The Rise of the European Emperor

Albert also wrote a report on the wine trade with the Indians, sent a clipper through the North Atlantic warm current, quickly returned to the mainland, and sent it to Marin for approval.

Marin quickly approved Albert's report and gave it a strong affirmation. Right now, in order not to waste food, the Beihai Kingdom uses all the old grain that is about to expire to make wine. But there are too many old grains, and the amount of wine brewed far exceeds the market demand. Now, Marin is worrying about the sales of wine.

In order not to waste alcohol, Marin purified a lot of surplus alcohol into classic spirits of about 56 degrees, and then sealed it with jar mud and buried it underground. This kind of spirit above 53 degrees is the most durable. As long as it is kept for a long time, after decades, it will be a top quality wine. And Marin seems to have a lot of Erguotou buried in the ground - more than 100,000 altars...

There is no way, there is too much wine left, so it has to be processed into spirits and buried. Anyway, spirits are resistant to storage, and the longer they drink, the better they taste.

However, if there is a market, Marin doesn't want to bury all the wine in the ground. Hearing that Indians like to drink, Marin immediately became energetic.

Marin is very clear about how many Indians there are. There are not many Shawnee people in Pennsylvania, only a few thousand. There are also few Canadian Indians near Cape Breton Island, and the market is actually not big.

However, there are so many Indians in Mexico and Peru! The Indians over there are counted in tens of millions. If they sell wine...

Well, among other things, it is not a problem to exchange some gold and silver with the Aztec Empire and the Inca Empire.

Today, the craftsmen sent by Marin to Aztec have successfully helped the Aztec Empire find several large silver mines and established a mature silver smelting base. In a few years, the Aztec Empire will be able to produce silver. At that time, Marin can take the wine and exchange silver with the Aztecs in Mexico to solve the money shortage.

In addition, the conscientious old Yin Bimarin also intends to use the wine trade to provoke the Indians to fight among themselves, so that the Indians can attack each other and consume their strength.

The specific method is very simple-exchange Indian children with wine...

This kind of trade of people who have lost their conscience in later generations is very normal in this era. For example, in the Songhai Empire in West Africa, the slave trade was one of the country's main sources of finance.

The Indians in North America seem to have not yet entered the era of slavery, so the slave trade is not popular.

But it doesn't matter, the wicked Marin will let them do it. Marin intends to exchange Indian children with spirits and those Indian alcoholics.

certainly,

Marin was not cruel enough to ask those Indians to sell their children. However, he would advise those Indian drunkards-you go to other tribes to grab it! A strong Indian boy is exchanged for a pot of medium-strength wine, and a girl for half a pot... As for beaver skin, the price is much lower...

In this way, there will always be Indians who are addicted to alcohol. As long as they attack other tribes, it will inevitably cause fierce conflicts among Indian tribes.

Moreover, children are the future of the tribe. Once the tribe's children are plundered by other tribes, it is tantamount to cutting off the hope of the tribe.

Although those tribes were not slaughtered directly, because their children were robbed, after twenty years, those tribes without a new generation of strong men will inevitably decline or even die out...

And after those boys and girls were bought by Marin's colonists, the strongest group of boys will use the Mamluk cavalry training method to conduct cruel training to become the bravest fighters, as the North Sea Army assault force. And girls, if they are good-looking, are sold to those rich colonists as maids. Moreover, Marin will acquiesce to those Germans who buy maids, take those Indian girls as lovers, and have children with them to increase the population of the colony. Marin will not give up on these unnamed mixed-race children, but will also grant land to help develop the colony.

In this way, through the temptation of wine, Indian tribes will become deadly enemies because of plundering each other's population, cutting off each other's inheritance and hope. Moreover, because of the feud, it is difficult for these Indian tribes to form a unified tribal alliance similar to the Iroquois League that resists colonial rule.

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"I seem to be more and more like the British of later generations..." Marin stroked his head speechlessly. This kind of shit-stirring method is exactly what the later British guys are best at.

First provoke the target's infighting, and then reap the benefits of the fisherman... Plus plundering the children of the Indians, cutting off the inheritance of those tribes... Proper British shit-stirring methods, and, because of cutting off the future of those tribes, it seems More insidious than the methods of the British...

As for the Indian children who exchanged wine, Marin would ask Taylor's disciples and grandchildren to brainwash them from childhood. When they grow up, they will become yellow-skinned and white-hearted banana people, and go through life and death for the Beihai country, or become the leading party...

Speaking of the banana man, Marin suddenly became very uncomfortable. But now I have a yellow heart, but now I have a white skin, what is this? Poached eggs? Well, poached eggs are indeed yellow-hearted and white-skinned...

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Then, Marin decided to go out to relax, in the name of inspecting work, to go to other places to relax...

In this way, Marin came to Goslar, the city of miners, to inspect the Rammelsberg silver mine near Goslar.

At this time, the autumn harvest in the southern region had long since ended, and 57,800 young Hungarian men returned to the Rammelsberg silver mine and became silver miners again.

The Rammelsberg silver mine began to be mined as early as 968. After more than 500 years, the surface mines have long been mined. Now, silver mines have gone deep into the ground, and underground mining is carried out by means of tortuous mines.

Fortunately, this is not a coal mine, and there is no danger of gas explosions, so I am not afraid to use torches in underground mines. But in this era of underground mining, the biggest problem is the problem of water accumulation.

Just like the Tara lead-zinc mine on the island of Ireland that Marin had acquired at the beginning, because the underground water was too difficult to deal with, it gave up mining.

But now, Da Vinci has made the Watt steam engine. Although it is cumbersome, it is no problem to use it to pump water for the mine. Prior to this, local silver mining required manual pumping of water from mines before further mining.

With the steam engine pumping water, the production efficiency of Rammelsberg Silver Mine has been greatly improved. Without the trouble of stagnant water, the mining efficiency has been greatly improved.

Moreover, in order to ensure the safety of the miners, Marin also asked his men to use strong logs to make many load-bearing frames and install them in the mine tunnel to prevent the mine tunnel from collapsing and causing death. In this way, the safety of the Rammelsberg silver mine has been greatly improved. The widespread application of guide rails and mine carts has greatly improved the transportation efficiency of silver ore.

In addition, under the guidance of Marin, the blast furnace of Rammelsberg Silver Mine has also been improved, which greatly improves the efficiency.

What improvements did Marin ask the craftsmen to make to the blast furnace? In fact, it is very simple, that is, the ordinary blast furnace is converted into a hot blast furnace. According to Marin's instructions, the craftsmen made a long iron pipe before the air inlet. The pipe is curved to increase the contact area with the flame.

Then, when the blast furnace is working, a fire is fired under the air inlet channel for heating. When the blast equipment blows the wind into the furnace from the air inlet, the air has already been heated, and the air blown into the furnace is hot air, so there is no need to waste additional fire to heat the air...

In this way, the efficiency of the blast furnace is also improved a lot, and the production speed is greatly improved. In just a few months, the silver output of the Rammelsberg Silver Mine in Goslar has increased from less than 1,000 pounds of silver per month to more than 5,000 pounds of silver per month... This is not counting incidental Processed lead, zinc, tin, copper and a small amount of gold...