C2472 Kiel canal (2/2)
Britain was like an iron lid that was firmly pressed down on the North Sea, causing Germany to be unable to breathe. And we must admit that for the time being we have not the strength to confront Britain at all.
We can only be patient in England to pursue the second, third and fourth place in the fifth place.
At this time, I found a very, very good way out. Why don't we transfer all the money that the Denmark people earned into our own pockets?
Couldn't it? Look here, come closer, dear Führer, and look at the name of this city on the map here.
Kiel City! If we were to draw a line here with pencil, we would have to draw, draw, draw … Up to here, hahaha!
Don't you know this city, this river? Oh right, this is the hamburger from the Elbe River!
The big gift package I gave you is this canal! The Kiel Canal!
With a hiss, Bismark sucked in a breath of cold air. It was as if a hole was stabbed into his brain, and many unimaginably large brain holes opened up!
”You, you, you, you … How did you do it? ”Oh my god, how dare you think of such a great project?”
A smart person would always be a smart person. A layer of window paper could break with just a little bit of it.
Germany is a country without a sea entrance, and its coastline is largely concentrated on the northern and western borders.
Furthermore, its coastline was cut in half by the Jutland Peninsula, which meant that it was cut in half by the Denmark.
For example, in the Germany's Kiel city, it was a port city located in the Baltic Sea, while the hamburger was directly facing the North Sea.
German merchant ships. German warships to and fro between the ports of their own country had to circle around the coastline of the Jutland Peninsula, carefully moving forward under the control of the Denmark Navy within the range of their shore defense artillery.
This was not only related to national security, but also severely affected the Germany's marine interests.
If he could really build such a canal from Kiel City all the way to hamburger. The distance between North and West Prussia would be reduced by at least 750 kilometers.
Don't bring up the issue of national security and the navigation of warships! Just the economic benefits alone, this canal would attract countless Northern European merchant ships to borrow its way here. The German clearly saw how much money the Suez Canal earned.
So, do Germany want to make money from the Baltic states?
Even in his dreams, he wondered, once this canal was built, who would be so foolish as to take a detour around those merchant ships of the Baltic Sea countries? Who wouldn't want to take a closer shortcut? This was a golden mountain! An inexhaustible mountain of gold!
Oh my god, my Xiao Letian, how on earth does your brain work? How can you think of such a genius?