Nanhua can build warships that are no worse than Britain!
Regarding Zhu Xianhai's statement, Edward Thornton seemed to be telling a joke.
How many countries in the world can build warships now?
Nanhua...can build warships.
Of course they can build warships. After the British banned the export of warships to South China a few years ago, they began to build warships themselves.
It's just that the tonnage of the warships they built was slightly less.
But will they build large warships?
"Any navy with a little bit of enterprising spirit will buy battleships, Your Excellency!"
Lieutenant Colonel Seymour said.
Edward Hobart Seymour was a naval officer who participated in the Crimean War and the Second Opium War under the command of his uncle Michael Seymour. After the signing of the Treaty of Peking
, he once cruised the Yangtze River with the fleet and visited Tianjing, the capital of the Taiping Rebellion. In 1862, he fought against the Taiping Army in Zhejiang and participated in the battles to capture Ningbo and Jiading.
After returning to England in 1863, he served as a staff officer under his uncle who was the commander of the Portsmouth Navy. Later he became a captain and commanded a gunboat. A month ago, he came to Buenos Aires - because he was familiar with it.
China, and can even speak some simple Chinese.
It seems that he really had a "fate" with China. Decades later, he would be the commander-in-chief of the Eight-Nation Allied Forces.
Now, because he understands China well, he has been sent to Nanhua, but this side is definitely different from the Qing side.
"I believe they will definitely buy combat ships! Your Excellency."
Then Seymour said again in a skeptical tone.
"As for manufacturing? It will take at least another twenty years!"
Are battleships that easy to build?
There are few countries in the world that have the technology to manufacture combat ships.
But just a week later, when Seymour was invited to Nanhua, he was in the Nanhua Shipyard and looked at the battleship that had begun to lay the keel. He looked shocked and said after a while.
"Are you sure you want to make it yourself?"
"Captain Seymour, after the "Shanxi Incident" and the British ban on selling warships to us for no reason, we have no other choice."
Standing next to him, Li Xuelin, the commander of the Coast Guard, pointed to the keel that had been rolled out and introduced.
"We have built merchant ships with a displacement of 13,000 tons. Our shipbuilding capabilities are second to none even in Europe. The warships we are building now only have a displacement of 7,000 tons."
7,000 tons, okay, okay, only 7,000 tons.
Seymour said to himself in his heart.
In fact, according to the design instructions, the displacement is only 6,800 tons, and its main armor is only 305 mm, deck armor is 76 mm, and the command tower is 160 mm. This warship designed by Ruanda drew on this from the beginning of the design
The most advanced combat ship design of the era.
"...In order to obtain good defense, we adopted a special construction plan. Its two turrets are located on the bulge of the hull and are arranged diagonally. The port turret is closer to the ship than the right turret and is located in the armored fort.
corner. This makes it the most heavily protected armored fort, with a maximum armor thickness of more than 300 mm."
"What? 300 millimeters! Its tonnage is only 6800 tons! This, how is this possible!"
As a naval officer, he obviously did not believe that such a small displacement could have such thick armor. This was simply unimaginable.
Are they bragging?
Seymour's surprise fell into Li Xuelin's eyes, but what he got in exchange was just a kind smile.
The reason why this can be achieved is the adoption of a "special construction plan", that is, the "Central Ironclad Fort". This plan was first proposed by the commander-in-chief. That day he took Lu An to the commander-in-chief and introduced it.
his design plan.
Feeling proud, his thoughts went back to a few months ago, when he took Lu Anda to the commander-in-chief and recommended the warship he designed to the commander-in-chief.
"Unlike any other South American country, South China has extensive maritime interests, not because of how many overseas interests we have, nor because of our colonies in Central Africa, but because of its lifeline!"
lifeline!
Standing in Zhu Xianhai's office, Luanda pointed out the lifeblood of Nanhua like a newborn calf.
"The Congo River of the Central African Company is not important. It is just a coffee plantation at most. Alaska in the Arctic is also not important. It is just some canned fish and meat. Maybe they will bring considerable economic benefits to South China, but then
So what? Is it important to Nanhua?"
Is it important?
It depends on how you look at this issue. The China-Africa Company can bring a large amount of rubber, coffee, palm oil, sisal and other tropical crops to South China every year. In Alaska, although there have not been more than 4,000 Chinese immigrants until now, local fish and meat
The output value of canned goods has exceeded 5 million silver dollars. The economic returns brought by these two places are extremely considerable!
But are they the lifeblood of Nanhua?
Obviously not.
What is the lifeblood of Nam Hwa?
Ruanda walked to the map and drew a line between China and South China with his hand.
"From China to Nanhua, the entire Pacific Ocean, this is the lifeblood of Nanhua. The future of Nanhua does not depend on how many colonies we open up, nor how much territory we occupy, but on how many Chinese people there are on this land!"
But it depends on how many Chinese people there are in this land!
Although Luanda's words were not thunderous, his views were surprisingly consistent with Zhu Xianhai's.
"There are 1.5 million Chileans in Chile and 1.5 million in Argentina. The total of the two is 3 million. Don't talk about Indians or mixed-race people. They are all not Chinese. They are not of my race. Their hearts must be different. We think
To rule this land forever, we must rely on ourselves and the Chinese people. Now South China seems to have more than 4 million Chinese immigrants, but how is this enough? Just in the area we currently occupy, there are 3 million non-Chinese immigrants.
There are at least 15 to 6 million outsiders living in Peru, Venezuela, Brazil, Colombia, and Ecuador. Do we want to rule them? How to rule?"
As early as when he was studying in the UK, Rwanda was influenced by the colonial ideological trend of European countries at that time and determined that South China's future lay in external expansion. After all, in this world of tigers and wolves, there was never a place for the weak to survive.
Either become the strong one and prey on the weak ones, or you become a fish on the board and let everyone eat you!
"People! In the final analysis, they are still people! We need a large number of immigrants to dilute the population of South American countries. We need at least 30 million immigrants to change the population composition here. We must change from a minority to a majority, and eventually become an absolute majority. Except
There is no other choice, and this also means that Nanhua’s lifeline is..."
Once again, he drew a line on the map with his hand, and Ruanda said in an emotional tone.
"It is the Pacific Ocean. Only by mastering the Pacific Ocean can we have a future and obtain sufficient immigrants without any obstacles! The Pacific route - yes, it is the real lifeline of South China! It is the lifeblood of South China! The future lies there!"
This chapter has been completed!