Chapter 971： Who is Kaizi?

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For the Senegal fur company, Marin still attaches great importance. Because, the rhinoceros hides provided there will become the necessary armor for the Marin army when crossing the mountains and over the mountains. After all, wearing heavy armor, don't want to cross the mountains.

For this reason, after dispatching the first two ships, the second three ships soon arrived. The first batch of two ships was mainly for the purpose of building a port, digging a pond with a gate, and dealing with the maggot problem. The second batch of ships is directly related to the acquisition of leather.

These three ships brought a group of craftsmen who deal with fur, as well as some nitro leather materials, such as thenardite, alum and salt.

The leather just peeled off is very thick. This rawhide has animal hair attached to the outside and a lot of fat adhered to it. The hair on the outside is okay. If the fat inside is not processed in time, it can easily become a culture medium for microorganisms, causing the leather to rot.

Therefore, as soon as the leather is removed, it must be dealt with immediately, especially in tropical regions like Senegal. If it is processed and eaten, the intradermal fat will begin to rot.

But the locals lacked the skills to process fur, related materials, and even ordinary tools like knives. Therefore, Malinte specially sent a team of leather craftsmen to guide the local people to deal with the leather and avoid the leather from being damaged.

In addition, the ship also brought high-carbon steel short knives used to separate thick skins, specially used to cut through the thick leather of animals such as rhinos and elephants. After all, local indigenous people, without these tools, naturally cannot provide the Portuguese with a lot of leather.

In addition, 100 Mushker muskets were brought on board, specially used for hunting rhinos, and also equipped with special steel ball bullets.

However, these matchlock guns, Marin is not for the local black uncles. After all, the accuracy of the matchlock gun is relatively poor. Europeans use it by themselves, but it is difficult to hit the target and let Uncle Black use it. Is n’t that a waste? You know, in the 21st century, those black uncles ca n’t use modern firearms to make sure, let alone use a matchlock with poor accuracy?

Therefore, Marin sent 100 hunters with good shooting skills to use. As for those black uncles, Marin felt that it would be better for them to start with swords and bows. Moreover, Marin also ordered a group of Mao Gong fathers who can ride horses and know archery from the Crimean Khanate, intending to teach these black uncles basic things. As for the musket, forget it, the opponent has no foundation, and it is a waste of bullets.

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In addition to these tools, Marin also brought a lot of goods. After all, to buy the local aborigines, you have to come up with something attractive. For example, glass beads made by Venetian craftsmen, as well as all kinds of ceramic bottles, jars and jars, and white woolen cloth ... these are very popular goods among locals.

Of course, there are salt and sugar. In later generations, Senegal is an important area for salt production. Because the local climate is dry and hot, it is an excellent area for drying salt.

However, in this era, it seems that sun drying technology has not yet appeared. It is not until about 1522 that the Haifeng Saltworks in Wudi County, Shandong Province, will be "fried to the sun" to develop the sun-salting technology. It was not until the end of the Ming Dynasty that Xu Guangqi, a famous scientist from the Ming Dynasty, widely promoted the salt drying method.

Therefore, despite the excellent conditions for drying salt, the indigenous people of the Senegal region currently lack salt. Even if it is boiled salt, the local lack of firewood for salt cooking. Because the local area is mainly grassland, there is no firewood to cut.

In the tropics, if there is no salt, meat is difficult to preserve, and it will spoil for up to half a day. Therefore, in the Mali empire, salt is an important material that can be exchanged for gold (gold sand).

However, Senegal is the northwestern region of the Mali Empire, and there is no golden sand produced in the Gulf of Guinea. Therefore, the locals are also very short of salt. The Portuguese are not rich in table salt, not to mention the fact that table salt is already expensive in Europe, and selling it to Africa is not very profitable.

Unlike Marin, he needs to quickly open the portal of Senegal, and he needs local people to help him hunt rhinos and obtain rhino skins. Therefore, he did not hesitate to bring a lot of salt in exchange for the support of the local tribes.

Sure enough, when the representative of Marin took out the bags of salt packed in oil paper bags under the leadership of the translator, the eyes of the local chief were all straight ...

