Rise of Empires: Spain

The reorganization of the Spanish army is good news for most people.

The existing officers have a wider channel for promotion, and the positions of the 11 division commanders will also become the target of Spanish senior officers.

Fortunately, Carlo does not have much real power in the army, otherwise Carlo would not have a good life during this period.

After all, there are only 11 senior officer positions in the whole of Spain. How to become a future division commander in Spain is estimated to give these officers a headache for a long time.

And under the division commander, with the expansion of the army, there are also a large number of vacancies for regiment commanders and battalion commanders. Including Andrew and Kaman, who were promoted by Carlo before, and those officers who graduated from the Royal Military Academy, there may be a certain room for promotion.

If Carlo remembers correctly, Andrew and Kaman are currently majors. After all, they are all Carlo's people, and Grand Duke Serrano should take care of them a little in this military expansion.

Apart from anything else, it is still no problem to be promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel as a regiment commander. At the very least, you can serve as a deputy regiment commander, and after a few years of experience, you can rise to the regiment commander.

Although there are many regimental commanders in Spain, this does not mean that the commander is a low-ranking officer. On the contrary, in Spain, where the army is not large, officers at the level of regimental commander can also be considered senior officers.

Once the army needs to be expanded on a large scale in the face of war, the regimental commander, such an officer, will soon be promoted to the division commander and serve as the main commander of an army of 10,000 people.

Moreover, Andrew and Kaman have only been in Spain for a few years, and they joined the Spanish Royal Army as Italians.

It is quite good to have such achievements at present. After all, they are only in their 20s and are still very young. There is still a long time to use them to accumulate experience and wait for the war to happen.

For the Royal Arsenal, the large-scale expansion of the army is excellent news.

At present, among all the military factories in Spain, only the Royal Arsenal has the production capacity of the Vitali M1872 rifle, which also means that the rifles armed with more than 100,000 Spanish troops need to be produced by the Royal Arsenal.

Although it is an extremely difficult task, it is also an opportunity for the development of the Royal Arsenal.

After completing this order, the Royal Arsenal will become the largest military factory enterprise in Spain, and no competitor can match it.

This is also a necessity for the development of this era. The birth of a monopoly giant is not a bad thing for the country. For Spain, whose military production capacity is already limited, the Royal Arsenal has become the leader and giant of military enterprises, which can strengthen Spain's research and development and manufacturing capabilities in military technology.

After all, the research and development capabilities of a super enterprise and many small and medium-sized enterprises are completely different. Perhaps the research and development capabilities of thousands of small and medium-sized enterprises combined are not as good as those of a giant enterprise. Research and development requires real money and a lot of time. Some small military factories cannot afford such efforts at all.

However, there is currently one most important issue, which is about increasing the production capacity of the Royal Arsenal.

At present, the production capacity of the Royal Arsenal is too small compared to the needs of the Spanish army, and it is completely insufficient to meet the equipment needs of the Spanish army.

Fortunately, the reform and conscription of the Spanish army will also take some time, and this period of time is the golden stage for the Royal Arsenal to increase production.

At present, the number of employees at the Royal Arsenal has just exceeded 1,000, and the annual output of weapons is: 7,000 rifles, 150 artillery pieces, 1.2 million bullets, and 15,000 shells.

If the needs of the Spanish army are to be fully met, the Royal Arsenal will need to work overtime for more than ten years.

In order to solve this problem, Carlo issued an order for unlimited expansion to the Royal Arsenal, requiring the Royal Arsenal to triple its weapons production in the next year.

Of course, Carlo also provided strong financial support to the Royal Arsenal. More than 8 million pesetas can be used by the Royal Arsenal, and hundreds of weapons experts from the Austro-Hungarian Empire supporting Spain have all been transferred to the Royal Arsenal to help the military factory increase production.

The government also provided policy support for the expansion of the Royal Arsenal, such as approving the land of the Seville Industrial Base, including preparing a large industrial area for the Royal Arsenal in the future Barcelona Industrial Base.

