Seeing Walter's stunned look on his face, Fang Yan immediately explained slightly: "Uncle Walter, you have just returned to Germany, and you may not know much about the domestic political landscape. At present, no party in Berlin has a two-thirds majority in the parliament that can form a government alone, and even the largest social democrats hold only one-third of the seats, which means that every party in the parliament has the opportunity to get its members into the cabinet. ”

The National Socialist National Workers' Party, reorganized by Adolf Hitler in 1920, pursued a far-right nationalist approach that advocated the tearing up of the Versailles Treaty, the refusal to pay reparations, the rearmament, and the creation of a pan-Germanic community, thereby restoring Germany to its former imperial glory. Although this party currently has less than 250,000 members, and it is also the smallest of the nine parties in Congress, the unprecedented stock market crash that has broken out in the United States has undoubtedly given this party an excellent opportunity for development. Since the economy between Germany and the United States has become extremely close with the implementation of the Dawes plan, this disaster in the United States will inevitably affect Germany to a great extent; The depressed economy and miserable life will rekindle resentment and disgust at the republic, which is exactly what this far-right party has to say. Fang Yan said succinctly.

Walter rubbed his chin slightly, the light in his eyes becoming brighter and brighter. Originally with a doctorate in economics and stirring up a vast storm on Wall Street, he instantly understood the key to this, and his deep understanding of details was even better than Fang Yan's. As the young man in front of him said, a storm is inevitable in Germany, and he joining this small party with great potential will not only be able to have a low sense of existence, but also take advantage of this depression to achieve promising rapid development.

Fang Yan smiled slightly and said, "Actually, Mr. Hitler, the leader of the National Socialist Party, and I have a very close personal relationship, and my father also gave him hundreds of thousands of marks in aid, so we have long been extremely familiar with each other. If you, Uncle Walter, join this party, you will surely gain great trust and dependence. When your grandfather was still alive, he wanted you to become a key member of the government and hold up an umbrella for the family business run by your father. Now is your chance to make up for the time you spent on Wall Street for your family. ”

"Is that so......" Hearing Fang Yan's words, Walter's heart was already moving, if the family had already been connected with that political party, then joining it would save countless troubles. He pondered for a moment, then said, "Then I'll go to Rudy and discuss with him what you just said." ”

After some weighing, Rudolf finally approved Walter's new destination. Fang Yan then wrote a letter to his "old friend" Hitler, saying that his uncle, who lived in Finland, had returned to China and admired the ideas of the National Socialist Party and wanted to join it. This is also a new concoction of Walter's past by Rudolf, who in Finland either died or moved abroad and disappeared, so all the experiences were left to Walter's own account. A few days later, Fang Yan received a reply in which Hitler was full of joy: he was "extremely honored" to accept a highly educated elite gentleman into the ranks of the National Socialist Party, and was ready to go to Hamburg three days later to meet Fang Yan's uncle in person.

Seeing that things had basically been done, Fang Yan also embarked on the journey back to Kiel. Of course, before leaving, Fang Yan also had a detailed discussion with Walter on the racial issue, so as not to be self-defeating and let Walter be completely brainwashed by Hitler and turn into his fanatical believer. Considering that Walter had lived in North America, where the atmosphere of freedom was relatively strong, Fang Yan still had considerable confidence that he would be able to resist Hitler's racial ideas.

Dead leaves are falling, frost and snow are flying, and a faint layer of ice is gradually forming on the sea outside the port of Kiel, and the cold winter has completely descended on the land of Europe. For the German people, this is the first time in six years that they have tasted poverty, poverty and hunger. With the siphoned off money from the United States, Germany's entire economic order was devastated: banks went bankrupt, factories collapsed, people lost their jobs profusely, and consumption shrank sharply...... The scenes that took place in the United States have now been reproduced in Germany without reservation. Unlike the hyperinflation of 1923, this time the government, the army, and the big industrialists no longer benefited from it, but were also subjected to an unbearable violent shock!

Regarding the situation in his own family, Fang Yan did not have the slightest worry. Not to mention that his brother's Union shipyard is making a huge fortune from Soviet Russia, which has not been affected by the economic crisis, and the funds transferred by Walter from North America alone are enough to allow Brom's industries to survive this economic storm. As for the development of the navy, Fang Yan is also not worried, because even in another plane, the German Navy has started construction of 2 German-class armored ships during the economic crisis. Now that Germany is more interested in the sea than it has been in history, there is no reason to abandon the basic arms build-up because of fiscal austerity.

