The Rise of the European Emperor

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Early the next morning, Marin got up from Ferris' bed refreshed. Behind him, Ferris, who was still in the bed, stretched out and said in a tired voice:

"Director Ma, are you here to review the script tonight? I have a lot of questions to ask you!"

Marin's heart swayed, but after thinking about it, he still refused:

"Not tonight, if she doesn't go back to the main room, Angela will be mad. Well, in two days, I will come to you at night, tell you the essentials of a bed and a scene, and personally demonstrate to you. At that time, Be sure to listen well..."

"Ah, Director Ma, I like the bed scene the most. When the time comes, you must 'instruct' me well! Not only will I listen well, but I will also do it well!" Ferris understood Malin's words I mean, because the two have been playing the role of "director and 'motivated' actress" some time ago, and they have figured out Marin's way of talking.

"Haha!" After Marin fastened his belt, he went to have breakfast.

Because "fighting the script" with Ferris last night consumed a lot of physical strength and essence, so early in the morning, Marin asked the royal chef to make a large bowl of kidney noodles to make up for the kidneys.

After a while, Caesar also came to breakfast. Marin frowned when he saw it, and said dissatisfiedly:

"Boy, keep your focus, just walk, what does it look like? Are you a rabbit?"

Little Caesar was trained, very depressed. However, the little guy suddenly remembered something and asked Malin:

"Dad, why didn't you go to your mother's room last night? I slept with my mother last night. When I slept, my mother kept calling you a big villain and a big radish. Why? What's the big radish? "

Malin's face froze immediately. At this time, Angela happened to come to the restaurant and heard Caesar's naive words. Then, Angela couldn't help laughing:

"Hahaha……"

Marin glared at Angela in dissatisfaction, and said:

"Don't talk nonsense in front of children!"

"I'm right again!" Angela said indifferently. And, as a reward, he gave Caesar a kiss.

Marin's face was embarrassed, but he rolled his eyes, and immediately blurted out a rotten excuse:

"I'm not for this family yet? You know, only if you keep your sister in, all your father's resources will be given to me. Otherwise, with multiple sons-in-law, he might not be so desperate to help me!"

Marin was right, and it wasn't an excuse either. After Angela heard it, she fell silent, then lowered her head and started to eat breakfast silently.

Because Marin was right, even though Ferris shared her husband. However, because of this, his father's resources will be concentrated on Marin. If Felice married someone else, or even a big Italian nobleman, she would probably take away half of the available resources of her father as the Pope. After all, if Felice married in Italy, she would be much closer to her father than herself, and it would be easier to obtain resources.

In the current situation, although Ferris is competing with herself for a husband, she is a real wife, and the children she gives birth also have the right of orthodox inheritance. And Felice's child can only be regarded as an illegitimate child, and is not qualified to snatch resources from her own child. Speaking of which, Ferris still lost a lot.

Ferris is indeed a big loss, but Marin swears that he will support Robert to run for the Pope in the future, and let his second son Mario (Ma Yun's German name) serve as the hereditary lord of Taiwan Island, not really. Lose her. Otherwise, with Felice's tendency to take advantage, she would definitely not be willing to rest.

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Far away in West Africa, on a small island reef 900 meters long from north to south and 300 meters wide from east to west, on the southern side of the Cape Verde Peninsula, where Dakar, the capital of Senegal, is located, two merchant ships with the flag of the Duke of Coimbra sailed.

This small island is called Gore Island, and it was the earliest stronghold of the Portuguese on the coast of Senegal.

For now, it is also the only stronghold of the Portuguese in Senegal. This is because there are no gold resources in the Senegalese grasslands (in fact, they have not yet been discovered), and there is a lack of cooperative black slave suppliers. The more popular local resources are only ivory and rhino horn, so the Portuguese have no big demand here. There is only a small base on Gore Island, and they often send ships to the land to trade with the local indigenous people.

Originally, the island belonged to a small Portuguese noble family called Sereu. This small family on the coast of Senegal maintains a small business by buying ivory and rhino horn from local indigenous people.

But Goree Island has a major flaw—the island is a tiny island with no freshwater resources. As a result, the colonists on the island had difficulty drinking water and needed to send boats to the estuary of the freshwater river on land to fetch water. But this is too troublesome, resulting in not many colonists who can survive on the island. And the business of ivory and rhino horn is not so easy to do. Because the locals lack the means to hunt elephants and rhinos, they can only rely on the methods of obtaining ivory and rhino horns from dead elephants and rhinos. Therefore, there is not much trade here, and there are not many big families to compete.

But after Marin and the Duke of Coimbra negotiated the establishment of a joint venture, the Duke of Coimbra, Jorge de Lencastre, decided to officially register a "Senegalese fur company" in Portugal. The company needs a foothold. Although Goree Island is small and has no fresh water resources, it is currently the most suitable foothold.

So, Jorge de Lencastre, Duke of Coimbra, sent someone to find the patriarch of the Sereu family, and through an exchange of interests (sharing some interests from other places), in exchange for the control of Gore Island rights, and concessions to trade with the Senegal region.

Then, after getting the news, Marin naturally sent two ships to go to the front station of Goree Island, preparing to establish the foothold of the "Senegalese Fur Company". Of course, Marin's people work in the name of Jorge de Rencastre, Duke of Coimbra.

After the two ships arrived at Goree Island, they handed over to the Sereu family. In order to facilitate communication with the indigenous people, the other party also left two translators who knew the local indigenous language.

After the Sereu family members were evacuated, Eschwein, who was in charge of buying rhino skins, ordered workers from the ship to start rebuilding the wharf.

Why rebuild the wharf? This is because the wooden boats moored at the wharf in the pure sea water area are seriously attacked by sea maggots. Because there is no function of automatically expelling sea maggots in the fresh water area, the ships moored on the dock in this pure sea area are inevitably troubled by sea maggots-the wood at the bottom of the ship is devoured by sea maggots...

Therefore, the merchant ships of the Sereu family did not moor here for a long time. Moored here for a long time are a group of small and medium-sized ships responsible for traveling between the island and the mainland. After all, people on the island had to use boats to get fresh water and goods on land.

However, in this way, these small and medium-sized ships have been attacked by sea maggots for a long time, and the ship loss is very large. Every few months, the small and medium-sized ships on the island are taken away by large ships to and from the island for overhaul (replacement of the bottom planks), and the repaired ships are sent.

In this way, the cost of overhauling many small and medium-sized ships every year is a lot of money. This also led to the fact that the Sereu family's acquisition of ivory and rhino horn was not very profitable. Otherwise, they would not be willing to give up their interests here. In fact, the loss of ships in the sea port is too great...

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