Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 424 Fleet Lineup
The plan for circumnavigating the world is certain, and the rest are details.After all, Bai Mingxiu is the supreme monarch of the empire, and his will can still be well implemented.Not to mention Prime Minister Tang Beilu in the Lizheng Yuan and other ministers from Australia or systematic talents, they definitely supported Bai Mingxiu, and even some ministers such as Guo Zhiqi and Zhang Huangyan held a positive view.

After all, everyone can see that trade has greatly benefited Ming's finances. Although this round-the-world voyage will cost a lot of money, trade can make up for it.

At the same time, for many courtiers who are full of celestial sentiments, the strength of Daming has already surpassed the past and present. If it can spread the kingly way to the whole world, and let the "barbarians" all over the world realize the greatness of Daming, it will undoubtedly be a beauty that will shine through the ages thing.

But for the time being, circumnavigation is only in the ears of a small number of people at this stage, and it has not been publicized to the public.

The navy and Bai Mingxiu are still selecting ships for the global voyage fleet. As for the part of civilian ships, it is relatively easy to choose. It is to calculate how much cargo to pull, and in which ports to sell it, and how much can be pulled at the same time. goods, and then used for entrepot trade.

The Ming Navy has now established a number of shipyards across the country that are qualified to produce main battleships, and the shipbuilding industry is also an industry that Bai Mingxiu focuses on supporting in industrial construction.Even military ships have formed the pattern of eight diamonds. These eight shipyards are Jiangnan Shipyard, Hudong Shipyard, Huangpu Shipyard, Mawei Shipyard, Dengzhou Shipyard, Bohai Shipyard, and Xitian Shipyard. , Yangon Shipyard.Among them, the three major shipyards of Jiangnan, Huangpu, and Xitian have the strongest technical strength, and can produce first-class battleships, such as ironclad ships and battleships.And other shipyards can basically produce frigates like the Xuzhou class and the Yongjin class.

"I feel that if we want to carry out a deterrent circumnavigation, the two Donghai-class iron-clad ships of the Ming Dynasty are a bit unsatisfactory. Large warships of more than [-] tons are more powerful." Bai Mingxiu thought so, and Open the list of naval exchanges in your AR interface.

Because it is limited by the technological level of its own system civilization era, most of the battleships in Bai Mingxiu's list are from "Empire Total War", "Samurai", "Victoria 2", "Civilization 5" and the like Then there are the warships of his Daming Navy with a full set of technology, such as the Donghai class and the Ninghai class.

We are at the end of industrial civilization and have touched the edge of electrical civilization. This period is the most embarrassing.In particular, Bai Mingxiu's system is mainly taken from various military history games. There were so many games during World War II, almost as numerous as a cow's hair. In contrast, games during World War I, and even games at the end of the 19th century before World War I, are simply feathers and horns. .

Before Bai Mingxiu was lucky, he thought that he might be able to draw some mercenaries or equipment from "Battlefield 1", but he refreshed the list almost every day, but he couldn't see the mercenaries from "Battlefield 1".And naval ships are the hardest-hit areas lacking materials.It is unlikely that Bai Mingxiu will go back to re-manufacture a sailing warship with a wooden shell, so he basically chooses to build an iron-clad ship.

At the beginning, the ironclad ships were not produced in large quantities because they were really not very useful, but now they are still very useful for pretending to be aggressive.

"The ironclad ship in "Civilization 5" is a good choice. It has a displacement of a few thousand tons larger than that of the Donghai class, and can reach about 12000 tons. It is basically at the level of the Sovereign class, that is, the armor layout is a bit older. However, its high freeboard is more suitable for ocean sailing. Although the price of 12 Goldfinger coins is quite expensive, I am rich!" Bai Mingxiu smiled and prepared to exchange for several "Civilization-class" ironclad ships.

Splurge always makes people feel happy, and for the next voyage around the world, he can be promoted to the next civilization era, and he can also get 3000 million gold finger coins, so he doesn't think it's a big deal now. .

As soon as he bought it, he bought twelve ships, which were directly called civilization-class battleships, because in terms of tonnage and gun emplacement design, these battleships can basically be regarded as former dreadnoughts, although they are relatively low-level existences among the former dreadnoughts .The Civilization-class pre-dreadnoughts are Fuqiang, Democracy, Civilization, Harmony, Liberty, Equality, Fairness, Rule of Law, Patriotism, Dedication, Sincere Signal, and Friendly.It is very suitable for the main theme of the social change and development of Ming Dynasty.

文明级除了12000吨的排水量令人称奇之外，武备也有了实质性的提升。拥有2000两后305毫米主炮，两侧共有10门155毫米副炮，以及设置了12门57毫米的速射炮。此外这型战舰上还第一次增加了324毫米的轻型鱼雷发射管，共六管。

It can be said that with the emergence of the Civilization class, twelve warships of this type are almost comparable to the might of the Ming Navy's fleet formed in the past few years.

Bai Mingxiu also bought two more Donghai-class ships, but the new batch of Donghai-class has also been changed to 305mm main guns, the front two and the rear two, a total of four, and a total of 155 secondary guns of 8mm. The naval gun was also replaced with a new 76mm rapid-fire gun.In this way, the Donghai class has become a total of four ships, the East China Sea, the West China Sea, the North China Sea, and the South China Sea.

12艘文明级和4艘东海级共16艘战列舰，算是组成了大明海军的主力舰编队。白明修这还不算完，又配属8艘破虏级装甲巡洋舰和8艘徐州级装甲护卫舰作为护航舰只，最终凑出来了一支32艘战舰的庞大编队。

Although if such a terrible large-scale naval formation is organized, the Ming Navy will lose their capital ships at home, but the Ming Navy still has as many as 10 Ninghai-class (formerly 74-gun third-class sailing warships), 8 townships, etc. Dong-class (formerly 50-gun fourth-class sailing warship), and four Yangwei-class (formerly first- and second-level sailing warships) with a displacement of four to five thousand tons. Even if they are not frigates, these warships are powerful enough to crush any Asian waters In addition, the Daming Naval Shipyard is still happily continuing to manufacture the Xuzhou-class armored frigates. These new-generation frigates with a displacement of more than 4 tons and multi-expansion steam boilers can easily run to 2000 knots. The four 20mm naval guns also have a huge deterrent effect.

"Okay, let's start with this lineup, I hope we don't frighten our European children." Bai Mingxiu showed a malicious smile.

(End of this chapter)