open sea

Chapter 1285
"If the Happy Ship is suitable for business and vulnerable as Philip said, why should Jazz have to worry?"

Elizabeth heard a lot of news about the Fuchuan, and the more she heard, the more confused she became. The Fuchuan sounded good, but it seemed to be easy to deal with when the wind was down. People said that the port of Plymouth was full of these happy ships.

The real enemy is only the six Galen ships built by the royal family in Plymouth. Although this is very distressing, but at the cost of destroying and robbing the six Galen ships, we can obtain a commercially profitable ship Shape, it sounds profitable.

"Your Highness, what worries me is not the happiness ship, but their warship. Philip mentioned in the letter that the warship of the Ming army is not the happiness ship, but the Liushen ship."

"Six God Ship?"

This kind of ship with the name of a pagan would naturally attract dislike in Europe. Only pagans have so many gods. Elizabeth frowned and said, "Do they have six gods?"

"No, Your Highness. In fact, they have twelve Valkyrie, six 'Ding Gods', and six 'Jia Gods'. This kind of ship still uses their sails. It is said that Chen Mu came from the Philippines in the Mingxi Sea Battle. The Spanish galleon San Pablo was captured in the sea area, referring to the shape of the ship compounded by the hull."

"It has the advantages of Fuchuan's low cost and fewer required sailors, but it also has the disadvantages of being slow; it also absorbs the advantages of the Galen ship's anti-bombardment, multi-deck, multi-cannon, and multi-sailor; , the ship does not always have marines like our privateers, and the fastest speed, protection capability, number of artillery, and the number of marines are not as good as Galen ships."

When Hawkins relayed Philip's words without compliments at all, Elizabeth could not understand the envy on his face: "So it is difficult for the Ming warship to resist the attack of the large Galen ship under the same tonnage."

Elizabeth blinked and spread her hands. Seeing that Hawkins was still immersed in various emotions of envy, she finally asked in confusion: "Since their Twelve God Ships have so many shortcomings, why did the Sir show that expression? And why worry about it?"

Hawkins sighed in his heart, turned his head to the side and let out a hard breath, looked at the court staff gathered in Greenwich Palace, turned his head and whispered: "But Your Highness, first of all, we don't have a giant cover. The Lun ship is only available in Spain, and the Liujia ships generally equipped by the Ming army have three specifications: 150 tons, [-] tons, and [-] tons, and the smallest one is a threat to all our armed merchant ships."

"The remaining two types can pose a threat to our existing six warships."

"They are indeed slower, but they have an absolute advantage when the wind direction is complex; the protection ability is not as good as the Galen ship, but it is worse than other hulls, and the light artillery cannot penetrate the hull; the number of artillery is small, but the sailors have excellent artillery skills; the number of their marines At least, we don’t have marines on board, and the sailors are all professional soldiers, so our pirates’ morale will collapse first in the boarding battle.”

Hawkins crossed his hands on his chest. He found that he had misunderstood the queen by repeating Philip's words. Spain is a rich man. Philip could say that Ming's Liujia warship is not good here and where it is not good because he has endless The money was invested in the war, and the shipyards along the coast of Spain alone can launch seven or eight giant warships of more than [-] tons every year.

"The more important thing is the cost. The king of Spain also mentioned this in his letter. He hopes that the pope can order all the monasteries in Spain to levy timber taxes to help him build warships. This is the king of Spain after losing the right to rule the New World. Mincy still earns a lot of money every year from trade, but shipbuilding still leaves him with ideas but not actions."

"And our shipyard also needs to buy timber and ship materials. The royal family allocates 150 pounds to the navy every year. The money is only enough to buy five [-]-ton warships. In fact, we can't buy five, because the shipyard can't make them, and the artillery also needs to buy them." To buy, there can only be two [-]-ton warships and seven or eight smaller warships, and our most capital ships are [-]-ton Galen ships."

Elizabeth also sighed, and there was nothing she could do. The annual income from parliamentary tribute, royal territories, customs duties, feudalism, and investment ventures combined was only 25 pounds, and it was declining year by year.

In order to avoid such bad finances, Elizabeth's court has been forced to take many extreme measures, including selling church and royal land, forced loans, donations, ship taxes and other methods to raise funds, but these methods will invariably reduce future income. become less.

The royal family needs too much expenses. A large number of jazz and court staff who have no fiefs need royal support. Protestants in the Netherlands and France also need royal support, and they have to face terrible inflation. Even the [-] pounds per year, They were all squeezed out bit by bit after giving up the army.

Hawkins still told the tragic reality to the Queen: "150 tons, no different from an armed merchant ship."

"But the King of Spain said that the Ming Emperor had much more power than him. The wood used to build ships does not cost money. They have the ability to use iron to make cannons, so the cannons do not cost much. The only thing that limits the number of ships they can build is How many ships can their shipyards build, and in terms of population, we have 600 million people; Spain has 800 million people; Ming... It is said that Ming has tens of millions of people, and Philip decided to abandon the war in the New World not because he lost the battle , you also know that Philip never gave up in the Netherlands and had unparalleled resilience."

"The reason why he frankly gave up the New World in the letter was that the Emperor Ming suddenly transported 10 people to the New World during the war, including 10 citizens, craftsmen, and troops." Hawkins let out another long breath: "These 10 people defeated Philip's resilience. He said that the emperor can transport 10 troops this year and [-] troops next year, and he can only transport [-] troops there at most. It is a hopeless battle. .”

Elizabeth's eyes widened, and she raised her hand to cover her mouth so she could not let herself scream out. During the Mingxi Second War, the emperor immigrated [-] people to the New World. She had never heard of such a thing!
That's the entire population of London.

Slightly suppressing the surprise in her heart, Elizabeth said slowly: "A unique deterrent method."

"Yes, Your Highness. Although Chen Mu explained to the warlike Duke Alva that there was a drought in a county of their country, the Duke was keen to see through Chen Mu's nonsense. Now it seems that Chen Mu of Ming Dynasty is obviously stronger than Alva of Spain. A more combative person, the immigration has significantly strengthened Chen Mu's belief in winning, and he intends to continue the war with Alva."

"Sometimes they don't treat war with the goal of winning. There are no nobles in Ming Dynasty. Instead, they are officials. They are like nobles but not hereditary. Soldiers and generals are promoted by killing enemies on the battlefield and cutting off their heads. So Their soldiers are more ferocious on the battlefield."

"We build one ship, Spain can build three ships, and Da Ming has probably built twelve ships and is on the way. If His Highness wants to end the war with softer means, I suggest sending people to Daming's Asia through Diplomacy to take back Plymouth."

"If Your Highness decides to go to war, I suggest that we must use the greatest strength, even in the face of the merchant rebellion in Plymouth, we must commandeer all merchant ships and arm them, take back the port in one fell swoop, and rely on the defense of Plymouth's criss-crossing rivers and bays full of hidden reefs to attack Ming army, we can't let the battle situation become stalemate, otherwise Ming's reinforcements may be slower than ours, but they will definitely be much more than ours."

(End of this chapter)