Chapter 2202: In colombo
3 pm on the sixth day of March 1664, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
The southern coast there is the leasehold of the Southern China Empire, with a deep-water port and the largest overseas warehouse!
China Town is on a mountain by the sea, with layered houses and spacious and clean roads, which is where the Chinese live.
Reporter Becky saw the harbor below, and there was already a huge and frightening fleet gathered, including 28 battleships, although they were all 72 of the smaller "Southeast Asia-class" third-tier battleships. There are 76 guns. There are no 90 "Indian Ocean-class" second-tier battleships in the port, and no Empire-class battleship with more than a hundred guns. The new and old battleships are different. There are fewer new ships and more old ships, but battleships are battleships!
The battleships of the sailing period were majestic and majestic, especially the "Southeast Asia-class" third-tier battleships, which are considered to be the product of the perfect combination of firepower and mobility. They have sufficient firepower to dare to fight first and second-tier battleships, and have Solid defense, unlike a cruise ship that fell apart immediately after being hit by a battleship, it also has a streamlined body, which is fast and will not fall behind when sailing with the cruise ship.
Although the first and second class battleships have powerful firepower delivery capabilities, they are extremely bulky and difficult to maneuver and cannot perform other combat missions other than the main fleet decisive battle. Therefore, even if Governor Cabot is decent as an admiral, he has a second-class battleship as a seat. Ship, this time he didn't bring a second-tier battleship.
The warships of the South China Fleet are properly maintained, the soldiers are in high spirits, and the military is very powerful!
So every time Bache walks through the harbor, he always stops to watch when he sees battleships, thinking of the passionate sea life of the navy, and longing for it.
He is a reporter for the "Nanjing Daily" and works mostly in Daming. He has not seen many opportunities for battleship formations. Unlike his colleague Wang Yunsheng, who is a reporter for the "South China Daily", he is commonplace with battleships, unless it is a first- and second-tier battleship. Will attract his attention.
Two battleships had just left the port. At this time, they had escaped the drag of the tugboat. They had eaten the wind by themselves. The sails on them were flared and they moved forward. The bow plowed forward, the stern was a white track, and there was a group of dolphins. When hitting the water, their vigorous bodies jumped out of the water, jumping around the battleship, the scene is extremely spectacular!
Because there are scenes of dolphins helping people who fall into the water in the legend, Cantonese people do not eat them, and dolphins are free in the sea where people come and go.
It is more than that Becky saw God, and some Chinese people and tourists everywhere in the port looked in a daze!
At that time, the environment lacked entertainment, and the scene of the battleship sailing made people get a lot of entertainment.
Looking down from Becky’s line of sight, he saw several porters resting under the tree. They were accidentally "shot" and fled under the tree in embarrassment. They were bombarded by the "sacred bird"!
The "sacred bird" is the crow, and Colombo is the paradise of the "sacred bird". The crows circulate in the sky, covering the sky and obscuring the sun. The cry is deafening, and they will be bombed if they fly by.
Therefore, a little decent people and girls will hold umbrellas.
The crows are protected by the locals. The Chinese never beat them to eat. They do what they do in the countryside, and they don’t like crows in traditional Chinese culture. Crows are unlucky for protection. Just as the Chinese don’t eat goldfish, goldfish are regarded as auspicious. And live.
Colombo means "heaven of the sea" in Sinhalese. The city has a long history. As early as the 8th century, Arabs built houses and settled here. At that time, it was called "Koramba" ("port and mango tree"). It has become an important business town. In the 14th century, Chinese merchants frequently visited Colombo. Hong Kong conducts business activities, and the Portuguese later translated it as "Colombo", and the Chinese used it correctly.
It is located on the seashore, with a pleasant climate, high temperature and no sweltering heat. Ironwood trees are planted everywhere in the city's streets, and water lilies are found in river ponds, but most of them are coconut trees that directly rise to the sky. There are also many peculiar trees, such as the "rain tree", which is a kind of plant under the tree that the leaves absorb water until the sun rises in the east, and the water is sprayed like raindrops on the plants under the tree.
The locals believe in Buddhism and share the same clan as the Chinese. The Chinese live here like a fish in water and lease the port for ninety-nine years.
The Chinese are engaged in infrastructure construction, ports, warehouses, towns and so on. There are docks to overhaul ships and become a Chinatown. Chinese elements are everywhere. Betsy also saw a flat roof covered with shark fins. The Chinese like to eat shark fins, but the sharks are unlucky.
There are too many shark fins on this roof, and I don’t know how many sharks have been killed!
The Port of Colombo is too important. It is at the center of the east-west navigation in the Great Navigation Era. Ships heading west from here will sail through the Indian Ocean after sufficient supplies. The next stop is the Port of Aden on the Arabian Peninsula, with no supplies on the way.
Now, the imperial fleet that is going to South Africa gathers here and is ready to set off.
A large fleet of 28 battleships, 30 high-speed cruise ships, 25 troop carriers, and 83 transport ships!
Becchi knew that the sailing time would be at 7 o'clock tomorrow morning, so he hurry up, touring around Colombo, writing travel notes, and after writing the manuscript, he sent it back to Rising Sun Port by ship, and then sent it back to Nanjing by ship for publication.
Becky walked toward the port, and soon he approached the checkpoint. There were "Moroth" or Sikhs there. They were the Imperial Army, stood very straight, and meticulously checked the documents of the passers-by. Even if Becky is a purely Chinese face, he has a dog tag on his chest, a press card, and the Sikhs have carefully checked the portrait on the press card before letting him go.
Sikhs--Because of professional sensitivity, Betsy thought about the opportunity to write something to the Sikhs, and introduce this kind of Chinese loyal lackeys to readers in mainland China. After all, among the Asan people, the Sikhs Belonging to Qingliu, it is a wonderful work of Asan Middle School.
"If all the other Asan escaped during the battle, then only the Sikhs will fight side by side with the Chinese, and they belong to the Chinese who can give their backs to their comrades in arms." This is the Chinese military's view of the Sikhs. ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ They are particularly qualified for military and police positions, so they are favored, and they have received more employment in the South China Empire.
Becky walked to the pier. He found a sailing ship with the ship number "Nanyun 113". Soldiers guarded it at the springboard. He checked his press card before letting him go.
Even if the port area is controlled by the Chinese, he does not relax his vigilance at all. Becky wrote down the heavily guarded customs clearance process, saying that the people of the motherland should feel at ease.
Strolling on the deck of "Nanyun 113", Becky once wrote in his manuscript: "Although I could not sit on a battleship, I was sitting on a transport ship as big as a battleship."
"Nanyun 113" is a large Galen-style sailing ship with 4 masts. The front two masts are hung with balustrades and the rear two masts are hung with spinnakers. Its displacement has reached 1,200 tons, which is almost comparable to a third-tier battleship!
Very well, as an influential newspaper reporter, Becky was given preferential treatment. He boarded a large ship, which mainly transported military assets rather than ammunition, and was less dangerous.
His colleague, "South China Daily" reporter Wang Yunsheng, because of a relationship, was on a cruise ship and was able to face the battle directly, which made Becky envious!
"No matter what, as long as I can go to South Africa and get first-hand information, I will be promoted after returning to China!" Becky was still young and cheered himself up.
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