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Saturday, April 17, 1621, cloudy.

The death of three compatriots has caused more people to come and go at Manhattan Cemetery in a few days.

The mental pressure of the people, who had gradually calmed down, rose sharply, and several times the men in the Brooklyn industrial area had inexplicable brawls, which made the committee worried. Bao Zitu, a psychiatrist who has been doing nothing for a long time, showed his fierce enthusiasm for work at this time and began to run wildly.

On the other hand, the question of how the Manhattan community will develop in the coming years and how to construct a genuine and effective state power is also being tentatively discussed within the committee.

The meeting lasted from morning to noon, and after several hours of off-topic and more stubborn quarrels, it was finally interrupted by a message received by the chairman, Mr. Liu.

The European trading ships that departed at the beginning of the year are back!

The people present stopped arguing one after another, looked at Liu Lao with a happy face, and walked towards the door of the conference room almost at the same time.

Manhattan is in dire need of good news.

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A new European sail galen slowly sailed into the harbor.

Before the artillerymen of the Neiwan Fortress received the order, as if they had found some exciting and good toys, a dozen or so fortress artillerymen who had been boringly kicking stones all day long rushed out of the barracks, began to swing the 24-pounder gun, cleaned the chambers, stuffed gunpowder and shells, and then looked back at a figure on the fortress control tower in a hurry.

Zhang Chunrui held the telescope and looked at it for a while, full of confusion about the European sail warship in the distance, which was obviously calm and leisurely.

Slightly larger than the Mayflower, with an estimated displacement of more than 200 tons, and on the mast hung a very strange white flag in addition to an English flag - a snake embroidered on the flag?!

Wipe your eyes and look again, Zhang Chunrui almost lost the telescope.

It was a dragon flag with a white background that I don't know who had drawn by hand, and the dragon on the flag was tragically painted as a snake!

Su Zining painted? Or Yan Xiaosong? I think of these two people who have such a hobby of ridicule.

However, Yan Xiaosong's art skills are good, and he will never make such a work that is not on the stage. Su Zining's suspicion seems to be greater, but in addition to speaking, Su Zining will choose a clearer and more concise way to do things, which is not his style.

"Don't fire, it's your own people!" Zhang Chunrui breathed a sigh of relief and announced the lifting of the alarm in a bored manner.

The sailing ship glided slowly within 100 meters of Governor's Island, and the sailors on the deck were shouting and cheering, and the artillerymen on the fortress were curling their fingers and whistling.

"Haha, Mr. Ren, your idea is very effective, I admit, I was really worried that they would mistake us for intruders."

Aboard the Santa Maria, which took only 17 days to reach its destination, Adelaide, the former captain of the Mayflower, looked with interest at the fortress on Governor's Island on the port side and breathed a long sigh of relief.

"Hehe, Zhang Chunrui has always said that he wants to hang the dragon flag on the fortress, and he can understand it at a glance!"

Accountant Ren Changle looked at his masterpiece triumphantly, the dragon flag made of charcoal and a few pieces of rags sewn together was completely his whim early in the morning.

In addition to the original sailors, there were also more than twenty strange-looking European men and women standing on the deck, all of them looking around the harbor with curious eyes, especially a few young European women, giggling and dancing at the young artillerymen on the distant fortress.

Wow! It's the European Yanma!

The artillerymen on the fortress scrambled to grab Zhang Chunrui's binoculars, and they all watched them with relish.

Half an hour later, the Santa Maria finally rounded the southernmost section of Manhattan, turned into the East River Channel, and docked at the Brooklyn dock. It was here that Adelaide and Ren Changle would unload the first batch of urgently needed industrial supplies from Europe, and all those involved in the voyage, including European artisans or indentured slaves hired from the Azores, would undergo a strict sanitary inspection.

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"What's more, does Yang Wenwen know? This fake fashion lady was in the limelight in Port Grasísmo, and just as I was setting sail, the Portuguese governor and baron were running to where we were staying! ”

Ren Changle picked his teeth and looked proud, completely different from his timid and low-key style after being ridiculed by the workers a few months ago.

In the big cafeteria in the Brooklyn Industrial Zone, dozens of skilled workers or engineers gathered around a large wooden table, watching Ren Changle eat and drink after changing his clothes, and listening to the other party intermittently tell about what he had seen in Europe in the past two months.

