"So, Major Stenzel, do you want me to fire Heidi Sileme?" Major General Ernst von Reich, the president of the 54-year-old Naval Academy of Kiel, looked very old, with gray hair and a mark of time carved on his face. After listening to Stenzel's complaint patiently, he took off his reading glasses, slowly closed the teaching log, and raised his head to ask.

"Principal, the basic military training has only started for three weeks. Heidi Silaime broke five light weapons. He fainted four times during the queue training, and the rifle shooting results are even more terrible. The most terrible thing is that Silaime cannot go out to sea at all. Not only is he afraid of the ocean, but he also feels dizzy as soon as he gets on the training ship." Major Stenzel stood at the principal's desk, gritting his teeth in anger: "Silame has no perseverance and perseverance. He is a military idiot. He has no sense of the profession of military personnel. His existence has affected the normal training of other naval cadets. He even cannot handle the relationship between classmates. Silaime's roommate Oden asked for a change of dormitory more than once. Principal, I know Silaime was selected by you personally, but I think Silaime does not meet the standards of the navy and he is not suitable for the navy!"

"Oh..." Stenzel spoke dryly, but Principal Lai Xie was indifferent. He picked up the coffee cup and took a sip, and nodded slightly. He was silent for a long time like an old monk sitting down. He was exhausted of Major Stenzel's patience and spoke: "Major, are you blaming me, an old man who is famous for his stubbornness and stubbornness, for that little bit of pitiful self-esteem, that he tolerated Heidi Silem in every way?"

"Principal, I don't mean that..." Major General Ernst von Reich had been diligent in the Navy for decades and was highly respected. Principal Reich sent him with a high hat. Stenzel was immediately panicked and wanted to explain in fear.

"Major, you already know the result of the Battle of the Yellow Sea in the Qing and Japanese War in the Far East, right?" Lao Lai Xie waved his hand to calm down Stenzell and asked tepidly.

On September 17, 1894, the Yellow Sea War broke out, and the Beiyang Fleet, which had two first-class iron-armored ships all over the earth, was defeated. Five warships of Zhiyuan, Jingyuan, Chaoyong, Yangwei, and Guangjia sank, and the Laiyuan suffered heavy damage. The only Japanese were Matsushima, Yoshino, Hiei, Akagi, and Nishikyo Maru were injured. Recalling the various ridicule of Heidi Silem, who supported the Japanese in the military academy's enrollment interview, Stenzell couldn't help but blush and hesitate.

"In addition to basic military training, how is Heidi Sileme performing in other subjects?"

"Whether it is engineering or astronomy and oceanography, Heidi Silem's scores are obviously outstanding." Although Stenzel wanted to give a negative comment, Heidi Silem's performance in these non-military training subjects was indeed amazing, which made Stenzel unable to find an excuse to slander him, and finally had to admit it quietly.

"I have heard of the conflict between Heidi Sileme and Oden, Hermann, and that was just a struggle between the children." Lao Lai Xie smiled and made a new interpretation and definition for the long-standing battle between the nobles and civilians within the navy: "Major, conflicts can make children compete with each other and increase each other's hatred, and it can make children go astray. As for which aspect the contradiction will be transformed, it depends on your methods."

"But..." Stenzell wanted to make a last effort, but there was a knock outside the door. Stenzell stopped the topic tactfully and went to open the door unhappily.

A senior officer wearing a colonel uniform, wearing a horse boot, holding a military cap in his hand, and carrying Lei Lingfengxing in every move, walked in. Stenzer's darkness and discomfort instantly frozen on his face, and he quickly saluted with his feet. "Chief of Staff, why are you here?"

Colonel Alfred von-tirpitz, who became Chief of Staff of the German Imperial Navy in 1892, put on a military cap and straightened the brim and returned a military salute. He turned around and gave a standard military salute to Major General Ernst von-reiche on the sofa.

Major General Reiche, nine years older than Tirpitz, was stunned for a moment until Tirpitz salutes him, and then he remembered to greet Tirpitz.

"Principal, I am here to inspect these new students this time." The Germans value etiquette and magnanimity. In terms of position, Reiche is not as good as Tirpitz. Although Tirpitz is just a colonel, he is highly valued by His Majesty William and is the chief of staff of the Navy. However, Tirpitz is not as good as Lüche, and Tirpitz is a student from the Kiel Naval Academy and is also considered a student of Reiche. This relationship of being unbreakable and chaotic is really difficult to sort out. In order to avoid embarrassment, Tirpitz decided to call Major General Reiche directly as the principal.

"Could it be?" Principal General Lai Xie worked hard in the navy for many years. He became a master of elegance and knew the elegance when he heard the string song. He showed joy on his face and asked with his eyes.

"Principal, even if I have the favor of His Majesty the Emperor and the courage to burn my boats, that day is not now." Tirpitz understood that Mr. Xie would be wrong, so he explained awkwardly.

Major General Lai Xie is a respectable principal. He cares about his students as much as his own children. He not only pays attention to training results, but also pays more attention to the future of the students. The German Imperial Army is invincible, but the Navy has been poor and weak due to its willingness to policy. The German Navy is only a near-shore defense force. Although there are several Brandenburg-class first-class ironclad ships with objective combat power and an Augusta-class heavy cruiser, this is far from enough. Every year, many graduates of the sea school students are not assigned to the positions he should go to, and their talents are eventually buried in the logistics base and the reserve fleet. Major General Lai Xie is very sad about the loss of talents. He tries to reduce the enrollment scale of the school. For the future of his disciples, he does not hesitate to introduce and promote his students, and is eagerly looking forward to the implementation of Tirpitz's Navy plan.

