Time Traveler dares to swear to heaven. In Germany, in the fields of ship selling and shipbuilding, if Baron Vittorio Kuniberti claims to be the second, then no one dares to claim to be the first! Even Time Traveler cannot do it! It is okay to use his non-professional level to guide the general direction, but if it comes to specific operations, then take a shower and go to professionals and do it!

He is worthy of being a man who can sell 10 Garibaldi! He has contributed at least 6 million pounds to Italy's shipbuilding industry and related industries by relying on a design! He is first-class in shipbuilding! He is first-class in sales and first-class in customer psychology! Arrangement of production! Now, just two days after arriving in Berlin, Mr. Baron gave a very strategic suggestion to the time traveler!

"We should own our own shipyard, well, maybe this is a bit too much for Bavaria, which is not near the sea, but we should at least have a certain stake in a large shipyard! This is very important for our future business expansion!" Baron Vittorio hesitated for a long time and finally gave this surprising suggestion.

In fact, the time traveler himself does not want to build a shipyard. In His Royal Highness, it is completely inefficient to build a shipyard. The status of the shipyard in this era is actually similar to that of later brand computer manufacturers. The profits are all made away by armor factories, artillery factories, boilers and turbine factories. The shipyard itself is just a hard-earned money! Even in the fearless era when everyone is rushing to expand the navy, the profits of the shipyard generally will not exceed 25%!

And they have to bear a lot of risks. After all, navies from various countries purchase warships in installments. If there are some accidents or simply don't, then the unfinished ships on the ship platform will face a very difficult choice, either the shipyard finds the next home to complete the warship, or dismantle the ship. Various undeterminable factors affect the operation of the shipyard, and the competition between each other will make the profits of the warships lower and lower. In the end, all facts prove one truth: homogeneous competition has no future, and mastering core technology is the foundation. Therefore, time travelers are not concerned about the shipyard responsible for the final assembly of the subsystem.

"Although there are also shipyards with royal or naval signatures in Italy. But their colleagues in Germany are different from them. The German Navy will take care of almost all large shipyards. Therefore, in time, we spend a lot of money to cooperate with a certain shipyard, and it is difficult for us to get more orders because the bread is limited and the German Navy needs to support all shipyards."

The traveler thought Vittorio did not understand the situation in Germany, so he patiently explained to him. "How to say, German capitalism can be called state capitalism to a certain extent. The reason why the two battleships, Dingyuan and Zhenyuan ordered by the Qing Dynasty, were able to get such a low price was that there was a government promoter behind it. Our Prime Minister had given instructions."

"I understand these situations. If we look at the perspective of survival only, the safety factor of your country's shipyards is very high, but the result of this equal interest is to ensure the scale but limit the improvement of efficiency. It is good at present, but if this continues, we will suffer losses when facing foreign competitors." Vittorio's tone showed a hint of dissatisfaction.

The new Baron said it well. Germany's warship export work has not been very good. It seems that in the long history of fearlessness, there are not many new ships built by German shipyards, and there seems to be only three warships with more than 7,000 tons. Apart from Dingyuan and Zhenyuan, there is only the 10,000-ton armored cruiser ordered by Japan in Germany. The former is because of the ultra-low price and Li Zhongtang's German plot. On the one hand, the latter is because Dingyuan and Zhenyuan built by Vulkeng are too resistant to fighting, and on the other hand, Japan's move to Germany!

You should know that even the United States, which was regarded as nouveau riche by European countries at that time, successfully sold the Letvizan and a bunch of cruisers to Russia. France also produced the Prince battleship for Germany. So before the Russo-Japanese War, Russia-Germany relations were quite good, the reason why the Germans did not get an order for a large ship by the Russians was intriguing enough! You should know that in 1905, when the Russo-Japanese War was about to start, the Russians also ordered a 15,000-ton Liurik Type 2 cruiser from Japan's ally British.

The prices of German artificial warships are generally higher, especially during War 1. Although they are strong and resistant to fighting, the problem of weak firepower is also obvious. After balancing armor and firepower, the cost of German warships is still too high. This is closely related to the distribution method of the German Navy's ordering warships. If the British shipyards compete for life or even build ships at a loss, then the major shipyards of the German Navy will be a big pot meal!

"What you said makes sense, but does it have anything to do with us? We cannot change the distribution method of the Admiralty, and if we are aware of this cake, we will offend many people." The time traveler politely rejected the Baron's suggestion. This risk is too great, and the benefits are a little small!

"No, no, no. It's a big deal. Don't forget that our warships also need takeaway! The domestic shipbuilding cake is too small, and the construction plan of the German fleet is not proportional to the number of domestic shipyards. We can hardly make money by relying on our design bureau alone. The deadline for completing the indicators you set for me may be far away. So we must explore foreign markets! Especially the current Russian market!" Vittorio woke up the dreamer! In terms of the industry of shipbuilding and buying ships, he is indeed not as good as the baron around him. He is a master-level person in every aspect!

In history, Garibal's class cruisers built a total of 10. Except for the three used by Italians, all of them were sold to foreign countries. The cheap price is not only because of the small tonnage and reasonable design, and the high efficiency of the shipyard is also indispensable. (The Italians have relatively low efficiency in making their own ships, but Garibaldi, which is a takeaway, is relatively fast). The efficiency, or cost control of German shipyards under the protection of the government, is not very satisfactory. If this does not change, the historical foreign exchange champion will probably be destroyed in their own hands! Just for this suggestion, the time traveler will give the Baron more year-end bonuses!

However, the help the Baron could provide ended. He did not know much about the situation in the German shipbuilding industry. At most, he could only know the surface of these shipyards and the present. As a time traveler, Prince Ruprecht even knew the future performance of these shipyards!

The time traveler spent two nights of precious time thinking about this matter, and he even missed a royal dance. Don’t think about those shipyards with national names, such as Kielders, William Royal Shipyards, etc. The owners behind them are the German royal family and the government. It is useless to talk about the distribution of interests with these people. Do not pay attention to shipyards that are too weak or have insufficient experience. It is difficult to raise these shipyards, and the time traveler does not want to be a gardener.

In the end, the traveler chose the Brom-Foss Shipyard located in Hamburg! First, this shipyard was opened privately with relatively few government backgrounds. Secondly, this shipyard has good capabilities. Most of the battlecruisers in Germany's Battle 1 in history were made by this shipyard. And as early as the pre-Fearless era, from Prince Albert, Ron class and later the famous Schonhorst class armored cruiser, half of the 3-level and 6 warships came from this shipyard.

It can be seen that this company is very suitable for building armored cruisers! And according to the memory of the time traveler, this company is also a private shipyard with few figures that survived the depression of the First World War. In the period of World War II, the Bismarck and Admiral Hippel were completed in this shipyard. It can be seen that both strength and technical preferences are very suitable for the time traveler!

Well, since you have chosen your goal, you naturally need a person who knows what you know, and this person is naturally Baron Vittorio Kuniberty!
Chapter completed!