Chapter 2097： Shall we also make a "sweet potato flourishing age"?

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It is not easy to build a port. In order to build a port, Marin plans to send 5,000 professional engineers, accounting for almost half of the North Sea State's engineering troops.

In addition, Marin also needs to prepare a large number of ships and supplies. For example, cement requires several ships. In addition, a lot of bricks are needed. As for wood, it can be cut on the spot. After all, there are also many cold-temperate trees over there, such as pine, spruce, and birch.

However, we can only prepare now, not immediately. Because, Murmansk and Hillcres are currently located in the Arctic Circle, so January belongs to the polar night. Even if I went there, it was a long night, and there was no day to start work.

Marin estimated that it would be suitable to start after March. After arriving there, almost April, construction just started. After getting there, it is time to build the port and houses. In fact, there is no rush to build the port. It is enough to repair two or three long bridge piers first. Housing construction is the most important thing. After all, it’s so cold over there, if you don’t repair the house, people will freeze at night.

To say that the fastest repair is of course the adobe houses that are very popular in Beihai. Reconcile the mud and add weeds as bones. Then, the two boards were filled with mud, tamped, and burned hard after being regenerated, forming a soil wall. There are even simple and rude ones, which can be used directly by taking out the cave dwellings on the soil **** and drying them inside. There is also a wooden house, that is, logging and processing, which is more time-consuming. Moreover, the wooden house is not so good for winter, and it is not as warm as the adobe house. In particular, there is a fire kang in the adobe house, which is most needed in this area.

Of course, a fortress must be built with a masonry structure on the port to serve as a garrison base. If the Grand Duchy of Moscow someday gets wind and sends troops to attack it, the adobe houses will not be able to hold them. They need brick and stone fortresses to hold them. However, the fortress does not need to be too big, a 10,000 square meter is enough, and it is mainly used as a military fortress. Moreover, the fortress does not need to be in a hurry, it can be built slowly, and the adobe houses that can live in immediately are the most urgent. As for the tent? This thing is not good in the Arctic Circle, but it can only be used in summer.

In addition, a land road leading to the St. Petersburg area needs to be opened. This road doesn't need to be good, it just needs to be able to go.

However, the most troublesome thing is not the road. Because the road can be cleared by cutting down trees. The most troublesome thing is actually crossing the river. After all, this is the far north, even in summer, it is ten to twenty degrees, and the water temperature is even lower. If it is wading, it is easy to catch a cold. And in this age, it’s easy to die from a cold...

Therefore, when immigrants are traveling, they encounter a river and need to build a bridge to cross it. Or, leave a ferry for ferry. But whether it's a bridge or a ferry, the cost is very high. Therefore, it is necessary to send a pathfinder team to find a reasonable road that avoids unnecessary rivers as much as possible. In this way, a few bridges and ferry crossings can be built less.

But no matter how you save, hundreds of bridges and ferry crossings are definitely needed. Plus logging and clearing roads, the cost is not small...

Marin has a headache and feels that he has to spend money everywhere. However, there is not much cash in his hand! There is still a lot of food, but because of the need to prepare food for hundreds of thousands of immigrants, it is impossible to sell the food stored in the warehouse.

No, Albert came to ask for instructions to allocate the wheat and rye produced in the American colonies to the 300,000 Tainoi immigrants in transit. After all, that's 300,000 people!

Marin thought for a while, and finally decided:

"Albert, don't eat too much wheat for the Tainoites, rye is enough. If it doesn't work, send more fishing boats, go to Newfoundland to catch more fish, and get more salted fish for immigrants to eat. As for wheat... You transport 20 million pounds to Spain and Portugal and exchange some cash..."

Twenty million pounds of wheat, calculated at 5 pfennigs per pound, is 100 million pfennigs worth 1.667 million gold coins. In Spain and Portugal, both commodity and food prices are on the high side, and it is estimated that they can sell for more money.

Moreover, because of the monopoly of the Indian spice trade, the two countries are currently rich and rich, and the money of each country has been earned by the two countries, resulting in some inflation and high prices in the two countries.

Therefore, Marin intends to put in 20 million pounds of wheat at a time, withdraw cash from the two countries, and solve the problem of insufficient cash flow in the North Sea country.

Of course, Marin will definitely cover up and send spies in France and Italy, pretending to be French and Italian businessmen, to operate this matter. After all, France and Italy are large wheat producing countries in Europe. France has very good geographical conditions, while Italy has a fertile volcanic ash soil. Sicily’s "Golden Basin" and other places are famous for wheat production.