"The Spanish battleship and that female pirate were really captured by you?" A bespectacled young man with glasses, who was obviously a technical engineer, leaned to the side, revealing a sparkling gaze.

"Needless to say? You can't guess how dangerous it was at that time, I was holding a sailor's knife, and there were about twenty European natives on the other side, and cannons, yes, just a little more than ten meters away from me......"

Ren Changle spat and splashed, and the workers around him gave a surprised "ah" for a while, and an "oh" like a low tide for a while, with an unbelievable expression on their faces.

"Xiao Ren, it seems that this trip has gained a good harvest!"

Qi Jianjun separated the crowd at this time, shook Ren Changle's hand with a kind expression, and shook it vigorously, "It's been hard all the way, but the young man has been trained and is more energetic, don't you say?" ”

The workers gradually dispersed, and few responded to Qi Jianjun's words, so the cold scene made Ren Changle a little embarrassed.

"What's wrong, Director Qi?" Ren Changle hasn't figured out what's going on yet.

"Hey...... Go back to the committee, talk about ......" Qi Jianjun smiled bitterly and walked towards the outside of the cafeteria with Ren Changle.

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Since only Ren Changle and a soldier of the garrison in charge of the guard returned with the ship, the committee temporarily convened a special meeting in the afternoon to listen to Ren Changle recount the situation.

"After discussing with Su Zining, this time the main thing is to escort the first batch of emergency supplies back, a total of 120 tons. Bought up almost the entire list of supplies that could be found in the port. ”

Ren Changle regained a cautious and cautious attitude, holding his diary and introducing the results of the European delegation one by one.

“…… There are also canvas, mercury, sulfur, saltpeter. Su Zining asked for the first batch of these materials to be delivered, saying that the Brooklyn Industrial Zone must be the most urgent. Ren Changle took a sip of water and turned another page, "In addition, we have bought a large piece of land and warehouses in the Azores, and we are going to use it as a trade transit center for Europe in the future." Su Zining also made a point of emphasizing that the community council should consider the research and development plan of the radio station, so that we can establish the most efficient communication channel between Manhattan and the Azores, and provide immediate feedback on any developments. ”

"Well, Xiao Su is organized and has a complete concept. It was very timely for Xiao Ren to come back, and we just needed a lot of external information to adjust our development model, otherwise we would be all blind. The radio station will let Lao Jiang pay attention to the arrangement. Listening to a series of arrangements for the stages of European trade outlined by Su Zining, Zheng Quan couldn't help but nod again and again, "Xiao Ren, you go on, what are they doing now, Xiao Su." ”

"Oh, when I set off, Su Zining and the others were also preparing to leave for Lisbon, and it is estimated that they have arrived many days early."

Ren Changle seemed to remember something, quickly flipped through a few pages of his diary, and then added: "Su Zining and Yan Xiaosong specially explained that our military factories must produce qualified flintlock muskets for export as soon as possible. ”

"Hehe, then look at this!"

Zheng Quan smiled mysteriously, and actually pulled out a brand-new flintlock musket from under the conference table and placed it on the table heavily, and Jiang Zhaolong, the industrial committee member who attended the meeting, looked even more proud.

"Soon after you left, our own garrison was loaded with the latest modified flintlock pistols of the Model 21A, but with precious seamless steel tubes, so the production was very small." Zheng Quan pointed to the flintlock pistol in front of him with a thicker barrel, and smiled, "So in the past few days, Lin Youde has adjusted the production process, replaced the seamless steel tube with a wrought iron cast and forged barrel, and produced a simplified version of the 21B flintlock pistol, except for being slightly heavier, the performance in all aspects is not lower than our own Type 21A, but the range, accuracy and safety have far exceeded any musket in Europe in this period." ”

"Great! So I'll be able to take it with me on my next voyage? How much can be produced? Ren Changle happily touched the flintlock pistol in front of him, and seemed to see that all of them had turned into silver Spanish coins.

"There was such a big battle, these days are more special, the workers' feelings are not very good, in order to prevent production accidents, only small batches of slow production." Jiang Zhaolong replied unconsciously, and then quickly shut up.

