New World 1620

Wednesday, October 1621, 3.

History has not stopped its inertia because of some small changes in the new world on the west coast of the Atlantic Ocean. Maybe the breeze blown by that little butterfly has not yet blown to Europe.

On this day, King Philip III of Spain (also known as Philip III) passed away in his luxurious palace.This extremely devout Catholic has been left in the annals of history with his extravagant life and incompetent leadership, and the huge Spanish colonial empire has officially entered a weak point of no return from his death.

But people in this era in history haven't seen much of it yet.The American Caribbean Sea is still the bath tub of the Spanish Navy, and the Spanish Army is still the most powerful presence in Europe; even if England won the naval battle about life and death decades ago, the symbolic significance of history is still far greater than the essence of the naval battle As a result, he still trembled and dared not stroke the Spanish tiger's beard.

The first stage of the 30-year war in Europe has apparently been decided. On the fertile land extending from Bohemia to the borders of the Netherlands and Denmark, the Holy Roman Empire, with the help of the Kingdom of Spain, defeated the Germans. State's Protestant coalition.

The ambitious elector of the Palatinate, Frederick V, was the king of Bohemia for only one year, and he was defeated all the way to the Netherlands like a bereaved dog. In the Netherlands, there was a commotion, and the governors and councilors of the Seven Provinces of the Netherlands were overwhelmed.

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The scale of Brooklyn's industrial area has grown larger, and more and more industrial plants have begun to be put into operation.

Since the geography teacher An Shaoqing discovered the first coal mine in Staten Island by luck, this literary youth who aspires to become a promoter of the industrial revival of Manhattan in China immediately applied for an imported mountain bike dug out of a cargo ship from the committee. Like a wild horse running wild on both sides of the Hudson River to commit crimes.

It is a pity that this era does not give Mr. An a smooth expressway to experience drag racing. The primeval forest is mixed with swamps with dense water networks, rolling hills and high cliffs, so Mr. An often has to trek across mountains and rivers with a bicycle on his back. An Indian guide walking on two legs with luggage.

The sky paid off. In early March, An Shaoqing finally discovered a small bauxite mine more than 3 kilometers west of the Hudson River.If the scale of this mine is placed in modern times, there is almost no mining value, but it is a great boon to Lin Youde, the chief engineer who rants all day long that there is no way to start open-hearth steelmaking without refractory bricks.

In less than two weeks, the Indians on the west bank of the Hudson River brought more than ten tons of bauxite to Lin Youde behind his back. The smelter quickly organized manpower to start operations, and the coking plant was completed immediately.

The Chemical Industry Department, which had begged parents to sue grandma, finally got the first batch of chemical by-products after coking and fractionation that they needed. Shi Yige, the general manager of the shipyard, and You Qi, the ship designer, also got the opportunity to manufacture sailing ships. One of the important raw materials: tar and pitch.

In the Brooklyn Shipyard area, several lumber processing rooms are in full swing, and the lumber that has been felled and accumulated over the past few months is being processed one by one.Indigenous wood drying cellars, conventional hot air drying rooms using hydraulically driven wooden wind wheels, and high-temperature steam wood drying workshops refitted from cargo ship water supply boilers are in operation one by one.

Although the processed wood still does not meet the absolute quality requirements of the two shipyard bosses, and more raw materials are still waiting for the results of European trade, the form of waiting for me still forces them to start the first phase of the shipbuilding plan.

The keel of a clipper sailboat with a standard displacement of 800 tons has already been lying on the berth, and the rib-like hull skeletons are clearly visible.Dozens of technicians and hundreds of Indian lads were busy, and several manpower-driven cast-iron-framed cranes were laboriously pulling and lowering the heavy timber.

"The progress is not bad!" Shi Yige looked at the drawings and the working status of the shipyard workers, a little dissatisfied, "Brother You, in fact, you are the chief design engineer. Is it too hasty?"

"Don't be in a hurry. If we want to gain the maritime advantage over European sailing ships, we can only achieve it from a technical point of view. We may encounter many problems for the first time, but as long as Xiao Su and the others get enough raw materials and craftsmen from Europe, I can guarantee that It will be completed within half a year at the most." You Qi stroked the stubble on his chin, and the 30-year-old former Guangzhou Shipyard Assistant Engineer looked confident.

"It's a pity that the drying of the wood is too hasty." Shi Yige turned his head to look at the distant wood processing yard unwillingly, "There are abundant wood resources... and there is also a serious shortage of copper skin processing. This ship is about to launch. It won't be available for many years."

"New for three years, old for three years, and three years for mending. As long as there is a dock for regular maintenance, it will still be fine for seven or eight years." You Qi stood up vigorously, and looked towards the sea like a river, "Dreadnought The era will definitely come true in my hands!"

"Another literary youth..." Shi Yige looked at You Qi's back, and couldn't help but slander secretly.

