As an emerging power, as an empire that solves internal problems and is ready to expand into the world, it will be a matter of time before the German Empire's naval construction is built sooner or later. As a big power, can there be no strong navy? Look at the predecessors, from Spain and Portugal at the beginning to Britain, France and Russia now, to the newly rising Germany and the United States, everyone will decide to build it at this point in time! This is not transferred by personal will, whether it is William II or the Iron-blooded Prime Minister Bismarck! This process is necessary.

Now, Bismarck, the chief consul of the German Group, is also worried about this matter. He is preparing to build a large scale, but he has no goal yet! If you want to play strategy, internal affairs, and diplomacy, Bismarck is at least the strongest king level. But even the German naval generals have not figured it out. How can he do it outside the door? Although the direction is not determined, according to the principle of strategic command of guns, he has already had a general direction. The scale of the fleet construction should not be too large. Germany is now very safe, and the reinsurance treaty still exists. France dare not be unable to get along with Germany, Russia does not care about being unable to get along with itself. Italy and Austro-Hungary are friends, and Britain and itself are not enemies. The environment is unprecedentedly good. A huge fleet has no effect on Germany except to bring pressure and make others taboo!

Now, the iron-blooded prime minister has no time to think about this strategic issue, because Hesner, secretary of the Imperial Navy Office, came to the prime minister's residence and was reporting to the prime minister. He provided a rough budget as required by the Navy Department, and some of the above situations attracted the prime minister's attention.

"The navy's shipbuilding budget is a bit high. And the armor budget seems to be a bit outrageous. The empire's armor producers have never quoted such a high price." Bismarck said, pointing to one of the numbers.

"This is a quote from a new company called the Bavarian Mechanical Design Bureau. Their quotes are more than 50% higher than those proposed by other companies! I really don't know what they think. The Admiralty Department does not intend to use their armor." Hesner said with some dissatisfaction.

"How good are their armor?" The Prime Minister seemed not to want to get involved in the quote, but directly asked about the performance of the new armor.

"It is stronger than the steel armor of Baron Harberg's company and other companies, but the strength is limited." Hesner's words were very vague, which made the Prime Minister's brow frown slightly.

"So what you mean is it better to buy new warships or to purchase armor from old manufacturers?" Bismarck asked.

"At least their prices are the most reasonable, and the quality of the old manufacturers is guaranteed after all." Hesner said relaxedly, as if the Prime Minister did not intend to continue to get involved in this issue.

"Have you seen the test report of this armor?" Bismarck asked.

"See it!" Hesner said without hesitation.

"So good, tell me how much money did the armor manufacturers give you and ask you to speak for them?" Bismarck's eyes swept the other party coldly, causing the latter to shiver.

"Is this a good limited? According to the description in this report, the performance of this armor is about twice as high as that of ordinary steel-faced iron armor!" The Prime Minister threw another document in front of the other side, and his low words were full of anger! "You actually deceived the empire for your own selfish interests! You are so brave!"

"Prime Minister, please listen to my explanation..." Hesner's face was pale and he was even unable to speak well!

"Let's explain it in court! His Majesty the Emperor already knows about this matter. He is very disappointed and angry with some people in the Imperial Admiralty. Some capitalists have stretched their hands too far! You'd better go back and think about your own problems now. Then you confess your accomplice in exchange for His Majesty the Emperor's mercy." Bismarck didn't want to listen to the other party's explanation at all, and left the living room after saying the last sentence.

"God, who can ask His Majesty the Emperor to inquire about this matter personally? Isn't this matter originally possible? "Hesner still doesn't understand who he offended! The process of this matter starts a week ago.

To be honest, Bavaria **** Ludwig III is in a good mood recently. The baby son made it not armor at all, but a chicken that can lay golden eggs! According to the information provided by the attendant, he has a basic understanding of the profits in the world armor market, especially the German armor market. It can be said that relying on the excellent performance of new armor, the factory opened by the Bavarian royal family can completely crush other competitors, and it is not difficult to monopolize German ship-building armor! No one can't get over the money, so His Highness **** is in a very good mood!

However, when the letter sent by the plenipotentiary of Bavaria in Berlin mentioned that the German Navy did not intend to purchase the new products of the Bavarian Mechanical Design Bureau established by the Bavarian royal family, His Highness **** felt very puzzled, then he was dissatisfied, and finally angry! My things are so good, you dare not? I bully me as a foreigner? In terms of performance, cost-effective new hardened armor directly throws the old armor a few streets! You don’t want it? This is absolutely abnormal!

What should ordinary manufacturers do when encountering such a thing? Of course, they are looking for relationships and ways to find people from the Admiralty to think of ways and stuff some red envelopes and so on! But the Bavarian Heavy Industry Group will not do this, and His Highness **** will not do this. People from the Admiralty know me, but I don’t know him! What are those guys? Even if they say things, they will directly talk to people at the German Emperor or Prime Minister’s level.

After ****'s father found out about this, the old Regent was also very angry and thought he had been insulted by the lowly guys from the Admiralty Department! He immediately instructed the Bavarian representative to Berlin to ask the German Emperor about this matter. As the boss of the second largest state in the empire, the German Emperor naturally needed to inquire about this matter. So His Majesty the Emperor found out.

It happened that Prime Minister Bismarck's nephew went to Bavaria to serve as the representative of Prussia. (This matter does happen, but time may not match in history.) When visiting the Bavarian royal family, His Highness ****, who was angry, asked in a very stern tone: "Why are the companies of the Bavarian royal family treated unfairly in Prussia? Where is the dignity of the royal family? Is it that the imperial government has been corrupt enough to use money to bribe everything? What exactly did Bismarck do?"

These words were said very seriously, which scared the Earl of the Earl from the cottage. Where did you start? His uncle did not offend this noble His Highness, right? Did you make something wrong? Then His Highness left and left the court chief Earl Schelling and the other party to tell them all in detail. Then that night, the new representative immediately reported the matter to his uncle. So, what Hulls originally thought was not very important was then stabbed to the highest level of the empire by the angry Bavarian royal family!

Now not only Hesner is thinking about what to do in the future, but also the Prime Minister of the Empire and the Emperor of the Empire are also thinking about what to do! This is indeed the inauthentic thing done by the imperial government. Well, it is the crime of a small scoundrel in the Admiralty Department of the Empire that tarnished the image of the imperial government. All relevant personnel must be dealt with, and these are certain, and then we must consider how to repair the relationship with the Bavarian royal family.

Everyone is a royal family and will make some money by taking advantage of their position. This is a tacit thing. The German royal family has shares in major shipyards and Krupp factories. Therefore, buying Krupp's artillery for the army and navy is equivalent to changing directions to send money to the royal family. It cannot be said that you can do it in the Hohenzollern family, but I, the Wittelsbach family, can't do it, right? Moreover, the things produced by other people's factories are indeed good. It is not an exaggeration to say that it contributes to the construction of the Imperial Navy. If it is exported, it will also contribute to the imperial finance!

So His Majesty the Emperor waved his pen and directly asked the Empire's new warships to buy the new hardened armor of the Bavarian Mechanical Design Bureau, which was solely owned by the Bavarian royal family. The Vettelsbach family, who achieved their goal, stopped it when they saw it, and did not expose this matter. Everyone thinks you and I, it's just over there!

And our Prince Ruprecht never expected that his first order would come so turbulently! However, after learning about this, he had to sigh that his family is really powerful. It feels great to be an official businessman, no, it is really good to be an imperial businessman! It is certain that he is invincible when he is reasonable!
Chapter completed!