Chapter 931： It is just to hunt rhinos

In fact, as an important commercial representative of Jorge de Rencastre, Duke of Coimbra, Redondo has great authority on this issue, and can even make a final decision on this cooperation.

However, Redondo came here this time to obtain porcelain and silk at an internal price. Therefore, he deliberately made the problem very complicated. Then he made a request to purchase another batch of porcelain and silk. Moreover, this product is very arrogant on the surface, as if it would not let Malin suffer. However, now that Marin asks them, how can he not suffer?

In the end, Marin had to squeeze his nose and took Redondo to the warehouse, where he selected dozens of fine porcelains and a batch of fine silk. As for the price, it must be a very favorable price ...

Of course, Marin will not suffer. Even if he gave preferential prices, he also had huge profits. For example, porcelain, although there is no more than 60 times the profit at the time of Lisbon auction, but after a 50% discount, there are still 20 to 30 times the profit.

As for silk, it is not so profitable. This is because porcelain cannot be produced in Europe, but silk is still available. For example, Florence, Italy and Lyon, France, are important spinning centers in Europe. Although the quality of European silk is inferior, it still solves the problems with and without. Therefore, silk cannot be sold at a high price. But because of its good quality and fame, it is still several times more expensive than European local silk.

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Redondo took the big advantage, and naturally returned with satisfaction. But Marin is not losing money. In addition to the low cost of porcelain and silk, he is also very advantageous in this trade cooperation.

According to the initial intention reached with Redondo, once the two sides have determined cooperation, Redondo will establish a trading company in Portugal, specializing in the trade of rhino horn and hide on the grasslands of West Africa. The scope of the business location is in Senegal and southern Mauritania in later generations. Of course, if you have the ability, you can also go deep into the inland area ...

After obtaining this permission, Marin will form a team and go to Senegal to engage in the acquisition of rhinoceros and rhino horn. Of course, they also have a very important job to guide the local black uncle to kill rhino ...

The black uncles were not very smart, and they were helpless when facing the rhinoceros that was too thick and fierce. Therefore, Marin's team will instruct local black people to use traps to kill rhinos.

At the same time, Marin will also allow the forging plant to create a group of extremely sharp high-carbon steel short knives for the local black leaders. The role of the short knife is to allow the black uncles to cut the thick rhinoceros skin after killing the rhinoceros. In order to prevent the rhinoceros from being too difficult to cut, this special short knife will also have serrations. If you can't cut it, you can still band saw ...

High carbon steel may not be the best for creating a long saber because the toughness is not enough. However, for short knives, toughness is not so important because of the short blade. In addition, the short knife won't bump into other weapons ...

As long as the local blacks are taught how to hunt rhinos and cut them with their short knives, Marin will surely be able to acquire enough and cheap enough rhinoceros. Because those black uncles are really cheating ...

As for the number of rhinos, according to Sir Redondo, who is in charge of trade affairs in West Africa, rhinos were everywhere on the grasslands of West Africa in this era. There are no fewer than thousands of black rhinos in the grasslands along the coast of Senegal. If it is deep inland, it is estimated that there will be more. Anyway, even the grasslands are ...

In fact, these rhinos are also a scourge for local blacks. Why? The presence of rhinos will affect their agricultural activities!

As a frontier region of the Mali Empire, Senegal actually has relatively primitive agriculture. Relying on large rivers such as the Senegal and Gambia rivers, locals also opened up a lot of farmland for planting sorghum, rice and cotton. Moreover, there are cattle breeding and more extensive fishing.

However, ferocious large animals such as rhinos and elephants have become the most harmful to local agriculture. Even, they are much more harmful to agriculture than carnivores.

You know, those carnivores will definitely not harm the crops. At most, step on the crops when passing by. However, elephants and rhinos are different, they are herbivores! And crops are unfortunately one of the herbs ...

As long as elephant herds and rhinos pass through crop fields, their large bodies can not only trample many crops, but also often eat a lot of crops.

However, most of these crops are planted on the edge of Yamato to facilitate irrigation. Elephant herds and rhinos also like to go to the river to drink water ... so there are many crops that are harmed by elephant herds and rhinos ...

Those black locals, because they lack the weapons to deal with rhinos and elephants, often can only watch them scourge their crops, but dare not stop them. Otherwise, they angered these uncles, but they would be killed ...

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How to say, with the existence of these herbivorous giants, local people don't think about farming well. Even if you build a fence, in front of the elephant herd and the rhinoceros, the fence or something, lightly arched, and immediately disappeared ... Then, the crops should step on, eat ...

If you want to deal with these powerful elephants and rhinos, you often need to use an army with metal weapons. However, the Senegal region is a remote area of ​​the Mali Empire. Naturally, there is no army or metal weapons. In the face of the destruction of elephants and rhinos, local farmers can only recognize the plant ...

In fact, the extinction of later generations of black rhinos in West Africa was inseparable from the expulsion and hunting by local farmers. In order to farm well, these great men must die, or they must be driven away.

And after driving away these overbearing lords ~ www.novelhall.com ~ Agriculture in West Africa has indeed developed to a certain extent. At least, it is not as food-scarce as East Africa.

The opposite is East Africa. The wildlife in East Africa is very well protected. In order to protect the animals on the prairie of East Africa, the brain leaders of East Africa, following the advice of Western countries, have established a large number of nature reserves to protect wild animals such as wildebeest, zebras, antelopes, and bison that migrated on a large scale ...

And wild animals with these herbivores are rampant on the grasslands of East Africa, so do n’t think about planting land. Why? You are planting food. Once you encounter wildebeests and antelopes passing by near your home, you will be able to nibble your crops. As the beasts have passed, the crops are not left ...

Then, the East African countries are very short of food. Every year they starve to death, and the children are as thin as skeletons ...

But these idiots did not think about it, as long as a large group of migrating wildebeests were hunted, they could be made into a lot of dried meat, and they could feed a lot of people who were starving to death.

Then, without the infestation of those herbivorous animals, the locals can still grow food. Even if the land is not fertile, plant potatoes and corn?

But those black uncle officials have different brain circuits than people. They would rather starve a large number of citizens to protect the wildebeests, antelopes, zebras ... it seems that those animals are their nationals, and their nationals , They are all irrelevant animals ...

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Anyway, Marin felt that he sent people to help the locals hunt rhinos on the prairie in West Africa, for the sake of the locals. This is a win-win situation, for the sake of the survival and development of local human beings. As for those beasts, can they compare with people? Therefore, it is just to hunt rhinos. Believe it or not, you see the development of Chinese agriculture. Rhinoceros and South China tigers are almost extinct ... If the rhinos and South China tigers are still everywhere, can you still plant the land?