In the 65th century of the B century, the greatest figures in the history of our country, the Empress and Emperor couple of the United Empire of St. Roman-Santa Sunia, Catherine Alekseyevich Konstantin and Romeo Emilius Caesar abdicated 50 years after the golden wedding. The two of them and their families agreed www.biquge.info unanimously surrender all power of this great empire to Parliament.

There is no doubt that he was a great monarch, and so was his wife.

Authoritative historians say of Emperor Romeo Aemilius Caesar: "Julius Caesar struck a blow that weakened the Tasman Empire and allowed the light of civilization to shine on the continent again; Julius Caesar also spearheaded the abolition of the monarchy and the resurrection of the Roman Senate democracy, the National Elite Council, in the United Empire of San Roman-Santsunia.

The members of our parliament are all military generals, super-wealthy business owners, and social intellectual elites with real knowledge, and each of the three categories accounts for one-third of the total, and this intelligent democratic system has ensured the continued strength of our country from the top-level design. Power belongs to parliament = power belongs to the people. This top-level system has ensured China's sustained and high-speed development, its military strength has always remained strong, and the national strength of a major country based on scientific and technological and economic strength has increased day by day, which has eventually enabled China to develop into a superpower.

Fifteen years before Julius Caesar announced his glorious abdication, the Tasman Empire, one of the three great powers of the world, was the archenemy of the United Empire of St. Roman-Sunia and the spiritual leader of all the barbarian nations on the continent. Also involved in this war are my country, as well as all other countries of the entire world. This is a global arms race in which all countries of the world are involved, and it can be called a world war in the mode of weapons. This is the world arms race in the B century, which has always been famous in history.

All military historians will speak highly of this arms race: an out-and-out world war, which took out a number of unqualified puppet powers, effectively contained the war and played a role in the war......

Not only military historians say this, but also politicians of the existing powerful countries, large business owners of various countries and industries, scientists of various countries and disciplines, all heavy industry workers, left-wing and right-wing centrists, and even non-mainstream politicians who are regarded as aliens by most normal people, and pacifists who are extremely averse to weapons, all of these groups that should be opposed to each other speak highly of this arms race, which spans more than 60 years. The reason is very simple -- the military industry stimulates the economy, and development promotes the people's livelihood. I'm not talking nonsense, you can look down.

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In the 40s of the B century, the Saxony-Windsor Empire, which was the first to implement a constitutional monarchy and a noble council system, was also the first to start a revolution in military technology. Countries around the world followed suit, triggering the first global arms race, an arms race that lasted for more than half a century.

The Saxony-Windsor Empire was a traditional maritime power, and this arms race war was also based on naval equipment innovation. In 41 of the B century, the Royal Navy of the Saxony-Windsor Empire decided to develop in the direction of an all-armored battlefleet, and began trial construction of dreadnoughts the following year. Other high-tech powers, such as the Kingdom of William and our own, followed......

In the early 50s of the B century, the Tasman Empire joined this arms race, launched a plan to build a strong army on land and sea, purchased a large number of weapons from the international market, and replaced the army with new equipment. Because the country has always used gold to settle its accounts in the international arms trade (in the last years of the empire, due to the depletion of gold stocks, silver began to be used as a means of payment), and the country's arms purchases have always been quite popular with international arms dealers, and the country's arms purchases are also nicknamed gold arms purchases.

In 52 of the B century, the Tasman Empire Army signed the first order for the procurement of weapons in this arms race, 2,000 6mm Manlisha light machine guns, 40,000 6mm Manlisha short rifles, and another era of gold procurement in the Tasman Empire began, and a large amount of gold continued to flow from the Tasman Empire and its conquered areas to high-tech powers, in exchange for steel products that were carefully processed by the arsenal. Unlike the many gold purchases of the previous war years, this gold purchase was not accompanied by gunsmoke and bloodshed, and large quantities of gold continued to flow from the Tasman Empire's treasury to the high-tech arms exporting powers, but the gold from the newly conquered areas was never seen flowing into the Tasman Empire's treasury again.

