Chapter 584 The Ironclad Battleship of the Royal Navy
Chapter 584: The Royal Navy’s Iron-Armored Warships
Claude ended his visit to the Pamigal National Republic on August 11 and returned to the Patres Military Port Shipbuilding Base in the Overseas Dominion. The effect of this visit was good, both for the Overseas Dominion Parliament and the Dominion Military Region.
Expressed great satisfaction with the results reached. Marshal Bolognik, the acting speaker of the Dominion Parliament, led a group of members to the Patres military port to welcome Claude back and expressed his appreciation for the economic cooperation agreement reached between the overseas autonomous territories and the Pamigal National Republic.
Very much appreciated...
Claude knew very well that most of the investment projects in the economic cooperation agreement reached between the overseas autonomous territories and the Pamigal National Republic were controlled by the family business firms and private joint-stock industries of these congressmen. They now have an interest in Pamigal.
Every gold crown invested by the National Republic will bring rich returns of dozens of gold crowns or more in the future, so they will happily come here to welcome themselves back.
Of course, Claude is not short of profits in this area, and no one can forget his share. On the contrary, General Boquear, who accompanied him on his trip, obtained the exclusive authorization for the aphrodisiac wine for the Buffalo Trading Company. In other words,
Only the Buffalo Trading Company, a joint venture between Claude and Boquear's father, has the right to sell the aphrodisiac wine brewed by the Pamigal people in overseas autonomous territories. It is believed that this medicinal wine with unique effects will bring Claude countless gold coins.
income......
Compared with the economic cooperation agreement, Claude valued the military cooperation agreement signed between the Dominion Military Region and the Pamigal National Republic. Its effect was very obvious, making all the colonial countries on the west coast have bad intentions towards the Pamigal National Republic.
At the same time, he also weighed whether his country had the strength to offend the Dominion Military Region behind the Pamigals. Claude's high-profile visit this time made it clear that the Dominion was the backing of the Pamigals, which in turn made those colonists
The country has an extra layer of scruples and does not dare to easily provoke a war.
The lease agreement of Port Flimz further deepened the impression of the colonial countries on the west coast that the overseas autonomous territories had formed a de facto military alliance with the Pamigal Nation. Under such circumstances, invading or attacking the Pamigal Nation
The Republic is tantamount to challenging the dignity of the overseas autonomous territories, and the autonomous military regions will easily have excuses to join this war.
In the eyes of the colonial countries on the West Coast, the only valuable colony among the three rioting indigenous peoples is the Pamigal National Republic, which has established an independent country. The territory occupied by the Rusman Chiefs Alliance is desert and wasteland. Although the area is large,
But it has no development value. Not to mention that the Rusman nomadic tribes in this colony are currently killing each other. Just the geographical location between the overseas autonomous territories and the Pamigal Republic makes those colonies
The country gave up its plan to capture this colony.
The other is the Vasilik Principality colony. The situation in this colony is more complicated. This is a hilly and mountainous area. Two indigenous peoples, the Skolos and the Gisdes, are killing each other in the wild. Rather than saying that they are rioting, they are not so much fighting each other.
It is said that they are launching a war of genocide against each other. The Principality of Vasiliko has exhausted its energy in the two expeditions and has now decided to abandon this colony and is quietly evacuating the immigrants from their principality...
The colonial garrison of the Opsaro City-State Alliance, which was originally requested for help by the colonial authorities of the Vasilik Principality, only occupied a few seaports and towns along the coast after entering the colony. They did not dare to march inland or withdraw their troops. That's it.
were stationed there. It seemed that they wanted to annex this colony but did not have the courage, for fear that they would be involved in the war between the two indigenous peoples...
Therefore, the most abundant and delicious of the three colonies is the territory of the Pamigal people. Although they have established an independent country, no west coast colonial country has recognized it. However, now the overseas autonomous territories and the Pamigal National Republic stand together, allowing all
The colonial countries on the west coast that are interested in the Pamigal people have to think carefully in their hearts whether it is worth irritating the elephant behind to catch a rabbit...
