Admiral Storsch, the leader of the Imperial Royal Navy, was resolute in his determination to change, and after receiving assurances from Crown Prince Frederick that all the funds that should be invested in the construction of new warships in the remaining four years would be invested in the shipyard for civilian ships, Admiral Stockch decided to stop the construction of all warships that remained at the drawing stage.

Not only that, but it was decided to split the navy's budget of 5 million gold marks for the next three years into three parts.

In the first part, 2 million gold marks were allocated to the Black Hawk Corps as a military budget allocation for the Navy's intervention in Chile, including the cost of strengthening the deployment of the escort fleet.

In this way, the military budget of the Black Hawk Corps was more abundant, although the reputation of the Marine Corps was not as good as that of the Prussian Army, but it was also a regular army and also had a royal title, and the original problem of difficulty in recruiting officers was immediately solved.

Coupled with the speech of William I at the homecoming ceremony of the Grand Fleet, a large number of enthusiastic young people who were inspired began to devote themselves to the vigorous cause of the Navy and the Marine Corps.

There were more officers to enlist, and there was more room for selection, and the level of junior officers in the Black Hawk Legion immediately rose.

On the one hand, the original Imperial Naval Academy was upgraded and turned into the cradle of middle and senior commanders in the Navy, and the naval officer school (university lieutenant class) and the naval military complete secondary school (warrant officer class) were added, and the education of the German Navy was systematized into three levels, and the naval echelon construction was improved.

In addition to employing retired senior instructors, officers, and sergeant majors, Admiral Stockch borrowed from Joy's ideas to recruit teachers from the British, the overlord of the seas, and encouraged the British Navy's serving instructors and officers to come to Germany for short-term visits and academic exchanges, in addition to hiring retired senior instructors, officers, and sergeant majors.

On the other hand, in addition to the torpedo engineering academy established this year, a marine corps school, a naval gunners training school, and a marine engine training school have been added.

Admiral Stockch was determined to give priority to the education of the German Navy, and by 1883 the Royal Navy had ceased the construction of all large surface warships, at most a few coastal patrol ships such as notification ships and high-speed torpedo boats.

Why is the time point set in 1883, it is because from January 1880, the German Hamburg shipyard will go all out to build two Qing ironclad battleships (not historical ironclad cruisers), and Volkeng is responsible for the Qing country's two flat-deck ironclad fast cruisers, Königsberg finally won six torpedo boats.

According to the contract with the Qing State, the above-mentioned warships were to be delivered to the Qing Beiyang Naval Division in 1883.

For the ironclad battleships built for the Qing State and designed according to the blueprint of the former Dreadnought-class, General Stockch was extremely jealous, according to General Storsch's intentions, the Imperial Royal Navy should be equipped first, and then the Qing contract.

But Joey's words calmed General Stockch.

"Uncle Elben, the two 10,000-ton ironclad battleships built for the Qing State this time involve too many new technologies that Germany tried for the first time, such as the watertight partition and skeleton design of the battleship, the full armor design of the armor box combined with ribbon armor, from the steel-faced iron armor that has just been put into use to a new nickel steel armor, the erection of the ship's gun has changed from a rigid retreat to a hydraulic retreat mechanism, the breech gun has become a breech gun, the new armored control tower, the gas welding technology of the steel plate, the complete removal of the sail rope mechanism, the cancellation of the warship ram angle, and so on."

"In addition, we have to purchase the unyielding three-expansion reciprocating vertical steam engine from the Armstrong shipyard in the UK, and we also need to add a new cylindrical water-tube boiler produced in Frankfurt and Germany's own high-pressure air supply system."

"It is particularly important that with regard to the study of the new tactics of the new ironclad battleships, we will use the Qing people this time to test the fleet column firing tactics in addition to studying the V-shaped wedge-shaped horizontal formation of General Wilhelm von Tergerthoff, so in addition to maintaining the importance of frontal firepower, we must also consider the emergence of chaotic battles caused by flank engagement."

"Therefore, we will experiment with a stepped layout of the main guns on the warships of the Qing Kingdom, and at the same time, in order to avoid the elongation of the hull caused by this layout, which will affect the stability and cabin and armor arrangement, we will also retain the polygonal turret arrangement."

"In short, the ironclad battleships of the Qing people are full of new technologies from Britain and Germany, but the new technologies need to be verified, so I don't recommend the Imperial Royal Navy to do new technology experiments."

"By 1883, after we explored the mature application of new technology through the warships of the Qing Kingdom, it will not be too late to build your new warship, Uncle Elben."

The proposal to let the Qing people be guinea pigs and test new technologies was accepted by General Stockch, and the level of the German shipbuilding industry really needed to be practiced first.

Finally, the remaining 1 million gold marks were allocated to the newly established Office of Naval Research, which is responsible for the research and development of weapons and equipment for surface ships and marines.

For the first time, the German Navy did not spend its budget on the construction of new warships.

Admiral Stosch's navy wanted change, and Crown Prince Frederick also wanted a new one.