In order to reduce the loss of gold in the Empire's treasury, the Empire required that all new equipment introduced in this arms race be produced as much as possible. Influenced by images from the sponsors and other participating countries, the country focused its participation on the development of its navy.

In this arms race, the equipment innovation of the Imperial Army began with the purchase of high-priced surplus army equipment of the Saxony-Windsor Empire, to the workshop-style imitation of new firearms, and then to the mass production of various types of firearms and artillery, and developed step by step. Since the 60s of the B century, the country has successfully introduced a number of gun and ammunition production lines, which has basically solved the problem of weapon self-sufficiency of the army. By the mid-70s of the B century, except for large-caliber heavy artillery and its ammunition, which could not be produced by itself and were still purchased from the Saxony-Windsor Empire at a high price, all the new army weapons of the Tasman Empire had been domestically produced and the planning was basically completed.

In terms of the navy, due to the country's weak shipbuilding technology, the Imperial Navy has been purchasing high-priced second-hand surface ships produced in large quantities from the Kingdom of William for many years, and the country plans to make a leap forward in naval armaments, fully realize the self-manufacture of new equipment capital ships and the naval strength to enter the forefront of the world. The reigning emperor at that time dictated: "The strength of the navy must be worthy of the strength of our empire."

In 53 of the B century, the Tasman Empire began to plan to "self-build" dreadnoughts, because the country did not have any relevant ship industry equipment supporting system, this "self-built" could only buy everything needed overseas at a high price, and assemble it domestically under the guidance of foreign engineers. This kind of "self-made" may be more expensive than buying. The vast wealth of gold plundered during the period of expansion was thrown into the navy in large quantities. Navy, a super expensive branch of the military. Due to the rapid progress of mining and smelting technology, gold was no longer as scarce as it was in the A century, and it no longer had the high price it used to be, which meant that the Tasman Empire would have to pay more to get what it wanted......

In B54, the first round of shipbuilding in the Tasman Empire began:

Mesu-class battleships, a total of 7 ships. The first generation of self-built dreadnoughts, self-built, slightly ironclad battleships, the first B century was built in 54, with a standard displacement of 9,020 tons, a full load displacement of 9,800 tons, a length of 106.2 meters, a width of 18.8 meters, a draft of 8.1 meters, equipped with 12 152mm guns (6 twins), 14 single-seat 76mm guns and two single-seat 47mm guns, using a three-rise steam engine, rated power of 11,000 horsepower, maximum speed of 16 knots. Personnel: 630.

Diye-class battleships, a total of 7 ships. The first generation of dreadnoughts, self-built, the appearance of ironclad battleships, the empire at that time was very rich, and it was able to build two capital ships at the same time. The first ship was built in 55 years of the B century, with a standard displacement of 9,320 tons, a full load displacement of 9,910 tons, a length of 111.6 meters, a width of 19.9 meters, a draft of 8.2 meters, a rated engine power of 14,000 horsepower, a maximum speed of 17.7 knots, and 12 250mm guns (6 twins) and 6 76mm guns (single) and 6 single-seat 47mm guns. Personnel: 600.

In June 66 of the B century, the construction of the epoch-making King Redbeard-class battleship began, a battleship built by the Tasman Empire in cooperation with the allied Kingdom William.

Displacement: standard 10013 tons and 10670 tons at full load. Dimensions: 115.8x19.5x7.9. Speed: 16 knots, power plant: 12 boilers, 2 triple-rise reciprocating steam engines, main engine power: 9,698-10, 2282 shafts, 2 propellers, coal: 1050 tons, heavy oil: 110 tons, endurance: 10 knots, 4300 nautical miles, 14 knots, 2180 nautical miles, weapons: main guns: 2 2 2 260mm/L40 (bow and stern); 2 single tubes 260mm/L35 (amidships); Secondary gun: 6 single-barreled 105mm/L35; 8-seater single tube 88mm/L30; Torpedoes: 6 450mm torpedo tubes, armor main armor belt: 300-400-300mm Horizontal armor: 180-200-180mm Deck: 60mm Main turret: 120mm on both sides Top 50mm Gun mount: 300mm Conning tower: 300mm on both sides Top 30mm Personnel: 568-591 people

The Redbeard King class battleship began construction in June 66 of the B century, and six battleships were built at the same time, and they were launched almost simultaneously in January of the 68th century B, and all of them began official service in October of the following year. At that time, with the launch of these six capital ships, the country's navy began to have 20 active ironclad dreadnoughts (ironclad battleships) in October 69 of the B century, and the number of large dreadnoughts with a tonnage of about 10,000 tons jumped to the first place in the world at that time.

