The Rise of the European Emperor

Although the colonization of Zimbabwe by the Spaniards was only the first step, it also showed the determination of the Spaniards to colonize Zimbabwe.

When the information came back to Aurich, Marin had many praises for the Spaniard's aggressiveness. Of course, it's not that Marin is looking forward to the good of the Spaniards, but that since Spain has set its sights on the Zimbabwe Empire, it has little energy to pay attention to the Americas.

According to the intelligence, the Spaniards made a lot of effort this time. According to Ferdinand II's plan, after the completion of the Ferdinand Fort at the mouth of the Save River, he will send another 3,000 troops to reinforce the local area, and plans to build a military pier at Ferdinand Fort, as well as several Forts to defend against the raids of Arab merchants. In the future, a comprehensive colony point will be built here. Ferdinand Fort will not only become the base camp for the Spanish to march into inland Zimbabwe, but also, Ferdinand II intends to develop the vicinity of Ferdinand Fort into a sugar cane planting base.

Before, Isabella I developed sugar cane cultivation on the island of Haiti. However, at the beginning, it encountered an outbreak of syphilis. Coupled with Marin's flickering later, Spain finally gave up sugarcane cultivation in the Americas.

However, Ferdinand II learned that the delta at the mouth of the Save River is fertile, the climate is hot, and the fresh water resources are so rich. Therefore, it is indeed a good idea to develop sugarcane planting in the delta of the Savoy estuary. As long as it develops well, it will be possible to supply sucrose to the mainland on a large scale in the future...

Of course, if you want to start farming in peace near Fort Ferdinand, the premise is that the nearby black villages must be cleared. Otherwise, Uncle Hei would come to grab a handful every now and then, and he wouldn't have to do anything. Therefore, Ferdinand II planned to increase his troops by 3,000, first to clear all the black villages at the mouth of the Save River, and then to develop the sugarcane planting industry with peace of mind.

In this way, Spain can not only make a fortune by plundering Zimbabwe's gold, but also by growing and selling sugar cane in Mozambique. Moreover, the Spaniards also confirmed that this Zimbabwean empire not only has a rich current situation, but also rich copper mines. After all, copper ore accounted for a considerable proportion of the commodities they traded with the Arabs. As long as you occupy the Zimbabwe Empire, you will have a lot of gold, ivory, and copper mines...

The most important thing is that Marin once said that in Zambia, there are about 66.1 billion pounds of copper buried underground - so much copper, Ferdinand II is very excited to think about it...

In fact, Marin just painted him a seemingly delicious flatbread. There are indeed 30 million tons of copper buried in the Zambia region. However, that is spread over a vast land of 750,000 square kilometers in Zambia. If you want to detect all these copper mines, at the current level, it is estimated that it may not be possible in a hundred years. Because many of the mines discovered in later generations are buried deep underground. With the current level of prospecting, if you want to find out the underground copper mine, the difficulty is absolutely hell-level...

Therefore, even if the Spaniards can find copper mines in Zambia, they can only find copper mines on the surface at most. And these, at most, account for a small fraction of Zambia's total copper reserves. Moreover, in the inland areas of the hot African continent, how to mine these copper mines and smelt them into copper is also a huge project. In any case, the Spaniards fell into the pit. However, this pit is too tempting. The reserves of 66.1 billion pounds of copper alone are enough to make Ferdinand II jump into the pit without hesitation.

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Just as the Spaniards expanded to Mozambique and Zimbabwe, the Portuguese also sounded the clarion call for Timbuktu, the "golden capital" of the Songhai Empire in the interior of West Africa.

The Portuguese had a better foundation than the Spaniards, because they had already established a number of colonies along the coast of West Africa. Now, all they have to do is to take the coastal colonies as their base camp and head inland.

It is a pity that the Portuguese army is too scum, far less than the Spanish army that has learned the Spanish phalanx. Moreover, the current penetration rate of muskets in the Portuguese Army is very low,

Most of the soldiers also used cold weapons such as spears.

However, African black uncles may be afraid of muskets, but they will never be afraid of the Portuguese who use spears. Therefore, the three thousand-man army troops organized by Portugal to march inland were all repelled. why? With spears stabbing each other, who are the black West Africans afraid of? Although the army's discipline was not as good as the Portuguese, and they depended on being familiar with the terrain and superior in numbers, they beat all three Portuguese invaders back...

After a painful remorse, the Portuguese decided to change the way - and also began to promote the extensive use of arquebuses in the colonial army. When the Portuguese musket team has finished training, it is estimated that it will be a new round of marching...

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Marin was concerned, but not particularly, about the expansion of Spain and Portugal in Africa. After all, both countries have fallen into the trap, and some will suffer in the future. The harsh climate in Africa is no joke. Otherwise, Europeans would not have waited until the late 19th century to set off a frenzy to carve up Africa.

