Negotiations between Germany and France on Moroccan interests proceeded quickly, and after some discussions, the two sides finally reached an agreement. First, Germany gave up its interests in Morocco, while France offered French south-central Congo and part of Chad in exchange.

The total colonial territory handed over to Germany is about 50,000 square kilometers, and it seems that France has also invested a lot of money to settle this dispute.

But while the Moroccan crisis has subsided, a new dispute has begun: the shipbuilding race. The British decided to temporarily add six large warships and twelve small and medium-sized warships to the shipbuilding program for the current year.

Germany and Italy strongly opposed the British approach. But alas, their opposition did not work, and the British should have done what they should have done

In the face of the British's approach, Germany, which had just won benefits from France, of course, did not do it, and then the German side said that they would add two more large warships this year and two more next year.

As for the Italian side, it is planned to increase the construction of four large warships this year in one go.

I heard that in order to build these four large warships, Italy even took out its reserves. If there is a natural disaster in Italy next, where will the Italian government go to raise funds?

Of course, this also shows from another point of view that Italy's attitude towards the British Empire's additional construction of warships will have to keep up with the last family fund.

The gentlemen of the British Empire, of course, could not accept the actions of Germany and Italy, a London newspaper said in a statement. "Since Germany and Italy are to follow, the British Empire will build six more ships a year to see who will not be able to get the last penny out of their pocket."

As for the attitude of the British, the German side did not talk about it, and no one paid attention to it on the Italian side at all.

Because the Admiralty has announced that the appropriation for these four new warships will not be used to continue the construction of the Cavour-class. The implication is obvious: the four new ships will be of a new class.

This is definitely a big surprise for the major naval ship designers, and as for who can get the Navy's personal opinion to win the design, it is only up to their own ability.

For the design of the new warship, the Admiralty gave a much shorter time than in the past, and within three months came up with a plan that satisfied the Navy.

For the requirements of the Admiralty, the major designers are working overtime to prepare for it.

As the chief designer of the Navy's ships, Viscount Kuniberti also put a certain amount of pressure on the Navy's sudden request. Unlike other ship designers, the Kuniberti, who was awarded the title of chief designer and counted as the Navy's own man, had a more or less certain advantage.

This time, too, the Admiralty sent someone to inform him that this time the Navy actually wanted a new warship with 380 mm guns.

In fact, it was not necessary for the Admiralty to inform Kuniberti that he knew about it, and he knew his idea by virtue of the fact that the Admiralty did not need to build these four warships without Cavour's drawings.

Of course, the development of the 380-mm gun has not yet been completed, and Kuniberti is not panicked at all, this is the basic operation of the Navy, and the previous Cavour class was not like this.

It is quite possible to take the initial design data of the 380-mm gun and start design work on the new battleship

Kuniberti was also very familiar with this, and he did the same when he developed Cavour before.

As for the current work on the new warship, Kuniberti skillfully looked for inspiration from the sketches he had designed before. It's very useful for a good ship designer to sketch out some of your first ideas when you're inspired, as it allows you to review your ideas at any time.

And now Kuniberti is looking at several sketches, intending to combine all the advantages and draw new drawings of the battleship.

"Prese, bring me the drawing on my desk."

At the workbench, Kuniberti looked at several pieces of scratch paper in front of him and shouted loudly to his assistant.

That's right, the thoughtful Presse has now become Coniberti's assistant. It's wonderful for him to be able to work with one of Italy's most prestigious ship designers.

Soon the drawings that Kuniberti needed were laid out in front of him, looking at the drawings in front of him, Kuniberti picked up the pen and began to calculate, of course, as an assistant, Prese was not spared, and also took the formula paper and pen to calculate. Not only the two of them, but many people in the design department of the Venetian shipyard were assigned tasks by Cuniberti.

Calculations and sketches are very boring, but for ship design, this boring is also inevitable. Each battleship is the result of countless calculations and sketches.

Even a genius like Cuniberti is inevitable.

After nearly a month of hard work, Kuniberti and his assistant Prese, who were full of strange smells, looked at a formed drawing with satisfaction.

"Ding, ding, ding!"

The phone rang, and the assistant Preser immediately stepped forward to take the phone.

"Hello, this is Kuniberti Design right, right, right

Yes..... Got it

Lines await your coming.

Prese, who put down the phone, hurried to Kuniberti's side in three steps and two steps. "Teacher, I just received a call that Admiral Yagill is coming."

"Are you from Rome?"

"Yes.

"Let's go, you go take a shower first, I'll clean up a little first."

For the teacher's words, Prese didn't ask much, he was also smelly and really needed to be washed. As for Kuniberti, after putting the drawings in the safe and locking them, he went to take a shower and change his clothes, and then waited for the arrival of the admiral tomorrow.

As for why he had to come over to see it just after he finished it, there is no need to think about it, as the current leader of the Italian ship design community, his plan always attracts the attention of the Admiralty the most. Coupled with the fact that the requested time was so urgent, it was normal for Admiral Yagil, as the Minister of the Navy, to be busy.

Early the next morning, Admiral Yagill arrived at the Venetian shipyard, and did not go to the Cavour-class battleships under construction to take a look, but first came to the design department.

"Your Excellency, you are here so early.

"There's no way, there are too many things and heavy tasks, so I can only run more.

After a few simple small talks, the group came to the design room. Here, a long-designed ship drawing has long been hung high on the wall.

"Admiral, please see, this is the design drawing I prepared for this tender for this new warship, which I will tentatively name Scheme H5."

Looking at the design drawings in front of him, Admiral Yagill spoke, "Then let's talk about your design."

"Yes, Your Excellency