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The previous chapter ends with the call of King Mohammed IV of Tunisia to "measure the material resources of our country and the hearts of the people of the West"; But back at the end of 1495, for Ferdinand at the time, the matter was still a matter of story. He is also working on some technical research......

In 1493, Ferdinand carried out the well-known "Experiment of Measuring Atmospheric Pressure" and "Madrid-Roman Hemispheric Experiment", two experiments that determined the existence of atmospheric pressure and determined it. A "standard atmospheric pressure" is defined as 101325 "Pa" (Parma, which serves as the address of an atmospheric pressure measurement experiment instead of Pascal's name).

This experiment gave Ferdinand a reputation in the scientific community. Subsequently, Ferdinand formulated the Fijs temperature scale, which is equivalent to the Celsius temperature scale of later generations.

Ferdinand conducted experiments on the single pendulum and the Foucault pendulum – these two experiments and their results are kept secret from the public, because the results of the two experiments combined to explain the rotation of the earth and seriously impact the geocentric theory, so they cannot be made public.

Technically, Ferdinand had craftsmen make the world's first pendulum clock based on a single pendulum, and soon more than 100 more.

Now, by enumerating these scientific and technological achievements of Ferdinand, Ferdinand is not trying to show how he made Newton die on an apple tree and replace him, nor is it to show the rise of the Scientology he founded, although (*σ?? σ these will all become facts in the future......

Rather, it is important to point out that these achievements have played a very important role in promoting the modernization of industry.

Further precise measurements of time prepared a timetable for modern factories. Cotton textile mills were able to develop advanced looms such as water-powered reel spinning machines, spindle worsted spinning machines, and water looms.

The scientific breakthrough in atmospheric pressure and temperature scale provides a theoretical basis for a shocking dynamic breakthrough in human history.

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Here it is.

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Steam engine.

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Yes, the idea is good, but ......

"You ......" Ferdinand looked at the craftsmen in front of him with a complicated expression, all of them were the most skilled craftsmen in Aragon and Sicily, and two others had been invited from Flanders.

"Just make a ...... for me" Ferdinand summoned them to the royal service in order to build the most important power engine in human history, the steam engine.

Of course, it's a junior low-profile version. Ferdinand didn't want to be a god all the time, and God was also very tired. At that time, Ferdinand briefly expounded the principle of the steam engine. Then it was left to the craftsmen.

A year later, on the day of the box, Ferdinand, who had just received a Berber attack on the city of Melilla, had received a report of the craftsmen of Barcelona making steam engines. So Ferdinand hurried over to take a look, and then he witnessed the masterpieces of the craftsmen......

"This kind of thing?"

This is a primitive steam engine, and the power it can produce is...... 1 horsepower.

A rather glaring number.

It reached the level of the English steam engine approximately in 1702.

In fact, this was already a remarkable achievement for the Spanish craftsmen of this era, because Spain's industry was already underdeveloped and lagged behind that of Northwest Europe.

And now the steam engine they built can reach the advanced level of England in 1702 at the end of the 15th century, just relying on the king's ideas and guidance, and the cooperation and guidance of two excellent Flemish craftsmen, which is already a great achievement.

After all, even in 1820, Birmingham, an important industrial city in England, had only 16 steam engines, with a total steam power of only 1,000 horsepower.

1 horsepower is really remarkable.

But Ferdinand was still not satisfied!

First of all, although there are extenuating circumstances, 1 horsepower, which is a meager power, is greatly insufficient for the mining industry represented by coal digging and the cotton textile industry.

In particular, there are two limiting factors. At this time, the 1-horsepower steam engine was not lighter than the 15-horsepower steam engine of the early 19th century due to technical limitations. It takes time and effort, resulting in a 1-horsepower power machine that cannot be moved, and the gains outweigh the losses.

This problem is exacerbated by the second restrictive factor peculiar to Spain.

It's an old topic, lack of coal and iron!

Especially now this primitive version of the steam engine, which is very inefficient! 1 horsepower requires a lot of coal, and Spain does not have many coal mines, and the grade is not as good as that of England. Ferdinand seriously doubted that this steam engine would consume more than the output when it was used to dig coal mines!

The power to make cotton weaving is also choking enough to be vetoed, unless you've been importing a lot of coal from the UK, and you're putting up with huge land and inefficiency and noisy noises – and you're going to lose money after all that.

Even if Ferdinand could get coal from the Alabama region of North America, the coal coming from across the ocean was not such a profligacy.

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"Alas!" Ferdinand returned to the palace disappointed, he did not punish or condemn the craftsmen, he knew that they did their best, after all, he was only talking about it. But he was disappointed.

Fortunately, the results of his previous all-night work at the palace played a role, and the drawings of the Newcomen steam engine and the Watt steam engine shone brightly on the red oak table.

"Let me unleash the power of science!"

Eventually, Ferdinand embarked on the path of Scientology.

However, even the power of science is still constrained by reality.

For example, Ferdinand had planned to build the Newcommen steam engine first, and then get his hands on the Watt steam engine. But now he found that he couldn't do that.

On the one hand, the efficiency of the Newcomen steam engine was still too low, consuming too much coal. Britain has abundant coal and iron ore, which means that there is no pressure on this, and even many of the flooded deep coal mines have been revived by the use of the Nukomen steam engine, and the coal mining volume in Britain has benefited greatly from the steam engine half a century before Watt's improved steam engine.

And where in Spain are there so many coal mines for you to mine.

Thinking too much, I have my own national conditions here.

On the other hand, from the Newcomen steam engine to the Watt steam engine, there is not too much "hard technology" gap, the leading is mainly concept and design, compared with experience and brain. As a single-acting atmospheric steam engine, the principle of the Newcomen steam engine itself wastes a lot of heat energy.

If you want to talk about the technological gap, in fact, in 1713, when the Newcomen steam engine was just born, it had already applied the jet pump connecting rod movement to achieve automatic control of the valve. There are some rumors that the machine was operated with a grappling hook and a cable, which was basically the same thing as Watt's teapot and Newton's apple.

For another example, the conical centrifugal pendulum governor that controls the butterfly valve on the steam intake pipe to keep the speed of the Watt steam engine constant under load has actually been commonly used to control stone mills in flour production factories at that time, and it is interesting to note that after the birth of the Watt steam engine, a considerable part of its power was used to grind flour......

The great improvement in the mechanical strength, precision, and materials of the steam engine actually had to wait for the further improvement of the Watt rotary lever steam engine, which was also a double advance in technology and design.

And Ferdinand now had to solve the problem of starting something from nothing. So he made the bold decision to start tinkering with the Watt steam engine right now and give it a try!

Of course he knew how it worked – when the piston was at the top of the stroke, the exhaust valve opened, creating a vacuum under the piston, and the intake valve opened at the same time, and steam went above the piston. Then atmospheric pressure and vapor pressure force the piston down. By the time the stroke is reached, both the intake and exhaust valves are closed, the balance valve is opened, the pressure on both sides of the piston is equal, and the weight of the pump rod lifts it back to the top of the cylinder......

As for important mechanisms such as the crank linkage, governor, and separating condenser, Ferdinand has observed detailed models, and there is no pressure to copy them on the spot.

