Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 496 Armored Battleship and Helmet

The negotiations between the emperors of the kingdom and the executive committee of the overseas self-governing organs have once again broken down. In the eyes of the messengers of the kingdom, the overseas self-governing leaders have truly rebelled. Because they put forward the conditions that the kingdom could not agree at all, they wanted to borrow the crisis that the kingdom was suffering from a large-scale agricultural product in the face of famine, and the kingdom was in the process of war with the invading Nasri kingdom, causing the de facto separatism of the overseas self-governing Independence, this is not rebellious, what is rebellion?

The condition of the generals of the autonomous leading region headed by Claude is that the kingdom of Orvilas can be nominally recognized as the sovereign state and maintain a consistent attitude in foreign affairs and military affairs. However, it maintains an independent status in the administrative policies, personnel appointments, finance, and military arming of overseas self-governing leaders, and is not subject to the jurisdiction of the kingdom. However, the Royal Army Department can be accepted as the nominal supervisory unit. The officers’ promotion and military promotion will be issued to the Royal Army Department. This is only a notice, not a review and approval.

In addition to the conditions proposed by the autonomous leading regions, the Executive Committee of the Dominion also proposed a series of provisions on the ocean trade between the two sides. For example, the two sides also adopted low tariffs or no tariffs on imported goods. There is no tariff, and the goods that are directly under the jurisdiction of the overseas directing goods have to pay a high amount of tax revenue. This is also a way for the Kingdom to develop restrictions on the manufacturing industry.

To a certain extent, the kingdom of the kingdom has spared no effort to limit the development of overseas direct jurisdiction. This should be regarded as the foresight of the first king Sterling X. The overseas direct management of such a large site, so many rich resources, the relocation of the local manufacturing workshops in the past will obviously reduce and significantly reduce the cost of production resources.

If the kingdom does not impose restrictions on this, the wealth of the people will flow to the overseas direct jurisdiction. The flow of wealth means the increase of population migration, because the manufacturing industry needs various technicians and skilled industrial workers. If the overseas direct jurisdiction is developed, it will be difficult for the kingdom to effectively govern it. After all, it is a quiet ocean. If the distance is too far, it means that the number of variables will increase. Therefore, the overseas direct jurisdiction can still be the source of resources of the kingdom. ......

It was only a colonial war that changed the future of overseas direct jurisdiction. Various reasons and timings have created the status quo of overseas self-governing leaders. As Wang Stirling X first predicted, the economic development of overseas direct jurisdiction means that it will be out of control of the kingdom, and it is no longer possible to regard overseas autonomy as a source of resources that the kingdom can do whatever it wants.

The Autonomy Executive Committee has proposed such a sea-going trade clause because today's self-governing leaders can manufacture all kinds of goods and goods that the kingdom needs, both in terms of quality and price, which are superior to those produced by the kingdom. The population of more than 27 million people owned by the kingdom is a huge sales market in the eyes of those who are self-governing. Therefore, the high tariffs imposed by the Kingdom on the goods produced by overseas self-governing territories became the first target to be cancelled.

There are other commercial terms on ocean trade, the purpose of which is that overseas self-governing members want to break the various commercial privileges of the kingdoms that are monopolized by veteran aristocratic families and emerging business aristocrats, such as the pricing of goods and goods. A monopoly agreement in a region, etc., they want a commodity sales market, not afraid of free competition.

It can be said that the overseas self-governing members who are related to the manufacturing industry are the real promoters of commercial freedom. They are not the emerging business aristocrats of the kingdom who advocate commercial freedom. Those emerging commercial aristocrats are purely selling dogs and dogs. To say that commercial freedom is actually a monopoly of commercial interests does not allow commercial competition.

In this respect, the members of the overseas self-governing body are simply more. They are not afraid of competition. They want fair and market access permits. As long as the products of overseas self-governing territories are allowed to be sold in the Kingdom, they will have the confidence to use the cheap and good commodity goods produced by the Dominion to fight all the competitors and seize the local market.

Of course, in order for the kingdom to agree to the conditions proposed by the autonomous leading region and the executive committee, the overseas self-governing squad should pay a tax of 300,000 kronor per year and a tribute to the royal family of the Sterling royal family of 100,000 kronor, adding up to 400,000 kronor. . It can also provide food and agricultural materials worth 1.2 million kronor to the kingdom in one time, as the tax paid by the overseas self-governing leaders to the kingdom in the past three years after the colony.

Regarding the mineral resources of overseas self-governing leaders, the Executive Committee rejected the free offer requested by the kingdom, but could provide low-interest loans to the kingdom, allowing the kingdom to purchase various mineral resources in overseas self-governing territories with a 20% discount on the market price to meet the current kingdom. Armament production requirements. The guarantee for this low-interest loan can be mortgaged with taxes and tribute paid by the Dominion to the Kingdom each year.

It’s just that the conditions proposed by the overseas self-governing leading regions and the executive committee are all ridiculous in the eyes of the messengers of the kings. They angered these conditions and ignored the autocratic leading regions and the executive committee to transfer these conditions first. To the king, the high-ranking powers above were asked to go through the purpose, and the negotiations broke down.

