Monk Acosta never thought that he could once again climb to the land of the New World.

Once again, he stepped onto the Great West Port in the eastern bay of Mexico City. Everything in front of him was different, which made Acosta feel mixed emotions.

When the Spanish sailboat carried Acosta from Havana and saw the bustling port from afar, he turned around and called the young apprentice wearing a monk's robe beside him, saying, "This port, formerly called Veracruz, is the eastern gateway of the New World."

“Sixty-five years ago, the first people we landed here built it.”

"It is so wet, and the clouds in the entire bay are silted in this sky. The cotton armor will rot, the iron armor will rust, and the sword rust cannot be pulled out in the sheath. The camp will be washed away by heavy rain every year. Later, we gave up. After the Ming people took over, they rebuilt it. The scale was much larger than before."

As they sailed along the way, they had seen too many military fortresses belonging to the Ming army. From the Bahamas to Miami, from Havana to Daxi Port, stone fortresses can be seen everywhere on small islands along the coast.

Ming soldiers wearing bright military uniforms on the fortress were wearing iron hat helmets, and the Imperial Ming flag fluttered in the wind. There were tall pagodas on the upper floor of each fortress, revealing the black muzzle.

The little monks could see that the Ming army's fortress construction style was very different from the descriptions of books sent back to the Philippines in the early years. Their city walls were relatively low and increased in thickness. They were neither square nor completely star-shaped. Multiple horse-faced walls were set up as prominent turrets in the direction the island might be affected by enemies.

This design is nothing else, it is to reduce costs.

Because Chen Mu was unwilling to spend his limited economic expenditure on castle construction, architects from the royal university were indeed able to come up with foolproof plans for the design of large offshore fortifications.

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

In terms of construction, the Ming Dynasty not only had the best architectural craftsmen of this era, but also the latest and most solid adhesive materials.

The only cost is the cost. The architectural designer from the royal family opened his mouth and went from Florida to Yucatan. The budget for the entire Gulf of Mexico was 700 million.

Chen Mu: Crazy!

There was no hesitation at all, and immediately rejected it.

This is equivalent to 700,000 taels of silver. One third of the revenue of the Dongyang Military Administration after the Beijing Transportation was eliminated in one year. Is this huge sum of money used to build shore defense?

To put it bluntly, a giant Garen ship with a drainage of thousands of tons costs 30,000 to 40,000 Ducart. Chen Mu just kept his own shipyard and placed an order for the Spanish shipyard. He killed 50,000 Ducart and won it. This was only 40,000 taels of silver.

The cost of building coastal defense is approximately equal to 17 thousand tons of Galen or 18 sealed boats, which is also the maintenance fee for the 12 fully organized 6Dinglikha Fleet on the east coast of the East Coast of the East Coast for 17 months in the offshore war or peace period.

If these fleets travel to Spain or the Mediterranean, it will be enough for half a year.

The Liuding and Liujia fleet will definitely not be abolished. With them there, the shore defense will be as solid as a rock, and will be domineering in the East, killing gods and Buddhas.

In Chen Mu's opinion, the cost of this investment for construction of shore defense is too high, and the cost-effectiveness is too low... It is also a cost-effective way to add two more Dingjia fleets to at least be used, but the shore defense turret cannot be used.

Besides, there is no need to worry, just repair it slowly. The entire system of Gulf Coast Fortifications will be repaired for seven years, and the annual funding will be allocated 100,000 taels, and the important areas will be repaired first.

The result was good. The royal designer in charge of this matter was worried that Chen Mu's successor to the East Asian minister after returning to China was less concerned than him. He spent only 197,000 taels in two years to repair the overall shore defense facilities.

By the way, it also helped Daxi Port become its current prosperity.

For nothing else, he wanted to build the Gulf of Mexico fortifications. Under the conditions of reducing costs, those who can open mountains and get stones on the spot, and those who can get stones on the spot cannot burn bricks on the spot. They cannot enter from other places. They simply built a brick factory in Daxi Port.

The craftsmen wanted to eat and wear food, so they opened a food factory in Daxigang, mainly cornmeal, bacon, dried beans, and salted fish. As a result, these factories have not only not lost money recently, but have finally made more than 4 million Tongbao a year after deducting the cost of building fortifications.

Because Daxi Port is the starting port of Mingxi trade, Daxi Port's food processing capacity was insufficient in the past, and people purchased supplies everywhere along the way, and there was very little food to choose from. It was inevitable that some rotten things would be eaten at sea and hairy.

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

Later, even the fleet of the Eastern Military Office provided supplies from them, and even brought them new sources of goods. The abandoned Spanish stronghold in Argentina, the Shunfeng City Hundred Houses established on the way to Zhao Shizhen crossed the equator to transport beef. Now the animal husbandry industry is very developed there. Computer terminal::/

They made milk powder there, using Genghis Khan's method, a small pot of roasted milk and sugar, and condensed into powder and loaded into a leather bag to seal it on board for transportation.

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

This is actually Chen Mu's opinion. He hopes that the Dongyang Banner Army will not always drink secretly when patrolling the sea. Anyway, if you have tea on hand, it is better to drink some milk tea than to drink alcohol?

The flag army of the Oriental Fleet has a particularly thief way of drinking. The flag army is not allowed to drink when it comes on missions. When going to sea, officers will check the cabin and make sure there is no alcohol on their ship.

But the fucking flag army can always drink wine at sea.

At first, someone had storing wine music in the military uniform and cushioned helmets in the middle, and got on the boat and brewed muddy wine.

Later, the officers who were inspected became very skilled. This trick was not good, so they stopped hiding it and got on the boat and did it.

After going to sea, the group of people were busy collecting glass bottles, eating canned food for the dishes, filling clean water in the can or glass bottles, tearing the bread to pieces and putting it in the bottle. After that, they stuffed fruit into the bottle, and finally sealed it in the cabin and hid it.

After floating on the sea for a week, I took it out. The apples were placed at the beginning, which were ciders; the oranges were placed, which were tangerines.

When Shi Ye climbed onto the deck, he blew the sea breeze and came to him for a couple.

Chen Mu didn't know how these people understood that bread could ferment fruits. The officer took the fruit wine found on the ship for him to see. The wine was so muddy that he doubted whether he could get his mouth down, but it did taste a little when he drank it, it was wine.

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

He really couldn't resist his own flag army. He couldn't ban this thing, he couldn't ban bread, fruit, and clear water.

In the end, a small amount of beer was allowed to be prepared on the ship, and officers were allowed to drink as appropriate in accordance with military law.
Chapter completed!