.
The second crusade against the Holy Roman Empire failed to eliminate the country. How did the Ming Emperor react?
Zhu Cixiang said that it is too hot in summer and just looking at the hot bodies of the concubines makes his mouth dry.
As for the Holy Roman Empire…
As long as there is no news from the front that the Ming Dynasty King's division was defeated, it can be ignored!
There are two ways to gain victory, one is to gain it all at once and the other is to accumulate it in batches.
Now Zhu Cixiang wants to get the installment payment method. As long as he spends enough silver coins, he can finally exchange them for victory!
This can be imagined from a macro-abstract perspective. From a micro-concrete perspective, comparisons can also be made to draw conclusions.
After the "Second Imperial War", the strength of the seven electoral states originally governed by the Holy Roman Empire has undergone fundamental changes.
Before the war, the strength ranking of the seven electoral states was Bavaria>Hannover>Prussia>Palatinate>Saxony>Württemberg>Mecklenburg.
After the war, as Saxony was completely destroyed, Bavaria and Württemberg were looted by the Braid Army, and the ranking became Prussia > Hannover > Palatinate > Bavaria > Württemberg > Mecklenburg > Saxony.
The strength of the Principality of Hesse is roughly between that of the Palatinate and Bavaria, but the title of Duke of Hesse does not qualify him to be elected emperor, and Karl I himself has no interest in becoming king...
The reason why Prussia's strength increased was that it did not intervene in the war, and it also received two sums of money and a large amount of weapons and equipment from the Ming Emperor.
After the "Second Imperial War", Zhu Cihong gave Frederick Jr. 10 million silver coins free of charge to compensate for the losses caused by the suspension of copper mine production.
As long as the same mine cannot resume production, little Frederick can get 10 million silver coins every year. He can spend the money however he wants, which is the same treatment as the Swedish King Carl XI.
A lot?
No!
For the Ming Empire, which currently has an annual revenue of 2.5 billion silver coins, it is just a drop in the bucket!
In the "Chanyuan Alliance", the Song army was a little unable to withstand the situation on the front line. Taking advantage of the opportunity to shoot the Liao general Xiao Talin to death, they shook hands with the opponent and made peace half-discussed and half-fawning, paying tribute with 300,000 years old coins.
Now that the Ming Dynasty's offensive is in full swing, it has to pay Sweden and Prussia 10 million silver coins each year. This makes many people feel puzzled and even think that the emperor is too old and faint.
Regarding those things, Zhu Cixi just said one thing - you know shit about strategy!
Among the seven electorate states, Prussia was bought by the Ming Dynasty, Saxony was defeated by the king's army. Although Hanover and Mecklenburg were inclined to Leopold and his son, they were worried that their losses would be too great and they did not dare to intervene in the war easily.
The situation in Bavaria and Württemberg is similar to that of Saxony, except that the latter is about to become a scorched earth. The braided army is at least more harmful to the southern part of Germany than the swarms of Ming bombers.
The Palatinate tended to be neutral, which was based on the promise of Louis XIV. Without the protection of France, the future was uncertain.
In addition, there are a bunch of small lords who are not very powerful. Their stance is the same as that of Duke Karl I of Hesse. The war has nothing to do with me. I will fight whoever dares to fight me!
Frederick the Younger and Karl XI received the benefits, so of course they chose to sit on the sidelines. The media of the two countries would only report on the process of the war and would not easily state their positions.
It is okay to sympathize and sympathize with the suffering of people in war zones, but the consequences of openly rebelling against Ming Dynasty will be the same as Denmark, which has planted the Shen flag!
Due to its shape and structure, the Ming Dynasty's Shen-zi flag was also called the "framed cross flag" in Europe, and was called a symbol of evil by many anti-Ming people!
They believe that the "cross" symbolizes justice.
The frame is imprisoned. This is the evil intention of the Eastern Devil.
In anti-Ming European areas, you can see locals buying Ming flags and then cutting off the frames.
After Emperor Haojing learned about this, instead of being angry, he called him the "first generation cutout contestant"!
It doesn't make much sense to deal with these "cutout players" before the final victory is achieved.
The Ming Empire's indifference directly led to the intensification of plot-cutting operations in Europe.
Some anti-Ming people held Ming flags with the boxes cut off and hung outside the Ming embassy or consulate in protest.
This kind of behavior can be seen outside the embassies of France, the Netherlands, Switzerland and other countries.
What does this mean?
It shows that some countries used these people and things to express their dissatisfaction with the Ming Empire!
