Zhuge Weidao couldn't help but laugh when he heard Zheng Guoxian mention "Shun Lu".
It's indeed a way... It's not easy for Natalie to go back to Rakshasa's family, she has to go to many places along the way!
The first stop is of course Japan, then the Hawaiian Islands, then Mexico, then Peru, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, the Brazilian Empire, Gran Colombia, then entering the Caribbean, and then wandering around the Atlantic side of the Mexican Empire. If you want to go shopping, of course you have to take a trip to Texas under the rule of Mexico! Therefore, Zheng Guoxian’s suggestion of taking a few boats to Texas along the way is not wrong. It is indeed a way!
After leaving Texas, Zhuge Weidao had to take his fleet on a free voyage along the long coastline of the United States! During the process of free navigation, we also had to visit New York Harbor to show the friendly attitude of the Ming Empire towards the United States of America...
After coming out of New York Harbor, Zhuge Weidao will take his fleet across the Atlantic to sail freely in Europe! Because the Ottoman Empire has closed the Turkic Strait, Zhuge Weidao's fleet cannot enter the Rakshasa Kingdom through the Black Sea. Therefore, he can only take the English Channel to the North Sea and the Baltic Sea... Then he will visit France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Sweden, and Prussia, and then enter the territory of the Rakshasa Empire, along the The coastline of the three Baltic countries entered the Gulf of Finland, and finally docked at the Admiralty Pier in Petersburg.
After completing his "return to his parents' home" visit to Rakshasa, Zhuge Weidao had to take his fleet out of the Baltic Sea, pass through the North Sea and the English Channel, and then enter the Atlantic Ocean. But this time I won’t go to the Americas, but will enter the Mediterranean and visit Portugal, Spain, the French port of Marseille, the Kingdom of Sardinia, the Papal State, the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, the Austrian Empire, Greece... If you still If it exists! Then came Egypt under Ali Pasha, and then left the Mediterranean Sea and entered the Indian Ocean through the Suins Canal.
Of course, when you arrive in the Indian Ocean, there is no reason not to visit the great country in South Asia, the glorious Indian Empire - now is India's highlight moment! All the British Empire's assets in the Indian Ocean, including the Malay Peninsula, were assigned to the Indian Empire. India has suddenly become one of the four major powers in the world that can compete with the Ming Dynasty, Great Britain, and Rakshasa!
After visiting India, Zhuge Weidao will take his fleet through the Strait of Malacca and enter the South China Sea... There is the Ming Dynasty and the United Kingdom, no, it is the frontier of the confrontation with India! It is also the defense area of the powerful Ming Nanyang Fleet. So after entering Nanyang, Zhuge Weidao was at home.
And when I went to Rakshasa, I actually traveled around the world "on the way". Of course, it was not for public expense, but I just took care of a few very important things.
First, of course, it is to help solve the minor problems in Hawaii... The power of the Ming Empire has actually penetrated into the Kingdom of Hawaii very early, but the Ming Dynasty has been a "civilized country" since Queen Wuzhong, and will not roll up its sleeves. reckless.
Therefore, what the Ming Dynasty did in the Kingdom of Hawaii was to invest in infrastructure, build education, develop industries, encourage immigrants (half of them were Korean immigrants), etc. It did not directly send troops to overthrow the Kingdom of Hawaii, nor did it declare the Kingdom of Hawaii to be a Ming Dynasty colony.
According to the wishes of the Ming court, the Ming Dynasty had to help the Kingdom of Hawaii meet the standards for becoming a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, and then the Kingdom of Hawaii would make a request before the Ming Dynasty could agree to accept it as a vassal state.
However, this way of playing civilized people encountered the British Empire and Japan, two barbarians who were disrupting the situation. Both countries "forced their way" into Hawaii, and each occupied several islands in Hawaii and claimed that they had discovered them. Is there any sense in opposing the Ming Dynasty’s invasion of Hawaii?
But now that the Ming Dynasty has completely subdued Japan, the Hawaii problem has naturally been solved. The Japanese troops stationed in Hawaii have become the Ming Dynasty's people, and Britain naturally cannot play anymore. So Zhuge Weidao just sent a Hawaiian Kingdom to supervise the country this time, and then "invited" the small British fleet stationed in Hawaii to leave.
