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"Your Royal Highness, I'm afraid the mid-year bonus you gave me will be doubled." The day before Ruprecht left Berlin, Prince Ruprecht met his gold medal employee, Baron Vittorio, known as the Bavarian money printer. And the baron's first words made His Royal Highness the prince very unhappy! After all, Ruprecht is also a capitalist now, and what capitalists in this era like to do most is to squeeze employees!

"Brazil, you know? Brazil! They are actually going to order warships from us? The baron said excitedly. I've always thought that this vast country wasn't interested in the navy at all. ”

"This is indeed a bit surprising." Ruprecht was also very curious, after all, he knew very well that the largest warship ordered by the Brazilian Navy in the 90s in the pre-dreadnought era was a 4,700-ton protective cruiser, armed with 10 6-inch guns and 2 4.7-inch guns.

And in this plane, they actually ordered 2 warships from themselves at once! The 2 10,000-ton armored cruisers really made Ruprecht feel a little puzzled, and it is said that the competition between Argentina and Chile has nothing to do with Brazil. This guy was very honest in the previous fearless era, after all, as the largest country in South America, South America at this time could not threaten his existence. And the navy was barely built. The total tonnage of visual inspection is not as good as that of the Beiyang Navy in its heyday.

"Yes, I was also very surprised, the Brazilian team did not care about the construction of the navy at all. If it was just to deal with the naval arms race of Chile and Argentina, they would have bought 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 struggle for sea power in South America? The baron said. Because the 10,000-ton armored cruiser with the designation ACR1 was specially designed for Russia, the name of this battleship was the Russian class. And when the baron said this, Ruprecht was suddenly dizzy, and this amount of information was a bit large for Ruprecht.

"It can't be!" There are only a few words that pop into Ruprecht's mind!

"Here is a copy of the bank draft, you can take a look. The whole contract was 1,950,000 pounds, they asked for the use of 10-inch L40 guns and 8-inch L40 guns from the British, the first money of 350,000 pounds had already been called, and they asked to start construction as soon as possible, and they had very strict time requirements, requiring us to complete it by March 1898, and we only have 30 months now. The baron said.

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

"There is absolutely no problem, they did not refute our terms, they almost took them as they were, and this contract, as you know, there are very few loopholes to exploit within the current legal framework." The baron said. "You seem to be worried about this contract?"

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

"This is probably for Chile and Argentina. And as businessmen, as long as we can make money, there is no need to think about other things, anyway, whether it is Brazil, Chile, Argentina is far away from us. The baron was very open to this.

"If there are no problems with the contract, then let's get ready to start work and send one of the ships to the Germania shipyard." The prince commanded. The baron was ordered to withdraw, but Ruprecht fell into deep thought, why did Brazil, which can almost be described as a good baby in history, suddenly buy 2 armored cruisers of 10,000 tons? This TM is incredible!

The Baron's statement is simply impossible, and although there was a lot of butterfly effect after Ruprecht arrived in this plane, the situation in South America as a whole hardly changed. Brazil does not have to worry about its own security, and for small and medium-sized countries to buy weapons either for the sake of a real threat or to prevent it. And Brazil is not under pressure on either front.

Chile and Argentina have a dispute over the islands, which can be considered potential enemies, and they are similar in strength, so there is a possibility of fighting. But in South America, who can threaten Brazil? The United States in North America has not yet gone outward, and Europe has no interest in South America. There is no need for Brazil to change its historical strategy!

If Brazil does this, what will Chile and Argentina think? The original situation of two people betting against each other has become three people! Is there going to be chaos in South America? His Royal Highness the Prince was a little confused. 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 for it, just buy it yourself, so why think about other things? But in the dark, Ruprecht always felt that this thing was very abnormal, and there were shadows moving in the weirdness!

If Brazil has action, then Chile and Argentina will definitely react! Yes, there will be a reaction, and if Chile and Argentina change their original plans to build ships, then this can be characterized as Brazil's sudden interest in sea power, and if there is no change, then there may be a conspiracy in it. Thinking of this, Ruprecht couldn't help but shudder, this is really terrible, 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 was definitely more than just an order, and of course, his own contract was absolutely reliable, and the other party's pound was also real. There's really no need to worry about this matter from the perspective of a businessman, but Ruprecht always reminds himself that you are a king and need to think about this matter from a higher level! And there's a world-changing conspiracy behind it, and you have to figure it out! Then take advantage of it!

It was only then that Ruprecht realized that his intelligence network was just too bad. Or that the entire German intelligence network is too backward, and he needs to establish a global intelligence network, and he needs to extend his tentacles to all the hot spots in the world! And with this incident as an opportunity, Ruprecht is about to start arranging this intelligence network.

But just as he was about to do it, Ruprecht, who had just received two new orders, was about to lose another one! The intrigues of the French began to play out, and the Russian top brass began to think about whether it was worth ordering two expensive armored cruisers! On the one hand, there was the question of price, and on the other hand, there was a loan from the French and a new design of battleships. Around this issue, there was a storm at the top of Russia!

This is a very important chapter. Well. It has a lot to do with the following article!

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