The Rise of the European Emperor

In fact, in 1507, when the Portuguese explored the Indian Ocean route, they sent ships to the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar to find a new route. At that time, the Portuguese failed to explore the new route, but they stopped at Mauritius Island and saw this huge stupid bird that was not afraid of people.

However, because of the failure to explore new routes, the Portuguese never went to Mauritius again. It was not until 90 years later that the Dutch also came to Mauritius that humans began to hunt the dodo bird...

Marin really wanted to get the specific coordinates of Mauritius from the Portuguese sailors, but the Portuguese sailors didn't know the latitude and longitude, so they just said that they were on the east side of Madagascar, which meant nothing. Therefore, it is up to Marin's fleet to find it by themselves.

Of course, finding the dodo was just incidental, and finding Perth to house the merino sheep was the real deal. At most, when returning to the voyage, the fleet can look for the dodo.

Marin thought for a while, and canceled the plan to return to the southern coast of Australia. Instead, he planned to let the fleet return from the easterly belt of the Indian Ocean north of 30 degrees south latitude, and look for Mauritius by the way.

The reason for this is that Marin does not want the fleet to find southeastern Australia with a good climate. The climate over there is indeed very good, but Marin has no population at all to immigrate to Australia. So, it's better not to let those sailors find out there.

As for the coasts of Perth and Western Australia, even if the news spreads, no one will care about Australia. Historically, after the Dutch occupied the Spice Islands and Java Island, they sent people south to investigate Australia. As a result, most of the western coast of Australia near Java Island is a tropical desert area. Only the vicinity of Perth can barely live because of the river. Therefore, the Dutch have no interest in Australia at all. Even though the navigator Tasman later discovered Tasmania and New Zealand in the southeast, they did not arouse the interest of the Dutch because they were too remote.

After all, the Netherlands is a commercial country that values ​​spices and trade more than farming. It wasn't until the British lost thirteen states in North America that there was no place to exile prisoners, only then did they think of Australia, which no one cares about...

Marin has no one to develop Australia now, so he doesn't want the news that the southeast of Australia is suitable for immigration to leak out. Therefore, it is very appropriate to only find the dry areas on the west coast of Australia. At that time, Spain, which has already occupied the Spice Islands in the north, will only see the boundless tropical desert along the coast of northwest Australia, even if they send someone to see it, and they will not have the slightest idea of ​​competing.

Marin plans to graze a large number of Merino sheep along the Swan River in Perth, and introduce Arabian horses to breed and expand the population. In addition, Marin also plans to introduce hornless Angus cattle from Scotland and throw them in Perth to graze sheep.

Angus cattle without horns are small in size and not suitable for farming, so they are only suitable for raising for meat. The Australian prairie is obviously also a very suitable place for Angus cattle to survive. After all, later generations of Australian Angus cattle are also quite famous.

In the future, the grasslands of Western Australia on the banks of the Swan River near Perth will exclusively provide Merino wool, Angus beef and Arabian horses to the mainland of the North Sea...

However, Marin suddenly remembered—it seemed that Australia was still dominated by aboriginal people in this era. If only dozens of ordinary farmers were sent there, they might be wiped out by the local Australian aborigines.

Therefore, after thinking about it, Marin decided to send 500 German Cossacks to establish a small town in Perth, and also to drive and exterminate the local aborigines.

The authentic Cossack Marin definitely doesn't want to be sent here. If they take over the place and build a country, Marin will be ashamed. Therefore, Marin will only send German Cossacks composed of Germans to develop here. Moreover, it must be a German Cossack who is loyal to him. Only in this way can we ensure that Australia is out of our control.

In fact, Hungarian herdsmen who are accustomed to nomadic life are more adaptable to the dry grasslands of western Australia. In particular, among the tens of thousands of Hungarian prisoners of war that Marin had obtained before, there were 20,000 to 30,000 cavalry prisoners of war. These people are all ruthless characters who are good at riding horses and slashing people.

Definitely get used to life on the prairie over there.

