Except for the diphtheria antitoxin and vaccine that made Joey happy earlier.

The second thing that made Joey happy was the contract signed between Minister Barland and Qing Guo for the purchase of fast guns.

Initially, when Ambassador Barand sent the Qing country's intention to buy fast guns back to Berlin by telegram, Joey, who saw the contents of the telegram, almost turned his back on him, "The prince and Minister Li of the Qing country actually asked for Mauser's fast guns and Krupp cannons by name!" ”

"What do you mean, I worked hard for a long time to plan, and the Qing people wanted to buy Mauser and Krupp?!" Joey looked at the telegraph hand, trembling with anger.

"Isn't it, don't they know the performance of the Grusen artillery, which is not inferior to the Krupp artillery?!"

"I actually asked for Mauser's burst gun, and now Mauser has that gun! Could it be that the Lee-Enfield rifle, which I worked so hard to copy, will lose to the Mauser Type 1871?! You know, the Mauser brothers, don't even know where the Mauser 1871/84 is now! "Joey feels like he's going crazy!

"If the Qing Kingdom wants the Mauser 1898 type, I can only say that everyone has a different vision, different preferences for rifles, and cannot be forced, and now there is no Mauser Gew.98 shadow, you dare to dislike my gun! How unreasonable! "Joey has really started to go berserk.

Looking at Joey, who was angry and almost rolling on the ground, the crown prince was kind-hearted.

On the one hand, the crown prince himself knew that the blueprints of the new gun that Joey had provided to his old friend Sir Grusen, if he could really make it, would definitely be a good gun, far surpassing the Mauser Model 1871 that was now the standard of the German Army.

On the other hand, the crown prince also wanted to give this business opportunity to his old friend in order to reward Sir Gruson for his long-term support.

In the end, I just couldn't bear to watch it, my baby son was really angry.

So Crown Prince Frederick sent a telegram, privately hinting to Sir Barand that the German Empire currently has a new type of firearm under development, and if possible, he hoped that Sir Barand would advise Qing Guo to wait patiently for Germany's new weapons.

Sir Barand quickly understood what the crown prince had hinted in his telegram, and immediately suggested to the Qing high-ranking princes, Prince Gong and Li Hongzhang, that they would wait patiently for a few more months, when the Germans would provide the Qing with a new type of fast gun, and a Lianzhu fast gun produced according to the most advanced technology in the West.

In the end, in accordance with Joey's suggestion, he said that in order to let the Qing army and high-level understand the great power and advanced nature of this gun more intuitively, the German side would send people to Beijing and Tianjin to conduct on-the-spot demonstrations, and invite the Qing army to actually experience the power of this gun.

This method of arms sales, which emphasizes user experience, is generally only popular in Europe, and there has never been a European arms chamber that has sent people all the way to East Asia to sell arms with such difficulty.

In the past, the Qing people generally listened to the descriptions of the compradors of the Western foreign firms, and the compradors said that the weapon was an advanced product from the West, and the officials of the Qing Dynasty recognized that the weapon was an advanced product, and they all paid the money first and then delivered it, so it was not uncommon for them to be deceived in the process of purchasing weapons.

This method of first demonstrating, listening to customers' opinions and then improving, and finally paying in installments made the high-level leaders of the Qing Dynasty feel the respect they had never encountered before, and deeply realized the friendship of the Germans who were willing to export the latest technology to the Qing Dynasty.

Joey's move made the Qing Dynasty high-level leaders, especially Prince Gong Yixun and Li Hongzhang greatly satisfied and moved, and subconsciously slowly separated the Germans from other foreigner groups, so that they felt that the foreigners were all villains and liars, but the Germans were real people who treated the Qing Dynasty sincerely.

In fact, to separate the Germans from the foreigners and to create a different and good psychological impression on the Qing Dynasty was nothing more than a psychological trick played by Joey.

Of course, in real life, in addition to excellent product strength, in the relationship and respect, such a sales method often brings good business luck to oneself.

Equality, mutual respect, and affection have always been the business experience of Germans.

In the end, after the unremitting efforts of Minister Barland, when Joey saw the telegram sent back by Minister Barland, indicating that the purchase date of Qing equipment was changed to early next year, he breathed a sigh of relief and became happy, knowing that he still had a chance to snatch this Qing fast gun list from Mauser's hands.

"Is it also an option to grab the artillery business of the Qing Dynasty from Krupp? After all, Uncle Herman also has a lot of artillery varieties there! Joy thought unknowingly.

The third thing that pleased Joey was that in the telegram sent back by Minister Barland, the Qing people finally agreed to send people to inspect the shipbuilding industry of the British and the Germans at the same time, and to evaluate the next purchase of British or German warships.

When he received this news, Crown Prince Frederick was still worried for a while, his own people knew his own affairs, but Crown Prince Frederick had lived in England for many years, and knew that the British shipbuilding level was far from comparable to that of the Germans.

But Joy brought in his engineering teacher, Mr. Patrick Barnaby, and brought out his near-finished model of the "Caesar Frederick III-class" pre-dreadnought-class battleship.

