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Chapter 1182 The Royal Navy Still Wants To Be Aquaman (Third Update, Please Subscribe)
Southern African gold investment craze was the most fashionable topic in the London investment circle in 1884. On the London stock exchange, new gold mining stocks were issued every day, and the miracle of skyrocketing was performed every day.

Every day is a day of great miracles.

Gold is the most vulgar pursuit of the world.

This is true whether it is an individual or a country. After all, everyone is a layman.

While the southern African gold investment mania was attracting finance capital from all over London, the British Empire was officially dealing with another matter - the Royal Navy crisis.

The elites of those empires in this era are not those sloppy ones a century and a half later, wishing to turn all warships into welfare coupons and distribute them to refugees, in order to curry favor with the corrupt politicians of the white left. They responded directly and quickly to the crisis.A bill was passed almost immediately to provide the Navy with an additional £310 million for shipbuilding, marking the beginning of an era of rapid expansion for the Royal Navy.

"According to the information we have, the Imperial Navy of the Ming Dynasty has designed a new type of warship based on the results of the "South Pacific Naval Battle". The main gun of this warship is 12 inches or above. The characteristic is that two 2-inch twin turrets are installed on the left and right sides as the secondary main guns..."

At the Navy meeting, William White, the newly appointed Chief Shipbuilding Director of the Admiralty, explained the new warships of the Imperial Navy to the officials of the Admiralty.

"In terms of firepower, a new battleship is almost equal to three battleships—one first-class battleship and two second-class battleships, and its construction cost is far less than three battleships. In naval battles, it has Indisputable firepower advantage, in view of this, I redesigned a warship, it has two 12-inch twin turrets as the first-level main guns and four 9.2-inch twin-link second-level main guns, its firepower will be fierce It will reach unprecedented heights, not only that..."

At William White's will, his assistants unfolded another drawing.

"Armstrong has just successfully tested a new rapid-fire gun with a rate of fire of an astonishing 12 rounds per minute. Although there are currently only 4.2-inch and 6-inch models, Armstrong promises to launch 8-inch and 9.2-inch models within the next two years. Model, then its rate of fire will be several times that of the old-fashioned recoil gun!"

Almost as soon as William White's words fell, someone said excitedly.

"God bless, we finally have our own guns!"

His words immediately aroused a lot of approval. God can testify that the results of the "South Pacific Naval War" really scared the Royal Navy to the ground. It wasn't just the astonishing power of torpedoes that made them doubt the survivability of battleships in naval battles. , and more importantly, the overwhelming advantage of the new tube retreating gun over the racking retreating gun, blinding the eyes of the Royal Navy, and firing ten shots before firing one shot. With such a gap in firepower, I ask you if you are afraid.

The Royal Navy is really scared!

Torpedoes are deadly, rapid-fire guns...even worse.

Adding the two together, it will definitely kill you 3000!

Although the British had imitated the torpedo, the gap in the rapid-fire gun also made them unwilling to eat and sleep.

It’s all right now, our British Empire has finally become bullish again, with torpedoes and rapid-fire guns, let me ask you if Daming is afraid!
"Yes, we already have our own rapid-fire gun!"

Nodding slightly, and then glanced at his assistant, William White said,
"However, we must also see that the naval technology level of the Ming Empire is far ahead of the Royal Navy. In order to catch up, we should not only need new types of battleships, but also new types of cruisers. After all, once war breaks out in the future , we still have vast overseas colonies to protect.”

Confronted with William White's suggestion,

The Earl of Northbrook frowned slightly and said:
"The problem is, right now our funding is limited."

However, it is only 310 million pounds, which is only enough to build four to five new battleships at most.

"Your Excellency, so we need a brand new naval expansion plan, and now the entire British Empire has realized that the Royal Navy is being surpassed."

Glancing at the Earl of Northbrook, William White said:
"Therefore, we need to formulate a naval expansion plan. This expansion plan should be sufficient to ensure that the Royal Navy does not have any opponents on the sea. The premise of implementing this plan is that we need to have a good understanding of the warship design department of the Ministry of the Navy and all naval shipyards in the country. Reform and organizational reorganization were carried out. This became the basis for the subsequent large-scale shipbuilding program."

After becoming Director of Shipbuilding at the Admiralty, William White began to formulate an ambitious plan, the core of which was to enable the Royal Navy to regain control of the sea.

In another world, it is also from next year that the Royal Navy once again sounded the clarion call to march to the sea. In the ensuing half century, the Royal Navy has been advancing in technology and tonnage.Far ahead of the opponent, only Er Dezi challenged before anyone threatened the Royal Navy at sea.

"So how many warships do we need to build?"

The Lord of the Admiralty, the Earl of Northbrook, asked back.

"We need to build at least one million tons of warships!"

William White said directly.

"There are at least 30 battleships!"

When William White's words fell, everyone gasped.

"More than 30 battleships! My God, how long did it take for this expansion plan to be completed?"

"Five years!"

William White immediately replied:

"In order to ensure our superiority at sea, we should complete this plan within five years. It cannot exceed seven years at most!"

Taking a deep breath, William White added.

"And in a few years, we will build more powerful battleships. In my initial conception, what we want to build should be a displacement of 2 to 2.5 tons, with six large-caliber main guns, twelve two A super main gun, a battleship with a top speed of around 6 knots... His appearance will ensure that the Imperial Navy can rule the entire ocean in the next ten years. If there must be a ruler on the ocean, then Only the Royal Navy of the British Empire."

Although William White took great strides!

But as he said, this is the fundamental prerequisite for the Royal Navy to continue to dominate the sea!

As for the construction funds, they don't worry about it. The British Empire attaches great importance to the Royal Navy. Although the advantage of the Royal Navy is losing a little bit, it is also a warning to London.

London will never tolerate the Royal Navy being surpassed by the navies of other countries, and they will definitely support the expansion of the Royal Navy.

As for technology... It doesn't matter that the British Empire is now behind the Ming Empire in certain technologies.

"So we have no technical problems?"

The Earl of Northbrook asked worriedly.

"We have been surpassed by the Ming Empire in terms of large-caliber artillery technology. Since we are building new types of warships, it is definitely impossible to use old ones."

"This one……"

William White said.

"Hopefully Ming can transfer some technology, at least some technology to their allies. I don't think that's a problem, and then we can get these technologies from them."

(End of this chapter)