Chapter 1: Berlin or Kiel (5)
Hathaway died after all, the simple and solemn funeral cost money like flowing water, and the old accounts of the Silem family were not cleared and new accounts were added. It is said that if there are too many lice, he will not be afraid of itchy, but if he is in a time-traveling King Heidi, holding the barefoot, is not afraid of shoes, and he can still keep it calm.
Hathaway's death touched Wang Heidi a lot. Wang Heidi has been hesitating between the University of Berlin and the Naval Academy of Kiel. However, Hathaway's death made him determined.
After the funeral, Wang Heidi returned to the pier. The Kil Pier was still noisy and busy, but the keen Wang Heidi could vaguely detect the commotion lingering over the pier.
"Silem, I'm going to tell you, I just joined the Dockworkers Union recently, and I think you should join in too." Just as Wang Heidi was carrying the cargo box and was thinking about it, Blunt came over, glanced at the position of the foreman Lehman, and lowered his voice and stopped, "We, the deeply exploited proletariat, should unite and protect our rights with the same voice."
During the Ruhr strike in 1889, the rapid development of trade union organizations caused fear of emerging trade trade lords and conservative Junker nobles. Under the suppression of the government, the trade union movement quickly fell into a low tide. Now five years have passed, and the trade union and proletarian movement have made a comeback. Just as Wang Heidi was busy with Hathaway's funeral, the trade union organization re-infiltrated among the dock workers.
Although the Marlborough School represented by Haier Cohen, a professor at the University of Marlborough and the Freiburg School represented by William Wendelban, a professor at the University of Freiburg, were vigorously promoting neo-Kantism and the German New Historical School represented by Luco Brentano, a professor at the University of Munich, advocated "forum socialism" at the university forum, socialism and Marxist theory were still unstoppable. Many dock workers secretly joined the trade union, and even Blunt, who had a carefree personality, was not spared.
"Blunt, I just received an admission letter from Keel Naval Academy yesterday. You also know the rules of the Navy..."
Although Wang Heidi sympathized with the tragic experience of the working class, as a time traveler who knew the future, Wang Heidi knew the white bones, hypocrisy and deception behind the great socialist revolution. Wang Heidi, who was timid and afraid of death, was destined to be unable to replicate Mao Taizu's great achievements, and he was not determined to write the German version of the lurking. Fortunately, Wang Heidi had an admission notice from the Kiel Naval Academy to evade Blunt.
"I understand the rules of the army..." Blunt turned his head, his eyes full of unconcealed disappointment.
After finishing his studies at Tim Kleger Middle School, Wang Heidi came to Kiel Pier alone to work hard. The fledgling Wang Heidi didn't know anything. It was Blunt who taught Wang Heidi step by step how to work with skill and be lazy and play tricks. Blunt took care of him a lot. Wang Heidi didn't want to see his name in the wanted order of the imperial government in the future. He carefully said every word and implicitly: "It is the tradition of our German army. Blunt, although you have retired from the army, you..."
"Silem, I joined the union to protect my rights and interests. It has nothing to do with politics. Moreover, the old prime minister's "Anti-Socialist Extraordinary Law" has been in name only. Even the Social Democrats can now participate in Congress elections freely and become the largest party in Congress! The union is not an illegal organization!" Germans were born indifferent to politics. Blunt made a few words confused. Finally, he changed the topic and pinched Wang Heidi's shoulder and said cheerfully: "But congratulations on being admitted to the Kiel Naval Academy. After all, he has studied. After staying in the military academy for three or five years, he will be the alternate lieutenant of the naval, and his starting point is much higher than that of ordinary people."
"Blunt, you are lazy again!" Lehman's roar drifted from afar: "You should be fired!"
"This heartless Jewish merchant!" Blunt spread his hands, turning his head to Wang Heidi while resisting the cargo box, and whispering to him: "It's so unfair. Silame, when you are lazy and resting, he always doesn't mention it. As long as I sit down and smoke, this heartless foreman will definitely scold me. Silame, I guess Lehman must have an old and ugly daughter. He favors you, you must be a son-in-law. Wang Heidi, you have to be careful..."
