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Lord Balfour's face was a bit ugly. In his opinion, the conference that could achieve its goal smoothly as long as it wins over the White Eagle Kingdom, is now facing many difficulties.First Gaul made trouble, then Rome made trouble, and now even Wa and Hualan dare to point fingers, it seems that the Saar Empire is getting less and less taken seriously.

Thinking of this, Lord Balfour couldn't help getting angry, he stood up abruptly and said, "If the Hualan Kingdom thinks this distribution is unfair, they can withdraw from this meeting. How big a fleet can the Hualan Kingdom be able to build due to its poverty? No? In my opinion, the quota given to you is a waste, and you shouldn't even have a quota of [-] tons."

Chapter 9 Tonnage Swap

In Lord Balfour's view, as long as a superpower like the Saar Empire expresses dissatisfaction, the representatives of the Hualan Kingdom should be obedient.It's a pity that the actual situation did not continue according to Lord Balfour's script. Gu Weijun stared at Lord Balfour with deep eyes for a full minute, and then he closed his meeting minutes and said: "Thank you very much, then Hualan will withdraw from the navy this time." We have made an agreement, and I will not accompany you." After he finished speaking, he turned around and left, while Cai Tinggan, who had been smiling at the side all the time, also got up and left without saying anything.

Seeing the representative of Hualan Kingdom leave the venue, Lord Balfour was a little dumbfounded, and it took him a long time to realize: "These yellow-skinned pigs who don't know how to praise, I want them to bear the wrath of the Saar Empire."

"I'm afraid they are not afraid. As far as I know, the Sardon Continental Fleet and the Zeinian Fleet don't seem to be enough to suppress Hualan's fleet." I'm picking things up.His implication is obvious, the Saar Empire has no money and dare not send the local fleet to the far east.

Lord Balfour glared at him fiercely, but did not speak. Instead, Senator Carlo Sander, who was also the representative of the Roman state, quickly stabbed his companion.Now that the Saar Empire is fighting against the Hualan Kingdom, it is really not worthwhile for the Roman Kingdom to draw fire on them.

Baron Kato Yusaburo, the representative of the Wa Kingdom, also had an extremely ugly expression on his face. After thinking for a moment, he said to Lord Balfour, "I'm sorry, Your Excellency, the Wa Kingdom must first ensure the safety of its own sea area. Exit." After speaking, he gave a deep salute to Lord Balfour, turned around and walked out of the venue.Behind him, Kijuro Hashihara, the Japanese ambassador to the White Eagle Kingdom, and Masao Uehara, the deputy minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, had no choice but to bow, and ran out after Kato Yusaburo in a panic.

Two of the six major signatories withdrew, and the meeting could not go on, and the whole venue suddenly fell into silence.Seeing some silence, White Eagle State Secretary Charles hurriedly came to Lord Balfour's side and said in a low voice, "We must reach a compromise this time, and please be patient, Your Excellency. I think we should split up and try to persuade you. Find the representative of the Wa country, and I will go to Hualan country to have a look. As for today's meeting, let's stop here, everyone is tired and should take a rest."

Charles had said so, and Lord Balfour had to adjourn the meeting.Representatives from various countries left the venue one after another, and Charles immediately drove to the hotel, while Gu Weijun was packing his luggage.Seeing Gu Weijun arranging his clothes in an orderly manner, Cai Tinggan couldn't help frowning secretly: "Weijun, can you do this? If no one stops us, the Saar Empire will definitely point the finger at the Hualan Kingdom. In case of a fight, Saar The empire’s two fleets in the east are free, but if it’s the local fleet, I’m not sure.”

Gu Weijun smiled and said: "Don't worry, someone will come to contact us. Even if no one pays attention to us, the Saar Empire doesn't dare to go too far. Could it be that they transferred the local fleet to the east, are they not afraid that their old nest will be destroyed?"

While Gu Weijun was talking, his entourage came to report, and Mr. Charles, the Secretary of State of the White Eagle Kingdom, asked to see him.Gu Weijun raised his eyebrows at Cai Tingqian: "How is it? Come on, let him come in."

Charles quickly came to the room, and when he saw Gu Weijun was packing his luggage, he immediately stepped forward and said, "Oh, dear Mr. Gu, what are you doing? Everyone is just talking on the spur of the moment, why bother. "

"Mr. Charles, there are some things I don't want to say. The world war at the beginning was a battle between the Saar Empire and the Gaul Kingdom against the Allies, and they deserved it. We were willing to endure huge sacrifices and helped the Allies defeat the enemy. , achieved their current victory. But look at what the Saar Empire is doing now? As soon as the country took a breath, he turned his gun and counted his allies. This kind of behavior is really chilling." Gu Weijun pretended to be very Said angrily.