However, technical limitations remained, such as why the Newcomen steam engine had a water seal device, because the accuracy of the boring machines at that time - these boring machines were mainly used for casting artillery and other weapons - was still too low, they could be boring 7-inch guns, and the pump barrel could also be boring, but the exact size of the cylinder could not be helped. These boring machines are for the army to bore artillery, and even such advanced boring machines cannot be done, and the steam engine cannot progress if it wants to.

Watt's steam engine cylinder still depended on a powerful supplier at the time, Wilkinson, who produced a new type of boring machine for cannons in 1774, so that Watt's steam engine could be successfully born.

Therefore, Ferdinand at least needs to improve the performance of industrial machine tools, which is a matter of killing multiple birds with one stone. As soon as the performance of industrial machine tools is improved, it is not as simple as making steam engines, and all kinds of looms and even weapons can improve output and performance.

For example, boring a 283 mm Wetworth breech rifle cannon, with the current Spanish technology, I am afraid it is enough, and so Ferdinand to improve the industrial machine, such as improving the boring machine, introducing planers, etc., as soon as these measures are completed, all kinds of guns and artifacts can be mass-produced, and the proper productivity is crushed!

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"That's awful!" Ferdinand couldn't help but shake his head when he thought of the 1-horsepower primitive steam engine, which startled the secretary Fernando de Safra, who had just walked in (in fact, Fernando is another transliteration of Ferdinand, so let's call it so for the convenience of distinguishing): "Your Majesty, did I do something wrong?" ”

"No, nothing." Ferdinand waved his hand, then knocked on the table a few more times, and the secretary suddenly straightened up and began to listen carefully.

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The setback of the first steam engine development program did not stop Ferdinand on the road of promoting the industrial revolution, but strengthened his determination to increase investment in the cause of scientific and technological progress. Especially in the development of advanced machines.

Not only the steam engine, as mentioned earlier, after summing up the lessons learned and in-depth analysis, Ferdinand not only had a strong interest in the development of the Watt steam engine, but also paid more and more attention to the manufacture of various industrial machine tools.

The Industrial Revolution is not only a revolution in which machines replace human labor, not only a revolution in which coal-fired power replaces manpower, not only a revolution in the production of large machines, but also a revolution in the machines themselves. If you want to make a power machine, if you want to establish a large industrial machine production, you must not only replace manpower with machines, but also use machines to make machines - machines make machines, which is an indispensable and key part of the industrial revolution.

If in the second half of the 18th century to the beginning of the 19th century, without the progress of lathes, the replacement of boring machines, the introduction of planers, and the innovation of knife holders, it is simply impossible to imagine that the progress of several looms in the cotton textile industry has led to a series of industrial breakthroughs.

Ferdinand had already received three or two reports of Napoleonic guns being manufactured because of the low accuracy of the barrel boring. There are also reasons in the tragedy of the 1-horsepower primitive steam engine that there are not cylinders of sufficient precision. In the future, in modern products such as breeched rifled guns and improved steam engines, the problem of insufficient machine accuracy will become more and more prominent. Improving machinery is a very urgent issue.

To carry out the grand plan of developing a new type of industrial machine tool and improving the steam engine, of course, a "chief designer" with great foresight and outstanding ability is needed to take charge of the overall situation and overcome key technical problems. Ferdinand himself might have been able to take on this role, but that would have left him with little time to be king and to push forward with other reform plans and major actions. In the case of his own busy affairs, if he can find a science and technology master of the same era to take on the important task of this "chief designer", it will also be very roaring......

"How was the visit to Milan to Monsieur Leonardo da Vinci, the famous painter and scientist (though not as famous as Ferdinand claimed)?" (Morse code)

"Your Majesty, all is well, and although we have to pass through Venice, it is planned that by January 3 [1496] our men will visit his dwelling." Safra replied by tapping on the table.

Ferdinand's secretary was also a member of Niederhogg. However, people close to the king like the secretary, as well as some other Nidhogg members who perform particularly important tasks, are in charge of extremely confidential projects, or are closely related to the royal family (such as core security personnel), have an independent status in the [Sixth Office of the Leadership Committee of the Conscience and Order] (Nidhogg's full name), and a separate [Working Group directly under the Sixth Office of the Leadership Committee of the Conscience and Order], also known as the "Supreme Group", is directly responsible to Ferdinand and is not under the leadership of Sisneros. Of course, their cooperation with the rest of the Nidhogg department and members was very smooth.

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"Well, you must have enough Ducats, as far as I know, Mr. da Vinci is short of money right now."

"Your Majesty, you don't have to worry, we have always been well funded." Safra replied by tapping on the code.

"Very well, then I'll wait for good news." After the secretary left, Ferdinand closed his eyes tiredly, this time he devoted himself to all kinds of research work, and constantly made some big news at home and abroad, and it was difficult to rest for a while. It's time to apologize to Newton in a dream, and then push his crystal coffin into the abyss......

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"It's been a strange year," said a deep voice in a stack of dyeing shops in Milan with a sarcastic tone. "Now the pagan gods have been dug out of the ground...... In response to the words of Brother Savonarola, God's sword was about to fall to the ground! ……”

It can be heard that this is a 1500 eschatological person who believed in the Florentine Savonarola. However, after complaining, I also had to return to reality and be busy with my livelihood.

“…… Scotch wool, brown, fluff...... Thirty-two feet, six inches, eight minutes, ......" After criticizing some of the so-called materialistic and shameless people, he still reported to another fellow, and Louis listened to Antonia's complaints, shook his head helplessly, and wrote down the numbers in the account book.

Arabic numerals were not yet popular in this era, at least Roman numerals were still used in account books. Ferdinand and his new institutions were exceptions, such as Nidhogg, which used Arabic numerals internally. Sardinia also adopted an island-wide Arabic numeral system, which made Sardinia feel even more isolated, and despite the large production of cotton textiles and artillery, it had little social connection with the general public, especially other countries, and the few foreign merchants who came to do business here only felt that even the numbers here were very withdrawn, and because of the absurdity of the King of Aragon who had designated the whole island as his private hunting ground and estate, it was not at all possible to leave Cagliari and go deeper. Of course, no one had the leisure to break into the estate of the King of Aragon.

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In other words, the few who are too curious are dead.

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"Antonia," asked Louis, after taking the numbers, "I have heard that your cousin Leonardo da Vinci has taken many apprentices in his workshop, and I want to ...... too."

"Go there! If you want your soul to fall! Antonia said, waving.

"Why? He's your cousin, and he's twenty years older than you......"

"Why? Because Mr. Leonardo is a cultist, an atheist, a follower of Satan, who wants to use mathematics and black magic to explore the secrets of the natural world and spy on the secrets of God......"

Antonio measured the cloth with a Kana ruler and cursed his relatives that his skill was too good to prevent him from accurately quoting his size.

"But......" said Louis again, "he was hired by the Duke to paint, and I think there is a future in learning from him......

"Then go! I know that his way will eventually lead to Satan's lair, and whoever blasphemes God will suffer in hell with all his ashes! Antonia interrupted him in disgust.

