Because the first armored cruiser was named "Pingwu", this level of armored cruiser is collectively called "Pingwu-class".

The Piaowu-class warship is 80 meters long, has a draft of five meters, a displacement of 2,800 tons, a speed of 15 knots, and a total of 220 people. The captain is the fifth-rank garrison rank.

The standard firepower configuration of the double-unit Breaking-class armored cruiser is one 200mm front main gun, 1 150mm second-level Breaking-class armored cruiser, 2 75mm third-level Breaking-class armored cruiser, and 4 45mm Yuanhua rapid-fire guns.

The number of artillery is not large, but as long as it is shot, even the armored cruiser itself cannot ensure that the hull is not damaged, and there is no way to guarantee the safety of personnel.

The firepower is very fierce.

The so-called high-speed dome cruiser is a more simplified version of the steam iron armored ship.

In order to quickly build a warship that can carry powerful artillery and have a certain survivability, the shipyard has sorted out many plans based on the information.

The simplest thing is to install a layer of armored deck to protect the cabin, ammunition depot, etc.

The armored deck is located below the waterline. Once the missile is shot near the waterline, a large amount of sea water pours in and the warship may sink.

Moreover, because the cabin is under the armored deck, the space is limited, which limits the size and number of steam engines, seriously affects the speed of the warships, and does not meet the shipyard's demand for a warship with a higher speed.

So there was a "dome" design, that is, the armored deck was changed to a dome with a downward tilt on both sides, and the horizontal part in the middle was higher than the waterline.

In this way, the space of the protected area can be increased and more power equipment can be installed. Moreover, even if water is inlet in the unprotected area, there is enough buoyancy to float on the water.

This new cruiser is named as a high-speed armored cruiser because its protection level is greatly improved compared with ordinary wooden warships, meeting the needs of high-speed and protection capabilities.

The first batch of five dome-armored cruisers were named "Fuyi", "Pingnan", "Jinzhou", "Dengzhou" and "Laizhou".

Because the first dome-armored cruiser was named "Fuyi", this level of armored cruiser is collectively called "Fuyi Class".

The Fuyi-class warship can reach 18 knots, 75 meters long, draft 4.5 meters, displacement 2,200 tons, and endurance can reach 5,000 nautical miles/10 knots. The entire ship is equipped with 200 people, and the captain is the fifth-grade garrison rank.

The standard firepower configuration is 2 200mm Break-class breech main gun (double-mounted head and single-mounted ship stern), 2 150mm second-level Break-class gun, 2 75mm third-level Break-class gun, and 2 45mm Yuanhua rapid-fire gun.

Basically the firepower configuration is the same as that of an armored cruiser.

From early December of the first year of Chongzhen, five "Pingwu-class" armored cruisers and five "Fuyi-class" high-speed armored cruisers were completed. Some of them were delivered to the Denglai Navy Division, and the other part was delivered to the South China Sea Navy fleet led by Zheng Zhilong.

In early June, the construction of three "Polu-class" steam iron armored ships was completed and officially delivered. The Denglai Navy obtained two of them, namely the "Zhenhai" and the "Liaodong", and carried out the second military expansion at the same time.

As a result, the Denleigh Navy had three real ironclad ships, two armored cruisers and three high-speed armored cruisers, and its combat effectiveness increased dramatically.

In history, the Beiyang Fleet of the Qing Dynasty had only five main warships of more than 2,000 tons, and the Denglai Navy now has eight warships of more than 2,000 tons!

Such a powerful navy fleet is suffering from no combat opponents.

There was no naval division in the Later Jin Dynasty, and the coastal areas were occupied by the Dendrai Naval Division, which led to the Dendrai Naval Division patrolling the coast at this time.

You should know that the maintenance of these warships is also a considerable expense. If they cannot be used for combat, it is a waste of money.

At this time, Li Zicheng came.

After listening to Li Zicheng's story and carefully reading the contract between the Ming Dynasty and the Li Dynasty, Yuan Keli laughed and said, "Okay! This official immediately sent a telegram to the capital to ask for His Majesty's will!"

Li Zicheng was stunned for a moment when he heard this. He didn't know what the telegram was.

The Ming Dynasty began to implement telegrams in April of the second year of Chongzhen, and only established a communications department in several cities on the Liaodong Peninsula in late May. It was far away in the Far East City of Kuwu Island, and of course it had not yet been covered, so Li Zicheng did not know the existence of telegrams.

He followed Yuan Keli to the Communications Department, and then watched several people quickly operate some machines after receiving Yuan Keli's orders. The sound of the sound made him feel very novel.

Yuan Keli saw his expression and explained with a smile: "This thing is called telegraph, it is the latest invention of the Academy of Sciences. This thing is very powerful. We send a message here that you can receive it in one breath.

Let’s go and have a rest for a while. It will take some time for the communications department of the capital to report the news to His Majesty. Let’s talk to me about how your Fusang strategy is arranged.”

Although Li Zicheng was surprised when he heard the effect of this telegram, he had something to do at this time, so he did not ask any further questions.

On the other side of the capital, after receiving the news from Liaodong, the Communications Department quickly reported it to Zhu Youjian.

After seeing the brief message on the telegram, Zhu Youjian looked overjoyed and couldn't help but praise: "What a Cao Bian Jiao!"

He had long wanted to start a war against Fusang.

But Xiao Sheng kept blocking him, asking him to be stable first and not rush to expand.

Solve one first, then solve another.

But at this time, it is time to take action. You cannot directly eliminate the Japanese pirates, and you can also plunder some wealth first.

Although Fusang is small, many gold and silver mines in its domestic market, especially silver reserves, are very amazing, making Zhu Youjian salivate.

Just a stone can be enough to alleviate the silver crisis that has appeared again in the Ming Dynasty.

The discovery and mining of Ishimi Ginshan began in the early 14th century. From about 90 years after the early 16th century, Fuso exported an average of 38 tons of silver (about one million taels) to the Central Plains every year, accounting for one-third of the global output, with the vast majority of them coming from Ishimi Ginshan.

Ishimi Ginshan was the largest silver mine in the world from 1526 to 1921.

The silver mining and refining technology in Fuso was just some common methods learned from the Ming Dynasty. If the industrial strength of the Ming Dynasty is now, the annual output of this silver mountain can be increased by more than ten times.

In other words, if you get this silver mountain, you can contribute millions or even tens of millions of taels of silver to the Ming Dynasty every year as currency circulation.

Of course, the Fusang people would not give up such a silver mountain easily, so they could only take some measures.

Fusang launched an invasion war against North Korea again, which would be a bold provoking the majesty of the Ming Empire and must be punished!

So, Zhu Youjian directly sent a telegram to Yuan Keli.
Chapter completed!