As for what the British would do, Scrooge didn't really think much about it. Because the general trend is already obvious, in Europe, the Allies and the Entente Group have been established, although they all claim that their military alliances are to defend the love and peace of the whole world, but this is like the gray wolf saying to protect the safety of the sheep village, and no one in the world with a normal IQ will believe it.

Over the years, the Germans had stepped up their efforts to build new battleships, and Tirpitz convinced the Crippled Emperor that the German navy didn't really need to be strong enough to defeat the British. Tirpitz knew that if he said that he would build a large fleet that would defeat the British Navy head-on, it would surely scare the emperor into retracting immediately. Moreover, at any time, in any country, because of the issue of dividing military spending, the red deer of the army always looks at the navy unpleasantly. The world of the Second German Reich was even more defeated by the army, and if it really were to say that the navy demanded the creation of a fleet that would overwhelm the British navy, the army would probably not be able to stand it. Therefore, Tirpitz used a set of theories about the risk fleet to convince the emperor.

The basic idea of his theory was this: the level of the German fleet did not need to be able to overwhelm the British fleet, it only needed to be able to deal a heavy blow to the British fleet. Because the fleet meant completely different things to Germany than to Britain, for Germany the fleet was just the icing on the cake, and even if the fleet was completely destroyed, Germany would not waver at all. But for Britain, the fleet is even Britain itself. Everything in Britain, whether it was the pound sterling or 35 million square kilometers, was built on an invincible fleet, and it was all sustained by great maritime power. If the British Royal Navy suffered heavy losses, then the chain that sustained the entire empire would break.

The British occupy the largest number of colonies in the world, which has already made countless countries jealous. These colonies absorbed at least a third of Britain's industrial output, which meant that the British suffered less than others in almost every major economic crisis. Because they could starve the Indians, the Burmese, the Irish instead of starving the English. Once the pillars of the empire were maintained, the Royal Navy was severely weakened, the colonies were restless, and other countries (especially the United States) were encouraged, and at that point, a frenzy for the partition of the British Empire would arise. Therefore, Germany did not need to be able to defeat the British fleet all the time, and as for a fleet capable of inflicting heavy losses on the British Royal Navy at a costly attrition, the risk of confrontation between Britain and Germany would have risen to a point that was unacceptable to them, and then, in many cases, especially when it came to overseas interests, the British would have to make compromises with Germany.

The British, of course, were not going to sit idly by and watch Germany get that fleet out. As a famous European-stirring stick, the British began to take advantage of the revenge mentality of the French, instigated France to strengthen the army, contain Germany, and finally simply gave up the so-called "glorious isolation" of non-alignment and directly joined the French military alliance.

In today's situation, the British did not invest much in Asia, and their domination in Asia, and the restrictions on the United States were largely carried out by Japan. Moreover, because of the indiscriminate entry of a traverser like Scrooge, the industrialization of the whole world is much faster than in the original history, and in terms of the arms race, the current level of the arms race is much higher than in the original history. A higher level of the arms race will of course also put more pressure on the countries, and in the original history, the two major military blocs struggled until 1914. But with the intensity of today's arms race, Scrooge was not sure whether they would be able to hold out until 1914. Of course, in Scrooge's view, the later the war is fought, the better, because the better the preparation, the greater the scale and destruction of the war, and the more benefits it can bring.

"In history, if it weren't for that Serb, maybe the arms race would have lasted a few more years. Anyway, should I send someone to protect that Ferdinand in the future? Scrooge was thinking wildly when there was a soft knock on the door.

"Come in." Scrooge said.

Coming in was Scrooge's secretary, Edmund Diablo. Now that Scrooge's business is getting bigger and bigger, a secretary is no longer enough, no matter how capable this secretary is. So, Scrooge now had a large group of secretaries, which were divided into several groups according to different categories of things, each with a secretary in charge, and a large group of other secretaries.

Scrooge's secretarial group is divided into the following categories:

The first group in charge of arms production was headed by Edmund Diablo. The second group in charge of intelligence and mercenary operations is headed by Jean Barr. The third group in charge of scientific research is headed by Bill Mephisto. The fourth group is responsible for the media, and its secretary in charge is Vernan Berlier. In charge of the fifth group in finance, its secretary is Pandimaninan Mammon. These aspects are the aspects that Scrooge still directly controls today. Of course, Greystone has begun to take over many of these things, but the final decision on many things is still in Scrooge's hands.

Now that it's Edmund Diablo who has come in, it's naturally something related to the military industry.

"Edmund, what's the matter?" Scrooge asked, closing together a piece of information from Bill Mephisto of the Third Group on the progress of low-cost steam turbines.