"Don't talk about him! Nothing to do with me! Braban! Smooth! Seventeen feet, four inches, nine minutes! ……”

Louis saw that he could not communicate at all, so he had to let the poor man who was a devout believer express his opinion, and reluctantly continued to record it in the account books.

Late at night, Louis closed his books and went out into the street, where he remained for two months, still not quite accustomed.

"The poorer, the more difficult it is, the more devout the faith......" Louis walked to where he was going, and the series of conversations of the evening still rose and fell in his heart.

"A person's fate, of course, depends on self-struggle!"

A strong hand clasped his shoulder, and Louis was almost about to use the fighting skills in the department, but fortunately, the familiar code words made him secretly relieved.

"But also take into account the historical itinerary! Lord Marquis, don't be so violent next time! I'm not a calm elder, and it's easy to misunderstand......" Louis replied in a whisper.

Marquis Perez laughed, "I'll offend you this time, don't you mind?" Tomorrow I want you to accompany me to Mr. Leonardo da Vinci! ”

Do I dare to mind? The gentleman with the highest title in Nidhogg was also infected by the culture of code words...... Louis shook his head helplessly. "I heard his cousin say that Monsieur da Vinci was an atheist, or a cultist, or an antichrist......"

"Alas...... Do you believe it? The Marquis waved his hand, "I see, the twenty-three-year-old dyeer clearly doesn't know what an atheist is!" Ignorant people are always like this...... Seeing the wind is rain! Easy to pass, trade wide clothes......"

"Your Excellency, you seem to be happy......

"Yes, I just like to play some stalks, Your Majesty's code words all have a story, have you heard the legend of that elder? His Majesty had great reverence for him, and even paid him daily salutes despite his status as a pagan god in the Eastern faiths, and the chief magistrate of Torquemada would have blown his beard and glared at him if he had known about it. ”

“……”

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"Charlie wants to make great achievements,

conquered Italy single-handedly,

Break the city of Jerusalem,

Climb the Mount of Olives! ”

The taverns of Milan were singing not from the French soldiers, but from the Milanese satirizing Charles VIII, who had fled into the desert......

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On the night of January 2, 1496, just as the Marquis Pérez and Luis were returning to their lodge, a figure also walked out of the Dominican convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan.

That man was Leonardo da Vinci.

Leonardo da Vinci went to the north wall of the convent that day to paint the Last Supper, which the Duke of Milan commissioned him. Soon after the sun entered the window of the monastery in the morning, he had already arrived from the workshop and stepped into the convent's dining hall.

Leonardo da Vinci painted all day, he never stopped his brush, he didn't eat or drink, he just painted until dark, and in this way, the process of this painting was further advanced.

But, tomorrow, he is not going to do that, tomorrow he is only going to come here at noon to see for a while. Tomorrow he has one of his own gadgets to do. And there was also a Marquis from Spain who was going to visit him in his workshop.

But this is not specifically to postpone the painting of the Last Supper because of business tomorrow, just as he will not cancel his plans to test the aircraft tomorrow because of the visit of the Marquis Perez. He always painted this masterpiece in this later era, working hard for a day, but then not caring for it for a week or two.

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When the Marquis of Perez and Louis, along with two other Niederhogg personnel, met Leonardo da Vinci, he was working in his workshop to make the final part of a homemade flying machine.

Niederhogg didn't sneak in to meet da Vinci, so they sent the Marquis of Perez – who could have met with all the famous artists or scientists – and asked them to change jobs, even if it was in the corner of the Duke of Milan – and it wasn't a big deal to dig up a painter!

The Marquis of Perez did not consider his Niedhogg identity on this trip, and communicated with Da Vinci purely as a representative of the marquis and the king.

Da Vinci had already received a request for a visit from the Marquis, so he was not surprised.

"Mr. da Vinci," the Marquis de Perez, observing the near-finished flying machine, "is this a flying machine?" Did you apply the principles of the body and wings of birds and bats? ”

"Yes, I have a little bit of a reference," Da Vinci replied calmly and slowly, as he had almost assembled the last part.

"But the flies that inspire me the most! The flies' pair of stick-like hind wings, like rudders, help them balance and control the direction of their flight! ”

There was a little joy in Da Vinci's tone, "That has a great reference significance for the production of flying machines!" ”

"You may be right," Marquis Perez said, looking at the newly fully conceived flying machine, "but with all due respect, your flying machine looks a little, to put it mildly, a little hasty and crude." It's a bit of a problem with its design and precision, and the structure and materials aren't so strong, and I have a bad feeling that it won't be flying long today......"

"Perhaps," da Vinci looked at the nascent specimen, "but unfortunately my instruments are not very accurate...... But you always have to try it first. He gently stroked the craft with his left hand.

It's like a woman's hand. Louis watched as da Vinci stroked the flying machine. I thought to myself. Of course, he could see that the hand actually had great power, but he couldn't say it, or Mr. da Vinci might have given himself a slap in the face, and he would have to follow it obediently.

Mr. Leonardo da Vinci...... Luis thought of all the news he had heard in Milan over the past two months. Mr. da Vinci was not interested in all beauties...... It is rumored that he likes men......

At this time, Louis suddenly saw da Vinci staring at him with ♂ a look, and he couldn't help but shudder, and somehow didn't turn his head away, but da Vinci still stared at him like this, and seemed very interested in his face.

The scene was very awkward for a while.

Sadly, no one stepped forward to save Louis from da Vinci's enchanted gaze......

Even the Marquis of Perez had a bit of a sense of schadenfreude.

Leonardo da Vinci looked at Louis for a moment, and his student Berdinano Looney said to another of the Marquis de Pérez's attendants with a gloating look: "Look, your fellow is going to be unlucky." ”

The squire nodded, it was not a good thing to be favored by Mr. ♂ da Vinci.

However, he then realized that he was mistaken.

"Mr. da Vinci was often fond of following a man in the street, and if he followed a man like that, that person would be a very ugly and unlucky man. Monsieur da Vinci would take to heart the faces of those he had followed and would paint a painting a few days later, as soon as he had time to spare......"

"Uh...... And this kind of thing? The attendant was amazed.

"Yes, once our master meets such a particularly ugly person, he can often follow him all day, remembering everything about him for future sketches and even paintings," Berdinano Looney said at the end, snickering, "Master said...... In humans...... The ugliest person is also ...... Very rare, just as rare as the most beautiful people...... The common ones are ordinary people between beauty and ugliness......"

Unfortunately, he didn't speak quietly enough, and he didn't laugh even more reservedly, and everyone around him heard it.

"I've seen him draw a portrait of an old woman, with that hair, that face, that mouth...... Tsk, it's a porcupine covered in thorns! ……”

Louis: "......"

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"Are you going to test fly it now?" Marquis Perez's words finally broke the embarrassing scene that 99% of the men and women had not seen.

"Well, yes," da Vinci smiled softly, as if he had just woken up from a deep sleep. "Would you like to come and see?"

"Gladly!"

They picked a place where the wind was blowing, and Mr. da Vinci fiddled with the flying machine with two odd-shaped wings and a pair of tail fins. Both Perez and Luis looked at it, full of concern about its fate.

