Chapter 317: Return from Borrowing

Coincidentally, at this time, just as Marin planned to send a ship to the Americas to arrange for the cultivation of winter wheat, two new 500-ton Hoffman battleships at Emden Shipyard were launched.

When Emden Shipyard was partially relocated to Amerigo Island early in the year, Marin had transferred 300 experienced craftsmen, resulting in the lack of four warships that were currently being built. As a result, the shipyard had to build two ships before continuing to build the other two.

When Marin sent a fleet of 10,000 British ewes to breed south, when the first two of the four warships were completed and launched, they followed the **** south. The remaining two ships were half built, and the craftsmen continued to build.

By the end of the autumn harvest, the two warships had just launched and completed the sea trial. Malin Xin said that it was just a shortage of ships to transport wheat and immigrants. Therefore, these two warships temporarily acted as transport ships. The new captain and sailor who graduated from the captain's school and the sailor's school just got on the boat and took a trip to the two islands of North America directly under the leadership of several old sailors who often ran this route.

Taking the North American route is not simple. On this route, the storm is not strong. The most terrible is not the storm, but the iceberg near Newfoundland.

Icebergs near Newfoundland drifted from the Arctic following the cold currents of Labrador. Because the density of ice is low, it generally floats on the sea. Therefore, during the day, the ship will not hit the iceberg.

However, it is different at night. Because of the low visibility at night, if you sail at full speed, you may accidentally hit the iceberg. The Titanic in history hit the iceberg in the middle of the night. If it is daytime, as long as the captain and sailors are not blind, it is difficult to hit the iceberg.

Therefore, Marin had already ordered the fleet to be careful when the ship was close to Newfoundland if it was at night. If this is not possible, stop sailing and turn the bow to the southeast. In this way, there is no fear that the iceberg will hit the ship from the side. You know, the ships in these years are all wooden ships, and they were hit by icebergs to the side. They were definitely divided into two and immediately sinked. Marin let this group of novices bring experienced sailors to prevent them from accidents.

It is precisely because of Marin's early warning that when sailors are running this route, they will be fully alert near Newfoundland, so nothing has happened. Moreover, in the double-ship formation, even if one ship hits the iceberg badly, the other ship can rescue in time to avoid loss of personnel.

The two ships carried the seeds of winter wheat that Malindi sent to buy from other places, as well as 500 immigrants and 200 cattle and a large number of iron farming tools.

In addition to the things needed to open up wasteland, the ship was also loaded with a large number of goods for trade with the Indians. Such as iron pan, iron axe, sword and bow and arrow made in Europe, as well as a large number of beautiful glass beads and other glass products.

Marin's plan was to use trade to invade Newfoundland and peacefully establish a colony on Newfoundland. Then, use the Indians as soon as possible to find the Bakken lead-zinc mine. In this way, there is no need to use force. After all, it takes several months to train the thousand colonial troops.

Of course, if you want to control the entire Newfoundland, you still have to use force. It is just that the difficulty of pioneering wasteland in the early stage, and the fact that the colonial army has not yet completed training and can not conflict, is the best.

For trade with the Indians, the command given by Marin is one word (word)-"black". Anyway, the Indians have little knowledge, and the people sent to trade with them can take advantage of the characteristics of the Indians that they don't understand the market and increase prices significantly. For Indian goods, the price is severely suppressed. Anyway, the Indians don't understand the market, how can the pricing not be settled by the colonists? You know, when the French traded with the Indians, they also made a **** skin with a flintlock and exchanged the height (standing state) of the flintlock, which was almost endlessly black. You know, how expensive is a **** skin? When I bought it in Europe, I could change a few muskets, but the Frenchman used a musket and changed the **** skin that was about the same height as the rifle. It almost killed the Indian buddies ...

Now the only contact with the Indians is his men. Only you can provide goods that the Indians are interested in. At that time, as long as the businessmen under their hands and exaggerate the cost of these goods, they can gain a lot of profits from their honest Indian buddies.

However, for safety reasons, there are a few things that Marin is absolutely not allowed to sell to the Indians. Among them, the first is horses, especially those that have not been castrated. If the horses fall into the hands of the Indians and allow them to make Indian cavalry in advance, they will pit themselves.

To this end, Marin ordered that all merchants who sold uncast horses to the Indians would be executed!

In addition, there are big ships, Marin did not plan to sell to the Indians. If the Indians had a big ship, made a big voyage, and ran to Europe to buy things, would they still earn a p? Therefore, the big ship cannot be given to the Indians.

In the end, it was a musket. Malin is planning to use plate armoured infantry against the Indians. You sell muskets to the Indians, don't you think the plate armoured infantry died not fast enough?

After Ma Lin compiled these prohibitions and points of attention, he let the two captains take off ...

When the two ships passed the English Channel, they almost caused the coveted owners of the British Five Ports League. Because, Marin's Huffman-class battleship is so big, the cargo volume must be full.

However, the Kirk sailing ship of the Five-Port Alliance could not catch up with the Hoffman-class battleship, and this matter would be gone.

Moreover, just when the five-port alliance sent four warships to chase down two Huffman-class battleships, a fleet suddenly came head-on ...

It turned out that the **** fleet that escorted 10,000 British ewes to Ayoun came back ...

Four Kirk sailing ships chased on the spot scared and immediately turned around and escaped. Fortunately, Captain Kidd, who led the team, did not care about them, otherwise, the fleet of the Five Ports Alliance would have been eliminated.

Mainly, Kidd worried that gunpowder would be consumed too quickly. In addition, there were 10,000 pregnant British ewes that Marin valued on the ship. Kidd was afraid of the naval battle and frightened those pregnant ewes, which only let the British fleet go.

In this way, under the watch of the British and French fleets, 85 East Frisian ships swaggered across the English Channel and returned to Emden.

I heard that the fleet returned ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ Marin immediately rushed to the port of Emden to welcome the fleet return.

In the face of the 10,000 British ewe returning from a big belly, Marin repeatedly ordered his men to be careful. Moreover, every ewe eats fresh alfalfa, and the treatment is very good.

Under Marin's order, the staff, like the young lady, took care of these pregnant ewes carefully and went to a ranch outside Aurich. There is also a sheep breeding base established by Marin.

This breeding is said to be very tragic. Of the 408 merino rams in Ayoun, 54 were dying because of too frequent breeding. In addition, there are 35 rams, because too many breeds, resulting in the loss of breeding ability in the future. The other rams are not much better. They need to rest for a long time before they can recover ...

According to Kidd, the surviving Merino rams now run away as if they see the ewe approaching, as if encountering a beast of floods. And the merino ewes were also dissatisfied with the rams and chased after the appointment, but the rams were already disabled by tens of thousands of British "girls" (ewes), and now they are afraid when they see the ewes ...

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