The Rise of the European Emperor

It was very easy to confirm the candidate to play Edward Green. Kohler easily found a spy named Brad from the England branch of the North Sea Chamber of Commerce to play this role.

In order to convince people, when Kohler was selecting people, he also asked someone to get a portrait of Baron Ferreira, compared the portraits, found someone who looked more like Baron Ferreira, and then chose Brad.

In other words, if Brad went to Portugal to "visit relatives" in the name of "Edward Green", no one would doubt him. Because the two do look alike. After all, Kohler selected people based on their portraits.

After solving the "actor" candidate, Marin sent someone to secretly inform Baron Ferreira. Although he was a little dissatisfied with Marin's use of his dead cousin's identity, he still chose to cooperate in the face of huge family interests.

Then, there is the specific development plan...

Marin convened his think tanks, such as Haider and Machiavelli, the two civil servants that Marin focused on training. Prime Minister Geoffrey and Second Prime Minister Mikel are both old, and Haider and Machiavelli may take over in a few years.

From the point of view of talent, it seems that Machiavelli is stronger. But Haider is not bad. After all, he graduated from the University of Cologne in this era, and he is a high-achieving student. Moreover, Haider was the first high-level talent to follow him, and in terms of trust, he definitely surpassed the Italian Machiavelli. In other words, Haider will serve as prime minister in the future. Machiavelli, on the other hand, will become the second civil servant like the second chancellor. This is already very rare for a foreigner from Italy.

In fact, Marin has always had a great prejudice against Italians because of Italy's funny performance in World War II. Even when immigrating to the Americas, Italians are not considered.

It was later that Felice, an Italian, after obtaining the vast fiefdom of Uruguay for his youngest son Giuliano, was willing to immigrate Italians to Uruguay because he was Italian and was close to Italians.

Under the influence of Felice, Marin also agreed to accept Italian immigrants. Furthermore, the South American region is not actually an area that Marin focuses on, and it would be good to get some Italians to develop it in the past. After all, there are too few local Germans, and the development of North America alone is stretched. How can anyone spare to develop South America?

Then, in the past two years, Marin had people emigrate more than 20,000 Italian farmers to the La Plata region and Uruguay. Italy has been fighting all these years, the wars are endless, and there are also a lot of war refugees. If it weren't for Marin's fear of being too eye-catching, even if he immigrated 100,000 Italians, he would be frivolous.

More than 20,000 Italian immigrants immediately accelerated the development of the La Plata Estuary area. Because developing grasslands is much simpler than developing forests. Therefore, an additional 450,000 mu of arable land was quickly reclaimed at the mouth of the Rio de la Plata. Today, in the Rio de la Plata area,

There are about 600,000 mu of arable land. And the population is as high as 30,000 people. In addition, there are 1500 Cossack cavalry, responsible for clearing and hunting down the nearby Indians.

It is said that in the La Plata colony, in addition to more than 30,000 immigrants, there were more than 10,000 native Indian slaves captured by the Cossack cavalry. Although these native Indians are not very good at farming. However, it is still no problem to lay hands, herd sheep, dig rivers, pound rice, grind flour and repair houses. In addition, it can also be sent to pave the way. After all, the cement slab road promoted by Marin is still very simple to lay.

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For the development of the Cape of Good Hope, Marin's request is to develop a supply station for voyages to the east, which can provide food and fresh water supplies. At the same time, it can also provide ship repair services. Then, as a springboard, as the main base for hunting rhinos.

In any case, South Africa is an area with a large number of rhinos. Although it does not account for more than 80% of the world's quantity like later generations, the current number is definitely considerable.

In later generations, there were about 20,000 rhinos in South Africa. It may not seem like much, but it must be taken into account that it is under the premise that South Africa is already highly developed. In this era, Marin estimated that most of South Africa has not yet been developed. Therefore, the total number of rhinos in South Africa may reach hundreds of thousands this year. With so many rhinos, Marin can definitely provide enough rhino hides to make armor.

