Rise of the Overlord

Chapter 239
I heard that each Ice-class super dreadnought battleship with a main gun caliber of 432 mm needs 400 million Nuo Yuan, and each Pegasus-class battlecruiser with a main gun caliber of 432 mm needs 100 million Nuo Yuan, Edgar, the emperor of the Noomi Empire, still had a calm expression on his face, and he didn't feel any pressure because of the high cost of the Ice-class and Pegasus-class.

The reason why the Noomi Empire was able to build 72 super dreadnought battleships and 72 battlecruisers at the same time was entirely due to the Noomi royal family, or the royal gold mine and the royal silver mine controlled by Emperor Edgrew. mine.

The Royal Gold Mine in the Noomi Empire with a gold reserve of more than [-] tons, last year's gold production soared, and [-] tons of gold were unearthed. This year, the Royal Gold Mine was even unearthed in the first eight months. [-] tons of gold were produced, and a minimum of [-] tons of gold can be produced throughout the year.

The Royal Silver Mine in the Noomi Empire, which has a silver reserve of more than 300 million tons, produced [-] tons of silver last year, and the Royal Silver Mine is expected to produce about [-] tons of silver this year.

According to the prices of gold and silver in the international market, last year the Royal Gold Mine and the Royal Silver Mine together contributed approximately 29 billion Nuoyuan, or 8000 million British pounds, to the Noomi royal family. This year, the Royal Gold Mine and the Royal Silver Mine can contribute almost 800 billion Nuoyuan to the Noomi royal family, which is equivalent to 35 million U.S. dollars.

You must know that the annual income of the Noomi royal family is not only the royal gold mine and the royal silver mine. The finances of the Noomi empire also hand over [-] million Nuoyuan to the Noomi royal family every year to support the royal family. In addition, the Noomi royal family also owns some other industries, which can also earn a lot of money for the Noomi royal family every year.

Compared with Penello, the emperor of the Inaba Empire who was rich and powerful through years of accumulation, the emperor Edgru of the Noomi Empire, who was like an upstart, was more daring to invest in the navy.

After hearing the cost of the Ice-class and Pegasus-class, Emperor Edgrew slightly nodded and said to Prime Minister Julian: "Although it is impossible for our Noomi Royal Navy to catch up with the Navy of the Great Tang Empire in a short period of time, but I hope that our Noomi Royal Navy can surpass the Inroba Navy, since the Admiralty has designed the Ice-class super dreadnought battleship and the Pegasus-class battlecruiser, and after the construction of 36 Misty-class ships and 36 Fast-horse-class ships is completed , and 72 large docks have been vacated, so let’s build 36 Ice-class ships and 36 Pegasus-class ships in one go!”

Upon hearing this, Prime Minister Julian couldn't help but swallowed his saliva and said, "Your Majesty, if you want to build 36 Ice-class ships and 36 Pegasus-class ships at the same time, you will need a total of 30 billion Nuo Yuan, such a large amount of money... "

Before Prime Minister Julian finished speaking, he was interrupted by Emperor Edgar, "Don't forget that I am a mine owner, and 30 billion Nuo Yuan is not too much. Before the end of this year, I can If the Ministry of the Navy is in a hurry, I can allocate 6000 billion yuan to the Ministry of the Navy for the preliminary construction of 30 Ice-class ships and 6000 Pegasus-class ships."

Prime Minister Julian heard that Emperor Edgrew was willing to bear all the construction costs of 36 Ice-class ships and 36 Pegasus-class ships. Although his expression relaxed a lot, his brows were still slightly frowned, "Your Majesty, the Navy is a gold-swallowing ship." Behemoth, in addition to the high construction costs of warships, the fuel and maintenance of each warship is also a huge cost. Now our Noomi Royal Navy has 52 super dreadnought battleships and 27 battlecruisers for capital ships alone. , 13 dreadnought battleships, [-] former dreadnought battleships and [-] ironclad battleships, plus nearly a thousand warships of other types, will cost the military more than [-] billion yuan per year."

