The Imperial Chinese Navy has become a global projection force, and the British Navy has to admit and accept this, but the British Navy will definitely not accept that the German Navy has also made breakthroughs.

oThe Luo Sea is heading towards the Atlantic Ocean, so the British navy has to contain the rise of the German navy under huge financial pressure. Therefore, the large-scale naval arms race between the navy of Britain and Germany began.[..com]

Britain and Germany launched a large-scale naval arms race, and France, which was sandwiched between the two countries, was naturally unwilling to fall behind. However, the French political case caused the French political situation, and the moderates and the Chinese factions broke up, causing the French Navy's budget to be dragged down again and again.

Intra-France political movements are no longer a day or two. Since the Panama Canal case in 1892, the rule of moderates was fiercely attacked by the jijin faction.

In 2018, after Dreyfus was released from prison, the delusion of the royal party's restoration became a silence. A series of events made the moderate republican government despised by the French people. In order to maintain its rule, the French bourgeoisie used the ji faction to replace the moderates in power.

In 1902, the cabinet of Jijin Mir and Conbo implemented the separation of religion and church, and eliminated the Catholic intervention in politics and culture. However, in 1906, after the famous leader of Jijin, Kerry Méngling, formed the cabinet, refused to abolish the Senate and opposed the collection of progressive taxes and other democratic reforms. This completely violently caused the reactionary face of Jijin and lost confidence among the masses. The monopoly bourgeoisie formed Jijin and the so-called "socialists", namely the Brian Cabinet. Participants Brian, Millerland, Viviani and others all regarded themselves as socialists. In fact, they were all pawns of the financial oligarchs who implemented reactionary policies and cruelly suppressed the workers' movement.

The Chinese Empire imposed an arms embargo on France on the grounds that France had no human rights. In fact, in order to avoid the rapid expansion of the French navy, the British and French naval forces were too strong and were not conducive to the German navy. The Chinese Empire had to maintain the balance of European maritime forces, so it had to limit the expansion of the French navy.

However, this did not stop the French Navy from attempting to expand. The improvement of British-France relations allowed the French Navy to obtain the related technology of the Fearless warship from the British Navy. Although it was a little worse than the Chinese Empire's magic bow warship technology, it was better than not.

However, in 1907, the moderates who were stolen from the audience joined forces with other opposition parties to prevent the Senate from passing the French Navy's Navy's Navy's Navy's Navy's Navy's Navy's 1907 Naval Law suddenly cut off the French Navy's 300 million franc shipbuilding budget. As a result, the French Navy's Dunkirk-class battleship and battlecruiser plans were ruined.

The French political situation and the recession of France's economy made the French navy not have a new battleship budget from 1907 to 1910, causing France to lose the qualification to engage in an arms race with the British and German navies.

Although other European powers also have corresponding plans for the Divine Bow-type battleship, the cost of the Divine Bow-type battleship continues to soar. The cost of a King Zhou-class battleship has reached more than 10 million dragon coins, which is not something that ordinary countries can afford. Even if they can afford it, the annual maintenance cost of up to 2 million dragon coins is not affordable.

The Tsarist Russian Empire, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Ottoman Turkish Empire and Italy, which had weak economic strength, could not be seen as much as possible in the face of such money-burning warships.

The Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Turkish Empire and the Kingdom of Italy were better. They imported several magical bow-type battleships from the Chinese Empire, which could temporarily support the facade and no longer need to order new ships in a short period of time.

However, the Russian Navy has never had a magical bow-type battleship. Faced with the expansion of the navy of neighboring countries, the Russian Navy also attempted to restore its naval power.

After the Sino-Russian War, the Russian Navy faced the dilemma of extreme shortage of battleships.

In 1903, the Chinese Shengong battleship, which had a revolutionary breakthrough in design and energy, made the only few battleships left in the Russian fleet quickly obsolete. At the same time, the emergence of the "Shengong" also marked a new round of naval arms races around the world.

In 1906, the powerful magical bow-type battle fleet of the Chinese Empire defeated the world's number one British navy in one fell swoop, which made the Russian navy feel a lot more balanced. Since the British navy could not defeat the Chinese navy, the Russian navy's original defeat was not unacceptable.

