The Rise of the European Emperor

Spain has been operating on the island of Haiti for nearly a decade, building several castles. When Columbus arrived, Haiti was the most populous island in the Caribbean, with millions of people, more than Cuba.

However, a smallpox outbreak occurred in Haiti later, causing the loss of tens of thousands of people on the island. But after giving birth over the years, the population has returned to the millions.

In the original history, the Spanish colonists brought smallpox many times, so that the Taino people on the island experienced many terrible smallpox outbreaks. By 1544, after several smallpox outbreaks, the island of Haiti, which had a population of one million, was deserted...

In desperation, Spain had to give up the island of Haiti and turn to develop the island of Cuba. After all, developing a colony also requires labor.

Later, the British and French came to the island of Haiti, which was abandoned by the Spaniards. But there was no one there, so they actively imported black slaves from Africa. In later generations, Haiti has become a predominantly black island.

Now that the Spaniards are scared away and replaced by Marin to run the island of Haiti, the situation is very different. The North Sea Kingdom under the rule of Marin attached great importance to health issues.

It can be said that in today's Beihai Kingdom, there is almost no problem of urinating and urinating in cities. Moreover, Marin ordered cats of other coat colors than black cats to be kept in the city to catch mice and reduce the possibility of plague outbreaks.

At the same time, the police of Beihai State also shoulder the task of smallpox warning. Immediately isolate patients with smallpox as soon as they are identified. Usually, ports such as the Port of Emden in the North Sea country sprinkle some quicklime on the ground and docks from time to time to isolate the virus.

Even Marin strictly stipulates that foreign sailors are only allowed in the tavern on the dock and are not allowed to land. If you want to go ashore? Okay, first go to the bathhouse on the pier and wash it off with hot water. At the same time, the clothes are also boiled in a lime pool and then dried. Then, you can enter the city of Emden.

With such a strict entry and exit system, there has been almost no major epidemic in Beihai for so many years. Even if there were cases of epidemics, they were basically eliminated and isolated in the border areas.

At the same time, other European countries, because they did not pay attention to hygiene, often broke out some large and small epidemics. Although the scale is not large, the dead are frequent.

However, other countries are not fools. Although they don't pay as much attention to hygiene as Beihai Kingdom, they have learned how to isolate diseases. For example, several countries around Beihai, Austria, and even France have all learned how to isolate. In this way, even if smallpox and plague appeared, they were mostly contained in a certain area and did not spread.

Because of strict hygiene management, the possibility of the crew members of the North Sea country carrying the disease is very low. because,

At each port, Marin set up a hospital to prevent sick sailors from running around.

In this way, the possibility of the Taino people on the underwater island contracting smallpox many times is very low. Such a population can also be used by Marin. The only trouble is that there are so many people, it will become more troublesome to isolate and check for syphilis infection.

After all, that's 1 million people! Even if there are 1 million pigs, it is very troublesome to catch. Fortunately, it is said that the people on the island are divided into five major tribes, and the population is relatively concentrated. They all lived in large, densely populated villages, caught birds and fish, and cultivated with stone axes and wooden shovels, mainly cassava and sweet potatoes. The sweet potatoes that Columbus brought back to Europe were obtained from local villages.

Obviously, the Taino people have no shortage of food because of the extremely high-yielding crops such as sweet potatoes. After all, sweet potatoes are so high-yield, even if the planting technology is poor, the yield per mu can be hundreds of thousands of catties. Therefore, the population of the island will skyrocket to millions.

The Indians in the North American jungle are different. They do not have such domineering food as sweet potatoes, but only corn whose yield per mu is not high. Therefore, the population of the entire North American continent is not as large as the Taino people on the island of Haiti.

No way, high-yield grains are just like that! There are now only 250,000 people on the island of Ireland. But after the introduction of potatoes, the population soared to seven or eight million. Of course, millions of people died at once because of the potato blight.

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However, because of the habit of growing cassava and sweet potatoes, the Taino people like to live in large villages. Also, they like to live in coastal plains along rivers. After all, farming must be convenient only in the place where the plain is close to the river.

In this way, it is convenient for Marin to use force against them. After all, it is much easier to surround a few villages on the plains full of farmland than to go into the mountains to find pure savages.

Of course, Marin didn't want to embarrass them, but just wanted to eliminate the source of syphilis! The island of Haiti is the source of syphilis, and the private lives of the locals must be chaotic. Therefore, Marin needs to send someone to observe and isolate it properly in order to eliminate syphilis. Without the trouble of syphilis, the island of Haiti and the 1 million people on the island have the value of development and utilization. Otherwise, this is a scary place.

At present, the main cities on the underwater island are several abandoned Spanish castles and ports such as Santo Domingo, Santiago and Puerto Plata.

Among them, Santo Domingo is the most valuable. It was the first fortress city built by the Spaniards on the island to combine a fortress and a port, and it was also the first colonial city in the Americas.

It is also the capital of the later Dominican Republic and the most developed place on the island of Haiti. Of course, there is one more important point - there are gold mines nearby!

There is a gold mine near Santo Domingo, but it doesn't seem to be big, just a small gold mine. The local indigenous people panned for gold in the nearby rivers and obtained golden sand, but the output was not large. Otherwise, the Spaniards will not give up easily.

In fact, there are definitely gold mines on the island of Haiti, and not too few. However, the scale will not be very large. Marin vaguely remembers the introduction of the geography book that he read in later generations. It seems that the annual gold output of Dominica in later generations is 400,000 ounces! That is more than 11 tons. The annual output of silver is as high as more than 2 million ounces, which is more than 50 tons.

However, according to the information, most of the gold and silver mines seem to be in the Rosario area...

However, Marin doesn't remember that there is a big city called Rosario in Dominica, but there is a city called Rosario in Argentina...

Unbeknownst to Marin, in fact, the Rosario district was in the coastal Azua region not far west of Santo Domingo, and not far from the sea.

Of course, if the gold mines there had been discovered early, the Spaniards would never have left the island of Haiti. At the very least, the Rosario gold mine has to be mined before leaving. As for the gold mines near Santo Domingo, the Spanish were willing to give up because of their low output.

As long as the legendary gold and silver mines of later generations are found, the cost of Marin's occupation of Haiti Island can be recovered, and it will be very profitable. Of course, there is absolutely no loss in growing tobacco.

Moreover, it seems that there are copper and nickel mines on the island, and the scale of nickel mines does not seem to be small. In later generations, Cuba Island has an annual output of several million tons of nickel ore, and Dominica also has an annual output of tens of thousands of tons of nickel ore.

In addition, the island is also rich in bauxite. Of course, bauxite is useless for now. Because bauxite cannot be smelted by ordinary methods, it must be electrolytically reduced. Moreover, it must be in the cryolite environment now. It's no problem to get electricity, but cryolite is said to be synthetic... well, Marin doesn't understand...