At this time, Chen Xiaojun got up and said: "The above is the draft strategic plan we have formulated for the development of the German Navy, and we believe that this strategic plan is the most suitable for the current development direction of the German Navy, and it is also in line with the current national strength, technological level and international environment of the German Navy. Of course, this is only our suggestion, whether to adopt, or up to the German side to decide, and if you have any questions, you can still ask us, we will try our best to answer in detail. At the same time, if there are any revisions, they can also be proposed to us, and we will make serious revisions. ”

As he spoke, Chen Xiaojun handed over the draft plan to Tirpitz, the content of which was basically mentioned in the course of the exchange just now, but the format was more standardized, but it was much simpler in terms of explanation, after all, the main purpose of this exchange meeting was to explain in detail the strategic plan for the development of the German navy, including answering questions.

Tirpitz also got up, took the draft, and said: "Thank you for your work, this time has really benefited us a lot, for the strategic plan you have formulated, we will seize the time to carefully study and share, and give you feedback as soon as possible." ”

After the end of this exchange, the military exchange activities between the two sides were also put to a temporary end, waiting for Germany's response.

The German state attached great importance to the strategic planning of the navy's development, so as soon as the exchange was concluded, the relevant content was sent to the palace and cabinet, and Tirpitz gave a special day of commentary to the emperor and the prime minister.

After reading the draft and listening to Tirpitz's explanation, Wilhelm II spoke highly of the draft plan, believing that it had indeed found the right direction and path for the development of the German Navy, so he immediately ordered the cabinet to discuss it.

After more than 10 days of discussion, the visiting delegation's naval team and the German Navy Department made a revision of the draft together according to the opinions of the cabinet, and finally submitted a perfect strategic plan for the development of the German Navy to the Emperor.

Of course, on the whole, Germany has not made major changes to the main content of the draft, and basically agrees with the opinions of East China, but has only made some corrections to the details.

First of all, in terms of the construction of battleships, the Nassau-class and Helgoland-class were still completed as planned without any modifications, but Germany asked East China to adopt the design method of one type and two ships in accordance with the model of the Nassau-class and Helgoland-class, and design a type of fast battleship and a type of traditional battleship respectively. As a German battleship of the lower two classes, the basic data requirements are that the tonnage is about 25,000 tons, the speed of the fast battleship is more than 25 knots, and it is equipped with 8 350 mm caliber guns, two in the front and rear, and two in the front and rear, and it is arranged along the central axis knapsack twin turrets, while the traditional battleship still has a speed of 22 knots, and 12 350 mm caliber guns, according to the gun arrangement of the Helgoland class, in addition to the front and rear central axis knapsack twin turret arrangement, a twin turret is also arranged on the left and right sides of the middle of the hull.

Fast battleships will be named Caesar-class and will be built with 5 units, while traditional battleships will be named King-class with 4 built.

Although the German Navy had agreed with the tactical value of the fast battleships proposed by East China, after discussion and military chess deduction, it was believed that traditional battleships were still needed in the decisive battle of the battle line. This is because although the fast battleship has great tactical value and can perform a variety of combat missions, compared with the traditional battleship, due to the excessive pursuit of high speed, the number of boilers needs to be increased, which increases the cost of the warship, which is destined to the number of fast battleships can not be too much; and in a certain tonnage, and must ensure the basic tactical needs of the premise, it will inevitably weaken the number of armor protection and main guns, and in the battle line engagement, the speed requirement is not high, so in the battle line engagement, the role of the fast battleship is obviously not as good as the traditional battleship, and the traditional battleship also has the value of continuing to exist。

Generally, when Germany builds a type of battleship, it is to build four to form a formation, because the ship type is the same, it is very convenient to cooperate with each other and supplement each other, and it is very convenient to maintain logistics, and the fast battleship to build five is because considering that due to the speed advantage, there will be many fast battleships when they form a separate team to perform combat missions, and four can only ensure the bottom requirement of a formation, so adding one is also to strengthen the combat effectiveness of the fast battleship formation.

The construction of the King-class is to prepare for the battle line, and the German Navy is very satisfied with the gun arrangement of the Helgoland class, because the general arrangement of the 6 turrets is usually three in the front and rear in a zigzag arrangement, with 6 main guns in the front and rear, and 8 main guns on the side of the side, and the firepower is large, while the Helgoland class artillery is arranged in the front and rear directions, and 10 guns can be used on the side side, which not only increases the firepower, but also greatly reduces the waste of firepower, and has not increased the length of the side waterline with armor, it is simply a warship tailored for the battle line, and after replacing the 350 mm main gun, the combat effectiveness is undoubtedly stronger. This is also considering that it is basically impossible for Germany to catch up with and surpass Britain in the number of battleships, so it can only strengthen the firepower of a single ship and narrow the gap with Britain.