Why can’t I see it in Venice?
Because once this country loses the support of the Ming Empire, it may not survive for three months!
Perhaps after receiving the protection of France, it can continue to survive, but it will definitely be beaten to a scorched earth by the Ottoman army!
Through the "Tripartite Reinsurance Treaty between China, France and Austria", Venice has been able to survive safely to this day.
Although the Ming Dynasty's territory does not border Venice, most of its territory is not west of the Ural Mountains.
But with its strong national power and influence, Venice's interests can still be protected.
Some countries don’t know how far the sky is from the sky, so just wait and see...
In the "Second Imperial War", the Ming Dynasty's army lost less than a thousand people, and the Japanese army lost less than ten thousand people. The loss of technical weapons was negligible. Anyway, they could be replenished in large quantities without any shortage of money.
Zhang Huangyan and Jiexuan teamed up to deliver more than five million prisoners, which made both the government and the public happy, especially since Jiexuan also led the coalition to capture the entire territory of Denmark.
The total cost of bonuses, pensions, and supplementary technical equipment for the coalition reached 300 million silver coins, but after acquiring a large number of slave miners, the imperial court was able to afford it.
As a result, the proposal to form a North Sea Fleet and dispatch capital ships to the former Denmark, now Jutland, was naturally passed smoothly, and the corresponding warships would arrive at their destination within four months.
The sixteenth batch (1729-1737) shipbuilding plan started two years earlier than the original plan, and the Australian shipyard undertook the construction task of four ninth-level battleships (Bismarck).
At the same time, two ships of the same type have also started construction at the local Tianjin Shipyard, just in case. Although the construction cost in Australia is about 30% lower than that in the mainland due to its proximity to the iron ore producing areas.
Also to be started later are six eighth-level battleships, six seventh-level battleships, 12 aircraft carriers, 12 amphibious assault ships, ten 30,000-ton supply ships, and a series of combat ships and auxiliary ships.
The highlight is the six ninth-level battleships. The planned construction period is eight years. They have been built for six years now and will be ready for service in two years.
The shipyard expects it to be completed in just over seven years, which is more than half a year ahead of schedule while ensuring quality.
Different from the process of early ships in later generations, the current construction of the hull, superstructure, installation of internal wiring, and installation of shipboard weapons are all carried out in the dock to avoid weather interference.
As long as the warship is launched, it can be directly seaworthy. No major problems are found. Sea trials can be carried out three months later, and it can be put into active service after half a year.
In other words, in two years at most, Zhu Cixiang can deploy this super battleship to Europe to show off in Versailles!
This type of battleship is equipped with four 390mm main guns. Since it has more propellant, it is much more powerful than the 303mm main guns on the original eighth- and seventh-level battleships, and has a range of more than five kilometers.
The Academy of Military Science also plans to install main guns with a caliber of more than 400 mm on the tenth-level battleships. If conditions permit, the ninth-level battleships will also be equipped with such main guns.
Tier 8 and tier 7 battleships already in service will be gradually replaced with 390mm
As for the main gun, the two types of battleships being built are directly equipped with this new main gun.
Considering that the new turret is much heavier than the original one, and the displacement of the two types is tens of thousands of tons smaller than that of the ninth-level battleship, it is possible to adopt a firepower upgrade plan of only replacing the armored and D-type turrets.
This new main gun is incomparable in range and accuracy with the 380mm main gun of the later "Bismarck", but it is similar in performance to the main gun of the "Veneto" class battleship.
Zhu Cixiang, who had seen the test firing of this type of artillery, called it a "giant maritime shotgun"!
Fortunately, the caliber is large enough, so it has enough deterrence!
In the future, naval battles will be dominated by aircraft carrier-based aircraft, but the battleship's main gun is surprisingly useful in providing fire cover for the Marines.
As long as it is within its range, even if it is a permanent fortification that cannot be solved with one shot, a few more shots can be done!
How much does it cost to build six Tier IX battleships at once?
Not much at all!
First of all, the construction period is long, with one batch taking seven to eight years.
Secondly, Zheng Zhilong has ordered one, which means that the Ming Navy can only have five at most in the near future.
Finally, Ibrahim and Poirot, two owners who were not short of money, had ordered one ship each by installment payment.
Assume that only two batches of Tier IX battleships are built, for a total of twelve ships.
Then the Ming Navy can only get a configuration of three plus six, or five plus four, for a total of nine ships.
In the six locations including the North Sea, the Mediterranean, the United States, Australia, the Indian Ocean, and the mainland, the average is less than two ships each.
