The Rise of the European Emperor

In fact, Marin, a chemist, didn't know that both soybean oil and tung oil can be processed into biodiesel. However, the use of catalysts and reaction control are more complicated. Marin only knew middle school chemistry and didn't know biodiesel technology, so he didn't think of processing ordinary vegetable oil into biodiesel. He knew that the oil of jatropha curcas fruit can be processed into biodiesel, and he only found out by accident watching a TV program on the Agriculture Channel.

In order to find the jatropha tree, Marin offered a reward of 5,000 gold coins for the first time, and recruited 10 expedition teams to search for the jatropha tree in the jungles of southern North America.

Of course, if you rely solely on the expedition team, it is completely to let them die. Therefore, in order to cooperate with the expedition's actions, Marin intends to establish a colony on the southern coast of North America, that is, the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico, as the base camp for the expedition's operations on land. After all, if the supplies run out during the expedition, or someone is injured or sick, a stronghold is needed to solve the problem. Otherwise, it is to send those explorers to die.

Spreading out the white paper, Marin drew a map of the beauty of later generations relying on his memory. He then set his sights on the Gulf Coast...

"Where to set up a colony?" Marin looked at the map and fell into thought...

From an agricultural point of view, New Orleans, at the mouth of the Mississippi River, was the best initial colony. For it would help the future to control the best agriculturally suitable regions of the North American continent, upstream from the Mississippi.

The Mississippi River is the fourth longest river in the world after the Yangtze River. But the Mississippi River Basin is one of the three major black soil regions in the world, the other two being the Ukrainian Great Plain and the Northeast Plain.

However, the black land in Northeast China covers an area of ​​only 1.03 million square kilometers, and the winter is so cold that it can only grow food for one season, and spend more than half of the time on the kang. Because they hid on the kang all the year round and bragged about each other, so the people from the Northeast were very able to talk and talk freely. There's no way, people hide in the house and brag for half a year, it's like this every year, it's strange that they don't have a good mouth.

The black soil in the Mississippi River Basin covers an area of ​​1.2 million square kilometers, which is larger than the black soil in the Northeast. Moreover, the area where people live is relatively warm, and they can breed twice a year, which is more than the black land cattle in the Northeast.

Therefore, if you want to farm, the Mississippi River Basin must be taken down decisively.

However, Marin is not short of food now, and there is no need to do a lot of farming. What he lacks is energy, farming or something, but it is secondary.

"Energy..." Marin thought for a while, and suddenly stole his gaze to the northwest of the Gulf of Mexico. In later generations, there is a city that Chinese people are very familiar with——Houston.

Although the manager later became mentally ill and talked nonsense, it is undeniable that many NBA fans regard the Houston Rockets as their home team. The reason is that Yao Ming spent his entire NBA time there.

When Lao Yao played in the NBA, Houston almost became the most eye-catching old American city in China, and its reputation in China was greater than that of New York.

Marin was still in high school at the time, and he often skipped classes to watch Lao Yao play. He is a fake fan, he doesn't like those NBA native balls, he only looks at Lao Yao. He didn't even look at the scenes without Lao Yao. Jordan took off his No. 23 jersey, and he didn't even recognize it...

No way, Marin has black face blindness, and all old blacks look similar. He recognizes people from the facial details, but black faces are as black as carbon, and he can't see the details, so he is blind to black faces... only Kobe's "sharp" ones are a bit Like the peculiar face of Po on the Avenue of Stars,

Only Marin can remember. Like Jordan's popular round black face, he doesn't recognize him when he takes off his jersey.

However, the place Marin is looking at this time is not the famous Houston in later generations, but Beaumont, 137 kilometers east of Houston...

What was it about Beaumont that attracted Marin? Because there's a Spindle Top field near Beaumont. The Lucas well there is the world's first self-flowing oil well. Moreover, at its peak, 10,000 tons of crude oil was sprayed daily, and the spray column was 50 meters high, which scared me to death...

