Chapter 1201： Unmanaged Penghu Islands

The problem of cattle farming is really a difficult problem to solve, especially the cattle farming in tropical and subtropical hot and humid regions, and the cattle on the marina Eastern European grasslands are useless. Because the climate is not adapted.

The best tropical cow is the zebu in India. But the problem is that India is also a farming country. Although it is not like Daming, it treats cattle as a strategic asset and is strictly controlled by the government. However, it is also a big problem to want to buy cattle in India in large quantities. Because, the Indians themselves have to cultivate land ...

So, if you want tropical cattle farming, even if you have money, it may not be useful ...

But Marin remembers that there seem to be many Asian buffaloes in Southeast Asia. Although the breed may not be as good as the zealot, it can also be used as a cattle.

In particular, Mindoro Island, southwest of Luzon Island in the Philippines, produces a native Philippine Mindoro buffalo. But the problem is that a piece of information that Marin has seen in his previous life shows that malaria is prevalent on Mindoro Island, which is very unsuitable for human habitation. It was not until 1900 that people moved to the island one after another because of improved medical conditions. Around 1900, there were more than 10,000 wild Mindoro buffaloes on Mindoro Island.

From Taipei to Manila, about 1,000 kilometers, Mindoro Island is not far southwest of Manila, is an island about 144 kilometers long and 96 kilometers wide. By that time, as long as a large number of people are dispatched to the island, they will be able to catch tens of thousands of cattle.

As for the aggressiveness of the bulls in the Mindoro buffalo, this is easy to handle, as long as the torch is held, it will be enough to scare back. Then, a group of people held the torch and drove the cow into the dug trap.

The only problem is that when you board Mindoro Island, you are easily infected with malaria. But this may be terrible for others, but it is not a problem here in Marin ...

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This time, when he bought herbs in Daming, Marin bought hundreds of tons of stinkwort. Although the artemisinin content in Youyang Artemisia annua can not reach more than six thousandths, there are still two thirds.

Marin asked the blacksmith to create a distillation vessel, and sent people to Fuzhou to purchase a large amount of inferior liquor, and then shipped it back to Keelung. Then, it is used to extract artemisinin from the hundreds of tons of smelly artemisia.

After being busy for several days, Marin extracted about 600 kilograms of artemisinin from 300 tons of Artemisia. And malaria patients only need to take 1 gram at a time, but only a few grams are needed to recover. 600 kg of artemisinin is almost too much to run out.

Marin brought 400 kilograms back home, and the rest remained. When you send someone to the uninhabited island of Mindoro to catch wild Mindoro buffalo, you can bring this medicine so that no one will die of malaria.

Mindoro Island is only about 100 kilometers long and wide, and there are no savages. Moreover, Mindoro buffaloes seem to like to live alone. As long as a brigade is dispatched, the island will be searched in a rug style within a few days. Malin does not seek to catch tens of thousands of buffaloes, as long as it catches five or six thousand, it is enough. After all, if a cow cultivates 100 acres of land, it can cultivate 500,000 to 600,000 acres. Even if Minduluo buffaloes are small, each farmland shrinks to 50 acres, and it can be cultivated for two to three hundred thousand acres, which is definitely enough.

As for bison disobedient? The bull was really disobedient and castrated. Coupled with the bull nose ring, it can still be lowered. If you ca n’t keep it down, then kill the meat ...

With thousands of Mindoro buffaloes captured from Mindoro Island, plus farming cattle and southern horses purchased from Daming, there is basically no shortage of farming cattle on the island. Moreover, Marin did not expect to fully develop the island, but just used it as a springboard for exchange and trade with Daming.

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On this day, Marin is talking to Kong Tai and Zhang Cai about the future arrangements ...

Marin took out the map of Tai Island in his memory and pointed to it:

"We mainly concentrated on developing the Taipei Basin and Keelung in the early stage. When it stabilizes here, we will first send troops and horses to occupy this side ..." Marin pointed to the position of Tainan in the future.

Marin wasn't trying to develop the Tainan Plain quickly, but was afraid that he wouldn't take the action or was late, and was picked up cheaply by the Portuguese or the Dutch.

Although I am currently mainly developing the northern part of Taiwan Island, but a large plain on the southwest coast, I must not be cheap. Therefore, it is necessary to set up a bridgehead on the coast of the Tainan generation, put in flags and declare sovereignty, so as not to let others take advantage of it. Of course, if you wait until the population is sufficient, it is also possible to develop the Tainan Plain.

