Increasing the size of the ocean-going torpedo boat force is also conducive to the training of German naval personnel. Although the conditions are tough, the additional allowance allows for higher remuneration, and the more comprehensive training allows for professional qualifications to attract junior sailors. As an ocean-going combat unit, they can learn more military skills, which is more conducive to future promotion, so that many self-motivated young officers who can only waste their years in the base or in the coastal defense unit after graduating from the naval academy are very yearning for such an opportunity.

After the destroyer slowly became an indispensable member of the navy in the future, the destroyer unit has always been a training base for sending middle and high-level officers and a large number of technical non-commissioned officers to the navies of various countries. Now the German Navy is on the right path.

Before leaving Wilhelmshaven, Jochen had a brief reunion with his old classmate Hipper. and hinted that he would be promoted to lieutenant colonel and the commander of the new brigade after the formation of the 2nd Ocean Torpedo Boat Brigade.

Historically, Hipper was admired by Wilhelm II for his role as a pilot officer on the royal yacht Hohenzollern. However, Jochen felt that this was too much of a waste of talent, so he instructed Montz to promote his roommate. And Hipper's performance in the exercise this time was indeed excellent, and Muntz could understand that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was so important to his roommate. There are people in the DPRK and China who are good officials, and no matter where they are placed, they are established.

Moreover, this visit to the exercise in Wilhelmshaven also gave Jochen a new idea, and after returning to Berlin, he found Caprivey.

"Your Excellency Prime Minister, didn't you say last time that my mining company lent gold to the Empire, which can then be exchanged for physical goods. Now I think about what I want. Jochen asked Caprivi for something.

"Your Highness, what do you want in exchange?" Caprivi asked with a smile.

"A shipyard, a shipyard capable of building ships of at least 5,000 tons. And I don't want the shipyards that the Reich Government now has, but brand new. In other words, the government paid for the construction, but the property rights belonged to me. ”

Jochen did this in the hope of having his own shipbuilding industry, and that some new technologies and ideas could be tested by the navy itself. You don't have to go through the navy first and then influence the shipyard, and then the shipyard will test it and then feed back to the navy. This allows you to skip a lot of steps and save time. What's more important is shipbuilding, which is a lucrative industry.

At this time, major shipyards always require a 25% deposit before signing a formal contract with the purchaser. Construction will only begin after the deposit has been received. In fact, this 25% deposit is already all the cost of building the entire ship. In other words, once the completed ship is sold, it will immediately get 3 times the net profit! And if the other party breaks the contract, the cost has already been reached anyway, as long as a buyer can be found, then it represents 4 times the profit!

This is true not only for civilian ships, but also for warships. Whether it is a foreign trade warship or a domestic navy for its own use, it is necessary to abide by this rule. With such a high profit, once Jochen's design was chosen by the Navy, it represented a large amount of money coming in. Of course, Jochen is not blindly asking for big shipyards. The shipyard that could build the 5000-ton class represented the possibility of building all ships of the lower classes of light cruisers, which, naturally, included destroyers and submarines. This is also Jochen's main goal at the moment. More importantly, these small and medium-sized ships are built in large quantities and have a short construction period. It is very beneficial to the rapid development in the early stage.

As for battleships, armored cruisers, they are not in high demand in Germany now, and large passenger and cargo ships, there are also other shipyards that occupy the market. Therefore, it is best to use emerging ships as a starting point. Moreover, in the future, the expansion of German cargo ships, large ships will naturally be covered by those old shipyards, but the market for small ships will leak a lot, and they can completely occupy it.

And although shipbuilding is profitable, not everyone can participate in it. The large amount of land occupied by the huge factory is a lot of money. The investment in machinery, slipways, docks, workshops, etc. is also very high. And shipbuilders are now also a high-wage class.

Of course, Jochen is not unable to take out the money, but since Caprivi said that it can be replaced in kind, then it can be saved. And the government welcomes it. Because such a large-scale investment can also allow the construction industry and machinery manufacturing industry to continue to operate, and more skilled workers can have jobs.

Caprivi agreed, agreeing to build a new shipyard for Jochen in Wilhelmshaven.

With a shipyard, there is a natural need for excellent designers, and the warship designer Jochen can directly use his authority to find a few from the Admiralty, and for civilian ships, Jochen can also "borrow" a few from the Volkeng shipyard, which has a good relationship. However, as for the new torpedo weapon that Jochen wants to build, it can be said that there are no relevant professionals in Germany at the moment.