Before that, although the Spaniards also colonized the tropics, they also colonized several islands such as Cuba and Haiti. For the colonization of other areas, it was mainly in the plateau area. For example, the plateau areas of Peru and Ecuador, although in the tropics, because of the high altitude, the result is not hot. Similarly, the Mexican region is also the Mexican Basin where Mexico City is located. It is a typical plateau basin. Although the climate is warm, it is not hot...

Right now, both Spain and Portugal have fallen into the hole that Marin dug for them. In the future, the two countries will slowly struggle in Africa. Marin, on the other hand, went to develop the Americas by himself...

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Because of the compilation of "The Origin of European Nations", Marin's image has improved a lot in the eyes of the military German aristocracy.

This makes Marlin very happy. After all, no one wants to be the person everyone hates. Moreover, with a good image, there will naturally be a lot fewer people who come to form a group to beat him. This damn tradition of gang fights in the German region made Marin terrified. Even as powerful as Charles V, he was eventually defeated by the group fight. Marin doesn't think he is a super saiyan who can fight all over the world. Therefore, it is also good to have one less person who comes to beat him.

Through this incident, Marin found that compiling books seems to help improve his reputation. Of course, the premise is that you make a book that makes people happy to read and find it valuable.

So, Marin decided to make persistent efforts to write some useful books to benefit everyone, and at the same time, to give himself another wave of prestige...

As for what book to compile, Marin has already thought about it - he wants to write a German dictionary and an English dictionary...

This idea is based on the practice of Kang Mazi of the Qing Dynasty. Why were Kangxi and Qianlong the two most dazzling emperors in the Qing Dynasty? Because they both compiled books - Kangxi had people write "Kangxi Dictionary", and Qianlong had people repair "Siku Quanshu"...

We will not comment on whether Qianlong's so-called "repair" "Siku Quanshu" is a sinner who contributed to history or history, but the "Kangxi Dictionary" compiled by Kangxi's order is indeed very practical. Until later generations, this "Kangxi Dictionary" was a very useful reference. And our emperor Kang Mazi also relied on the Kangxi dictionary to brush up a wave of prestige.

Of course, in ancient China, where the culture was prosperous, it was not uncommon for Kangxi to write a dictionary. Because, before that, the people of the Ming Dynasty had compiled two dictionaries, "Zihui" and "Zhengzitong", and earlier, there was the "Shuowen Jiezi" compiled by Xu Shen of the Han Dynasty. Therefore, the "Kangxi Dictionary" is actually a summary, update, and correction of the predecessors' dictionaries.

However, in Europe, so far, there seems to be no dictionary in the true sense for other languages, except for some word annotations in Latin that accompany the Bible.

Yes, the dictionary...

European languages ​​are all alphabetic words, not words. Therefore, European dictionaries should be called dictionaries. Marin had studied European history in his previous life, and he knew that the first dictionary in Europe should be the "Civilian Collection" compiled by the Italian Academy of Florence in 1612, which was written in Italian. However, it is not a formal dictionary, but a semi-finished dictionary containing a lot of everyday words.

The first French dictionary in France was the Dictionary of French, written in 1694, and the first dictionary in Spain was the 6-volume Dictionary of Spanish Standard, written from 1726 to 1739. The first large-scale formal dictionary in England was published in 1755, edited by S. Johnson. The German dictionary was even later, and it was not until 1781 that Christopher Adlon wrote the first German dictionary.

Although Martin Luther had translated the Bible in German before, there were many errors in Martin Luther's version of the Bible, and many of them were freely translated. Therefore, it cannot be used as a German dictionary at all. Therefore, the first real German dictionary appeared in 1781.

Of course, this refers to what happened in the original historical time and space. In the time and space that Marin traveled through, Marin actually fiddled with the English International Phonetic Alphabet and the German Phonetic Alphabet, and preliminarily compiled an English dictionary and a German dictionary.

However, because it was written in a hurry, there are many omissions. But there is a general skeleton, and now Marin just needs to find someone to enrich it and add some content, and that's it.

Of course, in order to gain his own reputation, Marin would not call the "English Dictionary" and "German Dictionary" that he had worked so hard to compile by such common names.

In order to give himself a reputation, Marin decided to study Emperor Kangmazi, and named the "German Dictionary" and "English Dictionary" as "Marin Dictionary" (German version) and "Marin Dictionary" "English version"...

In this way, Germans and British people in the future will use the "Marin Dictionary" to learn German and English. And using this dictionary, naturally will not forget the originator of Marin. In this way, the prestige can be brushed down from generation to generation...

Thinking of this, Marin felt so beautiful in his heart. So he asked Kohler to send people urgently to all parts of Germany and England, and hired a group of university professors of linguistics with high salary, and asked them to help further enrich and write the elementary version for primary education that he had hastily compiled before. The "German Dictionary" and "English Dictionary" made it richer and more informative... Of course, they will be called "Marin Dictionary" in the future... Whoever uses it will think of himself... Forcibly brush his reputation for himself... …

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