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Thursday, February 18, 1621, lunar solar term rain, cloudy.

For the inhabitants of Manhattan who have traveled back in time to the 17th century, the experience of this first spring coming is extremely hostile. The rising waters of the river caused by the melting snow in the upper reaches of Hudson caused more than just trouble for the residents.

Many of the low-lying areas that were newly opened up in the winter were almost reduced to swamps, and combined with the outrageous abundance of groundwater on Manhattan Island after the winter snow melted, several "inner-city lakes and streams" were formed in the residential area.

Almost overnight, the residents returned to their status as "disaster victims" in great distress. The community committee was overwhelmed, and it was also organizing residents to fight the disaster, organizing manpower to expand and dredge drainage ditches in residential areas, and running Indian tribes to form engineering teams to strengthen the embankments along the East River.

On the other side of the river, the progress of spring farming in Brooklyn, Long Island, is not very good, and the time is still pressing. The large-scale trade of the surrounding Indian tribes, which had just begun, could not be interrupted lightly, and everything made the members of the community committee emaciated.

Despite all the troubles, today the Committee was left to put its mind elsewhere.

At 11 o'clock in the morning, the closing ceremony of the construction of Governor's Island, which was officially renamed the "Neiwan Fortress" not long ago, was underway.

The small Inner Bay Fort was built at the southeastern tip of the island in a triangular shape along the course of the island's shore. The main body of the fort's thick first defensive façade was made up of large boulders, logs, and a limited amount of steel from Staten Island, and cement was poured in one fell swoop.

The fortress was fortified with eight permanently fortified batteries and a large number of heavily protected barracks and storage rooms. The entire fortress was designed and built entirely in response to European military threats before the 19th century.

The two-month construction period cost almost 70% of the total output of the Brooklyn Industrial Area during this period, and the Indian manpower employed kept the fort site at least 200 people 24 hours a day.

Dozens of Indian hired workers lost their lives during the project, and the committee paid more than a dozen cast iron tools to turn the black-faced Indian chiefs into a gloomy situation.

The fluke process before and after the Mayflower incident made the committee extremely insecure, and only then did Zheng Quan put forward a proposal for the construction of the fortress without regard to one thing, and the production plan of the other fortress supporting military equipment was even more priority than one qiē. Fortunately, there are more ordinary residents who do not feel safe, so Zheng Quan's reckless promotion of the construction of the fortress project has also been understood by most people.

Five 24-pounder guns removed from the Mayflower were slowly placed into the gun position by a herringbone man-powered crane, and the recruits, dressed in the new "Maritime Guard" uniforms, began to get busy, testing the flexibility of the gun mount and adjusting the angle of observation.

The garrisons of the fort, selected from the inhabitants of Manhattan, were former dockers or security guards who couldn't find any special skills. At present, there are only 20 people, and they are commanded by Zhang Chunrui, a 40-year-old retired antiaircraft artillery non-commissioned officer.

The imitation German-style M36 military uniforms sorted out in the rubble became one of the most convenient equipment for the committee to reorganize the military security force, and it was immediately distributed without major changes.

One by one, the fortress artillerymen, who had only undergone a week of simple training, began to conduct artillery demonstrations under the command of Zhang Chunrui. Zhang Chunrui, who had personally practiced many times on the Mayflower and was responsible for compiling the breech gun artillery operation manual, had a dark face, because the five gun crews below had five different operating behaviors at almost the same time.

I had all the shells stuffed into the bore only to find out that I had forgotten to reload the gunpowder...... After loading gunpowder, instead of using a pestle, a rotating rod specially used to unload gunpowder was poked into the barrel...... What's even more terrifying is that the artillery group closest to Zhang Chunrui actually loaded three parts of gunpowder in a row!

In short, all kinds of brain wreckage and all kinds of death!

"Minister...... Hey, Lao Zheng, you see we don't have to train for a while......" Zhang Chunrui, who was dressed in an officer's uniform, didn't know what to say at this time, so he could only ask for the opinion of Zheng Quan, who was silent on the side, with an embarrassed face.

"Maybe we're in a hurry...... After a while, the military industry should be able to come up with newer cannons, but without qualified soldiers, no matter how good things are, there is no point, hey...... Time is not waiting for me. ”

Zheng Quan was also extremely dissatisfied with the current rookie recruits, but thinking that this phenomenon was the inevitable beginning of the new armed forces in the settlement, he endured it.

Just as he was waiting for the first round of artillery firing exercises from the artillery crew, a message came from Manhattan from the motorboat. Zheng Quan's face changed several times in a row, and he hurriedly took a motorboat back to the former customs 516 anti-smuggling ship, which has now been changed to the 516 patrol ship of the Maritime Guard.

Leaving the fortress dock, it didn't take long for the inner bay fortress behind him to make a loud noise. Looking back, I saw that the first shell of a fortress cannon fell far away on the sea to the south, striking a high column of water.

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The Commission's first Indian trading post was set up on a terrace on the west bank of the Hudson River, open to the Indian tribes of the West. From there, it is impossible to see the community on the southeast coast of Manhattan Island, for security reasons, after all, the Indians on the west coast of Hudson have been in contact for too little.