Although the Spindle Top Oilfield is several hundred meters deep, it is impossible to drill it out at all with the current technology of Beihai State. But Marin didn't intend to develop the Spindle Top oil field now, but to occupy the place first. Then, tell the engineering and technical personnel that there is a large oil field hundreds of meters underground, and that is enough.

According to the current speed of scientific and technological development in Beihai, this huge oil field may be developed in a few decades. Because of the lack of modern pumping machinery, the Lucas well in the Spindle Top oil field has become the first choice. Daily injection of 10,000 tons of oil is worth the work of how many pumping units...

With enough oil, Marin has the ability to start more single-cylinder diesel engines. At that time, walking tractors will become a very common agricultural machinery. Unlike now, due to the lack of fuel, single-cylinder diesel engines can only be used for scientific research, and most are used for warships, and they must be small warships...

Although there is a biodiesel plan, the future will eventually replace the more expensive biodiesel with cheap petroleum diesel. In other words, biodiesel is just a transition at present. When Beihai country develops technology and can drill oil wells hundreds of meters deep, biodiesel will come to an end for the time being. After all, the cost of the two is not the same. One is planted with a lot of manpower and material resources, and the other is spewed out of the ground. The cost of the two is not the same order of magnitude...

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Therefore, establishing a colony near Beaumont can not only take care of the search for Jatropha curcas, but also find the oil field of Spindle Top by the way.

The Spindle Top feature is still easy to find—a high ground, smelling of sulfur, just off Beaumont...  

While the expedition team was looking for Jatropha curcas, they could have found this place first. Then, Marin circled this place and ordered the engineering department to find a way to drill there, as deep as they can drill, and learn from the lesson if they fail... One day, that gushing well will spew out a lot of oil... …

In addition to taking into account the search for Jatropha curcas and determining the location of the spindle top, there is another use here - as a springboard for you to enter the North American prairie!

This is the future Texas, which is the southern part of the North American prairie. Although the climate along the southernmost coast is relatively humid and somewhat forested, as long as you leave the Gulf of Mexico and go north, you can quickly enter the North American prairie.

Why do you enter the North American prairie? Look for bison!

Before the arrival of European colonists, there were tens of millions of bison on the North American prairie, which was the source of massive amounts of beef and cowhide!

Marin has long established a war plan to snatch women from the Mexican Aztec Empire, and he intends to snatch millions of women. Then, they gave birth to mixed-race children with the men of the North Sea State, as the source of labor for the North Sea State to develop North America.

However, if millions of people are added at once, there will be millions of children in the future. With so many people, there is not enough food. Therefore, at the beginning, the food gap was huge. Even if the grain output of the North Sea country is large, it will be difficult to afford the food for millions of surplus people at once.

After all, food in this era is produced by people. The food produced by the 300,000 to 400,000 strong men in the Beihai Kingdom can feed hundreds of thousands of people, but it is not enough to feed a million people, or even two million people.

Therefore, Marin planned to send cavalry to hunt bison on the North American prairie during that transition period, kill a large number of bison, and make beef jerky as a food supply for the sudden increase in population.

A North American bison can get thousands of catties of meat, which can be made into jerky to feed an adult for a year. Even if the population suddenly increases by one million, it only needs to kill one million bison to overcome the food shortage. Compared with the base number of tens of millions of bison, one million bison is not much. It has an impact on the population, but it is still within an acceptable range.

Moreover, Marin will let the cavalry try to shoot those old bison and extra bulls, and try not to touch calves and cows. In this way, the continuation and reproduction of the bison population will not be affected. Anyway, those old bison themselves would die millions every year, so it would be better if they were hunted down by the North Sea country and used as beef jerky. Otherwise, it will be wasted...

To sum up, Beaumont is an excellent starting point whether you are looking for Jatropha curcas, the Spindletop oil field, or going north to the North American prairie to hunt bison.

So, with a swipe of the pen, Marin ordered 10 expeditions to march on Beaumont. Even, he can give coordinates. Because of Lao Yao's relationship, Marin can even remember the latitude and longitude of Houston and some local natural features. Beaumont is 137 kilometers east of Houston, and there is a distinctive spindle top nearby... As long as the expedition team follows this search, it should not be difficult to find Beaumont...

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