Early the next morning, the "lead duck" battleship designed by Wilhelm II once again caused an uproar in the Naval Design Bureau. However, after half a month, it is no longer the emperor who is on the cusp, but the designers.

Under the orders of Wilhelm II, Tirpitz quickly found out the information of the American "Olympia" and the Japanese "Chiyoda"; With this professional check, the level of detail of its information is far from being comparable to the data of the rotten streets that Qing Ying saw in the "Jane's Battleship Yearbook". Three days later, Tirpitz took this stack of dozens of pages and smashed it in front of the group of designers in the Navy Design Bureau.

When the conservative and obtuse men saw these two practical examples, they were stunned and stunned; Tirpitz's next words frightened them, and they left their current work behind to start simulating and analyzing the two designs in an all-round way. Tirpitz had already put aside the cruel words, if the previous design flaws were not found within a month, and the battleship with the same tonnage utilization rate as the two designs was designed; Then immediately expel everyone from the Navy Design Bureau and recruit new people from the major shipyards! Anyway, the treatment of the Navy Design Bureau is superior, and there is absolutely no worry about not being able to recruit people in the major shipyards!

Faced with the threat of imminent layoffs, this group of designers burst out with amazing energy; And the professional habits of designers also made them have great interest and doubts in this kind of heavy artillery design that is completely different from their own country, and they want to find out. Since January, all the personnel of the design bureau have been carefully studying these two foreign cases, and they have been fighting at night. Due to secrecy, Tirpitz did not have access to all the first-line information, and in many places it was still lacking, which undoubtedly caused considerable difficulties in the restoration and simulation of the battleship. However, this group of people can enter the Naval Design Bureau, and they all have a deep foundation in battleship design; Even if you don't understand some places, through positive thinking and reverse pushing, plus some feelings and experiences, you can make some places inseparable, and continue to overcome the next difficulty.

At the end of December, when the deadline was approaching, the guys from the Navy Design Bureau finally drew a scoop and completely simulated the two model cruisers. Unlike the empty materials that Tirpitz brought to him, the design bureau gave a complete set of design drawings and a rigorous set of calculations after the simulation, and under Tirpitz's personal review, determined the essential changes that had taken place. Through this simulation, the designers realized how wasteful the displacement of the battleships they had designed before; Thinking of the ship designed by the emperor with "lead duck" before, he was even more embarrassed and embarrassed.

Because of these two existing examples, both were seen in a magazine by the second son of the Kaiser, who was only 11 years old; It is a bit unreasonable that the Admiralty, as a specialized department in charge of the services, is not as well-informed as a child. While the design bureau personnel were busy doing simulations, the Admiralty personnel also began to integrate the active ships of the world's countries, collect data, and analyze performance. Through the Admiralty's integration of the data of the active ships of various countries, Tirpitz was surprised to find that at present, only the United States and Italy have a preliminary understanding of the meaning of the tonnage utilization of warships, while other old powers, including Britain, France and Russia, are doing the same thing as Germany before, that is, solving all problems with tonnage! Even the British shipyard that built the Chiyoda, its subsequent warships did not continue her design.

Upon discovering this, Tirpitz was determined to enforce strict secrecy; But as a result, only a few dozen people in the design bureau in the whole of Germany understood this thing. The vast number of designers of domestic shipyards are still walking on the conservative old path, which is extremely detrimental to both domestic tenders and foreign exports of German ships. After some consideration, Tirpitz decided to summon 63 A-class ship designers and 140 B-class designers with warship design qualifications to Berlin in batches under the name of "assessment training", and also conducted the same month-long closed simulation deduction and practice as the naval design bureau. In this way, they are not allowed to raise their level without arousing any suspicion.

In the months that followed, the designers immersed themselves in simulated learning of new ideas and methods. And although the people in the Navy Design Bureau are one step ahead, they can only draw gourds on protective cruisers; If you want to expand to the advanced field of armored cruisers or even battleships, you still have to fight a long distance. Seeing such a huge change in the German shipbuilding industry under his influence, a strong sense of accomplishment rose in Qingying's heart: in this way, there will be no egg pain of large ships and small cannons, right?

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Time flies, like a white horse passing through a gap, and half a year has passed since Qingying crossed. In the Imperial Palace of Berlin, from cold to summer, from winter to spring, the green trees are gone, and the lawn is full of delicate new shoots.

