"Meikat, the predicted Mayari Iron Mine, oh, maybe it should be called the Moon Mother Iron Mine, what is the specific situation?"
Starlight fell from the ceiling, and oil lamps lit up the sky. The warm orange light lit up the eucalyptus table, and the sweet aroma of wine floated in the palace. The monarchs and ministers gathered together to drink and chat about their sailing experiences. The atmosphere was intimate and harmonious. And everyone held candlelight talks at night to decide on important matters in the kingdom, and they were full of high spirits.
"Your Majesty, we cannot estimate the reserves of the Mayari Iron Ore... However, it is an entire black-gray-reddish iron ore mountain range, stretching as far as the eye can see, almost extending to the entire horizon! It is just the mining area that outcrops on the surface. They are all at least twenty or thirty miles away. As for the mineral reserves underground, let alone it! And after I carefully inspected the quality of this large iron mine, it is obviously much higher than that of Black Iron Mountain!..."
Speaking of the majestic scene of the Mayari Iron Ore Belt, the face of the Mekkat priest was full of piety and fanaticism.
"Praise the Lord God! I was originally worried that I wouldn't be able to find this prophesied iron mine... But I didn't expect that it would be such a huge scale, just like the Lord God's Snake Mountain! ... And apart from this iron mine, we We also found several large copper mines, as well as some unclear mineral deposits..."
"Praise you, Your Majesty! The Cuban Snake Island on the sea is, as predicted, the divine body of Quetzalcoatl! That rich Snake Island is filled with scattered divine power and mineral deposits of condensed divine power. These are Mineral deposits, this Snake Island, are the Lord God’s gift to the entire world!…Ah! Praise the Lord God! Praise the God-revealed prophecy!…”
Hearing this, Shulot touched his nose and nodded calmly. He also did not expect that the scale of Cuba's large iron ore belt would be so huge, with reserves estimated to be in the order of one billion tons. And such a large iron ore belt with a capacity of 100 million tons must have many excellent rich ores! The quality of those fine and rich ores is definitely much better than the small, million-ton barren mine developed by the Kingdom, the Black Iron Mountain Iron Mine!
"In the Black Iron Mountain Mine in the south of the Kingdom, many three-meter-high earthen shaft furnaces have been used for high-temperature smelting to produce large quantities of pig iron... This kind of smelting technology is at most the level of the Warring States Period of the Celestial Dynasty. .The quality of iron ore is also very low, with many impurities, making it difficult to smelt good iron..."
"Therefore, the iron material finally produced by the Heitieshan mine has relatively low purity and quality, and lacks uniformity and toughness. This kind of iron material is also the same as the iron from the Warring States Period of the Celestial Dynasty. If it is made into iron weapons, it is very easy to If it breaks in a fierce battle, it is not as good as the bronze weapons of the kingdom! However, it is enough to be used to make iron farm tools and increase the productivity of the kingdom!..."
Shulot touched his chin and recalled the reports from the Kingdom's Southern Iron Smelting Works in the past few years. There was nothing disappointing at all. He was very satisfied that the iron smelting plant could continuously increase its scale and continuously produce iron farm tools!
Technological progress cannot be achieved overnight and needs to be explored over a long period of practice. With his piecemeal divine guidance and a large amount of manpower and material investment, the kingdom's iron smelting craftsmen were able to achieve this step, which is already commendable. And if we really want to achieve a leap in technological progress, we have to rely on the gains from maritime exchanges and directly steal, no, borrow from already mature technologies!
"If we could acquire the iron and steelmaking technology from East Asia, or capture the professional blacksmiths from Europe..."
Shulot looked forward to it for a moment, then shook his head. These are still far away, but what can be actually touched right now is Cuba's high-quality large iron ore. As long as there is better iron ore, the quality of iron tools will naturally improve.
"Well! God bless you! Another key purpose of controlling Cuba is to control this large iron ore belt and provide iron tools for the entire Central American world! ... Iron Bay Town occupies the large iron ore belt, and it is the Kingdom on the Snake Island of Cuba. , the most core stronghold! This stronghold must focus on management, build a huge iron smelting plant, and expand it into a solid stone fortress and fortress! ... The kingdom's iron smelting craftsmen and brick-burning craftsmen must be sent to Cuba's Long Island as soon as possible …”
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Thinking of this, Shulot pondered for a while and asked Mecat again.
