Chapter 4 This is the best of times and the worst (3)
The bed was very comfortable, not like the creaking old bed in the small wooden shed in the lower district of Kiel, not like the narrow camp bed of the Kiel Military Academy, nor the chaotic and crowded aisle bed of the Friedrich-Karl. This bed was not only soft and bright, but also had a faint smell of a girl. The drunk Wang Heidi had a spring dream in a daze, with a arrogant little girlfriend, a hotel in Tangkou Town, Huangshan, and more things that are not worthy of being talked about by men and women.
Wang Heidi, who woke up, opened her eyes slightly, saw a glaring brightness through the blinds, and there was a hint of annoyance on her face. She probably felt that it was already noon outside.
After the hangover, he was always dry and had a headache. The otaku had no time to consider how he appeared in the hotel, nor did he recall who changed his nightgown for him. The lazy he even gave him a glass of water to pour him a cup of water. The otaku wrapped his quilt tightly and turned over, trying to sleep and get back to sleep, closed his eyes and wanted to continue the erotic and charming dream last night.
A girl's dream came from her ears, a warm body approaching Wang Heidi, and her smooth skin was next to Wang Heidi's back. Wang Heidi could even feel the bulge on the girl's chest. A white white wrist walked around Wang Heidi's stiff head and gently pressed against his face.
"I'll just go, wasn't that a dream last night?" The otakus' cold sweat fell out in an instant, and a certain morning erection of his work softened instantly. Wang Heidi seemed to have foreseeed the miserable situation of a great young man who was disgraced and tortured by the police because of his drunkenness.
Thinking of this, Wang Heidi couldn't help but slap herself. The otaku was not good at drinking, but she liked to show off her ability. She was drunk by her girlfriend in her previous life, and for no reason she lost the first night of her hard work for almost twenty years. It would be fine if she got on her pirate ship, but at least she still had an emotional foundation, but in this life the otaku got herself drunk and then lost the first night of this life in a confused way. It seems that she still has to live a life. The otaku felt cowardly no matter how she thought about it.
Wang Heidi slowly squirmed, carefully got out of contact with the girl, got up in a flash, and jumped to the door in a panic in her nightgown. The otakus wandered around the door for a long time, and when his panic calmed down, he realized that he could face the anger of thunder, and then he dared to open his eyes to see who the girl lying on the bed.
On the luxuriously decorated bed, Wang Heidi's military uniform, underwear, girl's dress, underwear and hair accessories were scattered. A blond girl was sleeping soundly in her arms, holding a thin quilt, exposing large pieces of snow-white to the air without any scruples.
"Catherine..." Wang Heidi unconsciously breathed a sigh of relief, feeling that his precarious life had been kept, and then she realized: It's not OK if it's Catherine. She took away the girl's body for no reason and didn't have to bear any responsibility. Even in the open 21st century, there was no such good thing. Her girlfriend in her previous life proved it!
Wang Heidi trembled and found her clothes, took out a pack of cigarettes from her military uniform pocket, and lit them tremblingly. After the light blue smoke rose, the otaku was afraid of choking Catherine, so he opened the blinds and stood in front of the windowsill, swallowing clouds one by one.
"When did you wake up?" The girl's shy voice came from behind.
"It's been a while..." Wang Heidi put out the cigarette butts, looking desperate.
"Fortunately you didn't escape, otherwise I really didn't know what to do..." Catherine blushed and wrapped the quilt tightly around her body, and a trace of spring light was unwilling to reveal it.
Christianity does not advocate premarital sex, and Europeans do not adhere to faith like the very realistic and utilitarian God-Church. They treat religion as a moral bottom line and abide by it. Catherine is a devout Protestant, which shows how determined the girl made to accept him last night.
"Last night?" Wang Heidi stammered with a hint of luck.
"I heard that you were drunk in a tavern after graduating from military academy. I was afraid that you would overdue it, so I came to take a look. As a result, you were really drunk. I was worried that you would not be able to take care of you, so I sent you here. Heidi, I gave you everything, you won't want me..."
Wang Heidi was a little embarrassed. He touched his nose and wanted to say boldly, "What are you afraid of? I will be responsible for you." But his girlfriend's figure always swayed in front of him, making the otaku unable to say anything.
Catherine waited for a long time, but after all, she didn't wait for Wang Heidi's response. The look of expectation on her face dissipated, and the crystal liquid was already spinning in her eyes.
"Okay, I will marry you, as long as Dick and Verani don't object..." Wang Heidi took a curve to save the country, trying to fool this matter. Catherine's mother Verani is a snobbish woman, and she will never sit idly by and watch Wang Heidi marry her daughter home.
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In the blink of an eye, it was already 1898 that Redell was assigned to the flagship of the Second Fleet, the German, and met the talented Lieutenant Wolfgang-Wegener, and participated in the battle to invade Jiaozhou Bay in China. Oden appeared on the new large ironclad Queen Augusta and became a torpedo officer. Wang Heidi was left at the Navy headquarters and became the secretary of the Imperial Navy Office. He was first promoted to a lieutenant in March 1898. He is a typical example of a young man's success and spirit.
