As the German army marched into Bohemia, military control, martial law, and manhunt operations followed, and the Czechs' resistance was immediately severely attacked.

Driven by a series of soft policies such as the entry of cheap goods, abundant food supplies, higher wages and social security policies, the social functioning of Bohemia and Moravia began to slowly recover, but it is not known how much blood there was in places where people could not see.

The annexation of Austria naturally had various rules to be in line with the imperial government, and Austria joined after the dissolution of Austria-Hungary, so naturally it would not give him the same lenient treatment as the Kingdom of Bavaria.

The Kingdom of Austria will no longer have diplomatic powers, and the nations of Europe will not be represented in Vienna; Austria's currency will use the mark as the only currency; The railways in Austria were to be managed by the central government of the Reich.

Archduke Albrecht, who became regent of the Kingdom of Austria, was very supportive of this, and the states of the German Confederation were now quite loosely intertwined. Archduke Albrecht, who wanted to see a united and powerful German Empire, was unhappy with this.

Therefore, the main task of the Archduke Albrecht was to weaken the independence of the Kingdom of Austria and strengthen the power of the central government of the empire. Under his strong reforms, the Vienna Parliament was reshuffled, and a new cabinet of radical factions supporting German unification would deepen ties with the Reich.

Under the guidance of Archduke Albrecht, the constitution of the new Kingdom of Austria was born, proposed by a new cabinet, which weakened the power of the monarch and transferred some of the power to the government of the German Empire. Marie had no objection to this, and the disgruntled Austrian aristocracy did not dare to jump out in the face of the power of the new cabinet and the army in the hands of the Grand Duke.

The Austrian army also began a series of reforms, which began to weaken the Austrian imprint of the army and put the German imprint on it. First of all, the number of the army began to be "Austrianized", such as the Silesian Dragoon Regiment, the Karl Grand Duke's Fusilier Regiment, the Prinz Eugen Regiment and so on, and the glorious titles with a long history and glorious records were all abolished, and they began to be reorganized according to the number of the German army.

The establishment, rank system, and equipment composition of the army began to move closer to that of the Prussian army, and the Grand Duke even put forward a request for the complete replacement of the equipment of the Austrian army and the complete Germanization of the army. However, in the case of the current economic situation, this can only be done slowly.

However, the situation of the navy was more troublesome, because the Imperial German Navy was different from the army belonging to the various states, and had always been a direct military force under the central government of the Empire, so the Archduke Albrecht was very happy to hand over all the naval forces to the German Empire, and the Austro-Hungarian Navy became the Mediterranean Fleet of the Imperial German Navy.

At this time, the Austro-Hungarian Navy was still the eighth in the world, with a gross tonnage of more than 120,000 tons, and the German Navy, which had acquired these ships, surpassed Russia and Italy to return to the third place in the world.

However, the ranking looks glamorous, the combat effectiveness is very worrisome, most of the ships are old, and it is impossible to count on it, and it will cost the navy a lot of money to raise these old ships. Muntz, who had long accepted the idea that Jochen's old ships were inferior to the new, looked at the long list of warships and had a headache.

Although Hungary has become a landlocked country, the Croatian-Slovenian Kingdom remains an Adriatic coastal country. Therefore, Muntz would have liked to have the Croats-Slovenes take all the old ships.

However, the Croatian-Slovenian kingdom is not a fool, a small country with a poor economy cannot afford to support a navy, and the Germans will block the Muntz back if you digest it internally.

However, in order to maintain the alliance with the Croatian-Slovenian Kingdom, His Majesty Frederick III generously handed over the five newest cruisers of the Austro-Hungarian Empire to the Croatian-Slovenian Navy, which broke Munz's heart.

In 1884, the two 1,557-ton Leopard-class protective cruisers ordered at the Armstrong shipyard in England, the Austro-Hungarian Tiger-class protective cruiser built on the Leopard-class model, and the two newly built 4,030-ton Emperor Franz Joseph I-class protective cruisers were originally new ships that Muntz wanted to stay as the pillars of the Mediterranean Fleet temporarily, and now they are handed over to others.

With the five cruisers giving away some new torpedo boats, the Croatian-Slovenian navy, which had accepted this, was no longer a naval power, but still had a small but capable naval force, but it was a failure for Münz, who was the German Minister of the Navy.

"Your Highness, what a waste to just give 5 cruisers to the Croatian-Slovenes." Muntz couldn't help but complain to Jochen during a conversation.

"What is there to waste, 5 protective cruisers are just that, they have long been out of step with the times. And the age of the ship is very short, and you can't replace the old with the new. Rather than stay and use this as an excuse for future parliamentary funds, it is better not to do it at all. Jochen also agreed with his father's decision, so he didn't care.

"Even if the German Navy doesn't keep it for use, we can sell it." Muntz was still not reconciled.