"Mr. MacDonald, this is a contract for civilian transport submarines that the Germans have procured from us, and you need to sign it." Edmund Diablo said this as he pulled out a document.

"Ah, put it here. I'll take a look first. Scrooge replied.

The so-called civilian transport submarine is a joke from the point of view of transportation, because its transportation volume is so sorry for its cost. The world's largest Morgan-MacDonald civilian transport submarine, if it comes to transport people, excluding sailors, there will be no more than 100 people at a time, and the total weight of the cargo will not exceed 700 tons. Surface vessels of the same cost, used to transport people, are constantly transported at least ten times more than it, and the comfort level is far greater than it; If it is used to transport goods, the volume of transportation is even more than 30 times that of it. Moreover, the surface speed of this so-called civilian transport submarine is only nine knots, and if it dives underwater, this speed will be reduced to about four knots. In this era, the speed of the average cargo ship was about fourteen knots. That is to say, if the so-called civilian transport submarine adopts the mode of surface navigation, it can run one trip, and the ordinary transport ship of the same cost can run one or seven times, and if it wants to give full play to its characteristics and adopt the mode of submarine, then it can run more than three times if it runs once. Moreover, the maintenance cost of a large submarine is much higher than that of an ordinary transport ship. It seems that this thing is really useless except for transporting gold.

However, for the Germans, such large civilian transport submarines turned out to be very useful. Of course, the Germans did not intend to use it to transport gold, the Germans did not have such a need, at least not yet. Of course, the Germans would not use it as an ordinary transport ship, and the Germans were not so rich and feverish. The Germans bought it for one purpose, and that was to use it to provide fuel, shells, and fish to submarines and raiders operating in the Atlantic after the outbreak of war. Supplies such as thunder and food.

For technical reasons, the Germans at this time could not build a pressure-resistant shell with a large enough diameter. Therefore, the maximum underwater displacement of their submarines is only about 800 tons, and if it is used to transport fuel, it is only about 200 tons at most, which is completely insufficient. Morgan-MacDonald Shipbuilding, on the other hand, claimed that it could build a giant civilian transport submarine with an underwater displacement of more than 2,000 tons, which of course attracted the attention of the Germans.

In the eyes of the Germans, if Morgan MacDonald could really build a submarine with an underwater displacement of more than 2,000 tons and a one-time transport of 700 tons of fuel oil, it would probably mean that they had an overwhelming technological advantage over Germany in the manufacture of pressure vessels. This will be reflected not only in the manufacture of submarines, but also in the production of synthetic ammonia. Considering that in the international market, the price of American fertilizers is significantly more competitive than German fertilizers, the Germans believe that their inferences should be correct.

But in fact, in the manufacture of large pressure vessels, the technology in the hands of the MacDonald consortium was no more advanced than that of the Germans. In fact, the price advantage of ammonia synthesis is mainly due to more efficient catalysts. MacDonald has always guarded the technical secrets of the iron catalyst like his own eyes, thus guaranteeing a leading position in the world in synthetic ammonia.

As for why MacDonald's civilian transport submarine was built so large, it was actually just an innovation in ship design from later generations.

During the Cold War, the Soviets built the largest Typhoon-class ballistic missile nuclear submarine in human history. With an underwater displacement of up to 30,000 tons, this terrible behemoth is almost twice as large as the Ohio-class, the largest US ballistic missile nuclear submarine. Theoretically, such a huge nuclear submarine needs a much larger pressure-resistant hull than the American Ohio-class nuclear submarine, which also made the Americans think that the Soviets have far surpassed themselves in the technology of manufacturing large-diameter pressure-resistant vessels. However, in fact, there was still a clear gap between the Soviet Union's technological level and the United States in this field at that time, and even until the collapse of the Soviet Union, this gap could not be narrowed. The reason why the Typhoon class can be so huge is that in its huge body, there is not only one pressure-resistant shell, but three pressure-resistant shells arranged in an inverted zigzag. Scrooge's so-called world's largest "civilian transport submarine" uses the same means.

The Germans had originally planned to buy just one or two first, and then after trying it out, if it worked, they would continue to buy it. (The Germans never thought that the secret of this thing would be like this) but Scrooge knew that this kind of small trick in design, as long as the Germans went to the submarine and stared at it, they could get pregnant when they returned, and they could quickly "give birth" to a group of similar things on their own. Therefore, MacDonald insisted that the countryman must order more than ten at a time, and only after paying a sufficient deposit can he enter the vestibule. Such harsh conditions, coupled with the high price of almost three ordinary submarines for one submarine, made the negotiation drag on for a while. It was only recently that an agreement was reached.