18th century total war

Chapter 234 New System Architecture
After checking it, Li Wei exchanged [-] Glory Points for the training template of the Guards Cavalry without hesitation.

After the Directorate came to power, almost all the established cavalry units were disbanded, and a large number of horses were left behind, which Li Wei just took over to train the guard cavalry.

As one of the major European countries, how could France not have a powerful cavalry division?

After selecting the cavalry unit, Li Wei continued to pull down, and then he was surprised to find that there was no artillery unit!

In other words, the upgraded total war system is the same as before and cannot train artillery...

It's not impossible to train at all, the part-time artillery of the infantry guards can also be used, but there is no professional artillery to shoot accurately, but when the infantry guards fight, because of Karl's command, they are now obsessed with the "bayonet on the cannon". Law.

Long-range bombardment is rarely used, and even long-range bombardment is used to clear the roadblocks of fortifications, not to kill the enemy.

Guards infantry like to use artillery to shoot the enemy at close range, or even directly load the shotgun, push it under the enemy's eyelids and spray!

It is this tactic that allows the infantrymen to greatly reduce their own death rate in battles where they win more with less (for system soldiers who do not want to be a burden to Lord Li Wei, they will not allow themselves to become seriously injured, Therefore, after each battle of the infantry guards, there are only lightly wounded and dead who can continue to fight, which is why the Black Dragon Army only counts the number of deaths, not the number of wounded).

Of course, it is not impossible for Li Wei to make up for this weakness. He can train the local French artillery and let them take the artillery position of the Black Dragon Army.

Although these local artillerymen are not as fearless of death as system soldiers, the position of artillery is originally located relatively far back. The mortars with short range and poor accuracy are all carried out by the Guards Infantry as the gunners.

A true professional artilleryman only needs to calibrate the enemy in the artillery positions in the rear.

When the Black Dragon Legion needs to bayonet the cannon, these professional artillerymen can hand over the artillery to the infantry guards. For close-range targets, the infantry guards are more accurate, not to mention the moment when the bayonet is attached to the cannon. Field guns tend to fire shot.

Do you need precise calibration when spraying a large area of ​​shotgun?
So Levy isn't much disappointed that the Total War system doesn't have an artillery option.

Li Wei guessed that it should be because the artillery of this era is too backward, so it is impossible for the total war system to produce professional artillery units.

This is indeed the case. For smoothbore cannons, even an ordinary farmer can shoot out the shells with simple training, but he may not be able to shoot accurately.

However, the accuracy of the front-mounted smoothbore guns of this era is very impressive. Even professional gunners bombarded from a long distance, it is difficult to hit the designated target multiple times.

The purpose of field artillery firing solid ammunition is more to attack the morale of the enemy and destroy various fortifications and city walls.

If it weren't for the low lethality of field artillery firing solid bullets, the European troops in the era of queuing up and shooting would not all bravely go forward against the artillery!
However, the ferocity of solid iron balls is far greater than that of muskets and bayonets, so the deterrent effect is still very good, especially for those miscellaneous troops. The miserable corpses killed by shells often frighten many recruits.

After Li Wei browsed the exchange interface of the army training unit template again, he looked at his few reserves of glory points, and controlled his desire to make big purchases.

As a poor ghost, let's get some simple and refined arms, a large army mixed with multiple arms is not suitable for poor people to play...

Although Li Wei's Glory Point reserves are far more than before, there are more places to spend Glory Points. Upgrading the system and functional buildings is a big deal!
Afterwards, Li Wei opened the naval arms training exchange interface.

The naval branch training interface does not list specific branch information like the army does. Instead, various river and ocean warships and gunboats are used as the branch names.

The worst battleships are small gunboats that can only sail in rivers and lakes. The largest ones are sea fortresses known as first-class battleships according to the standards of sailing battleships listed by the British Royal Navy.

"The French Navy's shipbuilding technology is good. Although the number of warships is incomparable with the British Royal Navy, the level of shipbuilding has already ranked first in the world, and it is no different from the British.

