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Chapter 1197 Stand up, Royal Navy (Second update, please subscribe)
On the other side of the ocean in Britain, 10 Downing Street.

Britain has changed its prime minister!

The replaced Prime Minister, Robert Gascoigne-Cecil, is a typical imperialist.

While the Prime Minister has always been hostile to the Ming Empire's "usurpation" of its African colonies from the British Empire, that's about it.

After all, in the final analysis, the world speaks by strength. When the Ming Dynasty was in full swing to seize the African colonies, Britain was not prepared for such a thing at all.

So much so that in the end, they could only watch helplessly as the Ming Empire seized the African colonies, so what if they protested?
This world has always been realistic, so the so-called protests are ignored by no one at all, even the so-called public laws of all nations are not as good as a few bombs.

But now, Cecil, who has ascended to the position of prime minister, naturally focuses on plundering the colonies in diplomacy.And this, not surprisingly, encountered a new problem.

"Is this the best battleship and armored cruiser in the world?"

Robert Gascoigne Cecil frowned at the report that had come with the Secretary of the Admiralty.

"Yes, they are the best!"

“Best so far”

The Lord of the Admiralty, the Earl of Northbrook, said

"...this ship uses two twin 12-inch gun turrets, but also four 9.2-inch twin gun turrets, and the armor it uses is currently the world's best nickel steel armor, plus the new mixed firing Boiler, although it adopts a lot of new technologies, this battleship is undoubtedly extremely mature in technology... Four secondary main gun turrets are arranged on the left and right sides of the battleship. Compared with ordinary battleships, the whole ship has more The firepower of eight 4-inch main guns with a diameter of 45 times is very powerful!"

The Earl of Northbrook showed a longing expression while talking. What he wanted was not to build two ships for fun, but to build dozens of them.

"Count, based on the current situation of the Royal Navy, how many similar warships do we need to regain control of the sea?"

Cecil asked, frowning.

Take control of the sea again!

This was the decision Cecil made after becoming Prime Minister. For those who intend to further expand overseas colonies, he needs a powerful navy to escort his colonial policy.

"Your Excellency, in the past ten years, the Royal Navy's sea power seems to be strong, but in fact, many of our technical fields have been surpassed by the Ming Empire and even the United States!"

The Earl of Northbrook said with a serious face.

"What we need is a sea force that not only leads in tonnage, but also in technology. The Royal Navy must retake the ocean!"

"Yes, the Royal Navy must retake the seas!"

Nodding slightly, Cecil asked back.

"Then can we regain the highest level in technology? If I remember correctly, our company seems to have imported a lot of technology from Daming, don't we have those technologies ourselves?"

"We can indeed research some technology by ourselves, of course we can research it, but not now, not three months later, not even one year later, but at least two years later! So in order to ensure that the Royal Navy does not lag behind the Imperial Navy in terms of technology, The introduction of technology has become the only option.”

"Who can believe that the shipbuilding technology of the British Empire will lag behind that of the Ming Empire?"

Frowning, Cecil sighed.

"Yes,"

said the Earl of Northbrook,

"In the past ten years, when we were hesitant in the face of new technologies, the Ming Empire decisively adopted a large number of new technologies, even new technologies that have not yet begun to be tested, they also decisively adopted them! But what about us? We are only improving on the basis of old technology, which seems to be very safe, but in fact, your Excellency, in the past ten years, through the continuous adoption of new technologies, the shipbuilding of the Ming Empire Technology and related technologies have left us far behind. Even the United States has made great progress in technology through the maritime arms race with the Ming Empire, but we are conservative, and we don’t even have much progress. Now being surpassed by the Ming Empire is nothing more than normal."

"This is simply unimaginable," Cecil said, frowning.

"Ten years ago, they still needed to purchase warships from the British Empire, but now they have completely surpassed us!"

"Your Excellency the Prime Minister," William White answered the British Prime Minister's question,
"Da Ming's naval ships and their scientific research and development have always followed a routine. It is said that they began to implement it as early as 20 years ago. That is, one generation in service, one generation in development, one generation in pre-research, and one generation in exploration... so that the advancement from generation to generation is guaranteed. their technological leadership."

Almost everyone is an expert on Ming issues!

In 1885, if one did not study the technicians of the Ming Dynasty, one would not be a competent technician. Before becoming the director of naval shipbuilding, William White even made a special trip to the Ming Dynasty and had a certain amount of research on the Ming Empire.

William White went on to say:
"As early as in the construction of the "Youzhou class", they adopted many advanced technologies, and now, they not only apply some of the mature technologies on the "Youzhou class" to their new generation of battleships, but they also start to develop new Technology, in the past ten years, they have ensured their technological leadership by continuously building new warships and experimenting with new technologies on warships. This is an advantage that we do not have. After all, compared to Adopting new technology, the Royal Navy always has to go through a lot of debate when it comes to new technology."

When he said these words, William White looked at the Earl of Northbrook again. The Earl just sighed, and then nodded—the Royal Navy is conservative, so conservative that it responds extremely slowly to new technologies. Every time a new technology is adopted, it needs to go through a lot of debate, and the battle lasts for several years, or even more than ten years. In short, a certain technology must be extremely mature before it is adopted.

"In the future, our warships will also adopt the most advanced new technologies!"

Cecil said directly.

"And we need to build a more powerful sea force, Earl, tell me what you think."

The Earl of Northbrook said directly:
"Prime Minister, I think the Royal Navy needs to be augmented with a two-power standard."

"Two strong standards?"

"The size of the Royal Navy is equivalent to the combined naval power of the Ming Empire and France!"

The Earl of Northbrook's answer surprised Cecil:

"Equivalent to the combined sea power of the Ming Empire and France, my God, is this possible?"

The reason why Cecil was so surprised was that the standard of the "two powerful navies" confirmed in history with his support was nothing more than the sum of France and Russia, but now both France and Ming are far more powerful than stronger in history.

"Your Excellency, if we want to regain control of the ocean!"

said the Earl of Northbrook,
"Then that's what we have to pursue, we have to build a Royal Navy that's much bigger than the two."

(End of this chapter)