Joey carefully asked himself about the age of this cousin Dreyer, who was also 11 years old this year, just two months younger than himself.

Joey also counted the time when the famous Dreyer fire control computer on the British dreadnought was shipped, and calculated that it was when his cousin Dreher was in the prime of life.

Whether his cousin was the famous Admiral Dreyer or not, the mere fact that he could come up with the idea of automating linear and angular velocities was worthy of Joey's great support. If it succeeds, it means that the technology of the famous Dreyer fire control computer on the British former dreadnoughts will eventually fall to Germany, and even if it is not successful, it will leave valuable computer technology for the Germans.

As a lover of war history, Joey certainly knows that the steampunk-style Dreyer fire control computer was not the best fire control computer in the early twentieth century, but in the era of naval artillery bombardment within 6,000 yards, or until the Battle of Tsushima, this huge fire control system that can fit into a room is absolutely invincible.

During the peak naval battle of the pre-dreadnought period and the Battle of Tsushima, the main fleets of both sides were lined up in a row, bombarding each other in a roughly parallel and co-directional or reverse direction, even if they wanted to close the distance or speed up and decelerate, it was also carried out slowly, and it was necessary to ensure the integrity of the column formation, relying only on the command of flags and lights, and the actions of the entire fleet were very dull.

In such a situation of movement, as long as the shells can be attached to the course of the enemy's warship, and the distance and azimuth do not change much, it is only necessary to observe and correct the impact point to maintain effective fire coverage for the enemy fleet.

The characteristics of the Dreyer fire control computer just meet the requirements of this combat distance operation, just by observing the impact point, the Dreyer fire control computer can solve the distance and course problems of the two sides, as for the shooting hit rate, it will be handed over to the school firing to correct.

As for the Polen fire control computer, which is suitable for calculating the trajectory of the ship's fierce movement, suitable for melee, chaotic battles, and night battles, Joey decided to take his time.

On the one hand, he or Germany does not have the technical foundation of punk steam computers at all, and on the other hand, Joey thinks that he should first vigorously promote the principle of Dreyer's fire control computer, solidify the idea that battleships can only line up and shoot at each other with the pinch method, and the sooner they bring others into the pit, when others take the black road and hit the wall, Joey, or the German Navy will use the ladder method that the Pohlon fire control computer is good at to educate them.

"A Polon computer designed by a textile business owner, well, I remember." Joey said to himself.

Joey had always been a supporter of the weapon technology school in his previous life, and in the era of slow technological development, of course, whoever trained hard had a better chance of winning. However, in the era of rapid technological development, there is an era when there is a generational gap between weapons in just a few years, and if you only think that hard training can make up for the generational gap between weapons, the final result is only to make yourself die more painfully.

Joey never believed that broadswords and spears could win guns, and he didn't believe that grain and rifles could win airplane cannons. If anyone preached this in the West in the nineteenth century, even the stupidest Russian peasants would not believe it, unless a great Overseer kicked the serfs in the ass from behind.

What long live charge, what crowd tactics, what people's war, are not in Joey's war options. In Joey's eyes, the life of every German is far more expensive than others, and if he can use science and technology to kill people, he will never fight with others in hand-to-hand combat.

The most effective means of killing people has never been strength and spirit, but science. Before you can't use science and technology to kill people or protect yourself, it is imperative to honestly improve your scientific and technological level.

When Joey was thinking off the line again, Dreyer's words woke Joey up.

"Jojo, my computer is only in the conceptual stage, and I expect to finish him, and with my extremely brilliant brain, it is... Well, it will take at least fifteen years. Dreyer stared at Joey and asked, "This agreement is an uninterrupted support for my fifteen years of research!" ”

"At least fifteen years ......., why didn't you say it before signing the agreement?!" Joey looked at Dreyer's big round face, which resembled his father Babbage, and shouted in his heart, resisting the urge not to pluck the little fox's ears.

Raising his eyebrows, Joey adjusted his mood and said with a smile, "No matter how much time, in short, this patent of yours belongs to your Aunt Victoria, that is, my mother's foundation." As for the research costs during the period, yes, the Foundation covered them. ”

Dreyer nodded, and said in a big way, "I'm asking for a £50 advance on research funding first." ”

"What?! 50 pounds, that's 100 Imperial Gold Marks! What are you little kid doing with all this money?! Joey was starting to go crazy.

