The Rise of the Empire

　　 Ruprecht dare to swear to the heavens, in Germany, in the field of ship sales and shipbuilding, if Baron Vittorio Cuniberti claims to be second, then no one would dare to claim first! Not even the prince himself! Your own non-professional level can be used to guide the general direction, but if it comes to the specific operation, it is better to wash and sleep, and then leave it to a professional person to do it!

　　 deserves to be a man who can sell 10 Garibaldi! The owner who has contributed at least £6 million to the Italian shipbuilding industry and related industries by relying on one design! First-class shipbuilding! Sales and customer psychology are superb! Arrangement for production is also top-notch! No, just two days after arriving in Berlin, Mr. Baron proposed to the prince a very strategic point.

"We should have our own shipyard, well, maybe this is too much for Bavaria, which does not depend on the sea, but we should at least have a certain stake in a large shipyard! This is very important for our future business expansion. Important!" Baron Vittorio hesitated for a long time, and finally made this surprising suggestion.

In fact, the prince himself didn’t want to build a shipyard. His Royal Highness saw that building a shipyard is completely inefficient. The status of shipyards in this era is actually similar to that of later brand computer vendors, and their profits are all affected by armor. The factory, the artillery factory, the boiler and the engine factory have made money, and the shipyard itself is just making hard money! Even in the pre-fearless era when everyone was vying to expand the navy, the profits of shipyards would generally not exceed 25%!

And there are a lot of risks. After all, the navies of various countries buy warships in installments. If there are some accidents, or if you don’t want them at all, the unfinished sterns on the berth will face a very difficult choice, or the shipyard will find The next ship will be completed, or the ship will be demolished. Various uncertain factors affect the operation of the shipyard, and competition between each other will make the profit of warships lower and lower. In the end, all the facts have proved the truth. There is no future for homogeneous competition, and the mastery of core technology is fundamental. Therefore, the prince is not concerned about the shipyard responsible for the final assembly of the subsystem.

"Although there are also shipyards with royal or naval signs in Italy. Unlike their counterparts in Germany, the German Navy will take care of almost all large shipyards, so in time we spent a lot of money to cooperate with a shipyard, It is also difficult for us to get more orders for him because bread is limited and the German Admiralty needs to feed all shipyards."

　　 The prince thought that Vittorio did not understand the situation in Germany, so he explained to him patiently. "How can I put it, German capitalism can be called state capitalism to a certain extent. The reason why the two battleships Dingyuan and Zhenyuan ordered by the Qing Dynasty were able to get such low prices was behind the government. Ours The Prime Minister gave instructions."

"I understand all of these situations. If only from the perspective of survival, the safety factor of your shipyards is very high, but the result of this evenly sharing of benefits is to ensure the scale, but limit the improvement of efficiency. It looks good, but if this continues, we will suffer when facing foreign competitors." Vittorio's tone showed a trace of dissatisfaction.

The new baron is right. The export work of German warships has not been good. It seems that in the long history of fearlessness, the new ships built by German shipyards are not sold much, and there seem to be only 3 warships over 7000 tons. Apart from Dingyuan and Zhenyuan, there is only the 10,000-ton-class armored cruiser ordered by Japan in Germany. The former is due to the ultra-low price and Li Zhongtang’s German plot. On the one hand, the latter is due to the fact that Dingyuan and Zhenyuan built by Fuer Keng are too resistant to fight, on the other hand, it is Japan's good move to Germany!

　　 You must know that even the United States, which was regarded as a nouveau riche by European countries at the time, successfully sold the Letvizan and a bunch of cruisers to Russia. And France also produced the battleship Prince Edward for Germany, so before the Russo-Japanese War, when the Russian-German relationship was fairly good, the reason why the Germans did not get a Russian ship order is intriguing enough! You know, in 1905, when the Russo-Japanese War was starting, the Russians also ordered a 15,000-ton Rurik-2 cruiser from the British allies.

　　The price of German man-made warships is generally higher, especially during the First War. Although the skin is hard to fight, the problem of weak firepower is also obvious. After balancing armor and firepower, the cost of German warships is still too high. This has a lot to do with the distribution method of the German navy's order of warships. If the British shipyards are competing desperately, or even building ships at a loss, then the major shipyards of the German Navy are hello, me, and everyone!

　　 "What you said makes sense, but does it have anything to do with us? We can't change the way the Admiralty distributes it, and if we arrogate this piece of cake, we will offend many people." The crown prince tactfully rejected the baron's suggestion. This risk is too great, and the benefit is somewhat small!

"No, no, no. It’s a big deal, don’t forget, our warships have to be taken out! The domestic shipbuilding cake is too small, and the German fleet’s construction plan is not proportional to the number of domestic shipyards. It depends on the Admiralty alone. Our design bureau can hardly make any money. The deadline for the completion of the targets you set me may be far away. So we must open up foreign markets! Especially the current Russian market!" Vittorio awakened the dreamer with a sentence ! Only in the industry of shipbuilding and buying ships, I really can't compare to the baron around me, and they are all masters in every aspect!

In history, a total of 10 Garibaldi-class cruisers were built. Except for the 3 for Italian use, the others were sold to foreign countries. The cheap price was not only because of the small tonnage and reasonable design, but also the high efficiency of the shipyard. Indispensable, (Italy makes its own ships less efficient, but Garibaldi, a takeaway, builds them relatively quickly) and the efficiency of German shipyards under government protection, or cost control, is not satisfactory. If this does not change, I am afraid that the historical champion of foreign exchange earning will be destroyed in his own hands! For this point of advice, the prince’s year-end award for the baron should be more!

　　 But that's the end of the help the Baron can provide. He doesn't know much about the shipbuilding industry in Germany. At best, he can only know the past and present surface conditions of these shipyards, and as a traveler, Prince Ruprecht knows the future performance of these shipyards clearly!

　　 The prince spent two whole nights of precious time thinking about this matter~www.readwn.com~ For this reason, he even missed a royal ball. Don't think about those shipyards with national names. For example, the Kildwill Shipyard and the Royal Wilhelm Shipyard. The owners behind them are the German royal family and the government. It is useless to talk to these people about the distribution of benefits. Don't bother with shipyards that are too weak or inexperienced. It is difficult to raise these shipyards, and those who travel through don't want to be gardeners.

　　In the end, Ruprecht chose the Brom-Forth Shipyard in Hamburg! First of all, this shipyard is privately run and has a relatively small government background. Secondly, the capabilities of this shipyard are really good. In history, most of the battlecruisers in the first German war were made by this shipyard. And as early as the pre-fearless era, from the Prince Albert class, Ron class, and later the famous Scharnhorst class armored cruiser, half of the 6 battleships of 3 classes came from this shipyard.

　　 It can be seen that this company is very suitable for building armored cruisers! And according to the memory of the prince, this company is also a private shipyard with few figures that survived the depression of World War I. By the time of World War II, the Bismarck and Admiral Hipper were completed in this shipyard. It can be seen that both the strength and the technical preference are very suitable for the crown prince!

　　 That's great. Now that the target has been selected, a person who knows how to talk is naturally needed, and this person is naturally Baron Vittorio Cuniberti!

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