The Germans did not like to spread rumors, but Blunt was an exception. He was still a bachelor in his forties and was very enthusiastic about all gossip about women. Just as Blunt was talking nonsense, a beautiful warship slowly sailed into Kiel Bay. Heidi's face changed, and he jumped onto a very high-rise cargo box, staring at the warship with pure eyes as pure as sapphire.
That was the Siegfried-class light cruiser Biwolf, who had just finished repairing from the shipyard and returned to the naval base. Biwolf was damaged during the annual autumn sea training exercise in October 1893. It was not repaired until now. It has a displacement of 3,000 tons, four sets of steam boilers driven, 5,070 horsepower, a maximum speed of 14.7 knots, and has three 240mm main guns, eight 88mm secondary guns, and four torpedo launch tubes. It is the essence of German naval designers under the guidance of German offshore defense thinking.
The Germans were not a nation with a deep maritime tradition. Frederick I and his subsequent Prussian kings believed that "Prussia does not need a navy." After the French-Prussian War, the young German Empire was established in the French Palace of Versailles. The wise and visionary old prime minister Bismarck was well aware of the strength of the British Empire's naval strength. In order to avoid possible conflicts with Britain, the old prime minister tried his best to stop the navy and turned a deaf ear to other powerful forces in Africa, America and Asia.
After the Battle of Seed, the German Army was invincible. All European countries were terrified and frightened when they heard about it. As for the Imperial Navy, it was just an optional little character.
When the Six Week War broke out in 1864, although the Prussians attacked on land, they were no match for the Danes at all on the sea. The Germans had to order an Arminius, an arminius, with a displacement of 1,917 tons and four 208mm guns, from Britain. When the Prussian Navy was first established in 1867, the Germans had only one ship with a displacement of 7,043 tons and 16 doors and 2
The Friedrichcarl, the 10mm gun gun, and the Arminius ship built by the British, were almost poor. In 1869, the Germans began to try to build battleships, with a displacement of 4,403 tons and 8 210mm guns, the Hamburg ship was quickly built on the Danze Shipyard shipyard shipyard, but it stumbled through ups and downs and took seven years to complete the construction.
The Prussian Navy made no achievements in the War of Unification of the German Empire. After the establishment of the Empire, the German Navy was burdened by government policies and had difficulty in development. In 1872, the German Navy proposed a ten-year naval expansion plan to Congress, intending to build 14 ironclad ships and 20 cruisers by 1882, plus a total of 100 other ships, but this glorious and arduous task was still not completed until 1888. In 1890, Germany's naval funding was US$23 million.
It is less than 1/5 of the army's funding that year, accounting for only 1/3 of the British navy's funding that year, equivalent to 1/2 of the French navy's funding that year. The navy has only 72 ships with a total tonnage of about 190,000 tons, and there are no warships of more than 10,000 tons. Most of them are second-class cruisers of two or three thousand tons or offshore defense ships of about 6,000 tons. The German Navy is not only not as good as the crumbling country in the Far East, but its tonnage is even worse than the famous Sultanate of the Ottoman Turkish Sultanate.
Fortunately, the German industrial and commercial class that had made the old-fashioned and conservative landlords curse had grown stronger, and the German Emperor William II, who was crazy about Mahan's "Theory of the Sea Power", also ascended the throne. Tirpitz, who had a strong personality, also had a historical meeting with the militarist leader of Qiu Fatty. Regardless of whether all this was good or bad, at least the rise of the German Navy was unstoppable.
In April just past, the latest Knuber armor, inclined freeboard, and turret design along the longitudinal centerline of the hull. The Brandenburg First-class Iron-Carrier, which had the prototype of a former dreadnought, had already been in service. In addition, the Electoral Emperor and Wools first-class Iron-Carrier who served in 1893, the Augustavictoria large armored cruiser (augustavictoria) launched in 1893, the 4,000-ton Gefion cruiser (gefion) was still on the platform of the Vulken Shipyard. The once weak German Empire Navy is no longer the same as before. Like the more than 3,000-ton light cruiser than Wolf, it is very unfavorable to watch in Kiel, which is the home port of the navy.
