In the newly built Doge's Palace in the Old Port, von . Earl Dwys finally meets the warlords, savage riches, and the real controller behind the mysterious rich Miller, Lin Haijiang.

Lin Haijiang also finally met the long-awaited Prussian plenipotentiary von Fernandes. His Excellency The Earl of Dewes, von Anderson. The Earl of D'Ess was about fifty years old, dressed in a black tuxedo, with a very neatly trimmed mustache, with a one-eyed piece, and his habit of always looking at his watch from time to time seemed to be not much different from Lin Haijiang's imagination.

But in the von. In Count Dewes's imagination, Lin Haijiang should be an old man or a middle-aged man, he never thought that this Lin Haijiang would be the same size as his granddaughter, and he couldn't help but sigh.

Soon the two sides went straight to the point, before Miller had already conveyed Lin Haijiang's initial request to the Prussian side, with the operation of His Excellency Archduke von D. Dovis Borwe was just a matter of course, and Prussia really needed these orders from Lin Haijiang to meet their fledgling but difficult industry.

Just like the Hamburg shipyard, after getting this batch of orders, the entire shipyard can completely get rid of the joint suppression of Britain and France, and many industrial and mining industries can start working at full strength because of the lack of orders, and the most exciting thing for them is that Lin Haijiang is willing to pay the full amount, which means that Prussia's veins will be filled with fresh and energetic blood.

It was such an extremely attractive prospect that Prussia decided to enter into an unequal cooperation with Lin Haijiang, an individual of unknown power.

However, Feng. The Earl of Dewes's initiative was an accident. There is a close connection between Count D'Æwis and the family of Archduke von D'Dorvis Bauwe, the Hamburg shipyard owns a quarter of the shares of Count von D'Ess and, above all, Count von D'Weys himself is a mechanic and a shipmaster.

It was Lin Haijiang's ironclad design that brought him to the distant Old Port to meet this mysterious figure who was often talked about in the Prussian high society.

The meeting between the two sides was quite pleasant, and the four Chinese interpreters from Prussia were doing their best to check the translations carefully, for the meeting was of great importance to either side and could not afford to go wrong.

First of all, the two sides reached a preliminary framework of cooperation, that is, Prussia will send technicians to analyze the composition of iron ore on the island of Sumatra, and then provide four new blast furnaces of 20 tons, cold rolling workshop equipment, as well as the latest rifle drawings and two production lines, chemical basic industrial facilities, etc., to meet its small-scale weapons manufacturing, and the Hamburg shipyard will send technicians and equipment to help him build a shipyard of a certain scale at the location designated by Lin Haijiang, but the purchase cost of the equipment will be borne by Lin Haijiang. At the same time, Prussia accepted more than 2,000 international students to all Prussian universities, including the Royal Academy, but the Krupp artillery production line that Lin Haijiang was looking forward to was not among them.

To put it simply, Prussia built a small but complete industrial base for Lin Haijiang on the island of Sumatra, which has a lot of minerals, and Lin Haijiang relied on this small industrial base to train his own industrial workers and form an industrial model.

For this first stage of cooperation, Lin Haijiang had to order five of the latest heavy ironclad ships from Prussia, as well as 20,000 new firing rifles, military boots, helmets, and other quilts, and also to purchase no less than 1 million German gold marks of various commodities and materials.

The second stage of the long-term plan was for Prussia to invest in the construction of large-scale industrial cities in the area controlled by Lin Haijiang, and Lin Haijiang granted Prussia the right to a concession, ensuring that Prussia would enjoy unilateral most-favored-nation treatment and consular jurisdiction in the area under Lin Haijiang's control.

The two sides jointly expanded the original shipyard, the two sides transferred various technologies and patents that could be used in the military field to each other, Krupp set up a branch factory in the designated city of Lin Haijiang, allowing Lin Haijiang to produce and sell Krupp artillery and subsequent products, and Prussia provided Lin Haijiang with an interest-free loan of 5 million gold marks for three years, which will be used for the purchase of ships and military supplies in Prussia.

