The second thousand one hundred and ninety-two chapters continue to lose the army and navy
He didn't know that he was considered good when he was like this. When Li Xuan was training the prince Li Hao, he just left all the messy chores to the prince Li Hao to handle, and he lived leisurely and happily every day. .
Back then, Li Hao had to squeeze in time for meals!
The current emperor's grandson, Li Hongxu, is only responsible for a small part of the affairs.
Moreover, the current emperor grandson Li Hongxu didn't know that when he returned, the prince Li Hao was already thinking about discussing with his father that it was time to put an extra burden on the emperor's grandson. The cultivation of the emperor's grandson must be strengthened. ah!
Once the many affairs that are pressing on him are divided into parts and handed over to the emperor's grandson, he will be able to have some free time.
After more than twenty years of hard work, I finally made it to the age of the emperor's grandson and successfully graduated. It's time to enjoy the blessings...
Prince Li Hao has always envied his father for being able to live a leisurely life every day!
This is the fucking life that an emperor should live, no, this is the life that a prince should live, instead of being busy all day long...
However, even with the emperor's grandson sharing the burden, the prince Li Hao was still very busy, because at this time, Li Xuan simply handed over all daily affairs to Li Hao.
They even directly gave him the title of Prince Supervisor of the Country!
Well, now Li Xuan has been staying in the palace, but he has let the prince supervise the country!
To put it bluntly, Li Xuan no longer intends to actually handle government affairs, and will transfer all the responsibilities to the prince.
The prince Li Hao was also a ruthless person. After seeing his father being lazy further, he quietly handed over a mess of affairs to the emperor grandson in the name of exercise, letting him share the pressure.
Well, father and son go into battle. Faced with the complicated daily government work, Li Hao felt that the emperor's grandson, as his eldest son, had the responsibility and the obligation to help his father share the burden!
With Chen Lifu's appointment, the empire entered a period of considerable balance. Peng Zhifu knew that he was a transitional foreman, and he continued many of the policies of Chen Lifu's era in policy implementation.
He just wanted to spend the last one or two years of his official career in peace, and had no intention of making troubles, nor did he have the strength to make troubles.
As a result, the empire has calmed down in the past year or two, and externally it has continued to carry out immigration and development in Europe and the Indian Peninsula.
Internally, economic development was still the main focus. If there was any disturbance, it was in the 55th year of Xuanping that the empire launched its first battleship Jiangnan with a displacement of more than 20,000 tons.
Although the Navy keeps boasting about how advanced the new generation Jiangnan battleship is, how powerful its firepower is, and how powerful its combat effectiveness is, outsiders basically don't pay attention except for the internal commotion of the Navy itself.
Some people in the army even ridiculed: Do you plan to use the warship that cost three million Tang Yuan to fight aliens?
There are even a lot of criticisms from the public, saying that the super battleship plan currently being pursued by the Navy is a pure waste of money!
What is the use of the navy's large-tonnage battleships?
Ordinary people know that the biggest role of the Navy's battleships is to cruise in various port cities, and then hold Navy open days for the public to board the ships and watch.
As for fighting, there is no enemy who can fight. You want to talk to me about fighting?
Even if it is a war, wouldn't those old battleships of about 15,000 tons with mature technology and cheap construction cost be good?
Wouldn't it be better to use mature technology and cheaper cruisers, frigates, etc.?
Why do you have to spend millions to build a bunch of 20,000-ton battleships that look advanced, but are useless?
Therefore, the long-awaited 20,000-ton battleship within the Navy became a typical example of the navy being wasted on military expenditures...
However, although outsiders complain, the upper echelons of the empire do not. In fact, the upper echelons of the empire have always supported the army and navy in upgrading their active equipment.
The Army's new rifles, heavy and light machine guns, rapid-fire field artillery, various armored vehicles, combat vehicles and many other plans are being steadily advanced.
The navy's plans for various advanced warships have been steadily advancing.
On the one hand, the upper echelons of the empire have always been worried about overseas territories, especially the Americas. Previously, the upper echelons of the empire, headed by Chen Lifu, even specially launched some kind of global economic integration, trying to completely kidnap the overseas territories such as the Americas economically.
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But even so, they were not at ease, so the upper echelons of the empire tried to use technological advancement to further make it more difficult for overseas territories to rebel independently in the future.
The more technologically advanced weapons and equipment are, the greater their impact on the industrial base. Even if the Americas and other places become independent, it will be difficult to create weapons that can withstand local troops in a short period of time.
This is one of the reasons why the upper echelons of the empire push the army and navy to continuously upgrade their weapons.
As for the other reason, it’s a bit special!
That is, the upper echelons of the empire have always promoted the development of the national defense industry through the purchase of military equipment, which in turn indirectly drives the development of other industries.
To put it bluntly, military procurement in the empire has become a means similar to industrial support, and it is also an important link in the economic cycle of the empire's economic system.