Charles' face looked very embarrassed. In fact, he also felt that the Saar Empire was suspected of containing its allies this time.But now the Saar Empire still has the world's strongest navy, and the White Eagle Kingdom doesn't want to offend him too much, making itself the opponent's next target.

Secretary of State Charles had no choice but to sigh: "I can understand your thoughts. The Saar Empire's method of crossing the river and demolishing the bridge is indeed very wrong. This also greatly damages the friendship of the allies, but this matter can also be viewed in reverse, after all, the navy costs too much. However, it is impossible for any country to bear the burden of a naval arms race for a long time. If everyone can reach an agreement to satisfy all parties while maintaining the balance of power at sea and allowing everyone's funds to be invested in national construction, it is not a bad thing Good thing."

"I deeply agree with what Mr. Charles said. But such a balance of power must be established on the basis of mutual equality. Now the Saar Empire has two major fleets in the Eastern Ocean and the Zhaini Ocean, which directly threatens the offshore safety of the Hualan Kingdom. The Wa Kingdom and the Saar Empire are colluding, and they are also threatening our seas and territories. Under such a powerful threat, the Hualan Kingdom is unwilling to stand still. Besides, our country's financial resources are indeed not strong enough. The original shipbuilding plan was just a plan, and we are not that big. financial resources to build a sufficient number of warships."

"Mr. Gu means..." Charles' eyes lit up when he heard it, and things seemed to have turned around.

Gu Weijun said: "Actually, I didn't mean to be angry when I spoke during the day. I just expressed our hope. Compared with building huge battleships that cost a lot, Hualan Kingdom prefers to keep relatively cheap aircraft carriers. It's just that facing the powerful fleet of the Japanese Kingdom, we And I don’t want to suffer, so I hope to exchange the tonnage of capital ships and aircraft carriers.”

"So you really think so?" Charles widened his eyes, looking at Gu Weijun and Cai Tinggan next to him with disbelief.In this era when giant cannon ships prevailed, aircraft carriers were only used as auxiliary ships for reconnaissance.Although the power of the aircraft carrier has begun to emerge, due to the inertia of thinking, not many people pay attention to it, especially the veterans of those naval powers.

When everyone is pursuing the large-caliber naval guns and super-large tonnage of battleships, Hualan Kingdom has turned to be interested in aircraft carriers. From the perspective of the thinking of this era, the only explanation is the problem of funding.

Cai Tinggan on the side sighed without losing the opportunity: "No way, Mr. Charles should know that the Western Special Administrative Region has just annexed a large area of ​​land. The development of these lands requires a lot of investment, so the funds for the Navy are quite limited. In fact, the first two In today's meeting, the tonnage of capital ships given to us was difficult to run out. Our plan to switch to building more aircraft carriers is also based on this problem, please forgive me."

Chapter 9 Limitation Treaties

Seeing Cai Tinggan's miserable face, Charles suddenly felt a little sympathetic to him.Faced with the shortage of national funds, the navy, which relies too much on equipment, is really a clever woman who can't cook without rice. For this, Charles feels lucky that he was born in the White Eagle Country.

After fully understanding Hualan Kingdom's difficulties, Charles promised to mediate, and then left.When Charles was far away, Cai Tinggan couldn't help laughing: "Wei Jun, my acting skills just now are good enough to be an actor for Li Minwei."

"Not bad, not bad, completely qualified, so that the task given to us by the leader can be completed." Gu Weijun said with a happy face.

Gu Weijun was elated, but Cai Tinggan's face turned from sunny to cloudy. He said in a low voice, "But is it really right to do this? Abandoning large-tonnage battleships and large-caliber naval guns, I always have no idea."

Gu Weijun sat on the sofa, patted Cai Tingqian on the shoulder, and said, "Your worries are unnecessary. Your Excellency has never left any stone unturned, and it's not like you don't know. Think about the fighter jets of the Air Force, think about the tanks of the Army, what are you talking about?" One was not developed by the general leader who insisted on spending a lot of money to develop it, and I believe it is right this time.”

"Perhaps you're right, I should work hard to study the tactics of using aircraft carriers." Cai Tinggan nodded while rubbing his chin.

