My Italian: Chapter 92 Venice upgrade

The Admiralty came up with a candidate within a few days, and Colonel Antonio from the Naval Training Office became the candidate selected by Admiral Gorek.

Not to mention, this Colonel Antonio has a lot of qualifications. He came from a family of sailors in Genoa. He joined the Sardinian Navy at the age of 18, and later served as the first mate of the cruiser Kerry in the Battle of Salis. He performed well. He was later transferred to the Reserve Fleet for eight years of recruit training. When Admiral Gorek was Lord of the Admiralty, he was transferred to the Training Division as Deputy Division Chief for Training.

It can be said that he has enough training for recruits. It is also one of the reasons why Admiral Gorek chose him, of course, this alone is not enough to make him stand out. Colonel Antonio has another advantage, that is, he has a less tough personality and is more tactful, but he can listen to other people's opinions.

Although this character makes him unable to become a squadron commander, it is just right for an advisor. That's why Admiral Gorek chose him and presented it to Carlo.

"Your Excellency Admiral, you are careful."

After reading Colonel Antonio's resume, Carlo raised his head and praised the Secretary of the Navy. Because Carlo learned that the general adviser of the Beiyang Fleet, Lang Weili, is a stubborn person. Although he is very responsible for his work, the officers and soldiers of the Beiyang Navy dare to suffer under his training. However, in view of Li Zhongtang's appreciation for him, the officers and soldiers of the Beiyang Navy could only dare to be angry and dare not speak.

Therefore, the consultants sent by Italy must be separated from Lang Weili, and the attitude of the United Kingdom should be considered, so the rank of general advisor cannot be higher than Lang Weili (Lang Weili is also a colonel rank).

"It's all about serving the interests of the kingdom, so it's not hard work."

Obviously, Admiral Gorek, who is the Minister of the Navy, also knows this, so he chose Antonio. After all, Italy's interests in the Far East are growing rapidly, and someone needs to maintain such growth.

In addition to choosing a candidate to serve as Beiyang's advisor, Carlo has one more thing to discuss with Admiral Gorek. "Admiral, Lefer and others have made great contributions in this naval battle. How does the Admiralty plan to treat these heroes."

Of course, there is a reason for Carlo to ask so earnestly. Quite simply, Carlo wants to support people he can trust in the navy so that he can control the navy.

And what he took a fancy to were two young heroes, Lefer and Gomes. As for why not to choose other people, there are a large number of colonels and even generals in the Navy who want to be Carlo's spokesperson in the Navy, because Carlo is not willing to choose at will, and he is still young, so he has time to slowly control the Navy.

Admiral Gorek didn't know about Carlo's thoughts. He thought that Carlo's eagerness to reward those who had meritorious deeds was to show that he had won a great victory in this confrontation with the Prime Minister. However, even if he knew about it, it would not have an impact on it. By the time these two good seedlings can affect the navy, he will either be buried in the ground or already retired.

"Your Majesty, what our Admiralty means is that we will promote the officers and soldiers who fought in the Far East this time, and write down their credits on their resumes. We originally planned to wait for them to come back to promote them, but since Your Majesty has asked about them, Then let him be promoted in the Far East."

Carlo was very satisfied with Admiral Gorek's words, because the reward given by the Admiralty was not bad, and His Excellency Admiral took care of his emotions, and brought the time forward by half a year.

(Lefer, Gomes and others still cannot return to China, because they need to spend more than half a year to teach the Beiyang Navy officers and soldiers to operate the two cruise ships. This is Li Zhongtang's special request to Italy, for which he also I bought a 2 million lire textile machine. To say more, the Beiyang pipe belts of Zhiyuan and Jingyuan are Deng Shichang and Ye Zugui. As for why Liu Buchan, who has always been with the ship, did not serve as the pipe belt, because Li Zhongtang still wanted him to be the calm two The pipe belt of the ship. This also proves that in Li Zhongtang's eyes, the ironclad ship is its core strength, although the second ship Zhijing is much more expensive than it.)

After Carlo got the satisfactory result, he didn't let the Admiralty Minister in front of him immediately, but continued to ask the next question.

"I heard that the Navy has planned to build two new ships based on the performance of the Venice class in the Far East naval battle?"

"Yes, Your Majesty, the navy is going to build two new patrol ships."

In the face of Carlo's question, Admiral Gorek answered unabashedly.

These two cruise ships are new designs with certain modifications on the Venice class. There is no difference in length. The main reason is that the new cruise ships are equipped with 10 152mm guns based on complaints about too few secondary main guns in naval battles. Secondary main guns, and these main guns also use the same central axis layout as the 254mm main gun, and also use a two-mounted design.

Six of them were placed in two-mounted mode between the rear of the bridge and the three chimneys, and the other four were placed behind the 254mm main gun after being elevated in two-mounted mounts. This looks a lot like a turret relic.

In addition, the armor has also been optimized and slightly strengthened, from 80mm-152mm to 90mm-152mm, so that the Venetian can better cope with various situations.

Of course, after this improvement, its displacement has also increased a lot. Its standard tonnage has risen from 6,850 tons to 7,580 tons, and its full-load displacement has also increased from 7,460 tons to 8,120 tons. In order to keep the high speed of the new Venetian class, the power has also been optimized. Its maximum horsepower has increased from 13,000 to 15,000, and the maximum speed has also been slightly increased, from 18.6 to 18.7 knots.

It can be said that this is the most combat-ready patrol in the world.

Of course, it is unknown how long this will last, because the British Admiralty has ordered the shipyards to come up with a 10,000-ton cruise ship plan before February 1885, and it is said that the British Admiralty intends to build 5 ships at one time. , is really rich.

At least for now, Venice still maintains its advantages in the world~www.mtlnovel.com~ Of course, excellent warships have matching costs, and the funds received by the Admiralty from the Qing Kingdom are all invested in these two cruise ships.

To be honest, the cruiser is now the most expensive warship of the same tonnage. It is almost 1.5 times the cost of ironclad ships of the same level. If nothing else, the power is expensive.

But for Admiral Gorek, now he can't wait to put every lira into shipbuilding, because he has urgency.

"According to the information we got, the French Navy is already designing the drawings of the armored cruiser. I heard that the French will build six armored cruisers."

That's right, that's why Admiral Gorek is worried.

Does France want to build six cruisers?

Is this true or false?

Carlo said why didn't he get the news?

Facing Carlo's puzzled expression, Admiral Gorek continued. "This is the information we have learned from insiders of the French Navy. The French intend to conceal this information first."

Need to hide this kind of thing?

Carlo felt that this news was very unreliable, because the new French Navy Minister Admiral Yacente Aube has been advocating the role of torpedoes since he came to power, and even announced that he would build 1,000 torpedo boats. And in order for the torpedo boat to overcome the shortcoming of being unable to travel far, he also ordered the Admiralty to develop the strange thing of the torpedo boat mothership.

It doesn't seem like such a head of the French Navy, who is obsessed with the role of torpedoes, would spend so much money on patrolling.

But since Admiral Gorek said so, then Carlo should take the news as true, so he said. "I will let people pay attention to the movements of the French Admiralty. If there is any abnormal situation, I will notify you in time."