Coincidentally, at this time, just as Marin was going to send a ship to the Americas to arrange the planting of winter wheat, two new 500-ton Hoffmann battleships were launched at Emden Shipyard. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

When the Emden Shipyard was partially relocated to America earlier this year, Marin had transferred 300 skilled craftsmen, resulting in a shortage of personnel for the four warships that were already being built. As a result, the shipyard had to build two ships first, and only then move on to build two more.

Previously, when Marin sent a fleet of 10,000 British ewes south to breed, at that time, the first two of the four warships were completed and launched, and they followed them to escort the south. The remaining two half-built ships were continued to be built by the craftsmen.

By the end of the autumn harvest, the two battleships had just been launched and completed their sea trials. Ma Linxin said that there was a shortage of ships to transport wheat and migrants. As a result, these two warships temporarily served as transport ships. And the new captains and sailors who graduated from the captain's school and the sailor's school happened to get on board and went on a trip to the two islands of North America directly under the leadership of several veteran sailors who often ran 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 icebergs near the island of Newfoundland.

The icebergs near Newfoundland Island drifted from the North Pole following the Labrador Snap. Because, the density of ice is low, it generally floats on the surface of the sea. So, during the day, the ship will not hit the iceberg.

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

Therefore, Marin had long ordered the fleet to be careful and careful when the ships were near Newfoundland, if it was at night. If you can't do it, stop sailing and turn the bow of the ship to the southeast. In this way, there is no need to worry about the iceberg hitting the ship from the side. You must know that the ships of this year are all wooden ships, and when they are hit by an iceberg on the side, they are definitely split in two and sink immediately. Marin asked the novices to bring experienced sailors with them, so that they could avoid accidents.

It was precisely because of Marin's early warning that the sailors would be on full alert when they ran this route, near the island of Newfoundland, so there was no accident yet. Moreover, in a two-ship formation, even if one ship is very unlucky enough to hit an iceberg, the other ship will be able to rescue in time and avoid the loss of personnel.

Two ships set out carrying seeds of winter wheat purchased from elsewhere by Marin, as well as 500 immigrants and 200 ploughing cattle and a large number of iron farming implements.

In addition to the things needed to open up the land, the ship was also loaded with a large number of goods for trade with the Indians. For example, iron pots, iron axes, swords, bows and arrows made in Europe, and a large number of beautiful glass beads and other glass products.

Marin's plan was to invade Newfoundland by means of trade and establish a colony on Newfoundland peacefully. Then, as soon as possible, using the Indians, find the Bakkens lead-zinc mine. In this way, there is no need to resort to force. After all, it would take months to train those 1,000 colonial troops.

Of course, if you want to control the whole of Newfoundland, you still have to use force. It's just that it was difficult to open up the land in the early stage, and the colonial army had not yet completed training, so it would be best not to conflict.

For trade with the Indians, Marin gave a single word (word) - "black". Anyway, the Indians had little knowledge, and the people sent to trade with them could take advantage of the fact that the Indians did not understand the market and greatly increase the price. And for the goods of the Indians, the price was severely depressed. Anyway, the Indians don't understand the market, so it's not the colonizers who have the final say on pricing? You know, when the French were trading with the Indians, they also made beaver skins that were as tall as the flintlock pistols and exchanged for flintlock pistols, which were infinitely black. You know, how expensive is a beaver pelt? When you sell it in Europe, you can exchange it for a few muskets, but the French used a musket for a beaver skin about the height of a rifle, and it almost killed the Indian buddies......

Now the only contact with the Indians is his own men. Only on their own, can they provide goods of interest to the Indians. When the time comes, as long as the merchants under him exaggerate the cost of these goods, they can fool those honest Indian buddies and make huge profits for themselves.

However, there are a few things that Marlin is absolutely not allowed to sell to the Indians for safety. The first of these is horses, especially those that have not been castrated. If the horses fall into the hands of the Indians and let them get out of the Indian cavalry in advance, they will be in trouble.

For this reason, Marlin decreed that all merchants who sold uncastrated horses to the Indians should be put to death!

In addition, there were large ships, which Marin did not intend to sell to the Indians. If the Indians had a big ship, made a big voyage, and went to Europe to buy things by themselves, then they would still earn a P? Therefore, the big ships could not be given to the Indians.

Finally, there is the musket. Marin is planning to use the plate infantry against the Indians, and you sell muskets to the Indians, don't you think the plate infantry will die fast enough?

Marin codified these prohibitions and precautions and sent the two captains with him......

When the two ships passed through the English Channel, they almost attracted the covetousness of the owners of the British Five Ports Alliance. Because, Marin's Hoffman-class battleship is so big, and the cargo volume must be full.

However, the Kirk galleons of the Five Ports Alliance could not catch up with the Hoffmann-class battleships, and the matter was over.

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

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

The four Kirk galleons of the Five Ports Alliance who were pursuing were frightened on the spot and immediately turned around and fled. Fortunately, Captain Kidd, who led the team, didn't bother with them, otherwise, he would have wiped out the fleet of the Five Ports Alliance a long time ago.

Mainly, Kidd was worried that the gunpowder was depleting too quickly. In addition, there were 10,000 pregnant British ewes on board, which Marlin valued, and Kidd was afraid that the naval battle would start and scare those pregnant ewes, so he let the British fleet go.

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

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

In the face of the 10,000 British ewes who returned with big bellies, Marin repeatedly ordered his subordinates to be careful and careful. Moreover, every ewe eats fresh alfalfa grass, and the treatment is very good.

On Marin's orders, the staff carefully tended the pregnant ewes as if they were a young lady and went to a pasture outside the city of Aurich. It is also a sheep breeding base set up by Marin.

This breeding is said to be very tragic. Of Aayoune's 408 merino rams, 54 died because they were bred too often. In addition, there are 35 rams that have lost their ability to breed later because they have been bred too much. The other rams are no better and need to recuperate for a long time......

According to Kidd, the surviving merino rams, as soon as they saw the ewes approaching, ran away in fear as if they had encountered a flood of predators. And those merino sheep ewes are also very dissatisfied with those rams, chasing and begging for a contract, but those rams have long been crippled by tens of thousands of British "chicks" (ewes), and now they are afraid when they see ewes......