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Chapter 1259 The Indian Version of the Black Ship Arrives
Chapter 1259 The Indian Version of the Black Ship Arrives
A black-smoky steam ironclad led the fleet into the most prosperous port of Surat in the Mughal Empire.
The arrival of a huge fleet of ironclad ships, sailing warships, merchant ships, and troop carriers caused a huge commotion in Surat Port!
Surat Port is regarded as an international port for Indian merchants, Western merchants, Arab merchants, and Ottoman merchants to carry out ocean-going trade. Because of the balance of power, all parties here abide by traditional trade customs and do not interfere with each other. The Empire pays customs duties.
As a commercial center rather than a fortress, the Mughal Empire did not set up too many artillery pieces, and the forts on the seaside are still the backward style of artillery in the last century.
The arrival of the huge fleet is likely to break the balance of all forces here, and may even destroy the port of Surat.
The arrival of this huge fleet shocked almost the entire port of Surat.
In particular, the steam ironclad ship General Fubo brought them an unparalleled shock!
With a narrow iron hull of 94 meters, two huge chimneys are emitting billowing black smoke, and several masts go straight into the sky.The big characters "General Fubo" were painted in white paint on the black hull. In their opinion, this kind of characters with oriental characteristics added a bit of mystery to the iron-clad ship.
The General Fubo has only one layer of armor with a 40-pound smoothbore gun. There is a 68-pound smoothbore gun on the bow and stern of the upper deck.
It's a pity that the Armstrong rifled gun is still under development, and its stability is not reliable, so it cannot be installed on the ironclad ship General Fubo that will be sent to Europe.
If the General Fubo is damaged due to the blasting of the rifled gun, it is impossible to repair it at the current level of the British shipyard, so the mature smoothbore gun technology is still used.
In addition to the ironclad ship General Fubo, there is also the sail battleship Wei Guo, the most common fifty-gun class sail battleship in the Kyushu Army.
Because the sailing battleship Wei Guo was a wooden warship, it could not withstand the recoil brought by heavy and long guns, most of which were 12- and 24-pound guns.
Even so, the sailing battleship Wei Guo alone is already the largest sailing battleship in the Indian Ocean.
The ships built by the Mughal Empire can't be compared with it at all, let alone the steam ironclad ship built with technology beyond this era, such as the General Fubo.
Not only the local Mughal officials and businessmen, but also the Dutch and Portuguese who set up factories in Surat Port all came to the seashore to watch this huge supply fleet.
"This is the fleet of Huaxia merchants. There are more than 30 ships! How could that ship be black? Could it be that they used some kind of paint?"
"The smoking monster looks like it's on fire!"
Many businessmen who had never been to China were shocked by the size of the arriving fleet, and even more shocked by the strange shape of the ironclad General Fubo.
The chimney, black hull, and more than twice the length of traditional sailboats, steam ironclads have never appeared in this world, and they were extremely surprised.
The most surprising thing is that the officials of the Mughal Empire in Surat Port, who have not yet had a strong sense of the sea, were already very surprised when they saw the Galen sailing ship in the west. At this time, the arrival of the iron-clad ship like a steel castle made them feel I am like a frog in a well.
If it wasn't for the officials from the East India Company and Surat Port to say hello in advance, they thought it was a monster that came out of nowhere.The strength of the fleet that came here before was enough to capture Sutra Port.
The huge fleet is moored at the port of Surat. Due to the fear of the ships being stranded, only small boats dock, and the materials are transported from the port of Surat to the big ship through the small boat to provide supplies for the big ship.
The East India Company had already collected and purchased a batch of coal here, and then temporarily collected a large amount of fresh fruits, vegetables, meat, and fresh water.
There are several troop carriers in the fleet, on which a thousand troops from the Far West are dispatched, and they can really conquer the most prosperous port of the Mughal Empire without any difficulty.However, their purpose was not to come to the Mughal Empire to provoke a protracted war, so they did not disembark, so as not to cause extreme panic in the Mughal Empire.
