In the blink of an eye, the Empire of the Sun Never Sets ushered in its 10th Christmas, which was the most peaceful Christmas in the Empire's history, unlike the previous 9 Christmas. The territory of the Empire is filled with the smell of the Christmas season, and even the people of the Empire of different races and religions enjoy the food that can only be enjoyed at Christmas today.

At this time, looking at the Maginot Line, although there are still traces of war left by the remnants of the war everywhere, on the ruins and scorched earth, hundreds of fishing villages built by the relocated people have been continuously built, and the 36 acropolises, which were originally full of corpses and building fragments, have not only washed away the ruins in the city, but also restored their vitality, and more merchants come every day.

Although the Empire of the Sun Never Sets is called the most dangerous country in the King Continent by the high-level of various countries, in the eyes of the merchants, the Empire of the Sun Never Sets is called the Golden Country: tea, sugar, spices, and silk are just luxury goods in front of the merchants as many as a dozen kinds, each of these ten kinds can be picked out and subdivided into many kinds, and the merchants from the inland sea basically have a ship used to run the merchants, so it can be said that as long as they bring back a ship, then they can soar.

You must know that although the high-level officials of various countries talk about how the sun never sets empire, but in action, they send money to the empire everywhere, after all, whether it is the weapons and equipment of the empire or luxury goods, it can not only be used to consolidate its own power and status, but also a symbol of the status of the magnates of the king continent today. The generals of the small kingdoms took pride in owning a set of imperial officers' equipment, while the nobles believed that wearing silk clothing and jeweled rings was what a powerful person should look like.

But in less than 1 year. How did the Empire recover the battered golden trade coast in such a short period of time? money, as long as there is enough money, even if Sun Lin does not rely on his own system, he can do it, because this article on the Gold Coast is only destroyed by some coastal facilities, and the population and materials have been evacuated to the rear before the sun sets before the war.

But the biggest problem now is that it is absolutely impossible for the Imperial Treasury, which is reforming the army and moving the capital, and at the same time shouldering the monthly expenses of the Empire, to conjure up another sum of money from the treasury. But there was no money. Everything on the coast of the Western Regions of the Central Continent cannot be restored, so what should we do?

Sell the ship!

Yes, when the Battle of Maginot was signed after the armistice was signed by the three great imperial powers such as the sun never sets. At the same time as announcing the military reform and moving the capital, the empire also announced that it would sell a large number of warships of various types that had been dismantled from the empire's war equipment, ranging from the small thousand-fire ships that could be used as landing ships to the large ones that were written on the trading market of the Sunset Commercial Guild by the Imperial Finance.

Although the price of each warship is expensive. But in less than half a month. All the retired warships that were marked as being sold were all snapped up by the various forces of the King Continent, and the few warships that reached the giant battleships were even sold at the auction of the Western Regions of the Middle Continent: Water Qilin City, which was the capital of the Western Regions of the Sunset Continent, on average, and even reached the transaction price of more than 10 million Sunset Gold Coins.

Of course, there is no need to think that these buyers are basically a few wealthy forces such as the Griffin Empire, the Holy Light Empire, and the Orc Empire, and the purpose of their purchase is nothing more than that: to study the structure of the Sunset Battleship, to understand the advanced points and weaknesses of the Sunset Battleship, etc., who made the name of the First Fleet of the King Continent now on the Sunset?

But what? When the Admiralty Minister Blackbeard raised objections on behalf of the admirals, Sun Lin made them all vote in favor with just one sentence: "What if their warships run faster and become stronger?" As long as it's a wooden ship, do you think they can stop our increasingly advanced artillery? I'm telling you that artillery is the body! Caliber is justice! And you are so noisy that I won't let me sell ships, do you not want to change equipment like the army? ”

Well, obviously, the last sentence is the point. However, what Sun Lin said is indeed right, a battleship with artillery and a battleship without artillery is completely a two-level existence. What if they come up with something famous? As long as the number of Imperial warships is enough, they can make the enemy turn into pieces from a few hundred meters away, and as for the white-knuckle battle, Sun Lin and the Xiyi warriors and Viking warriors of the Empire have already put their words there: "There is a kind of don't jump into the sea on the deck, and you can choose to fight in groups." ”

In fact, to be honest, this sale of ships is just a smooth push for Li Cheng in the military reform, and the navy included in the military reform, but the navy has not implemented a major reform like the army because of its particularity.

The reform of the army is to carry out reforms in various aspects, such as the structure of each army corps, the number of personnel, and the weaponry. And the navy is just a re-establishment of the troop number and garrison area, because in a sense, the current empire's navy is based on warships, and the empire has constantly changed the number and number of each fleet during the previous war, and the so-called naval military reform this time is just like that compared with the previous one. However, the replacement of equipment is indeed very important, but the problem is that as early as the Battle of Maginot, new long-barreled guns have begun to be equipped with the navy one after another.

