Chapter 503 China Atlantic Fleet
The Ecuadorian government troops had only more than 23,000. In addition, since the disintegration of Colombia, Ecuador has been in a turbulent period for a century. Soldiers and literati took turns to rule and attack each other.
Under the massive invasion of Colombia, Peru and Brazil, it perished in less than a week. Because Ecuador's Duqueto was captured by the Colombian army, the Ecuadorian nationals gave up their resistance. Ecuador, which originally belonged to Big Colombia, is now occupied by Colombia again. There is not much sadness.
However, Brazil's participation in the war made the Ecuadorian people dislike, so the Brazilian army struggled in Ecuador. Finally, the Chinese government stepped in to mediate. Ecuador had Colombia and Peru divided up, and the two countries redeemed the share that Brazil should have with money. Brazil had no choice but to compare its gains and losses. In the end, it chose to accept the ransom from Peru and Colombia.
There is no big opposition to China's occupation of the Cologne Islands. After all, it is just a group of deserted islands. Apart from some rare birds and beasts on it, it does not have much value. Given China, it will receive China's advanced weapons and financial assistance. Therefore, after discussing with the Peruvian government, it sold it to China for the old ten thousand dragon coins.
After the Cologne Islands were sold to China, the Chinese navy's sphere of influence expanded to the South Pacific and South America coasts. It was then that China's influence was seen and experienced by Latin American countries.
Latin America has always been the target of the United States' suppression. With the end of the Spanish-American War, the United States officially entered the Caribbean Sea and expanded to South America with the intention of building America into the backyard of the United States.
Due to the two hundred years of hegemony between the old capitalist empire Spain and the emerging bourgeois British Empire, it caused serious ideological differences between the British backbone and the Spanish descendants, leading to the entire America 6. Only Canada and the United States get along well because they are both British descendants. Most of the other American countries are Spanish descendants, which leads to incompatible with the United States. Therefore, although they are now crawling under the stick of the United States, they still reject the United States from the bottom of their hearts.
Nowadays, China's intervention in Latin American affairs has allowed countries with Hispanic descendants to see hope of getting rid of the United States. China's national strength has flourished in the past decade and its military power has expanded unprecedentedly. Every time it is ahead of European and American powers, in the Asia-Pacific region, China's influence has far surpassed Britain and the United States.
Although these knowledgeable people in Latin American countries know in their hearts that using a stronger China to drive away the United States is tantamount to driving away wolves at the front door and tigers at the back door. However, few people have foresight, and most people only care about immediate interests. However, the country is managed by Ran, so it is not surprising that Latin American countries only care about immediate interests! The address of this site has been changed to: Please log in to 6 to read if you delete it!
However, not all Latin American countries are willing to accept China's influence. Although South American regional powers such as Chile, Argentina, and Brazil maintain close friendly relations with China and frequent military exchanges. However, if China proposes to purchase or borrow a base from them, they will definitely not agree.
Fortunately, the Chinese government only wants to check and balance the United States and has no intention of dominating South America. It only needs to build military influence in Central and American states and the Caribbean.
The regional powers in Latin America are all distributed in South America, and Central America are small countries. Even if they do not agree with the infiltration of China's power, they cannot compete with China's influence.
After Colombia leased the Cartagena port in the Caribbean to China as a naval base, China's military deployment in Central America has begun to be launched.
, Ah April. Emperor Qin Emperor Zhang Yunfei formally issued an edict to approve the expansion plan of the imperial Qin Royal Navy. Then the General Staff of the Emperor Qin Cabinet signed an order to establish the Atlantic Fleet Command of the Royal Navy. Admiral Yi Suifeng was appointed as the commander of the Atlantic Fleet, and was awarded the first-class Marquis of Jinghai, and ordered General Yi Suifeng to form the Atlantic Fleet.
After receiving the order, General Yi Suifeng immediately drew elite forces from the Pacific Fleet to form the Atlantic Fleet Command of the Atlantic Fleet. Then, the Atlantic Fleet drafted by General Yi Suifeng formed a small book to be sent to the Imperial Royal Navy Command for deliberation.
