The returning children Fuxi and Nuwa, the best battleship in the world, and the world's largest, strongest, most advanced, and invincible thirty-six cannons returned home smoothly.
When the six new ships returned home, a battleship craze immediately arose.
Every major newspaper, tabloid, and radio station across the country went crazy, writing endless articles about these six giant ships.
These newspapers were selling very well, especially several well-known military magazines, which were so expensive in Luoyang that they had to be reprinted several times before they could cope with the enthusiastic readers.
In less than half a month, countless "giant ship and artillery parties" were created throughout the country.
Some people may find it strange, isn’t it said that in the late Qing Dynasty, China’s literacy rate was less than 10?
How could so many people buy newspapers and periodicals?
This is not surprising, because Wen Desi began to enforce the literacy system in his own territory in 1906, and forced the promotion of punctuation, simplified characters and Mandarin education.
In addition, the amount of funds invested in education also made people at that time Touched and shocked.
The same was true for the Kyodo Society regime that took the lead in the rebellion, as well as the Southwest Self-Government and the Southern Self-Government.
After gaining national power, literacy and universal education were greatly strengthened.
According to statistics at the end of last year, the national average literacy rate has risen from less than 5 in the late Qing Dynasty to 33.5.
In several old liberated areas such as Hubei and Sichuan, the literacy rate has reached over 70, and the literacy rate for demobilized veterans has reached over 99.
Well, there is a saying that the literacy rate in the late Qing Dynasty was 1620, but this is obviously unreliable.
I don’t even know the population of the country in the Qing Dynasty, so don’t count on them for more in-depth statistics like the literacy rate. .
Of course, there may be another reason, which is that the two regimes have different statistical standards for "literacy".
According to the standards of the Qing Dynasty, it seems that as long as you can write your own name and write one to ten, you are considered literate, and only those over 18 years old are counted.
The Socialist Party of Science and Technology's standards for "literacy" are much stricter.
First, they must be able to read and write at least 2,000 common words, be able to do simple four arithmetic operations, be able to write simple letters and read simple books and newspapers.
Therefore, according to the standards of the Socialist Party of Science and Technology, the literacy rate of my Qing Dynasty is indeed less than 5.
As the literacy rate and income increase, the sales of books, newspapers and reading materials have also increased significantly.
Even illiterate people can get information from radio stations.
Although all six battleships have not yet been completed, this does not affect people's enthusiasm.
Although the navy was very popular during its last visit to the West and scared the piss out of the Netherlands, those warships are basically second-hand ships and all outdated gadgets.
The six ships this time are new and high-end goods.
It feels completely different.
Taking advantage of this trend, several toy companies under the Xingke Group immediately sensed business opportunities.
Birthday stars, Bandai, Lego, well, the Danish and Japanese people cried and launched various warship toys and models.
Of course, according to Xingke's The consistent style is to take all the high, middle and low.
The longevity toy company, which is famous for its dolls and other high-end toys, has launched a set of 1:400 high-reproduction models of Chinese warships, including all current Chinese naval warships.
The cheapest torpedo boat model costs 5 yuan each, and the most expensive Fuxi-class battleship model retails for as high as 120 yuan.
Originally it was just a high-end product and was not intended to be sold for much, but as a result, many wealthy military fans spent thousands of dollars to accumulate a complete set of models.
These warships not only caused huge repercussions at home, but also attracted great attention abroad.
In particular, the two Fuxi-class super-dreadnought ships have aroused the interest of all the powers.
Japan, Tokyo, Military Command.
"Baga, China and Mizu are too cunning.
The battleship data they previously announced have shrunk.
Our Hanoi class has just been launched and is already lagging behind."
"This bunch of losers from Section 5 of the Military Department can't even get this basic information.
China and Mizu have to announce it themselves to know these data.
Why don't they commit seppuku?"
"Like this super crossbow class battleship, our Kongo class is also difficult to deal with.
The Imperial Japanese Navy must have stronger battleships."
"Now it seems that the plan of the Eighth Eighth Fleet is not enough, and more must be added.
China now has 2 super crossbow-class battleships, 2 crossbow-class battleships, and 2 super armored cruisers, all of which are the latest.
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They are colluding with Mi Zhu again, which is equivalent to us being flanked.
We have to deal with the situation on both sides at the same time, so the number of ships must be increased."
A group of young officers of the Japanese Navy were quarreling in the office.
Their mood was extremely restless, and although they shouted loudly, they gave people a feeling of fierceness and inner sorrow.
At this time, a major officer said: "Actually, there is no need to worry so much.
The Chinese warships are not as powerful as you think."
When everyone saw it, it was Nagano, a top student in the naval academy, and they asked: "Nagano-kun, what do you mean by this?"