This is a friendly old navy. Colonel Tirpitz sighed and smiled bitterly and comforted: "Principal, you should know better than me how stubborn and conservative the people in the Navy are. Even if I want to change, I still lack qualifications."

Tirpitz has not done well in the Navy in recent years. The naval commander-in-chief and conservative naval veterans who came from the army controlled the power of the Navy. They ignored Germany's narrow domestic market and shortage of resources. They stubbornly adhered to the offshore defense policy and ignored the Pixiu feast where other European powers divided the world. At that time, the British had already walked out of the "naval black hole" for ten years, and in the Naval Defense Act of 1889, a large number of new warships such as Victoria-class, Nile-class ironclad ships, royal-sovereign "r" class, and the former dreadnoughtsman of the Barfleur-class were already in service. The British navy's strength was already its

The total of the naval forces of his great powers; in the second half of the 19th century, due to the turmoil in France, a naval crisis was triggered. Admiral Obo, the newly appointed Minister of the Navy in 1884, ordered the abolition of all armored battleship construction plans on the grounds of reform. This order caused the French Navy, which was gradually approaching the peak, to suffer a heavy blow. Fortunately, in 1889, Jean-de-Ranesan became the Minister of the French Navy, and the French began to get rid of the new naval school.

The famous idiot theory - the shackles of the Green Water Naval Theory, have embarked on the fast lane of naval development. The birthplace of "Theory of Sea Power", the United States, which was isolated in the Americas, also made efforts in the second half of the 19th century. The wealthy Americans developed a small role that was always on the world's naval territory into a terrifying white fleet in less than ten years, and overthrew the weak Spanish in the "small and wonderful" Spanish-American War.

The 1890s were the time when new technologies and theories of the navies of various countries around the world were introduced to bloom. The emergence of British monarchy battleships was even more amazing, marking the end of the era of simple ironclad ships and the world's navy had entered the pre-dreadnought era. At this time, the German Navy's idea was still to break the ocean and fight against the near-shore defense, and the navy had only one type of Brandenburg-class quasi-battleship that was not successful. Tirpitz was determined to change. It was unsafe to cruisers without battleship protection. He proposed to build a powerful battleship fleet. Tirpitz's idea was rejected by the Navy. Tirpitz was furious and prepared to resign. Fortunately, Emperor William kept him.

"Maybe I'm too anxious..." Principal Lai Xie was a little embarrassed. He apologized in a low voice, his muddy eyes were filled with unconcealed loss. He turned his head to the naval instructor of the college and asked, "Stenzell, are there any good seedlings among the students in this period?"

"Yeah, there are a few." Stenzell picked up the training log on his desk and introduced: "In the past few weeks of military basic training, Bernhard von Oden from Bavaria and Erich Redel from Hamburg have demonstrated their extraordinary military literacy. Interestingly, they ranked third and first in the college entrance examinations respectively."

"What about the second place?" Colonel Tirpitz asked with great interest.

"Heidi Silem?" When talking about this person's name, Stenzel couldn't help but associate him with not-so-good words such as waste and fools, and frowned and complained: "In the past few weeks, we have focused on cohort training, light weapons and shooting training, primary artillery training, sports training and ship service training. Heidi Silem's performance is quite average, but in the college's forced subjects such as oceanography, astronomy, mathematics, and philosophy, Heidi Silem performed very well. Philosophy teacher Mr. Piriels Ferdinand even clamored to accept him as a closed disciple."

In front of outsiders, Stenzel knew the reason why family scandals should not be made public. Given Wang Heidi's poor performance, "average performance" was the most polite statement Stenzel could think of.

"That is to say..." Tirpitz said with thoughtfulness.

"In other words, Heidi Sileme is not suitable for the profession of military personnel. He should go to the university and go to the laboratory of the University of Berlin to study!" Stenzel was really tired of the guy who knew nothing about the business quality of military personnel. Stenzel said these words with gritted his teeth. "I heard that he was admitted to the University of Berlin, but gave up Berlin because of his family. Oh my God, this is a regret of the University of Berlin and a tragedy of our Keel Naval Academy!"

"How did he take the Shanghai Military Academy or second place?" Heidi Sileme was so interesting, Tirpitz asked excitedly.

"This year's admissions exam happened almost at the same time as the Far East War, so we took the 'conjecture of the end of the Qing and Japanese war in the Far East' as the test question. Ah, almost all candidates believed that the Qing Navy would win, and only Hermann and Heidi-Silem from Bavaria believed that Japan would win. Among them, the answers belonging to Heidi-Silem were the most exciting..." Stenzell rolled his eyes and explained.

"Major, I want to see Sileme's answer." Tirpitz stood up and asked Major Stenzel. Stenzel nodded, turned around and walked towards the archives. The moment he was about to step out of the door, Tirpitz called the Major and said in a daze: "Major, I suggest you be more patient with that child."

"What?" Stenzel was stunned.

"Major..." Tirpitz and Reiche smiled at each other, and the chief of staff turned his head and said with a deep look: "Believe me, that child is a genius."
Chapter completed!