A 10,000-ton cruise ship, slowly leaving the harbor, this construction and 12 years ago of the cruise ship, has been a little backward in performance, but the facilities are luxurious and comfortable, originally ran Western Europe and North America routes, but because of a large number of 20,000 tons, or even 30,000 tons of huge cruise ships, crowded without business, especially from 1901, with the competition of shipping, first appeared 32,000 tons of Lusitania, and later, there was a terrifying giant ship Olympus, With a displacement of about 45,000 tons, it is the largest cruise ship in the world, of which the first ship is the Olympus, and the second ship is the famous Titanic that is silent on the route.

The emergence of large cruise ships and luxury cruise ships has made some 12-year-old cruise ships unable to operate, an Olympic-class cruise ship that can carry a total of more than 3,000 passengers and crew, plus a batch of 30,000 tons, 20,000 tons, and 10,000 tons of cruise ships, which quickly became obsolete, even if he still has a certain speed and performance, but he can't attract business, so he was easily acquired by Yang Yuanzhao.

Such a 10,000-ton giant ship, in the North American route is somewhat outdated, in other routes is an out-and-out giant ship, after a slight modification, recruited the necessary personnel, this time was used to load these workers and engineers back to China, in the 10,000-ton cruise ship, only took more than 500 people and some simple tools, it is simply too spacious, in order to entertain these seeds of China's future shipping and fleet, Yang Yuanzhao has done everything that should be thought of to the extreme, along the way, whether it is comfort, or treatment, All are top of the world.

In 1912, in the history of this time and space, there was an inflection point, originally, China, which could not produce even the most basic industrial products, actually gained the ability to produce battleships, although it was only a beginning, and the chapter belonging to China's oceans was opened.

Since this day, the flow of workers between Germany and China has not stopped, although in principle, China has sent more to Germany, 10 times more than Germany's support, but Germany's solid industrial conditions and strong labor force have allowed the northwest to obtain support in some key areas, gradually making up for the original seedling promotion and neglect, and under a more solid industrial foundation, it has achieved faster and more stable development.

This is a later story, at least 5 years, or even one or two decades later, now they, representing the hope of China's future shipbuilding industry and fleet, looked at the new cruise ship, pulled the flute, slowly left the port of Hamburg, and gradually went deep into the depths of the ocean, Yang Yuanzhao sighed, turned around and left.

Eyes back to Qingdao Port, at this time in Qingdao Port, calm and calm, from Germany control zhì Shandong, in addition to the development of Qingdao, other places, just sent some offices or commercial houses, not as their own land to develop, at most only as a raw material production area and dumping ground, only Qingdao itself, as the core of Germany and military port, took a lot of effort, not only built a commercial port and a military port, but also built a fortress.

The shipyard that the Kaiser promised to help build in the northwest is not in Qingdao, which is also normal, if it is placed in Qingdao, such a large dock cannot be concealed at all, you must know that the dock finally determined by Yang Yuanzhao, but two 50,000-ton and four 30,000-ton docks, the remaining 20,000 and 10,000-ton are more numerous, such a huge shipyard in Qingdao, it cannot be concealed at all, you know, the construction of the dock in the northwest with the help of Germany to form the production capacity of battleships is also to increase the shipbuilding capacity in the dark.

The confrontation between Britain and Germany is all-round, on the army, Germany has the advantage, but after Britain has won over the feud between France and Russia, the two Germanys, a situation of encirclement has been formed, resisting Germany on the road, and the navy is Britain occupying the absolute upper hand, the huge home fleet and the North Sea fast fleet, directly suppressing Germany, but the largest industrial country in Europe is not a decoration, Germany is frantically expanding its shipbuilding capabilities, constantly catching up with the gap with Britain.

It was precisely because of Germany's stamina that Britain made up its mind to fight a big war with Germany, and squeezed Germany's shipbuilding capacity through all its forces. Now, it seems that a delicate balance has been reached, and after realizing this, Germany is also quite careful, and the construction of battleships is not just finished, but still needs to be put into operation, and the annual cost is extremely huge, and Germany has not expanded endlessly.

