The Rise of the European Emperor

The harmony between man and nature is actually very fragile. People love those animals just because they don't harm themselves. In modern times, it is actually urbanites who are more keen on protecting animals. Because I haven't seen any animals in the city. In this regard, the urban talents are the local turtles. It was natural to be amazed to see those animals.

When Ma Lin was a child in his previous life, he saw many city children who came to the countryside to play, and they were amazed around the pigpen, looking at those ugly domestic pigs like giant pandas. Or chasing chickens, ducks and geese curiously...Of course, big white geese are not easy to chase, and if you dare to chase big white geese, one of the "three tyrants in the countryside", you must be taught a bloody lesson...

All in all, for those animals, because people in the city rarely see them, they are naturally even rarer. Those who advocate the protection of nature and animals are actually mostly urbanites. However, they will never see the hateful side of those animals...

Like a little sparrow, petite and cute, right? People in the city may talk about protecting birds, and the chirping of sparrows makes nature flourish. But if you want to be a farmer in the countryside, if you hear that you want to protect the little sparrows, you must spit on your face to protect you from paralysis. Don’t you know that sparrows eat crops?

And the magpie, known as an auspicious bird, is actually a thief and likes to steal grain from the fields. City people love scarcity, but farmers whose grain is being stolen want to kill them with a shotgun.

In fact, these birds are much less harmful to crops. Because they actually prefer to eat pests. Only when the pests have eaten up, will they steal grains such as rice and wheat. Of course, the amount should also be controlled, not too much. Otherwise, the crops will definitely suffer. However, guns are banned in China, and birds are too small to shoot with bows and arrows. They need shotguns to hit them easily. Therefore, with the ban on guns and bird protection, many birds have increased and gradually become a hazard. For example, it is said that the flower magpie steals food, even bird eggs and eggs. This is mainly because there are more birds and more food pressure. The worms were gone, so I had to steal the food...

There is a limit to everything, not too much. The same is true for birds. If there are too many, they will have no insects to eat. What will they eat if they don't eat crops? The field is full of crops, how easy is it to come? There are no shotguns to shoot them yet...

People in the city don't feel the pain of food being stolen. Of course they brag about protecting birds, but they don't harm them anyway. But in fact, birds sometimes need to control the amount. Otherwise, too much is harmful.

This is true for birds, let alone huge herbivores? Birds eat crops one by one, just like chickens pecking at rice. And rhinos, elephants and other herbivores, with one mouth, eat crops by the catty... An elephant eats 300 kilograms of food a day, which is 600 catties. ...Even if the Chinese farmers are usually timid and cowardly, seeing the crops being ruined like this, they must have tried their best to kill the elephants...Because, before the rise of migrant workers in the city, for farmers, the food in the field was nothing but The life of the whole family!

Therefore, in China, as long as it is a plain farming area, it is impossible for a large number of herbivores that can harm the farmland to appear, whether it is a rhinoceros or something else. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there were still many rhinos in the south. In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, a large number of Han people went to the south of the Yangtze River to escape and develop the south of the Yangtze River. Then, there are fewer and fewer rhinos in the Jiangnan area. During the Southern Qi Dynasty, the Rhinoceros Armored Army could still be seen as an organization. In the Tang Dynasty, there were no rhinos to be seen. Then, there are only rhinos left in the mountains and forests of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau...

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Marin sent a team to guide the blacks in West Africa to hunt rhinos. For the rhinos, it was a disaster, but for the blacks in West Africa, it was a great boon.

Because, as long as these harmful herbivores are killed, the riversides of big rivers such as the Senegal River and the Gambia River will inevitably become rich lands that are very suitable for agricultural development.

In fact, Marin also had the idea of ​​helping local black people develop rice cultivation. For example, sending a few Indian untouchable farmers to teach the old blacks how to grow rice can completely stimulate the development of the local economy.

Make it an area with developed agriculture. Or, grow sugar cane along the Senegal River.

However, Senegal is a theoretical colony of Portugal. Marin helped the black uncles develop, and in the end it was cheaper for the Portuguese. Therefore, he finally gave up the idea of ​​guiding the black uncles to develop agriculture. Moreover, Senegal is indeed very close to Portugal, and it is easy for Portugal to send tens of thousands of troops. Marin would not do this kind of thing of making wedding dresses for others.

However, there is an industry on the grasslands of Senegal that is very beneficial to Marin. That's the cattle business...

Senegal is a border region of the Mali Empire, and is naturally influenced by the economy and culture of the Mali Empire. Therefore, on the banks of the Senegal River, there are simple rice and sorghum cultivation, as well as cattle breeding. However, due to backward agricultural technology and the destruction of large herbivores such as rhinos and elephants, local agriculture has never developed. As for the cattle industry, it has no impact. why? The grassland is so big, there is always a place for cattle to graze. When you meet those Big Macs, it’s a big deal to drive the cows away...

For the local blacks, these cows are just used for eating meat and skinning them. But for Marin, it is of great significance. Because these are tropical cows!

Tropical cattle can perfectly adapt to the tropical climate of Cuba and Grenada without worrying about the cattle being overheated to death. Therefore, the introduction of tropical cattle from the Senegalese grasslands is much more reliable than the introduction of cold temperate cattle from the Crimean Khanate.

Therefore, while guiding the black people in Senegal to hunt rhinos and elephants, Marin will also send several disciples of Mozhigen and Battelle to teach the local black people veterinary knowledge, mainly the prevention and treatment of cattle diseases. Then, it will guide the local blacks to raise cattle reasonably, and stimulate the local people to develop the cattle industry to the greatest extent. They raise more cattle, and more will be sold to Marin at that time. So, it's a win-win situation.

At the same time, Marin also planned to provide them with some horses for grazing, as well as bows and arrows and muskets for shooting lions and jackals. In this way, they can also ride horses on the grasslands and herd cattle like Tatars, instead of running barefoot to catch up with stray cattle like Bolt...

Running barefoot to catch up with lost cows can certainly produce flying blacks like Bolt, but not everyone has the talent of Bolt. Moreover, this is very inefficient. The Tatars rode horses to drive cattle and shot wolves with bows, which were much more advanced than the black natives of this era.

However, Marin didn't know that his actions had cultivated a black uncle nomad who was good at riding and shooting on the grasslands of Senegal. His combat effectiveness was strong and he almost rewrote the history of West Africa...