If the Pamigal National Republic is not interested, then the only remaining colony of the Kingdom of Resnia, which currently has little ability to protect itself, becomes the best target. The colony of the Kingdom of Carmenline and the colony of the Principality of Leriolo
Once again, they turned their attention to this land sandwiched between their two colonies, but they also faced the risk of naval blockade and declaration of war by the United Kingdom of Fox Islands, and they did not dare to make a decision easily.
Claude, who returned to Lanhu City, was busy again. In the last few days of his visit to the Pamigal National Republic, Claude went to visit the volunteer corps stationed there in the Dominion Military Region. Although General Beach Kerin used the Rock Corps'
Two divisions and retired members of the local garrison formed this volunteer corps, which was called a volunteer corps of civilian veterans from overseas autonomous territories to assist the Pamigal people. However, after visiting this volunteer corps, Claude discovered that the situation was not optimistic...
The situation of the two divisions of the Rock Corps was relatively good due to the rotation policy implemented by General Beach Kerin, but most of the veterans of those local garrison armed forces decided to stay in the Pamigal National Republic after leaving the Volunteer Corps.
Instead of deciding to go back to live in the overseas autonomous territories. The reason is very simple. If you stay here, you can marry two Pamigal women as wives. After the end of the war with the expeditionary forces of the three colonial countries, the half-year recuperation period made these volunteer corps more capable.
The retired soldiers all found their sweethearts near the station...
The Pamigal National Republic is happy to see such a situation. Even some retired soldiers who have made meritorious service on the battlefield have received a promise from the Pamigal military. After they leave the volunteer corps, they can have a position in the newly formed standing corps of the Republic.
As a mid-level officer, he can continue his military career. Claude has no choice but to deal with this situation. Everyone has their own ambitions. Now that these retired soldiers have decided to stay here, there is nothing he can do to stop them.
Only in this way, Claude discovered that in addition to the two rotating divisions of the Rock Legion, most of the retired soldiers who made up the other two divisions of the Volunteer Corps would stay in the Pamigal Nation, except for a small number who decided to return home.
Life in the Republic. At least it is convenient to find a wife here, and you can marry two wives. This is a welfare benefit that the autonomous military region cannot match...
In short, this volunteer corps has been abolished. After the two Rock Corps divisions returned to the overseas autonomous territories, the volunteer corps can no longer retain this organization. This means that the autonomous territory military region has trained a large number of actual combat talents for the Pamigal National Republic.
Experienced military talents. This made Claude start to worry that when the Thunder Legion came to garrison, the Pamigal people would use the same method to seduce a large number of soldiers...
At the end of September, the Dominion Navy's ocean-going transport fleet once again transported more than 400,000 Hicks military immigrants. This was the fourth transportation mission completed in the 606th year of the Holy Light Calendar. However, the people gathered in Breo
There are still more than one million military dependents leased by the Kingdom to Patkara Port in the Dominion Military Region, as well as the Thunder Corps and eight Hicks Returning Divisions that need to be transported. It is expected that it will take at least four more times to complete the immigrant transportation task.
This time, the total number of military immigrants from the Kingdom of Hicks is nearly 3.8 million. After the overseas autonomous territories digest this batch of Hicks military immigrants, the total population will reach about 11 million, which can be compared to the population.
Passing line. This will allow one-third of the territory of the overseas autonomous territories to be developed and utilized, instead of leaving the towns where immigrants gather and looking around at a deserted and desolate scenery.
General Muriel took advantage of the fact that all ocean-going transport ships were undergoing a brief inspection and renovation, so he went to the Dominion Military District headquarters in Lanhu City and pestered Claude to ask the military district to allocate funds to build fourth-generation iron-clad warships and let the second
All the armored warships of the era were decommissioned. Claude looked at the shipbuilding report submitted by the Navy, and when he first saw the final amount of funding required for shipbuilding, he rejected General Murray's shipbuilding application without hesitation.
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Just kidding, where did the Dominion Military Region get a sum of 20 million gold crowns for the navy to use to build the fourth generation of ironclad battleships? And the higher the technical content of the current ironclad battleships, the more expensive they are. Claude remembers the first generation
The cost of building an armored battleship is no more than 50,000 gold crowns. The cost of a second-generation armored battleship is close to 100,000 gold crowns. The cost of a third-generation armored battleship has exceeded 150,000 gold crowns. The cost of an armored cruiser is more than 150,000 gold crowns.
