As soon as Jiang Yun 'an said this, the hundreds of thousands of spectators had different expressions!
The soldiers and civilians were bursting with pride, and they were so happy that they were flying. The foreign officials, businessmen, and spies mixed in the crowd were shocked.
Two Heaven-class battleships were already frightening enough. They had seriously disrupted the world balance that had been maintained with great difficulty since the 1922 treaty between the Hua Dun and the Navy!
You want to build six more ships, do you want to dominate?
Colson, Winston, Philip, and the other Western officials looked gloomy. They looked at the tall figure on the bow of the ship with heavy and anxious hearts.
The one who felt the most uncomfortable was Winston. He wished he could rush up and kill Jiang Yun 'an!
This was because the flower was too close to the Strait of Malacca and the Indu Ocean.
The rise of the navy would pose a fatal threat to Great Britain's East Manya and Indo colonies.
Especially Indentness. Among the various political entities in Great Britain, Indentness was the most important.
The size of Indu was extremely large. Even relying on its own area, resources, and population advantages, its total economic volume and important economic indicators surpassed that of Fusang, which was in the early stages of modern times. It was the number one in the mute continent, far surpassing flowers and even far surpassing other empires.
At this point in time in 1913, which was the eve of the outbreak of World War I, the last sunset in Great Britain, the population of Indu was 300 million, far exceeding the 50 million people in Japan.
At the same time, the Indu government's revenue was 1 billion rupees, which was about 100 million pounds. It was about half of the local government of the British Isles and was basically the same as Japan. It was far more than entities such as Ghana and Australia.
Indentness had a more important meaning to Great Britain.
It was the dumping ground for British industrial products and technology, as well as the supplier of raw materials. It was also an important place for capital investment. It could be said that the rapid success of the industrial revolution in Great Britain and the rapid accumulation of capital were largely due to the colonial market.
Since ancient times, Indu had been a very rich place with a mature small-scale peasant economy. The British had conquered Indu, which was equivalent to providing a huge market for themselves.
After conquering indol, the British government implemented a free trade policy, allowing British industrial products to be dumped on indol without restrictions.
Flower planting was also forced by the Western powers to sign free trade policies, such as the Jinling and Peiping Pacts. However, there was still a certain amount of agreed customs duties for flower planting, so the impact was relatively smaller than that of the colony.
Under the impact of the British textile industry, the original textile industry and small-scale peasant economy of Indu quickly collapsed, and it brought a large area of extreme poverty to the farmers of Indu, followed by famine.
During the reign of Great Britain, there were many rural crises and famines. In the Great Famine of 1876-1878, about 5.8 million people starved to death. The textile industry of Great Britain also developed rapidly with the wealth of Indou and became the initial start of the Industrial Revolution.
The British had also built railway lines and other industrial facilities in Indo. On the one hand, it was convenient for Great Britain to obtain Indo's resources. On the other hand, it also provided a huge and vast market for the British industry, allowing the capital of Great Britain to rapidly proliferate.
It could be said that without Indentness, the capitalist accumulation of Great Britain would not have been completed so smoothly.
Because Great Britain was the first to realize the industrial revolution, after other countries began to enter the industrial stage, the wages of workers in Great Britain were relatively higher, and the labor costs of workers were higher than those of emerging capitalist countries such as Germany and Japan.
After the end of World War II, Great Britain lost control of Indu. It was unable to force Indu to carry out compulsory exclusive trade, which was the Imperial Preferential System. Great Britain's manufacturing industry lost an extremely important and vast market. The manufacturing industry could no longer maintain its original scale, and the Empire of the Sun Never Sets completely declined.
It was precisely because of the significance of Indentness that it was the most dazzling gem on the crown of the Sun Never Sets Empire. After losing Indentness, the collapse of the Sun Never Sets Empire was only natural.
The rise of the Flora Navy led by the Jiang family, or rather, the rise of Flora, directly threatened the security and interests of Great Britain's colonies in the mute continent. It would be strange if Winston was not flustered.
Once the Flower Navy attacked and occupied the Strait of Malacca, entered the Indu Ocean and cut off the Suez Canal, and then invaded Indu from the land...
Winston's heart raced. He did not dare to continue guessing. He decided to report to London immediately. Even if he had to do his best, he had to maintain the dominance of the Royal British Navy at sea.
The maiden voyage ceremony continued, and the next segment was the bottle throwing ceremony.
When a new ship, especially a big one, was launched, a bottle of champagne was usually smashed at the bow of the ship. This behavior was called a bottle toss.
The bottle throwing ceremony originated from the west. It was a sacrificial ceremony to wish the ship a smooth sailing and safe journey.
In ancient times, sailing was very dangerous. When a ship was in trouble at sea, the crew would write down what they wanted to say on paper, put it into a bottle, seal it, and throw it into the sea, hoping that others would see it.
As time passed, this kind of drifting bottle became an ominous sign. In order to pray for peace, there was a bottle throwing ceremony.
Breaking the bottle meant that the ship did not need a bottle of last words and wished the sailors peace. Therefore, the more broken the champagne bottle was, the better.
The bottle throwing ceremony of the Feng family did not smash champagne. That was a Westerner's wine. What did it have to do with planting flowers?
Jiang Xiong had stipulated that when a naval vessel was launched for service, it was necessary to smash a white wine bottle.
"Everyone, stand at attention. Raise the military flag and play the military song!”
Vice Admiral Chen Shaokuan, the deputy commander of the navy, presided over the ceremony of throwing bottles. With an order, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians turned around and stood at attention at the flag platform in the center of the port square.
The commander of the military band raised his baton, and a passionate prelude sounded. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians sang military songs.
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