At the same time, by hunting rhinos, Marin's hunting team can also find out the way to the inland area and reach the Johannesburg area of ​​later generations, which is the largest gold producing area in later generations.

After discussing with his subordinates, everyone agreed that developing the land near the Cape of Good Hope (that is, farming) and hunting rhinos were secondary. First of all, a town should be established on the Cape of Good Hope, so that immigrants can get a foothold here, so as not to be driven out by the local aborigines. Then the second step is to consider the establishment of a port to provide food and fresh water for passing ships, as well as ship repair business.

For this reason, Marin directly ordered to send a ship to transport a batch of bricks and wood to the Cape of Good Hope for the construction of towns and ports, as well as a simple ship repair yard.

In fact, the best option for building a fort on the Cape of Good Hope is cement. But Marin needs to hide his relationship with Baron Ferreira. Therefore, cement with the characteristics of Beihai cannot be used. Therefore, only bricks and clay can be used for simple bonding to build coastal forts and ports. Moreover, it is enough to guard against and resist the local aborigines.

Right now, the black natives near the Cape of Good Hope are probably San and Khoi. They are the real local aborigines, and the Bantu people who later occupied the main population of South Africa actually migrated south from East Africa.

The level of civilization of the local natives is very low, it is impossible to have artillery, and there is no siege equipment such as trebuchets. Therefore, it is sufficient to use ordinary bricks and yellow mud as the adhesive for the castle.

But it was too difficult to gain a foothold in the Cape of Good Hope in the early stage, not to mention whether it would be attacked when the castle was built, and the early food supply alone was a big problem. Just like Jamestown, England's first colonial stronghold in North America, later ran out of food because it was surrounded by local aborigines, and even the tragedy of eating the corpses of its accomplices occurred.

Therefore, in order to gain a quick foothold in any colony, in addition to building fortifications such as castles, it also needs a stable source of food to prevent people from starving to death.

Marin took the map, looked at it, and found that it seemed that it was very difficult and costly to transport food from the mainland. The most frightening thing is that if the grain transport ship is delayed, the people in the Cape of Good Hope colony may be hungry.

However, after turning his gaze to the west, Marin immediately found a way to mobilize food from the La Plata colony...

Today, the La Plata colony has more than 600,000 mu of arable land, and there is so much food that it cannot be eaten up, and much of it is used to feed livestock. Under such circumstances, it is more than enough to take out some points to support the Cape of Good Hope Colony.

Moreover, Fort Hoffman (Buenos Aires) at the mouth of the La Plata River and the Cape of Good Hope have similar latitudes, both at about 34 degrees south latitude, almost horizontally facing each other. Moreover, they are all located in the "prevailing westerly belt" between 30 degrees south latitude and 60 degrees south latitude. From Fort Hoffman (Buenos Aires) to the Cape of Good Hope, sailing can be almost all the way with the wind. Just cross the Atlantic Ocean to reach the Cape of Good Hope. As for the return journey, although the wind is headwind, with the upper girder sail "invented" by Marin, the impact on the speed of the ship is much smaller.

In addition, the La Plata colony can not only provide enough food for the Cape of Good Hope colony, but also provide early labor to speed up the construction of castles and ports...

Kohler, as Secretary of State, also participated in the meeting and took notes. Before the meeting ended, Kohler suddenly asked:

"Your Majesty, what is the name of this new town and port at the Cape of Good Hope? Is it still called the Cape of Good Hope? Or is it called the Cape of Storms?"

Marin froze for a moment, then thought for a while, and finally said:

"Let's call it Cape Town..."

"Still?" Kohler didn't quite understand why Marin used the word "still". After all, no one used to call the Cape of Good Hope region Cape Town...

Marin waved his hand and said:

"Don't care about the 'yet', I just said it casually. From now on, the port town in the Cape of Good Hope area will be called 'Cape Town'. And the plan discussed before will be called the "Cape Town Development Plan"..."

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