I'm playing whack-a-mole in Siberia

Chapter 338 Big Navy Plan

The Russian military industry is very obsessed with it. 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. For example, the "Nikolai I" battleship with a displacement of 9500 tons only took two years.

The efficiency of the Vladivostok Shipyard is not bad. It only took 800 months from laying the keel to launching the first 4-ton destroyer of the Amur River Fleet.

When it came to the second ship, it only took 2 months.

Last month, the fastest record was 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 soon as possible.

This time it was not the Japanese who caused trouble, but the Ottomans.

In October last year, more than 10 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.

Alexei said that the war could be fought, but there was no guarantee that Constantinople would be captured before the arrival of the Royal Navy.

"Isn't it the long-cherished wish of every Russian to seize the Black Sea outlet? How is this nonsense?"

What Milyutin meant was that the Russian Empire was now in financial difficulty and was incapable of waging war.

After Milyutin learned of this situation, he immediately advised George to be cautious and not to fool around with Nikolai.

George knew why.

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 was allowed to maintain more than 6 ships of 800 tons and 4 ships of more than 200 tons in the Black Sea, nor were they allowed to maintain Naval arsenals and naval fortresses were established along the Black Sea coast.

Counting the time, George has served for 13 years.

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.

For the past 13 years, George has been training troops every day, but he has never participated in a real war.

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.

Milyutin was not worried about Osman at all.

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.

George disagreed with Milyutin's statement.

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.

Subsequently, massacres against Armenians swept through other provinces inhabited by Armenians. It is estimated that the number of Armenians killed ranged from 10 to 30.

Nicholas was disappointed, but did not give up, so he sent a telegram to George, hoping that George would come up with a plan.

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.

The Russian Empire is indeed in financial difficulty right now.

"Are you confident of defeating the Royal Navy?"

The Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire were feuding.

But Japan next door had just extorted 2.3 million from the Qing Empire through war, and Nicholas was red-eyed.

The Tenth Russo-Turkish War proved enough that the Russian Empire could easily defeat the Ottoman Empire without the intervention of external forces.

When the Russian Empire breaks through the Black Sea, it will enter the Mediterranean, which is 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 wasn’t afraid either.

If the Royal Navy dares to enter the Black Sea, it will shut 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 in St. Petersburg, George brought a new gift to Nicholas.

Nicholas 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 first telegram that George sent to Nikolay using the "Dolgorukov" was: Guess I'm here where?
Nikolay quickly called back: "I guess you're 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 2, George returned to St. Petersburg.

Nicholas made a big joke to George. He no longer wanted to fight the Ottoman Empire at this time.

George was 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. After becoming Tsar, why did he still think about it?

"Since we have no money, why don't we still lend money to the Qing Empire?"

George hoped that Nicholas wasn't joking this time.

"Of course we have to borrow it! If we don't lend money to the Qing Empire, how can we expand our sphere of influence to Liaodong."

Nicholas was very ambitious, and looking at this posture, he wanted to swallow up Liaodong in one go.

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 stuff.

"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 5 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."

There is only one core content of this plan.

Doesn’t Japan want to build 6 battleships?

Okay, you Japanese build one.

Our emperor is going to build two ships.

(End of this chapter)