You know, in Timbuktu, the distant North African merchants can exchange salt bricks dug in the Sahara desert for gold sand. The locals do not have sands, and the Portuguese naturally disdain to give them salt. So, locally, salt is precious.

When Eschwein proposed to go ashore to hunt rhinos, several local chiefs knelt down in front of a bag of white flowers of Ma's salt.

The local chief proposed that as long as the Senegal fur company provided two bags of refined salt to each of their tribes every month, they would be willing to let the company's musketeers land to hunt rhinos. Moreover, they will also send warriors within the clan as guides to accompany them to find rhinos.

Only two bags of salt are needed for each tribe every month, which makes Eschwein stunned. You know, this bag is only a pound of salt. In contact with the Senegal Fur Company, there were only 5 chiefs in the Cape Verde Peninsula. In other words, with only 10 pounds of salt per month, the Senegal Fur Company can hunt rhinos on the Cape Verde Peninsula ...

Although the Cape Verde Peninsula is not large, it also has an area of ​​five or six hundred square kilometers. Most of the peninsula is grassland, and there are many wild animals. As for rhinos and elephants, there seem to be many.

For the fur company in Senegal, the Cape Verde Peninsula may be smaller. However, since they bought several local chiefs with salt, the Senegal fur company has obtained the right to board the land and hunt the rhinos freely, which is the most important.

In the future, the Senegal Fur Company can use the Cape Verde Peninsula as a starting point to advance inland to Senegal and hunt more rhinos. Otherwise, the rhinoceros on the Cape Verde Peninsula alone is far from enough to be the armor of tens of thousands of armies.

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Eschwein returned to the base on Gore Island with satisfaction, but he did not know that after he left, several chiefs on the Cape Verde Peninsula were talking about him there. Of course, it's not a good word.

The Dakar Department is one of the most powerful tribes on the Cape Verde Peninsula. Later, this place was named after this tribe. The Dakar chief maghan looked greedily at the two packs of salt in his hand. He was the chief of the largest tribe of this generation and the most knowledgeable one. When he was young, he traveled all over the world and went to big cities like Timbuktu. At that time, he saw in Timbuktu that an Arab businessman from North Africa used a salt brick and walked away with a pack of sands. And he has dealt with the Portuguese, but he knows how precious Sands is. Unfortunately, the locals do not produce sands, and the Portuguese are not interested in it. Of course ~ www.novelhall.com ~ He doesn't know, but fortunately there is no local sands. Otherwise, the Portuguese will never mind sending troops to occupy here.

At this moment, a chief named Suva said with a smile:

"You said, is this white man's brain not so good? Just to hunt rhinos, he gave us precious salt in vain!" After he finished, he also proudly raised two generations of refined salt in his hand.

After hearing this, Maghan laughed:

"Despite him, he is willing to give it away, can we still refuse it? I tasted it, this salt tastes much better than the salt bricks I saw in Timbuktu. You know, those on the Timbuktu market Salt bricks for gold have a bitter taste, which is far less than the quality of this salt. "

Can it be bitter? The salt on the Timbuktu market is mainly produced in several salt mines in the Sahara Desert and is the standard mineral salt. There are many mineral salts impurities, bitter taste is normal. Even some are poisonous. Of course, the salt produced in the salt mines supplied to Timbuktu is not poisonous, otherwise it will not sell well on the Timbuktu market. However, with a bit of bitterness, it is difficult to avoid. After all, it is mineral salt. Although there are fine products in mineral salts, the quality of most mineral salts is average.

But even these ordinary mineral bricks, as chiefs of the remote areas of the Mali empire, do not usually enjoy them. Because they lack sands in exchange for salt bricks. Therefore, Eschwein gave them the de-salted unbitter refined salt, which was so precious in their eyes.

Moreover, for several local chiefs, the local rhino is actually a major hazard. Because, where those rhinos have gone, local natives should also avoid making a three-pointer. Otherwise, he was injured by the rhinoceros accidentally. Since these outsiders are willing to help hunt rhinos and send precious salt, why don't they do it? Such a Kaizi, they wish they could meet every day ...

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