Rather than saying that Heidi's vision was chasing the light cruiser, it was better to say that Heidi was waiting for the small sailboat hiding in the shadow of the cruiser Biwolf to reveal his figure. The old sailboat powered by sail could obviously not run through the new steam-powered cruiser. In a moment, the cruiser pulled the whistle and turned toward the military dock. A scarred three-masted whaling ship was exposed directly to the sea.
The old whaling ship's old hull was covered with moss and sea moss. The left side of the hull was covered with holes of all sizes. Although its tall mast was reinforced with wooden boards and rigging, it was still shaky. The whale refining furnace, which was often placed on the main deck, was cut off by half, which looked a bit shocking.
"Oh my God, this old sailboat looks like it's going to fall apart. What a storm the poor whale knights must have encountered. How did they sail back this pile of rags that barely floated on the sea?" The tragic situation of the old sailboat made the dock turbulent. People jumped onto the breakwater, covered their mouths and looked at the whale ship full of holes, blocking old clothes, canvas rigging and wood.
"Nanschlesuswig is the Nanschlesuswig!" Following the memories of the old year, Wang Heidi easily identified the whaling ship of the Nanschlesuswig where Frasey was.
Frasey was back, the stubborn former Prussian naval lieutenant, the first mate on the whaling ship, the South Schleswig, and the old navy who had been wandering on the sea all his life, was back. Wang Heidi, who had been struggling to hold on, could finally breathe a sigh of relief and rest for a few days.
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The old Nanshile Suyig was quietly docked at the dock, and the young sailors hugged the upper body and hummed ancient songs to move the wooden barrels filled with whale oil. The technicians at the Kiel Shipyard looked at the broken and old whaling ship and shook their heads vigorously. The face of the big merchant Dick, who was standing beside him, became even more gloomy.
"Mr. Dick, this is a sperm whale. It has the most expensive ambergris spice in the world. Its brain whale oil is the best whale oil on the market. The whale oil extracted from it can not only be eaten, but also becomes a raw material for your chemical factory." The gray-haired old captain Kahn stared at the big merchant Dick who was thanking the head, and waved his strong fist and said, "You can't pay us at the price of humpback whales, which is not fair!"
"Fair?" Dick, the best merchant in Kiel, screamed strangely, and slowly approached the old Nanshile Suyige with the help of Elka, and pointed to the whaling ship with the civilized stick in his hand, and asked with a smile: "Nshile Suyige is a good ship, it used to be the fastest ship running on the Baltic Sea. Kahn, you were the captain of the Prussian Navy, and I trust you to hand it over to you. You must know that I treat this ship like my biological daughter Katherine, but you ruined it. Kahn, look at its miserable situation, can you imagine that it was once the most beautiful ship of Kiel? Don't you have any conscience?"
"The fastest-running ship? It is indeed the fastest-running sailboat, but that was something that happened ten years ago." Since we broke up, these naval men who had fought for the empire and had blood and had steel flowing in their blood had nothing to worry about. Former Prussian Navy Lieutenant Kahn pointed to Dick's nose and sarcastically said: "We encountered a storm on the sea. It is thankful that Poseidon was able to save his life by chance. The injury of the South Schleswig cannot be counted on us, let alone you have already bought insurance for it!"
It was obvious that Dick was unwilling to pay his sailor even if he was a Finney, the whale knights who exchanged their lives for money on the sea were not willing to give in. The two sides were in a stalemate and no one was willing to give in.
"Mr. Dick, if you pay for sperm whales, we will fix the Nanshelsouyig, which you regard as your biological daughter. If you insist on paying for humpback whales, then we'd better meet in court."
