The traverser dared to swear to the sky that in the field of ship sales and shipbuilding in Germany today, if Baron Vittorio Cuniberti claimed to be second, then absolutely no one would dare to claim to be first! Not even a traverser! It's okay to use your own non-professional level to guide the general direction, but if it comes to the specific operation, then it's better to wash and sleep, and then hand it over to a professional person to do!

He is worthy of being a man who can sell 10 Garibaldi! Relying on a single design has contributed at least 6 million pounds to Italy's shipbuilding industry and related industries! Shipbuilding is top-notch! Top-notch merchandising and customer psychology! The production arrangement is also top-notch! No, just two days after arriving in Berlin, Monsieur Baron made a very strategic suggestion to the traverser!

"We should have our own shipyard, well, maybe that's a bit too much for Bavaria, which is not close to the sea, but we should at least have a stake in one of the big shipyards! This is very important for our future business expansion! Baron Vittorio hesitated for a long time, and finally made this somewhat surprising suggestion.

In fact, the traverser itself does not want to build a shipyard, in the eyes of His Royal Highness the Prince, the construction of a shipyard is a completely inefficient thing, the status of the shipyard in this era is actually similar to the brand computer manufacturers of later generations, the profits are all such as the armor factory, artillery factory, boiler and engine factory to earn, the shipyard itself is just to make a hard money! Even in the pre-dreadnought era, when everyone was scrambling to expand the navy, shipyards generally made no more than 25% profits!

And there are a lot of risks, after all, the navy of various countries buys the warship in installments, and if there are some accidents, or if they don't want to do it at all, then the shipwrecks who are not finished on the slipway will face a very difficult choice, either the shipyard will find the next home to complete the battleship, or dismantle the ship. All kinds of uncertain factors affect the operation of the shipyard, and the competition between each other will make the profits of the battleship lower and lower, and in the end all the facts have proved a truth, homogeneous competition has no future, mastering the core technology is fundamental, so the traverser is not concerned about the shipyard responsible for the final assembly of the subsystem.

"Although in Italy there are also shipyards with royal or naval signs. But the German counterparts are different from them, the German Navy will take care of almost all the big shipyards, so, in time we spend a lot of money to cooperate with a certain shipyard, it is difficult for us to get him to get more orders, because the bread is limited, and the German Admiralty needs to feed all the shipyards. ”

The traverser thought that Vittorio did not know the situation in Germany, so he patiently explained to him. "How to say it, German capitalism can be called state capitalism to a certain extent, and the reason why the two battleships Dingyuan and Zhenyuan ordered by the Qing State at the beginning were able to get such a low price was because of the government's push. Our Prime Minister has given instructions. ”

"I know that if you only look at it from a survival point of view, your shipyards are very safe, but the result of this equalization of benefits is to ensure scale and limit efficiency. That's good for now, but if it goes on like this, we'll be at a loss when it comes to foreign competitors. Vittorio had a hint of displeasure in his tone.

It seems that in the long history of dreadnought, not many new ships built by German shipyards were sold, and there seem to be only 3 warships of more than 7,000 tons, and outside of Dingyuan and Zhenyuan, there is only the 10,000-ton armored cruiser ordered by Japan in Germany, the former because of the ultra-low price and Li Zhongtang's German plot. On the one hand, the latter is because the Dingyuan and Zhenyuan built by Volkeng are too durable, and on the other hand, it is Japan's gesture of goodwill to Germany!

You know, even the United States, which was regarded as an upstart by European countries at that time, successfully sold the Retvizan and a bunch of cruisers to Russia. And France also produced the battleship Crown Prince for Germany, so before the Russo-Japanese War, when Russian-German relations were okay, the reason why the Germans did not get an order for a large ship from the Russians is intriguing enough! You know, in 1905, when the Russo-Japanese War was raging, the Russians also ordered a 15,000-ton Rurik Type 2 cruiser from the British, Japan's allies.

The price of man-made German warships was generally a little higher, especially during the 1st World War. Although the leather is durable, the problem of weak firepower is also obvious. After balancing the armor and firepower, the cost of the German battleship was still too high. This has a lot to do with the distribution of warships ordered by the German Navy, if the British shipyards are competing with their lives, or even building ships at a loss, then the major shipyards of the German Navy are a big pot of rice between hello, hello, everyone!

"You have a lot of point, but does it have anything to do with us? We can't change the way the Admiralty distributes it, and we'll offend a lot of people if we touch the cake. The traverser politely rejected the baron's suggestion. The risk is too great, and the benefit is small!

"No, no, no. The stakes are great, don't forget, our battleship is still going to be taken out! The domestic shipbuilding cake is too small, and the construction plan of the German fleet is not proportional to the number of shipyards in the country. Our design bureau in the Admiralty alone barely earns money. The deadline for the completion of the target you have set for me may be far away. So we have to open up foreign markets! Especially now in the Russian market! Vittorio woke up the dreamer with a word! Just from the perspective of shipbuilding and buying ships, he is indeed not as good as the barons around him, and he is a master in all aspects!

Historically, a total of 10 Garibaldi-class cruisers were built, except for 3 for the Italians' own use, the others were all sold to foreign countries, and the cheap price was not only because of the small tonnage and reasonable design, but the high efficiency of the shipyard was also indispensable, (the Italian made its own ships relatively inefficient, but the takeaway Garibaldi built relatively quickly) and the efficiency of the German shipyards under the protection of the government, or cost control, is not very satisfactory. If this does not change, I am afraid that the historical champion of foreign exchange earning will be destroyed in his own hands! On this point, it is suggested that the year-end bonus given to the baron by the traverser should be more!

But that's where the baron can help, he doesn't know much about the shipbuilding industry in Germany. At best, he could only know the surface of the shipyards, past and present, and as a traverser, Prince Ruprecht knew even the future performance of these shipyards!

The time-traveler spent two full nights thinking about it, and he even missed a royal ball. Don't think about those shipyards with national names, such as Kieldeutsch Shipyard, Royal Wilhelm Shipyard or something, the masters behind them are the German royal family and government, and it is useless to talk about the distribution of interests or anything with these people. Ignore shipyards that are too weak or inexperienced, it is difficult to raise these shipyards, and the traverser does not want to be a gardener.

In the end, the traveler chose the Blom-Forss shipyard in Hamburg! First of all, this shipyard is privately run and has a relatively small government background. Secondly, the capabilities of this shipyard are really good, most of the German battlecruisers in the 1st World War in history were built by this shipyard. And back in the pre-dreadnought era, half of the six warships of the 3rd class, from the Prince Albert class, the Ron class and later the famous Scharnhorst-class armored cruisers, came from this shipyard.

It follows from this that it is very suitable for this company to build armored cruisers! And according to the memories of the traverser, this company is also one of the few private shipyards that survived the depression of World War I. And by the time of World War II, the Bismarck and the Admiral Hippel were completed in this shipyard, which shows that both strength and technical preferences are very suitable for traversers!

Well, now that the target has been chosen, it is natural that someone who knows how to talk about it, and this person is naturally Baron Vittorio Cuniberti!

Thanks to the book friend zhouyu1976 and SK wolf smoke for the reward~~~. There is a recommendation next week.,From tomorrow onwards, the author will be at least double every day! This is the first recommendation for the side position! Support is urgently needed! The update is definitely amazing, thank you!