After handing over Rainey to Zack, the butler, to settle down, Tatsuten lay quietly on the couch, imagining the big man wearing a ninja costume, and couldn't help but laugh alone. If only I could invite some ninjas from Japan to form a ninja organization, but if I knew what I had done and what I would do to the Japanese, I am afraid that these ninjas would have dismantled themselves. As he gets more and more involved in military and politics, fighting is inevitable, and sooner or later he will have to set up a professional personal guard, and Rainey will be the first member of this guard!

As he was thinking, Thomas walked in with a telegram.

"Jiji, His Majesty the Emperor has convened a pre-imperial meeting, and you will also participate in this time!"

"Oh? Imperial Council? Chen Tian took the telegram and read it carefully.

"Do you know why His Majesty the Emperor is in a hurry to convene the Imperial Council this time?"

"I heard that it was because the British dreadnoughts were launched!"

"Dreadnoughts!" Chen Tian thought about it, he only knew that the dreadnought had caused a shipbuilding competition in the world, especially between Britain and Germany, as for the specific time, it was not very clear, and now it seems that the era of dreadnoughts has arrived.

"Alright, Thomas, tell your men to prepare the car, and we'll leave for Berlin!"

10 days later, the Imperial Palace in Berlin.

In the conference room, in addition to Kaiser Wilhelm II, Crown Prince and cabinet ministers, there were the Chief of the General Staff Moltke Jr., the Minister of War von Falkenhein, the Admiralty Tirpitz, and the Admiralty Generals Reinhard Schell, Franz von Hipper, Maximilian von Spee, and Paul von Retoff-Forbeck. It seems that the Navy is the protagonist of this meeting.

"Everyone! The topic of today's meeting is how to deal with the new British warships! The Emperor motioned for the guards to uncover the red cloth in the center of the table, revealing a model of a warship. For such a battleship that had never been seen before, everyone showed twelve points of surprise.

Then, Admiral Tirpitz began to introduce the battleship.

"According to the intelligence we have gathered, the British call their battleship the 'Dreadnought-class' battleship, and the biggest feature of this battleship is 10 single large-caliber 305 mm guns, steam turbine power, 21 knots, and comprehensive heavy armor protection!"

"Hmm......"

Tirpitz said this, and everyone couldn't help but admire.

"This battleship with a displacement of about 20,000 tons, which started construction in Portsmouth, England, in October last year, was launched at an astonishing speed in February this year, and sea trials began in October." Tirpitz had to stop again, because every word he said made people cry out in surprise.

"According to our intelligence, this 'dreadnought' class has comprehensive protection, the armor of key parts such as the turret, engine room, ammunition depot, and conning tower is very thick, and even the armor belt of the hull is much thicker than that of ordinary battleships, and the traditional bow ramming angle has been canceled."

Once again, the crowd exclaimed for this new type of battleship.

"Quiet and quiet!" The Emperor was displeased with the fact that everyone admired the British battleship so much, and the room finally fell silent.

"I have decided to suspend all our current battleship building plans and to build our German dreadnoughts with all our might!"

"Yes, as His Majesty the Emperor has said, we will revise the shipbuilding plan, and His Majesty hopes that the new plan will bring the Imperial Navy to the size of 13 dreadnought-class battleships, 5 battlecruisers, 22 old battleships, 32 cruisers, 114 destroyers, and 30 submarines in 1914." Tirpitz added, "Your Majesty has invited you here today to discuss this ship-building plan!" ”

Consult? Chen Tian felt that this ship-building plan had obviously been discussed by the emperor and the Minister of the Navy in advance, and even the specific types and numbers of ships had already been planned, so was there any room for negotiation now? What everyone is going to do today is to support the plan of the Emperor and the Minister of the Navy! The generals should not object, but the ministers who hold the finances in their hands...... It seems that the emperor is going to put pressure on them today.

"If you have any opinions, please put them forward!" The Emperor looked at the ministers and generals who were discussing below.

"Your Majesty's name! I think this shipbuilding plan is perfect! Chen Tian stood up, he felt that there was nothing to blame for this plan, in this international environment Germany had to keep up with the pace of Britain, and Britain had to speed up to avoid being caught up by Germany. He just happened to see that the emperor was signaling the other two admirals to come out to support this plan, so he had the idea to stand up and support the emperor's shipbuilding plan.

Although Chen Tian did not have much say in the government and cabinet, he was the prince of East Prussia after all, not to mention that his plane gave him a lot of influence in everyone's minds. So the generals all spoke in favor, and only a few cabinet ministers were frowning there, and it seemed that the financial pressure was what they feared.

"Your Majesty, ministers, generals, in order to support the development of the Imperial Navy, and for our Germany to dominate the world, I am willing to contribute my private property to support His Majesty the Emperor's grand plan, and my Königsberg shipyard will provide the Navy with all the submarines in this shipbuilding plan free of charge!" Chen Tian quickly calculated the cost of his sentence in his heart, if the submarines are built in batches, each submarine will only need about 500,000 marks, and his economic ability can fully do it, "Everyone, I promise Your Majesty that in the next 8 years, 30 submarines will be provided to the Navy free of charge, as well as all the aircraft that the Navy needs!" ”

"Hmm......" Today, everyone's hearts were stimulated one after another, so that several elderly ministers planned to retire early.

