Chapter 566： Continue to buy black slaves

The autumn harvest data is being counted on the local side. At the same time, the autumn harvest of North America ’s Twin Islands and Cape Breton Island is also over. Albert sent people to ship three ships of food back.

Two of the ships, 200 tons of soybeans, are for war horses. The other ship is 100 tons of wheat. Wheat, needless to say, must be used to make white bread for Marin and others.

However, Marin did not praise Albert, but wrote a letter criticizing him. Why? At the end of last year, due to time constraints, North America did not grow much wheat. This year, Marin originally planned to expand the wheat area. However, this guy, Albert, actually transported most of the wheat back to invite credit. This makes Marin not very satisfied, because Marin believes that people who really have a long-term vision should preferentially collect good wheat seeds to wait for the coming year, rather than bringing them back to invite credit. After all, wheat cultivation in the two islands of North America has just begun and needs to be vigorously developed.

In addition, the European wheat variety is also a big problem. In this era, European wheat varieties were inferior and had a long growth cycle. They were planted in November of the first year and harvested in October of the following year. The growth cycle takes almost a year.

Of course, Marin equipped potassium islands in North America to shorten the growth cycle. But not every wheat has a shorter growth cycle. Some wheat genes are good, and after applying potassium fertilizer, the growth cycle is greatly shortened. It is said that the earliest batch of wheat was harvested in mid-August. At the latest, wait until the end of September to harvest.

Before, Marin didn't think about breed improvement. Now, he suddenly remembered that Albert should be told to collect the wheat harvested in mid-August as seeds. Because the batch of wheat seeds, after planting, may continue to be harvested in mid-August under the condition of continuing to apply potassium fertilizer, and even some excellent ones will be harvested earlier. Later generations of wheat varieties were improved in this way bit by bit, generation after generation.

It's a pity that Marin hadn't told him before, and Albert would naturally not think of it here. Therefore, after the wheat is harvested, the early harvest and the late harvest are basically mixed.

Marin thought about it and gave up. Because he had a better idea-to send people to the Ming Dynasty to buy wheat seeds of the Ming Dynasty ...

Wheat in the Ming Dynasty was generally harvested either in spring or autumn, or winter and summer, and the growth cycle was much shorter than that of European wheat. In fact, this is not surprising. The Chinese people applied manure very early and used grass ash. The grass ash is low-level potash fertilizer. Although it is not as high in purity and quantity as Malin's potassium salt, it can also be regarded as potassium fertilizer, which can also promote the early ripening of wheat. Improved from generation to generation, naturally the harvest period of wheat in Europe is much shorter.

As long as Marin sent the fleet to the East and contacted Daming, what wheat seeds, silk, porcelain, as long as they gave money, everything. Moreover, Marin was not worried that the Ming Dynasty would not accept him. As long as you throw out the sweet potato, you will not kneel in the Ming Dynasty.

A sweet potato with a yield of two kilograms per mu can make Manqing get a flourishing age, and it can also refresh the Ming Dynasty. Maybe, the disaster at the end of Ming Dynasty can survive. After all, the yield per mu of sweet potatoes is ten to twenty times that of rice and wheat. As long as there is food to eat, ghosts are willing to rebel.

Now, Marin is waiting for the good news from Panama. Once Gaurad had a firm foothold in Panama and relied on the black uncles to cut the trees to open up the road to the Pacific coast, Marin would immediately send road construction engineers and a large amount of cement to go to Panama to guide and Supervise those black slaves repairing cement roads. Once the cement road from the Caribbean Sea to the Pacific coast is repaired, the trade route to Daming can be opened.

However, road construction is a major project and requires more manpower. But Marin does not intend to send too many construction workers from the local area, but only plans to send a group of construction engineers to guide those uncles to repair roads.

After all, the local poisonous insects and mosquitoes in Panama are terrible. Sending too many local workers to them can easily cause a large number of deaths. Those black uncles are different. They are used to the climate of tropical rain forests and have some immunity to poisonous mosquitoes and insects in tropical regions.

A small number of construction workers from the Marin faction used to be able to save their lives by providing mosquito-repellent toilet water. If too many people are sent in, the mosquito repellent toilet water may not be enough.

However, in this way, there are too few black slaves over there ...

So, after thinking about it, Marin decided to send someone to Portugal again to find Jorge de Rencastre, Duke of Coimbra, and place a large order of 5000 slaves. The unit price, the old price, is still 40 gold coins. Moreover, as long as the young man.

This is a super large order of 200,000 gold coins. The territory of the Duke of Coimbra, excluding African trade, does not necessarily have so much revenue in one year. Therefore, Marin was not at all worried that the Duke of Coimbra would not take the list. He was just worried when these 5000 black slaves would be in place ...

After all, the Portuguese also need to place orders with the black chiefs in Africa, expecting them to defeat their opponents and capture enough prisoners. Moreover, those prisoners had to be tuned well. Otherwise, disobedient black uncle is not good. If it hurts the buyer, it hurts the credibility.

Therefore, in order to improve efficiency, Marin directly advised the Duke of Coimbra in his heart-do not be silly waiting for others to wage war. If necessary, money can be used to encourage the powerful black tribes to actively attack the weak tribes and grab enough black slaves ...

This kind of trick ~ www.novelhall.com ~ is very common in Africa in the future, and the Portuguese colonizers also have a lot of fun. However, it is only 1505 that the Portuguese slave trade has just started. It is still in the stage of waiting for the African chiefs to take the initiative to deliver goods. Therefore, Marin gave the Duke of Coimbra an early move in his heart, so that he could get 5,000 black slaves early. Otherwise, God knows when Panama ’s roads will be fixed.

Of course, it is not enough to count on Uncle Black. Marin decided to take a two-pronged approach and use the same tricks to deal with local Indians in Panama.

For example, to attract a strong Indian tribe, exchange slaves with goods that interest them, entice those local Indian tribes to wage tribal wars, and provide some Indian slaves for road construction sites.

These native Indians in Panama, needless to say, must be well adapted to the local climate, and will not die because of soil and water disobedience.

Although the Indians work, they are definitely not as good as the blacks. However, after all, they are capable of working. One more person, more strength. This concrete road connecting the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean can also be completed one day earlier. And Marin can also open the Pacific trade route to Daming as soon as possible ...