From Chief to Ball

Things in the old continent are upside down, but for this prime meridian at this time, things have become familiar to Chen Jian.But if the original things are divided, the things will be reversed, which will make Chen Jian very uncomfortable-the false China faces east, but the real China, so it is still the east here but the west side of the old continent.

The original Caribbean islands moved a few points south, the original location of Mexico became a vast ocean and was not connected to Panama, and the original South America expanded the land of those sunken places.

There is still a piece of land to the west of the pseudo-Chinese alpine desert, which is an unknown land, and the specific social form there is still unknown.

The mist and storm have modified the world line, killing many explorers who approached this side.

However, according to the world line, the novice protection will be unlocked in 1607 in the Western calendar. That is the beginning of the Virginia colony in history. Come colonists or explorers.

That year should be the time when the comet mentioned by Mr. Benchu ​​visited the earth, and he was not called Halley at this time.

Also after that year, the Han Manchus established a treaty in Shenyang that "everyone guards the border, and anyone who dares to steal, regardless of Manchuria or Han people, will be killed when he sees it; , It can be regarded as completely abandoning the Northeast in name.

There is not much time left for Chen Jian.And he also knows that, if he remembers correctly, the massacre of Chinese is going on in Manila at this moment; the independence movement in the Netherlands is still going on; The world overlords, the enemies of the Habsburgs and the crap of Europa desperately need a new civilization to restrain Spain in the Americas.

In the East, Li Zhizao and Xu Guangqi had just come into contact with scientific geometry and geography. Mr. Matteo Ricci used this as a bait to send two volumes of scriptures before agreeing to teach science. Predicting the solar eclipse has gained great popularity, and the slant of the calendar and astronomy is about to gain a foothold; the Portuguese have just hanged a dozen Dutch sailors in Macau and extradited the surviving officers and nobles to prevent the Dutch from fighting the Ming Dynasty. Official contact; in order to monopolize spices, the Netherlands has just begun to crazily cut down trees and burn uncontrollable spice producing areas in Southeast Asia...

Everything is just messed up, and there is still a chance.

But time is really running out.

The wonderful political system determines that foreign wars depend entirely on interests. Whether Chen Jian cheats or robs, he must bring enough jaw-dropping profits, gold, silver or gems after returning from the first voyage. What is more exciting than this thing.

What is the same root, what is like a family, what is holding the Chinese flag together, what is the place where the sun shines for the glory of the ancestors is the land of China, and the Pacific Ocean is the inland sea of ​​East and West China... It’s okay to dream.

There is no benefit, wars cost money, and money is spent to collect taxes.The people here have never eaten spices, and the spices from Southeast Asia are not worth much. Only real money can shock the people here.

As the saying goes, real capitalists are kind, gentle, respectful and frugal, and trade fairly.And those who are short of money, shoddy, black-hearted, and profit-seeking are all extremists and not orthodox capitalists.This is a versatile sentence that can be used anywhere.This is the greed of human nature, but it can also be exploited.

This requires Chen Jian to use sailing to prove that overseas can make money, have cheap labor, and have a broad market.

Some people in the country need to throw out the theory of population expansion to scare the people, the country needs to issue national debt so that the rich can buy official expansion benefits, it needs to supplement the non-mainstream population as cheap agricultural labor to deceive the mainstream population at the bottom to go overseas, and it needs riots at the bottom to make the top Using exile and other methods to use colonization as a way to alleviate conflicts, of course, also requires some fanatics armed with various ideas such as glory and ideal country.

It's not that the poor can't survive, who will go to the colony to become a farmer?Without suppressing and persecuting some people, how can we let some skilled people go to the colonies?Without the handicraft factory revolution, some industries will be unemployed on a large scale, and the charm of overseas will not be so attractive, and the guilds and large landowners of the old era will not let people go.

These are indispensable.

Chen Jian has been doing these things, but they are all preparations that seem far away, but they have to be done far away, and they can't produce a huge reaction in the short term.

And there are many problems nearby.

The simplest one, the lack of a long-lasting navy and nautical skills and backward naval tactics determine that today's navy can't beat those old continent countries in the open sea, and even if Chen Jian wants to come back alive, can he beat the raging group? The pirates are hard to say.

Although speaking from the mainstream of the world, high-bow battles are still the mainstream, but the gap between navigation and naval training and combat experience is really big.

Before the popularization of the flintlock and bayonet system, land warfare could not be lost to several mainstream powers today. Discipline, officer corps, use of field artillery, bastion tactics, and engineering applications are all much higher—— This is limited to local defense or colonial operations, fantasizing about attacking the imaginary enemy's homeland, the imaginary enemy's cavalry advantage will wipe out the tactical decisive battle advantage here, and the annihilation battle cannot be achieved, and moreover, it must be transported by the navy.

