Beijing City, Admiralty Department, Shangshu Hall.
Today is the day for another arms conference. Although some easing news came back from Europe, the British's "fraudulent submission" could not deceive Zhuge's military advisers who were able to calculate in the Ming Dynasty.
And... the main purpose of Ming Dynasty in launching this world war was to seize British Malaya, Dutch East Indies, Spanish Southern Luzon, British Southern Continent, and British Oregon, and to break up and unify Great India and others only accomplished the capture of British Malaya. How could the war be ended?
Therefore, the research, development and production of armaments must not be relaxed!
However, the rhythm of this world war is obviously different from the two world wars in another timeline. It is much slower, and they will also talk while fighting, giving the opponent a "surrender and lose half" or "negotiate and win". 30%" possibility.
After all, the distance between the two sides is too far, and it is impossible for them to send a large number of armies there. Therefore, there is no possibility of completely conquering the opponent in one go. The main purpose of both sides fighting this war is to compete for or defend overseas territories. From this perspective, this world war has more imperialist war elements than the two world wars combined!
In addition, Britain and Ming Dynasty both had two very important "small goals" they wanted to achieve in this war. That is the problem of India and the United States.
Britain obviously wanted to use this war to turn both India and the United States into its reliable "son states." With the help of these two "son countries", the weakness of the British mainland's narrow territory and too small population will be made up for. Even if Britain loses Australia and Malacca in this war, as long as the two "son countries" have Well, there will definitely be a chance for revenge in the future!
Ming Dynasty's goals for India and the United States are of course opposite to those of the United Kingdom. For India, Ming Dynasty's goal is liberation...complete liberation. All countries in India must "resolve all their needs," and at least twenty or thirty "little Indias" must be liberated!
If this goal is not achieved and the Indian Empire, with a population of 200 million and several million square kilometers of land, does not eventually disintegrate, then within a hundred years, a great India with an entire South Asian subcontinent and a population of more than one billion will pose a real threat to the Ming Dynasty. The threat...
For the United States, Ming's methods are of course Americans' favorite "containment", "weakening" and "proxy war"! Moreover, Ming Dynasty is also preparing to let the American people's old friend "Old Mo" and the Japanese devils teach them how to cherish peace and stay away from war.
But it is honestly not easy to teach Americans to love peace and stay away from war. In particular, this generation of Americans has just happened to be in a good era of their country's "abuse of food" and rapid expansion on the North American continent. Their level of bellicosity is probably far greater than that of the 21st century American empire that has already dominated the world in another timeline. . Just looking at the resume of current US President Andrew Jackson, you will know that it will be difficult to deal with him.
The founder of the American Democratic Party was born in 1767. He joined the American Revolutionary War at the age of 13 and joined the American Revolutionary War. After the war, he studied law, became a lawyer, and engaged in politics. He became a member of the House of Representatives and the Senate of Tennessee. and state high court judge, and became a commander of the Tennessee militia in 1801, and began to gain success by attacking Indians in Tennessee.
Beginning in 1813, Andrew Jackson led the federal army onto the battlefield. First, he led the Creek War, violently defeated the indigenous Creek Indians, and seized 92,000 square kilometers of land. In 1815, he led troops to fight in the Battle of New Orleans, defeating the British army and preserving New Orleans, which he bought at a low price from Napoleon. After fighting the second Anglo-American War, Andrew Jackson turned his attention to fighting the Indians, led his troops to start the Seminole War, and also took the opportunity to occupy Spanish Florida - Florida was conquered by his troops! After capturing Florida, he became the first governor of Florida and returned to politics.
By 1828, this Democratic Party ancestor with great military exploits, grabbing nearly 250,000 square kilometers for the United States, and killing an unknown number of Indians (anyway, there were no Indians on the land he grabbed) was still Successfully elected as the 11th President of the United States.
In the original timeline, there were two things he did most successfully during his tenure as president. First, a large number of Indians living in the eastern and central United States were forcibly moved to the western United States, leaving them to fend for themselves; second, they encouraged Texas to become independent from Mexico... Although it was motivated by the "slavery and abolition struggle" "The United States did not annex Texas immediately, but that was already a done deal.
And Andrew Jackson was able to accomplish so many things in opening up new territories and exterminating and expelling Indians. He couldn't do it by himself alone. He had to be followed by more than 10 to 20 million Americans who all had guns. Only by being ruthless together can the United States of America continue to expand to the size it is today, just like eating baking powder.
If no one can stop them, the United States will continue to expand in the next few decades until it becomes a complete entity that "embraces two oceans."
At that time, the United States will be the truly chosen country!
Therefore, for Ming Dynasty, the two small goals of "liberating" India and teaching the United States to love peace must also be completed!
Therefore, at today's arms meeting, Zhuge Weidao, who was going to Pearl Harbor to take office in a few days, took out a copy of the "Texas Maritime Self-arms Preparedness" carefully prepared by him and his staff - the so-called Dezhou Haizi is actually the Caribbean detachment of the Pacific Fleet of the Ming Navy, so the Ming Dynasty is responsible for armaments and funding, and Japan only needs to send out Japanese invaders.
But how to equip this "self-defense fleet" made Zhuge Weidao and others think a lot.
First of all, the power of the "Texas Sea Self" cannot be too strong. It is not that it is worried about losing its tail, but that the industrial foundation in Mexico is too poor to maintain too many good warships.
Secondly, Zhuge Weidao did not want the "Texas Sea Self" to beat the United States to a black face in one or two attacks. Because then there would be no "U.S. threat theory". Without the U.S. threat theory, Mexico and Gran Colombia would have no "anti-American demand." There is no need for the Grand Canal or the anti-American package.
In the end, because time was too tight, there was no time to build new ones, so we had to renovate and rebuild the old ships that had been eliminated by the Ming Navy and relegated them to the second tier.
"Aircraft-carrying frigate... This is modified from the Liaodong class. The Liaodong class was originally a training aircraft carrier. It was actually put into combat to respond to emergencies. Now the Shijo Shuzhongwang class has been put into service. There are also Nandao class which are also based on The first ship of the Taiwan-class aircraft carrier, which has a developed hull and is equipped with a straight-through and angled deck, has also undergone sea trials. Therefore, Hainan Airlines can just keep one Liaodong to train pilots, and the other two ships can be converted into aircraft-carrying frigates and re- Named Akagi and Kaga respectively."
In the Auditorium of the Ministry of the Navy, Zhuge Weidao was holding a baton, lighting up the two "frigate models" placed on the long conference table, and introducing the "Sea Special Ship" to the naval armaments committee members attending the meeting. Condition.
Zhuge Weidao went on to say: "These two frigates are just the first batch of frigates to join the Dezhou Haizi. There will be four more frigates of the same model joining the Dezhou Haizi. They will be named Canglong, Feilong, and Rui. He, Xianghe... a total of six frigates, forming the main force of the Dezhou Sea!
Cooperating with these six frigates are armored torpedo destroyers converted from our Guogong-class armored cruisers... The 210mm main gun will be retained, and the turrets will be transformed into torpedoes. On the launch pad, three 450 mm steam gas torpedoes are installed. This kind of firepower is enough to protect the aircraft-carrying frigate from being attacked by enemy light ships.
We hope to equip each of the six aircraft-carrying frigates with two armored torpedo destroyers, thus forming a fleet size of 6 plus 12. Not too big, not too small, just right. "
