Rise of the 1630s South America

October 10 was another sunny day.

In the past few days, Captain Couette's first mate, with a total of 46 crew members and soldiers, has been moving the cargo in the cabin and dismantling the artillery to reduce the weight of the ship.A large hole had been pierced by Spanish artillery near the waterline in Orange River's side, and although the crew had been trying to plug the damage, it was still leaking.When we first sailed to the sea off the Dayu River, the boat was already quite dangerous and might sink at any time.Captain Couette made a decisive decision and ran aground at the mouth of the Big Fish River.

After lightening the weight, the side damage of the Orange River was already higher than the waterline, and the hull floated up.Then there is some tinkering, which will be done by themselves.

The bilge of the Orange River was in a mess, and the hard-working crew spent a whole day draining the water before cleaning up the bilge that had turned into a pond.Many materials such as food and gunpowder cannot be used because they have been soaked in water for a long time. After the gunpowder is dried, they can continue to be used. Food can only be purchased from the cross-travelers.

底舱中另外还存放了大量的金钱。清理出来后共计：各类美洲铸造的西班牙十字银币5000余枚，约合30000里亚尔；威尼斯金杜卡特40余枚，银埃斯卡林1000余枚，约合1800里亚尔；此外一些零散的杂乱金银币约合2600里亚尔；总额约超过34000里亚尔，约合2150杜卡特。

"Did they loot the Spanish ships?" Tang Yuan, the new finance committee member weighing more than 200 catties, stared at the intoxicating coins in front of him with red eyes.

"It should be right." Gao Mo nodded, "At least those silver cross coins minted in Potosi are right."

"Why are these silver coins so ugly? Each shape is different, weird." Looking at the shape of those Spanish cross silver coins, Tangyuan felt a little painful.

"This is because the Spaniards directly cut a piece from the silver rod in pursuit of output when making silver coins, and then made a pattern to form a silver coin. However, these silver coins are still moderate in weight and can be used. You see This one," Gao Mo picked up a cross silver coin casually, "has the coat of arms of the Habsburg royal family on the front, and the initials of the foundry and the chemist on the side, um, this one is produced in Potosi. On the back It's a cross, with a lion and a castle in the diagonal four squares. If it's a silver coin from Mexico, it will have irises around the cross on the back."

"Gao, all my money is here, where is the goods I want?" Couette looked impatiently at the six cardboard boxes escorted by the security squad behind Gaomo and Tangyuan.

"Of course it's here, you can check it anytime." Gao Mo turned back and opened the carton.

Couette stepped forward, took out a pair of clean white gloves from his pocket, put them on, and looked at each one carefully.

"Very good, 4 sets of tableware for Martin Luther's lectures, and 2 sets of tableware for Christ's baptism in the Jordan River." Couette closed the carton with satisfaction, and then pointed to the wooden boxes and pockets containing coins, "Now these are Yours is worth 2100 ducats in total."

Tangyuan immediately smiled, this is his first income since he took office as a finance committee member, and it deserves a special mention.

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Shao Shude walked over with a dark face: "The humidity of the kiln exhaust smoke is a bit high."

The vest suddenly became nervous: "Does it matter? What will happen?"

"It's not a big problem at the moment. When stacking, the dry billets were placed underneath, which should not cause tidal collapse of the billet stack. But we still have to be careful and increase the exhaust gas temperature appropriately. In addition, we must pay attention to the fire head." Shao Shude The newly-elected material committee member, originally the matter of the brick kiln was no longer under his control, but he was really worried about his hard work.Today was the first time to burn bricks, and he rushed over immediately after dealing with the limited things at hand.

"What if the tide collapses?" asked the vest.

"Then find a way to switch to long-flame fuel, pull the fire through the collapsed stacks, and lead the front row of stacks."

"How is the cement kiln going?" Shao Shude asked.

"I'm thinking about it and building it." The vest sighed, "I haven't done this stuff before, I just looked at the information in the computer and learned while groping."

