Historically, the city of Batavia was established by the Dutch to expand their colonies in the Far East, and with the continuous expansion of their influence in the Far East, it gradually became the political, cultural and trade center of the Dutch colonies in the Far East. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Geographically, Batavia is not much lower than Manila and Macau, and even because of the strong rise of the Dutch at sea, Batavia's economic and trade status once surpassed that of Manila and Macau.

Although Batavia was a trade colony established entirely by the Dutch, there were countless merchants who came and went to the city every day, and compared with the merchants and explorers of Western countries, the most traders who came to Batavia to trade with the Dutch were the Ming merchants.

A day ago, when the Chang'an No. 1 steam sailing ship sailed into the Batavia wharf, it attracted countless people to look sideways, because the speed of the Yangtze River No. 1 was too fast, and just now I saw a small dot on the sea in the distance, but within a while, this small dot appeared on the pier.

This is indeed amazing, according to the normal sailing speed, it takes at least a cup of tea to enter the Yangtze River No. 1, but it gave everyone an unexpected surprise, to be precise, everyone was surprised.

The shape of the Yangtze River No. 1 has been painted pure white, but it can still be seen from its appearance that it is a Western clipper, which is supposed to be made in Spain, and the port's defense officer even thought that the Spaniards in Manila had attacked.

It was also thanks to the fact that the defense officer was not impulsive, and did not choose to open fire immediately, but after some careful consideration, he thought of the crux of the matter, if the Spaniards chose to go to war, they would never send a single ship, they would definitely send a fleet of several ships to attack.

So Mr. Defense Officer just told the soldiers to prepare for defense, keep an eye on it, don't open fire easily, and see what happens.

After the White Sail Clipper officially docked, they found out that the identity of the other party should be Australian, and the five-star red flag would not be wrong, only Australians would fly such a five-star red flag, which is said to be their national flag.

After the defense officer asked Lin Wendong and the others to pay the fee as requested, he immediately let them enter Batavia.

Because Qi Yu gave the other party a lot of benefits, and the Australian has always had a good reputation in the hearts of the port defense officer, so naturally he didn't make much trouble, and even proposed that he could ask him for help if necessary.

The data tests of the voyage are all normal, Chief Engineer Lin, it seems that we will be able to start building the first completely independent research sail warship after we go back. After checking in at the inn, a young man who accompanied the travel test reported the situation to Lin Wendong with a respectful face.

In the case of a downwind sailboat, the fastest speed is fifteen knots, and the steam engine power unit runs for 192 hours and 32 minutes without failure, which is the time used for this voyage, excluding the shutdown of the unit in the case of downwind, and the final statistical time is this number.

"It's a perfect test, but the runner seems to be a little worn," Lin Wendong looked at the comparison data before departure and after docking, although the difference was only a few millimeters, but in his opinion, this was definitely the main factor caused by the poor material.

Of course, this can't be blamed on the compatriots of the steel smelter, materials science is a systematic discipline, everyone is not a system professional, it is good to be able to do this, if the material discipline is so easy, then the future generations will not import some special materials.

So it's useless to think too perfectly about some things, and according to the actual situation, fortunately, Lin Wendong is not a perfectionist, he is a pragmatist, as long as he is practical.

In addition to mastering the ship's own operating data, the test report of the ship can also be compared with the relevant materials to a certain degree of wear, and he can also provide an improved data to the relevant domestic research team with this report.

Now the whole Batavia is definitely much more curious about the Yangtze River No. 1 than Australia, because a sail with white smoke arrives in the blink of an eye, which is definitely something that can be talked about.

There were also a lot of people in the inn this day, including the British, the Spanish, the Portuguese, and even the French also came to join in the fun, they all said that they were interested in the ship and wanted to visit, in fact, Lin Wendong knew in their hearts that there were nothing more than two kinds, one was to see if the actual situation could be bought, and the second was to want to learn the technology.

It's true to say that it's a visit to actually watch it secretly, but Lin Wendong is not afraid of what they have learned, if the steam engine is so easy to build, then Watt will not go through so many tests, saying that they just glanced at the real thing, if they can really get it out, then it is really open, and he has nothing to say.

Since the other party wants to see it, let's watch it, technical exchanges, Lin Wendong embodies a generous character of Australians, and then agreed, but you have to abide by the order, you must obey the arrangements of the crew, and you can't touch the equipment at will and other conditions before you can observe.

Of course, this visit is not free, Lin Wendong still has to think about how to earn back the coal money for this sea trial, so it was Qi Yu's proposal to make a ticket system, as long as you buy a ticket, you can visit.

The ticket price is not high, that is, the price of half a tael of silver, hehe, it is indeed not high, half a tael of silver, this is about to catch up with the living expenses of a family for several months, but Qi Yu said, there are many rich people in Batavia, those maritime merchants and sailors from the West are rich, what is half a tael of silver.

At first, I was worried that no one would come, but in less than a day, those merchants went to the inn and paid the money and said that they wanted to visit.

There are not a few people who hold to watch a strange thing, in short, the money for selling tickets to visit adds up to two thousand taels of silver, which makes Lin Wendong very surprised, he didn't expect to sell tickets to visit the ship so marketable, this money is fast, or sell it once later, you can raise a lot of funds.

Qi Yu shook his head, this is how many times you can sell it, if you sell it every time, it will definitely not work, you think, Batavia has a big market, there are so many people, every time you sell it, no one buys it, who still sees it when you see it.

So it's okay to use it a few times, it's not realistic to make money from this for a long time, and Lin Wendong, who was poured a basin of cold water, had to sigh helplessly.