Contrary to Lehedon's success in the construction of the Austro-Hungarian Navy, he was more hindered and coldly received when he promoted his shipbuilding concept in the German Navy.

Tirpitz was disgusted, even jealous, at Heldon's constant interference in the construction of the German navy. Although that guy was a relative of the emperor and an honorary marshal of the Second Reich Navy, he was an Austrian after all. A foreigner interfered in the naval plans of the German Empire at every turn, and at every turn brought out the amateur emperor who thought he was well versed in the navy. This qiē is outrageous.

Moreover, he had to hand over the construction of a Scharnhorst-class armored ship to the North Sea Shipyard under that man's name, as a reward for the design he strenuously opposed.

On January 21, 1908, the first Austro-Hungarian battleship, the Radetzky, was outfitted, but thanks to the addition of boilers and the strengthening of the armor thickness of important parts of the amidships, it still reached a speed of 26.5 knots, so that when it was finally built, its displacement increased to 22,300 tons, instead of the official figure of 21,000 tons, which made this class of battleships equipped with 305 mm guns much more powerful than expected.

The construction of the "Emperor" class armored cruisers by the Austro-Hungarian Navy influenced the design of the Germans, and soon after the construction of the Austro-Hungarian Navy began, the German Navy received all the design drawings of this class of "so-called battleships". As allies with German as their official language, the navies of the two countries had frequent technical exchanges, and Austria-Hungary received a lot of guidance and useful advice from its German counterparts in the construction and design process, and almost all the design drawings of the German warships.

Similarly, the Austro-Hungarian naval designers naturally had something to learn from the Germans, but initially, it was the Austro-Hungarian side that received more help. Now, however, it was the Austro-Hungarian designers who were ahead of their German compatriots, and although it was a little unpleasant, the naval exchanges were still close and like a family.

Austria-Hungary was ahead of its German counterparts in turret design, ship alignment optimization and power arrangement, and the Germans were always superior to the Austro-Hungarian warship designers in terms of structural design, compartment and armor arrangement.

After receiving the blueprints of the battleships of the "Radetzky" class, and with the intervention of the Kaiser, Vice Admiral Herlingen, the director of the armament department of the German Navy, immediately decided to redesign the newly built "Deutschland" class battleships in accordance with the design scheme of the Austro-Hungarian Navy, but was opposed by Admiral Tirpitz. The cautious commander-in-chief of the Imperial German Navy had already begun to become very conservative by this time, and tried to reject the use of new technologies without absolute certainty.

Vice Admiral Herringen, however, had been sticking to his principles, and the two had their case again before Wilhelm II, and the German Emperor had read the report and sided with his ship-building director. In the end, Tirpitz agreed to carry out the redesign, and due to his delays, the design work on the Deutschland-class battleship was postponed.

After the construction of the British dreadnought began, Helton Lee obtained the general layout of this class of battleships through his spies in London, and the construction of a large battleship with a displacement of about 20,000 tons could not be completely kept secret. This information was also placed on Tirpitz's desk during the Austro-German naval intelligence exchange.

Tirpitz finally agreed to start construction of a new class of battleships of the "Deutschland" class, according to the design of Hellingen, but still did not agree to equip them with oil-fired boilers.

In fact, his worries were indeed unnecessary, and Helton had already argued with him before. As early as 1903, the Germans established a large-scale low-temperature coal dry distillation plant to provide raw materials for chemical plants, and the low-temperature coal dry distillation technology has been quite mature. The application of this technology ensured that it would be enough to supply the German Empire with 2 million to 3 million tons of coal-fired oil in the first year of the war.

Of course, the cost of producing coal-fired oil is about twice the price of oil, but who really cares about the cost during the war.

The German dreadnoughts were built a little later than the British, but they were built two years earlier than in another time and space, and the German Navy would not have to go through a two-year gap in the construction of capital ships, and its scale would be closer to the level of the British Empire.

Another important project of cooperation between the Austro-Hungarian Navy and the Navy of the Second German Reich was submarines and torpedoes, and the company "Baitou", based in Fum, was the first and largest torpedo supplier in the world, while the German Navy also had its own advantages in the manufacture of torpedoes - the German Empire was the first country in the world to use electric torpedoes, and their achievements in this area have always been far ahead of other countries.

In addition, the Islaya shipyard and the Krupp Germania shipyard had extensive cooperation in the field of submarines, and both shipyards succeeded in developing the first practical military submarine around 1906, which was equipped with three torpedo tubes, although only more than 240 tons, and the equipment was very rudimentary, but it was already a good start.

However, the situation of submarines in the navies of both countries was different, with the Austro-Hungarian navy already equipped with about 12 experimental submarines with the strong support of Heldon, while in Germany, only four submarines were built due to Tirpitz's obstruction. Due to the sharing of technology, the Germans have been able to keep up with the pace of the Austro-Hungarian Navy in terms of submarines.

But this angered Heldon, who was kind enough to help the Germans strengthen their fleet, only to be excluded from the lucrative battleship construction project.

He even had the urge to kill the old fellow.

In this time and space, due to the impetus of Lechelton, the competition between Britain and Germany to build dreadnoughts was a little earlier than in the original history, and it was also much more intense. In 1909, the five "German" class battleships of the Second German Reich Navy were launched one after another, and the British Imperial Navy, which was immersed in the joy of building the "Dreadnought" and three "Invincible" class battlecruisers, was like suffering a blow to the head. Plans for the construction of battleships of the Vincent class.

The British still used the main gun layout of the Dreadnought on these two levels of battleship, but slightly increased displacement for added protection.

In 1909, after completing four battleships of the Radetzky class, the Austro-Hungarian Navy began to build four battleships of the new class with a new naval expansion budget. The battleships of the new class adopted the hull structure of the German "Caesar" class, but the retired Admiral Poppel and the newly promoted Rear Admiral Rotzner adopted a bold and radical new design - the warship was equipped with four triple 330-mm main gun turrets.

The triple main gun was already equipped on the "Radetzky" class, but taking into account the balance of the hull, only two triple main turrets were equipped. This time, however, the two designers were more aggressive, and Heldon was slightly unhappy with this, because although this would increase the firepower, it would inevitably weaken the hull protection, but Archduke Ferdy supported this plan.

In the face of the growing naval power of Austria-Hungary, the French and Italians naturally could not face it calmly. The French abandoned their stupid doctrine of the "green-water navy" and in 1907 began construction of six dreadnoughts of the "Danton" class. Thanks to the butterfly effect brought about by Lehedn, the dreadnought race came two years earlier than in another time and space, and the French Navy was lucky enough to catch the first train. The Italians, on the other hand, reacted much more slowly, only starting construction of their first dreadnought, the Dante, in 1908.

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