As we all know, treaties between nations have never been sacrosanct. This kind of thing will only be complied with when it is beneficial to itself, and if it is unfavorable, it is used to tear up, and if it is not this step, then all kinds of loopholes and side kicks will appear.

The same is true of the Washington Naval Treaty, because no major power feels that it can be fully accepted by this treaty, especially the naval powers of China, the United States, Britain, Germany, and Japan. Everyone is trying to exploit the loopholes in the treaty, and there is no way to do things like the caliber of naval guns, at most they can double the diameter, so deception and reducing the standard row have become the most common means.

Because according to the provisions of the Washington Naval Treaty: "The standard displacement of a ship for a specific purpose for combat shall be built for the ship, and all articles for the crew, power system, and navigation shall be carried on board, including armament, ammunition, all materials for crew use and fresh water, mixed reserves, and all equipment for combat." However, additional fuel, food and fresh water are not included. "Because the definition is very vague, this standard displacement has a lot of flexibility, for example, the materials with a one-day battery life can be called a standard platoon, and the materials with a thirty-day battery life can also be called a standard platoon, and there is a big difference between 1 shell and 200 shells. Anyway, as long as it can be driven out and can shoot cannons, it meets the definition of "standard displacement".

So in order to play with the scales, each family has come up with all kinds of strange tricks. For example, the British kicked out the water filled in the anti-torpedo compartment in order to lower the standard row for the battleship, the French heavy patrol kicked out the coal filled in the anti-torpedo compartment in order to lower the standard row (for a purely fuel-powered ship, coal only plays a protective role), and the Japanese heavy patrol kicked the watertight steel pipe in the anti-torpedo compartment out of the standard row in order to lower the standard row. These things are theoretically protective and should be included in the standard row, but they are all kicked out.

What else is the weight of the gun, just the barrel and turret, and the pitch slewing mechanism are not counted. And when inspecting, only the part of the armor on the face was installed, and the armor in other places was not installed. There is also a self-set standard row that is completely devoid of oil, or the fuel and water on the ship are only enough to use for half a day or something...... And so on. As for fabricating relevant performance data on the provided file, that's simply a basic skill.

Anyway, the appearance of several hooligans is difficult to see the unbelievable, in fact, these methods are not clever, as long as you pay a little attention to the problem. But since all countries are cheating, they also turn a blind eye when they check each other. As long as it's not too much, like about one percent, it's okay. When Japan cheated a few years before the treaty period, they concealed the Miao and Kaohsiung classes, which exceeded the standard by more than 10 percent, but when they built the top level, they played too hard, and actually reported 12,000 tons to 7,500 tons, which is really impossible to hide, and engineers from other countries are not idiots.

In fact, surface ships, especially large ships, cannot be too outrageous no matter how they play, and it is impossible to say that there are no such big things, after all, there is no place to hide such a big thing. The most overplayed by everyone is the submarine, and the treaty restrictions are almost non-existent. For example, reducing the standard row is pediatric, and it is done to directly report two or three or even five ships into one, and halve or even cut the number to one-fifth.

Because the height of the submarine is much shorter than that of surface ships of the same tonnage, it can be built in a closed dock, and it is usually active underwater, and it is easy to do it when mooring and maintaining. Even if you want to go to the port dock to show your face or something, just brush a port number that is the same as that of a boat of the same class. That's right, it's the submarine version of the "deck", where sisters of the same level take turns to make it, as long as they don't appear together at the same time, they won't be exposed. Oh, and there are also large submarine caverns built by the big hooligans, which even have docks, and don't even have to show their heads for overhauls.

Moreover, China has never announced the true number of its submarines, and the submarine manufacturers and units are all first-class secret units, not to mention that foreigners do not know clearly, and even the vast majority of officers of the Chinese Navy's submarine force themselves do not know about it.

In recent years, China has built secret shipyards in Jinxi, Liaoning, Fangcheng in Guangdong (not included in Guangxi), and Lelang Wonsan (now known as Lelang Province in North Korea). The structure of these shipyards is similar to that of caverns, which are built by hollowing out the belly of the mountain by selecting a suitable location on the seashore and protruding into the sea, and some of them are renovated by using the original natural caves connected to the sea. These shipyards are limited by natural conditions, and most of the internal space is not too large, and large warships such as capital ships and aircraft carriers cannot be built in them, but it is absolutely no problem to build submarines, as long as you pay attention to secrecy, even if you put dumplings in it.

