Chapter 822： Using the Indians to collect maple syrup

The discovery of the industry of maple syrup inspired Marin. It is important to know that later generations of Canada alone started from Quebec City in the east, along the famous 800-km-long "Maple Avenue" along the west of the St. Lawrence River to Niagara Falls. The annual output of maple sugar is 20,000 tons.

Before the white sugar came out, the quality of the maple sugar was comparable to that of black sugar and brown sugar. Although the sweetness is somewhat insufficient, the taste is better than the other two. Under the current shortage of sucrose in Europe, maple syrup can completely replace sucrose to occupy the market ...

Of course, Marin would never say that this was caused by maple trees everywhere in Canada. If this is said, in order to seize the huge industry of maple syrup, it is possible that France and Spain will jointly rob. Against one of them alone, Marin still has confidence. It's too difficult for the two to be together. Moreover, for profiteering, the two feudal nations are also very likely to join forces temporarily ... France has an army advantage, Spain has a naval advantage, and the army is not bad. With the two in one, Marin is hard to carry ...

Therefore, Marin decided to lie that maple sugar is sucrose, just a special method of making ...

As a result, no one would rob North American colonies. At most, they will find ways to make their own variety of sugar cane. Therefore, Marin has given the maple sugar a name-Cuban sucrose ... As for the original sucrose, it is called ordinary sucrose chant ...

20,000 tons of maple sugar! Marin was thrilled to think about it! You know, the price of sucrose in Europe is now 2 shillings per pound. Twenty thousand tons is equivalent to 70.54 million pounds, which is worth 70.54 million shillings, which is equivalent to about 14 million gold coins ...

Of course, this is not the case. If 70 million pounds of maple sugar really flowed into Europe, it is estimated that the price of sugar would fall by at least half. Moreover, Marin does not have so many people to collect and process maple syrup. However, the Canadian mountains are full of sugar maple trees. Moreover, in this era, after the great development of future generations, Canada is full of virgin forests, and the density of sugar maple trees is much higher than that of later generations. Therefore, it is easier to extract maple sugar than later generations. The only trouble is probably the shortage of manpower ... after all, collecting the sugar maple sap, purifying it, processing it into solids, and packaging it with oil paper bags ... this requires a lot of manpower ...

Therefore, the annual output of 20,000 tons of Malin is no longer necessary. However, with an annual output of 320 tons, Marin still dares to think. 320 tons, or 320,000 kilograms. On average, each tree can extract about two or three kilograms of maple syrup, and 320,000 kilograms. It is about 160,000 sugar maple trees to dig holes to collect sap, and then process into maple syrup.

There are more than 160,000 sugar maple trees, but in fact, every skilled worker can collect 100 sugar maple trees during the maple sugar collection season. Thus, 160,000 sugar maple trees require 1,600 workers ...

In this way, if you get 320 tons of maple sugar, you can sell a high price of 140,000 gold coins. Moreover, the 320 tons of maple sugar flowed into the European market, and there was nothing to break through, and it would not cause the price of sugar to plummet. After all, the European population base is there.

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What impressed Marin most is that the maple sugar industry does not require much labor. Unlike sugarcane cultivation in Cuba, it requires a lot of labor.

For maple syrup, only one thousand or hundreds of farmers need to be dispatched in the spring of each year to collect sap with tubes and barrels. 160,000 sugar maples sound a lot, but in the vast Canadian primitive jungle, this number is really not much ...

The only trouble is the need to guard against attacks by those Indians ...

If the Indians used bows and arrows to attack the workers who collected the maple syrup, he couldn't help it. After all, Indians come and go in the primitive forests of North America, and you ca n’t find them if you want to kill them. Moreover, the continent of North America is vast, even if you wipe out an Indian tribe, it is difficult to guarantee whether other Indian tribes will migrate to the maple sugar producing area. After all, in this era, many North American Indians were homeless. Many of them are hunting tribes, where the prey is less hunted, they will migrate to other areas ...

Marin did not have the ability to clear up the Indian tribes in the entire North American forest, so he was very troubled ...

"What should I do? If you can't guarantee the safety of the maple sugar collectors, you can't guarantee the output of maple sugar ..." Malin was troubled by pulling his scalp.