Chen Jian from the army has already sent the hammer and flintlock guns and bayonets. The navy needs several years or more to accumulate, and there is no immediate and feasible method. The only thing that can be done is to use the fleet start from above.

There are now five ships belonging to him, three of which were custom-made by the shipyard at his own expense, and two purchased finished cargo ships.

Among the three custom-made ships, two are normal hard-sail cargo ships with watertight cabin structure, which are mainstream transportation ships.

This is not something he can decide, it belongs to natural evolution.The river transport in the previous life was a hard sailing ship, few people needed to control the sails, and no skilled sailors were required to raise and lower the sails.

The watertight cabin structure is also an option after the inland waterway transportation is switched to sea transportation. The risk of sea transportation is extremely high. The watertight cabin structure can reduce the risk of ship accidents. This is the choice of freight costs.

As for the timber transportation between the north and the south, the timber is tied to both sides of the ship like a pole, and the watertight cabin cannot hold long strips of timber, but how can human ingenuity limit the cargo to the cabin?

Furthermore, it is all offshore transportation, and the wind direction is changeable. Before the displacement of the ship reaches a certain threshold, hard sails are the best choice.

Although the shipyard can also manufacture some soft sailing boats, and some people try to use them, but there are not many skilled sailors, and the boats are generally not big, and there is no accumulation of sailing technology and practice accumulated over the years, so Chen Jian can only give up.

The only ship that was specially made to order was some improvements.

The interior uses ribs instead of a watertight cabin structure, giving up the safety of the watertight cabin in exchange for a smooth interior space, and installing portholes for unloading cargo from the side, which is actually for installing cannons inside.

The long section of the hull is appropriately lengthened, but it still uses the hard sails that sailors are skilled in using.

Reduce the height of the forecastle and stern, make the chord walls flush, add a mast and a vertical sail at the tail, add a small skewer mast to the bow, and install three soft triangle sails. The main mast still uses the commonly used hard sail.

The total length is about 42 steps, the width is nine steps, the main mast is twenty steps high, and the total displacement is about [-] tons.

With a displacement of [-] tons, in this era, it is not considered too big a ship. It belongs to the level that can sail around the world but is too small for the main naval decisive battle.

Chen Jian didn't intend to use this ship to carry much cargo, but instead used it as a training ship and the flagship of his own fleet.

The crew has already started training on the ship, and all of them are based on the number of three normal crew members. Originally, the normal freight only required three to 40 people on a hard sailing ship. Chen Jian stuffed 120 people on board. This is not counting the future gunners and possible supplements in the future. combatants.

Obviously this was not a ship ready to carry cargo from the start.

Except for more than 20 old sailors, the rest are all desperadoes from the bottom of society.

A boat is a small space, the most suitable soil for social Darwinism.There is no equality between the captain and the crew here, and no captain will foolishly want to be friends with the sailors, only obedience and discipline, and the leather whip.

Because the boat was too small, there was no place for these sailors to run in the vast sea.Obey or be thrown into the sea, the Navy of this era is a culture of the jungle and a morbid identification with the law of the jungle.

A vagrant, the best sailor of our time.Just as the bottom of the society, who are tortured by life and turn a blind eye to death, suicide, and drowning their own children, are the second-to-last best in this era to line up to shoot the army.

Chen Jian was very satisfied with the crew that his father had asked to find and recruit. He asked for help to draw a prime meridian, but it was not for this time to go to Qi for trade.

The new ship was launched at the beginning of the year, and Chen Jian gave this ship a very memorable name.

Purple Quartz No.

Chapter 129 The Intern's Dream

There is an intern on the Amethyst named Weiyuan.

His family was originally in the northwest, but after the end of the unification war, his family was in decline, and he lived in Mincheng in the southeast.

The family is poor, and he can study in Kaimeng School but he has not yet reached the level of genius. After Kaimeng, he makes a living on a boat.

A year ago, the Lanxiang Technical School of the charity business company recruited students, not to mention free board and lodging, and after that, they would still have jobs and get paid.

The reputation of the charity business company in Fujian County is very good, and Chen Jian's reputation is even better, so Wei Yuan went to the technical school and became the first batch of sailing interns together with a dozen or so teenage children the same age as him. .

Said to be a sailing intern, but he was on land for the previous year.They are not seasick, they are all children who grew up on the ship, and this has been asked clearly before entering school.

The reason why I choose to learn this is because the rewards are good, the trainees can get a certain amount of dividends after each trade, and they may become the captain of the ship or other management in the future.

It sounds very beautiful, and Wei Yuan is also full of expectations.

He knew that he might have to suffer a lot, and he had been told this before enrolling, because it was said to be the major with the highest salary after graduating from a technical school, but he had to rely on his life to gamble.

Wei Yuan felt that his life was hard and he was able to endure hardships, so Xinxin ran his handprint on it.

But hellish suffering followed.