In fact, back in the early 80s of the 19th century, purely in terms of the size of the fleet, Germany once reached the level of the fourth in the world in terms of tonnage! It is second only to Britain, France and Russia, and the tonnage of ironclad ships is the third in the world, even more fierce than Russia. As other countries made their efforts, the status of the German navy continued to decline. In 1885, the tonnage of Italian ironclad ships surpassed that of Germany, in 1886 the total tonnage of the Italian naval fleet surpassed Germany, and in 1892, the tonnage of Russian armored ships surpassed that of Germany. This is completely unbearable!

In addition, with the launch of new warships by the great powers, the quality of Germany's existing fleet has shrunk rapidly, and many warships have reached the end of their service life, and these old things have even had many accidents. So even if Bismarck was still in power, he decided to prepare the Imperial Navy! There should be no problem in the federal parliament, and the states are waiting to get a piece of the pie. What if the Imperial Diet can't pass it? It doesn't matter, if you dissolve and re-elect a parliament and then pass it.

However, now there is a very serious problem, and that is the question of how to build the Navy! The initial development of the German navy was very chaotic, and the Germans needed a strong fleet of shore defense ironclads to ensure that the coastline was not violated for their own safety, and there were colonies overseas that needed to be protected, and from time to time they would engage in some confrontations with the US imperialists in Samoa, or bully the European natives or something. So he needed a cruiser formation, and the unlucky German boy was later influenced by the French Green Water School and built a whole bunch of torpedo boats!

The ecological structure of the German fleet, so to speak, was very chaotic, influenced by various currents of thought, and there were too many useless things of all kinds. There are so few that can be used now! The ironclad ships are backward and cannot match the new warships of various countries, and the cruisers are broken, not to mention the problem of combat effectiveness, and the attendance rate is enough. Torpedo boats turned out to be not as good as the French boasted. So now the question arises, where is the German Navy on the road? It can't be said that there is no road in the world, and when there are more people walking, it becomes a road!

Now the German Navy and the top management are also very entangled, although it has been decided to build a large scale, but the money that can be taken out is still relatively small. Even after Wilhelm II came to power in history, with the support of His Majesty the Emperor, and the rush of Tirpitz before and after the saddle, it was more difficult to pass the budget for 4 Brandenburg-class battleships. And now, the naval fanatic Wilhelm has not yet come to power, and subjectively the current German board of directors and chief consuls are not so determined, and the appropriation will naturally be relatively small. On the other hand, reinsurance treaties still exist, and German-Russian relations are not bad for the foreseeable future. The pressure on the Navy's coastal defense is not great. So the 4 Brandenburg-class battleships in history will definitely not appear now, not to mention whether there is money or not, at least there is no need!

Not only was Bismarck a layman in the navy, but the German admirals were also more vague in terms of strategy, but they all noticed a problem, that is, Germany's overseas interests needed to be protected, and the German cruiser fleet could already be described as dilapidated, and a bunch of 2,000-ton wooden-hulled cruisers had long been overwhelmed. Until now, Germany and the United States have been engaged in a confrontation in Samoa, and they almost fought a few years ago. The colony of Nagada was also not stable. Sometimes it is necessary to communicate with the colonial fleets of certain countries.

Therefore, the Prime Minister thinks that the cruiser fleet should be updated first. On the one hand, the needs of the Germans' overseas fleet did outweigh the needs of their own homeland, and the Russians and the British were friends, and in the face of the French, Germany could solve the problem with the army. So the choice of colonial and ocean-going interests was correct. On the other hand, because the steel plate incident has just passed, the remaining bigwigs of the Admiralty are still silent, how can they have the courage to do it against the powerful prime minister? Tired of living?

The tone of building a cruiser first was set, and then the problems behind were even more headaches! What kind of cruiser do you build? Is it a mounted cruiser or a protective cruiser? Is it a first-class cruiser with a displacement of almost 10,000 tons or a second-class cruiser of about 4000 tons? How to set the performance of the cruiser? How to do firepower and defense? What is the speed? Okay, it's up to the designers to implement, but you always have to set the tone, right? It's like when you go out to buy something, and you don't even say what you want to buy, how can the merchant introduce you?

