readx; As for the debate on whether to continue to build battleships, the aviation faction directly took out the example of this naval and air battle, saying that aircraft carriers played a huge role in this battle and replaced battleships as the core of the fleet, which is enough to prove from the sinking of Amagi and Nagato by aircraft carriers in one fell swoop. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

And the people of the battleship faction did not show weakness, and also took the recent naval and air battle as an example, saying that if there had not been a battleship formation that had intercepted the main fleet for seven or eight hours, I am afraid that those crispy aircraft carriers would have been sunk by the high-speed main force formation of Ben, and the reason why the aircraft carriers were able to achieve such a record was completely under the cover of the battleship formation, which was the same as the fact that under the cover of the battleships, the cruisers, destroyers, and so on launched lightning strikes and achieved great results. But will cruisers and destroyers be able to replace battleships as the core of the fleet? Apparently not. Therefore, although the role of the aircraft carrier carrier is huge, it is still a part of the fleet and exists as an auxiliary ship for battleships.

In fact, the aviation faction did not deny the role of battleships, and the battleship faction did not deny the role of aircraft carriers, the focus of their arguments was who was the core of the fleet!

The Navy's aviation and battleship factions debated for so long whether it was worth continuing to build expensive battleships, so much so that the Ship Administration Department could not make a decision, even though several plans for the design of the subsequent battleships had been drawn up. After all, there is so much military spending in the navy, and whether it is to build battleships or aircraft carriers, it costs a lot of money, and if this money is used to build battleships, there will be no money to build aircraft carriers, so the people of the aviation faction are unwilling to see the continued construction of a new generation of battleships, and the people of the battlefaction are also appraised that the battleships are still the core and main force of the navy, and insist on continuing to build battleships.

As for Chen Jingyun, he was naturally reluctant to continue to spend huge sums of money on the construction of battleships, because if battleships were built before the thirties, they could still become the main force of the navy and play a huge role, but after the thirties, the role of battleships declined sharply, and after five or six years, it will be even less useful, and in another ten years, it will basically only be reduced to the air defense ships of the fleet, and the investment and harvest are completely disproportionate.

If you want to build a battleship now, the design is estimated to take one year, and the construction time will take at least three or four years, although it is in service after completion, but it will take at least about a year of training and sea trials to really exert complete combat effectiveness, so when the new generation of battleships can be put into operation, it is basically about 1937, and the role of battleships has declined sharply at that time.

If it spends a lot of money to build battleships, it is better to transfer the funds to auxiliary ships such as aircraft carriers, heavy cruisers and even light cruisers, so that the surname-price ratio is the highest.

However, Chen Jingyun's opinion will not be easily expressed, if the aviation faction within the navy can suppress the people of the battleship faction, there is no need for him Chen Jingyun to take the initiative to say that he does not agree with the construction of battleships, after all, the strength of the battleship faction within the navy is still very large, and Chen Jingyun does not need to take the initiative to provoke their disgust, as a superior person, he tries to treat everyone equally, and easily supporting any of them may cause a bad impact.

Just let them fight by themselves, Chen Jingyun doesn't need to go into battle shirtless.

However, even if a new generation of battleships is not built, with China's current four battleships and four aircraft carriers and two aircraft carriers under construction, this scale is huge enough, plus many cruisers, destroyers and other auxiliary ships, although the scale of the Chinese Navy is still the fourth largest in the world in terms of total tonnage, but there are six fleet aircraft carriers, and the overall combat strength of the Chinese Navy is not much worse than that of the previous three countries, the United States, Britain, and Ben.

With such a large scale, there is naturally no urgent need to expand the size of the fleet.

In addition to the existing scale, it is also related to the military spending of the navy. China's navy is not able to obtain major military expenditures like the so-called navy, and the annual military expenditure of the Chinese navy has always been far less than that of the army, and it is impossible for the navy to expand the size of its fleet on a large scale under the condition that the annual naval military expenditure is limited.