The flying machine flew and then ...... Soon it fell to the ground, breaking the wings that had just been spliced together.

"It's a pity......" Marquis Perez shook his head.

The sun shone brightly on da Vinci's golden hair, but there was still a hint of disappointment in his light blue eyes. Apparently still took a hit. After all, he had been preparing this flying machine for almost two years, and it would probably take a long time to come up with a feasible plan.

But he still cheered up, went over to pick up the flying machine, and said firmly, "It's okay, although this flying machine can't work, I can design another one, this flying machine can still be saved!" ”

Where do you seem to have heard this?

It's very similar to when His Majesty designed the steam engine. The Marquis of Perez remembered Ferdinand's expression as he stared at the 1-horsepower primitive steam engine on Box Day.

"Although this steam engine is so inefficient, it still has a lot of room for improvement, and this steam engine still has ...... savings"

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Da Vinci lifted the belt of his trousers and took a notebook from the belt, on which he recorded it, apparently to describe and summarize the failed experiment so that he could find out the reasons for it later.

Louis, who wanted to cry without tears, was very unlucky to see da Vinci's left hand again, huh? He writes with his left hand?

After asking Leonardo da Vinci in Milan, Louis couldn't help but make up some of da Vinci's "secrets" - his writings - in fact, they can only be said to be notes and manuscripts - are written in mirror font, not from left to right, but from right to left like the Chinese. His detractors believe that it was Da Vinci who wanted to hide his blasphemous thoughts about God and the evil of the natural world from being revealed.

They may be right. You must know that da Vinci agreed with heliocentr. It's just that this manuscript was never published during his lifetime, and naturally no one else knew about it, let alone the church came to persecute him......

The experiment is complete, and we can finally get to the point.

Now the Marquis of Perez can finally make his intentions known, and he does not hide it, and bluntly states that he has been commissioned by King Ferdinand II of Aragon to hire Leonardo da Vinci to work as a painter at the court of Aragon.

Of course, da Vinci couldn't have left right now – The Last Supper was not yet finished! But within this year, the Last Supper would be finished, and the Marquis of Pérez very sincerely invited da Vinci to work as a painter in Aragon - and, most importantly, the Marquis of Pérez made it clear to da Vinci that His Majesty Ferdinand was not short of money, and the salary was definitely not low!

"Mr. da Vinci, I have heard that your monthly salary was originally negotiated at 2,000 ducats per month. However, the cashier of the Duke of Milan only pays you 500 ducats a month, which has caused trouble in your life...... "The Marquis de Pérez gently complained about what happened to Leonardo da Vinci.

However, the Marquis Perez himself did not expect that da Vinci's reaction would be so violent (of course, it is also incredibly historical)-

"yes!" Da Vinci's face suddenly turned red. "The Duke and Duchess are good in other respects, but they are a little stingy and sluggish in matters of money!" As he spoke, he couldn't help but slap the table and stand up, walking around the room.

"I was commissioned by the Duchess to decorate the Duke's palace, but I was not paid on time, which kept me from focusing on it, and I was often obliged to participate in unimportant work......"

Ahem, the "unimportant work" in Da Vinci's mouth refers to the "Last Supper".

It's a pity that it was the convent that paid for the painting, not the Duke of Milan, who only gave gifts from time to time, and the cashier who handled it ...... Alas! It's hard to put into words! ……

Da Vinci suddenly became particularly talkative, and by his deep resentment towards the duke, his words were like towering Jura and surging Volga......

"The Duke should have found out that I was short of money, but he didn't, and if anyone told him that I had a lot of money, it would be a lie and a lie, and I had to make a living......"

"Even the monastery is in arrears, and I am very distressed about it, really distressed......"

The Marquis of Perez watched da Vinci deliver his "accusation of blood and tears" there for a long time, was silent for a long time, and finally sighed: "From what happened to you, I understand that in fact, artists are also mortals, and they also have to eat!" ”

"Why not?!" Da Vinci was like meeting a bosom friend, "We also have to eat!" ”

—————— understood? The author of this book is also a hobby, so sometimes you have to understand that it is more delayed, otherwise, to tell you, on June 8, 1496, when da Vinci was halfway through the decoration of the palace, he went on strike because of the problem of unpaid wages!!! ——————

"Yes, His Majesty Ferdinand also understands your situation, he has heard about the Madonna of the Rock that you painted a long time ago, and he would love to have you paint a statue of the Madonna for the newly established Holy Angels Society in our country!"

The Marquis Perez, seeing that His Majesty's prediction was so accurate, and that Monsieur da Vinci was so short of money, took a good step - "Your Majesty promises that when you have finished drawing the Last Supper, if you wish to come to Spain, he will pay you an annual salary of 60,000 ducats, which will be settled once a month, and if you wish, you can also pay an advance, and in addition, Your Majesty will provide you with a special workshop, enough for a hundred weavers to work together......"

"Really?" Leonardo da Vinci excitedly interrupted the Marquis of Perez, "5,000 ducats a month? …… Not in arrears? ……”

It seems that Mr. da Vinci is really choked by the arrears of wages! Marquis Perez sighed in his heart.

"Your Majesty Ferdinand will definitely not owe wages!" Marquis Perez replied firmly.

Just kidding, how rich is His Majesty Ferdinand? As a member of the upper echelons of the aristocratic circle, he knew that as early as when His Majesty was still the crown prince, the means of accumulating wealth were unparalleled in the world...... No, sins, sins, any special means he has made out! None of the great nobles of Aragon was richer than him, and since ten years ago he had run the Inquisition, he did not know how much gold and silver had flowed into the pockets of His Majesty. Not to mention that after the capture of Granada, the "1492 Decree" that took the Jews squeezed a lot of oil and water.

As for the last few years, Your Majesty's conduct, means, and conduct have been much more decent, mistresses are gone, extravagant pleasures have stopped, and the Inquisition is still very active—this is not about personal morality, but about the means of those who do not like Your Majesty. However, His Majesty's trench is still inhumane as always, and it really is! In the past, it was to throw away the income of a mining to decorate the palace, but now it ...... Niederhogg spends as much a year as Charles VIII does!

As for how did the money come about...... Ahem, that's a little, classified...... The Marquis, as a high-ranking member of Niderhogg and the right-hand man of Director Sisneros, knew that His Majesty had tinkered with some things in the puppet kingdom of Sardinia, such as the farming techniques of the East, manure, corn and sweet potatoes......

No, you can't say it! Marquis Perez had in his heart, but he regarded these Nidhogg internal super secrets as something to be brought into the grave, and he would not confide in outsiders if he inflicted the top ten tortures in the East on him, otherwise the entire family would not be able to leave a single living mouth......

Of course! The Marquis of Perez knew that Mr. da Vinci would probably know these secrets in the future, after all, His Majesty had asked him to take charge of the re-improvement of the steam engine......

"That's great!" Da Vinci burst out laughing. "Please tell your Majesty! As soon as I finish that damn painting of the monastery, I'll go to the court of Aragon to be dispatched! ”

Really! Marquis Perez and Louis glanced at each other, or His Majesty's words are good! As long as you have money, you can let Satan push the stone mill for you!

