Chapter 627： Marin dictionary

Although the Spanish Zimbabwe's colonial road was only the first step, it also showed the Spanish's determination to colonize Zimbabwe.

When the intelligence was sent back to Aurich, Marin praised the Spanish for their aggressiveness. Of course, it is not that Marin is looking forward to the Spanish, but since Spain has set its sights on the Zimbabwe empire, then there is no energy to focus on the Americas.

According to intelligence, the Spaniards exerted a lot of energy this time. According to Ferdinand II ’s plan, after the completion of Fort Ferdinand at the mouth of the Save River, he will send another 3,000 troops to reinforce the area, and intends to build a military dock in Fort Ferdinand Fort to defend against attacks by Arab businessmen. In the future, a comprehensive colony will be established here. Not only will Ferdinand Fort become the home base for the Spanish to march inland Zimbabwe, but Ferdinand II also intends to develop the vicinity of Fort Ferdinand into a sugarcane planting base.

Before, Isabella I had developed sugar cane cultivation in Haiti. However, just starting out, he encountered an outbreak of syphilis. Coupled with Marlin's flicker, Spain finally gave up sugarcane cultivation in the Americas.

However, Ferdinand II learned that the delta at the mouth of the Save River has fertile land, a hot climate and abundant freshwater resources. Therefore, it is indeed a good idea to develop sugar cane cultivation in the delta of Save River Estuary. As long as it develops well, sucrose can be supplied to the locality on a large scale in the future ...

Of course, if you want to engage in farming with peace of mind near Fort Ferdinand, the premise is that all nearby black villages must be cleared. Otherwise, Uncle Black came to grab one after another, and he didn't need to do anything. Therefore, Ferdinand II planned to increase the number of troops by three thousand, clear all the black villages at the mouth of the Save River first, and then develop the sugarcane planting industry with peace of mind.

In this way, Spain can make a fortune not only by plundering Zimbabwe's gold, but also by selling sugar cane in Mozambique. Moreover, the Spaniards also confirmed that this Zimbabwe empire is not only rich in recent conditions, but also rich in copper mines. After all, copper ore accounts for a considerable proportion of the commodities they trade with Arabs. As long as it occupies the Zimbabwe Empire, it means that it has a lot of gold, ivory, and copper mines ...

The most important thing is that Marin once said that in Zambia, there are about 66.1 billion pounds of copper buried underground-so much copper, Ferdinand II was very excited to think about it ...

In fact, Marin just painted him a seemingly delicious flatbread. 30 million tons of copper are indeed buried in the Zambia region. However, it is spread over a vast area of ​​750,000 square kilometers in Zambia. If you want to detect all of these copper mines, at the current level, it is estimated that it may not be possible in a hundred years. Because many of the mines detected in later generations are buried deep underground. At the current level of prospecting, if you want to discover the underground copper mine, the difficulty is absolutely **** ...

Therefore, even if the Spanish can dig copper mines in Zambia, at most they can only dig copper mines on the surface. These accounts for up to a small part of the total reserves of copper mines in Zambia. Moreover, in the inland areas of the hot African continent, how to mine these copper mines and smelt into copper is also a huge project. Anyway, the Spaniard fell into the pit. However, this pit is too tempting. The reserves of 66.1 billion pounds of copper alone are enough for Ferdinand II to jump into the pit without looking back.

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As the Spaniards expanded towards Mozambique and Zimbabwe, the Portuguese also sounded the trumpet of the march to Timbuktu, the "gold capital" of the Songhai Empire in West Africa.

The Portuguese have a better foundation than the Spanish, because they have established many colonies along the coast of West Africa. Now, what they have to do is to use the colonial settlements along the coast as the base camp and go inland.

It is a pity that the Portuguese army is too scum, far less than the Spanish army who learned the Spanish phalanx. Moreover, the current penetration rate of the Portuguese army is very low, and most soldiers still use cold weapons like spears.

However, African black uncles may be afraid of muskets, but they will never be afraid of the Portuguese who use spears. Therefore, the three thousand-strong army troops organized by Portugal to march inland were all repelled. Why? Who is afraid of black people in West Africa? Although the military discipline is not as good as the Portuguese, and they are reliable in knowing the terrain and the number advantage, they stunned the three Portuguese aggression teams back ...

With pains and grief, the Portuguese decided to change the way-and began to promote the massive use of matchlock guns in the colonial army. When the training of the Portuguese musket team is completed, it is estimated that it is a new round of entry ...

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Although Marin is concerned about the expansion of Spain and Portugal in Africa, Marin is not particularly concerned. After all, both countries have entered the pit, and some have suffered in the future. Africa ’s harsh climate is not a joke. Otherwise, Europeans will not wait until the late 19th century to set off a frenzy to divide Africa.

