Chapter 1951 Autumn Morning Assembly (2)

Hearing the old minister's words, all the ministers and officials below were startled, and subconsciously glanced at Guo Jia and the minister of the military and political department who were standing there.

Chief of Staff Guo Jiaguo's position in their Myriad Realms Civilization, needless to say, the Military and Political Department is also a colossus-like existence among many departments.

From the past to the present, the military's funding has only increased, not decreased.

Of course, this time the old minister did not mean to cut military funding, but to retire the warships.

This matter falls into the ears of the ministers below, and it is not trivial. Doesn't this make it clear that it is going to attack the military?

For a while, everyone below was also constantly thinking, and even huddled in the corner and looked at the ceiling, the old head of the construction department who was wandering in the sky was surprised, and subconsciously wanted to pull his old classmate down.

During this period, Luo Ji, who was sitting on the throne, after a brief period of stunned expression, also showed a somewhat meaningful expression on his face, and then looked at Guo Jia with a smile and asked...

"Guo Jia, what do you think about this matter?"

Guo Jia, whose name was named by Luo Ji, stepped forward in two steps and said respectfully...

"Your Majesty, the maintenance of warships does require a lot of money, and now our Ten Thousand Realms Civilization is financially tight, the old minister's statement is not unreasonable."

Having said that, Guo Jia took a breath and said the 'but'.

"However, military power is the foundation of a country's foothold. Retiring too many warships rashly will obviously weaken the maritime combat power of our civilization of the world. If there are foreign enemies in the future, it will be difficult to guarantee territorial security!"

Listening to Guo Jia's remarks, Luo Ji laughed from beginning to end.

Unlike the group of ministers below, Luo Ji wasn't at all worried that Guo Jia would quarrel with the old minister.

After so many years of monarchs and ministers, he knew these two people too well.

To put it bluntly, they are just standing on their own positions and expressing their own ideas, not tit for tat.

There is nothing wrong with Guo Jia's words, but the old minister's words also make sense.

In fact, after the war, in order to ease the pressure on the country's finances, it is very normal to properly retire some weapons and equipment, or even reduce the size of the army.

Today, his Wanjie Civilization Navy has three fleets, namely the South China Sea Fleet, the West China Sea Fleet and the Yangtze River Fleet.

There are sixty-nine battleships in service alone! In addition, there are a large number of light cruisers, destroyers, torpedo boats, transport supply ships, landing ships and other types of ships, with a total of 342 warships!

Imagine, after the war is over, how much money will he burn every year to keep three fleets of this size?

Previously, the old minister said that the maintenance cost alone was an astronomical figure, and that was no exaggeration at all.

"Guo Jia and the old minister are all right. The Navy's warships are still being developed by various departments. I believe that it will not be long before more advanced new warships and warships with backward technology will be developed. In future battles, very It is difficult to come in handy, and proper elimination is also necessary."

Hearing this, Guo Jia, who was below, knew it.

Sure enough, I just heard Luo Ji speak rather succinctly...

"Well, on the side of the naval fleet, let's retire 50 warships first to reduce the financial pressure, and then look at the situation. What does the old minister think?"

This thing has to be done step by step. In the future, the development of science and technology and the replacement of warships are inevitable, but you have demolished all the old warships before the new warships landed? This approach is obviously too stupid, so Luo Ji plans to retire fifty ships first.

"Your Majesty is wise, the old minister has no objection!"

"Wei Chen has no objection either."

"Well, then it's settled. As for how the retired warships will deal with this problem..."

How to dispose of retired warships is a difficult problem for many modern countries.

Many countries will choose to use those retired warships as targets for military training at sea, and they will be sunk directly like this.

This makes a lot of people who don't know the situation very strange.

Why do you want to do this? How expensive is a warship! After retiring, do you want to sink it directly? That would be too much of a loser!

Even if it is dismantling and selling scrap iron, it is more cost-effective than sinking it directly.

But in fact, this is not the case at all.

It is not so easy to dismantle a battleship completely.

If you want to completely dismantle a battleship, you have to spend a lot of time. It is definitely not something that can be done in ten days and a half. Even for some large battleships, it is not uncommon for you to dismantle for a few years.

After that, even if you succeed in dismantling, you will be able to sell for a lot of money after removing the items that cannot be sold, leaving a pile of scrap iron.

There are real cases that prove that in the process of dismantling the battleship, the labor cost and equipment cost have already exceeded that figure, and this is not counting the time cost.

In other words, if you want to dismantle a warship, not only will you not make any money, but you will have to pay for it.

This is the root cause.

In addition, there are other reasons. For example, during the dismantling process, it is easy to expose some information of one's own warships to the enemy, etc.

Of course, Luo Ji basically didn't have such concerns, but he didn't plan to dismantle all those battleships, it would be too much of a loss.

According to his idea, it is to dismantle half of it. After all the weapons and important equipment on the battleship are removed, some armor plates are removed to reduce the load, and the rest are kept for transformation and converted into transport ships or civilian ships. Their official merchant ships of Myriad Realms Civilization, transporting goods and resources, and operating maritime trade, are not more useful than direct sinking?

In addition, because of Ye Qingxuan's existence, Luo Ji can actually choose to sell the eliminated battleships to those newcomers in the silver rank, and he can also make a lot of money.

In this way, one thing is quickly finalized.

And the list of the first batch of fifty warships to be decommissioned was quickly sent to Luo Ji's eyes.

What is surprising is that, in addition to the forty-one small and medium-sized battleships, there are a full nine battleships in the retired list!

There is no doubt that this is what Luo Ji meant.

Otherwise, the military will definitely take some small boats out to retire first, and there will be no battleships that are the backbone of the fleet!

"Your Majesty, to retire some battleships to ease financial pressure, Wei Chen can still understand, but to retire nine battleships directly, please forgive Guo Jia for not understanding!"

In the Hall of State Council, Guo Jia, who was full of doubts, asked Luo Ji directly.

In response, Luo Ji slowly opened his mouth after a slight smile...

"Guo Jia, the era of large ships and artillery has passed."

Hearing this, Guo Jia frowned slightly, and his expression seemed to be thoughtful.

And Luo Ji, who stood up, continued unhurriedly...

"In the previous large-scale naval battle on Continent No. 4, the air force of our Myriad Realms Civilization was almost powerless to fight against hundreds of steel warships of the opposite Europa camp."

"So, Your Majesty plans to train the Air Force next?"

"That's right, next, we're going to build an aircraft carrier!"

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