Tsarist Empire: Please call me His Majesty the Tsar

The 'Rostov-class' cruisers were the first warships built after Grand Duke Mikhail established the Rostov Shipyard.

Grand Duke Mikhail knew that the navy would be crucial in the war with the Eastern Empire a few years later.

The Russian Empire also admitted its defeat at sea.

But whenever the Imperial Russian Navy was not defeated, but defeated the Oriental navy and turned over. Then the outcome of the war will be rewritten. The attempt of the Eastern Empire to step on the shoulders of the Russian Empire and become one of the world's great powers is simply delusional.

Therefore, in Grand Duke Mikhail's plan, the navy will be a very important link.

It is also from now on that he begins to lay out in the Navy.

The cruisers of the Rostov class, with a full load displacement of 6,000 tons, were armed with three triple 50-caliber 155-mm main guns, eight 105-mm secondary guns, six 40-mm rapid-fire guns and four 20-mm rapid-fire guns. The power system adopts a large three-expansion reciprocating steam engine imported from the German Empire, and the maximum speed reaches 25 knots. The main armor thickness is 75 mm Krupp armor steel.

Grand Duke Mikhail's own steel plant has begun to imitate Krupp armor steel. This is the most advanced armor steel in the world. If it has been imported from the Germanic Empire, it not only risks being stuck in the neck, but it is also too expensive.

For Grand Duke Mikhail, the formula of Krupp armor steel is no secret, as long as it is handed over to the technicians for several more tests, there will be no problems.

The Rostov Shipyard is a large shipyard, and the first batch of cruisers built "Rostov-class" is as many as six, named "Rostov", "Chrkassk", "Volgodondsk", "Elista", "Stavropol" and "Krasnodar".

When these six ships are completed and commissioned, a second batch will be built.

And, after accumulating enough experience, the Rostov shipyard will build even larger warships.

After all, it is simply unrealistic to defeat the Oriental just by relying on these light cruisers of several thousand tons.

The Oriental people defeated the Great Qing Empire and extorted a large amount of war reparations from the Great Qing Empire.

This huge amount of money was not only used by the Oriental people to develop the military industry, but also to purchase new warships from the Empire of the Sun. It can be seen that the Oriental people are very ambitious.

The biggest difference between this time and space and the other time and space is that the great voyage is a hundred years ahead. The history of the entire Western world has accelerated by a hundred years. Therefore, in 1794 AD, the Oriental people launched an attack on the Qing Empire and won the victory.

Grand Duke Mikhail personally presided over the launching ceremony of the cruiser "Rostov", the lead ship of the cruiser "Rostov-class".

The priest of the Orthodox Church, for the attempt of launching the warship, blessed the sailors of the Imperial Russian Navy, piloted this battleship, and was invincible.

After the death of Tsar Alexander III and the accession of Nicholas II, he began to suppress Grand Duke Mikhail. As a result, plans to build new warships, which had been repeatedly reported by the Black Sea Fleet, were shelved.

As a last resort, Grand Duke Mikhail could only build 'Rostov-class' cruisers out of his own pocket to strengthen the Black Sea Fleet.

Of course, because of the treaties signed by European powers such as the Russian Empire and the Sun Never Sets Empire, the warships of the Black Sea Fleet could not enter the Mediterranean through the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles. This makes the Black Sea Fleet only a coastal defense fleet in the Russian Imperial Navy, not the main force of the Tsarist Imperial Navy.

But, in the eyes of Grand Duke Mikhail, isn't the biggest role after the signing of the treaty used to tear up?

Once there is enough strength, even if the treaty is not observed, what can be done?

If he could, Grand Duke Mikhail even wanted to seize the opportunity to defeat the Ottoman Empire in the future and seize the Bosphorus and Dardanelles. In this way, the Black Sea Fleet will be able to freely enter the Mediterranean. At the same time, it also gave the Russian Empire an additional passage to the sea.

Of course, it is very difficult to achieve this goal.

As the hegemon of the world, the Sun Never Sets Empire is now extremely hostile to the Tsarist Empire. They launched a siege and blockade of the Russian Empire to prevent the Russian Empire from having excellent ports.

As soon as Grand Duke Mikhail wanted to seize the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles, the Sun Never Set Empire would definitely stop it.

This requires Grand Duke Mikhail to have enough strength and at the same time plan well.

You know, the reason why the Eastern Empire was able to defeat the Tsarist Empire, the Sun Never Set Empire was a great effort. Without their bottomless support, how could the Orientals build such a powerful navy in a short period of time?

And in the naval battle, although the Sun Never Set Empire did not personally attack, it also tried in every possible way to trip up the Tsarist Russian Empire, and even brazenly provided intelligence support to the Eastern Empire.

These difficulties were all that Grand Duke Mikhail needed to overcome.

However, the biggest problem is that although Grand Duke Mikhail is now a prince within the Russian Empire, it is his brother Nicholas II who is really in power.

Therefore, Grand Duke Mikhail has already sentenced Nicholas II to death in his heart, he must die! Then, he was succeeded by Grand Duke Mikhail and became the tsar of the Russian Empire.

In this way, the Russian Empire could develop according to the intentions of Grand Duke Mikhail.

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