~.-~     After the Polish War, the Soviet Union and Germany divided Poland together, the whole world thought that Germany and the Soviet Union had formed a military alliance, causing major power countries around the world, including the Chinese Empire to regard them as enemies.

The Chinese Empire first declared that it expressed strong concern and concern about the Soviet-Germany "alliance" relationship, believing that the Soviet-Germany alliance would significantly reduce the security of regions adjacent to the Soviet Union, such as the western and northern Chinese Empire. The Western British-French Allied Forces camp countries stated that the establishment of an alliance between the Soviet Union would make it impossible for Germany to have no military pressure on the eastern front of Germany and could concentrate its efforts to turn to the western front, posing a huge military threat to the British-French Allied Forces camp on the Western Front.

To this end, German head of state Hitler and Soviet President Stalin met urgently, and decided to transfer the cooperative relationship between the two countries to secretly conduct underground. On the surface, the two countries should engage in a state of hostility to dispel the tension and concerns of the Eastern and Western worlds about the Soviet-German alliance.

After the Soviet-German leaders met in Warsaw, Hitler immediately played the card of firmly resolutely internationally, and publicly claimed that the Soviet Union was the enemy of Germany. Under Hitler's instruction, the German General Staff also "accidentally" leaked the combat plan of the attack on the Soviet Union to appease the tension and concerns of European countries, including Britain and France.

At the same time, more than 100 senior military officials from the German General Staff headed by Gore visited the Chinese Empire and held a ministerial meeting with the General Staff of the Chinese Empire. During the meeting, Gore, on behalf of the German General Staff head of the German General Staff, had in-depth exchanges of views with the General Staff of the Chinese Empire represented by Wang Shizhen. Gore proposed a secret alliance between China and Germany and jointly divided the Soviet Union's combat plan. At the same time, Gore conveyed a handwritten letter from the German Head of State to Chenhao of the Chinese Empire. In the letter, Hitler highly praised the friendly and cooperative relations between China and Germany, and ensured that the so-called alliance between the Soviet Union did not exist. Please rest assured that Wang Chenhao and the Chinese Empire government would not be able to ally with the socialist Soviet Union.

Wang Chenhao believed in Hitler's commitment overall, because the rise of the Soviet Union also threatened Germany's national defense security and national interests. Combined with the history (the fastest update) history, Wang Chenhao believed that 80% of Hitler's commitment was credible. But Hitler was also hostile to the Chinese Empire, which Wang Chenhao was also affirmed. The Chinese Empire's economic sanctions on Germany caused a serious economic crisis in Germany, which caused huge losses to Germany. With the style of Hitler and the Nazi Party, they would sooner or later find opportunities to retaliate against the Chinese Empire.

Therefore, Wang Chenhao believes that it is not ruled out that the alliance between Germany and the Soviet Union is to use the Soviet Union to fight against the Chinese Empire. Hitler's ambitions will not be limited to Europe. The fangs of competing for the world hegemony with the Chinese Empire have gradually been revealed, so it is not ruled out that Hitler is an open and secretly set of political deception tactics, so Wang Chenhao will not completely believe Hitler's words.

Regarding Hitler's plan to propose that the Sino-German alliance divide the Soviet Union, Wang Chenhao believed that this was just a tactic for Germany to instigate the Chinese Empire and the Soviet Union to get into evil. From the perspective of Germany, the Sino-German alliance could only make the Soviet Union completely hostile to the Chinese Empire. Even if a war broke out between China and the Soviet Union, Germany might not attack the Soviet Union as soon as possible. Therefore, Wang Chenhao's attitude was that the Chinese Empire strictly adhered to neutrality and prevented Hitler from falling into the trap.

However, the General Staff of the Chinese Empire still discussed with the German General Staff Headquarters to jointly divide the Soviet Union's combat plan. Because far-reaching and near attacks have always been an eternal international politics, this premise applies to the current strategic deployment of the Chinese Empire to curb the rise of the Soviet Union.

