In this way, all warships are organized into five squadrons. In addition to the squadron commander, the captains of each warship and the main management officers are soldiers who travel through time, but the commander-in-chief of the fleet is currently not currently established.

More than two squadrons perform tasks at the same time, and the commander of the squadron with high rank serves as the commander of the temporary fleet; and if the commander of the squadron with the same rank, the commander of the advanced squadron with high qualifications serves as the commander of the temporary fleet, which is also in line with the convention of various countries. If a battle occurs, a mixed fleet needs to be formed, and the naval commander shall be appointed to the commander-in-chief of the fleet.

In addition to summarizing the report, the Navy Command also proposed a five-year shipbuilding plan.

The construction of the navy is a long process. In the old time and space, there have always been 10 years of army, 50 years of air force, and 100 years of navy. Of course, this is an exaggeration, which only describes that the construction cycle of the navy is longer than that of the Air Force and the Army.

Although the scale of the People's Army Navy is quite considerable now, there are not many new warships, and most of them are basically backward. Of course, there are still five modern warships to rely on. However, due to the limited logistics support capacity of this era, these five modern warships can only last until about 1910 at most. During this period, time travelers must build a certain scale of new warships to ensure that they have the ability to defend their territorial waters after the five crossing warships are retired. Then, from now on, they must start their own shipbuilding plan.

The five-year shipbuilding plan formulated by the Navy Command is:

In 1902-1903, four large 6000-ton protective cruisers, two medium-sized armored cruisers, two 3000-ton small protective cruisers, and four 1000-ton destroyers will be built; all of the above warships will be completed before 1904.

From 1903 to 1904, two large armored cruisers of 10,000 tons, two large protective cruisers of 6,000 tons, two small protective cruisers of 3,000 tons, and four 1,000 tons destroyers will be built; all of the above warships will be completed before 1905.

From 1904 to 1905, two 12,000-ton battleships, two 3,000-ton small protective cruisers, and four 1,000-ton destroyers will be built; all of the above warships will be completed before 1907.

In five years, a total of 2 battleships, 2 large armored cruisers, 2 medium armored cruisers, 6 large protective cruisers, 6 small protective cruisers of 3,000 tons, and 12 destroyers, a total of 30 warships of various types, with a tonnage of about 110,000 tons, and a total construction cost of about 90 million silver. In addition, during the five years, 4-8 technically verified submarines will be considered, which will also be included in the shipbuilding plan.

Moreover, this shipbuilding plan has a characteristic, which is from easy to difficult. It is not to build the most technically difficult battleship from the beginning, but to start with a relatively simple large protective cruiser, and then build large and medium-sized armored cruisers, and finally build battleships. This progresses step by step, which is also in line with the current shipbuilding technology level of the East China government.

Now the East China government has two shipyards in Qingdao and Tianjin. The construction of the first phase of the shipyard has been completed, and various shipbuilding machinery and equipment have been in place. Moreover, the Qingdao Shipyard has built a 170-meter-long and 35-meter-wide super-large dock. In this era, such a large dock can build a 20,000-ton super-large battleship. Of course, the technical level of the time traveler is definitely not able to build a 20,000-ton battleship. In fact, the largest warship at this time was only 16,000 tons. Therefore, the actual purpose of this dock is to enable the largest Kunming ship among the crossing warships to be docked and maintained. Although the Kunming ship is only a 7,000-ton warship, the ship is 156 meters long and 19 meters wide, so such a large dock must be used. However, the Tianjin shipyard did not build this large dock.

However, a large 6,000-ton protective cruiser does not necessarily have to be built in the dock. It can be built on the platform before it is launched. Now, both shipyards in Qingdao and Tianjin have shipyards to build large 6,000-ton protective cruiser platforms. Therefore, at least theoretically speaking, both shipyards in Qingdao and Tianjin have built the technical capabilities of such warships.

The disadvantage is that the crossover currently lacks practical experience in building warships and also lacks qualified shipbuilders. Although the crossover has accumulated a certain amount of experience in the early repair of warships and has also trained some shipbuilders, after all, there are very different things in the construction of warships and warships. In addition, there are no materials and accessories for shipbuilding such as ship engines, boilers, large-caliber naval guns, *, armored steel plates, etc., so strictly speaking, the crossover does not have the ability to build warships independently.

Faced with such a practical situation, the Navy pointed out that the military department believed that it could adopt the method of introducing foreign technology, that is, cooperate with foreign countries. For example, the four large 6,000-ton protective cruisers planned to be built in 1902-1903 can be provided by the crossover to provide design drawings and performance data, and two ships were ordered and built abroad, and the crossover sent someone to supervise them to learn the construction management experience of the ship. Then, a small number of shipbuilding managers and skilled workers were promoted from abroad to build two shipbuilding personnel in China to accumulate their own shipbuilding experience and cultivate their own shipbuilding workers. Moreover, under the premise that the performance is not affected, the materials and spare parts purchased by China can be purchased in China as much as possible to save costs. At the same time, other departments work hard to solve problems and speed up the domestic production. The subsequent armored cruisers and battleships also adopt the same method.