"When occupying Tainan, it is inevitable to have contact with the people of the Penghu Inspection Department, and then say hello to the people of the Penghu Water Village ..." Marin continued to command.

But at this time, Zhang Cai interjected:

"Princess, Hongwu, the Penghu Inspection Department, was abolished for 17 years because of the sea ban ..."

"Ah? This is actually the case?" Malin was a little embarrassed.

Marin has read a lot of articles about his travels in the late Ming Dynasty. There is naturally the presence of the Penghu Inspection Department. I still remember that Daming and the Dutch had a big fight here.

But in fact, the Penghu Inspection Department was reset in 1563 (aka the 42nd year of Jiajing). Its purpose is to help annihilate pirates and monitor the maritime trade in the southeast. As for now, because the Japanese pirates had not become a major problem as they did in Jiajing, the court naturally did not restore the Penghu Inspection Department.

Zhang Cai was a clerk from the Ming Dynasty, and he was a minister-level gangster. His words were not nonsense. Moreover, Zhang Cai happens to know the inside story. So Zhang Cai explained to Marin:

"In the past few years, some local officials from Hu Jian have asked to restore the Penghu Inspection Department, but the court rejected it. The main reason is that the land in the Penghu Islands is too barren to be suitable for growing food. Transported by land ... "

Marin nodded, he naturally knew the situation of the Penghu Islands.

As a post-80s, few of them have never heard the children ’s song "Grandma's Penghu Bay". In the 1990s, when Marin was a child in his last life, this song was almost popular all over the world, and became a repertoire that music teachers love to teach.

At that time, Marin listened to this song and was very yearning for the beautiful life of Penghu Bay. However, when I grew up, I checked Du Niang and realized that the Penghu Islands are really not a good place ...

The wind and waves here are high and the land is very barren. Marin remembered that Du Niang said this-the land on the island was barren. The lack of water resources and the strong Shanghai winds are not conducive to the growth of crops. Only sweet potatoes and peanuts can be grown. In the mid-1980s, we successfully planted watermelon, cantaloupe, and loofah, known as "Penghu Three Melons."

In other words, on the Penghu Islands, only limited crops and fruits of sweet potatoes, peanuts, watermelons, cantaloupes and loofahs can be grown.

But in the era of the Ming Dynasty, Daming did not have sweet potatoes and peanuts, and never thought of growing vine crops such as watermelon, cantaloupe, and loofah on the island (vine crops grow on the ground and are not afraid of plants blown by the sea breeze. Lodging, too, sweet potatoes, and peanuts fall into the soil after flowering, so they are not afraid of the sea breeze). Therefore, in the eyes of the Ming Dynasty, the Penghu Islands are a rough place where food cannot grow, and naturally there is no interest in development.

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Marin did not want to develop the Penghu Islands at the beginning. After all, there is too much land available for development on the Taiwan Island, and there is no need to develop the barren Penghu Islands. But when he remembered something, he immediately sweated and made a decision to send troops to Penghu Island ...

Why did Marin send troops to occupy the Penghu Islands? He was forced to help ...

Previously, when dividing the territory with the Portuguese, the signing of the treaty of stipulation clearly stated that the Taiwan island, the Ryukyu Islands and the Japanese archipelago belonged to Marin ’s “sphere of influence ~ www.novelhall.com ~ But, Marlin missed Penghu The attribution of the archipelago. Because, in Marin's impression, there should be the famous Penghu Water Village on the Penghu archipelago. Therefore, he did not request that the Penghu archipelago be included in his "sphere of influence."

In this way, in the case of unclear attribution, the Portuguese are likely to take advantage of the Penghu Islands. It may even learn from oneself, use the Penghu Islands to surrender to Daming, and ask for a toast. Even if it is unsuccessful, you can use the unmanaged Penghu Islands as a smuggling base to smuggle goods from Daming ...

Therefore, in order not to give the Portuguese the opportunity to drill holes, Marin must send troops to seize the Penghu Islands in advance. When the Portuguese came, Marin insisted that it was a branch of Dongfan Island. In the case of factual occupation, the Portuguese are not easy to start. Unless, they want to tear off their faces and start a full-scale war with Beihai ...

Therefore, Marin told Zhang Caidao:

"In addition to developing the Taipei Basin, you have the priority to send people to occupy and develop the Penghu Islands, and to repair the Penghu Water Village on it! Since no one is in charge of the Penghu Islands, then I want it!"

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