It was a coincidence that at this time, just as Marin was planning to send a ship to the Americas to arrange the planting of winter wheat, two new 500-ton Hoffman warships at Emden Shipyard were launched.
When Emden Shipyard was partially relocated to Armerico Island at the beginning of the year, Marin drew 300 experienced craftsmen, resulting in the shortage of people in the four warships that were originally being built. So the shipyard had to build two first before continuing to build the other two.
Before, when Marin sent a fleet to carry 10,000 British ewes to breed south, the first two of the four warships were completed and launched, and they followed them to escort the south. The remaining two half-built warships continued to build.
When the autumn harvest ended, the two warships were launched and completed trial sailings. Marlin said that there was a shortage of ships to transport wheat and immigrants. So, the two warships temporarily acted as transport ships. The new captain and sailors who graduated from the Captain's School and the Sailor School happened to board the ship and took a trip to the Twin Islands of North America under the leadership of several old sailors who often traveled on this route.
Taking a North American route is not easy. On this route, the storm is not strong. The most terrifying thing is not the storm, but the iceberg near Newfoundland Island.
The icebergs near Newfoundland Island drifted from the Arctic with the Labrador Cold Current. Because the density of ice is low, it usually 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 hit an iceberg by chance. In history, the Titanic hit an iceberg during the middle of the night. If it is during the day, as long as the captain and sailors are not blind, it will be difficult to hit an iceberg.
Therefore, Marin had long ordered the fleet to be careful when the ship approached Newfoundland Island, if it was at night. If it really didn't work, stop sailing and face the bow to the southeast. In this way, there would be no need to worry about the iceberg hitting the ship from the side. You should know that these days, ships are all wooden boats, and when they were hit by the iceberg, they would definitely be divided into two and sinking immediately. Marin asked these novice players to bring experienced sailors to avoid something from happening.
It is precisely because of Marin's early warning that when sailors are on this route, they are all on guard near Newfoundland, so nothing has happened yet. Moreover, in the two-ship formation, even if one ship hits an iceberg in unlucky way, the other ship can rescue it in time to avoid the losses of personnel.
The two ships set out with the seeds of winter wheat that Marin specially sent to buy from other places, as well as 500 immigrants, 200 oxen and a large number of iron farm tools.
In addition to the things needed to open up the land, the ship was also loaded with a large number of goods used to trade with the Indians, such as iron pots, iron axes, swords and bows and arrows produced in Europe, as well as a large number of beautiful glass beads and other glass products.
Marin's plan was to invade Newfoundland by trade and establish colonies on Newfoundland in peace. Then, use the Indians as soon as possible to find the Bakens lead and zinc mine. In this way, there was no need to put force into force. After all, it would take several months to train those thousand colonial troops.
Of course, if you want to control the entire Newfoundland Island, you still have to put it into force. However, the early relocation difficulties and the colonial army has not yet completed training, so it is best not to have conflicts.
Regarding trade with the Indians, Marin gave only one word (word) - "black". Anyway, the Indians had no knowledge, and those who were sent to trade with them could take advantage of the characteristics of the Indians' lack of understanding of the market and greatly increase the price. However, the Indians were severely suppressed the price. Anyway, the Indians did not understand the market, so how to set the price was not the final decision of the colonists? You should know that when the French traded with the Indians, they also made a beaver skin of a flintlock and exchanged for the flintlock skin of the same height as the flintlock gun, which was almost completely black. You should know, how expensive a beaver skin? If you sell it in Europe, you can exchange for several muskets, but the Frenchman used a musket to exchange beaver skin that was about the same height as the rifle, which was so pitted by the Indians...
Now the only person who comes into contact with Indians is his subordinates. Only he can provide goods that Indians are interested in. At that time, as long as the merchants under him exaggerate the cost of these goods, he can reward those honest Indian buddies and make huge profits for himself.
However, for safety reasons, there are several things that Marin is absolutely not allowed to be sold to Indians. The first one is horses, especially those that have not been castrated. If the horses fall into the hands of the Indians and ask them to create Indian cavalry in advance, they will cheat themselves.
For this reason, Marin ordered that all merchants who sold uncastrated horses to Indians would be executed!
In addition, there are big ships, and Marin does not intend to sell them to Indians. If the Indians have big ships, make a big sailing, and go to Europe to buy things by themselves, then they will still make a profit? Therefore, big ships cannot be given to Indians.
Finally, it’s the musket. Marin plans to use plate armor infantry to deal with the Indians. Do you sell muskets to the Indians? Don’t you think the plate armor infantry is not dying fast enough?
After Marin made up these bans and attention points into provisions, he asked the two captains to take them out...
When the two ships passed through the English Channel, they almost attracted the covetousness of the owners of the British Five Harbor Alliance. Because Marin's Hoffman-class warship was so large, the cargo volume must be sufficient.
However, the Kirk Sailboat of the Five Harbor Alliance cannot catch up with the Hoffman-class warship, so the matter will be left unresolved.
Moreover, just as the Five Port Alliance sent four warships to pursue two Hoffman-class warships, a fleet suddenly rushed towards us...
It turned out that it was the fleet that escorted 10,000 British ewes to Ayuen to breed and returned...
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! The four Kirk sailboats chasing in the Five Harbor Alliance were frightened on the spot and immediately turned around and fled. Fortunately, Captain Kidd, who led the team, did not care about them, otherwise, he would have destroyed the fleet of the Five Harbor Alliance.
Mainly, Kidd was 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 that the naval battle would begin, which scared those pregnant ewes, so he let the British fleet go.
In this way, under the gaze of the British and French fleets, 85 East Friesian ships passed through the English Channel in a swagger and returned to Emden.
When he heard that the fleet had returned, Marin immediately rushed to Port Emden to welcome the fleet back.
Faced with the ten thousand British ewes that returned with big belly, Marin repeatedly ordered his men to be careful. Moreover, each ewe had eaten fresh alfalfa and was treated very well.
Under Marin's order, the staff carefully guarded the pregnant ewes like a lady, and went to a ranch outside the city of Orich. There was also a sheep breeding base set up by Marin.
This time the breeding was said to be very tragic. 54 of Ayuen's 408 Merino rams died because they were too frequent. In addition, 35 rams lost their breeding ability because they had too many breeding. Other rams were not much better, and they needed to rest for a long time to recover...
Chapter completed!