But how dare Marin let the Hungarians go to Australia? Maybe, those people will immediately break away from their control there, a country of Magyars in the city, and Marlin will be beaten by chickens and eggs. Therefore, Marin is only willing to let those Hungarians follow them to North America. Moreover, they had to live with German peasants from Württemberg. Moreover, they had to learn to speak German and Germanize as quickly as possible. Otherwise, it is a huge hidden danger.

Therefore, facing the vast Australian continent, Marin would rather only establish a German Cossack village than let the more suitable Hungarian Magyars go there.

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Just when Marin was planning to send a fleet to find a route to Western Australia, two more 250-level armed merchant ships filled with Ming Dynasty cargo came from Panama.

The large quantities of silk, porcelain and tea on board made Marin's eyes shine. These are all money! As long as it is auctioned in Paris, London, Hamburg, Lübeck, Venice, Rome, Milan, Florence and other major European cities, it can bring a lot of cash flow to Marin.

Marin's surplus food may not be exchanged for much cash flow. After all, for ordinary people, food is enough. However, for those wealthy nobles and businessmen, luxury goods are indispensable. Only these luxury goods from the Ming Empire can match their "noble status".

Why are most European nobles in this era unable to make ends meet? Not because they spend their money mainly on luxuries. If it is just simple food, clothing, housing and transportation, it will not cost a lot of money. But most of the European nobles in this era were in debt because they spent too much money on luxury goods.

But their extravagant living habits are what Marin likes. Because, they may not pay for more food (after all, the European nobles are big landlords, who has no surplus food? And the poor who lack food can't pay), but when they encounter luxury goods they like, these nobles But will spend a lot of money without frowning. Moreover, they compare each other...

If there are two nobles with similar identities, if your family has porcelain and the other family does not, the other family will feel ashamed. Then, even if you sell everything you want, you have to buy it back to support the scene...

Therefore, whether the gold and silver hidden in the homes of the nobles can be obtained depends entirely on these luxuries. Although, these so-called luxury goods were ordinary goods in the Ming Dynasty...

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However, what shocked Marin was that the Ming Dynasty goods shipped back with the ship also included a letter from Kong Tai and a batch of special goods...

What letter and what special cargo? It turned out that Kong Tai, the governor of Dongfan Island, even proposed to promote betel nut chewing in the colonies in the tropical area of ​​Beihai. And that batch of special goods is the dried betel nut sent back by Kong Tai, for Marin to try out...

Marlin's head was full of black lines at once—Nima, before I crossed over, the whole world was discussing the carcinogenic properties of betel lang, and you suggested that I chew betel lang, because you want to kill the king?

However, continuing to read Kong Tai's letter, the anger in Marin's heart disappeared...

why? Because Kong Tai said that when he was the governor of Taiwan Island in the past few years, he discovered that the Hakka people introduced from Hu Jian and Guangdong often chew betel nuts. Moreover, it is said that chewing Betel Lang can resist the miasma in the southern tropical jungle...

Kong Tai was immediately excited, this is the biggest problem in colonizing tropical jungle areas! Although Kong Tai has artemisinin, the magical drug for treating malaria developed by Marin, in his hands, artemisinin only treats malaria. And many weak people who opened up wasteland in the tropical jungle often fell ill due to the miasma in the jungle, and even died.

Therefore, the tropical jungle areas that have not yet completed reclamation are not suitable for people with average physique to survive. Otherwise, it is easy to get sick.

For example, Panama, controlled by Marin, is a place with serious miasma. At present, Marin has only sent thousands of strong young people to control there. As for production, it mainly depends on black slaves who have adapted to the tropical rainforest climate. Otherwise, it is easy to die a large number of immigrants from the native land.

Chewing Betel Lang can resist miasma and allow ordinary people to live normally in tropical rainforest areas. It is an absolute magic tool!

Therefore, Kong Tai wrote to Marin, strongly recommending the promotion of betel lang in the tropical rainforest colony of Beihai State, and let everyone chew betel lang, especially those with average physique, to resist miasma and improve survival rate...