1825 My New Daming

Chapter 174 The Prime Minister Must Stand Up! (ask for subscription, ask for monthly pass)

10 Downing Street, UK.

A very crucial cabinet arms meeting is underway.

And the protagonist of today's meeting is not Prime Minister George Canning, nor is it the new Lord of the Navy, Viscount Palmerston, nor is it Earl Nelson who has just returned from India to take up the post of First Sea Lord, but has accumulated rich experience in naval battles. George Elliot, who was beaten and failed in air defense battles, and experienced in air raids and sneak attacks, was unanimously recommended by Earl Nelson and Viscount Palmerston to serve as the Permanent Secretary of the Admiralty because of his rich and valuable experience in defeating battles.

This British cabinet secretary and permanent secretaries of various ministries are not ordinary "little secretaries", but high-ranking secretaries!Because today's UK implements a responsible cabinet system, the majority political party in the House of Commons is responsible for forming a cabinet, and sometimes a coalition cabinet is also formed.However, no matter what kind of cabinet formation method, it is inevitable that there will be situations where laymen lead experts.For example, the current British Navy Minister, Viscount Palmerston, does not know much about the navy, so he must have a group of experienced professionals or professional bureaucrats to assist him.And the permanent secretaries of the ministries are responsible for leading these experienced professionals or career bureaucrats!
However, the power of the Permanent Secretary of the Admiralty is much smaller than that of the permanent secretaries of other ministries (excluding the Ministry of War, of course).

Because the Ministry of the Navy also has the first and second sea ministers, who are responsible for the command and training of the navy, and have a great say in equipment and personnel issues.Moreover, the permanent secretaries of the Ministry of the Navy are all active-duty soldiers, and the first sea minister is served by the highest-ranking naval officer in the British mainland!

Therefore, the first sea minister is the end point of the Royal Navy officers' promotion, and the permanent secretary of the Admiralty is just a ladder on their way up, so the permanent secretary of the admiralty is changed more diligently than the secretary of the navy.

And for George Elliot, who was humiliated and defeated in Japan before, it was the last chance to save his career.

If he cannot assist and coordinate the Secretary of the Navy and the First Sea Lord in the post of permanent secretary of the navy, and formulate a naval expansion plan that satisfies all parties, then the permanent secretary of the navy will be George Elliot in the Royal Navy The last job among them.

And he will become a sinner of the British Empire!

"The first lesson that the Jiyi naval battle taught us is: accurate and fast shooting is more important than large caliber! And to be accurate and fast, we cannot choose the main gun with the largest caliber as possible. The 15000-inch main gun on a hull of less than 13.5 tons is too big! As for the 16-inch front-loading gun on the Indomitable, it is completely, completely, completely obsolete. It is useless in naval battles, and it fires It will also cause the hull to shake violently, making the 6-inch rapid-fire guns that are still usable unable to exert their power. Therefore, I suggest removing the 13.5-inch main gun of the Sovereign class and replacing it with a 12-inch or 11-inch main gun. Guns. At the same time, it is also necessary to equip the Sovereign-class battleship with as many 6-inch secondary guns as possible, which are very useful in naval battles.

The second lesson of the Kii naval battle is: speed is better than protection!The advantage of speed does not lie in seizing the T position, but in choosing the right to fight. In the Jiyi sea battle, the initiative to fight or not to fight is always on the side of the Ming Navy. They fight when they want to fight, and leave when they want. You can turn around and fight again later, it can be said that you have the upper hand!
The third lesson of the Kii naval battle is: the air defense of the fleet urgently needs to be strengthened!The airship is actually a very fragile weapon. It has a huge air chamber and is easy to be hit, but the premise is that we have anti-aircraft weapons that can shoot into the air, have a long enough effective range, and have a high enough shooting height.

The fourth lesson of the Kii naval battle is: the role of large long-range airships is very, very, very important! "

"Wait," British Prime Minister George Canning suddenly interrupted, "Commander General, you just said that airships are a very fragile weapon."