The quote is 220,000 gold crowns. Only the armored transport ship is the cheapest, and one is nearly 100,000 gold crowns.
As for the fourth-generation experimental iron-clad battleship that Master Bird has now completed, the cost is close to 350,000 gold crowns. Although large-scale construction will even out some costs, it is not that exaggeratedly less than ten dollars.
Ten thousand, it would be great to be able to reduce the construction cost by 30,000 to 40,000 gold crowns. The Navy's funding application for the construction of a fourth-generation ironclad warship submitted by General Murray this time was as high as 20 million gold crowns.
They are preparing to eliminate the third generation of armored battleships...
Today, when the first and second generation iron-clad warships are all invincible, Claude would be really out of his mind if he approved this navy's shipbuilding application. After scolding General Murield, General Murield said:
After taking out a piece of evidence, Claude looked at it and was shocked. He hurriedly summoned the head of the Military Intelligence Department, General Fodeles. As a result, General Fodeles told Claude that the Military Intelligence Department did not know about this situation.
Because the military region has not deployed intelligence investigation against the Wang family navy...
The evidence that General Murray produced was information about the Royal Navy of the King of Overas. Before the Hicks Kingdom attack plan was carried out in the Dominion Military District, Claude went to the Kingdom's mainland White Deer City and handed over sixteen pieces of information to the Royal Navy.
An armored warship completed the arms transaction between the Dominion Military Region and the Kingdom. After that, the Dominion Military Region stopped paying attention to the sixteen armored warships of the Wang Navy. They were all outdated and refurbished goods. They could deal with sailing wooden warships, but with the Dominion Military Region
The navy's armored battleships are not of the same level.
Only General Murray, as the admiral of the Dominion Navy, has been paying attention to the intelligence of the Royal Navy. Of course, this is related to the fact that General Murray regards the Royal Navy as an imaginary enemy. After all, the Royal Navy is equipped with sixteen armored ships.
Battleships, even if they are all discarded products of the first generation, are still more difficult to deal with than the sail fleets of other navies.
It’s just that no one expected that the Wang Navy would perform such a showy operation on these sixteen armored battleships. From the beginning, three of the sixteen armored battleships were taken to the dock and disemboweled as research samples and redrawn.
Various tests were carried out based on the drawings. Among the three armored battleships, there was one destroyer, one cruiser and one transport ship, so the Royal Navy could afford to invest.
After a year-long research, the kingdom began to imitate these marine engines. However, starting from scratch brought great difficulties to the kingdom's technical experts. They imitated iron-clad battleships without anyone's guidance and only samples.
The work was proceeding with great difficulty.
According to a report from a technical expert who was bribed by the Dominion Navy, the Stirling royal family specially approved a special fund of five million gold crowns to imitate the ironclad warship. However, the funds are about to be used up, and there is still no big progress in the imitation task.
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In order to fool the imperial ministers sent by His Majesty the King to inspect, the Royal Navy built a huge iron-clad warship, then dismantled two armored destroyers, and moved the ship's power from the two armored destroyers to the air-rail
Hull ships were used to drive iron-hulled ships. Their countermeasure plan was successful. The imperial envoy who came down for inspection did not understand at all. Seeing that the huge iron-hulled warship built by the kingdom could be driven on the sea, he thought that the imitation work was successful and he was very happy.
Reported to superiors that the imitation work is progressing smoothly...
So His Majesty the King once again allocated a huge sum of five million gold crowns, preparing to build an armored fleet that was not inferior to the overseas autonomous territories. However, the Royal Navy was in trouble. No one expected that His Majesty the King was so eager, and there was no other way.
If you can continue to mess around and build huge iron-hulled warships, you will order a batch of marine power from the overseas dominions. Since the kingdom's mainland has an obsolete generation of marine power, the mechanical power workshop of the dominion will also take over this batch.
Order.
