It's an opportunity and a challenge! This is how the traveler defines the meaning of the trip. Now I am about to enter the big stage of the world! He is no longer an otaku nesting in a corner of Bavaria, with the protection and help of his family, and he is bored to climb the technology tree! It all came so quickly that the time-travelers weren't very well prepared. However, using the last period of time, he still made a rough timeline!

Wilhelm II and Tirpitz are sure to meet, and Prince Wilhelm will send an invitation, although Tirpitz is not as prosperous as it has been in history. But now it should have been in contact with the future prince. The two are on the same page on naval issues, but in the face of a strong prime minister, the historical speed of military expansion is afraid that it will not be reached.

In fact, Ruprecht did not approve of the naval construction of Germany in the pre-dreadnought period. Because as a traverser, he knows very well that there will be no war in the next 20 years, and if Wilhelm II still offends a large circle of people after coming to power and breaks out in World War 1, then the former dreadnoughts built now can be used very little! The current choice of the German Navy should be the same as that of the United States in the early days of Dreadnought. Improve shipbuilding by continuous improvement and construction to lay the foundation for the dreadnought period ahead! And now the cost performance of building a cruiser is really higher than that of building a battleship, and the cruiser can continue to be thrown overseas as a broken ship, and the battleship has no potential!

The current Prince Wilhelm doesn't have any rights, and he just went this time to have a good relationship with him, and then ask him to do a favor by the way, so that the Munich-class armored cruiser can win the bid! Of course, in order to satisfy His Majesty's hobby of the Crown Prince's navy, it was still necessary to give him a large-scale silver-plated model.

As for Tirpitz? What you want to say to him is even more important than what you say to Prince William! The traverser hoped that Tirpitz would abandon his so-called risk fleet theory, which had been proven by history to be useless at all! At the same time, let him think about what the Germans would do if there was to be another war in the North Sea, when the British did not use the coastal blockade!

Does the Risk Fleet Theory Work? Let's start with the theory, Germany must build a fleet strong enough that the world's number one naval power cannot easily engage in a war with it, and if it does, it will suffer heavy losses and lose sea power! And then some people said, that's right, wasn't it because of World War 1 that Britain declined, and then lost its hegemony in the sea?

Wrong, totally wrong! The key to the risk fleet theory is deterrence! That is, let the other party dare not move, accept their own requirements, instead of saying that they will die with the other party! This is like nuclear weapons in the 21st century, for nuclear powers, nuclear weapons are only a deterrent when they are in warehouses, and when both sides start to use nuclear weapons with their lives, then the result is a lose-lose situation! The point of the risk fleet is not at all to pull Britain off the horse! After pulling Britain down, Germany was also finished, so what was the point of the Germans in formulating this strategy? Is it for the sake of cheapening Americans?

In other words, by the time Britain decided to fight Germany, the risk fleet theory had failed, because the German fleet could not deter the opponent, on the contrary, this theory led to an even more insane riot of the opponent! When Churchill proposed that he could not wait and start construction of 8 dreadnoughts a year, Germany had already lost!

Another problem is that the Germans have a problematic understanding of sea power, which the Germans believe is exclusive and everyone wants to control the world's oceans, so Britain needs to face opponents from all sides. And in fact, the British slapped the Germans in the face with real actions! After Russia's defeat in the Russo-Japanese War, Britain and France bought Russia with pounds and francs. Through the transfer and coordination of various interests, Britain and France finally came together, with the French in charge of the Mediterranean, and the British fleet concentrated on the mainland to blockade the German fleet.

When the world's second-largest German Navy pinned down the world's No. 1 British Navy, other countries not only did not take advantage of the fire, but quickly sided with the British, the French and the Germans had enmity, needless to say, Japan also honestly maintained the basic plate of the Far East, the most surprising was Italy, a member of the original Allied Powers who chose to stand with the British after several trade-offs! What an ironic thing! The British Empire used the concession of interests and flexible diplomacy to ally as many countries as possible with itself! This hand was not played by the Germans back then!

And historically, the British realized early on the relativity of the sea power of the British Empire! Britain learned to compromise early on for some country that Britain was destined to not provoke, and that country was the United States! To some extent, the pace of expansion in the United States after 1880 was not slow at all! What they do is better than what they do in Germany! In the mid-80s, the United States and Japan had a friction in Hawaii, and they almost didn't make a move, and finally ended up with Japan admitting intimidation. In '89, Germany and the United States were in trouble in Samoa. If it weren't for God's inability to look past it, it's hard to say what would have become.

By 1898, in the world-famous Spanish-American War, the Americans had cleanly defeated the Spaniards in 100 days, including Cuba and the Philippines. Then there is the open door policy and the Munroe Doctrine, and the two policies put together are that I, the United States, want to enjoy the same rights as you within the strength of the rest of you, but in the Americas, this is my own territory, and you are not allowed to interfere, how domineering is this thing? Not to mention that the Great White Fleet later traveled around the world, saying that it was for peace, do you believe it?

How arrogant! How domineering! As for Germany, except for Wilhelm II, who couldn't control his own mouth, his actual actions were actually far worse than those of the United States! Later generations said that the time of the Kruger telegram of 1896 led to an explosion of hatred between Britain and Germany. That's true, but it's not just Germany that has been at odds with Britain this year, it's the United States! Relative to the content and events on the Kruger telegram, the Americans acted more drastically in 1896!

Just half a month before the Kruger telegram incident. US President Cleveland intervened in the border dispute between Britain and Venezuela. Invoking the Doorway, the President of the United States said in his State of the Union address: "Americans believe that the British have encroached on the land that originally belonged to Venezuela." And this behavior endangers the rights and interests of the United States. The United States will use all means to resist it. In terms of wording, this State of the Union address was much tougher than the Kruger telegram, and in terms of actual action, the Germans did nothing but pay lip service, while the Americans interfered.

But in the face of the same provocateurs, the British decisively avoided the mighty United States, and even Joseph Chamberlain said in his heart to British Prime Minister Salisbury: "It is not necessary to fight back against any enemy, but it is important that we should strike back against one of them!" ”

The difference between the United States and Germany lies in two points, one of which is ostensibly the foul mouth of Kaiser Wilhelm II. And fundamentally, the strength of the Americans! What can the British do with the United States? Even if there is no navy, the United States is still the United States, and maybe Canada will be eliminated. The British have long had no way to take the US imperialists, so they simply don't provoke!

After 1900, did the British interfere in the Americas? No! When the United States expanded, did the British stop it? Nor did it! On the contrary, the Spanish fleet that attacked the Philippines that year still set off from Hong Kong! The Germans also had ideas about the Philippines, but were warned by the British! Can't these things be explained? The sea power of the British is not exclusive! Share it with others when you need to!

After the war, the British Empire used the treaty to gain equal sea power with the more powerful United States. And Germany seems to be able to learn from this aspect, after all, even if the German Navy does its best, by the time of the Battle of Jutland, the total tonnage of dreadnoughts is half of that of the opponent! In terms of the total tonnage of battleships, the gap is even greater. This is no different from the proportion of the agreement proposed by the British side between Britain and Germany.

The fate of Germany in World War 1 was at sea, and if the proportion of the British and German navies could be limited to a range by agreement, and then the remaining funds could be used for army and material reserves, it would undoubtedly be very powerful for the war situation! The final contest for sea power will depend on the era of dreadnought more than a decade later, and it is still too early to enter a naval armament. It is not beneficial to provoke Britain too early, the intensification of the Anglo-Russian contradictions is still very useful for Germany, Russia must lose, but Britain and Japan will shed more blood!

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