This record stood for more than 10 years, and was not broken until September 81 of the B century.

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Hee-hee-ha, the empire is so awesome, just like the Beiyang Sailor who smashed the silver of the Daqingguo family, let's take a look at another data,

The cost of the Jiyuan ship is 680,000 taels of silver, and the cost of silver is 280 taels of silver per ton according to the proportion of the displacement of the warship. Referring to the fifties and sixties of the 19th century, the international market of gold and silver was 1:10 or 1:11, the price of gold and silver was 1 to 10, and an ounce was converted into 0.84 taels, when 37.5 grams was a tael, and an ounce was 31.5 grams.

Equivalent to 270,000 yuan a ton of steel, it is not expensive, the 052D ship of the DPRK Navy, 3.5 billion yuan, 7,000 tons, 500,000 yuan a ton of warship, this is called a high-end industry. The recent price of steel plate is 5,000 yuan. Counting other reasonable attrition, calculated at a 34-ounce one-ton warship, plus the multiplier cost of weapons and personnel accessories at 1.5, etc., the annual maintenance cost multiplier is 0.05.

So, the statistical calculations of the Imperial Treasury Department:

Mesu-class battleships, a total of 7 ships. 9020*34*7 = 2146760 ounces, 67.6 tons of gold, plus personnel and weapons allocation costs, 33.6 tons of gold

Diye-class battleships, a total of 7 ships. 9320*34*7=2218160 ounces, 69.9 tons of gold, plus personnel and weapons allocation costs, 35 tons of gold

The Redbeard King-class battleship (this is a genuine battleship, it should be expensive), a total of six ships were built, and construction began at the same time, and special funds were allocated: 3 million ounces, 93.5 tons of gold. The cost of personnel and armament is 45 tons of gold.

The first batch of the main fleet cost a total of 345 tons of gold, plus auxiliary ships and base facilities, 500 tons of gold should be there.

Roughly calculated, the maintenance of these warship facilities also required 10 tons of gold per year, or 300 tons in 30 years, and this fleet cost the Tasman Empire 800 tons of gold. (China has saved 2,000 tons of gold for so many years, hehe.) ）

20 battleships, such a mighty fleet, 800 tons of gold, such an expensive fleet......

The navy has been a super money-burning service since ancient times, and it must have a large number of rich colonies or strong industrial strength to maintain, and it is no wonder that the British Empire has no colonies, and then the British Royal Navy, which has been the world's first for hundreds of years, collapsed.

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Unlike other countries with perfect industrial industries, the British Empire invested 800 tons of gold to build warships, which is basically circulating in the national industrial and commercial system, and it is possible to create more wealth. You can invest it again when you get the money back. This is how advanced countries basically play military expansion. You think that the US military's warships are too expensive and the US government is at a loss, but in fact, people are developing the economy and benefiting the people through investment in military projects.

The Tasman Empire, which was already backward in industry, almost did not have any modern shipbuilding related supporting industrial systems, and he could not build such a system engineering product as a warship by himself, and he could not even draw drawings. Ship plates, keels, ship paints, turbine motors, drive shafts, all the contents of industrial technology have to count on foreigners, and boxes of gold are thrown out and sent abroad, and there is no circulation of wealth at home. From the beginning, the empire was a pure predatory system with no hematopoietic mechanism, no circulation mechanism. 800 tons of gold, which was stolen and stored, is now spent, that is, it is spent, except for the little salary given to the officers and soldiers, most of it is really outflowed.

