After the welcome banquet was concluded, Zhang Wei and his entourage, accompanied by Prince Heinrich, rushed to Berlin, the capital of Germany, on Prince Heinrich's special train that night, to prepare for the reception of Wilhelm II the next day.

The meeting took place at the Berlin City Palace, which is also the royal palace of the German Empire, and of course in the old time, this palace has been destroyed by the shells of World War II, and only in this era can you see this prosperous palace building that resembles the Second German Empire. Zhang Wei was also quite emotional in his heart, but it was a pity that he couldn't take out his camera to take pictures on this occasion.

At this time, an honor guard composed of royal guards had been arranged at the entrance of the palace to welcome the arrival of Zhang Wei and his party. And Prince Heinrich was relieved when he saw it, because he knew that his imperial brother had always been moody, and known for all kinds of unreliable whims, and had always looked down on people of other races, for fear that this meeting would make some jokes, Heinrich has always been responsible for direct contact with overseas Chinese, and knows best about the cooperation between overseas Chinese and Germany, and knows the importance of these cooperation to Germany, and there is no conflict of interest between the two sides, if it is some unreliable behavior of the emperor that disrupts the cooperation between the two sides, it would be a pity。 Now it seems that the emperor is not out of line.

In fact, the cooperation between the East China government and Germany, Wilhelm II was also very clear, no matter how much he disliked the yellow race, he also knew that at this time he could not have a stiff relationship with overseas Chinese, so he would not be too casual.

Of course, this was only a meeting of a general nature, and there was no substantive content to be discussed; first, the items that should be discussed had already been discussed, and there was no need to talk about them now; second, if it really talked about the cooperation between the two governments, Zhang Wei's level would be too low, that is, a major general, who would be qualified to negotiate with the head of state of a country on cooperation affairs at the government level, so this meeting was completely courtesy, and the main thing was that the German side showed goodwill, after all, the cooperation between the two sides, Germany was on the weaker side, and the overseas Chinese were designing warshipsGermany, weapons, new technologies, etc., can not find other substitutes, and the machinery and equipment imported by the East China government from Germany can be provided by other countries. Although Wilhelm II was still an autocratic monarch, he was able to distinguish between national interests and personal sentiments.

The meeting was held in a very friendly atmosphere, both sides are hello, I am hello, everyone, Kaiser Wilhelm II also specially prepared a military parade to show Zhang Wei and others the style of Prussia, and Zhang Wei also lost no time in praising the military appearance of the German Army, which also made Wilhelm II quite happy. In fact, Zhang Wei is not completely complimentary, because the combat effectiveness of the German Army has been fully proved in the old time and space, and there are a large number of German troops in China. If we exclude other factors and only look at the performance on the battlefield, Zhang Wei also admires the German army quite a lot.

At noon, Wilhelm II held a banquet in the palace to entertain Zhang Wei and others, so that the meeting ended perfectly. And Prince Heinrich was completely relieved, and it was indeed not easy for the imperial brother to remain in a normal state for such a long time.

At the end of the trip to Berlin, Zhang Wei and the others returned to the Hamburg barracks, and the next day they held a party with the German Navy, where soldiers from both sides exchanged ideas and played some friendly sports games. In this regard, the superior physical fitness of German soldiers is reflected, in contrast, the Asian race has a natural disadvantage in terms of physique, and the soldiers have not been in the army for a long time, training and nutrition are not enough, so whether it is track and field or swimming, German soldiers have obvious advantages, and almost all competitions have been won.

However, in the finale of the football match, the KPA won with a clear advantage of 4:2. It turned out that after a football match between Shanghai and the British Navy, the traverser also vigorously promoted football in the People's Army, because football can not only temper the body, but also enhance team awareness and cooperation spirit, as well as tactical literacy, is a comprehensive sport, so it is also quickly popularized in the People's Army, plus there are many football lovers among the traversers, and they have a certain understanding of football skills and tactics, although it is even an amateur level in the old time and space, but it is definitely a master level in this era, and the football level of the People's Army has naturally been rapidly improved。

Football is also the favorite sport of the German army, but in the eyes of the traverser, the football level of the German soldiers is similar to that of the United Kingdom, basically using the 28 or 37 formation, completely abandoning the midfield, and sending the high ball directly from the back to the front, and then the German soldiers in the front court rely on physical strength and strength to fight. In the eyes of the traverser, such a tactic is basically at the level of a primary school student.

Although the soldiers of the People's Army were inferior to their opponents in terms of physical quality, their tactical quality was a few streets behind the Germans, so although the German soldiers were tall and powerful, the People's Army relied on the overall tactical cooperation to confront, and the result was not only to win the game, but also to occupy a very obvious advantage on the field, and the German Navy also lost without saying anything. Of course, it was a friendly game, and neither side cared too much about the outcome of winning or losing, and Germany had won quite a few before, and after the game was over, the soldiers of both sides hooked up with each other and went to drink.

