69novels Chapter 455
Chapter 455
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“I would like to visit your country’s Ruhr Industrial Zone and the Naval Base in Wilhelmshaven. I wonder if it is possible!”
Kemal made his request with some trepidation. The Ruhr Industrial Zone is the most important heavy industrial base in Hans. Visiting here is to learn and draw lessons from Hans’ industrial development experience and lay the foundation for Turkey’s own industrial development.
As for visiting the naval base in Wilhelmshaven, it is purely because Kemal is very interested in Hans’ navy or in Hans’s two battleships, the Bismarck and the Tirpitz!
These two battleships are currently the most powerful battleships in the world, so they have a large number of fans all over the world.
Although Kemal is from the army, he has had long-term experience in cooperating with the navy and suppressing rebellions everywhere, so Kemal has always been very interested in the navy!
Unlike Hans, Turkey has a very long coastline. They not only have the Black Sea region Turkey has a large number of coastlines, and a very long coastline in the Mediterranean.
These coastlines provide great convenience for their shipping and commercial exchanges in peacetime, but once a war breaks out, these coastlines will become channels for the enemy to invade their homeland.
Moreover, Turkey also has two very important straits connecting the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea-the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus, which makes their strategic position extremely important. During World War I, in order to control these two straits and open up a passage to the Black Sea, the British Empire once launched the Battle of the Dardanelles and attacked Turkey’s homeland.
Because Turkey’s navy was very weak during World War I, they were simply unable to resist the invasion of the British Empire from the sea, and could only hide on land, passively waiting for others to attack. Come to the door, and then attack the enemy when the enemy lands!
This method is too passive. The enemy can launch an attack from any point on their long coastline and concentrate their forces to attack a target!
And they must disperse their troops to various parts of the coastline to fill the front line, which makes their defense extremely difficult and the consumption of troops is also very alarming. Even if they win, their losses may not be less than the opponent!
Kemore is very talented in military affairs, so he knows very well that passive defense will only make his situation worse and worse. A lot of resources will be consumed on those meaningless but indispensable coastal defense forces!
The only way to break this situation is to develop your own navy!
As long as they can have a strong navy , then the enemy’s navy will not be able to directly threaten their homeland, and they will not need to be so nervous and guard against thieves every day!
During the Ottoman Empire, Turkey once had a very strong navy, which helped them conquer many areas along the Mediterranean coast! At the peak of the Ottoman Empire, they even had hundreds of warships and an invincible fleet that could bring the entire Mediterranean under their control!
However, after the Battle of Lepanto, Turkey was seriously injured, the navy lost more than half, and completely lost its hegemony in the Mediterranean. From that time on, they gradually declined and never had a strong navy again!
As a hero in the hearts of the Turkish people, Kemore, like thousands of Turkish people, dreams of restoring the glory of Turkey.
To do this, they must have conditions:
First, they must have a strong industrial system. If they do not have strong support, they will always be a backward agricultural country.
Second, they must build a strong army. More than a dozen Russian-Turkish wars have told the Turkish people that if they do not have a strong army, then the north will eat them alive!
If the bear had not been waging war against them continuously for hundreds of years, Turkey would not be living so badly today, and their land area would not have shrunk so much!
Therefore, building a strong army is the fundamental way to protect themselves from invasion and destruction!
The third and most important point is to build a strong navy!
It is not enough to have an army alone. The army is useful when facing land powers, but when facing sea powers, the army can only stare blankly!
These three conditions are very difficult. Whether it is to develop the country’s industry or to build a strong navy and army, it will take a long time!
The army is easier to say. Turkey at least has it now. Although it is not very strong, it is barely enough.
As for the navy, after the end of World War I, the original Ottoman navy was almost completely regarded as war reparations, and all of them were robbed, so Turkey’s navy now only has some small fishing boats and small sampans, and there are no warships that can be used for combat!
Therefore, he planned to go to Hans’ navy to see if there were suitable warships. Kemal hoped to purchase a batch. Although this batch of warships could not help them gain control of the Mediterranean Sea, it could at least allow them to have some self-protection capabilities when confronting Hina, one of their arch-enemies across the Aegean Sea!
Mainz roughly guessed what Kemal was thinking, so he nodded:”No problem, I’ll let the mustache help you arrange it. If conditions permit, maybe you can visit Krupp’s arsenal and Hamburg’s shipyard. Maybe you can find what you want there!” Mainz had no reason to refuse the buyer who came to his door.
Exporting warships to Tuji has many benefits for Hans. Doing so can not only give the shipyard���It can not only generate income and increase employment, but also strengthen the naval strength of Turkey and disperse the forces of the British, forcing them to invest more forces to suppress Turkey.
In this way, Hans will have less pressure on himself, and they will have a greater chance of winning in the future when they fight the Royal Navy of the British!
Of course, if the navy of Turkey becomes strong and threatens Hina, Hina may come to Hans to order warships from them. In this way, Hans can make money from both families!
After getting Mainz’s approval, Kemore was as excited as a child. He immediately packed up and took the train to the Ruhr Industrial Zone!
In fact, the fastest way to get from Berlin to the Ruhr Industrial Zone is to take a plane or an airship.
But Kemore wanted to learn as much as possible about the customs and customs of Hans, so he chose to take the train, so that he could see a real Hans on the road!
Compared with the dilapidated and depressed Ankara, Hans’s capital Berlin was too prosperous in Kemore’s eyes, and the prosperity seemed like a fake thing!
Because Mainz started a large number of infrastructure construction projects after taking office, the scale of Hans’ city continued to expand, and a large number of high-rise buildings appeared in the city. Although it is not yet comparable to the Gotham City of the Eagle Sauce, their city appearance has gradually caught up with or even surpassed the foggy city where the sun never sets!
Berlin currently has dozens of buildings over 100 meters in height, and five buildings over 200 meters. The Empire State Building under construction has a design height of 31 meters. If it is built, it will become the tallest building in the world!
Every time Mainz thinks of the name of the Empire State Building, he is secretly happy.
The Empire State Building was originally a landmark building in Gotham City that was built in 1930 by the Eagle Sauce and took only one year to build. This building is called one of the seven engineering wonders of the modern world because it took a short time and is extremely high. However
, in this time and space, the Empire State Building of the Eagle Sauce was built first by Hans. I don’t know if they will build such a tall building. However
, even if it is built, I am afraid there will be no such name as the Empire State Building!