"Don't worry!" Dreyer, looking at Joey, who was a little angry, shook his fingers, "Jojo, you are so interested in angular velocity and linear velocity computers, do you want to use them in navigation?" ”

"Ahem!" Suddenly, a breath stuck in Joey's throat, and after trying to clear his throat, Joey asked hoarsely, "How did you guess?" ”

"Hehe, just guess, linear velocity, angular velocity, plus distance and time, this is born for the purpose of calculating the position of the ship at sea." Raeder said with a smug face, "Wait, I'll show you one more thing, and you'll think your 50 pounds are definitely worth it." ”

Raeder looked at the adults who were chatting and noticed that no one was paying attention to the whispering between him and Joey, and then pulled out a disc made of brass from the leather bag that straddled beside him, placed it in front of Joey, and asked, "Do you know what this is?" ”

Joey looked at the brass disc, on which there were three movable and rotating metal bars, the surface of the disc was engraved with striped squares, and Joey gently pushed the disc with his hand, and the disc rotated in the direction of his finger.

Joey laughed in his heart, of course he knew what it was, this was one of the black technologies of the giant ship cannon in the steampunk era, the Demerrick calculator, a distance integrator that calculates the proximity between ships, this calculator has survived to the present, even on the most modern all-electric warships, there is still such a handmade calculator.

"This thing for 50 pounds?" Joey asked with a blank face.

"Yes....." Drake looked at Joey with a serious face and was a little nervous, for fear that the deal would be yellow, so he immediately began to demonstrate the Demerrick calculator with his hand, "Well, this thickest bar represents your own ship, and this bar represents the ship you are looking for, when ....."

After Dreyer nervously finished talking about how to use it, Joey took the Demerrick calculator, pushed the points board with his hand, and said to the little fox Dreyer with a smile like an adult fox, "Deal, Dirk." ”

After a slight pause, Joey continued, "Dirk, may I ask why, do you need the 50 pounds so badly?" ”

Seeing that Dreyer's expression was hesitant, Joey's gossip heart was furious, and he continued to increase, "I have a total of 300 gold marks of pocket money in my hand, well, about 150 pounds, if you need it urgently, I can lend it all to you." ”

Dreyer thought for a moment and whispered, "This thing was invented by my best friend, John Somariz Demerik, and his family has been in big trouble lately, and he needs a lot of money urgently..... Jojo, if you can help me as a friend, I'll treat you as my best friend too! ”

Joey didn't think about it, stretched out his right hand, clasped it with Dreyer's hand, and just asked softly, "Money, will I give it to you now, or when will it be given to you?" ”

"So much, do you believe me?" Dreyer asked, looking up.

"Hey, Dirk, don't you think I'm a friend!" Joey asked rhetorically.

"Yes, we are friends." Dreyer smiled and said, "I guess my mother will stay for a long time, borrow your money, and I will always pay it back." ”

"For a long time, Dirk, didn't you just say you'd stay for a while?" Joey asked, curiously.

Dreyer touched his nose for a long time, and at Joey's urging, he finally reluctantly replied, "Jojo, this is also my guess, don't tell anyone else, okay?" ”

"I swear!" Joey raised his right hand.

"Another main reason why my mom came to Germany was because of my grandfather." Dreyer glanced at Joey, who was full of surprise, and continued, "Some people at Trinity College say that my grandfather Byron is amorous... Oh no, it was they who were jealous of my grandfather's good looks and handsomeness, so they wanted to tear down his statue at Trinity College, and my mother had a big fight with the Cambridge University Council over this, and she had resigned from her job as a professor at Cambridge. ”

Joey looked happy and put his arm around Dreyer, "Hey, bro, that's a good thing!" Oh no, Dirk, don't be angry. I mean, it's definitely a good thing for Humboldt! ”

After this Wednesday, from the beginning of April to the last week of April, several more of Joey's governesses came one after another.

The first of these tutors was a 24-year-old with the strangest resume, who had just graduated from St. John's College in Cambridge the year before last as a graduate of one of the top universities in the United Kingdom, and after graduation, he went to the Armstrong shipyard in Newcastles to do an honest two-year apprenticeship.

And Joey learned from his mother that in order to come to Germany to be Joey's tutor, this young man actually ran directly into Buckingham Palace to beg his maternal grandmother, Queen Victoria, and it is said that after a passionate plea, he stood out from the others and became Joey's physics teacher.

