Under Prince's leadership, Chen Tian and his party came to the Schuter-Lantz Company located outside Hamburg. There were huge semi-cylindrical buildings on the flat ground, and the airships were built and assembled.

"A airship ordered by our Army is being built here. If the funds are sufficient, we will order more!" The prince led the others into one of the greenhouses. People stood in front of this building and looked so small that Chen Tian felt like he had reached the Giant Castle.

It seems that the skeleton of the airship has been completed, and countless workers are busy installing the airship's airbags and shells. There are two external pods and several engines on the ground next to it.

"Your Highness, how could the skeleton of this airship be made of wooden?" Chen Tian always felt that the airship was a little strange. After observing for a long time, he found that the keel was made of wooden. In his impression, Zeppelin airship should have aluminum keel. He had seen a photo of a crashed airship before. After the airship was burned, there was still a huge skeleton left.

"It's true that Zeppelin's airships use aluminum keels, while Schuter-Lantz uses wooden keels! Although wooden keels will increase the weight of the airship itself, the cost is much lower! It's also 10 million marks, three airships with aluminum keels can be built, while five airships with wooden keels can be built!" Prince's words also represent the Army's attitude of pursuing the number of airships. In contrast, Tirpitz's Admiralty purchased mostly Zeppelin's aluminum skeleton airships.

"Pursuing low cost and high quantity is also a good way!" Chen Tian felt that airships were rarely attacked at the beginning of the war, and pilots were easier to train. Using a large number of airships to bombard the long-range high altitude will be a good choice. Most of the reconnaissance and battlefield support missions will be handed over to the aircraft for completion.

While visiting, everyone listened to the accompanying technicians. After all, they were a big guy with a length of 230 meters, a diameter of 23 meters, a large person with a capacity of 26,700 cubic meters of hydrogen and a load capacity of 2 tons. It took them a while before they walked from the head of the airship to the tail.

Prince suddenly came to Chen Tian's ear, "With these airships, we can bomb Paris!"

"And London!" Chen Tian said this casually, but found that Prince's facial expression became a little weird.

"Do you think we'll go to war with the British?"

This sentence is a joke for the Earthlings decades later. Now it is only three years after the outbreak of the war in 1914. The German crown prince is actually full of confidence in the neutrality of the British. Then he told Chen Tian in a very serious tone:

"They are cousins ​​on the other side of our strait. Although we are now competing fiercely with them, it's just a game. I don't think they will not and dare to stand on our enemies when the war breaks out!"

After knowing him for more than 20 years, Chen Tian gradually got to know the German crown prince. This guy not only had a fox face, as thin as willow branches, and was weak, but also mediocre Chile, arrogant, conceited, short-sighted, and elusive, and liked to do amazing things like his father.

"Your Highness, don't trust the British too much. All we can believe in is our country!" Chen Tian could not explain to him about the future results. Perhaps the world has deviated from its original trajectory with his arrival, but European powers such as Britain, France and Russia pursue the balance of European power. They will never tolerate the situation where Germany is dominant. Germany has developed to this level and can no longer use politics to expand its strength. The conflict of national interests has made a world war inevitable a few years later. The rising Germany either defeats its opponents to lead Europe, or is defeated by its opponents and is suppressed.

"If war really starts, we cannot defeat their navy, and the fleet will be trapped by them in the harbor!" Prince shook his head and looked pessimistic.

Chen Tian didn't say anything more. He just wanted to end the tour early to meet another person, a person who would play the most important role if Britain and Germany started the war - the German Navy Minister, and the Marshal Tirpitz, who had just been appointed as commander of the German High Seas Fleet.

"I don't want Germany to fight against Britain. What we need to do is to greatly strengthen the strength of the German navy, so that the British can think twice before taking hostile actions! But as far as I know, the Army will adopt Schliffen's plan to attack France by neutral Belgium. In 1904, Prime Minister Bilo reminded him to pay attention to Bismarck's warning that material victory will win public opinion, but moral failure will lose public opinion. Invasion of Belgium will add another helper to anti-German forces. I have no right to interfere in the Army, but my navy and I must prepare to fight the powerful British navy for this!" Tirpitz had already felt that the war between Germany and Britain was inevitable, but he was worried about whether the German navy could confront the British navy in the short term.

Chen Tian felt that if this continues, coupled with the German Emperor's care for precious warships, the history of the German Navy becoming a "existence fleet" will be repeated. It seems that he has to teach this soul figure of the German Navy a good lesson.

"His Royal Secretary of the Navy, if our battleship main force is fighting with the British fleet, how much do you think we have the hope of winning?"

"What? Their battleships are almost twice as good as ours, and we will definitely lose!" Tirpitz gave the answer without hesitation.

"So if we introduce their main fleet into an ambush circle of dozens of submarines and hundreds of aircraft, how much do you think their main fleet will lose?" Chen Tian knew that the German Emperor would not firmly support the unlimited submarine tactics. If the ambush tactics can be used to severely damage the British Navy in a battle, the German Navy will have hope of victory.

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"If we plan to sacrifice all submarines and aircraft, we will use hundreds of torpedoes to deal with them..."

"It can consume at least half of their warships, and then our maritime power can compete with them. If their maritime transportation is blocked, the British Navy will undoubtedly be defeated!" Tirpitz jumped happily like a child.

"Great! Great! I want to make a wonderful plan, and I want the German warships to sail freely in the English Channel and around the world! Your Highness, you are such a genius!"

Chen Tian smiled. For the German Navy, what is important is not whether there are dozens of submarines and hundreds of aircraft, but confidence, confidence to defeat powerful opponents.

Ten days later, Prince and Chentian submitted to the emperor the explanation of the role of airships and aircraft motherships and development plans. Prince proposed to build 200 Zeppelin airships in the next five years, and Chentian proposed to build 6 seaplane motherships and 3 aircraft carriers in the next five years.

One month later, the emperor and the Navy Minister announced that the shipbuilding plan would be revised again, reducing 1/5 of the battleships originally planned, and the savings would be spent on the construction of airships and aircraft motherships. The cabinet then approved the procurement of 120 for the Army and 50 Zeppelin airships, produced by Schuter-Lantz and Zeppelin respectively; the Navy would be approved to purchase 6 seaplane motherships and 1 aircraft carrier, which would be built by Chentian's Cornisburg Shipyard.

The British government welcomed Germany's move to cut its battleship construction plan. They believed that Germany's move put Europe in a more peaceful atmosphere. At the same time, their navy's huge military expenditures have long been criticized by all parties at home, and now they can finally reduce their shipbuilding plans accordingly to reduce financial pressure.
Chapter completed!