In fact, the good news from Cape Breton Island is not limited to paper mills. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoAnother good news for Cape Breton Island is that the salt boiling base is also operating.

Just north of Sydney Bay, Garland built a coastal salt base, according to Garland's report. The boiling salt base is very close to the North Sydney coal mine, and the fuel transportation is also very convenient.

The salt boiling base over there has been built, and now it is up to Marin to relocate all the salt boiling craftsmen and cauldrons in the salt city on Texel Island to Cape Breton Island. The coal miners and briquette-shaking workers of the former Hoffman estate led by Schwartz have begun to steadily produce briquettes at the North Sydney Coal Mine on Cape Breton Island. The paper mill on the north side of Cape Breton Island has received a stable supply of coal, and now, the new boiling salt base can also obtain a stable supply of coal, just waiting for the old salt city to be relocated collectively.

After learning that the Cape Breton Island side was ready, Marin immediately signed an order ordering the old Salt City to begin the collective relocation. During the period of relocation of the old salt city, the new salt city on the island of Baltrum will expand its production to fill the production gap during the relocation of the old salt city.

Shortly after the paper ship sent by Garland arrived at Emden Harbor, Tara also sent a ship from the North American twin islands, loaded with whale oil and meat.

At the same time, Tara also brought good news to Marin - on Amerigo Island, Tara has prepared thousands of old oak logs, each of which is more than 30 meters long, and can be used as the keel of a large ship of 500 tons or even larger.

Moreover, these logs, which have been air-dried on Amerigo Island for two years, are perfectly suitable for shipbuilding.

It's just that these logs are too long and too big, and Kirk galleons of two or three hundred tons are completely unsuitable for transporting them back to Europe. Therefore, it is most appropriate to set up a shipyard near the island of America.

Marin apparently agrees with this opinion and has been planning to do so for a long time. So, after thinking twice, Marin planned to send half of the craftsmen to the Americas at the Emden Shipyard to build 500-ton warships and 500-ton armed merchant ships.

Needless to say, the 500-ton battleship can be copied directly according to the pattern of the "Hoffman-class" battleship. And for 500-ton armed merchant ships, it is also simple, it is only necessary to reduce the logarithm of the ribs of the "Hoffman-class" battleship accordingly. At the same time, the thickness of the side side has been reduced.

Oak logs up to 30 meters in length are rare, so Marin decided to use all the thousands of oak logs on Amerigo Island as keel material. As for the ribs, it is entirely possible to purchase the right materials locally in Europe and bend them into the desired shape at the Emden shipyard's branch that manufactures the ribs. Then, after it has dried, it is transported by boat to the new shipyard on Amerigo Island, where it is used to assemble new ships.

The new shipyard was obviously very important to Marin, you know, if you want to strengthen your control over the colony and open up the eastern trade routes, a certain number of large ships, that is necessary.

So, for this purpose, Marin personally rushed to the Emden shipyard and selected more than 300 shipbuilders from it. Then, from among the serfs, thousands of serfs with carpentry foundation were selected and sent to Amerigo Island, a twin island in North America, together with their families, to form a new shipyard.

And the group of people who remained from the original Emden shipyard also continued to build ships. For example, there are now 4 Hoffman-class warships under construction in the shipyard. Therefore, Marin only took 300 craftsmen, and did not take half of them according to the original plan. Otherwise, these 4 battleships will be stopped.

However, Marin knows very well that in the future, North America will be the main base for building large ships. After all, there is an inexhaustible supply of wood over there. Therefore, while transferring more than 300 shipbuilding craftsmen, Marin also selected thousands of serfs who knew carpenter's skills for these 300 craftsmen and handed them over to train them, so that these thousands of serfs who knew carpentry could also become qualified shipbuilders.

At that time, it will be possible to have a large number of shipbuilders, coupled with the inexhaustible timber in North America, and a large number of ships in North America.

