The Rise of the European Emperor

In fact, the good news brought from Cape Breton Island is not only the paper production of paper mills. Another good news for Cape Breton Island is that the salt-boiling base there is also operational.

Just north of Sydney Cove, Garland has built a coastal salt-cooking base, according to Garland's report. The cooking salt base is very close to the North Sydney coal mine, and fuel transportation is also very convenient.

The salt cooking base has been built over there, and now it is time for Marin to relocate all the salt cooking artisans and cauldrons from Salt City on Texel Island to Cape Breton Island. The coal miners and briquettes of the former Hoffman Manor, led by Schwartz, have started to steadily mass-produce coal aggregate briquettes at the North Sydney Coal Mine on Cape Breton Island. The paper mill on the north side of Cape Breton Island has already obtained a stable supply of coal. Now, the new salt-boiled base can also obtain a stable supply of coal, just waiting for the collective relocation of the old Yancheng.

After learning that Cape Breton Island was ready, Marin immediately signed an order ordering the collective relocation of Old Yancheng. During the period of relocation of the old Yancheng, the new Yancheng on Baltrum Island will expand its production to fill the gap in production during the relocation of the old Yancheng.

Not long after the paper ship sent by Garland arrived at the port of Emden, Tara also sent a ship full of whale oil and whale meat on the North American twin island side.

At the same time, Tara also brought good news to Marin - on Amerigo Island, Tara has prepared thousands of old oak logs. Comes as a keel for ships of 500 tons or more.

Moreover, these logs, which have been dried on Amerigo for two years, are perfectly suitable for shipbuilding.

It's just that these logs are too long and too large, and the Kirk sailboats of two or three hundred tons are completely unsuitable for transporting them back to Europe. Therefore, it is most appropriate to build a shipyard near Amerigo Island.

Marin obviously agrees with this opinion, and has long planned to do so. So, after thinking about it again and again, Marin planned to send half of the craftsmen at the Emden shipyard to the Americas for the manufacture of 500-ton warships and 500-ton armed merchant ships.

Needless to say, the 500-ton battleship can simply follow the pattern of the "Hoffman-class" battleship and continue to copy it. As for the 500-ton armed merchant ships, it is also simple. It only needs to reduce the logarithm of the rib of the "Hoffman-class" battleship accordingly. At the same time, the thickness of the broadside is also reduced.

Oak logs with a length of 30 meters are rare, so Marin decided to use all the thousands of oak logs on Amerigo Island as keel material. As for the rib of the ship, it is completely possible to purchase suitable materials from Europe, and then use the method of fixing the stone groove to bend it into the required shape in the branch factory responsible for manufacturing the rib of the Emden Shipyard. Then, after drying, it is shipped to a new shipyard on Amerigo Island, where it will be assembled for new ships.

The new shipyard is obviously something that Marin attaches great importance to. You must know that if you want to strengthen the control of the colony and open up the eastern trade route, a certain number of large ships are necessary.

So, for this, Marin personally went to the Emden shipyard and selected more than 300 shipbuilders from it. Then, from the serfs, thousands of serfs with carpentry foundations were selected, together with their families, and shipped to Amerigo Island, a twin island in North America, to form a new shipyard.

And the group of people left by the former Emden Shipyard also continued to build ships. For example, there are now four Hoffman-class warships under construction in the shipyard. Therefore, Marin only transferred 300 craftsmen, not half of them according to the original plan. Otherwise, these 4 warships will be suspended.

However, Marin is very clear that in the future, North America will be the main base for building large ships. After all, there is an inexhaustible supply of wood over there. Therefore, while transferring more than 300 shipbuilding craftsmen, Marin also selected thousands of serfs who knew the craftsmanship of carpentry for these 300 craftsmen, and handed them over to train them, so that these thousands of serfs who knew woodworking could also become qualified shipbuilders artisan.