The two were chatting when suddenly there was a thunderous roar from the west. The workers in the shipyard stopped their work and stared blankly at the west. Several European craftsmen walked together and whispered. stand up.

"It's Neiwan Fortress, it's firing! Training? Or something unexpected happened?" You Qi nervously grabbed Shi Yige's arm and winked.

The two quickly left the construction site. Not long after, a small group of ground guard soldiers with live ammunition ran into the shipyard and monitored the European workers on site.

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Two galleons with Dutch flags were circling in the southwest waters of Governor's Island like headless flies, and a solid shell fired from the island fortress [-] yards away hit the smaller one heavily. Near the ship, a tall water column exploded.

"Damn it! Someone has already occupied this place?! Is it the English, the Spaniards, or the French?" The captain on the big ship looked at the island fortress in the distance with horrified eyes, and couldn't believe his eyes.

The big ship has been injured, a mast is broken, and the sailors on the ship are scurrying around like ants on a hot pot, and the cannons equipped on their ships are simply unable to fight against the opponent's obviously 24-pound heavy guns.

"Three years ago, except for our Dutch fur traders, no one would have entered here!" The middle-aged man dressed as a businessman on the side looked frustrated, "God, they should at least say hello."

Another cannonball flew in, and the small boat more than 200 meters away from the big ship was also hit. The broken hull powder flew into the sky, and the screams could almost be heard from the big ship.

While the two Dutch ships were desperately turning around and planning to withdraw from the Hudson Bay, the artillerymen of the Marine Guard Fortress in the Inner Bay Fort on Governor's Island howled like bulls in heat.

Zhang Chunrui, the commander of the fortress, proudly held up the binoculars, admiring the half-baked bombardment of his subordinates, seeing his opponents scurrying around like rabbits, he was very happy.

"No. [-] is ready!"

"put!"

The nearby artillerymen of the fortress quickly covered their ears, and when the fire stick was inserted, violent flames and white smoke spewed out from the muzzle, and another shell flew out at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Okay, the Dutch have collapsed, stop shelling, it's time for the king to hammer them."

In the binoculars, two wounded Dutch sailing ships hoisted white flags. It seemed that they knew that they had lost their chance of escape after being attacked by such a burst of artillery fire.In the camera, a low steel battleship is rushing towards the Dutch back at a speed of 18 knots.

After a simple deterrent, the two Dutch ships that had been cut off from their backway dejectedly followed the instructions of the Maritime Guard patrol ship and headed towards Brooklyn one after the other.

In the committee office in Manhattan, Zheng Quan almost laughed out loud when he learned the final result, while Mr. Liu and Qi Jianjun on the other side looked lucky.

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At dusk, more than 50 dejected Europeans stood outside the gate of the accommodation area in the Staten Island coal mining area.The English women who were bending over to pack their labor tools in the accommodation area looked up one after another, and found that the familiar "American" soldiers were escorting the group of Europeans with live ammunition.

The Dutch were escorted to a sanitary cleaning house, where they would be forced to shave their heads and then undergo a series of local disinfection measures.

"God... Another group of poor people who have thrown themselves into the trap..."

At the door of a small wooden church, after staring blankly for a few minutes, Pastor Brest couldn't help but cross himself on his chest, muttering bitterly.

After reading, Brest walked towards one of the largest buildings in the accommodation area, which was the Staten Island Garrison Command, responsible for the supervision of European prisoners of war in the entire Staten mining area.

Brest hoped to get more news from the young "second lieutenant", perhaps this was also an opportunity to get more English immigrants out of this labor camp.In his view, a group of Europeans who were destined to become new miners walked into the coal mine, and there might be a few of them who could be amnesty like those artisans.

"No, Mr. Pastor, I haven't received the notification from above, so I can't give you an answer unilaterally." The second lieutenant He Yu, who was just transferred to the Staten security area, likes to see these European soldiers most. The man looked anxious and bitter, so his tone was higher, "But I feel that you are actually living a good life here. Can you find a better prisoner of war camp in Europe than here?"

Of course, this is indeed a place that Europe has never seen before. Are there prisoner-of-war camps in Europe?Certainly not!All the unlucky ghosts captured in the name of prisoners of war were either sold or killed. Only these Americans have a benevolent law of exchanging labor for amnesty on a whim.

Brest quickly made a sign of the cross, bowed his head humbly and said: "Mr. Second Lieutenant, I swear in the name of God, we are all honest people, and it is an ignorance and offense to board your country's territory. I I believe that Captain Adelaide and the others must have exchanged their repentance and sincerity for trust, why doesn't this trust come more?"

"It really takes a lot of sincerity..." It took He Yu a long time to understand the meaning from the other party's classical English, "I can convey your wish to the commander above, but the most important thing at the moment is...you have to teach Those Dutch rules, the rules here!"

ah!It's Dutch!Blaster was slightly taken aback.