As Russia lost its Far East estuary, the focus of the Russian navy was concentrated on

oThe Luo Sea and the Black Sea.

As Germany and Türkiye introduced divine bow-type battleships from the Chinese Empire respectively, this made the Russian Navy feel huge pressure.

Accordingly, the Russian Navy asked for money from the Russian Duma government. The Russian Navy, who was unwilling to accept the defeat, planned to win four god bow battleships for itself, and all equipped with them in

o the Lotus Sea, in order to be with the Germans in the possible outbreak of wars

o The power of the Luo Sea. In the Russians' vision, these new battleships should have the following minimum requirements: at least 21 knots of speed, 10 doors and 12

Inch (305mm) main gun and at least 1 inch (120mm) contoured secondary gun. This is also in line with the tradition of the Russian Navy: firepower is the first and speed is the second.

The failure of the Russo-Japanese War has made the domestic social conflicts increasingly quarrel, and the poor performance of the navy also made it the best target for various forces to criticize. The new Duma, which emerged after the Revolution in 1905, insisted that the navy needed major reforms in administrative aspects, and the Tsar and the Navy senior officials insisted that there was no need for any reforms, so the Duma rejected all the navy's shipbuilding plans, and the new battleships also became victims of political struggle. In 1907, Tsar Nicholas II decided to forcibly promote the reconstruction of the navy despite Duma's opposition. In this case, the Duma was forced to give in and reach a certain compromise with the navy. The navy, which had been operating for four years for a dismal four years, finally began to rebuild the pace.

Compared with the new concept of the Divine Bow Ship, the design and construction capabilities of Russian shipyards seem to be extremely insufficient. Therefore, the Admiralty Department initiated a bid to major shipyards at home and abroad. Soon, the Admiralty Department received 51 design plans submitted by the Daojia Shipyard at home and abroad. These plans come from the Chinese Empire.

Italy, France, Britain, the United States and even Germany, but only four of the Daojia Shipyards are from Russia. At first, the Admiralty was very interested in the plan of Shanghai Shipbuilding Heavy Industry in the Empire of China, but the cost was too high, which forced the Russian Admiralty, who was short of money, to give up. Then they were culinary with Italian Kunibetti cuni

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The plan of ti was very interesting, but when they learned that the Italians installed the 120mm secondary gun in the turret (rather than the silhouettes that the Russians hoped) and insisted on not modifying the design, the Russians immediately left the plan behind. The next thing that came into the eyes of the Russian Navy was the plan of the German Blohmevoss company, but the Russians proposed that these battleships must be built in Russian shipyards. Of course, the Germans were unwilling to accept it, and both sides parted in unhappiness.

Therefore, the Russian Navy decided to use the purchased design drawings of the Chinese Empire Divine Bow to revise the original design of Shanghai Shipbuilding Heavy Industry in accordance with Russian standards.

o Luohai Shipyard accepted this task.

The revised design makes people feel that the new type of battleship is a warship between a battleship and a battle cruiser. The Chinese Empire Navy jokingly calls the Russian version of the "

o Luo's sea battleship". This design highlights unprecedentedly powerful firepower: all six double main turrets are arranged on the longitudinal center line of the hull. Two main turrets are arranged in front and back of the hull, and two turrets are arranged in the entire section.

Its 305mm caliber main gun's firepower on the side of the side exceeds that of any Chinese Empire, British or German battleship of the same period. The battleship in the design uses an icebreaker bow so that it can be freely frozen in winter

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Because the Russian Navy was very interested in the nine Zhouwu Wang-class battlecruisers of the Atlantic Fleet of the Chinese Empire,

o Luodihai Shipyard introduced the lighter Beiyang from the Chinese Empire 02

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The speed of the Divine Bow-type battleships of various countries during the same period was 2-3 knots higher than that of the Divine Bow-type battleships of various countries. To ensure high speed, too much armor protection was sacrificed, the thickness of the waterline armor on the side was 229 mm. Compared with the major battleships in the world during the same period, the armor belts in most parts were 1-3 inches (25-76) mm thinner.

