Valley Emperor
Vol 2 Chapter 2192: The army and navy that continue to lose
He didn't know, he was considered good like this. Back then when Li Xuan trained Prince Li Hao, he directly threw all the messy chores to Prince Li Hao to handle, and he lived happily every day. .
Back then, Li Hao had to squeeze out time to eat!
The current grandson Li Hongyi is only in charge of a small part of the affairs.
And the current grandson Li Hongyi doesn't know yet. When he went back, the prince Li Hao was already thinking, and he went back to discuss with his father. what!
When I divide the many affairs that are on my body and go out to the emperor to deal with, I will have some free time.
I have been working hard for more than 20 years, and I have finally managed to endure until the emperor's grandson is an adult, and he has successfully graduated. It is time to enjoy happiness...
Prince Li Hao has always been envious of his father's ability to live a leisurely life every day!
This is the life that the emperor should live, no, this is the life that the prince should live, not busy all day long...
However, even with the crown prince to share the burden, the crown prince Li Hao is still very busy, because at this time, Li Xuan simply handed over all the daily affairs to Li Hao.
He even gave him the name of a prince to supervise the country directly!
What, now Li Xuan has been staying in the palace, but let the crown prince supervise the country!
To put it bluntly, now Li Xuan no longer intends to actually handle government affairs, and will be fully handed over to the crown prince.
The crown prince Li Hao was also a ruthless man. After seeing his father and emperor being lazy, he calmly gave the emperor a messy affair in the name of exercise, so that he could share the pressure.
What the hell, father and son soldiers, facing the daily complicated government work, Li Hao felt that the grandson, as his eldest son, had a responsibility and an obligation to help his father share the burden!
With Chen Lifu's entry into office, the empire entered a period of post-equilibrium. Peng Zhifu knew very well that he was a transitional foreman, and his policy implementation continued many of the policies of Chen Lifu's era.
He just wanted to spend the last year or two of his career in peace and stability.
As a result, the empire has calmed down in the past year or two, and it still continues to emigrate and develop Europe and the Indian peninsula.
Internally, economic development is still the main focus. If there are waves, that is, in the fifty-fifth year of Xuanping, the empire launched the first battleship Jiangnan with a displacement of more than 20,000 tons.
Although the navy keeps boasting about how advanced the new-generation Jiangnan battleship is, how powerful its firepower is, and how powerful its combat effectiveness is, other than the navy's own internal commotion, outsiders basically don't pay attention.
There were even people on the army side mocking: The battleship that cost three million Tang Yuan, are you planning to use it to fight aliens?
There are even a lot of critics among the people, saying that what the Navy is doing now is a super warship plan, which is purely a waste of money!
What's the use of the navy's large tonnage battleships?
Ordinary people know that the biggest role of naval battleships is to cruise in various port cities, and then hold a naval open day for the public to board and watch.
As for combat, there is no enemy that can be fought. Would you talk to me about combat?
Even if it's a war, aren't the old battleships of about 15,000 tons with mature technology and cheap construction?
Mature technology, cheaper cruisers, frigates and the like are not good?
Why do you have to spend millions on a bunch of seemingly advanced, but useless 20,000-ton battleships looking at the dock!
Therefore, the long-awaited 20,000-ton battleship in the Navy has become a typical case of wasting military spending by the Navy after being sprayed...
However, although outsiders spray it, the upper echelons of the empire do not. In fact, the upper echelons of the empire have always supported the army and navy to upgrade the active equipment.
The army's new rifles, heavy machine guns and light machine guns, rapid-fire field artillery, various armored vehicles, combat vehicles and many other plans are steadily advancing.
The Navy's various advanced warship plans have also been steadily advancing.
On the one hand, the upper echelons of the empire have always been worried about overseas territories, especially the Americas. Before, the upper echelons of the empire, headed by Chen Lifu, even came up with some kind of global economic integration, trying to completely kidnap the Americas and other overseas territories economically. .
But even so, they were not at ease, so the upper echelons of the empire tried to further increase the difficulty of overseas territories trying to rebel independently in the future through the advancement of technology.
The more technologically advanced weapons and equipment, the higher the industrial base. Even if the Americas and other places are independent, it will be difficult to create weapons that can withstand the local troops in a short time.
This is one of the reasons why the upper echelons of the empire push the army and navy to continuously update their weapons.
As for another reason, it is a bit special!
That is, the upper echelons of the empire have always promoted the development of the defense industry through the procurement of military equipment, which in turn indirectly led to the development of other industries.
To put it bluntly, military procurement in the empire has become a means similar to industrial support, and it is also an important part of the economic cycle in the imperial economic system.
Once the military no longer purchases advanced weapons on a large scale, what will you let the hundreds of defense companies under the three major domestic weapons companies eat? What do you let the countless steel, mining, machinery, chemical and other ordinary enterprises that rely on many enterprises of the three major arms companies eat?
