Romanian Eagle

Romanian Eagle Chapter 445 Royal William Dockyard Audio Novel Listen Online

The Royal William Dockyard in spring is still so deserted. A small number of shipyard employees are still employed, and they are still diligently maintaining the facilities and equipment in the factory. But today, a crowd of people came to this shipyard.

Among them were officials of the German government, representatives of the Allied Powers, and several foreign officers in dark blue navy uniforms. They inspected the entire shipyard under the leadership of the shipyard's director, Fred.

"Everyone, the dock we are currently in is the largest No. 3 dock in the shipyard, and it is also our latest technology dock. It is 250 meters long and 45 meters wide. It is equipped with a large gantry crane that can lift 240 tons and can build 50,000 tons. It is also the pride of our shipyard.”

Fred explained the shipyard's facilities to the officers in navy uniforms in front of him. And several naval personnel listened to his explanation and exchanged with each other from time to time. It's just that he never responded to Fred's words, and he was used to it.

"Everyone, let's go to the board factory next, where can we find our latest board machines. These machines are new machines that were installed only 15 years ago. At that time, they were prepared to undertake the Mackensen-class battlecruisers. Who knows that there are no orders at all. The name of our shipyard."

When several naval officers heard Fred talking about the Mackensen-class war patrol, their eyes lit up, but then they covered it up.

"Then please lead the way."

The leading naval officer immediately took Fred's words and asked him to lead the way. Afterwards, the group followed Director Fred to every corner of the shipyard, and at the same time personally inspected the equipment of the shipyard.

Patrols in the shipyard with great fanfare must not be concealed from the employees of the shipyard. Bern and his party saw these people patrolling the workshop with their own eyes.

After these people left, Charlotte immediately said to her colleagues: "It's time to come, I didn't lie to you. These people are definitely here to see the shipyard, and it is estimated that the demolition is not far away."

Hearing Charlotte's words, a shadow shrouded the hearts of every worker present. They are mourning for the shipyard and for their own fate.

After Bernie heard Charrol's words, he said: "Don't talk about Charrol, everyone has worked in the shipyard for many years, and no one's heart is uncomfortable. We do the work at hand, and the rest can only be left to God to arrange."

Bernie's words made everyone's hearts even heavier, and they felt that they lacked strength to work. In fact, the same is true of Bern. At present, the situation in China is really about to lose a job, and I don't know where to find it.

The voice of Bern and others is also the heart of the current shipyard employees, for a large group of people who came to the shipyard suddenly. Everyone has a shadow in their hearts, but they also know that they and others have absolutely no way to prevent the possibility of the shipyard being sold, but they are still mourning for themselves and the shipyard.

In fact, they were right, these naval officers were from Romania. When the Romanian side learned that the Royal William Dockyard was to be sold as a royal property, Eder, the king, immediately thought of the Romanian Navy. Edel still feels a little guilty about the navy that has been left out in the cold. So after learning the news, I immediately asked the Admiralty to organize personnel to inspect the shipyard facilities.

The Admiral Lomodan, the Minister of the Admiralty, who received the good news, and Rear Admiral Nestaku, who returned to Bucharest overnight, drew up a list of personnel. It is completely to dispatch the elite soldiers of the navy to complete this task. Because they knew they were really going to move the shipyard to Romania, and the good days for the navy were coming.

The reason is very simple. The relocation of a large shipyard where tens of thousands of people can build battleships can greatly improve the naval strength. If not for the development of the navy, is it necessary for His Majesty to let them check it out? This is a bald man with lice on his head, obvious.

Therefore, Colonel Jacob, the director of the Naval Equipment Department, Lieutenant Colonel Mirrell from the Ship Design Department, and a group of the best technical talents in the navy were all put into the list by them.

And today's inspection is also responsible for several people, the results are very satisfactory to them. Most of the facilities in the shipyard are well preserved, especially the core equipment is carefully maintained.

"Today we visited the shipyard and it was quite good. I heard from Director Fred that many of the facilities in this shipyard were purchased in the past few years."

Colonel Jacob sat on the sofa and told his colleagues how he felt today.

"Yeah, the shipyards to be demolished in Germany are more advanced than ours. This makes us feel a huge gap with the maritime powers."

Lieutenant Colonel Mirel saw the huge gap in the Romanian Navy from this shipyard.

"The gap will gradually narrow. Starting from this shipyard, Romania will also have the manufacturing capacity of warships of more than 10,000 tons?"

Colonel Jacob's words made Lieutenant Colonel Mirelle think of a possibility. "Could it be that Your Majesty finally pays attention to the Navy?"

"I didn't say it, but I heard from the minister and the commander that good days may be coming for the Navy."

"If this is the case, then I hope to demolish a few more large shipyards. In this way, our shipbuilding capacity in Romania will skyrocket."

"According to the captain of the guard beside His Majesty, this may not be big."

"What's the reason?"

"Other shipyards are private and not so easy to demolish."

In fact, the discussion between the two is correct. The Allies were very happy to sell German shipyards, especially the British side was eager to sell all German shipyards. The threat of the High Seas Fleet to the British Empire, these gentlemen can clearly see.

However, most shipyards in Germany belong to the private industry, so they have nowhere to go. However, there is no way to dismantle these shipyards, which does not mean that there is no other way to restrain them. With fines for helping Germany build warships for the war, and the damage to the German economy from the Versailles reparations, these shipyards are currently struggling.

And William Royal Dockyard, the royal family's industry, doesn't need to be polite. When Romania expressed its desire to move the shipyard to the country, Britain and France quickly agreed. At the same time, in order to win over Romania, the Royal William Dockyard was sold at a low price. In short, as long as Romania wants German equipment, dismantle it. The two countries can't wait to dismantle all German equipment and sell them for money to compensate for their losses.

And in this context, Romanian work in Germany is going very well. If it wasn't for Eder's lack of money, and considering the rise of Germany in the future, he really wanted to pack all these devices back.

According to statistics after the fact, in 1920, Romania shipped back equipment worth 20 billion marks from Germany. And the money did not fall into the hands of the German government, and was pocketed by Britain and France as reparations. This aroused the resentment of the German people from Britain and France even more, and also made the Weimar government quite embarrassed. Because the workers are dissatisfied (no jobs), the peasants are dissatisfied (most of them are used as indemnities), the capitalists are dissatisfied (the economy is depressed and cannot make money), the soldiers are dissatisfied (because they signed the Treaty of Versailles), and the scholars are dissatisfied (defeated in war). later punishment is too heavy). It can be said that people at all levels in Germany are dissatisfied with the Weimar government, but this government is recognized by Britain, France and other countries, so no matter how angry they are, there is nothing they can do.

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