Holy Roman Empire

On October 11, 1862, Frederick, the first armored ship of the Kingdom of Prussia, made a sea trial. William I personally presided over the ceremony to show the determination of the development of the navy.

They were really determined to see the Austrian nobleman next door making a fortune in the overseas colonial movement, and the Junker nobles could not bear it.

Especially many young people have long been dissatisfied with the government's conservatism.It should be known that Austria hasn't opened up overseas colonies for less than ten years, and it has a land area of ​​five or six times that of the mainland.

Many people are optimistic that by joining the colonial movement, they will soon be able to make a fortune and become a prince to the top of their lives.

"The future of the world is in the ocean", whoever said it first is unverifiable. Anyway, it has now been widely recognized by European society.

At the beginning of the development of overseas colonies, Franz also promoted this theory, and now the German area has been widely circulated.

The armored ship was recognized as a technological revolution in the navy, and it was only a few years after the advent of naval powers such as Britain, France, the United States, Spain, Portugal, and Spain, all built their own armored ships.

Now the Kingdom of Prussia finally has its own armored ship, many people are celebrating.Only high-level government officials understand the gap between their armored ships and the naval powers.

After all, it is a dry duck. For a long time, the Prussian navy has been a non-existent existence. More often, it has played the role of a maritime police. It ca n’t even be compared with Denmark next door.

The fanfare of the propaganda armored ship is still to inspire people.After all, the Kingdom of Prussia has developed very badly in recent years, and the people need good news.

William I asked with concern: "How is the navy training, and when can we open up overseas colonies?"

Ron, a part-time minister of the army, changed his face and replied with a bitter smile: "Your Majesty, our navy is too thin.

Before the expansion, the navy had only more than 1,300 officers and men, including civilian personnel from the upper and lower admiralty.

It takes at least two to three years to form combat power.Of course, if the enemy is only indigenous, these are not problems."

The Secretary of the Army is still the Minister of the Navy, which is also the result of compromise by all parties.Although the Junker nobles coveted the benefits of developing overseas colonies, they were still reluctant to give up their dominance over the army.

There is nothing wrong with the army leading the navy. Anyway, the navy officers and soldiers are directly transferred from the army's active forces.Even the Marine Corps has been saved, they are definitely the strongest navy in the Marine War, and there is no one.

Ron, who had dominated the reform of the army, found that he was going to dominate the construction of the Prussian navy again.In other countries, the layman leads the layman at most. Here he directly leads the layman.

Anyway, before the Prussian navy, which is the maritime police of the Kingdom of Prussia, the usual business is to crack down on smuggling activities.

Now that the thousands of more troops are added, it will become more amateur. From top to bottom are amateurs. Ron is naturally under pressure.

The navy is not an army, and can be on the battlefield after a few months of training.Even ordinary soldiers have to spend years training.

Obviously, this was discovered after Ron's in-depth understanding. The upper Prussian government was still Army thinking, including William I did not distinguish the difference between the Army and the Navy, otherwise it would not be so.

William I asked in surprise: "It took so long, how did the Austrians expand the navy, or did their officers and soldiers simply fail their training?"

It is true that the expansion of the Austrian navy has been a bit fierce in recent years. From 1850 to the present, the tonnage of the Austrian navy has increased several times, and it has become the third naval power in the world.

Ron explained: "Your Majesty, the Austrian navy has been active in the Mediterranean before, and its popularity is a bit low, but in fact their naval heritage is very thick, and the Venetian region is a traditional naval power.

They have a complete naval technical heritage and talent training system.The Metternich era did not attach importance to the development of the navy, so that the Austrian navy played down in everyone's impression. Now that the Vienna government has paid attention to it, it will naturally catch up soon."

In fact, the rapid development of the Austrian Navy is also luck.In the era of sail warships, naval technology has reached a bottleneck, even if the British technology is not advanced to all countries.

After the era of the armored ships came, the sail warships were directly eliminated, and the previous experience and technology have fallen behind, and they have to start shuffling again.

To some extent, this is the time when countries are most likely to catch up with the British.After all, everyone has just developed the armored ship technology, and this gap has not reached a desperate point.

