Chapter 548

The atmosphere in the cabin was as hot as fire.

Especially the three generals of the American naval system... A general and two lieutenant generals, they look like they want to stare through the thick screen with their eyes.

Understandable... Well, understandable.

In fact, if Washington had not been sitting in the hall, Lorraine believed that these humiliated generals would have abandoned their gentlemanly demeanor. At least they would not be waiting for the outbreak in silence as they are now.

Fafuna is really a girl who is good at making surprises

Just looking at the clumsy appearance in front of her with no place to put her hands and feet, who would have thought that the weak trembling m voice could release the heroic words of limit s without violation, and easily turn customers into enemies?

But Lorraine had to admit that as a transition skill, fafuna performed perfectly.

This is an extremely formal, formal or even boring business plan defense.

Washington drew a hidden line for Lorraine. If he is satisfied, Lorraine must give up the speech bonus. If he is not satisfied... He may not even have the opportunity to open his defense.

This is extremely unfair to Drake chamber of Commerce as Party B.

Because the customers are neither technicians nor sailors, even if the world-class Karen is the keynote speaker in the ship promotion link, and valkiri is the physical reference, it is difficult for them to feel the dry ship parameters.

What really enables them to produce [what I can do with such a fleet] is actually the planning and promotion of fleet tactics and composition.

However, this has to face another problem, the boring and unreasonable sense of superiority of the navy in the face of maritime merchants.

Indeed, as fafuna said, the American navy is just a group of outsiders who hide in the fort all year round and have never faced the tragic war.

But this does not prevent them from thinking they are professional.

Those minds armed by the entry-level textbooks of Britain and France have long been used to commenting on the classic battles of ancient and modern times. How can they face up to the tactical lectures of a mere group of privateers?

Favna found another way.

She dressed the promotion meeting as a classroom and the American generals as students without authorization.

The generals certainly can't tolerate the contempt of a little girl, but they can't attack it in front of Washington.

They can only listen with the attitude of finding fault, hoping to pick mistakes and omissions from fafuna's words and bite them, so as to prove that she is an incompetent businessman who is good for nothing.

As we all know, people are far more focused when they find fault than when they listen to class.

A wonderful move

Lorraine smiled and Mimi crossed her fingers, trying to find fault with the generals.

Fafuna deserves to be the most outstanding scholar commander Drake has discovered in the past decade. She is not shallow and inflexible.

Starting from the era of rowing and sailing in which France and Turkey competed for hegemony in the Mediterranean, she focused on the evolution of the tactics of long-range ship loading and short soldiers connecting to the side, and cut into the era of great geographical discovery through attack and defense.

From Kirk type to Karak type, and then from Karak type to Galen type

"The discovery of geography overturned our demand for ships."

"In order to meet the needs of ocean going, ships are built larger and larger, and the fluid is more and more refined."

"The cost of a single ship has risen sharply in the process. No matter how powerful a country is, it can't continue to use the ship as an ordinary consumable as before."

"The ship's hull is thickened, the freeboard is increased, the caliber is expanded, the distance of naval battle is farther and farther, and it is more and more difficult to sink a warship until the battle line is born, and the marine tactics officially enter the era of caliber being the king."

"In today's world, Britain, which has the strongest maritime strength, has nearly 500 gunships at all levels and 68 battleships above 32 pounds."

"The French Navy ranks second, with more than 350 gunships at all levels and 47 warships above battleships. Again, Spain has more than 200 in service and 39 in reserve."

"The strength of the Royal Navy comes from its 30 million people all over the world and its service accumulation of more than 50 years. Therefore, it is impossible to build a world-class Navy in a short time by relying on the land, population, wealth and history of the United States."

Favna probably let go completely.

After all, she can only see Karen who helped her lift the picture in her field of vision, and her listeners have been focused on finding fault for a long time without making a sound, as if they didn't exist at all

Of course, this sentence has naturally caused a rebound.

Admiral Devis, the Secretary of the Navy, stood up with a slap on the table. Although his voice remained cold and rational, the slap on the table was a little too loud.

Boom!

"Then, according to the young lady, isn't this reply unnecessary at all?"

Fafuna was probably frightened. The screen clicked and trembled, and the voice became thin and broken. She could barely distinguish the syllable of sorry.

Lorraine gave a soft bang.

"Mr. President, has your Admiralty always naively believed that with a limited defense budget, you can compete with Britain and France in a few years?"

Washington crossed his legs and took up his coffee: "it's the bounden duty of soldiers to win, Mr. President. They're just doing their duty."

"I think it is the bounden duty of soldiers to defend the country."

"But freedom is always brought about by victory, not by acceptance."

"Reason and acceptance are parallel lines that do not intersect. If the army refuses even reason and wisdom, it will over correct."

"Listen to Mr. President, your plan is related to reason?"

"It's just practical. It's more or less practical than an unrealistic plan to keep up with the world-class."

The two talked one after another, leaving the storming admiral aside. Admiral Devis felt more and more embarrassed when he stepped over, but he couldn't find the step to sit down.

At this time, Miss Solomon, sitting in the back row, got up and leaned in the general's ear. She didn't know what to say.

The general snorted coldly and sat back in her seat. Miss Solomon swept Karen in front of the Kanban, her eyes fixed on the front of the screen.

"Miss favna, you have fully demonstrated your expertise. Next, we hope to hear more useful suggestions about the Mediterranean past related to the United States, rather than the French Empire hundreds of years ago."

"Yes... Yes..."

The sound behind the screen was a little louder at last, but the momentum was weaker than one at first.

Lorraine rubbed her eyebrows with a headache and winked at Karen quietly.

Karen understood and stood up and looked directly at Miss Solomon.

"The chamber of commerce thinks!" he robbed fafuna of her speech. "Battleships mean nothing to America."

General Smith said coldly in his seat, "is it not because the maritime group has no ability to build battleships?"

"Sorry, the first design drawing I made after I became an apprentice is the main hull drawing of the Royal Navy class III battleship endeavour. Therefore, there is no obstacle to the design team of the maritime group. The reason why the United States is not suitable for battleships lies in the United States itself."

"It's standard European arrogance again! Your Chamber of commerce is always neutral. Do you also think that the people of the new continent don't deserve battleships?"

Honest Karen immediately concluded.

General Smith was just about to take advantage of the victory when Carmen rattled open his fan bones.

"Why should the general ask? The reason why the maritime group does not build battleships is that so far, the maritime group has not received a formal order for battleships, and of course, it has not independently designed any battleships."

"But our design team has the ability. If the United States wants battleships, it can invite us to design and manufacture with real gold and silver. Karen and maritime group will not refuse customers' orders. He said so just because battleships are really not suitable for the United States."

"What doesn't fit?"

"Cost!" fafuna finally resurrected, and the frightened whip poked out from behind the screen and knocked on the kanban.

With a sigh of relief, Karen turned and lifted the drawing to show a complex schematic diagram of naval battle in front of the crowd.

Admiral Devis's eyes widened: "this is..."

"The battle of Chesapeake Bay," replied favna.