After the appraisal report was sent back to Germany, just 29 hours later, Qingdao received a reply from the German government. The German government expressed that it was very interested in the comprehensive cooperation plan proposed by the time traveler, and planned to send special envoys to Qingdao to negotiate cooperation matters in detail with the time traveler. At the same time, it would also send naval experts to conduct detailed evaluation of the drawings provided by the time traveler.↑Dingdian Novel,...

However, this trip to the island of Walnut by the German envoy will be carried out in secret, so I hope that the time travelers will keep it confidential, and the German government has also made a guarantee that Germany will not participate in any actions of various countries against China before the negotiations between the two sides.

The German government agreed to negotiate with the time traveler, but it was not unexpected that the response was so fast, because the time traveler still underestimated the Germans' desire for these three types of warships.

Now Germany is focusing on the British Navy as its goal and developing its own ocean navy, hoping to build a high seas fleet that can compete with the British fleet in order to win greater overseas interests. After Germany's reunification, its economy has developed rapidly and its national strength has become increasingly strong. Now it is the world's largest industrial strength and second largest economic strength.

On the other hand, Germany's technological strength is also the best. The Knuber armor produced by Knuber Company is known as the three best warships in the world, along with the British Harvey armor and the American Vickers armor, which are known as the surface hardening and carburized armor used by the three best warships. Moreover, the Knuber armor is recognized to be slightly better than the other two armors. The German Zeiss Company is also the best optical instruments and equipment company in the world, and can produce the best optical sights of this era. Therefore, neither financial resources nor technology have become a shackle for Germany to build a powerful navy.

But Germany lacks the most current design experience and concepts of warships, such as the three major elements of a warship, firepower, protection, speed distribution, high-freeboard or bottom-freeboard, how to match weapons, how to distribute armor, etc. As a traditional mainland country, Germany's accumulation in these aspects is basically blank. Simply put, Germany is unable to integrate various advanced technologies together to build a powerful warship, and can only rely on itself to explore slowly. Therefore, Germany has successively built several warships, such as the Brandenburg-class battleship in the German fleet this time and the Earl Bismarck armored cruiser, all of which are unsuccessful designs.

The majestic battleships, the old man’s star battleships, and the Cresey-class armored cruisers are all the main battleships of the British Navy.

The Magnificent Class Battleship was designed by Sir William White, a famous British ship designer. This type of ship uses Harvey steel armor plates, which can obtain sufficient protection with less weight. The hull covered by armor is bent under the armor belt and contacts the lower edge of the column plate, thus improving internal protection. At the same time, it also uses a new 305mm main gun and fires armor-piercing bombs with smokeless gunpowder. The penetration ability is greatly improved and the weight is greatly reduced.

A total of 9 battleships of this class were built, which was the most equipped battleships in the British Navy since 1860 and was also the standard model of battleships in this era. The two battleships purchased by Japan from the United Kingdom, the Asahijima, were built on the majestic battleships.

The main technical parameters of the Majestic battleship are: 128.32m long, 22.86m wide, and 8.38m draft; the standard displacement is 14,900 tons, full load displacement is 16,317 tons, and the maximum speed is 17.5 knots; the weapons equipped are 2 305mm dual-armed artillery, 12 152mm artillery, and 16 76mm artillery; 12 47mm rapid-fire artillery, and 5 457mm torpedo tubes. The first ship Majestic was put into service in December 1895, and the last ship Vitality was put into service in April 1898.

The design of the Old Man Star Battleship is to be deployed in the Far East to counter and restrain the rapidly expanding Japanese Navy and the increasingly expanding Russian Pacific Fleet. The Old Man Star Battleship has the same military equipment as the majestic class, but reduces the thickness of the armor, so it is lighter and faster. Moreover, the Old Man Star Battleship is the first type of battleship using water pipe boilers, which can provide higher power and greater economy. The Old Man Star Battleship consumes only ten tons of coal per hour when driving at full speed, which is more necessary for ships that have long been stationed overseas and lack supply points.

The main technical parameters of the Old Man Star Battleship are: 131.1m long, 22.6m wide, and 7.9m draft; the standard displacement is 12,950 tons, full load displacement is 14,320 tons, and the maximum speed is 18.3 knots. Currently, three ships have been built, the first ship of the Old Man Star (Canopus) was put into service in December 1899, the second ship of the Goliath (Goliath) was put into service in March 1900, and the third ocean (Ocean) was put into service in February 1900. The British Navy plans to build three more ships.