As long as they avoid going ashore, the Mughal Empire can still be grateful for its firm grasp of land power.
A few men, however, came ashore in small boats carrying a valuable machine.
"Be careful, don't let the camera get in the water!"
Several cameramen carefully lifted the machine to the shore.
"Is this the port of Surat in the Mughal Empire? Compared with our capital, this place is really different. If we can record the precious images from this trip, our photo studio will definitely become famous in one fell swoop!"
"Prepare to take pictures in the port, if possible, we will take more interesting photos on the street!"
The cameraman and several apprentices from the Beijing photo studio didn't care about the eyes of the people around them, but took important images here.
Princess Sophia asked Chu Yun to send a videographer to London so that people stationed in the two places could exchange photos. Chu Yun also agreed, so he asked the photo studio to send a team to Europe with two early cameras .
For the photo studio, this is a rare opportunity to capture exotic scenery, and the photos taken during this voyage may become a series of precious historical materials.
"What are they doing?" the Surat port official asked the East India Company employee in charge.
They saw several Han people operating strange machines aimed at the port city, and some people got into the black cloth.
In order to inherit the privileges that the British had here, the East India Company was still a company of the British on the surface, and the British also dealt with the local government to avoid the suspicion of the Mughal Empire.
The British employees of the East India Company had never seen such a weird thing like a camera, and they couldn't answer why: "Please rest assured, my lord, they may just come ashore to rest for a while, and they are very curious about this place."
The official in Surat Port has a strange expression on his face, but he has received a lot of benefits from the East India Company in private, so I still need to help with this small favor: "As long as they leave as soon as possible... But such a huge fleet , It’s really rare, no, I’ve seen two similar fleets before, and their ships are similar, could it be that the Chinese people come and go back to the West on a regular basis every year?”
The Indian peninsula is located in the middle of the trade routes between the eastern and western hemispheres, and every time a fleet passes by, it is inevitable to replenish here. Over time, the people of the Mughal Empire also began to notice that huge changes were taking place in the ocean.
(End of this chapter)
A black-smoky steam ironclad led the fleet into the most prosperous port of Surat in the Mughal Empire.
The arrival of a huge fleet of ironclad ships, sailing warships, merchant ships, and troop carriers caused a huge commotion in Surat Port!
Surat Port is regarded as an international port for Indian merchants, Western merchants, Arab merchants, and Ottoman merchants to carry out ocean-going trade. Because of the balance of power, all parties here abide by traditional trade customs and do not interfere with each other. The Empire pays customs duties.
As a commercial center rather than a fortress, the Mughal Empire did not set up too many artillery pieces, and the forts on the seaside are still the backward style of artillery in the last century.
The arrival of the huge fleet is likely to break the balance of all forces here, and may even destroy the port of Surat.
The arrival of this huge fleet shocked almost the entire port of Surat.
In particular, the steam ironclad ship General Fubo brought them an unparalleled shock!
With a narrow iron hull of 94 meters, two huge chimneys are emitting billowing black smoke, and several masts go straight into the sky.The big characters "General Fubo" were painted in white paint on the black hull. In their opinion, this kind of characters with oriental characteristics added a bit of mystery to the iron-clad ship.
The General Fubo has only one layer of armor with a 40-pound smoothbore gun. There is a 68-pound smoothbore gun on the bow and stern of the upper deck.
It's a pity that the Armstrong rifled gun is still under development, and its stability is not reliable, so it cannot be installed on the ironclad ship General Fubo that will be sent to Europe.
If the General Fubo is damaged due to the blasting of the rifled gun, it is impossible to repair it at the current level of the British shipyard, so the mature smoothbore gun technology is still used.
In addition to the ironclad ship General Fubo, there is also the sail battleship Wei Guo, the most common fifty-gun class sail battleship in the Kyushu Army.
Because the sailing battleship Wei Guo was a wooden warship, it could not withstand the recoil brought by heavy and long guns, most of which were 12- and 24-pound guns.
