The Dingzhen II ship was sent away, and the Volkeng shipyard devoted itself wholeheartedly to the construction of a new type of cruiser, which had nothing to do with Jochen. And the bigwigs of the Admiralty began to tinker with the new warship in full swing, which also had nothing to do with Heng. As for the Dingzhen Second Ship that has gone away and the next Sino-French War, who cares about things that are so far away? So the rest of the matter has nothing to do with Jochen. At this time, Jochen is collecting his mood and preparing to start his life as a student in this life.

In August 1883, the summer was scorching, and it was the day of admission to the Kiel Naval Academy, and in front of the Kiel Naval Academy, Jochen, who was still a little childish, looked at the cradle of the German Navy and his heart was stirred.

The Kiel Naval Academy was established in March 1872 by Albrecht von Stosch, then Minister of the Admiralty, as part of Stosch's planning for the German navy.

In the Second Schleswig War with Denmark in 1864, the weak Prussian navy was simply unable to compete with the Danes for sea supremacy, and the entire Baltic and North Sea control was firmly in the hands of the Danes. On March 17 of that year, the Prussian navy was easily defeated by the Danish fleet at the Battle of Jasmund, and two months later, on May 5, the Austrian detachment led by Wilhelm von Taghoff, the long-awaited savior of the Prussians, was again met by the Danish fleet at the Battle of Helgoland, and finally had to flee into the neutral waters of the British island of Helgoland to avoid the sinking of the flagship. And this is not the first time that such a humiliation was defeated, in the first Schleswig War of 1848~1851, the Prussians were defeated by the Danish fleet. These two painful experiences have always pricked the nerves of the Germans. It also made it clear to the Prussians that they could not count on anyone to provide effective protection of their shores except their own navy. Therefore, the Prussians learned from the hard time and decided to establish the Prussian Naval Academy at Danzig, and the Kiel Naval Academy was developed on the basis of the Prussian Naval Academy.

Located on the shores of the Kiel Gulf in the Baltic Sea, the Kiel Naval Academy is a modest school with the exception of lush oak linden trees, which are all Romanesque and Gothic red brick buildings. The university has a library with a collection of 40,000 books, and not far from the library is the grand school auditorium, where lectures by renowned scholars are regularly held.

The Kiel Naval Academy has an elegant setting, it is close to the Kiel Fjord, and you can see the beautiful Baltic Sea as soon as you look up. A pier was built near the coast of the military academy, where the Mars, Germany's first gunnery training ship, commissioned in 1881, the Nymph-class light cruiser Medusa (Note 1), which had been decommissioned as barges, and several sail training ships.

Carl Ferdinand Batsche, the first rector of the Prussian Naval Academy, had a legendary history, working on merchant ships in 1846, joining the navy in 1848 as a spearhead of the Prussian Kingdom's invasion of the Far East, rising to the rank of lieutenant general in 1852, participating in the Danish War of 1864, and organizing several naval voyages around the world. Battschhe believed that war was not only a science but also an art, and that in addition to good military qualities and strong will, every commander's expression of war was closely related to his imagination and artistic harmony, and only the most imaginative commanders could create outstanding works. During his tenure as the principal of the Naval Academy, Buttersche has always paid attention to the balanced training of military cadets, and has cultivated every naval cadet as an elite of the university.

The Kiel Naval Academy inherits Battsche's ideas, and the school teaches not only basic military training, basic navigation training, officer candidate training and naval practice, but also subjects such as the law of the sea, economics, oceanography, mechanics, foreign languages, philosophy, etc. The Kiel Naval Academy is taught not only by military personnel, but also by engineers, professors of philosophy and law, oceanographers and zoologists, mathematicians and astronomers, linguists and professors of medicine. In view of the profound heritage of the military academy and the excellent teaching environment, the Kiel Naval Academy has also been known as the cradle of the Imperial Navy.

Alfred von Tirpitz, the father of the High Seas Fleet, and the genius Wolfgang Wegener, the wolf king Karl Dönitz, and the future German naval rebuilder Erich Raeder will have gone out of the school. But what fascinates Jochen the most is the academic thinking here. Tirpitz's teacher, Professor Stenchal, advocated an offensive naval mindset here: the destruction of enemy forces, whether directly or indirectly, is the basis of a military activity, and the only means to achieve this is through guò: battle! The training of all the personnel of the Navy, the construction and development of ships and armaments, is only for one purpose: to fight in the right place at the right time! This idea was widely accepted by Stenchar's students, including many of the teachers at the Naval Academy. As a result, the academic atmosphere of the Naval Academy is filled with strategic offensive thinking, which is exactly what Jochen appreciates most and hopes to implement in the future.

