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Chapter 386 The lifeline of Nanhua (third update, please subscribe)
Nanhua can manufacture warships 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 will build warships. After the British banned the export of warships to Nanhua a few years ago, they began to build warships themselves.

It's just that the tonnage of the warships they built is a little less.

But will they build large warships?

"Any enterprising navy will buy battleships, Your Excellency!"

Lieutenant Colonel Seymour said.

Edward Hobart Seymour was a naval officer. He participated in the Crimean War and participated in the Second Opium War under the command of his uncle Michael Seymour. After the signing of the Treaty of Beijing , he once cruised the Yangtze River with the fleet and visited Tianjing, the capital of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. In 1862, he fought against the Taiping Army in Zhejiang and took part in the capture of Ningbo and Jiading.

After returning to England in 1863, he served as a staff officer under his uncle, who was the second naval commander of Portsmouth.Later, he became a captain and commanded a gunboat. He came to Buenos Aires a month ago-because he is familiar with China and can even speak some simple Chinese.

Counting it, he really has a "fate" with China. Decades later, he will be the commander-in-chief of the Eight-Power Allied Forces.

Now, because of his understanding of China, he was sent to Nanhua, but this side is definitely different from the Qing side.

"I believe that they will definitely buy battleships! Your Excellency."

Then Seymour spoke again in a skeptical tone.

"As for manufacturing? At least another twenty years!"

Are battleships that easy to build?
Few countries in the world have mastered the technology of manufacturing combat ships.

But only a week later, when Seymour was invited to Nanhua, he was in the Nanhua Shipyard, looking at the battleship that had already started laying the keel, he was astonished, and he spoke for a while.

"Are you sure you want to make it yourself?"

"Captain Seymour, since the "Shanxi Incident", the United Kingdom banned the sale of warships to us for no reason, and we have no other choice."

Standing beside him, Li Xuelin, the commander of the Coast Guard, pointed to the laid keel and introduced.

"We have built merchant ships with a displacement of 13000 tons. Our shipbuilding capacity is second to none even in Europe. Now the warships we have built only have a displacement of 7000 tons."

7000 tons, okay, okay, only 7000 tons.

Seymour said to himself in his heart.

In fact, according to the design specification, the displacement is only 6800 tons, and its main armor is only 305 mm, the deck armor is 76 mm, and the conning tower is 160 mm.This warship designed by Luanda borrowed from the most advanced battleship design of this era at the beginning of its design.

"...in order to obtain a good defense, we have adopted a special construction scheme, its two turrets are located in the hull swelling and arranged in a diagonal direction, the port turret is closer to the direction of the ship than the right turret, located in the armored bunker This makes it the most heavily protected armored fort, with a maximum armor thickness of more than 300mm."

"What? 300 millimeters! Its tonnage is only 6800 tons! This, how is this possible!"

As a naval officer, he obviously didn't believe that such a small displacement could have such a thick armor, which was simply unimaginable.

They are not bragging!

Seymour's astonishment fell into Li Xuelin's eyes, but all he got was a good-natured smile.

The reason why this can be achieved is that the "special construction plan" is adopted, that is, the "Central Iron Fortress". This plan was first proposed by the general. his design.

While he was proud, his thoughts went back to a few months ago, when he brought Lu An to the commander-in-chief's side and recommended the warship he designed to the commander-in-chief.

"Unlike any other South American country, Nanhua has extensive maritime interests, not because of how many overseas interests we have, nor because of our colonies in Central Africa, but because of the lifeline!"

lifeline!
Standing in Zhu Xianhai's office, like a newborn calf, Lu Anda unceremoniously pointed out where Nanhua's lifeblood was.

"The Congo River of the China-Africa Company is not important. At most it is a coffee plantation. Alaska in the Arctic is also not important, but it is just some canned fish. Maybe they will bring considerable economic benefits to Nanhua, but that So what? Is it important to Nanhua?"

Is it important?
This question depends on how you look at it. The China-Africa Company can bring a large amount of tropical crops such as rubber, coffee, palm oil, and sisal to Nanhua every year. Although Alaska has not had more than 500 Chinese immigrants until now, the local fish and meat The output value of canned food has exceeded [-] million silver dollars.The economic returns brought by these two places are extremely impressive!
But are they the lifeblood of Nam Hwa?

Obviously not.

What is the lifeblood of Nam Hwa?
Lu Anda walked to the map, and his hand drew a line between Huaxia and Nanhua.

"From Huaxia to Nanhua, the entire Pacific Ocean, this is the lifeblood of Nanhua. The future of Nanhua does not lie in how many colonies we open up, nor how many territories we occupy, but how many Chinese people there are on this land!"

It's about how many Chinese people there are on this land!
Although Lu Anda's words were not like thunder, his point of view was surprisingly consistent with Zhu Xianhai's.

"There are 150 million Chileans in Chile, and 150 million in Argentina. The sum of the two is 300 million. Don't talk about Indians or mixed-race people. They are all not Chinese. They are not my race. Their hearts must be different. We think To rule this land forever, we must rely on ourselves and the Chinese people. Now Nanhua seems to have more than 400 million Chinese immigrants, but how can this be enough? There are 300 million non-Chinese people in the area we currently occupy There are at least fifteen or six million outsiders living in Peru, Venezuela, Brazil, Colombia, and Ecuador, and we want to rule them? How?"

As early as when she was studying in the UK, Luanda was influenced by the colonialism of European countries at that time, and believed that the future of Nanhua lay in external expansion. After all, in this world of tigers and wolves, there has never been a place for the weak to survive.

Either become the strong and prey on the weak, or be a fish on the board and let me eat it!
"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 3000 million immigrants to change the population composition here. We must change from a minority to a majority, and finally to an absolute majority. Except There is no other choice, and this also means that Nanhua's lifeline is..."

Draw a line on the map again, and Luanda said in an emotional tone.

"It's the Pacific Ocean. Only by mastering the Pacific Ocean can we have a future and obtain sufficient immigrants without hindrance! The Pacific route—yes, it is the real lifeline of Nanhua! It is the lifeline of Nanhua! The future is here!"

(End of this chapter)