In addition to the three major ports, the four medium-sized ports that the Navy is preparing to expand are Beizhou Port, Donghai Port, Xihe Port, and Rey Port.

Located in Gaoqingzhou, the port of Beizhou is the estuary of the Bei'an River in Gaoqingzhou, which is also the most important dual-use port in the northeastern region of the empire.

Donghai Port, located at the easternmost tip of the Jingzhou Peninsula, is not an estuary port, but it is also a dual-use port, and it is an important strategic support point for the empire to extend to the depths of the endless sea in the east.

Located in Jungluoju, Seohe Port is a coastal port with no inland rivers, but the port conditions are superior, and it has always been an important port of the empire in the western region, and it is also the western terminus of the scheduled east-west railway through line.

Port Rey, located in the Northwest State, is the estuary of the Xisong River, and this port city is also the seat of the state capital of the Northwest State.

The three major and four are all over the east and west coasts of the empire, including river estuary ports, pure coastal ports, military and civilian dual-use, and pure military ports.

The Navy plans to expand and upgrade the facilities of these seven ports, so that these seven ports will have the ability to berth, maintain and replenish many 10,000-ton ironclad ships.

In addition to port expansion and facility upgrades, the Navy also plans to upgrade and expand shipyards, and hopes that the relevant departments of the empire will introduce a series of policies to support shipyards, such as stipulating that only merchant ships from domestic shipyards can be purchased to support the development of shipyards in the empire.

At the same time, there are a series of research and development plans for various new technologies, such as the research and development of more advanced fire control systems, especially more advanced rangefinders, and then the research and development of advanced naval guns, such as rear-loading naval guns of 300 mm caliber, and even larger calibers, reaching 350 mm or even 400 mm caliber of rear-loading naval guns. Therefore, the Navy believes that it is necessary to develop relevant plans in advance.

There is also the most important talent training, the Navy hopes to expand the Imperial Navy Officer School and recruit more young and promising students to enter the Naval Academy, because the training of naval officers cannot be achieved quickly, and it needs to be continuously cultivated for many years before they can finally become talents, so the relevant personnel training must also be prepared in advance.

The ultimate goal of the above-mentioned series of port facilities, shipyard development, technology research and development, and personnel training is to build a large fleet.

How big is it?

In the second phase of the Navy's development plan, the Navy proposed that the Imperial Navy should maintain the ability to respond to threats from both the East and West coasts.

How should this sentence be understood? When you understand that those guys in the navy, even the ships in the near sea are rushing to attack in the near sea, you will know that when the Imperial Navy talks about dealing with threats from the east and west coasts at the same time, it is not defense, but attack!

However, due to the fact that the east and west coasts of the empire are not connected, if you want to communicate with each other, you have to go through the Endless Strait, and now the Endless Strait is controlled by the Orissa, and it is easy to be blocked during the war, once the Endless Strait is blocked, then the fleets of the east and west coasts can only fight separately.

Therefore, the Navy hopes that both the East Coast Fleet and the West Coast Fleet will have the strength to take charge of the situation.

And if you want to make the fleets of the east and west coasts independent, then the total strength of the imperial fleet is basically the first in the world.

And this, too, is the real goal of the Navy.

The Imperial Army, both in terms of number and strength, is the largest in the world, and even if the Empire has not yet been able to complete the actual unification, it is still the first in the world.

The same should be true of the Imperial Navy, either not expanding the navy, or going for the first place in the world.

And this is also the consistent tradition of Daheng people, regardless of other aspects, but the number of advantages must be guaranteed!

Daheng people have always used more troops than others to bully people in war, what to win more with less and other things like that, Daheng people basically don't do it.

This is true of the Army, and the Navy is no exception!

The Navy's ambitions are huge, but it has also been said that this is only a long-term plan, and it is not expected to be completed in ten or eight years, but hopes to achieve this goal through a plan of naval expansion that will last for twenty years.

In the early stage, we will build a small number of warships to deal with the immediate threats, and at the same time accumulate shipbuilding experience to lay the foundation for building larger tonnage and more advanced warships in the future.

At the same time, considering the strength of the navies of the Krull Kingdom and the Olisa Empire, it also takes into account the empire's own industrial base and military spending pressure.

The Imperial Navy formulated a plan for the future, believing that in the early stage, the Empire should have eight main battleships, four coastal defense armored ships for its own waters, a total of 12 large and small cruisers for reconnaissance, and six large and small cruisers for overseas escort and cruise.

The above is just the preliminary plan, and the Navy also has a medium-term plan and a later plan.

When the Navy formulates its medium-term plan and post-plan, it doesn't know whether it is distracted or how it is dripping, but it adopts the mode of direct doubling.

The so-called medium-term plan is to double the number of capital battleships to 16, coastal defense armored ships to 8, reconnaissance cruisers to 24, and overseas cruisers to 12.

The later plan was to double the number of capital battleships to thirty-two on the basis of the medium-term plan......

There are thirty-two capital battleships, and there are only about twenty main battleships in service in the navy of the Krull Kingdom.

But this is the style of Daheng people, either don't fight, or fight to kill the opponent with numbers!

The Navy's plan was huge, so big that it scared a bunch of people out there.

If the Krull Kingdom knew that the Great Heng Empire's navy was brewing such a huge naval expansion plan, I am afraid that it would not be able to sleep.

Lin Ziran was also frightened by the ambition of the navy, and such a huge fleet expansion plan needed a huge amount of financial support.

Now the war of imperial unification is not over, and even after the war is over, there are many places to go, and it is difficult to spend so much money on large-scale naval expansion.

Besides, in fact, the empire does not have any overseas interests to defend at present, the empire has no colonies overseas, not even much overseas trade, only grain export trade and arms export trade, and it is not worth the empire to make a big move and build an incomparably large navy to maintain it.

However, the enthusiasm of the navy is so high, and at the same time, the navy did not say that it had to build dozens of battleships now, but divided it into three phases, the front, middle and back, and the naval planning in the early stage was still relatively small.

Even if the navy does not take the initiative, Lin Ziran will continue to promote the construction of the navy and develop a main fleet that can maintain the empire's maritime frontier.

Therefore, after careful consideration, Lin Ziran still approved the second phase of the Navy's development plan and asked the Navy to start the preliminary planning of the second phase of the development plan.

In the next few years, it is planned to expand the size of the main fleet to eight capital battleships, four coastal defense armored ships, 12 large and small reconnaissance cruisers, and six overseas large and small cruisers.