Building a powerful navy and maintaining an absolute advantage in both quality and quantity over its competitors - the navies of an evenly matched power or group - is a very expensive matter.
How much money has been burned? Take the "Sea Sovereignty" as an example. Its construction cost was as high as 115,586 guineas, and the cost of gold plating alone was as high as 10,691 guineas. This is still a large amount of slave labor captured from the southern colonies to build ships and build cannons.
, not paying 1p at all
The salary is a "discounted" cost obtained by compressing labor costs to the minimum. Although the second-class battleships are not so exaggerated, the cost of a first-class battleship excluding artillery is still as high as 70,000 to 80,000 guineas. During the same period
Charlemagne's battleships were also priced at about the same price.
The cost of building a warship is already staggering, but this is just the first step in burning money. After a warship is built, it must be equipped with corresponding sailors and naval officers to control it. Only after long-term training can a group of people who can control the ship be trained.
A rookie who drove out and came back without a hitch.
The navy is an absolutely technical branch, unlike the Titans' musketeers - just find a farmer, replace the pitchfork in his hand with a musket, kick him to the training ground and practice for 18 weeks, and you can learn to queue up.
Cannon fodder to be shot. A qualified sailor needs at least one year of sea experience. In the Defense Force, this number is two years.
Even more rare than qualified sailors are qualified naval officers. Before Prime Minister Richelieu's drastic reform of the navy, the selection of naval officers by Charlemagne was basically irrational. Sailors of civilian origin, no matter how experienced or outstanding their abilities, if
Without personal promotion from those in power,
He can only be a sailor for the rest of his life. On the contrary, if he comes from a noble family, he can hold the position of a senior commander at a young age and lead the fleet to sea operations without any experience. It is conceivable that the navy whose head was chopped off by Archbishop Li
What kind of losers are the marshal and his subordinates?
In order to change this situation, a fair and effective officer training and selection mechanism was established, and at the same time as a continuation of his policy of weakening the power of the nobility and plutocrats. The cardinal, the prime minister and master of navigation and trade, appropriated funds from the treasury to establish Charlemagne.
A naval officer training institution - the Navigation Master Guards Organization (). It specializes in accepting civilian children and outstanding young people selected by Richelieu. Let them learn the knowledge and skills required by naval officers and cultivate the steel discipline required by the navy.
Before qualified officers could be trained in batches, Charlemagne's navy had to face an extremely embarrassing situation - strong financial and technical capabilities had created an unprecedentedly powerful fleet for Charlemagne's navy, but the navy actually did not have enough
Officers and sailors come to operate the ship... For this reason, we must increase the budget and hire private sailors and captains to make up the numbers...
Similar problems still exist in major shipyards. Not to mention the v.e company that is involved in private work. The newly built Wang shipyards are all working in three shifts. They are doing their best to complete the navy's shipbuilding orders. There is no room for shipyards and
Manpower was used for the construction of warships. Therefore, funds had to be allocated again to recruit craftsmen to expand the shipyard...
In addition, there are the salaries, benefits, and subsidies of sailors and officers... This is also not a small amount of money.
The above zero-to-zero summaries can be summarized as follows: expand the size of the navy - insufficient funds - additional budget - expand the scale again - insufficient funds - additional budget...
This is an extremely terrible vicious cycle, a bottomless pit that even the gold coins of Charlemagne’s country can’t fill. What’s even more terrible is that if this is a war period, such a high military expenditure can be gritted and persisted, but Charlemagne has no intention of fighting with
A full showdown in Albion. Richelieu and those who supported an expanded navy simply coveted overseas interests and hoped to pass
Looting overseas colonies to ease the domestic financial situation. Now not only is it putting the cart before the horse, it has also caused Albion to be highly vigilant and build more and larger warships in response to the expansion of Charlemagne's navy. And the relationship between Charlemagne and Albion
Subtle national feelings, in turn, make them unwilling to lose to Albion in an arms race...
If the arms race continues to develop, sooner or later it will evolve into a full-scale civil war within the human camp. This is something that the top leaders of both countries are unwilling to see. Therefore, the Holy See used some tricks and the two big countries, which were suffering from financial constraints, immediately secretly
Set out to try and end the arms race with dignity.
"Of course, once an agreement is reached, it will be very disadvantageous for us, but that will only happen if they can negotiate successfully."
Showing a slightly mocking smile, Brunhil pointed to the last document. The title of the printed paper read "Guidelines for the Construction of the Kingdom's Navy" in Albion. Tyr and Freya, who are proficient in Albion,
They started reading quickly, and within a quarter of an hour, they both showed mysterious smiles that were difficult for Thor to understand.
"This is a popular pamphlet within the Royal Navy of Albion. Without those things full of mountainousism and nationalism, the core content is just one sentence - Albion must maintain a strong navy, and its strength must be equivalent to that of the second largest navy.
and the total sea power of the third naval power. We call it the 'two-power standard'."
Brynhildr explained to Thor:
"According to the calculations of Lord Admiral Hamilton, the offensive fleet must maintain more than 50% of the defensive fleet, which is a 3:2 strength advantage, to have a 50% chance of winning. At the moment when the Castilian navy suffered heavy losses, their indicators
It becomes the combined strength of the navies of Charlemagne and Ross. Regarding this, the relief decoration of the 'Sea Sovereignty' has made it very clear."
"Those disgusting reliefs... But Charlemagne won't accept this idea?"
"Yes, although Charlemagne also intends to give up the arms race due to huge military expenditures, there must be corresponding conditions. Judging from the internal discussions within the navy, they will propose that the two navies stop naval shipbuilding at the same time.
, to maintain the same tonnage of warships, Albion will build a new warship in the future, and Charlemagne will also build a warship of the same tonnage."
"Uh...how should I say it?"
Thor felt sleepy for a while, then let out a long sigh.
"The gap is a bit big."
One hopes to maintain its status as the overlord of the sea, while the other wants to be on an equal footing with the overlord.
——The gap is as big as an abyss.
"Nonetheless, there is a chance they can reach some kind of agreement."
Tyr corrected Thor's overly optimistic thinking and spoke coldly.
"The pressure from the Holy See, the pressure from finances, and the pressure from hostile camps - it is not surprising that these three forces interacted to reach some kind of arms limitation agreement."
"Therefore, this meeting must be destroyed."
The door to the conference room was opened, and three lieutenant generals and a major general stood up and saluted reflexively. After raising their scepters gracefully in return, the Lord of Alfheim said in his charming voice:
"There is no need for us to take action. Let's hand over this important task to those annoying brats who like to shout 'respect the king and ask for rape'." (To be continued...)
ps: I just came back from my girlfriend’s house. I was singing “The birds on the trees come in pairs” all the way. I shook my head three times step by step. I’m sorry for the delay in updating. I’ll make up for the double update tomorrow.
ps: I’m just sending bananas. The fff group, the philosophy group, and the misunderstanding group are all not allowed to think wrong.