At present, the Royal Arsenal has two large branches, located in Madrid and Seville. After the construction of the branch of the Barcelona Industrial Base is completed in the future, it will also effectively increase the weapons production of the Royal Arsenal.

As for the issue of employees, I am not too worried at the moment.

After the cabinet meeting, Carlo had asked Butler Loren to start preparing for the construction of a comprehensive technical school.

Currently, a large comprehensive technical school will be started in Madrid, Seville and Barcelona at the same time. It is expected that each school can accommodate more than 3,000 technical students.

This also means that after the completion of the technical schools in the future, the three technical schools can enroll more than 3,000 students each year.

The training time for technical students is shorter than that of ordinary universities. It is expected that these students will graduate in 2 to 3 years and devote themselves to the construction of Spain.

Of course, the training time of 2 to 3 years is still too long for Spain at present. Considering that the construction of these technical schools will take at least several months, it will take at least three years for the first batch of technical students to graduate.

In order to cultivate the technical talents needed by Spain as early as possible, Carlo ordered Butler Loren to join the government to open technical training courses in several industrial cities in Spain under the premise of starting construction of three comprehensive technical schools at the same time, and temporarily train a group of talents with certain technical capabilities for Spain in 3 to 6 months.

It is not required that these temporarily trained technicians are very good, as long as they can barely meet the needs of various factories for technical talents.

Although the training time of 3 to 6 months is not long, it is enough to let them master certain factory equipment usage experience and not be so unfamiliar when they enter the factory to work.

Basically, holding such a temporary technical training course in each industrial city can meet the short-term needs of Spain's industrial development.

In the future, when the three technical schools built begin to enroll students, such temporary technical training courses can be gradually cancelled.

Among all the factories in the royal industry, the military factory has the fastest development momentum.

After all, the military has provided a large number of orders for the military factory, which has led to no shortage of orders for the military factory in the next few years.

This also means that even if the economic crisis comes in the future, the military factory has orders from the military and does not have to worry about being affected by the economic crisis.

If the military factories remain strong, they can also help steel mills and other factories better survive the economic crisis.

After all, the production of rifles and artillery, including various types of bullets and shells, requires a lot of steel, which is also good for steel mills.

Including various factories producing small parts, they will have a better chance of surviving this economic crisis.     As for whether the military factories will face a reduction in orders after expanding their production scale, Carlo is not too worried.

After all, after surviving this economic crisis, the tenth Russo-Turkish War will soon come. This Russo-Turkish War will focus on the Balkan Peninsula, and the Balkan Peninsula will be more lively.

These wars will create a large demand for weapons and ammunition. Although Spain's military industry is not well-known, it is no problem to share a piece of the pie.

After all, the two sides of the Russo-Turkish War, the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire, are not very strong in weapons production, and they are more dependent on weapons imports from abroad.

No matter which side of the business is done, it can ensure that Spain's military industry will not face a large-scale reduction in orders in the future.

Moreover, Latin American countries are also the target of Spain's cooperation, as well as East Asian countries, they are all importers of weapons.

As long as Spanish weapons are not too backward among the weapons of European countries, coupled with the right price, there is basically no worry about sales.

At the end of June 1872, Carlo attended the annual graduation ceremony of the Royal Military Academy again.

Compared with the graduates of the military academy last year, the graduates of the military academy this year will be more fortunate. Because they have waited for the reform of the Spanish army before graduation, they will have positions equal to or even higher than military ranks as soon as they graduate.

After the expansion of the Spanish army, there will be a large number of vacancies in low-level officers such as platoon leaders and company commanders. And these newly graduated military academy graduates are basically lieutenants, and they just correspond to the positions of platoon leaders and company commanders.

The first batch of military academy graduates waited for a long time in the position of deputy platoon leader, and finally waited for the reform of the army, and got the opportunity to be promoted to platoon leader or even deputy company commander and company commander.

The second batch of military academy graduates are luckier. Their lowest position is platoon leader, and there is even hope to be directly promoted to company commander, which is something that the first batch of graduates dared not think about when they graduated.

