The people on the Alicante are all first-time visitors.

Due to the headwind, the speed of the escort team was very slow, and it was only at noon the next day that it returned to the main staff.

Originally, it was meant to be driven overnight, and the method was simple: send a navigator with a walkie-talkie on the Spanish ship, and then turn on the navigation lights on the front ship. This method can be implemented as long as the weather conditions allow and there is no wind or rain.

Later, considering that doing so would be suspected of exposing the ability to fight at night, the destroyer captain, who had not been authorized in this regard, decided to leave after the night.

Ever since the Spaniards established a foothold in Taipei, they have been harassed by armed Dutch sailing ships. The Dutch not only sent ships to Chicken Coop Bay to harass and shoot and make a tentative landing, but also intercepted all Spanish ships near Daguan.

Later, the Spanish transport ships only passed by the shores of Taiwan's outer islands, so they were not very clear about the situation in the strait, let alone the evil axis of Dayuan Island.

Although Ensign Sandova had heard some rumors from the Philippines about the Dutch retreating from the Commander before this, these were all unconfirmed information and were not enough for him to make any judgments.

In fact, when the second lieutenant saw the two streamlined soft-sail destroyers, he even thought for a moment that the big man was still in the hands of the Dutch: the first brigs were invented by the Dutch.

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As far as the eye can see, there is not a single red or yellow hair on the crowded Chihkan Wharf. The whole dockland is full of short inventors of water.

By this time the poor Spaniards had finally come to terms with the fact that the Dutch had been driven out by these pagans.

...... God, we have fallen into the hands of the infidels. This terrible news instantly spread throughout the ship.

You know, the Spaniards at this time were faithful Catholics.

The 30-year war, which began 10 years ago, is now in full swing on the land of Europe.

The loyal partners of the Habsburgs: the Spanish royal family, the nobility, and the Spanish people, were the mainstay of the Catholic League.

So, the flatbread-faced know better than anyone else the horrors of the infidels: for for for centuries it was they who invented all kinds of terrible tortures to clean up the infidels.

This horror of the unknown even overwhelmed their surprise along the way. The crew members watched in silence at all kinds of bizarre and bizarre scenes in Taijiang, and no one shouted.

The Alicante, which was left alone on a dock, soon awaited the disposition of the infidels.

Several dock officers dressed in khaki linen shirts, linen trousers, and straw sandals boarded the Galen.

Among these dark-haired and yellow-skinned men were Spanish-speaking interpreters, so the four-man group, including Second Lieutenant Sandova himself, the first mate, the navigator, and Josep, the ship's chaplain, were ordered to step off the boat, board a beautiful dinghy not far away, and sail across the river.

The other sailors were ordered to stay on deck and not to disembark or return to their cabins.

No one dared to disobey the orders of these infidels.

Not to mention the soldiers with mahogany guns on the wharf, the newly built red brick and cement turret in the Chihkan wharf area also made any force that had close contact with heavy machine guns lose the confidence to resist: when the Spaniards turned a corner and entered the port, they finally saw the big killer on the Yuandou from a close distance.

The only person on board who was allowed to walk out of the cabin was the purser, Gomez. He was tasked with working with the dark-haired port officials to count the few cargoes in the hold.

After all the goods were registered, the officers easily sealed the doors of several artillery pieces. After returning to the deck, everyone was gone, leaving only the interpreter to tell the purser that the sulfur in the cabin was now beginning to be requisitioned.

After hearing this, the highest-ranking second officer on deck, the purser and the boatswain, after glancing at each other, immediately began to drive the sailors, and carried out all 20 bags of sulfur from the cabin, and placed them neatly on the dock outside the ship.

The interpreter, who had a shoehorn, was satisfied, and then he smiled, and then, in full view of everyone, pulled out a bag of shredded tobacco, and a rough green wood pipe, apparently cut by the apprentice on a carpentry lathe, and began to lean against the gang of the Alicante, and began to smoke dry tobacco.

Seeing this, the purser bowed down to the interpreter with a little trepidation: "Dear sir, I think we have the right to know what we will face next. ”

The translator casually exhaled a puff of second-hand smoke while looking at the towers of the shipyard in the distance, and then he said with a narrow expression: "Naturally, the next thing is labor, or do you think there is rum to drink?" ”

"Oh God!" The sailors cried out miserably. At this moment, they remembered the pagan slaves who had labored all their lives in the sugar cane fields of Christians.