Because the cost of building nine-level battleships is too high, the imperial court has temporarily approved the construction of six ships in the second batch, and the remaining ones are yet to be determined.
If the Navy wants to acquire more ninth-level battleships, it will have to wait until Commander-in-Chief Jiexuan returns to Beidu to see if it can cut off a bunch of eighth-level and seventh-level battleships that it had previously planned to build.
It is not that these two types of battleships cannot continue to be built, but they can only be exported. In order to equip more ninth-level battleships, the Ming Navy can only operate on the capital ship models...
At least there is no big problem in cutting off the newly built seventh-level battleships. This type of battleship has a displacement of only 30,000 tons (compared to the navies of other countries), and replacing it with new main guns is also a problem.
If the old main gun is used, two level seven battleships may not be able to destroy a level nine battleship, and it is very likely that the opponent will take advantage of the range to kill them twice!
However, it is possible to build a ninth-level battleship with the money of two seventh-level battleships, which will occupy less of a dock and save a large number of crew members. Jiexuan was leaning towards this plan before going on the expedition.
Such a big project involving hundreds of millions of silver coins can only be decided after Jiexuan comes back and discusses it with the emperor.
Zhu Cixiang also probably knew what Jiexuan meant. If the ninth-level battleships were available, not to mention the seventh-level battleships, even the eighth-level battleships could be equipped.
If the combined combat effectiveness of two level eight battleships is not as good as one level nine battleship, why would the Navy equip eight level battleships?
The number of battleships of the Ming Navy is already the largest in the world. In this case, it can pursue quality advantages, thereby establishing a dual advantage of quantity and quality over the enemy navy.
Jiexuan's goal is to complete the replacement of the navy's capital ship force within twenty years, that is, after the completion of two batches of construction plans for the ninth-level battleships.
The account includes at least eight level nine battleships, eight level eight battleships, eight level seven battleships, twenty level six cruisers, twenty level five cruisers, and three hundred destroyers and frigates.
The real combat power of the navy is the mobile fleet, which is forty aircraft carriers, forty amphibious assault ships, and forty dock landing ships, which can carry at least 1,500 carrier-based aircraft!
Once this plan is realized, the small goal of "five hundred fleets" will be less than twenty ships, and it can still be achieved with hard work.
Continuing to maintain the world's largest navy is very important to ensuring the control of the sea and maritime trade in the hands of the Ming Empire.
On the surface, the Ming Empire spent ten
In fact, after a lot of selling off second-hand ships and building new ones for export, we didn’t really spend that much money on building ships worth billions of silver coins.
By the way, it can also allow countries with ulterior motives to be passively involved in an endless arms race, thereby quickly squeezing the remaining value in their treasury.
Now it is almost impossible for France, the Netherlands and other countries to secretly compete with the Ming Empire for the number of battleships, and the gap between the two sides will become wider and wider in the future.
Emperor Hao Jing's goal was to help the Ottoman Empire and the Inca Empire surpass France and the Netherlands economically and militarily through barter, and then become the second and third largest countries in the world.
The threat to the Ming Dynasty from these two countries is far less than that of the two European countries. Especially after the land exchange between France and the Netherlands, the national strength of the two countries may be further improved.
A few years ago, some countries headed by Ming Dynasty had withdrawn from the original alliance and established the World Alliance.
Nowadays, in the arms race, there is no need to hide and tuck in.
Act accordingly as long as you can bring down the opponent or even drag him to death!
After Kimchi served as a mercenary for the Ming Dynasty many times in the Japanese country and made a lot of money, he also strongly requested to participate in the third crusade against the Holy Roman Empire!
We intend to send 100,000 troops to be organized into twenty infantry brigades. We will beg for help from the Ming Empire in terms of equipment...
In Zhu Cixiang's view, this is all done with a mouth!
Are you going to fight with the Ming Dynasty King?
Just here to mix equipment!
Before showing its due combat effectiveness, the quantity and quality of the Kimchi Infantry Brigade's heavy equipment would definitely not be comparable to that of the Japanese army.
The latter followed the Ming Dynasty's army on many expeditions and almost never lost. This was one of the reasons why Zhu Cixiang favored the Japanese army. The price he offered combined with the combat effectiveness was very cost-effective.
If the Kimchi army is defeated by the opponent, it doesn't matter if the people die, all the equipment will be given to the opponent.
The heavy equipment of several brigades was sent to them at once. This kind of loss was intolerable to Zhu Cixi!
