According to the advice given by the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty Treasure Shipyard, the so-called horse ship is actually to carry the stables onto the big ship, and build many stables side by side on the deck of the relatively empty ship to facilitate the placement of cattle and horses. At the same time, it separates cattle and horses to prevent them from fighting each other.

The key to building a stable on a boat is to make it easy to clean up the manure......

Therefore, the stables on the ship are often repaired on the edge of the ship. The person in charge of the sweep does not even need to enter the stable, but simply uses a broom and shovel with a long handle to scoop up cow and horse manure and throw it into the sea. Then, if it's not cold, you can also rinse the floor in the stable with seawater to remove odors and flies.

After learning this experience, the craftsmen of the Long Island Shipyard in New York built a large number of stables on the inside of the inner circle around the top deck of the ship, making the most of the space.

However, after repairing it, they found that the space in the middle was wasted......

In order to increase the volume of transportation, the shipyard used large ships of 500 tons, which were converted from the warships of the Beihai State as templates.

Its size is similar to that of the North Sea State warships, and it is a classic 4:1 Galen ship shape with a length of 40 meters and a width of 10 meters. Moreover, it is the kind of double artillery deck. Of course, no artillery was fired.

The deck width is 10 meters, and the length of the single-row stables is generally more than 2 meters long, generally within 2.2 meters. If only the stables on the sides of the deck were to be built, then more than five meters in the middle would be wasted.

After collective deliberation among the shipbuilders, they eventually added a row of single-row stables in the middle to house the cattle and horses. As for the clean-up of cow and horse manure, it is arranged to be cleaned twice a day. As for the cleaning of the stable deck in the middle position, the shipbuilders finally decided on a plan to repair a drainage ditch on the deck after repeated discussions.

They raised the deck of the middle row of stables and built special gutters on both sides. In this way, when the deck is washed, the water flows down the gutter and flows into the sea through dedicated locations. In this way, the problem of water accumulation caused by the row of stables in the middle of the deck is avoided.

In this way, the 40-meter-long deck, with a width of 1.5 meters of single-row stables, can accommodate 26 or 27 stables in one row and 80 in three rows.

The formwork of the cattle and horses ship was a 500-ton battleship with a double gun deck, so that after the two gun decks were converted into three rows of stables, a total of 160 horses, or 160 head of cattle, could be carried.

As for the crew of the ship, they live in the bilge, or in the stern of the ship. Because the cattle and horses that transported cattle did not pursue speed, the stern was built to serve as the quarters of the captain and officers. After all, the bilge is stuffy and is generally reserved for low-level sailors. And the food on the ship and the feed for the cattle and horses are generally placed in the bilge.

However, in order to worry about scurvy of cattle and horses, in addition to eating hay during the voyage, the cattle and horses will also dock at a fixed place, collect some grass and leaves on the shore, and feed them to supplement them with vitamin C.

However, from Persia to mainland Europe, it mainly passed through the sphere of influence of the Portuguese, and only the coast of Mozambique was the sphere of influence of the Spaniards, who were friendly with Marin. Therefore, on the issue of stopping point selection, Marin also needs to have a bit of a fight with the Portuguese.

However, now is definitely not a good time to negotiate with the Portuguese to land on a restocking grassy site. Because, Marin is currently almost at a falling out with the Portuguese......

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After being robbed by "Captain Jack", the hapless Portuguese spice carrier returned to Lisbon in disarray and caused an uproar in Portugal.

The words of "Captain Jack" almost clearly indicate his origin - at the behest of Marin......

After all, the robbery of Marin's transport ship in the Azores was well known to the Portuguese aristocratic circles in Lisbon. Now that this has happened, it is clear that Marin is slapping Portugal in the face.

You must know that in Portugal, the spice trade is controlled by the Portuguese royal family and several big nobles, and ordinary small nobles cannot interfere. But it was precisely these great nobles who decided the fate of Portugal.

Marin took revenge on the Silva family before, in fact, those big nobles knew about it, but they were happy to see the jokes. Anyway, it's not them who are losing.

But Marin's action was directly aimed at them, and they were immediately unhappy and angry......

In addition to Marin's friend, Duke Jorge of Coimbra. Morality. Luncastree was kicked out of the spice trade because of his rivalry with Manuel I for the throne, and almost all of Portugal's great nobles got a slice of the Indian spice trade. Marin instructed the pirates to rob the spice ships, which was basically tantamount to offending all the great Portuguese nobles.

In fact, Marin didn't want to offend the Portuguese nobles at first. However, this time the Portuguese government and opposition faced Rui. Silva's acquiescence in pretending to be a pirate made Marin angry.

Marin's biggest fear was that these guys would acquiesce to the Portuguese nobles who had not been able to participate in the Indian spice trade, organize pirate ships, rob merchant ships in the North Sea, and even covet the American colonies. And this, with the urine sex of the great Portuguese aristocracy, is very likely.

After all, history has changed. Under Marin's influence, Portugal did not develop Brazil as it had historically been. As a result, the interests of many small and medium-sized Portuguese nobles were not satisfied.

The Indian spice trade was rigidly controlled by the Portuguese royal family and the big nobles, so the Portuguese small and medium-sized nobles could only find ways to obtain benefits from other aspects.

Rui. Silva's pretending piracy to ransack North Sea State transport ships was no secret in Portugal. After all, Rui. After Silva's success, the ship's cargo also needs to be stolen. As soon as the shot was made, the entire circle of the great Portuguese aristocracy became clear.

But they all chose to remain silent, and even secretly encouraged. Because, these Portuguese nobles also know that their own food is too ugly, and they can't share the profits with those small and medium-sized nobles. If they can find a way to make money on their own, the great nobles will also be happy to see it. As for who the victims are, what does it matter to them?

It is precisely because of this attitude that Marin is completely infuriated - since you ignore my interests, then don't blame me for being rude!

So, despite the seemingly unwise, Marin ordered the "Black Pearl" to attack the spice ship that belonged to the forbidden territory of the Portuguese nobles, in order to remind the arrogant Portuguese nobles that Lao Tzu is not so easy to mess with!

However, in doing so, it did poke a hornet's nest. Relations between the North Sea Kingdom and the Kingdom of Portugal began to deteriorate......

As soon as the news spread, the Portuguese nobles with a stake in it were outraged. Many people began to shout that sending a fleet to attack the port of Emden, the only port in the North Sea State, would teach Marin a very profound lesson......