"Yes, Prime Minister." George Elliot said, "but no matter how fragile it is, as long as we can't hit it, it won't fall from the sky by itself!"

"Can't hit it? You mean dropping bombs and bombing at an altitude of 3000 meters or even higher? Does that make sense? Can it hit?"

"I don't know," George Elliot replied, "but I have a guess. It's a well-founded guess!"

"Oh? What guess?" George Canning asked.

"I guess they already have a radio station!"

"Radio station?" George Canning was stunned, "Can you send telegrams without wires?"

"Prime Minister," Viscount Palmerston answered the question, "the Admiralty has provided funds to several experts or companies dedicated to the development of radio stations a few years ago, but considering that Ming's psychic communication has always led Telecommunications, which invented the telephone and the wired telegraph, so it may well have developed the wireless station!"

"That's it"

Earl Nelson, the First Sea Lord, saw that the prime minister did not know the seriousness of the problem, so he further explained: "Prime Minister, as we all know, large rigid airships stay in the air for a long time and fly a long distance. Many large airships can fly continuously In 24 hours or even 48 hours, the flight distance can reach thousands of miles! If they have a radio station, they can report the position of the discovered target to the fleet flagship and the base on the shore in time. This means that the entire, at least one Large areas of the ocean will be under the 24-hour uninterrupted monitoring of the Ming Dynasty Navy!

In addition, airships with radio stations can also perform ballistic corrections for their own artillery during fleet battles, and even command the main artillery firepower of the entire fleet to attack the same target!This will greatly increase the hit rate of the artillery! "

"Ah, this is really scary"

As soon as George Canning said the word "terrible", someone knocked on the door of the conference room, and then came the voice of Cabinet Secretary Huck: "Prime Minister, it's me, Huck."

"Come in!" Although he knew that it would be no good for Huck to knock on the door at this time, George Canning still let Huck come in.

Huck quickly opened the door, walked up to the Prime Minister with a copy of the telegram, bowed politely, and said unhurriedly: "Mr. Prime Minister, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has just sent an urgent message from the embassy in Japan. Nagasaki has been conquered, our friend Shimadzu Sailiang was buried in the flames, and as many as [-] to [-] people were killed or buried in the flames at the same time as him!"

"Wait." George Canning hurriedly interrupted Huck, and at the same time took out a bottle of Yapian Tincture, took a sip to suppress his shock, and then said, "Go on."

"Yes, Prime Minister," Huck continued, "according to the report from the embassy in Japan, the coalition forces that besieged Nagasaki took only one day to completely destroy and capture this fortress city that has been painstakingly managed for many years!"

"One day? Impossible!"

"how is this possible?"

"Absolutely impossible!"

Viscount Palmerston, Earl Nelson and George Elliot in the conference room shook their heads together.

Huck looked at these three and showed a wry smile: "Earl, Viscount, Commodore... The impossible has happened! According to the report from the embassy in Japan, more than 100 airships of the Ming Navy Air Force dropped thousands of bombs that day. The incendiary bomb that can cause violent combustion turned the entire Nagasaki city into a sea of ​​​​flames! At the same time, the flag symbolizing the personal conquest of the Japanese emperor appeared on the opposite side of the main position of Yatsutengatake outside Nagasaki city, which greatly encouraged the attacking coalition forces. Therefore, the coalition forces launched a general offensive immediately after Nagasaki was turned into a sea of ​​flames. The panicked defenders could not resist the rapid collapse of the defense line, and Nagasaki Castle was captured that night! Of course, what was captured was actually a large area of ​​charred ruins, because Nagasaki no longer exists! And Japan has been completely controlled by the Ming Empire!"

Japan is completely controlled by Ming!

Of course George Canning knew what this news meant for the world right now?What does it mean for the British Empire?
George Canning, who was already sickly, couldn't bear the blow. He became angry in his heart, and suddenly his eyes went dark, and he collapsed on the prime minister's throne!
(End of this chapter)