The next day's meeting was held as scheduled, and it seemed that the private communication was very smooth. The representatives of various countries were surprised to find that the representatives of Hualan and Wa, who had left yesterday, reappeared.Especially Gu Weijun, the representative of Hualan Kingdom, he chatted happily with Lord Balfour, as if there was no disagreement yesterday.

Sure enough, the disarmament conference continued. Lord Balfour first announced: "Last night we had a private communication with the representatives of Hualan. The current national strength of Hualan is not enough to support the large fleet of capital ships within the quota, so we hope to increase its tonnage. In terms of aircraft carriers with relatively low prices, the Saar Empire supports this.”

Lord Balfour's words aroused a burst of discussion among the representatives present, and even Baron Kato Yusaburo from Japan looked at Gu Weijun and Cai Tingqian in surprise.However, the two now put on a rather awkward and helpless expression, so that no one can see the flaws.

When everyone's discussion became quieter, Lord Balfour said: "In view of this, I propose that the General Assembly invert Hualan's capital ships and aircraft carriers. I wonder if any country has any objections. If any country is willing to accept the same treatment , The Saar Empire welcomes you very much.”

Lord Balfour sincerely hopes that more countries will propose such a resolution, so that the Saar Empire's maritime hegemony will be more assured.In his opinion, by doing so, Hualan Kingdom gave up its right to compete for a naval power, and it was showing its favor to the Saar Empire.

In this era where cannons and giant ships are paramount, everyone probably thinks that the representative of Hualan Kingdom has lost his mind.In fact, even Cai Tinggan himself was not sure if he had lost his mind, but Zhao Shouhong's order was very clear, and they did not dare to disobey.

However, another proposal of the Saar Empire was opposed by Gaul. Lord Balfour believed that submarines should be completely banned, because the Saar Empire was nearly collapsed by the Teutonic State’s unlimited submarine warfare during the war, and he was unwilling Another tragedy like this happens.

The Gauls firmly opposed it. They believed that not allowing weak countries to own submarines was tantamount to handing them over to naval powers to slaughter them at will.Therefore, the Gaul State requires no restrictions on submarines, otherwise they require an increase in the construction limit tonnage of capital ships and aircraft carriers.

Except for Gaul, Rome, Japan, and Hualan all requested permission to build submarines because of their weak fleets. As a result, the restrictions on submarines were completely shelved.Lord Balfour said angrily: "For the safety of our capital ships, the Saar Empire has the right to build a large number of destroyers to protect them."

The restriction of destroyers is naturally impossible, and Charles is a little disappointed about this. The White Eagle Kingdom originally planned to use this to restrict the Saar Empire and let its huge destroyer fleet self-destruct.Because destroyers are not restricted, only a part of cruisers are restricted. As a result, after a long time of restriction, only capital ships and aircraft carriers have reached a conclusion.

Fortunately, the tonnage of capital ships and aircraft carriers that the six major powers can have was quickly determined. These are the main forces of naval warfare. The next point is the highlight. The Saar Empire needs to agree with other countries on the division standards of various warships.This standard division should have been discussed at the very beginning, but Lord Balfour deliberately blurred this concept in order to make it easier to negotiate the tonnage ratio of warships in various countries. .

After discussions among various countries, clear regulations were made on the classification of ships.All ships that are used for combat purposes, have a displacement of more than [-] tons, have a full deck, and are clearly only used to carry aircraft are classified as aircraft carriers.

A battleship is a warship with a standard displacement of more than 203 tons and a main gun with a caliber of more than 155 mm.Cruisers are divided into two classes. Class A, that is, heavy cruisers, are battleships with a displacement of 203 to 155 tons and a main gun with a caliber greater than [-] mm and less than [-] mm. Class B, that is, light cruisers, has a displacement of between [-] and [-] tons, and the caliber of the main gun must not exceed [-]mm.Among them, the tonnage of heavy cruisers should not be higher than twice the quota of naval battleships or aircraft carriers. Light cruisers are mostly in the patrol territory, so there are not many restrictions.

In addition, Hualan Kingdom's approach of increasing the tonnage of aircraft carriers gave Japan the hope of restricting its opponents. They expressed their support for the Saar Empire's regulations that aircraft carrier guns of various countries should not exceed ten, and the maximum caliber should not exceed 203mm.Hua Languo did not raise any objections to this, so Yusaburo Kato had a sense of foreboding.

After a month of meetings, the naval limitation treaty, later known as the Naval Holiday, was finally released.The treaty stipulates the tonnage of warships of various countries and the maximum tonnage of warships that can be built. At the same time, warships exceeding the limit are required not to be resold to other countries, but to be demolished by themselves.The warships of various countries can only be replaced with new ships if their lifespan exceeds 20 years, and terms such as coastal fortifications and military ports must not be strengthened.

