Chapter 519: Eleven. Wind. 26 (13)

Building a strong navy and maintaining absolute superiority in terms of quality and quantity against competitors-a navy of powerful countries or groups with equal strengths, is a very money-burning thing.
What is the point of burning money? Take the "maritime sovereignty" as an example, its cost is as high as 115586 guineas, and the cost of gilding alone is as high as 10691 guineas. This is still a "preferential" construction cost that a large amount of slave labor and shipbuilding from the southern colonies did not pay 1 pence at all, and the labor cost was reduced to a minimum. Although the second-class battleship is not so exaggerated, the cost of a first-class battleship excluding artillery is still as high as 70,000 to 80,000 guineas. At the same time, Charlemagne's battleship was about the same price.
The construction cost of battleships is already staggering, but this is only the first step in burning money. After the battleship is built, the corresponding seamen and naval officers must be in control. After a long period of training, a group of rookies who can drive the ship out and get back can be trained.
The navy is an absolute technical arm, unlike the musketeer of Titans-just find a farmer, replace the pitchfork in the hand with a musket, kick it on the training ground for 18 weeks, and then you can line up with a learner. The cannon fodder. A qualified sailor needs at least 1 year of maritime experience. In the defense army, this number is 2 years.
More rare than qualified sailors are qualified naval officers. Prior to Prime Minister Richelieu's drastic reform of the navy, the selection of officers of the Charlemagne navy was basically irrational. Sailors of civilian origin, no matter how rich their experience. How outstanding is his ability. Without the personal promotion of those in power, he can only be a sailor for life. Conversely, if they are from aristocratic families, they can be senior commanders at a young age, and they can lead the fleet to sea without any experience. It is conceivable that the Marshal Navy and his subordinates whose heads were cut off by Archbishop Li are a group of wine bags.
In order to change this situation, establish a fair and effective officer training and selection mechanism, at the same time as its continuation of policies to weaken the power of nobles and chaebols. The Cardinal, the prime minister and master of navigation and trade, allocated funds from the national treasury to establish Charlemagne’s first naval officer training institution, the Master Navigation Guard (). Outstanding young people who specially accept civilian children and Richelieu. Let them learn the knowledge and skills required by naval officers. Develop the steel discipline required by the Navy.
Before the qualified officers were trained in batches, the Charlemagne had to face an extremely embarrassing situation-strong financial and technical capabilities built an unprecedented and powerful fleet for the Charlemagne, but the Navy did not have enough Military officers and sailors come to operate the ship... For this reason, additional budgets must be added, and civilian sailors and captains are hired to make up the number...
Similar problems also exist in major shipyards. V.e companies with private activities will not say. Those newly built Wangjia Shipyard are all in three shifts. Make every effort to complete the naval shipbuilding order. There is no room for mansions and manpower to build warships. Therefore, he had to allocate funds again to recruit craftsmen to expand the shipyard...
In addition, the salaries, benefits, subsidies of sailors and military officers... this is not a small sum.
The total of the above zero can be summarized as follows: expanding the scale of the navy-insufficient funds-additional budget-expanding the scale again-insufficient funds-additional budget...
This is a terrible vicious circle, a bottomless hole that is full of Charlieman's national gold coins. More terrible. If it is the time of war, such a high military expenditure can still grind his teeth to persevere, but Charlemagne did not intend to show a full showdown with Albion. Richelieu and the people who supported the expansion of the navy only coveted the interests of overseas, hoping to alleviate the domestic financial situation by plundering overseas colonies. Today, not only is it upside down, but it also caused Albian to be highly vigilant in response to the expansion of Charlemagne’s navy by building more and larger warships. And the subtle national feelings between Charlemagne and Albion, in turn, prompted them not to lose to Albion in an arms race...
If we continue to allow the arms race to develop, sooner or later, it will evolve into a full-scale civil war within the human camp, which is unwilling to be seen by the top leaders of the two countries. As a result, the Holy See has done his tricks, and the two great powers, who are troubled by financial constraints, immediately sneakily set about trying to decently end the arms race.
"Of course, once the agreement is reached, it is very unfavorable to us, but then they have to be able to talk to each other."
With a slightly mocking smile on his face, Brunn Hill pointed to the last document, and the title of the printed paper read "Guidelines for Kingdom Naval Construction" in Albian. Tyre and Freya, who are proficient in Albion, read it quickly, and within a quarter of an hour, they showed a mysterious smile that makes Thor difficult to understand.
"This is a popular booklet inside the Royal Navy of Albion. Remove the stuff that is full of hilltopism and nationalism. The core content is one sentence-Albion must maintain a strong navy, and its strength must be equal to the second. And the combined naval power of the third naval power. We call it the'two strong standards'."
Brunn Hill explained to Thor:
"According to Navy Secretary Hamilton’s calculations, the offensive fleet must maintain a defensive fleet of more than 50%, that is, a 3:2 strength advantage, to have a 50% chance of winning. When the Castilian Navy was hit hard, their indicators It becomes the sum of the strengths of Charlemagne and Ross Navy. Regarding this point, the relief decoration of the'Sovereignty of the Sea' has already made it very clear."
"The reliefs of those disgusting people... but Charlemagne will not accept this claim?"
"Yes, although Charlemagne also planned to abandon the arms race because of the huge military expenditures, it must have corresponding conditions. Judging from the winds of internal discussions in the navy, they will propose that the two navies should stop naval shipbuilding at the same time. To maintain the same tonnage of battleships, in the future Albion will build a new battleship, and Charlemagne will also build a battleship of the same tonnage'."
"Uh... what do you say?"
Thor was sleepy for a while, and sighed.
"The drop is a bit big."
One wants to maintain the status of the overlord at sea, and the other wants to sit on top of the overlord.
The big difference is like a deep abyss.
"In spite of this, they still have a chance to reach some kind of agreement~ EbookFREE.me~ Tyre corrects Thor's thinking towards an excessively optimistic extension, and said coldly.
"The pressure of the Holy See, the pressure of the finances, the pressure of the hostile camp-under the interaction of these three forces, it is not surprising that a certain arms limitation agreement has been reached."
"Therefore, this talk must be destroyed."
The door of the meeting room was opened, and three lieutenants and one major general stood up and saluted like a reflection. After raising the scepter wisely and returning the salute, the master of Alfheim said in his charming voice:
"You don't need to take action, just give this important task to the group of annoying little ghosts who like to yell at the "king of the king"." To be continued. .
ps: I just came back from my girlfriend's house and sang "Birds in Trees in Pairs" all the way and shook my head step by step. I'm sorry for the delay in updating.
ps: Just send the bananas. The regiment, philosophical regiment, and misunderstanding regiment are not allowed to be crooked.
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