Once the military no longer purchases advanced weapons on a large scale, what will you do to the hundreds of defense companies affiliated to the three major domestic weapons companies? What will you do to the countless steel, mining, machinery, chemical, etc. companies that rely on the three major weapons companies?
What do ordinary businesses eat?
After decades of development, in fact, the military procurement of the Tang Empire was no longer the military's own business.
How should I put it? The military can decide what weapons and equipment are needed, but it is not the military's decision whether to use them or not.
Anyway, your military must spend so much equipment purchase expenses every year, and it has to be spent so much that it’s hard to fault.
The combination of these two reasons prompted the Tang Empire's navy to continuously update its weapons and equipment even though it had few enemies.
Since Xuanping began to equip 10,000-ton battleships in the 30s, after more than ten years of development, as the technology further matured, the Imperial Navy finally began to try the construction and equipment plan of larger and more advanced battleships.
The Jiangnan battleship is a typical case. Its technical characteristics reflect the highest level of the contemporary Tang Empire, and it also represents the most powerful combat power.
The ship's full load displacement reaches 20,000 tons. This displacement is not the key, the key is some technical features.
In terms of firepower, the ship is equipped with five twin-mounted 300 mm 45-caliber naval guns, using a piggyback turret layout of two in the front and three in the rear. However, the artillery itself is not special. The most special thing is that it adopts a newly developed
The unified fire control system enables these large-caliber naval guns to launch salvos and exert the most powerful firepower.
In terms of power, the latest four-cylinder three-expansion reciprocating steam engine is used. It adopts many new technologies, making the total power reach 25,000 horsepower, allowing the ship to run up to 20 knots.
For protection, the latest carburized surface-hardened armor is used, with an armor belt of 260 mm at the end, which has amazing protective power.
After all-round progress has been made in power, firepower, and protection, the Navy proudly claims that after the ship is officially put into service, the combat effectiveness of a single ship will be at least three times higher than that of older warships!
But of course there is no egg...
Not to mention three times, even thirty times, the outside world is still dissatisfied with the Navy's money-burning plan.
More than three million Tang Yuan, which does not include a lot of technology research and development expenses, is not a waste of money!
Compared with the Navy's battleship plan, the outside world seems to be more supportive of the Navy's new cruiser plan and new frigate plan. After all, the empire has such a large territory, and it always needs advanced battleships for defense, and occasionally it needs to travel to Europe and Africa.
, to scare the natives.
The most important thing is that cruisers and frigates are cheap and easy to use!
However, the doubts from the outside world could not make the Navy change its determination, because they have the support of the upper echelons of the empire, and even more support of the prince and the emperor's grandson.
In particular, Prince Li Hao has always stood firmly on the side of the army and navy, and strongly supports the army and navy in continuing to upgrade their technical equipment.
As for the Holy Emperor, the Holy Emperor has not paid much attention to these secular things in recent years. At most, when the Navy wants to build a new battleship, he will make a few requests, such as unifying fire control. As for whether to build it or not, and how much to build,
Now the Holy Emperor is too lazy to care.
With the strong support of the Crown Prince, the Navy submitted the twelfth phase of the naval construction plan and it was approved.
The twelfth phase of the naval construction plan will build ten new battleships, twenty-four new cruisers, and seventy-two new frigates in the next ten years to gradually replace the old ships that have been in service for many years and strive to complete the main fleet within ten years.
Upgrade.
Although the total size of the fleet has not expanded, the successive completion and commissioning of new warships will make the navy's combat effectiveness even more powerful.
In order to continue to strengthen and defend the empire's absolute authority in global waters, and to dispel the potential evil thoughts of any unscrupulous people.
Prince Li Hao promoted not only the construction and replacement of the navy's capital ships, but also the upgrading of the army's weapons.
After completing the replacement of the Joint Type II rifle, Prince Li Hao continued to push the Army to increase the equipment scale of heavy machine guns, and also pushed the Army to start equipping new artillery, cars, armored vehicles, etc.
The scale of heavy machine guns has been greatly improved, and various caliber artillery weapons have been widely equipped. The above two weapons have even been attached to the infantry company level.
At the same time, since last year, Prince Li Hao has begun to promote the army's large-scale replacement of hydraulic artillery.
The Navy has long begun to use hydraulic rapid-fire artillery. However, the early technology was immature and it was difficult for the Army to use it. However, last year, the Army finally came up with the tube-fire artillery.
So I started changing my clothes.
At the same time, the number of equipment for various types of vehicles has also begun to increase year by year. As for tanks, although they are still not good, there are still a lot of armored vehicles. In addition to a few experimental units, the Army has begun to try to equip them with ordinary main forces.
Armored car.
This will further enhance the army's firepower and impact.
The improvement of the military's combat effectiveness, coupled with the upgrading of weapons and equipment, makes it more difficult to imitate, which will make the local area more deterrent in the future!
Prince Li Hao has unswervingly promoted the construction of the army and navy in recent years, which is actually a clear threat to overseas vassal kings: "I am watching you, don't mess around!"