Valley Emperor

When Bi Zhian returned to the country to recuperate, the war in the Fusang area had come to an end. The troops led by Ying Yikang took the lead in reaching the Tsugaru Strait, facing Ezo Island, which had long been occupied by the Tang Empire, across the sea.

At the same time, the Fifteenth Army also organized about 5,000 troops to land on Shikoku Island, pushing and smashing the daimyo forces on the island all the way.

In the summer of the 24th year of Xuanping, before the rainy season, it was officially announced that the Datang Empire had successfully recovered the three islands of Kyushu, Honshu and Shikoku.

Of course, although the large-scale war has ended, there are still many remnants of the Fusang indigenous army in various places. Therefore, the 56th Infantry Division and several garrison regiments under the 15th Army have to continue to garrison the Fusang area. A large-scale purge operation to eliminate the remaining daimyo troops.

It is just a follow-up matter, and more of it is a political matter. The newly established Beihai Province of the empire began to take over the entire Fusang area, and set up prefectures and counties in the Fusang islands according to the previously formulated plan to implement direct rule.

According to Li Xuan's imperial decree, the provincial capital of Beihai Province is located in Edo, and it consists of six prefectures: Kyushu, Kanto, Guanzhong, Relation, Shikoku and Ezo.

The yamen subordinate to Beihai Province are actually transformed from the local colonial yamen. For example, the Kyushu yamen was restructured from the Nagasaki colonial yamen, and the Kansai yamen was restructured from the Hiroshima colonial yamen.

Guanzhongfu was restructured from the Osaka colonial yamen, and the Kantofu yamen was restructured from the Edo colonial yamen.

The only Yamen on Ezo Island was not restructured, because Ezo Island was already under the control of Datang before, and it was one of the many overseas territories of Datang. name only.

Subsequent political affairs have nothing to do with the military, and many military personnel don't care much about the situation on Fusang's side. They are now turning their attention to distant Africa.

At the beginning of the year, news came back from India that the fleet of the African Expeditionary Force suffered a storm and lost more than 20 ships of various sizes, and more than 3,000 soldiers in the navy and army. What shakes the government and the opposition.

Because the military directly blocked the news, it did not spread the news on a large scale. As for the Tang Dynasty newspaper, there was no news about the fleet encountering the storm.

Some of them are just that I, Master Wang of the Tang Dynasty, have successfully completed the greatest expedition in the world, and the African Expeditionary Force has successfully landed in Africa.

As for how many people were killed or injured during the landing process, there is no need to say such a thing.

However, although the outside world does not know about this, even many ordinary middle and lower-level officers do not know, but the senior military officials and the senior officials of the empire are aware of the storm that the expedition fleet was hit.

Although it kept a low profile as a whole, it still caused a lot of shock within the upper echelons of the empire.

The Army directly pointed its finger at the Navy, saying that it was the Navy’s **** that was not good, so that the Army had at least 2,000 soldiers who had not even landed on the African land, and were buried in the sea. committed an inescapable sin.

The navy is also very aggrieved by this, and they are not willing to encounter a storm. As for the route, although the Indian Ocean is so large, considering factors such as the voyage, wind direction and ocean currents, the routes to choose from are actually that much. Several, and the route from Ceylon to Madagascar in Africa, the ships of the Empire have run through countless times, and it has never been so unlucky to encounter such a large-scale storm before.

The army and the navy like to quarrel over a little thing, and then shirk their responsibilities. Li Xuan sees this situation in his eyes, and then ignores it.

Anyway, no matter what you say, you can't lose a piece of meat. Besides, the losses have all happened. It's too late to say anything now. The most important thing now is to put an end to this type of incident in the future.

But then again, it's not that easy to prevent this type of marine accident.

There are two ways. One is to establish a complete weather forecast system that can cover the entire Indian Ocean. Well, if there is another supercomputer, a few weather satellites, etc., it will be better to be able to provide early warning in time.

But is it possible?

Impossible!

Limited by technology, although there are weather forecasts in Datang today, they are very primitive and backward. The meteorological experts in the Royal Institute of Technology, at most, are based on the experience of their predecessors, and then make calculations based on their own blindness. Some specious weather forecasts, anyway, so far, weather forecasts are very nonsense.

The only thing left is to build and use larger ships!

Although the storm in the ocean is fierce, the lethality of the same storm to ships with only three or four hundred tons is completely different from the lethality of ships of thousands or even larger tonnage.

In the same storm, those three or four hundred-ton ships are estimated to be unable to withstand it and sink, but although the thousand-ton ships are blown to and fro, they will not sink. .

Most of the ships lost by the expeditionary force in the storm this time were ocean-going ships of less than 500 tons, and ships of more than 800 tons were basically intact.