"Mecat, how about the Taino people's smelting and brick-burning technology?... Oh, okay! It's blank... Well, that means there is still a lot of room for productivity development, which can also be said to be a good thing... Witness the Lord God! Then what do you think, On the Snake Island of Cuba, what is the most lacking thing in the kingdom? Can the Taino young man who has converted to the main god be trained as a warrior?…"
"Your Majesty! The Taíno people are a very peaceful and hard-working tribe, and their faith is completely blank. They urgently need the guidance of the Lord God. They are good at farming and fishing, and are very tall. They are good laborers for cutting down trees and mining! ... However, they need to be trained. They fight, and cultivating their habit of fighting in battle is probably too costly and not easy... Therefore, what is most lacking on Cuba's Snake Island right now, in addition to craftsmen of all kinds, are reliable warriors and missionary priests! "
Speaking of this, Priest Mekart looked excited, and Kang asked for orders.
"The kingdom's fleet of two hundred people can convert two large Taino tribes of three thousand people, occupying a large iron ore belt of tens of miles! If there can be two thousand warriors and hundreds of priests...Priest Tomat and I, For the sake of the kingdom, I can convert hundreds of thousands of Taino tribesmen and control the richest eight hundred-mile snakeheads on the three-thousand-mile Snake Island!"
"Two thousand warriors...hundreds of priests...three thousand miles long Cuban Snake Island!..."
Shulot pondered for a moment and slowly shook his head.
"Mecat, two thousand warriors are not enough! The Snake Island in Cuba alone is three thousand miles away. And opposite the Snake Island, there is the equally vast Haitian island, as well as a string of islands further east... The Kingdom in the Lake , we will successively transport an entire eight thousand warrior army to Snake Island in Cuba! And my warrior chief Bertard will also go to Snake Island in person to take control of Cuba!..."
Hearing this, Priest Mecat showed surprise on his face. He knew the status of the warrior commander, who was almost His Majesty's most trusted minister in the kingdom. Ekart, the captain of the guard, had a twinkle in his eye and couldn't help but touch his nose. After all, he was able to become the captain of the bodyguard beside His Majesty precisely because Bertard wanted to leave Zhendonghai...
"Witness the Lord God! The white-skinned evil demon across the sea is coming! The kingdom must be prepared, the alliance must be prepared, and the entire world must be prepared! This is not a fight that happens once or twice a year or two! Instead, it will last for dozens of generations, go through hundreds of years, experience great plagues again and again, and is destined to be a doomsday war with countless casualties!"
Shulot looked serious and warned everyone once again, as well as himself. He knew very well that the most terrifying thing for the Western colonists was not the current power of the European countries, but the speed of development of the European countries!
Renaissance thoughts had spread across Europe, and calls for religious reform were brewing. The knowledge and culture spread by universities, the increasing literacy rate, and the prosperous commodity economy are accelerating the progress of the entire Europe! If you want to resist all this, resist the continuous invasion from the West, and protect the Native Americans in the Americas, it is destined to be a long and difficult battle with no end in sight...
"The Kingdom of Spain's sea power advantage is destined to take the absolute initiative in the fight with the Alliance! Even if a fortress is built on the island of Cuba, it can only guard important places. It is impossible to bring the Spanish colonists from Central America. Drive away completely…”
“And what is it that can really shed Spanish blood and destroy the Spanish Kingdom’s sea power?”
Shulot pursed his lips and his thoughts drifted away, to Europe thousands of miles away. During these years of governance, he gained a deeper understanding of politics and war. And standing on the shoulders of the history and great men of later generations, he has a clearer understanding of the possible future direction of Europe than anyone else in this era!
"The one who can shed the blood of Spain and destroy the sea power of the Kingdom of Spain...is definitely not the Mexica Alliance or the empire of Central America...but can only be the powerful European countries!"
"The Portuguese are businessmen who are aware of current affairs and are friends who are hostile to the Spanish, but they are also enemies who control the sea power and yearn for the New World! For an empire based in the Americas, it has to fight against the rising sea powers in Europe and continue to attack and The most reliable and powerful allies of the colonists who came here are naturally the continental powers in Europe!…”
"Therefore, the one who can defeat Spain, defeat Portugal, defeat the future Netherlands and Britain...the one who can kill the maritime powers in Western Europe and kill the most Christians!...Only the most pious 'filial son' of God can blaspheme the alliance of Christ By…"
Thinking of this, Shulot raised the corner of his mouth and silently uttered a word in the flickering light.
"France..."
