"What? The Chinese Empire Congress approved the export of four super fearless battleships to Colombia?"

"How is this possible?"

"Are you kidding internationally? Today is not April Fool's Day!"

International public opinion suddenly became an uproar. No one expected that the Chinese Empire would export its killer super fearless battleships to the outside world, and export them to Colombia, a third-rate country in South America.

"Where is going to make a fuss?"

International public opinion speculated about the intentions of the Chinese Empire, and the British Empire public opinion reports speculated that this was the Chinese Empire preparing to intervene in South America. Previously, the Chinese Empire helped Brazilian Emperor Pedro II restore the reign and established a solid ally with the Brazilian Empire. Now relations with Colombia are heating up, aiming to win over Colombia as an ally.

French newspapers published an article by commentators saying that this is openly cultivating forces in the Caribbean Sea, intending to cause trouble in the backyard of the United States, and exporting them to the Colombian Navy's four super-fair battleships, which is enough to instantly kill any of the American Navy's active battleships. Once the Colombian Navy is equipped with these four super-fair battleships, it will dominate the Caribbean Sea, and even the entire American continent is no match. Once the war between China and the United States begins, these four super-fair battleships of the Colombian Navy are likely to cooperate with the Caribbean fleet of the Chinese Empire Navy to attack the American Navy together.

Venezuela, Argentina, Chile and other countries in South America are all nervous because they all have a record of going to war with Colombia and are worried about revenge from Colombia. Especially Venezuela, which is close to Colombia, has similar land areas, but Venezuela has more abundant resources and has been spyed by Colombia.

Today, the most advanced warships in South American countries are ironclad ships, not even a decent fearless battleship, let alone a super fearless battleship.

Once Colombia is equipped with four super fearless battleships, it will definitely crush the navies of South American countries.

The New York American newspaper complained: "The Chinese Empire is too shameless. It supports Colombia behind it. It not only has the intention to restrain the United States, but recently it has also cheated America and France hard."

The comment pointed out that the Chinese Empire and Colombia sang together on the Panama Canal, making things difficult for developers from the United States and France, forcing the United States and France to increase the huge cost of 200 million yuan on the basis of the original cost of digging canals of 300 million yuan. This money is said to have been equally divided by the Chinese Empire and Colombia. The reason why Colombia has the money to buy four super fearless battleships of the Chinese Empire was because it cheated the huge amount of funds of the United States and France.

As soon as the news came out, the whole world was shocked and uproared again. It turned out that there was such inside information on the Panama Canal, which was really amazing.

The loved ones hurt and the enemy are happy!

As ally of the United States and France, the British Empire, the Tsarist Russian Empire, the Japanese Empire, the Dutch Republic, and the Portuguese Empire have expressed their opinions, condemning the Chinese Empire and the United States of Colombia, believing that this is too shameless.

America and France, as the parties involved, were extremely sad, especially Grant and El. They were directly involved. When they learned that the Chinese Empire intervened in the Panama Canal, the Colombian government intended to let the Chinese Empire take over the Panama Canal. As a result, the two leaders were panicked and did not find that this was a trap. As a result, the Chinese Empire and Colombia were trapped together.

The Panama Canal is just like auction houses. The Chinese Empire is just a child care provider and keeps raising the quotations. As a result, Grant and El had to increase their investment, an additional 200 million yuan increase from the expected investment of RMB 300 million, which was definitely a tragic loss.

Now Grant and El regret it very much, and vomited blood in anger. However, even though they knew they were cheated, they could not admit that they were cheated. It can only be said that after the Panama Canal was successfully dug, they not only made huge profits, but also had huge strategic and military roles. They even had to instruct some newspapers to defend this and make the people believe that the government did not suffer any losses.

A typical example of being beaten up, you have to swallow your anger and tell others that you accidentally hit him.

It is conceivable how frustrated and angry Grant and El were.

Half a month later, the annual Allied Summit was held in London. American President Grant, French Prime Minister El, Japanese Prime Minister Hiromoto Ito, and Tsarist Special Envoy Story. These five countries are the main parties, and they are indispensable. The personnel sent are also the highest. In addition, the Netherlands and Portugal are just small countries and have no decision-making power. Therefore, they only send special envoys to attend the meeting symbolically and obey the orders of the five countries.

This meeting is very important, and all the five major member states of the agreement have made sufficient preparations in advance.

