"Your Highness, the mid-year bonus you give me may be doubled." Just one day before Ruprecht left Berlin, Prince Ruprecht met his gold medal employee, Baron Vittorio, who is known as the Bavarian money printing machine. The Baron's first words made His Highness very upset! After all, Ruprecht is now a capitalist, and what capitalists of this era like to do the most is to squeeze employees!

"Brazil, do you know? Brazil! They are actually going to order warships from us?" said the Baron excitedly. "I have always believed that this vast country is not interested in the navy at all."

"This is indeed a bit surprising." Ruprecht was also very curious. After all, he had passed through Convey countless times and knew very well that the largest warship ordered by the Brazilian Navy in the 1990s in the pre-Defensive Era was a 4,700-ton protective cruiser equipped with 10 6-inch guns and 2 4.7-inch guns.

And they actually ordered two warships from themselves in this plane! Two 10,000-ton armored cruisers did make Ruprecht feel a little confused. It is said that the competition between Argentina and Chile has nothing to do with Brazil. This guy was very honest in his previous fearless era. After all, as the largest country in South America, South America could not threaten his existence at this time. The navy had hardly built much. It was estimated that the total tonnage was not as good as the Beiyang Navy in its heyday......

"Yes, I was also very surprised. The Brazilian team's naval construction did not care at all. If they were just dealing with the naval arms race between Chile and Argentina, they would buy two Munich-class armored cruisers, but this time, they actually ordered two Russian-class armored cruisers! Could it be that they also want to join the competition for sea power in South America?" said the Baron. Because the 10,000-ton armored cruiser numbered acr1 was specially designed for Russia, the name of this warship was Russian-class. When the Baron said this, Ruprecht suddenly became hazy, and this amount of information was a bit large for Ruprecht...

"This is impossible!" Ruprecht only had these few words popping up in his mind!

"This is a copy of the bank draft, you can take a look. The entire contract totaled 1.95 million pounds. They asked for the use of the British 10-inch l40 guns and 8-inch l40 guns. The first fund of 350,000 pounds has been sent, and the construction is started as soon as possible. They have very strict requirements on time, requiring us to complete the construction before March 1898. We have only 30 months now." said the Baron.

"There won't be a problem with the contract, right?" Ruprecht asked after taking a look at the copy of the check.

"There is absolutely no problem. They did not refute our terms and accepted them almost as much as possible. You know this contract. There are almost no loopholes within the current legal framework." The Baron said. "You seem to be very worried about this contract?"

"I'm a little worried about what Brazil's original intention was to buy this class of warships." Ruprecht said.

"This is probably to deal with Chile and Argentina. And as businessmen, we can make money as long as we can, there is no need to consider other things. Anyway, whether it is Brazil or Chile, Argentina is very far away from us." The Baron was very open about this.

"If the contract is fine, then prepare to start construction and arrange one of the ships to the Germanic shipyard." The prince ordered. The baron received the order and withdrew, while Ruprecht fell into deep thought. Why did Brazil, which can be described as a good treasure in history, suddenly purchased two 10,000-ton armored cruisers? This tm is incredible!

The Baron's statement is simply impossible. Although there were many butterfly effects after Ruprecht arrived in this plane, the situation in South America was almost unchanged. Brazil will not worry about its own security. For small and medium-sized countries, purchasing weapons is either for a realistic threat or to prevent threats. Brazil has no pressure on both aspects.

Chile and Argentina have disputes over islands, which are potential enemies, and they are similar in strength, so there is a possibility of fighting. But in South America, who can threaten Brazil? North America's United States has no minions deep outside, and Europe has no interest in South America. Brazil does not need to change its historical strategies!

If Brazil does this, what will Chile and Argentina think? The original situation of the two betting has turned into three people! Is there going to be a mess in South America? His Royal Highness is a little confused. Because this matter is too strange and has a big deviation from history! The Baron is right. As a businessman, someone is willing to pay for it, just buy it yourself, so why bother considering other things? But in the dark, Ruprecht always feels that this matter is very abnormal, and there is a shadow moving in the weirdness!

If Brazil takes action, then Chile and Argentina will definitely react! Yes, there will definitely be reaction. If Chile and Argentina change the original shipbuilding plan, then this matter can be characterized as Brazil's sudden interest in maritime power. If there is no change, there may be a conspiracy. When thinking about this, Ruprecht couldn't help but shivering. This is really terrible. How powerful is the power behind the cooperation of a regional power? And what consequences will this conspiracy lead to?

Ruprecht guessed that his first intuition told him that this matter was definitely not just a simple order. Of course, his contract was absolutely reliable, and the other party's pound was also true. From the perspective of a businessman, he really didn't need to worry about this matter, but Ruprecht always reminded himself that you are a king and you need to think about this matter from a higher level! And behind this matter there is a conspiracy that is enough to change the world, you must understand it! Then use it!

At this time, Ruprecht realized that his intelligence network was really bad. Or the entire German intelligence network was too backward. He needed to build an intelligence network covering the world and extend his tentacles to all hot spots in the world! Taking this incident as an opportunity, Ruprecht will start to deploy this intelligence network.

But just as he was about to do this, Ruprecht, who had just received two brand new orders, was about to lose another order! The French conspiracy began to work, and the Russian top leaders began to consider whether it was worth ordering two expensive armored cruisers! On the one hand, it was the price issue, and on the other hand, it was the French loan and the design of the new battleship. Around this issue, a storm occurred in the Russian top leaders!

This is a very important chapter. Well, it has a lot to do with the following text!
Chapter completed!