Tsarist Empire: Please call me Tsarist Majesty

The Rostov-class cruiser was the first battleship 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 recognized it after its defeat at sea.

But if the Tsarist Imperial Navy was not defeated, but defeated the Navy of the Orientals, it turned over. Then the outcome of the war will be rewritten. The attempt of the Eastern Empire to step on the shoulders of the Tsarist Empire and become one of the world powers is simply delusional.

Therefore, in the plan of Grand Duke Mikhail, the navy will be a very important part.

It was from now on that he began to lay out in the Navy.

The cruiser “Rostov-class”, with a full load displacement of 6,000 tons, was 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 used a large triple expansion reciprocating steam engine imported from the Germanic Empire, and the maximum speed reached 25 knots. The main armor thickness was Krupp armor steel with a thickness of 75 mm.

Grand Duke Mikhail’s own steel plant has already begun to copy Krupp armor steel. This is the most advanced armor steel in the world. If you keep importing from the Germanic Empire, you not only risk getting stuck, but also too expensive.

For Grand Duke Mikhail, the recipe for Krupp armor steel is not a secret, as long as it is given to the technicians to test a few more times, there will be no problems.

Rostov Shipyard is a large shipyard, the first batch of “Rostov-class” cruisers, as many as six, named “Rostov”, “Cherkassk”, “Volgadondsk”, “Elista”, “Stavropol” and “Krasnodar”.

After these six ships are completed and put into service, a second batch will be built.

And, having accumulated enough experience, the Rostov shipyard will build even larger warships.

After all, it is simply unrealistic to defeat the Toyos with these light cruisers of several thousand tons.

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

This huge amount of money was not only used by the Orientals to develop the military industry, but also to buy new warships from the Empire where the sun never sets. It can be seen that the ambition of the Oriental people is very large.

The biggest difference between this time and space and another time and space is that the great voyage is a hundred years ahead of schedule. The entire history of the Western world has accelerated by a hundred years. Therefore, in this time and space 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 lead ship of the cruiser “Rostov” of the “Rostov class”.

The priest of the Orthodox Church, for the attempt to launch the battleship, blessed the sailors of the Tsarist Imperial Navy, piloted this battleship, invincible.

After the death of Tsar Alexander III and the accession of Nicholas II, the suppression of Grand Duke Mikhail has already begun. As a result, the Black Sea Fleet’s plans for the construction of new warships, which were repeatedly reported, were shelved.

As a last resort, Grand Duke Mikhail could only build the 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 Tsarist Empire and the Empire of the Never Sets, the warships of the Black Sea Fleet could not enter the Mediterranean Sea through the Bosphorus and Dardanelles. This makes the Black Sea Fleet only a coastal defense fleet in the Tsarist Imperial Navy, not the main force of the Tsarist Imperial Navy.

However, in the eyes of Grand Duke Mikhail, isn’t the greatest role after the signing of the treaty used to tear it up?

Once you have enough strength, even if you don’t abide by the treaty, what can you do?

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 access to the sea.

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

As the current overlord, the Sun Never Sets Empire is now extremely hostile to the Tsarist Russian Empire. They pursued and intercepted the Russian Empire and prevented it from having an excellent port.

Once Grand Duke Mikhail wants to seize the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles, the Empire will definitely stop it.

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

You know, the reason why the Eastern Empire was able to defeat the Tsarist Russian Empire was that the Sun Never Sets Empire made great efforts. Without their bottomless support, how could the Toyo build such a powerful navy in a short period of time?

And in the naval battle, although the Sun Never Sets Empire did not personally start, it also tried in every possible way to stumble on the Tsarist Empire, and even blatantly provided intelligence support to the Eastern Empire.

These difficulties are all difficulties that Grand Duke Mikhail needs to overcome.

However, the biggest problem is that although Grand Duke Mikhail is now a vassal 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 was able to develop according to the intention of Grand Duke Mikhail.

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