The change that Crown Prince Frederick pursued was the distribution of the 41.5 million gold marks paid by the Qing, Japan, and France to Germany.

After three months, in mid-November, all the money pledged by the three countries finally reached the treasury of the Reichsbank in Berlin, the Bundesbank, and a battle began over how the money should be distributed.

In the process of obtaining this funding, the Imperial Royal Navy contributed the most, so it took the budget of 5 million gold marks for 3 years, and no one had any objections.

There are several opinions on the distribution of the remaining more than 30 million gold marks.

The first opinion is the desire to use this money for the purchase of military equipment, in accordance with the operational model of the reparations to France after the Franco-Prussian War.

While updating the equipment of the army, the development of domestic heavy industry was stimulated.

For example, some people have proposed to replace the existing Mauser M1871 rifle with a new rifle from HK for the Army's weapons, and this is still very strong.

At the purchase price of the Black Hawk Legion, combined with the discounted price under the purchase of large quantities, this amount of money was enough for 40 Prussian divisions to be redressed in one go.

With the excellent performance of the HK81A2 rifle, it can consolidate the current position of the Prussian Army in Europe and even in the world.

When Joey first heard this suggestion, he was not unmoved, if this huge amount of money flowed into the HK company, the HK company would immediately step into the ranks of the world's first-class light weapons companies, and he would definitely have a lot of money.

But when this plan was put in front of Crown Prince Frederick, he was immediately shot, and before Germany had a clear threat of war, such a huge sum of money was turned into a rifle locked in an arsenal, this kind of loss-making business, Prince Frederick resolutely refused to do it.

If you can't let money flow in the market, you don't have the qualifications to be the Minister of Economic Affairs.

At the same time, Bismarck warned Joey that, according to the sparrows in his hands, there was a foreign force in it, and Joey was asked to protect his patents carefully.

Fortunately, the patent applications for rifles and smokeless propellants in the world's powerful countries are basically about to be completed, and the patents are in hand, and the money can be earned sooner or later.

The second suggestion is that the funds should be used for royal expenses, such as the construction of some new palaces and the purchase of some jewels that will be in line with the royal status, and there is a suggestion that a new crown should be created for His Majesty Emperor William I, at least no worse than that on the head of Queen Victoria.

Before Crown Prince Frederick could speak, a word from the old Emperor William I pushed back this group of sycophants.

"I'm a man, when do men need to prove their worth with jewelry?! Are you going to turn me into the Empress of Germany? It's just a bunch of bastards! ”

"It's a bastard!" Joey commented on the old emperor's words, and then smiled happily.

The third view is that the transfer of all this money to the Reichsbank as a reserve fund can not only play a stable role in responding to the current economic crisis in Germany, but also expand the investment of loans and investments through the power of the central bank's monetary leverage.

Crown Prince Frederick is willing to support this opinion from the German financial industry, and under the gold standard, the more money used in Germany for industrial investment, the more money used in Germany for industrial investment, it will be of great benefit to people's employment and national tax revenue.

The fourth opinion is to invest this money in industrial transformation and technological innovation, not only in the field of machine tools, which is currently the weakest in Germany, but also in Germany's leading chemical and electrical industries.

In short, whether advanced or backward, the transformation and upgrading of various industries require capital investment.

This view was held by a group of representatives of industry such as Sir Gruson, and Crown Prince Frederick also took the opinion of his old friend Hermann seriously.

Fifth, the money should be invested in education and social welfare.

Continue to improve the 12-year compulsory education, and provide free brunch and dairy products in addition to tuition waivers.

The construction of new school buildings, the addition of new equipment, etc., in short, can be used to benefit German education.

Establish a system for invalids for disabled servicemen, establish a hospital for invalids, and ensure that disabled servicemen receive free medical treatment and support for the rest of their lives.

Build more public hospitals to provide cheaper health care to the German population.

In large cities, social security systems have been established, social insurance companies with national backgrounds have been established, and workers and citizens have been organized to purchase social insurance with government funding.

These opinions were put forward by famous German scientists such as Crown Princess Victoria and Professor Mach.

Frederick's opinion was naturally taken more seriously.

After excluding the first two opinions, the flow of this fund is clear.

Ensuring the financial health of Germany and getting rid of the effects of the economic crisis from 1873 to the present day became a top priority, and 18 million gold marks became the reserve fund of the Reichsbank.

Technological innovation in German industry is the source of Germany's competitiveness in the future, and based on this, 8.5 million gold Wang has been invested in the German industrial field in three years to encourage German industrial enterprises to use government subsidies to use new technologies.

The remaining 10 million gold marks were invested in education, health care, invalids and social security over five years.

This distribution was coordinated by Crown Prince Frederick, and Chancellor Bismarck and the German Parliament approved a distribution ratio of 5:2:3.

Unlike in history, when all of France's reparations of 5 billion francs were used for the military armament of the German army and the blind expansion of industrial production, most of the windfall in 1879 went into the fields of German economy, science and technology, education, and social security.

This was the change that Crown Prince Frederick begged for.