According to the plan of General Yi Suifeng, the Atlantic Fleet of the Imperial Qin Royal Navy must have at least five Beijing-class battleships and five Sea Dragon King-class battlecruisers, as well as corresponding light cruisers, destroyers and submarines. The total tonnage is about 10,000 tons.
The plan itself is not a problem. The Atlantic Ocean is no better than the Pacific Ocean. There are traditional spheres of maritime powers in Britain, the United States, Germany and France. The sudden appearance of the Chinese navy on the Atlantic Ocean will definitely cause strong reactions from the great powers of several countries.
The Navy Command was unable to make a decision and transferred the report to the General Staff of the Cabinet. The Chief of Staff of the Cabinet Tian Renjie directly handed the plan to Zhang Yunfei's imperial desk and asked Zhang Yunfei to be the sage.
Putting down the Atlantic Fleet plan that was easy to follow the wind, Zhang Yunfei got up, came to the bed, looked out the window, and stood with his hands behind his back.
Tian Renjie knew that Zhang Yunfei was unable to make a decision, so he asked tentatively: "Your Majesty, Yi Suifeng's Atlantic Fleet plan is too large. There is no need to station ten-class warships in just a Caribbean Sea!"
"No!" Zhang Yunfei said: "Ten-class battleships are only the minimum requirements for the Atlantic Fleet! Yi Suifeng's arrangements are already very reasonable. Five-class battleships and five battlecruisers, he has already considered "Do Mo factor in the Imperial Navy and said happily: "Why does your Majesty mean to agree with Yi Suifeng's plan?"
Zhang Yunfei turned around, looked at Tian Renjie with a smile, and said, "I know you can't help it! However, although I agree with Yi Suifeng's plan, it does not mean that I agree to start construction of more battleships and battle cruisers!"
Tian Renjie was stunned for a moment and asked immediately: "Your Majesty does not approve the construction of this batch of warships, so how can Yi Suifeng get ten-class warships? Is it necessary to draw from the Pacific Fleet?"
Zhang Yunfei nodded with a smile. He did not comment.
"Your Majesty!" Tian Renjie hurriedly said: "There are only two Beijing-class battleships and four Sea Dragon King-class battlecruisers among the battleships that have started construction in the Pacific Fleet, which is not enough for the Atlantic Fleet to use!"
At the beginning, Zhang Yunfei and Du Xigui discussed the construction of four Beijing-class battleships, but they wanted to build four King-class battleships and four battlecruisers for Germany. Therefore, the dock was not enough, so they could only start construction of two Beijing-class battleships and four Sea Dragon King-class battleships.
Germany's large-scale shipbuilding in China made China's docks suddenly tense. Originally, in order to fight against Germany, most of the local docks built warships for the British Royal Navy and could not be built for foreign navals. Therefore, most foreign naval orders were transferred to China. After all, China's naval shipbuilding technology has reached the British level, and even far surpassed the British in design ideas. The storm and the Tianquan-class battleship cruiser are the best proof. Therefore, since then, foreign naval orders have targeted China's shipyards, hoping to obtain advanced warships from the Chinese Navy.
Therefore, the annual naval preparation competition between Britain, Germany and the United States has led to the navies of all countries around the world being trapped in, but it is just because their respective countries have different affordability.
In response to a large number of warship ship orders, China's existing shipyards are no longer enough to bear the demand. Therefore, the Diqin government has successively built more than a dozen large ship heavy industry companies in Tianjin, Dalian, Guangzhou and Fujian, and transferred some non-critical military technology to domestic private ship companies at low prices, giving them international shipbuilding competitiveness and handing over some foreign ships with low technical thresholds to private shipyards to build to promote the national capital exhibition.
China's huge coastline and population have passed the United Kingdom, a island country. Therefore, in just ten years, China has thousands of shipyards of all sizes, three times that of Britain. By the time of World War I, the total tonnage of China's ship industry has exceeded that of Britain, making it the largest shipbuilding country in the world.