As time passed, Qingying's excitement about changing the German navy gradually faded, but his worries about the imminent outbreak of the Sino-Japanese war grew. In that war in history, Mites were beaten by Japan on land and sea battlefields; Not only were the fortresses and fleets that had been operated hard for decades wiped out, but they were also cut off from Taiwan and paid a huge compensation of 230 million taels of silver! Although Qingying was interested in changing this situation, the scope of this war was too wide, and it required careful planning before it could be decided; If you are not careful, not only will you not be able to save Huaxia, but you will also lose everything you have after crossing over!

Sending an expeditionary force to Korea to fight the Japanese? This is obviously impossible. In any sense of the word, there is no reality in this approach. After vetoing this unrealistic idea, Qingying thought about it; Since it can't be helped on land, is it feasible to pull the North Ocean on the ocean?

This feasibility is quite large!

In the last 20 years of the 19th century, as maritime interests continued to become prominent, countries that were out of the mainstream also realized the importance of the navy, and the industry of selling warships to foreign countries suddenly became popular. Mites, Japan, Brazil, Chile, Spain and other countries have purchased warships from Britain, France and Germany and other industrial powers, especially Mites. More than half of the main warships of the Beiyang Naval Division, which is now ranked eighth in the world, were built in Germany, and the famous "Dingyuan" class ironclad ships were the great contribution of the century in the German shipbuilding circles 10 years ago. The sale of warships to foreign countries has become the most profitable and stimulating domestic employment, and Britain, France and other countries have rushed to it. If this is used as an excuse to sell warships to Mites on the eve of the outbreak of war, although this kind of money-seeing, although it will be criticized a lot, it can just reduce most of the international pressure - after all, they have done this kind of thing, and the Germans have not received orders from Mites for several years, which is reasonable!

Historically, a series of failures of mite clearing are closely related to the loss of sea control; After Japan fully grasped the sea power, it was able to calmly send supplies to the Korean front, and wantonly launched landing operations from the sea, capturing Arthur and Weihai one after another. If the sea control is controlled by the Mites, Japan will not only lose its supplies, but also its army strength can only be put into the Liaodong battlefield; Even if the Qing Army lost ground in Liaodong, as long as the sea power remained, no matter how much it failed on land, there would not be much decline on the whole. At that time, even if the land is ceded due to land failure, the amount will definitely be much smaller than the same period in history!

As for whether Germany can help Beiyang save the situation at sea, there is actually no question at all. During the First Sino-Japanese War, although the Japanese navy flaunted its might in the Far East, it was a joke in the eyes of the European powers and not worth mentioning at all. Needless to say, France and Russia, with the German navy before the current strength, just sending a detachment of the fleet would be enough to destroy the Japanese navy several times. What's more, the gap between the Beiyang Naval Division and the Japanese Combined Fleet is not large, as long as Germany has this idea, it is as easy as finding a bag to help the Beiyang Naval Division recover its decline.

However, the falling flowers are intentional, and the flowing water is ruthless. Although Qing Ying had this idea, in the face of Japan's large-scale military expansion, the Qing rulers were still intoxicated with the sweet dream of "Tongguang Zhongxing", and did not believe that Japan really dared to do anything to them, and there was no opportunity for Qing Ying to intervene. Qingying was worried, so he could only stay here temporarily, silently waiting for the fuse of the war, the outbreak of the Donghak uprising in Korea.

For nearly half a year, Qingying has been in the Berlin court and has experienced a European education a century ago. Wake up at 7:30 a.m. and go to bed at 10 p.m.; There are seven courses in total, covering four areas: foreign languages, arts, sciences and military history. Compared with ordinary education, the court completely implemented one-on-one full-time teaching, and all teachers were cutting-edge talents hired by Wilhelm II with high salaries; These people are not only knowledgeable themselves, but also quite capable in teaching methods. Even when Qingying didn't want to go to class the most, in their class, listening to it would gradually arouse interest.

Since Kiyoyoung has the mind and sanity of an adult, there is no pressure on him, even though Wilhelm II doubled his schoolwork for his trip around the world. In order not to be too shocking, Qingying also deliberately reduced the accuracy rate to less than 85%, which is worthy of exceeding the 80% rule set by Wilhelm II. After finishing the last subject, Qingying walked in the garden of the palace, smelling the fragrance of the fragrance, and breathed a long sigh of relief. After months of waiting, the time is ripe!

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