Valley Emperor

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With the current shipbuilding capabilities of the Tang Dynasty, or the strength of the coastal private shipyards under the control of the Tang Dynasty, there is no problem in building a ship of one or two hundred tons, and it is okay to barely build a ship of four or five hundred tons. , As for how big it is, it is very difficult. This is not only limited by the limitations of shipbuilding technology, but also limited by the strength of the shipyard.

Therefore, the tonnage of Datang's first ocean-going warship will not be very large, it is only 500 tons, but for the sake of insurance, it should be more suitable for less than 300 tons.

Because according to the plan, the first warship has a great experimental nature, because Li Xuan has extremely high requirements for warships, and there is only one design standard, that is, born for combat!

Any ship that can both fight and carry a lot of cargo has to get out!

All battleship designs are for combat, which is the premise that all subsequent battleship designs of the Datang Navy should follow!

Obviously, Li Xuan's request is that traditional Chinese ships such as the Fuchuan and the armed merchant ships of the foreigners currently operating in the Nanyang region are actually unable to meet the requirements.

To this end, the warship designers who were transferred from the craftsmen of the Navy Department and some civilian officers of the Navy thought about it for several months, and finally came up with two candidates.

The first plan is to build a third-class cruiser with a displacement of 500 tons and more than 30 artillery pieces, focusing on speed and seaworthiness.

The second plan is to build a third-class frigate with a displacement of 300 tons and 20 artillery pieces, trying to achieve a balance between firepower, speed and seaworthiness under a relatively small tonnage.

For the first option, the construction risk is relatively high, because the Ministry of Industry shipyard under the Tang Dynasty did not have the ability to build it, and could only rely on the private shipyard in Guangzhou to build it, and it is difficult to say whether it can be built.

The second plan is actually a conservative plan. Although the shipyard of the Ministry of Industry is still unable to build a 300-ton hull, many private shipyards in Guangdong have this technical capability.

In the end, Li Xuan personally made the decision and chose the second option. This way, the steps are smaller and it is not easy to pull eggs. Moreover, the first boat is a test boat, so it is easier to control risks if it is smaller.

After the successful construction of the third-class frigate of the second plan, the mature experience can be used to build a 500-ton third-class cruiser.

There are designs for frigates and cruisers, but there is no design for battleships, because such ships are too large and far exceed the current shipbuilding capabilities of the Tang Dynasty.

However, as a substitute, several shallow-sea gunboats can be built. Like the third-class frigates, the hull is 300 tons, but the shallow-sea gunboats are ready to be stuffed with thirty artillery pieces. The firepower is comparable to the third-class cruisers, and the defensive power is Even more than a third-class cruiser.

That is, the seaworthiness is extremely poor. If you go out to sea, you will not be able to resist the strong winds and waves in the deep sea, or it will sink.

The inland gunboat is simple, and the original Veyron-class gunboat continues to be built.

Of course, the construction of this kind of warship is a matter of the future, and now to enhance the strength of the Datang Navy, the quickest way is to directly use the hull of the ready-made civilian ship for a simple modification, sacrificing the ability to load more artillery, Armed merchant ships converted for military use.

And this refit plan is to refit five second-class armed merchant ships, ten third-class armed merchant ships, and twenty or more fourth-class armed merchant ships.

As for where the hull comes from, there are many in Guangzhou. Guangzhou, as a traditional sea trade port, has a large number of sea ships coming and going all year round.

The Datang tax inspection team with unparalleled combat power alone confiscated more than ten sea-going ships in Guangzhou, all of which were merchant ships of more than 100 tons!

Of course, the rest cannot be copied directly. It looks too ugly. The Tang Dynasty is a regular dynasty, not a bandit anymore!

This is to be refitted with a civilian ship. Naturally, the hull of the civilian ship will be purchased with real money and silver, and then refitted. It is best to use the hulls that have not been completed.

This time, the Royal Navy meeting lasted only more than two hours, but there were a lot of things that were said, and many of them were very important things.

However, this is still not the focus of Colonel Bao Yifen. His real focus is the reform of the naval system!

After the Imperial Navy Strategic Conference, Li Xuan officially issued the imperial decree on the third day, announcing the complete separation of the land and sea of ​​the Tang Dynasty, the independence of the Naval Division, which belonged to the Privy Council, and the establishment of the Datang Naval Command. Under the direct jurisdiction of the emperor, the emperor is the supreme commander of the navy and has supreme power over the navy.

The independent Naval Command is subordinate to the Naval Command, the Naval Staff, the Naval Logistics Department, the Naval Ship Administration and other departments.

At the same time, the military department of the cabinet was divided into two, and the army department and the navy department were established to be responsible for the support of the army and navy respectively.

