Chapter 195 Daming made a serious mistake! (Please subscribe, please vote)

UK, 10 Downing Street.

The UK has a new prime minister again!

However, this time the Prime Minister who was replaced was not lifted off the Prime Minister's throne, but stood up and left on his own. However, the reason for his resignation had nothing to do with the aggressive Ming Dynasty. The reason for his resignation was the British "Catholic Emancipation"

"The question" is the question of whether Catholics and Protestants should be equal!

This matter is actually a problem in the "high, big, high" British Isles! More than ten years after the emperor swept across the continent and sent the ideas of freedom and equality all the way to the Rakshasa Kingdom, British Catholics are still here

Suffering legal discrimination! The three prime ministers (Jenkinson, George Canning and Robinson) who advocated giving Catholics relatively equal status all had to retreat because of too much opposition. Robinson, whose governing foundation is basically unstable

The cabinet simply had to resign because of the divisions within the Tory party caused by this issue. His replacement as prime minister was the Duke of Wellington, who accompanied the former Indian Emperor Akbar II on his return from the Indian Empire.

Although the Duke did not dare to send troops to Peshawar to fight against the Western King Wu Zhenzhen in the end, he did meritorious service in helping Prince William legally usurp the throne. Of course, the meritorious minister should be rewarded by a high official.

Therefore, King George IV of the United Kingdom rarely made a comeback and suggested that the Tory MPs, who were leaderless and unwilling to hand over power to their rival Whig Party, supported the Duke of Wellington, who had a weak partisanship but at the same time had extremely high prestige.

Become Prime Minister and clean up the current mess.

As expected, the Duke of Wellington, who sat on the throne of Prime Minister as he wished, encountered a new unexpected event.

And this unexpected incident is that the Ming Empire is selling off the best battleships and armored cruisers in the world!

"This, this, is this the best battleship and armored cruiser in the world?" The Duke of Wellington frowned and looked at the report sent by the Lord of the Admiralty, the First Sea Lord and the Permanent Secretary of the Admiralty.

"It's a shame, they are the best!"

“The best so far”

"Especially the Hero class. Except for the radio station that is only available in the high-end version, this ship does not use any cutting-edge technology. It has no steam turbine, no fuel or mixed-fired boiler, and no piggyback turret layout. But this battleship

However, it has brought its mature technology to the extreme, and also demonstrated super strong quality control and integration capabilities. According to secret reports from envoys from France, Prussia, the Netherlands, Austria and other countries who boarded the ship, the workmanship of this battleship is excellent and exquisite.

It's like a piece of handicraft. The hull is smooth and simple, very beautiful.

The noise made by the main engine during sailing was not too loud, and it was very stable. The black smoke coming out of the chimney was not too big either. It reached a speed of more than 22 knots at top speed, which was 2 knots faster than the expected maximum speed.

This also shows that the Hero's boilers and steam engines are all of superior performance!

This battleship Hero also has a layout of 6 main gun turrets. There are 4 main gun turrets arranged on the left and right sides of the battleship. The whole ship has 6 twin 280 mm 45-caliber main guns with powerful firepower!"

The old man, Earl Nelson, showed a greedy expression as he spoke, and almost asked Wellington for some funds to buy two boats for fun.

"Earl, with the current strength of the Royal Navy, can we defeat it?" Duke Wellington asked with a frown.

"It's very difficult, very difficult, very, very difficult!" Earl Nelson shook his head repeatedly with a serious look on his face, "Earl, this is not someone's bluff, but the true strength of the Ming Dynasty's navy and shipbuilding industry!"

"Can't we build this kind of ship?" asked the Duke of Wellington.

"Of course we can build it. But not now, not three months later, not even two years later, but at least three years later!"

"Does it take that long?" Duke Wellington frowned.

"Yes," Earl Nelson said, "We haven't even started designing yet! Although we can improve on the Sovereign class, a battleship with a standard displacement of nearly 20,000 tons even without adopting too many new technologies will

It also takes one year to design. It takes almost two years from laying the keel to completing the outfitting of the first ship. So at the earliest, we have to wait until three years before we can get a large number of 20,000-ton Sovereign upgrades available. Here we are.

At that time, the Ming Dynasty will be afraid."

"But the Ming Dynasty is now selling off heroes like this everywhere." The Duke of Wellington frowned, "What does this mean? Do they have such a large production capacity that they can meet both domestic and international demand?"

"Mr. Prime Minister," George Elliot took over the British Prime Minister's question, "the Ming Dynasty has a practice in the research and development of naval ships, which is said to have been implemented since the time of King Zhuge Wuzhong. That is, one generation for service, one generation for development, and one generation for pre-research.

, explore a generation. This is a rolling advancement from generation to generation.”

This Yilu turned out to be an expert on the Ming Dynasty issue in the British Navy! He was very knowledgeable about the Ming Dynasty’s armaments development route.

George Elliot went on to say: "Since they have now put the Hero class into production, it means that the battleship that is one generation ahead of the Hero class has already started to be developed. It is likely that considerable progress has been made and may be about to be put into production.

In addition, the Ming Navy's first-generation battleship cannot have only one project, but will promote multiple projects at the same time. Some projects are more radical, while others are more conservative. They will also let several projects compete with each other and select the best one.

"

"Is the hero level the best among several events?" Duke Wellington asked.

"Probably not. This Hero class obviously adopts a conservative design idea to protect the radical route. The reason why Ming Dynasty exports a large number of Hero class now means that a battleship better than the Hero class has been completed or is about to be completed.

Research and development!

It may be a battleship of the same generation as the Hero class, but with a radical approach. It may also be a battleship one generation ahead of the Hero class. But no matter what, it is impossible for the Ming Navy to equip a large number of Hero class and Haohan class. This is also

It is the practice of the Ming Dynasty that the main battleship types for its own use are not exported until they become obsolete, and the exported ship types are rarely used for its own use."

The Duke of Wellington looked at Earl Nelson again, and the Earl just sighed and nodded - the old man looked at the battleships with covetousness, but Ming Dynasty did not like them.

"Then what's their purpose of exporting a large number of hero-class weapons?" Duke Wellington asked.

Viscount Palmerston, Minister of the Navy, said: "Prime Minister, I think they are passing knives to France and the Rakshasa Kingdom. Especially to the Rakshasa country, they are sending knives to encourage the Rakshasa to march into Constantinople and become Eastern Rome!

"

Wellington frowned: "But haven't we already agreed to attack the Turkish Empire together? We also agreed to the marriage of Princess Victoria and Grand Duke Alexander."

"But we are still not ready to launch an attack together!" said Viscount Palmerston, "and British arms and French Bonapartists are still entering Constantinople. I believe the Tsar will not know anything.

"

Of course Britain would not allow the Rakshasa Kingdom to take Constantinople unless it was absolutely necessary. And if Britain's delaying policy continued to be implemented, it would certainly make the Tsar impatient. And Nicholas I was not a fool, of course he could

He could see the British thoughts. And the reason why he did not go it alone was of course because he was afraid of the British navy.

"Really." Duke Wellington pressed his forehead. He now understood a little bit why Jenkinson and George Canning fell, and why Robinson resigned. It's really hard to be the Prime Minister of the British Empire!

Just when Wellington was wondering whether he should also imitate Robinson and "resign as a courtesy", Viscount Palmerston suddenly changed the topic and said with a smile: "Prime Minister, I think the Ming Empire's practice of selling off battleships and armored cruisers

, in fact, it’s completely wrong, they made a serious mistake!”

"Error? What error?"

"Time window. They gave us a time window to defeat them!"
Chapter completed!