On the other hand, after returning to Moscow, Stalin actively cooperated with Hitler and declared that the industrialist Nazi Germany was the enemy of the Soviet Union. The rapid expansion of Nazi Germany's territory threatened the Soviet Union. Therefore, Stalin also sent a special envoy to visit the Chinese Empire, reiterating that the Soviet Union did not take back the territory seized by the Chinese Empire during the Tsarist Russian era, saying that it was already a historical issue, indicating that the Soviet Union had no intention to challenge and threaten the Chinese Empire. Obtain the understanding of the Chinese Empire.

The concert and reconciliation of Hitler and Stalin temporarily stabilized the tension and concerns of the Eastern and Western worlds about the Soviet Union and Germany's division of Poland.

However, the Soviet Union and Germany also had their own ulterior motives. Stalin did not believe in Hitler. In the past, the Soviet Union and Germany cooperated vigorously and had a close relationship because Germany and the Soviet Union were not bordered. There was no possibility of a war breaking out directly. However, after the Soviet Union and Germany divided Poland together, the sharply expanded Germany had already formed a 2,400-kilometer border with the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union became a neighbor, and the possibility of a war breaking out was very high.

God knows whether Hitler really did not invade the Soviet Union or was fake. Since the Soviet Union and Germany could deceive European countries and the Chinese Empire, it is not ruled out that Germany and other countries would join forces to deceive the Soviet Union, so Stalin had to be wary of Germany too.

Of course, Stalin was also a political expert. He played the German card against the Chinese Empire and saw through the mentality that the Chinese Empire did not want the Soviet-German alliance, so he forced the Chinese Empire to ease its attitude towards the Soviet Union to a certain extent. For example, the Soviet Union showed that Germany was not really hostile to the Soviet Union, and the invasion of the Soviet Union was fake. Germany was secretly exporting a large amount of high-tech technology and equipment to the Soviet Union. The Chinese Empire's control of technology exports on the Soviet Union was meaningless. Because the Chinese Empire did not believe in Germany's promise, when the Soviet Union told the Chinese Empire this way, in order not to allow the formation of the Soviet-German alliance, the Chinese Empire had to relax restrictions on the Soviet Union in certain areas. Therefore, the Soviet Union used the German card to get benefits from the Chinese Empire and could import some advanced technologies and equipment from the Chinese Empire.

It can be said that the biggest benefit of the game between China, Germany and the Soviet Union was the Soviet Union and Germany. In the face of this situation, the Chinese Empire could only take the minority of both harms and stabilize the alliance between the Soviet Union and Germany by appropriately relaxing export restrictions on the Soviet Union.

Stalin decided to take advantage of the Chinese Empire and Germany's accommodation to the Soviet Union and increase efforts to import advanced equipment and technology from Germany and the Chinese Empire. Previously, the Soviet Union mainly relied on importing advanced technology and equipment from Germany to develop its own industrial economy and military power. Now most of Germany's technology has been obtained by the Soviet Union. In comparison, the Chinese Empire's technology is more advanced and the equipment is more sophisticated. Therefore, Stalin took the opportunity to ask the Chinese Empire for help.

Faced with the construction of many Denburg-class battleships by the German Navy, the Soviet Union was moved by the huge military threat brought to the Soviet Union by the excessive expansion of Germany's military power. Stalin was no longer satisfied with the Soviet naval power with German technical assistance and decided to vigorously develop the Soviet Navy to make the Soviet Navy meet the same status as the Soviet national strength.

At this time, Stalin had a very high status in the minds of the Soviet people, and his will was the will of the Soviet people. After a series of great purges within the party and domestic countries, Stalin led the Soviet Union to rise rapidly in a short period of time and became the object of crazy worship by the Soviet people. Therefore, it stimulated Stalin's ambition and arrogance to a certain extent.