That's right, this is a submarine. At this time, the country with the most in-depth study of submarines in the world is France, the United States also has some exploration, and Germany can be said to be a blank.

In fact, the Germans developed submarines quite early. As early as 1837, Wilhelm Sebastian Valentine Bauer had asked Austria, then a member of the German Confederation, to build submarines for him. And this man was the builder of Germany's first submarine. It's just that after the cash-strapped Austrians provided Bauer with 15,000 florin gold coins as start-up capital, the follow-up funds were difficult to raise, and the project was finally stillborn.

And the father of German submarines died as early as 1872, and it was almost impossible for Germany to find a good submarine designer at this time.

Under the intervention of Jochen, Germany already has a good gasoline engine, Maybach's inline 6-cylinder engine can output 40 horsepower, although gasoline is volatile, in a confined space has a low safety factor, far less safe and reliable than diesel engines, but obviously more reliable than the mainstream steam engine used in the world. The most important powertrain problem is solved. But the absence of a designer becomes the main trouble.

It is obviously unreliable to go to France to find a designer. The submarine was treated by the French as a secret weapon with great enthusiasm, so it was absolutely impossible to get the hands of the rivals, the Germans.

And the United States is the best target. Anyone who knows the history of submarines probably knows John Philip Holland, the most famous submarine designer. In fact, few people know that there is an excellent submarine designer in the United States who is not inferior, or even more daring and radical than Holland, -- Simon Lake.

Simon Lake's design for the USS Seal in the U.S. Navy bid is larger and more advanced than Holland's submarine, with escape pods, conning towers, dive control rooms, command rooms, and rotating periscopes on it, and it can be said that all the design features of modern submarines are found on the SEAL. But even then, in the competition for the US Navy, Lake lost.

Holland or Lake, one of the two, is enough to give German submarine research a high www.biquge.info. If both of them can come to Germany, it is even possible that the United States will fall significantly behind in the field of submarines.

It is not enough to have a submarine designer, the insufficient performance of the compressed air torpedo has been exposed in this exercise, and the short range has become the biggest bottleneck for the attacker. Since the development of the world's first self-propelled torpedo in 1869, torpedo attacks have become a near-suicidal frenzy. Although compressed air dynamics are always improving. But performance gains have been limited.

Historically, until 1908, the German Navy continued to use compressed air powered torpedoes. The performance of the 450-mm C07 torpedo is only 36 knots at 1500 meters and 32 knots at 2000 meters.

A new torpedo power system changed that, with the advent of thermodynamic torpedoes that allowed attackers to attack at a distance of more than 5,000 meters. And the Japanese, who are obsessed with the use of pure oxygen in thermodynamic torpedo technology, came up with a super torpedo with a speed of 50 knots at an attack distance of 22,000 meters at a distance of 50 knots in World War II, and a super torpedo that can sail at 40,000 meters at 36 knots, Type 93 spear acid torpedo!

Although Jochen was not very interested in this unstable, unsafe, and more of his own people than his enemies. However, without a good torpedo, both destroyers and submarines will face problems such as low success rate of attack and difficulty in safe evacuation. For this reason, it is also important to have better attack weapons when continuously improving the performance of ships.

The first person to develop a thermodynamic torpedo was an American, Frank McDowell Levitt, an engineer who combined his combustion chamber with EW Bliss's compressed air torpedo to create the world's first thermodynamic torpedo.

I have to sigh that before World War I, the Americans' lead in the field of submarine technology was inevitable, and the continuous exploration of these genius designers left an unimaginable accumulation of technology.

But now the United States is in a deep economic crisis, and it has no money to ask for. These talented designers estimate that it is even more difficult to make an investment, and at this time, will anyone refuse to come to the door waving a checkbook? Going to the United States to poach people, Jochen decided.

As the scale of exploration and exploitation of the Royal Petroleum Company in the United States expanded, some German intelligence personnel were arranged to go to the United States as employees of the oil company. Although they were the intelligence agents of the German government, it was the spying on the United States that the main job was to gather intelligence about the United States. However, Jochen unceremoniously asked them to do some personal work for him, such as acting as a commercial espionage, spying on business intelligence jobs such as Standard Oil, or, as he did now, finding someone at Jochen's request.

It is believed that the efficiency of these professionals in finding people should be higher than that of private detectives. When these geniuses arrive, it can be expected that this future new shipyard will be the birthplace of German submarines.