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Chapter 1574 Origin of Species

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    ¡¾Correction: What was seized in the previous chapter was whale oil, not soybean oil.  At this time, the Americas had not yet introduced soybeans from China. They only had kidney beans, which were edible but could not be pressed for oil.  ¡¿

    By the time Lin Feng finished his work, several days had passed, but Zhang Xiaojing was still immersed in the scientific examination.

    "What's the point of these things?" Lin Feng asked boredly, sitting cross-legged on the back of a super-large elephant turtle.

    "How could it be boring? There are tropical penguins, turtles that can carry people, blue-footed ducks, colorful lizards, and birds that can blow up balloons. How interesting is it?" Zhang Xiaojing smiled while painting a portrait of a water bird.  road:

    ¡°Everything here is so fascinating, even this cormorant.¡±

    "The wings look like they are stunted, what does that mean?" Lin Feng patted the turtle shell under him and said, "This stew is probably very nourishing, right?"

    I don¡¯t know if she is talking about a turtle or a bird?

    "It's just the wings that are interesting." Zhang Xiaojing gave her a wonderful roll of her eyes, and automatically filtered out the last sentence and said: "This kind of 'weak-winged cormorant' has very developed wings, and it is also a bird that is good at flying. Otherwise, how could it be from  What about flying here from the mainland?"

    "Oh?" Lin Feng teased the turtle's head with a branch, and said with some interest: "Then why did it become like this bird?"

    "Because there is abundant food here, they settled down. Since they no longer need to fly to get food, their wings gradually degenerated during the long evolution, causing them to lose their ability to fly." Zhang Xiaojing pointed to the squatting group.  The weak-winged cormorant on the reef said: "Correspondingly, their legs and claws have evolved to be large and powerful, and their beaks have also become thicker and longer, making them better at fishing in the sea."

    "Degeneration, evolution? That's weird." Lin Feng exclaimed, "Xiao Jing, you can really think blindly."

    "That's not what I said." Zhang Xiaojing lifted a strand of naughty hair and said with pride: "It's your master and my husband who saw in this 'living biological evolution museum' that the animals and plants here have adapted to nature.  The environment has become very different from the same kind on the mainland. It made him realize 'natural selection and survival of the fittest', and he wrote "The Origin of Species" after he returned!"

    As she spoke, she stood up and pointed to this world of exotic flowers and plants, rare birds and monsters with endless enjoyment: "This is the holy land where the great 'theory of evolution' was born!"

    "The theory of evolution?" Lin Feng stuck out his tongue and said, "I've never heard of it."

    She said it as if she had read a few of her master's books.

    "Because this book has not been published yet. And the views are too shocking. He firmly refused to admit that he wrote this book." Zhang Xiaojing said with a smile: "If it is not said that it was written by a person named Darwin, I said I didn't listen.  He said he had this surname. He said seriously, yes, Wenxi"

    "Pen names. There are many masters, and there seems to be one who is also a master." Lin Feng scratched his head and said.

    Zhang Xiaojing gradually stopped laughing, her eyes turned red, and she knelt down and cried.

    "What's wrong? Are you confused?" Lin Feng quickly jumped off the turtle's back and squatted beside Zhang Xiaojing and asked.

    "I miss home, I miss your master" Xiao Zhuzi wiped away tears.

    "I want to, too." Lin Feng muttered after hearing this, "But we can't go back yet."

    "Why?" Xiao Zhuzi looked at her with red eyes.

    "Because of this." Lin Feng took out a crumpled letter from his pocket, handed it to her and said, "This was found from the deputy king's suite on the Xiaoming ship."

    Zhang Xiaojing took it and opened it. It was a letter written by the King of Spain to the Deputy King of Peru last autumn.

    Although the letter was in Spanish, she looked effortless.

    I saw Philip II complaining to his deputy king in a letter that because the treasure fleet was robbed, the bankers of Venice and Florence did not agree to extend the debt, and the royal family was unable to repay, so he could only declare financial bankruptcy and pass on the money.  their debt.

    Therefore, Philip II instructed his two lieutenants in America not to send this year's treasure to Europe.

    Since you have defaulted on your debt, you will have to default on it for a few more years, dragging the creditor out of his temper.  When they really can't bear it, the creditor will take the initiative to offer generous terms such as interest exemption and even a discount on the principal.

    This was not the first time that Philip II declared bankruptcy. He was already a very experienced old man.

    But that doesn¡¯t mean he will feel better.

    Although no banker would dare to force a debt from the king of the most powerful country in Europe, this would be a devastating blow to the credibility of the royal family, and it would be much more difficult to borrow money again.

    Unless, there can be another great victory like Lepanto, and the royal family can be quickly restored.?Those corrupt bureaucrats line their own pockets, and cunning craftsmen cut corners!

    Under his personal supervision, everything went very smoothly.  Standing on the balcony of the deputy king's official residence halfway up the mountain, looking out at the bay against the gentle sea breeze, one can see that the huge shipyard is already quite large.

    Huge lumberyards are already filled with giant logs shipped from Guatemala and Panama.

    Next to the lumber yard, the sound of sawing and chopping is constant day and night. It is the carpenters who are breaking the big logs into suitable boards.

    Six huge dry docks have been built on the seaside. Shipbuilders from Veracruz, Havana, Bogota and even the Iberian Peninsula are working day and night to build six thousand-ton warships.  At present, two warships have just laid their keels, and the four warships already have the framework and will be launched almost by the end of the year.

    Within the busy shipyard, there are countless craftsmen's workshops, busy making nails, sails, cables and cannons Each type of work is very complex and requires the manufacture of a large number of tools and mechanical equipment.

    In the past year, craftsmen¡¯s time has been basically spent on manufacturing and debugging these devices.  But once it's done, you get twice the result with half the effort, and you can make up for the wasted time twice as much.

    For example, if you use pure labor to make cables, you can only produce less than a few dozen meters a day.  After switching to machinery, a group of workers can easily produce two thousand meters in one day!  The efficiency can be improved more than ten times!

    ¡®This is European technology that leads the world!  ¡¯ His Highness the Vice-King was filled with pride.  ¡®This is the powerful mobilization ability of the Spanish Empire!  ¡¯

    In less than two years, a powerful Pacific Fleet will be born from here!

    And I, Velasquez, the Vice-King of New Spain, will personally lead this fleet to complete the expedition to the Ming Kingdom as my final performance!

    "Just wait, Master Zhao, your death is not far away!"

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