Stalin was very dissatisfied with the development speed of the Soviet Navy, believing that the 8 35,000-ton 406-mm main gun А type battleships and 18 26,000-ton heavy cruisers that the Soviet Navy was planning to build could not confront the five major naval powers in the world. Therefore, he asked the Navy Department under the People's Committee of the Soviet Union to modify the reconstruction and expansion plan and require the Soviet Navy to maintain at least 80% of the German Navy's strength level, so as to ensure the Soviet Union's hegemony in the Baltic Sea.

The Navy planned that after several revisions within the Soviet Defense Commission, it finally decided to build 4 80,000-ton super battleships, 8 40,000-ton fast battleships, 24 26,000-ton heavy cruisers, 60 500-3,000-ton destroyers and light cruisers, and 20 offshore defense submarines.

Although the Soviet Union's heavy industry and shipbuilding industry have developed greatly with the help of German technology, it is still impossible to complete such a grand plan. Therefore, like the Tsarist Russian era, the Soviet Union first sought help from Britain, Germany and Italy, trying to build several battleships with the assistance of foreign technical forces, and then fully understand the technology to achieve the purpose of self-built.

But the Soviets' request was first rejected by Britain, and the British just dealt with the Russians casually. For this reason, Stalin once complained in a letter to the British ambassador: "I don't understand why your country is unwilling to help us build battleships. We are happy to order a battleship with a 500mm main gun in your country at a cost of 200 million dragon coins, and at the same time, we really hope that after the first ship is completed, your engineering and technical personnel will come to the Soviet Union to help us build another sister ship." But in the UK, ideological struggles overwhelmed the interests of money, and the British shipyards were forced to give up this order under the pressure of the British government and citizens. At the same time, the Soviet Union and Germany signed the "Soviet and Germany"

The Treaty of Non-aggression and the secret collusion between Germany and the Soviet Union made the British government very dissatisfied. Therefore, Britain was not willing to discuss any surface ships larger than destroyers with the Soviet Union, let alone the Soviet Union wanted to build a super battleship equipped with 500mm main gun, which was even more impossible. Especially when the Soviet Union had a feud with Finland, the Soviet Union planned to attack Finland after dividing Poland with Germany. This led to Europe even more dissatisfaction with the Soviet Union. At this time, Britain was even more unlikely to cooperate with the Soviet Union. In order to unite European countries, Churchill announced a comprehensive embargo and blockade of the Soviet Union. Several senior Soviet naval delegations who visited Britain ended in vain and had to return in disappointment.

Subsequently, the Soviet Union set its sights on the traditional cooperative countries Germany and Italy. Unfortunately, the German shipyard was busy with its ultimate battleship business and had no time to take care of it. Italy's Kingdom-class battleship was just a cover and had no ability to build super battleships for the Soviet Union. In the end, only the Italian Anchard company completed the design of the second-class battleship (40,000-ton) of the Up-41 type second-class battleship as scheduled on July 14, 1935, but it was still far from the 100,000-ton final battleship that Stalin required.

As a last resort, the Soviet Union had to seek help from the Chinese Empire with shamelessness.

Although the Chinese Empire was vigilant about the rise of the Soviet Union, when the Soviet Navy delegation went to China to ask for help in building a super battleship, the Chinese Empire government unexpectedly agreed.

It turned out that Wang Chenhao believed that the Soviet navy could only be limited to the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea, and did not conflict with the global maritime hegemony of the Imperial Navy. Helping the Soviet Navy establish a Baltic fleet can check and balance the growth of the German navy on the one hand, and on the other hand, it can win huge foreign exchange income for the naval industry of the Imperial Empire. At the same time, allowing the Soviet Union to vigorously develop the naval force and mislead it to continue to develop the naval power mainly in battleships, which can greatly consume the Soviet Union's national strength, which is naturally beneficial to the Chinese Empire.

