Regardless of the fate of the Venetians, Marin's mission was finally completed very beautifully. Of course, out of kindness, Marin reminded the Venetians that gallops are at a disadvantage in naval battles than sailing warships. Because there are not as many artillery on gallops...
Therefore, Marin suggested that Venice should increase the gun position as much as possible and improve combat effectiveness without affecting the sailing performance of the galley. In response, Venice Governor Leonardo Lore adopted Marin's suggestion and ordered the attempt to research and manufacture galleys that can deploy more artillery.
In fact, the Emden Shipyard in Marin has long studied the tactics of adding artillery by paddle sailboats. Moreover, it has also come to a final conclusion: if the artillery and the paddle do not affect each other, the best way to layout is to build a double-decked sailboat. The paddleboat paddles through windows on the lower deck, while the cannon is deployed on the top deck...
In this way, the oars that the rowers rowed forward and back could not affect the artillery above. In this way, the sailboat could deploy twenty or thirty artillery pieces. Of course, it would have to be a double-deck large galleon.
Moreover, in order to reduce the recoil torque and prevent the hull from shaking too much, the top-level cannons are preferably small and medium-sized cannons, and try to avoid heavy cannons.
Because when heavy artillery is fired, the recoil is very strong. Generally speaking, in order to stabilize navigation, the center of gravity of the ship is generally lower to avoid sailing. The recoil arm of the top deck cannon is much longer than the lower deck. Then, when the artillery on the top deck fires, the moment generated by the recoil is much larger than the artillery of the same power as the lower deck.
If too many heavy artillery is installed on the top deck, the recoil torque generated during the volley will be enough to overturn the ship. Therefore, on 19th century warships, many heavy artillery were arranged on the lower deck. For example, when American Matthew Perry led a fleet to deter Edo, Japan, the 68-pound Pexon cannons equipped on the ship were placed on the lower deck. Of course, this also has the reason why the flowering shells are protected from being detonated by enemy shells. After all, piled flowering shells on the top deck can easily be detonated by enemy artillery fire. But it is undeniable that the recoil torque is much smaller when placed on the lower deck.
If you only place artillery on the top deck, you cannot arrange too many heavy artillery. Otherwise, you will really capsize when you fire a salvo. However, in this era, the specifications of artillery used by people generally do not exceed 20 pounds. Therefore, this problem cannot be considered a problem. The Venetians arranged a few dozen pounds of artillery on the top deck, which was enough to engage in naval battles with the Spanish and Portuguese.
Marin didn't say that it was too detailed because it involved some military secrets. For example, in order to more resistant to shelling, Marin ordered the ribs of the warship to be dense, and the thickness of the sidewalk boards was thickened, and the plan to cover the iron sheet.
In this way, a dozen pounds of artillery could not threaten the warships under Marin's command, and a twenty pounds would not. Only larger caliber can threaten the dense ribs of the ship, thickened the sidewalk boards and iron-covered warships.
Marin obviously would not tell the Venetians such secrets. 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 sidewalk.
Therefore, Marin did not disclose the core secrets of his warship to Venice, but only told Venice that it was a very simple way to increase artillery - to build a large ship, make two decks, open windows on the lower deck for paddlers to row, and the upper deck was arranged with more artillery for naval combat without the interference of the oars...
In fact, after the Venetians were inspired, their naval combat strength had been greatly enhanced. At least, it would be no problem to hang Spain in the Mediterranean.
Anyway, some Spain will be in trouble in the future. If the Venetians begin to threaten Spain's waterways in the Mediterranean, Spain will definitely scratch their heads...
The key to the problem is that if Spain wants to rule the 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 over the two places will have big problems...
Marin gave the Venetians this idea to cater to the ambition of father-in-law Julius II's desire to unify Italy. At least, the probability that the Pope's Kingdom of Naples could greatly increase...
Sure enough, after returning to Rome, Julius II praised Marin's contributions. Of course, no reward was mentioned between the father-in-law and son-in-law. After all, Julius II did not have much money as Marin...
Marin secretly gave Venice the possibility of attacking Spain's hegemony in the Mediterranean, which also received high praise from 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, the son-in-law and son-in-law, didn't know that something big happened in Spain at this time - 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 Britain, Marin deliberately revealed the news to the French under the guidance of Julius II. As a result, the French indeed attached importance to it.
Moreover, the French took Marin's intentional information that "Ferdinand II looked for women everywhere in Italy" as a top priority.
The French had their own power in Spain. Even many Spanish nobles secretly turned to France, secretly interacted with France, and secretly helped the French. Among them, the nobles in the border areas between northern Spain and France were the most important. After all, they didn't know whether their territory would be annexed by France on one day.
Louis XII actually knew that Isabella I was sick. After all, French spies in Spain were not vegetarians. After hearing about Ferdinand II's romantic affair in Italy, the vulgar Louis XII called French court painters and took out the portraits of Ferdinand II drawn by the spies as reference, and asked the court painters to draw more than a dozen doodle portraits of Ferdinand II and several fruit women...
Then, Louis XII sent spies to send these dozens of paintings to Spain, allowing the French secret son in Spain to send them to the Spanish palace through secret channels...
Originally, Isabella I was in poor health. But as long as the mood was soothing, it could still recover when the spring was warm and flowers bloomed. However, these dozen restricted-grade oil paintings about Isabella I's husband Ferdinand II's joy in Italy instantly made Isabella I feel extremely bad.
At the same time, news spread throughout Spain, under the promotion of the French, that Ferdinand II dated his lover in Italy and that Princess Catherine was imprisoned by Henry VII and that she was tortured in the Tower of London, spread rapidly throughout Spain...
Isabella was in a bad mood when she saw more than a dozen restricted oil paintings. When she heard that her youngest daughter Princess Catherine was imprisoned and tortured by King Henry VII of England, Isabella I was in a very bad mood, or she was extremely angry...
At this time, her body was already very weak. After being so stimulated, she became angry, so Isabella fell ill again in his lifetime...
Chapter completed!