The Rise of the European Emperor

Marin wrote the proposal, tied it to the leg of the pigeon, and sent it to Italy. Then, it was transferred by the intelligence station in Italy, and another carrier pigeon was sent to Egypt.

After the special envoy Guci got it, he immediately offered advice to the Egyptian Sultan Galigul. When Garrigul heard this, he immediately became interested, and then he was anxious to discuss with the ministers.

The Mamluk nobles agreed one after another. Indeed, it is much better to fill the canal with the lives of foreigners than with natives. It's not that they cherish the lives of their own people, but that they found that the Egyptian people had serious opposition to digging the canal. One bad, and there's going to be a rebellion.

Normally, they would not be afraid of rebellion. However, now the Turks have shown their fangs, making the Egyptian court restless. If there is no trouble, that is the best.

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

The reason why Tripoli was not chosen was because everyone looked down on Libya, which is severely short of water. Although the Libyan region is located on the edge of the Mediterranean Sea, there is actually no stable river in the country (only seasonal rivers, which stop flowing in the dry season), and there is a serious shortage of water. The locals can only graze near the few oases where springs spring out of the ground, and the population is very sparse.

The Egyptian Mamluk nobles also looked down on such a poor country. On the contrary, it was the Kingdom of Finji, which later became the Sudan, because it had very good farming and animal husbandry conditions on both sides of the Nile River.

Before, the Egyptians felt that the climate in the south was too hot, so they let the Finji blacks control it. However, now that there is a shortage of people to dig canals, the Mamluk nobles thought of it...

Attacking the Kingdom of Finji can not only capture a large number of Finji blacks to dig canals, but also occupy a large area of ​​fertile land suitable for farming and animal husbandry in the upper reaches of the Nile. Moreover, it can be said that it can kill three birds with one stone.

Therefore, the Cairo court quickly ordered to recruit 20,000 Mamluk cavalry to attack the Kingdom of Finji. The number of this army is enough to deal with the Kingdom of Fingi. Even, the Cairo court believed that there was no need for so many people to participate in the attack. The reason why so many people are sent is because it takes a lot of manpower to escort the prisoners of war to the Sinai Peninsula to dig the Suez Canal...

The unlucky Kingdom of Fingi didn't know that they didn't do anything to offend Egypt, and they didn't have any treasures to make people miss, but because of their large population, they were targeted by the Egyptians...

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Marin didn't care about these, but was busy training the domestic strong men how to use the harvesting artifact Mai Samarium.

Marin asked people to build 20,000 sets of Mai Samarium for double use, and then selected 40,000 strong men from all over the North Sea Country and concentrated them on the Lüneburg Prairie. Then, several farmers from Greater Holland taught them how to harvest together using samarium.

Of course, Marin would not let them experiment blindly with immature wheat. Therefore, they were taken to the 7,000-square-kilometer Lüneburg prairie, using weeds on the prairie as targets, and experimenting with how to use samarium.

At the beginning, none of the Mai Samarium knives were installed to avoid accidentally injuring unskilled users. Wait until everyone is proficient in cooperating with each other before installing the blade.

For two months in a row, 40,000 strong men practiced how to use wheat samarium on the Lüneburg grassland. Then, a good Lüneburg grassland was ruined beyond recognition.

But Marin thinks it's worth it, because if two men can harvest 20 acres of land a day, and one person can harvest 10 acres on average, it's six or seven times more efficient than ordinary people!

In fact, these 40,000 strong men are only part of the strong men of Beihai Kingdom. However, considering that it is not realistic and expensive to call all the strong men from all over the country, Marin only selected a few people from each manor as representatives. After these people have learned how to use samarium as representatives, they can also teach the farmers on the same manor how to use samarium when they go back. Therefore, when convening the strong men, Marin asked the manors to recommend smarter ones. Smart people learn quickly and know how to express themselves. At that time, I still expect them to teach the farmers on the same manor how to use samarium...

While they were practicing the use of Mai Samarium,

The factories in the North Sea are also making full efforts to make samarium and thin samarium blades. Wooden frames are easy to make, and there are plenty of carpenters in Beihai. The samarium knife is a bit troublesome, because there are not many blacksmiths among the people, 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 manufacturing samarium. After all, in this agricultural age, the autumn harvest is a major event.