It turned out that Britain's mission to cruisers was to escort, reconnaissance, notification and display force, which were all low-intensity tasks, rather than maritime combat and fighting for sea control. Therefore, British cruisers of the same era lagged behind armored cruisers of other countries in terms of protection and firepower.

However, cruisers generally have the characteristics of good navigation performance and high endurance. Moreover, armored cruisers also have certain protection and relatively powerful weapons. Therefore, some countries often use armored cruisers as battles in order to break through battles, and even cooperate with battleships. Faced with the challenges of armored cruisers from various countries, British cruisers will not be able to protect shipping. Therefore, Britain has also built correspondingly with similar ships of various countries in firepower, protection and speed, and even requires winning armored cruisers to avoid falling behind in the defense of shipping.

The Cresey-class armored cruiser is the product of this idea. Its main technical parameters are: 121.84m long, 19.81m wide, 7.32m draft, 12,000 tons of standard displacement, the first ship Cresey: In 1900, the UK plans to build a total of 5 ships of this type.

However, this type of warship has not had a good reputation in the old time and space. In the Battle of Ostend Strait in World War I, a German U9 submarine sank three Cresey-class armored cruisers in this battle, creating a brilliant record of submarine warfare and was recorded in history, but it was a shameful record for the Cresey-class armored cruiser.

But no matter what, the manufacturing process and design level of these three types of warships are undoubtedly the highest among the warships of this era. If Germany can obtain the drawings of these three warships, it will undoubtedly increase the design level of Germany's warships to a higher level. Even if it really doesn't work, just do the same. Because Germany's craftsmanship manufacturing level is higher than that of Britain, then the warships built with the same drawings are of course stronger than those of Britain. Therefore, after receiving the report from the appraisal team, Emperor William II of Germany immediately recruited ministers to negotiate. Everyone agreed that they should negotiate with overseas Chinese and strive to obtain the drawings of these three types of warships.

Of course, it was not only because Germany urgently needed to obtain drawings of these three types of warships, but also an important factor, that the situation in China has undergone a major change.

Just when the German Consul General in Tianjin Qin Moman arrived in Qingdao, the consuls of Britain, France, the United States, Germany, Russia, Japan, Italy and the Austrians in Shanghai also recruited a meeting in Shanghai and officially began discussions and negotiations. The UK proposed the proposal to form a multi-national coalition and expand the scale of China's combat. However, this meeting deviated from the original theme from the beginning and became the beginning of the split of the Eight-Nation Alliance.

The reason for the division lies in Russia.

After Britain proposed to form a multi-national coalition and expand China's battle scale, Russia responded one of the earliest countries, and also drew eight warships including the battleship Navalin, the armored cruisers Liurik, Grombowi, the large protective cruiser Varyag, the warships, the destroyer Razbenik, the shallow water gunboat Manzhouren, and the Urals to enter Lushun Port to fight against overseas Chinese and defend Russian colonies.

The crossover also planned to annihilate the Russian fleet after the Russian fleet entered the Bohai Bay. After Nazhi, the Russian fleet bypassed the Tsushima Strait, sailed into Incheon Port in South Korea on the grounds of mooring coal. No one cared at first, because this was normal. After Nazhi, the Russian fleet entered Incheon Port, stopped and stopped, and also transferred 3,400 soldiers from the ship to the landing and entered the Russian Embassy.

Japan suddenly became nervous because according to the provisions of the two [Japan-Russia Agreements] signed by Japan and Russia, the power of the two countries in South Korea is equal, and the Russian fleet entering Incheon Port does not leave, which means that the balance of power between Japan and Russia in South Korea is broken.

The Japanese have not forgotten that the Russian Pavilion relocation incident occurred on the Korean Peninsula four years ago. The Russian Embassy in North Korea transferred 150 soldiers and a cannon from the Russian ship anchored in Incheon on the grounds of "strengthening the embassy's defense", and moved to Seoul, the capital of North Korea at that time, and was welcomed by North Korea, Lee Hee, to escape from the Gyeongbok Palace controlled by Japan, and hid in the Russian Embassy in North Korea, and was protected by Russia. As a result, Japan was fully passive in North Korea and could not make great concessions to Russia, thus changing the situation where Japan dominated Korea after the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895.
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