In this case, Li Xuan is naturally more inclined to build and use larger tonnage ships.

Today's many small-tonnage ocean-going ships in the Empire are too poor to survive, and there are many navigational accidents every year, not only for warships, but also for civilian ships.

At the same time, Li Xuan also felt that the tonnage of the newly built battleships is generally more than 1,500 tons, and the Navy has a construction plan for a 3,000-ton giant ship.

Even in the field of civilian ships, there are thousands of tons of ships.

At this time, it is also possible to appropriately develop various types of transport ships of large tonnage.

In the field of private ships, although he is the emperor, he does not directly interfere. After all, larger tonnage ships represent higher construction and maintenance costs. Those trading companies do not know that large ships are better, but they can't afford it.

However, in the field of military ships, Li Xuan can directly intervene.

The various transport ships of the military today are too small in tonnage, and there is no clear classification, they are all ordinary cargo ships.

Considering that the footprints of the Tang Empire may spread all over the army in the future, the military needs all kinds of professional auxiliary ships that can go ocean-going and ensure seaworthiness at the same time.

To this end, Li Xuan directly ordered the navy to appropriately build various professional auxiliary vessels, such as troop carriers, medical ships, coal carriers, and supply ships, and at the same time, the tonnage should be large enough.

In addition, Li Xuan also asked the Pacific Shipping Company, a subsidiary of the Royal Assets Section, to build several large-tonnage ocean liners, which were operated as passenger ships on weekdays, and directly used as troop transport ships during the war.

At the same time, he instructed that the tonnage of this kind of ocean liner should be at least 3,000 tons!

Li Xuan wants to promote the navy and industry together to create the era of giant ships!

Building a 3,000-ton ocean liner is undoubtedly a huge challenge for the shipbuilding industry of the Tang Dynasty, but this is just a challenge, not impossible.

In the past ten years or so, the shipbuilding industry of the Datang Empire has developed very rapidly. Not to mention other shipyards, only the Hong Kong Dingsheng Shipyard, which is wholly-owned by the Royal Assets Section, has strong technology and can not only build battleships. Supplying a large number of capital ships to the Navy, the shipyard is also a leader in the construction of large-tonnage civilian vessels.

The civilian ships built by Dingsheng Shipyard are basically large tonnage ships, ranging from 800 tons to more than 1,000 tons.

Since the ship-based steam engine extended from the high-pressure steam engine has matured, Dingsheng Shipyard has started a new round of expansion to usher in the era of the navy's giant ships.

Specifically, Dingsheng Shipyard has successively built large-tonnage docks through expansion and new construction. Among them, two 3,000-ton ships were completed at the end of last year. By the second half of this year, a 5,000-ton dock will also be built. will be put into use.

These three docks are currently the largest in the Datang Empire. The new generation of steam-steel battleships ordered by the Datang Navy are being constructed in these two 3,000-ton ships.

It is worth noting that although this new generation of steam-steel battleships is designed and built on the basis of Jiangnan, the Jiangnan is very different, because at the beginning of the design of Jiangnan, it was still greatly influenced by the design of traditional battleships. influences.

However, this new generation of steam-steel battleships has been enlarged on the basis of Jiangnan, and has operated a large number of steel as the main structure of the hull. Its design tonnage has also reached 1,800 tons, and the estimated full-load displacement will exceed two thousand tons.

Its power is still powered by sails, but the power of its steam engine has been greatly improved, and a new generation of ship-based steam engines will be used. The entire steam engine power system consists of four coal-fired boilers, two three-cylinder steam engines, using dual With propeller propulsion, the total horsepower will exceed 1,200 horsepower, and the design speed can reach thirteen knots.

The construction of this new generation of battleships also marks that the Datang Navy has begun to develop steam-steel battleships on a large scale, rather than the nature of the test, which is greater than the actual combat type, as it was when the Jiangnan was built before.

At the same time, the Navy has design plans for 3,000-ton warships and even 5,000-ton warships. However, at present, these designs are not very mature. Although the high-level Navy supports the development of larger tonnage warships, for the sake of safety, they have recently The main ships built on a large scale will be 2,000-ton battleships, supplemented by 1,000-ton cruisers.

As for warships under 1,000 tons, although they will continue to develop, the navy obviously does not plan to use warships under 1,000 tons as capital ships. The tonnage is too small to fit even a steam engine or deploy too many artillery.

The Navy tends to develop 2,000-ton battleships and 1,000-ton cruisers in a short period of time. As a result, the 5,000-ton dock that Dingsheng Shipyard will complete in the second half of this year will fall into the embarrassing situation of being overkill.

At this time, Dingsheng Shipyard received a new order from Pacific Shipping Company, a passenger ship with a design standard displacement of 4,200 tons!

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