The next day, the mission finally proceeded to the most important thing they had done in Los Angeles in name - to visit the Spanish crew members who had been imprisoned. Pen ~ fun ~ Ge www.biquge.info Tang people naturally would not let these Spaniards who committed crimes squat in prison in vain to eat and drink in vain, and the Spaniards were sent to the Alder Ridge Coal Mine and turned into miners.

In fact, although the labor intensity of the mine is very large, the management personnel still fully distribute the workload and work intensity, and all the miners work every three and a half days and then rest for half a day. In order to ensure a large physical output, their meals have the necessary protein intake. Even for Spanish war criminals and Indian miners, their status was much lower, but in order to provide incentives, the mines set up a more intelligent system of rewards and punishments. For example, the mining team that has completed the most mines can get various benefits, such as extra meals, or alcohol, and even be allowed to enter the town under the guard to buy some goods.

Naturally, some Spanish sailors were still dissatisfied with the restriction of their freedom, but life as prisoners was much better than they had imagined. After all, the days when they were adrift on the ship before were almost as miserable as they are now.

There have been cases of Spanish sailors trying to escape while they were working, but the sailor didn't escape far before he was shot by the aboriginal hunters, and his body was cremated directly outside the mine, and apparently in the eyes of the more religious European sailors, being cremated was a very bad way to deal with the aftermath. It's better to live than to die. Even if they wanted to escape, it would be difficult for them to escape to San Diego on their feet, so it was better to stay and work hard, and maybe one day they would be let go.

Arriving at Alder Ridge in a carriage, the Spanish sailors that Serra and the others saw did not seem to be the same as they imagined. The Tang had no intention of stopping the prisoners of war from working because of the visits of Serra and others, who were still required to mine the mines. They hammered down pieces of black stone with a pickaxe and loaded them into small mine carts, which were driven along the rails to where the coal was needed.

Compared to these Spanish sailors who became prisoners of coolie, Serra was actually more interested in the operation of the entire mine, and when it was discovered that the ships of the Tang Kingdom were powered by steam engines, the importance of coal to the Tang Kingdom was self-evident. And the fact that the Tang people were able to make it run freely in such a large mine with almost no overseers, also surprised Serra.

Management science is something that gradually appeared after the twentieth century, when the workers could not stand the oppression and began to rebel and launch the red revolution, management also came into being, although this kind of thing has been used by empiricism for thousands of years, but it has become a discipline and used systematically and systematically, more than 100 years ago. So Serra had to be shocked when she saw how orderly the mine was.

Spain had a large number of plantations and mines in the colonies, and forced labor was a method that the Spaniards had to use, but although this brought a lot of profits, it also brought many side effects, such as such uprisings and the destruction of the means of production, and the inefficiency was of course a point that the Spaniards hated.

"What kind of magic did the Tang people use?" That's what Sierra wants to know the most.

He wanted to pull in a Spanish sailor and ask what the Tang people had done, but they were only allowed to talk to the Spanish miners for ten minutes under the watchful eye of Tang officials.

During the conversation, the delegation asked whether the Spanish prisoners of war had been mistreated, and the miners' representatives shook their heads and denied that the Tang people had treated them fairly, and that they had committed a crime by attacking the Tang fishermen for no reason, and that they were very remorseful for their actions and were willing to forgive them.

"We would be grateful if gentlemen could allow us to return to New Spain." Prisoners of war are prisoners of war after all, and most of them still express their desire to return, after all, prisoners of war have no status.

However, a Spanish miner named Raul said: "Gentlemen, I don't think I'm going to go back to Mexico after I'm released from prison." I'm a bachelor with no family, I don't have much strength but a handful of strength, I'm really not very good at sailing, and I hate the atmosphere of bullying each other on the boat. I think I'm doing well in Los Angeles, the food is delicious, and the people are more educated. I asked, if I continue to work in the mines after I am released from prison, I can get a salary of 80 dragon yuan a month, and I will be free of food and housing, which is more than being a sailor. As long as I work here for a few years, I can afford to buy a few fields, become a small farmer, maybe find a girl, have a few children, and live a happy and ordinary life. But if I return to Mexico and continue to work as a crew member, I could die at sea at any time. God, if Spain were to go to war with the Tang Kingdom, I would surely die. You don't know how strong the warships of the Tang Kingdom are, and any sailing ship is like a papier-mâché boat in front of them. I don't want to die like this, I want to live a good life. ”