In addition to the native land, Marin also ordered the creation of excess wheat samarium and sent it to the New York colony. After all, New York colony wheat was worth more than native rye.

However, this year is a bit special, because the wheat in the New York colony has been harvested long ago, and the autumn harvest did not wait...

why? Because this year the New York Colony planted the Daming variety of winter wheat, harvesting began in summer. Just when Marin went to Hungary to negotiate the purchase of Hungarian prisoners of war, the harvest of winter wheat in the New York colony was completed.

Right now, the New York colony is planning to start farming and prepare to plant next year's winter wheat. What is really to be harvested in autumn is soybeans. However, soybean stalks are much thicker than wheat stalks, and samarium is not easy to use. So, what to do or what to do.

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Just when the whole country of Beihai was preparing for the autumn harvest, a news came from the Laayoune colony that shocked Marin—the merchants in the Laayoune colony had contacted Timbuktu of the Songhai Empire. Moreover, salt was used to exchange dozens of pounds of gold from Timbuktu!

Marin was taken aback, and hurriedly summoned the messenger sent back by Ayoun, and asked him for details...

It turned out that although Marin's colony in Laayoune, Western Sahara, mainly focused on digging local apatite mines, it also operated sheep nutrition in the Laayoune Oasis. At the beginning, Marin brought hundreds of merino sheep from Spain and raised them in Laayoune.

At the same time, the Laayoune colony also traded with the Moroccans in the north in exchange for the Berb horses of the Moroccans as military horses. At the same time, sell commodities such as salt, cloth and sugar to the herders in Morocco. The means of transportation used for trade between the two parties is naturally the "ship of the desert" - the camel.

Speaking of which, it was also a coincidence. Once, the Laayoune colony sent a camel team, headed by Mosingen, the regional manager of the North Sea Chamber of Commerce, to carry the salt shipped by the North Sea ship to Smara, an important religious city in the northeast of Western Sahara, for trade. A merchant from the Songhai Empire. The merchant liked the non-bitter salt brought by the camel caravan from Mosingen very much, but he had no money left to exchange. In desperation, he proposed to use the black slaves from the Songhai Empire he brought to pay the debt.

Mosingen thought to himself that it seemed that the American colonies of the North Sea State really needed black slaves, so he agreed. Then, the businessman from the Songhai Empire exchanged five sacks of salt with Mosingen with the five black slaves accompanying the team. When he was leaving, the Sanghai businessman laughed like a fool, as if he had taken advantage of the sky...

Then, Mosingen, who was suspicious, communicated with the five Songhai slaves who had been exchanged. Through hand gestures and difficult exchanges such as "guess, I guess", Mosingen was shocked to learn that in the Timbuktu market of the Songhai Empire, salt plates of equal weight can be exchanged for gold of similar weight!

Mosingen was almost taken aback, thinking that these old blacks were bragging. However, people really didn't brag. In order to prove what he said was true, a black man named Yaya volunteered to act as a guide and lead the camel team from Mosingen to Timbuktu to trade salt and gold. The only requirement is to give him freedom in the future!

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

Then, Mosingen took the camel team directly eastward from Smara and entered the territory of Algeria in later generations. Then, under the guidance of Yaya, I passed through several oases in the desert, crossed the Sahara Desert with great difficulty, and arrived at Timbuktu, the first trading city in West Africa in the south of the desert!

At this time, the salt brought by Mosingen was running out. But, to his surprise, the locals preferred salt plates to loose salt. As for why this is so, Mosingen can't understand.

But the sea salt he brought was of good quality and had no bitter taste, and finally won the favor of the locals for its quality. Then, he exchanged the remaining one hundredweight (112 pounds) of salt for 100 pounds of gold dust with local merchants.

However, when leaving Timbuktu, they were heavily taxed. Passing through the border along the way was levied a road tax. By the time they left the Songhai Empire and returned to Laayoune, there were only 70 pounds of 100 pounds of sand left.

However, this profit still shocked Cotton, Governor of Laayoune. He immediately sent the Clippers back to the mainland and reported the situation to Marin. After all, exchanging salt for gold that is almost equal in weight is too unreal...