In order to regain their naval superiority, starting from the 11th year of Qiansheng, the Krull Kingdom continued to maintain a high investment for three years, and in the 11th year of Qiansheng and the 12th year of Qiansheng, they successively started construction of a total of 20 capital ships.

This capital ship refers to a battleship of more than 15,000 tons and a large armored cruiser of more than 12,000 tons.

It doesn't include those medium-tonnage armored cruisers of eight or nine thousand tons, or about 10,000 tons, in the eyes of the navy of the Krull Kingdom, this thing belongs to the first-class cruisers, and it is the successor of the previous first-class protection cruisers, and it is not a capital ship.

This year, they will definitely continue to maintain large-scale shipbuilding, otherwise, they will not be able to overwhelm the Great Hengren in the field of cutting-edge battleships.

However, in a few years, when the unified all-heavy artillery battleships of the Daheng Imperial Navy appeared, they would find that the hybrid main gun battleships that they had worked so hard to build and spend a lot of money on and the current outfit were also completely backward.

Do you want to catch up when the time comes?

Definitely, yes, it is still necessary to maintain a super high naval military investment at that time, and as warships become more and more expensive, this investment will become larger and larger, in this case, how long can the Krull Kingdom hold out?

Today's Daheng Empire is to take advantage of technological leadership, coupled with strict technical secrecy, to develop and lay out new warships in advance, and when they appear, they force other countries to spend huge sums of money to keep up, but when they finally catch up or even surpass, they found that the Daheng Empire has begun to play more advanced warships again, and it turns out that the fleet they spent a lot of money to build is useless.

Since the seventh year of Qiansheng, the Great Heng Empire has already played this trick twice, and now, the Great Heng Empire is starting the third time!

If it continues to be tossed like this, even the Krull Kingdom, the world's number one power, will not be able to hold it, let alone other countries.

And this is the naval competition that Lin Ziran personally finalized!

The early and middle stages are a competition in technology, because the early technology climbs too fast, and a large number of warships built will quickly fall behind, so the number is actually not very important, anyway, no one dares to bully Daheng if there are fewer warships......

Back then, when the Daheng people only had a few broken sampans, they dared to shout for expansion, fighting Orissa, fighting Krull, and daring to ship artillery diplomacy if they had a few cruisers, so having fewer warships in the early stage actually had no impact on Daheng.

And in the later stage, that is, after the unified all-heavy artillery battleships come out now, then it will be time to compete in numbers.

At this time, the technological development has gradually been finalized, and the national strength of the Daheng Empire has been greatly improved after more than ten years of development, and it already has the ability to compete with the Krull Kingdom for the number of warships.

Relying on the huge local population and industrial scale, in terms of pure economic figures, in fact, the industrial output value of the Daheng Empire is enough to be compared with the industrial output value of the Krull Kingdom, but at present, the industrial output value of Daheng is mostly biased towards the middle and low end, and the industrial output value of the Krull Kingdom is biased towards the middle and high-end.

And now, after years of precipitation, the Daheng Empire is also attacking towards mid-to-high-end manufacturing.

But the Daheng Empire launched an attack on not the traditional industries, such as the steam engine, the steel industry, in this regard, the technological advantages accumulated by the Krull Kingdom are too great, the Daheng Empire has tried its best to develop through various ways, but it has always lacked time to accumulate, and it is a little worse.

Just like the previous nickel steel mass production technology, the Daheng Empire couldn't do it by itself, and finally it was the mass production technology introduced from the Krull Kingdom, even so, for a long time, the nickel steel mass-produced by the Daheng Empire was of poor quality and high price.

Later, it was through the not-so-glorious methods of secretly poaching people and stealing technology that the production technology of nickel steel was finally improved, but it still could not surpass the nickel steel production technology of the Krull Kingdom.

In addition to the application of nickel steel in other fields such as industry, it is also the core raw material of military armor steel, and Luojing armor is made by surface hardening on the basis of homogeneous nickel steel.

This is only one aspect, there are many other aspects, such as the core industrial product of the steam engine, although the Daheng Empire was able to produce the steam engine a few decades earlier, but the technical level has not been high, and it has been vigorously developed after unification, and the introduction of technology can be regarded as making the steam engine technology enter the first echelon level, but there is still a certain gap from the Krull Kingdom, and even worse than the steam engine technology of the Kekel and Gafia Empires.

If this were not the case, the new warships of the Great Heng Empire would not have vibrated too much at maximum speed and thus affected the shooting accuracy.

The traditional basic technology is not as good as people, although the Daheng Empire has been working hard to improve, but the direction of corner overtaking is definitely not in these areas.

The Great Heng Empire has chosen other fields, such as shipboard power systems, and the Great Heng Empire has vigorously developed technologies such as coal injection and small water tube boilers, and now it is a warship that has begun to develop pure oil-fired boilers.

The two cruisers and four destroyers scheduled to be built this year have already begun to use pure oil-fired boilers to increase their speed, and if nothing else, they will be applied to the capital ships in the future.

And this is still not the point, after all, it is not too late for countries such as the Kingdom of Krull to develop oil-fired boilers, and now they are almost done.

Daheng Empire in terms of power, trying to overtake the steam turbine in the corner, this aspect, at present, several foreign powers have no relevant research, at present only the Daheng Empire itself is studying the steam turbine, last year when the ship's steam turbine has been tested, although it failed, but the Daheng Empire has not given up the investment in the field of steam turbines, but has increased.

At the same time, steam turbines also began to be secretly used in the field of power generation, further expanding the electrification development of the Daheng Empire.

Compared with one or two sub-projects, electrification is the core of the Daheng Empire, and it is also the only opportunity to surpass other countries.

In the steam age, the Krull Kingdom has already laid a strong technological foundation, but Kyle and Valia are not weak in technology, but the Daheng Empire, as a latecomer, has everything in the steam age, but nothing is strong.

But the era of electrification is different, even if the electric light and telegraph have appeared for many years, even the Daheng Empire has built a national cable telegraph network in the early years, and electric lights for lighting have also appeared.

Electric motors and other parts of the electrification sector are already being used in the industrial sector.

However, the era of electrification has just begun, and cable telegraph has become widespread a few years ago.

This is a huge opportunity for the latecomer, the Great Heng Empire, to catch up with and surpass other countries.