Therefore, with Wang Chenhao's approval, the Chinese Empire relaxed restrictions on the export of naval equipment to the Soviet Union, but the export restrictions on the army and air force to the Soviet Union were tightened, indicating that the Chinese Empire was still highly alert to the Soviet Union.

Stalin naturally didn't know Wang Chenhao's thoughts. Stalin was determined to restore the Russian navy's strongest victory state. The Soviet Navy, which had no experience in combating aircraft carriers, was a firm supporter of the winning theory of giant ship artillery. Therefore, when the Chinese Empire approved its shipyard to build the main ship for the Soviet Union, they shouted wildly: "I love China!"

Of course, the Soviets also understood that the Chinese Empire must be fine products, but the price was also outrageous. According to the Sino-Soviet Navy Cooperation Agreement, the Chinese Empire would build two Soviet-class ultimate battleships and two second-class battleships for the Soviet Navy. The cost budget was 800 million dragon coins for the final battleship, and the second-class battleship cost budget was 120 million dragon coins for a single ship. The Soviet Union had to pay the 30% down payment to the Chinese Empire first. The remaining payment was paid every six months in five times. The Soviet Union should strengthen patent control, and projects involving the technological property rights of the Chinese Empire need to pay relevant fees to the Chinese Empire, and prohibit various departments of the Soviet Union from illegally copying the Chinese Empire's products and other conditions.

Such high cost of shipbuilding really made Stalin feel a lot of pain. However, in order to obtain the shipbuilding technology of the Chinese Empire and to realize the dream of the Soviet Navy's prosperity, Stalin had to call on the Soviet people to continue to carry forward the spirit of not being afraid of hunger, tighten their belts and raise the funds needed to build the shipbuilding.

In return, the Chinese Empire will build the strongest battleship for the Soviet Navy, at least to ensure that the Soviet Navy's battleships can dominate Europe. Although Stalin was half-believing and half-doubted about the Chinese Empire's "kindness" to help the Soviet Union build a navy, he still chose to believe it because the Chinese Empire did have this technological and industrial manufacturing capability.

On October 12, 1935, the first Soviet-class ultimate battleship ship, the Soviet Union, at the dock No. 5 of Shanghai Shipbuilding Industry, the first Soviet-class battleship ship, was started. At the same time, in the dock No. 2 of the Royal Shipbuilding Industry Second Branch in Qingdao, the Soviet-class battleship ship, the Soviet-class Ukraine, also started construction.

Four Soviet-class battleships were built at the same level, two were built in the Chinese Empire, and the other two were built in the Soviet Union. The construction period was 6 months behind the two that started construction in the Chinese Empire. The main reason was that Soviet technicians needed to learn shipbuilding technology in the Chinese Empire, and more than 60% of shipbuilding equipment had to be imported from the Chinese Empire, transported back to the Soviet Union and installed and debugged.

In addition, the eight 40,000-ton second-class battleships required by the Soviet Navy also started construction of two in the Chinese Empire, using the Tang-class battleships of the Chinese Empire as a reference blueprint for design and improvement, while the remaining six were built by the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union required heavy cruisers to refer to the Typhoon-class heavy cruisers of the Chinese Empire for design, but was rejected by the Chinese Empire. In the end, the Soviet Union had to refer to the German heavy cruisers for design and construction.

The Soviet-class battleships designed and built by the Chinese Empire for the Soviet Navy used Ming-class battleships as reference standards. Since the Soviet Navy attached great importance to the armor of battleships, the sea conditions of the Baltic Sea did not require long endurance, seaworthiness and speed. Therefore, after sacrificing these conditions, the Soviet-class battleships obtained strong Soviet-class firepower and armor protection capabilities.

Since the Chinese Empire Navy has been arguing about the construction of the Ultimate Battleship in Europe, Germany, Britain, Italy and France, the bb party demanded that the construction of the Ultimate Battleship to demonstrate the empire's strong naval power be unchallenged, but the CV party opposes, saying that building the Ultimate Battleship is a waste of money, and it is better to build a few more large aircraft carriers. The two sides have arguing, and the same is true when they get it in parliament. Some members of the Imperial Congress support construction, but the opposition is also very high, and the number theory votes failed to obtain two-thirds of the vote.