The third stage belongs to the stage of strategic cooperation between the two sides, and the military, political, and economic contents formulated are very vague, but Lin Haijiang does not care much about it. Count D'Affaires was very satisfied, because the so-called cooperation in the above stages seemed to be a big loss for Lin Haijiang in the early stage, but if Lin Haijiang's strength could gradually and steadily expand, with the expansion of his power and influence, Lin Haijiang would undoubtedly become the biggest beneficiary in the cooperation with Prussia, there is no doubt about this.

In fact, the so-called first phase of the cooperation project Lin Haijiang has already reached a preliminary agreement through Müller and Archduke von D. Dovis Bowey, and this time Count von Dewis came to Lin Haijiang to conduct a routine investigation of the potential for follow-up cooperation.

At tea time, Feng. Earl Dewis naturally brought the topic to the design drawings of the ironclad ship, Lin Haijiang's so-called design drawings are only a three-dimensional cross-sectional view of the main structure. Again, the Earl had never seen it before, but he was certain that the drawing was not the work of a layman, but of an experienced naval specialist.

It's just that many designs have not yet been experimentally demonstrated, and many of the ideas are novel but somewhat contradictory? For example, the sealed compartment under the hull, a ship of 5,000 tons needs three of the latest Burke steam engines? It's simply a huge waste, from the overall and split layout of the hull, the armor plate waterline sidehang, the segmented keel laying technology, the surfacing welding technology, etc., Feng. The Earl of D'Avis believed that if he could make a good argument, Prussia would probably be able to build the strongest warship in the world.

However, Lin Haijiang's age and experience make Feng. Earl De Weis was very puzzled, he preferred to believe that there was a master ship design expert behind Lin Haijiang.

Feng. Earl Dewys's words reminded Lin Haijiang of his three-dimensional cross-sectional view of the ironclad ship with expanding epochal significance, most of the inspiration came from the historical German-class ironclad ship, the German-class ironclad ship was built by the German-class ironclad shipyard, which started on January 20, 1903, was launched on November 19, 1904, and was completed on August 3, 1906. Until 1912, he served as the flagship of the High Seas Fleet and participated in the famous Battle of Tereland.

The standard displacement of the ship is 13,191 tons; It has a full load displacement of 14,281 tons, is linked by three steam engines with three axes, a single engine with 20,000 horsepower, a maximum speed of 18.5 knots, and a crew of 743 people.

However, the output of the largest single steam engine at present is only 7,000 horsepower, so it is pure wishful thinking to build a giant ship with a displacement of more than 13,000 tons, so Lin Haijiang added the proud work of the British Navy in the later generations, part of the design of the Type 42 destroyer, and at the same time covered up the strong Germanic national atmosphere of the German-class ironclad ship.

With the deepening of exchanges between the two sides, Feng. Earl Dewis was surprised to find that Lin Haijiang not only had a unique insight into ship design, but also had a unique side of naval warfare? It's really incomprehensible, a land country has produced a naval genius?

Privately Feng. Earl Dewis felt a little sad for Lin Haijiang, and he finally understood why Lin Haijiang was so keen to buy ironclad ships. The Earl of D'Ess was also very glad that Lin Haijiang was not born in France or England, otherwise the future Prussian navy would probably face an extremely difficult opponent.

Lin Haijiang had a lot of considerations when he drew this drawing at that time, he didn't want to affect the course of history too much because of all his actions, or more simply, to cheapen foreign devils, and before the industrial base reached the critical line, even if there was an advanced design, it would not be able to become a reality after all.

After all, the industrial base and the development of science and technology are complementary to each other, it is impossible to put aside one of the links to develop with reading deformity, and most of the people who have played strategic RPG games in later generations know that the development of the technology tree is a ring after a ring, and it is possible to surpass it in an orderly manner.

The outbreak of this accumulation of science and technology is especially reflected in the military aspect, throughout the history of human development, it is a history of war, human beings have applied the latest science and technology to war, and then desperately develop newer science and technology, it can be said that the pace of human pursuit of knowledge is actually how to kill the same kind more, faster and more effectively.

When talking about the improvement of the firing rifle, Lin Haijiang gave Feng . Earl Dewes had several small design ideas, including the concept of the bomb bay and the improvement of the handle, and Lin Haijiang also made a request for the development of smokeless gunpowder.

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