readx; As the core of the future high-speed cruiser fleet, the two large cruisers of the 10,000-ton class, ordered along with six other destroyers and four light cruisers, were on the minds of many Chinese admirals almost from the beginning. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Due to the limitation of shipbuilding funds, it is impossible for the navy to make uncontrolled construction of large capital warships of larger tonnage, so although those in the navy hope for the kind of large warships of more than 15,000 tons, in this era of price by tonnage, one more ton is one more ton of money. The calculation of the price of warships in these years was simple, roughly according to two conditions, one was tonnage, and the other was speed. At the same speed of 30 knots, the higher the tonnage, the more expensive, and the same 10,000 tons, the higher the speed, the more expensive! Relatively speaking, the naval guns equipped on it do not greatly affect the price of the battleship.

In order to make a warship with the strongest combat effectiveness in a limited budget, the Admiralty people put forward a number of plans one after another, of course, they didn't count what they said, they had to negotiate with the American shipyard, and finally the two countries jointly made the final design plan.

That is, it is equipped with six twin-mounted eight-inch guns, and then equipped with eight five-inch single-mounted naval guns with short barrels, the main armor belt is three inches, and some key areas are four inches, the design speed is twenty-nine knots, and the standard displacement is expected to be 9,000 tons!

It is also interesting to say that this design plan is almost very similar to the treaty re-patrol of various countries more than ten years later, but this design plan is not because of any treaty restrictions, but because of the limitation of military spending, because in the purchase of ships, in addition to the construction of four light cruisers and six destroyers, there are less than 10 million US dollars, and it is not ordinarily difficult to get two warships out of this 10 million US dollars. After various trade-offs, this compromise was found.

The design and combat target of this class of ships is naturally not the enemy's capital ship, but mainly to attack the light ships of the enemy navy, and the six eight-inch main guns are enough for the ships of this class to have sufficient firepower, and the armor belt between three and four inches is enough to immune the five-inch and four-inch guns equipped with a large number of light ships of the enemy navy. It also has enough combat effectiveness against the old armored cruisers that are still in service in a large number of the navies of various countries, even against the last armored cruisers of the United States Navy, which are equipped with four ten-inch guns, and the last armored cruisers have the power to fight, of course, it is irrational to resist hard, the biggest advantage of this class of ships is speed, but it is not its purpose to conduct artillery battles with warships with more than eight inch guns in the enemy navy, so it is the right thing to use high-speed detachment when you see it.

Because it is a completely new design, whether it is an oil-fired boiler or an eight-inch naval gun with a caliber of more than 50 times that required by the Chinese Navy, there is no ready-made design plan on the US side. However, this was not a problem for an American industry that had already become one of the world's great powers, and it did not take long to design a new 8-inch naval gun with a barrel length of 55 times the caliber of 8 inches, and the surname of this naval gun even exceeded the original requirements of the Chinese Navy.

To a certain extent, the United States has regarded the warships ordered by China as experimental objects in this construction of ships for China, and has almost tested many new technologies, such as oil-fired boilers, reduction gear engines, and new eight-inch naval guns. As a result, the Chinese Navy has obtained the world's advanced level of warships, and the United States has also taken this opportunity to test many new technologies, and the United States has quickly applied the relevant technologies, and the Pennsylvania-class battleships that started construction last year have fully adopted oil-fired boilers.

Of course, this does not mean that it is China's warship order that makes the United States decide to use all-oiled boilers, but the United States has always had similar ideas, even if there is no order from China, the United States will use all-oiled boilers, but China's warship orders just give the United States one more opportunity to experiment, and solve many problems before it is applied to its main warships on a large scale.

With the 12 US-made warships, including these two 10,000-ton large cruisers, about to return home, the Admiralty is already preparing the names of these warships, and even the fleet has been planned.