Wang Heidi, who came to pick Frasey up home, accidentally encountered this scene in front of her. Wang Heidi, a college student who had learned the "Ideological and Moral Cultivation and Law Basics" course, suppressed her anger and walked over. She warned the greedy Dick with a soft and hard way:
"Mr. Dick, although you have a high prestige in Kiel, we can find someone to speak for us when we walk through the Imperial Navy. Mr. Dick, you are a businessman with a long-term vision and great wisdom. As one of the top philanthropists in Kiel, you will not be greedy for these small profits..."
Dick's face, full of flesh, trembled, and seemed to have a hint of anger, and then his smile began to look like a flower like a Sichuan opera.
"Frasey, you have a good son." Dick patted Wang Heidi's shoulder with a hypocritical smile and said temptingly: "Silem, if I remember well, you are Catherine's middle school classmate. Verani often talks about you in front of me. Are you interested in coming to my company? I will give you a salary of twenty marks a month."
"Thank you, but I'll study a little more..." If Dick hadn't personally invited him, the monthly salary of twenty marks, Heidi, who was so poor and crazy, would have cried and shouted to agree. It can be seen that Dick's turnaround is like a cloud and a rain, and he was ruthless, Heidi decided to refuse.
Dick's unfavorable money offensive was a rare defeat. He was a little embarrassed and touched his bare forehead and said insincerely: "Haha, then I wish you can go to Berlin University..."
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After Hathaway left, Wang Heidi fully exposed the nature of the otakus being lazy. In order not to clean, Wang Heidi simply cleared out the furniture that she didn't need, leaving only the simplest living utensils.
The retired old soldier Frasey admired this very much. The domineering old navy squatted on the ground, grabbed his wife's photo, turned his head and asked:
"Did Hathaway explain anything before leaving?"
Wang Heidi had an instinctive fear of the irritable Frasey. Wang Heidi was very afraid of his father who believed in stick education in his previous life. After traveling through time, this fear also followed.
"Mother asked me to take good care of you..."
海瑟薇留下遗言让海蒂去柏林大学而不是加入帝国海军,为了避免性格执拗的弗雷西心底不快暴起揍人,王海蒂选择隐瞒事实;海瑟薇让海蒂忘记凯瑟琳,和安妮结婚,且不说凯瑟琳是海蒂-西莱姆纯白无暇的初恋,凯瑟琳很漂亮,高挑的身材和精致的脸庞,金色的秀发和高贵的气质,简直就是宅男梦寐以求的极品女王.
Anne is not pretty, with the image of a girl next door, a weird temper, and very similar to her girlfriend. In order to avoid being trapped by her girlfriend's stock in her previous life, Wang Heidi even went on a journey of no return. Now, marrying Anne is not going back? Forgetting Catherine is obviously a heartless thing, and marrying Anne is obviously an inhumane thing. In order to avoid being unhappy in her heart, Wang Heidi chose to avoid the important things.
"Oh..." The stubborn and stubborn old navy sighed quietly, carefully stuffed the photo back into his pocket, and stood up with his broken leg. "Heidi, thank you for your hard work during this period... Go to Berlin, Hathaway is right. It's enough to have a cripple at home, and there is no need for a second lunatic."
The old navy, who advocated iron blood and rudeness, never accepted softness in his life, and never said gentle words. When the old navy said these words, his face turned red and his eyes were evasive, and he rarely showed a hint of embarrassment.
"No!" Wang Heidi refused. There were still many debts in the family that had not been paid off. He did not want to add a burden to Frasey. For the elderly Frasey, in order to live a life as soon as possible, and for his increasingly pale ideal of traveling through time, Wang Heidi had no choice but to choose the Navy: "Frasey, I was admitted to the Kiel Naval Academy, I want to join the Imperial Navy!"
Wang Heidi had poor historical knowledge. He vaguely remembered that the Germans won the Battle of Jutland. Since he won, he should be able to save his life. As for the black and white text in the history book, "The German fleet attacked its prison guards, but was still locked in prison." Wang Heidi looked down on it.
"Isn't that the excuse used by the men's football team in their previous life? Either the turf is too dry, the turf is too wet, or the turf is not dry or wet!";
Chapter completed!