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Chapter 1951 Late Autumn Court Meeting (2)

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

    Needless to say, Guo Jia, Chief of Staff Guo Jiaguo's position in their Myriad Realms civilization, the Military and Political Department is also a behemoth among the 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 warships.

    It is no small matter that this matter fell into the ears of the ministers below. Doesn't it make it clear that it is going to cause trouble for the military?

    All of a sudden, everyone below was still thinking. Even the old head of the construction engineering department who had been huddled in the corner and looked at the ceiling, was taken aback, and subconsciously wanted to pull his old classmate down.

    And during this period, Luo Ji, who was sitting on the throne, after a short period of stupefaction, had a meaningful expression on his face, and then looked at Guo Jia with a smile and asked

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

    Guo Jia, whose name was called 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 Myriad Worlds civilization is financially strained, the old minister's statement is not unreasonable."

    Having said that, Guo Jia took a light breath, and then said the "but".

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

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

    Unlike the group of ministers below, Luo Ji was not at all worried that Guo Jia would fight with the old minister.

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

    To put it bluntly, they are just standing on their own positions and expressing their own ideas, and they don't mean to be tit-for-tat.

    There is nothing wrong with Guo Jia's words, but the old minister's words are also very reasonable.

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

    Today, the Civilized Navy of Myriad Worlds has three fleets, namely the South China Sea Fleet, the West Sea Fleet and the Yangtze River Fleet.

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

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

    Previously, the old minister said that the maintenance cost alone was an astronomical figure, and that was not an exaggeration at all.

    "What Guo Jia and the old minister said makes sense. The Navy's warships are still being researched and developed by various departments. I believe that it will not take long to develop new and more advanced warships. Warships with backward technology will be used in future battles.  It is difficult to come in handy, and proper elimination is also necessary."

    Hearing this, Guo Jia below already knew it in his heart.

    Sure enough, Luo Ji said quite bluntly

    "Let's do this. On the side of the naval fleet, we will decommission 50 warships first to reduce financial pressure, and then we will see the situation. What does the old minister think?"

    This matter has to be done step by step. In the future, with the development of science and technology, the replacement of warships is inevitable, but you have not yet landed your new warships, so you have to dismantle all the old warships?  This approach was obviously too stupid, so Luo Ji planned to decommission fifty ships first.

    "Your Majesty is wise, the veteran has no objection!"

    "Wei Chen has no objection."

    "Well, that's it. As for how to deal with the decommissioned warship"

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

    Many countries will choose to use those decommissioned warships as targets for maritime military training, and just sink them like this.

    This makes many people who don't understand the situation very strange.

    Why do you want to do this?  How expensive is a battleship!  After retiring, do you want to sink it directly?  That would be too prodigal!

    Even if it is dismantled and sold for scrap iron, it is more cost-effective than sinking it directly, and at least it can pay back some money.

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

    A battleship, want to dismantle it completely, ??So easy.

    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 half a month. Even some large battleships, it is not uncommon for you to dismantle them for several years.

    Afterwards, even if you succeed in dismantling it, if you skim off the unsalable items and the remaining pile of scrap metal, do you really think you can sell it for a lot of money?

    There are real cases that prove that in the process of dismantling a warship, the labor costs and equipment costs 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 be able to make money, but you will have to pay back money.

    This is the root cause.

    In addition to this, there are actually other reasons. For example, during the dismantling process, it is easy to expose some information of one's own warship to the enemy and so on.

    Of course, Luo Ji basically didn't have such concerns, but he didn't intend to dismantle all those battleships, that would be too bad.

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

    In addition, because of Ye Qingxuan's existence, Luo Ji could actually choose to sell the eliminated warships to those silver-ranked rookies, and he could also make a lot of money.

    In this way, one thing was quickly finalized.

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

    What is surprising is that in the decommissioned list, in addition to forty-one small and medium-sized warships, there are actually nine battleships among them!

    Undoubtedly, this is naturally what Luo Ji meant.

    Otherwise, the military will definitely take out some small boats and decommission them first, and the battleships that are the backbone of the fleet will never be available!

    "Your Majesty, I can understand the decommissioning of some warships to ease the financial pressure, but please forgive Guo Jia for not being able to understand the decommissioning of nine battleships directly!"

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

    Regarding this, Luo Ji smiled, and then slowly opened his mouth

    "Guo Jia, the era of big ships and cannons is over."

    Guo Jia frowned slightly when he heard this, and his expression seemed to be thoughtful.

    As for Luo Ji, who stood up, he continued unhurriedly

    "During the previous large-scale naval battle on the fourth continent, the air force of our Myriad Worlds Civilization was almost unable to fight back against the hundreds of steel warships from the opposing Europa camp."

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

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

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