Chapter 1633： Discover Timbuktu trade routes

Marin wrote the proposal, tied it to the legs of the carrier pigeon, and sent it to Italy. Then, it was transferred from the intelligence station on the other side of Italy, and another pigeon was sent to Egypt.

After getting the special envoy Guz, he immediately offered his plans to the Sultan of Egypt, Caligur. As soon as Gary Gul heard it, interest came, and then the ministers anxiously discussed.

The Mamluk nobles have agreed, indeed, that it is much better to fill the canal with the lives of foreigners than with the natives. It was not that they cherished the lives of their people, but that they found that the Egyptian people had a serious opposition to digging the canal. If one is not good, there will be a rebellion.

If they usually do, they are naturally not afraid of rebellion. However, the Turks now show their fangs, making the Egyptian court restless. It ’s best if you ca n’t make trouble.

After discussion, the Egyptian Mamluk nobles unanimously decided to send troops to attack the Finge Kingdom to the south!

The reason why Tripoli did not choose is because everyone does not look down on the Libya region, which has a severe water shortage. Although the Libya region is located on the edge of the Mediterranean Sea, there is no stable river in China (only seasonal rivers, which are dry in the dry season), and there is severe water shortage. Locals can only graze near a few oasis where springs spring out underground, and the population is very sparse.

Such majestic nobles in Egypt also despise such poor rural areas. It is the Finge Kingdom of Sudan afterwards, because on both sides of the Nile River, it has very good agricultural and animal husbandry conditions.

Before, the Egyptians thought the southern climate was too hot, so let the black Finge control it. However, now that no one is digging in the canal, the Mamluk nobles think of it ...

Attacking the Finge Kingdom can not only capture a large number of Finge blacks and dig canals, but also occupy a large area of ​​fertile soil suitable for agriculture and animal husbandry on the upper Nile. Moreover, they can also grab a wave from the kingdom of Finge, which can be said to have achieved three results.

Therefore, the Cairo imperial court quickly ordered the recruitment of 20,000 Mamluk cavalry to attack the kingdom of Finghi. This army is enough to deal with the Finge Kingdom. Even, the Cairo court believed that so many people were not needed to participate in the offensive. The reason why so many people are sent is because it takes a lot of manpower to **** prisoners of war to the Sinai Peninsula to dig the Suez Canal ...

The hapless Finji Kingdom did not know that they did nothing to offend Egypt, and there was nothing to be missed about. They were even targeted by the Egyptians because of their large population ...

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Marin didn't care about these, but was busy training domestic Zhuang Ding how to use the harvesting artifact Mai SM.

Marin let people create 20,000 sets of double-use samarium. Then, they selected 40,000 strong men from all over the North Sea and concentrated on the prairie of Lüneburg. Then, several farmers from Great Holland taught them how to use wheat samarium to coordinate harvesting.

Of course, Marin would not let them blindly test the unripe wheat. Therefore, they were taken to the Luneburg prairie of more than 7,000 square kilometers, using the grass on the grassland as a target, and experimenting with how to use samarium.

At the beginning, all the samariums were not equipped with samarium knives to avoid accidentally injuring unskilled users. Wait until everyone is skilled in cooperating with the force before installing the blade.

For two months in a row, 40,000 strong men practiced using samarium on the Lüneburg grassland. Then, a good Lüneburg grassland was stunned.

But Marin thinks it's worth it, because, with the use of two pairs of wheat samarium, two strong men can harvest 20 acres of land a day. On average, one person harvests 10 acres, six to seven times the efficiency of ordinary people!

In fact, these 40,000 Zhuang Ding are only part of the Beihai Zhuang Ding. However, Marin considers that it is not realistic to summon the entire country's Zhuangding, and the expenditure is also large. Therefore, only a few people from each manor are selected as representatives. After these people have learned how to use wheat samarium, they can also teach farmers how to use wheat samarium. Therefore, when convening Zhuangding, Marin asked the estates to recommend coming smarter. Smart people learn fast and also know how to express. At that time, they are also expected to teach the farmers of the same manor how to use wheat samarium ...

While they practiced using samarium, Beihai's factories were also working hard to build samarium and thin samarium blades. There are so many wooden framers in Beihai country. The samarium knife is a bit troublesome, because there are not many blacksmiths, and the factory needs to stop the manufacture of weapons and tools to make way for the samarium knife. But it was worth it, so Marin ordered the whole country to concentrate on making samarium. After all, in this era of agriculture, the autumn harvest is a top priority.

