Chapter 1215： Return home secretly

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I don't know why, there are much more precious woods in tropical regions than in temperate regions. Probably, there is no cold winter in the tropics, and it is suitable for the growth of trees all year round, so that the trees grow better.

Marin suddenly remembered-it seems that Grenada and Panama are also tropical rainforest areas, and some are also wood. Among them, there should be a lot of precious wood?

However, now that there is not enough manpower, he can only wait for the Cuban shipbuilding craftsmen to bring a few apprentices to Grenada and Panama to distinguish the expensive wood. However, too many poisonous insects and mosquitoes in the tropical rainforest of Panama are dangerous. It's Grenada, which has no poisonous mosquitoes and beasts, and no beasts. It is a safe tropical island.

After arranging the collection of precious woods, Marin left Moa north with four ships, along the east coast of North America, and arrived in Savannah, a subtropical region.

Korwok brought hundreds of Cossacks to greet Marin and invited Marin into the newly built city of Savannah. Then, Marin listened to Korwock's work report.

By listening to Korwock's report, Marin learned that in the past two years, with the arrival of the 500 Cossacks, in addition to the Savannah steppe, the Cossacks have also slashed a large territory. According to Kovak ’s estimate, the area under the control of the Savannah colony may now reach six or seven thousand square kilometers.

It's just that because the surrounding Savannah Grassland is full of lush primary forest, it is not conducive to the Cossack cavalry. Therefore, they now only control thousands of square kilometers of land. If it were all grasslands, it would be enough to lay tens of thousands of square kilometers in the past two years.

In the past two years, Korwock took thousands of immigrants and desperately cut trees. However, he only developed more than 1,000 square kilometers of vacant land for planting various crops, as well as oil trees, lacquer trees and bamboos arranged by Marin. And Mexican upland cotton. Of course, the rice and winter wheat obtained from Daming are also indispensable.

Marin went to inspect the cultivation bases of oil tung tree, sumac and bamboo. The tung tree and the sumac are still growing and there is no good or bad. After all, it takes several years for these two trees to mature and produce steadily. Moso bamboo is terrible. Moso bamboo grows quickly and its roots grow quickly after raining in spring, producing many new bamboo shoots. Now, outside the city of Savannah, a large area of ​​bamboo forest has appeared, but these bamboos are very short. But Marin knew that the bamboo was "getting ready". As soon as the time is right, the Phyllostachys pubescens will swiftly rise into a tall plant.

Marin was very happy, but he also did not forget to urge Korwock to send someone to carefully transplant the young bamboo plants to other places, and let him expand everywhere, and the more he wanted, the better.

In addition to Phyllostachys pubescens, Kovac also reported on Savannah's agricultural situation. However, Savannah's agriculture is a bit biased. Like the rice brought from Daming, it was not well planted in Savannah.

It is not that Savannah is not suitable for growing rice, but that the thousands of white immigrants here are not used to growing rice, especially dare not to go barefoot.

Therefore, in desperation, Kworker simply planted two seasons of wheat in Savannah-one season of winter wheat, one season of spring wheat, and wheat ...

But this does not affect the cultivation of Mexican upland cotton. After all, cotton is not cultivated in paddy fields, and those European immigrants are still used to it.

Marin came to the warehouse and saw a lot of wheat and cotton accumulated in the warehouse. However, because Marin was absent in the past two years, the Savannah colony did not know how to handle these wheat and cotton. After all, Marin once said that food is not allowed to be sold casually.

Seeing the wheat in the warehouse, Marin didn't care. But seeing the cotton, Marin was very happy. It happened that Malin brought several cotton spinning wheels from Songjiang Prefecture, supposedly invented by Huang Daopo, and there was a craftsman who knew how to build spinning wheels. So Marin asked the craftsman to bring a spinning wheel to teach the local women to start spinning and weaving with the spinning wheel of Huang Daopo. In addition, this craftsman also knows how to play cotton to make quilts.

The excited Marin asked the craftsman to help himself with a few quilts by bow, and he also made some highly imitated military coats by using a quilt-like technique. Of course, it is not a green labor insurance coat, but an ordinary gray cloth military coat. After all, green dyes are also very expensive in this era, it is better to get the most common gray cloth. The white cloth was a little bit dirty, and the gray cloth coat looked gray.

When playing cotton, artisan Lao Song couldn't help but sigh-the cotton batting produced here is very long, soft and smooth, belongs to the top cotton, he has never seen such high-quality cotton.

Malin Xin said, isn't it? This is authentic Mexican upland cotton, which is much better than the Asian cotton that Daming now grows. In the future, China will grow cotton, and basically grow upland cotton. As for the high-quality long-fiber long-staple cotton (that is, sea island cotton), it is difficult to popularize because of the high growth environment requirements.

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Seeing that the development of Savannah is not bad, Marin said nothing, and left the old craftsman Song, who was responsible for guiding the local women to learn to use the spinning wheel of the Huang Daopo, and was responsible for building a new cotton spinning wheel.

But Malin was a bit dissatisfied with Kowok's planting of two seasons of wheat. As a result, Marin asked Korwock that winter wheat still insists on planting. However, in summer, soybeans or peanuts are changed to obtain enough vegetable oil.

After all, it's not enough for people to eat rice noodles. They also need a lot of oil and water. The reason why ancient people love big fat meat is because of lack of oil and water. Therefore, a lot of soybean oil or peanut oil can be obtained by planting soybeans or peanuts in summer. Moreover, planting soybeans can fix the nitrogen to cultivate land, making the land more fat when planting winter wheat.

To this end, Kovokte sent a dedicated vessel for Savannah to follow Marin's fleet northward to New York to obtain soybean seeds. After all, Marin only grows soybeans in New York and Cuba. But the Cuban side is very small and wants enough seeds to come to New York.

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In New York, Marin is also very pleased with the development here. New York's specialties are wheat and soybeans, so it goes without saying. And Albert, because he loves to eat apples, actually brought a lot of apple seeds from the local area and planted them in New York.

Seeing that piece of apple sapling, Marin shook his head. To be honest, Apple is indeed a good thing ~ www.novelhall.com ~ Moreover, the area of ​​New York in later generations is indeed the origin of Apple. But the problem is that there is no advanced refrigeration technology in this era. Apple grows and can only be sold locally, and cannot be transported to other places for long-distance sales. Because, after being transported far away, Apple is broken ...

"Or, you can get apple cider vinegar ... canned apples are not bad ..." Marin thought.

In the new shipyard on Long Island, New York, Marin let the ships carrying tung oil and raw lacquer, and moved down big barrels of tung oil and raw lacquer, as well as copper nails, to facilitate the shipyard's shipbuilding. Moreover, there is a large amount of tung oil and lacquer on the battleship formation that is circling South America. With these tung oil and lacquer, the new shipyard on Long Island, New York, can explode ...

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After a lap in New York, Marin left New York with the fleet and made a short stop on Cape Breton Island. Subsequently, Marin took four 250 armed merchant ships across the Atlantic and returned to the mainland.

However, Marin did not fanfare, but chose to return home secretly. The reason for this is that, because Marin should reasonably return with the fleet of Columbus, it is logical that he has not arrived in Europe, and his early appearance will be doubtful. Therefore, he needs to protect the existence of the Pacific route, and he can't show up for the time being; second, Marin wants to take advantage of the opportunity ...