Considering that the Guards will also expand, Carlo also conducted a small-scale selection among the second batch of graduates, just like the first batch of graduates, and selected a small number of officers to join the Guards.

These military academy graduates are still very happy to join the Guards. As the same Spanish army, the welfare benefits of the Guards are much better than those of the Royal Army.

Of course, the main reason for this is that the Guards belong to the private army of the royal family, and all current expenses are borne by the royal family.

In order to ensure the loyalty of the Guards, Carlo not only set a higher salary than the Royal Army for the soldiers of the Guards, but also higher subsidies and clear pension policies, so that the soldiers of the Guards can worry-free.

It is not an exaggeration to say that after the soldiers of the Guards died in combat missions, his family will receive a valuable compensation, and all his children will be trained by the royal family until college, not only with priority admission to college, but also with all tuition fees from elementary school to college will be waived.

Compared to the Royal Army, whose pension system is not so clear and the pension is not much, the treatment of the Guards is already very good.

However, the Guards has always been a regiment in size, and the soldiers are carefully selected from the Royal Army. It is difficult for ordinary people to directly enter the Guards.

The selection among these young officers is a relatively easy opportunity to enter the Guards, and they will directly serve as officers of the Guards.

The treatment of officers is definitely better than that of ordinary soldiers. For these graduates who have just graduated from the Royal Military Academy and are deeply influenced by the patriotic thoughts of the Central Army of the Academy, the Guards are an elite army that is directly loyal to His Majesty the King. It is certainly an honor to be able to enter the Guards.

This year's military academy graduates are less than last year's, but they have reached a scale of more than 300 people. However, considering that the Royal Army will need a large number of low- and middle-level officers after expansion, Carlo does not intend to compete with the Royal Army.

After selecting a dozen officers with above-average grades from these 300 military academy graduates, Carlo completed the military academy graduation ceremony.

The remaining 300 military academy graduates will be assigned to various Spanish troops within a month and help the Spanish troops to reform.

Although they are just ordinary graduates in the military academy, they are all rising stars after going to various troops. They are at least platoon leaders and command at least dozens of soldiers.

If the more than 400 military academy graduates last year are added, the Royal Military Academy has trained more than 700 outstanding military academy graduates for the Spanish Army in the past two years.

These more than 700 military academy graduates are crucial to this reform. After the Spanish army officially expanded, there were more than 400 positions for company commanders in the six infantry divisions alone.

Adding three cavalry divisions and two artillery divisions, the reserve of middle and low-level officers in the Spanish army was not enough.

Even if all these 700 military academy graduates were filled into the army, they could only barely meet the needs of the army.

However, it is certain that the military level of these military academy graduates must be better than those middle and low-level officers who were dismissed by the army.

The Royal Military Academy is notoriously strict in the training of students. Carlo has actually inspected the training system of the military academy and did not find any major problems.

It can even be guaranteed that under such strict training requirements of the Royal Military Academy, even if the graduates of the military academy are not excellent generals, they are definitely qualified among the officers at the company commander level.

After several years of training in the army, they are more than enough to serve as battalion commanders or even regiment commanders. The reason why Spain did not produce any famous generals during this period was entirely because Spain did not participate in World War I and World War II, and a large number of officer positions were controlled by nobles.

Before, there was not much difference between Spanish officers and hereditary system. It would be strange if such officers could be good.

The influence of middle and low-level officers on the combat effectiveness of the army is still very large. After all, no matter how excellent the ability of the senior generals is, his orders must be issued to the troops at all levels for execution.

It is these middle and low-level officers who are responsible for executing the tasks, and their military level determines the lower limit of an army.

If the middle and low-level officers of an army are all those guys who fish in troubled waters and only know how to get by, then even if a famous general leads this army, it is destined to not be able to exert any excellent combat effectiveness.

Senior officers bring the upper limit of the combat effectiveness of the army, and the middle and low-level officers bring the lower limit of the combat effectiveness of the army.

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Here is a big chapter, I have to go to pick up the bride tomorrow (my cousin is getting married), so it may be updated later.