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"Mr. Louis, please stay!" When the Marquis took his leave, da Vinci called out to Louis again, and said to him with a smile: "Monsieur Louis, your countenance inspires me. Although I am in a hurry to get the job done, I will still find time to draw a portrait for you...... No, you don't have to come in person, I've memorized it all! It will be done the day after tomorrow and will be given to you! You don't have to be so moved, it's just a little bit of my heart......"

At noon, da Vinci rushed to the monastery in a rage, picked up his pen and prepared to unleash it. If he is perfunctory, then the brilliance of "The Last Supper" will probably fall into the realm.

But it was an artist who shook the ages, and da Vinci stared at the face of Jesus, and the face of Judas filled with the face of the bishop, and the disciples, and looked at it for a while, and at last he just picked up the brush and added two or three strokes to the important place......

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Da Vinci was overjoyed to learn that his livelihood problems would soon be completely solved. Looking at the Last Supper in front of him, he decided to surprise the Marquis Perez.

For example, fill in the face of one of the apostles with the face of the Marquis Perez.

Nature is not good, and that has been honorably done by the Bishop of Milan. As to why later generations would know this, apart from da Vinci himself, the monks of the monastery were very supportive of it—no one else did the bishop's part.

The bishop said that the baby was bitter. He was spurned by the duke-hating Milanese for being considered "in cahoots" with Duke Ludovico Sforza, but the Duke and Pope Alexander VI were the real complicit, and the cart that carried the gold bribes north under the papal crown is still in the duke's mansion as a symbol of the long-lasting friendship between the two. He doesn't laugh with the duke, he doesn't flatter, he doesn't follow the crowd, can he sit down?

So, the first change that Ferdinand's action caused to da Vinci was the change in the face of St. Peter, the head of the twelve, in The Last Supper! Turned into the face of the Marquis of Perez! As the painting became popular, the Marquis of Pérez soon became famous among the Spanish aristocracy (he was Niderhogg, yes, but the marquis, the family identity could not be hidden), just like the Bishop of Milan.

In addition, Leonardo da Vinci created another painting, which is very shocking!

"The Smile of the Mona Lisa" is still famous, but even more sensational than it is "The Smile of Louis"! ——

This is a romantic, yet very realistic painting. After only one side, da Vinci painted directly without looking at people, and a women's clothing boss who was flowing out of the dust, with long hair and waist, and did not eat fireworks in the world, came to life on the paper!

Louis's smile, though not as mysterious as the Mona Lisa's, is more meaningful! Michelangelo's astonishing remark about this, "I have long hair and waist-length hair, and now it's good to marry you" is considered to be the most brilliant explanation of the philosophical ♂ spirit contained in this work.

Sadly, the protagonist of the painting, who was later confirmed to be a vigorous intelligence agent from Nidhogg, died untimely in 1498. He refused the gift of the painting and never saw Monsieur da Vinci again. His tombstone is inscribed with a line of small letters, "May there be no Finch in heaven."

The artist's career came to an end for the time being. While Leonardo da Vinci was working on his amazing masterpiece with joy, the state apparatus of Castile and Aragon was also beginning to slowly kick in, and in this year, it will burst out with great power!

This year, the state apparatus, primarily the state apparatus of the Kingdom of Aragon, will complete three not-so-trivial tasks -

drive the French out of southern Italy and liberate the Kingdom of Naples;

The Hafs dynasty invaded Tunisia in North Africa (described in advance) and took deep control of Tunisia, and Spain ceded the island of Djerba, the Bay of Cádiz, Tripolitania, and especially the last area, which became an important base in North Africa to contain the Ottoman Turkish Empire's war of aggression;

Finally, the most magnificent national action of the year was launched - a large-scale expedition to the Americas! Here we have to express regret for some undesirable phenomena in later generations.

The later solar system overlord Iberia and the United Empire of America - Xia, that is, the confederation of Chinese and Western republics, various films about Ferdinand the Great are naturally indispensable. Unfortunately, despite the Emperor's repeated protests, the comments and barrage etiquette of such films are still not observed. Even the hard UP in the background dares to defy the law.

The following is an uncivilized phrase from the introduction of the documentary "The Conquest of America" (episode 3 of 1496):

Ferdinand: "Get out of the way, I'm going to start pretending to be B!" ”

[UP walked peacefully]

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On January 5, 1496, Valencia, the second largest port in Aragon and the third largest city (after Zaragoza at this time), on the western coast of the Mediterranean, did not experience the unbearable cold as in the rest of Europe.

Winters on the western shores of the Mediterranean Sea are mild and humid. Valencia is crossed by the Hucal River and its Cabriel River. Irrigated agriculture has been well developed since the time of the Roman Empire.

Ferdinand felt a sense of intimacy with this "pearl of the Mediterranean", because the climate here is like the land of Fujian, and the crops near the sea here are not Sardinian wheat, but rice – in line with Ferdinand's diet. At the same time, since the invasion of the Arab Empire in 711, rice, oranges and gunpowder were brought here.

That's right, there is also a gunpowder, which is an important gunpowder production place in Spain now and in the future, and an artillery production plant will be established to supply a large part of the gunpowder and guns, so that the Spanish phalanx can cross Europe and conquer overseas. This shows that there is already a lot of potential for a military-industrial base here, and it can realize Ferdinand's grand plan to create a military-industrial complex on the mainland.

However, Valencia's main industry now is shipbuilding! This is the most developed center of shipbuilding in Aragon, and for the past four years Ferdinand has continued to build Galen ships and clippers in all the port cities of Aragon and in some Castilian shipyards, a quarter of which came from the Valencian shipyards, and half of the production of Galen warships came from this factory. Of the 8,000 shipbuilders hired from Flanders and other places, 60% were concentrated in Valencia. Shipyards and dockyards were repeatedly added to the site, and several technical improvements were made.

Valencia was not the place where the fleet departed, and the timing was not right, so Ferdinand was not here to watch the fleet's feat.

Today, Ferdinand came to inspect the place as a king, doing a little work.

What catches his eye is the wide road, the towering buildings, the neat city, and the beautiful environment, all of which attract his attention......

(Inner monologue: Ahem, actually, the truth is, what I see is a hurried masonry, a public toilet rising from the ground, a mighty chengguan, and a beggar wailing (dragged to labor)...... The most pleasing thing to look at is just the wet market...... ）

His Majesty King Ferdinand then came to the shipyards and dockyards of Valencia to meet the great builders of these projects. In a busy shipyard, the keels of Galen ships are being laid. In the last few days, several ships have been built and are now moored in the port of Valencia.

His Majesty King Ferdinand drove to a newly built shipyard in Valencia.

After listening to the report of the director of the new ship, His Majesty King Ferdinand put on a hard hat and climbed to the top to inspect the operation of the shipyard on the spot.

Witnessing the hard work and hard work of the workers, His Majesty King Ferdinand was very excited, and he turned around and asked the factory director: "How long will it take to build one of these ships?" ”

The director replied: "The highest record was when a Flemish boatman assembled a Flute sailboat in 12 days. But the construction of the Galen ships, especially the warships, was much longer, and if the supply of skilled craftsmen and timber was sufficient, and fortunately we were able to enjoy these conditions for both years, a normal Galen ship of five hundred tons could be completed in three to six months.

