice Admiral Li Ang, deputy chief of the general staff of the Chinese People's Navy and director of the Naval Equipment Bureau.

Vice Admiral Keno Kurita spoke extremely standard Chinese and said with a smile: "Li Jun, you are so right, this is the best battleship. But it's a pity that we don't need such an excellent battleship ourselves. ”

Kurita was a stalwart of the revolutionary faction in the navy and an old member of the Japanese Science and Technology Party, so he rose to prominence after the success of the revolution. In the history of the original plane, he was promoted to major general at the end of 1937, and now this torpedo warfare expert has a much higher rank than at the same time in history. He was already a lieutenant general the year before last, and he was still the commander of the Second Fleet, and it is estimated that the admiral will be stable in a few years. That's the right thing to do.

Some of his naval colleagues were envious, jealous, and hated for his unconventional promotion, but now the government is no longer the same, and the Japanese Science and Technology Socialist Party has always been very disapproving to the navy's promotion system based on seniority and the ranking of hammock numbers, and after the revolution, it began to rectify the old Japanese Navy's set of things, and promoted a large number of young officers loyal to the Science and Technology Party. Besides, even those officers in the past did not like this system, and there were still many who were in favor of the new system. As for those whose minds are still stuck in the old era, they no longer dominate, and no matter how dissatisfied they are, they can only accept it. So I could only spit out in private that Ya climbed so fast, and most of it was due to the shelling of Sakurada Gate during the revolution.

But in fact, the shelling of Sakurada Gate was not Kurita's intention, it was just an accident, but later the Japanese Science and Technology Socialist Party will be wrong. Comrade Kita Ikki highly praised his meritorious deeds in "leading the revolutionary officers and men of the Nagato to fire the first shot from the navy against the reactionary old feudal imperial government." This deed has now been written in the textbooks of Japanese middle school students. So Kurita, who originally wanted to clarify, saw that everyone was so supportive, and he half-pushed and half-acquiesced. Now even he thinks that he ordered the cannon......

"Yes, it's a pity, this ship No. 108 was built for the Soviet Union......" Leon nodded regretfully.

"However, it is also good that we will have the experience of building such a super battleship, and after obtaining first-hand data, we can further improve our own battleships in the future. Yamamoto Fifty-six interjected and said. Comrade Yamamoto is now only a major general, serving as the commander of the Third Sentai Brigade, and his subordinates are mainly the King Kong family.

The working language of the Federation is Chinese, and the popularity of Chinese in Japan is not low. The Japanese people's government has been vigorously promoting it in recent years, and now Chinese has become the first foreign language in Japanese schools, and it has regained its rightful status. In today's Japan, as in the past thousand years, as long as you have a little status, you are embarrassed to greet people when you go out if you don't know Chinese. Not to mention places like the navy, where people are gathered, these elites who know the times do not need to be urged by the government to consciously start learning Chinese. Many of them have obtained Chinese level 4 and level 6 certification.

Yamamoto's original Chinese was not very good, but then he only strengthened it for half a year and passed the fourth level, and now I am afraid that there is a sixth level, and the human spirit is the human essence. A guy like Keno Kurita, who was born in a scholarly family and whose father is a sinologist, has reached the professional level of level 8 in Chinese, and he can't hear it at all......

Officers and engineers from both China and Japan began to talk about it, and the topic was, of course, the current super battleship. In fact, the current battleship, which clearly violates the treaty, was built in cooperation with China and Japan, so there is the above scenario.

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This ship, codenamed "Ship No. 108", can almost be seen as the reason why the big guy who changed the magic to Yamato appeared in advance was because of Comrade Stalin.

As everyone knows, Comrade Stalin is an avid believer in the Cult of Multi-Turret, and his philosophy of life is that "big is beautiful, and more is good." His favorite thing in his life is the largest battleship, the heaviest tank, no matter what, it must be big anyway, and the pipe must be thick...... In the past, because the red and white songs were too happy, the altars and jars across the country were broken. The newly established Soviet Union was a poor man, its industrial strength was not even as good as that of the Tsarist era, and the bearded man had no money or conditions even if he wanted to build a large country.

After the completion of the first five-year plan of the Soviet Union, the national strength increased greatly, coupled with the impact of the economic crisis, which led to a large amount of money from Europe and the United States to take refuge in the Soviet Union, so that it received a large amount of investment. Although there is a better choice for these foreign investors, because China itself is not short of money, the management of foreign capital is relatively strict.

