The blown-up transport ship collapsed on the beach, surrounded by three floors and three outer layers.The sage of money is particularly remarkable in this.He pulled the interpreter, and was following several high-nosed Westerners with deep purpose, laughing and courting.

“Mr. Roy, you don’t have to stay here.We have a port nearby, and we have prepared all the supplies you need, so you can go north when you ship."

“Mr. Roy, the ship has been blown up, and it’s not worth your time.Such ships are so numerous in the north that you can only take down the port of the Revolutionary Army if you want.”

“Mr. Roy, Mr. Roy.Did you send my words to this ghost?How did he ignore me?”

Fan Wencheng trotted with a few foreign Japanese heads behind, anxious foreheads sweating.Behind him, there are many officials and businessmen of Jiangnan's pseudo-mingo court, but they are not as eager as he is, so they can be more.

Through Liu Fucheng's lead, the sanator forces in the Liaodong hinterland have a relationship with the small court in Jiangnan.With the help of Gangnam merchants, Nurhachi was assisted by the Dutch in Japan.This number of sail ships arrived in Songjiang Province outside the sea, the reason is roughly the same as Zhou Qingfeng guessed, the Portuguese in Macao and the Dutch in Japan rarely joined hands.

The headquarters of the Dutch East India Company in Batavia received information from Japan last year, and Sir Thomas Roy, who is in charge of East Asian affairs, was very interested.But just as he was preparing to plan and expand the wider road of commerce, a bad news came from Goa - the Portuguese fell into bad luck!

No one knows how the Orientals managed to capture Goa, and the news thousands of miles away is always elusive.The merchant's sense of smell was sensitive, and when Goa could provide all kinds of high-quality and cheap goods, commerce in the Far East immediately became depressed.

The Dutch East India Company immediately divided into two factions, one decided to cooperate with the Chinese occupying Goa, and the other stressed that the interests of the company were inviolable.It is clear that the interests of Sir Thomas Roy have been violated.The price of the goods he bought in the Far East was too high, but the "revolutionary army" with low logistics costs, he was going to go bankrupt.

When the premeditated power would disappear with the passage of money, Sir Roy did not hesitate to decide to defend it by force.He responded quickly and joined forces with the Portuguese, who had the same interests, and sent a total of seven warships and armed merchant ships, with the Amsterdam as its flagship, under the guidance of the Gangnam merchants to Songjiang Province.

“This is the ship.”The pirate merchant Lee Dan followed Sir Roy, marveling at the blown-up transport ship in front of me, “When I saw such a ship, I could not believe that it could actually sail at sea.But it can run, and run very fast, without the wind at all.”

Li Dan came from Nagasaki, Japan, with nearly 50 of his main fleet.Although his ship is not as good as the Dutch sail ship, but there are many hundreds of tons of large ships, which is in the current coastal China can not be underestimated the power.Jiangnan's official squire merchants, Liaodong's barbarians, Western distant-water colonists, the three forces are thus integrated.

When Sir Roy's fleet arrived at Songjiang Province, it suddenly encountered a small fire wheel on the sea surface to supply the southern guerrillas.This black-smoke-free vessel was a shock to all Western captains, and the priests on board even had to hold up the cross to calm the sailors.Because the ship can run six knots regardless of the wind and headwind.

Roy's fleet was very restrained at first, and just wanted to get close and say hello to each other.The sudden escape of the transport ship changed their minds, and the fiery and hard-haired men immediately decided to round up the magical ship.The ship, which was tasked with transportation, eventually washed the beach, and was found and surrounded by the Ming Army, the people on board lit a gunpowder warehouse.

"There's a lot of coal on this ship."Sir Roy, in uniform, naturally refused to let go of the ship, and he disembarked in a small boat and looked at the wreck of the ship with the captains of several other fleets.The first thing they saw was the coal that had been bombarded in the blast.

"The ship looks like coal."With the help of the interpreter, he understood Sir Roy's doubts and played tricks on his own knowledge.

“Burning coal?How to burn?”Sir Roy took the lead, and several other Western captains turned their heads to look at Fan Wencheng.

After the translation passed this question, Fan Wencheng immediately stopped.He is also through the detailed work in the port of Tianjin to know the news, the specific steam ship how to burn coal drive, where does he know?

"This needs to be asked the shipbuilding craftsmen, this kind of craftsmen have in Tianjin."As long as you go to Tianjin to knock down the port, you will naturally know.”The Qur’an has to be a few words.He tried to show himself.But these Taisipang ghosts sail all the year round, bathing is impossible, this life can not bathe, the body of the sour smell is really to fry the individual.

Unanswered Sir Roy apparently did not give up easily, and he continued to explore the wreck of the transporter in front of him and found that the explosion came from the rear of the hull.At least one or two hundred kilograms of black gunpowder completely destroyed the stern, and a large amount of coal was thrown away from it, and the internal structure of the hull was obvious.