Before this, although the Spaniards also colonized tropical regions, they also colonized several islands such as Cuba and Haiti. For the colonization of other areas, it is mainly in the plateau area. For example, the plateau regions of Peru and Ecuador are in the tropics, but because of the high altitude, the climate is not hot. In the same way, the Mexico area is also the Mexico Basin where Mexico City is located. It is a typical plateau basin. Although the climate is warm, it is not hot ...

Right now, both West and Portugal have fallen into the pit that Marin has dug for them. In the future, the two countries will slowly struggle in Africa. And Marin went to develop the Americas himself ...

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Because of the compilation of the European Origin of the Nation, Marin's image has improved a lot in the eyes of the noble German aristocracy.

This makes Marin very happy. After all, no one wants to be the one hated by everyone. Moreover, when the image is good, there are naturally fewer people who come to form groups to beat themselves. The **** tradition of group fighting in the German region made Marin stunned. Even as strong as Charles V, they eventually lost to the group fight. Marin doesn't think he is a Super Saiyan, he can beat the whole world. Therefore, it is also good to have one less person to beat yourself.

Through this incident, Marin found that-compiling books seems to help increase prestige. Of course, the premise is that the book you edited makes people happy to read, and think it is very valuable.

So, Marin decided to make persistent efforts and write some useful books for the benefit of everyone. At the same time, he also gave himself a wave of prestige ...

As for what book to compile, Marin has already thought about it-he is going to write a German dictionary and an English dictionary ...

This idea is borrowed from the practice of Kang Mazi in Manqing. Why are Kangxi and Qianlong the two most dazzling emperors of the Qing Dynasty? Because they both compiled books-Kangxi made people write "Kangxi Dictionary", while Qianlong made people repair "Sikuquanshu" ...

Let's not comment on whether Qianlong's so-called "Repair" "Siku Quanshu" is a sinner of history or history, but the "Kangxi Dictionary" written by Kangxi is indeed very practical. Until later generations, this "Kangxi Dictionary" was a very useful reference. And our Emperor Kangzizi, relying on the Kangxi dictionary, brushed a wave of prestige.

Of course, in the prosperous ancient China, Kangxi wrote a dictionary, which is not a rare thing. Because, before that, the Ming Dynasty compiled two dictionaries of "Zi Hui" and "Zheng Zi Tong". Earlier, there was also "Shuo Wen Jie Zi" compiled by Xu Shen of the Han Dynasty. Therefore, "Kangxi Dictionary" is actually a summary of the predecessors' dictionary, corrections and corrections.

However, in Europe, so far, in addition to the Latin words supporting the Bible, there are some word notes, other languages, it seems that there is no real dictionary.

Yes, the dictionary ...

European languages ​​are all alphabetic words, not words. Therefore, the European dictionary should be called a dictionary. Marin studied European history in his last life. He knew that the first European dictionary should be the "Glossary" compiled by the Florence Academy of Italy in 1612, which was written in Italian. However, that is not an official dictionary, just a semi-finished dictionary that contains a lot of everyday words.

The first French dictionary in France was the "French Dictionary" written in 1694, and the first dictionary in Spain was the 6-volume "Spanish Standard Dictionary" prepared from 1726 to 1739. The first large-scale official dictionary in the UK was published in 1755 and was edited by S. Johnson. The German dictionary was even later, and it was not until 1781 that Christopher Adlon wrote the first German dictionary.

Although Martin Luther previously translated the Bible in German ~ www.novelhall.com ~, Martin Luther's version of the Bible has many errors, many of which are translated freely. Therefore, it cannot be used as a German dictionary at all. Therefore, the first real German dictionary appeared in 1781.

Of course, this refers to what happened in the original historical time and space. In the time and space that Marin traversed, Marin actually had already tinkered with the English international phonetic symbols and German phonetic symbols, and initially prepared English dictionaries and German dictionaries.

It's just that because it is written in a hurry, there are a lot of omissions. But there is a general skeleton, Marin now only needs to find someone to enrich it, add some content, and that's it.

Of course, in order to give himself a reputation, Marin would not call such a common name the hard-edited "English Dictionary" and "German Dictionary."

In order to prestige himself, Marin decided to study Emperor Kang Mazi and named the "German Dictionary" and "English Dictionary" as "Marin Dictionary" (German version) and "Marin Dictionary" and "English version" ...

In this way, later Germans and British learn German and English and use the "Marin Dictionary". With this dictionary, it is natural not to forget the creator of Marin. In this way, reputation can be swept down from generation to generation ...

Thinking of this, Marin did not mention how beautiful it was. So he asked Kohler to send people urgently to all parts of Germany and England, hired a group of university professors of linguistics with high salary, and asked them to help to further enrich and compile the preliminary version he used to rush to prepare for primary education The "German Dictionary" and "English Dictionary" make it richer and more informative ... Of course, they will be called "Marin Dictionary" in the future ... Whoever thinks of himself ... Strong behavior brushes him a wave of prestige ... …

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