open sea

Chapter 1523 Game
Brother Acosta never thought that he could land on the New World again.

Once again set foot on the Daxiport in the eastern bay of Mexico City, everything in front of him was different, which made Acosta feel mixed feelings.

When the Spanish galleon carrying Acosta sailed from Havana and saw the bustling port from a distance, he turned around and called the young apprentice in monk robes beside him, saying: "This port used to be called Veracruz, and it is a port of the New World. gateway to the East."

"It was established by our first landers 65 years ago."

"It's so humid, the clouds of the whole bay are silted up in this sky, the cotton armor will rot, the iron armor will rust, the sword rust can't be pulled out from the sheath, the camp will be washed away by heavy rain every year, and then we gave up and the Ming people took over It was later rebuilt to a much larger scale than it had previously appeared."

During their voyage, they have seen too many military forts belonging to the Ming army. From the Bahamas to Miami, from Havana to Daxiport, stone forts can be seen everywhere on the small islands along the coast.

On the fortresses, soldiers of the Ming army in brightly colored uniforms wear iron hats, and the Huangming flag flutters in the wind. There are tall pagodas on the upper floors of each fortress, exposing the black hole of the muzzle.

The little monk can see that the Ming army's fortress building style is very different from the descriptions in the books sent back from the Philippines in the early years. Their walls are relatively low and thickened, neither square nor completely star-shaped. , and set up multiple horse-faced walls as prominent forts according to the direction that the island may be attacked by enemies.

This design is for nothing else but to reduce costs.

Because Chen Mu was unwilling to spend his limited money on castle construction, the architects of the Imperial Clan University could indeed come up with foolproof plans for the design of large-scale offshore fortifications.

Not only did they have experience in designing fortresses from the Eastern Ming Dynasty and Japan, but they also had technical teaching materials from Europe, so it was not difficult to come up with a design.

In terms of building construction, Daming also has not only the best construction craftsmen of this era, but also the latest and strongest adhesive materials.

The only thing is the cost. The architectural designer from the clan opened his mouth. From Florida to Yucatan, the budget for the defense of the entire Gulf of Mexico is [-] million Tongbao.

Chen Mu: Crazy!

Without hesitation at all, it was immediately rejected.

This is equivalent to 70 taels of silver, one-third of the income of the Eastern Military Government after excluding the Beijing Games, such a huge sum of money was used to build coastal defense?
To put it bluntly, the cost of a giant Galen ship with a displacement of a thousand tons is 4 to [-] ducats. Chen Mu just left his own shipyard unused, and placed an order with the Spanish shipyard, and won it at [-] ducats Yes, this is only [-] taels of silver.

The cost of building coastal defenses is approximately equal to seventeen thousand-ton galleons or eighteen sealed boats, and it is also the maintenance cost of twelve full-sized six Ding Liujia fleets on the east coast of the Eastern Fleet for seventeen months in coastal wars or peacetime.

If these fleets sail to Spain or the Mediterranean to really fight, the money will only be enough for half a year.

The Liuding Liujia Fleet will definitely not be abolished. With them, the coastal defense will be impenetrable, flying and domineering across the Atlantic Ocean, blocking gods and killing gods and Buddhas.

In Chen Mu's view, the cost of building coastal defenses is too high, and the price/performance ratio is too low... It's also a waste of money, adding two small fleets, at least they can fight out, but the coastal defense forts can't fight out.

What's more, there is no rush, and it will be enough to repair it slowly. The entire system of coastal fortifications in the Gulf of Mexico will be repaired in seven years, with an annual allocation of 10 taels, and the important places will be repaired first.

The result was good. The clan designer who was in charge of this matter was worried that Chen Mu's successor to the Eastern Minister would be less caring than him after returning to China. He only spent 19 taels in two years to repair the entire coastal defense facilities.

By the way, it also helped Daxigang become the prosperous place it is today.

For nothing else, he wants to build fortifications in the Gulf of Mexico. Under the premise of reducing costs, he can get rocks from mountains on the spot, and burn bricks if he can’t get rocks on the spot. A brick and tile factory was built in Hong Kong.

The craftsmen needed food and clothing, and opened a food factory in Daxigang, mainly producing cornmeal, bacon, dried beans, and salted fish. As a result, these factories have not only not lost money until recently, but even after excluding the construction costs, they have actually earned a year. More than 400 million Tongbao were purchased.

Because Daxi Port is the starting port of Mingxi trade, the food processing capacity in Daxi Port was insufficient in the past. People bought supplies along the way, and there were very few food options. It was inevitable to eat rotten and hairy things at sea.

Now Daxigang has a large-scale food processing industry. Bacon, fried beans, and salted fish all taste good, and there are countless types of canned food available for purchase, which greatly improves the eating experience of seafarers.

Later, even the fleet of the Dongyang Military Mansion also resupplied from them, and even brought them new sources of goods, from the abandoned Spanish stronghold in Argentina. Border animal husbandry is very developed.

They made milk powder there, using Genghis Khan's method, roasting milk in a small pot with sugar, congealing it into powder, putting it in a skin bag, sealing it and transporting it on a ship.

The taste is definitely not as good as fresh milk, but being able to drink milk at sea is a great enjoyment even for the Eastern Banner Army.

This is actually Chen Mu's proposition. He hopes that the Eastern Banner Army will stop drinking secretly when patrolling the sea. Anyway, there is tea on hand. Isn't drinking some milk tea better than drinking?

The Banner Army of the Eastern Fleet had a very thieves way of drinking. The Banner Army was not allowed to drink alcohol when they were on missions. When they went to sea, officers would check the cabin to make sure there was no alcohol on board.

But the fucking Banners can always get a drink at sea.

At the earliest, some people hid wine koji in their uniforms and helmet pads, and they brewed and drank the wine themselves on board.

Later, the inspecting officers learned how to do this well, so they stopped hiding and went on board to do it themselves.

After going to sea, these people are busy collecting glass bottles and crockpots after eating vegetables, filling the cans or glass bottles with clean water, tearing up the bread and putting them in the bottles, and stuffing any kind of fruit into the bottles if they want to drink wine. , and finally sealed and hid in the cabin.

After floating in the sea for a week, take it out, if you put apples in it, it is apple cider; if you put oranges in it, it is orange wine.

When I was on duty at night, I climbed onto the deck by myself, and the sea breeze was blowing.

Chen Mu didn't even know how these people knew that bread could ferment fruit. The officer showed him the fruit wine found on the ship. The wine was so muddy that he doubted whether he could drink it. It has a taste, it's wine.

The disadvantage is that if you drink too much of this thing, it will affect your combat effectiveness more than drinking a well-brewed wine on the shore, and the above is very powerful.

He really couldn't hold back his bannermen, he couldn't ban this thing, bread, fruit, and clear water.

In the end, it was only allowed to prepare a small amount of beer on board, and the officers were allowed to drink alcohol as appropriate according to military law.

Even Chen Mu admitted that the military law is also a game between the people who formulate the military law and the collective will of the army.

　good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)