Chapter 571: Twelve. Conference, dance (1)

Rudes is dancing.
This is a harsh word that has recently become popular in the diplomatic world, and it means a series of dances at the Palace of Luders Tuileries and Palace of Versailles. Diplomats who were supposed to fight each other at the negotiating table, throw cups, smash stools, and perform full martial arts linger on the dance floor all day. The naval disarmament conference has completely turned into a dance party with no end in sight, so this kind of derogation is widely spread.
This situation will be caused by a series of problems between Charlemagne and Albion about the upper limit and ratio of the total tonnage of naval ships, the ratio of tonnage of battleships, and the performance of battleships. Charlemagne hopes to sit on an equal footing with Albion. Albion hopes to curb the Charlemagne Navy through a treaty. The participating Lapland and Castile belong to the role of passers-by in soy sauce. The only foreigner who can withstand the scene is Ymir. Cardinal Pod did not understand the navy and lacked a viable plan acceptable to both countries, as well as a strategy to deal with. He could not hold his face, and could not tear his face, so diplomats and navy generals spent time with successive and banquets.
This is true of upper-class societies, and the performance of the grassroots is generally similar.
To suppress the rebellion, the corpses at the intersections were no stranger to the Luders who were talented and enthusiastic about riots. Many people hid behind the windows with coffee and admired the riots, then what should they do. Compared to the monotonous and boring shooting, the "John Knight's Wedding" staged that day was more discussed. After the first day's big success, the famous troupe accepted the new version of the script, and the cast is also first-class, but I have never seen it again. Witches, surrounded by golden butterflies, appeared on the stage. How much disappointed the audience.
The world is peaceful, everything is still the same-
How could there be such a cheap thing, after crushing a few unmanageable praying mantises, the situation continued to advance along the pre-laid track, and the result would not show up until a few more years. At present, most people are more concerned about the clear present than the uncertain future.
Especially the guy who succeeded in staying out of the storm of army turmoil.
"In addition to the battleship, the biggest problem is the cruiser."
The naval captain Anna Illarion de Cotang Count Tourville raised his eyebrows and said unpleasantly.
In the negotiations, the main battleship can still bargain. But one involves cruisers. The Albion guy immediately grinned his teeth, and put on a face of "you dare to try me".
The proud Charlemagne is hard to understand why the Albion bulls are so excited on a "second-class warship". Charlie Man, a land-powered country, did not understand. For an absolute dictatorial country like Albion. The cruiser was in non-war period. But it is beyond the existence of the main battleship. It is responsible for tasks such as ocean patrol, colonial liaison, declaration of control, and emergency crisis management. It directly represents a country's control of the ocean. It is not an exaggeration to say that the huge group of cruisers propped Albion's sea power foundation with one hand.
Charlemagne’s ideal goal is to achieve the same fleet size as Albion. The two countries determine a "commonly recognized maximum limit", within this tonnage, the two countries can freely equip the navy.
This requirement is clearly unacceptable to Albion and Castile, and Charlemagne is also conscious of this. Therefore, on the basis of adhering to this requirement, the second and third sets of plans are also prepared.
The so-called second set of plans is to retreat when the first plan is not possible. By making some concessions on the tonnage of the battleship, it was agreed that the battleship was smaller than Albion. In exchange, Albion should make "compensation" on the tonnage of auxiliary ships such as cruisers and frigates, that is, the tonnage ratio of the main ships of the two countries is 10:6, and the tonnage ratio of auxiliary ships is 7:10. On this basis, the two sides reached a package agreement on the division of overseas forces, the cessation of expansion of overseas military bases, and the colonial "open door".
The plan made concessions to Albion on the surface, highlighting Charlemagne's sincerity in swearing for peace, and actually concealing misfortune. At first glance, Charlemagne’s naval combat force is under the control of Albion. In fact, Charlemagne’s control of the sea passage in peacetime is actually stronger. In wartime, this large cruiser can become a "cruise war". The important force can either be a single-ship safari, assaulting a merchant ship enlisted by the enemy country, or it can form an attack cluster, attack the merchant ship group, and conquer the enemy's colonial islands with insufficient strength. Armed everywhere, the invincible Albion Navy can only passively respond to the enemy, so that Albion, who has been struggling for a year or two, will collapse without a fight.
For this pit father proposal, Albion was naturally unable to survive. The Duke of Marlborough made it clear that the Albion Navy needs to maintain at least 80 cruisers. Charlieman’s cruisers should be kept at about 33 to 40. The Duke gave The reason is that "Charlemagne does not have so many colonies and overseas interests that need to be protected, and 20 cruisers are enough. If you insist on building more cruisers than Albion, we can only think that Charlemagne is preparing The war in Beyond did not have the sincerity to maintain peace through negotiations. If the peace talks fail because of this, Charlemagne will bear full responsibility for this."
This is an accusation and a threat. Castile didn't play soy sauce this time, jumped out clearly and agreed with Albion's formulation. Obviously they had similar concerns. Lapland, which has no colonies and is not a naval power, continues to play soy sauce~EbookFREE.me~ At the negotiating table, it became a 2:1 form.
Although both parties could not talk about the sincerity of peace talks, secretly planning to pit opponents and pit negotiations, but out of cleverness, no one voluntarily jumped out and said, "I don't talk anymore, let's go for it." Take the initiative to play the "bad guy" that pits the negotiations, and attack the transferee with the moral commanding heights. With a series of interactions of various factors, peace talks have become endless waltzes.
The delegates were busy on the dance floor and boxes in the large and small palace of Rudes, and the shipyard workers were not idle, but were busier than before the war. Because if the peace talks fail, a war will occur between the two sides, and the demand for the number of warships is self-evident; in the event of a successful peace talk, you can also use the fait accompli that "warships have been built and in service" to take advantage of them.
In the melodious waltz of the dance floor and the clamor of the shipyard clang, no one knew that Charlieman was slowly advancing the third plan under the table. Compared with the first two aggressive plans, the third plan was much softer. Even the compensation for the tonnage of the cruiser has been given up, which seems to be a proposal that Charlemagne fully subdued. But only by carefully studying the details, people will find out what kind of abacus is in this company-like and elaborate plan. (To be continued...)
ps: sorry, busy working during the day, forgot to change, there are double changes at night. Stay tuned.