The combination of these circumstances of the Chinese and two navies has made it possible for the navies of the two countries to actually not exceed the main limits of the Washington Naval Treaty in the war, of course, there are still some minor things, such as China's new generation of heavy patrol plans after the sinking of the Huawu, although this will not even be decided on the first draft of the design, but according to the design requirements given by the navy, in fact, the new generation of heavy cruises can no longer be said to be heavy patrols, and all aspects are beyond the limits of the Washington Naval Treaty. The design of the navy mainly has the following points: first, it is required to be able to protect the eight-inch naval guns commonly equipped with heavy patrols of various countries at normal combat distances; Second, it is required to be able to surpass the firepower of the 3*3 nine eight-inch 50 times the guns of the Shiguang-class heavy cruiser, in other words, it is required to surpass the firepower of almost all treaty-type heavy cruisers. Thirdly, it is required to be able to accompany aircraft carrier formations for a long time and provide air defense capabilities for aircraft carriers. Fourth, it is required to reach a speed of more than 33 knots and a range of more than 8,000 nautical miles. Fifth, on the premise of ensuring that the surname can be achieved, the cost must be as low as possible, preferably to less than 30 million yuan.

In order to meet the design requirements of the first four points, it is almost certain that the tonnage will exceed the Shiguang level, and it depends on the specific design plan whether it is 18,000 tons or 20,000 tons or even higher.

To tell the truth, the first four points are not too difficult, specifically it is nothing more than a requirement to exceed the Shiguang class heavy cruise, any designer in the Chinese Navy's Ship Administration Department can come up with the corresponding works, but the fifth requirement is not so simple, the design requirements put forward by the Navy clearly stipulate that the cost cannot exceed 30 million Chinese yuan, and without the corresponding cost, then it is difficult to design a qualified warship.

At present, the cost of several other types of warships under construction in China is relatively high. For example, the two aircraft carriers under construction, that is, the Songshan-class aircraft carriers, have a standard displacement of 25,000 tons, taking the advantages of the first two aircraft carriers that China has already served, and also improving some defects, after the No. 1 ship Taishan has started construction in 1927, but the construction work has been relatively slow, and when the war broke out, the two ships were not completed and launched. After the outbreak of war last year, China's major shipyards worked overtime on the warships under construction, trying to complete and put into service, and the Jiangnan Shipyard, which undertook the construction of the No. 1 ship, Taishan, also undertook the repair of a large number of damaged naval warships, so the construction of the No. 1 ship was slightly delayed, so that the No. 2 ship, which only started in January 1928, was completed and launched first, and now it is undergoing intensive outfitting tests. According to the convention of the first ship to be launched first as the class name, the class name of this class of aircraft carriers is called the Songshan class.

The cost of the Songshan-class is 56 million Chinese dollars, which is not cheap, you must know that the cost of China's Shundi-class battleships is only 78 million, while the cost of China's current Hengshan-class aircraft carriers is only more than 40 million.

Now the navy requires the new heavy patrol to press the cost below 30 million, and it has also put forward such a high surname requirements, which makes the designers in the navy's ship administration department very difficult, because the price of high-speed warships is very expensive, in order to let the Shiguang-class heavy patrol be able to run 34 knots, but in the later period, a lot of additional funds were added, and the cost of the Shiguang-class heavy patrol before and after is almost 28 million. The cost of the Navy's two 10,000-ton treaty cruisers currently under construction is also around 203 million.

At present, the navy only wants to use the price of less than 30 million to build a large cruiser that can completely surpass the Shiguang-class heavy cruiser, so that the difficulty of design has increased dramatically.

Compared with the control of the cost, other design requirements are not mentioned.

This is not a naval cracking, but the navy does not have much money, so it can only be used to build a new generation of balanced surname heavy patrol.

This warship, which does not even have an initial design plan, has far exceeded the requirements of the Washington Naval Treaty, and if the tonnage continues to expand, and the caliber of the main guns is also expanded, then the total tonnage of China's main fleet will exceed the limit of the Washington Treaty.