The Navy pointed out that the military headquarters believed that Germany was an ideal choice because before that, the time travelers had relatively good military and technical cooperation with Germany, so they had a certain basis for mutual trust. In addition, the time travelers could also provide Germany with some advanced military technology to improve their bargaining chips; and Germany's industrial manufacturing capabilities were the strongest in this era and had good cooperation with China. Previously, most of the artillery of the Qing court and most of the Beiyang Navy's warships were purchased from Germany. Of course, if the East China government handled the diplomacy well, it would be possible to carry out technical cooperation with other countries.

If this shipbuilding plan can be completed, it will not only greatly improve the strength of the People's Army Navy, but also have a fight against the Japanese Navy, which has completed the Six Six Fleet. It can also promote the leapfrog development of the shipbuilding industry of the East China government, basically have the ability to build ships by themselves, and at the same time it can also drive the development of a large number of other related supporting industrial technologies.

After Shang Jinfeng introduced this five-year shipbuilding plan, the first thing that attracted Xia Bohai, Qin Zheng and Xiao Jianjun was not concerned about the technical level or the object of technical cooperation. Moreover, the cost required for the five-year shipbuilding plan was 90 million taels of silver. In this era, it can certainly be considered a huge amount of funds, which has exceeded the current silver reserves of the East China government. Although this huge sum of funds was used in five years, it is by no means a small amount. Moreover, the East China government has a five-year development plan, which still requires 70 to 80 million taels of silver.

Of course, in the past five years, the East China government has not had other income, but the three of them are not sure whether the existing fiscal revenue can support the completion of these two huge plans.

Xiao Jianjun first asked: "It takes 90 million taels of silver to complete this five-year shipbuilding plan. How is this number calculated? I remember that the two warships of the Beiyang Navy, Zhenyuan, were only 1.4 million taels per ship. Even if the battleships, armored cruisers and other battleships are definitely more expensive than Dingyuan and Zhenyuan, but like small protective cruisers, destroyers must be easy. We calculate the average price of 1.4 million taels per ship, which is only more than 40 million, which is more than half the convenience."

From Xiao Jianjun's mind, of course he hoped that this shipbuilding plan could be passed. However, although Xiao Jianjun did not interfere with government affairs, he also knew that 90 million taels of silver was indeed a huge burden for the current East China government. He was not a soldier like Japan who did not care about the national economy and people's livelihood and only asked for military expenditures. He knew that if the military expenditure was too large, it would never be a good thing for the country's development, so he asked in detail about the cost.

At this time, Qin Zheng said: "Old Xiao, the account cannot be calculated like this. First of all, 1.4 million taels per ship was the original price. After the two warships of Dingyuan and Zhenyuan were finally completed, there were some additional expenses, including various expenses for returning to China from Germany, totaling about 1.7 million taels of silver. Moreover, this was the exchange rate calculation at that time. The price of silver was constantly falling. When ordering Dingyuan and Zhenyuan two warships, the ratio of silver to British pounds was about 3:1, and by the time of Sino-Japanese War, it had dropped to 4:1, and the decline reached 25%. In this era, the ratio of silver to British pounds had fallen to 6.1:1, which doubled compared with the Beiyang Navy's army. If calculated in this way, the expenses raised by the Navy were not outrageous."

Xiao Jianjun said: "So silver is so valuable. It seems that in the old time and space, the [Xin Chou Treaty] lost 430 million taels of silver, which is only more than 70 million in the British pound."

Qin Zheng nodded and said, "Yes, this is an international factor. During this period, the international currency has changed from the silver standard to the full standard, and it is not surprising that silver depreciation will be depreciated. On the other hand, it is also because countries intend to artificially depreciate the value of silver in order to plunder China's resources and wealth, and the Qing court did not have its own perfect financial system to protect itself, so they suffered a lot of losses in this regard. After the French-Prussian War, France compensated Germany, that is, Prussia at that time, 5 billion francs. The exchange rate at this time was about 0.24 taels of silver, so 5 billion francs is almost 1.2 billion taels of silver, which is only 930 million more than the compensation of the [Xin Chou Treaty], and even if silver does not depreciate, there are about 600 million silver. Therefore, the compensation of the [Xin Chou Treaty] is not too high internationally."

This fashionable Jin Feng said: "We have carefully estimated the funding issues of this shipbuilding plan. For the detailed situation, I want Major Huang Zhe's leaders to explain carefully, because this is mainly calculated by him."
Chapter completed!