In order to better manage the ships and the convenience of the title, under Chen Jingyun's personal instructions, the various types of ships owned by the Chinese Navy were classified, and the gunboats with a large vote of about 14 sections remained unchanged, and they were still called gunboats, and the English letters PJ were used, of course, the English letters of PJ were written by Chen Jingyun himself with the pinyin initials of the gunboats.

Other lightning destroyers, protective cruisers, reconnaissance cruisers, and large cruisers were also reorganized. The rearmament of the DD for the destroyer, the CL for the light cruiser, the CA for the heavy cruiser simplified the classification.

These numbers are not made by Chen Jingyun himself, nor are they made by those people in the Admiralty, but refer to the classification of the navies of various countries, of course, Chen Jingyun's interference is inevitable in the middle.

Chen Jingyun's bad taste is not only manifested in the classification number, but also in the naming of ships, on the occasion of the American-made warships about to return to China, Chen Jingyun personally issued instructions to the Admiralty, in order to cooperate with the naming of the ships returning to China, but also considering that the names of the existing ships are the old names of the former Qing Dynasty, in order to show the attitude of the Nanjing Republican political axe to abandon the old and establish the new, the Admiralty was asked to change the names of the ships under its jurisdiction, and arbitrarily proposed the naming method: the names of battleships, battle cruisers and other capital ships were specially set by the central government. The name of the cruiser is based on two characters, the tentative first word is the first word in "Chinese Revival", and the second word is the first word of the name of the provincial capitals, cities directly under the central government, and large cities in the country. The rules for destroyers are the same, the first word is the first word in "Long live China", and the second word is the first word of the name of small and medium-sized cities in various provinces, including county seats, if there is any repetition, it will be postponed to the second word!

In principle, a single name is used for each class, and this initial word will not be used on other ship types until all ships of that class are retired or renamed. However, when the capital ship is withdrawn from the main ranks and changed to other purposes, such as being converted into a training ship or minelayer, it should be changed to another ship name with the withdrawal of the ship name. In order to free up the first word to arrange other capital ships, if the first word is not enough to use, the first word will be appropriately added in the later stage.

To put it simply, this so-called 'first word naming rule' Chen Jingyun is to integrate the phrase 'Chinese revival, long live China' into the names of each ship, and then also integrate the names of major cities, in which the first word represents the level and the second represents the name of the ship. In this way, the name is quite weird, for example, taking the cruiser as an example, the Haiqi is the first class of heavy cruisers owned by the Chinese Navy, so it occupies the first word "Hua", and in order to highlight the original merits of the Haiqi, the original Admiralty was to use the name of Fuzhou, the capital of Fujian Province, to name the Haiqi, so after the combination, the name of the Haiqi became "Huafu" but the group of bigwigs of the Admiralty thought the name was too cheesy, so they changed to other words, and finally chose Hangzhou, and the name became ' Huahang' finally sounds a lot more pleasing to the ear.

The three ships of Haizi occupied the second initial word of the cruiser classification, and the three ships were renamed "Xiafu", "Xiaguang" and "Xiasu", respectively, Fuzhou, the capital of Fujian, Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong, and Suzhou, the capital of Jiangsu.

For the Nationalist Army, among the twelve American-made battleships that were about to return home, there were two classes of cruisers, namely two large cruisers, that is, heavy cruisers in the new classification, which occupied the fourth first word in the cruiser classification, that is, the word 'Xing', and was subsequently named 'Xingshang' and 'Xingnan'. The two municipalities of Nanjing and Shanghai were chosen. The four reconnaissance cruisers occupied the last remaining first word, that is, the word 'Fu', and used 'Fugui', 'Fuchang', 'Compound', and 'Fukun' respectively. They are Guilin, the capital of Guangxi, the second character of Nanchang, the capital of Jiangxi, Hefei, the new capital of Anhui, and Kunming, the capital of Yunnan.

