The Rise of the European Emperor

According to the opinions given by the craftsmen of the Treasure Shipyard in the Ming Dynasty, the so-called horse boats were actually to move the stables onto the big ships, and build many side-by-side stables on the deck of the relatively empty ships to facilitate the placement of cattle and horses. At the same time, the cows and horses are separated to prevent them from fighting each other.

The point of building a stable on a ship is to facilitate the cleaning of excrement...

Therefore, the stables on the ship are often built on the edge of the ship. The person in charge of cleaning does not even need to enter the stables, just use a long-handled broom and shovel to scoop up cow and horse manure, and then throw it into the sea. Then, if the weather is not cold, you can also wash the floor of the stable with sea water to remove odors and possible fly breeding.

After learning this experience, the craftsmen of the Long Island Shipyard in New York built a large number of stables around the inner side of the top deck of the ship, making the most of the space.

However, after finishing the repair, they found that - the space in the middle was wasted...

In order to increase the transportation volume, the shipyard used a 500-ton ship, which was refitted from a warship of the North Sea State as a template.

Its size is about the same as that of the warships of the North Sea State. They are all 40 meters long and 10 meters wide in the classic 4:1 Galen ship shape. Moreover, it is the kind of double-layer artillery deck. Of course, no artillery was fired.

The deck width is 10 meters, while the length of the single-row stables is generally more than 2 meters long, generally within 2.2 meters. If only the side stables were built on both sides of the deck, then the space of more than five meters in the middle would be wasted.

After the collective discussion of the shipbuilders, they finally added a row of single-row stables in the middle to accommodate cattle and horses. As for the cleaning of cow dung and horse manure, it is arranged to clean up twice a day. As for the cleaning of the stable deck in the middle, after repeated discussions, the shipbuilders finally decided on a plan to repair the gutters on a deck.

They raised the deck of the middle row of stables and built special gutters on both sides. This way, when the deck is rinsed, the water flows down the gutter and out to sea through a dedicated spot. In this way, the problem of water accumulation in the row of stables in the middle of the deck is avoided when the deck is washed.

In this way, on a 40-meter-long deck, according to the width of a single-row stable of 1.5 meters, 26 or 27 stables can be built in one row, and 80 stables can be built in three rows.

The model of the cattle and horse ship is a 500-ton battleship with a double-layer artillery deck. Therefore, after the two-layer artillery deck is transformed into three rows of stables, a total of 160 horses or 160 cows can be loaded.

As for the crew on board, they lived in the hold, or the poop on the ship. Because the cattle and horses transporting livestock do not pursue speed, a poop was built on the ship as the residence of the captain and senior crew. After all, the bilge is relatively stuffy, and it is generally for low-level sailors. The food on board and the feed for cattle and horses are generally placed in the bilge.

However, in order to worry about scurvy for cattle and horses, in addition to eating hay during the voyage, the cattle and horse boats will stop at fixed locations, collect some grass and leaves on the shore, and feed them to cattle and horses to supplement vitamin C.

However, from Persia to mainland Europe, mainly through the sphere of influence of the Portuguese, only the coast of Mozambique is the sphere of influence of the Spaniards who are friendly with Marin. Therefore, Marin still needs to wrestle with the Portuguese on the issue of stop selection.

However, now is definitely not a good time to discuss with the Portuguese where to land to supplement the grass. Because, Marin and the Portuguese almost fell out...

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After being robbed by "Captain Jack\

,"The hapless Portuguese spice ship returned to Lisbon in dismay and caused an uproar in Portugal.

The words of "Captain Jack" almost clearly indicated his origin—instigated by Marin...

After all, the Portuguese aristocratic circle in Lisbon knew well that Marin's transport ship was hijacked in the Azores. Now that this has happened, it is clear that Marin is slapping Portugal in the face.

You must know that in Portugal, the spice trade is in the hands of the Portuguese royal family and several big nobles, and ordinary minor nobles can't get involved. But it is precisely these great nobles that determine the fate of Portugal.

Marin retaliated against the Silva family before. In fact, the big nobles knew it, but they were all happy to watch the joke. Anyway, it wasn't them who lost.

But Marin's action this time directly targeted them, and they were suddenly unhappy and angry...

Except for Marin's friend Jorge de Rencastre, Duke of Coimbra, who was kicked out of the inner circle of the spice trade because he competed with Manuel I for the throne, almost all the big nobles in Portugal are in India. A slice of the trade. Marin ordered the pirates to rob the spice ship, basically offending all the Portuguese nobles.

In fact, Marin didn't want to offend those Portuguese nobles at the beginning. However, this time the Portuguese ruling and opposition parties acquiesced to Rui Silva's pretending to be a pirate, which made Marin angry.

What Marin is most worried about is that these guys will acquiesce to the small Portuguese nobles who failed to participate in the Indian spice trade, organize pirate ships, rob merchant ships from the North Sea, and even covet the American colonies. And this, given the peeing nature of the Portuguese nobles, is very likely.

After all, history has changed. Under the influence of Marin, Portugal did not develop Brazil as it did in its original history. As a result, the interests of many small and medium Portuguese nobles were not met.

And the spice trade in India was tightly controlled by the Portuguese royal family and the nobles. Then, if the small and medium-sized Portuguese nobles wanted to gain benefits, they could only find ways to do so in other ways.

It is no secret in Portugal that Rui Silva pretended to be a pirate and ransacked the transport ship of the North Sea State. After all, after Rui Silva succeeded, the goods on the ship also needed to be sold. As soon as he made a move, the entire Portuguese aristocratic circle became clear.

But they all chose to remain silent, and even secretly encouraged them. Because, these Portuguese nobles also know that they themselves are too ugly to share the benefits with those small and medium nobles. If they can find a way to make money by themselves, the great nobles will be happy to see it. As for who is the victim, what does it matter to them?

It is precisely because of this attitude that Marin was completely angered-since you ignore my interests, don't blame me for being rude!

So, even though it seemed a little unwise, Marin ordered the "Black Pearl" to attack the spice ship that belonged to the forbidden Portuguese nobles, to remind those arrogant Portuguese nobles-I am not so easy to mess with!

However, in doing so, it did poke a hornet's nest. The relationship between the North Sea State and the Kingdom of Portugal has begun to deteriorate...

After the news spread, the great Portuguese nobles who were interested were all angry. Many people began to clamor—sending a fleet to attack Emden Port, the only port in the North Sea State, and taught Marin an extremely profound lesson...

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