The British, on their part, were determined to equip their battleships with secondary guns, and the French were similarly analysing what they had seen during the exercise, and the newly appointed Admiralty Delanesan was once again convinced that the battleships they insisted on were the only core strength of the navy.

As a result of the current dispute of interest with the British on African soil, and in response to the German Navy's Naval Act, Ranesan also decided to develop a larger naval construction plan, and the original draft plan for the construction of six battleships and five armored cruisers over seven years was overturned, and the plan was shortened to five years with the same number of builds.

The French Navy is much better than the Germans, with 15 battleships in service and 4 under construction, of course, a small part of the 15 battleships in service are not old dreadnoughts, but in any case, at least they are still a lot better than the current Germans.

But for the French, whose economic situation is far inferior to that of Germany, such an urgent shipbuilding plan is still quite hard.

In contrast, the Americans who are far away on the other side of the ocean seem to be much more leisurely, anyway, they already have 2 battleships already launched, 3 battleships have been put on the slipway, and the Congress that picks the door is generous, and last year approved the budget of 3 battleships, and the budget of 5 battleships is under review, it is estimated that it will be able to pass next year, and we can start building again, and it is so capricious to have money.

While Britain, France, and the United States were all contributing to their own navy, the Germans were not idle, the British wanted to equip their battleships with second-class guns, and the Germans wanted to equip their battleships with first-class guns.

The whole workshop was filled with the sound of clanging and stabbing scriptures, and the chief of the naval staff who was walking in the workshop looked very interested, pointing and asking the technicians next to him as he walked.

This is the largest naval gun turret production workshop of Krupp in Essen, and the turret is not a gun barrel, which can take up a large space in the workshop, so it is not like the gun barrel production workshop, which is densely packed with thick and long.

However, this does not affect the interest of Kester, and although it is a turret production workshop, it does not mean that it is not thick and long.

Although it does not include the part placed in the turret enclosure well, one has been assembled, and the two turrets with the barrel are still surprisingly large. Of course, it is impossible to ship the stuff in this way, and the assembly is only a more extensive inspection, and then it will have to be disassembled and transported to the shipyard.

This is precisely the turret of the DRH.L.C/283 type with twin naval guns for the new battleships under construction.

A complete turret is obviously more impressive than the sheer number of parts, and the Chief of the Naval Staff, accompanied by technicians, has been asking questions about the technical details of this big thing.

Vice Admiral Alfred, Chief of Staff of the Navy, and Vice Admiral Joachim, Chief of Personnel of the Navy, were talking quietly behind the Chief of the General Staff.

"Lord Koester looks pleased, but Alfred, you look like you're almost constipated." Jochen teased quietly.

"Your Excellency Koster came to see the naval guns, and now the finished product is in front of me, of course I am happy, I, the director of the Naval Office, is in charge of equipment, in order to see the progress, I don't know how many times I have come here, and there is nothing to see, and to be honest, it is so tinkling here, when you first come, you can feel the power and enthusiasm of industry, and if you come too much, you will be annoyed to death." Tirpitz also complained quietly.

"I guess it's not just annoyed by this voice, but I know that your naval office has recently been constantly picking on the problem of budget use by His Excellency Mundz's naval alliance, right?" Jochen gloated.

After His Excellency Montz stepped down from the position of Chief of the General Staff of the Navy, he went to become the chairman of the Naval League, and then Tirpitz's life was not easy, with such an old boss who knew the Navy well, and as soon as his role changed, he turned the gun to find fault with the Navy, and Tirpitz had a headache.

It is not as good as the "Navy Law" after the enactment of the "Navy", the Navy's large-scale investment in ship construction has been closely watched by Muntz to see whether the budget is carefully calculated by every mark, and whether there is more money that should not be spent because of bureaucracy, corruption, or coping with the situation.

And His Excellency the old chief of staff is familiar with this set of procedures of the German Navy, even if he knows that this is a double reed that everyone sings together, Tirpitz has to really pay attention to the link pointed out, and then improve and strengthen management, so he is indeed busy with his feet on the ground and headaches.

"Who says it's not, the tonnage of this new battleship is only 3,000 tons larger than that of Caesarfidrerick III, but the cost is 30 times more expensive, and how can those civilians know that a 283-mm naval gun alone is more than 1 times more expensive than the original 260-mm naval gun! The Public Relations Division of the Navy Office had to figure out how to explain. Tirpitz looked depressed.

"Don't be like this, didn't Your Excellency Muntz also praise you for your generosity, and ordered 30 twin 283mm naval gun turrets from Krupp in one go, so that the price was lowered and the navy was saved?" Jochen smiled and persuaded.

