The Rise of the European Emperor

Coincidentally, at this time, just when Marin planned to send a ship to the Americas to arrange the planting of winter wheat, two new 500-ton Hoffmann battleships in Emden Shipyard were launched.

When the Emden Shipyard was partially relocated to Amerigo Island at the beginning of the year, Marin transferred 300 skilled craftsmen, resulting in a shortage of four warships that were originally under construction. As a result, the shipyard had to build two before moving on to the other two.

Before, when Marin sent a fleet of 10,000 British ewes to breed south, just as the first two of the four warships were completed and launched, they went south with them to escort them. While the remaining two were half-built battleships, craftsmen continued to build.

When the autumn harvest was over, the two warships just launched and completed their trial voyages. Malin Xin said that there is a shortage of ships to transport wheat and migrants. As a result, the two warships temporarily acted as transport ships. And the new captains and sailors who graduated from the captain's school and the sailor's school just got on the ship and took a trip to North America's twin islands directly under the leadership of several old sailors who often traveled this route.

It is not easy to take the North American route. On this route, the storm is not strong, and the most terrible thing is not the storm, but the iceberg near Newfoundland.

Icebergs near Newfoundland were drifted from the North Pole following the Labrador Current. Because of the low density of ice, it generally floats on the sea surface. So, during the daytime, ships don't hit icebergs.

However, it is different at night. Because of the low visibility at night, if you sail at full speed, it is very likely to accidentally hit an iceberg. In history, the Titanic hit an iceberg while sailing in the middle of the night. In the daytime, as long as the captain and sailors are not blind, it is very difficult to hit the iceberg.

Therefore, Marin had already ordered the fleet to be careful and careful when the ships approached Newfoundland at night. If it doesn't work, stop sailing and turn the bow to the southeast. This way, there is no fear of the iceberg hitting the ship from the side. You must know that the ships of this year are all wooden ships. When the iceberg hits the side, it is definitely divided into two and sank immediately. Marin had the rookies bring seasoned sailors in order to keep them out of trouble.

It is precisely because of Marin's warning that the sailors will be on full alert when they are running this route and approaching Newfoundland, so there has been no accident. Moreover, with a two-ship formation, even if one ship is unlucky enough to hit an iceberg, the other ship can be rescued in time to avoid loss of personnel.

The two ships set off with the seeds of winter wheat that Malin specially dispatched to buy from other places, as well as 500 settlers, 200 oxen and a lot of iron farm implements.

In addition to the things needed for land reclamation, the ship was also loaded with a large number of goods for trade with the Indians. Such as iron pots, iron axes, swords and European bows and arrows, as well as a large number of glass products such as beautiful glass beads.

Marin's plan,

By means of trade, they invaded Newfoundland and peacefully established colonies on Newfoundland. Then, use the Indians as soon as possible to find the Bakens lead-zinc mine. In this way, there is no need to resort to force. After all, it would take several months to train those thousand colonial troops.

Of course, if you want to control the entire island of Newfoundland, you still have to use force. It's just that it was difficult to open up wasteland in the early stage, and the colonial army had not yet been trained, so it would be best if there was no conflict.

For trade with the Indians, Marin's instructions were just one word (word) - "black". Anyway, the Indians have little knowledge, and the people who are sent to trade with them can take advantage of the characteristics of the Indians who do not understand the market and greatly increase the price. For Indian goods, prices were severely reduced. Anyway, the Indians don't understand the market, so why is it not the colonists who have the final say in pricing? You must know that when the French traded with the Indians, they also made a flintlock gun in exchange for a beaver skin that was as high as the flintlock gun (standing state), which was so black that it was endless. You know, how much is a beaver skin? If I sell it in Europe, I can change a few muskets, but the Frenchman used a musket and replaced it with a beaver skin that is about the same height as a rifle, which simply killed the Indian buddy...

Now the only contact with the Indians is his own men. Only you can provide the goods that the Indians are interested in. At that time, as long as the businessmen under him exaggerate the cost of these commodities, they can fool the honest Indian buddies and make huge profits for themselves.

However, for safety's sake, there are a few things that Marin is absolutely not allowed to sell to Indians. Among them, the first one is the horse, especially the horse that has not been castrated. If the horses fall into the hands of the Indians and let them get the Indian cavalry ahead of time, they will pit themselves.

For this reason, Marin ordered that all the merchants who sold the uncastrated horses to the Indians should be executed!

In addition, there are large ships, which Marin does not intend to sell to the Indians. If the Indians have a big ship, go on a big voyage, and go to Europe to buy things by themselves, will they still make money? Therefore, large ships cannot be given to the Indians.

Finally, there are the guns. Marin is planning to use plate armored infantry to deal with the Indians. You sell muskets to the Indians, don't you think that the plate armored infantry is not dying fast enough?

After Marin compiled these prohibitions and precautions, he let the two captains take them and set off...

When the two ships passed through the English Channel, they almost caught the eye of the ship owners of the British Five-Port Alliance. Because Marin's Hoffman-class battleship is so large, it must have a lot of cargo.

However, the Kirk sailboat of the Five-Port Alliance could not catch up with the Hoffman-class battleship, and the matter would be over.

Moreover, just when the Five-Port Alliance sent four warships to pursue the two Hoffman-class warships, a fleet suddenly approached...

It turned out that it was the fleet that escorted 10,000 British ewes to Laayoune for breeding...

The four Kirk sailboats of the Five-Port Alliance that were chasing were frightened on the spot and immediately turned around and fled. Fortunately, Captain Kidd, who led the team, did not care about them, otherwise, the fleet of the Five-Port Alliance would have been wiped out.

Mainly, Kidd was concerned that the gunpowder was running out too quickly. In addition, there were 10,000 pregnant British ewes that Marin valued on board. Kidd was afraid that the naval battle would start and frighten those pregnant ewes, so he let the British fleet go.

In this way, under the watchful eyes of the British and French fleets, 85 East Frisian ships swaggered through the English Channel and returned to Emden.

Hearing the return of the fleet, Marin immediately rushed to the port of Emden to welcome the return of the fleet.

Facing the 10,000 British ewes who returned with their big stomachs, Marin repeatedly ordered his subordinates to be more careful. Moreover, each ewe ate fresh alfalfa grass, and the treatment was very good.

Under Marin's order, the staff carefully guarded the pregnant ewes like they were waiting for the eldest lady, and went to a pasture outside the city of Aurich. There is also a sheep breeding base established by Marin.

This breeding is said to be very tragic. Of the 408 merino rams in Laayoune, 54 of them died because of too frequent breeding. In addition, 35 rams lost their ability to breed later because of too many breedings. The other rams aren't much better, and need to rest for a long time before they can recover...

According to Kidd, the surviving Merino rams now run away in fright as long as they see the ewes approaching, as if they encountered a flood of beasts. And those merino ewes are also very dissatisfied with those rams, and they are chasing after dating, but those rams have long been maimed by tens of thousands of British "girls" (ewes), and now they are afraid when they see the ewes...

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