Since the opening of the trading post in early January, several Native Americans have come to the trading post every day with a variety of items in the wood-fenced area in exchange for a variety of fine household items produced by the Manhattan community. These trade goods are completely different from the rough goods brought by white fur dealers in the past, and in addition to being more practical and durable, the results are often more "fair".

These good impressions of the natives spread further and further west of the Hudson River, and the Indian trade and diplomatic attachés, led by Li Xiang, took the opportunity to propose more trade needs for the goods needed for Manhattan's industrial development.

In the trading area, all kinds of bells and whistles of the Indian aborigines are wandering, it seems very lively and peaceful, and in the high corner buildings around stand, the Indian warriors invited by Li Xiang's "father-in-law" family, these soldiers of the Delaware Indian tribe have a very good relationship with Li Xiang, they hold bows and arrows, and are responsible for the daily security of the entire trading station with another proud master posture.

A handful of Manhattan residents who acted as settlement dealers were in charge of several large counter areas, constantly running around to receive Indians from afar, receiving their various "colored stones," furs, food, and even Indian bronze, and then selling several Manhattan industrial goods: wooden wheelbarrows, wooden two-wheeled flat trolleys, hunting knives, pig iron arrowheads, shovels, and special smoked sausages.

For the Indians, who had not mastered the tools of the wheel after thousands of years of civilization, wooden wheelbarrows and two-wheeled flat carts were the most popular. The Indians of South America were better, with domesticated livestock such as alpacas, while the North American Indians, whose main mode of social production was fishing and hunting, relied solely on human power for any of their heavy migrations.

With these things, it will be more exciting and convenient for Indians to come to trade in the future, and it is believed that it will not be long before more Indians will bring more ore and copper tools with these wheeled vehicles.

Li Xiang had to lament the unfortunate nature of the Manhattan neighborhood. In addition to a very small amount of coal and iron ore, there is a lack of many important raw materials for industrial development, and the mineral industry has always been a short board in New York State in addition to extremely developed agricultural resources. The limited reserves of a few minerals that are not bad are far away in the northern part of New York State, and with the current strength of the Manhattan community, don't think about it in the short term.

Instead, Lin Youde, the chief engineer of the Brooklyn Industrial Zone, proposed a good plan for the committee, which was to collect a large number of bronze and other ores from the North American Indians. In particular, the closer to the Great Lakes region of North America in the northwest, the easier it is to obtain various surface minerals from those Indians, and the North American Indians, who have a history of 6,000 years of natural copper making copper, must have accumulated a considerable amount of natural copper resources.

The most competitive industrial trade of the Tongguò era would greatly increase the influence of the Manhattan community on both sides of the Hudson River and in the middle and upper reaches of the river, and the sale of wooden human vehicles would spread this influence further afield in an accelerated manner.

"I believe that in a few months, Indians from the Great Lakes region will come to trade, right?" This is Li Xiang's optimistic estimate at a regular trade report meeting after the New Year. And the current situation is obviously more optimistic than he expected.

Because today, a group of Indians from further northwest has arrived. The warehouses of the trading post were gradually filled with large quantities of high-quality ore and copperware, and the business representatives in charge of the trading were all in high spirits.

Now, standing next to Li Xiang is Na Da, a newlywed daughter-in-law who has just turned 16 and has just turned 16 years old. The name is said to be a beautiful seabird feather in the Indian Dravaare language.

After Li Xiang's training and the care of several modern "crazy women" in the community, as long as Nada doesn't open her mouth now, it may not be easy for many people to distinguish Na Da, who was an Indian girl a few months ago.

Li Xiang...... Husband...... Husband...... There are a lot of people today. "A little Indian woman with a Chinese husband and governess is obviously better equipped to learn Mandarin than her peers in the Brooklyn Industrial Area school.

Seeing the lively trading scene in front of him, Li wanted to know that his efforts were not in vain, and wanted to try to stand up in a more heroic posture, but because he was on the highest wooden building of the trading station, the little daughter-in-law next to him pulled his coat tightly, so he had to lower his body as much as possible to protect the other party.

"Your husband and I are amazing, right?"

From his little daughter-in-law, Li Xiang found a sense of self-superiority that he had never had before. In the previous society, it was almost impossible for a small tour guide like Li Xiang to get ahead, and no woman would throw her arms into a poor and white boy.

And now in this time and space, this little Indian woman who secretly squeezed her eyebrows and made her eyebrows from the beginning make Li Xiang germinate the plan of "I don't keep my master here, I have my own place to keep my master".

In the intentional mode of the female lover, Li Xiang got this Indian girl who was just starting to fall in love within a few months, and then the leader with great tribal discourse became Li Xiang's cheap old man with a big hand after getting a few "special cigarettes".

The excitement of the wedding before the Lunar New Year was an eye-opener for any Manhattan resident who thought he had attended a big wedding. Almost the entire village and even the leaders of other famous villages around it came to attend the wedding of the newlyweds, and Li Xiang, who was wrapped in various feathers and animal skins, made people look very painful.

Just when Li Xiang's thoughts were in a mess, suddenly there was a fierce shout from a trading area in the distance, as if two waves of Indians were fighting over something.

The Indian warrior in one of the turrets whistled sharply, and then saw a group of Drava archers surround him......

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