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For China, it is indeed very difficult to build battleships, first of all, the basic technology of shipbuilding is very weak, and now China's largest shipyards, the Shanghai Shipbuilding Bureau and the Fujian Shipbuilding Bureau, can only produce small gunboats with a displacement of several hundred tons, and it is barely possible to maintain the river fleet, and it is really inexperienced to build a large fleet. For such a thing, the Admiralty of China offered to dismember several old destroyers and cruisers, accumulating technical experience.

At present, the Chinese navy is extremely weak, and any ironclad warship is a valuable national defense force of China, and the Admiralty is also very determined to be able to make this proposal. The suggestion was sent to Feng Yong's desk, Feng Yong pondered for a while, but agreed to the Admiralty's request, but the selection of warships was screened. Among the thousand-ton destroyers, an old antique from the Manchu Qing Dynasty and an order in the early years of the Republic of China were listed as objects of disintegration, and as for cruisers, there are only six in the Chinese Navy, which also includes the heavy cruisers Taishan and Songshan, which have just been commissioned. disintegrated like this, and Feng Yong was reluctant. In the end, Feng Yong proposed to replace it with the Zhenyuan ship, which was the main warship during the Chinese Westernization Movement. Although the displacement was much smaller than the battleships of this era, he was one of the first ironclad battleships in the true sense of the word in China. Although the Zhenyuan ship only has a displacement of more than 7,700 tons, it is not as good as the current heavy cruiser, but after all, it is the basis for the development of modern battleships, and its research significance is more than that of ordinary cruisers.

After the Zhenyuan ship was brought back from Japan, it has been quietly moored at the Qinhuangdao wharf, and the Wehrmacht originally intended to display this warship, which represents China's glory and shame, as a historical relic. But now, Feng Yong has changed his mind. He was going to dismember the Zhenyuan once as a technical basis for China to build large ships. In this way, the already weak Chinese navy will not have to suffer greatly and will be able to obtain data on the construction of large ships. Although it is backward, it is still good to use it to lay the foundation.

In addition, China has reached a secret agreement with a Spanish shipyard to build battleships, and the location is also secretly chosen in a natural harbor area in the north of Qinhuangdao, the surrounding waters have been blocked, and it is far away from the main channel, which can be said to be inaccessible, which is the most suitable for China and Spain to secretly develop new battleships. Feng Yong attaches great importance to this matter, and there are only seven or eight people in the entire high-level of the National Defense Force who know about this matter. This is a move of hope for China's rise, and the fewer people who know it, the safer.

Spain moved quickly, and it can be said that the price offered by the Chinese government was too much for them to refuse. Although they know that China is doing this to gain access to Spanish shipbuilding technology, for the current world, Spanish technology is outdated. Spain's navy did not even dare to operate in the waters where the Western countries were at war. Because once a conflict is triggered, the Spanish Navy is powerless to resolve it. Coupled with the financial difficulties of the Spanish government, the royal family's expenditures are sky-high, which leads to a very fierce internal struggle in Spain. China took advantage of the opportunity to impress the Spanish top with money. Although China is not rich, it has a large land and abundant resources, and the central government is very strong, so it is very easy to accumulate wealth. Just like the Celestial Empire, which centralized power in later generations, the central government has so strong financial resources that it is the envy of the world's largest power. Although this will be a burden on the people in the family, it is an extraordinary thing to do in extraordinary times.

At present, China can develop slowly, relying on the technical data of China's frenzied looting some time ago, and spending three and five years to digest it, it may not be possible to produce such a thing as large surface ships. But this kind of groping without a technical foundation will definitely take a lot of detours. Feng Yong was just an ordinary college student in his previous life, and he was still a half-asser studying economics. In the field of military industry, he only knows some military products, but he does not understand the manufacturing process at all. However, it is difficult to succeed without a technical foundation. Feng Yong didn't want to wait, because the past few years have been the most intense time for world change, if China does not do something at the end of World War I and the reshuffle of world power, and when a new world system is formed, China wants to challenge the entire world system with the strength of one country, and will face heavier pressure than in the early years of the founding of New China. This is what Feng Yong avoided as much as possible. ..., West, sur-Somme.

The main forces of the Allies and the Entente collided here again as if they were fateful.

The Allied army reached 1.3 million men, including 900,000 German troops and 400,000 Turkish-Austrian troops. These are the elite of the Allies in these years. After several years of campaigning, even with Germany's strength, it felt that it could not continue, and had no choice but to adopt this strategic Armageddon posture. I want to pass on the crisis with a quick solution.

