The Rise of the European Emperor

Marin remembered that in a certain history of traveling through the Song Dynasty that he read in his previous life, he mentioned sending troops to occupy Hokkaido and raising horses in Hokkaido. But he knew that although the upper plains of Hokkaido were not small, most of them were covered by forests, which were not suitable for raising horses.

However, this is not a problem. Because the Sauron horse is a horse breed suitable for jungle activities, and it is familiar with the jungle. The Ishikari Plain, Yufu Plain and Tokachi Plain on the island are good places to raise Sauron horses.

Moreover, the island can also be used as a training ground to train Sauron mercenaries and wildling Jurchen mercenaries in jungle warfare. After all, according to what Shuizi said, there are tens of thousands of Ainu people on the island, just for those Saurons and wild Jurchens to practice their skills.

The Ainu people are barbarians in the eyes of the Japanese, but they are not fierce enough. As barbarians, they are not as aggressive as the northeast fishing and hunting peoples, and their combat effectiveness is average. Therefore, they are often crushed and beaten by the short Japanese. After fighting for thousands of years, the northern part of Honshu Island was lost first, and then even Hokkaido was lost.

Therefore, although they are called barbarians, the Ainu people are ashamed of the barbarians. After all, the barbarians should be a powerful group. As a result, the Ainu became the leveling monsters of the Japanese who were as short as elementary school students, and they were not as terrible as the barbarians.

You know, they are also barbarians, but the Jurchens are much stronger than the Ainu. The combat effectiveness of the northern frontier army of the Ming Dynasty was not bad. At the beginning, they repelled the 200,000 Japanese troops who invaded North Korea. However, in front of tens of thousands of Jurchen Eight Banners soldiers, the Ming army could only defend the city to protect themselves.

According to the current population of tens of thousands of Ainu people, it should not be difficult to gather tens of thousands of fighters. However, they still couldn't beat the army of the Japanese daimyo, which shows how weak they are.

What is this era? Japanese village head Warring States period ah! The daimyo in the north, because of their poverty, every time they go to battle, there are at most a few hundred small Japanese samurai in the front, and a row of thousands of ashigaru in the back holding sharpened bamboo poles and wearing bamboo and wood armor.

In this era, the Japanese army actually relied on samurai to decide the outcome, and the role of ashigaru can only be regarded as icing on the cake. They can't even beat this kind of army, and they keep losing again and again, which shows how bad the Ainu people's combat effectiveness is.

As for why this is so, Marin thought about it and felt that it might have a lot to do with traditional habits. The Ainu people are good at making canoes for fishing, and because they are close to the Hokkaido fishing grounds, strictly speaking, fishing activities are more than hunting.

As for the fishing and hunting peoples in the Northeast, it is said that they make a living by fishing and hunting, but because the water surface is frozen half of the time every year, they are actually hunting most of the time.

For hunting, of course bows and arrows are often used to hunt animals. If you are unlucky, you will also encounter Siberian tigers and Xiong Xiazi. If you want to survive, you can only work hard.

so,

The fishing and hunting peoples in the Northeast are naturally much braver and braver. After all, they were all forced out. And Hokkaido, where the Einu people live, is close to the Hokkaido fishing grounds, and the fishery resources are extremely rich. There is no need to fight tigers and bears in the deep mountains and old forests. Naturally, they have not developed a strong combat effectiveness.

In addition, because it is close to Mongolia, the fishing and hunting peoples in the northeast are not only good at archery, but also able to fight on horseback. They are sharpshooters and fight on horseback. Naturally, the fishermen and hunters in the Northeast are much stronger than the Ainu people.

However, Marin likes the fact that the Ainu people are good at fishing. Because, this can provide a lot of food…

If we abandon the backward canoe fishing method of the Ainu people and replace it with the large fishing grounds and trawl nets of the North Sea, the catch that can be provided will be greatly improved.

Therefore, while letting the barbarian warriors from the outer northeast capture Ezo Island, Marin planned to capture thousands of Ezo fishermen and take them to Newfoundland, and let them use large fishing boats to help them catch fish in the Newfoundland fishing grounds. In this way, thousands of fishermen's labor can be saved, which can then be used for sea transportation and naval warfare...

The North Sea country is still short of human resources. For example, in the Newfoundland fishing grounds, Marin arranged thousands of English and Germans to act as fishermen to fish there and provide enough salted fish for the colony and the mainland.

If you can get thousands of Ainu fishermen to help you use large fishing boats and trawls to fish together, you will definitely be able to greatly increase your catch and feed more people.

Moreover, Marin is now also ordering people to seize the time to study the gunpowder-triggered whaling cannon, which is specially used for whaling. Once the whaling cannon is successfully developed and combined with large whaling ships, the North Sea Kingdom will not be short of meat in the future. After all, as long as one whale is captured, the amount of meat obtained is amazing.

In addition, the whaling cannon can also be used to specifically deal with those whales that swim fast and cannot be dealt with by the traditional whaling industry. The original traditional whaling can only deal with a small number of species that swim slowly. In this way, the scope of whaling can also be expanded.

And large whaling ships, after killing whales with whaling guns, can cut and refine whale oil on the spot. In addition, the whale meat can be cut up and cured and preserved on the spot. And if it is traditional whaling, there is often not enough space to load the whale oil and whale meat obtained after whaling. Even whale oil needs to be refined after landing on the shore. However, because whale oil is not refined in time, the fat of whale oil often deteriorates and emits a bad smell...

In addition, most of the traditional whaling uses small boats or even small boats, and they often don't take much away after hunting whales. After hunting a whale, most of the whale's belongings are discarded, which is very wasteful.

Therefore, Marin intends to promote modern whaling, using multiple large ships with whaling guns to carry out modern whaling. Because of the large size of the ship and the powerful whaling cannon, it can quickly kill high-speed whales, so the benefits of whaling will also be great.

Once a whale is hunted, the sailors on the big whaling ship can cut off the fat of the whale on the spot and refine the whale oil. Then, the whale meat is cut, salted and stored on the spot with the salt carried on board.

In this way, after the huge whales are killed, most of them will not be wasted. Residents on land can also taste a lot of whale meat to supplement enough nutrition...

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In fact, the Ainu people were originally good at whaling. Marin has seen related reports in his previous life, saying that the Ainu learned to use poisonous plants to extract toxins very early, and then smeared them on whaling harpoons to kill whales.

It is said that the plant toxin extracted by the Ainu has a strong paralyzing effect on fish and can accelerate the process of whales losing their resistance. Moreover, the impact of the whale meat brought down by this plant toxin on humans is negligible, and everyone still eats whale meat...

Therefore, the Ainu are originally a race that is good at whaling. And the cetacean resources in the Newfoundland fishing grounds are particularly rich. If thousands of fishermen are caught, modern large fishing boats and trawl nets, coupled with whaling guns, can provide North Sea countries with very rich whale oil and whale meat resources, greatly improving The quality of life of the people of the North Sea.