Chapter 625: If you want to be the first in the world
In addition to the three major ports, the four medium-sized ports that the Navy is planning to expand are Beizhou Port, Donghai Port, Xihe Port, and Rey Port.
Beizhou Port is located in Gaoqing Prefecture and is the estuary of Bei'an River in Gaoqing Prefecture. The port is also the most important military and civilian port in the northeastern region of the empire.
Donghai Port is located at the easternmost end of the Jingzhou Peninsula. This port is not an estuary port, but it is also a dual-use port for military and civilian purposes. It is an important strategic support point for the empire to extend to the depths of the endless sea in the east.
Xihe Port is located in Zhongluo Prefecture. It is a coastal port and has no inland rivers. However, the port conditions are superior. It has always been an important port for the empire in the western region. It is also the western terminus of the planned East-West Railway line.
Port Rey, located in Northwest Prefecture, is the estuary of the West Song River. This port city is also the seat of the state capital of Northwest Prefecture.
There are three major and four middle schools located on the east and west coasts of the empire, including ports at the mouth of rivers, some pure coastal ports, some dual-use ports, and some pure military ports.
The Navy plans to expand and upgrade facilities at these seven ports so that they can have the ability to dock, maintain and supply multiple 10,000-ton ironclads.
In addition to port expansion and facility upgrades, the Navy also plans to upgrade and expand various shipyards. At the same time, it hopes that the relevant departments of the empire will introduce a series of policies to support shipyards, such as stipulating that only merchant ships ordered from domestic shipyards can be purchased, etc.
Support the development of various shipyards in the empire.
At the same time, there are also a series of research and development plans for various new technologies, such as the development of more advanced fire control systems, especially more advanced rangefinders, and the development of advanced naval guns, such as 300 mm caliber breech-mounted naval guns, and even
The research and development of breech-mounted naval guns with larger calibers, reaching 350 mm or even 400 mm caliber. The research and development of these large-caliber advanced naval guns requires major relevant factories to carry out design upgrades and research and development in advance. There is no long-term technology
Accumulation is simply not possible, so the Navy believes that it needs to develop relevant plans in advance.
There is also the most important talent training. The Navy hopes to expand the Imperial Naval Academy and recruit more young and promising students to enter the Naval Academy, because the training of naval officers cannot be done quickly and requires continuous training for many years before they can finally become talents.
, therefore related talent training must also be prepared in advance.
The above-mentioned series of port facilities, shipyard development, technology research and development, and numerous measures for talent training have the ultimate goal of building a large-scale fleet.
How huge is it?
In the second phase of the Navy's development plan, the Navy proposed that the Imperial Navy should maintain the ability to respond to threats on the east coast and the west coast at the same time.
How to understand this sentence? When you understand that those guys in the Navy, even offshore ships, are rushing to attack offshore, you will know that when the Imperial Navy talks about responding to threats on the east and west coasts at the same time, it is not about defense, but about defense.
attack!
However, because the east and west coasts of the empire are not connected, they have to pass through the Endless Strait to communicate with each other. Now that the Endless Strait is controlled by the Orissa people, it can easily be blocked during the war. Once the Endless Strait is blocked, the fleets on the east and west coasts will only
We can each fight on our own.
Therefore, the Navy hopes that both the East Coast Fleet and the West Coast Fleet will have the strength to be independent.
If we want the fleets on both the east and west coasts to be able to stand alone, then the total strength of the imperial fleet will basically be the best in the world.
And this is also the true goal of the Navy.
The Imperial Army is the largest in the world in terms of both quantity and strength. Even though the empire has not yet completed actual unification, it is still the largest in the world.
The same goes for the Imperial Navy. Either it will not expand its navy, or it will aim to become the best in the world.
And this is also the consistent tradition of Daheng people. Regardless of other aspects, the numerical advantage must be guaranteed!
The people of Daheng have always used more troops than others to bully others in war. The people of Daheng basically don't do anything like defeating more with less.
The army is like this, and the navy is no exception!
The navy's ambitions are huge, but as others have said, this is only a long-term plan and is not expected to be completed in ten or eight years. Instead, it hopes to achieve this goal through a naval expansion plan that will last for twenty years.
The early plan is to start small, build a small batch of warships to deal with the immediate threats, and at the same time accumulate shipbuilding experience to lay the foundation for building larger tonnage and more advanced warships in the future.
At the same time, taking into account the strength of the navies of the Kingdom of Krul and the Orissa Empire, the empire's own industrial base and military expenditure pressure were also taken into consideration.
The Imperial Navy has formulated a future plan, believing that in the early stage the empire should have eight main battleships, four coastal defense armored ships for domestic waters, a total of twelve large and small cruisers for reconnaissance, and large and small cruisers for overseas escort and cruising.
Six small cruisers.
The above is only the preliminary plan. The Navy also has mid-term plans and late-stage plans.
When the Navy formulated its mid-term plan and later-stage plan, it did not know whether it was careless or not, but it adopted a direct doubling model.
The so-called mid-term plan is to double the initial plan, increasing the number of main battleships to sixteen, coastal defense armored ships to eight, reconnaissance cruisers to twenty-four, and overseas cruisers to twelve.
The later plan is to double the mid-term plan to bring the number of main battleships to thirty-two...
There are thirty-two main battleships, and there are only about twenty main battleships in active service in the Krull Kingdom Navy.
But this is the style of Daheng people. If they don’t fight, if they fight, they will overwhelm their opponents with numbers!
The plan formulated by the Navy is huge, so huge that it can scare a group of people outside to death.
If the Kingdom of Krul knew that the Daheng Empire Navy was planning such a huge naval expansion plan, it would probably not be able to sleep.
Lin Ziran was also frightened by the navy's ambitions. Such a large-scale fleet expansion plan would require massive funds to support it.
Now the Imperial Unification War is not over yet. Even after the war is over, there will be nothing left to do. There are so many places where money is needed, and it will be difficult to spend so much money on a large-scale naval expansion.
Besides, in fact, the empire currently does not have any overseas interests to protect. The empire does not have many overseas colonies, and there is not even much overseas trade. The only ones are grain export trade and weapons export trade. It is not worth the empire to go to war.
A huge navy to maintain.
However, the enthusiasm of the Navy is so high. At the same time, the Navy does not say that it must build dozens of battleships now. Instead, it is divided into three phases: the first, middle and last phases. The navy plan in the early stage is still relatively small.
Even if the navy does not take the initiative, Lin Ziran will continue to promote the construction of the navy and develop a main fleet capable of safeguarding the empire's maritime borders.
Therefore, after careful consideration, Lin Ziran approved the Navy's second phase development plan and asked the Navy to start the preliminary planning of the second phase development plan.
In the next few years, we are preparing to expand the main fleet to eight main battleships, four coastal defense armored ships, 12 large and small reconnaissance cruisers, and six overseas large and small cruisers.