"And a well-built 600-ton Galen battleship usually takes more than half a year or even a whole year. This is all thanks to the hard work of the boatmen, especially the craftsmen and mechanics of Flanders, who contributed a lot. ”

(To be continued)

PS: At first, it was just a temporary death, and then I wrote the next few paragraphs, starting from the paragraph of Taizu, I wrote full of feelings, so I said all the words from the bottom of my heart......

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His Majesty King Ferdinand couldn't help but be overjoyed when he saw the shipyard flourishing. Quantum mechanics and relativity are used to forge superstrings. String after string, the door of all wonders. Incarnate all things, and the interpretation is endless.

As soon as Ferdinand's consciousness moved, he observed all things, his eyes were completely open to the sky, and when he pointed to the sky, there was a pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, descending from the void.

Ferdinand wrote the Book of the Elders to teach the world.

This scripture is not an ordinary product, a word for a hundred miles, the beginning of the Taishang Laojun opened the sky to create. The most true and righteous, the most divine and the most holy. The law is chaotic, and the gods are in harmony.

The chaos gets the "Elder Sutra", which begins to distinguish heaven and earth, and is clear and dissected.

At the beginning, he obtained the "Elder Sutra", and the north and south of the beginning of Anjian, and the east and west were corrected.

The ancestors obtained the "Elder Sutra", and they were enlightened, clear and righteous, respected the elderly, and worshiped the lord.

The opening chapter is "Daozang, the Elder Sutra, and the Red Clothes Tour".

"Red Clothes Tour" said: "There is a shrimp in Yangzhou, and its name is Quercus." The length of the lance is unknown, and it is thousands of miles. Transformed into a bird, its name is 昃. The back of the sun, I don't know how many thousands of miles it is. Flying in anger, its wings are like clouds hanging from the sky. It is a bird, and the student movement will be in the center. Causes, (8) and (9) also.

Yu Zhi entered the central government, the water hit 3,000 miles, and the people who traveled around the world 90,000 miles, went to the purple sun to sit and be exempted. The first emperor is also, and now it is also, and the seven people are blowing each other with breath. Hu Tiancang, his Deng color evil? Far away and nowhere to go? Accustomed to the next also, if it is, it is already gone.

And if the wife is not inexperienced, she is not able to cross the river. Accumulate a second above Daze, then the worm will be born, and when the people are encountered, they will be peppered, and there will be fewer and more strange. The accumulation of the wind is not thick, then it wants to talk and laugh and is powerless, and the trade of the twenty countries is easy to pass, and then it is now a wide coat.

Qingfeng is established, and the Trinity is now Pingxi. Bo and Du Du laughed and said: "I decided to fly and grab the big position, and the time will not come, but just snort on the ground, and hunt foxes with 90,000 miles?" "Whoever stabs the president will fall with three shots, Sima's heart; Those who want a coup d'état should learn from Bengbu; Those who are on the side of the Qing monarch will visit China in advance. Second, what do you know about the tiger!

Small knowledge is not as good as big knowledge, and small years are not as good as big years. Do you know what it is? The public knows that it is obscure, and Wumao does not know the spring and autumn, and this small year is also. There are Daze people in the south of Chu, who take 500 years old as spring and 500 years old as autumn; In ancient times, there were ancestors, with 8,000 years old as spring and 8,000 years old as autumn. And the King of England has been heard of for a long time, and everyone is sad!

Wen Zhi asked Hu also: In the south of the great river, there is the Stygian Sea, and Daze also. There is a grub, its lifespan is thousands of years, and those who do not know its details are called the mistle. There is a bird, whose name is 昃, with its back like Mount Tai, wings like clouds hanging from the sky, 90,000 miles around Western countries, talking about the afterlife, changing China, angrily denouncing HK, and the three representatives.

Trump laughed and said, "Who is Xi Shiye? I tweeted up, but looking down at the sea, between the founding of the Tang Dynasty, this is also the emperor of the gods, and he is also Xi Shi? "This is a small and big argument.

The husband chanted a poem, carried a waist, spoke a castle, and imitated a forest, and his spell was also like this.

And Tung Chee-hwa still laughed. And the world is black and does not look in the mirror, and the world invites songs without pronunciation, which is determined by the distinction of re-election, and the state of argumentation is already over. He is in public opinion, not counted. Although, the law has not been established.

Chiwenga visited China ahead of schedule, and the Qing monarch also sent out in five days. He is not counted in the news. Eradicate Mugabe to all Chinese too.

If the husband takes advantage of the change of state-owned enterprises, and the life of the people, to continue the infinite, he will be evil! Therefore, it is said: Jiang comes without a post, Ze people have no merit, and there is no name for governing the people. [Twelve words at the end of the sentence, only the words of the sentence are smooth, don't take it seriously, although the rest of the month is moth, the heart is to my rabbit, the CCP governs the country, it is really the prosperity of the world! The rest of the heartfelt words, praise the new China also]

Deng let the world Yu Yang and Peng, saying: "The river crab is out, and the membrane is endless, and it is also difficult to be in the river!" When the rain falls, it is still soaked, and it is also hard to eat! The Master immediately ruled the world, and I was like a corpse, and I regarded myself as lacking. To the world. The patriarch said: "The son rules the world, and the world has been governed, and he is still the son, how will the people be?" The Military Commission, the pillar of the party-state, will be with the civilian officials? Wrens nest in the deep forest, but only one branch; The squirrel drinks the river, but it is full. Rest is the king, he has nothing to do in the world! Although the people are not cured, the corpse will not be replaced by the bottle. ”

Hillary Clinton asked Putin: "I have heard that I have heard that I will not return." I am terrified that his words are like a lot of work and no extreme, and there are great paths, and they are not close to the feelings of the people. ”

Putin said: "What do you mean by that? ”

"It is said, 'In the land of Jura Mountain, there is a god emperor's residence. Business is like an army, and talking and laughing is like a hurricane; Do not eat grains, suck wind and drink dew; Ride the clouds, fly the dragon, and swim beyond the four seas; Its contemplation made America great again. I thought it was mad and didn't believe it. ”

Putin said: "However, the blind cannot compare with the view of articles, and the deaf cannot compare with the sound of bells and drums." Is it only the corpse that is deaf and blind? The husband knows that there is also it. It's his words, and so is the female Hillary! Watching the sea, building the country, taking all things as one, the world is chaotic, and the disadvantages are based on the world! People are also, things are not injured, Daze is the sky but not continuous, the drought is gold, the stone flow, the soil and mountains are scorched but not angry. It is its tiny work, comparable to the ruler of the world, who is willing to live in the world! ”

The U.S. imperialists sent military supplies to aid Chang, and Kaishen sent logistics to no avail.

Taizu ruled the people of the world and leveled the land government. I still remember that the shore is in the Changbai Mountain, the south of the Qingchuan River, and the martyrs are in the spirit of the sky.