After the terms were signed, various countries announced the suspension of shipbuilding plans and demolished warships that exceeded the quota.The White Eagle Kingdom was quite clever, and immediately converted all four battleships that had just completed their hulls into aircraft carriers, which saved money without causing waste.Regarding the practice of the White Eagle Kingdom, the Wa Kingdom also followed up, and soon both countries produced a bunch of nondescript aircraft carriers.

Chapter 9 Countermeasures

Regarding the treaty brought back by Gu Weijun and Cai Tingqian, Zhao Shouhong could only respond with a wry smile. Although the benefits won this time were not small, it interrupted the expansion plan of the Hualan Navy.However, the benefits are also great. Hualan Nation has obtained a large share of aircraft carriers. At the same time, when this treaty is signed, Hualan Nation's international status has been greatly improved, and it has the power to be on an equal footing with the Western Continent. However, For the adjustment of the fleet, Zhao Shouhong can only listen to the opinions of all parties to choose the best plan.

The Hualan Kingdom's navy received a total of 31 tons for capital ships, 63 tons for aircraft carriers, and [-] tons for heavy cruisers.The number seems to be quite large, but the tonnage of the capital ships has been criticized. Shen Shoukun and Cheng Biguang even think that this is the great powers oppressing Hualan.

Zhao Shouhong looked at the two naval commanders who were excited, and said lightly: "I won this quota. What's your opinion?" When Zhao Shouhong said a word, everyone stopped talking, but the two senior naval officers The best commander is still a bit brooding.

Looking at several naval commanders, Zhao Shouhong said seriously: "I have emphasized many times that future naval warfare will be ruled by aircraft carriers, and battleships will definitely be eliminated. You have been forced to retire, and you must become familiar with the use of aircraft carriers as soon as possible from now on, and your flagships will gradually be replaced by aircraft carriers in the future."

Within the Western Special Zone, Zhao Shouhong possessed absolute authority. Although he was usually friendly to others, he never said anything different when it came to deciding on business.Looking at a few people, he said: "Now the Saar Empire is still the world's strongest naval power, and we cannot confront it head-on, so we can only accept this treaty, which is beyond doubt. But how to reorganize the navy, We can fully discuss it."

"But our battleships and battlecruisers have now greatly exceeded the tonnage limit. How should we deal with it?" Cai Tinggan asked.

Zhao Shouhong looked at several naval commanders and said: "The navy's construction plan for new battlecruisers will be stopped immediately. The navy will only keep Nakagawa as the flagship of the Eastern Ocean Fleet, and Kyaukpyu as the flagship of the Zhainiyang Fleet. The three captured Fuso The new Zhongyuan-class battleships are all demolished, and the construction progress of the new Zhongyuan-class aircraft carrier must be accelerated. Now we only have four ships, and we need to build six more. All the new aircraft carriers will be allocated to the Eastern Ocean Fleet.”

Speaking of this, Wei Han stood up: "My lord, the other four ships of the Shanghai class exceed the number of capital ships, but it is a pity to dismantle them. I have a way to keep them. I don't know if it will work."

"Oh? Mr. Wei, tell me quickly." Zhao Shouhong's eyes lit up when he heard it. Zhao Shouhong was most distressed by the dismantling of these warships. Now that he heard that Wei Han had a way to keep them, he immediately asked repeatedly.

Wei Han twisted his beard and said: "I just calculated that although the Shanghai-class battlecruiser has a displacement of more than 2 tons, if all the armor is removed and the 350 [-]mm cannons on the four twin-mounted turrets are replaced with two One hundred and three millimeters, and reducing four turrets to three at the same time, can reach the limit of [-] tons. In this way, several battlecruisers can be transformed into tonnage quotas for heavy cruisers."

"It's really possible to do this?" Zhao Shouhong's eyes lit up when he heard it. If it was really possible, Hua Languo would not have lost anything after this meeting.

"There should be no problem. I have to go back to the dock to study the specific modification method, but it shouldn't be a big problem to limit the displacement." Wei Han gave an affirmative answer.

"Great, this way, we will have the advantage." Zhao Shouhong said excitedly.

Looking at the few naval commanders who were still not motivated, Zhao Shouhong said with a smile: "Do you think the navy will be weakened? You should pay attention, although the Hualan Kingdom has signed a naval agreement, the Lanfang Republic and the Southern Cross Republic It didn't sign."