After decades of development, in fact, the military procurement of the Datang Empire is no longer the military's own business.
How should I put it, the military can decide what kind of weapons and equipment they want, but it is not up to the military to decide whether they want it or not.
Anyway, so much equipment procurement costs every year, your military must spend it, and you have to spend so much that you can't pick out the thorns.
The combination of these two reasons has prompted the Tang Empire Navy to continuously update its weapons and equipment even though it has no enemies.
It has been 30 years since Xuanping began to equip 10,000-ton battleships. After more than ten years of development, with the further maturity of technology, the Imperial Navy has finally begun to try a larger and more advanced battleship construction equipment plan.
The Jiangnan battleship is a typical case. Its technical characteristics reflect the highest level of the contemporary Datang Empire, and at the same time represent the most powerful combat power.
The ship's full-load displacement has reached 20,000 tons. This displacement is not the key, but some technical features are the key.
In terms of firepower, the ship is equipped with five double-mounted 300mm forty-five-times caliber naval guns, and adopts the layout of the front, two, and three piggyback turrets, but the gun itself is not special. The most special thing is that it adopts a new research and development The unified fire control system can make these large-caliber naval guns fire in salvos and exert the most powerful firepower.
In terms of power, the latest type of four-cylinder three-expansion reciprocating steam engine is used, and many new technologies are adopted, making the total power reach 25,000 horsepower, enabling the ship to run at 20 knots.
In terms of protection, the latest type of carburized surface hardening armor is used, with the last 260 mm armor belt, and the protection is amazing.
After all-round progress in power, firepower, and protection has been made, the Navy proudly claimed that after the ship was officially commissioned, the combat effectiveness of a single ship was at least three times higher than that of the old battleship!
But not yet...
Not to mention triple, even if it is 30 times, the outside world is still dissatisfied with the Navy's money-burning plan.
More than three million Tang Yuan, this does not include a lot of technical research and development expenses, this is not a prodigal!
Compared with the Navy's battleship plan, the outside world is more supportive of the Navy's new cruiser plan and new frigate plan. After all, the empire's territory is so large that advanced battleships are always needed for control and guarding, and occasionally Europe and Africa need to be run. , to scare the natives.
The most important thing is that cruisers and frigates are cheap and easy to use!
But the doubts from the outside world did not make the navy change its resolve, because they had the support of the upper echelons of the empire, and even the support of the prince and grandson.
In particular, Prince Li Hao has always stood firmly on the side of the army and navy, and strongly supports the army and navy to continue to maintain the upgrading of technical equipment.
As for the Son of Heaven, the Son of Heaven has not paid much attention to these vulgar things in recent years. At most, when the Navy wants to build a new battleship, he makes a few requests such as unified fire control. As for whether to build it or not, how much to build, Now the Son of Heaven is too lazy to care.
With the strong support of Prince Huan, the navy submitted the twelfth phase of the navy construction plan and was approved.
The twelfth phase of the naval construction plan will build ten new battleships, twenty-four new cruisers, and seventy-two new frigates in the next ten years to gradually replace the old ships that have been in service for many years, and strive to complete the main fleet within ten years. Upgrading.
Although the total size of the fleet has not expanded, the successive completion and commissioning of new warships will make the Navy's combat effectiveness even stronger.
In order to continue to strengthen and defend the absolute authority of the Empire in the global waters, to dispel any potential lawless thoughts of unscrupulous people.
Prince Li Hao promoted not only the construction and replacement of naval capital ships, but also the upgrading of army weapons.
After completing the replacement of the United Type II rifle, Prince Li Hao continued to promote the army to increase the equipment scale of heavy machine guns, and pushed the army to start equipping new types of artillery, cars, armored vehicles, etc.
The scale of heavy machine guns has been greatly improved, and all caliber artillery shells are widely equipped. The above two weapons have even been assigned to the first level of the infantry company.
At the same time, since last year, Prince Li Hao has already begun to promote the army to replace hydraulic artillery on a large scale~www.wuxiaspot.com~ The navy has already started to use hydraulic rapid-fire artillery, but the early technology is immature, and the army is very It's hard to use, but last year, the army finally tossed out the tube annealing gun.
So start changing.
At the same time, the number of equipment of various types of vehicles has also begun to increase year by year. As for combat vehicles, although they are still not good, there are still a lot of armored vehicles. In addition to a few experimental units, the army has already begun to try to attach it to the general main force. Armored car.
This will further enhance the Army's firepower and impact.
The improvement of the military's combat effectiveness, coupled with the upgrading of weapons and equipment, makes it more difficult to imitate, which will make the mainland more deterrent in the future!
Prince Li Hao, who has unswervingly promoted the construction of the army and navy over the years, has actually made it clear that he is threatening overseas vassal kings: "I'm staring at you, don't mess around!"
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