There was a quarrel within the Chinese Empire, so the Imperial Navy Minister Lin Jianzhang and others focused on the ultimate battleship built for the Soviets, and planned to use this as an experiment to summarize the experience by building the ultimate battleship for the Soviets, and combined with the intelligence of the ultimate battleships of European countries, they finally provided experience for the design and construction of the empire's own ultimate battleship.

Therefore, with the acquiescence of Lin Jianzhang and other senior executives of the Imperial Navy, the designers and engineers of the Imperial Ship Administration let go and conduct experiments on the Soviet Union's ultimate battleship.

In the end, the design parameters of the Soviet-class battleship taken out by the Imperial China Shipbuilding Administration were approved by the Soviet Navy Department. The final designed displacement of the Soviet-class battleship was 96,150 tons, and the speed was set at 25 knots. Four triple-mounted 508mm main gun system was used.

Compared with the German Navy Hindenburg-class battleships, the Soviet-class battleships adopt stronger comprehensive heavy armor protection. The main armor belt protection is Chinese special steel up to 560 mm, which is enough to withstand 20-inch (508 mm) armor-piercing shells fired 12 kilometers away, ensuring that the Soviet-class battleships cannot be sunk by shells from the ultimate battleships such as the Hindenburg-class, making the Soviet-class battleships invincible.

However, armor protection of up to 34,000 tons accounts for one-third of the ship's displacement, resulting in the Soviet-class battleships not being more distributable to the boiler cabin and engine cabin. Therefore, only 12 oil-fired boilers and 4 steam turbine units were installed. The maximum output power can only allow the Soviet-class battleships to reach a speed of 25 knots. It can no longer be improved. The sea conditions of the Baltic Sea do not require the bow of the Atlantic, but fight at the doorstep, without the need for ocean-going performance. Therefore, the Soviet-class battleships are designed very compactly. The excess space has been cancelled to install more armor. However, the current strategic purpose of the Soviet Navy is to control the sea in the Baltic Sea, so there is no high requirement for speed, airworthiness and endurance.

The main gun system is one of the cores of the Soviet-class battleships. In order to test the performance of the 20-inch main gun after it was launched, the Imperial Chinese Navy also designed four triple-mounted 45-dia 20-inch main gun systems for the Soviet-class battleships. Combined with the advanced ship-based fire control commander and fire control radar system of the Imperial Chinese, the comprehensive firepower is very fierce. The artillery accuracy is much higher than that of the main gun of the Hindenburg-class battleship in Germany, and the range is also 32 kilometers.

After obtaining these performance parameters of Soviet-class battleships, the Soviet Navy was very happy and unanimously agreed that with Soviet-class battleships, it was enough to dominate the Baltic Sea. No longer worried about the threat from the German Navy. Moreover, the Soviet Navy sent a large number of naval technicians to the Chinese Empire to follow and learn from the shipyard. These personnel would bring the advanced shipbuilding technology of the Chinese Empire back to the Soviet Union. Whenever the Soviet Navy thought of this, he forgot the pain of being slaughtered by the Chinese Empire.

Six months later, the Soviet Union also began to prepare for the construction of the remaining two Soviet-class battleships. However, from the beginning, the progress of the local "Soviet" class project was quite slow, and the reasons were many. Although the Soviet shipbuilding industry had developed greatly, it jumped directly from the 10,000-ton "Red Caucasus" cruiser after the founding of the People's Republic of China to the 90,000-ton super battleship. The span was too large. The shipyard had no experience in building such a big thing. Secondly, the local "Soviet" class was constantly facing the shortage of raw materials during construction, because the import of materials from the Chinese Empire was too expensive. The frustrating Soviet Finance Minister asked the local government to provide as much as possible. According to the plan, Lenin Golle's Zhidanov Enora factory and Maripov Steel Plant were required to provide 30,000 tons of armored steel. But in fact, only 1,800 tons of delivery, the strength of other steels and

