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"Castile is a dying patient, it should die, and sooner or later it will die. In order to curb Albion's greed, and for Charlemagne to become the sole leader of the human camp, we should make arrangements for this dead man's legacy in advance. ”

Li Lin took a sip of coffee and looked at the prime minister expressionlessly.

"You mean...... Seize those colonies?"

Rubbing his chin, the prime minister's lips, which had been pursed in a straight line, were slightly upturned.

As a statist and mercantilist, he believed that the maritime trade would solve the country's financial problems, which had plagued the country's finances, and that it would allow him to build and sustain a strong national army during the war.

However, although it was Charlemagne...... V.E's merchant ships were the first to discover large islands in the south, but Charlemagne, as a traditional land power, focused on more pressing land power, and did not have a navy as good as Albion's "Grand Fleet" and Castile's "Armada", except for V.E's merchant fleet, the size of merchant ships was simply negligible. In the end, thanks to the efforts of a large corrupt team led by Marshal Montrancy, the navy simply existed in name only.

If it weren't for V.E.'s floating ship group and the vast smuggling network of the supernatural powers, a coffee bean and a handful of spices could be sold for the same weight of gold. The prime minister has a little bit of a pleasing eye for V.E's violations of law and discipline.

In the long run, relying on this smuggling to maintain the import of goods and resources from abroad is not beneficial to the country, and it is easy for the naval forces of Castile and Albion to cut off the smuggling routes. However, Charlemagne, who lacked naval power, not only could not go overseas to seek profits, but also failed to protect the safe navigation of offshore merchant ships and carry out important transportation tasks, and the scene of Albion's skull-flagged warships raiding Charlemagne's coastal cities in the past, and the delivery of supplies to Lapland and the forced payment of high rentals to Castile to lease ships deeply stimulated Richelieu, and the prime minister began to seek to build a strong navy.

As we all know, naval construction is a long-term investment process, and its wide scope and involvement in many fields make it a super gold-swallowing beast far beyond the army. port facilities, shipyards, recruitment of skilled craftsmen and sailors, development of qualified naval officers, naval doctrine that meets the needs and realities of the environment...... Just thinking about the matter and the astronomical amount of support behind this qiē is enough to collapse the financial staff. The Bishop, who was well aware of his family's finances, had no choice but to curb his passion for the sea and superships. Lamenting the Mother Goddess's preference for Albion and Castile. Convinced that he would never be able to see Charlemagne's battleship at sea in his lifetime.

However, the Seven-Day War brought Charlemagne unprecedented isolation and opportunities for Charlemagne's naval prominence, and the Bishop's special passion for the sea was reawakened.

Under a lightning raid. Nearly half of the main warships of the Armada anchored in the port of Cádiz, thirty percent of the merchant fleet, the largest and best shipyards in Castile, and the best skilled shipwrights were burned. The Battle of Azugrana burned Castile's most prosperous port into a haunted realm. Piggyback on the two ocean-going merchant ships. More than a dozen large-paddle warships burned to the ground in the shipyard and in the canal. For at least ten years, the Castilian Navy will be in a weakened state.

This was a good thing that he had never dreamed of, and the Bishop was so excited about it that he couldn't help himself. From the bottom of his heart, he wanted to hug Li Lin's delicate body and give this businessman whom he privately called "Burn Light" a passionate and long Charlemagne-like kiss, as if only this naked way could express the excitement in his heart. In the end, the prime minister was still sensible, which did not provide the rotten girls with infinite material for reverie.

Seizing this golden opportunity, the Bishop began to push forward with his long-planned naval reform, and his first move made a stormy and bloody breath.

Richelieu's nephew, 17-year-old Jean-Armand de Maile Blazer, was appointed commander of the Western Fleet by the Prime Minister. Although his father was the most trusted captain of the Praetorian Guard of Charles IV, he was also a blood relative of the cardinal.

But the appointment of the young commander was anything but nepotism on the part of the Prime Minister, and he soon proved himself to be a man of great power who lived up to his family's name.

Before taking office, he assembled his own command, which included several highly skilled Huguenot shipbuilders, as well as a group of skilled workers recruited from La Rochelle. In less than a month, Male-Blazer abolished a time-wasting etiquette, abolished a cumbersome official procedure, conducted military drills, ordered the dredging of ports and waterways, and vigorously repaired damaged warships.

In the course of the vigorous rectification, two officers who disobeyed orders and committed serious acts of corruption were hoisted to the mast and swinged, and the new commander established his initial authority with his head, and the sailors looked at the new commander with awe, and did not dare to disobey his orders again. Immediately after that, he talked and communicated directly with the soldiers, so that his every action and every word was remembered by the sailors, and Male-Blazer was gaining the respect and love of the sailors from the bottom of their hearts. The bravery and fierceness of the Western Fleet at the beginning of its creation began to return to this force.

This is just a small test of the prime minister's huge naval reform plan, and the entire navy will be reorganized and expanded, taking the Western Fleet as a model. In order to strengthen Charlemagne's navy, and thus to achieve the goal set by the bishop, the merchant ships flying the tricolor and the royal golden lily, escorted by mighty warships, brought from the overseas colonies a shipload of precious metals, precious stones, spices, slaves, ivory, tea, coffee......

But before that, the prime minister must have the support of V.E. Company, otherwise everything will be a loft in the sky.

In the Bishop's naval armament enhancement program, the front-loading smoothbore guns and Congreve rockets produced by V.E Company occupied a crucial place, without which Charlemagne's naval revival would have been a joke.

Although the Armada has lost nearly half of it, it is not dead, and with Albion's naval power, it is still a formidable sea force, and it is a piece of cake to clean up the rookies with eggshells stuck on Charlemagne's navy's butt. But if Charlemagne had a revolutionary warship, a giant battleship with 50 guns, the war would have turned dramatically.

After the Seven-Day War, naval technologists who had inspected the Titans' equipment admired the artillery, and patted their chests to assure Archbishop Li that a 50-gun battleship could blast Albiang's naval flagships, Elizabeth Bonaventza and Admiral Drake, into scum with a single salvo. There are 30 of these warships, and when Albionge washes his hands at the sea, he has to submit an application report to Charlemagne's navy!

Rhetoric is exciting, but at the end of the day, it needs to be a reality to make sense. It was the V.E company that mastered the technology of artillery casting, and their willingness to provide technical cooperation was a crucial step in the revival of Charlemagne's navy.

Li Lin's theory of Castile's "legacy of the dead" has been very blatantly expressed in his attitude that the country needs a navy and colonies. (To be continued......)