In order to train the thousands of serfs who knew how to carpenter, Marin's plan was to let those serf carpenters give hands to the more than 300 shipbuilders after arriving on Amerigo Island. The task of the more than 300 veteran shipbuilders was to build a new 500-ton "Hoffmann-class" warship. And the thousands of serf carpenters first worked on the side to observe and learn.

Then, take advantage of the abundant timber resources on Amerigo Island and cut some wood at will. It was not necessary to air dry the timber for two years, but to use ordinary timber directly, and apparently the serf carpenters practiced their hands first and built a few smaller fishing boats. A few small fishing boats were built, and the serf carpenters were almost familiar with the shipbuilding process. At that time, they will be able to really help those veteran shipbuilders and participate in the construction of 500-ton warships and armed merchant ships. At that time, more than 1,300 craftsmen will be able to start building three or four 500-ton warships at the same time.

In addition, Tara submitted an application to officially begin the development of Columbus Island (Martha's Vineyard) on the edge of the island of America (South Tecter).

The main reason is that Columbus Island also has a large area of forest. Even if you don't cultivate farmland on Columbus Island for the time being, it is good to cut down the oak trees suitable for shipbuilding and save them for air drying.

Not only that, but the climate on Columbus Island is similar to that on Amerigo Island, which is ideal for growing soybeans. Tara even had a plan to try to grow wheat on Columbus Island.

As a new nobleman, Tara's own family also had a fief in the East Friesian Lamber, and her output was quite large. The annual income is also tens of thousands of gold coins.

Therefore, Tara's requirements for life have also become higher. For example, Tara began to dislike brown bread and began to like white bread made from wheat flour.

However, Tara also understood that the northern part of Germany, because of its cold climate, was not so much suitable for growing wheat, but more suitable for growing rye. Therefore, if you want to eat white bread, you actually need to import wheat from other countries.

Previously, when Tara was with Marin, she had listened to Marin explain some agricultural knowledge, such as the concept of "accumulated temperature". Although she didn't understand it, Tara understood one thing - that is, the accumulated temperature of the twin islands of North America was higher than that of the East Friesian Lambeth. If nothing else, in summer alone, the twin islands of North America are hotter than the East Friesian Lamber. And Marin said that the hot summer is very necessary for the growth of crops.

According to Marin, the twin islands of North America are more suitable for growing soybeans than northern Europe because of their summer temperatures. Tara, then, reasoned that the twin islands of North America were more suitable for growing wheat than East Friesland.

He submitted the idea to Marin. Marin immediately gave a positive response. In a reply to Tara, Marin affirmed Tara's idea of developing Columbus Island. In addition, he also sent several sacks of wheat to Tara, so that Tara could try to grow spring wheat on Columbus Island during spring ploughing.

However, Marin still repeatedly emphasized that shipbuilding and logging are the things that Tara needs to pay more attention to. As for wheat farming, success is best, and failure is nothing.

At present, the varieties of European wheat are too poor. Wheat is usually planted in November of the first year and not harvested until October of the following year. With such a long growth cycle, it is definitely scum in Marin's eyes. On the other hand, the wheat in China can already be rotated with rice, and the growth cycle is much shorter than that of wheat in Europe at this time. Therefore, after opening up the route of the Ming Dynasty, Ma Lin planned to go to China to introduce Huaxia wheat, which had a much shorter growth cycle, to replace the inferior wheat varieties in Europe at this time. Therefore, Marin did not care at all about the success of Tara's wheat cultivation on Columbus Island.

In fact, in Marin's eyes, the North American twin islands were just a springboard for Marin's colonization of North America. Moreover, there are not many oak trees on the two islands.

Where there are really many oak trees, it's still on the mainland. Only when you occupy the mainland, later Pennsylvania, and get countless Pennsylvania red oaks suitable for shipbuilding, will you really be a big deal. Marin now wondered if it was time to send troops to conquer the North American continent......