Nagano smiled contemptuously, pointed to the photos of Chinese warships on the table and said: "Gentlemen, the Chinese people don't understand the navy at all.
Look, their warships all have triple turrets.
Our navy has already done experiments, because The muzzle spacing of the triple turrets is small, and the muzzle storms have a great influence on each other.
Therefore, the shooting spread of the triple turrets cannot guarantee an effective hit rate.
In other words, these warships just look like a bunch of goods.
It’s just awe-inspiring, but it doesn’t matter when you use it.”
As soon as Nagano Xiuxian said these words, everyone suddenly woke up from a dream.
That's right, the Japanese Navy has already conducted experiments, and the triple turret is indeed a flashy thing.
Not only the Japanese have done experiments, but other major powers have also done so.
So although Italy came up with triple turrets 2 years ago, so far only they and the Austro-Hungarian Empire next door have adopted this layout.
Oh, now we have to add China, and the navies of other major powers still have it.
Mainly double installation.
This statement is indeed true.
The triple pack was indeed unpopular in the early days of its emergence.
However, this situation will change after the start of World War I, because at that time, the United States first discovered that it only needs to install a small delayed firing device on the middle artillery, so that the middle artillery can delay the salvo by dozens of seconds.
In milliseconds, this problem of "the interaction of muzzle storms causing excessive shot dispersion" can be successfully solved.
Later, other countries also discovered this technique one after another, so the main guns of subsequent battleships were mainly triple-mounted.
However, this does not include Germany and Japan.
Germany was because the inheritance was interrupted and the technology was too wasteful, all the way to the Bismarck class They are all still using dual installations.
Japan, on the other hand, had only one thing in mind and went too far.
It wasn't until the development of the Kii class that Japan's brain turned around and started to develop triple-packs.
It was not until the Yamato class that the triple main gun was used.
This is something for later, let’s not mention it for now.
While the young officers were making noise on the first floor, several navy bosses were also discussing upstairs.
Chief of Military Command Goro Ijuin, Combined Fleet Commander-in-Chief Shigetaro Yoshimatsu, and Navy Minister Minoru Saito, the three top bosses of the Japanese Navy are all gathered here.
They are having a headache over the latest intelligence coming from China.
"The intelligence has been confirmed, and this time it is completely accurate.
China has announced that it will continue to build two Fuxi-class super-null-class battleships and two Qingcheng-class super-armored cruisers.
This time it is completely self-made by China.
They are built at Shanghai Jiangnan Shipyard and Guangzhou Shipbuilding respectively.
Plant, Lianyungang Shipyard and Tianjin Shipyard started construction.”
Ijuin Goro said with a livid face: "There are others.
Four of China's Zhuhai-class large destroyers have been launched, and eight more are under construction.
In addition, there are four Fuchunjiang-class light cruisers that will be launched in the second half of the year
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"In addition, China is also building a large warship at the Fangcheng Shipyard.
Because this factory is new, the security is very tight.
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Our intelligence personnel are not yet able to get specific information, and they don't even know the type.
Judging from the appearance, it should It's a big ship of about 10,000 tons Moreover, China is still building small ships.
So far, it has built at least 20 torpedo boats and gunboats, and at least 20 more Wuchang-class destroyers, which China calls frigates, will be built by the end of this year.
Six to eight ships are in service.”
"In the past two years, the scale of China's shipbuilding industry has expanded incredibly.
While they are building warships, they still have the energy to build a large number of merchant ships.
Last year alone, they launched 10 Jiefang ships.
The construction speed of this kind of 10,000-ton merchant ships is very fast.
Quick, it took less than five months from the start of construction to the completion of the project.”
After Ijuin Goro finished speaking, several people fell silent.
They all knew this information, but they couldn't think of any way to deal with it.
There is no other way.
Japan is so poor now that even the poor have to sell it.
At present, we have to tighten our belts to spend some money to build new ships.
It is completely unthinkable to make dumplings like China.
The three of them stared at each other for a while, then Saito Minoru said in a sad and angry tone: "Why is China so rich?
They had no money before.
Both Manchu and Beiyang came to Japan to borrow money.
Why?
How can this Party of Science and Socialism be so rich?”
Everyone continued to be silent.
This topic has become a big topic.
It is not easy to explain it clearly in a few words.
Besides, Japan's current intelligence on China is very vague.
Since the Socialist Party of Science and Technology came to power, Japanese intelligence agencies that used to be very comfortable in China have been in bad luck.
They have been uprooted by China's secret services one after another.
Even those organizations that have been lurking in China for decades have not survived.
Not only Japan, but other countries also feel the same way.