In addition to the local area, Marin also ordered the creation of excess samarium, which was sent to the colony of New York. After all, wheat in the New York colony is more valuable than native rye.

However, this year is a little special, because the wheat harvest in the colony of New York has long been completed, and did not wait for the autumn harvest ...

Why? Because this year's New York colony planted Daming varieties of winter wheat, the summer harvest began. When Marin went to Hungary to discuss the purchase of Hungarian prisoners of war, the winter wheat in the New York colony was harvested.

Right now, the New York colony is planning to start arable land, ready to plant winter wheat next year. Soybeans are really harvested in autumn. However, soybean straw is much thicker than wheat straw, and wheat samarium is not easy to use. So, what to do or what to do.

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Just as the entire nation of the North Sea nation was preparing for the autumn harvest, a news that shocked Marin from the Ayoun colony came suddenly-the businessman of the Ayoun colony contacted Timbuktu of the Songhai Empire. Moreover, I also used table salt to exchange dozens of pounds of gold from Timbuktu!

Marin was taken aback, and quickly summoned the messenger sent by Ayoun to know the details ...

It turned out that Marin's colony in Ayuan, Western Sahara, although mainly based on the mining of local apatite mines, but also at the same time in the Ayuan oasis nutrition sheep. At the beginning, Hundreds of Merino sheep brought by Marin from Spain were raised in Ayoun.

At the same time, the Ayoun colony also traded with the Moroccans in the north in exchange for the Moroccan Berbuma as a military horse. At the same time, it sells commodities such as table salt, cloth and sugar to the herdsmen in Morocco. The means of transportation used for trade between the two parties is naturally the "desert boat"-camel.

Speaking of it, it was also a coincidence. On one occasion, when the Camel Colony sent a camel team, headed by the North Sea Chamber of Commerce regional manager Mo Singen, while carrying North Sea ships to transport past salt to the important religious city of Smara in northeastern Western Sahara to trade A businessman from the Songhai Empire. This businessman really liked the bitter salt brought by Mosingen's camels, but he didn't have any money in exchange for it. In desperation, he proposed to bring the black slaves of the Songhai Empire to pay off.

Mosingen thought that it seemed that the American colonies of the North Sea country really needed black slaves, so they agreed. Then, the businessman from the Songhai Empire exchanged five sacks of salt with Mosingen using the five black slaves that accompanied him. When he left, the businessman in Songhai laughed very much as a chicken thief, as if he was taking advantage of the sky ...

Then, Moxingen, who had doubts, communicated with the five Songhai black slaves in exchange. Through gestures and difficult exchanges such as "guess me guess" ~ www.novelhall.com ~ Mosingen was shocked to learn that-in the Songhai imperial Timbuktu market, equal weight salt plates can be changed To almost the same weight of gold!

Mo Singen almost scared silly, thinking that these old black bragging. However, they are not bragging. In order to prove that what he said was true, a black man named Yaya volunteered to express his willingness-as a guide, to lead Mosingen's camels to Timbuktu to trade salt and gold. The only requirement is to be able to give him freedom in the future!

Mossingen agreed immediately, and compared with the huge profits of the salt-gold trade, the freedom of a black slave is really nothing.

Mossingen then led the camels straight from Smara to the east and into Algeria. Then, under the guidance of Yaya, passing through several oasis in the desert, traversing the Sahara Desert with great difficulty, arrived at the first trade city in West Africa-Timbuktu, south of the desert!

At this time, the salt brought by Mosingen was not much. However, to his surprise, the locals prefer salt plates rather than bulk salt. As for why this is so, Mo Singen also did not understand.

But the sea salt he brought was of good quality and no bitterness, and finally won the locals' popularity with quality. He then exchanged 100 pounds of sand with a local merchant for the remaining one pound (112 pounds) of salt.

However, when leaving Timbuktu, he was heavily taxed. Crossing along the way, they were again levied a toll tax. By the time he left the Songhai Empire and returned to Ayoun, there were only 70 pounds left in the 100-pound sands.

However, this profit still shocked Governor Aton Coton. He immediately sent the Clippers back home and reported the situation to Marin. After all, the trade of salt for gold of almost equal weight is too illusory ...