However, these small things will not affect the overall situation of the naval arms limitation treaty, after all, everyone is now staring at the tonnage of capital ships and aircraft carriers, although there are restrictions on these auxiliary ships, but they are only minor restrictions.

Now, if China wants to re-enter into a naval arms limitation treaty with Ben, it would be better to go back to the Washington Naval Treaty, but as with the previous time when it returned to the Washington Naval Treaty after the war, this time the treaty will definitely need to be changed.

And this change is also very likely to be a competition between China and China, if China wants to continue to expand the tonnage, then it is said that "this will definitely not do." If the current tonnage ratio is maintained, the Chinese side will certainly not be satisfied.

Therefore, it is unlikely that the countries will return to the negotiating table of the Washington Naval Treaty until the two countries reach an agreement.

As for Ben, now that China has won a new victory, and its industrial and economic capacity has surpassed that of Ben, if China really wants to continue to expand its navy on a large scale, Ben will also be forced to keep up, and this is extremely unfavorable to Ben, so if there is a chance, Kishigero Bihara wants to reach a naval arms limitation agreement with China.

In other words, if the North Korean issue cannot be resolved, then the two countries will not only engage in commercial reciprocity or arms restrictions, but may even continue to carry out a state of war and expand their military until one of them can no longer hold on.

As a rational diplomat, Kishigero Bihara clearly said, "There is a gap between Ben and China, and if the war between China and China continues to stalemate, then it will definitely be Ben who can't hold on first."

On the first day of talks, in the face of Gu Weijun's proposal for peace talks, Kishigero Bihara refused without hesitation, and also handed over the peace talks plan to the Chinese negotiation delegation. ”

Just like Bihara Xi Chonglang's plan to reject Gu Weijun without thinking about it at all, Gu Weijun also rejected Bihara Xi Chonglang's plan without thinking about it, because everyone's plan at the beginning was actually a bit harsh.

In addition, there is a small requirement, that is, it is required to pay for the food and lodging expenses for the captured soldiers, the amount is not large, but as soon as the diplomatic negotiations in these years involve money, it is basically linked to the indemnity, although the amount is small, but the political influence is too great, and in this regard, he is even tougher than the North Korean issue, and there is a big kind of preference to give up the tens of thousands of prisoners rather than pay even a dime in compensation.

The first is to demand that the Chinese side unconditionally withdraw from Korea and release the prisoners, and the second point is similar to the commercial and trade reciprocal treaty proposed by the Chinese side, that is, to require China to reduce the high tariffs on China's trade, and in return, it will also reduce the high tariffs on China's trade.

Some of the other details are different, but those are not the point, the focus is on North Korea! As for the ransom of the prisoners, even Gu Weijun, who proposed a negotiation plan, did not have any hope, this was purely a bargaining chip, which could be given up at any time.

But North Korea cannot give up.

It is impossible for China to give up North Korea, and it is said that 'Ben cannot give up North Korea either, and if anyone dares to give up North Korea at such a time, they will immediately be regarded as traitors by their own people and seriously damage their national interests.'"

So the negotiations were deadlocked, but after two days of stalemate, the two sides tacitly avoided North Korea and discussed reciprocity of commerce and naval armaments.

In order to completely resolve the North Korean issue, Chen Jingyun also ignored the Shanghai negotiations and prepared to thoroughly settle the North Korean issue first.

"Call that Syngman Rhee!" Chen Jingyun stood in his office, staring at the large world area on the wall, and his gaze fell on North Korea, and then slowly shifted to the United States, Europe. Looking at the countries on the world map, he could almost imagine what it would be like if most of the countries on the map would be involved in an inevitable world war in the near future. For the rejuvenation of China, domestic reunification is only a starting point, and the two Sino-Chinese wars and the intervention in the Russian civil war are only preliminary arrangements, and the real time for rise is the next world war!

And what he has to do now is to try to gain a head start for China in this war, to split Russia, to occupy Korea, and even to establish commercial and trade reciprocity with Ben so that China can gain an advantageous position in the next world war.