However, Hu Weidong regretted that the warships under construction with a high degree of completion, including the two Bismarck-class battleships, and the warships that had already joined the active service were all being refitted in shipyards in Germany, so as not to have warships available to the German Navy in case of an early outbreak of war in Europe, after all, it would take more than dozens of days to sail back to Germany from distant China, and there were all British colonies and allies along the way. Besides, if they are all renovated and built in China, on the one hand, it is easy to attract the attention of the great powers, and on the other hand, it will also lead to too much concentration of risks, no matter how crazy the mustache is, the truth of "all eggs cannot be put in one basket" is still understood, especially the Chinese Red Party is still fundamentally opposed to the mustache ideologically

Although the Bismarck-class battleships, the Scharnhorst-class battlecruisers, the Admiral-Hipper-class heavy cruisers, and the German-class armored ships (also known as "pocket battleships") in service or about to enter service in Germany did not come to China for refitting, some of the mysterious "Z" ships that died in the middle of the history were transferred to China for completion. And because of the lack of construction conditions in China itself at the beginning, Germany had to transfer all the resources prepared by Jihua to the "Eastern Front" first, and as a result, after the outbreak of the European War, due to the army and air force occupying too many resources, Germany's own "Z" jihua was forced to stop almost before it could start (but this allowed Germany to avoid serious waste as in history), but this part of China was almost completed because most of the required resources had been in place in advance

In addition to the part that has been completed so far, in the original plan of "Z" jihua, Germany also planned to build 6 Hindenburg-class battleships, 3 O-class battlecruisers, 12 P-class armored ships and 2 Zeppelin-class aircraft carriers, and because Sino-German cooperation is a big burden on Germany's finances in the short term, Mustache made a certain degree of modification to the "Zjihua", reducing the number of battleships from 6 to 4, the number of battlecruisers to 4, and the number of armored ships to 4. The number of aircraft carriers was reduced to 1 (Ge Fatzi, who has always been displeased with aircraft carriers, seized this opportunity to fall into the ground, if it weren't for the fact that the first ship Zeppelin had been launched as early as the end of 1938, I am afraid that even this one would not be able to be saved.) ）。

After Hu Weidong's hard work. Two battleships, one battlecruiser, and one aircraft carrier will be built in China, and Germany will also cooperate with China in building two (Note 1) modifications of the Admiral-class heavy cruisers in Shanghai, which will be purchased first if needed by Germany, otherwise they will be taken over by the Chinese Navy.

The reason why the task of building a battleship was taken over. Hu Weidong had his own considerations, and the construction of battleships was a severe test for backward industrial countries, and the huge hulls, super-large caliber heavy guns, and so on required a fairly strong industrial foundation to complete. However, as long as it can be completed by overcoming difficulties, it will undoubtedly greatly improve the overall industrial level of the country, just like the construction of aircraft carriers in later generations. Nevertheless, because the construction of battleships cost a lot, and China has not even built 10,000-ton warships before, the cost is likely to be many times higher, so Hu Weidong will not agree to smash a huge amount of manpower, financial and material resources into this bottomless pit with little practical value. But now there are Germans willing to pay for it. also provided jishu, equipment and talents by the way, Hu Weidong naturally would not be stupid enough to miss the opportunity, and he has always been a "giant ship cannonist" in his bones, he is actually quite excited to participate in the design and construction of a super battleship unprecedented in the history of Shijie

In other words, the historical Hindenburg-class battleships were already very powerful, even if they were not finally completed. Later generations are still compared to the two super battleships Iowa and Yamato, and even a few people compare them to the Montana class and the super and large Yamato class, which only exist in Jihua. But objectively speaking, the original design of the Hindenburg-class battleships still did not completely break free from the shackles of the naval thinking of World War I, and even if it was really successfully built, it could not compete with the more advanced design of Montana or even the Yamato-class. What's more, the historical Hindenburg-class battleships were frequently interfered with by the layman of the mustache during the construction process, and the design scheme was repeatedly changed and changed back, and even the mustache put forward a lot of completely impossible design requirements, so that the historical Hindenburg battleship could only sit helplessly on the slipway and watch the end of World War II. Therefore, it was undoubtedly a great blessing for the two Hindenburg-class battleships to be built in China, and it was possible to ignore almost all the favorable conditions for building in their own country by avoiding the interference of the mustache to the greatest extent

I don't know whether it was to win over the Red Party, or just out of personal appreciation for Hu Weidong, he even specifically asked the German warship designers in China not to be too conceited, and to listen to the opinions and suggestions of Hu Weidong, a genius military expert. On the one hand, Hu Weidong, who had gained a greater voice in the matter, also actively offered suggestions, on the one hand, he was addicted to the designer of the battleship, and on the other hand, the Hindenburg-class battleships, which were more perfectly designed, later caused a lot of trouble to Germany's enemies, and no matter which of the United States, the Soviet Union, and Britain suffered more losses, it was not a bad thing for China

Note 1: The Jishu information during the Republic of China is really difficult to find, and it can only be determined that the Jiangnan Shipbuilding Institute at that time had a 20,000-ton large-scale repair dock, and I don't know how many of the specifics, but combined with the example of Jiangnan Shipbuilding completing the order of 4 10,000-ton civilian ships after World War I (the first and fourth ships were launched only a little more than a year apart, and at the shipbuilding speed at that time, it would take at least a year for a 10,000-ton ship to be built. It shows that the Jiangnan Shipyard at that time had at least 2 10,000-ton docks (it must be noted that before the national army withdrew from Shanghai on the eve of liberation, the shipbuilding facilities in Shanghai were not damaged in any way. At that time, the Shanghai shipbuilding industry had the so-called "seven docks", of which the British Shipyard, which was stronger than the Jiangnan Shipyard, had four of them, from which it can be inferred that these seven docks should be at least 10,000 tons, so the book is set to the British Shipyard and Jiangnan Shipyard each have a 20,000-ton dock (that is, Shanghai has two 20,000-ton docks and 5 10,000-ton docks. ) so that the subsequent episodes unfold.

Of course, the author is not a professional after all, if you have a book friend who knows the details, I hope to post in the book review area to give advice ^_^ (to be continued.) )