The Rise of the Empire

"Ernst Foss, what do you think of the Bavarian Ship Design Bureau's proposal?" Hermann Bloom said after taking a sip of his coffee and looking at the silent old man opposite him.

"Those hateful nobles! Their proposal is an ultimatum to some extent! If we refuse, the order for the first batch of armored cruisers may not be our turn! In the next few years, we in the warship industry can only use Repair ships and build some third-class cruisers to make ends meet. You will even be left far behind by those big shipyards!" Ernst Foss said angrily.

"Our technology and speed are absolutely top-notch in the German Empire. Based on strength alone, we can definitely get a share of the first batch of four armored cruiser orders!" Hermann Blom comforted. Although It is a purely private shipyard, but it is not inferior to all German shipyards at the same time, especially the shipbuilding speed. If they say that it is the second in Germany, no one will dare to say that it is the first! This is absolutely ok It can be seen from the comparison with other shipyards in history!

The last book talked about the construction of the Tier 3 armored cruiser that the factory participated in, so good, let's analyze it step by step! The first ship of the Prince Albert armored cruiser was built at the Kielder Deutsche Shipyard in 1900 and completed in January 1904! The entire construction process took nearly 4 years, and the second ship was built at the Brome-Forth Shipyard. Construction started in 1901 and was completed in December 1903! The construction of the second ship started several months later than the first ship, but the completion time was one month earlier! The shipyards of the Admiralty were the first to lose!

Kielder Deutsche Shipyard, who lost for a while, expressed dissatisfaction, claiming that the small sample has the ability to continue the competition! Thus, the two shipyards once again competed in the construction of the next level of armored cruiser Ron class! Kiel Shipyard is responsible for the first ship, and Brome-Forth Shipyard is building the second! Facts have proved that history always has amazing similarities! The Kiel Naval Shipyard started construction in 1902, and the Brough-Forth Shipyard started construction in 1903, and then the difference in completion time was even greater than the first time! The No. 1 ship was commissioned in April 1906, while the No. 2 ship under construction by the latter was completed in November 1905! The construction period of a 10,000-ton armored cruiser has been compressed to less than 2 years! Who can match this result?

As one of the three major shipyards in Germany, Kielder Deutsche Shipyard expressed its dissatisfaction! And another Bremen Wessel shipyard jumped out to express dissatisfaction! Therefore, during the construction of the famous Scharnhorst-class armored cruiser, the two sides competed again! This time, the opponent started construction first. Wessel started construction in 1904. After more than 3 years, it was finally delivered to the Navy in March 2008. They were suddenly surprised to find that the opponent started construction in 2005, and in October 2007 it was completed. Delivered to the Navy! It is not too much to say that it has been nearly a year! Since then, the construction speed of Brohm-Voss shipyard has become a household name throughout Germany!

What would happen if everyone built at the same time? The Kiel shipyard later built the armored cruiser Blücher, who in turn built the battlecruiser Von der Tann, the first German capital ship to use steam turbines, and the first battlecruiser! Without any reference, the two shipyards completed the two warships in almost the same time!

To put it bluntly, at the same time, the latter can produce a pure BC, while the former can only complete a last-generation cruiser! This TM is the gap!

In the next few years, almost all BCs were built by this shipyard. When the famous Derfflinger-class battlecruiser started construction, Danzig's Shuoxiao Shipyard competed with it, and then everyone I understand! Chocolate started construction in January 2012 and entered service in November 2014, and Lützow? It seems that it started construction in May 2012 and entered service in March 2016.... '

However, this NB shipyard has never built a battleship in the entire history of Germany's World War I! I personally think that the difficulty of building BC is not smaller than that of BB of the same level, right? (The author knows nothing,

Let's make up our own minds! )

"In Germany, technology and capabilities never determine status. Germania Shipyard, Kiel Shipyard, Kaiser Wilhelmshaven Shipyard, and Vulcan Shipyard all have state support behind them, or support from large industrial groups No matter how powerful our technology is, we still can’t compete with their policy advantage!” Foss sighed, “Unless we also have this advantage!”

"Isn't the idea put forward by the Italian just in line with our requirements?" Brome asked curiously. "If we cooperate with them, wouldn't we be able to get the order we dreamed of? And after what happened not long ago, the Admiralty won't trouble that prince. Because those who don't have good eyesight have been cleared away !"

"The key is that their requirements are too high, 30% dry shares! They will become the largest shareholder of this shipyard together with the two of us. As long as they unite with other shareholders, they can easily occupy an overwhelming majority in the board of directors. Advantage! This ratio is absolutely intolerable to us! This is tantamount to handing over the shipyard that we have devoted countless efforts to!" Foss said in disgust.

So the two founders were caught in a dilemma. The first choice was to give up the partner with the other party, and then say goodbye to the order from the Navy. It may even have nothing to do with the Navy's order in the future. The second option is to surrender. However, this is tantamount to letting your own shipyard say goodbye to yourself! In other words, extending the head is a slash, and retracting is still a slash. It's the same knife, what do you say?

"Why do we have to control the equity? If we want to control the shipyard, we can take it slowly, first hold a small amount of shares, and then join forces with other shareholders to attack, or spread the holdings in the name of multiple companies stocks, and then sell them in a concentrated manner.” Almost at the same time, Ruprecht asked his chief ship designer and salesman.

"I don't care who owns the shipyard. After all, even if the holding is completed, the controller is the Bavarian royal family, not me! Don't you think so?" the baron said, rolling his eyes.

"I'm tm......." Just a little bit, the national curse was exported! !

"The key is that I want to control the development direction of this shipyard! I want them to keep up with us! The pace of German shipyards is really too slow. So far, they have not even built a 10,000-ton warship! Munich The Class armored cruiser is just a transitional product! We still have a blueprint for a more powerful battleship! And this battleship is not something that Germany can build at present! The more the design bureau earns, the richer I can be! So, let's focus on Take a longer view! Our goal is not Germany, but the whole world!" Baron Vittorio said here, the light from his eyes made the prince a little dazed for a while,

"Obsession! Without such obsession, how can you succeed?" Ruprecht couldn't help but sigh! If this person travels to the prehistoric novels, the most difficult self will probably come out in one fell swoop! The pace of the Germans is indeed slow, and the speed of moving at a little bit of turtle speed really cannot keep up with the trend of the world!

"The Munich-class armored cruiser is for export. In fact, from the bottom of my heart, I don't like this unstoppable tonnage and this unstoppable ability. Although it is enough to match all current opponents, it can't deal with it. The stronger ones."

What the crown prince said was the truth. No matter how strong Garibaldi was in history, it was no match for the six ACRs of the Japanese. By 1905, it can only be said that it was not outdated. And this plane, who knows what kind of butterfly effect Garibaldi's early appearance will cause? It's better to prepare everything as early as possible. After all, Germany’s naval expenditure cannot be compared with that of the United Kingdom. If the United Kingdom is a potential opponent, not to mention dealing with invincible BC, at least it must be able to fight back against the attack of the Minotaur and other ACRs, right?

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