Chapter 257： Columbus arrangement

When thinking of coal transportation at sea, Marin suddenly remembered the Columbus fleet that was still bumping in the ocean. Counting the time, Columbus's fleet should be in the coastal areas of West Africa.

Originally, Da Gama returned to Lisbon on September 9. Columbus did not waste that time in Mombasa and Malindi. So Marin can be sure that Columbus will be back in Europe in August.

归 The return of Columbus is definitely a great thing for Marin. Because, Columbus will return with a lot of expensive spices. If he had to exchange it for money, Marin would have a lot of money. At that time, he said that he had the money to start a large-scale excavation of canals in East Friesland, and to build a large number of Dutch windmills to drain the swamp water and transform it into a good field.

There are too many swamps in the East Frisian Land. As long as it can be transformed into cultivated land, that is more than a dozen Eugrams, equivalent to nearly 1.5 million acres!

However, the initial investment is very large for digging ditches for drainage and building a large number of Dutch windmills. In this era, even thousands of square kilometers of marshland could not be afforded even by tycoons like the Duke of Saxony. It's not that Duke Saxon couldn't get the money, but that he used the money a lot, and certainly couldn't smash the money into the swamp renovation.

几年 After several years of development and management of the West Frisian Islands, Marin has deeply realized that the development of wasteland requires great investment.

For example, Marin wants to develop 10 Ugram land (120 acres). First, he had to have a population, at least a family of serfs. The West Frisian Islands were originally empty, so they had to recruit inland areas.

But when he came to recruit a serf in the inland area, Marin couldn't go to battle in person? Definitely hire someone. You have to pay for the hire, and the day's wages, as well as the cost of carriage, meals, and accommodation, must be reimbursed.

Then, taking a family of serfs to the archipelago, the cost of travel was also large. You recruited people, you have to pay for it yourself? You have to pay for the meal while you are on the go. Even if they were given inferior dark bread as hard as slabs, the family would spend two fennies a day.

In general, he sent someone to recruit a family of serfs (5 people) to the West Frisian Islands, and the cost was no less than 5 gold coins. If it recruits 10,000 people, it will cost tens of thousands of gold coins.

But this is just the beginning ...

After the serfs were recruited to the island, the first thing was not to plant land, but to build houses for them to settle them. In this era, the cost of building a house was also very high. The cost of building a wooden house or a stone house is very high. Fortunately, Marin knew how to build low-cost adobe houses, saving a lot of money. Otherwise, just to build wood and stone for those immigrants, thousands of gold coins will be invested ...

The cost of a house is not high. However, when the serfs were recruited, they must be expected to work. The serfs who came just now had no food. Therefore, from the time of the reclamation to the autumn harvest, Marin needs to pay for his own food to support them ... This support is more than half a year ... and the food in Europe is so expensive now ...

Then, Marin had to equip these serfs with enough iron farm tools; they had to buy livestock for them; they had to provide seeds after spring plowing ...

So, although Marin made a lot of money from the Venetian, he also made a lot from selling salt. However, in the process of immigrating the West Frisian Islands to ten thousand people, most of the gold coins were consumed ...

Of course, these investments are worthwhile, and can be fully recovered in a few years. However, in the early days, the investment was too large, and the general nobles could not afford it.

Therefore, Marin is eager to see the return of the Columbus fleet ...

However, while looking forward to Columbus' return, Marin did not faint. Because he has one very important thing to do ...

This thing is to shake the pot ...

As soon as his head was hot, Marlin made a decision to send someone to trade in India. However, when I thought about it later, Marin felt that he was still too hasty.

Because of the route to India, the Portuguese have always regarded themselves as imprisoned and do not allow others to meddle. If Marin was the king of Spain, he might ignore the Portuguese. However, at first he was only a little baron, and even now he is only a monarch of a small state with more than 3,000 square kilometers of land and more than 80,000 people. Compared to Portugal, which has a population of millions and an area of ​​nearly 100,000 square kilometers, Marin is still too weak.

Although on the ground, Marin is not afraid of parallel countries like Portugal. But at sea, the powerful Portuguese fleet can teach Marin how to be a man in minutes ...

After the Portuguese returned to Da Gama's fleet, they could quickly learn about the huge profits of the great voyage. Therefore, in order to eat alone, Marin can be sure that if the Portuguese knew that the great voyage also benefited him, Marin would be ruthless, and desperately dispatched a fleet to block the sea, sinking every ship that Marin dared to enter the Atlantic. Faced with dozens of times of huge profits, the Portuguese must dare to do so.