After a pause, Prime Minister Julian continued: "By June next year, 36 Tengyun-class super dreadnought battleships and 36 Seahorse-class battlecruisers will all join our Noomi Royal Navy. At that time, our Noomi The military expenditure of the Royal Navy will increase to 14 billion Nuoyuan every year. This is a considerable burden on the finances of our Noomi Empire. After all, our Noomi Empire’s finances still need to be responsible for 800 million army troops military spending."

Emperor Edgrew pondered for a while and said: "Starting next year, I will subsidize 36 million yuan a year to the Royal Navy. As for the Ice-class super dreadnought battleship and Pegasus-class battlecruiser, I will still contribute to each of them at the same time. To build [-] ships, I don't want our Noomi Royal Navy to fall behind in this arms race among the navies of the world."

Hearing what Emperor Edgrew said, Prime Minister Julian immediately showed excitement and said: "If His Majesty can subsidize the Royal Navy with 36 million Nuo Yuan every year, then even if the Royal Navy adds another 36 Tengyun-class super dreadnought battleships." And [-] Seahorse-class battlecruisers, there will be no problem with military expenditure."

Emperor Edgrew then said: "Prime Minister, I heard that the navy of the Tang Empire has excluded the former dreadnought battleships and armored battleships from the main fleet, so can our Noomi Royal Navy also put some former dreadnought battleships and armored battleships into the main fleet?" Ironclad battleships are sealed up to reduce military expenditures?"

Prime Minister Julian immediately shook his head and said: "Your Majesty, the 27 former dreadnought battleships and 24 iron-clad battleships of our Noomi Royal Navy still have a certain combat effectiveness, and although the Datang Navy put all the former dreadnought battleships and iron-clad battleships Excluded from the seven main fleets, but the Datang Navy has dispersed all the former dreadnought battleships and armored battleships into 260 garrison fleets. Doesn't our Noomi Royal Navy already have 240 super dreadnought battleships, [-] The Datang Navy with five battlecruisers and [-] dreadnought battleships, the main fleets of our Noomi Royal Navy, also need former dreadnought battleships and ironclad battleships to perform some tasks, like the main force of the Inroba Navy The fleet still maintains the formation of former dreadnought battleships and armored battleships."

Emperor Edgrew nodded slightly, "Our Noomi Royal Navy really can't compare with the Datang Navy, but after our Noomi Royal Navy has enough super dreadnought battleships and battlecruisers, we will be like Capital ships such as former dreadnought battleships and iron-clad battleships have to withdraw from the main fleets, even if they are not sealed up, they must learn from the Datang Navy and assign the former dreadnought battleships and iron-clad battleships to each of the garrison fleets."

Prime Minister Julian agreed and said: "With the service of many super dreadnought battleships and battlecruisers in the navies of various countries, capital ships such as former dreadnought battleships and iron-clad battleships have indeed not played much in the decisive battle of capital ships. Elimination is also inevitable, of course, if our Noomi Royal Navy wants to eliminate these two battleships, we need to think long-term."

Next, Emperor Edgrew asked Prime Minister Julian about the situation of Noomi Royal Army and Noomi Royal Air Force. Prime Minister Julian also gave a general introduction to Emperor Edgrew.

At present, the total strength of the Noomi Royal Army is as high as 800 million. It imitates the formation of the Royal Army of the Tang Dynasty and the Royal Army of Sharad, and has formed 180 infantry divisions. Each infantry division has about 10 people. Most of them The infantry division is also equipped with tanks and armored vehicles designed and produced by the Noomi Empire itself. The Royal Noomi Army did not form an armored division mainly based on tanks.

The arsenal of the Noomi Empire designed and produced a light tank, a medium tank and a heavy tank with reference to the Renault FT-17 light tank and 2C heavy tank of the Datang Army. Now these three tanks add up , More than [-] tanks have been equipped in the Noomi Royal Army. By the end of this year, the number of tanks in the Noomi Royal Army will reach more than [-].

There are two types of armored vehicles designed and produced by the Noomi Empire, and thousands of these two armored vehicles are currently serving in the Royal Noomi Army.

The Noomi Royal Air Force has also equipped more than 109 fighters, including two fighters and one bomber, but the performance of these three fighters is very average. Compared with the Fokker D.VII fighters and Camel The fighter jets and the Ilya Muromets heavy bombers are lagging behind in all aspects, let alone the Messerschmitt Bf88 fighter jets and Junker-[-] dive bombers equipped by the Datang Air Force.

