"I'll go! Let the future Secretary of State of the Navy come and greet me! It's simply too much. "The traverser is flattered! When the squire reported that Tirpitz would come to visit him tomorrow, our Prince Ruprecht was immediately uneasy! O father of the High Seas Fleet! In the future, there will be countless objects of worship on the Internet! Did you come to Munich to visit me in person? I'm so big-faced!

"Your Royal Highness, the other party is just a colonel, that's all." Count Schelling, who had been helping the traverser deal with all kinds of miscellaneous items before the trip, said with some dissatisfaction, in his eyes, his little master's behavior was out of character, but he was just a colonel, as for it? Even if the commander of the navy comes, he must pay the Bavarian royal family due respect!

"This. That's right! "The traverser reacted, history has changed, and he is still more than history!" Tell the waiter to put the model of the Munich-type armored cruiser we have prepared in the most conspicuous place in the living room, so that he can see it as soon as he enters! ”

A day later, when stepping on the early spring sunshine, under the guidance of the attendants, the current admiral and the future admiral walked into the prince's living room, a silver-white model of a battleship more than 1 meter long appeared in front of him! This 1:100 model instantly attracted all the attention of the Colonel, and if it weren't for the attendant next to him reminding him that His Royal Highness the Prince had arrived, I'm afraid he would have even been paying attention to this battleship!

"What a beautiful battleship! I've never seen a more beautiful feat, with an 11-inch main gun, a dense secondary gun group, and a slender hull profile, it's a perfect feat! Even the cruisers of the British Empire of the First Class may not have a good record as this one! ”

The future Minister of the Navy did not hesitate to praise the battleship with the most beautiful words! Although he got the approximate data very early, the dry data on paper is not as shocking as a large-scale model after all! Judging from the reaction of the Minister of the Navy alone, His Royal Highness the Prince felt that this large-scale model he had made was worth it! With Tirpitz's eloquence and ability, the traverser believed that he had no problem convincing the bureaucrats of the Admiralty!

After a brief politeness, the final topic of the two sides shifted to this battleship model, after all, the primary purpose of both of them was to sell the ship! Some questions naturally need to be clarified! Leaving aside those unspoken rules and dark box operations, the traverser thinks that he must at least explain the purpose, performance, advantages, and comparison with foreign warships of the same period in this battleship, after all, the mouth cannon on the other plane is also like this! In the process of a certain pit king founding the Garibaldi Cult, the traverser watched the whole process! In the end, I have to admit that someone's argument is still very convincing!

His Royal Highness wanted to say this, but Tirpitz didn't! Before the traverser spoke. Tirpitz asked a question and directly diverted the topic from 108,000 miles away! "Your Royal Highness, why did the Bavarian design bureau design a cruiser instead of a battleship?"

In the end, the naval authorities had not yet finalized the specific direction of the next expansion, and the traversers only pressed on the cruiser's side on the basis of the information they had at hand and their own judgment. After all, even in history, the Germans were still very chaotic in building ships before 1895, and in 1896, the Germans started construction of Caesar-class battleships at the same time, and also started construction of 6 cruisers in one go! 5 of them are the cruiser Victoria Louis of more than 6000 tons, and the other 1 is an armored cruiser of almost 10,000 tons, Bismarck! 4 Brandenburg-class battleships are to balance the new Russian battleships in the Baltic Sea, since Russia and Germany in this plane are still allies, then this balance is not needed, plus the budget problem, the possibility of building a cruiser will naturally be much greater!

"So what can we build without building cruisers? Nearly 10,000 tons of battleships? Is it useful? Russia is our ally, the pressure in the Baltic direction is not great, France is our enemy, but we can easily overwhelm France with our army, Britain has a good relationship with us, and there will be no war and conflict in the short term, our biggest problem at present is the issue of the rights and interests of overseas colonies, especially the conflict with the United States in the Pacific! And a possible conflict with France in the open oceans, in which case you don't build cruisers, what do you build? Build a swarm of battleships to park in the harbor? The traverser said with some amusement!

"But any strong navy must have a strong battleship formation at its core! Because the battleship is the decisive force at sea! To be honest, I am not satisfied with the Admiralty's thinking, this expansion plan based on the construction of cruisers is not in line with the future maritime interests of the Empire! Cruisers are, at best, a means of demonstrating a military presence, and battleship formations are a decisive deterrent! "Tirpitz apparently has his own point of view, the man who can become the father of the high seas fleet, he has his own set of theories, and today he wants to convince the prince in front of him!

"Hehe, you've set the tone so early?" The traverser said in his heart. As for Tirpitz's shipbuilding policy, the traversers originally thought that it would not be formally formed until 1894, because in June 1894, Tirpitz pointed out in the Memorandum No. 9 that "a mighty combat fleet stationed at home is far more awe-inspiring to the great powers of the world than a fleet of cruisers often scattered around the world!" ”

From this time on, Tirpitz was a staunch lover of the main fleet! And in the subsequent history of the construction of ships of the German High Seas Fleet, battleships were spent much more than cruisers or battle cruisers! And the end result? The huge high seas fleet has had a fight with its opponent once.