Other high-tech countries built their navies to maintain and expand their colonies, and the proceeds from these colonies could fully cover the cost of building and maintaining their navies. The Tasman Empire has too few colonies, and the value of the colonies is not much, so it is impossible to expect the profits obtained by the colonies to fully subsidize the military expenses of the navy. Purely from the economic account, the navy is a pure loss of money. The purpose of the Tasman Empire's navy is more for the name of the empire, the influence of the empire, and the majesty of the empire. The sixth most powerful country in the world and the world's number one battleship power, these influential names show the majesty of the empire and can give this backward barbarian country a sense of security that it will surrender without a fight.

More than 20 years have passed, and a fleet, which was not the most advanced in the first place, has completely fallen behind. In particular, those auxiliary ships bought from the Kingdom of William were originally second-hand backward old warships, but now these ships are seriously aging and even directly unusable. The Tasman Empire must continue the game.

In 84 of the B century, the second round of naval ship purchase and shipbuilding of the Tasman Empire began. At this time, the empire was clearly overwhelmed.

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Since the late 70s of the B century, a large number of old and medium-sized ships have been decommissioned one after another, resulting in a serious shortage of cruisers in the Tasman Empire Navy, limited shipbuilding capacity, and relatively backward technology, unable to provide a sufficient number of warships for the navy. In order to supplement the Navy's auxiliary ships, the country planned to buy a large number of medium-sized warships of a certain type from overseas, and the warships at that time were also cheaper, because they were no longer top-of-the-line high-tech products.

William also knew very well that it was time for the empire to change warships, and came to the door to cooperate in shipbuilding, this friend wanted to make money, and he had always made money hard, but the empire had no other way, so he had to cooperate with him to build warships.

Even if the ex-factory price of arms is cheap, the backward countries may not be able to buy the bargains. Big buyers are coming, big buyers are coming, and the price of warships in the international arms market will definitely rise at this time...... In the real world, the rule of international arms dealers is to come to big customers, everyone rises and rises together, and the Type 59 tanks purchased by customers in the Iran-Iraq War were sold at a sky-high price at Baotou Tank Factory! Sky-high price! If you look at the T-72 sold by the Soviets to the Czech Republic, and then look at the domestic Baotou brand 59, which do you think will be more expensive? You get the idea. (The new work "Arms under Heaven" is being conceived, and you won't be disappointed.) ）

Bruno-class protective cruisers: 20 units were purchased from abroad. The total price of the contract was 3 million ounces of gold including tax, and 120 tons of gold were actually paid, and the excess costs were used to advance the payment for post-maintenance and personnel training. (It's really cheaper than building it yourself, but the overall price level of warships at that time had to fall sharply.) If there are more people who can make it, the price will drop, and they can be built, and then someone will have to sell it at a loss. ）

B century 84 ordered from the international arms market. The empire originally planned to buy more than 36 ships, but due to the lack of funds for the navy, only 20 were bought back at this time. All of them are the strongest firepower configuration (Guild Battle) of the Bruno Protected Cruiser. This type of ship was an internationally popular arms trade ship at that time, and most of the buyers were small and medium-sized countries that lacked the ability to build ships. This type of warship won the bid because of its low price and reliable performance. The winning bid price is 120,000 ounces of gold. It's already cheap, knowing that you can't build it, knowing that you have to buy it, knowing that you are in a hurry to buy it. Plus a 25% arms trade tax paid to the government and customs department of the country where the shipyard is located, and a cruiser with 150,000 ounces of gold. Performance is okay though.

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After the international arms dealer partnership was robbed at the bidding meeting, the Tasman Empire signed a contract for the construction of ships with the Kingdom of William, who came to the door to make money. The empire never imagined that this friend's heart had always been the same color as his family's naval uniform, perhaps deeper, and that cooperating with this friend in building ships was worse than finding an international arms dealer to buy high-priced warships. But after thinking about it, some warships can't be built by themselves at all, and they can't be bought in the market, so they only know that they will be caught, and they have to send money with Xiaoxiao. This is the sadness of no technology, gold for iron is just that, at least the price is clearly marked, but this is knowing that the pit is bottomless and jumping down, sad!!

