In Varna, a city ruled by Romania for almost a decade, it is not much more populated than it was in Bulgaria.

However, Dolbo looked at Varna and felt refreshed, and he walked a little elegantly. This was of course a good thing, as he was finally appointed to take charge of the relocation of the Varna shipyard. Of course, it was not to move the Varna shipyard away, but to merge with the Royal William shipyard to form the largest shipyard in Romania.

Since it is the largest shipyard, people are responsible for the basic dock and the supporting construction facilities. The newly appointed director of the plant has not yet arrived, so the city government needs to help from this. And as the deputy mayor of Varna, he is of course obliged to take on this burden.

In fact, Dolbo had met His Majesty Eder before and said two words, but His Majesty had no impression of him. Who made him meet Eder in Ploiesti as secretary of Karaturi at the time, and now know who his patron is. There are people in the DPRK, and they only need to make achievements themselves, so the credit will not run. But if he does, no one can help him.

The Varna shipyard will be responsible for the construction of the Romanian Navy, so it is very much appreciated. As long as you can make achievements, then you can't get the opportunity to be in charge for one term. For the sake of his own future, he was very enthusiastic about the work of the shipyard, and almost planned to eat and live in the shipyard.

So when he got up early this morning, he immediately rushed to the shipyard to check the progress.

The Varna shipyard is located in the port of Dolla, where the water depth is about 10-11 meters, which is perfectly suitable for the entry and exit of giant ships. Moreover, there is information that the Navy has plans to use the port of Varna as the main base for ships to berth. Because the port of Constanta is now coming and going with more and more civilian ships, it is becoming more and more unsuitable as a military port. As for Odessa, the problems of this port, like Constanta, which also bear the transportation of a large number of civilian ships, are no less suitable.

And Varna, because it is now out of Bulgaria, will not choose to pass through the port of Varna for the transportation of its goods, they all go through the port of Burgas in its territory. Therefore, Varna, which has a good port environment, has no problem at all in using it as a major military port. And when he thought of the popularity of the presence of naval ships, Dolbo felt that there was a lot of hope for the development here. But it's a pity that it's not himself who is currently in charge, and it's still very difficult to squeeze out the next leader as a deputy, even with the help of his own benefactor.

"How's the shipyard progressing now?"

As soon as he entered, Dolbo could not take a sip of water, and asked the person in charge of building the shipyard.

The person he asked about was Boderick, a German engineer and a well-known shipyard designer in Germany.

I saw this Boderick unhurriedly flipping through his notebook and said: "Of the three main docks, dock No. 1 is nearing completion, and other equipment is still being installed; Dock No. 2 excavation was carried out 61%; , and the third dock because of the high requirements, the current progress is only 33%. If you want to speed up the process, it's a good idea to send some engineering equipment over. ”

Listening to Boderick's words, Dolbo couldn't help but show a wry smile. Do you want to let yourself find engineering equipment, don't you know that this shipyard has concentrated eighty percent of Varna's engineering equipment?

"Sorry, at the moment we only have these devices, and it is impossible to add more."

After being rejected by Dolbo, Boderick could only shrug his shoulders and say, "Then I'm sorry Your Excellency, Deputy Mayor, at the moment we can only implement it according to this progress." You must know that docks 1 to 3 are too big, especially dock 3, a 60,000-ton dock can build an ocean-going giant ship. However, docks 4 to 8 were built very quickly. ”

Listening to Boderick's words, Dolbo, who was in charge of overseeing the shipyard, seemed to have no other way. At present, eight docks are built at the Varna shipyard, which have risen from 5,000 tons all the way to 60,000 tons. Faced with the construction of so many dockyards, Dolbo actually did not know what they were used for. But whoever made this shipyard build it by order from above, he can only be responsible for carrying it out.

But even if he didn't have any other way to satisfy this Boderick, there was still the necessary urging.

"Mr. Boderick, it's better to speed up the shipyard at the moment, it's still good for you."

"I know, Your Excellency the Deputy Mayor. However, at present, there are only so many workers, and the most important machinery and equipment are not enough, and I have no choice. You know, if I can finish it one day earlier, I can earn an extra 500 lei, but now it's the fastest. ”

Hearing Boderick's words made Dolbo a little discouraged. It seems that my dream of doing that great result has been a little dashed. It's all to blame on these people in the navy, they keep urging the shipyard to complete it as soon as possible, so that they are exhausted, and I don't know what these navy is anxious about.

If he heard Dolbo's blame, the admirals would probably have to laugh and cry. Is this not in a hurry, Your Majesty promised to increase the navy's shipbuilding funds starting next year. From less than 2 million lei to 20 million lei, this is the largest increase in funding in the history of the Navy.

This finally jumped from building torpedo boats of two or three hundred tons to the class of cruisers of three or four thousand tons. Of course, they wanted the shipyard to be completed as soon as possible, and not only that, but they had already selected the construction drawings. The genius chief designer Rams, already designed a cruiser for them based on the situation in the Black Sea.

The cruiser, which is currently tentatively named Q, is 134 meters long. The length of the waterline is 131 meters, the total width is 12.9 meters, and the average draft is about 5.6 meters.

Displacement: about 4600 tons (standard), more than 5400 tons (full load).

Main armament: 8 x 150 mm 45x caliber guns (double mounted) with an open rear turret; 4 500-mm torpedo tubes.

Anti-aircraft guns: 4 40 mm 45 x diameter anti-aircraft guns (double column).

Protection: The thickness of the main armor belt amidships is 55 mm, and the bow and stern are gradually reduced to 25 mm; The thickness of the horizontal deck armor is 55 mm (at its thickest), and there is no armor in non-critical parts.

The thickness of the armor of the conning tower is 90 mm; Main turret panel armor 60 mm.

Power: 12 navy boilers, two steam turbines, twin shaft propulsion. Output 31000 horsepower.

Speed: 28 knots (design value).

Membership: 465 (about 110 more than this in wartime establishment).

It can be said that this ship will be built and will become the main cruiser of the Romanian Navy, whether it is to escort future Romanian battleships or to perform tasks alone, it will be able to compete with other warships in the same tonnage. Moreover, this ship is faster than the most powerful cruiser of the Navy, the Count Dazira, and is also much stronger in armor.

It was also because the ship was so well designed on paper that the Navy did not want to wait. This is a pain for the deputy mayor of Dolbo, he can only lead people to urge the workers to build, but the progress is not fast.