The toughness is not up to standard. Some cheap Krupp steel was imported from Germany. However, after experiments, it was found that it was no longer the same level as the special steel of the Chinese Empire. But it was better than not. The Soviet government, which was tight in finance, had to use Krupp steel to make up for the numbers. However, Germany was also building ships on a large scale, and steel was also restricted from exporting. The Soviet Union could only obtain half of the steel specified in the plan. Both the Enora factory and the Maripov factory were not very good at producing armor plates with thicknesses of more than 230 mm. The most powerful Kirov factory was busy with the T-34 tank project and had no time to take care of it. As a last resort, the designer had to change all high-strength carburized steel with thicknesses of more than 200 mm to simple surface hardened steel. As a result, until the two super battleships of the Chinese Empire were built, the Enora and Maripov factory could no longer guarantee the continuous supply of high-quality large-thickness armored steel.

The local Soviet-class battleship also encountered insurmountable difficulties in power systems. The installation plan was planned to be carried out. The Soviet Union should have copied eight high-power steam turbines made by the Chinese Empire in 1938. In fact, until the outbreak of World War II, the Kharkov plant did not build a steam turbine except for it. The boiler originally wanted to conduct the first round of shore tests in September 1937, but all tests were not completed until early 1939. Because the burden on domestic enterprises was too heavy, high

Technical equipment cannot be copied. The Soviet Union's large-scale cleaning caused a large number of technicians to be lost. Young designers even had people who had not graduated from elementary school. In addition to being loyal to Stalin, they were basically laymen. Nikolayev's turret manufacturing site was unable to assemble a triple turret in the end. Even a 20-inch sample barrel was not tested. Basically, a few shots occurred and even an oath incident occurred when the shells were stuck in the middle of the barrel.

Therefore, the Soviet Union had to order a large number of important components from the Chinese Empire, including main guns, steam turbines, and propellers.

A serious quality accident occurred on the Soviet Belarus, built in Factory 402. technicians found more than 70,000 unqualified rivets and bolts on its hull. Because there was no raw materials and no time to rework, the project of the Soviet Belarus was stopped, wasting 4,648 tons of steel. Stalin, who was distressed, fined the owner of Factory 402 for three days not to eat.

Of course, all this was due to the influence of Stalin's personality cultism and the Great Purge movement. After 1935, due to the strengthening of economic strength, the Soviets embarked on the road of rapid leap forward to strengthen the country and the army under Stalin's call, which eventually made the Soviets taste the bitter fruit.

Originally, the Soviets thought that self-built would save money. However, the result of the final Great Leap Forward was that the two Soviet-class battleships built on the Soviet Union cost up to 1.8 billion dragon coins, far exceeding the price directly customized in the Chinese Empire. Not only did it delay service time, but it also had to spend extra money to reassemble imported equipment from the Chinese Empire, which was not worth the effort.

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"Your Majesty. The CIA and the Air Force have been confirmed from the ground and in the air respectively that the German Navy is indeed building the 100,000-ton Hindenburg-class ultimate battleship, the British Navy is building the ultimate battleship, the French Navy's French-class battleship and the Italian Kingdom-class battleship are all under construction, and the US Navy seems to be planning to build the ultimate battleship. In addition, the Soviet-class ultimate battleship built by the Empire for the Soviet Union was precisely because the Soviet Union was stimulated by the naval naval construction plan of major European powers, which is enough to prove the accuracy of intelligence."

After reading the data of the main ultimate battleship submitted by the Emperor ** side and the intelligence department, Wang Chenhao was immediately overjoyed. Wang Chenhao thought that since various countries were building ultimate battleships on a large scale, this was exactly what he expected. Because this would consume the national strength of various countries, Wang Chenhao's purpose of unblocking 27 super battleships was to stimulate the development of battleships in various countries and thus achieve the strategic purpose of misleading the development direction of the navies of various countries. This has always been a global layout that Wang Chenhao considered.

