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In the end, after three days of discussion, everyone finally reached a consensus: build a large river channel.

The river is about twenty-one miles (about thirty-four kilometers) long, and it leads from Iriss to Denver, greatly shortening the distance of the Ouse River.

The Urs River will join the north-flowing Trent River 14 kilometres east of Ghor to form the Humber River, which flows into the North Sea.

As a result, the river that feeds the largest amount of water into the swamp will be diverted and flows directly into the North Sea, reducing the amount of water injected into the swamp by a lot.

They also designed to connect some of the smaller rivers upstream and build channels to irrigate the entire river.

If such a project is completed, more arable land will be created.

Of course, the biggest difficulty - money, with the support of His Majesty the King with deep pockets, there are no problems at all, just waiting for the construction to be approved.

Fifty years later, this great project is about to be built, but by the power of the people.

Without the support of the state, the funds were extremely insufficient, but in the end it was completed in 1637 with the support of the fourth Earl of Bedford.

Therefore, after the completion of the project of leveling the Everglades, this large flat land is also called the "Bedford Flatland".

Of course, this is only a basic project, and if you want to completely turn the swamp into fertile land, you will need a second stage of work.

However, the project was only allowed to continue in the sixties of the twentieth century in the turbulent British society and the problem of the distribution of benefits.

It can be described as a lot of disasters and difficulties!

Soon, the advice reached London, and a few days later a figure of up to £10,000 arrived in the Everglades, followed by an overseer of the royal family.

He was the overseer of Operation Leveling, overseeing the use of money and the progress of the project.

It's not that the young king doesn't believe them, it's really unpredictable, 10,000 pounds is a figure that is beyond the reach of ordinary people in a lifetime, and it is very likely to be embezzled, don't overestimate the integrity of the bureaucracy.

As soon as the money was in place, the entire Everglades began to be built vigorously.

Since this was a private act of the royal family, most of the workers were peasants from the vicinity of the Everglades and were subjected to thirty days of hard labor by the king.

Thousands of people, under the command of Hebery, began to build the river on a very large scale.

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Plymouth, Devon.

John. Hawkins stood on the deck of his family's largest ship, followed by his younger brother, William Hawkins. Hawkins, as well as a couple of able-bodied sailors.

The ship slowly left Plymouth and sailed away from the docks, the sails hoisted, and with the sailors waving their oars, the whole ship began to turn, break through the waves, and begin to its own destination.

Surrounding his place were five armed merchant ships, large and small, all of which belonged to his family.

John. Hawkins was born in 1532 into a family of merchant sailors in Plymouth, Devonshire, in southwestern England.

The Hawkins family was a prominent maritime power on the west coast of England at the time, and many members of the family were engaged in overseas business ventures.

Hawkins' father, William Hawkins, pioneered the maritime trade between England and Brazil from 1530 onwards, becoming a well-known merchant at the time, representing the city of Plymouth in Parliament three times.

Unfortunately, when he was twenty-four years old, his father died of illness. Trained as a sailor on his family's ships since childhood, Hawkins took up his father's business after his father's death in 1554 and started a cargo business.

He did not engage in business with Brazil, as his father did, but took advantage of the improvement in relations between England and Spain, and began to trade with Spain and the Canary Islands, transporting minerals and various necessities of life, which was very profitable.

Through these activities, he more than doubled his family's wealth in less than a year.

However, some time ago, he met a Spanish merchant and a conflict broke out with him, and then his business encountered all kinds of difficulties, and for several months, the profit was very small.

As a result, he was forced to give up this lucrative opportunity and choose a new business.

At this time, he learned that the Spanish colonizers in the West Indies were in dire need of a large number of slave laborers.

The so-called West Indies are in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, when the Italian navigator Christopher Columbus sailed west four times to the Atlantic Ocean in search of a route from Europe to the East, and discovered some islands on the northeast coast of North and South America and the Caribbean Sea, mistaken for India.

Later, when the Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci arrived on the east coast of South America, he proved that this was a "new continent" unknown to Europeans. Later, European colonists called the archipelago between the South and North American continents the "West Indies".

That's the part of Cuba.

Upon receiving this powerful news, Hawkins immediately decided to abandon the business to Spain and turn to the slave trade to supply slaves to the West Indies.

"John, are we just giving up? That's a lucrative one! ”

William with the sea breeze. Hawkins, turning his head, looked at his brother with a vicissitudes on his face, and asked softly.

"Of course, my brother!" John. Hawkins turned his tanned face, looked at his brother, who was no more than eighteen years old, and said in the affirmative.

"That shameless Spanish businessman has a wide range of contacts, and one day he is in Spain, we can't do business, what's the point of doing a business without profit?"

Saying this, John's face showed an angry expression, obviously, the loss of a way to make money also made him very unhappy.

"But, William, if this operation goes well—" He said excitedly, his eyes lit up, and he bit his lip, "then, our Hawkins family will return to the glory of our father's time, and even more prosperous!" ”

And his younger brother William was confused, he hadn't seen his brother so excited for a long time, the last time was three years ago, or five years ago, anyway, a long, long time.

"William, I contacted five plantation owners in the West Indies, and they promised me that if a thousand sturdy blacks were shipped, they would give us five thousand pounds, which was the lowest price!"

"And what will we give? Manpower? Or ships? ”

He saw that his brother was in a trance, and then he looked at the undulating sea and muttered to himself.

"These are just a tiny fraction of the profits, so what's the point of taking a little risk?"

Finally, he was somewhat nervous towards the sea, shouting loudly, as if announcing something.

"As long as this goes well, then we will continue to make a steady stream of profits and become the richest family in all of England, and when the time comes, I am afraid that even His Majesty the King will know my name, I, John. Hawkins will become a household name in England! ”