"What's going on...... Ren Changle felt that there had been a strange atmosphere since the cafeteria, and now even the committee members were like this, and they couldn't help but stand up, and the smile on their faces was gone.

You look at me, I look at you, and no one speaks.

"Xiao Ren, you better go and rest, and we'll tell you tomorrow......" Liu Lao stood up at this time and waved his hand, and the people in the room let out a long breath......

The next day, Ren Changle came to the Manhattan Cemetery alone, looked at the three new graves with a cold expression, and then hung his head silently.

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After some consultations, with the help of the actual situation in Europe brought back by Ren Changle, the committee quickly made the adjustment of the development model plan for the next stage.

Abandon the faltering and difficult development model of tall and large, and concentrate all the limited manpower and resources on the training of technical talents and industries that reflect technological advantages.

Agricultural production can ensure self-sufficiency, and large-scale food production has not contributed much to the current development in addition to occupying manpower and material resources.

Sectors such as metal processing, weapons manufacturing, chemical supplies, and precision tools that can obtain high added value or promote industrial technology upgrading will make full support and focus investment.

The production and processing of other crude raw materials, which require a lot of manpower and material resources, can be stopped, and those that cannot be stopped are handed over to Indian hired workers or European craftsmen, and the gap is replaced by large-scale trade imports. Even textile and wood processing, which is currently in a hurry, is done by training Indian workers and European craftsmen as technical backbones.

This arrangement has greatly reduced the pressure on Manhattan's technical manpower allocation, but the overall work efficiency and motivation have been greatly improved. After throwing away many low-level production projects, the second-rate technical filaments now have enough time to improve their technical theories and technician training.

Within a week, Lin Youde, the chief engineer who was encouraged by European trade, organized a week of high-intensity and high-efficiency overtime production without panic and in an extremely rare manner.

Under the initial industrial quality control management, the sub-assembly production process can involve even some Indian employees who have received only the most basic training.

It is not important whether the product technology is backward, the key is to train technicians for the next step of product upgrading, which is one of the reasons why Lin Youde decided to use the 21B flintlock pistol production line.

The water ditches dug in the Brooklyn Industrial Area brought in water from the East River, and the simple hydraulic transmission units built separately to save diesel barely supported the refurbished second-hand machines.

On April 25, 800 Type 21B flintlock pistols were neatly stacked in wooden crates and loaded onto the Santa Maria by Indian hired men.

At the same time, a second batch of fine glass wineware entered the warehouse, as well as a new batch of mirrors and some "precision" metal tools, and the rest of the space was filled with tens of thousands of furs that were the envy of European fur traders. These things are destined to make the second-class dealers and aristocrats in Europe bleed again.

After discussion, some of the English sailors on the Santa Maria were replaced by Dutch sailors who were still prisoners of war, and the first mate of Adelaide was promoted to acting captain of the captured St. Nicholas, and the bearded first mate's hard-working cousin was finally recognized.

On the same day, Captain Adelaide and his English crew also received their first voyage bounty.

In addition to the salary stipulated in the contract, the nearly 100,000 Spanish silver coins that Ren Changle brought back from the Azores were placed in several open boxes, and the whole room shone brightly under the light of candles.

Captain Adelaide alone received an additional prize of 1,000 Spanish silver coins; First mate John received an additional prize of 800; The boatswain received an additional prize of 600. Other sailors also receive additional bonuses ranging from 200 to 300 depending on their status.

Such a rich reward made all the English sailors like a dream, and almost none of them took the initiative to receive it. In Europe at the beginning of the 17th century, the maximum income of a skilled tradesman would not exceed £10 a year. Captain Adelaide, including Adelaide, is thinking about how to take over the wives and children who still live in the dirty town of Pusmouth.

The £100 prize money made Adelaide excited, but then he was told of the outcome of the war at West Point. The news of the tragic casualties of his compatriots left Adelaide feeling lonely, but when he learned that the surviving compatriots had been pardoned and became official residents of West Point, the captain was elated.

"I can't wait to go to the Azores now!"

Captain Adelaide, who had drunk too much, was talking loudly in a new little bar in Manhattan. Around the corner, four Portuguese or Spanish singers arriving in Manhattan from Europe are surrounded by a group of young Yankees, laughter and the smell of alcohol filling the dimly lit bar air.

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