Of course, China is not entirely fooling, and there are many submarines that do not belong to the Chinese Navy, at least nominally. They belong to, at least theoretically, to various dynamic social organizations, such as the Amalgan Chamber of Commerce, the Decepticons, the Nova Brotherhood, and so on. Yes, the transport submarines that were constantly active along the coasts of the colonies, transporting "humanitarian relief supplies" to the liberation organizations of the colonies and supporting the independence and freedom movements of the colonies.

In fact, although there are many submarines made in China, a large part of them are transport submarines, and after they are completed, they will be under the banner of these organizations, which can be regarded as civilian submarines.

Anyway, everyone plays like this, when China signed the treaty, it claimed that we now only have 62 submarines, with a tonnage of less than 80,000 tons, which is not excessive at all, and it is still half of the share. I don't believe you can come and see it. The Germans also wanted to leak and conceal it, but they played too high-profile at the time, and the number was no longer a secret, and they couldn't hide too much, and finally had to dismantle hundreds of submarines.

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Guangzhou Shipyard Group.

The sea breeze is blowing, and the coconut grove is fragrant. On the coastline of Guangzhou Shipyard Group, which stretches for more than ten miles, the verdant coconut groves form an endless forest belt, which can be described as a natural green screen on the coastline. Thousands of coconut palms, white sandy beaches, and clear water are contrasted with the tall gantry cranes and factories next to them, forming a wonderful harmony between industry and nature.

Under the example of Xingke, Chinese enterprises now pay great attention to environmental greening and environmental protection. Of course, if this kind of thing only relies on the consciousness of the people, it is impossible, Xingke's enterprises and state-owned enterprises are okay, but most private companies do not have this kind of awareness, and it is undoubtedly a tiger to expect them to consciously spend this kind of "unjust money". Without strict laws and strong enforcement, no matter how good the advocacy is, it is a fart.

But Mr. Wen is not the kind of ruler who likes to "rule by inaction", nor does he believe in any "invisible hand", and he never plays any "law does not blame the public". During the domestic revolution in those years, it was common for those "bandit villages" and "powerful families" to be shot and re-educated by the whole village, except for infants and young children. It is also agreed that this kind of thing is no exception, and after a batch of re-education through labor and a batch of fines have been ruined, the bosses of private enterprises have obediently complied with it.

Nowadays, China's factories and enterprises attach great importance to the environment and greening, although it has not yet reached the standards of "park-style factories" and "garden-style factories" advocated by later generations, but the factory area is at least full of green trees, gardens and lawns everywhere, not to mention the family area and office area, which are all like parks. After all, the main focus is still on increasing production capacity and expanding scale, and it is good to stop moderately in the environment, and it is impossible to achieve it overnight.

Of course, Mr. Wen is not the kind of "environmental terrorist" who wants to tear down all the factories and let the whole body return to the primitive society. In his view, the reason why human beings have become the spirit of all things is because they can transform nature and make it suitable for human production and life, rather than allowing human beings to adapt to nature.

However, he pays attention to scientific, efficient and planned development and utilization. This is not the same as destructive and predatory development, nor is it the same as keeping the environment in its original state and creating nature reserves. Since ancient times, China has had the idea of the unity of nature and man, and what is the unity of nature and man? That is to say, man and nature should be coordinated and unified, and man should neither engage in destructive and predatory exploitation and utilization of the natural world, nor let nature go with the flow because of its harshness. "The unity of heaven and man" means that "heaven" and "man" compromise and cooperate with each other to make it a harmonious whole. Human beings carry out rational and scientific transformation and utilization of the natural world, do not exhaust the water and fish, man does not overwhelm the sky, and the sky does not overwhelm man. This is the essence of traditional Chinese civilization, the way of moderation and righteousness, and anything that is extreme is not good.

"Hehe, I don't know, I went around the shipyards in Italy and Japan this year, and found that our Chinese factories are still the best. Look at the environment around our factory, it's almost up to their Tokyo park......"

