"What?! The supply of new hardened armor will be delayed? "When Sir Watts had just finished his meeting with the Argentines and was about to go back to his two-week retreat to get a sketch out before he could talk about it, the representative of the Armstrong shipyard brought him heartbreaking news!

"How is that possible? Didn't our government negotiate with the other side? The first batch of 2000 tons of hardened armor will be delivered in 5 months! Watts said angrily.

"This is just a cooperation intention, the two sides still have differences on the issue of price, just last Saturday, the Russians suddenly offered to eat the first batch of all hardened armor at the price of 15 pounds per ton, and the Germans started construction of 2 new armored cruisers ahead of schedule, and the goods originally allocated to us were divided between the two!"

The other party's answer sent Watts into complete despair. He knew that because of the operation of some people, the Argentine's order was completely lost to him!

"It's a conspiracy!" Enraged, Sir Watts quickly connected a series of recent events, starting with a firepower display by Krupp that devalued the Dome Cruisers, then the Russians' massive orders for armoured steel squeezing out the British's part, and then his own orders just flying.

The customer's requirements and their own survival did not meet the specifications, and even if Watts came up with a design, it would still be aborted due to the supply of armor. Faced with such a situation, he had no choice, after all, the other party's decision was reasonable, the Russians came up with a higher price, the Germans would naturally give priority to supply, how could the British be domineering? The agreement has not been initialed, and it is impossible to ask for liquidated damages!

Sir Watts didn't think about the last game, after all, the Americans' Harvey armor steel is also hardened armor, although it is a little worse, when he soon gave up again, the price of Harvey armor steel plus freight is already higher than the German hardened armor produced locally in Europe, if the price remains the same, the profit of the battleship will be low to a degree that the shipyard cannot tolerate, and the Argentines have also expressed a preference for German hardened armor!

When Sir Watts regretted that for various reasons he could not complete the customer's request, the Argentines did not express a trace of disappointment, and the day after the two sides collapsed, the Argentines boarded a ship bound for Germany, and their target was naturally only one Brom-Foss shipyard! This is the only country in the world where the supply of armored steel is guaranteed, and new armored cruisers are being built!

"Well, pay attention to the price, the endurance, firepower and tonnage of the battleship should be reduced slightly, the Argentines don't need these, they are just an offshore navy." When the Argentines came to Germany, Prince Ruprecht sent a telegram to the baron.

In his memory, Argentina in the early 90s was nothing more than an order for a second-class protective cruiser of more than 3,000 tons in the UK, although there were all kinds of things in front of it, but it is really difficult to say how much money the Argentines could come up with. So the traverser suggested that the baron reduce the performance and reduce the price!

But to the surprise of the traverser, perhaps the results of the experiment brought too much excitement, the Argentines not only stopped the plan to buy the cruiser from the British, but also stopped the plan for two more small shore defense ships, the Argentines in this plane woke up earlier than in history, this time, they decided to buy a battleship that could confront the Chilean Captain Pratt head-on!

"A 6,800-ton battleship, let's calculate it at the price of 100 pounds per ton, and then add miscellaneous expenses, let's round it up, how about you give 700,000 pounds?" When Baron Vittorio brought a slightly smaller foreign trade version of the Munich armored cruiser to the other party, unexpectedly, the other party accepted the offer without much counteroffer!

"£700,000, plus the required ammunition, individual weapons and insurance return costs." The Argentine nodded almost directly in acceptance of the offer! The negotiation went smoothly, and the baron seemed to wonder if there was something wrong with his head!

"This TM is so smooth, it's so smooth that you don't want it!" Watching the Argentine decisively stamp the contract, the baron felt messy! "There's definitely something wrong with that! Definitely! "But by this time, it seemed that nothing had changed. The contracts are all signed, what else?

However, in the spirit of being a designer, the baron still wants to get things straight, so he plans to use his own eyeliner to investigate the matter. But as soon as the work was assigned, before the investigation was launched, the answer came to the door by itself, the Argentine just walked on the front foot, and the Spaniard came on the back foot!

"General Severa, you also want to order a Munich-class armored cruiser?" The baron, who has been fighting in the field of battleship design for more than ten years, thinks that he has profound skills, and has seen all kinds of things in the world, has seen such an active guest for the first time! When the Spanish representative made his intentions known, the baron slowly sorted out his thoughts, and finally knew the cause and effect!

Although the Spanish Empire has declined, people still have the name of a great power, right? And as an essential characteristic of the great powers - colonies. Spain did have three remaining colonies overseas. It is found in Africa, the Americas and Asia. Since there are colonies, there is a need to protect the colonies, although it cannot be compared with those real first-class and second-rate powers, but the Spanish navy can still be regarded as a small power for a while, at least during the Sino-Japanese War, stronger than Japan and the Manchus!

If nothing else, historical Spain should have built Maria at this time. The lead ship of the Theresa-class belt-type cruisers. How to put it, this is a paper tiger that looks good on paper, but in reality because there is no hardened armor and at the same time the protective area is not enough.

She and her sister ships were wrecked in the Spanish-American War by the powerful onlookers of four 10,000-ton battleships and one 9,000-ton armored cruiser USS Brooklyn. Along with them was the Garibaldi-type cruiser Clone, which almost ran away and ran aground.

And this time, because of two comparative experiments, the Spanish people unexpectedly found that the cruiser they were about to start construction would be a broiler in the future! The firepower of rapid-fire guns and picric high-explosive shells can beat unprotected areas into slag, and ordinary steel-faced iron armor is really backward, 10-inch to 12-inch heavy armor is not even as good as 7-inch hardened armor! This made the Spaniards feel unacceptable!

Since you can't produce a suitable battleship in a short period of time, the best thing to do is to buy a toptop one right away! Looking around Europe, it seems that the Bavarian Design Bureau and its partners can provide such a battleship. After all, other shipyards don't have authorization.

"Well, the Cologne was born prematurely?" When the traverser received the telegram, he couldn't help but feel the power of the butterfly effect, and he just invited the military attaches of various countries to do a comparative experiment! That's what led to so many things. Thinking of the Spanish Navy's performance in the Spanish-American War, the traverser couldn't help but shudder.

"Don't end up with my brand smashed by the Spaniards!" The traverser thought so in his heart.

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