Chapter 111 Sigh

Compared with the palace in the city and the Beiyuan in Zijin Mountain, those Western-style palace-style buildings are more royal. Although the "Xilan Palace" was built long before the restoration, the European palace architecture and the subsequent careful decoration make almost every corner here look magnificent, especially that Some gold-wrapped wooden doors, wooden windows and wood carvings, anyone who comes here will be amazed at the luxury and beauty here.

The luxury and beauty here penetrate into every corner. Even the most inconspicuous corner are sometimes eye-catching. Compared with the simple film projection room in the Qinzheng Building of the Palace, the film projection room in the basement of the "Xirun Palace" is extremely gorgeous, exquisite wall skirts and gorgeous decoration. Coupled with those European-style soft-seat sofas, this is the place that is really used to "watch movies". Of course, if there is a so-called "blockbuster" in this era.

However, at this time, the projection room is in darkness. The white screen shows white light without pictures, and the gorgeous lighting around it reflects some reflections. Unexpectedly, the atmosphere in the projection room seems to be a little strange.

The movie screen is black, reflecting a row of powerful regular script.

"The inauguration ceremony of the largest warship in East Asia!"

Seeing these words, Chen Moran frowned. This is the news that domestic newspapers are competing to report today, and even some envoys in China are constantly in looking for the news. Before the newspaper reported, he actually knew "no knowledge".

That's why there is unhappiness at this time, even anger, but anger always needs to be restrained, at least after watching this movie. The picture of the film first appeared a line drawing of a warship, followed by several designers around the drawing plate. They seemed to be discussing something.

The picture before this stage is undoubtedly showing the decision-making, design and construction process of this warship. Every time it is played for dozens of seconds, there will be corresponding subtitle commentary. From the picture, Chen Moran can feel that the people who made this news movie are very attentive. At least compared with those movies in the past, this movie is shooting. There has been a great improvement in photography skills.

"Hmm! This picture is good and spectacular..."

Look at this movie with the eyes of hundreds of movies. Although it is inevitably a little amateur, the occasional pictures still make Chen Moran praise it slightly in his heart.

"Your Majesty, the Advisory Office of the Ministry of the Navy has planned to copy 500 news movies and send them to the whole country as news movies!"

Zhang Jing, who was sitting behind him, said softly, but Chen Moran, who was in a more relaxed mood, frowned again. Does the navy want to "defeat the king" with this fact?

At this time, there is a crowded dock with people on the screen. In the dock, a huge hull is slowly floating with the water injection. This is the "water injection dock is launched". After the water injection is completed and the hull is completely floated, it should be towed out by a tugboat. This has long been a common news.

Dozens of seconds later, Ye Zugui's figure appeared on the screen. Seeing his figure, Chen Moran turned his head slightly and looked at him. With the light of the movie, he seemed to be a little nervous or even cramped.

With the slow landing of the warship, the pieces of paper sprayed from time to time on the pillars of the cranes in the dock, perhaps the pieces of colored paper, look spectacular.

"To Zhiyuan!"

The two big words reflected on the movie screen stunned Chen Moran, and the warship and the man came to his mind. When the navy proposed to build two "heavy armored cruisers", the navy and himself also had some disputes for a ship's name. According to the original plan, the heavy armored cruiser The name should be used in the names of all provinces in China, but the navy chose the two names of Zhiyuan and "lucky". In the end, it compromised itself, and people always need some memory.

In Chen's silence, the news movie, which was only more than ten minutes long, was finished. In the void sound of the movie machine, the dark projection room turned on the lights again, and everyone in the projection room looked at it and gave their eyes to your majesty.

Ye Zugui, Shi Tiange and others looked at the expressionless majesty with some uneasiness. Who is the person who is hiding this trick? That is, your majesty in front of you, in the past, this was the crime of bullying the king, and it was a great crime to kill the nine clans.

"This..."

Finally, Chen Moran's voice broke the dead silence in the screening room.

"Is this the so-called heavy armored cruiser?"

With a rhetorical question, Ye Zugui and Shi Tiange looked at each other in the face. Is there a cruiser of almost 18,000 tons? The tonnage of this "heavy armored cruiser" is almost the same as that of the two armored cruisers. Is there such a large armored cruiser? At least before it, there was really no such a big "cruiser".

"Your Majesty, according to the common division of various countries, armored cruisers should be warships with certain armored protection, equipped with strong firepower guns, high speed and airworthiness, and can carry out ocean-going operations for a long time in harsh climate conditions. Therefore, in my opinion, the "Jiyuan" class is definitely a cruiser!"

At this point, Shi Tiange knew that he had no way out. At the beginning, he was fooling with everyone to build this "ad-the-the-front" "cruiser". It's up to explain it by himself!

"cruiser! What a big cruiser!"

With a cold snort, Chen Moran turned his eyes to the elochusful Shi Tiange, which was full of sarcasm.