In fact, for now, almost 160,000 sugar maple trees can be found in undeveloped areas on Cape Breton Island. But Marin knew very well that in the future, an annual output of 320 tons of maple syrup is far from meeting market demand. Therefore, the sugar maple on Cape Breton Island is definitely not enough.

Therefore, Marin eventually had to go to the mainland and go to the famous "Maple Avenue" from Quebec in the east to Niagara Falls to extract maple sugar.

However, once on the mainland, it is inevitable to contact those Indians. If it ’s okay to meet the reason and the unreasonable, then shoot the bow and arrow ...

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In the evening, Marin told Garland of this trouble, hoping that Garland could help find a way.

After thinking for a long time, Garland raised his head and said:

"Master, since you are worried about the safety of the workers who collect maple sugar. So why don't you just use the Indians to help you collect maple sugar?"

"Using the Indians?"

"Yes! Did you know? Master, on Newfoundland, from Corner Brook on the west coast of Newfoundland, to the lead-zinc mine Bakins in the middle of the island, we were short of manpower and capacity at first. Later, I simply I used commodities such as table salt and iron tools to trade with the local Beotuks and hired them to help protect the ore transportation line from Buckens to the Port of Konabrook. Even, I later directly hired Beotou nomadic inland Let them help transport the ore. So now the output of lead blocks and zinc ingots at the lead-zinc smelter in Corner Brook has increased greatly. If it were not for the help of the Beotuks, it would not be so smooth ... "

"You mean, let me hire Indians from the North American continent and let them collect maple sugar for me?"

Garland nodded and said:

"Yes, that's what it means. As long as we teach them how to collect the sap of the sugar maple and how to extract it by heating. At that time, we just need to exchange the maple syrup with a simple commodity. So, we plant our fields Let ’s put our sheep. In the spring, just exchange cheap goods with them. Anyway, those Indians have never seen the world. Moreover, only our family buys, the price is not up to us? "

"Well ... that makes sense ... If, among them, there were tyrannical people, what would they do if they didn't agree?"

"This is simple. We will join other tribes and wipe out that tribe!"

"Good idea!" Marin snapped.

He had to admit that Garland had become a governor in recent years, and he had improved a lot.

Marin always thought of coming by himself, but never thought of using those indigenous people more efficiently. After all, those indigenous people are indigenous people in the virgin forest and are more familiar with the local situation than they are. It is easier for them to collect maple syrup. Moreover, even if they encounter unreasonable tribes, conflict, and the dead are also indigenous people, and has nothing to do with Marin.

In fact, for this piece of land in Canada, Marin only values ​​local mineral resources, timber resources and fur resources. As for developing Canada, Marin was not very interested. Why? The warmer and fertile United States has not yet developed in the south ~ www.novelhall.com ~ not to mention Canada?

Therefore, the use of local Indian natives to help maple sugar and hunt for precious fur is the right choice. As for immigration, it is best to send it to later generations in the United States for development ...

At this moment, Marin suddenly remembered-it seems that there is a paper mill on the north side of Cape Breton Island, which is chopping down and using local trees ...

So Marin quickly ordered Garland:

"You tell the paper mill to stop cutting down the sugar maple. The raw material for papermaking can be selected from other tree species. Sugar maple, we have to keep the maple sugar extracted ... Also, try to avoid felling when reclaiming Sugar Maple ... This command, you also sent to Newfoundland together ... "

"Yes! That ... Master, do you want to inform Master Albert?" Garland asked.

Marin waved his hand and said:

"No, there is no sugar maple tree on the south side. There is no sugar maple tree on Albert's side, so there is no need to notify that side!"

The geography of Malin's later generations is good. He remembers that there are few sugar maples in the area south of the Great Lakes. The sugar maple, mainly concentrated in later Canada. Therefore, even if there are sugar maple trees in the area under Albert's jurisdiction, there are not many, which cannot be scaled. Therefore, there is no need to notify there ...

On the Canadian side, it is not cost-effective to engage in agriculture because of the cold climate. Therefore, it is better to use local natural resource conditions to engage in maple sugar industry, fur industry, mining industry and paper industry. As for the rest, it is unnecessary, so as not to waste human resources ...

Next, Marin told Garland to train a group of translators who understood the Indian language as soon as possible. After cultivating, I can go to the mainland, communicate with the Indians, teach them to collect maple sugar, and then buy at a low price ... Of course, the fur trade must not be forgotten ...