This time, Jochen will enter the school as a freshman, and the 15-year-old Jochen, who has played an important role in naval affairs many times, originally planned to award the honorary rank of naval officer like Prince Heinrich in the past, but Jochen refused. And Jochen said that he hoped to enter the Kiel Naval Academy and obtain the official rank of naval officer after graduation. Although he didn't really go to school, the entrance exam for the grandson of Emperor Joachim, who had been known as a genius since he was a child, was naturally easy. And now, Jochen, with his suitcase, stepped into the academy with an acceptance letter.

After entering the campus, looking at the solemn school building and the students hurrying up the tree-shaded path, Jochen suddenly had a sense of dislocation back to his past college days, a trance that could not distinguish between reality and dream, and immersed Jochen in it. It wasn't until a student looked strangely at this young guy who shouldn't have appeared here standing there stunned and didn't move, and kindly came up to ask if he needed help, that he came back to his senses, and quickly said that he was just feeling the atmosphere of this academy.

After reporting to the naval instructors, it was obvious that the instructors, who had been notified in advance, were not surprised by the arrival of the young imperial grandson. Perhaps it was the prerogative of the imperial grandson, and after the instructor helped Jochen receive the bedding, student uniforms, and some daily necessities, he personally led the way for the imperial grandson and led him to the faculty dormitory.

Obviously, this is to take care of the privileges of His Royal Highness the Imperial Grandson, and the dormitories for teachers and staff are all single rooms, and the area is also large, and all kinds of facilities are relatively complete. But Jochen didn't want that. So I asked if I could live in the student dormitory. The faculty member who could not make the decision then led Jochen to the current headmaster, Rear Admiral Paul von Reibnitz.

"Your Highness Joachim, welcome to study at the Kiel Naval Academy. I don't know what you need me to do here? ”

"Thank you, Your Excellency Rebniz. I have come to you for something to bother you with. I came to the Naval Academy in the hope that I could learn from the cradle of the Imperial Navy, naval strategic and tactical thinking, as well as the theory and development of naval technology. Therefore, I am just a student who has come to study, and I do not want any special treatment in my studies and life, so I hope that I can live in the student dormitory, and if I can, I hope that my roommate can be a civilian student. ”

"I understand your seriousness and hard work in your studies, Your Highness, it is very easy for you to change dormitories. However, it is not appropriate for you to live with civilian cadets. ”

"Then is it possible that all the cadets in the academy are nobles and nobles living together, and commoners and commoners living together?"

"Of course not, Your Highness. But your situation is special......"

"Others can, of course I can, I don't think I'm anything special, thank you for your concern, Your Excellency, but there is no need for this." Jochen interrupted.

"Then as you wish, Your Highness." His Excellency the Major General agreed.

Jochen, who adjusted the dormitory as he wished, moved into the cadet dormitory, but the Naval Academy is different from the Army, although it is an academy dormitory, but the two of them are not comparable to the hard guys of the Army Military Academy.

Jochen's new roommate was an officer candidate older than himself, a tall and handsome young man in an officer's uniform, with a uniform without a single wrinkle. When he arrived at the dormitory and began to organize his belongings, he was slightly stunned when he saw a small child pushing the door in, and the young man born on September 13, 1863 was slightly stunned. Jochen was the first to extend his hand: "Hello, I'm Joachim Friedrich Ernst Waldemar, your roommate. Nice to meet you. ”

The other man hesitated for a moment, then reached out and shook Jochen's hand as well, and then smiled and said, "Your Highness Joachim, I am Franz Hipper, and it is a pleasure to meet you. ”

Note 1: The Medusa was indeed decommissioned on April 5, 1881, and then went to be a barge, but the specific stop was not found by the author, but as a warship that was commissioned on April 10, 1867, 14 years is not a long age, and it is a waste to use a new ship as a warehouse or floating dock after being decommissioned, so here he is given the identity of a fixed training ship of the Naval Academy

Note 2: Hipper received the title of nobility because of his heroic act of covering the departure of the Grand Fleet during the Battle of Jutland, so he cannot have "Feng" in his name now.