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- Someone wants to ask, hey, aren't there two treasure ships? Why did it become four ships?
Because Cuba also has treasure ships.
In order to improve efficiency, the Spanish treasure fleet moved separately in the colonies, and then gathered together to return to Spain under the escort of the powerful Atlantic Fleet.
The hostile Britain, France, and the Netherlands naturally coveted the gold, silver, jewelry, and rare goods carried by the Spanish treasure fleet.
Only a powerful fleet can keep these bandits intimidated, so when crossing the ocean, it must be escorted by a powerful naval fleet, so the shipment of the treasure fleet is carried out regularly.
Generally every spring, the treasure fleet sails from Spain to the Americas, and then disperses to Veracruz, Havana, the West Indies and Honduras in Mexico, unloading the European goods they brought and loading them with gold, silver, jewelry or local treasures. Tobacco, sugar, spices and other valuable commodities were then gathered in one place and escorted back by the navy.
It turns out that the treasure fleet was assembled in Havana, and then returned to Europe on the warm current. However, since the British pirate queen encouraged all the people to go to sea to rob, this route has become increasingly unsafe. Therefore, in recent times, they have been assembled in Santo Domingo, Dominica, taking the southern route through its northwest African colonies, and returning to Spain from the Strait of Gibraltar. This way we will have to walk on the sea for more than half a month, but it will be much safer.
There is a time limit for the treasure ship assembly, and the consequences of delay will be serious. Because of any further delay, the Atlantic hurricane season will begin, and the probability of the fleet being hit by a hurricane will greatly increase.
Every treasure ship, even if it does not transport gold and silver, has at least hundreds of thousands of pesos worth of cargo. Adding the value of the ship itself, the loss of one can make His Majesty the King heartbroken.
Therefore, the royal family has strict restrictions on the departure and arrival times of the treasure fleet in order to avoid the terrible hurricane. Governor Thiago and Huelva cannot afford to suffer a delay in their departure date.
In desperation, Thiago had no choice but to escort four fully loaded treasure ships out of Havana with a large escort fleet that could only be mixed.
He was on tenterhooks during the first few days of the voyage. Any sail shadow spotted by the lookout on the mast would cause him to panic and the vegetation to be in danger.
But in the past few days, they were all false alarms. No ship dared to approach this murderous fleet to avoid accidental damage.
Lieutenant Colonel Aguero also advised the colonel to drink a glass of sherry and relax. Even if there are pirates coveting us, they will retreat when they see such a strong escort lineup.
Colonel Thiago said the same thing. I have a total of twenty-four galleys and four galleons, plus those galleys and caravelles, a powerful lineup of nearly forty ships. It can be said that except for the Atlantic Fleet waiting to set off in Santo Domingo, it is absolutely invincible in the Caribbean.
Those people from the Ming Dynasty only have five ships, and if they dare to attack a stone with an egg, they will only end up with a chicken flying an egg. Afraid of a ball?
He gradually let go of his worries and invited Lieutenant Colonel Capone, the commander of the Cuban escort fleet, to come to his flagship and have a tequila taco together.
If you don＊t worry about pirates, this voyage is generally very pleasant. It is a smooth current all the way eastward until the windward strait between Cuba and Haiti will turn south again. It was a bit laborious until the last paragraph.
But who cares? It＊s not them who row the boat anyway.
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Colonel Thiago, who was having a taco, didn＊t know at the time that their whereabouts had been locked by someone in the distant sky.
How far away is it? The white reconnaissance balloon took off from Inagua Island, a hundred kilometers away from them.
Being seen from a hundred kilometers away was far beyond people＊s imagination at this time.
This is the power of science!
All members of the Beidou team know a formula by heart: 佬=﹟侍*112供些
In the mathematical symbol system established by Mr. Zhao, * is the multiplication sign, ﹟ is the root sign, 些 represents meters, 供些 is kilometers, 佬 represents distance, and 侍 represents height. The last four symbols all come from Chinese phonetic symbols, and everyone who has been illiterate in Jiangnan Group will recognize them. The pronunciations of ＆鍠＊, ＆touch＊, ＆ji＊ and ＆brother＊ are no different from the later Latin alphabet pinyin of ＆q＊, ＆m＊, ＆j＊ and ＆g＊, but they are written in different ways.
This formula is called the ＆height and distance formula＊, which is used to calculate the farthest distance that a person can theoretically see when standing at a high place.
It can be easily calculated through the formula. If you want to see 100 kilometers away, theoretically you need to increase it to 797 meters. The maximum height of a hot air balloon stipulated by Zhao Hao is 1 kilometer.
The distance between Inagua Island and the Northern Passage of Cuba is only 72 kilometers, so in fact, as long as it rises to 413 meters, the hot air balloon can barely monitor the strait. Of course it can go up higher.Their brains were buzzing with excitement. They were bathing in the sea, shooting stupid birds, and waiting for a month on this uninhabited island. Wasn't this the day they were waiting for?
This is to grab money, there is no need to mobilize at all!
"Remember me, don't be dazzled by money, remember to keep your distance, they can't do anything to us!" On the contrary, Lin Feng had to use a whip to beat these guys who fell into the eyes of money and said: "When was that a big beauty? Separated from the bodyguards, you swarmed me and snatched her back to be the wife of the village! Do you remember everything?"
"Remember!" Everyone responded hurriedly.
"Why don't you get out of here, it's annoying to see you money addicts like this!" The biggest money fanatic held up a whip as if to whip him, and everyone dispersed in a hurry.
The only person left in the war room was Zhang Xiaojing, who had been silent.
"Xiao Jing, do you have a different opinion?" Lin Feng glanced at her.
"I'm just thinking again. Whether we go east or west, we have to walk another 60,000 miles before returning to China. Will robbing so many gold, silver and jewelry become a drag?" Zhang Xiaojing reminded softly: "Why don't we take them all? Sink the coming Lisuo.§
"Uh." Lin Feng glanced at her and said to herself, the prime minister's daughter really treats money like dirt. But we common people only love dirt
"We are at sea, not in the desert. Just change the ballast stones into gold and silver. It won't be a problem." She then touched her nose and said: "And there are more gold and silver treasures on the ship, which will help everyone go home. Those with firmer beliefs won＊t give up so easily when faced with danger, right?§
"Okay, you are the commander and I will listen to you." Zhang Xiaojing said no more.
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