Well, the French navy is not as good as the British, it should be because of financial problems and different military expenditures.

After all, France is a country with land power, and it is impossible to allocate most of the military budget to the navy like the British.

Even so, France can be mixed into the world's second navy, even if it is not far behind the world's third Spain, it is enough to prove how powerful France was before Louis XVI!
This is the old foundation left over from the era of the Sun King Louis XIV. "

Li Wei looked at the various types of warships with complete names in the naval service training template, and gained a new understanding of French shipbuilding technology.

However, Li Wei has no intention of spending glory points to exchange.

There are two reasons.

The first and most important one - capitalize the word 'poor'!

The second reason is that Li Wei is very clear about the future development direction of naval warships, and he is not willing to let the French Navy remain the second in Europe.

Li Wei is very clear that even if he manages France, it is impossible to surpass the British Royal Navy in terms of naval size. This is a competition of financial resources.

It is obvious that the speed at which a European power with land power spends money to compete with a European power with sailing warships to make dumplings is purely brainwashed...

However, the number and quality advantages of warships occupied by the British Navy are all sailing battleships!

If the steam ironclad ship is born, all the sailing battleships of the British will be eliminated overnight!
Oh, it’s not completely eliminated. It’s okay to bully and bully backward Asian countries and native Americans and Africans.

However, Britain's sea power in Europe will be seriously threatened!

Even Li Wei, a naval illiterate, knew the huge advantages of steam ironclads over sail battleships!

The biggest advantage is that the steam ironclad can easily destroy the sail warship, but it is almost impossible for the sail warship to sink the steam ironclad!

The steam iron-clad ship is not the turtle-shell ship on the side of the Goryeo stick. It is covered with a layer of iron and calls itself an iron-clad ship...

The steam ironclad ship is made of real steel, the outside is not an iron skin, but a solid iron shell!

Relying on sailing battleships, Li Wei knew that France would never hope to catch up with the Royal Navy of the British. If they wanted to make up for their disadvantages in sea power, they could only take the technological route and burst out steam ironclads first!

As long as there are steam ironclads, the naval race between France and the British will be forced to the same starting line.

Of course, there is no way for the steam ironclad to rely on the total war system. The total war system can only brainwash and train, and the fuck can't climb the technology tree!
Therefore, the steam ironclad still needs to rely on the crystallization of the wisdom of the French people. Li Wei felt that it was necessary for him to establish a government-run university of science and technology to train enough scientific and technological talents.

Thinking of scientific and technological talents, Li Wei immediately opened the functional building template of the total war system.

After the system upgrade, there are a few more functional buildings in the capital of Paris.

And all basic buildings can be added for free!
Of course, not all real buildings can be equipped with system building functions, they must be of the same type, and they cannot be abandoned!
Take, for example, the newly emerging systematic building function in the capital of Paris - the Academy.

You can tell from the name of the college that it is a place to train scholars. Li Wei must at least choose a well-known educational institution in Paris or the surrounding areas of Paris.

Ordinary schools cannot be added with the college system function.

The function of the academy is to brainwash the scholars in the academy. Scholars in this era have a very famous title in later generations-scientists or researchers!
The brainwashing limit of the college is the same as other basic buildings, which is 1000 people!
After being upgraded to a classical university, the upper limit is increased by 10 times to 1 people, and to a top modern university is 10 people!

It's a pity that only one college can be attached to a country's capital to mark a city...

After lighting up the college's system building functions for free, Li Wei set his sights on another newly added system building - the bank building.

The bank building is actually a bank. The National Holding Bank, which was originally located in Paris, was endowed with the system functions of the bank building by Li Wei.

Unsurprisingly, with the urine nature of the total war system, the system function of the bank building is not to continuously pop out gold and silver as Li Wei expected, but to brainwash the relevant personnel of the bank building.

It's just that the brainwashing method of this bank building is different from the previous system.

