It was eventually revised to include all types of battleships, including traditional battleships and armored cruisers.

And this tonnage share can be used for the construction of cruisers.

All countries in Europe and the West still have a certain number of traditional battleships and armored cruisers.

Traditional naval countries such as the United Kingdom, France, Spain, and Portugal have a large number of self-built old warships.

Lucia, Prussia and other countries have a number of obsolete warships imported from the Ming Dynasty after the war.

In the eyes of current naval generals and designers, these warships are completely outdated.

However, it can be converted into a new fearless battleship mode and continue to be used as a secondary battleship.

Compared with countries such as Lucia and Prussia that imported warships, traditional naval countries such as the United Kingdom, France, and Spain have a much larger number of traditional battleships.

In other words, this revised 320,000 tons allows Lucia to eliminate all imported old battleships and use them all to build new high-speed battleships.

The United Kingdom, France, Spain, Portugal, and the Netherlands can also continue to retain a group of traditional battleships to fill the tonnage.

In external presentations and publicity, it can be claimed that it has a 320,000-ton battleship.

It is a plan proposed by the British to build cruisers with the tonnage of battleships.

The British's actual goal was to build an aircraft carrier, and the French had similar ideas after hearing the proposal.

This is to allow aircraft carriers and high-speed battleships to share tonnage.

At the same time, the full load displacement of all ships must not exceed 40,000 metric tons.

This was Lucia's main concession.

After Lucia received Niu Jian's warning, she didn't dare to build a 60,000-ton battleship, and she didn't have the ability to build one for the time being.

But continuing to scale up to 50,000 tons is still a challenge.

Now, after being jointly pressured by other countries in Thailand and Spain, we finally chose to give up.

The tonnage limit is something that all countries have been prepared for from the very beginning.

There is nothing wrong with the restriction method.

The full-load displacement used by the Navy was directly used, without discussing the establishment of a "treaty standard displacement".

Zhu Jingyuan's naval treaty in his previous life was signed by the five navies of the United Kingdom, the United States, Japan, France, and Italy. The ranges of their main ships differed greatly.

Italian battleships basically only operate in the Mediterranean, and as long as they have a range of six to seven thousand kilometers, they are completely sufficient.

The British need to deploy globally, and the Americans need to mobilize across the two oceans, and they would like to increase the voyage to 20,000 kilometers.

The American Iowa-class battleship has a maximum oil storage capacity of nearly 10,000 tons.

Italy's Veneto-class battleships have a maximum oil storage capacity of only 4,500 tons.

The difference in pure fuel tonnage between the two sides is only four to five thousand tons.

The weight of four to five thousand tons is enough to increase the caliber of the naval gun from 381 mm to 406 mm.

This is a huge difference in battleship design.

If the treaty ship tonnage is limited according to the maximum displacement, then the armed strength of Italian battleships of the same tonnage will be one level higher than that of the Americans.

Therefore, historical naval treaties specifically formulated a "treaty standard displacement" that did not include fuel volume as the tonnage standard for naval vessels of the countries that signed the treaty.

Due to the great influence of the Naval Treaty and the navies of the five countries on later generations, this standard displacement originally developed specifically for the treaty gradually replaced the originally customary full-load displacement and became the main standard for comparing ship tonnage in later generations.

But in this world, today's major countries in Europe and the West, the scope of activities of their naval vessels is highly consistent.

All from the North Atlantic to the west coast of Mexico.

The Spanish countries have colonies all along the west coast of Mexico, including Italy, Audrey, Ottoman and Lucia.

Although the British wanted to go to Tianzhu, there were supply points everywhere on the route, and Tianzhu was almost abandoned.

Countries will not have huge differences in fuel reserve design due to different voyage requirements.

If Ming Dynasty participates, similar standards may be designed due to Ming Dynasty's long range requirements, but currently there is no such rigid demand.

Therefore, there is no such typical data as the so-called "standard displacement" in this world.

Finally, all tonnage data are in metric tons, which is one thousand kilograms.

It is not the imperial long ton of Zhu Jingyuan's previous naval treaty, which is 2,240 pounds.

In the previous naval treaty, the main core participating countries were the United Kingdom and the United States. Both countries used the British system at the time, so it was natural to use the British system to sign the contract.

There is no United States in this world, and coupled with the vigorous promotion of the Ming Dynasty, the British in this world no longer use the imperial system.

All the countries that signed the treaty use the metric system, so data such as imperial length and short tons naturally do not exist.

However, compared with the naval treaty of Zhu Jingyuan's previous life, the biggest difference in this naval treaty is the share division strategy.

All contracting countries adhere to the same standards, rather than each country dividing a certain share ratio.

Because the current power of the major countries in Europe and the West is too balanced compared to other worlds.

Britain, France, Spain, Prussia, Lucia, and Austria are about the same, while Italy and the Ottomans are slightly weaker.

Although Portugal has obviously declined, it is still a naval power in name and can still gain basic respect.

It is impossible for the Netherlands, Denmark and other obviously truly weak countries to complete a corresponding share of construction, and there is no need to specifically limit the size and tonnage of their navies.

Therefore, the contracting countries ultimately adopted the most “fair” restriction plan.
Chapter completed!