Moreover, because the economic crisis has also caused certain losses to domestic capital, for the sake of compensation, all kinds of investment opportunities in the domestic market are preferentially opened to domestic capital, so only those strong foreign capital groups can get some investment projects with good returns, and those large number of small and medium-sized investors do not have good opportunities in China. The projects they can get their hands on are either profitable but not very profitable, or they are only guaranteed not to lose money, or they are long-term projects with a long project cycle.

The Soviet Union was different, they were in dire need of capital and had no domestic private capital at all, so naturally there were more preferential policies for foreign investment and more markets, and profit-seeking capitalists naturally flocked in. In particular, the small and medium-sized capitalists who could not squeeze into the Chinese market, or who were afraid that they had made too little money in China, flocked to the Soviet Union in large numbers.

In other words, although the proportion of foreign investment in the Soviet Union is much lower than that of the original time and space, because the world economy is more prosperous due to the influence of China, and the total economic volume far exceeds the original time and space, the total amount of actual investment received by the Soviet Union is not small, and even more than the original time and space. Although those small and medium-sized capitalists are not as strong as the big conglomerates, they can't stand the large number of people.

Comrade Stalin, who had a lot of money at hand, naturally had an idea, and his old long-cherished wish came back to his heart, and the ideal of a multi-turret fanatic believer once again occupied his mind. Nowadays, media technology is much more developed than in the same period of the original time and space, and naval technology and naval strength are also much stronger; every time I see the big toys in the homes of a few big hooligans on TV and magazines, and when I look at the poor old dreadnoughts and outdated former dreadnoughts in my own home, the bearded comrades feel as uncomfortable as a cat scratching, and they can't sleep at all.

However, with the industrial level of the Soviet Union at that time, it was simply impossible to build a new type of battleship that could meet the requirements of Comrade Stalin. If you can't make it yourself, then you can buy it from a foreign country. The countries in the world today that can build super-dreadnoughts can be counted on two hands, that is, the eight naval powers of China, the United States, Britain, Germany, Japan, France, Italy and Austria, and other countries are not as good as the Soviet Union.

Of course, the shipbuilding capabilities of these eight companies are also strong and weak, and the relationship is not the same, and the battleship is not something that can be bought if you have money, and it is now the 30s, and it is no longer the era at the beginning of the 20th century when you can buy anything as long as you have money. Moreover, Comrade Stalin's vision is also very high, he must not be the kind of person who can be sent casually, since he wants to buy it, then buy the best.

The three Franco-Italian and Austrian families were excluded in the first place, and the bearded man felt that their technical strength was flawed, and the battleships built did not perform well in the First World War, and the bearded man looked down on them. The remaining ones can enter his old man's eyes in terms of technical strength, but their conditions are very different.

Erdezi doesn't need to ask, unless they are kicked in the head by a donkey, they will definitely not build super dreadnoughts for the Soviet Union, even if they are also in an economic crisis, it is impossible to agree to such a request.

Needless to say, the opium cow has always had a bad business reputation, not to mention the long-term sale of fake and shoddy products, and there are precedents for black people's goods, more than once. Comrade Stalin could not trust these guys at all. Besides, Niu Niu's ship did not perform well in several sea battles in World War I, was completely wiped out by Erdezi, and was beaten by Yi Duli in the Mediterranean.

The rest are only China, the United States and Japan, but Japan has no precedent for building battleships for other countries, and their technical strength is weaker. So Starshu just took them as a preparatory consideration, and mainly sent bids to China and the United States. The technical strength of these two companies is first-class, and their products have also been tested by war in World War I, with excellent performance and trustworthiness. The most important thing is that these two have a good business reputation, and they are very conscientious, and the goods they buy are really good things, not the kind of fake and shoddy products of Niuniu.

At the end of 1931, the Soviet Union proposed to China and the United States to order a total of four battleships, but the request was very much. Comrade Stalin demanded that his battleships have the thickest tubes, and the current treaty battleships could not meet his requirements, and he demanded that the caliber of the main guns should not be lower than 17 inches (432 mm), in short, the larger the better, and have equal armor, and a speed of not less than 27 knots. Moreover, the Soviet Union also demanded that the relevant technology be transferred at the same time, two of which had to be built in the Soviet Union, and Party B had to go to their homes to guide them and pass on technology and experience.