Chapter 1214： Precious wood

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In addition to tea and tobacco, Marin also left Tara with a batch of banana seedlings and coconuts purchased from Daming to arrange for planting in the colony of Havana. Marin made the banana seedlings purchased in Guangzhou different from the previous banana seedlings purchased in India. I bought banana seeds in India, and the banana seedlings I bought in Guangzhou are bananas with degraded seeds, which are more suitable for consumption. The coconut seeds are naturally the big coconut itself (there are small holes in the coconut where the coconut sprouts). In short, Marin regarded the Havana colony as a multi-variety plantation park. After arranging Havana's affairs, Marin led the fleet to leave Havana Bay and continue eastward to Moa.

The environment on Moa is not very good. Compared with the beautiful mountains and rivers in Havana, Moa is more like an industrial town. There are fireworks everywhere and the streets are blackened.

Wiltz was originally a prospecting engineer, so he built the small town of Moa into a craftsman base. On the edge of the town, there is a large beneficiation plant that specializes in washing laterite nickel ore. Fortunately, Marin was afraid to anger the local indigenous people, and moved the step of calcining nickel sulfide to the big island of Inagua outside the main island of Cuba. Otherwise, the foul-smelling sulfur dioxide gas emitted during the calcination of nickel sulfide will surely stab them with a spear of local indigenous gas.

Fortunately, Marin thought about it and put this heavy-pollution processing step on the big island of Inagua, which didn't have people, so as not to cause disputes.

But after the discovery of chromite, Wiltz built several blacksmith shops in the town to smelt and forge ferrochrome, which made the town a bit sullen.

At the same time, in the prospecting process of the previous years, Wiltz also discovered several small ordinary iron ores and a small copper mine. Therefore, the small town of Moa has become a metallurgical center.

What makes Marin feel extravagant is that Wiltz smelted ferrochromium, ordinary iron and copper in Moa City, actually using charcoal. On the edge of the forest outside Moa, there is a large charcoal-fired workshop. The charcoal used in this large workshop is actually a variety of good wood produced in the local forest. When Marin went to inspect, he saw a lot of mahogany wood that was cut down aside casually, even sandalwood ...

Marin jumped upright:

"Such a precious wood, you actually used it to burn charcoal?"

Wiltz froze for a moment:

"Very expensive? I don't know ... And, I think there are many in the forest ..."

Well, Wiltz is a miner, do n’t expect him to know what precious wood is across the border ...

So Marin left a few people from the shipbuilding craftsmen who were going to New York to identify the wood. The few shipbuilders left by Marin are all from Hu Jian, not from Nanjing Longjiang Bao Shipyard. These craftsmen are also southerners, and they are still adapted to the Cuban climate. Moreover, because of their rich experience in shipbuilding, they can use their experience to distinguish the quality of wood. In this way, I don't have to worry about Wiltz, a layman, wasting precious wood.

Just like the sandalwood that is thrown everywhere on the ground, the core (sandalwood) is peeled off and shipped to Daming, which is worth 055 to 0.56 two silver a catty, which is half a gold coin. The sandalwood of a whole plant of sandalwood trees is shipped to Daming and can be exchanged for a gold coin.

Marin is worried about how to eliminate the trade deficit with Daming. The sandalwood trees on the ground gave Marin a great inspiration-these trees are used as firewood here, but when they are shipped to Daming who likes sandalwood, they can exchange money!

I remember that in my last life, Marin had seen a piece of news-the mountain people in Myanmar actually used precious redwood as firewood for cooking, and burned millions of dollars of wood in one meal ...

In the past, Marin always felt that selling perfume was a bit of a single variety. Now, Wiltz has given him a direction-selling wood ...

Sandalwood trees are not popular in Europe. Only Chinese people like sandalwood because they like the smell of sandalwood, and Buddhist culture likes to use sandalwood car beads to make utensils, so sandalwood is very expensive in China.

Honolulu, Hawaii, is the famous sandalwood production area. Moreover, sandalwood produced in Hawaii at that time was shipped to the Qing Dynasty for sale. Because, only Chinese people are rare sandalwood. Since China has a large population, the sandalwood market is huge.

In fact, because of the large population, Daming's land utilization rate is very high, and precious wood has long been cut down. At least, there is no precious wood in the Central Plains.

Ma Lin remembered that during the Jiajing Dynasty, when Jiajing wanted to build a palace, Yan Shifan, who was a servant of the Hube Ministry, said that many valuable timbers would be cut down in the south and transported to the capital, which was costly. Yan Shifan also made a fortune by repairing the palace in Jiajing.

If you sell other timber to Daming, transportation may be difficult. However, selling sandalwood is relatively easy. Because sandalwood is not much. After peeling off the core, it is less bulky, and it is easy to ship and transport. In addition, South American rosewood and other precious mahogany ballasts can also be brought to Daming, so that the trade deficit can be smoothed out as much as possible. The best part is that there is no cost for these precious woods, as long as you take people to the Cuban forest to see the cut. Of course, there must be someone who knows precious wood.

Marin suddenly remembered that it seemed that there were also many valuable timbers to be cut down in the Havana colony. Moreover, in order to build the Havana colony into a plantation base, more trees were cut down there. Therefore, the Havana colony needs more expert knowledge of wood, leaving valuable wood so that it can be pulled to the Ming Dynasty to change silk and porcelain.

So, Marin asked Wiltz to dispatch a 250-class armed merchant ship exclusive to Moa and carried several shipbuilders who were good at discerning wood to Havana to help Tara choose precious wood, so as not to burn them as firewood .

In order to obtain enough cultivated land in Havana, it can be said that a large area of ​​deforestation, a large amount of wood is used to build houses, even when the firewood is burned.

Therefore, Marin gave Tara an order that the wood felled in the future should be "palm" to several Mingming shipbuilding craftsmen to see if it was a precious wood. And precious woods such as sandalwood, even if someone has already used it to build a house, they have to pick it down and use it for trade in the future. Anyway, there is so much other wood in the forest, there is no need to waste sandalwood to build a house.

Moreover, in the future, all sandalwood in Cuba will be owned by Marin, and no private possession is allowed. Those few Mingming shipbuilding craftsmen will also teach a group of people to learn to distinguish sandalwood. Then, they will look for sandalwood ~ www.novelhall.com ~ to collect and ship to Daming for trade.

Even, Marin hit the idea on the Hawaiian Islands. There is a Honolulu on Oahu. The reason why Honolulu is called Honolulu is because when people first came here, they found tens of thousands of sandalwood trees ......

Tens of thousands of sandalwood trees ... Marin's eyes are all gold coins ...

For these gold coins, Marin also planned to send a fleet to find Oahu, and then cut down sandalwood to be shipped to Daming Trade. Moreover, Honolulu is too famous, and the Pearl Harbor incident, etc., has a great influence ... Marlin recalled that he actually turned out the latitude and longitude of Honolulu from the depths of memory-21 degrees north latitude, 158 degrees west longitude ...

This is all right, Marin only needs to send a boat to find Honolulu according to the coordinates. Then, take the logging team to cut the tree, and then peel off the sandalwood in the core, and transport it to Daming to exchange money and goods ...

Of course, in addition to sandalwood, other kinds of precious wood can also be used to exchange money for Daming. For example, South American rosewood, mahogany, etc., can be used for trading.

And these things can be seen everywhere in the Cuban virgin forest. It is not too cost-effective to fill the trade deficit ...