In the next life, Jiang Zi said: "Ma is communist in the world, and Soviet Russia is totalitarian." With nonanal, its system cannot be guaranteed. If you ask for a worm, there is no room for high pressure. Is it not the promiser who overthrows him for his uselessness? ”

Jiang Zi said: "The master is stubborn in Ma Yi. There are people in the international community who are familiar with Marx's quotations, and they have been bragging about it all their lives. When the young communists heard about it, they consulted the Comintern. The young communists are in difficulty, and the international envoys and advisers will be armed. Later, in a big war with the Kuomintang, the Young Communist Party was defeated, abandoned the land and went on the Long March. The proposal of Zunyi is to change the heavens and the earth. Respect the righteousness of the sages, or success, or not exempt from the death of the north, the use of differences. The founding father of the United States, who had Jefferson, wrote the Declaration of Independence, and he was a lifelong slave, on the sheets, a female slave president, talking and laughing. He is also Xi Shi? Ideal reality, clear. The constitution of the United States imperialism did not have nonanal at the beginning, and Lin was the maintenance of unity, and he once abandoned the abolition of slavery. Now that I have Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, why don't I worry about thinking that China is special and acting in Jianghu, and worry that no one shares its ideals? The believers of the elderly will live forever! ”

When I heard it in the afterlife, it was irrefutable, and I thought about it in the twilight, and I was depressed. The sun is thin, the breath is dying, people's lives are in danger, and there is no need to worry about the day.

The car driver came to the residence, asked what he wanted, and sighed with tears: "Shouyuan will be exhausted!" No more talking and laughing! With great ambitions, the sky is not a holiday! The sky is long, how thin is it to me! ”

Jiang Zi also sighed: "Yes! Yes! The sages have a poem that says:

Life is as gorgeous as summer flowers!

and suspicious Yaotai mirror, flying in the blue clouds.

A morning plays nine heavens, and the sunset falls to the eight thousand of Chaoyang Road!

The young resignation from the champion, the golden makeup sword to invite the honor!

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The vicissitudes of life, life and death, this hatred is endless! ”

Laughing in the afterlife, the nurse took the wine, knew that she was dying, drank with Jiang, and passed away.

Jiang Zi was silent, and ordered to take a pen and paper, that is, four lines of poetry, inscribed on the white wall:

At that time, the four strings were played during the banquet, and the song was repeated.

How many things have happened in the eternal red, and the life is being laughed and discussed. ”

(Hehe, it's all blocked, "Ferdinand's Improvisation", I've moved to the previous chapter, and the author's ability to do death seems to be improving, but ridicule is ridicule, the author has a principle to insist on: If you can't think about river crabs, I'll shut up, it doesn't exist)

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Although it was improvised by Ferdinand, this "Book of Elders" is also useful. For example......

"Mr. Chief, please ......," Ferdinand handed the Spanish version of the Book of the Elders to the director of the shipyard, "how about reading it over now?" You don't have to read it all, just read it out. ”

The director of the factory, who was also a member of Niederhogg (not surprisingly, it is always right to inspect and pick a safe place for his own house), and after listening to Ferdinand's words, the director of the factory suddenly broke out in a cold sweat.

"No, Your Majesty, I don't dare! Almost every word of your text has a great secret...... If I read it, my life will be reduced by ninety years! I have an eighty-year-old mother and a three-year-old child, and if I go to God like this, they ......."

"No, don't be nervous, I'm kidding you." Ferdinand patted the director on the shoulder, and the director's mood finally stabilized a little.

Ferdinand whispered a few words to one of the officers beside him, who respectfully took the Book of the Elders and left the shipyard.

Why did the officer go? But in order to send this "Sutra of the Elders" to the Castilian fleet that was going to Flanders for the wedding, and join the list of gifts from His Majesty King Ferdinand, and give it to the Flemish Duchess, who inherited the vast Burgundian territory......

Ahem, this is only an auxiliary means, Ferdinand and his assistant, the Mongolian doctor Kulen, in this regard, as described in Chapter 91, "The World of Medicine", which is the right way to kill people and set fires, seek money and kill people......

For the development of the shipbuilding industry in Valencia, Ferdinand was generally quite pleased.

Without Ferdinand's assistance, by 1496 Castile and Aragon had the combined navy of third place in Europe, behind Portugal and Denmark (League of Kalmar).

After all, Castile and Aragon were originally two naval powers, one in the Atlantic and the other in the Mediterranean, otherwise Aragon would not have been able to occupy Naples for so long in such a grand manner, and later annexed Sicily and Sardinia permanently, and the Pope, the French, and the Italians had nothing to do with it.

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This time, for example, Castile will send (not warships, mind you, most of them are not warships) more than 300 ships, sailors and soldiers, more than 10,000 sailors, to Flanders directly by sea.

The reason for not going by land is that the land route must pass through France, and now, Spain, HRE, England, Milan, Venice, and France are all at war, and they are always fighting! Although neither side has attacked each other's territory on a large scale on both sides of the Pyrenees, sporadic clashes and confrontations have occurred from time to time.

Later, this fleet, in Flanders, died of starvation due to the rude treatment of Philip Archduke...... (which is why Ferdinand gritted his teeth), however, did not break the bones of Castile, whose navy steadily strengthened every year since.

And the strength of Aragon's navy and fleet was not weaker than that of Castile. The combined maritime power of these two countries naturally ranks among the best in Europe. Second only to Portugal and Denmark.

However, it is important to say that the previous ones are outdated.

Because, with Ferdinand's incomparably strong support, and the advanced designs, techniques and craftsmen and technicians he brought, Spain, primarily Aragon, its navy, has made a huge leap!

By the beginning of 1496, in a little more than four years, Ferdinand had built new ships for Spain in the modern era (excluding the old (in fact, the common model of the era) produced in Castile and Aragon), as follows:

600-ton Galen battleship (40 guns) .............................................................................. 10

500-ton Galen battleship (36 guns) .............................................................................. 30

500-ton Galen armed merchant ship (22 guns.................................................................. 10

200-ton Galen armed merchant ship (18 guns).................................................................. 10

500 ton clipper ship.................................................................................... 10

500-ton "Standard Balanced" Flying Shear Galen (30 guns) ................................................ 13

500-ton "low-speed improved" flying shear Galen ship (28~30 guns) ................................................ 10

500 ton "Flying Shear Optimized" Flying Shear Galen Ship (already in the category of flying clippers...... 10

300-ton Flute (15 cannons) ........................................................................... 101 (1 can be assembled in 12 days, 100 more will be built in 1496, Ferdinand saw a newly completed first Flute in 1496 in the shipyard)

Total number of new modern ships built: 204

Total tonnage: 10×600 + 83×500 + 10×200 + 101×300 = 79800 (tons)

Naval guns (all cast steel guns, with powerful long-barreled smoothbore large-caliber guns and cannons, so even the Flute Galleons are not easily accessible to today's pirates): 10×40+30×36+10×22+10×18+13×30+10×29+101×15=4075 (doors)

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Ahem, the annual military expenditure is more than 3.5 million ducats, and in 1495 it is 5 million ducats (equal to the annual revenue of five France), Ferdinand said that there is no pressure on the big construction.