"Your Majesty, it seems that there is no regulation in the world that more than 10,000 tons are battleships, and less than 10,000 tons are cruisers. Fifteen years ago, battleships were less than 10,000 tons, cruisers were only thousands of tons, and the artillery caliber was still mainly 152 mm. Seven years ago, Japan customized 10,000 tons of armored cruisers, caliber one It jumped to 203 mm. Now, with the progress of the times and the needs of naval battles, the tonnage of armored cruisers has naturally advance by leaps and bounds for the long term of the imperial navy. It is not as soon as it is built, it will lag behind the countries of the world. Naturally, it should be considered in the long run. Therefore, the construction of this kind of armored cruiser is in line with the development of science and technology and the needs of naval warfare!"

Shi Tiange's words only stunned Ye Zugui. He is clever here, and he is clearly asking for trouble! Seeing that His Majesty's face was cold, Ye Zugui knew that he could be silent again.

"Your Majesty, please calm down, this fact is..."

When the words came to his mouth, Ye Zugui didn't know how to explain it.

Self-deception? No way! If you don't admit to bullying you, you can't do it! Ye Zugui, who couldn't find a speech for a while, almost sweated on his forehead.

"Sit your anger... What's wrong with me!"

Chen Moran snorted coldly and held the newspaper in his hand. If he didn't see the newspaper, he was afraid that he really didn't know that the navy had built the "largest ship in East Asia" and built a battleship in the name of a cruiser. It's really thanks to them that they could figure it out. It seems that the allocation is too loose for the navy. To be precise, with the financial guarantee of the Navy Foundation, the navy can build large warships as they want, even beyond their own surveillance.

I always thought that I was very relieved about the navy, even more assured than the army that I started with, navy! The most powerful navy is also rootless when it leaves the land. The surname of the navy and the special surname of the officer determine that the navy can only rely on the country. It is the special surname of the navy that makes them mixed with sand in the navy. Before the "noble naval officer" took charge of the navy, they regarded it as a genus, but they are like this. Give back to yourself.

It can be ideal for the navy to want warships, not to mention that its neighbors in the East Ocean have a huge fleet. Even if they don't, whether it is to protect themselves or to "enlift the prestige of the country to the sea", China must build a huge fleet, a powerful navy that can even be comparable to that of the British navy.

The importance of coastal defense is more important than land defense! It's not that I can't understand, but... it's by no means now! Everything has to be prioried! However, the navy's recklessness ignores the overall situation of the country!

"I would like to thank you very much for these two gifts from the navy to the empire!"

Your Majesty's sneer made Ye Zugui's cold sweat on his forehead more dense. There was no imaginary thunder wrath, but some were more chilling than thunder's wrath... But once the navy lost His Majesty's trust.

At this time, Ye Zugui really wanted to kneel down, but he knew that now was by no means the time to kneel.

"Your Majesty, I... I have something to say!"

"Talk!"

Staring at Ye Zugui, Chen Moran still had some anger in his heart. The arrogance of the navy destroyed one of his most important plans for the future, and this plan may even affect the fate of the country.

"Your Majesty, at the beginning, a large number of cruisers were formulated to be built to train officers and sailors, and at the same time to improve the level of domestic shipbuilding, so as not to arouse the vigilance of the expansion of our navy by the great powers. However... The current situation is different, the needs are naturally different. If China does not have a bad relationship with Japan, then the construction of cruisers is undoubtedly in line with China's actual needs. But now..."

Looking up at Your Majesty, there was some sincerity in Ye Zugui's words.

"There is no doubt that Japan has been China's biggest enemy in the future, and this time it forced Japan to return Taiwan to China, which also made China say that the two countries have no possibility of compromise and peace. Last year, there were only four battleships and eight armored cruisers. After its capture of Lushun, Yu Lushun captured as many as four battleships and one armored cruiser. A year later, the Japanese navy will have eight battleships and nine armored cruisers, jumping into the fourth largest country in the world's navy, and our navy is not even in the top ten. How can such a navy prevent people from advancing!"

The voice paused for a moment, but Ye Zugui secretly changed the concept of time. When the design of the "Zhiyuan" level began, China said that the two countries had not been bad, and "Zhiyuan" had begun to design before that.

"This time, I have a bad relationship with the Japanese people. Although it is protected by the United Kingdom, the United States and other countries, if it is said that people are desperate, how can our country hand over the navy to other countries for protection? Only now the enemy's plan is to deter it with a strong fleet, so this is far-reaching, so that..."

"Oh..."

When Ye Zugui said the reason for building the ship, Chen Moran let out a long sigh and looked at him and said a sentence.

"Two warships are easy to build and easier to buy. You only see the strength of the Japanese navy, but you don't see that these two warships seem to have guaranteed the coastal defense, but...!"

(to be continued)