Picture No. 19 accompanying the report is the entire harbor fort and stone trestle drawn by Mr. Leib Trini. This is the best angle we can see from the ship. Pictures No. 20 to 67 are pictures of Leib Trini.
Mr. Rini drew various scenes of the port and the ships parked in the port. Picture No. 25 is the "holy ship" of the Australians. The brochure you provided said that the ship has a giant cannon on the front deck, but from our perspective
Unable to confirm. Numbers 26 to 28 are European-style boats owned by Australians. Numbers 29 to 33 are other boats owned by Australians.
I will issue 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" sailed in the port of Lingaobopu
After putting down the quill, Van Dellentrön spread out the letter and took out a cardboard from his briefcase. There were many irregular holes in the cardboard. He covered the cardboard with the letter, compared it, and began
Copy it on another piece of paper.
Gonzalez couldn't help but secretly laugh when he saw the young businessman working so diligently - now that they are not even allowed to disembark, who are they going to send back to Batavia to deliver the letter? There is neither a company's business office nor a business office here.
Other ships from Batavia. Australians never go to Batavia either.
Leib Trini was holding a cup and 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 a dozen barrels of rum and five bottles of rum.
Ten boxes of kvass, and 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 cannon, there were drunken and shouting people lying everywhere.
Sleeping "scum". A tragic incident happened the night before. A sailor slept on the deck after being drunk and rolled into the water in the middle of the night. The sailor on duty found that he had already been picked up when he was picked up.
He died. For this reason, the businessman had to pay a "body disposal fee" of eight rials, and the port authority transported the body to the open sea and discarded it.
Because Leib Trini had nothing to do, except drinking and drawing, he used projection and simple instruments on the deck to roughly draw the topography of the port. Then he drew what could be seen on the deck of the "Magdeburg"
He made sketches of everything he saw. Among them, he especially carefully described the "Holy Ship". This huge ship was on the other side of the bay, and its dark silhouette glowed under the blue water and sky, which made him intoxicated.
Beauty, whether it is lines or light, shadow and color. Trini is a draftsman. In Europe, where technology and art have not yet been completely separated, he is also half an artist. He has a natural sensitivity to beautiful things.
Blue smoke emitted intermittently every day from the Holy Ship, and sometimes a burst of black smoke suddenly erupted. When Mr. Trini wanted to find out what happened on the ship and what the Australians were doing - he became obsessed with the "Holy Ship"
” Interest is growing day by day.
Now he saw the businessman wrapping his sketchbook 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 dazed and lost.
Although these pictures are just sketches, is it safe to send them away with the letter? It is dozens of days' voyage from Batavia, and any accident may cause the letter to be lost at the bottom of the sea forever.
"How are you going to deliver the letter?" Gonzalez finally couldn't help but ask.
"I just saw a Junk ship unloading deer skins from Formosa - these Chinese businessmen obviously came from Daguan. I am going to ask them to take it." The businessman was confident, "Give them some money."
They will do it properly."
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 returns to Batavia later than them, it will still be valuable - at least it serves 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, Si Kaide was sitting in his office, contented and complacent. At the third plenary session of the Senate after the annual meeting, a by-election was held for the vacant executive committee.
Because Cade has been responsible for the daily work of the Ministry of Colonization and Trade for a long time, and often preaches such remarks as "the Pacific Ocean is the Pacific Ocean of China", he was successfully elected as the Executive Committee Member of the Ministry of Colonization and Trade in the by-election.
The first thing Skade did after being elected was to move - in his opinion, the original Colonial and Trade Department was too small to meet his ambitions and the current expanding business volume. Fortunately, since the veteran's "Anju Building"
"After the construction started, there was a lot of vacant land in Bairen City. He re-occupied a piece of land and built the Ministry of Colonization and Trade building.
The so-called building is actually the reused waste of simple dormitories in the past. Nowadays, most of the elders live in apartments, and there are many accessories for simple rooms. 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 building is made of brick, and the upper two floors are made of brick.
It is made of colored steel plates. An arched wooden roof supported by wrought iron trusses is added between the two roofs. It is equipped with glass skylights. The front and rear of the vault are closed with brick walls, so that it becomes an office with offices on both sides and in the middle.
There is a building with a high-ceilinged hall. The whole building is filled with the smell of a cottage.
Skade liked the full-height vaulted-roof hall of Lingao Architectural Company very much - the sand table model on the planning display table below was so majestic! So he also wanted to build one like this. In this way, he stood on the third floor
From the balcony of the officer's office on the first floor, you can look down at the sand table and the busy staff around you, fully satisfying your desire to overlook the world.
Under this vault, there are various sand tables. Skade believes that the work of the Colonial and Trade Department is often similar to the staff department, which is just an economic staff department. The basic skills of staff operations are to use maps and sand tables.
Make gestures.
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 owned by the traversers, or contracted with the traversers, and public commercial outlets are placed in the form of small flags and models.
In this big sandbox.
Huge maps and tables are hung on the wall. 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, the Colonial Trade Department, the Naval Shipping Department, the Port Office, the Manufacturing Directorate and various foreign stations with radios exchange information. The female clerks holding long forked sticks follow the information received and follow the requirements.
Changing the hanging position of the card. Under the running chart, a group of people called "calculators" sit in office cubicles, using slide rules and dip pens to continuously calculate the data handed to them.
They were selected from naturalized people who had obtained C diplomas and were taught certain mathematical calculation methods. Each of them was only responsible for memorizing one calculation formula. The work they did was to convert the handed in data.
Fill in the formula, and then use pen calculations and slide rules to deduce the results. The purpose and principle of the calculation are not important at all, as long as they can calculate the results correctly, they are qualified calculators. Because of repeated mechanical exercises, their calculation speed is very fast
quick
Every few months, they learn another formula to make sure they are interchangeable.
Through sophisticated management methods, which ships have left the port, which ones are loading and unloading cargo, and which ships are currently empty. What kind of goods are carried on each ship; the variety and quantity of this month's import and export demand 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 Ministry of Colonial Trade did not have its own ships - this was something that Skade had always been worried about. When the *** steamship was established, he strongly demanded that the company be under the control of the department, but in the end it fell into the hands of the Ministry of Transport and the Navy.
Here, this made him unhappy - the Ministry of Colonization and Trade without ships, what a big joke!
Of course, he was unable to resist the navy's attempt to monopolize shipping. He had no choice but to swallow his 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 colonial and trade department's establishment in Hong Kai
Actions are launched! If the coal supply problem plaguing the Senate can be solved once and for all, his voice will be much louder during meetings of the Executive Committee and the Senate, and his demands will be 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 beside 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 Kei, Vietnam, using the old time and space.
The map was staked out and revised with survey data reported from the front.