As the "Grand Duke of Istria" entered the shipyard for remodeling, Heinrich Brown, as the commander of aviation. Colonel Mueller was transferred to the Naval Command to assist the Director of the Naval Aviation Agency's Armament Division, Walter Murray. General Lendel completed the tender for the new carrier-based aircraft and coordinated the production of the aircraft.

Due to the threat of Italy during the European War, the Imperial Navy Headquarters moved to Fum, which is located in the Istrian Peninsula and the Balkan Peninsula, and is sheltered by the island of Krk on the island of Cres, which is basically a closed harbor, much safer than Trieste.

The Imperial Navy now has five fleets: the Eastern Mediterranean, the Western Mediterranean, the Black Sea, the Indian Ocean, and the Far East, of which the Eastern and Western Mediterranean Fleets and the Far Eastern Fleet, each with two battleships, are based in Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Rhodes, and the port of Arish in Sinai, and the Western Mediterranean Fleet, which is based on naval bases in the Adriatic, Malta, and Liberian ports in North Africa. The Black Sea Fleet has Constanta and Sevastopol as its main bases, while the Indian Ocean Fleet has its main bases in Madagascar and Zanzibar, which are administered by Germany and Austria, and the Far Eastern Fleet has its main bases in the Da Nang and Hekou ports in the Annam colony.

Austria-Hungary seized Liberia and Rhodes from the Italians during the European War, and took Corfu from the Greeks while pursuing the Serbian army. After the war, the Belgian Congo was acquired from the Belgians, the Sinai Peninsula was acquired from the British, and in 1925 the annexation of Albania and Macedonia was announced, and the empire expanded rapidly, which caused strong resentment and even hatred among the Serbs, Bulgarians, and Greeks. But these small Balkan states now do not have the courage to provoke the old empire of Central Europe again, and Vienna has done its best to annex Serbia after the war. The Serbs did not want to go through the bitter experience of war and the loss of their country again, and now there were no Russians behind Serbia, on the contrary, they were more afraid of the influence of Red Russia.

Only a small base guard patrol fleet was stationed in the port of Fum, which consisted of two destroyers, six frigates, and more than thirty patrol boats. However, after decades of construction. A large naval base has been built here, including a large naval shipyard, and the port of Fum is also a major commercial port in Croatia and Hungary.

The base of the Imperial Navy Command covers an area of at least two thousand acres and is divided into several areas, but the main anchorage of the fleet is at the northern tip of the island of Krk. The most conspicuous building in the base is naturally the eight-story Imperial Navy Headquarters Office Building, which is also where Marshal Horthy usually works, and is also the daily supreme management body of the Imperial Navy.

During the war, however, the fleets were subject to operational orders from the Imperial General Staff in Vienna.

The offices of the Imperial Naval Aviation Directorate were located in a three-story building to the east of the Naval Command building. However, it was not under the administration of the Naval Command, and nominally, it was a departmental organ under the Imperial Admiralty. However, in order to solve the problem of the navy's armament and technology more quickly, the six major departments under the Admiralty, including the Naval Armament Department, the Shipbuilding Department, the Ship Design Bureau, the Submarine Construction Bureau, the Naval Aviation Bureau, and the Naval Technology Bureau, are all located at the Fum Naval Base, while only a liaison office is set up in the Admiralty in Vienna.

The head of the Imperial Naval Aviation Bureau was Ernst. Vice Admiral Weaver, and Walter. Brigadier General Lendall's Naval Aviation Directorate's Armament Division is responsible for placing orders for tasks with suppliers and coordinating production schedules at aircraft factories.

Walter. General Lendl's office was large, but it was full of technical documents and documents. The desk is also piled up with texts, obviously. He has a very busy day-to-day job.

"Colonel, the Chinese Navy wants to buy 300 combat aircraft from us, including 200 fighter jets and 100 dive bombers, and they have also expressed interest in ordering large warships from us. Since you are familiar with the situation in China, I have temporarily transferred you to take charge of this work. Nothing is wrong, right? "General Lendl handed him a copy of the text." Familiarize yourself with their situation first. ”

Sitting on the sofa, Müller hurriedly read through the reports in his hand, and the emperor decided to expand aid to China, and prompted the imperial parliament to approve plans to expand the military-related industries such as aviation, shipbuilding, machine manufacturing, automobile and tractor manufacturing, and subsidize enterprises in these industries to expand their production. In the aviation industry, in particular, the Imperial Government will provide low-interest loans of hundreds of millions of crowns. to encourage the development of the aviation industry. In Linz, Salzburg, Litzen, Steyr, Zagreb, Pest and Zagreb, new aircraft factories have been built and large-scale expansions have been carried out this year. When these factories are fully completed and put into production, the empire will produce about 16,000 aircraft per year.

Five large aero-engine factories and other parts factories in Steyr, Linz, Carlsen and Trieste are also being expanded, while the Hungarian aluminium plant has also begun a large-scale expansion, with plans to halve production within two years, increasing the production capacity of electrolytic aluminium from the current 36,000 tonnes to 280,000 tonnes.

However, at present, the empire's aircraft production has not been able to increase qualitatively, and in the past six months, the total output of civil passenger aircraft and transport aircraft has only 1,350, which cannot meet the equipment needs of the country's army and navy. Under the new Army and Navy Enlargement Act, the size of the Imperial Army will be expanded to 750,000 men, including 15 air divisions and 4,500 combat aircraft. The naval side includes 8 land-based aviation wings and 10 carrier-based aviation wings, with a combat aircraft establishment of 2,800 aircraft.

"Heinrich, have you read these reports?" Lendel signed a few papers, handed them to an assistant, and got up from behind his desk and sat down on the couch beside Müller.

"Well, we seem to be strengthening the army." "Is it possible to intervene directly in the war in the Far East?" ”

"Not really, but the Emperor wants to expand his army, and he seems to have a premonition of some potential danger. Indeed, the activities of the SWP partisans in Ukraine, the Don River, the Caucasus Federation, etc., have become more and more frequent, and Saratov, Voronezh and Khartov have even fallen into the hands of the SW forces. Lendel took a cigar from the tin box, lit it and took two puffs, then shook his hand and continued, "The Russians want to restore the borders of the Tsarist period, and the emperor will certainly not allow this to happen, and when the time comes, we may fight the Russians again." ”

"Does Moscow have such guts? They could not resist our joint attack with the Germans. Mueller said.

"Here's the problem: the Germans exported nearly 60,000 machine tools to Russia last year for their own economy, and the Russians bought almost that many machines from the Americans. They were rearming Russia, and the Emperor warned the Germans several times not to end up shooting themselves in the foot, but the Germans ignored them on the grounds that they did not sell them to Russia, and the Americans did the same. The consequences of the embargo on Russia can only be cheaper for the Americans. ”

"It is true that the strength of the Red Army of Soviet Russia was greatly strengthened, and a large number of mechanized units appeared during the operation in the Far East, about 2000 tanks and more than 5000 aircraft. It's also scary to think about, the Soviets are armed with almost three times as many aircraft as ours. ”

"Well, the delegation of the Chinese Navy will come to Fumu today, we will be responsible for the reception, they may want to visit the shipyard and the aircraft factory, this is a special pass issued by the Navy command, and our factories can be fully opened to them." "The capitalists are desperate to sell more weapons to China," Lendel said. (To be continued......)