Chapter 444 Yangtze River Level

@@@@@@@@@@@@In the semi-circular lower house of the conference room, a circle of seats are installed on the downward tilted floor, enclosing the front rostrum like waves on the sea, so that even if you sit at the last side, you can clearly see the front.

The seat was already full of people. Xiong Xiling glanced at 549 colleagues around him, and a trace of excitement flashed on his face. From the beginning of the Xinhua army entering the southeast, he became the new mayor of Changsha because of his advocacy of national reunification and outstanding performance in Changsha. Later, he joined the Grand National Party led by Li Enfu. In this year's reorganization, he was elected as the representative of Hunan as a member of the House of Commons.

Like him, many of the 549 colleagues around him did not understand what parliament and political parties were at that time, but their enthusiasm did not diminish at all. Although everyone is now divided into two parties, they are very active in working together to make suggestions for the country.

Xinhua adopts a constitutional monarchy similar to that of Britain. The emperor is the supreme leader of the country, with a prime minister and a biceping system, which has achieved the purpose of mutual restraint.

At present, Xinhua has a total of 45 provinces and 10 municipalities directly under the Central Government, so there are a total of 550 seats in the House of Commons and 16 seats. However, it is not a simple average of provinces and cities, but divided according to the proportion of the population, similar to the ten provinces of Siberia that have not yet been inhabited so far, only There are forty seats, and the members are not locals.

Among the 20 seats, in addition to the representatives of the royal family and the Prime Minister's office, there are also representatives of the military and the judiciary other than the two houses and the Prime Minister's office.

Of course, compared with the United Kingdom and the United States, these are still very simple. Even this parliament is elected by two parties and political axes. The first real general election will be held in five years, but this is still a progress.

Xiong Xiling glanced at the front several parliamentarians who were whispering. They were representatives from Luzon, and several of them were famous local gentry in Luzon. This way of involving other ethnic groups is a means to release ethnic contradictions, so that ethnic minorities can also feel that at least the emperor and political axes are not available. There is a place to ignore them and let them have a place to express their wishes.

However, the two new bills proposed by the emperor and the Prime Minister's office to be reviewed today make it a little tricky for these ethnic minorities, especially representatives of the Nanyang region, because one is the Anti-Secession Law and the other is the National Defense Mobilization Law.

Especially the former, once they vote, it means that they have recognized the country in a legal sense!

The emperor is still smart!

Don't agree? Well, when the country has entered the normal state, it is not a big deal to clean it again. If you agree, the newspaper will immediately announce the voting process, which will consolidate the reality that they admit that they are members of China!

Xiong Xiling is right. In fact, at this moment, he is far away in Dalian. Li Mo, who inspects the construction progress of a new generation of light patrols with McKinson, also attaches great importance to whether these two bills can successfully pass the review of the House of Commons. The House of Lords and the House of Lords are different. The House of Lords is basically composed of new nobles. They are the vested interests of Xinhua. Benefit, so as long as the House of Commons passes it, these two bills can come into effect soon.

Li Mo is the kind of person who does it first and then completes it, so whether it is the Prime Minister's Office or the two houses, it is more or less infected with this atmosphere. In the past five years, there have been a lot of bills approved by the parliament, from medical care to education, from patent protection to monopoly strikes, from criminal law to traffic law. The draft is to improve all the legal framework by referring to the mature laws abroad as much as possible at the initial moment of the country, and then slowly revise it according to the actual situation in the future.

This is very important. It is extremely critical to give the country and the people a clear code of conduct. Although there are a lot of restrictions, there will inevitably be constraints in doing things, but without these bills, there will be disorganized chaos.

The Anti-Secession Law is undoubtedly important, and the National Defense Mobilization Law is also crucial. Once passed, it indicates that in an emergency, the state has the right to recruit men between the ages of 18 and 25 to participate in the war, including ethnic minorities, which is an extremely huge number. In the past few years, Lin Lianhui, the Minister of Health, is almost With white hair, not only a special university of Western medicine and traditional Chinese medicine has been established, but also basically completed the construction of sanitation facilities in major cities, which has significantly increased the birth rate of Xinhua. This means that if the war starts in history ten years later, the Xinhua Empire will have at least 20 million soldiers.

Not counting weapons and other factors, it is enough to submerge the world!

This is the real more people and more power!

Emperor Li sip his lips, but he does not intend to play the tactics of the sea of people. Advanced equipment is still the key to ensuring victory, such as the two Yangtze River-class light patrols in front of him.

The Yangtze River-class light cruiser is the most important part of the ten-year naval plan.

The role of the Jinghai-class light cruiser in the Xinhua Navy is obvious to all. As a crucial first-class warship in the navy and the most versatile first-class warship, Li Mo favors it very much. But after all, the Jinghai-class was designed ten years ago. The technical level at that time is not the same as now. In addition, the sea area is huge, so it has been two years. The former navy proposed a plan to build a new light patrol.

After more than ten years of polishing, coupled with a series of exercises such as the Chinese ship, the Jilin class and the Dalian class, the naval ship design department led by McKinson has been able to grasp the context well. After learning the needs of the navy, after a year of design and experiment, it finally came up with the plan in front of it.