"When the cement kiln and the lime kiln are erected, the last bit of steel and cement will be consumed. We will be successful or not." Shao Shude joked, "The executive committee is eagerly waiting for us to continuously produce building materials."

"Ball! Can this matter be rushed?" The vest cursed angrily, "I haven't had time to start my iron factory yet, and I'm busy burning bricks, making cement and building houses for these grandsons all day long."

"Hehe." Shao Shude patted his vest on the shoulder, and then rushed to the lumberyard and mine to check the situation.The manpower of the lumber mill is becoming scarcer day by day, mainly because the tools are seriously damaged.As soon as Shao Shude came, the members of the logging team complained to him, but he couldn't do anything about it. There was no blacksmith who could blacksmith in the crossing crowd, so we could only count on the Dutch.The front of the limestone quarry is full of collected rough stones, and the sound of clanging limestone in the sheds on both sides is endless all day long, which is the production of limestone powder.The ground limestone powder will be sent to the cement kiln, where it will be calcined with clay at high temperature to make cement.

Shao Shude walked around casually again, and finally returned to the brick kiln to live.

"There is some dew condensation on the adobe." Early the next morning, Shao Shude went to the fire viewing hole of the brick kiln to look in. "The fire is not hot enough, reduce the ventilation, and raise the fire first!"

There are two dark circles on the top of the vest, and the eyes are bloodshot.He didn't sleep well last night, and got up several times to check the condition of the kiln, and now he was so sleepy that he yawned.Hearing Shao Shude's words, he was immediately shocked. He led a group of people to reduce the ventilation and add firewood. After working for a long time, they finally turned the fire around.

For the next day and night, the two committee members led a group of kiln workers with dark faces, trembling and cautiously serving the brick kiln, for fear of further problems.At nine o'clock in the morning on the third day, Shao Shude finally decided to stop the kiln after repeated observation and confirmation.

Everyone opened the kiln door, and after the kiln temperature cooled down, bricks began to be produced.

"Put on gloves." The vest gave a pair of cotton gloves to one person.The high temperature still remained in the kiln at this time, and a group of passersby covered their heads with sweat towels, and began to stack bricks into the made rattan frame, and took out a basket after stacking.

"Nimma, it's really not done by humans." Minghui said in a low voice while stacking bricks, "It's too hot and the dust is heavy. If I had known earlier, I might as well have gone digging excrement with Jin Kela."

"Why are you talking so much now?" Xie Hansan squinted at Minghui, "When those Dutchmen bring us some slaves, we won't have to do these rough jobs, and we will be leaders from now on. Do you understand? Leaders! "

"It's better to get some big ocean horses, haha!" The two laughed wretchedly.

It was lunch break time at this time, and there were many time travelers who had heard the news outside the kiln.The red brick produced by the brick kiln is the first industrial product made by the people across the country, which is of great significance.

When Vest and Shao Shude appeared at the entrance of the kiln carrying the first basket of bricks together, all the time travelers present burst into enthusiastic cheers. Vest smiled, showing a mouthful of white teeth on his dark face.

By the evening of October 10, all the bricks from the first kiln had been sold out.After counting, the intact red bricks exceeded 24 yuan, and they were going to take out some unqualified products such as broken bricks and bread bricks to build roads.

For brick kilns that have made significant contributions, the executive committee held an impromptu meeting and decided to reward all workers in the brick kiln with 4 bottles of Wuliangye, 20 bottles of jam, and a box of canned meat.

Encouraged by this, in the next few days, lime kilns and cement kilns were erected successively.Material preparation is currently underway, and production will be officially ignited within a few days.

The executive committee decided to use the first batch of bricks produced to build a pulp pool for the production of white paper.There is a craftsman who knows how to make paper by the local method. He can use grass, bark and lime to make white paper with traditional techniques.After all, the current demand for paper is quite large, let alone writing, you can’t use leaves to wipe your butt, right?In this way, a papermaking workshop was built next to the lime mine.