In addition to the changes in the high-level structure of the navy, Li Xuan also made changes to the fleet structure, aiming to build two fleets, namely the Pearl River Fleet, which is responsible for inland operations such as the entire Pearl River Basin, and the Nanyang Fleet, which is responsible for ocean-going operations!

Of course, Li Xuan's series of reforms to the Navy's system actually affected the Army. After the Navy and Army were completely separated, Li Xuan also made certain changes to the Privy Council. The detailed organization remained unchanged, but the name changed. It has changed. Most of the departments under the Privy Council have been upgraded to departments. For example, the Department of Operations was renamed the Department of Operations, and the Department of Ordnance was renamed the Department of Ordnance.

But in general, the changes in the army are not big. The biggest change is just changing the name, and then by the way, the ministers of the newly appointed ministries are promoted. They are no longer colonels, but the rank of major general has started.

In fact, the Privy Council and the Naval High Command have very similar institutions, except that one is in charge of the army and the other is in charge of the navy.

However, after the separation of land and sea, various things also appeared, and the biggest difference was naturally the distribution of military expenses.

In the past, the navy and the army were not separated, and the military expenses were used together, but now that the navy is separated to live alone, it is natural to divide the military expenses, and the military expenses are so much, the navy takes more, and the army naturally has less.

Therefore, after the separation of the navy and the army, the first major event that the Tang Dynasty encountered was not the seizure of important cities from the Ming army, or the annihilation of how many people in the Ming army, nor the downfall of some political leaders. Kind of, but the contradiction between the navy and the army due to the distribution of military expenditures!

In the beginning, this conflict was only a matter of the army and navy sending personnel to negotiate the distribution of military expenditures this year. At the beginning, neither side thought there would be any conflict, because both sides of the army and navy believed that their conditions were reasonable.

But this is reasonable and reasonable, but in the eyes of the other party, it is a lion's big mouth, which is absolutely unacceptable.

As for the Army, in the allocation of military expenditures this year, due to its heavy tasks, the Army wants to launch military operations in the directions of Huguang, Yunnan, Fujian, Jiangxi, etc. At the same time, with the expansion of the occupied areas, the troops who need to stay in each occupied area are also required. More and more, it is far from enough to rely on the existing force, so we must continue to expand the number of the army. The size of the army today is far from enough, and at least it needs to be doubled or even doubled.

The navy, on the other hand, is just to help the army to transport some logistics materials, and with the end of the Guangzhou war, the navy is basically unable to help with the operational direction of the Tang Army in the later period, and even the transportation of logistics materials is impossible. did it.

Based on this reality, the Army proposed that the next allocation of military expenditures should follow the principle of military expenditure allocation in the first half of the second year of Xuanping.

This does not reduce the military expenditure of the navy, even if it is to save face, as for how much more you want, basically don't count on it.

Therefore, what is the allocation ratio of military expenditure proposed by the army, 95% for the army and 5% for the navy.

Yes, that's right, the Army is so awesome that it only leaves the Navy with a meager 5 percent share of military spending.

On the other hand, the navy believes that, after winning Guangdong, the coastal defense of the Tang Dynasty was under great pressure, and a large amount of military expenditure was required to build warships and fortresses to consolidate the sea frontier. The offensive in Jiangsu and other places has laid the foundation, so it is necessary to greatly increase the military expenditure of the navy.

Naturally, the navy does not expect to be able to share military expenditures with the army. After all, the main direction of the Tang Dynasty is Huguang, and it is reasonable for the army to take more.

Therefore, the plan proposed by the navy is 30% for the navy, 70% for the army, and 37%, which is enough to reflect the tolerance of the navy.

Five percent on the one hand, thirty percent on the other.

This gap is so big that there is no way to coordinate~www.wuxiaspot.com~ The two sides of the army and navy have tried several times, but they could not solve it through friendly negotiation, and then it turned into a quarrel. At first, they sent people to each other. There was a small-scale quarrel at the coordination meeting, and then the senior officers of the army and navy went out to quarrel in person, and then developed into a quarrel in front of Li Xuan.

In this battle for military spending, no matter whether it is a strong army or a weak navy, they will not give in at all. Rear Admiral Bao Yifen and a group of middle and senior naval generals on the navy side are running for this every day. Every day Bao Yifen made excuses to see Li Xuan, and he didn't do anything when he went there, so he was so pitiful for the Navy!

The Navy firmly believes that crying children have milk to drink!

Faced with such shameless cries from the Navy, the army generals naturally lost face and did not care about decency at all. Headed by Zeng Ziwen, the head of the operations department, a group of army executives who stayed behind in Kyoto pestered Li Xuan every day, and said that the army had a chance to say it. How hard it is, many army soldiers have no guns to use, and can only fight with the enemy's guns with flesh and blood, often with heavy casualties!

So much so that Li Xuan was speechless: Army soldiers used flesh and blood to fight a large number of guns of the Ming army?

You are saying the opposite!