The United States of this era, from the beginning of the 20th century, has surpassed Germany and become the world's first industrial power, unlike Germany, Germany's land area is small, in addition to the Ruhr this large industrial area, it can not afford the second industrial area, his world first, more in technology and precision machinery. The United States has a vast land and resources, as long as the average industrial capacity rises, it is logical to surpass Germany, compared with Germany, he has a broader prospect and development momentum, so when the United States' total industrial value surpasses Germany, it will continue to surpass Germany in the form of percentages, so that Germany is beyond the dust.

Since the beginning of the European War, especially in the early days of the European War, Britain and France have lost their faith in independence against Germany under extremely unfavorable circumstances, and they have been lobbying the United States to join the war. The huge order and the interests of the United States in Britain and France made the United States almost tied up in the camp of the Entente, and under the situation that Britain and France paid a huge price, they finally agreed to the demands of Britain and France, and the general mobilization that began at the end of last year began to start the huge war machine of the entire United States.

Before the start of the war, the economy of the United States was developing, the unemployment rate was slowly rising, the machine changed the labor efficiency, a machine can replace 10, or even more workers, the contradiction between the use of machines and workers, in this era has always been more acute, in some extreme cases, there have even been workers attacking the factory, burning the machine, the workers regard the machine as their enemy, in this era is quite obvious, often the factory owner has come in a batch of machines, the workers are not happy. There are new machines to master, but sad. And how many people will be laid off.

Some people who overlap with the functions of the machine and do not have many skills. Being laid off in the midst of the machine craze, without even a basic right to live, this is a nightmare era for enlightened future generations, and there are machines drawn by cartoonists to eat people, which is real.

Now, because of the war, along with orders, a lot of orders. Whether it is abroad or at home, the demand for production is increasing, the unemployment rate is rapidly decreasing, and most workers can find jobs as long as they are willing to work, and the wages are not low.

If Yang Yuanzhao had traveled to this period, in this case, he came to the United States to hire workers. It was certainly not possible to hire workers from all over the world in 1908, and in the years that followed. Engineers and even academics, these people helped build a basic industrial system in the Northwest, so to put it bluntly. Without these people, the process of industrialization in the Northwest would have been delayed for at least three years. The size of the industry may be one-tenth of what it is now, or even smaller. There was simply no way to form an alliance with Germany and influence the whole situation of the First World War, as is the case now.

In seven or eight months, under the urging of Britain and France, the United States has completed most of the transformations, and the huge industry, with the efforts of the US government and the consortium, has completed the work of turning around, forming a strong industrial capacity with the military as the main body, some dilapidated steel mills, black smoke has risen again, and the shipyards are even more busy, and among the major shipyards on the east coast, more than 12 docks of more than 30,000 tons have been lined up, and a total of three classes of battleships have started to be built here.

12 warships started at one time, and it is a battleship of the capital ship class, the Americans' wealth is abundant, at this time there is no doubt, the first is of course the original American most advanced battleship, the Wyoming class, on the basis of absorbing the technology of the British battleship, after refitting, the performance has been somewhat improved New Wyoming class, which is the most familiar to the United States, but also the fastest progress of construction, a total of 6 ships, after the completion of construction, will become the main force of the American Ocean Fleet. The other 6 ships are based on the Queen Elizabeth class, at the critical moment, the United Kingdom did not have the idea of cherishing the broom, took out a full set of drawings of the Queen Elizabeth class, sent several designers and engineers, to the United States, to help change the American dockyard, so that it has the ability to produce the Queen Elizabeth class, this improvement work took 3 months, the new Queen Elizabeth class has just laid the keel, is expected to be completed in one year.

It can be said that just relying on this step, the United States has gone through the accumulation of Britain and Germany for many years, and after absorbing the knowledge of Britain's advanced warships, it has completed the accumulation of the dreadnought class, and has the British blood front ship, combined with the strong industrial and technological capabilities of the United States, it will inevitably burst out more powerful, which is also the fundamental reason why the United States has generously sent six dreadnoughts to the United Kingdom.

This world, originally a world of the dark law of the jungle, there is no intimacy and warmth between countries, there are only interests, only real interests can move people, the original World War I to the late United States, in 1914 to complete the preparations, in the original time and space, did not lease battleships, just because of Germany's unrestricted submarine warfare, so that British destroyers suffered a large number of losses, so that Britain and the United States reached an agreement on warships in exchange for islands, and now go further, islands are to have, There was also a lot of real money and secret drawings, which eventually led to the temporary entry of 6 dreadnoughts into the sequence of the British Navy.

