Chapter 145: Strange order
"Your Royal Highness, the mid-year bonus you gave me will probably be doubled." One day before Ruprecht left Berlin, Prince Ruprecht met his gold medalist, known as the Bavarian banknote printing machine. Baron Vittorio. And the first words of the baron made the prince very upset! After all, Ruprecht is now considered a capitalist, and what capitalists in this era like to do most is to squeeze employees!
"Brazil, you know? Brazil! They actually want to order warships from us?" the baron said excitedly. "I always thought that this vast country is not interested in the navy at all."
"This is really surprising." Ruprecht is also very curious. After all, he has gone through Conway countless times, but he is very clear that the largest warship ordered by the Brazilian Navy in the 90s in the pre-fearless era was a 4,700 tons. The protective cruiser is equipped with 10 6-inch guns and 2 4.7-inch guns.
And on this plane, they actually ordered 2 warships from themselves! The two 10,000-ton-class armored cruisers do make Ruprecht feel a little confused. It is said that the competition between Argentina and Chile has nothing to do with Brazil. This buddy was very honest in the fearless era. After all, as the largest country in South America, South America at this time could not threaten his existence. The navy has hardly been built. The visual gross tonnage is not as good as the Beiyang Navy in its heyday...
"Yeah, I am also very surprised. The Brazilian navy building does not care at all. If it is only to respond to the naval arms race between Chile and Argentina, they can buy two Munich-class armored cruisers, but this time, they Actually ordered two Russian-class armored cruisers! Do they also want to join the fight for South American sea power?" said the baron. Because the 10,000-ton-class armored cruiser numbered ACR1 is specially designed for Russia, the name of this warship is Russian class. And when the Baron said this, Ruprecht suddenly fainted. This amount of information is a bit big for Ruprecht....
"It's impossible!" Only these words popped out of Ruprecht's mind!
"This is a copy of the bank draft. You can take a look. The entire contract totals 1.95 million pounds. They require the use of British 10-inch L40 artillery and 8-inch L40 artillery. The first capital of 350,000 pounds has been paid, and they demanded as soon as possible. The work started, and they have very strict requirements on time, requiring us to complete the work before March 1898. We now have only 30 months." said the baron.
"There will be no problems with the contract, right?" Ruprecht asked after looking at the copy of the check.
"There is absolutely no problem. They did not refute our terms and almost accepted them as they were ordered. As you know this contract, there are almost no loopholes in the current legal framework." said the baron. "You seem to be very worried about this contract?"
"I am a little worried about Brazil's original intention to buy this class of warship." Ruprecht said.
"This is probably to deal with Chile and Argentina. And as businessmen, as long as we can make money, there is no need to consider other things. Anyway, whether it is Brazil, Chile, or Argentina, it is very far away from us." The Baron saw this. It's very open.
"If there is nothing wrong with the contract, then get ready to start construction and arrange one of the ships to the Germania shipyard." The prince ordered. The baron took the order to withdraw, but Ruprecht fell into deep thought. In history, Brazil, which can almost be described as a good baby, was because of why it suddenly bought 2 10,000-ton armored cruisers? This TM is incredible!
Baron’s statement is impossible. Although Ruprecht has a lot of butterfly effects after arriving on this plane, the situation in South America has hardly changed. Brazil will not worry about its own security. For small and medium-sized countries, they buy weapons either for real threats or to prevent threats. And Brazil has no pressure on these two aspects.
Chile and Argentina have disputes over the islands. They are considered as potential enemies, and they are similar in strength, and there is a possibility of fighting. But in South America, who can threaten Brazil? The United States in North America has not yet made a deep claw, and Europe has no interest in South America. Brazil does not need to change its historical strategy!
If Brazil did this, what would Chile and Argentina think? The original situation of two people gambling has become three people! Is there something going on in South America? His Royal Highness couldn't understand it. Because this thing is too weird, and the deviation from history is too great! The baron is right. As a businessman, someone is willing to pay and just buy it himself, so why consider other things? But Ruprecht always felt that this thing was very abnormal, and there were shadows moving in the weirdness!
Brazil has action, then Chile and Argentina will definitely respond! Yes, there will be a reaction. If Chile and Argentina make changes to the original shipbuilding plans, then this matter can be characterized as Brazil's sudden interest in sea power ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ and if there is no change, Then there may be a conspiracy. When he thought of this, Ruprecht couldn't help but shudder. This is really terrifying. How powerful is the force behind the cooperation of a regional power? And what are the consequences of this conspiracy?
Ruprecht guessed that his first instinct told him that this matter is definitely not just an order. Of course, his contract is absolutely reliable, and the other's pound is true. From the perspective of a businessman, there is really no need to worry about this matter, but Ruprecht always reminds himself that you are a king and need to consider this matter from a higher level! And behind this incident there is a conspiracy that can change the world, you must understand it! Then use it!
At this time, Ruprecht realized that his intelligence network was really bad. In other words, the entire German intelligence network is too backward. He needs to build an intelligence network covering the world, and needs to reach out to all the hot spots in the world! With this incident as an opportunity, Ruprecht will begin to deploy this intelligence network.
But when he was about to do this, Ruprecht, who had just received two new orders, was about to lose another order! The French conspiracy began to work, and the Russian executives began to consider whether it was worth ordering two expensive armored cruisers! On the one hand, there is a price problem, on the other hand, the French loan and the new battleship design. Around this issue, there was a small storm at the top of Russia!
This is a very important chapter. Ok. It has a great relationship with the following text!
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