Emperor Edgrew frowned and said to Prime Minister Julian: "When will fighters and bombers with better performance be designed? It can be seen from the last war that the air force will play a very important role in future wars." !"

Prime Minister Julian hesitated and said: "Your Majesty, our Noomi Empire is weak in the research and development of aircraft engines. Because there are no better aircraft engines, we cannot design and produce fighters with better performance."

"Is it possible to get the design drawings of the aircraft engine from the Tang Empire?"

"Your Majesty, through the efforts of our intelligence department, a line has indeed been established within the Tang Empire, but the price is very high. For the design drawings of two aircraft engines, the price is 5000 million Tang Yuan, which is one 5000 million Nuo Yuan."

"The question of price is easy to talk about. Is the design drawing of the aircraft engine provided by the other party worth enough?"

"Your Majesty, the aircraft engine design drawings provided by the other party are the engine design drawings of the Fukuo fighter jet and the Iron Eagle bomber. If our Noomi Empire has these two engines, we can design fighter jets and bombers with very good performance. It’s just that the other party’s asking price is too high, 5000 million Nuo Yuan is enough to build five Kuaima-class battlecruisers with 381mm main guns.”

Emperor Edgrew thought for a while and said: "5000 million Nuoyuan is indeed a bit high, but those two aircraft engines are very important to the development of our Noomi Royal Air Force, so let me pay for it! In addition, don't break this line, it may be useful in the future, I am willing to bid 5000 million Nuo Yuan, and I have this consideration in mind."

Although the money came from Emperor Edgrew, Prime Minister Julian felt very distressed when he used 5000 million Nuo Yuan to buy the design drawings of two aircraft engines. Haggle the price?"

Emperor Edgrew smiled slightly, "Prime Minister, you are not as free and easy as I am when it comes to spending money. Money is for spending. I think I can exchange 5000 million yuan for two aircraft engines. It is very worthwhile to maintain a good relationship with the other party's design drawings!"

Prime Minister Julian couldn't help complaining secretly: If the Royal Gold Mine and the Royal Silver Mine owned by the royal family can be assigned to the Ministry of Finance, he will definitely be more free and easy in spending money than Emperor Edgrew .

Of course Prime Minister Julian dared not say that, "Your Majesty is right. I am absolutely inferior to His Majesty in terms of spending money. Since Your Majesty agrees, I will immediately let the intelligence department contact the other party."

"I'm a little curious, who is the other party?"

"Your Majesty, our intelligence department has not figured out who is behind the other party, but it is a colonel of the Royal Army of the Tang Empire who has connected with our intelligence department."

At present, among the three armies of the Tang Empire, the military rank system has been fully implemented. From top to bottom, the officers are marshal, general, lieutenant general, major general, brigadier general, colonel, lieutenant colonel, major, captain, lieutenant, and second lieutenant. There are three ranks of non-commissioned officers, including sergeant, sergeant and corporal, and two ranks of soldiers, including privates and privates.

After the Tang Empire implemented the military rank system, many countries in the world began to follow suit, including the Noomi Empire and the other six countries of the original seven-nation alliance.

When Emperor Edgrew heard that the intelligence department of the Noomi Empire had come into contact with a colonel, he couldn't help but shine. According to the establishment of the Tang Empire, the colonel was at least a regiment-level officer, and basically all the main forces of the Royal Army of the Tang Empire The heads of the main regiments under the division all have the rank of colonel.

Emperor Edgrew asked eagerly: "Can you confirm whether there are other people behind the army colonel of the Tang Empire?"

Prime Minister Julian said affirmatively: "After the intelligence department's analysis of the Colonel of the Great Tang Empire Army, there must be someone with a higher status behind him, and there may even be a huge interest group. It's just an agent at the front desk."

A gleam flashed in Emperor Edgrew's eyes, "Since our Noomi Empire is ready to support the reorganization of the Seven Kingdoms Alliance, we will definitely fight against the Tang Empire on the battlefield again in the future. This line found by the intelligence department, Maybe it will play an unexpected role in the war."

(End of this chapter)