"According to our intelligence, the last sea trial work of the four Xianxia-class battleships of the Chinese Empire has been completed. In two months, the final installation will be delivered to the Chinese Empire's Navy for service. According to reports, four of the four super fearless battleships of the Chinese Empire, Thor-class battleships, were launched one after another last month. According to the progress, the superstructure and main gun system should be installed. It will be completed within the next year and will be put into service at least one and a half years later."

The speaker was made by Japanese Prime Minister Hirofumi Ito. Currently, the main intelligence collection of the Allies against the Chinese Empire is entirely due to the Japanese espionage organization. This is because, as an Asian race, the Japanese are no different from the Chinese on the outside and are more likely to be involved in the Chinese Empire, and are not easily discovered. The spies from Britain, the United States, France and Russia are all white, and are easily noticed and discovered by the Chinese Empire police and intelligence agencies. The overseas Chinese trained in the West are also too far away from the Chinese Empire and have huge cultural differences, so in terms of intelligence collection, the Allies still attach great importance to the intelligence collected by the Japanese.

"This is too fast. It's only two years. The shipbuilding industry of the Chinese Empire is so powerful!"

"I really didn't expect that our intelligence also said that the four Thor-class battleships of the Chinese Empire would be launched next year. It seems that they have been fooled by the Chinese Empire again. It is still the Japanese agents who are powerful, so they can detect it so easily."

Countries complained, or praised the Japanese agents for their greatness.

Hirobu Ito smiled bitterly: "Everyone, our Japanese agents have also paid a price of blood. You all don't know that the Chinese Empire's anti-espionage ability is very strong, and we have also lost a large number of agents. This time, our agents were on submarines of the Great Japanese Empire, and were lurking in the waters 200 nautical miles away from the coastline of the Chinese Empire. During the sea test of the Xianxia-class battleship, the Chinese Empire Navy dispatched a large number of warships and anti-submarine destroyers to search the carpet. The ten submarines we dispatched sank nine. The last one survived because they were hiding under the fishing boat. The Chinese Empire's sonar system created a dead end. It was not discovered. It was really painful for our agents to survive by chance!"

All countries sympathized with each other and expressed their gratitude for the contributions of the Japanese Empire.

At the same time, American President Grant's eyes lit up and said, "So, the Chinese Empire's naval anti-submarine destroyers also have blind spots. They cannot detect the submarines hidden under the fishing boat?"

Hirobuki Ito nodded and said, "That's right!"

"That's great!" Grant suddenly became excited and said, "This must be kept secret. Once the war breaks out, our submarines want to mingle into the Pacific Ocean and attack the warships of the Imperial Chinese Navy. They can disguise themselves under the fishing boats and avoid the anti-submarine reconnaissance of the Imperial Chinese Navy."

William frowned and said, "But once the war breaks out, the Chinese Empire Navy will not let our fishing boats go!"

Grant smiled and said, "You are too stubborn. Why do we use our fishing boats? We can disguise ourselves as ships from neutral countries, not necessarily fishing boats, but cruise ships, cargo ships, etc."

French Prime Minister El said: "Okay, we are not studying submarines and fishing boats. The super fearless battleships of the Chinese Empire will soon be put into service, and we have not yet come up with a response plan. Have you been oppressed by the Chinese Empire like this? Our French Emperor is already very unhappy!"

Everyone was silent. Faced with the super fearless battleships of the Chinese Empire, countries also wanted to build super fearless battleships that could be matched as soon as possible, but unfortunately the technology gap was too big.

William sighed: "Our Minister of Maritime Affairs, Mr. Fisher, has worked very hard, but the current steam turbine test power is still not ideal. If you want to promote a battleship of nearly 400 million tons, you have to reach a speed of more than 25 knots. At least 28 sets of boilers must be installed. However, so many boilers occupy a large amount of space and tonnage, which will inevitably occupy the armor weight and the weight of the main gun. Moreover, 28 sets of boilers burn coal or oil is simply a bottomless pit. It requires loading more than 5,000 tons of crude oil to ensure endurance, and this consumes a lot of space and tonnage. No matter how we plan, it is unreasonable, unless..."

"Unless what?"

Everyone asked, all of them seemed very anxious.

After all, the super fearless battleships of the Chinese Empire have been launched, and the super fearless battleships of various countries are still struggling, which has delayed the precious strategic time of the navies of various countries. Once the Chinese Empire builds the super fearless battleships first and suddenly starts war, the navies of various countries will be killed instantly and have no ability to resist.

