Chapter 340: Yang Mou

On October 11, 1862, the first iron armored ship Frederick of the Kingdom of Prussia made a sea trial. William I personally presided over the ceremony to show the determination to develop the navy.
They really made up their minds and saw the Austrian nobles next door making a fortune in the overseas colonial movement, and the Junker nobles couldn't help it.
Many young people, in particular, have long been dissatisfied with the conservative government. You should know that Austria opened its overseas colonies less than ten years ago, and has a land area of ​​five or six times its native land.
Many people are optimistic that only by joining the colonial movement, they will soon be able to make a fortune and seal the title to the peak of their lives.
"The future of the world lies in the ocean." Whoever said this sentence first cannot be verified, anyway, it has now been widely recognized by European society.
In the beginning of the establishment of overseas colonies, Franz also helped to promote this theory, and now the German region has been widely spread.
Iron armored ships were recognized as the navy's technological revolution. Only a few years after its introduction, the British, French, American, Western, Portuguese and other naval powers built their own iron armored ships.
Now the Kingdom of Prussia finally has its own armored ship, and many people are celebrating. Only high-level government officials know 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 dispensable. More often, it plays the role of a maritime police, not even Denmark next door.
The fervent propaganda of ironclad ships was still inspiring. After all, the development of the Kingdom of Prussia has not been smooth in recent years, and the public needs good news.
William I asked with concern: "How is the naval training going, when can we open up overseas colonies?"
Ron, the secretary of the army and part-time navy minister, changed his face and replied with a bitter smile: "Sir, our navy is too thin.
Prior to the expansion, there were only 1,300 officers and men in the Navy, including civilian personnel on and off the Navy.
It takes at least two to three years to develop combat effectiveness. Of course, these are not a problem if the enemy is only indigenous. "
The Secretary of the Army still serves as Minister of the Navy, which is also the result of compromises. Although the Junker aristocrats coveted the interests of opening up overseas colonies, they were still reluctant to give up their military dominance.
There is nothing wrong with the army's leadership of the navy. Anyway, the officers and men of the navy are directly transferred from the army's active duty. Even the Marine Corps has been saved. They are definitely one of the strongest navies in the land, none of them.
Ron, who had led the Army's reforms, found tragically that he would dominate the construction of the Prussian navy. In other countries, the layman leads the layman at best. Here he directly leads the layman.
Anyway, before the Prussian Navy was the maritime police of the Kingdom of Prussia, the usual business was to crack down on smuggling activities.
The thousands of troops added now are even more amateurish. They are amateurs from top to bottom. Ron is naturally stressful.
The navy is not an army and can be put on the battlefield in just a few months of training. Even ordinary soldiers take years to train.
Obviously, this was discovered only after Ron's in-depth understanding. The upper level of the Prussian government was still the Army's thinking, including William I, who did not distinguish the difference between the Army and the Navy, otherwise it would not have asked that.
William I asked in amazement: "It took so long. How did the Austrians expand the navy, or did their officers and soldiers fail at all?"
Indeed, the expansion of the Austrian navy in recent years has been a bit fierce. 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: "His Majesty, the Austrian Navy has been active in the Mediterranean before, and its popularity is somewhat low, but in fact their navy is very solid, and the Venezia region is a traditional naval power.
They have a complete naval technical heritage and personnel training system. In the era of Metternich, naval development was not valued, so that the Austrian navy was downplayed in everyone's impression. Now the Vienna government attaches importance to it and naturally catches up quickly. "
In fact, the rapid development of the Austrian Navy is also luck. In the era of sailing warships, naval technology has reached a bottleneck, even if the British technology is not advanced to other countries.
After the era of the iron armored ship came, the sail warship was directly eliminated. The previous experience and technology had fallen behind, and it was necessary to start reshuffle.
In a way, this is the era when countries are most likely to catch up with the British. After all, the ironclad ship technology has just been developed, and this gap has not yet reached a point of despair.
