The results of the test allowed the German Admiralty to completely dispel doubts, so they decided to make some modifications to the drawings and immediately start building their own large protective cruiser.

For Germany, such a cruiser with fast speed, wave resistance, airworthiness, and poor defense is not very suitable for sea breaking. Germany currently lacks such a first-class warship. Although the Queen Louise-class protective cruiser has built 5, its performance cannot satisfy the German Navy. Moreover, in China's battle, three of these five warships were sunk by crossers, and one was captured, and it also needs to be replenished. Therefore, the Qingdao-type cruiser can be replenished.

It turned out that when bidding, Germany bought the design plan for the Qingdao cruiser. The East China government also had an obligation to modify it at the request of Germany. After consultation, the German Navy made the following requirements to the East China government: add a double-mounted 200mm caliber artillery to the stern of the ship to strengthen the firepower of the entire ship; reduce the outboard of the ship to less than 10 degrees, reduce the rolling degree; appropriately increase the armor thickness and length; speed can be reduced to 23-24 knots, increase the tonnage to 7,000-7,500 tons, increase the power to 24,000 horsepower, and the range requirements to reach more than 5,000 nautical miles. If these requirements can be met, this type of cruiser will be able to fight against the first-class protective cruiser currently built by the UK, which is extremely important for the development of the German Navy.

The East China government also went to Germany with a business team, responsible for negotiating and signing contracts with German manufacturers, as well as other business cooperation, procurement and other negotiations. During the bidding in Qingdao, the East China government and Kiel Shipyard reached an agreement to jointly develop a ship-based integrated fire control system; and reached an agreement with Brom-Foss Shipyard to jointly develop steam turbines, but the final signing of the contract requires the consent of the senior management of the two shipyards, and this also involves a series of detailed issues, such as the distribution of development costs, the allocation of interests, the ownership of special cases, external sales, etc., and they must be negotiated and determined.

However, the principled issue has been basically agreed in Qingdao. The East China government only provides technology and ideas, and the development and development costs are mainly borne by the two shipyards; and the technical product development is successful, and the results are shared by both parties. The two shipyards will assist the East China government in building two factories in Qingdao and provide corresponding equipment and training. The expenses are paid by the East China government; in terms of sales, the profit share will only be shared by the third party when selling to third parties. If there are only their respective domestic sales, the profit share will not be shared.

It should be said that such conditions are very generous to the two German shipyards. Although they have to bear the development and development costs, everyone knows that the development of new products, new technologies, technology and ideas are the most important. Moreover, once the development is successful, the profits obtained are by no means comparable to those in the early development costs. Moreover, through previous cooperation with overseas Chinese and warship test results, it has proved that overseas Chinese's technology is still reliable.

Moreover, Germany is not the UK, and the foreign trade volume of shipbuilding is not high. Therefore, after the successful development of these two technologies, the main customers are still in Germany, which is the German military, and domestic sales do not share profits, which greatly protects the interests of the two shipyards. If Germany uses these two technologies to open up the international ship market in the future, the benefits will be quite huge, and it will be cost-effective to share profits with overseas Chinese.

However, the two shipyards also put forward a requirement, that is, they will only help the East China government build factories in Qingdao after the R&D results officially appear, and the official results are marked by obtaining order contracts. The main reason is that the development and development of new technologies are not completed in a short time, and it is not enough to create a few samples. A large number of tests, adjustments, and mass production are required. However, the technology is in the hands of overseas Chinese, so it cannot be said that creating a few samples is considered successful.

The East China government has no objection to this, but it was proposed that before that, the East China government had the right to refute from the two shipyards, and the price could not be higher than the purchase price of the German military.

In fact, the overall industrial foundation of the East China government is too poor, and steam turbines are definitely cutting-edge technologies in this era, and there is no high standard in the process technology content of the ship-based integrated fire control system. However, the technology of Guanjian is optical equipment, that is, glass. In this regard, Germany has the highest standards in both this and the old time and space. From this perspective, the ship-based integrated fire control system is more difficult.

