1825 My New Daming

Chapter 195 Daming Made a Serious Mistake! (ask for subscription, ask for monthly pass)
10 Downing Street, UK.

The UK has changed its prime minister again!

But this time the Prime Minister who was replaced was not lifted from the Prime Minister's throne, but stood up and left by himself.However, the reason for his resignation has nothing to do with the aggressive Ming Dynasty. The reason for his resignation is the "Catholic Liberation Issue" in Britain. It is the issue of whether Catholics and Protestants are equal!

This matter is actually a problem in the "high, large, and upper" British Isles!More than ten years after Nahuang swept across Europe and sent the idea of ​​freedom and equality all the way to Rakshasa, British Catholics are still legally discriminated against!The three prime ministers (Jenkinson, George Canning and Robinson) who advocated giving Catholics a more equal status all had to choose to back down because of too much opposition.The Robinson cabinet, which was fundamentally unstable in power, simply had to resign because of the division within the Tory Party caused by this issue. The person who replaced him as prime minister was accompanied by the former Indian emperor Akbar II from India The Duke of Wellington returned from the Empire.

Although the duke did not dare to send troops to Peshawar to fight against Xiwang Wuzheng in the end, he did meritorious service in helping Prince William usurp the throne legally.

Therefore, King George IV of the United Kingdom made a rare return to the Lord, suggesting that there should be no leader, and the Tory MPs who refused to hand over the power to the opponent Whig supported the Duke of Wellington, who had a weak partisan color but at the same time had extremely high prestige. Become prime minister and clean up the mess of the moment.

The Duke of Wellington, who sat on the throne of prime minister as he wished, encountered a new accident as expected.

And this unexpected event is that the Ming Empire is selling off the best battleships and armored cruisers in the world!
"This, this, is this the best battleship and armored cruiser in the world?" The Duke of Wellington frowned as he looked at the report sent by the Secretary of the Admiralty, the First Sea Lord and the Permanent Secretary of the Admiralty.

"It's a pity they are the best!"

“Best so far”

"Especially the hero class. Except for the radio station that is only available in the high-end version, this ship does not use any cutting-edge technology, no steam turbines, no fuel oil or mixed-fired boilers, and no piggyback turret layout. But this battleship However, the mature technology has been brought to the extreme, and it has also demonstrated super strong quality control and integration capabilities. According to secret reports from envoys from France, Prussia, the Netherlands, Austria and other countries who boarded the ship, the workmanship of this battleship is excellent and exquisite. Like a handicraft. The hull is smooth and simple, very beautiful.

The noise from the main engine during sailing is not too loud, and it is very calm.The black smoke from the chimney is not too big.It ran at a speed of more than 22 knots at extreme speed, 2 knots faster than the estimated maximum speed, which also shows that the boilers and steam engines of the Hero are all superior in performance!

这条英雄号战列舰还拥有6个主炮炮塔的布局在战列舰的左右两舷布置了4个主炮炮塔，全舰拥有6座双联280毫米的45倍径主炮火力强大啊！”

Earl Nelson showed a greedy expression while talking, and almost asked Wellington for some funds to buy two boats for fun.

"Count, with the current strength of the Royal Navy, can we defeat it?" Duke Wellington asked with a frown.

"Difficult, very difficult, very, very difficult!" Earl Nelson shook his head again and again with a serious face, "Count, this is not someone's bluff, but the most real strength of the Ming Dynasty Navy and shipbuilding industry!"

"Can't we build this kind of ship?" The Duke of Wellington asked back.

"Of course we can make it. But not now, not three months later, not even two years later, but at least three years later!"

"It takes that long?" Duke Wellington frowned.

"Yes," Earl Nelson said, "we haven't even started the design yet! Although we can improve on the Sovereign Class, even if a battleship with a standard displacement of nearly 2 tons does not adopt too many new technologies, It also takes one year to design. It takes almost two years for the first ship from the laying of the keel to the completion of the outfitting. So the fastest, we have to wait until three years before we can get a large number of [-]-ton monarch power upgrades available. Arrived At that time, Daming is afraid."

"But Daming is selling this kind of hero everywhere now." Duke Wellington frowned. "What does this mean? Could it be that they have such a large production capacity that they can meet both domestic and international demand?"

"Mr. Prime Minister," George Elliot took over the British Prime Minister's question, "Da Ming's naval ship research and development has a practice, which is said to have been practiced since the time of King Zhuge Wuzhong. That is to serve one generation, develop one generation, and pre-research one generation." , Exploring one generation. Rolling forward from generation to generation.”

This Yilu turned out to be an expert on Ming issues in the British Navy!He has done a lot of research on Ming's military development route.

George Elliot went on to say: "Since they have put the Hero class into production, it means that the development of a battleship a generation ahead of the Hero class has already started, and it is very likely that they have made quite good progress, and may be about to go into production.

In addition, it is impossible for the first generation of battleships of the Ming Dynasty Navy to have only one project, but to promote multiple projects at the same time. Some projects are more radical, while others are more conservative.They also pit several projects against each other and choose the best. "

"The hero class is the best of several items?" Duke Wellington asked.

"Probably not. This heroic class obviously adopts a conservative design idea, which is to protect the base of the radical route. The reason why Ming Dynasty exports a large number of heroic class to the outside world means that battleships better than the heroic class have been completed or are about to be completed. Research and development!
It could be a battleship of the same generation as the Hero, but taking a radical route. It could also be a battleship that is a generation ahead of the Hero.But no matter what, it is impossible for the Ming Dynasty Navy to equip a large number of Heroes and Heroes.This is also the practice of the Ming Dynasty. The main ship type for personal use is not exported until it is outdated, and the exported ship type is rarely used for personal use. "

The Duke of Wellington looked at Earl Nelson again, and the Earl just sighed and then nodded—the old man looked at the battleship he was envious of, but Da Ming didn't like it.

"Then what is the purpose of exporting a large number of hero grades?" Duke Wellington asked.

Viscount Palmerston, Minister of the Navy, said: "Prime Minister, I think they are handing knives to France and Rakshasa. Especially to Rakshasa, they want to encourage Rakshasa to march into Constantinople and become Eastern Rome! "

Wellington frowned: "But haven't we agreed to attack the Turkish Empire together? We also agreed to the marriage of Princess Victoria and Duke Alexander."

"But we are still not ready to launch an attack together!" Viscount Palmerston said, "And the British munitions and French Bonapartists are still entering Constantinople. I believe the Tsar will not be ignorant. "

Of course, Britain would not agree to Rakshasa taking Constantinople unless it had no other choice.And Britain's delaying policy has been implemented, of course, it will make the Tsar feel impatient.And Nicholas I was not a fool, of course he could see what Britain was thinking.And the reason why he didn't do it alone, of course, was because he was afraid of the British navy.

"Really." The Duke of Wellington pressed his forehead. He now understands why Jenkinson and George Canning fell, and why Robinson resigned.It's really hard to be the Prime Minister of the British Empire!

Just when Wellington was thinking about whether he should follow Robinson's example of "resigning in advance", Viscount Palmerston suddenly changed the subject and said with a smile: "Prime Minister, I think the practice of the Ming Empire selling battleships and armored cruisers , actually completely wrong, they made a serious mistake!"

"Error? What error?"

"Time window. They gave us a time window to beat them!"

(End of this chapter)