From the perspective of foreign intelligence agencies, the efficiency of China's counterintelligence system is even frighteningly high.
It is unknown how many spies once entered China, lost contact soon after.
The same goes for developing informants.
You can still get some general information, but you can't do anything about the more confidential ones.
Moreover, the current Chinese government has no mercy at all towards these informants.
Wen Desi and his gang believe in "severe punishments" and never talk about "human rights of criminals" or the principle of "one person does something and one person is responsible".
It talks about "if one person commits a crime, the whole family will suffer".
China now implements the law of joint imprisonment.
For any crime that is classified as a vicious crime, once the incident comes to light, I can’t say how I will be punished, but my family will definitely be blamed.
The whole family, old and young, will have to go to labor camps.
If not, the whole family may be killed. .
Why was it that the Socialist Party of Science and Technology regime was able to reduce the crime rate across the country from "robbers and gangsters everywhere" to an unimaginable level of "houses open at night" in just two years?
In addition to investing a lot of manpower and material resources in public security, they have also raised the cost of crime to a prohibitive level, which is also a very important reason.
The crimes of espionage and treason are precisely "malignant crimes" and are the targets of severe punishment without mercy.
After being manipulated by the Socialist Party of Science and Technology, the number of people willing to be informants decreased significantly.
After all, most people who are willing to do this do it for profit, but with such a high crime cost and such a low success rate, anyone who is not stupid will seriously consider it again and think about whether it is worth taking the risk of marrying the whole family.
Go betray the country.
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Even for those few who are still willing to do it, the cost of buying them has increased significantly.
In the past, they could easily buy ten informants, but now they can't buy even one.
This is normal.
People are taking such big risks, and you won’t be willing to do anything more than sacrifice some blood.
Now that China's cost of buying informants has increased almost exponentially, and the money from the great powers does not come from strong winds, the efficiency of intelligence acquisition is naturally extremely low.
Everyone was silent for a while, and then Motaro Yoshimatsu whispered: "There was a revolution in China, and all the powerful people of the previous dynasty were wiped out.
Naturally, they are rich."
It is not a secret internationally that the Socialist Party of Science and Technology has confiscated the homes of countless powerful people and made a fortune from it.
This is also normal.
Which country changes its dynasty without confiscating every family member and beheading them?
However, in Japan at this time, the topic of "revolution" was taboo, so just talk about it and don't go too deep.
So Ijuin Goro changed the subject and said: "The empire is currently in a recession, and the funds allocated to our navy have reached their limit.
In order to modify the design of the Hanoi class, we bought drawings from the British, which cost 400,000 pounds. .Built in the UK this year Two Kongo-class ships and two domestically produced Kongo-class ships cost a total of 8 million pounds.
These have already cost nearly 90 million yen.
The imperial government can no longer afford the money.
His Highness the Crown Prince even sold a number of antiques in the palace.
Take it out and sell it to raise funds for us.”
Everyone's expressions were not very good.
Yes, Japan is really short of money.
The Chinese dumplings on the opposite side were having a great time, and the Japanese could only watch helplessly.
After a long time, Motaro Yoshimatsu thought for a while and said: "Isn't China buying women all over the world?
There are at least millions in North Korea, hundreds of thousands in Ryukyu and Hokkaido, and tens of thousands can be found on Kata Sakhalin Island.
Tens of thousands, maybe” Ijuin Goro rolled his eyes at him and said: "Yes, Shina has bought at least 100,000 women in various countries in the past few years.
But Shina has very high standards, and not all women can be admired."
Motaro Yoshimatsu said without giving up: "The women of Japan are famous all over the world.
Don't they want some Yamato Nadeshiko?"
Ijuin Goro was about to refute, but Minoru Saito interjected: "Yoshimatsu-san is right.
We exchanged women for airships with China last year.
Why can't we exchange women for money to build ships now?
The women of the Yamato nation sacrificed for the country.
It’s also a very honorable thing.”
When Motaro Yoshimatsu saw that the Navy Minister supported him, he immediately became energetic and started talking about anything about selling women.
Saito Minoru also joined in, and the two of them excitedly opened their imaginations.
You and I came up with a preliminary plan one by one.
Ijuin Goro was standing by and wanted to say a few words, but seeing this unscrupulous guy on his mind and having no better way, he finally had to sigh and pretend to be dumb.
Are you saying that selling women from your own country would be too much?
With the moral integrity of the Japanese, this is nothing.
Anyway, hundreds of thousands of Japanese girls go to Southeast Asia to sell their products every year, and their main customers are Chinese.
Now it's nothing more than changing retail to wholesale.
What's the big deal?
As long as you can earn enough money, you don't need face
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