From Li Mo's perspective, the Yangtze River-class light cruiser is very similar to the famous British Southampton-class light cruiser, with a length of 180 meters, a width of 20 meters and a water tap of 6.5 meters, which is almost a replica of the Southampton class.

The standard displacement of 9,550 tons has a maximum full load of 11,600 tons, which is about 2,000 tons larger than that of the Jinghai class. Both the internal structure and the level of protection have long been indescribable, and it is the first warship of Xinhua to adopt the long bow tower type.

Four triple L52/152mm main guns, four double L47/130mm naval guns, all of which are upgraded versions of the Jinghai class, and the layout is the same, plus six single 76mm naval guns, six double 37mm rapid-fire guns, and twelve double Viper machine guns, two five-companes of 550 millimeters The rice spear torpedo launcher, two hummingbird water reconnaissance aircraft, and 40 deep-water bombs for the first time.

It is like a grinning steel hedgehog.

Although it seems that the firepower strength of the naval gun has not increased, it is extremely critical, that is, all naval guns have a 70° elevation shooting capability for the first time, which means that Xinhua has held up an air defense umbrella for the fleet for the first time.

These are only visible places. In fact, in places where you can't see, the change is greater. In terms of the most critical speed indicators, the Yangtze River class has also made a big breakthrough. Although eight three-cylinder oil boilers are four fewer boilers than the Jinghai class, with four steam turbines, they can still reach a record 75,000. With horsepower, the design index of the Yangtze River class broke through the dividing line of 30 knots of large warships for the first time, reaching 31 knots for the first time, and the endurance has also become 15 knots/8000 nautical miles.

Under the guiding ideology of Li Mo's small steps, the Yangtze River class also adopted two new technologies for the first time. The first is this class of warship, which completely abandoned the riveting technology and adopted a new welding technology. As a BB party, Li Mo easily took more than ten years to find out the surfacing method used to deal with thick armor. .

The surfacing method is actually not complicated. It is mainly a skill. As long as five millimeters are left in the middle of the steel plate to be welded, and then a slope is cut out of the two sides of the diagonals, and the welding rod is inserted into the five millimeters in the middle of the welding. After connecting, the two sides are gradually installed with layers of material welding. Because it is piled together, it is called heap. Welding, and the quality of welding is also quite good.

When the five mm in the middle is fully welded, it will ensure that it is completely non-concountered. Then the space cut out of the middle and the two sides are over-welded with materials to ensure the strength of the welding mouth.

In fact, at this time, European countries are looking for ways to apply welding technology to large warships, because rivets take up too much displacement. At least two or three hundred tons of warships of 10,000 tons will be occupied by rivets. As the ships get bigger and bigger, the armor is getting thicker and thicker, which means that the number and weight of rivets are also increasing. In addition, when space and weight are extremely tight, rivets have become a thorn in the side of experts from all over the world.

After this technology was applied to shipbuilding from welding, it took Germany ten years to finally find out, and now it has been shamelessly pirated by Emperor Li.

In addition to welding, another item can be said to be top secret, because a large underwater hearing device was installed for the first time in the Yangtze River class.

The gray shark-class submarine has proved its ability, and this is only the second generation. The updated third generation is already under development. Countries are gradually paying attention to submarines, so the underwater threat has become more and more serious.

Li Mo wanted to get a sonar, but now it is January 1906. Although he has Tesla and Einstein, and his electronic technology is ahead of the world, he has not yet reached the standard of getting a sonar, so he can only accept a listener.

The principle of the hearing device is not complicated. Anyone who has seen the handset worn on the ear in Western medicine knows it, but it is difficult to use the warship. First of all, the warship itself has a strong noise. How to reduce interference is enough headache. McKinson even applied the shock absorber valve and other things that Li Mo made for the submarine. Within the Yangtze River level, the Ministry of Science and Technology finally organized public relations, and finally took out a physical test six months ago.

At this moment, the underwater listener is more like three super-large doctor's receivers installed on the bow and both sides. They are close to the hull and use rubber as a medium for sound insulation. Although the specific effect is yet to be verified, during the test, the two listeners worked together to find a gray shark within a kilometer. As a result, Li Mo made up his mind to use it.

Technology can always be a technology in the laboratory. Li Mo is very clear about this. Without a listener, there can be no subsequent sonar, so this is a process that can only be improved in use.

The Yangtze River-class light patrol is one of the key projects of the Navy, but the cost is also huge. Due to the adoption of a variety of new technologies, the cost of each ship has reached 7 million blue coins, which is about 1 million pounds. You should know that the Dalian-class heavy patrol is only 1.5 million pounds.

Because there is no urgent external threat for the time being, the country's 1 billion income should be given priority to domestic construction, so it can only spend 150 million yuan in military expenditure every year, of which the navy accounts for 60%, which seems to be a lot, but in fact, in addition to the usual expenses, only two capital ships and two Yangtze River-class light patrols can be built every year. Therefore, the construction speed has been slowed down a lot. According to the plan, 12 Yangtze River-class ships will be built in Dalian, Huludao and Ryukyu respectively. Three ships will be delivered every year from January 1908, which will be completed in four years.

On January 10, 1906, when Li Mo clapped his hands and came out of the belly of the Yangtze River-level light patrol with satisfaction, he finally got the good news that the two bills had been passed, which meant that he had entered the most vital ten-year period

(to be continued)