Section 51 Department of Colonization and Trade
Picture No. 19 accompanying the report is the entire harbor fort and stone trestle drawn by Mr. Leib Trini. [Read the latest chapter] This is the best angle we can see from the boat. Pictures No. 2o to No. 67 are Mr. Leib Trini's drawings of various situations in the port and the ships parked in the port. Picture No. 25 is the "holy ship" of the Australians. The brochure you provided states that there is a giant cannon on the front deck of the ship, but this cannot be confirmed from our perspective. Numbers 26 to 28 are European-style boats owned by Australians. Numbers 29 to 33 are other ships owned by Australians.
I will publish a second report after Australians have restored our freedom of movement.
loyal servant of our master
Your most obedient servant
Junior Commercial Officer Van Delantron
On February 9, 1631, the "Magdeburg" was sailing in the port of Lingaobopu
After putting down the quill, Van Delantron spread out the letter and took out a cardboard from his briefcase. The cardboard had many irregular holes. He covered the cardboard with the letter, compared it, and began Copy it on another piece of paper.
Gonzalez watched the young businessman working so diligently and couldn't help but secretly laugh - now that they are not even allowed to leave the ship, who are they going to send back to Batavia to deliver the message? There were no company offices and no other ships from Batavia. Australians never go to Batavia either.
Leib Trini was holding a cup and was drinking. He was moored here doing nothing and waiting to go ashore. The sailors and soldiers on the ship all used drinking as a pastime to pass the time. The steward on the ship bought more than a dozen barrels of rum and fifty cases of kvass. Everyone on the ship, except for the sentry who was explicitly prohibited from drinking, was drunk at all times. On the deck, in the cargo hold, and next to the cannons, there were drunk and sleeping "scum" lying everywhere. There had been a tragic incident the night before when a drunken sailor fell asleep on the deck and fell into the water in the middle of the night. The sailor on duty found him dead when he was picked up. For this reason, Mr. Businessman had to pay a "body disposal fee" of eight riyals, and the port authority transported the body to the open sea for disposal.
Leib Trini had nothing to do except drink and draw. He used projection and simple instruments on the deck to roughly draw a topographic map of the port. Then he drew and wrote everything that could be seen on the deck of the "Magdeburg". Among them, he particularly carefully depicts the "Holy Ship". This huge ship was on the other side of the bay. The dark shadow of the ship under the blue water and sky gave him a kind of beauty that intoxicated him, whether it was the lines or the colors of light and shadow. Trini was a draftsman, and in a Europe where technology and art had not yet been completely separated, he was also half an artist. Have a natural sensitivity to beautiful things.
Green smoke emitted intermittently from the holy ship every day, and sometimes a puff of black smoke would suddenly erupt. As soon as Mr. Trini wanted to find out what happened on the ship and what the Australians were doing - his interest in the "Holy Ship" grew day by day.
Now I see the businessman wrapping his notebooks and letters together, carefully wrapping them layer by layer with oil paper, stamping them with wax seals, and finally putting them into a deerskin bag. He felt a little confused. Although these pictures were just writings, was it safe to send them away with the letter like this? It's dozens of days' voyage from Batavia, and any accident may cause the letter to be lost at the bottom of the sea forever.
"How do you plan to send the letter out?" Gonzalez finally couldn't help asking.
"I just saw a Junk ship unloading deer skins from Formosa - these Chinese businessmen obviously came from Daguan. I'm going to ask them to take it." The businessman said confidently, "Give it to them Some money. They'll do it nicely."
Although it would take a long time to deliver the letter to the officer and then back to Batavia, according to the time the ship was in port at that time, it would take at least one or two months for the "Magdeburg" to embark on its return journey. . Enough letters to get back to Batavia.
Even if the letter returned to Batavia later than they did, it would still be valuable - at least it would serve as a backup. In this era, not every ship is sure to arrive at the port after setting sail.
In the building of the Ministry of Colonization and Trade, Skade sat in his office, content and contented. At the third plenary session of the Senate after the annual meeting, by-elections were held for the vacant executive members. Because Skade had been responsible for the daily work of the Ministry of Colonization and Trade for a long time, and often advocated remarks such as "the Pacific Ocean is China's Pacific Ocean", he was successfully elected as Minister of Colonization and Trade in the by-election.
