"Paul, are you saying that so far the two warships we have built for Brazil are ready to be completed, and the Brazilian Navy still has no plans to expand its personnel? Their service and recruitment are still the same? "Prince Ruprecht has repeatedly sought out his men.

"That's true. The Brazilian Navy seems to be very silent, from a personal point of view, I think they are not at all ready to accept two large warships, they even lack a naval dock to accommodate these ships, more than 150 meters long battleships. Paul said with some confusion.

"Okay, you don't have to worry about this matter, you keep an eye on Japan, all the Japanese who go to England or Brazil, and find a way to help me understand the recruitment of the Japanese Navy!" The prince pondered for a moment and then commanded. The Bavarian royal arms dealer then left the prince's study to carry out his mission. The prince was the only one left in the house!

"For almost a month, beginning in February 1897, Prince Ruprecht behaved very strangely, and he often locked himself in a room which I had the pleasure of entering, filled with scraps of paper and pictures. There are things marked on the board, he rarely summons outsiders, and social activities are suspended. Some people who don't see the light often come and go. "A few years later, the prince's number one dog-legged Earl Schelling met like this.

The prince is busy, very busy! And very excited! Because since he crossed over, the biggest variable has finally appeared! An opportunity! An opportunity to change the world! This opportunity was so important that he needed to do it himself, and he didn't even dare to leave a written record. All the discarded documents must be burned in front of him as soon as possible, because the stakes are too great!

"I'm rubbing, the Japanese have such an appetite! At the beginning, he purchased 2 warships through Brazil, and later bought 2 from himself. This TM gave away 5 million pounds! Prince Ruprecht couldn't help but smack his lips and gave the Japanese a thumbs up for their courage and courage.

When Brazil ordered a battleship, the prince felt that it was not a duel, because the contrast with history was too great, and the things in South America basically did not exceed the original trickery of history, so why did Brazil buy a ship if it had nothing to do? The prince is of the tiger. And the tiger is a feline, and as the saying goes, curiosity kills a cat, and the prince decided to get to the bottom of it. And as more and more intelligence was gathered, he found that Brazil was really not ready to receive these two ships, not to mention anything else, at least the crew and berths should be ready, right?

An armored cruiser USS Brazil needs at least 800 officers and men, how many front-line combatants does the Brazilian Navy have? If you want to accept these two warships, the Brazilian Navy will have to expand by at least 2,000 people! But it's all now, and the ship will be delivered in a few months. What about the people in Brazil? And the soldiers you have summoned? This is not normal!

Brazil did arrange for someone to pick up the ship, and according to the list provided by the Brazilian government, Prince Ruprecht found that there was not even a third of the people! Such a low number of people can at most drive this battleship, and it is impossible to make it have combat effectiveness at all, did the Brazilians spend 2.3 million pounds just to be a pleasure boat? Obviously it's impossible, so there's definitely something wrong with it, and when a piece of information came in recently. It was mentioned above that the two warships would go to England for some time, and it dawned on the prince that he would be in the dark. There is a shadow of the British behind this!

Based on this information, as well as the historical Japanese purchasing of the Izumi incident, the prince can already guess that Japan is purchasing from himself through Brazil this time. And when the news came that the battleship was going to England, the prince was even more sure of what the Japanese thought! Y is the real buyer!

When the matter was confirmed, Ruprecht began to consider whether to abort the deal, after all, if Japan was allowed to get four armored cruisers in one go. That situation in the Far East was absolutely subversive. But then the prince abandoned the idea. Because he knows what the Japanese are buying ships for!

What the prince said to the Russian delegates at the beginning was actually partly speculation, and partly bluffing, using seemingly reasonable reasons to scare the opponent first, and at the same time it was a kind of temptation. The probability of the Russians buying it back is not high, the prince is well aware of this. Then in order to prevent the Japanese from acquiring, these two battleships will definitely fall into the hands of the Spaniards. And why did the Japanese government have to compete with the Spaniards? Especially if you have already obtained 2 warships through purchasing agents.

After a comprehensive analysis, the prince came to the conclusion that the purpose of Japan's purchase of warships was not to do it against Russia! Because after Russia canceled 2 armored cruisers, the strength of the Far East is already weaker than that of the Japanese Navy, which has 4 10,000-ton warships, not to mention that Japan did not do it in history, even if it does, this strength is enough to suppress the Russian Far East Fleet, and now Lushun has not been built, if it is done in winter, it will be difficult for the Russian fleet to leave the port. So it is not necessary to buy two more.

And the key is that even if Japan wins at sea, the army is certainly not ready for a big fight, and if it fights on land, it will fall into a quagmire, and this war costs money like running water, and Japan dares to fight a land war when the attitude of France and Germany is unclear? The cost of fighting this battle may be greater than the benefit, right? Japanese people don't do this unless they're brain-dead. Therefore, Russia is definitely not the first target of the Japanese, it is possible to knock on the trend, but it is absolutely impossible to really fight.

As a result, the Japanese government withstood the pressure and bought 2 ships, 1.35 million pounds! It's not a decimal number! Why do the Japanese do this? Then the only explanation is to prevent the Spaniards from getting. Then, if we deduce it again, the fundamental purpose of Japan's eagerness to expand its armaments is to plan to attack Spain! His Royal Highness, as the prince of Ruprecht, has some understanding of the southward expansion of the Japanese in history. And then it all succeeded. The Japanese want the Philippines.

The Japanese want the Philippines, the Japanese want the Philippines! That's great news, because Americans want it too! Historically, the Japanese have not moved, but the Japanese on this plane are bound to win, and the blood is all down, and if you don't get it back, won't you lose money? If the Japanese had intervened sideways in the Spanish-American War, the feud between the United States and Japan would have been great! The territorial issue is non-negotiable unless one side admits it. Moreover, this matter has the background of the British, and ninety percent of the United States may even be jealous of the British!

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