Moreover, 20 million pounds, which sounds a lot, is actually more than nine thousand tons. In later generations, it is estimated that the grain merchants with a little bit of strength will not look good. But in this age, it is not a small number anymore. After all, these days, the European agricultural technology real cabbage, the yield of wheat per mu is less than 100 pounds. Therefore, there is a feeling that things are rare.

With cash of one hundred and hundreds of thousands of gold coins, Marin can also breathe a sigh of relief, so as not to be driven mad by the money shortage.

In fact, the region with the most abundant gold and silver in this era is India. Because the pepper trade has been going on for thousands of years, Europeans have sent thousands of years of gold and silver to India. Therefore, even though there are not many gold and silver mines in India, they have accumulated massive amounts of gold and silver by selling pepper. Therefore, there is a lot of gold and silver in every Indian temple. In India, gold jewelry is also very popular.

In the hard-pressed China, ancient gold and silver are very rare. Before the development of maritime trade in the middle and late Ming dynasties, gold and silver were only available to large households in China, and civilians only used copper coins.

In India, people have been selling pepper to Europe since the time of the Roman Empire, and they have accumulated gold and silver for hundreds of years, which can be described as a sea of ​​gold and silver.

Of course, the British colonized India later and plundered a lot of gold and silver. Just the details of Bangladesh’s treasury are worth 40 million pounds of gold and silver (equivalent to 120 million taels of silver). After that, the details of Mysore also received gold and silver treasures worth 10 million pounds (30 million taels of silver).

Therefore, the rise of the British Empire largely relied on the gold and silver looted from India. These gold and silver were deposited in British banks, ensuring the dominance of the pound sterling. It was not until after the two world wars that Britain ran out of savings from fighting and owed Lao Mei a lot of money. And the gold and silver raided in the previous hundreds of years were also used to buy weapons from Lao Mei.

In other words, the gold and silver scoured by the British in India, through the two world wars, came to the hands of the old and the United States, leading to the birth of the superpower Ugly Country...

To be honest, Marin wanted to send an army to India for a looting. In this way, gold and silver worth tens of millions of Guldon coins are indispensable. But the problem is that there are still many domestic threats in the North Sea country, so you can't leave it casually. Moreover, grabbing so much money at once can easily arouse envy and hostility across Europe. Therefore, he could only wait for the wings to harden before doing so.

Just when Marlin was thinking about going to India in the future, Albert hesitated and said:

"It seems that rye and salted fish are not enough. The North American colonies do not produce much rye..."

In addition to the 300,000 Tainoites in transit, there are still tens of thousands of Germans in the North American colonies. The rye produced must be given priority to German immigrants. In this way, do the Taino people eat fish every day?

Marlin thought for a while, suddenly his eyes lit up:

"Then let them do their job-growing sweet potatoes!"

The Taino people are good at growing cassava and sweet potatoes, so there is no pressure for them to grow sweet potatoes. Moreover, the output of this stuff is high. Even if there is not much land to be reclaimed, each person only needs one or two acres of land, and the sweet potato planted is definitely enough for a year. If the area is large enough, the sweet potatoes produced can also feed back to the local area. Fresh sweet potatoes are difficult to preserve, but they can be dried and ground into powder.

Although the sweet potato noodles are whole grains, they don't taste good after eating them. But for the Taino people and the poor, it’s good to have enough food, and they won’t pick it at all.

Then, you can also let the Taino people grow some vegetables such as cabbage and radish, which can also be eaten.

If the planting area is large enough, even if Marin conquered the Aztec Empire and brought in 2 million people, it would be enough to eat. And if you grow wheat or rye, it is difficult to feed so many people at once. UU reading

When planting sweet potatoes, even if a person grows only 10 mu of land, the yield per mu is only 2,000 pounds, and there are 20,000 pounds, which can feed several people. Planting 20 acres of sweet potatoes can feed more than a dozen people...

Therefore, if you want to expand the population and grow sweet potatoes, it is definitely a good choice. I didn’t look at the others, because the promotion of planting sweet potatoes and the abolition of the population tax in Yongzheng directly increased the population to more than 300 million?

Therefore, Marin gave Albert a task-300,000 Tainoites, planting at least 1 million mu of sweet potatoes. If you have spare capacity, consider planting something else.

"Well, let's also learn from Tanqing and come up with a "Sweet Potato Flourishing World". A few hundred years later, we can also film "Marin Dynasty", indicating that Uncle Daoming will play the role of Emperor Marin..."

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