Fortunately, the interpreter only frightened them temporarily, and soon he pointed to a string of wooden carts on the dock from far and near, and said with a smile: "The labor is here, move the goods, gentlemen." ”

...... The sailors began to move the red bricks from the trolley into the bilge with a look of surprise on their faces. The flatbread-faces were now in a state of utter confusion, they could not understand who the goods were for, and many even thought that the heretics had confiscated the ships and were going through the first day of slavery......

The hundreds of red bricks on the 10 trolleys were quickly moved, and then the dock workers dressed in moon-white cloth shoulders used the trolleys to pull away the sulfur.

This kind of single-person trolley is no different from the iron cart on the construction site in later generations, it is a square bucket, a pair of large wheels, and two struts at the tail. It's just that except for the axle and a layer of iron on the outer ring of the wheel, the rest of the parts are wooden.

In the absence of rubber, the wheels are currently only made of wood. The quality of the wheels produced in the kiln area is still good: the two semi-circular wooden wheels shaped by steam fumigation are first riveted together by the spokes, and then the outer ring is covered with a hot iron ring, and after emergency cooling, the iron ring shrinks, and a pair of wheels with the principle of "self-tightening of the body tube" is born.

At present, the entire wheel used by the crossing force, except for a few imported solid tires, is all made by this process. As for the effect, at least on the concrete floor of the dock area, the hoop trolley is quite practical and runs fast.

So, without giving the sailors on the Alicante a long rest, the car came again. This time, the car was loaded with a "box cement" that is very popular in Hangzhou's business circles: camphor wood boxes with cement sacks.

In the era of sails, leakage in the cabin is almost one of the inevitable problems, so the valuable goods of this era need to be wrapped layer by layer. The gift boxes that were opened layer by layer in later generations came from this: if they were not packaged like this, the precious silk fabric would be soaked in the sea water after they were in their hands.

"Box cement" was also born here. It's just that the wooden box shipped today is the finished camphor wooden box of the iron sheet wrapped in the kiln area.

The skilled lacquerers, coppersmiths and carpenters in Hangzhou will dress up the semi-finished wooden boxes as copper leather corners, copper animal handles, and exquisite lacquered furniture. However, Manila in 1628 was a rural place where even groceries needed to be imported from the Ming Dynasty, so the wooden boxes shipped today are all finished boxes in a simple style.

The dazed people began to carry the wooden crates to the cabin again in a daze.

After that, the trolley brought in fine porcelain, fine cotton, beautiful silk, and some glass cutlery.

At this time, the comrade translator had already turned into an accountant, standing at the hatch, constantly checking the cargo with the purser.

When it was all over, the interpreter asked the purser to sign the manifest in triplicate, and then smiled and said the truth aloud: "These goods are samples to be brought to Manila, gentlemen, you can leave here tomorrow." ”

Ignoring the beaming sailors, the interpreter took another man from the sailors before leaving: "Has anyone here ever learned the trade of building a mud wall?" ”

"Sir, my father was a mason."

"Very well, what's your name?"

"Andres Iniesta Jr., sir."

"Come with me to the docks now, and you'll have to learn how to use cement by tomorrow morning. Boy, you're in luck, the big names in Manila will soon be inviting you over. ”

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While the sailors were working hard to move the goods, the Sandova team, which was taken to the temporary office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Dayuan Island, was arguing with Cai Feiming.

Comrade Cai Feiming sold bags in Barcelona back then, so he spoke Spanish very slippery.

When Comrade Second Lieutenant and several other high-ranking staff members came to the office, Cai Feiming quickly explained to the prisoners the intention of crossing the force.

First: trade rights for castles.

From now on, the port of Dayuan is open to the Philippines, and Spaniards can freely shop here.

While handing the second lieutenant a catalogue of goods, Cai Feiming told him that a batch of goods was being loaded into the hold of the Galen ship. The goods were to be brought back to Manila by the second lieutenant as trade samples and presented to the Governor of Salamanca as a sign of goodwill on the part of the Chief.

At the same time, Cai Feiming told the second lieutenant that in order to obtain the right to trade, the Spanish side must cede the city of San Salvador built in Taipei's chicken coop bay to the big forces in the shortest possible time.

As for the city of Santo Domingo, which is under construction at the mouth of the Tamsui River, Cai Feiming said open-mindedly: We are not interested there. If you wish, you can move your soldiers and belongings there, and you will be good neighbors in the future.

In addition, Cai Feiming also promised: If the agreement is reached, in the future, the Spanish ship can directly depart from Dayuan, take a shortcut in the strait, and go to the mouth of the Tamsui River to complete the replenishment task. The Spaniards can even outsource supply tasks to the big ones, and that's something that everyone can talk about.