"His Excellency Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Germans sold a batch of advanced warships to the Brazilians.￥f Chile's security has been seriously challenged. We hope that the Chinese Empire can continue to provide support to Chile and sell more advanced warships to Chile so that we can fight against the Brazilians!" Ambassador Mascaiano said with an excited look. Chile finally defeated Peru and Bolivia and seized the Atacama Desert. Now, the Brazilians pose a threat to Chile, which has forced Chile to find ways to further strengthen its arms.

Although the warships purchased by the Brazilian Navy will be delivered to Brazil within three years. However, Chile obviously cannot defeat Brazil within these three years. Although they snatched the Atacama Desert from Peru and Bolivia, it will take a lot of time to digest these territories. In addition, Chile has too few people. Although Chile has more and more babies born every year, it will take more than ten or twenty years for these babies to grow up. It is impossible for Chile to replace Brazil as the overlord of South America in a short period of time.

However, Chile is now like sailing against the current, and if it does not advance, it will retreat. If Chile cannot maintain its own advantages, it will be surpassed by Brazil. Once Brazil has an overwhelming advantage, then Chile's future will be very bad. Therefore, Chile must ensure that the navy continues to have advantages. As long as Chile's navy is not defeated, the Brazilians will not be able to cross the Andes and attack Chile.

Wei Yuan, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Empire, nodded: "Amprover, we can understand the mood of Chile. The Germans sold warships to Brazil. It did destroy the stability of South America. The Chinese Empire could sell warships to Chile!"

Of course, the balance of South America was broken, which was first initiated by the Chinese Empire. Without the support of the Chinese Empire, Chile would need at least twenty or thirty years to accumulate to defeat Peru and Bolivia. It is precisely because of the help of the Chinese Empire that Chile has less time. Of course, this also made the situation in South America tense ahead of schedule.

"That's great, His Excellency Minister of Foreign Affairs. Chile hopes to buy two "Tang-class" battleships!" said Ambassador Mascaiano. As the ambassador to China, he was very clear about the "Tang-class" battleships that the Chinese Empire served some time ago. The Chilean Navy also compared the power between them and the Brazilian Navy. In terms of small battleships, the Chilean Navy is no worse than the Brazilian Navy. However, facing the "Brandenburg-class" battleships of the Brazilian Navy, neither the "East Zhou-class" battleships nor the "Western Zhou-class" battleships, they cannot fight against them. They must have real battleships. The "Tang-class" battleships that the Chinese Empire Navy has just served are undoubtedly the best choice.

The Tang-class battleships are much stronger than the Brandenburg-class battleships in terms of tonnage, firepower, or speed. As long as the Chilean Navy can have two Tang-class battleships, they will be able to gain the upper hand again.

"Yes! The empire can start two new "Tang-class" battleships, and can be delivered to the Chilean Navy in two and a half years. However, the price of the "Tang-class" battleship is not low, and this is the most advanced battleship in the world!" Wei Yuan reminded. Even if Chile is the target of support from the Chinese Empire, the Chinese Empire will not be able to sell the "Tang-class" battleships at a loss.

"Of course, His Excellency the Foreign Minister. Although Chile did not have enough ship purchase funds for a while, we can pay the funds for these two battleships with mineral resources and agricultural products as before!" said Mascaiano.

"Well. Let's do this, the price of the 'Tang-class' battleship is 20 million Huayuan per ship! Two are 40 million Huayuan! We allow the use of mineral resources and agricultural products to pay!" Wei Yuan said. After Chile obtained the Atacama Desert, almost all the saltpeter produced there was monopolized by the Chinese Empire. Although the Chinese Empire did not lack saltpeter, if domestic resources could be retained, then keep them as much as possible and give priority to overseas resources. The country's resources were retained as much as possible. After all, these are non-renewable resources.

Mascaiano nodded. Although the price of 20 million Chinese Yuan was a bit expensive, he knew that the "Tang-class" battleship was worth this price. The "Brandenburg-class" battleship purchased by the Brazilian from the Germans was 14 million Chinese Yuan if converted into Huayuan. The "Tang-class" battleship was only 6 million Chinese Yuan more expensive than the "Brandenburg-class" battleship. This price is already very cost-effective.

Of course, Chile cannot afford the money now. The loans for purchasing arms from the Chinese Empire and imported weapons and ammunition during the war have not been paid off. This time, the 40 million Chinese Yuan of the two battleships have to borrow first, and then slowly repay them with mineral resources and agricultural products. However, the Chilean government is not worried that they can't exchange it. The value of saltpeter and bird droppings mined from the Atacama Desert every year will reach tens of millions of Chinese Yuan. As the scale of mining becomes larger and larger, the benefits obtained by the Chilean government will become larger and larger, and it is estimated that they will be able to pay off these loans soon.