The northwest slammed into the door, With the help of the 13.5-inch gun, it has obtained Germany's promised help, and it seems that the northwest has gained a lot of benefits, but from the expansion of shipbuilding capacity, Germany can help the northwest complete the construction of shipyards and docks at the same time, expand its shipbuilding capacity, because the northwest appeared, for the Baghdad Railway, the Kiel Canal, and even several railway lines to invest in the funds, as well as more than 400 million US dollars to purchase goods from Germany, enough for Germany to draw out 100 million US dollars, this money can be used to expand the shipbuilding capacity, Germany can run 6 capital ships at the same time, at a price of 13 million US dollars, 6 ships can not spend 100 million US dollars at all.

This is also the fundamental reason why Germany is so generous, the precious engineers and designers, and even some professional workers on the battleship sent out, according to the commitment of the northwest, the first batch of warships of Qingdao shipyard can be delivered to Germany, but the two sides are required to cooperate in the design of one, in Germany's view, only with their designers to check, there will be no battleship failure, but if the design of the northwest side is better, improve the strength of the battleship, it will be better, and it can even be fed back to the German side, From the designers and engineers of the battleship, all from the German side, what else can be kept secret.

Only 40 kilometers away from Qingdao is a very hidden coast, here is the location of the new dock that has been selected by many parties, not too far from Qingdao, not very close, within the warning range of the German army in Qingdao, relatively remote personnel are few, the most important thing is that the German naval base in Qingdao is next to it, less than 10 kilometers away, once there is something, you can quickly find and deal with it.

At this time, it has become a huge construction site, more than 20 docks of different sizes, the smallest is also 10,000 tons, the largest even reaches 50,000 tons, such a huge dock, each of which requires a huge total of soil construction, 20 together, not much worse than the construction of a huge port, and even larger in a certain way.

Before Germany reached an agreement, the earthwork for the construction of the dock had already begun, and whether or not Germany could support it, there was no problem with the civilian side, the dock had already been purchased, and it would be said that it would be built first, and as for the future, there would be a road before the car reached the mountain.

It is like this, the current area, everywhere is under construction, everywhere there are people and machines working, more than 20 large docks, forming 20 huge pits, countless people and machinery are working hard.

The basic works of the dockyard are very simple, you can do it by looking for engineers in the Far East, of course, this is top secret, at least for two or three years, it is impossible for others to see it, there is such a big project here, even ordinary Germans can't do it, God knows if there are spies in it.

The Northwest was the first to start construction, and only notified the German side after the start of construction, the German side was waiting for Yang Yuanzhao to arrive, and was surprised to hear this, the dock is not a casual production, although the Northwest also claimed that they found a few engineers to help design, but a thousand-ton dock and a 10,000-ton dock, can it be the same thing?

In any case, the Northwest will place an order in Germany to buy these docks, and Germany is obliged not to let these labors become empty, or even to let this place go to waste, which is found after searching 100 kilometers around Qingdao, and the most suitable place to build a shipyard is very satisfactory in all respects.

Fortunately, this is only a dockyard, not a shipbuilding, Germany found a few engineers, urgently went to the Far East, along the way, using telegraph and other tools to command, with the help of the German intelligence department 30 years to build up the intelligence network, they can command the progress every 2-3 days.

However, in the telegram, the number of reports made these engineers a little depressed, exaggerated too much, too fast, faster than they knew, at least 10 times faster, at first a few reprimands, but when Qingdao, knew that some shipbuilding engineers arrived, they found that it turned out that they were a little lonely, the northwest is really on the foundation project, there is an unimaginable construction speed, Chinese will lie, there are professionally certified engineers, foreign ministry officials will never lie, The Chinese are really very strong and have outstanding characteristics in the earth work industry, no wonder the German government will hand over several large-scale projects to the northwest.

The general dock, from the order to get, it takes a long time, less than half a year, more than a year, often until the order is signed before the start of the earthworks, now the order has not been fully signed, although the dock is also in production, this foundation is too fast.

From Qingdao and Shanghai found a group of engineers and some professionals, they quickly came to Qingdao to join the whole construction, greatly improved the speed, and then, there are a large number of personnel and equipment to come, has already placed orders, commissioned production of the dock, basically completed most of it, plus the temporary dismantling of a scrap dock, Qingdao shipyard plan, much earlier than expected.

Large buildings, countless houses, 270,000 people, 1,200 large aircraft of various sizes, roaring on this beach, a large dock with hope for the future, began to officially settle down in Qingdao, the first step of the Chinese Navy, finally successfully taken. R1152