Sa Zhenbing was confused when he heard this. Naval aviation was just an aircraft, but what was the use of this thing? It could blow up warships and nonsense. At most, it was reconnaissance and reconnaissance, and the Marine Division. What was the matter? Plus the one in front rowed out some of the naval ships to form a coast guard. The naked poaching was mixed with sand. No, absolutely not. Wang Wenzheng was too bad. If the Navy asked him to do this, it would be disbanded.

By the way, Wang Zhenyu said so much, he had already made up his mind to dismantle the Fujian people who were lying together. Don’t you like to lying together? I will disperse you. In the end, I will add more than half of the people from other places to see how you hug them.

Seeing that Sa Zhenbing was about to object, Wang Zhenyu immediately said: "In addition, we have a five-year plan. We plan to increase the total tonnage of the navy to 100,000 tons within five years. Now this 35,000 tons is really not enough. This is the idea of ​​our Military Commission. It is a set of things. Mr. Sa, what do you think."

"100,000 tons." In one sentence, Sa Zhenbing's opposition was blocked back.

Sa Zhenbing looked at Wang Zhenyu skeptically: "Chairman, there is no joke in the army."

Wang Zhenyu smiled and said, "I can make a military order with Mr. Sa. If I can't reach my level, I will step down."

Sa Zhenbing weighed the pros and cons, and in the end the interests of the country defeated the interests of the small naval groups in his mind: "That's as the Chairman said, as long as we can see our naval revival, I, Lao Sa, will die without regrets."

When Wang Zhenyu heard Sa Zhenbing's words, he couldn't help but be respectful to the man. The naval problem that he thought was very troublesome was solved like this. In addition to feeling moved, Wang Zhenyu suddenly asked himself, as far as patriotism is concerned, can he compare with Sa Zhenbing?

Before the meeting ended, Sa Zhenbing suddenly stood up and said, "Chairman, I came here this time on the Haiqi ship of our first Chinese Navy. The officers and soldiers on the ship begged the chairman to go and review."

Wang Zhenyu thought for a while, nodded and smiled, "Okay, I'll go."

The sun is rising, the river is breeze and cool. Wuhan is newly built National Wharf, with various cargo ships constantly coming in and out, and newly installed tower cranes are busy. At this time, Wuhan was a large construction site. Under the organization of Wang Zhenyu's fifth brother Wang Zhenbang, 100,000 migrant workers gathered in Wuhan and are building an international metropolis.

The Haiqi ship, which is more than 100 meters long, is now very majestic near the National Wharf, which causes the originally busy dock workers to stop their work unconsciously and point at the huge soldier. The passing citizens also stop to watch. When Wang Zhenyu saw this large warship, he had the desire to shop, as if he saw Ai Crazy 4S. Wow, no wonder the grandsons of the Navy want to buy warships every day. This thing looks so comfortable.

The guards of the attendants first boarded the ship according to the old rules and conducted a safety inspection. After confirming that there were no abnormalities, Wang Zhenyu appeared.

The sailors were wearing beautiful sailor suits and lined up along the boat gang, spreading their feet, landing with guns in one hand, and putting them behind their backs with one hand, looking very energetic. The moment Wang Zhenyu walked onto the deck, the commander issued an order: "Salute."

All the sailors immediately stood up and looked straight ahead, and saluted Wang Zhenyu.

This Haiqi ship is one of the two large cruisers purchased by the Qing Dynasty after the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895. It is known as the first ship of the Celestial Navy. The Haiqi ship costs 328,242 pounds, displacement 4,300 tons, length 132.3 meters (434 feet), width 14.3 meters (46.8 feet), draft 6.1 meters, maximum speed 24 nautical miles per hour (24 knots), and horsepower 17,000 horsepower. The main weapons of the Haiqi ship are 2 200mm naval guns, one each with one bow and stern; 10 120mm naval guns, 5 each with five left and right sides; 12 47mm naval guns, 5 each with two left and right sides, and 2 lower decks on the stern; 4 37mm naval guns, and 7 torpedo tubes, and the torpedo equipped is a British-made white-headed torpedo with a diameter of 533mm.

I heard that such a big guy's speed could reach 24 knots, and Wang Zhenyu suddenly became interested. He remembered a data from World War II. It is said that the fastest warship in Japan was the Yamato at that time, with a speed of 27 knots. The fastest in the world was the US Iowa battle cruiser, which could reach 33 knots.

"Old Sa, I think the navy's thinking needs to be changed. There is only one imaginary enemy in the future, that is, Japan. However, if we do not have external help, we can't fight head-on in any case. So we have to change our thinking and compete with him faster. Our future warship speed will reach a speed of 27 to 30 knots. If we can win, we can at least run if we can't win. Moreover, we have to consider that Japan is an island country. In many cases, we don't have to fight against him. If we want to fight against him, we don't have to play the decisive battle with them. It's not better to play against his maritime transportation line. He is an island country and has no material input. I think he is also in trouble. In the powerful joint fleet, if he uses up oil, he can only rest."