As a result, under the crushing of Ferdinand's completely unreasonable gold yuan, the current Spanish fleet has been strengthened to an incredible extent!

In recent years, each country has been blind to each other's overall military strength, not to mention deliberately keeping it secret, so just as the French did not know that Spain had a sharp weapon such as the Spanish phalanx, a large number of flintlock muskets and even line tactics to be shot in line, the Portuguese next door did not know how amazing the naval strength of its neighbor, Spain, which had threatened it with its navy three years ago, had reached an astonishing level of naval strength ノ

What's more, in 1496, Ferdinand wanted to build 40 500~600-ton Galen warships, 20 Type 3 Flying Shear Galen ships, and 100 Flute galleons. By 1497, there was no navy in Europe that could fight a major naval battle with Spain......

Ferdinand was still satisfied with the shipbuilding progress, but Spain's high-quality forest resources were a bit overwhelming. In particular, in 1496, a total of 200 new ships of all kinds of modern and modern types will be built, with a total tonnage of 81,000 tons, which will consume a huge amount. But it was this new year, with Spain's large-scale expedition to the Americas, that there were plenty of high-quality hardwood resources to support the shipbuilding industry, especially the simple, practical, and mass-produced Flute galleons—at least thirty or forty could be built by cutting down a small fraction of the cypress trees in Bermuda's one archipelago.

As for naval artillery? In terms of the number of naval guns, in 1495 Sardinia had produced 18 British Kofilin cannons and supplied them to the Spanish Navy, so the number was already in surplus and there was no need to mention it. And the quality, using advanced modern technology, and after four years of employing craftsmen from northwestern Europe for production and training, the quality of Sardinia's artillery can undoubtedly be said to be the first in Europe and the first in the world.

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In other words, in fact, Ferdinand had raised his navy to the level of the "British Empire", and if he wanted to now, he could immediately invade Portugal and then abuse the Portuguese army from land to sea.

Of course, he would not do such an irrational thing.

From this point of view, Ferdinand's attempt to win over Flanders, although risky, is really not without confidence.

After three years, if the goal can be successfully achieved through the legal succession and the deal with France, it will be happy.

But if it is torn up, Ferdinand can guarantee that the French will not be allowed to sail for a piece of sail, which will be nine times out of ten.

If the situation is out of control, it is a big deal to start the era of the British Empire in advance and let the French know what the consequences of the navy will not work. Anyway, the army has a large number of advanced firearms and tactics, and it may not be impossible to fight a war by sea to Flanders. Even if he loses in Flanders, according to the "custom" of the War of Succession, he will attack Navarre, Bordeaux, Andorra, and even a large territory in southwestern France, which can really make the French unable to take care of themselves!

Of course, such a situation is by no means what Ferdinand wants to see, but he does have accumulated enough powerful force to flip the □table, and what cannot be obtained on the battlefield may not be obtained by the unification, let alone at the negotiating table.

Of course, Flanders doesn't have to get it, but since Ferdinand can flip the □table, it's much easier to do things, as Emperor Trump said: "All options are on the table." If you say that you will kill your whole family, you will kill your whole family. ”

Of course, being a man still has to talk about ~faith~use~. Ferdinand, though sometimes adventurous, was mostly focused on building up his strength: although Portugal could be annexed now, at least by force, he did not rush forward in a hurry.

Ferdinand watched with peace of mind as the French repeatedly invaded the Italian peninsula like death, and then patiently drove the French out by himself or everyone, and then used legal means (the husband and wife were outdated and orphaned and died young, it was really not Ferdinand's pot, the child was short-lived, maybe Ferdinand would have to give him a few more months) to seek to gain Flanders, stabilize the position of Naples, and recover Andorra and Haute Navarre twenty years later.

Although he can show his hideous face now, Ferdinand doesn't want to be the target of the public, if he must become the common target of some enemies, he wants to be the of the people-

That's not stressful.

In Europe, if you want to achieve a C-level goal safely, it is difficult for you to win with only the power of C or C+, but if you use the power of A-level to pick up the crown pearl, it is inevitable that you will fail. The best way is to farm slowly, accumulate steadily, and use A-level strength to eat and seize the fruits of B and C, so that others can't scare you at all, and they won't fight you because of this, so you can easily get it.

Lengthy and complicated negotiations or evenly matched wars can be tedious, and while the art is significant, Ferdinand really didn't want to be compromised. One of Ferdinand's great pleasures was that when his friend came to him, he would give him a kiss without saying a word; When the opponent walks to the negotiating table, he is shocked to find that he has been handed an ultimatum – and then has to accept it. The death of João II is still a "great achievement" that His Majesty is proud of and gloating over every day.

"For the first twenty years, I built an impregnable steel line in the Pyrenees with a fortress. Use flintlock pistols and line tactics, three-stage shooting, and play the most powerful platoon shot. Let the industrial revolution of steel and cotton bear fruit. Let the blood-colored Ducats fill the vault. Let the imperialist conquests sweep across the Americas. Let the galleon routes of the Pacific Ocean be opened. Let the Spanish navy family abuse Britain, France, Denmark and Portugal. Then the Iberian Peninsula could be united, and Ireland and England could be pacified; The Berbers of North Africa would bow down, and the French and Ottomans would be deterred; Then European intervention would be reduced to a joke, and the civil war in the HRE would be insignificant; The Catholic organization was re-established, Calvin's heresy did not enter the territory of the Empire, and the fall of Vienna was not to be alarmed; In this way, it is enough to assume the hegemony of the world. "This is a little bit of Ferdinand the Great's life lesson.

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Ferdinand told everyone: "The introduction of new technologies and skilled craftsmen has greatly increased efficiency and improved working conditions. However, our shipyard workers have been working in the field for many years, and it is still very hard. As he spoke, Ferdinand approached the workers, shook their hands, and asked about the work and life of these builders from all over the world.

When he learned that there were people who had worked in the shipyard for decades, he was in awe of their dedication to the shipyard. His Majesty was touched by the fact that the boatmen in front of him who were in charge of painting and painting the cement (thanks to His Majesty's brain, of course) were still busy. His Majesty walked over to the craftsmen, and the workers gathered around him, scrambling to hold His Majesty's outstretched hand. His Majesty King Ferdinand shouted over and over again: "Thank you for your hard work! The workers also shouted: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for your care!" ”

In fact, the shipyard was a major initiative for Niedhogg to accelerate economic development, strengthen coastal defense, increase revenue, and serve the country; Of the thousands of new and old shipyard workers, 5 percent were members of Niederhogg, and 30 percent were Niederhogg's informants. Since the shipyard was brought under the command of Niderhogg and further developed by it, 15 Galen ships and an equal number of Flute galleons have been built. Four years ago, His Majesty King Ferdinand made such a request to the shipyards of the major royal families (the royal family is the state): to work hard, serve the country, build shipyards, improve technology, strive for excellence, defend coastal defense, and promote the vigorous development of maritime undertakings. Today, Niderhogg and the entire crew of the shipyard have lived up to the teachings and ardent hopes of His Majesty King Ferdinand.

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