"Is this good? This is the result!"

"But!" Wang Shizhen smiled bitterly: "The Imperial Navy cannot understand the secret of your strategic deployment in the navy, and we cannot inform the entire Imperial Navy that it will definitely be noticed by the navy of the European and American powers."

Wang Chenhao nodded, and he knew it very well. At this time, there were great differences within the empire about the idea of ​​the battleship-led giant ship artillery theory and the aircraft carrier-led victory theory. The bb party demanded the construction of the ultimate battleship, while the CSV party objected and demanded the construction of the aircraft carrier, which made the Navy's shipbuilding plan very difficult.

"Parliament has been discussing for more than half a year. Have you come up with the results?" Wang Chenhao turned to Tang Shaoyi, he wanted to know the attitudes of the members of Congress.

Tang Shaoyi replied: "Report to Your Majesty. After more than half a year of discussion, the Senate and the House of Representatives had just achieved results. The Senate and the House of Representatives unanimously passed the resolution to allocate funds to build the ultimate battleship."

Wang Chenhao was stunned for a moment, thinking that the group of politicians would continue to snore. He asked hurriedly: "Didn't the voting not reach two-thirds of the previous two days? Why did it reverse in a few days?"

Tang Shaoyi smiled bitterly and said, "One person's speech changed the attitude of the members of the Senate and House of Representatives!"

Wang Chenhao suddenly felt energetic and asked, "What's going on? Who has such great ability?"

Tang Shaoyi then explained: "Your Majesty, it is the Ninth Prince who went to the Congress to give a debate speech at the request of the Navy Department. He said that all countries are building their own ultimate battleships. This is no longer a simple military issue, but a matter of national honor. If the Empire does not build the ultimate battleship, then how can the imperial navy remain? The construction of the ultimate battleship is not just for the navy, but for the honor and face of the empire. When all countries are preparing to challenge the hegemony of the empire today, if the empire shows weakness at this time, the consequences can be imagined."

The ninth prince Wang Guoming is only 24 years old this year, and is the third son of the Empress Li Youyi of the Palace. He has been smart since childhood and has a very good style. He is very popular with Wang Chenhao. By the age of eighteen, Wang Guoming had already completed university courses and spent his spare time to complete the basic courses of naval training. According to the royal customs, he must serve in the military and go to the army to train. However, he did not serve in the Royal Guards, but concealed his identity and directly participated in the ordinary recruitment of the Imperial Navy, and served in the Pacific Fleet, becoming an ordinary sailor.

For six years, Wang Guoming has relied on his own ability to become a major staff officer in the fleet combat room, and his ability has been recognized by the Navy.

Wang Chenhao was very happy when he heard that it was the ninth prince Guoming that made the politicians change their attitude. But when he thought that because of his reasons, the Congress passed the bill to build the ultimate battleship, he couldn't help but smile bitterly: "How is this showing weakness? This child is clearly deliberately saying things to mislead others!"

Tang Shaoyi smiled and said, "But that's true! But the words of the Ninth Prince at that time made the members of the two houses forget everything. In order to safeguard the honor of the empire, they can give up all disputes."

Wang Chenhao sighed and said, "It's just a matter of face! This may be a hurdle that Chinese people can never overcome!"

Then Wang Chenhao asked, "How much money has he allocated?"

Tang Shaoyi coughed dryly, then paused and said, "That-1.3 billion!"

Wang Chenhao frowned and said, "What's the point of spending so much money? Just build one, can you build two more?"

Tang Shaoyi wiped the cold sweat from his forehead with his sleeve and said weakly: "That---only build one!"

"What?" Wang Chenhao stood up immediately after hearing this, with a look of surprise on his face and asked, "Don't tell me that you are going to build a spaceship!"