As a result, the Royal Navy's five million gold crown shipbuilding funds were quickly spent. In order to deal with the royal family's inquiries, the Royal Navy decided to build the remaining eleven iron-clad warships, which were sunk by running aground on rocks, training accidents, and being hit by storms.
For various reasons, five armored warships were scrapped and sunk, and then secretly sold these five armored warships to other coastal countries at high prices to collect millions of gold crowns for continued research and development.
The news that General Muriel received was that the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands purchased two armored warships in a package at a high price of more than 400,000 gold crowns. In addition, three coastal countries also purchased the remaining three armored warships.
However, they all used agents, so the technical personnel of the Royal Navy who were bribed by the Dominion Navy did not find out the names of the three coastal countries...
This all happened in the second half of last year. General Murray Ed believes that other coastal countries have invested more money in the development of iron-clad warships and their technical personnel are more professional, unlike the Kingdom's own Royal Navy, which is struggling
.He believes that in the second half of this year or next year, the four coastal countries that have obtained ironclad battleships will make great progress, and there is a high possibility that they will develop their own ironclad battleships, thus posing a threat to the armored fleet of the Dominion Navy.
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Therefore, on behalf of the Navy, General Murray hopes to eliminate all second-generation iron-clad battleships and replace them with fourth-generation iron-clad battleships. Only in this way can we form a generational difference advantage over future enemy iron-clad fleets and still be able to crush them at sea.
them......
General Foderes, director of the Military Intelligence Department, expressed his doubts about the intelligence submitted by General Murield. He personally believed that it was impossible for the Royal Navy to carry out such an operation. But Claude told him that the intelligence submitted by General Murield
The intelligence is very likely to be true, because last year Speaker Bennett of the Dominion Parliament received several protests from the Prime Minister of the Kingdom, Marquis Blancart, saying that the ironclad warship transaction between the Dominion Military District and the Royal Navy was a shoddy scam.
, several armored warships suffered training accidents and suffered shipwrecks and were sunk or scrapped...
Speaker Bennett did not take these protests seriously. These situations can only be blamed on the Wang Navy's own improper operations and bad luck. Later, he told Claude these things as a joke, and no one ignored Prime Minister Blancart's protests.
In my mind. Anyway, the deal has been completed. If anything happens to the Wang family's navy, they can only blame themselves for their misfortune.
But now, looking at it all together, the Royal Navy is very suspicious, and it is indeed possible for them to do this. General Fodeles doubted that the Royal Navy had such courage to deceive superiors and subordinates, and Claude could only tell him with a wry smile.
, in accordance with the nature of the Royal Navy, he believed that it would be great if half of the tens of millions of gold crowns allocated twice by His Majesty the King could be used to imitate iron-clad battleships.
Most of the appropriations have been misappropriated or embezzled. This has always been the bureaucratic custom of the Royal Navy. Now the Royal Navy has no way to make extra money. They can only focus on these appropriations. Anyway, if there is a financial shortage, it will be bad luck.
Taking the blame, no one is willing to regurgitate the benefits gained. Therefore, the senior leaders of the Wang Navy were forced to have no choice but to come up with the idea of armored battleships. This was an inevitable result.
Claude assigned General Foderes a new task, to find out all the secrets that happened in the Royal Navy in the shortest possible time. As for General Muriel, he was severely reprimanded by Claude.
, can’t the Dominion Navy defeat the new enemy without relying on the advantage of generation difference? It is obvious that the enemy only got the first-generation iron-clad battleships. There is nothing to worry about. The second-generation iron-clad battleships can completely deal with the first-generation iron-clad battleships.
Do you know...
In the end, the Navy's shipbuilding application report was thrown into the trash can by Claude. Claude said seriously to General Murield that there will be no large-scale shipbuilding plan in the Dominion Military District in the next few years. Patrese Military Port
The four major shipbuilding workshops in the shipbuilding base only have one military dock left, and they can only build four supplementary warships for the Dominion Navy a year. If they are fourth-generation iron-clad warships, they are likely to be too expensive for the Dominion Military Region to afford.
Since then, only third-generation iron-clad battleships can be built.