The British naval parade in a show of force ended smoothly, and the whole world was shocked by the sheer size of the Royal Navy, the British Empire was in full swing at this time, the Royal Navy was invincible, and the whole of Britain was immersed in such pride and pride, but Jochen knew that these gentlemen with their nostrils were about to fall in Africa.

The British were satisfied with a successful show of force, and Jochen was equally satisfied, because he saw what he wanted to see and what he did not want to see at this parade.

Naturally, the British were basking in the glory of the world's largest dreadnought fleet, and were unwavering in their readiness to expand it to the point where no one in the whole world could match him.

In 1904, in order to maintain the overwhelming superiority of the navy, the British Admiralty, the Earl of Selborn, demanded an increase of 12 million pounds in four financial years, so that the British Royal Navy was 6 and 14 ships higher than the French and Russian battleships and armored cruisers.

However, the British would not be able to do so, and in 1899, after Delanesan became French Minister of the Navy, he began to vigorously purge the influence of the new school in the navy.

Thanks to his efforts, the French finally realized that no amount of light ships could replace the battleships, so they hastily pushed forward the seven-year plan of six battleships and five armored cruisers, which also marked the French navy's return to the right track after more than two decades of misguided thinking.

The Russians, on the other hand, had been building battleships from the very beginning, and in their naval plan of 1882, they decided to build 20 battleships and 24 cruisers over the next 20 years.

On the other side of the sea, the Americans did not reassure the British in the slightest, and in 1889 Secretary of the Navy Benjamin F. Tracy told the Congressmen in his annual report that "we need a navy that can spare our country from war, but the only navy that can accomplish this task is a navy capable of waging war." "The defense of the United States can only be assumed by those ships capable of defeating enemy ships on the high seas. ”

For this reason, Tracy Lion opened his mouth to propose that the US Navy needed 20 battleships and 40 cruisers, and although the frightened Congress did not approve the plan, it still approved the budget for the construction of 3 battleships.

A year later, the predecessor of Mahan's "Treatise on Sea Power," The Influence of Sea Power on History, was published, a collection of Mahan's lectures while teaching at the Naval War College. Sir Julian Corbett commented on the book as "the first time that naval history was based on philosophy." ”

At Jochen's request, the book became a must-read publication at the Imperial Naval Academy, and was intended to be promoted in the Naval League, which was being prepared, and someone was invited to explain its contents as one of the theoretical bases for Jochen's own fleet economics.

For what Jochen is most interested in is the book's generalization of a strong fleet, prosperous commerce, and colonies as the indispensable foundation for the nation's wealth and strength. This would open up the minds of those who are struggling with taxes and shipbuilding expenses, make fleet economics deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, get more stakeholders to support the development of the Navy, and let the old Congressional men who are slamming the door allocate funds to the Navy.

Even Jochen, a German, could recognize the value, but how could the Americans not recognize it?

Tracy's successor, Hillary Herbert, further proposed the construction of a navy whose primary mission is to safeguard the interests of the United States, "The American Navy should remain so effective that it can add weight and strength to any policy that our government deems necessary." "The Navy must provide effective protection to our inhabitants living abroad, provide effective support to our diplomacy, and safeguard our interests in a situation." ”

This determines that this navy cannot always be a defensive navy, and it must be a decisive navy with battleships as the core. So the Americans began to show their terrible industrial prowess, and in just 15 years from 1893 to 1908 they built 20 battleships, and by 1908, the U.S. Navy had 23 former dreadnoughts, and Tracy's wish was fulfilled.

In 1907, the circumnavigation of the Great White Fleet, consisting of 16 battleships of the Americans, showed its muscles and indeed deterred the Japanese by force, and at this time, the Japanese, who had fallen into arrogance because of their victory in the Russo-Japanese War, suddenly woke up and began to respect the opinions of the Americans in the affairs of the Western Pacific, and Herbert's vision was completed.

Therefore, it is simply unrealistic for the British to maintain their superiority in the size of the navy and the number of capital ships.

But the British, who had been blinded by the power of the fleet, did not care about this, and the British, who had spent 220 million pounds in the Boer War that ended in 1902, were already stretched financially stretched and could not return to production in a short time with a large amount of human resources.

In 1901-1904, the British insisted on the construction of 8 King Edward VII-class battleships, and in 1904-1906 2 Lord Nelson-class battleships and 3 Minotaur-class armored cruisers.