The large-scale naval arms race among the great powers has achieved the vigorous development of China's shipbuilding industry. Zhang Yunfei's naval industry, which was originally piled up by money, has withstood the test after this large-scale baptism, and truly turned losses into profits, becoming the Chinese shipbuilding industry that relied on its strength to develop.
With these strengths as the most backing, Zhang Yunfei has more confidence in the outside world.
Thinking of this, Zhang Yunfei smiled and said, "Although our naval shipyard is not enough, there are still many powerful shipyards in our national enterprises. Can we give them the construction of warships?"
Tian Renjie hesitated: "Your Majesty, the Beijing-class battleship and the Sea Dragon King-class battlecruiser are both Imperial Navy secrets. Once a private enterprise is allowed to build the ship, the secrets will inevitably be unable to be guaranteed and may be stolen by foreign countries!"
Zhang Yunfei smiled slightly and said, "What is a country? A country and a family can only be called its family if they are connected together. Have you forgotten our rules at the beginning? When the state-owned enterprises of the Empire have reached a certain level, they will be given to the ministers and citizens who have made contributions to the Empire in the form of shares.
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Only in this way can the empire's national capitalist enterprises be high, the economic strength is strong, and the world can be established. Now, the empire has been in full swing for ten years, and it is time to slowly decentralize it.
Zhang Yunfei continued: "Also, although the overall shipbuilding industry of the empire is getting stronger and stronger, it is the empire's shipbuilding yards. The private shipbuilding yards of the people are still very different from other countries, especially the British shipbuilding yards. If a country really wants to become stronger, it should be assured and bold as the United States, leaving the country's arms and weapons manufacturing to national enterprises. Have you seen any American company that exports their country's core technology to foreign countries? This is the gap. We must absorb the essence and discard the dross."
Tian Renjie nodded and said, "Your Majesty is right! There are many things worth learning from in the United States! But the awareness of the people is not as good as Americans, and the confidentiality of technology is still at a low level!"
Zhang Yunfei smiled and said, "I understand what you mean! But we never believe in the words of the people, so how can the people trust the government? Don't worry, once the empire hand over the design drawings and engineering technology of the class warship to private enterprises, in order to ensure their technological advantages, they will definitely not leak out. Of course, the empire's legislative restrictions are also needed. As long as the empire establishes a national technical confidentiality protection regulations and let these enterprises abide by national laws. Once the law violates the law and exports confidential technology, they will be punished the most severely and will not be able to get involved in the country in the future.
Tian Renjie's eyes lit up. He felt that Zhang Yunfei's kindness and power were perfect, and he deserved to be the emperor's mind.
"Your Majesty is wise!" Tian Renjie said; "How many ships are you planning to build?"
Zhang Yunfei smiled and said, "Two Beijing-class battleships and four Sea Dragon King-class battlecruisers have been started. So in order to show the empire's support for the Atlantic Fleet, we will start construction of three Beijing-class battleships and one Sea Dragon King-class battlecruiser!"
Tian Renjie was stunned, and his feelings were circling around. Zhang Yunfei embezzled all the warships originally built for the Pacific Fleet to the Atlantic Fleet! The address of this site has been changed to: I am so happy, please log in to read it if you delete it!
"Your Majesty!" Tian Renjie asked, "It's all given to the Atlantic Fleet. So what should I do if the Pacific Fleet?"
"It's very simple!" Zhang Yunfei pretended not to understand Tian Renjie's words and replied: "Don't the Pacific Fleet still has one Shihe, five Pangu-class battleships and four heavy cruisers?
Enough?
Tian Renjie smiled bitterly, Banyu! It's enough. No navies in the Pacific region can pose a threat to the Pacific Fleet! Since the United States signed the Hawaii Navy Arms Treaty with China, it has completely shifted its mind to the Atlantic Ocean. The US Pacific Fleet has always been weak and stayed honestly at the San Diego Naval Base.
Tian Renjie said: "Your Majesty, the Guanzhou Gate of the Pacific Fleet has been waiting for a long time, and I have been lying honestly over the years. But I am just waiting for His Majesty to order the expansion of the navy? Now I have finally waited for these class warships, but before I touched them, I was transferred to the Atlantic Ocean.
