Chapter 1619： Tragic Portuguese

Occupation or control, it seems that control began to prevail in the 19th century. In the 19th century, when the powers divided Africa, including the Qing Empire, they all adopted more cost-effective control methods.

However, this also has prerequisites. The prerequisite is that the colonial side is only for the benefit, not the land ...

If you just want to get benefits from the colony, then looking for an agent is the most cost-effective way to save money. Even in the 21st century, both the old and the United States fought the agent war.

But Marin's colonial America is different. Marin wants not a profit, but a living space. Europe is too narrow. Where there is a big fart, there are many countries. Even in the early 20th century, in order to compete for living space, a world-class war broke out.

It is precisely because the European territories are so small that the powers are competing against each other, so the United States can only pick up the cheaper rise. Marin has a forward-looking vision, and naturally does not want to be picked up by Lao Mei in the future. Therefore, he simply opened a mine in North America. By that time, all his descendants will be segregated in the Americas, spread throughout North and South America. In this way, even if someone takes advantage of the European melee in the future, it is also their own descendants, no cheap outsiders!

Therefore, for those colonists who only want to find gold and profits, it is the most cost-effective to control the colony and cultivate agent talents. But for Marin, if he wants the future in a few hundred years, he really must occupy.

However, knowing the future Marin, you can choose to occupy the most elite place. As for the unimportant, just do it casually. Of course, in the early days, Marin would still desperately protect the entire America, and would not let people participate. How long you can delay your opponents, try to delay the opponents' pace of entering the Americas. If you let your opponent go to the Americas too early, you might be able to **** the best sites.

Only after the Beihai Kingdom has controlled the most elite areas and has established a firm foothold can we let our opponents pass.

Because of fear of opponents madly robbing themselves with gold and silver America, Marin is now afraid to even send troops to destroy the Mexican Aztec Empire and Inca Empire. After all, if one knows that there are gold mountains and silver seas in the Americas, it is estimated that all of Europe will unite to deal with their own.

Fortunately, America is a wonderful place. On this rich and vast continent, gold and silver are basically distributed in the Cordillera Mountains in the west near the Pacific Ocean. Ordinary explorers, even if they secretly sail to the eastern coast of the Americas, cannot find gold and silver mines. Across the eastern coast of the Americas, Marin remembers that there are gold mines in the mountains over Guyana.

However, in order to divert the attention of other European countries, Malint squeezed out the two gold-rich centers of the Zimbabwe Empire and the Songhai Empire, which were used to attract the two largest competitors during the voyage-Spain and Portugal.

Not to mention, these two countries are really strongly attracted. It's just that the Spaniards seem to be a little pitted ...

Because of Marin's memory errors, the Zimbabwe obtained by the Spaniards no longer has the super gold mine near the Great Zimbabwe Stone City. However, because the Kingdom of Mutapa attaches great importance to the mining of gold mines, Zimbabwe is also a place with more gold mines. Therefore, the sum of the income of large and small gold mines nationwide is also a large number each year.

However, compared with Timbuktu scheduled by the Portuguese, the gold output of the Mutapa Kingdom is a bit unattractive. After all, Timbuktu gathers most of the gold produced throughout the Gulf of Guinea in West Africa. For example, later generations such as the Gold Coast (Ghana) and Guinea.

In other words, Timbuktu is the distribution center of gold trade in West Africa. At this time, in West Africa, in addition to the powerful Songhai Empire that controlled Timbuktu, there was also the declining Mali Empire, as well as Ashanti, Hausa, Oyo, Benin and other countries. These small West African countries, although not strong in national strength, are very difficult to conquer because they are located in the tropical rain forests of West Africa. Otherwise, the mighty Songhai Empire has already moved them.

It can be said that Timbuktu is a big pit dug by Marin for Portugal. Because, with the strength of the Portuguese army, it was reluctant to go to the Songhai Empire, let alone annexing the whole of West Africa. Until now, the Portuguese have not been able to open the road to the inland.

Moreover, Marin remembers that the Portuguese army in overseas colonies has always been very small. For example, in Mozambique, they have only a few garrisons. They can only have a small number of garrisons in a few cities such as Lorenzo Marquis (maputo in later generations) on the coast and Tete on the west bank.

Let this army battle five slags to conquer the now powerful Songhai Empire, it is simply to let Portugal hit the wall!

At the beginning, Marin had just thought about it-let the powerful army of Spain go to the Zimbabwe Empire with less gold production, and let the army's **** Portugal go to Timbuktu, the gold city of West Africa.

Because, if it is changed to let Spain go to Timbuktu, it is likely to be in the middle. After all, the Spanish Army is much stronger than Portugal. If Spain were to occupy Timbuktu, Marina would send Spain to the sky.

The current Mutapa Kingdom, although there is a lot of gold, can not be compared with Timbuktu, the gold center of West Africa.

However, this is based on the premise that Spain sent troops to capture the Kingdom of Mutapa. Because if Spain sends troops to capture Zimbabwe, then a lot of troops will be needed to control this area. Moreover, it also takes a lot of financial resources to develop those local gold mines ... In short, it can hold down a lot of Spain's military strength, energy and financial resources ...

It's just that Marin didn't know that Spain had a small, discerning official named Gonzalez who actually knew that the capture of the landlocked African countries was not worth the gains. If Gonzalez's proposal is really accepted, then Marin's plan to hold down Spain's energy will go bankrupt. Because, if you only control the Kingdom of Mutapa, the Spanish person in Mozambique is enough now. At most, you need to send some warship support to block the Zambezi estuary and prevent Arab merchants from robbing business.

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In contrast, the Portuguese are much more stupid. The ambitious Portuguese have already formulated a battle plan to capture the gold capital Timbuktu ~ www.novelhall.com ~ Sadly, it has been several years since Portuguese talents have just opened up the road through the Republic of Guinea . For this reason, the Portuguese paid the price of hundreds of deaths. It was not until two years ago that Marin ’s partner, Jorge de Rencastre, Duke of Coimbra, Portugal proposed the expedition of a large number of black slaves, which greatly reduced the casualties of the Portuguese. After all, black people are more adapted to the climate of the rainforests of West Africa.

However, passing through Guinea ’s tropical rainforest is just the beginning. Today, the Portuguese expedition entered the southwestern mountains of the Republic of Mali. And here is the territory of the Mali Empire that has begun to decline.

However, although the Mali empire has fallen, Timbuktu has also been lost. However, the thin dead camel is larger than the horse, and the military strength of the Mali empire is still very strong. Moreover, there are a lot of cavalry. Therefore, the Portuguese do not say to go to Timbuktu, let the Malian empire be balanced first.

Moreover, even if the declining Mali empire is smoothed out, there is a stronger Songhai empire in front ...

In addition, what the Portuguese did not know was that Malin, who lacked virtue, had bought Arab merchants through spies in Egypt, and used camels to carry Turkish firearms, Rumikon, to trade in the Songhai Empire.

As long as the Sanghai Empire bought the matchlock gun, they had seen the power of the matchlock gun. Then, when fighting the Portuguese colonial army in the future, you will not be surprised because you have never seen a musket. Then, the result of the battle is hard to say.

So, how sad is the Portuguese! Although it is divided into a seemingly largest "cake", it is a pity that it is too difficult to eat. What's more, Malin's obscene stuff is still "poisoned" inside the "cake" ...