The evolution of sailing wooden warships into pure steel warships is not a short time. Any country will be very cautious in the military and national heavy weapons. Only people like Xiao Letian who paint on pure white paper dare to use ironclad ships to form a navy as soon as they get started. Read the book

War is not a joke, arms race is a nightmare for any country. Even if it is as powerful as Britain, it is cautious and dare not act rashly when adjusting its naval strategy.

There is too much money needed. If the powerful Royal Navy is replaced with ironclad ships, how much does it cost? And how powerful opposition forces are there in China? These are all issues that politicians must consider.

If properly maintained, the wooden sail battleship can theoretically be used for two or three hundred years. For example, the US Constitution started to serve during the American Revolution in the 18th century and was still a service honorary warship belonging to the US Navy until the 21st century. For more than 400 years, this warship could still sail on the sea.

But steel warships are not so lucky. No matter how meticulous your paint maintenance work is, the decay process of steel is irreversible. Therefore, it is a miracle that the steel warship can have a lifespan of a hundred years.

There are too many poor cost-effectiveness. Politicians are essentially businessmen. Any decision they make must consider a cost and output issue. It is like a fixed-loaded bullet instead of a packed Minnie bullet, and a rear-loaded rifle instead of a pre-loaded gun. It is such a simple thing, but European countries have not yet completed the overall elimination and loading. Reading books and asking books.

What is the reason? Could it be that they are all blind and cannot see the bravery of the Prussian soldiers in the Prussian War? Did they turn a blind eye to the excellent performance of the Mauser rifle? Of course, the answer is no, and the core consideration of politicians is still money.

How much does it cost to replace rifles across Europe to carry out large-scale clothing? Governing the country is the same as governing the family. Can it be done without careful calculations? Can ten years of clothing change and one year of clothing change put the same pressure on the national finances? In addition, will senior officials and nobles who have the benefits of old-fashioned equipment have resistance? These are issues that politicians must consider.

Why is war the driving force for human technological progress? This sentence is really correct. Only when the war begins, and only when the enemy's bayonet hits your heart can people let go of their little selfishness and petty hearts. In order to survive, squeeze out national strength to climb the science and technology tree.

In peacetime, do you dare to upgrade the military industry? Grandma! After the money is gone, will the people lose a piece of bread on the dining table? Will capitalists hold less banquets? The country's financial resources are limited. If the military industry eats away, the quality of life of the people will definitely decline by a large margin.

People are selfish and live a good life. As soon as you, a politician, ask us to eat two pieces of bread and one sausage less as soon as you come to power. If you don’t fight with you, it won’t be over. Even if you scold me, you will be scolded to death.

However, during the war, the complaints of the people were completely suppressed. In order to survive and avoid being bullied by the enemy, let alone eating fewer bites of bread and sausages, even if he drinks bean soup every day, he has to donate the last copper coin to the country.

Look, why is war the driving force for technological progress? Because war brings fear, fear can greatly consolidate national strength, and national strength can promote the progress of science and technology and the popularization of technology.

This is how European countries are now. They slowly replace their military rifles, and old-fashioned front-mounted rifles dumped ship after ship to Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and South America. Then the accounting personnel of each department were carefully counting each copper plate, and then they slowly changed their clothes one regiment, one division and one army.

Because all the monarchs of European countries, except Prussia, believed that there would be no more major wars in their arms, and even the conflict between France and Prussia was considered a farce with heavy thunder and little rain.

Are the Prussians crazy? I just finished a Prussian war. It's only been a few years since I wanted to engage in a full-scale national war with France? Please, don't joke. There are a few small conflicts on the border, but the national war? Haha, let me laugh for a while

It is this absolute trust in peace that has caused the general relaxation of combat readiness in the six major European countries, and only one Prussia is preparing for war. This is also an important decisive factor in Prussia's creation of miracles in history.

You can encounter many resistances when changing a rifle, so what about changing a armored ship? How much does it cost? How much resistance will you encounter? Politicians must consider these issues, which is the huge difference between politicians and military strategists.

Molière was laughing wildly, yes, he was laughing wildly, not crazy, but an epiphany like an old monk coming out of meditation. Before he gave up command of the battleship, he handed over the batons on the battlefield to Major General Bruce, and he himself took out another weapon, namely the camera and the writing board.

Two adjutants were on the ship and on the stern of the ship, and they were operating two cameras to record the figure of the Zhiyuan from different angles. Molière personally climbed up the tall mainmast, squeezed with the lookout hand, and started writing with the pencil in his hand.

Photographing technology in this era is not very mature, and shooting still life is a bit blurry, let alone the war scenes in motion, so the photos are always an auxiliary, and the reliable one is the pencils in the hands of these painters.

Amid the rumbling cannons, Molière's pencil was walking on the white paper, and she kept underestimating her mouth. The lookout hand next to her was stunned. He didn't expect that the commander had this ability.

"The mysterious Chinese iron armored ship, the main gun is a dual-unit, and the stern caliber single-unit visually measured caliber is arranged in the central axis of the artillery between 18o mm and 2oo mm, which can easily cover shooting at a 36o-degree angle."

"As long as the battleship is in place, three large-caliber main guns can form a fire-cooking state in any direction. Every volley explosion is earth-shaking. You can imagine how spectacular it would be when three shore defense roadbed artillery that should be placed on the harbor fort are transferred to the armored warship to fire volleys."

"The Chinese iron-armored warship is between 75 meters and 80 meters in length and twelve or 3 meters in width. The hull is slender and fast, without any sails. The two masts on the warship are just to provide a platform for observation for the lookout. There is a thick chimney in the center of the warship."

Molière muttered to himself as he used his expertise to analyze all the data of Zhiyuan. He had made up his mind that the Glory and the Pious could be sacrificed, but he and these materials could never be sacrificed and had to escape before the battle ended.

"As long as this intelligence can reach Europe, so what if I lose four warships? I don't care, I don't care about anything that can be sacrificed, and these thousands of soldiers can be sacrificed, but my life and these intelligence cannot be sacrificed, absolutely not!"

"Every set of data from this naval battle must be sent to Europe, and these slaps must be slapped in the dignity of all Europeans. Only in this way can those politicians be determined to upgrade their weapons."

"If not, I'm afraid the whole of Europe will become a sheep under the whip of Prussia and China. I, Molière, must expose the evil plan of Xiao Lotte, the evil plan of the evil demon!"
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