The big move between Britain and the United States directly affected the world pattern, Germany immediately protested, protesting against the war, such a biased approach, but the United States ignored them at all, the United States has begun to mobilize for the war, although it has not joined, but it cannot be changed, with commercial behavior to prevaricate Germany, wholeheartedly steamed bun development.

At this moment, even Wilhelm II knows that the ass of the United States has been crooked, and it has completely sat on the side of the Entente, dreadnoughts, the main ships of the navy, in this world, there are dreadnoughts, that is, Britain, France, Russia and the United States, Germany, Italy and Austria-Hungary, and even the emerging power Japan only has dreadnoughts in the real sense after the King Kong class, and now, the United States has leased 6 ships at once, that is, the number of British dreadnoughts has increased to 35 at once, Continuing to maintain numerical superiority over Germany, the huge advantage brought by the appearance of the Scheer fleet was swept away at the first time.

What to do? In order to increase the number of capital ships, Britain can seize the customer's order, which can be leased from the United States, you know, the United States has 12 ships, and France also has a few ships, and once these warships are combined, the pressure on Germany is very great.

A German rear admiral who had been to Qingdao and served as a liaison officer for a period of time put forward an idea to continue to buy Chinese warships, because according to the training report sent back by Schell, as well as the ability to show in this naval battle, within one and a half hours, the fleet, including 9 former dreadnoughts and 10 mounted cruisers, was sent to the sea, such combat effectiveness was absolutely outstanding, and the dreadnoughts were more outstanding in attack capabilities, and as for the protection capabilities, they were stronger than the former dreadnoughts, but they were not much stronger. The attack power of such a battleship is absolutely sufficient, even stronger than the current German capital ship King-class, and if a few are ordered, it can neutralize the British superiority at sea.

Order a few, this opinion, not only aroused the attention of Tirpitz, but also made Wilhelm II look forward to it, China's warship manufacturing speed, absolutely a miracle, less than a year to complete the main body of construction, sea trials or something, also very fast, the same level, do not change the level of equipment, as long as a certain number of soldiers are sent to operate on the ship, and a part of the skilled soldiers into it as the backbone and seeds, you can quickly form combat effectiveness, at most half a year, in this way, as long as the time of the naval battle between Britain and Germany is postponed, New warships are able to catch up.

Everyone looked at the Navy Procurement Department with anticipation, and Rear Admiral Velon, the director of the Procurement Department, smiled bitterly and said: "We all know that the price of a British super dreadnought is about 2.5 million pounds, and our Bavaria-class is almost 2.8 million, but the price in the northwest is very expensive, the Fantasy class is 5.5 million, and the Orion is also 5 million!" ”

"£5 million?" Everyone took a breath of cold air, the pound is quite strong in this era, a pound is five dollars, it is about 20 marks, 5 million is almost equivalent to 100 million German marks, a ship is almost double the German king-class, and more than 2 million more than the Bavarian class, which is almost the price of a super-dreadnought.

Wilhelm II's face changed, and he asked: "Do you want more money in the northwest, and you are so ruthless?" ”

"No, they didn't ask for much money, we evaluated the Orion and Fantasy classes in detail, his power protection and force, if we Germany want to achieve such a level of warship, I'm afraid it will cost 6 million, or even more!" The rear admiral said truthfully, other people who serve in the navy also have a bottom in their hearts, the fantasy class can be said to be the most perfect warship that can be made at present, with a speed of 25 knots, the average protective armor is equivalent to 16 inches, and the key protection is almost 20 inches, and in terms of firepower, 10 15-inch guns are still 45 times the caliber, which is much more powerful than the king class.

The power of the battleship is not equal to the battleship, when the battleship is played, the number is more important, and even in terms of the current most advanced King, whether it can be improved, any German naval official will tell you, yes, and the increase is not small. If you ask why you don't improve, the other party will tell you that the cost of achieving him is too great, and the gains outweigh the losses.

Although the warship is relatively special, but for the sake of a slight increase in performance, it will bring about a substantial increase in cost, and it will inevitably consider whether it is suitable. (To be continued.) )