When Sa Zhenbing heard this, his eyes lit up. Only then did he really feel convinced by Wang Zhenyu, the younger generation.

He immediately became very enthusiastic: "Chairman, I will introduce you to a few colleagues from the Navy to meet you. They are all young talents from the younger generation of the Navy."

"Chairman, this is Deputy Minister Liu Guanxiong, he is now the Minister of the Military Command of our Navy."

"Hello, Chairman." Liu Guanxiong was already in his early fifties, but he was still full of energy. He was a very standard military salute to Wang Zhenyu. Wang Zhenyu replied to a military salute and shook hands with Liu Guanxiong very enthusiastically.

"Chairman, this is Deputy Minister Cheng Biguang, whose courtesy name is Hengqi. He and Vice Minister Liu were from Xiangshan, Guangdong. He is now the commander of the 1st Fleet. My idea is that he will be the commander of the next first training fleet."

When Wang Zhenyu heard Sa Zhenbing's words, he was implying that the Navy would no longer use Fujian people. He smiled and nodded in his heart. Then he shook hands with Cheng Biguang. Cheng Biguang is also a character in history, but the ending was not good and someone was assassinated. As for the main murderer, there are many versions. Some say that it was done by Lu Rongting, and some say that it was done by Sun Yat-sen. God knows the truth.

However, since history has changed the face of this big butterfly beyond recognition, there is no such thing as being assassinated.

"These two are newcomers to our navy. Chen Shaokuan, whose courtesy name is Houfu, is currently the captain of the Hairong; Chen Shiying, whose courtesy name is Jiliang, is currently the captain of the Jiangheng." Wang Zhenyu looked at the two of them, and they were still very young, and knew they were from Fujian. He smiled and shook hands with them: "Do it well."

After walking down from Haiqi, Wang Zhenyu also said to Sa Zhenbing and other five people: "I think this training fleet is mainly cruiser, and the ship is like Haiqi as standard ship. I don't think about new tactics. Our navy is weak, so we will be pirates in the future war. We just need to use the river defense fortress to block the Yangtze River Estuary. We will do this at sea. We will make a fleet of crusades, and we will only make a soft persimmon. The ship's name will be changed. I can name it after the heroes in history, such as Yue Fei, or something. However, if these good names are used on a good ship, it will be embarrassing if they hit it. As for the fleet's The ship, I mean it, is named after the place name. Changsha, Hunan, Guangzhou, etc., it is better to build the ship, but our shipbuilding industry will not be available for a while. We can buy three more Haiqi-level warships. But I have a requirement, including the power of this ship now, and the 24th knot is still too slow. At least 27 knots will be required. I will allocate 100 million yuan to your navy. You can bring this airs to the fleet and pay attention to confidentiality. I will send someone to form a military intelligence bureau of the Navy to be responsible for your intelligence and internal security."

Just like this, the amount of 100 million Chinese Yuan was reduced. How could these five people from the Navy not be excited? You should know that the National Government allocated only 40 million Chinese Yuan to the Navy this year, which was just enough to pay for the salary and maintain the ships, and even the fuel used for training could not be compensated.

With such a large sum of money, we will divide the family with three new Haiqi ships, and the coast guards. The navy did not care about everything. Not only did we not care about it, but in order to get the money in place, we went to the UK to contact the shipyard to contact the shipyard. Those who were in charge of the reform were also rushing to carry out reforms every minute. We were no longer afraid of offending people, and we didn't talk about any relationship between fellow villagers. In short, a large number of old-school officers who were older, brave and gradually declined, and had a bad style were divided into the coast guard of the Ministry of Public Security without hesitation during this naval reform. From then on, we withdrew from the navy and began to catch smuggle and fight pirates. The navy then recruited a large number of officers from Jiangsu, Hubei, Jiangxi, and Guangdong to study at Nanjing Naval University. The entire navy's atmosphere was new, and these are all later stories.

In any case, after such a small review, the extremely weak navy of the National Government finally began to stagger on the road. Fortunately, the British navy has been unemployed since the Battle of Jutland. This result naturally led to the shipyard being unemployed. As soon as the orders of the three Chinese warships and the transformation order for one ship arrived in the UK, the entire Liverpool immediately injected a little vitality, because everyone had work. According to the agreement signed by the Navy Department with the British side on August 28, 2018, the British side will deliver the goods to China before May 7 of the Republic of China. The Navy Department of the Military Commission of the National Government also took good care of the four Haiqi-class ships named "Anjiang", "Wuhan", "Nanjing" and "Fujian".
Chapter completed!