open sea

Chapter 1166
Garrisoning Lisbon is Naples Fleet Commander Santa Cruz Houbazain. A year ago, he led the fleet to assist Lisbon to help Duke Alva gain sea superiority, control the Portuguese fleet in Lisbon without bloodshed, and make them join Spain after surrendering Navy sequence.

But now for the Spaniards, the war is still going on. The Portuguese puppet king Antonio, supported by Britain, France and the Netherlands, will always fight back. Bazin's mission is to wait for the Portuguese puppet king to come back with his army. The war ended.

As he had done for the great cause of the Habsburgs in Algeria, in Gibraltar, in Oran, in Naples in the Mediterranean, and on the Cape of Lepanto, keep Philip from ever coming back.

Eternal trouble.

The old Hou Ye thought that behind this imported word from Ming Dynasty revealed a strong determination.

Just like in front of his eyes, on the stone railings set up on the coastal streets on the west coast of Lisbon, Bazin raised his eyes and looked into the distance. The Belém Tower built of limestone stands at the river mouth. Outside the houses that are also made of marble and covered with orange tiles, the river mouth Two new warships and six large Galen ships are being built on the golden beaches on both sides of the strait.

"That is our new ship, designed by me, with the best shipbuilders from Spain and Portugal, the Ming people call their best ship the Wanli ship, and we will also call this kind of ship the Phillip class warship. It can Bring great glory to the Kingdom."

Alva, the Spanish Army Chief who stood with Navy Chief Bazin, looked at the two new warships under construction with anticipation, but he also had regrets, and said, "I'm afraid they will miss the next one." It is a pity that the Navy has undoubtedly received more funding from the palace."

Mentioning this, Bahrain's sunken eye sockets narrowed, leaning on the marble fence, his fingers wearing iron gauntlets knocked on the stone slowly and made a crisp sound, and said: "The king thinks that Spain should have a fleet that belongs entirely to the royal family, so This fleet is completely funded by the palace, and we used to think that warships over [-] tons were the most important main force in naval battles."

"According to Brother Acosta's information, the fleet of the Ming army that sailed from Changsheng to the Gulf of Mexico has a clear division of ranks. The smallest fleet is a thousand-supply ship. They are called the Chihai-class thousand-supply ship, leading five shark ships. ships and five grain and horse ships; usually when the Ming army goes to battle, five or six of these small fleets will form a large fleet."

"Fr. Acosta boarded the shark ship and the grain horse ship respectively when he was victorious. It is estimated that the shark ship weighs 250 to [-] tons and carries [-] cannons; the grain horse ship is another type of the same weight specially used to transport soldiers. , The shape of the supply ship is similar to that of an armed merchant ship, and most of the Ming merchants use this kind of ship."

"Beyond this, there is also a warship called Liuding Liujia. The size seems to be between 44 tons and [-] tons, but the monk has only seen it once from a distance, and has no chance to board it. I know exactly what is inside the [-] gun ports on the ship; in Seville’s Daming Port, Governor Li Dan also has a ship like that, but our people have never had the opportunity to board it.”

The Marquis of Bazin said, and said to Alva: "So the shipbuilding plan I submitted to His Royal Highness is to use eighty [-]-[-]-ton Galen ships as capital ships, and [-] [-]-[-]-ton galleons to serve as capital ships. Large ships of [-] tons are the main and auxiliary flagships, forming ten fleets consisting of two thousand-ton ships and eight warships of more than [-] tons, only in this way can we increase our confidence in communicating with the Ming people."

In this regard, Duke Alva deeply agrees.

He had personally negotiated with Chen Mu, and he deeply experienced the feeling of being inferior to others. It is this person standing in front of you. You obviously don't agree with what he said, but your stupid generals went to war without authorization and lost to other side.

No matter how much wisdom you have, it is useless in negotiations when you lose the battle, especially in the army.

The nobles and monks in the country laughed at the Duke of Alva who held 500 well-known European legionnaires but did not dare to fight according to the negotiations of the Mingxi Second War. This situation until he led an army to kill [-] Portuguese at the cost of [-] The defenders turned around slightly, and people began to recall him as the general of the defeated army so that the outcome of the negotiations would not hurt the root.

But in fact, Alva knows that his reputation has become better not because of that, but because the domestic merchants who resell Daming goods have made a lot of profits. They have gained benefits, lost honor and forgotten shame, so some people boast own great achievements.

The outcome of the negotiation has nothing to do with his wisdom at all, it is entirely due to the kindness and gift from the enemy, because such Spain is beneficial to Chen Mu.

In fact, the Ming-West trade is beneficial to Ming. Through the goods produced, Daming evacuates Spain, and Spain uses some of these goods to evacuate the surrounding countries.

But the surrounding countries were also Habsburgs.

The final result is that the big nobles and big businessmen benefited, and the king took this opportunity to transfer the wealth to the court, but the country became poorer and poorer.

The situation of soaring prices has been curbed, because although half taels have begun to circulate, it seems that at least 200 million yuan is received every year, but in fact, the final half taels received by all classes are far from that much.

If wisdom can play a role in negotiating defeat, then what does Great Spain still support hundreds of thousands of soldiers?Just raise a group of lobbyists who specialize in negotiation.

"It's better for the navy. The king hasn't allocated money for the army to replace the muskets for a long time. I also submitted a report to the king about increasing the musketeers of the regiment from three tenths to five tenths. Due to the large shortage of muskets, we cannot rely on Village blacksmiths need to set up the Royal Ordnance Bureau to make muskets."

"But His Royal Highness rejected my proposal because of too much budget." Alva raised his hand and sighed: "If this continues, the next time we go to war, our most elite legionnaires will not even be as well-equipped as the Han pirates, Yang Ce I have two thousand musketeers, our Spanish muskets, but I have none."

The Marquis of Bazin could only close his eyes in pain: "Your Excellency knows that I hope to build this fleet to surpass the Great Ming Navy, but even if the fleet is formed, there are still many difficulties in front of us, one of which is The cost of shipbuilding, our cost to build a fleet is more than ten times higher than theirs, with the same wealth we build a ship, they can build ten or even twenty ships, the emperor... the emperor did not give the mountains, forests and mines to the Genoese bankers habit."

"The second is artillery. The best artillery in the world is undoubtedly the Wanli Zhenshuo General Cannon. We can also imitate them, but they are iron cannons and steel cannons, but we have to use copper to make them. The ordering is almost the same, but in fact, the cost of their iron cannons is several times lower than ours, only the Netherlands can make iron cannons, but we lost the Netherlands.”

"Our country is being forced to go through a revolution, and it's not Portugal's Antonio that is at the heart of this revolution."

Marquis Bazin looked at Alva, and the two almost said in unison: "It's the Ming Empire."

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)