The navy is still very confused with a lot of money. The discussions were in full swing, but there was really no result in a short period of time. And the folk are also very lively, under the encouragement of a certain historical celebrity, the atmosphere of the German Imperial Navy is much stronger, from the perspective of the traverser, even stronger than the **** naval fever of later generations, after all, there have been emperors in Germany in history, and later generations have heard of which leader to play SPS.

Originally, this matter has nothing to do with the traverser, our Prince Ruprecht is watching all this with the mood of onlookers, after all, it is only 1889 now, and there will be no war in the next 20 years, no matter how good the ship you build now, it will be useless at that time. And the talent I want to find hasn't come yet, and the thing about the design bureau has just been skimmed, what are you busy with? Anyway, Germany's new armor steel for warships was provided by itself, so let's build the factory first and increase production capacity. What else does he do? Is it obvious that you are not doing your job?

However, when one day, our Royal Highness the Prince picked up a newspaper and saw the overhead of a warship, the feeling of scolding Fang Xuan in the forum and the post bar war came again! If nothing else, this overhead design is good! Although it does not reach the world's top level, it also represents the development direction of historical advanced productive forces! The guy is good, I'm very optimistic about you!

The newspaper devoted a lot of space to a protective cruiser! This is how an author named King of the Black Hawk described the warship he envisioned. DISPLACEMENT OF 4500 TONS, THE THICKNESS OF THE SIDES OF THE DOME ARMOR IS UP TO 100MM. THE HORIZONTAL PART IS 50MM. AND THERE IS A CERTAIN DEFENSE AGAINST ARTILLERY, ALL GUNS HAVE ARMOR PROTECTION FROM 50MM TO 100MM. IT IS ARMED WITH 8 150MM NAVAL GUNS, OF WHICH THE BOW AND STERN ARE TWIN 150MM GUNS. ANOTHER 4 150MM GUNS WERE ARRANGED IN THE FOUR CORNERS OF THE BATTLESHIP. At the same time, it is also equipped with 6 105mm naval guns and a large number of 50mm naval guns to deal with torpedo boats or other small targets, with a maximum output of 12,000 horsepower. The speed is above 20 knots.

"It's a very good ship, it feels like a 2nd class cruiser produced by Armstrong in later generations. If this ship is pulled out, the Yoshino of later generations may not be able to beat this cargo, and if you want to stabilize the pressure, I am afraid that the 4,900-ton Buenosaires in Argentina will be needed. In this era, this thing can be made, at least in the right direction, and it is worth encouraging! The traverser nodded his appreciation!

But there is a saying that if someone supports it, then there must be someone who opposes it. Someone's design was quickly criticized by a large number of people. Everyone thinks that someone's design is simply ignorant of shipbuilding! And claim that such a battleship will not be sunk at all, because after launching, the cargo sank into the sea because of its own weight! The sarcasm in the words made the traveler feel very dissatisfied.

"This is a suppression of future designers, what can those old-fashioned guys in Germany come up with? For example, the Empress Caesar Augusta, which will start construction next year, has a displacement of 6,218 tons, and only 4 150 guns, 8 105 guns and 4 88 guns! With such a large tonnage and such a weak firepower, doesn't this make the great powers laugh off their big teeth? The Yoshino said it wasn't afraid of you. Americans' Olympic number means to teach you how to be a man in minutes! It is not at all wrong to say that these designers have misled the country and the army! Prince Ruprecht was very angry and said that he should help the designer!

As a result, His Royal Highness the Prince, who has experienced the baptism of online mouth cannons in the 21st century, and thinks that he is at least an expert in the field of oral ballistics, personally dictated an article, and then handed it over to someone to polish and sent it to the newspaper! So, a war of words quietly kicked off!

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