The Rise of Iceland

　　　　 After a few people walked into the cockpit and sat down, Olaf asked, "What did you buy? Uncle?"

"36 32-pounder guns, 18 9-pounder guns, 300 matchlock guns, 500 plate armors, more than 100 crossbows, 500 swords and spears each, and more than 200 boxes of ammunition. This is the most artillery and plate armor. It's expensive! After all, it is made of pure iron!"

　　 Hudick took out the first purchase order transcript from his arms, read the number on it, and said with emotion.

　　 "These guns are enough for three armed merchant ships, heavy artillery attacks, and small artillery harassment. There are also a lot of matchlock and plate weapons!" Olaf was a little surprised at Hagrid Hahudik's mastery.

　　 "That's too expensive!" Ulav worries about the dry money bag.

"It's not expensive anymore!" Hagrid grinned. "Mr. Fransen said that apart from the new artillery, many of the other weapons and equipment were used by the Dutch soldiers. Although they can be used, they are a little worn out, if not now. There is no war with Spain, and it won’t be cheaper for us."

　　 "Hey! More than two hundred thousand guilders!"

　　Ulav is still very distressed, but Olaf frowned and said: "We will have the opportunity to have our own weapon production line in the future. It will not last long to buy!"

　　 "How many people are there now? Thinking too far." Hudike pursed his lips, but his eyes also contained longing.

　　 Olaf nodded: "Yes! Thinking far, let's slowly accumulate strength first..."

The various groceries purchased by Ulav were not cleaned until noon the next day. Then Olaf and Ulav wandered around the Amsterdam market all day and saw a lot of peculiar sights, such as the divination and magic of the Gypsies. Performances include Arab magic, snake training and monkey training, etc.

　　 At the same time, I saw a lot of goods from the Far East. They were all familiar to Olaf, but most of the porcelain was rough in workmanship and the cloth patterns were not beautiful enough. It was obvious that they were all commonplace goods.

　　 After nine days, Troy took the apprentice to send the windmill and waterwheel components to the dock, and gave Ulav a hand-drawn installation drawing.

　　 "Although your sailor is stupid, he is still diligent. According to this drawing, you can make windmills and waterwheels."

　　 By the evening of the tenth day, an armed merchant ship entered the port and approached the Thor's Hammer.

　　 A group of people in a hurry, dressed in black cloaks, stood on the deck.

Hearing the movement, Hagrid and Hudick thought they were robbers. They rushed out with a weapon and a sailor. They stopped when they could see the people on the ship clearly, picked up the flag and gestured twice, and a black cloak on the opposite deck also took out the flag. There was a semaphore.

　　 "The delivery is here!" Hagrid sighed, and then directed the sailor to ride over a plank.

　　 The individuals who came out of those black cloaks said a few words to Hagrid, and then began to carry the huge and heavy wooden boxes from the cabin.

　　 More than a dozen people carried one box, but only two were carried out at a time. Hagrid and Hudick opened them one by one and found that they were all guns, plate armor and other weapons, and more than 80% were brand new.

　　 "Move to our boat!"

The sailors lifted the boxes on the deck and moved them into the Thor's Hammer along the board that was connected to the side. When the weapons of a dozen large boxes were finished, the black cloak brought out another thirty or forty large and small boxes, which were relatively light. some.

　　 Hagrid opened his mouth and saw that he recognized the iron cannons he had bought. Each of these 36-pound guns weighed six to seven hundred pounds. With wheels, they had to weigh dozens of pounds. The 9-pound guns were much lighter.

　　 When the sailors had all carried the artillery and ammunition, it was already in the middle of the night when Wan Lai was silent. Standing on the deck, only the sound of waves hitting the hull could be heard.

　　 The leader in the black cloak came out, followed Hagrid into the cockpit, accepted the check for two hundred and fifty thousand guilders by candlelight, and then nodded and left.

　　 Hagrid and Hudick sent the sailor to sleep. They both touched and looked at the cannon, and it took a long time before they fell asleep.

　　 When he got up the next day, Hagrid personally drove the boat to the north shore of the port, sailed into the Zan River and stopped at the gate of De Grotte Shipyard.

　　 De Grotte sent people to push the pulley crane to hoist the cannon down, and prepare to install it in the gun chambers on both sides of the armed merchant ship.

　　 Hagrid was staring at the four ships that were about to be completed in the shipyard, while Ulav and Olaf went to buy goods. After all, buying ships and weapons was about to run out of money, and you should never go to Scotland again.

Hagrid’s 350,000, except for the money for food, windmills, waterwheels, and weapons and equipment, is only less than 70,000. However, the cost of two armed merchant ships and a mixed-sail clipper is 55,000 guilders, and there is one more ship. Olaf paid for the 20000 guilders for the armed merchant ships.

　　 So Hagrid actually only had fifteen guilders left. Olaf saw his uncle's embarrassment and lent him most of his seven thousand pounds, so Hagrid had the money to let Ulav buy the goods.

The Thor’s Hammer was loaded with weapons and equipment, and the Hope was a ship full of grain. The remaining four new ships were three armed merchant ships with a tonnage equivalent to that of the Hope Thor, but because they were equipped with artillery, As a result, the space has been reduced by one-third, and the cargo capacity has been much reduced compared to before the renovation.

The mixed-sail Clippers are one size smaller than these large ships. They are mainly used for fishing and near-sea cargo. Ulav bought it because it is convenient to use in Wenlan. It is not only more convenient for fishing, but also up the river. After entering the island, it will be used as a quick means of transportation for troop carriers to deal with the wild people in the future.

Around fifty thousand guilders, Ulav bought one hundred pounds of first-class spices and 270 pounds of second-class spices ~ www.wuxiahere.com~ and spent fifty thousand guilders to buy a lot of linen, beer and Twenty bags of granulated sugar.

More than 5,000 pounds were spent cleanly, and the remaining money bought enough water for the sailors on the five ships. When Ulav finally returned Hagrid's purse, there were only more than 8,000 guilders exchanged from the Bank of Amsterdam. , Seeing that the heavy coins are all silver coins, but they are only worth four hundred pounds.

On the morning of June 2nd, after everything was ready, Hagrid submitted the tax plate and asked the staff of the exchange to check the various contracts and the procedures issued by the port. After that, he obtained the departure documents and handed them to the port management staff. Later, I got a pass, and then the five ships slowly left the port under the helm of Hagrid, Ulav, Hudik, Hilter, and Valitu, and left Amsterdam all the way to the north under the control of the sailors. Inland sea.

　　 There are Dutch ships blocking the way near the West Frisian Islands, and only ships leaving the port are allowed to leave the port of Helder. This port is the only port in the north that enters and exits Amsterdam. It was blocked by the Netherlands to form a checkpoint.

　　 Five large ships were stopped when they reached Helder Port. After docking, a Dutch navy checked the departure documents before releasing them. This was to prevent tax evasion and smuggling of ships.

　　Led by the Hope, three armed merchant ships followed in an arrow shape, enclosing the Thor Hammer and the Mixed Sail Clippers.

　　Five ships left the Helder checkpoint and entered the North Sea. They adjusted their directions and withdrew their full sails. The sails bulged under the action of the sea breeze and pushed the fleet to the northwest.

At noon the next day, the fleet entered the Gulf of Forth on the east coast of Scotland. This is a large trumpet-shaped bay. About a hundred nautical miles west, it is the former capital of the Kingdom of Scotland. Now the United Kingdom of England, Scotland and Ireland governs the Scottish region. The capital-Edinburgh.