The Rise of the European Emperor

Regardless of the fate of the Venetians, Marin's mission was finally accomplished beautifully. Of course, out of good intentions, Marin reminded the Venetians that galleys were at a disadvantage in naval battles than sailing warships. Because no one has many guns for galleys...

Therefore, Marin suggested that Venice should increase the gun positions as much as possible to improve the combat effectiveness without affecting the sailing performance of the galley. In this regard, the Venetian governor Leonardo Loredan adopted Marin's suggestion and ordered an attempt to study the manufacture of galleys that could deploy more artillery.

In fact, the Emden shipyard in Marin had long researched the tactics of adding artillery to galleys. Moreover, a final conclusion has been reached-if the artillery and the oar do not affect each other, the best layout is to build a double-deck galley. The rowers paddled through the windows on the lower deck, while the artillery was deployed on the top deck…

In this way, the oars that the oarsmen rowed back and forth would not affect the artillery above. In this way, the galley can deploy twenty or thirty guns. Of course, it has to be a double-deck galley.

Moreover, in order to reduce the recoil moment and prevent the hull from shaking too much, the artillery equipped on the top floor is preferably small and medium-sized artillery, and heavy artillery should be avoided as much as possible.

Because, when the heavy artillery is fired, the recoil is very strong. Generally speaking, the center of gravity of ships is generally low for sailing stability to avoid sailing. The recoil arm of the top deck artillery is much longer than that of the lower deck. Then, when the artillery on the top deck fires, the moment generated by the recoil force is much larger than that of the artillery with the same power on the lower deck.

If too many heavy guns are installed on the top deck, the recoil moment generated by the salvo is enough to overturn the ship. Therefore, on the 19th century warships, many heavy guns were arranged on the lower deck. For example, when the American Matthew Perry led the fleet to deter the Japanese Edo, the 68-pound Peksan guns equipped on the ship were placed on the lower deck. Of course, this also has a reason to protect the blooms from being detonated by the sparks of enemy shells. After all, stacking explosive shells on the top deck could easily detonate the entire ship by enemy fire. But it is undeniable that the recoil moment is much smaller by placing the heavy artillery on the lower deck.

And if you only place artillery on the top deck, you can't deploy too many heavy artillery. Otherwise, the salvo will really capsize. However, in this era, the specifications of the guns used by everyone generally do not exceed the 20-pound class. Therefore, this problem cannot be regarded as a problem. The Venetians are on the top deck, and a dozen or so pounder artillery can be arranged casually, which is enough for naval battles with the Spanish and Portuguese.

Marin didn't say too much, because it involved some military secrets. For example, in order to be more resistant to shelling, Marin ordered that the ribs of the warship be made denser, and the thickness of the sideboards was thickened, and he planned to cover them with iron sheets.

In this way, ten-pound artillery can't threaten Marin's warships at all, nor twenty-pound artillery. Only larger caliber artillery can threaten the densely ribbed, thickened sideboard and iron-clad warships.

Such secrets, Marin obviously will not tell the Venetians. After all, the world has not yet entered the era of naval warfare, and everyone does not pay much attention to the thickening of the broadside.

Therefore, Marin did not disclose the core secrets of his battleship to Venice, but only told Venice a very simple way to increase the artillery - make the ship bigger, make two decks, and open windows on the lower deck to allow the paddlers to paddle. , without the interference of oars on the upper deck, more artillery is arranged for naval battles...

In fact, after the Venetians got this inspiration, the strength of naval warfare has been greatly enhanced. At least, hanging and beating Spain in the Mediterranean would not be a problem.

Anyway, some Spain will be unlucky in the future. If the Venetians start to threaten Spain's waterway in the Mediterranean, Spain will definitely scratch its head...

The crux of the problem is that if Spain wants to rule the isolated kingdom of Naples and Sicily, it must communicate with the two places through ships.

If the transportation line is cut off by the Venetians, Spain's rule of the two places will also have a big problem...

Marin came up with this idea for the Venetians in order to cater to his father-in-law Julius II's ambition to unify Italy. At least, the probability that the Papal State will obtain the Kingdom of Naples can be greatly increased...

Sure enough, after returning to Rome, Julius II greatly praised Marin for his work. Of course, between Weng and the husband, there is no mention of any reward. After all, Julius II didn't have as much money as Marin...

And Marin secretly suggested to Venice that they might attack Spain's hegemony in the Mediterranean Sea, which was highly praised by Julius II. In Julius II's view, it was unreasonable for Spain to occupy the Kingdom of Naples, and it was reasonable to hand over the Kingdom of Naples to the Holy See...

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What Julius II and Marin, their husband-in-law, did not know was that at this time in Spain, a big thing happened - Isabella I died...

As for the reason, I have to ask Marin...

At the beginning, in order to destroy the marriage alliance between Spain and England, Marin deliberately disclosed the news to the French under the guidance of Julius II. As a result, the French really paid attention.

Moreover, the French took the information that Marin deliberately revealed that "Ferdinand II was looking for women everywhere in Italy" as a top priority.

The French have their own power in Spain, and even many nobles in Spain have secretly turned to France, secretly working with France, and quietly helping the French. Among them, the nobles in the border areas of northern Spain and France are the most serious. After all, they don't know whether their territory will be annexed by France one day.

Louis XII actually knew that Isabella I was sick, after all, the French spies in Spain were not vegetarians. After hearing about Ferdinand II's affair in Italy, the wretched Louis XII recruited French court painters and took out the portrait of Ferdinand II drawn by the collected spies as a reference, and asked the court painters. I drew more than a dozen chaotic portraits of Ferdinand II and several fruit girls...

Then, Louis XII sent a spy to send these dozen paintings to Spain, so that the French secret son in Spain, through a secret channel, sent them into the Spanish royal palace...

Originally, Isabella I was in poor health. But as long as the mood is relieved, and the spring flowers bloom, they can still recover. However, these dozens of restricted oil paintings about Isabella I's husband Ferdinand II in Italy's Gile, instantly made Isabella I feel extremely bad.

Meanwhile, news of Ferdinand II dating his lover in Italy and the torture of Princess Catherine being imprisoned in the Tower of London by Henry VII quickly spread throughout Spain, driven by the French...

Originally, Isabella I was in a bad mood when she saw the dozen or so restricted oil paintings. When I heard that her youngest daughter, Princess Catherine, was imprisoned and tortured by King Henry VII of England, Isabella I was in an extremely bad mood, or rather was extremely angry...

At this time, her body was already very weak. Under such a big stimulus, under the anger, Isabella I fell ill again...

This time, ginger brown sugar water failed to save the queen. The 53-year-old Isabella I finally failed to survive and passed away... And when the queen died, Ferdinand II was driving a very fragrant car with several young and beautiful Italian girls in the Royal Palace of Naples. What about the "uncovered meeting"...