"It's just that their factory looks like a garbage dump, and it's really not used to it at all......"

"I heard from my classmates in Mawei, Jiangnan and Jinzhou that the factories in the United States, Germany and the United Kingdom are similar, with black smoke billowing everywhere, and if you go out in a light-colored dress, it will become dark in half a day......"

It was a break after lunch, and several engineers were chatting in the office next to the dockyard.

Outside the window is the dock, and at this time, the two 40,000-ton docks No. 5 and No. 6 each have a huge battleship parked, which is the Andrea Doria and the United Empire captured by China in the Battle of the Strait of Kythira.

Now the two giant ships have been disemboweled, the superstructure and turret have been completely dismantled, not to mention, even the deck, armor and hull have been dismantled. Andrea Doria, in particular, was dismantled so that the keel was visible in the middle of the ship, and almost a half-incomplete hull remained.

A young engineer looked at the Andrea Doria outside, and couldn't help but say to the seniors beside him: "Xu Gong, do you think it's too wasteful for such a large-scale renovation of Ellie, I think it's better to build a new ship." It's a shame that our two Type 207s were canceled......"

Xu Wei shook his head and said helplessly: "Well, what can be done? Xiao Qin, didn't you just go to Japan, you see that they dismantled both Satsuma and Kashima, and converted the two Fuso-class training ships into training ships, isn't it just to make room for the new ships? Now that we are improving the old ships, we are also making up the tonnage for the new ships......

"But don't we still have a share? If the Hanoi and the Empire are converted into training ships, we should still have a share of 80,000 tons. It may not be enough to build two, but it is enough to compress our Type 207 and build a new ship. Xiao Qin said with a depressed face: "We have been busy with the 207 type for more than two years, and it is just gone......

The drawing ship Type 207 is a new type of battleship that China released last year and prepared to start construction in the second half of this year, a super battleship with a 55,000-ton class and 12 420 mm guns, and it is expected to build 6 ships, and two ships per year from 1921 to 1923, but due to the signing of the Washington Treaty, these battleships finally only stayed on the drawings.

By the way, this class of battleship is a real local original design of China in the original plane, not a magic modification of any kind of historical ship in the original time and space, but a battleship designed entirely by the indigenous designers of the original plane, and even the senior biochemical people under the command of Mr. Wen did not interfere at all. After more than ten years of intensive training, China's ship design capabilities have finally caught up with and surpassed the world's mainstream level, and have become a world-class and well-structured design team. That is to say, after so many years of training at no expense, Chinese engineers finally initially digested the design materials brought by Mr. Wen, and integrated them into their own things in practice. For example, although the design team with an average age of less than 30 years old is still a little immature, they have completed the sublimation from imitation, originality to creation.

"Hehe, what are you anxious about? Our Type 207 was a little rushed to work because of the needs of the world war, and now I think there are still some imperfections. Now that there is peace, the needs of the military are not so urgent. Let's take advantage of this opportunity to improve it again. Especially now that we have a new type of powertrain, the previous powertrain design basically has to be completely reversed. But this power is unprecedented, and it needs to be tested in practice before we can put it on our own ship. Now this Ellie is used for verification, not only the power system, but also many new subsystems that we will use...... Xu Wei said with a smile.

After the Washington Treaty, in order to free up tonnage for its new ships, the Hanoi, Andrea Doria and the United Empire became the first targets, because they were quite different from their own systems. After careful comparison among industry insiders, the Hanoi and the United Empire were invited out of the front line and made into training ships because the design was too bad and the foundation was too poor.

The Ally, which is relatively well designed and has a great potential for improvement, is also known as Andrea Doria, which was chosen to be retained, but its main role is not a combat battle, but a technical verification ship.

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It must be stated that when we played with a few ships, the initial understanding of the nickname "Ellie" was really the same as what was said in this book, thinking that it was a deliberate mispronunciation of the abbreviation of "Andrea Doria", like "" and "Sauce Purple". Later, I found out the true origin of this nickname.,I really don't know what it's like.,It seems that I'm not a gentleman enough.,Embarrassment.。