"The ship is very poor."Sir Roy dealt with ships all year round, and he saw at a glance that the ship’s manufacturing technology seemed very low.The other captains around him broke down a few broken boards with their hands and found that the hull was ordinary fir and pine.Such a poor shipbuilding wood is very rare.

Westerners like to use oak for ships, and they should be dried for many years after cutting.In this way, the wood is tough and thick waterproof and corrosion resistant.A ship is well maintained, at least for decades and more than a hundred years.Even if there is no oak, teak, or lint.What is this with pine?Can't you throw it in a year or two?

Needless to say, Grandpa’s ship really didn’t plan to last long.The technological progress of the "Revolutionary Army" is like a leap, shipbuilding is like buying a mobile phone, and several new models can be produced every year.Whoever told him that a ship would take decades, he would definitely come back with a slanted eye – decades for a poor man.Decades later, Laozi still uses wood to build a ship is a problem!

This transport ship is actually a barge structure, the interior is quite simple, although the material is inferior, but the design is quite perfect.This is Zhao Ze's batch construction of the thing, pay attention to the small working hours, low cost, simple maintenance.The most valuable thing about the ship was not the hull, but the 100-horsepower steam engine at the stern.

Sir Roy excavated from the coal heap the blown-up fragments of the steam engine, iron boilers, cylinders, crankshafts and other parts that had been completely distorted and deformed, not seeing the original appearance.A bunch of Westerners still very meticulously collected these tattered tattered from the hull, trying to piece together their original appearance.Of these, only the propeller and drive shaft are generally complete.

“This part seems to have been placed in the stern water.”Sir Roy and several captains consulted each other, and he had observed the ship with a telescope in pursuit, "and its stern kept popping up, and it seemed that this part was stirring."

The boat that can run by burning coal has broken the perception of the power of the ship in these Westerners.They collected everything but still could not restore the secret of the transport ship, and they were already in a mess of mind, and finally they could only be depressed and put down the inexplicable problem first, and then examine things they could understand.

The stern of the entire transport vessel was blown up, but the front of the hull remained intact.Many of the supplies are stored in the warehouse.Due to the tight time, Ouyang Jun and Luo Li first removed weapons, drugs and funds, leaving a lot of food that can be raised in place.

Sir Roy opened several encapsulated boxes and found that it was filled with straw for shock-proof pots.The jar is sealed and opened with salted meats and vegetables.For these foods, he was bold to taste, and even praised it as if he had opened a new world: "Delicious!"

Fan Wencheng also worried that these weekly thieves' food would not be toxic, and specially let the interpreter remind it.As a result, Sir Roy rolled his eyes and said, “I don’t know what the mission of the ship is, but I don’t think the ship’s owner is venturing the sea to bring some poisonous food.”To say that it's poisonous, the ones I usually eat are poisonous."

Sir Roy's words made the captains laugh, and a group of people reached out to pick up some "Revolutionary Army" field standard pickled food from the open pot.Especially those vegetables that make them wist and happy.One of the captains lamented, "If you can give my sailors such food, they will be happy to float on the sea every day."

Although this is a bit exaggerated, but several captains have agreed that this year's sea voyages to eat even the pig food is not as good as.So they divided these field food on the spot, so that Fan Wencheng and others looked stunned - see those huge sail ships, they almost thought that these Taisi Pan ghosts are gods, do not eat.

Some of the remaining cargo were also fire rope guns and medicines.For the fire rope gun, Sir Roy and others are no strangers.For drugs, they can't read the above text, and they don't know what to do.And some of the grenades provided to the guerrillas made them very novel.

The casing of the grenade is cast iron, prefabricated grooves, and some steel beads are also included.This thing is ignited with a fuse, and the power is not small after the explosion.After the experiment, a vote of Westerners avoided private discussions such as Fan Wencheng and others, trying to find more information from the back of the ship.

“The ship is said to be part of the Revolutionary Army, and we need to reassess this force.”

“If you can defeat Governor Codino in Goa, the strength of this ‘revolutionary army’ will not be too small.But from the point of view of this coal-fired ship, their shipbuilding technology is not strong.”

“Yes, they build ships with pine trees.Even the natives of Batavia knew that they could not use such inferior wood.”

"What struck me most was that the ship was not small, unarmed, and it was a simple transport ship.It's too strange for a sea ship."

After half a day of discussion, Sir Roy et al. did not get a result.But they were more interested in the "Revolutionary Army", and finally decided to go to the north to see.For the colonists, “look” means two things – the opponent is strong enough, that is, really look; the opponent is not strong, that is embarrassing.

For Westerners who have been rampant in East Asia for hundreds of years, it is impossible to understand that opponents are not strong or not strong, and Westerners who regard the East as ignorant indigenous people.