The spring breeze blows on the face, the grass grows and the warblers fly, the winter moon gradually fades away, and the warmth is melting. The Baltic Sea in the morning is filled with misty mist, like a girl wearing a veil, elegant and quiet, elegant and bright. The blue sea is sparkling, the waves are rolling, and a few gulls and birds are gliding over the sea, and the clear cry is pleasant, giving this dreamy and beautiful picture scroll a little lively.

A wide and flat asphalt road is built near the sea, with a gray wavelength barrier on one side and a lush green forest on the other side. At the end of the highway, a towering complex of buildings rose up from the ground on the 100-mile field. From a distance, four huge dry docks can be seen vaguely built on the coast, surrounded by steel and groceries and other things. The factory buildings are staggered and the warehouses are arranged, and there is already a hint of the majestic atmosphere of a heavy industrial base.

A black car was spitting out a faint blue smoke and slowly moving between the newly built factory buildings. In front of the car was an embroidered gold logo of the Hohenzollen family, which was dazzling and dazzling, showing the world its absolute authority in the Second German Empire. In the double seats in the rear row of the sedan, a tall and handsome boy sat upright; facing the rising sun, he was squinting his eyes and looking at all the scenes in front of him.

Under the dark blue sky, in the bright morning light, production workshops like giant beasts are neatly arranged in one place, wide, horizontal and vertical, and thunder roaring. The car passed the open door, and the sounds surging, and all kinds of machine tools were roaring. On the boat platform, there were shadows, and the hanging crane was hanging a huge steel plate slowly moving on the dense steel frame; occasionally, a bright orange-red and bright light knife could be seen sucking and spitting, accompanied by thick black smoke, cutting the large plate in an instant in the blink of an eye. The boy walked through the newly built coastal shipyard, and felt a majestic and powerful aura surging in his chest, and he couldn't help but want to sing loudly.

Two years ago, Qingying proved the feasibility of William's "lead duck" and led to the extremely redundant tonnage design of German naval warships. In return, William not only agreed to his global sailing trip, but also agreed to build a shipbuilding base for him next to Ninghagen, a coastal town affiliated to Rostock. After two years of construction, the first phase of the project, including four ship platforms that can undertake 3,000-4,000-ton ships and their supporting facilities, has been completed. After all, the rated personnel of designers, technical workers, logistics teams, etc., totaling more than 1,600 people, the small shipyard was officially listed and put into operation.

Since William knew that Qingying, a young man, would not be able to manage it at all, he only let Qingying take the title of a shipyard owner, become a hand-off manager, and hand over his daily operations to an elderly family named Bremer to manage. William, a rich man, had a huge asset worth more than 2 billion marks, and his operation method was almost the same as this situation. Qingying was actually quite satisfied with this situation. He originally created this shipyard to build some troops that were ahead of the times, and definitely not to satisfy his desire to manage and operate. Now that the shipyard does not have to worry about it, and someone makes it stable, he is naturally happy to do so; not to mention that he will have a large amount of marks every month?

In Europe at the end of the 19th century, shipbuilding was indeed the hottest gold-making industry. Although the Qingying people were still in Berlin when the shipyard was operating and had almost no advertising work, the huge profits of sea shipping still prompted capitalists with conditions to flock to expand the fleet size. Against this background, Qingying, the unknown newly opened shipyard, actually received construction orders for 8 merchant ships from two shipping companies. Previously, Qingying was wondering if William was afraid that his shipyard would not be able to operate, so he used his privilege to designate the two shipping companies to order merchant ships from his shipyard; but when he visited other shipyards, he saw almost no idle shipboard, and truly felt what kind of era he was in.

The fire roared, the liquid steel poured out, the machine tools were deafening, and the thunder was thundering. At the core of the furnace of the Second Industrial Revolution, watching the plates being quickly ground and cut, and being planed and milled into a fine product shining with cold light, even though Qingying was used to the modern processing technology of large automated machine tools in later generations, he still exclaimed the inner wonder and praise of the superb level shown by the German industry in this era. German skilled technicians and German precision craftsmanship were still the best in the world even after being severely damaged by the two wars, and no one can match them, let alone in the late 19th century when the country was in its prime? William had such powerful and amazing strength in his hand. No wonder he was full of confidence and wanted to divide the world again!

"Your Highness, we're coming soon."