While the Royal Navy, which was slowly moving from a two-power standard to a three-power standard, was getting bigger and bigger, the increasingly expensive cost of building and using battleships and the rapid increase in the number of Royal Navy personnel made the British financially struggling.

At this time, the emergence of new dreadnoughts made the situation worse for the British, and when the Germans began a naval race with the British at the same starting line, the British finally sadly discovered that not to mention the three-strong standard, the two-strong standard was basically impossible.

Therefore, the British were completely self-inflicted, and it was they who abandoned their invincible former dreadnought fleet, and complacently believed that they had once again led the innovation of naval technology and once again established their supreme authority in naval power.

It turns out that he found himself giving a young and strong young man a race field that he could start with him, and it can be said that the First World War saved the British, because if this continued, the British domestic economy would collapse, and the British were able to completely strangle a German before he reached the peak of his power, thus saving his own already ruined finances.

Of course, this argument has also been refuted, because the longer the French fleet will be stronger, and the more pressure the Germans will face. It is true to say that, it is true that it is wrong, but it is the British, not the French, who can decide the life and death of the German navy. When the British can't play, how can the French play alone?

This is also the origin of Tirpitz's argument that by 1920 the strength of the German Navy will pass the dangerous period, Tirpitz naturally could not see that the French naval strength was growing, but Tirpitz believed that by 1920 the High Seas Fleet would be able to force the British Imperial Navy to face up to the balance of strength between the two sides, so that it would not be easy to start the war, Tirpitz believed that the longer the time dragged on, the better it would be for Germany.

Realizing that they could no longer maintain the world's sea power, the British began to be forced to repatriate their fleets all over the world. This is a sign that even the Royal Navy, which is as strong as the British Royal Navy, can no longer cope with two large-scale and protracted wars in different parts of the planet at the same time.

So Jochen was happy to see the British continue to get nervous, and the more money they threw at the former dreadnought, the happier Jochen became.

The one who didn't see what I didn't want to see was the famous Turbonia, which was the first steam-turbine ship to fly out of the 34.5-knot parade in history, and naturally did not appear because Parsons was now working under Jochen's hands.

It seems that without Parsons, the British estimate that there is no excellent power designer who can replace him, which is gratifying. In this way, the steam turbine will not be taken seriously by the British Royal Navy, and the power development of the British Royal Navy is estimated to be delayed for many years.

It would be better if the British were like the Germans in history, stubbornly clinging to the steam turbines. In fact, the Germans are stubborn and conservative, and the British are not necessarily much better. Stubborn bureaucracy is everywhere, and the British are often doing the of not accepting new technologies.

Jochen was even more daring than the Royal Navy, which decided to have Parsons power the two destroyers and fined him £100,000 for not reaching 30 knots.

Jochen, on the other hand, waved his hand, and the other test ship that was originally started with the Ub-0 was a steam turbine test ship built according to the 710-ton standard of the German Navy's second-generation ocean-going torpedo boats.

Of course, Jochen wouldn't have asked Parsons to say anything like a stingy thing about deducting your wages if you didn't meet your speed. Started in 1898 and unveiled in 1901 at the parade on the throne of King Edward VII, the destroyer Viper was only 300 tons, and its 10,000 horsepower output allowed it to reach a high speed of 37 knots.

And now it was only 1897, and it was rare to install an 11,000 hp steam turbine on a 710-ton hull more than twice as large, and according to the SNRI's pool, the speed of the test ship would not have been lower than 28 knots, which was enough for Jochen. Because the speed of 28 knots already exceeds the standard of the 1889 ocean-going torpedo boat.

The three-cylinder upright reciprocating steam engine used in the Type 1895 ocean-going torpedo boats currently in service in the German Navy could only output 6,500 horsepower and had a speed of only 25.6 knots. Although it was not impossible to continue to plug the boiler on it to reach a higher speed, the problem of vibration at this high speed caused the navy to be distressed, and finally had to lower the standard to allow it to reach a speed of more than 25 knots.

Although the speed has been reduced, the improvement in performance in other aspects brought about by the increase in tonnage is still acceptable for the navy. That didn't mean they didn't want higher speeds, and now that steam turbines could solve the problem, it would be enough for Jochen to convince the Navy to use steam turbines on smaller ships.

From small to large, when the performance of steam turbines was accepted by the entire navy's top brass, and the commanders of a large number of small ships slowly rose in rank to become the backbone of the navy, even the most stubborn old-fashioned school could not stop the pace of technological innovation. RS