Tang Shaoyi looked at Wang Shizhen next to him and kicked the ball to him and said, "My Lord Wang has to explain this!"

Wang Shizhen paused and said, "As far as I know, the design indicators of the ultimate battleship prepared by the Navy General Administration are standard displacement of 130,000 tons, equipped with 20-inch 50-diameter main guns, 12 main guns, three-mounted four seats, 500 mm armor and 32 knots of speed."

Wang Chenhao has been studying warships for all these years, and has some understanding of the performance indicators of warships such as firepower, speed and armor. After hearing Wang Shizhen's explanation, he frowned and said, "It's very powerful, worthy of the ultimate battleship, but how can this be used as much as 1.3 billion dragon coins? And it's difficult to achieve this indicator! With the strengthening of firepower and armor, 500 mm armor protection must account for at least 40,000 tons of displacement, and there is still extra space and displacement to install the power system? The speed cannot reach 32 knots."

Wang Shizhen smiled faintly and said quickly: "Your Majesty is very much! But that's the past, now the empire has new technology. On the basis of ensuring firepower output and armor protection, there is no need to sacrifice speed!"

Wang Chenhao glared at Wang Shizhen with anger and said, "Stop keeping me in a silence, hurry up!"

"Yes!" Wang Shizhen hurriedly said: "Have you forgotten the nuclear reactor project that the empire has just completed?"

On February 4, 1934, nuclear experts from the Chinese Empire completed the test of heavy water reactors and light water reactors on Juehua Island. The last obstacle was achieved, and the nuclear fission chain reaction was controlled. The two nuclear reactors operated smoothly for one year and withstand various tests. Subsequently, more than 400 nuclear engineering experts led by Madame Curie officially announced that civil nuclear energy could be realized, and both nuclear reactors could be used in nuclear power plant projects.

At that time, Wang Chenhao was very happy, so he immediately issued an attempt to build the first nuclear power plant on an island far away from the city of Daya Bay in the South to solve the problem of extreme power shortage in the south of the Chinese Empire, which seriously affected industrial development.

The first Daya Bay nuclear power plant project allocates 400 million yuan. It plans to build a nuclear power plant with a total installed capacity of 6 million kilowatts in five years. It uses the ultra-high voltage lossless power transmission system invented by Tesla to completely solve the power demand of the six southern provinces, reduce the huge consumption and transportation costs of oil and coal, further reduce the burden for enterprises and factories, reduce the impact of the international economic crisis on the empire, and ensure the sustained and rapid growth of the empire economy.

Since the imperial government did not want foreign countries to know that the Chinese Empire had successfully developed nuclear reactor technology, the news was strictly blocked. The absence of large-scale celebrations also made Wang Chenhao gradually forget it.

At this time, Wang Chenhao remembered and suddenly asked: "Do you want to install a nuclear reactor on the battleship?"

Wang Shizhen was stunned at first, and then said in surprise: "Your Majesty is wise, but the Admiralty Department plans this way."

Wang Chenhao breathed a sigh of relief and said, "No wonder the cost is so high? But the nuclear reactor technology is just starting, can it be done to move it to a warship?"

Wang Shizhen hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, don't worry about this! The Navy has taken all factors into consideration. Overall, after installing a nuclear reactor, there is no need to replenish fuel for ten years. The fuel cost saved is enough to make up for the cost of building a reactor. The military value lies in the small size of the nuclear reactor, including the total weight of the containment, which can save 30,000 tons of water displacement in a super battleship. These 30,000 tons of water displacement are quite abundant for increasing armor protection and firepower output, as well as increasing ammunition supply. At the same time, the instant power of the nuclear reactor is as high as 300,000 horsepower. Even a giant ship with a hundred thousand tons can reach an ultra-high speed of more than 32 knots, and its power is stable, and it can cruise any ocean at high speed."
To be continued...