The total strength of the Entente was 1.6 million, including 1.2 million British and French troops, 200,000 American troops, and 200,000 Italian and other countries' allied troops. The United States has provided an astonishing amount of weapons and equipment. Now the weapons of the Entente countries are basically American. There is no way, this is the condition for the Entente to attract the Americans into the battlefield in the first place. Although the Americans have justice, the United States government will never do justice without interests. In addition to the post-war division of forces, the greatest benefit of the Western battlefield comes from the arms market. The three-year war has already made the United States a lot of war money, doubling its national strength, and the domestic economy, under the leadership of the military industrial complex, is frantically booming. If it weren't for the wolf pack tactics of the Germans attacking a large number of American merchant ships, causing hatred among arms dealers within the United States, the United States would never have entered the war so quickly. Just as the U.S. government said, the U.S. mainland is far away from Europe, and if either the Allies or the Entente are victorious, they will not have the strength to attack the United States on the other side of the Atlantic. In the final analysis, the Americans entered the war for the sake of profit. On the battlefield, the Allies had gained the upper hand and would continue to expand. It is foreseeable that when the world war ends, it will also be the time when the world order will be re-established. Although the United States is a powerful emerging country, it is located in North America, far from the center of the world, and it is very difficult for the United States to make its voice heard in the new world order. The only way to do this was to join the Entente and contribute to the world war so that the United States could share in the fruits of victory. Therefore, Uncle Sam finally agreed to send troops half-pushing, under the pleading of Grandpa in Britain and France. With such strong foreign aid from the United States, the morale of the Entente was greatly boosted, and coupled with the sufficient supply of weapons and equipment, the Entente finally had the courage to fight a decisive battle.

Just as Germany was somewhat unable to bear it, Britain and France and other countries consumed even more, and the power of each colony had been weakened to the lowest point, and if it could not be resolved quickly, the colonial system of the British Empire was even in danger of collapsing. Under the pressure of this form, Britain, France and other countries finally decided to have the strongest decisive battle between the two systems on the banks of the Somme.

The war began on December 25, 1917, Christmas in the West. The combined armies of more than two million people on both sides were strangled together, the huge meat grinder roared again, and Christmas Eve in the West was filled with a truly suppressed bloody atmosphere. The famous generals on both sides came up with their own means, and for a time the war became a stalemate.

Time unconsciously entered 1918, and Feng Shaoshuai finally reached the age of eighteen in the virtual age. Although he is still a young man to others, to Feng Yong, he can be regarded as a real adult.

Unlike the war-torn Christmas Eve in the West, this year's Chinese New Year is full of peace and happiness. The southern parts of the country finally breathed a sigh of relief in the panic of the strong implementation of the new policy. The whole of China is enveloped in festivities. It has been more than two months since China was reunified. Under the strong arrangement of the government and the suppression of the strong force of the Wehrmacht soldiers, the influence of the new government finally reached all regions of China. and successfully suppressed the local conservative forces. Feng Yong knows that it is too early to say success. China's reunification relies on force, but governing the country cannot be done by force. Feng Yong is very sober in this regard. At present, the Chinese government is still using the provisional statute proposed by Sun Yat-sen in the early Republic of China, but some contents have been modified. This grass-minted law has too many loopholes, and it is barely applied in times of war, and can only be the basis for turmoil in times of peace. …,

Regardless of the difficulties at home, this Spring Festival is of extraordinary significance to the newly unified Chinese government. Feng Delin also rushed back from the southwest, and now that the deployment of the southwest defense force is basically completed, and there are no forces around that can provoke China, the security issue can be assured.

Feng Delin hurried back in a hurry, that is, his eldest grandson Feng Jianguo had not seen him since he was born. In the past six months, he has been sitting in the army, running around with Feng Yong's orders, and he has not had a chance to go back.

After Feng Guozhang was captured, no one dared to disrespect him, because Feng Shaoshuai had an order, and Feng Guozhang was still the vice president of the Republic of China in terms of identity. Moreover, when Beiyang was facing the catastrophe of annihilation, Feng Guozhang still did not betray national sovereignty and retained national integrity, which Feng Yong valued very much.

When meeting with Feng Guozhang, Feng Yong also proposed to let him continue to serve as the vice president of the Republic of China and assist President Li Yuanhong in handling things. But Feng Guozhang finally refused on the grounds of poor health. Feng Yong had no choice but to allocate a house in the Wangfujing area of Beijing for him to live in, but he refused his request to leave Beijing and live in Tianjin.

Feng Yong is not worried about him, but he really wants to use his ability, as the so-called family has an old man, if there is a treasure. The Wehrmacht has risen too quickly, and it has been too easy to take power in the country. This has made the top level of the Chinese government, including Feng Shaoshuai, a little blind. Although Li Yuanhong is the president of the Republic of China, his identity is sensitive, and he is not willing to stand too prominent, and it is very difficult for the Beijing government to do many things. But Feng Guozhang, Duan Qirui and others are different. These people have experience in running the whole country, and regardless of their governing philosophy, their experience in handling government affairs alone is very valuable. It's also convenient to keep these old guys with you and ask them if you have a tough problem. Feng Shaoshuai's idea is very simple, I will provide you with food and wear for you. When I have a problem, I always have to give me a suggestion. Maybe these suggestions are useless, but as long as one is useful, Feng Yong's investment is all worth it.

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