Chapter 28 Planning 9

Although he was rejected just like two years ago, this time William II was very relieved and his tone was much gentler. "You must be tired from this trip, right? Go back and rest."

Rest? Yannick smiled helplessly in his heart. There were too many things to worry about. I'm afraid he wouldn't have any free time in the next ten years. "Got it, Grandpa. Also, I need a few transfer orders. I want to select a few people from the navy to send to Daming for escort missions. I also need to select some pilots from the Soviet Union and Daming for sea flight training."

"Sea flight training? Are you talking about seaplanes?"

Yannick shook his head and corrected. "No, Grandpa. I'm talking about a real aircraft carrier like the Japanese 'Feng Xiang'. Not the crappy modified ship of the British Empire."

The world's first seaplane aircraft carrier was the British "Hermes". In 1912, the British Navy carried out a large-scale modification of an old cruiser "Hermes". The engineers removed some guns and equipment from the warship, laid a platform at the bow for parking seaplanes, and installed a large boom on the ship to transport the aircraft. In this way, the "Hermes" became the world's first seaplane carrier.

However, it is not the prototype of a modern aircraft carrier, because the aircraft on board cannot take off and land directly on the ship. All aircraft need to take off and land on the water, and then be lifted from the water to the warship.

The world's first truly full-deck aircraft carrier is Japan's "Feng Xiang" aircraft carrier, which was designed in early 1919 and started construction at Japan's Asano Shipyard in December of that year. It was launched and put into service in December 1922.

"Aircraft carrier..."

From William II's flickering eyes, Yannick saw that he was not optimistic about this new equipment at all. I couldn't help but sigh that I was still stubborn and couldn't accept new things. "Grandpa, to be honest, the British Empire across the country is a century-old navy that is not worthy of its name. Even if we have twice as many battleships as them, I am afraid we cannot defeat them by relying on naval guns. So we can only rely on new weapons and new tactics to have a chance to defeat them." The navy is a very complex and systematic project. It is difficult to form combat power without decades. Britain has a long tradition of navigation. The navy has developed for hundreds of years and warships have been built for hundreds of years. It is very difficult for Germany to catch up with Britain through crazy investment in a short period of time.

William II looked a little embarrassed, as if he recalled his miserable failure ten years ago. "So you plan to defeat the British navy with aircraft carriers?"

In September 1889, William II, who had ascended the throne for only more than a year, was invited by the United Kingdom to lead a small team of German ships as a naval marshal to attend the grand royal fleet review ceremony.

The vast and spectacular Royal Navy battleships on the Spithead Ocean off the Isle of Wight in southern England dwarfed the "last German battleships" selected by William II.

The grand ceremony strongly stimulated William II's self-esteem, and he was envious of the dominance of the Royal Navy. In 1895, the young William II openly declared: "Germany is a world power" and "Germany's future is on the ocean." Of course, when he said these words shamelessly, he did not care about the fact that the British were already strong on the sea. He ignored these and began to devote himself to building a huge navy.

Unfortunately, although Germany was crazy about resources and crazy about money, the nouveau riche could not beat the landlords after all, because Britain's family assets were too strong. If World War I broke out a few years later, the German Navy would still have a chance to compete with Britain, but after the outbreak of World War I, Germany, which was at the peak of shipbuilding, rushed into the battle and regrettably lost to the British Royal Navy. In the end, it spent all its family assets and withdrew from the sequence of naval powers. It was not until before World War II that the German Navy started to improve, but it could only operate secretly underwater.

Yannick nodded very seriously. "Yes. I think within ten years, airplanes will fly faster and higher than they do now, and carry more weight. By then, the seemingly powerful battleships will be beaten by aircraft carriers."

Although William II still couldn't let it go, he nodded and waved.

Yannick saluted and was about to turn around and leave when William II suddenly asked. "What do you think about the Jewish issue? Recently someone suggested to me whether we could drive all the Jews to the Soviet Union."

"Which idiot said such an idiotic thing?!!" Although he also disliked the Jews (born, raised, and used the country's language, but did not consider himself a member of this country), he would not massacre millions of people like the mustache. "Of course we will treat them well. The whole world is basically anti-Semitic. If we treat them well, even a little bit, those Jews will gather in Germany. Grandpa, if we occupy a piece of land in Jerusalem in the Middle East in the future and build a country for them, what price will they pay? If I ask them to leave all their assets in Germany and move to Jerusalem with nothing, will they refuse?"

In the original time and space, all of Europe and even the United States were unhappy with the Jews, and then the little mustache jumped out arrogantly, doing the dirty work for everyone and taking the blame.

In fact, it was taking the blame. Didn't the local big capitalists do the bad things that the Jews did? It's just because the Jews are good at doing business and there are more big capitalists. When there is an economic crisis and acute social contradictions, they pull the Jews out to take the blame.

After Yannick left, William II sent Brauchitsch again.

"See His Majesty the Emperor."

William II asked with a serious face. "Colonel Brauchitsch, what do you think of Yannik's trip?"

Colonel Brauchitsch hesitated before speaking. "His Royal Highness Yannick seems to be preparing for the next war."

William II nodded. "I know that, do you think it will succeed?"

Brauchic replied more cautiously. "His Royal Highness Yannick gives people the impression of being very knowledgeable, as if he already knows the strength of his opponent. There is a saying in Sun Tzu's Art of War of the Ming Dynasty that 'know yourself and the enemy, and you will never be in danger in a hundred battles'..."

While William II was talking to Colonel Brauchitsch, Yannick met several people brought by Anne in the corridor. "Your Highness, this is the head of the oil company, Mr. Clara."

Clara said hurriedly. "I salute you, Your Majesty the Crown Prince."

"Mr. Clara, time is pressing, let's talk here. You immediately send several oil exploration teams to Daming to look for oil. Well, just send three." In fact, only one is enough. But in order to deceive others, it was decided to send two more teams. "To the dark province of Ming Dynasty."

Clara couldn't help but be stunned and said a little doubtfully. "Da Minghei Province? With all due respect, His Highness Yannick, as far as I know, several countries have surveyed there, but they have not been able to find oil."

Yannick interrupted him coldly. "They can't find it just because their technology isn't good enough. It doesn't mean we can't find it either. Only the detection results of our German talents are the most authoritative."

"You go to the western part of the Black Province and the central plain for exploration." Two more places were randomly designated. "Preparations will be completed within a week and we will go to Daming. The mining equipment will also be shipped there later." At the current speed of transport ships, it will take at least a month to reach Daming.

Then move and assemble the equipment and start surveying. It will take three months before there is any news. Then you have to build extraction facilities and oil plants. The oil there will not reach Germany within two years. But even if transportation started in 1930, by 1940 that was still a very considerable amount of oil.

Yannick gave special instructions. "The drilling depth must be more than 1,200 meters."

"Yes." Clara took the order and left with confusion, and went back to prepare for the manpower arrangement.