However, because of the critical situation facing the kingdom, the special ambassadors and pleadings of these kingdoms, as well as the work of private members, finally allowed the overseas self-governing parliament to pass a single motion on negotiations. It is the overseas self-government leading the transportation of food and agricultural materials worth 1.2 million kronor to the kingdom to help the kingdom resist the threat of the upcoming famine. At the same time, this material was also regarded as the tax and tribute paid by the overseas self-governing leaders to the king in the previous two years and this year. Several kingdom envoys signed the painting and confirmed this.

After negotiating this matter, the several messengers of Wang Dulai also went back to the Kingdom with the ocean-going cruise fleet that escorted the grain. For these messengers, the food and agricultural materials worth 1.2 million kronor are enough to go back to the cross. And these food and materials, if saved, should allow the kingdom to survive this food failure crisis.

For Claude, the fact that they have sent away these kings and messengers is one thing. The Dominion is now busy with too many things. There is really no effort and the kings are entangled. Anyway, this batch of food and agricultural materials in the hearts of those self-governing members can only be regarded as a small amount of money to send poor relatives. The more the self-governing leader is thriving and prosperous, the more no one is willing to return to the period previously governed by the kingdom.

This will lead Crowder to the port of Patras in the state of Robisto, and negotiate with the master of the first armor of the armored battleship. After three sea trials of iron-shell ocean-going ships, Master Bird finally admitted that the patterns of the armored battleships that Claude had painted for him were somewhat reasonable. He canceled the cannons under the deck and set the front armored heavy-duty guns, and increased the bilge and below the waterline to stabilize the hull.

However, the final shape of the battleship is still slightly elliptical in Claude's view. It is not slender enough. The most important thing is that Master Bird is unwilling to cancel the three masts on the battleship. His reason is that if the blackstone loaded at sea is exhausted, then the warship can only rely on the sails to drive at sea, even if the speed is very slow, it can still retain the hope of returning to the harbor...

Forget it, Claude does not want to compete with Master Bird in these aspects. After all, Bird Master is also a half-way monk. After the design of the battleship, he is the designer of the sail ship, and they have completed the design of the armored warship. With the shadow of a sail boat, this is inevitable. Claude can only hope that after the first armored warships are launched, they will slowly improve and the future will become better.

The first batch of shaped armored warships were a total of six ships. The imitations were all ocean-going light cruising three-sail sail ships, which were defined by Claude as destroyers. The installation of six medium-sized guns on the ship is an expanded version of the new infantry light field artillery. The first four and the second two, there are three nautical versions of the fixed light infantry field artillery on both sides.

The medium-sized naval guns have an effective range of 1,800 to two kilometers, and the light-duty guns on both sides have an effective range of about 1,200 meters. In the current naval battle mode, the sailboats are two or three hundred meters apart from each other before they are smashed with each other. Then they gradually approach the era of jumping and slashing with swords. I have not known how many years have passed. The only concern is that the artillery at sea requires the best gunners to aim at the enemy's warships with their eyes. It is more empirical to hit the middle. Claude is still not able to fight what the sea artillery is aiming at the instrument...

As the admiral of the overseas self-governing ocean-going cruise fleet, Murray Ed on the iron-clad ocean ship after the sea test on the iron-clad battleship, he told Claude that the artillery battle did not hit the enemy battleship actually has nothing to do with Anyway, the enemy can't beat their own armored warships. Besides, the shells can't be hit, and they are afraid of hitting the enemy battleships. These thick iron-shell warships can be arbitrarily arrogant at sea. There is no problem in picking up ten.

The port of Patras in the state of Robisto has now become the largest shipbuilding base for overseas self-governors. In order to cooperate with the manufacture of the armored warships, the five generals of the autonomous leading region gathered together and invested in the nearby East Mosilaga Mountain. A large iron ore refining workshop specializing in the manufacture of rust-proof armor and marine stainless steel plates required for armored warships. To this end, I also hired two Rune Masters for high-paying and high-paying treatments to study how to produce large-scale metal iron plates and special steel plates for anti-corrosion, waterproof and rust-proof functions for navigation...

In the remote planning of the overseas self-governing leading region, in the future, an oceanic armored fleet composed of more than 40 armored warships will be established, and there will be more than 100 ocean-going iron-hull transporting seagoing vessels with a total investment of 12 million. Around Jin Kelang, it is completed in ten years, and the annual investment is also 1.2 million gold krona. Therefore, the big iron ore refining workshop has a very good investment prospect. After the formation of the armored fleet and the transport fleet, it is expected that all investment costs will be earned back in ocean trade in three or four years.

It can only be said that the armored warships of this era are still in a very simple and rough structure, which is like the construction of a sail ship. If it wasn't for Claude's insistence, Master Bird would even want to cancel the design of the sump compartment. The reason is very simple. He believes that the sailed wooden shell warships need to be equipped with a water tank structure in the bottom compartment because the wooden shells are not strong. And they built the armored warships, so thick iron plates, welded into a whole, strong enough to ensure that no water leaks...

