After breakfast the next morning, Tim ordered Nathan to summon Count Warren and other nobles who had rushed from Lisbon to the palace.

Everyone's faces were not very good. I guess they didn't have a good rest last night. No wonder, after all, it was inevitable that they would be a little uncomfortable when they came to Algarve from Lisbon. In addition, the situation is urgent and their future fate is unknown. How can these people feel at ease?

Tim's eyes slowly swept across everyone's faces, and then he spoke extremely seriously: "I know that everyone here is the nobles and heroes who followed His Majesty Ruo's father during his lifetime. I would like to express a warm welcome to your arrival."

After hearing Tim's words, everyone not only took out their hands and applauded desperately. The warm applause gradually added a hint of vitality and vitality to the quiet atmosphere.

Signing everyone to be quiet, Tim walked slowly in the hall: "What is the Portuguese Kingdom facing today? I believe you know more than me. My destiny, your destiny, and even the fate of the Portuguese Kingdom will change drastically at this moment, so you choose to appear in the Algarve. I believe you all know your position."

"Be loyal to Your Highness, follow Your Highness, and obey Your Highness." Earl Warren stood up first and swore loudly, and then other nobles responded to Earl Warren.

Tim was very satisfied with this: "Since you have chosen this prince, I will naturally not disappoint you. When you enter Lisbon in the future, your contributions will naturally be fulfilled one by one."

As the topic changed, Tim looked back at Earl Warren: "Earl Warren, you have been in charge of the Portuguese Navy for many years. If a war breaks out, will you be confident in fighting against the English Navy?"

Earl Warren bowed and responded: "Your Highness, although the English Navy is the strongest in Europe, its strength is the sailing fleet. The number of ocean-going ships Carac ships is not large. If we rank by the number of Carac ships alone, my Portugal Carac ships will be the first in the whole of Europe."

Speaking of this, a hint of pride flashed across the face of Count Warren: "Since the Kingdom of Portugal cannot approach the Mediterranean and can only move around the Atlantic Ocean, the galleys do not have much effect on us. Therefore, the decision made by Your Majesty during his lifetime was to give priority to the development of the Carac ship, and the galleys fleet was second to the next. With His Majesty's years of hard work, the combat effectiveness of the Portuguese Carac ship was completely above England. As long as the English Navy was forced to use the Carac ship to start a war when fighting with England at that time, it would be the best strategy."

After hearing this, Tim nodded. The main reason for asking this question was to test the ability of Count Warren. Now it seems that Count Warren does have the strength of the naval commander, so his worries are unnecessary.

"Your Highness, although the Portuguese Navy is not afraid of the English Navy at all, in recent years, due to the tight financial situation in Portugal, the maintenance and protection of ships is not very good, so the combat effectiveness of many ships has been greatly reduced. I beg your Highness to provide funds to transform and repair the ships." A middle-aged man behind Earl of Warren walked out and suggested to Tim. After saying that, he looked carefully at Tim's change in expression.

Tim turned around and sat down on the chair to agree: "The Navy is the fundamental force in defending national security, so naturally we need to invest more, but I don't know how much money we need to approve?"

"Nomisma who earned more than two million."

"More than two million." Tim was also shocked when he heard this astronomical number. Although he had enough money in his hand, the number was still too large.

"Your Highness, because Algarve does not have a ship factory now and cannot repair ships at all, it is necessary to build a ship factory to produce related parts." At this point, the nobleman turned slightly red and dared not speak because he found that Tim's face was very dark.

"Then does this mean that some basic naval ship facilities will be redeveloped in the Algarve?" Tim frowned and his facial expression was very unhappy.

"Your Highness?" Earl Warren looked at Tim's expression and felt up and down: "If we don't invest in the army, it will probably be difficult to defeat the eldest prince."

Although Earl Warren didn't know what Tim was thinking at this moment, he also realized that His Highness the Prince didn't want to spend too much money on the army.

"You guys discuss it first, let me think about it."

Tim had a headache and wanted to leave here quickly and let himself think about it carefully. Therefore, he threw down this sentence and turned around and left the hall and entered the study, leaving only a group of nobles in the hall.

Sitting at the desk and picking up the map of Europe he had drawn in his spare time, Tim's heart finally returned to peace.

Ask yourself, he really doesn't want to invest too much money for the army at present.

It’s not that he is reluctant to spend money, but that the remaining funds he currently holds are mainly prepared to develop industry and commerce that invests in Portugal.

Industry and commerce are the inexhaustible driving force that supports a country's development and progress, and can continuously provide sufficient funds for the national finances. This industry has always been what Tim pays most attention to and cares about the most. Once industry and commerce develop mature, the country can develop its army unscrupulously.

If these funds are used to develop the army now, the army can become stronger immediately, but once the army consumes this funds, the future development will be a big problem.

At this moment, Tim seemed to see the entire process of the rise and decline of the Iberian Peninsula in his previous life.

The Iberian Peninsula in its previous life rose because of the opening of new routes. After the rise, the Iberian Peninsula was almost the center of Europe and even the world. Portugal and Spain gathered a large amount of wealth through trade and plunder.

Logically speaking, Spain and Portugal have great potential to dominate the world because they have won at the starting line of Europe, but history is such a tragedy.

The wealth obtained by Spain and Portugal did not apply to the development of their own industries and commerce, but was used all in the luxury of the royal family, the construction of religious churches and the war of mainland foreign expansion.

In this series of activities, the wealth of Spain and Portugal eventually flowed into the hands of the Netherlands and the Isles of Great Britain in Northwest Europe, and thus directly led to the rise of the sea coachman, the Netherlands and the Empire of the Sun-Downward Empire.

The rising Netherlands and Britain challenged Spain and Portugal. During the war, the Iberian Peninsula was completely defeated and withdrawn from competition. The land opened by the two countries also helped other European countries to fulfill their sailings.

This heavy history lesson only suppressed Tim couldn't breathe.
Chapter completed!