From a top student at St. John's College in Cambridge, to an apprentice at the Armstrong shipyard, and to Buckingham Palace to meet his grandmother directly, and finally crying and shouting that he wanted to go to Germany to be his own physics teacher, Joey was very inexplicable when he heard the news, he had only been in this world for less than a month, when did he become a famous big man in the British Isles, and some people cried and shouted to be their own tutor?

"It's impossible!" No matter how thick-skinned Joey is, he doesn't dare to admit that this is true, Joey hesitates and decides to be a modest and cautious person. When Joey finally met the top student of St. John's College in Cambridge, he was finally glad that he had made a wise choice to remain modest and cautious.

The young father of St. John's College, Cambridge, was a well-known Anglo-Irish nobleman in London, who owned a large tract of land in County Offary, Ireland, as well as a large and ornate castle, Fort Bier.

Speaking of this castle, it has a very important place in the history of world astronomy.

In 1845, the young man's father, William Parsons, also known as Earl of Rose, used a six-story wooden wall to prop up a 20-meter-long telescope tube with a mirror diameter equivalent to the height of an adult.

Through this behemoth, for the first time in history, mankind discovered and saw a nebula.

When the son of the young Earl of Rose, Charles Algernon Parsons, ran all the way into the court to meet with Princess Victoria and Joey, he immediately asked the Princess Princess, "Dear Aunt Victoria, why haven't I seen the esteemed Miss Ada Elizabeth Babbage?" If I could, I would like my residence to be as close to the esteemed Elizabeth Room as possible, to the people I admire. ”

"What?!" Joey looked at his tutor of physics, and said with ten thousand unhappiness in his heart, "You are here to teach me physics, or you are here to pursue my beautiful math teacher, how can this be true!" Wait, Parsons, how is the name Charles Parsons so familiar? ”

"Could it be that at the end of the nineteenth century, the designer of the famous Turbonian was the physics teacher in front of me, who chased girls from England to Germany?" Joey looked up and down, left and right, and looked carefully again, and from the young and anxious face of Mr. Parsons, he could not see the boss of the famous British industrial trust Parsons Turbine Company in his previous life.

"The great Earl of Parsons liked my beautiful mathematics teacher, Cousin Elizabeth, and if Aunt Anne decided not to return to England, then my Cousin Elizabeth would stay, which meant that my Parsons physics teacher would have to stay in Germany..... Well, it seems that the key is to make Aunt Anne like Berlin and Germany! Joey pondered in his heart.

When Joey's economics teacher arrives in Hamburg, Crown Princess Victoria tells Joey his name. Once again, Joey was struck by his grandmother's generosity.

Originally, under Joey's plan, the crown princess Victoria sent to her mother Queen Victoria a list of tutors that she wanted to hire for Joey, and in the economics teacher column, Joey Lion opened his mouth to propose the candidate as the president of the University of Bristol, Professor Alfred Marshall, the greatest neoclassical economist of the 19th century in Britain.

But as the leader of the six-member preparatory team for the Royal Society's preparation for the establishment of the Royal School of Economics, Professor Marshall could not leave the UK. So Queen Victoria was recommended to a colleague who had just been married, the John-Neville-Keynes couple from Salisbury, Wiltshire, in the south of England.

When Joey heard that his economics teacher was Professor John Neville Keynes, he was surprised that he didn't close his mouth for the whole day. As a graduate student in economic psychology, I naturally know that he is the father of capitalist economics and the father of John Maynard Keynes.

The important reason why I wanted to invite Professor Marshall was that he was John Keynes's teacher, but I really didn't expect that the teacher of the father of capitalist economics was not invited, but my maternal grandmother sent the father of the father of economics to ......

"Oh my God, is this what you lost the cod and got the herring? I sincerely thank you for your kindness and generosity. Joey prayed reverently.

God may have heard Joey's prayers, or perhaps Queen Victoria was unsure of the level of the physics teacher she had given to her grandson, after all, a nobleman in the nineteenth century who went to the shipyard incognito as an apprentice could not be considered reliable in any case, or perhaps Mr. Parsons became Joey's tutor for the pursuit of love, and the Germans looked down on the true scientific and technological strength of the British Empire.

In any case, Queen Victoria decided to support her daughter, and by the way, to show her fellow citizens in her German homeland the scientific wisdom and strength of the British Empire under her rule, and at the Queen's request, the most powerful British scientific delegation in history was about to visit Germany.