The first thing Skade did after being elected was to move - in his view, the original Ministry of Colonization and Trade was too small to meet his ambitions and current expanding business volume. Fortunately, since the construction of the elder's "Anju Building" began, there has been a lot more vacant land in Bairen City. He re-occupied a piece of land and built the Colonial and Trade Department building.
The so-called building is actually a converted and reused waste from a simple dormitory in the past. Nowadays, most of the elders live in apartments, and there are many accessories for simple houses. The insulation efficiency of sandwich panels with colored steel plates and foam layers is not very good. So we decided to just use it as a wall, add a wooden frame wall to the inside of the exterior wall, and fill it with diatomaceous earth, a natural insulation material.
Because the sandwich panels of the simple house can be installed quickly, his construction plan was not rejected by the Planning Institute. It took the construction company a week to build the house.
From the outside, the New Colonial and Trade Department Building looks very strange. It is a strange building composed of two three-story buildings with an arched roof between the buildings. The ground floor of the small building is made of brick, and the upper two floors are made of colored steel plates. A vaulted wooden roof supported by wrought iron trusses was added between the two roofs. A glass skylight is installed. The vaults were closed at the front and back with brick walls, creating a building with offices on both sides and a high-ceilinged hall in the middle. The whole building smelled like a cottage.
Si Kaide likes the full-height vaulted-roof hall of Lingao Construction Company very much - it is so majestic when paired with the sand table model on the planning display table below! So he wanted to make one too. In this way, standing on the balcony of the chief's office on the third floor, he could look down at the sand table and the busy staff around him, fully satisfying his desire to overlook the world.
Under this vault are various sand tables. Skade believes that the work of the Colonial and Trade Department is often similar to that of the General Staff, but it is just an economic staff. The basic skill of staff work is to draw on the map and sand table.
Therefore, the hall is filled with various sand tables, the largest of which is the sand table of the entire East Asia Sea area. All merchant ships and public commercial outlets owned by the travelers or contracted with the travelers are placed in the form of small flags and models. In this big sandbox.
Huge maps and tables hang on the walls. One of the tables is a running chart of trade flow. Various business data are filled in on cards of different colors and hung on the running chart on the wall. It makes the wall look like a colorful chessboard. Once a day, there was an exchange of information between the Colonial Trade Office and the Naval Shipping Office, the Harbor Office, the Directorate of Manufacturing and various foreign stations with radios. The female clerks holding long forked poles change the hanging position of the cards according to the information and requirements. Under the running chart, a group of people called "calculators" sit in cubicles, using slide rules and dip pens to continuously calculate the data handed to them.
They were selected from among the naturalized people who had obtained C diplomas and were force-fed a certain mathematical calculation method. Each of them is responsible for remembering only one calculation formula. What you do is to fill in the handed-in data into the formula, and then use pen calculations and slide rules to deduce the results. The purpose and principle of calculation are not important at all. As long as the results can be calculated correctly, you are a qualified calculation person. Because of repeated mechanical practice, their calculation speed is very fast.
Every few months, they learn another formula to make sure they are interchangeable.
Through sophisticated management methods, which ships have left the port, which ships are loading and unloading cargo, and which ships are currently empty. What cargo is carried on each ship; the variety and quantity of import and export demand this month can be checked at any time. The Senate and all departments can get a forecast of when a certain material in a certain direction will arrive at any time - if nothing unexpected happens.
The Colonial Trade Office had no ships of its own - something that had always bothered Skade. When the ship was established, he strongly demanded that the company be placed under the control of his own department, but in the end it fell into the hands of the Ministry of Transport and the Navy, which made him resentful - the Ministry of Colonization and Trade without ships was really huge. joke!
Of course, he was unable to resist the navy's attempts to monopolize shipping. We have no choice but to swallow our anger for the time being and prepare to wait for Hong Kong's shipyards to ship out large-scale ships before discussing a directly-controlled shipping company. Now. The focus of all tasks must revolve around the operations of the Department of Colonial Trade in Hongji! If the coal supply problem plaguing the Senate can be solved once and for all, his voice will be much louder when the Executive Committee and the Senate meet. The requests made are more "reasonable".
"Whether a request is 'reasonable' or not depends on how important you are in the group." Skade often says this.
He looked down from the large glass window next to his desk: In the hall, several elders and naturalized civilian staff of the Colonial Department were busy around a newly built sand table. This sand table expressed the surrounding form of Hon Ki, Vietnam, using the old time and space. The map was staked out and revised with survey data reported from the front. ioa.