"You have to choose at least one opponent for any strategy, right? Who are you going to shock? UK? Or France? Or Russia? The traverser suddenly felt that Tirpitz's plan itself was blind and provocative, more symbolic than practical.

The traverser was very uncomfortable with this statement, and Tirpitz also had a feeling of dazedness, after all, what the traverser said was indeed reasonable, you said to shock France, right? The German Army can do it, the Navy doesn't have to. Shock Russia? Now that the two sides are allies, it seems that there is no need for it. Shocking the UK? Let's not talk about the relationship between the two sides, even if you start construction and half a dozen battleships, the British are still afraid of you? Just kidding! As for the United States? It seems that everyone used cruisers to confront each other when they confronted each other, and the German battleships did not seem to have appeared on the front line of confrontation! Because generally speaking, this kind of confrontation has sudden, the battleship has not passed, the matter is over, and the overseas bases have to put a question mark on the maintenance ability of the battleship!

"The development of the Navy did not happen overnight! It is a long process, and we need to pass a plan to make the expansion of the Navy a norm, not like now, every ship building needs to be discussed and voted on by parliament! With enough time, we can build a huge fleet that can be watched by all the great powers of the world! It will be the cornerstone of the empire's expansion! Tirpitz said.

"Navy Bill! The minister really didn't make it in a day, how long has this guy been thinking about it! The time-traveler applauded the Admiral's thoughtfulness, not for how brilliant his ideas were, but for his foresight! But buddy, you're going to do it too early now, and when the dreadnoughts come out, everything you've built will be seriously devalued! Even if you are a storm, don't start tyrannical now, I'm losing my own money to plug the leak for the empire! The traversers were all touched by their actions!

"Actually, you have set the British fleet as your goal! You want to build a fleet that can terrify Britain, use sea power as a threat, and force Britain to submit with great force! Your aim is only to make the British concessions, and you don't even have the courage to defeat the British fleet! You don't! Neither do some people! The prince changed his words! The vitriolity in the language made the future admiral feel very uncomfortable! The other person seems to have insight into everything he thinks! And see through your own weakness!

That's right, Tirpitz never thought seriously about what to do if the war started? They always believed that once the war began, the British would impose a nearshore blockade, and then the Germans would gradually wear down their opponents with mines, mine-striking ships and battleships, until the opponent was weakened to a certain extent, and then concentrate their forces to defeat the opponent in one fell swoop! But they never seriously thought about what to do if the British did not come! Before the outbreak of World War I, when Tirpitz asked his subordinates, the other party's answer was that he didn't know! The imposing fleet doesn't even have a complete strategic and tactical system in the end, and you're still a hairy! In the end, the battleship formations that had been built with great effort were squatting in the harbor day by day, and it began to be Hipper's fast fleet that repeatedly attacked. This has to be said to be a very ironic thing!

"It is impossible for the British to concentrate their fleet on their homeland, in that case they will lose their supremacy of the sea! We even united the Russians and the French to organize a European fleet to overwhelm the opponent, and Britain was powerless to resist the sea power with the German fleet at its core! There was some uncertainty in Tirpitz's words!

"Then tell me, how do you reconcile Franco-German relations? Russian? Their targets are in the Far East, and economically dependent on France, how do you get Russia to join us against Britain at sea? Your vision is based entirely on an almost unattainable diplomatic foundation! The final outcome is most likely Germany and Austria-Hungary against England, France, or other countries, and from the point of view of a purely naval engagement, we have no chance of winning! Can you produce warships faster than the British and their allies? Don't tell me about Austria-Hungary! The Hungarians were not interested in the expansion of the Navy! The prince continued.

"Everything must be considered for the worst-case scenario, and if the British are not afraid of your deterrence, but instead exacerbate the contradictions between the two sides, then you tell me, how can the German High Seas Fleet face the Royal Navy, which is concentrated on the mainland? At the same time, if it is at war with Britain, will France take advantage of the situation to launch a war of revenge? The traverser continued.

In fact, until the outbreak of World War I, Kaiser Wilhelm never intended to rely on the navy to win this war. In the end, Germany gambled that it would be able to push off France in a quick battle, and then use its powerful navy as a deterrent force to force Britain to make concessions. The Kaiser's request for the German fleet was simple: to suppress the Russians in the Baltic while guaranteeing security at their own doorstep. From this point of view, the Kaiser was still relatively sober about the gap between the British and German navies, and the huge high seas fleet was indeed not to overwhelm the opponent on the battlefield, because it could not be overwhelmed at all!

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