After listening to this explanation, William I sighed. Originally, he thought that the navy was blown out by the British. He did not expect this to be true.

If there is no foundation, building a strong navy from scratch, even if it does not take a hundred years, it still takes decades.

"Not long ago the Austrian proposed to us to jointly develop the Nanyang region. This is a rare opportunity.

If the cooperation goes smoothly, we can directly use the Austrian overseas colony to obtain supplies and obtain the first colony in the Nanyang region."

Logistical supply is also an obstacle that the colonial empire set for the latecomers.Everyone just welcomes merchant ships from various countries to go to supply, and warships must communicate in advance if they want to get supplies.

If it is just going abroad, then it is easy to handle and everyone is happy to do this business.If you want to open up overseas colonies, this requires deeper communication.

In short, don't want everyone's help without sufficient cost.

This is quite discordant to the latecomers, and it is impossible to open up overseas colonies to ship everything from domestic sources. Procurement nearby is the best way to reduce costs.

In order to obtain logistics supplies, Austria and the three Portuguese and Dutch countries signed an agreement, promising not to seek their colonies in any way, only to obtain everyone's understanding.

These agreements have been fulfilled by Franz. In the overseas colonial activities, Austria has not seized any country's colony, and it has taken a land of no ownership.

Now the Kingdom of Prussia is facing the same problem. If the logistics problem cannot be solved, the colonial cost can directly make anyone desperate.

Sign a similar agreement?Don't dream, the political influence of the Kingdom of Prussia is getting worse and worse. Why should everyone be given face?

In this world of fist speaking, with the strength of the Prussian navy, all countries simply disdain.Even the Portuguese can destroy the Prussian navy regiment two or three times.

In particular, the Army directly became a navy, and it became a laughing stock in Europe.Everyone does not think that the Kingdom of Prussia is developing the navy, and many newspapers directly ridicule the Prussian navy as an army fleet.

Ron asked with concern: "Your Majesty, what do we need to pay?"

There will be no pies in the sky. If it does, it can kill people.Ron doesn't think Austria will help Prussia for free, this big bargain is definitely not easy to pick up.

William I sneered and said, "They still regard themselves as the boss of the German region, ready to pull our little brother in the past as a thug.

The forces of countries in the Nanyang region have gathered. In recent years, the Austrian stalls have been spread too large, and the strength to invest in the Nanyang region is limited.

In order to guarantee their interests in the Nanyang region, the Vienna government invited us and the German Federal Empire to join this time.

Of course, they also mean to attract the nobles in our country.The little fart child of Franz hangs the united Germany every day, for fear that others do not know."

This is a conspiracy. Even if he knew that the bait might be poisonous, William I would have to swallow it.

Can't we not open up overseas colonies because of possible hidden dangers?

Austria has attracted people in Prussia, not once or twice.In these years, more than 150,000 Prussian immigrants entered the Austrian colony.

Many overseas colonial teams in the Kingdom of Prussia are now affiliated with the Austrians. If these people do not fall to Austria, the Vienna government will shelter them unless they are crazy.

William I was conscious of crisis. He was very worried about continuing to do so, and did not know when he was sold by his men. For details, please refer to the Kingdom of Bavaria.

After joining Austria.The Kingdom of Bavaria is developing well.This traditional textile center in Germany has once again radiated its second spring.

In order to solve the supply of industrial raw materials, the Vienna government opened a cotton plantation specifically in West Africa.

In contrast, Baden, who remained in the German Federal Empire, was tragic.The center of the cotton spinning industry in the German region is now subject to insufficient raw material supply and has gradually declined.

With the power of role models, the people under William I did not have confidence.Even the noble Junker, he could not believe it.

After all, changing the boss to the nobility or the nobility, the capitalist or the capitalist, everyone's core interests will not be damaged, and there may even be more.

In order to avoid the worst, William I had to find a way to open a new road, otherwise sooner or later the Kingdom of Prussia would be annexed by Austria.

William I was reluctant to play political means with the Habsburg dynasty, this is not his strength.