(Hehe,It's all shielded.,It's been transferred to the previous chapter.,Anyway, the author's ability to do death seems to be improving.,But the principle still has to be adhered to.,Can't you think about river crabs.,I'll shut up.,It's not there)

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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 is also a member of Nidhogg (it's not surprising, it's always right to inspect and pick a safe place for your own house) The director of the factory suddenly broke out in a cold sweat, "No, Your Majesty, I don't dare!" Almost every word of this scripture 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......