As for the change of equipment in Sun Lin's mouth, the essence is just to promise the navy that the Imperial Quartermaster Department will give priority to the navy in terms of thermal weapons: now for the navy on which the sun never sets, shells and artillery have really become the lifeblood of the navy.

As for the warships, the demand for the navy was not high, and a large number of warships of various types that had been produced during the war but had not been launched had been moored in the shipyards off the coast of the empire, and the Xiyi fleet had been withdrawn after the war. Personnel were assigned to form a new Sunset Fleet and use Sunset-type warships, while most of the obsolete Xiyi warships were sold, and a small number of the remaining ones were absorbed by local troops and organized in the inland river units of local troops.

The Xiyi 3rd Army, which is regarded as the elite of Xiyi, was reorganized into the Imperial Marine Corps after the military reform, which is an army establishment independent of the navy and the army, and is under the leadership of the empire, that is, Sun Lin is under the command alone, and is known as the Emperor's Guard by the Xiyi people.

After such a reorganization, the navy of the Sun Never Sets Empire has also made a new plan in terms of structure, and it is worth mentioning that this time the plan has not changed until the next few decades: above the main body, the Sun Never Set Empire's navy is now divided into three major formations and a free naval formation.

The first type is the Imperial River Fleet, which is composed of the official residence ships and the thousand fire boats reserved after the withdrawal of the Xiyi Fleet, of course, it is a fleet, in fact, the river fleet cannot be said to be a fleet at all, it is just a ship used by the militia forces in some cities along the river, and in fact, many cities along the river and the river are not equipped with official ships at all, and some are just mobile boats with only 30 people on board.

However, this is enough for the rivers and rivers that are not very wide in themselves, and the Thousand Fire Ships are giant battleship killers, in fact, the power of these small boats should not be underestimated, and their own Greek fire jet devices are enough to meet the patrol tasks of various rivers and rivers in the Empire, and the powerful maneuver is enough to convey dangerous information in a short time.

The second category is higher than the coastal fleet of the river fleet, compared with the river fleet, the patrol range of the coastal fleet is not only extensive, but even in terms of number of the third category: the sun never sets the naval fleet, three times as much, of course, the comparison here is the number of people and the number of warships, if the strength is compared, then the coastal fleet is not good.

The coastal fleet is mainly to clear the sea area of pirates and patrol the imperial sea frontier, so the coastal fleet in the selection of warships is the same as the river fleet, they all choose faster warships, but because the patrol area and the object of the battle are different, so the coastal fleet is basically equipped with 12 guns Hawk assault ships, and a small number of 28 Canadian warships.

The artillery is the No. 1 artillery eliminated by the regular army, and the battleship is basically a battleship that was heavily damaged during the Maginot Battle but can also be repaired and pulled back to the shipyard after refurbishment, and the personnel are also rookie soldiers trained by the local army troops, and their combat effectiveness is actually not very strong, but it is still competent enough to carry out tasks such as patrolling coastal areas and fighting pirates, and Sun Lin promised that the navy would first replace thermal weapons and equipment, and the replacement objects here include the coastal fleet.

The newly expanded navy will have three times the number of the original sunset naval fleet, because Sun Lin means that the empire needs to form three naval fleets, two of which are placed in the open sea and one in the inner sea.

The fleet consists of 70 Hawker assault ships, 150 Galleria warships, 35 Hawker Ironclad Battleships, 8 Whale-class Hawker Battleships, and more than 200 Ironclad Transport Ships. It also includes 4 Naga Legions, a Fishman Scout Legion, and 2 Xiyi Marine Corps. In this way, in fact, the combat population of each of the three fleets has reached 100,000, and the total population can even reach 12 or 130,000 if it includes the logistics population.

But don't look at the combined population of the three fleets is more than 300,000, but half of them are not the population of the imperial human race, and the remaining 60,000 Xiyi soldiers are from the original Xiyi fleet and legions, plus many of the last remaining populations are from the first fleet where the sun never sets, in essence, although the navy has also carried out an expansion after the military reform, but the number of recruits is only tens of thousands.

And the last fleet that wanders outside the navy is actually the so-called Royal Fleet, because of its particularity, the information of this fleet is still only known to Sun Lin and a few high-level people in the Royal Fleet, whether it is in the quality of warships or long-range weapons, combat sailors, it is a mystery, the only thing people know is that this fleet has a super giant warship: the Royal Victory, and a Japanese Maru that has been reduced to the Imperial Imperial Palace. (To be continued......)