At that time, it is also possible to have a large number of shipbuilding craftsmen and inexhaustible wood in North America, and a large number of ships will be exploded in North America.

In order to train the thousands of serfs who knew carpentry, Marin's plan was to let those serf carpenters work for the more than 300 shipbuilders after arriving on Amerigo Island. The task of the more than 300 old shipbuilders is to build a new 500-ton "Hoffman-class" battleship. As for the thousands of serf carpenters, they started by watching and learning.

Then, take advantage of the abundant wood resources on Amerigo Island and chop down some wood at will. It is not necessary to use wood that has been air-dried for two years, but to use ordinary wood directly. Obviously, those serf carpenters practice their skills first and build a few smaller fishing boats. Several small fishing boats were built, and those serf carpenters were almost familiar with the shipbuilding process. At that time, they can really help those veteran shipbuilders and participate in the manufacture of 500-ton warships and armed merchant ships together. By then, more than 1,300 craftsmen will be able to start the construction of three or four 500-ton warships at the same time.

In addition, Tara submitted an application to formally begin development of Columbus Island (Martha's Vineyard) on the edge of Amerigo Island (Nantucket Island).

The main reason is that Columbus Island also has a large forest. Even if you don’t reclaim farmland on Columbus Island for the time being, it’s still good to log on Columbus Island first, cut down the oak suitable for boat building, and store it to dry.

Not only that, the climate on Columbus Island is similar to that of Amerigo Island, which is very suitable for soybean cultivation. Even Tara has a plan - to try to grow wheat on Columbus Island.

As a newly promoted noble, Tara also has a fief in East Frisian Country, and has a lot of output. The annual income is also tens of thousands of gold coins.

Therefore, Tara's requirements for life have also become higher. For example, Tara began to dislike brown bread and began to like white bread made of wheat flour.

However, Tara also understands that the northern part of Germany, because of the cold climate, is not really suitable for growing wheat, but most suitable for growing rye. Therefore, if you want to eat white bread, you actually need to import wheat from other countries.

Before, when Tara was with Marin, she heard Marin explain some agricultural knowledge, such as the concept of "accumulated temperature". Although she didn't understand it, Tara understood one thing - that is, the accumulated temperature of the twin islands in North America is higher than that of East Friesland. If nothing else, the North American Twin Islands are hotter than East Friesland in summer alone. And Marin said that the hot summer is necessary for the growth of crops.

According to Marin, the North American Twin Islands are more suitable for soybean cultivation than northern Europe because of summer temperatures. So, Tara concluded that the North American Twin Islands are more suitable for growing wheat than East Friesland?

He submitted this idea to Marin. Marin immediately gave a positive response. In his reply to Tara, Marin affirmed Tara's idea of ​​developing Columbus Island. Moreover, Tara was also sent a few sacks of wheat to try to grow spring wheat on Columbus Island during the spring plowing.

However, Marin has repeatedly emphasized that shipbuilding and logging are what Tara needs to pay more attention to. As for wheat cultivation, success is the best, and failure is okay.

The current European wheat varieties are really bad. Generally, wheat is planted in November of the first year and harvested in October of the second year. Such a long growth cycle is absolutely scum in Marin's eyes. On the contrary, the wheat in China can already be rotated with rice, and the growth cycle is much shorter than that of the wheat in Europe at this time. Therefore, after opening the route to Daming, Marin intends to go to China to introduce China wheat with a much shorter growth cycle to replace the inferior wheat varieties in Europe at this time. So Marin didn't care whether Tara succeeded in growing wheat on Columbus Island.

In fact, in Marin's eyes, the North American Twin Islands was just a springboard for Marin to colonize North America. Moreover, there are not many oak trees on the two islands.

The place where there are really many oak trees is still on the mainland. Only by occupying the mainland, the place of the later Pennsylvania state, and obtaining countless Pennsylvania red oaks suitable for shipbuilding, is it really big. Marin is now wondering - is it time to send troops to conquer the North American continent...