However, several senior German officers present saw the clue that in the old time and space, the German army's strong combat effectiveness did not lie in the advanced weapons and individual combat effectiveness of the soldiers, but in the organization, discipline, and tactical quality of the German army. This is fully reflected in the German football team in the old time and space, among the world's strong teams, the German football team is not the most technical, the most powerful, and not many talented players, but it is recognized as the best organization, discipline, and tactical team.

Although it was the German Navy that had a celebration with the People's Army, the foundation of tactical literacy was implanted in the genes of every German soldier, and they could certainly see that the overseas Chinese football team's running and cooperation on the field had an obvious tactical style, which could even be said to be in line with the principles of war, and this also showed that the overseas Chinese army was at least an army with considerable organization, discipline, and tactical literacy, and was by no means a rabble, and it was by no means accidental that the victory over the Eight-Nation Alliance was achieved. Therefore, I don't feel a little more respect for the KPA.

The fraternity of the troops was over, the social activities of the receiving team in Germany had come to an end, and by this time all the personnel had almost recovered, so it was time to get down to business.

At this time, the two warships were still undergoing maintenance and debugging in the shipyard, and they could not go to sea for sea trials in the near future, so they could only go to the ship in the berthing state to learn how to operate. Moreover, the soldiers have already familiarized themselves with the structural layout of the cabins on the model ship in Qingdao, and the main learning is the operation of various machines and weapons on the ship, and in the static state, there is no need to go to the Kiel shipyard again, just study in the Blom-Foss shipyard in Hamburg, after all, the structure of the two warships is exactly the same, and it is also convenient for people to come and go. The distance from Hamburg to Kiel is only about 90 kilometres, and it takes about 3 hours to get there.

So the very next day, all the crew went to the Blom-Foss shipyard and, under the arrangement of the shipyard, began to learn how to operate the warship.

At this time, the results of the German Admiralty's evaluation of the two options of the traverser also came out, and the first option was finally chosen, that is, the firepower enhanced version of the Qingdao-type protective cruiser, instead of the armored version.

The assessment of the German Admiralty is quite rigorous, and the position of German sea power on the traverser is also quite agreeable, at present, Germany's overseas interests are not many, so the main function of the protective cruiser is to perform the task of breaking diplomatic relations, not escorting, defending the colony, so the enhanced version of firepower is completely sufficient, and the armored version is somewhat insufficient than the above, more than the bottom, just to carry out the task of breaking diplomatic relations, the function is somewhat excessive; if it is to assist the capital ship to participate in the decisive battle at sea and strive to seize sea power, it is also inadequate, and the 10,000-ton armored cruiser is the first choice, after all, the 7000-ton armored cruiser is suitable for a second-class naval country like Italyor a small and medium-sized naval country like Argentina, which has multiple responsibilities and multiple capabilities, breaking diplomatic relations, escorting convoys, defending territorial waters, and even participating in naval warfare. And for a country as powerful as Germany, which is determined to build a navy that can compete with Britain, there is no place for such armored cruisers.

So the German Admiralty immediately made a decision, chose the fire-strengthened version, and built a batch of four, the first ship was named Samoa, so it was called the Samoa-class protective cruiser, and the other three ships were New Guinea, Mariana, The East Africa, these names are the current overseas colonies of Germany, and it is also one of the tasks of this type of warship in the future, to protect and deter these colonies, which was originally the task of the Queen Louis-class protective cruisers in Victoria, but the four Queen-class protective cruisers were approved into the Far East Fleet and were completely annihilated by the traversers, which is one of the reasons why Germany wants to build another large protective cruiser.

In addition, the German Admiralty also decided to entrust the traverser to design a type of 10,000-ton armored cruiser, and now Germany has built a total of three levels of 4 armored cruisers, namely the Count Bismarck, Prince Heinrich, Prince Albert class, and is building two Lune-class ships, but the German Admiralty is not very satisfied with the design of these 4 types of armored cruisers, the main reason is the lack of design experience, and the positioning of the navy is not accurate, and the balance is not good on the relationship between firepower, defense, and speed.

In fact, in the early days of the German construction of several warships, are in some unreasonable design, or the positioning of the problem, this is also the mainland countries to the sea country must pay the price, after all, the accumulation of experience is time, and then Germany simply imitated the design of the British warship, to solve the design of the warship, but this caused the German warship to always be a step slower than the British warship. However, in this time and space, the appearance of the traverser gave Germany the opportunity to overtake in corners.

I forgot to write a note in the "Note" of the previous chapter, and I added it in this chapter:

The ayatollah-class destroyer is a type of air defense destroyer built by the United States in 1978-1979 for the Pahlavi dynasty of Iran at that time, a total of 4 ships, but in 1979, the Iranian religious leader Ayatollah Khomeini launched a * revolution, overthrew the pro-American Pahlavi dynasty, established a theocratic * republic, and politically fell to the Soviet Union, so the United States refused to deliver these 4 destroyers to Iran, incorporated into the US Navy service, named the Kidd-class destroyer, and was decommissioned and mothballed in 1999. In 2003, four Kidd-class destroyers were renovated and newly given to Taiwan, China, also known as Keelung-class destroyers, which have been in service ever since.