"Don't mention, 30 turrets need to build 10 battleships, and the 4 battleships we have started to start are estimated to be launched in 1901 at the earliest, and we are not ready to start new battleships next year, so the second batch will be launched at the end of 03 at the earliest, and these turrets will have to be piled up in Krupp's warehouses for a lot of time, and Krupp is also very opinionated." Tirpitz smiled wryly.

"If Krupp has an opinion, you can mention Skoda, you can't all the artillery in Germany be theirs, and then our military will not even have room to choose." Jochen said nonchalantly.

Listening to Jochen's words, Tirpitz nodded with a smile: "I think so too, Skoda still has some very good products, for example, their 120mm naval guns have very good performance, I think we can indeed have some new options......"

Unlike Tirpitz who had already exhausted his interest by coming here too much, Jochen was even more familiar with the situation of the ship's gun and turret, after all, Popper had a lot of opinions when Jochen was designing it.

The shape of the turret is the same as that of the DRH.L.C/1906 of the historical Nassau-class battleships, 280 mm with 25-degree inclined frontal armor is enough to withstand the shells of all naval guns of various countries at this time, although the large-angle slope at the top is only 90 mm thick, quite the style of insufficient protection of the turret of the German battleship, but in the current era when the artillery battle distance of various countries is 5000 meters, the angle of penetration at this distance will not exceed 5 degrees, and the 90 mm skylight is already considered invincible.

Since the new battleships still had the same front, middle and rear axis layout as the Caesarfidred III class, the latest 3-meter baseline stereo rangefinder from ZEISS was installed on each turret.

Jochen was still very satisfied with the turret itself, but for the cannon installed on it, Jochen could only say that he was barely making do with it first.

Who called Krupp's original 283 mm MRKL/40 guns were cut by Jochen's words, Germany has not developed 283 mm SKL/40 as a technology accumulation, although Johen set the standard for Krupp in accordance with 283 mm SKL/45, Krupp also did a good job, Su Anran can not fully meet the standard proposed by Jochen, but it is not a star and a half stronger than the 283 mm SKL/40 in history.

It is also difficult for the German Navy to have very high expectations for this naval gun, but the current gun can only be regarded as a living use in Jochen's eyes, and we have no better choice of transitional products.

The first is that this thing uses a horizontal sliding wedge bolt instead of a partition thread, which Jochen said can only be said to be a helpless move.

In order to meet the rate of fire requirements, Krupp adopted a more conservative, clumsy but very effective method, that is, the horizontal sliding wedge gun latch design on small and medium-caliber was directly copied to the large-caliber naval gun, after all, the German Navy's 260 mm and 210 mm naval guns now use this design.

The partition threaded gun bolt has a complex structure, a high level of manufacturing technology, and is difficult to operate, and the rate of fire is slow, although Krupp is considered an artillery giant, but there is still a certain gap between it and the British Empire in the field of naval artillery. Even the British have not been able to achieve a rate of fire of 1 round per minute for their 12-inch naval guns with broken threaded bolts, and it is obvious that there is a price to pay for making the 283-mm naval guns meet the rate of fire.

Moreover, because of the bolt, the airtightness of the chamber is poor, and small and medium-caliber naval guns can use fixed metal cartridges to solve this problem, and large-caliber naval guns have no way, because the propellant is all made of silk medicine packs. Therefore, the design of the 210 mm and 260 mm naval guns can only be continued, and the silk medicine bag is stuffed into the gun chamber with a short metal cartridge, although this does not affect the use of the medicine bag, and it can still be used for reduced charge and strong charge shooting, but the extra thing still brings a certain amount of trouble to the reloading work, and it also takes up a lot of space and adds weight.

As a result, the new cannon with a horizontal wedge latch was able to fire two rounds per minute, which basically met Jochen's requirements, but at the cost of being too heavy at the tail of the new cannon due to the use of a metal cartridge to act as an airtight and the need to withstand the backward thrust of the shot.

But now Jochen has no better choice, Jochen knows that the British are now developing a 1.5-minute 1.5-speed MarkIX 12-inch naval gun, which makes him feel a sense of urgency, but even if he proposes to Krupp to develop the next-generation battleship main gun with a partition thread bolt, it will not be fruitful in a short time.

In a hurry, take your time, settle the problem first, and then think about anything else, Jochen can only comfort himself with this.

However, it seemed that God did not intend to make Jochen feel better, and a staff member of the city government of Essen hurried over: "Your Highness, Your Excellency the Chief of the General Staff, there is an urgent telegram from Berlin, asking you to return to Berlin immediately. ”

"What's going on?" Jochen asked.

"It didn't say in the telegram, but it said that the two of them must return immediately without delay."

"Your Excellency, it looks like we're having a bad time." Jochen looked at the telegram, then turned to Kerth. R1152