The first pit friend project:

Borg-class light cruisers, 36 were planned to be built, and a total of 18 were actually built. The cost is unknown, but it is more expensive, more expensive than two Brunos. Construction began in 85 of the B century. Built with the help of engineers from the Allied Kingdom of William, it is called self-built, but it is actually assembled, and the industrial technical standards of the two countries are completely inconsistent, which is bold enough. At least 36 ships were planned to be built, and the first construction started with 12 ships at a time, setting a world record for the number of warships of the same class at the same shipyard at the same time, which is still held today. However, due to the Empire's financial constraints, and the fact that the Bruno-class cruisers were cheaper and more practical than this type of ship, the project was limited in funds, and only 6 warships could be built or assembled at the same time, and in the end, only 18 warships of this type were built in three batches.

Immediately afterwards, another pit friend project of William's Kingdom:

The great Khan-class battleships, a total of four, were built. The legendary capital battleship, the most powerful battleship of the Empire, can be called the fangs of the Tyrannosaurus rex. This cost has to be a secret, an absolute secret, in short, advanced weapons are expensive.

In order to maintain the navy's superiority in naval capital ships, in June 87 of the B century, with the help of the allied Kingdom William, the Tasman Empire began to design and build the next generation of capital ships, and the first batch of 4 warships B91 was launched in January and completed in June of the following year B92, and officially joined the active service that year. This type of ship uses a large number of technologies and materials from the Kingdom of William, which assisted in the construction, and all the weapons are equipped with the standards of that country. It is planned to build 8 to 12 ships, and the planned Imperial Navy plans to use this class of warships as the main ocean-going warships of the Imperial Navy from the end of the B century to the beginning of the C century. Only four ships were completed and commissioned by the Empire, and the other four were merely completed in the end.

Originally, there was a third project, but the Tasman Empire really ran out of money, and the remaining gold, the gold saved by killing and looting for hundreds of years, was really not much. At that time, the Tasman Empire was very old, he was too tired, and he had been completely defeated in the arms race. But in order to maintain the strength that appears on the surface, he is still using limited financial resources to maintain and expand armaments and decorate the façade. At that time, those high-level officials of the empire knew very well that once the façade of this empire was broken and it was impossible to scare people, the powers around the empire and other powers in the world would not hesitate to rush over and eat themselves like a cake, either slapping their swollen faces and filling up their fat people to survive, or they would cower and be seen as weak and the essence of weakness would be carved up.

While the two countries' joint shipbuilding program was faltering, William's naval expansion plan was in full swing, and it was clear that William's family was using the gold of the Tasman Empire. The Imperial gold, which had been accumulated for centuries through killing, conquest and plunder, had been consumed in this half-century arms race. After hundreds of years of accumulation, it has all been astigmatized in just a few decades, but what did your country get by spending all this gold?

Warship? Breaking iron? The warships that have to be raised at a great cost are not like the cattle and sheep grazing on our grasslands. Twenty years later, these warships will only have to break iron, and new warships will have to be bought, and in another twenty years, they will be ...... What a reason! Which one's truth!?

The Tasman Empire's top brass was more annoyed than lamented. The barbarian country created by the conquest of his own nation by force is declining, but the surrounding civilized countries are developing at a high speed under the impetus of the scientific and technological revolution. Is your time really over? The Empire does not want to answer this question, and if the Empire is to continue to exist, this arms race must continue to be engaged.

History has answered this question for all barbarian empires. The answer is yes, the dark historical era of barbarian nations sweeping civilized countries by force has indeed passed, and it is gone forever, and the dawn of civilization will shine on the earth, which will be brought by scientific and technological progress, and scientific and technological progress will create an eternal civilization.

In this arms race set off by civilized people and technological countries, the barbarian Tasman Empire has long been in a state of exhaustion, impoverished little by little, and dragged down step by step. In order to buy those expensive advanced weapons to catch up with the trend, the Tasman Empire has repeatedly spent the gold accumulated by their ancestors for hundreds of years. Looking at the dwindling vaults, the empire began to loot folk gold again. Later, when there was not much gold left in the country, the violent power had to start using silver in large quantities to buy all kinds of advanced weapons that he needed. Since the founding of the empire, there has been no silver reserves in the imperial treasury, and cheap silver is used as currency in the empire's territory.