"The three gadgets of less than 2,000 tons are second-hand, even if they are sold, they don't cost much, and it is difficult to find buyers, although the two Emperor Franz Joseph I class are not bad, but considering the future relationship between us and the Kingdom of Croatia-Slovenia, it is better to hand over the warships in the name of the Austro-Hungarian Emperor and Empress to His Majesty King Ferdinand to show our sincerity." Jochen explained.

Muntz had nothing to say, so he had to admit it.

However, the unfinished armored cruiser Maria Theresia and Queen was left behind by the Germans, and the German Navy immediately revised its design under Jochen's construction. Since the ship had not yet been launched, the Germans were ready to make a major change to her to better meet the standards of a German naval ship. This was also somewhat of a consolation to Muntz.

But what about those old wrecked ships? It costs money to raise, renovate, and dismantle ships, and use them as warehouses, dormitories and other purposes to occupy docks, and why do you need so many warehouses and docks.

So Jochen gave another idea to Muntz: "It's really an old ship, pull it out and shoot it." ”

"Targeting?!" This time it scared Monds again, it was enough to send the ship out before, and now he has to use the battleship to shoot the target, do you dare to be a little more defeated!

"Keeping these useless old ships wastes a considerable amount of maintenance funds every year, and it costs money to dismantle the battleship, so instead of using them as warehouses, barges, and dormitories, it is better to let them fulfill their last responsibilities as battleships and be sunk by shells. Pulling out to shoot targets, of course, is not ordinary artillery training, and it is like that when you shoot more fixed targets. The main purpose is to study the damage of artillery shells to the hull and analyze the pros and cons of the hull protection design. It provides a valuable number of experiments for the design of the next generation of warships and artillery. ”

In this era of many ships and tonnage rankings, this kind of construction is very deviant. Germany is now back to third in the world all of a sudden, and if you don't work hard to maintain this ranking, you still have to use warships to hit targets?

But there is no actual combat and there is no detection, and the desperate research of the Europeans after the Battle of Dadonggou and the Battle of Tsushima is not to provide a reference for their subsequent ship design.

After the signing of the Washington Naval Treaty, countries had a large number of ships to be dismantled, and many of them were eventually taken out by various countries to shoot targets, and the British even used the latest sharp battleship Bavaria-class confiscated from Germany to target them. After the target shooting of these ships, various countries accumulated a large number of jù, and these numbers provided a huge theoretical basis for the design of the next generation of warships.

The German Navy, whose warships were confiscated and its naval development was restricted, obviously did not have such conditions, and the loss of talent and the lack of technical accumulation also led to the disconnection between the design of German naval ships in World War II and the international leading level. The ships of the German Navy in World War II are more figuratively reproduced World War I battleships with the technology of World War II.

Therefore, it is of great significance to the navy to shoot a target with a real ship, but in this era when the tonnage of every ship is very valuable, all countries are reluctant to do such a failed thing.

It was only after a large number of former dreadnoughts began to enter service and the old ironclad ships on hand of various countries began to withdraw from the naval combat sequence, that countries slowly began to try this purpose.

However, the large number of Austro-Hungarian ships received by the German Navy for target shooting could not be more suitable, first of all, these ships did not cost the Germans a penny, and the things they picked up were not distressed. Second, most of these ships have no combat effectiveness, and they are put on a show there. Third, it costs money to raise them, and it costs so much that they are going to be abandoned, and it still costs money to dismantle the ship. So it's better to give some valuable information to the ship design of the Imperial Navy, and let Germany be the crab eater first.

"The destructive power of the Imperial Navy's current naval guns is also to hit the target board, calculate the depth of penetration, and the protection ability of the warship also depends on the calculation, and what level of attack can it probably prevent. In actual combat, we don't know what kind of damage we can do if we hit the enemy, and what kind of effect it will be if someone hits us.

And then you can expect someone else to come back and learn some lessons, how can that be? Now there happen to be a large number of ships that can be used for research, and instead of worrying about that bit of tonnage, it is better to think about how to improve the construction of warships in the future. Jochen had a good point.

"But on the council's side, there should be a lot of opposition to using a valuable warship to target a target." Muntz was still a little hesitant.

"Normal naval studies, what is there to oppose in parliament. SNRI is now starting to put into work, how can it be called the Institute of Naval Strategy just to do fluid science research?

Add another research topic to them, shoot on your side, and let them sort out a number jù library. The number of tests conducted in various target shooting studies is recorded, analyzed, and systematically concluded as the basis for the design of various weapons such as ships, artillery, and torpedoes.

And the damage caused after targeting, you can also study how to carry out damage management operations, and a damage management team that can properly handle various situations plays a vital role in the survivability of a warship. ”

There was a good reason, and it was indeed a good way to deal with old ships, and Muntz finally agreed.