Therefore, instead of waiting for the Portuguese to be pursued by the Portuguese in the future, Marin might as well throw the pot to Spain now. Then, let the two teeth tear away from each other ...

Moreover, in the face of dozens of times of super profit, Marin does not worry that Spain will not be hooked ...

The old horse said that when facing a 100% profit, a businessman dare to trample on all human laws; when the profit reaches 300%, he dare to commit any crime, even risking being hanged. Danger……

多少 And what percentage of 60 times profit? That's 6,000 percent ... Faced with such huge profits, even if the businessmen never die after they die, they are willing to do it ...

As for the kings and nobles, although they speak beautifully, they are very high on the surface. But in front of their interests, they will also reveal their greedy and shameless side.

So tell the King of Spain of this 60 times profit, that the Spanish king and wife will definitely tear their faces and tear up the "Pope Meridian" "Tordesillas Treaty" ...

Moreover, they are not worried that they will offend the Holy See. Because the Pope is Spanish, and even helps Spain bully Portugal ...

In the original history, Spain was deceived by Columbus up and down, and felt that India was the west. Then, within a few years, they occupied Mexico, which was rich in gold and silver. That's why Spain has no intention of snatching the huge profits of India's trade with Portugal.

However, now that Marin has secretly helped, "exposing" the American continent is just a "barren continent", not India as Columbus claims. As a result, the Spanish kings suddenly lost most of their interest in the Americas, and only sent people to plant sugar cane on the islands found in Columbus. Then, the subsequent explorations didn't have much thought. Because, to explore, is not the India they are expecting to be "full of gold" ...

At this time, what is the problem for Marin as long as he presents the information of the Indian route to Spain?

航 Nautical charts of this era are very precious, because without advanced instruments, all navigational data are recorded and sorted out by experienced captains themselves. Every nautical chart is no less than the martial arts cheats in martial arts novels. For example, the nautical chart that can travel to India as a spice-producing place, put in Jinda's martial arts novels, is definitely a super cheat of the level of "Jiuyang Divine Power" ...

Marlin's plan was to make Columbus make an appearance in the port of Cadiz, Spain, and toss Spain to Spain, claiming that Spain sent him to explore the Indian route.

Of course, before that, Marin needs to communicate well with the Spanish court and discuss the conditions. Moreover, Columbus announced that Spain supported him to explore India. Although he would turn his face with Portugal, it was very embarrassing for the Spanish royal family. Because this represents the "visionary" of the royal family ...

Moreover, the huge profits that can be gained later are even more crazy. So Marin didn't believe the Spaniards weren't hooked ...

The only thing to consider is that Marin cannot let all four ships dock in Spain. Because the spices of the four ships docked in Cadiz, they might make the Spaniards want to blacken the cargo. Because these four ships are worth at least millions of gold coins ...

So Marin decided to send the remaining two warships to the Canary Islands to wait for Columbus's fleet. After converging with Columbus's fleet, Columbus only took one of the ships ~ www.novelhall.com ~ and then took part of the spice as a sample and went to Cadiz to meet the Spanish. In this way, the cargo of the four ships can also be prevented from being hacked by the Spanish. Columbus, too, was able to grab a public appearance before Da Gama, and sat down with his title of "Discover India First ..."

This is why Marin promised Columbus. However, if Columbus returned directly to the Wadden Islands, the Marin people said lightly and could not take the name of Columbus' "discover India first". Because the Portuguese are bigger and more convincing. At that time, if the Portuguese insisted that Da Gama discovered India first, Marin would not say that the Portuguese.

At the same time, the Spaniards took the lead. Columbus was recognized by the Spanish royal family as the right to discover India. Then, Columbus first discovered that India's name can be easily established. Because Da Gama is still on his way back, at least a month behind Columbus. And Spain is a powerful country, and their recognition is much more effective than the words of the little Earl Marin. And, in order to gain the right to intervene in India's trade routes, the Spanish kings will spare no effort to help Columbus take the name of "discovering India first ..."

As for the role of Marin? It's also very simple. Because, after all, Marin still has the title of "Count of the Spanish Wilderness" on his head. Although this title is usually useless, but at this time, the Spaniards can completely say that it was the King and his wife who ordered the "Earl of the Spanish Wilderness" Marin to send Columbus's fleet to explore the Indian route ... Finally, the credit can still be attributed Head over to the couple and give them an excuse to interfere with the Indian route. Because, in this era, it was a priority to discover the colonists of a “landless” first. Trade routes are also in play. If the Spaniards "discovered" the Indian routes first, even if that was not the Spaniard's sphere of influence, there would be no reason not to take a slice ...