In the past two or three years, it doesn’t make much sense to open a factory in Qingdao. Even if the factory is opened and there are no supporting facilities, everything depends on imports. All you can do is assemble. Therefore, it is best to wait until the five-year plan of the East China government is completed and it is not too late to build a factory with a certain industrial foundation. You can also use these two technologies as the leader to improve the supporting facilities to improve your industrial level. Before that, as long as you can ensure that you can buy it in Germany, it is enough.

After research, the senior management of the two shipyards also agreed to the conditions of the East China government, so the two parties officially signed a contract and officially started a new round of cooperation.

The engineering team formed by the two shipyards has a total of 66 people. The leader is Dirk Wesley, 56 years old, and is one of the chief engineers of Keel Shipyard. He has 37 years of shipbuilding experience. He has started from an apprenticeship and has gradually reached the position of chief engineer. In addition, there are 5 engineers, 12 assistant engineers, and 48 technical workers.

German engineers were arranged to be in the Prince Heinrich Hotel in Qingdao. The chief engineer and engineers all lived in suites, with separate bedrooms and living rooms, assistant engineers lived in single rooms, and technical workers lived in double rooms.

The East China government has also made full preparations and established a working group for the shipbuilding project, with Li Ya, deputy political commissar of the Taihu ship, as the team leader, because he can speak German; the deputy team leader is Lu Jianqin, a technician with a professional mechanical background among the time travelers, and there is also a German who travels through time travelers. At the same time, six time travelers were arranged to be responsible for recording and recording. In principle, all the work processes of the Germans should be recorded and all the conference discussions should be recorded as a reference for future reference.

In addition, 84 people were carefully selected from the workers in the shipyard, all of whom had a certain cultural foundation, not only could write and calculate, but also had some knowledge of mechanical and physical. As the main workers involved in the construction of warships, they were also technical workers trained by the shipyard. They had been organized and trained before, and they also taught German. Now these workers have some mastered some German and can perform a little simple hand-washing.

That night, Qingdao Shipyard held a grand welcome banquet for the German engineering team on behalf of the East China government. All the engineering and technical personnel from both sides attended, which was considered a formal meeting. Li Ya could communicate with the Germans in German, while Lu Jianqin could not speak German, but his English was good. Most of the Germans could speak English, and there was no big problem with the communication between the two sides. What the Germans did not expect was that among the overseas Chinese, they actually had their own compatriots? Of course, Riddle also made up a set of lies about his life experience and fooled them.

So both sides clinked and drank happily. It was the first time the Germans ate Chinese delicacies, which made them float on the sea for 4 or 50 days, and the birds almost faded out of their mouths. The Hans feasted, and they all ate the ditch and the troughs were flat, almost swallowing their tongues.

However, the Germans are indeed rigorous and serious in their work. The next morning, Wesley asked the Chinese side to inspect the equipment environment of Qingdao Shipyard so that they can understand it. After all, building warships is not a simple matter, even if they are only protective cruisers, there is not much difference in equipment requirements and building a battleship. Wesley also did a lot of homework before departure, knowing that although overseas Chinese mastered the technological level, the industrial foundation of the East China government is very poor, so he does not know where the hardware level of the East China government is now.

The machinery and equipment of Qingdao Shipyard were purchased from Germany, and a few equipment were brought by time travel, such as two 100-ton gantry cranes. The layout and planning of the factory were also Germany's original plan. However, after the time traveler took over, an extremely large dock was excavated. At this time, the Kunming ship had entered the dock for maintenance.

Accompanied by Chinese personnel, the German team walked around the Qingdao Shipyard and felt very satisfied with the hardware facilities of the shipyard. They believed that it was fully in line with the requirements for building these two warships. Not only were all German equipment, but the equipment needed for each shipbuilding was very complete. Therefore, Wesley also had a clear idea. As long as there were enough equipment, it would be much easier to do, and he also had full confidence in building these two warships.

Then the two sides began to negotiate on the construction progress plan, construction organization, personnel management and other matters of the construction of warships. Before Wesley left Germany, the two warships built in Germany had started construction, and of course the documents such as construction progress plan, construction organization, and personnel management had been compiled. Wesley also brought a copy to Qingdao.
Chapter completed!