In fact, the good news brought from Cape Breton Island is not only paper-producing. Another good news for Cape Breton Island is that the salt cooking base has also begun to operate.
According to Garland's report, just north of Sydney Bay, Garland built a coastal salt boiling base. The salt boiling base is very close to the North Sydney coal mine and fuel transportation is also very convenient.
The salt-boiling base has been built there, and now we will wait for Marin to relocate all the salt-boiling craftsmen and big pots from Yancheng on Texel Island to Cape Breton Island. The coal miners and coal-shaking workers from the former Hoffman Manor led by Schwartz have begun to mass-produce coal-blocks at the North Sydney coal mine on Cape Breton Island. The paper mill on the north side of Cape Breton Island has obtained a stable supply of coal. Now, the new salt-boiling base can also obtain a stable supply of coal, and only waiting for the old Yancheng to move collectively.
After learning that Cape Breton Island was ready, Marin immediately signed an order to order the old Yancheng to start collective relocation. During the period of relocation of Old Yancheng, the new Yancheng on Baltrum Island will expand production to fill the production gap during the relocation of Old Yancheng.
Shortly after the paper ship sent by Garland arrived at Port Emden, Tara also sent a ship on the two islands of North America, full of whale oil and whale meat.
At the same time, Tara also brought good news to Marin - on the island of Americo, Tara has prepared thousands of old oak logs, each log is more than 30 meters long, and can be used as the keel of a 500-ton or even larger ship.
Moreover, these logs have been air-dried on the Island of Americo for two years and are completely suitable for shipbuilding.
However, these logs are too long and too big. Kirk sailboats of two or three hundred tons are completely unsuitable to transport them back to Europe. Therefore, it is the most suitable to establish a shipyard near the island of Americo.
Marin obviously agreed with this opinion and had already made such a plan. So after thinking about it, Marin planned to split half of the craftsmen at the Emden Shipyard and sent them to America to manufacture 500-ton warships and 500-ton armed merchant ships.
Needless to say, the 500-ton warship will be copied directly according to the pattern of the "Hoffman-class" warship. And the 500-ton armed merchant ship is simple. You only need to reduce the logarithmic number of the "Hoffman-class" warship's ribs accordingly. At the same time, the thickness of the sidewalk is also reduced.
Oak logs with a length of 30 meters are rare, so Marin decided that all the thousands of oak logs on the Island of Americo were used as keel material. As for the ship ribs, you can first buy the appropriate materials from Europe, and then use stone trough fixing in the branch of the Emden Shipyard to make the ship ribs and bend them into the desired shape. Then, after the air drying, you can use the ship to transport them to the new shipyard on the Island of Americo for assembly of new ships.
The new shipyard is obviously something that Marin attaches great importance to. You must know that it is necessary to strengthen control over the colonies and open up the Eastern trade routes, a certain number of large ships are needed.
So, for this, Marin personally rushed to Emden Shipyard and selected more than 300 shipbuilders from it. Then, from the serfs, thousands of carpenters with woodworking foundations were selected, and together with their families, they loaded ships to Armerigo Island on the two islands of North America to form a new shipyard.
The people who stayed at the former Emden Shipyard also continued to build ships. For example, there are four Hoffman-class warships in the shipyard now, which are under construction. Therefore, Marin only transferred 300 craftsmen and did not draw half of them as planned. Otherwise, the four warships would have been suspended.
However, Marin knew very well that North America would be the main base for building large ships in the future. After all, there was endless wood there. Therefore, while drawing more than 300 shipbuilders, Marin also selected thousands of serfs who knew carpenter skills for these 300 craftsmen and handed them over to them to cultivate so that these thousands of serfs who knew carpenters could also become qualified shipbuilders.
At that time, it is also possible to have a large team of shipbuilders and inexhaustible wood from North America to explode a large number of ships in North America.
In order to cultivate thousands of serfs who knew carpenters, Marin planned to go to the island of Americo and ask the serf carpenters to help the more than 300 shipbuilders. The task of the more than 300 old shipbuilders was to build a new 500-ton "Hoffman-class" warship. The thousands of serf carpenters first started to take action and observe and learn.
Then, use the rich wood resources on the island of Americo to cut down some wood at will. It may not be necessary to dry the wood for two years, but use ordinary wood directly. Obviously, the serf carpenters first practiced their skills and built several small fishing boats. After several small fishing boats, the serf carpenters were almost familiar with the shipbuilding process. At that time, they could really help the old shipbuilders and participate in the manufacture of 500-ton warships and armed merchant ships together. By then, more than 1,300 craftsmen could start construction of three or four 500-ton warships at the same time.
In addition, Tara also submitted an application to officially start the development of Columbus (Massa Vineyard Island) next to Armerico (South Tucket Island).
The main reason is that there are large forests on Columbus Island. Even if you do not reclaim farmland on Columbus Island for the time being, it is good to log wood on Columbus Island first, cut down oak suitable for shipbuilding and preserve and dry it.
Not only that, the climate on Columbus Island is similar to that on Americo Island, which is very suitable for growing soybeans. Tara even has one plan - to try to grow wheat on Columbus Island.
As a new nobleman, Tara also had a fief in the East Friesland Kingdom and produced a lot. The annual income also included tens of thousands of gold coins.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! Therefore, Tara's requirements for life have also become higher. For example, Tara began to dislike black bread and began to fall in love with white bread made of wheat flour.
However, Tara also understood that the northern region of Germany, because the climate is cold, is not very suitable for growing wheat, but is most suitable for growing rye. Therefore, if you want to eat white bread, you actually need to import wheat from other countries.
Before, when Tara was following Marin, she heard Marin explain some agricultural knowledge, such as the concept of "accumulated temperature". Although she didn't understand, Tara understood one thing - that is, the accumulated temperature of the two islands in North America is higher than that of the East Friesland. Not to mention anything else, the North American two islands are hotter than that of the East Friesland. Marin said that the hot summer is very necessary for the growth of crops.
According to Marin, due to the summer temperature, the two islands in North America are more suitable for growing soybeans than in northern Europe. So, Tara infers that the two islands in North America are more suitable for growing wheat than East Friesland?
He submitted this idea to Marin. Marin immediately gave a positive response. In his reply to Tara, Marin affirmed Tara's idea of ​​developing Columbus Island. Moreover, he also sent Tara a few sacks of wheat to Tara, so that Tara would try to plant spring wheat on Columbus Island during spring plowing.
However, Marin repeatedly emphasized that shipbuilding and logging are what Tara needs to pay more attention to. As for wheat cultivation, success is the best, and nothing is possible if it is not successful.
The varieties of European wheat at present are really bad. Generally, wheat is planted in November of the first year and will not be harvested until October of the next year. Such a long growth cycle is definitely a slag in Marin's eyes. However, the wheat in China can already rotate with rice, and its growth cycle is much shorter than that in Europe at this time. Therefore, after opening the route of the Ming Dynasty, Marin planned to go to China to introduce Chinese wheat with a much shorter growth cycle to replace the inferior wheat varieties in Europe at this time. Therefore, Marin does not care at all whether Tara successfully planted wheat on Columbus Island.
In fact, in Marin's eyes, the two North American islands were just a springboard for Marin's colonization of North America. Moreover, there were not many oak trees on the two islands.
Chapter completed!