William smiled bitterly: "Unless we cut the armor protection!"

“Cut down armor protection?”

Everyone was stunned and frowned immediately.

"Didn't that mean changing the Super Dauntless Battleship to a Super Dauntless Battleship?"

With the same firepower and speed, if the armor protection is greatly reduced, it is not a battleship, but a battleship cruiser of the same level.

In the eyes of everyone, everyone knows that battleships are invincible, but battleship cruisers dare not guarantee them. After all, the armor is too thin. If you let the battleships of the same level touch a few times, it would be miserable.

"You mean strategic deception?"

Grant asked suddenly, and he found that William didn't seem to be too nervous, so he had this guess.

William was also shocked, not expecting that his intention would make Grant discover it.

So he smiled bitterly: "The Chinese Empire has carried out strategic deceptions a lot, and has cheated us many times, so I am also wondering whether to carry out strategic deceptions too!"

Japanese Prime Minister Hirofumi Ito was shocked and hurriedly opposed: "No! It's too dangerous! You know, the strategic deception of the Chinese Empire is deliberately reducing its performance on the original basis and showing that the enemy is weak. In this way, even if the war breaks out, it will take advantage. But we want to show that the enemy is strong. If the Chinese Empire is not deceived and starts a war with us, then we will suffer a great loss?"

William said helplessly: "Now what is in front of us are the four super fearless battleships of the Imperial Navy of China have been launched. They will not be more than a year and a half before they are in service. Once they are in service, they will cause us serious military oppression. We need time to improve the performance of the steam turbine. This time we will treat it as building a batch of battle cruisers. I believe that within three years, we will definitely be able to solve the performance problems of the steam turbine, even surpassing the Imperial Empire. In just three years, I think the Imperial Empire will not find any frauds in it."

El agreed: "I agree too! In fact, the thickness of the armor cannot be seen in the construction of battleships and battleships. Unless the war breaks out and both sides open fire, they can only know whether the armor protection of both sides is strong or weak. At present, the Chinese Empire does not seem to be the first to provoke a war, otherwise their naval power has long been attacked in Europe in the past decade!"

Grant had nothing to say. At present, the United States is also developing its own steam turbine, armor and artillery technology, and has also encountered bottleneck problems. He wanted to seek help from the British Empire, but the British Empire seemed to be unable to solve it.

"If it is just a short-term strategic deception, I believe that it can still be tried in three to five years! As His Excellency William said, we also need to build a large number of battleships. After all, the Chinese Empire also has a large number of battleships, and we cannot lag behind in this regard. As the sea area of ​​the Chinese Empire expands, if they want to control the oceans of the world, they must invest more and more naval power. We will build one, and the Chinese Empire will probably build three or four to deal with it in the future. It is also possible to use this arms race to drag down the Chinese Empire."

Tsarist Russian envoy Story finally couldn't help but say: "Mr. President, the cost of building a battleship is twice as high as that of building a battleship. In other words, the Chinese Empire built a battleship and we built a battleship and appeared in battleships. In fact, it was equivalent to spending the money to build two battleships. It was not us who dragged down the Chinese Empire, but the Chinese Empire dragged down us!"

Grant was immediately embarrassed and glared at Story fiercely. He didn't open any pot, and if he wanted to be so direct, he couldn't save some face!

Although there is a little incident, countries really have no way to check and balance the Chinese Empire. They can only temporarily use the method of building battle cruisers to deceive the Chinese Empire, making the Chinese Empire think that all countries are building super fearless battleships. In this way, the Chinese Empire will be afraid and will not provoke wars easily, nor will it easily bully all countries.

Finally, the countries reached an agreement to build a total of nine super-dreadless battleships, which claimed to be super-dreadless battleships. Among them, the United States allocated 4, the British Empire allocated 4, the French Empire allocated 4, the Tsarist Russian Empire allocated 2, the Japanese Empire allocated 2, and the Netherlands and Portugal each allocated 2 fearless battleships.

After the meeting, the Allies issued a joint communiqué, making this large-scale naval shipbuilding plan public.

The purpose is very clear, which is to let the Chinese Empire and the Allies know.

Therefore, the Allies finally began to respond to the super fearless naval arms race initiated by the Chinese Empire.
Chapter completed!