It will hit the morale of the Pacific Fleet!"
Zhang Yunfei smiled and said, "Don't worry, how do you think Yi Suifeng will select the officers and soldiers of the Atlantic Fleet? If I'm not wrong, when the navy knows that all the new warships will be assigned to the Atlantic Fleet, they will definitely kick the threshold of Yi Suifeng's office! Moreover, that's exactly what Yi Suifeng wants, because in that way, he can pick out the generals and soldiers who cannot stand the most! Then, he will transfer all these officers and soldiers to the Atlantic Fleet!"
Tian Renjie suddenly realized and said, "Your Majesty's method is very wonderful! In this way, all the elite soldiers who screamed will be transferred to the Atlantic Fleet. The remaining officers and soldiers can withstand Ji Bin and stay in the Pacific Fleet with peace of mind!"
Zhang Yunfei smiled slightly, not saying anything.
Tian Renjie continued: "I think your Majesty has something better to give to the Pacific Ship."
"Oh!" Zhang Yunfei looked at Tian Renjie with interest and asked, "How can I see it?"
Tian Renjie smiled and replied: "Your Majesty, please forgive me for your courage to guess your holy intention!"
Seeing Zhang Yunfei nodding, Tian Renjie continued: "Your Majesty, the Pacific Fleet is your starting point. You will not let this old foundation remain low-key, and it will definitely come in handy in the future! Since the end of the war in the empire, you have been reducing your navy! In the eyes of the outside world, your approach is indeed to reduce your armaments just to carry out comprehensive national economic construction. At first I also thought so!"
Zhang Yunfei asked, "What about now?"
Tian Renjie looked at Zhang Yunfei's expression and said slowly: "Your Majesty has always promised that the Navy should not see how good the things in front of you are. You will definitely give the Navy something better in the future! Over the years, Your Majesty's words have been verified. The craftsmanship of the world's warships is almost constantly updated. Many warships are designed to look very powerful, but they are outdated before they are completed! The navy of the great powers can't help but be lonely and keep chasing. He has invested a huge amount of funds, but still can't keep up with the trend of Shanghai warships. Almost many warships have become scrap iron after they are built. Therefore, Your Majesty's practice of not adding ships and cannons to the Navy was undoubtedly the most wisest. However, when Your Majesty gave up the mouth to add ten main ships to the Navy, Weichen even thought that the Navy's Battleship Show had come to an end."
Zhang Yunfei coughed lightly, turned around and returned to Yu: "What about?"
Tian Renjie followed and said, "But now I have denied my previous idea. Naval warships still have room for exhibition, but they are in a short time! Otherwise, if the warships are in full swing, I believe that Your Majesty will immediately order a large-scale shipbuilding operation across the country. At that time, there will be not a few ships, but dozens and hundreds of warships!"
Zhang Yunfei looked up at Tian Renjie. He naturally would not feel happy if someone exposes his thoughts, especially when the emperor was exposed by his ministers.
So he smiled slightly and said, "Renjie! Have made progress!"
Tian Renjie hurriedly bowed and replied, "Thank you for your praise! I dare to understand the holy intentions, and I would like to forgive you!"
Zhang Yunmao smiled and said, "Am I the kind of petty person?"
Then he said: "You are right! The naval warship has not yet come to an end!"
Looking at Tian Renjie's look of anticipation, Zhang Yunfei knew what Tian Renjie wanted to ask him, but he didn't dare to ask directly. So he said: "The current class battleship has been exhibited to 30,000 tons, and the future exhibition space is no longer very large! Such a maritime fortress can reach the maximum of 70,000 tons!"
"Seventy thousand tons?" Tian Renjie took a breath of air conditioning and said to himself: Be good, Your Majesty can actually predict that level. Is this still a human brain? It's like a god descending to earth!
Then he asked: "Your Majesty, the largest dock in the empire is only 50,000 tons. According to Your Majesty's prediction, the Imperial Navy will have to increase the tonnage of the dock to above 70,000 tons!" If you want to know what happens next, please visit 6 states, and have more chapters, support
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