Finally, the cabinet ministers nodded.

"Good!" The Emperor nodded to Chentian, stood up and announced loudly, "Then I announce that the new shipbuilding plan has been decided, and this plan will be submitted to the cabinet for approval tomorrow!" We are now lagging behind the British, and we hope that you, like the Prince of East Prussia, will contribute to the rise of Germany! ”

After the Imperial Council, the Emperor asked the guards to inform Chentian to come to his study.

"Dear Gigi, my nephew, I am very satisfied with your performance today!" The Emperor sat at his desk a little tiredly, "I thought I would have to put some effort into the support of those cabinet ministers, this ship-building project needs such huge financial support!" It's all damned British! ”

"Yes, Your Majesty! But I'm afraid that the British will build more warships for our shipbuilding program! "Chen Tian knows that the British won this shipbuilding competition with the speed of 2 ships against 1 ship in history, and I am afraid that history will repeat itself here, that is to say, by the beginning of the war, the German Navy may still lag far behind the British Navy in terms of scale, if Germany has enough advanced warships, then there is still a fight. Submarine! Aircraft carrier!

"You don't have to worry about that! In addition, I will not let you provide these things for the Empire for nothing, I will inform the Admiralty tomorrow and ask them to provide you with the best submarine experts and technicians in the country, and after you provide 30 submarines, all the submarines of the Navy will be ordered from your shipyard! "The emperor knew that 30 submarines, although they were not the main force of the Navy, the cost of building them was definitely a huge expense for individuals.

"Your Majesty, serving the Empire is what I should do! It's just ......" Chen Tian secretly thought about how to make his request, and he couldn't let the emperor feel that his appetite was too big.

"Hmmm! Do you have any other requirements? Just say! ”

"That's right, I hope to be able to form a Baltic detachment!" Chen Tian glanced at the emperor, there was no change in his face, just a look of thinking, so he continued, "I hope this is a fleet dominated by destroyers and submarines, and of course I hope to be able to realize my idea of aircraft carriers in this fleet!" ”

"Aircraft carriers?" The emperor looked at Chen Tian, a term he had never heard of.

"It's a large vessel loaded with seaplanes or ordinary planes, which are hoisted from the ship to the surface and take off, while ordinary planes take off from the deck of the ship."

"Haha! Interesting! Gigi, how did you have such an idea! The emperor didn't seem to be able to imagine what kind of thing this was, he thought for a moment, and then nodded, "The future goal of the Imperial Navy is battleships, and the Admiralty does not have extra funds to support your idea, but I can give you the establishment of the Baltic Fleet, and the destroyers you need can be provided by the Navy for a few, submarines, and allocate 10 of the submarines you provide to the Navy for free." This fleet will be handed over to you, and you will take care of the rest! ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Although he had to pay for it himself, he finally had his own navy, and Chen Tian was still very happy.

"It turned out to be His Royal Highness! What makes you so happy? ”

When Chen Tian walked to the gate of the palace, he suddenly heard a familiar voice, turned his head and looked, sure enough, it was the crown prince Prince, I don't know if this guy is looking for trouble for the plane.

"Oh, it's His Royal Highness the Crown Prince! Hello! ”

"What did my father say when he summoned you in, making you happy like this? I'm happier than being a prince! Prince looked at Chen Tian and smiled coldly.

"Your Royal Highness the Crown Prince, don't make fun of me! His Majesty the Emperor just asked me to go back and prepare the submarine well! Chen Tian felt that this crown prince liked to hide words in his words, and he hated such people the most.

"That's right! Speaking of submarines, you're really rich! 30 submarines, I'm afraid I can't take it without tens of millions of marks! Rich, really rich! ”

"As members of the royal family, we enjoy the treatment of millions of marks a year, how can we not worry about the country! Now that the Empire needs it, I just have to do something in return! Chen Tian laughed, "The sales of our planes have been good recently, the prince is really fame and fortune!" ”

"Humph! Not bad! I hope we can continue to work together well, it will be good for us! The crown prince patted Chentian on the shoulder, smiled and turned to leave.

The good mood was ruined by this guy, Chen Tian could only smile bitterly, the prince and himself seemed to be consumed!

The next day, Chen Tian was again sought out by Tirpitz, the Minister of the Navy. Tirpitz had already received a notice from the Emperor about the establishment of the Baltic Detachment and the provision of submarine experts and technicians, and he was already very optimistic about the future of submarines, and after a long conversation with Chentian, he became more aware of the great role of submarines as a blockade weapon. At the same time, at Chentian's request, he agreed to transfer two light cruisers to the Baltic Detachment in the future, and instructed that the task of this fleet was to protect the coastal ports of East Prussia and, if necessary, to carry out a submarine blockade of the Baltic Sea.

In December 1906, the Baltic Detachment was officially formed. At the beginning of the formation of the fleet, there were only 3 test submarines, 2 destroyers transferred from the Navy, and 5 torpedo boats built by the Königsberg shipyard itself. After that, Chentian again invested 20 million marks in the Königsberg shipyard, and the shipyard expanded from a medium-sized shipyard to a large shipyard, and recruited a large number of experts and skilled workers from Norway and Sweden, and the shipyard began to build medium and large ocean-going freighters, and also began to build destroyers with the technical support of Tirpitz and the Admiralty. The strength of the Baltic detachment gradually grew stronger.