Chapter 338 Big Navy Plan
Russian military industry is very fascinated. It is normal for a ship to be built for three to five to seven years, but there are also times when it performs exceptionally well, such as the battleship "Nicholas I" with a displacement of 9,500 tons. It only took two years.
The efficiency of the Vladivostok Shipyard is not bad. It only took 4 months from laying the keel to launching the first 800-ton destroyer of the Amur River Fleet.
On the second ship, it only took 2 months.
Last month, the fastest record became 35 days.
If the Navy Ministry handed over the task of building battleships to the Vladivostok Shipyard, George could not guarantee whether it would break the record, but it would certainly not be as good as the St. Petersburg Shipyard.
George originally wanted to wait until June, when Nicholas ascended the throne, before returning to St. Petersburg.
The plan could not keep up with the changes. Just after the New Year, George received a telegram from St. Petersburg. Nicholas hoped that George would return to St. Petersburg as quickly as possible.
This time it is not the Japanese who are causing trouble, but the Ottomans.
In October last year, more than 2,000 Armenians gathered in Constantinople, the capital of the Ottoman Empire, to demand protection of Armenian rights. They were dispersed by the Ottoman police with force, and some Armenians were executed by the Ottoman Empire.
Subsequently, massacres against Armenians swept through other provinces inhabited by Armenians. It is estimated that the number of Armenians killed ranged from 100,000 to 300,000.
The Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire were feuding.
Nineteen years have passed since the last Russo-Turkish war. The new generation of Russians and Ottomans have grown up. It is time for them to remember the hatred between Russia and Ottomans.
As soon as the massacre of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire occurred, Nicholas asked Alexei if he could send the Black Sea Fleet to raid Constantinople and seize the Black Sea outlet.
After the failure of the 9th Russo-Turkish War, in order to limit the war capabilities of the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire, the "Paris Peace Treaty" stipulated that neither side could keep more than 6 ships of 800 tons and 4 ships of more than 200 tons in the Black Sea. ships, and are not allowed to set up naval arsenals and naval fortresses on the Black Sea coast.
In 1870, the Russian Empire used the Franco-Prussian War to break through the restrictions of the Peace of Paris and rebuild the Black Sea Fleet. However, due to the financial difficulties of the Russian Empire, the reconstruction work did not really begin until Yasan came to the throne.
After more than ten years of development, although the strength of the Black Sea Fleet has recovered to a certain extent, if you want to launch a surprise attack on Constantinople, you must not only consider the counterattack of the Ottoman Navy, but also the intervention of the British Royal Navy.
Alexei said that the war can be fought, but there is no guarantee that Constantinople can be captured before the arrival of the Royal Navy.
Nicola was disappointed, but did not give up, so he sent a telegram to George, hoping that George would come up with a plan.
After Milyutin learned about this situation, he immediately advised George to be cautious and not to fool around with Nikolai.
"Isn't it the long-cherished wish of every Russian to seize the Black Sea outlet? How is this nonsense?"
George disagreed with Milyutin's statement.
Counting the time, George has been serving for 13 years.
For the past 13 years, George has been training troops every day, but he has never participated in a real war.
What Milyutin means is that the Russian Empire is now in financial difficulty and does not have the ability to launch a war.
George knew why.
When George and Nikolai were still serving in the regiment, Nikolai had made many ambitions that when he grew up, he would obtain the Black Sea outlet for the Russian Empire.
The Russian Empire is indeed in financial difficulty now.
But Japan next door had just blackmailed 230 million from the Qing Empire through the war, and Nicholas was red-eyed.
"Are you confident of defeating the Royal Navy?"
Milyutin was not worried about Osman at all.
The Tenth Russo-Turkish War proved enough that the Russian Empire could easily defeat the Ottoman Empire without the intervention of external forces.
The Russian Empire broke through the Black Sea and entered the Mediterranean, which was the territory of Britain and France.
So the British will never ignore it.
It may also affect relations with France.
George has a black face. It would be too difficult to ask him, a lieutenant general of cavalry, to fight against the Royal Navy. "Does the Royal Navy dare to send a battleship into the Black Sea?"
George was not afraid either.
If the Royal Navy dares to enter the Black Sea, it will close the door and beat the dogs.
“If we cannot capture Constantinople before the Royal Navy arrives, then our argument is meaningless.”
Milyutin only offered suggestions and let George judge for himself.
George decided to take his time and think about it on the way back to St. Petersburg.
This time back to St. Petersburg, George brought a new gift to Nicholas.
Nicola is about to ascend the throne in June, and George will definitely prepare a big gift for Nicholas.
This great gift is another wireless telegraph that Nikola has just successfully developed.
It’s not like it was just successfully developed.
As early as two years ago, Tesla completed the verification of wireless telegraphy. This year, it finally successfully installed wireless telegraphy on the ship. Now even if the Georges are at sea, they will not lose contact.
During this time in Vladivostok, the "Dolgorukov" had completed the installation of wireless telegraphy. The content of George's first telegram using the "Dolgorukov" to Nikolai Yes: Guess where I am?
Nicolas called back quickly: "I guess you are in St. Petersburg!"
George said that even if he took a plane, it would not be so fast.
If all goes well, George should be able to fly back to St. Petersburg in a year or two.
On February 17, George returned to St. Petersburg.
Nicholas made a big joke to George. He no longer wanted to fight the Ottoman Empire now.
George is very angry. Are you kidding me?
“I thought things were too simple. Waging a war was much more difficult than I thought.”
Nicholas admitted his mistake and became a tsar, so why did he still think about it?
“Since we have no money, why not lend money to the Qing Empire?”
George hoped that Nicholas was not joking this time.
"Of course we have to borrow! If we don't lend money to the Qing Empire, how can we expand our sphere of influence to Liaodong."
Nicholas is ambitious. Looking at this posture, he wants to take over Liaodong. Swallow.
No wonder St. Petersburg reacted so strongly to the Qing Empire's cession of the Liaodong Peninsula to Japan.
George was silent, what should come will always come.
I just don’t know if Nikolai’s promise to George as governor of Siberia will be fulfilled.
Don’t worry about whether it will be cashed out, as long as it’s not Alexeyev’s.
“Three of the five battleships being built by the empire will go to the Far East. In the next five years, the empire will start construction of 12 more battleships, half of which belong to the Siberian Fleet.”
Nicholas was ambitious. After Japan launched the Sixty-Six Fleet Plan, the Russian Empire also formulated the "Great Navy Plan."
The core content of this plan is one.
Isn’t Japan going to build 6 battleships?
Okay, you Japanese will build one.
Our emperor is going to build two ships.
(End of this chapter)