April 10, 1898, Berlin, Germany, Parliament Building.
The German Empire was a monarchy, and the parliament was not worthy of the political landscape of Germany, but the Capitol was the territory of the members of Congress after all. Even the high-powered senior officials of the Admiralty, army representatives, officials of the Prussian Kingdom and Emperor William II could only sit quietly in the audience and not make noise, otherwise they would definitely be driven out by the Speaker of the Congress.
Heidi Silem, who had just been promoted to lieutenant of the Navy, stood on the parliamentary speech stage, facing the mountain of criticism of the members of parliament, sometimes making jokes and laughing, sometimes raising his arms and shouting with energy, sometimes frowning and making white rock-shaped pine, resolving the provocations of the members of parliament one by one.
"Lieutenant Silame, as the old Prime Minister said, the German Empire did not need a strong navy, as this would arouse suspicion from the British!" Liberal MP Schmidt jumped out and accused without hesitation.
"As of 1897, our German Empire navy ranked seventh in the world, with a total tonnage of less than a fraction of the British, but even so, are the British not suspicious of us?" Wang Heidi wore a naval dress with a solemn expression but a little confident smile: "Mr. Schmidt, I want to ask you, after the 'Kruger Telegram' incident in 1895, did the British consider the sincerity of the Germans when they issued war warnings to us?! They even wanted to block and check our merchant ships to consider our tolerance?! In my opinion, it is precisely because our German navy is not strong enough that the British are so unscrupulous. It is important to know that the truth is only within the range of the cannon!"
"Lt. Silame, Germany is a modern country with a strong potential. We lack the original accumulation of capital. I think the navy's military expansion plan will greatly consume Germany's national strength!" Member Schmidt seemed to have taken on the navy and tangled.
"Dear members of the parliament, it is not that our navy needs a powerful battleship fleet, but that it is that the German nation needs, but that of the German national interests, but that of the descendants of Germany!" Wang Heidi used his sonorous and powerful words to mobilize the emotions of the MPs and responded: "We need a powerful navy, so that we will not copy the scene when the French warships blocked the estuary of the Elbe River in 1870, and that the British would not search us unscrupulously.
Ship. We need a strong navy. We can also solve it in the absence of capital. However, the scarcity of resources and the narrow domestic market have no other way to shackle the German economy. We can only use iron and blood, use a powerful navy to expand Germany's territory, and use a colony with rich resources, large population and vast market to transfusion blood for Germany. Therefore, building a strong navy is not just a blessing for the navy, but a common need of the 60 million German people!"
"Lieutenant Silame, how does the Navy face the pressure from the British?" The old Junker nobleman Von Quermann was a neutral faction and was a matter of fact.
"The Navy is ready to expand its army in about seven years to a fleet with 19 battleships, 9 armored cruisers and 26 light cruisers. The purpose of the Navy's expansion is to gain strength compared to the French and deter other countries. The Navy has no intention of suppressing France, which is not enough to shake the British's maritime hegemony." Wang Heidi did not hesitate to exert the ambiguity of "risk theory" that Tirpitz often said, and stood on the parliamentary speech stage: "This fleet is purely defensive and peaceful, and has no intention to challenge the naval forces of any other country. It exists to make the greatest maritime power countries dare not challenge it, otherwise there will be a danger of destroying their advantages! Since this is a fleet with strategic purpose of existence and deterrence, the British have no reason to put pressure on us, and we don't need to pay attention to the pressure of the British!"
The defense time was over, and Wang Heidi walked down from the parliamentary podium with pride. He received thunderous applause from the members of the Navy who supported the Navy and cheered by his colleagues present.
Members of Congress began voting on the "Enlargement Act" bill under the auspices of the Speaker.
"It seems that Congress can no longer stop the "Enlargement Act"..." The overall situation was settled, and Emperor William II breathed a sigh of relief and decided to leave early. Before leaving, Emperor William II pushed away the guards scattered around him and said to his Navy Minister: "Alfred, you are the hero of Germany!"
"No, Your Majesty! The battleships with the Iron Cross Black Hawk Flag and the Black and White and Red Tricolor Flags are about to set sail. The Empire's colonies and coal-gathering stations are about to spread all over the world. The great era of the German Navy is coming, and it is created by you!" Naval Secretary Alfred von Tirpitz's answer was loud and loud.
Tirpitz was a very brave figure. He was determined to create a real ocean-going fleet for Germany, and hoped that such a fleet would be comparable to the British Royal Navy. Tirpitz prepared for this day for too long. In 1892, he became the chief of staff of the Navy. At that time, the Navy was controlled by conservative naval veterans. They even said that they would be rigged by a warship with an iron crusade flag. Tirpitz flicked and moved the Navy, excluding a group of veterans from the core, and ousted the former Navy Secretary Friedrich Hoffman in an indecent way. From 1897 to 1898, he did not formulate a large-scale naval plan and its technical plan, and in the political leaders, the press, and the people skillfully used all propaganda skills to promote his career.