The delegation included: President of the Royal Society, the famous Lord Kelvin, and Lord Rayleigh, Director of the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge, Professor George Gabriel Stokes, Professor John Tindale, Professor William Crookes, Professor Joseph Thomson, Professor Joseph Norman Rockna, Professor William Ramsay, Professor Thomas McKennie Huss, Professor Joseph Lister, Professor Charles Scott Sherrington, and more than a dozen others. All are Fellows of the Royal Academy of Sciences.

When Joey heard from his mother that the members of the Royal Academy of Sciences were coming to Germany for exchange lectures, he was once again struck by his grandmother's generosity. Even though they knew that they could not be their students, they were still happy for the scientists of the German scientific community, and in any case, the world science center in 1879, was still in England, and it was still in London.

In Joey's view, the joy of losing the east corner and harvesting the mulberry elm is not over.

In the third week of April, Joey's last two governesses also arrived in succession, starting with Joey's chemistry teacher, Professor Charles Loudon Brocksum, a student of Professor Frederick Augustus Abel.

When Joey saw Charles Loudon Brocksam, he felt that the goddess of fate had played a little joke on him, that the inventor of the smokeless gunpowder formula he had given to Uncle Herman, that is, the inventor of the "Coleen" bistatic propellant, was none other than his chemistry teacher, Professor Frederick Augustus Abel.

Charles Loudon Brocksum is also a well-known figure, he has a very loud Chinese name: Pu Lushan, but anyone who is a chemistry major knows that he wrote two books, "Continuation of Chemical Identification" and "Supplement to Chemical Identification".

"Well, Professor Abel is my chemistry teacher's teacher, then the final honor for the smokeless gunpowder recipe that I memorized and wrote down can still be counted on Professor Abel, and my hat as a smokeless gunpowder thief can finally be removed, no matter what, plagiarism is not a good thing." Joey bravely laughed at himself.

The last person to come to Berlin was Patrick Barnaby, who was the first to arrive in Hamburg and had been inspecting the shipyard in Hamburg.

When Mr. Barnaby arrives at the Princess's Palace, Joey discovers that this Mr. Barnaby is not Mr. Barnaby.

In the spirit of the principle of asking for a price, Joey wrote the name of the famous Mr. Nathaniel Barnaby in the column of his engineering tutor. A few days later, London reported that Mr. Barnaby had left London.

When Joey received the news, he was really excited, and everyone from God to his grandmother to the entire people of the British Empire praised it from the bottom of his heart. Then I sighed with a good mood, the British actually sent their own director of the Navy Shipbuilding Bureau to Germany, what kind of international spirit is this, is it possible that the IQ level of the British in this era they have crossed is at the level of throwing money?

I looked forward to it day and night, and when I finally met Mr. Patrick Barnaby, Joey found that the IQ level of the British was still online, and adhering to the spirit of the principle of repaying the money on the spot, he replaced the real Mr. Nathaniel Barnaby with another Mr. Barnaby, which was so willful and played Joey completely!

When they first met, Mr. Patrick Barnaby's gaze did not pay attention to the somewhat frustrated Joey, but landed on Joey's unfinished but delicate model of a silver ship.

After taking a closer look at the model, Mr. Patrick Barnaby smiled, pointed to the model and asked Joey, "What is the caliber of the front and rear twin turret guns?" ”

"240mm gun." Joey replied honestly.

"Where's the secondary artillery?"

"150mm and 88mm secondary guns."

"What are the parameters of this warship you designed?" Mr. Patrick Barnaby asked again.

"It is 125 meters long, 20 meters wide, with a draft of 8 meters, and a total tonnage of about 11,600 tons." Joey gave an approximate parameter of his previous life, this warship.

"Such a large-tonnage warship, only 4 240mm caliber guns? Where is your tonnage wasted? The long bow design can make the freeboard higher and less prone to waves, but the stability is much worse than that of the flat deck ship, and the most important thing for naval gun shooting is hull stability. ”

Mr. Patrick Barnaby pointed to the 88mm secondary guns on the side of Joey's model and said, "These 88mm guns are too low, so that the integrity of the ship's side armor is destroyed, and this is the weak point of the ship's defense." ”

Looking at Joey with a surprised face, Mr. Patrick Barnaby smiled and asked, "Why, do you want to learn to build warships?" ”