There are three levels of brainwashing in the bank building.

The first level is the staff in the bank building and the major shareholders with a certain proportion of shares (that is, rich people who are eligible to enter the resolution of the shareholders' meeting). Brainwashing this kind of people is equivalent to the effect of administrative enlightenment.

The major shareholder must be a rich man in the country, that is, the major shareholders who can be brainwashed in bank buildings in different capitals are limited by nationality.

If Livy had occupied Berlin, Livy could have carried out this type of brainwashing on the wealthy majority shareholders of Prussia's home-owned bank buildings.

And as long as the staff in the bank building don't resign and the major shareholders don't resell all their shares, the brainwashing effect will never fade away.

Most importantly, this brainwashing effect has no upper limit on personnel!
The only restrictions are the shareholding ratio and working in a bank building.

It must be an effective job position in the bank building. If you want to take advantage of the loopholes to create a bloated job position, you will not be able to enjoy the effect of administrative attestation and brainwashing...

However, the second level of brainwashing effect is set for the effective external staff of the bank.

People who do not work in the bank building will be affected by this brainwashing effect. The second level of brainwashing is no longer to make these people absolutely loyal to Li Wei, but to make these people naturally respect Li Wei!
They may not crazyly 'like' any of Levi's actions, but they will never betray Levi easily.

Of course, the easy betrayal here is just to increase the chips. If the money is added to the extent that the opponent cannot resist, there is still a probability of betraying Li Wei.

Therefore, the brainwashing effect of this level is far less than that of the first level, and the advantage is that there is no restriction on working in a bank building.

As for expatriates, as a national bank, you can open branches in all the cities and towns in France!

As long as it is a valid job position, it can be regarded as an expatriate.

If Li Wei has enough funds, he can even open branches in the countryside to increase the positions of expatriate staff...

In the same way, this expatriate job cannot take advantage of loopholes and use meaningless bloated institutions to cheat for brainwashing quotas.

The total war system is relatively rigorous in this regard, or the brainwashing effect of the total war system has a fixed scope and cannot spread without limit.

The third level has the lowest restriction, but the brainwashing effect is also the weakest.

The scope of brainwashing on the third level of the bank building is the bank's depositors and ordinary shareholders. The effect of the brainwashing is to stimulate their patriotism and loyalty to the emperor. Among them, patriotism accounts for the majority, and loyalty to the emperor is naturally loyal to Li Wei.

However, the idea of ​​loyalty to the emperor ranks second, that is to say, those who deposit and participate in the national bank opened in the bank building will put the country first and Li Wei second.

However, the limits of this category are so weak that there is too much room for maneuver.

If Li Wei operates well, every Frenchman can even become a depositor of the National Bank!
At that time, French nationalism will be awakened in the true sense, and everyone will have patriotic sentiments!
It's a pity that it's too difficult to do this step...

What's more, the brainwashing effect of the third level is the weakest, patriotism is something common people in the 21st century have, but as long as foreign spies pay enough money, who can control themselves from betraying their country?
Therefore, this kind of patriotic sentiment will at most prevent the common people from rebelling easily.

If you are really starving to death, your patriotism will be nothing.

The brainwashing effect of the bank building made Li Wei ecstatic. He saw the opportunity to truly control France and the whole world!

For other buildings, even if they reach the top level, they will only brainwash millions of people, but as long as the bank building is well operated, its reputation can immediately turn from black to white!
Best of all, the bank building is free and requires no upgrades!
The training camp, the tax bureau, the local court, the artillery foundry, the college, the bank building, and the shipyard are the seven buildings that the total war system can give the system functions.

And they are all lit up for free. Levi only needs to find a building that is suitable for the attached function. The dock will not be restricted by the region of Paris. As long as the port in the mainland of France can be given the system function of the dock, even Levi can also Changed dock locations back and forth between other native shipyards.

This can ensure that Levi will not lose the function of training system sailors after the dock is destroyed by the enemy.

(End of this chapter)