It should be said that after the exchange with East China, the German Navy's understanding of fast battleships, the advantages and disadvantages are still very in place, the Queen Elizabeth-class fast battleships built by Britain in the old time and space are known as the best battleships in the First World War, not only fast, but also strong firepower and high protection, whether it is a separate team to carry out combat missions, or on the battle line, there are excellent performances.

However, the displacement of the Queen Elizabeth class has been close to 30,000 tons, while other battleships in the same period are basically around 25,000 tons, which is not a class warship at all, and the Queen Elizabeth class undoubtedly has a great advantage. And at the same time of about 25,000 tons, fast battleships are definitely inferior to traditional battleships in terms of firepower and protection. Later, the Bavaria-class battleships built by Germany reached the same level as the Queen Elizabeth class in terms of tonnage and firepower, but they were too late in service to catch up with any major battles, and there was no chance to fight with the Queen Elizabeth class.

In the future war, breaking the engagement will be the main combat mode of the German Navy, so it is imperative to build a strong broken fleet, but Germany's experience in building warships to carry out the task of breaking diplomatic relations is basically zero, so it was decided to entrust all the East China ** design, including battle cruisers, armored cruisers, large cruisers, light cruisers of each level, submarine two levels, and these warships will form Germany's broken fleet in the future.

After the study of the Navy Technology Department and the consultation of the visiting delegation, it was finally determined that the technical indicators of each type of warship were:

The battle cruiser, which was required to have a displacement of less than 20,000 tons, was equipped with 8 305-mm guns and a speed of 27 knots, was named the von Tann class, and it was planned to build 3 ships;

armored cruisers, which require a displacement of 12,000-13,000 tons, are equipped with 8 240-mm guns and reach a speed of 28 knots, are designated the Scharnhorst class, and 4 are planned to be built;

Large cruisers, required to have a displacement of 7000-8000 tons, equipped with 4 210-mm guns, with a speed of up to 30 knots, named the Queen Victoria Louis class, planned to build 8 ships;

The light cruiser, which is required to have a displacement of about 3500-4000 tons, is equipped with 4 125-mm guns and has a speed of 30 knots, is named the Dresden class, and it is planned to build 20 ships;

As for submarines, to be honest, Germany really has no experience, so it does not make a request for a club, and East China ** directly submits the design plan to Germany according to the situation of the German Navy and the needs of breaking the war.

Although according to the proposal of East China, armored cruisers and large cruisers can be modified on the basis of the original design of the Lune-class and Samoa-class, although Germany has built 4 and 8 ships respectively and there are new orders under construction and planned, but how to improve the body, each shipyard has no spectrum, Bi Jing's improvement is to increase the speed as the main purpose, so no one knows how to change, it is better to hand over to East China**.

However, in terms of shipboard weapons, the Scharnhorst class was upgraded from the 210 mm main gun of the Lune class to the 240 mm main gun, which was originally equipped on the former dreadnought Caesar Frederick III class and Wiecchersbach class, which were of course much more powerful than the 210 mm main gun, and the rate of fire was almost the same. This also shows that Germany basically understood the meaning of breaking the engagement, heavy speed and firepower, and relatively secondary armor protection.

The two types of warships, the Rune class and the Samoa class, each have two ships under construction, and the power is all changed to steam turbine power, and the follow-up ships planned to be built are also changed to steam turbine power. Of course, due to the replacement of power, new types of warships can be ordered, which can be named the York-class and the Oldenburg-class respectively.

Although this transformation still can not make the speed of these two types of new warships meet the requirements of the broken fleet, but compared with the original Lune-class and Samoa-class, there is still a significant increase in speed, and according to the estimation of East China, in the future war, Britain is very likely to adopt the tactics of blockading the North Sea, rather than the port blockade, although the area of the North Sea is not large, but it still leaves a certain amount of room for the German Navy, so the speed of the warship will play an extremely important role in the war.

In the trade agreement signed by the two sides, there are conditions that East China will design a total of 10 types of warships such as Type 4 capital ships, Type 4 auxiliary warships, and Type 2 submarines for Germany free of charge, and battleships and battlecruisers belong to capital ships, while armored cruisers, large cruisers, and light cruisers belong to auxiliary warships.

However, both Wilhelm II and Tirpitz thought that it was worth it, because this was equivalent to building all the blueprints for the development of the German Navy for the next 10 years, so the German Navy had a clear direction and path for development, and there was no need to slowly explore it on its own or imitate the British.