Chapter Eighty-Eight: Bermuda, which bullies the weak and fears the hard

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October 1 is the birthday of the Celestial Empire, and if it is placed in 522 years, it will definitely be a super Golden Week.

However, for Spain at the end of the fifteenth century, this day was nothing special, so it was still necessary to continue the work on this day.

On October 1, 1495, there was no holiday in Spain. There are no holidays in the New World, and on one of the archipelagos, it's a special day. However, the holidays, too, are not.

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On the vast sea east of the east coast of America and west of the Azores, two 600-ton Galen ships slowed down and sailed cautiously.

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Their target, Bermuda. It was the last American stronghold to be taken over by Spain in 1495.

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Historically, Bermuda was discovered by the Spanish as early as 1503. The leader of the expedition handpicked by Ferdinand was also the original discoverer of Bermuda, Juan Bermuda. Standing on the deck, he could see the island's coastline from a distance from the shore with a new type of telescope (available in small quantities, only in small quantities).

As a colony in the Atlantic, Bermuda was still very valuable for the early development of North America, especially because it had two places that Ferdinand valued, one was a transshipment base for the salt trade, and the other was that the abundant Bermudan cypress trees provided ideal materials for shipbuilding, which was very suitable for building fast warships, and Bermuda had the potential to build a shipyard. At the same time, the fishing industry is thriving, which means that there is not much farmland needed to supply the immigrants – Bermuda is not able to put much effort into it now, this time only 200 people came, which was as easy as the colonization of Greenland, but it also coincided with the limited population of Bermuda, which had to migrate steadily after the population exceeded 10,000.

At the same time, control of Bermuda would allow Spain to add a point of control on the route from the Americas to the Atlantic – the Bermuda archipelago was also historically a good base for the privateering industry, apparently facilitating the plundering of Spaniards by the British.

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The sea conditions were not bad today, and Juan Bermuda was very relieved that he had the right to name the island he had led his team to discover, so the name of the Bermuda archipelago remained unchanged as it was historically, and Bermuda, the largest of the seven main islands, was still called Bermuda. However, the original name of the island was "Summers Island", and this time it will not appear again.

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Speaking of Bermuda's sea conditions, although there are high frequency of strong winds and waves, and there are many strong storms and rains on the islands, the only place that is actually more special is the more frequent large waves caused by the decomposition of gas hydrates (combustible ice) on the seabed. As for the rumors of the so-called Bermuda Triangle, Ferdinand didn't believe it at all, and there really are so-called Atlantis ruins under the sea? Transparent pyramids under the sea? Or even a space-time tunnel? Hehe, then he should be in Bermuda, not in the Alhambra Palace in Granada.

…… So, when Juan Bermuda landed on the northeast corner of the island that bears his name, he was greeted by a beautiful seaside view of pink sandy beaches washed by turquoise waters.

"This place is going to build a castle, St. Georges!" Juan Bermuda was pleased with the sight, the cypress groves were a good source for logging and shipbuilding, and the future trade port and shipyard would be the address, and as the governor of the new territory, he was confident about his future business.

"Let's dig some cisterns!" Juan Bermuda ordered that Bermuda has a lot of rainfall, but the lava ground cannot retain a large amount of precipitation, and long-term fresh water reserves need to be replenished by digging reservoirs.

It's a pity that there are too few people, Juan Bermuda regretted in his heart, thinking about whether to make a report with His Majesty the King, exaggerating and hyping up the magnificent scenery and economic prospects of Bermuda, for example, the trees here can be cut down to build 10,000 warships, the port is a large natural deep-water harbor, etc., let His Majesty send more people over, think about it or forget it, this hype is too undisciplined, and it will be embarrassing if this hype is recognized, and he has definitely become a smiling and generous villain......

Well! That's right! The Bermuda Triangle is for hype, hype, hype. Say the important thing three times. The main driver of the hype is actually the government of the Bermuda region, mainly the government of the Bermuda Islands, hehe, these mysterious rumors have been hyped up, and everyone has not come to Bermuda to travel!

The Bermuda government hyped up the rumours, and at the same time, the writers and writers went to great lengths to create best-selling articles and best-selling books, and the Bermuda government hyped them up. For example, the disappearance of the 19th Flying Squadron, which triggered this topic, became the "Bermuda Triangle of Death" in Vincent Geddes's pen.

However, the Bermuda Triangle is geographically non-existent, and a neat spherical triangle has never been deliberately drawn in the North Atlantic. As for the high incidence of shipwrecks, I am afraid that this refers to the North Atlantic itself, the North Atlantic, there are not many navigation accidents?

What's even more outrageous is that the affairs of the sea near Ireland can also be counted into the Bermuda Triangle region - anyway, there are enough supernatural secrets circulating in the Bermuda Triangle, and there is nothing wrong with a normal event outside the scope of human cognition mixed in and used as evidence within the scope of ordinary human cognition, right? A flight through time and space, in fact, no one company's business includes that route, and there is no such situation in Switzerland's global aviation accident records, God knows who made it up with such a powerful brain, and so many people believe it.

Back in the seventies of the twentieth century, the most dramatic of Bermuda's rumours had come to an end in the United States, and the Bermuda government later admitted that they had played an inglorious role in the hype.

However, these fictitious rumors are still regarded as one of the world's unsolved mysteries in China, which is really speechless.

Ferdinand also knew some about the rumors of the Bermuda Triangle, and if such a triangle really existed, then Ferdinand dared to say that it must have become a refinement, because it bullied the soft and feared the hard, the people and the officials, and the ships and guns.

You see, in modern times, the U.S. military has only had accidents with planes and warships, and this accident is quite a few in the world, and once the U.S. Navy and Air Force come to the door afterwards to "find a scene", it usually does not dare to struggle, and the Midway is not bad when it is training in the Atlantic Ocean (the ship's water ingress is very serious, and the size of the problem is very serious). If the USS Ford and ten Nimitz were to enter Bermuda with auxiliary ships, you would see if it would dare to annihilate the main force of the U.S. Navy. It is those fearless scientists, we look down on life and death to bravely enter the sea, and this Bermuda Triangle will be cowardly.

And in modern times? The Bermuda Triangle did not dare to be embarrassed at all on behalf of the great Spanish royal family, the Portuguese royal family, and the English royal family came to expand their territory and conquer Bermuda. God destined Columbus to discover America, so although there were storms and waves, he was unscathed. The Portuguese sailors ran aground on the reef, and then they were safe, and they cut down the cypress trees and repaired the bottom of the ship and drove back. England conquered Bermuda, the Bermuda Triangle is even more obedient and does not dare to say a word, once there is a crew in the sea "mysterious disappearance" (at least in the pen of the best-selling author), the navy will not be implicated when it comes to the rescue, this triangle is very timid, afraid of other people's Cullen naval guns!

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