Tsarist Empire: Please call me His Majesty the Tsar chapter 553

During the days when the Washington Conference was adjourned, the beacon state, as the host, constantly contacted in private with representatives of the Empire, the Russian Empire, the Gallic Empire, and the Eastern Empire, wanting to consult their opinions and obtain their consent in one-on-one meetings.

Regrettably, however, with the exception of the Gallic State that was willing to cooperate, the rest of the countries were resolute.

In particular, the Sun Never Sets Empire and the Tsarist Russian Empire are even more unwilling to compromise in the slightest.

The Sun Never Sets Empire will never give up its maritime supremacy, while the Tsarist Empire is unwilling to suffer losses, and at the same time is not afraid of the outbreak of war.

Under such circumstances, the high-level of the lighthouse country almost gave up on this Washington meeting.

Because the countries present are so divided that they simply cannot agree on this issue.

Woodrow Wilson, the leader of the Lighthouse Congress, was also very annoyed, and he realized that he was a little too taken for granted.

Do they think we are afraid of them, and even if we continue the naval arms race, we will not collapse before them? If it’s really hard to talk about, forget it. On the Navy side, plus the design of the 170 fast Lexington-class battlecruisers and South Dakota-class battleships. As soon as the meeting fails, work begins immediately. In addition, the construction progress of the four Colorado-class battleships should be further accelerated. Woodrow Wilson ordered.

He was clearly planning to break the jar.

If they fail to achieve their goals, they can only plan for the worst.

“Yes, Your Excellency!” replied Secretary of the Navy, Secretary Joseph Daniels.

On 29 May, the meeting resumed again.

However, at this meeting, everyone’s attitude was still very resolute. Moreover, no one in any country will suffer. Everyone is also very divided. Under such circumstances, it is clear that this meeting is unlikely to succeed.

Seeing that this meeting was about to fail, and even the lighthouse state was about to give up, the representatives of the Russian Empire made a new proposal.

“Gentlemen, there is a great deal of disagreement. In that case, it seems necessary to relax the restrictions further.

The Empire proposed that the countries take the current number of dreadnoughts as a standard. In particular, (ABEH) is a dreadnought already in service as standard. For example, the Imperial Navy has fifty dreadnoughts in active service. Then, if the Imperial Navy wants to build new warships, it must retire the old warships. In other words, the number of capital ships of the Imperial Navy can only be maintained at fifty!”

Marshal Alexander, Minister of the Navy of the Russian Empire, made new proposals.

The delegates of various countries could not help but frown, as if considering whether it would be beneficial to follow such a proposal.

“This still does not fundamentally solve the naval arms race.” Countries can retire old warships and build new, more powerful ones. The naval arms race will also continue and intensify!” said Joseph Daniels, Secretary of the Navy of the Lighthouse Nation.

“Didn’t you propose to limit the tonnage of capital ships and the caliber of their main guns?

Minister Joseph Daniels’ eyes lit up suddenly.

“If a new capital ship is built, the displacement must be controlled below 35,000 tons, and the caliber of the main gun must not exceed 16 inches. Well, that’s okay!” said Joseph Daniels.

“Our standards are different from yours, you use inches and we use the metric system. For example, your battleship is equipped with a 16-inch main gun, which is 406 mm in metric terms. And ours is 410 mm!” Marshal Alexander continued.

“Then, the newly built main gun must not be larger than 16 inches, or 410 millimeters!” added Joseph Daniels.

Marshal Alexander nodded.

This is also the bottom line of the Russian Empire, and it would be great if the countries could accept this proposal. (Read violent novels, go on Feilu Fiction Network!)

“The Empire is opposed!” Count David Betty, the First Sea Lord of the Empire that never sets, still objected.

Although, there are quite a few capital ships in active service in the Royal Navy of the Empire, including the battleship Intrepid, three Bellerophon-class battleships, three St. Vincent-class battleships, the battleship Neptune, two giant-class battleships, the battleship Agincourt, the battleship Ayrblue, and four Orion-class

Battleships, four King George V-class battleships, four Iron Duke-class battleships, five Queen Elizabeth-class battleships, five Avengerry-class battleships, three Invincible-class battlecruisers, two Indefatigable-class battlecruisers, two Indefatigable-class battlecruisers, Tiger battlecruisers, two Prestige-class battlecruisers and three Valiantary-class battlecruisers, all added up, there are 45, or even nine fewer than the Tsarist Navy.

In addition, there are 4 Admiral-class battle cruisers under construction, which have not yet been completed.

And four N3-class battleships and four G3-class battlecruisers, have not yet started construction.

In this case, the Royal Navy of the Empire does not even have a warship equipped with a 410mm main gun, in this case, they are undoubtedly very disadvantaged, and they naturally will not agree.

You know, the Royal Navy of the Empire is a sea hegemon, and their strength can’t fall to the point where it is worse than the Russians, right?

“Lighthouse Nation still thinks it’s a good idea!” said Joseph Daniels, the Lighthouse Nation’s Secretary of the Navy.

Although the number of capital ships of the Lighthouse Navy is not large, there are currently only 8 dreadnoughts equipped with 305mm guns, 11 super dreadnoughts equipped with 356mm guns, and four Colorado-class battleships equipped with 410mm guns under construction. It seems that the number of their capital ships is only 23, which is less than half the capital ships of the Tsarist Imperial Navy.

However, many warships in the Imperial Russian Navy were equipped with 280 mm guns or 305 mm guns. This part accounts for more than half. The number of remaining ships armed with 356-mm guns, 380-mm guns and 410-mm guns was not much.

With the national strength of the lighthouse country, it is completely possible to gradually eliminate those dreadnoughts equipped with 305-mm guns and replace them all with battleships with 410-mm guns.

It’s just that with a displacement of 35,000 tons, to be equipped with 410mm guns, some boats carry cannons, but at least they will be more powerful than those battleships with 280mm guns and 305mm guns.

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