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The sudden arms race disrupted the deployment of many people, including Austria.

In fact, the Vienna government also had plans to provoke an arms race, but that was all past tense.

Since the decision to implement the Near East development plan, Franz has given up that tempting plan, for no other reason because-poor.

Austria can't afford to engage in infrastructure construction while playing an arms race.

It is easy to provoke an arms race. The key question is how to get rid of it. If you just start such a meaningful activity and you have no money in your pocket, it will be disgraceful.

This is not just a question of face. It is more about showing strength to countries around the world. The stronger the strength, the easier it is to find a younger brother in international politics.

Of course, there are occasional exceptions that may be counterproductive.How to do it depends on everyone's political skills.

I have to admit that the British grasped the timing.It is indeed the best time to overwhelm France and Austria. After this time, the strategic plan of the two countries is completed, and the situation will be reversed.

Even if it is impossible to suppress the two countries at once, it is necessary to crack down on the arrogance of the two countries and tell the world who is the king of this era.

Putting down the information in his hand, Franz frowned and asked, "Do we have to fight this?"

Foreign Minister Weisenberg: "Yes, Your Majesty!

The British have calculated the time, and now if we back away, the outside world will think that Austria is afraid of Britain.

According to news from the embassy in Paris, the French government has decided to fight, and it may not be long before a new shipbuilding plan is announced."

It is not that there is no strength to follow up, but that Franz is not willing to make such meaningless consumption.

Well, this is all self-consolation. The real situation is that without affecting the domestic economic construction, Austria's financial resources can't compete with the British.

Even if the copycats are quite productive, the three major plans of the Near East development plan, urban transformation and upgrading, and road traffic facilities construction have already been consumed.

In the arms race, the biggest problem is not shipbuilding, but later military expenditure.Simply building a ship, a hundred battleships in Vienna can be easily exploded.

The problem is that the ship came out, and the maintenance cost in the later period will be fatal.

Let's put it this way, the construction cost of a new battleship this year was more than one million Aegis, and the maintenance cost of five years exceeded the cost of the warship itself.

It may be less than five years, and if training is more diligent, three years can be exceeded.

This can be calculated. A battleship needs to be equipped with six or seven hundred officers and soldiers, and there are only a lot more logistical maintenance personnel than the front-line personnel. The annual expenditure of military pay is a huge number.

To ensure the combat effectiveness of the army, daily training is definitely indispensable. Looking at the gun barrel, you can see that the navy ’s shells are not cheap. The battleships will lose dozens of Aegis at once. If you use special bombs, you may lose hundreds of Aegis.

The seemingly insignificant coal-fired, if the unit is turned into a thousand tons, it is not a small number.

Daily maintenance, equipment maintenance, and replacement of damaged parts are also a considerable expense.

The total sum of zero and zero together, there is no hundreds of thousands of Aegis funds a year, it is simply not enough.

If you want to be cheap, just play with the poor navy.Learning from the Russians ’previous practice, the warships were parked in the port, and the soldiers were trained in the army ’s military code. The military expenses only required one tenth of the normal level.

Franz nodded and told the admiral of the Navy: "Kastagny, talk about your shipbuilding plan!"

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

Admiral Kastagani: "The British Navy already has 4 monarch-class battleships, and this time it will build 6 new battleships, 10 destroyers, 7 cruisers, and 31 warships of all sizes.

We want to form a deterrent to them, at least to maintain 80% of their main battleships and 70% of their affiliated warships.

At present, we only have 3 new battleships. The Admiralty plans to build 5 new battleships, 8 destroyers, 6 cruisers, and 25 other auxiliary warships."

I don't know where to start. The Austrian navy began to popularize the "eighth theory", that is, having 80% of the tonnage of the Royal Navy, which formed a deterrent to the British.

It should be known that from the beginning of the great development of the navy, the original goal of the Austrian navy was only one tenth of that of the Royal Navy, which was an eightfold increase in less than thirty years.

Think about it, who made the number of battleships of the Austrian Navy close to 70% of the British?

To be exact, it is 65.7 percent, and it is not wrong to round up to 70 percent.The family is so thick, it is not surprising to promote the eighth theory.

Perhaps in the eyes of the navy, the failure to propose a one-to-one shipbuilding plan has already been given face.

Franz didn't care about it, just didn't know if the British could bear it.However, people's bottom line is constantly being refreshed, and switching to a country is no exception.

Compared with the original time and space, the bottom line of the British government is much lower.

This was forced out. As the economic strength of France and Austria increased, they have increased their investment in the navy. The Royal Navy ’s two strong standards have been beaten as soon as they came out.

Then the plan was changed again, taking the Royal Navy as a parameter and maintaining a 1: 0.6 advantage over the world ’s second naval power.

This ratio is actually just talking.After several years of hard work, the British government had to refresh the bottom line again.

Austria, the third naval power, has 65% of the tonnage of the Royal Navy, and the French Navy has reached 72% of the Royal Navy.

The pattern of the three major powers of Britain, France and Austria was actually caused by the Royal Navy's inability to suppress France and Austria. The London government was forced to accept and share the rest of the world with France and Austria.

The suppression has been done by the British government all the time. The problem is that the effect is really unsatisfactory. None of them has been suppressed.

No one is a fool, there is a fisherman on the side, the French and Austrias tacitly suppressed the conflict and opened their eyes to the British.

The British government tried to do things on several occasions, but they were discovered. Under the revenge of France and Austria, the British were almost pushed out of the Mediterranean.

At first, it was uncomfortable. After a long time, the British government became more adaptable and accepted the reality.

After all, 072 + 0.65 is only 1.37, and the two cannot really unite, and the Royal Navy can barely hold it.

The prerequisite for all of this is this ratio, which will no longer continue to grow.

If the tonnage of the Austrian navy increases to 80% of the Royal Navy, the French navy will follow suit, and it is estimated that the British government will explode.

This is impossible to achieve, and now the ratio is almost the limit of the British endure.Even if it sells iron, the British government will keep the advantage of the Royal Navy.

If Austria does not engage in so much construction, it will naturally not be afraid to fight financially with the British, but it is obviously not possible now.

After hesitating for a while, Franz said slowly: "Just release this plan, but the construction plan will take 2 years longer than the British.

Later, if Britain and France increase the number of shipbuilding, we will follow up at the current ratio, but our shipbuilding progress can be slowed down a little bit, and it is enough to build two to three battleships every year.

When necessary, the Admiralty can also come up with those big plans to confuse audiovisual."

Without losing, Franz has made up his mind to play an arms race with the British by bragging.

Anyway, warships are not built, but they are built later, which will not affect the credibility.

After the shipbuilding time is lengthened, the government's financial pressure will be less.As long as the financial support is maintained, the duration of the arms race is a little longer, and it is not entirely without benefits.

Burning money also means that everyone burns together. In any case, more warships were made by the British, and more money was burned.

If this former fearless ship can be used to retire, it will naturally not lose.

The problem is that the former Dreadnought is too close to the Dreadnought.In essence, it is the difference in design concepts. Although the technical difficulty of shipbuilding has increased, it is not impossible to overcome.

Once the fearless ship came out, the former fearless ship would be eliminated again.

As soon as I finished an exhausting contest, I was told that it was only the first half of the game, and I was about to start the second half of the game, which felt absolutely sour.

Perhaps the wealthy British were barely able to sustain it, and the French government was mostly unable to make persistent efforts.

Even because of the increased investment in the navy, it will also reduce the French investment in the army, which is a very favorable strategic plan for Austria.

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