Five 300-ton Galen ships, so that Zheng Chenggong more than 200 ships helpless, Zheng Chenggong went to Australia for a year or two, the development of the territory is a lot of development, last time Zheng Keshuang said to get five cities, according to Zhang Qiang's estimates, probably similar to the ancient Chinese kind of camp situation, according to the Chinese thinking, must be a small city made of wood within a radius of three or five miles.

Two years to adapt to the environment, to explore, it is impossible to build the city too strong, there is no time, Europeans like to use stones to build castles, Chinese like to use bricks to build castles, Zheng Chenggong can not use such a short time, with so many people and kilns, and make bricks, and build city walls, must be cut down logs, and then build cities, camps, equivalent to the kind of camps that marched and fought in ancient times.

Even if clay and clay were found, they were built in the castle and the like, and it was impossible to build a brick wall, which would have to wait a year or two.

In this case, Zheng Chenggong could not build any shipyards or make any big ships, he could only use the warships sold to him by the Huaxia Army and the Ming ships he took away, the kind of coastal ships such as Fu ships and Guangzhou ships, and it was basically impossible to win a war with the Dutch with such ships.

First of all, the speed can not catch up with people, the Guangzhou ship is an offshore ship, the place of strong wind and waves can not go, the fortune ship is a long-distance ship, the pursuit is stable, the speed is not good, the speed can be loaded with four knots of speed is good, and the Galen ship has to run at a speed of five knots, the general cruising with six knots of speed, seven or eight knots of speed when chasing the battle, and the speed of nine knots, but even if it is the Galen ship imitated by the Chinese army, it cannot catch up, and the speed of the warships of the Huaxia Army Navy is generally at four or five knots. When fighting, it is good to be able to biao seven sections, and the super long play is eight sections, but it has to bear the burden of the hull structure is not good and easy to fall apart.

In the seventeenth century, Europe now has a very fast Galen ship, the speed is more than ten knots, and the clipper ship has passed fourteen knots, but the clipper ship is not suitable for naval warfare, navigation is okay, naval warfare is basically equivalent to suicide, the hull is thin, so that every counterweight becomes a burden, once the recoil of the gun is too large, it is easy to cause the hull to roll over.

So the main combat ships of the Dutch are the Caravel ship and the Clark ship, of course, the Spanish Galen ship, which is basically the Spanish Galen ship now, and the British are the Spanish Galen ship, which is more advanced than the Spanish Galen ship, and its bow and stern superstructure are relatively low, so that it cannot be blown over by the wind, the wind resistance is small, and the speed is also fast, basically it can reach the speed of nine and ten knots, or even eleven knots, if it is a small tonnage, it can reach the speed of twelve knots, That's why Zheng Chenggong's sailors couldn't defeat just five 300-ton Dutch ships, and Zhang Qiang estimated that the Dutch used at least the Spanish Galen ship.

Because in the current later history, the Spanish Galen ships were generally lighter, probably between 300 and 500 tons, and then used as warships.

This kind of warship does not have a large load and cannot carry much cargo, but it can catch up with the enemy at a very fast speed, and it is also equipped with a lot of artillery, which forms a kind of pressure on the enemy, and it can catch up and fight, the artillery is sharp, and the escape is fast, and the enemy cannot catch up with it.

At present, it seems that Zheng Chenggong and they encountered this kind of warship of the Dutch, the Dutch must have gone to explore the way, by the way, as an adventure to discover the New World, maybe in less than a year, the news will be transmitted back to Europe, some Dutch or Europeans will be happy, and some people will become famous, because they discovered the New World and will go down in history.

Zhang Qiang has no preference for going down in history, anyway, you can't compete with history, history is too powerful, too big, just like you can't bring down a country alone, but you can't get Australia in your hands when you find Australia, this thing is a cup of staging.

Basically, the New World discovered by Westerners has been colonized or occupied by them, and they will be their iron-blooded lackeys in later generations, but now Zhang Qiang does not want Australia to become the Australia of later generations, he wants Australia to become a province of the Chinese Kingdom of his historical line in the future, Australian Province, of course, a province may not be able to include a territory that is almost the same size as the Great Celestial Empire in later generations, maybe a special autonomous state territory.

However, this is not a problem that Zhang Qiang is considering now, the current problem is to help Zheng Chenggong, a semi-mixed-race Han man, to hold Australia, not to let the Taixi people carve up where, not to let a white-skinned Westerner occupy where, not to leave controversy for future generations, it may be difficult to help them, but if you sell them more warships, then the guards are still good.

Although the large warships of the Huaxia Military Naval Division are old and not fast, they are faster than the amateur Damingfu ships, and they are much more professional in combat.

"How much gold and silver do you bring, and how many Chinese dollars can be exchanged according to the exchange ratio we agreed on earlier?"

Zhang Qiang asked.

Zheng Keshuang said: "According to our estimates, it can be exchanged for about 12 million Huaxia Yuan, that is to say, you don't need to lend us money, we directly repaid your 8 million Huaxia Yuan, and we can also convert at least 2 million Huaxia Yuan, as for the iron ore and guano for you, we will not bring much this time."

Three iron ore ships with a total of fifty tons and thirty tons of guano, we used three armed merchant ships of one hundred and eighty tons that we had bought from the Dutch, and the speed was still okay, after we remodeled it, the speed could reach a speed of nine knots, we have five such ships in total, and I will bring three of them this time.

Because of the long distance, most of the materials loaded on it are fresh water, food, salt, as well as some artillery, ammunition, and other materials that need to be consumed on the way, which occupy nearly half of the tonnage, so it can hold 80 tons of iron ore and guano, which is also the limit. The fully loaded cargo hold made it possible for us to sail at a speed of only six knots, and on a downwind time our ships reached a speed of eight knots, which took us more than two months to reach here from the nearest port nearly three thousand miles away. ”

"In this way, then throw away the two million Huaxia Yuan loan you used last time, you still have 10 million Huaxia Yuan, as for the interest, let's not talk about it, what are you going to buy this time?" Zhang Qiang asked.

Zheng Keshuang said: "Originally, I was going to buy the population, but with the Dutch this incident, my father is going to buy a few thousand-ton warships for your Huaxia military and naval divisions, as well as small warships, it is best to have new ones, faster ones, so that we can deal with the sneak attack of the Dutch and drive them out, but they are too few people, and the most we will be surprised and pressured."

I mean it's better to take some of the population and then some boats, and then some grain, we have a big territory there, but we just got there, and the land in many places is not too fertile, and we can't grow excess food, so we need to buy some food to go back. ”

(End of chapter)