Raul's words shocked Sierra and the others, and Herseta even scolded directly with a black face: "Sailor, you are treason!" I'm ashamed of your words and deeds! ”

Serra had to hold the emotionally uncontrollable Mr. Captain and said: "Everyone has the right to choose their own life, this gentleman has been loyal to Spain, we need not be too harsh on him." ”

Perez, who was silent after seeing his crew, sighed and said, "After seeing the Tang people's devil battleship, I'm afraid no sailor dares to continue to fight against the Tang Navy." If you tell them now that Spain does not recognize the Tang Dynasty, and that a maritime conflict between the two countries could break out on the west coast of North America at any time, most of the people here may choose to return to New Spain, but they will definitely not fight for the Spanish navy. ”

"Nonsense! You shameful deserter, cowardly coward! Herseta pointed at Pérez and yelled.

Serra had to grab Heseta again and said, "Captain, your current behavior will make the Don people see our Spanish jokes. ”

Hesetta, who had an excessive sense of honor, restrained a little, but he looked at others very unkindly.

However, Hesetta's confidence in Spain's military prowess and the pride of the empire on which the sun never sets, began to falter after an afternoon of training with the Don Army.

When the Spanish delegation arrived at the training ground, it was the time when the sun was fierce, and in the daylight, the neat queue of Datang soldiers was standing in a military posture. The training of the Tang army is completely the same as that of the modern public pla, even if there are many veterans of the national army, they are a little unbearable for this kind of training. However, military regulations are military regulations, and if you stand in a military posture for half an hour, you have to stand enough, which is a test of a person's endurance, discipline, and obedience.

When the Chuanguang Regiment was first formed, the training was relatively chaotic, but the instructors in charge of the training were all PLA veteran non-commissioned officers who had led the army for many years, and they knew very well how to train the recruits. After a week or two of running-in, the soldiers were basically what they should be.

Therefore, after the Spaniards saw the Tang soldiers standing majestically like pines on the training ground, motionless and particularly majestic and mighty, they were all speechless.

At this time, the armies of Europe were still composed of a small standing army combined with a large number of temporary conscripts and mercenaries from other countries. In terms of discipline, although there are types as strict and old-fashioned as the Prussian army, because of the quality of the soldiers themselves, it is difficult to achieve the same style as the Tang army.

After standing in the military posture, this group of Tang troops immediately walked in unison, walked in steps, turned left to right, and other queue training. Their platoon was quite neat, and even the amplitude of their feet was about the same, even though the soldiers in the row were of different heights, but it felt like a line.

Rivera, as an army officer, has been calm: "The real big battlefield engagement of the army needs to maintain high morale and neat lines in order to fire dense bullets and collapse the opponent." The level of training of the Datang army is probably not inferior to that of the army of any European country, and the army formed in the colony will definitely not reach such a level! ”

Rivera, of course, measured the Tang Army by the current "line up shooting" tactics, but he also looked down on the tactics of the Tang Army, because by the late eighteenth century, the armies of most countries used three or four rows of deep lines for line shooting, but the Tang Dynasty's phalanx had several rows, and there were obviously some "backward" tactics.

However, it didn't take long for Rivera to understand why Datang didn't need three or four rows of line battles.

During the shooting training, the S1 rifle used by the Tang Army was capable of continuous fire, and Rivera watched as the Tang soldiers fired a bullet after aiming, and then seemed to pull a part of the barrel of the gun to shoot again. You know, the flintlock pistols used by the European Army nowadays, even the skilled shooter takes 30-45 seconds to complete the reload after firing. But the Tang Army was able to shoot two rounds in a row within five seconds, and even they could shoot five bullets in one go, and then press a row of bullets into the chamber of the gun, and then continue shooting.

Not only is the rate of fire several times higher than that of the European army flintlock pistol, but the range of this weapon is amazing. Today's European rifles, although they claim to be able to be cast at a distance of 100-200 meters, have almost no accuracy, and most countries only shoot within 100 meters. Even everyone admired the fact that the soldiers marched to the freckles on each other's faces before shooting, believing it to be a sign of courage. In fact, it was mainly because of the poor accuracy of the muskets, which only allowed the soldiers to fight closer.

On the other hand, the weapons of the Tang army actually shot at a distance of 400 meters, even if most of the soldiers could not shoot at the bullseye of the humanoid target, but they were basically able to hit the target, if it was a real enemy, hitting any part would make them lose the ability to continue fighting.

"There is no need for several rows of soldiers at all, such weapons, a row of soldiers is enough!" Rivera exclaimed.