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Chapter 18 - Trip to Olissipo (Lisbon)

    During the following three months, July has a underwent a great change of personality, the Spartan training of his nephew change his way of thinking, he no longer took time to drink until he was in aa, he learned the value of responsibility in blood thanks to these efforts.


    In the months that vio’s uncle was being trained, vio fell in love with how simple Hellena is, she is not a spoiled girl who behaves in an unpleasant way to get attention.


    On the contrary, she is very intelligent and always seeks to get ahead, sometimes while she sleeps next to vio on her face some tears are reflected but only vio needs to hug her with her little hands so that she can sleep peacefully again.


    Hellena also calls Julia mother, this seemed to like her mother very much since whenever she does, Julia hugs her, to see that her fiancee and her mother get along, it is a rare scene but vio likes to see.


    When July left Emerita Augusta and arrives Rome asked his father to allow him tomand the invasion of Britannia, August was surprised by the change of attitude of his son and wondered what it was that he had lived with his grandson.


    August first tested the capabilities of his son to test his son’s ability tomand, he left him a simple task, he had to go fight in the city of Neapolis to kill the rebel ves in the city.


    July epted his father’s test and left Rome with only 2000 legionaries and 500 cavalries, to face them he would use one of the tactics he learned with his nephew.


    The doors of the city of Neapolis were made of wood, so he bought in the market of Rome before leaving oil used by farmers for cows.


    When he arrived in the city he waits for the night and under the shelter of darkness he fills the north door of the city with oil, to prevent the attack from failing, the south oil door is also filled as a hook measure.


    The south door was first lit and with it, the ves went to put out the fire, unfortunately, they neglected the north door and soon after in the city the legionaries entered to kill any ve present.


    In the morning July undertook his way with the leader of the ves without legs and hands, he had suffered the punishment of Vitellius for killing Romans inside the city of Neapolis.


    When July arrived in Rome, Emperor Augustus realized that his grandson had turned his stupid son into someone to trust the empire.


    After that August entrusted his son part of the invasion of Britain taking as his second inmand General Agrippa.


    In emerita Augusta vio began to n the development of the port of Olissipo (Lisbon currently), to reach the Americas it is notplicated the approximate time to reach Coatzacoalcos with the current technology is 90 days (3 months)


    The question is that is only a one way trip there is no return, as soon as there is no return it is due to the future vio may know that his grandfather and his uncle will allow a trade to the Americas, but what happens if one day the imperial regime of the family falls through other emperors


    They will not leave arge piece of meat in their sight, they will send troops to the Americas and start a great war and colonization, in the end, no one will win in these wars sooner orter Rome will fall and with it the Americas would be fragmented and only will form a kind of American Europe


    So it is better to centralize power from the center of the continent (Mexico), go south and reach the darién (Frontera Panama, Colombia) create a wall to separate the wild south of the developed north, after that colonize the inds of the Caribbean and start trade in Asia


    One of the very important strategic materials in the Americas is the sisal a nt that produces a very strong natural fiber with it vio can develop modern sailboats that have a greater capacity of speed and load.


    Traveling to Japan to start trading is not a bad idea, as for why China is not due to thenguage as they know vio has blocked areas of knowledge this includesnguages, because vio knows Mayan, Nahuatl and ancient Japanese, it is due to his past life he was a Mexican archaeologist who worked at INAH (Institute of Anthropology and History (Mexico))


    Always felt the taste for the important cultures andnguages ??of his nation and as far as Japanese is due to his liking for anime and his wife a Japanese linguist named Miyuki a rather peculiar rtionship ar but thanks to it allowed him to know more about different cultures


    Returning to the point of Olissipo the development is to allow docking arge vio fleet needs to emigrate to at least 1 million people


    The number of people in the Americas was very small due to the great distribution that exists and the date it is, in 1519 AD there were approximately 32 million native people in Mesoamerica now it is 21 BC, the poption must be of some few millions of between 5-10 million scattered in the area of Mesoamerica (All the data are approximate I did not find precise data, so all these numbers are suppositions formted with the scant information that I found)


    As to how to transport so many people, vio thought of sending 3 expeditions the first will be troops, priests and priestesses and poption for the construction of forts


    The second will be artisans, poption in general, and the third andst will be animals horses, donkeys, sheep, goats, among others, vio would leave with the first expedition, the second would bemanded by his mother and thest by his wife Hellena.


    For the creation of the vio fleet you are very lucky, in this era there are many tall trees perfect for the construction of the keel of the boats which has to be built from a single tree, the model of the boat that wants to upy is the ship of line of 3000 tons, clear that with limitations and substantial changes the tonnage is reduced remember that the ships were made in an era with a global trade where resources could be taken from all ces


    But vio is sure that he can make a great 2500 tonnes single-use boat this mainly because the wood tends to rot in the sea if it is not treated correctly, with theserge boats is sure to take about 5000 people per boat (including crew) and resources for their subsistence during the 3 months of travel


    As for why no more is to avoid diseases and famines in the trip, therefore, needs 200 boats only to carry 1 million people but if you add exclusive ships of supplies, armament and animals would be 400 boats in total arge amount for the time, if you divided your priorities into 3 first the creation of a school of sailors, the second the expansion of the port and the third the improvement of the shipyard in the city of Olissipo.


    vio spent a few days and traveled with hellena to the coastal city of Olissipo, during the carriage trip, vio enjoyed the trip with Hellena, this was a trip where Julia could not participate for what would be the first time the two were alone on a trip.


    In the city of Olissipo, vio will start the construction of a school of sailors, at this time the sailors are quitemon but vio needs a plus on their sailors is not the same travel in the Mediterranean than in the Antic.


    If they are not careful a storm can end the expedition or they can end up going to another ce, that’s why the training of the sailors, captains, naval police and the naval doctor is elementary


    vio calctes that he needs to train more than 80,000 men and women 200 sailors by boat, to have effective and safe control of the goods and poption that is transported until they reach the new world, the school decided to found near the port upying more than 5 km2


    vio exined the ns of the building to his trusted architect Marco the naval school was very simr to the "Mürwik Academy" with the difference that the clock of the tower and eliminated to build a watchtower and ced a sundial in front of the building, the capacity was for 2000 students


    vio was not in a hurry since the construction would take at least 3 years enough time for trained and trained teachers he will publish some books toplement the education, while the shield he upied was the Juarista eagle (symbol of the g of the second Mexican republic), to make him vio he took the time to sculpt it in wood, while hellena enjoyed the beautiful beaches of Olissipo.
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