However, because of the ignorance of the Russian Navy, this battleship made the bottle of half a bottle. The concave link was between the battleship battlecruisers, and that was impossible to be used as a battleship because the armor was too thin and could not be used as a battleship cruiser, because the speed could not catch up with the mainstream cruiser, and the PK of the same caliber would not be able to take advantage of it.

The construction of the new Russian battleship began in 1906. Due to the inefficiency of the Russian shipyard itself and the new warship being built, the construction of the new battleship was very difficult and even came to a standstill in 1907 because the Navy was not satisfied with the strength of the hull and construction process of the battleship under construction, and believed that it could not meet the design requirements at all.

During this period, Duma's perseverance finally achieved certain results: the defects of the shipyard were improved, and the poor administrative management system of the navy was finally improved to a certain extent. After solving a series of problems, new battleships were able to continue to be built, but it was in these few years that the divine bow ships of the world's powerful naval powers were also developing rapidly. The Chinese Empire had begun to build 13-inch large-caliber naval guns, and Britain and Germany also launched battleships with b-inch main guns one after another, thus making the firepower advantage expected by the Russian divine bow ships when they started construction.

But at this time, the four divine bow-type battleships of the German Navy and the Turkish Navy were in service, and the Russian self-built divine bow-type battleships were still far away. While the Russian Navy was struggling, the Chinese Empire extended an olive branch to the Russian Navy, willing to resell the Dengyun-class and Jianwei-class battleships of the current Chinese Navy to the Russian Navy, and the price was only 5 million dragon coins per ship, with a reasonable price. The combat effectiveness is not very different from the divine bow-type battleships exported to Germany and Turkey, and the price is extremely high.

The Tsarist Russian Navy was immediately overjoyed. If you buy nine quasi-divine bow ships at the same price, it would be equivalent to balancing the military pressure of the German Navy and the Turkish Navy against the Russian Navy in a short time, which is very cost-effective.

However, the Tsarist Russian Navy was unable to purchase nine battleships of the Chinese Empire in one breath, and finally only planned to spend 20 million dragon coins to buy four. However, the Chinese Empire seemed to have given the sale of these battleships and was willing to lend to Russia to pay for the remaining five.

Faced with the help and enthusiasm of the Chinese Empire, the Russian Navy could hardly believe that this was their former enemy. After research and discussion, the Russian Navy believed that the armor of the Dengyun-class and Jianwei-class battleships of the Chinese Empire could completely withstand the attack of 305mm shells and had been tested by war. The key is that the price ratio is extremely high. For the Russian Navy, which has become a third-rate naval country, these nine battleships can fill the gap in Russian naval power in a short time.

Although the Russian Navy still remembers the wounds that were hurt by the Imperial Chinese Navy, the Russian Navy believed that it could not confront the Imperial Chinese Navy, and its current opponents were the German Navy and the Turkish Navy, so the Russian Navy finally agreed to borrow money from the Imperial Chinese to purchase nine battleships.

On April 2, 1907, the navy of the Chinese Empire was retiring the nine ships of the Dengyun, the Tayun, the Chongyun, the Bayun, the Panyun Jianwei, and the Xuanwei. Three days later, the Russian Navy paid the first 22 million dragon coins, and officially accepted the nine ships at the Xiangshan Naval Base in Zhejiang, the Chinese Empire.

Russian Navy classifies six Dengyun-class battleships as Sevasto

O-level, deployed in

oThe Luo Sea became Russia

oThe main force of the Luo Sea Fleet. The other three Jianwei-class warships were deployed in the Black Sea to form the main force of the Black Sea Fleet.

The Russian Navy suddenly obtained nine main battleships of the Chinese Empire, and its naval strength was greatly improved, and Russia's maritime power could be temporarily maintained.

The Russian Navy suddenly became proud, but other powerful countries were thinking about the real purpose behind the Chinese Empire doing so.

In the eyes of European and American countries, the Chinese Empire is definitely not just about ease the tension with the Tsarist Russian Empire. They must have a greater plan behind them.