After receiving the order from the Chilean government, the Imperial shipyard immediately formulated a construction plan to build these two battleships for Chile in the Guangzhou Shipyard. This is also the first export order for the Imperial Navy's "Tang-class" battleships.

There is no airtight wall in the world. The news that the Chilean Navy urgently ordered two Tang-class battleships from the Chinese Empire, which scared the Brazilians. They sold their money and ordered a navy from Germany. They originally thought that two Brandenburg-class battleships could defeat the Chilean Navy. But now, the Chileans have purchased two Tang-class battleships. In front of the Tang-class battleships, the Brandenburg-class battleships were just like paper.

Therefore, the Brazilian Emperor Pedro II immediately instructed diplomats stationed in Germany to order two "Caiser Frederick III" battleships from Germany so that the Brazilian navy could not be at a disadvantage.

The German Navy's "Caesar Frederick III" battleships can barely compete with the Chinese Navy's "Tang-class" battleships. The five dual-mounted 343 mm main guns even have one more main gun. However, the layout of the five turrets always has many limitations. On the "Vettelsbach-class" battleships, the Germans have planned to reduce one main turret.

Now, the German Navy's "Caesar Frederick III" battleship has not yet been put into service, but it has been launched. Since the Brazilians want to buy two more, the Germans will naturally not be unwilling to do so, as long as the Brazilians give money. The black-hearted Germans directly compared the price of the "Tang-class" battleships sold by the Chinese Empire, and offered the price of each "Caesar Frederick III" battleship of 100 million German marks, which was simply trying to cheat the Brazilians.

The Brazilians knew that the Germans were raising prices, but they had no choice. After all, the warships before were ordered from Germany and the navy was trained by Germany. Even if they wanted to buy warships from other countries, it would be impossible. Therefore, the Brazilians could only grit their teeth and endure the extortion from the Germans.

Similarly, after learning that the Brazilians once again purchased two "Caesar Frederick III-class" battleships, the Chileans were not willing to fall behind and proposed to buy more advanced battleships from the Chinese Empire. After all, once the Brazilians owned two "Caesar Frederick III-class" battleships and two "Brandenburg-class" battleships, the Chilean Navy would definitely not be able to defeat only two "Tang-class" battleships.

Therefore, the Chilean Navy proposed to purchase two more advanced battleships. The Tang-class battleships sold to the Chilean Navy were "early Tang-class" battleships. After the Chilean Navy once again made a request, the empire agreed to sell two "middle Tang-class" battleships to Chile. Although the firepower of the "middle Tang-class" battleships was the same as that of the "early Tang-class", they all had three triple-mounted 343 mm main guns, but the displacement of the "middle Tang-class" battleships increased by 2,000 tons. The excess displacement was almost used for defense, and the design of the lightning protection warehouse was optimized, which greatly improved the battleship's ability to resist torpedo attacks.

At this point, the Brazilians don’t know what to do. They can’t endlessly engage in arms races with the Chileans! The Chileans have exports of mineral resources such as copper ore and saltpeter, and their financial resources are much better than the Brazilian Empire. If the Brazilians continue to follow up, they will only be dragged down. Therefore, Brazil has to stop.

With the service of the German Navy's "Brandenburg-class" battleship, it put great pressure on the empire's European allies. Before the "Brandenburg-class" battleship was put into service, the Spanish Navy and the Belgian Navy were able to defeat the German Navy. However, when the "Brandenburg-class" battleship was put into service, this advantage quickly disappeared.

The Kingdom of Spain advanced to contact the Chinese Empire, hoping to get four "Tang-class" battleships from the Chinese Empire as soon as possible to improve the strength of the Spanish Navy. The Belgian Navy also proposed an order for two "Tang-class" battleships.

The Empire readily agreed to this. After all, the Kingdom of Spain and the Kingdom of Belgium were all ally of the Empire. Their naval strength was strong and did not harm the Empire at all. Instead, they could share the pressure on the Empire.

As a result, six Tang-class battleships built for the Kingdom of Spain and the Kingdom of Belgium were added on the ship platform of the Empire's shipyard.

Similarly, the Germans also received orders from the Ottoman Turkish Empire. The Ottoman Turkish Empire was not willing to fall behind and ordered four "Brandenburg-class" battleships and two "William Frederick III" battleships from Germany. (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, the novel is better, updated and faster!

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