"It's time to start the development of the aircraft carrier." Fang Yan said to himself in his heart. If nothing else, the German Navy in this plane is about to take its first steps in the field of aviation, and he, the traverser, needs to be guided decisively in this process. After all, aircraft carriers and artillery warships are two completely different systems, and their overall design techniques are very different; If you click on the wrong tech tree, the consequences may be worse than the failure of the gunboat design, because the aircraft carrier is the main force in naval warfare in the future!

The difference between the design of aircraft carriers and gunboats lies first in the choice of ship size. In order to accumulate sufficient firepower and armor under the limited tonnage, the gunboat needed to reduce the protective area as much as possible, while reducing the hull length moderately to save structural weight. However, the aircraft carrier is to achieve combat effectiveness with the aircraft it carries, which requires it to have the largest possible hangar and the longest possible flight deck, all of which makes the aircraft carrier have to strive to increase its external dimensions, especially the full length of the hull to meet the requirements. Among them, the large hangar can accommodate more aircraft, and the longer flight deck can release more powerful air attack waves in battle.

It should be noted that the aircraft carrier aircraft during World War II took off in most cases in a normal taxi-run style. Although catapults have been widely used in the Great War, aircraft carriers still have a huge demand for flight deck length because they need to be recharged for a long time after catapulting an aircraft. If a fighter needs to glide 120 meters to successfully lift off, then an aircraft carrier with a flight deck length of 180 meters can only use 60 meters of space in the rear to prepare the aircraft when preparing for an attack; If the length of the flight deck is increased to 200 meters, the space available for preparing aircraft is increased to 80 meters, and the number of fighters that can be flown at one time is a full one-third more than the former. For the battle between aircraft carriers, a wave of attacks has a great probability of deciding the victory or defeat of the battle, if either side can release more planes in the attack wave, it will undoubtedly add an extremely important weight to the balance of the battlefield!

Secondly, there is the difference in the layout of the armor. Aircraft carriers that live on long-range strikes do not need to think about the need for close-range artillery combat at all, and the only threat will come only from bombs and torpedoes dropped by enemy aircraft; As for the waterline, it is only necessary to lay a low light armor belt to protect the reserve buoyancy of the aircraft carrier from being lost due to the fragmentation attack caused by the explosion of a near-miss. Historically, the fleets of the United States, Japan, and Britain have all retained cruiser-class waterline armor belts, which is actually a completely wasteful option that is completely unnecessary.

These two fundamental differences between aircraft carriers and gunboats are undoubtedly quite unfavorable to Fang Yan. Because he could no longer use the reverse protrusion hanging, which he had widely used on gunboats, and the armor box layout with built-in main armor belts, which reduced the width of the ship on the water, and the hangar area, and the latter, which was useless against shells. However, with armor integrated into the structure and an excellent power system integrated with Italian technology, the overall situation is still far superior to that of the British and American navies. In order to make up for the lost advantages, Fang Yan has made the shipyard carry out more in-depth research in the field of fluid mechanics, and once there is an achievement, it can play a role in getting twice the result with half the effort.

The final difference lies in the division of the internal compartments. Aircraft carriers do not have heavy artillery systems, instead they have aircraft, aviation fuel, and aviation ammunition; Its command bridge and chimney were also compressed to one side of the hull, and the internal smoke ducts and the corresponding counterweight bearing structure have undergone fundamental changes. However, this did not bother Fang Yan. Before the crossing, he had also read a lot of foreign materials about the dissection of aircraft carriers, and knew by heart the basic classic layout; Coupled with the professionalism he has accumulated over the years, he is fully capable of making a general design with an outline and a complete collection.

Considering that Germany is still under the strict restrictions of the "Versailles Treaty" and should not make too big a move, Fang Yan decided to temporarily set the standard displacement of the new aircraft carrier at 13,000 tons. If the Entente inquired, they could also prevaricate in the name of 10,000-ton armored ships. Although this tonnage is quite small, under Fang Yan's rough calculation, it can also meet the minimum required performance indicators.