When Crown Prince Frederick saw the model in Joey's hand, he couldn't help but ask in surprise, "Jojo, are you going to build such a warship for the Qing people?!" ”

Joey and his engineering teacher glanced at each other and said with a smile, "It's almost, the general design style is similar, as for the tonnage, the number of guns and the caliber, it depends on how many gold marks the Chinese are willing to spend." ”

Looking at the glittering silver warship model in front of him, Crown Prince Frederick's eyes could no longer be taken off, and Crown Prince Frederick's good friend, Admiral Stockch, the chief of staff of the Navy, often invited the crown prince to the seaside for vacations, so Crown Prince Frederick was also a person who loved the navy.

After all, there is no one who has been educated by the liberal ideas of the British who does not love the cannons of giant ships.

It is a 1.3-meter-long, 0.3-meter-wide, and 0.76-meter-high model of a large silver warship, and according to the standards of the Imperial German Navy, it has everything from naval flags to well-equipped masts, main guns, secondary guns, lamps, lifeboats, propellers, bow and stern decorations, etc.

The whole model is placed on a base made of ebony, black and white, with strong contrast.

This is a masterpiece of silver ship mold that is extremely exquisite.

At the suggestion of Mr. Patrick, Joey eliminated the secondary guns of the 48cm 88cm gun of 35 times the caliber. So that the overall level of warships is close to the level of the "admiral class", which the British are now building.

But it must be admitted that with the same tonnage and the same speed, the caliber of the guns of the German Navy was worse than that of the "admiral class", the British were 4 12-inch / 305mm caliber guns, and Joey, a warship that would actually take 19 years to enter service, still had a gun caliber of 240mm.

The change in the caliber of the artillery cannot be completed in a day or two, so Joey can only stick to the current level of Krupp gun-making.

The level of armor protection of this pre-dreadnought-class battleship, or the armor design of this warship prepared for the Qing Dynasty, Joey was ready to quietly adopt the advanced idea of "all or nothing", using an early version of the concept of key protection, the form of armor protection of the central ironclad fort.

However, after learning that Joey was developing a new type of marine armor, based on the new armor protection data provided by Joey, Mr. Patrick strongly opposed Joey's point of view of protection, and demanded that the waterline armor belt be continued to be added, and the armor design of this battleship was changed back into a Joey crying and laughing full armor protection.

Mr. Patrick's point of view is also clear: the bow and stern have no armor protection, and being penetrated means that water is ingress, and water entering means that the warship loses buoyancy and tilts, which inevitably leads to the inability of the main guns to fire.

Compared with the key armor protection, the waterline armor belt of the overall protection fully reflects its own value in the case of being unable to fire after being broken down in battle, so Mr. Patrick showed a clear banner in support of comprehensive protection.

Joey was dumbfounded, and finally thought carefully about his past life, and proposed that the US Navy for key protection was forced by the restrictions of the post-war treaty and the battle of wits and courage between the Navy and Congress in shipbuilding funds, and finally put forward the idea of key protection, and on the other hand, it was the US Navy's anti-natural damage management and protection measures, which could support them to carry out key protection on battleships.

"Oh, it seems that the German Navy still has a long way to go, although it can build a large hull, but without the support of artillery, power and other subsystems, and without the ability to control damage that is so strong that it is against the sky, it cannot be said to be a powerful navy." Joy lamented in his heart the backwardness of his German navy.

As for the upcoming Dome Armor technology, Joey and Mr. Patrick have the same attitude, for battleships/ironclads, it is just a stupid and useless technology, but it is just a detour in the history of warship armor development.

The only purpose of the dome armor of those protected boilers is nothing more than to not affect the warship's escape after being beaten, but the low dome armor compresses the height of the power compartment and cannot fit into the powerful ship power, so in the end, it still can't run away after being beaten.

If you really want to develop the protection of battleships and ironclads, you must do a good job in the armor research of horizontal armor and vertical armor belts, as well as the invincible damage management technology.

As for the armor technology of destroyers and cruisers, Joey pinned his trust on the Harvey armor technology that Sir Grusen was developing, and the future Krupp armor, with these two sharp weapons, there was no need for some stupid dome armor.

"I heard that you are going to invite Master Michelle Fadrion to go on a long trip and let him go to Qingguo?" Crown Prince Frederick's gaze did not leave the warship, and with an obviously reluctant look, he asked Joey, "Among the gifts you are going to have Henry give to the Qing Emperor, this ship is included?" ”

"Hey, Dad, that's right." Joey laughed and sold a pass.

"Oh, Jojo, what does that mean?" The crown prince raised his head and asked curiously.

"This warship, Master Fadrion will not take it away, Master Fadrion and the royal family's attendants will take away the silver plate, and they will reproduce a new ship on the ship from Hamburg to Shanghai, which is a warship with Qing characteristics, and this ship will stay here."

"I want to save it until October and give it to someone I love as a birthday present." Joey smiled slyly like a little fox.

"October, birthday present.... Oh, Jojo, are you me?! Crown Prince Frederick asked in surprise.