The second is to promote the Ming Dynasty's latest battleships, armored cruisers, cruisers, destroyers, gunboats, airships... Well, no matter how big or small the country is, whether there is a sea or no sea, there is always a suitable one. Moreover, it is cheap and high-quality, provides professional training, fast delivery, and is very trustworthy!
Among them, the battleship Zhuge Weidao wants to promote is of course the Hongwu modified version. The Admiralty of the Ming Dynasty also gave it a very nice name - Hero Class! Quite heroic? Then let’s get some hero-class ships!
If you are short of money and can't afford the hero-class, then you can buy two of the latest 10,000-ton armored cruisers! This kind of armored cruiser is not the planned large light cruiser. The latter requires a high-power oil boiler and a steam turbine. It cannot be built now, and it will not be cheap to build, so it is not suitable as a foreign trade ship. So the Ming Dynasty's shipbuilding engineers built a reduced version of the hero ship, named the Haohan class... If you can't afford heroes, just get some heroes!
The standard displacement of the Hero-class is the same as that of the planned large light cruiser, which is also 12,000 tons. It uses the same power system as the Hero-class. It is a coal-fired boiler that drives a three-expansion reciprocating steam engine. The main engine power is 22,000 horsepower. Because the hull is 6,500 tons lighter, the maximum speed can reach 23 knots.
The armament is 2 240mm main guns, 12 155mm secondary guns, 16 50mm high-level and flat dual-purpose guns, 24 13mm anti-aircraft guns, and 2 450mm torpedo tubes.
The armor thickness is also quite satisfactory, with the armor belt 50-150 mm, the deck 25-75 mm, the turret 150 mm, the command tower 300 mm, and the compartment 125 mm.
The purpose of Ming Dynasty in inventing these two "heroic ships", apart from making money, was of course to deceive the Yingyi... It was to use industrial strength to deceive the Yingyi!
Without steam turbines and oil-fired boilers (kerosene mixed-burning boilers), the "Heroes and Heroes" are basically the top equipment for battleships and armored cruisers in this era. This is the highest level that Great Britain, the world's second industrial nation, has been able to achieve in the past two years... warships that burn briquettes and use steam engines have a standard displacement of 20,000 tons, which is almost the maximum level, that is, a hero ship. standard. If you want to run faster, you have to reduce the protection and firepower to save weight. That is the Haohan-class armored cruiser.
And this kind of top-of-the-line battleships and armored patrols should have been important weapons for a great country and a treasure to protect the country.
As a result, Ming Dynasty held a big sale... Doesn't this mean that a few countries with bad money can catch up with the British Empire in terms of naval equipment level?
Can the Royal Navy not get angry in a hurry? Can you please go ahead and do it quickly?
Wait until the technology of steam turbines and oil-fired boilers (kerosene mixed-fired boilers) matures before destroying warships? Can you afford to wait? If the Ming Dynasty were to sell off "heroes", I am afraid that before the technological breakthroughs of steam turbines and oil-fired boilers (kerosene mixed boilers) used by British ships, the English Channel would be owned by the French, Prussians, and Rakshasa people. "Heroes and good men".
How can the British monarch quarrel with others?
So the British must bite the bullet and follow up! If we don't follow up and wait for their oil-fired boiler (kerosene mixed-fired boiler) technology breakthrough, the British Empire will be overthrown by Louis XVII... Haha, land in England and avenge France's hundreds of years of hatred , this is going to be done, Louis XVII will be directly promoted to Louis the Great, and he will not have to worry about Bonapartists, Republicans, or Orleans faction in this life.
However, the Ming Dynasty does not need to rush to build "Heroes and Heroes" ships. It can use the expanded production capacity for foreign trade ships first, and build a few "Heroes and Heroes" itself, mainly relying on "old, broken, and small" ships. Give it a try first. When the steam turbines and oil-fired boilers are completely completed, we can directly build 30,000-ton battleships, 30,000-ton battlecruisers, and 20,000-ton aircraft carriers... Isn't this a flying dragon riding the face? This is a sure win!
Zhuge Weidao couldn't help but feel proud when he thought of this sure win, because...this game was figured out by him, Zhuge Weiyi, and Zhuge Weyong together.
"Okay!" Zhuge Weidao said with a smile, "Next autumn, let's go to Mexico together! But... the fleet is fast, can your ship keep up?"
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Chapter 191 Return to my parents’ home, travel around the world, sell warships, and trick Ying Yi! Free to read.