The existing six destroyers are also named one by one according to this naming method, although the five destroyers belong to several countries to build, but the surname and tonnage can be roughly the same, so it is also turned into a level, the selection of "long live China" in the Chinese characters, successively named "Zhongxia", "Zhongchao", "Zhongning", "Zhongzhen" and "Zhongjing" are the first words of Xiamen, Chaozhou, Ningbo, Zhenjiang, Jingdezhen these cities are respectively. The Flying Eagle monopolized the word "country", and was named "Guohu" and chose the city of Huzhou.

The six destroyers that were about to return to China chose the third first word, that is, 'year'. They are named "Suiding", "Suiyan", "Suiheng", "Suibang", "Suiyang" and "Suian", respectively, taking the initial characters of Fuding, Yanping, Hengyang, Bengbu, Yangzhou, Ma'anshan and other cities.

After such an arrangement, the names of each warship were finally put aside, both good and bad. I have to say that this naming method has many flaws and causes many names to be ugly, but there are policies and countermeasures, and the follow-up admirals seriously require that the second or even the third word of the names of each city can be used in the case of non-extension, so that many unpleasant names can be avoided. Of course, this is a later story for the time being,

In terms of establishment, there are still three major fleets, that is, the First Fleet, which is the main force of the ocean, the Second Fleet on the inland coasts, and the Third Fleet, which is used for training. The Third Fleet is under the jurisdiction of the three training ships that returned to China last year, and the Second Fleet is under the jurisdiction of many gunboats in the Chinese Navy, which are divided into five gunboat detachments according to the types of gunboats, which are stationed on the Yangtze River and the Pearl River.

The First Fleet can be regarded as the real main force of the Chinese Navy, which includes all the warships in the Chinese Navy that can conduct ocean-going operations, such as the heavy cruiser formerly known as the Haiqi and now known as the Huahang, for example, the original Haizi three ships, which are now the three Xia-class light cruisers, and for example, the five medium-class destroyers that returned to China last year are all belonging to the First Fleet.

On this basis, the First Fleet built the First Cruiser Group, which consisted of four cruisers. They are the Huahang heavy cruiser (Haiqi) and the Xia-class light cruiser three (Haizi three ships).

It is also preparing to form a second cruiser group with American-made cruisers that are about to return home, with two Xing-class heavy cruisers as the mainstay. At the same time, the 3rd Cruiser Group was formed, mainly consisting of four duplicate light cruisers.

In addition, two destroyer groups were built, the first destroyer group had five medium-class destroyers and the Guohu (Flying Eagle); The Second Destroyer Group has six destroyers.

Once all the formations are complete, the First Fleet will have three cruiser groups, two destroyer groups, including three heavy cruisers, seven light cruisers, and twelve destroyers.

At that time, the First Fleet will become China's most powerful maritime power, although it is not enough to compare with the main forces of the navies of other countries, but it already has the ability to basically fight in the ocean.

While the Chinese naval generals were looking forward to the return of the warship every day, Chen Jingyun was busy receiving the American business delegation, and this reception was not just a welcome dinner, but more importantly, Chen Jingyun wanted to leave a good impression on this group of Americans, not only on his own, but also on the impression of the area under his rule. As long as these Americans see their capabilities and potential, they can invest with confidence.

For this reason, when Congressman Colin led a large group of members of business representatives to Nanjing, Zheng Zuyin, president of the Government Council, and Hong Zitai, director of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, led a large number of high-ranking officials to meet them at the railway station in person.

That evening, Chen Jingyun held a grand welcome dinner, which was attended by many military and political dignitaries. Of course, behind the welcome dinner, more important is some conversation between Chen Jingyun and Councilor Colin.

Unlike a career diplomat like Wu Tingfang, Chen Jingyun directly said after meeting Councilor Colin in the conference room: "I don't know how much money the delegation has prepared for investment?" ”

Councilor Colin was obviously a little surprised by Chen Jingyun's directness, and after being stunned, he said: "It depends on your country's political ability and your country's investment potential. ”

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