After listening to this explanation, William I sighed. He originally thought that the century-old navy was blown out by the British, but he did not expect this to be true.
If there is no background, building a strong navy from scratch will take decades, even if it does not take 100 years.
"Not long ago, the Austrians proposed to us to jointly develop the Nanyang region. This is a rare opportunity.
If the cooperation is smooth, we can directly use the Austrian overseas colonial bases to obtain supplies and obtain the first colony in the Nanyang region. "
Logistical supply, this is also an obstacle set by the colonial empire to the latecomers. Everyone just welcomes merchant ships from various countries to supply, warships must communicate in advance to get supplies.
If it's just a trip abroad, then everyone is happy to do this business. If we want to open up overseas colonies, this requires deeper communication.
In short, don't want to get everyone's help without the price.
This is quite discordant to the latecomers. It is impossible to open up overseas colonies to ship everything from home. Procurement nearby is the best way to reduce costs.
In order to obtain logistical supplies, Austria and Western Portugal and the Netherlands signed an agreement and promised not to seek their colonies in any way before they got everyone's understanding.
Franz has fulfilled these promises. In overseas colonial activities, Austria did not seize the colonies of any country, and they took possession of no land.
Now the kingdom of Prussia is also facing the same problem. If the logistics supply problem cannot be solved, the colonization cost can directly despair anyone.
Sign a similar agreement? Stop dreaming. The political influence of the Kingdom of Prussia is deteriorating. Why should everyone give face?
In this world where fists speak, with the strength of the Prussian navy, nations simply disdain. Even the Portuguese can destroy the Prussian Navy Regiment two or three times.
In particular, the direct change of the army to the navy has become a laughing stock in Europe. Everyone did not think that the Prussian kingdom was developing the navy, and many newspapers directly satirized that the Prussian navy was an army fleet.
Ron asked, "Your Majesty, what do we need to pay?"
The pie will not fall in the sky, if it falls, it can also kill people. Ron doesn't think Austria will help Prussia for free, this big deal is definitely not good.
William I sneered and said, "They still think of themselves as the boss of the German region, and they are going to pull our little brother as a thug.
Countries in the Nanyang region have gathered in power, and the Austrian stalls have spread too much over the years, and their ability to invest in the Nanyang region is limited.
In order to guarantee their interests in the Nanyang region, the Vienna government has invited us and the German Federal Empire to join this time.
Of course, they also meant to win over our domestic nobility. Franz's little fart hangs on the united Germany every day, for fear of others not knowing it. "
This was a conspiracy, even if he knew that the bait might be poisonous, William I would swallow it.
You ca n’t just open up an overseas colony because there may be hidden dangers, right?
It's not just once or twice that Austria has taken hold in Prussia. In recent years, more than 150,000 Prussian immigrants have entered the Austrian colonies.
Many overseas colonial teams in the Kingdom of Prussia are now anchored by the Austrians. If these people did not fall to Austria, the Vienna government would shelter them unless they were crazy.
William I had a sense of crisis. He was very worried about continuing this. He didn't know when he would be sold by his people. For details, please refer to the Kingdom of Bavaria.
After joining Austria. The Kingdom of Bavaria has developed well. This traditional textile center in the German region has once again glowed in the second spring.
To address the supply of industrial raw materials, the Vienna government opened cotton plantations specifically in West Africa.
In contrast, Baden, who remained in the German Federal Empire, was a tragedy. The cotton spinning center, which is also in the German region, is now constrained by the insufficient supply of raw materials and is gradually declining.
With the power of role models, William I's opponents have no confidence. Even the Junker aristocrat could not believe it.
After all, if you change the boss aristocracy or noble, capitalist or capitalist, everyone's core interests will not be damaged, and even more may be taken.
In order to avoid the worst, William I had to find a way to find a new way, or sooner or later the Kingdom of Prussia would be annexed by Austria.
William I was unwilling to play politics with the Habsburgs. This was not his strength.
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