Fortunately, Claude finally convinced him that there was no water tank setting. If a hole leaked in the sea, it would be even faster, even if it was set up for the hopper compartment. The duration is also worthwhile. Master Bird was originally prepared to complete the six so-called armored destroyers in four months, and then designed and built a large armored warship of the second-class five-sea ocean sails that Crowde named the cruiser.

When Claude returned to Lanhu City, it was already January of 559 years. It wasn't that Claude didn't want to go back to Lanhu City to welcome the new night, but Sheila played a little temper. When she knew that Claude would go back, she would definitely go back to the Field Manor to accompany his mother and wife, Kevni, to welcome the new night, leaving her alone. desolate. So she wraps around Claude, insisting that she likes the sea, and goes to the beach every day, forcing Crowder to stay in the port of Patras and her to welcome the new night.

In the end, Claude accompanied Sheila in the cold air of the port of Patrese for more than two months. After the welcome night, Sheila stayed almost the same, and the seafood was tired, and this was only with Crow. De returned to Lanhu City. Of course, Sheila also knows that Claude is because she hasn't seen it for more than a decade, and she is very loyal to her. So she returned to the squirrel manor in the western suburbs and then drove Claude back home.

The Fairfield Manor’s New Year’s Eve and the New Year’s Day are really deserted. Basically, few people come to visit. Even the few ladies who are very good with their mother and Kaffini are rushing to the door and giving gifts. The leave of absence, even the mother and Kevni are not used to being extraordinarily. Especially for the mother, if she had a stomach, then no one talked to her, which made her very unhappy.

"How come you come back now?" The mother blamed all of this on Claude's head, thinking that he was not at home, so those guests did not come to the door.

Claude replied that the military is busy, he really can't get away.

My mother complained that the colonial war was over. You have so many things, you don’t need to go to the battlefield. Can you spend two days at home? It is better to quit this position...

Claude can only smile, and he can't tell her mother. She often takes the example of her father who died. He said that Mr. Morsan was the executive director of Bailu Town. So many official duties were for him to deal with, but he still returned every night. At home, I invite guests at home from time to time.

At that time, the scenery of the Field family in Bailu Town, everyone went to the town to buy things, everyone gave face, not a discount or a price reduction. Like Claude, they all have to go to the generals and have to travel around. They don’t have much time at home in a year. They are not as good as Mr. Morssan, the father who died.

Under the sun, only the mother will compare Claude, the general who holds the highest military power of the overseas self-governing powers, with the position of the town’s administrative director of Mr. Morsan, and also find that Claude is not as good as his father, Morssan. Mr. judgment. Crowder looked at Kaffini and wondered if she had said Sheila in front of her mother, so the mother deliberately said that she was not going home to talk about herself. However, Kevney’s performance was normal, and still the diligent costume Claude took off his military uniform and put on a casual dress at home...

When Claude came home, someone came to visit him. He came to Mr. Vibron and took his wife. The mother was very happy, and finally there was a swearing object. The wife who took Mr. Wibron’s wife to open their gossip tea would go. Mr. Weibulen came to report to Claude, because his military industry in Lanhu City finally produced his own fist products, and Claude provided creative soldiers' helmets.

Mr. Wiberen brought the sample, the helmet was a little oval, and there was a spire on it. The raised edges on the sides of the helmet were each punched with four holes, which were used to tie the inner lining. With the lining, there is no need to directly put the helmet on the head, so that a bullet or shrapnel hitting the helmet will not cause a neck fracture and a serious concussion. This is the task that Claude handed over to Mr. Vibron, and now he is finally finished.

It’s just that Claude doesn’t understand why he has a spire on the top of the helmet.

Mr. Wiberen explained that this is a few technicians in the military industry who feel that the helmet is barely look good. After making a apex, you can look at the fashion and look at it. It looks more powerful...

Claude can only shake his head. The helmet is a steel helmet. It provides the soldiers with protection of the head during the battle. It can effectively prevent the shrapnel shooting of this era and the shrapnel attack of the tossing bomb. It is the biggest role. It is not necessary to make such a fancy. . If you put a spire on the helmet, it will make the helmet lose its practicality. On the battlefield, the soldiers want to drink a hot soup and cook it. You can use the helmet in the battle for free. You can also use it as a water scoop. Come. Adding a apex is equivalent to making a hole in the top of the helmet. These practical features are gone.

If Claude did not see a statistical report on the cause of death of a war-stricken soldier, he would not have thought of what helmet Mr. Vibron would make. Because the statistical report said that 60% of the soldiers killed on the battlefield were killed by guns or shrapnel on the head, Claude remembered to let Mr. Vibron to make a helmet.

"The spire was canceled, and there could be no holes in the top of the helmet." When Claude said the practicality of the helmet, Mr. Wiberen realized that he would go back and do it.

"Tomorrow, I will bring these helmets to the theater headquarters, let General Bologna see them, pass the acceptance, and then we will place an order, first to create 200,000 steel helmets, and to equip the military two regiments. As for the local troops. Equipment helmets, we have to think about it again.” Claude thought and said: “After the production of this helmet, you will test and manufacture the shovel that I painted for you last time. These equipment will soon become us. The standard equipment of the military forces has high returns..."