Soon, the intelligence systems of the great powers of Europe and the United States learned the real purpose of the Imperial Navy. It turned out that the Imperial Navy needed more funds to obtain more advanced and powerful warships. However, the Imperial Congress stipulated that the Navy should not be increased casually in the era of peace and did not provide additional project funds. Therefore, the Imperial Navy had to retire and sell some of the warships in order to obtain new ship construction quotas and project funds.

Just the day after the Chinese Empire Navy sold nine former Divine Bow-type battleships to the Tsarist Russian Navy, the Chinese Empire Navy placed orders for three new battleships at the Tianjin Royal Shipyard.

Three new battleships were classified as Qin-class battleships. Compared with Xia Dynasty and Shang-Zhou Wang warships, the Navy Department called them super-divine bow-type battleships.

The Qin-class battleship designed to discharge 27,000 tons, equipped with 4 triple 13-inch 45-fold main guns, 16 127mm 50-fold single-mounted rapid-fire guns, and 32 47mm double-mounted 55-fold close-end guns, two 18-inch torpedo tubes, main armor belt 300mm, turret, command tower, ammunition depot, boiler compartment and turbine chamber are all 330mm key protection, all of which are 30 oil-fired boilers, 4

Parsons 06 type steam turbine, 4-axis propulsion, speed is the joint.

The biggest difference between the Qin-class battleships compared with the Divine Bow-type battleships built in front is that the artillery system it carries. The original Divine Bow-type battleships were equipped with double-mounted main guns, while the Qin-class battleships were equipped with four triple-mounted 330mm 45 times extended main guns, with four more main guns than the Zhou Lie-class battleships. In addition, the rapid-fire gun also increased from 102mm of the King Zhou of Shang to 127mm 50 times extended. The overall firepower was extremely powerful.

The design idea of ​​the triple main gun of the Imperial Chinese Navy came from Li Yida Vinci and Perot, an engineer at the Genoa Shipyard in Italy. Because the Italian Navy chose to import their magic bow battleships from the Imperial Chinese Empire, Perot had to learn advanced design technology. When he arrived in China, he was immediately attracted by the prosperity of the Imperial Chinese and was treated by the super high treatment of Shanghai Shipbuilding Heavy Industry, so he stayed in Shanghai to work for Shanghai Shipbuilding Heavy Industry.

It is also because of this that his design idea for the triple-mounted main gun was valued by Wei Han, director of the Imperial China Shipbuilding Administration, so his design idea for the triple-mounted main gun was quickly transformed into Qin-class battleships.

Of course, when manufacturing sample naval guns, Wei Han and Pace found that the triple main gun's bullet points were not as distributed as that of the double main gun, and the bullet points were too dispersed 12,000 meters away. The reason was that when the triple main gun fired the fire, the vibration and recoil of the turret affected the ballistics of the shells.

The Navy Department once raised questions, believing that the triple-unit is not as stable and reliable as the double-unit, but Wei Han withstood the pressure and ensured that this problem be solved before the Qin-class battleship was launched.

Since the hull of the Qin-class battleship will not be launched a year later, Wei Han and Peisi will have one year to improve the shooting point of the triple main gun. As long as this problem can be solved within one year, it will not delay the installation of the Qin-class battleship.

To solve this problem, Wei Han and Pace designed a delayed fire system. When the three cannons in the triple turret fired, they delayed fire for 0.1 seconds respectively. Although they fired one after another, the naked eye could not feel the time difference of 0.1 second, and it seemed that the fire was still a volley of fire.

It took them only half a year to solve the problem of the triple-mounted naval guns, and for this purpose, the Navy awarded the third-class Jiahe medals to Wei Han and Pace to encourage them.

The three Qin-class battleships were named Ying Zheng and Hu Hai respectively.

The Heziying number is scheduled to be completed in June 1909.

The Navy of the Chinese Empire assigned Qin-class battleships to the super god bow type, defining the main gun caliber of the battleships above 330 mm as the super god bow type.

After learning that the Chinese Empire had secretly started construction of the Super God Bow-type battleship, the great powers from Europe and the United States were not willing to be outdone. They summoned their naval experts to discuss and develop the Super God Bow-type battleship.

Especially the British Navy, hearing any movement about the Chinese Empire will touch their nerves.
Chapter completed!