Compared to the powerful army, the navy of the Germanic Empire still had a long way to go to develop and challenge the Royal Navy of the Sun Never Sets Empire.
In particular, they could not be led by the nose by the Sun Never Sets Empire and follow the development of the Sun Never Sets Empire's Royal Navy. Instead, he had to overtake them at the corner. In this way, the Germanic Empire Navy would have the strength to defeat the Royal Navy of the Sun Never Sets Empire.
The arrival of His Majesty the Emperor made the navy of the Germanic Empire extremely excited.
During the reign of William II, he strongly supported the development of the navy. This allowed the navy of the Germanic Empire to develop by leaps and bounds.
However, after William II passed away and Liu Chuan ascended the throne, the navy was worried. Would the new emperor continue to support the navy?
However, Liu Chuan placed the focus of his first inspection on the navy. It could be seen how much he valued the navy. This naturally made the navy heave a sigh of relief.
Count Tirpitz, the Minister of the Navy, General Vonpole, the Chief of Staff of the Navy, General Reinhardt Scher, General Franz Vonipper, General Maximilian Vonspey, General Paul Vonbeck, and so on.
"Your Majesty, welcome to Kiel Harbor.”Count Tirpitz's face was full of smiles.
"Your Excellency, I am honored to come to Kiel Harbor for an inspection. I am extremely happy to see the remarkable achievements of the Imperial Navy!”Liu Chuan said.
This made Count Tirpitz and the navy generals even happier.
Then, accompanied by Count Tirpitz and a group of navy generals, Liu Chuan saw the huge warships at the military port.
The most eye-catching thing was undoubtedly the fleet of battleships.
Starting from the Brandenburg-class battleships, the German Empire Navy already had its own battleships. And now, they were building battleships on a large scale.
Unfortunately, even though the Germanic Empire had put in all its effort, the number of battleships owned by the Royal Navy of the Empire of Never Setting Sun did not shrink. Instead, it continued to expand.
On the military port of Kiel Harbor, there were four Brandenburg-class battleships, five Frederick III-class battleships, and four Witchersbach-class battleships.
"Your Majesty, these are all the capital ships of the Imperial Navy.‘The fourth ship of the Witchersbach-class battleship, the Swabian, was under construction and was expected to be ready for service in about a month.”Count Tirpitz introduced.
"How many capital ships are under construction in our shipyard?”Liu Chuan asked.
"The construction of the five Braunschweig-class battleships is progressing very quickly. It is expected that they will be in service from the second half of this year to next year. The construction of the five German-class battleships had also begun. However, it was estimated that they would have to wait until the year after next, or even the year after the year after that. However, by then, the Imperial Navy would have a total of 24 battleships. Such strength was second only to the Royal Navy of the Germanic Empire in the world!”Count Tirpitz looked proud.
It was his greatest achievement to make the German Empire's navy second only to the Royal Navy of the Sun Never Sets Empire!
"Sigh!" Liu Chuan sighed heavily.
The Germanic Empire was frantically building pre-dreadnought ships, and it seemed that they had many capital ships.
But in reality, he was completely fooled by the people of Sun Never Sets.
Even if all the battleships in the shipyard were in service, the German Empire's navy only had 24 pre-dreadnoughts. In this aspect, it was simply incomparable to the Sun Never Sets Empire.
Moreover, the friedrich III class battleships and the Witchersbach class battleships were only equipped with 240mm main guns. The other battleships were also equipped with 280mm main cannons.
In terms of firepower, they had no advantage against the Dreadnaughts of the Imperial Navy. In fact, he was at a complete disadvantage.
More importantly, once the Dreadnoughts of the Royal Navy of the Sun Never Sets Empire began to be built on a large scale, the large number of Dreadnoughts of the German Navy would immediately become outdated!
"Your Excellency, I request that from now on, the construction of the Braunschweig-class battleships and the Germany-class battleships be stopped immediately!”Liu Chuan immediately said.
He didn't want the Germanic Empire to waste resources on these former dreadnought ships.
Compared to the Sun Never Sets Empire, the Germanic Empire lacked resources. If too many resources were wasted on these old dreadnought ships…In that case, the Germanic Empire would not have enough resources to build a dreadnought. This would cause the Sun Never Sets Empire to fall behind the Sun Never Sets Empire in the Dreadnaught competition. As a result, the Germanic Empire Navy did not have the strength to challenge the Royal Navy of the Sun Never Sets Empire.
"What?" Count Tirpitz exclaimed and looked at Liu Chuan in shock. He had never expected Liu Chuan to give such an order.
The other admirals were also stunned, as if they could not believe their ears.
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