The empire began to recover silver through the issuance of paper money, which was used to pay for arms, but soon paper money lost control and became a tool for looting the populace. Once the frenzy of paper money has begun, the result is that everything will get out of control, and eventually the vast majority of people of all classes and types, the looters and the looted, the conquerors and the vanquished, the rulers and the ruled, will fall into increasing poverty. There is no doubt that the paper money frenzy has hit, and we can only become 99%.

Objectively speaking, the Tasman Empire's gold arms purchase and the later "silver life" provided huge financial support for the arms race and military science and technology research and development of high-tech countries at that time, and also promoted the development of heavy industry in the two countries and stimulated the economic development of the two countries and their related economies. The two countries continue to widen the distance between the two countries and the Tasman Empire in terms of military, economic, and scientific and technological strength, and the explosive emergence of new weapons, and the increasing leadership of military equipment, which once again stimulates the Tasman Empire to buy weapons from the two countries with a large amount of gold and fund the research and development of weapons of the two countries, which is like a vicious circle. Under this rule of the game, no matter how much wealth the technologically advanced countries invest, they cannot have a long-term military lead, and the technologically advanced countries can only exchange the processed steel for the real money and silver accumulated over the centuries (almost all of which are plundered from the conquered areas).

In this "gold for steel" trade game triggered by the arms race, the Tasman Empire established by the barbarians is in financial crisis step by step, but this Tasman Empire must participate in this arms race trade game, which is a competition game that all powerful countries must join. Once withdrawn, this empire could become a fragrant roast turkey on the tables of other countries at any time. Historically, the Tasman Empire invaded and destroyed dozens of small and weak countries; The only reason why these countries are invaded and perished is weakness. As a backward country that has never had a perfect industrial system and scientific and technological research and development capabilities, the Starman Empire is gradually becoming a small and weak country with a large territory. The country's top brass is well aware that once they become the losers in this race, everything they have will be lost, just like those ancient kingdoms that were effortlessly destroyed by high-tech countries because of their military and technological backwardness, and their homeland was reduced to colonies, and their royal family was either executed by the colonizers or exiled, and the luckiest thing was at best to live in exile and live a life of commoner rich people without any aristocratic dignity. This is unacceptable to all the royal families of the Tasman Empire, and the feudal rulers of the world will inevitably use the national wealth to do household affairs, regardless of the cost, to carry out the "gold for steel" trade game.

In addition, according to the statistics of the relevant departments, the cumulative conversion of the value of precious metals paid by the country is actually more than the total value of the reparations received by all major colonial powers for blackmailing backward countries that were defeated in colonial wars. The empire bought warships, but lost the original capital to build an industrial system. Fish and fishermen are more important, everyone is awake and only the emperor is drunk. And then it became clear that after such a loss of state and private wealth, the economy of the Tasman Empire would only be in shambles.

Step by step wrong, step by step sinking, step by step into the quagmire. Until the last years of the empire, everyone in the country saw that the Tasman Empire was really dying, and the Tasman Empire was really coming to an end.

As the economic situation in the Tasman Empire deteriorated, civil unrest by conquered and plundered became more frequent. The empire could send troops to suppress it, but those soldiers were also victims of paper money, and some foreign suppression troops bravely joined the rebel camp. The Empire's Civil War inevitably broke out, and it was unstoppable.

Romeo Emilius Julius Caesar once said: "The Tasman Empire is a barbarian country, this empire is very weak in science and technology, he has never paid attention to education and science, he cannot make good weapons, and the equipment of his army will only become more and more backward." The equipment in his army with a little technical content was bought from other countries at high prices, and with the accumulated wealth, he could buy a large number of advanced weapons at any price, but he could never really master the leading military science and technology. He can buy a temporary ranking of the top military powers in the world, but one day he will fall behind. There was a limit to the wealth of this empire, which came entirely from the plundering of the peoples of its dependencies and conquered territories. The dawn of science and technology released by the industrial revolution has begun to shine on mankind, and the once conquered civilization will surely usher in liberation. This empire and other barbarian states, as well as the barbarian armies on which they depend, will be completely eliminated by historical progress. ”