As his thoughts flew around, a man sitting in the passenger seat in the car turned around and said to Qingying. He was burly and dressed in black uniform. He was the bodyguard man Luo En who had been staying with Qingying for a long time. Qingying nodded slightly when he heard this, and his eyes turned to the area directly in front of him: a beige four-story building stood alone on the open space between the ship platform and the branch factory, surrounded by green trees, which was very different from the monotonous and old-fashioned image of the surrounding factories. Looking at the most important design office building in the entire shipyard, Qingying couldn't help but clench his fists, and a look of expectation appeared on his handsome face.

When the shipyard was laid, it was built according to the standard of being able to build 4,000-ton military warships; and the main designers and technical workers assigned to it did not have any qualifications or skills. In other words, although there are only four ships at present, their industrial and design foundations have reached the level of being able to build warships for the military. When Tirpitz's Naval Law was promulgated and implemented two months ago, Qingying had an idea of ​​the four small cruisers in the Naval Law.

Historically, the performance of the "Gazelle"-class small cruiser that Germany started construction in 1898 was just like that built in 1888: whether in terms of firepower, speed or cost, this class built 10 fourth-class cruisers, and all of them revealed the word "scammers". For the combat power of the navy and the huge profits of the warships, Qingying had no reason to waste the resources in his hands. Tirpitz's naval law had just been promulgated, and he asked the warship design team in the shipyard to start the design of the corresponding ship. It is now February 1897, and it is estimated that it will be the day to produce finished products.

In addition to the mosquito leg meat of the small cruiser, Qingying also had a more important purpose for this trip, which was to see if there was a chance to create a German underwater wolf pack in advance.

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When it comes to submarines, almost everyone knows its power. Because it has extremely high concealment and threat, it has been an indispensable force in the navy until the 21st century when science and technology are changing with each passing day. During World War I, it was an excellent time for submarines to show their skills. Because during this period, due to the technical conditions of the times, it was difficult for warring countries to kill the other side's underwater threats.

Since submarines joined the large family of the navy, how to counter submarines has become a major problem faced by navies around the world. The means of attacking submarines are actually very simple, because the hull of a submarine cannot withstand impact, so you only need to make a special bomb that can explode underwater, so that the shock wave generated by the explosion destroys the hull of the submarine's hull to achieve the purpose of sinking the submarine. Although the principle of a deep-water bomb is very simple, detonator, striker, spring, and some explosives can be made, the power of the explosion is enough to pose a devastating threat to the submarine; however, if a deep-water bomb wants to attack a submarine, there must be a prerequisite, that is, the people on the anti-submarine must first know where the enemy's submarine is!

In 1906, the British developed the first sonar machine that could detect the location of the submarine. Its working principle is to determine the location of the submarine by judging the noise caused by the rotation of the propeller of the underwater submarine. However, this ideal anti-submarine effect was obtained in the pool dug by the British in advance. Once it arrived on the turbulent sea, the disadvantages of the primitive sonar were immediately revealed. It is impossible for the ocean to be as calm as in the pool. Ocean currents, tides, waves and underwater fish will produce one or another sound, which seriously interfered with the normal operation of the hydrophone.

In addition, due to the limitations of technical conditions at that time, this instrument had various problems; under the combination of multiple factors, its effectiveness in actual combat was even more limited. They either regarded the turbulence in the sea and the noise emitted by fish schools as submarines, or turned a deaf ear to the existence of the submarine, or were thousands of miles away from the real location of the submarine; and once the officers and soldiers on the submarine felt the vibration from the explosion of deep water bombs in the distance, they just needed to stop on site, and this passive detection sonar would lose its target, and the enemy ships on the water would no longer pose a threat to it.

During World War I, the weakness of countries in suppressing underwater targets can be shown through a set of data: During the four years of World War I, German submarines sank more than 5,000 transport ships from the Allied countries, with a total tonnage of 13 million tons, almost suffocating the lifeline of the British Empire at sea; and they only lost less than 180 submarines, and the war losses between submarines and merchant ships were close to 30 to 1. The real maturity of anti-submarine tactics will not be until the end of 1943: With the use of escort aircraft carriers, anti-submarine patrol girls, sonar, radar and radio directional capture, the undersea wolves finally lost the fatal threat to the Allied transport fleet. In the World War 30 years ago, these conditions did not exist!

The motor neighed and the breeze blew. After a while, the convertible car slowly stopped in front of the building. Qingying took a deep breath and strode into it.

Bow to thank Xue Piaopiao for your reward... The author will definitely work harder~~~~
Chapter completed!