Even so, the sailing battleship Wei Guo alone is already the largest sailing battleship in the Indian Ocean.
The ships built by the Mughal Empire can't be compared with it at all, let alone the steam ironclad ship built with technology beyond this era, such as the General Fubo.
Not only the local Mughal officials and businessmen, but also the Dutch and Portuguese who set up factories in Surat Port all came to the seashore to watch this huge supply fleet.
"This is the fleet of Huaxia merchants. There are more than 30 ships! How could that ship be black? Could it be that they used some kind of paint?"
"The smoking monster looks like it's on fire!"
Many businessmen who had never been to China were shocked by the size of the arriving fleet, and even more shocked by the strange shape of the ironclad General Fubo.
The chimney, black hull, and more than twice the length of traditional sailboats, steam ironclads have never appeared in this world, and they were extremely surprised.
The most surprising thing is that the officials of the Mughal Empire in Surat Port, who have not yet had a strong sense of the sea, were already very surprised when they saw the Galen sailing ship in the west. At this time, the arrival of the iron-clad ship like a steel castle made them feel I am like a frog in a well.
If it wasn't for the officials from the East India Company and Surat Port to say hello in advance, they thought it was a monster that came out of nowhere.The strength of the fleet that came here before was enough to capture Sutra Port.
The huge fleet is moored at the port of Surat. Due to the fear of the ships being stranded, only small boats dock, and the materials are transported from the port of Surat to the big ship through the small boat to provide supplies for the big ship.
The East India Company had already collected and purchased a batch of coal here, and then temporarily collected a large amount of fresh fruits, vegetables, meat, and fresh water.
There are several troop carriers in the fleet, on which a thousand troops from the Far West are dispatched, and they can really conquer the most prosperous port of the Mughal Empire without any difficulty.However, their purpose was not to come to the Mughal Empire to provoke a protracted war, so they did not disembark, so as not to cause extreme panic in the Mughal Empire.
As long as they avoid going ashore, the Mughal Empire can still be grateful for its firm grasp of land power.
A few men, however, came ashore in small boats carrying a valuable machine.
"Be careful, don't let the camera get in the water!"
Several cameramen carefully lifted the machine to the shore.
"Is this the port of Surat in the Mughal Empire? Compared with our capital, this place is really different. If we can record the precious images from this trip, our photo studio will definitely become famous in one fell swoop!"
"Prepare to take pictures in the port, if possible, we will take more interesting photos on the street!"
The cameraman and several apprentices from the Beijing photo studio didn't care about the eyes of the people around them, but took important images here.
Princess Sophia asked Chu Yun to send a videographer to London so that people stationed in the two places could exchange photos. Chu Yun also agreed, so he asked the photo studio to send a team to Europe with two early cameras .
For the photo studio, this is a rare opportunity to capture exotic scenery, and the photos taken during this voyage may become a series of precious historical materials.
"What are they doing?" the Surat port official asked the East India Company employee in charge.
They saw several Han people operating strange machines aimed at the port city, and some people got into the black cloth.
In order to inherit the privileges that the British had here, the East India Company was still a company of the British on the surface, and the British also dealt with the local government to avoid the suspicion of the Mughal Empire.
The British employees of the East India Company had never seen such a weird thing like a camera, and they couldn't answer why: "Please rest assured, my lord, they may just come ashore to rest for a while, and they are very curious about this place."
The official in Surat Port has a strange expression on his face, but he has received a lot of benefits from the East India Company in private, so I still need to help with this small favor: "As long as they leave as soon as possible... But such a huge fleet , It’s really rare, no, I’ve seen two similar fleets before, and their ships are similar, could it be that the Chinese people come and go back to the West on a regular basis every year?”
The Indian peninsula is located in the middle of the trade routes between the eastern and western hemispheres, and every time a fleet passes by, it is inevitable to replenish here. Over time, the people of the Mughal Empire also began to notice that huge changes were taking place in the ocean.
(End of this chapter)
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