He defeated the veterans of the Navy, made good friends with Foreign Minister Bernhard von Bielou, and left the young and impulsive Heidi Sileme as his secretary, visited veterans and important officials of the Kingdom of Prussia, spread the HNA tradition of the Hanseatic League through the Kiel Sailing Festival, and translated and published in Germany in large quantities. The Naval Association established in 1898, and the Naval Yearbook published in Berlin. The fifty-year-old Tirpitz devoted half of his life to the German Navy. Now, the gray-haired old Tirpitz can finally get what he wants. He can finally take his ocean fleet and unrestrained smile and walk out of the solemn Capitol with Emperor William.
The vote count ended, and the Speaker knocked on the table, calming the noisy members of parliament and said in a deep voice:
"The Navy bill has obtained a simple majority. According to the Constitution, I declare the Navy Expansion Act established!"
On April 10, 1898, the sound of cannons in the Bay of Helgolan, the horror of Dogel Sands, the thrill of Coronel and the fall of the Falkland Islands, the guerrillas of the Emden, the slaughter test of Lake Tanganyika, and the bloody fire of Jutland and the "rainbow" over Scarpa Bay, left countless regrets to future generations. The era of the high seas fleet has finally come.
Wang Heidi became a hero of the navy. He stood in front of the reporter carrying a long spear and short cannon, allowing the old-fashioned camera to expose his eyes.
"Di-British naval arms race, allies and allies, and World War I, did I make me successful or did I promote history?" As the secretary of the Navy Office who is familiar with future history, Wang Heidi knows clearly that Tirpitz's ambitions and the contradictory contradictions of his so-called "risk theory" are vulnerable.
Wang Heidi used the "risk theory" to evade those members of Congress who did not understand the navy and the ocean. This does not mean that he agrees with Tirpitz's point of view. The "risk theory" is not without rationality, but the British are not fools, and John Bull will never sit idly by and watch the rise of the German navy and then surpass them. The existence of a fleet is not worthless, at least it can make the British frighten the enemy, but once the fierce world war breaks out, both sides fight for national strength and resource consumption, but the existence of a fleet is useless to this, and it is even a little burden. In the past life, after Germany's plan to quickly decide the decisive battle was bankrupt, it was consumed by the endless resources of the Allies.
The "Naval Army Expansion Act" on April 10 is not only the beginning of the rise of the German navy, but also the clue of World War I. Once Pandora's magic box is opened in the arms race, it will never end unless one side falls. Thinking of Germany, which is rushing forward on the road to war, and thinking of the end of Germany's defeat in the war, the otaku suddenly felt a little fear and confusion.
"This is the best era and the worst..." The otaku murmured, then laughed at himself, and thought to himself that he could no longer go back.
When Wang Heidi first joined the Navy, she fantasized about retiring early and immigrating to the United States. But now, Germany has his prospective fiancee, Catherine, his father Frasey, and Hathaway's cemetery. There are a group of classmates who have lived together for three years, many old acquaintances like Blunt and Weigener, and Wang Heidi's memories of joy or sorrow. Before she knew it, the otaku had already had real feelings for Germany, and Wang Heidi felt that he could not leave.
"No, I have to talk to Tirpitz. Even if he cannot slow down the formation of the Ocean Fleet, at least he must accept the concept of asymmetric combat and increase the chances of winning the war!"
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A crystal cup was placed on the luxurious wisteria wooden table, and a little expensive cognac was contained. Dick, the top businessman in Kiel, was sitting on the sofa in the living room, smoking a cigar and flipping through newspapers. The Sharpee dog of Dick's house was lying on Dick's leather shoes and snoring.
The silence was broken by the sound of rapid footsteps. Verani walked into the living room and kicked the pet dog that came forward to greet her, and said furiously:
"Dick, how can you agree to the marriage between Catherine and Silem, Catherine is our only daughter, she is the proud daughter of Kiel, she cannot marry the descendants of the Hakendorf fishermen, a little Navy lieutenant! Only the son of the old Victor, Victor, is worthy of her!"
"Why, do you think your prospective son-in-law Heidi Sileme is just a little naval lieutenant?" Dick rolled his eyes and handed the newspaper in his hand to Verani.
It was the newspaper with the largest circulation in Shihezhou (Shleswig-Helstein). The entire page of the newspaper's homepage was filled with huge photos of Wang Heidi. Wang Heidi was handsome and had a expressionless face. There were several lines of small words under the photo:
"On April 10, 1898, the Navy Expansion Act was passed, and Lieutenant Heidi Silaime, secretary of the Imperial Navy Office, became a naval hero!"
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