The Rise of the European Emperor

"The Rise of the European Emperor ()"!

It is not easy to build a port. In order to build the port, Marin intends to send 5,000 professional engineers, accounting for almost half of the engineering troops of the Beihai State.

In addition, Marin also needs to prepare a large number of ships and supplies. For example, cement requires several boats. In addition, quite a few bricks are needed. As for wood, it can be cut on the spot. After all, there are many cold temperate trees such as pine, spruce and birch over there.

It's just that, right now, we can only prepare, not immediately. Because, at present, places such as Murmansk and Hillcrest, because they are located in the Arctic Circle, belong to the polar night in January. Even if we go, it will be a long night, there will be no day, and we will not be able to start work.

Marin estimated that it would probably be suitable to start after March. After arriving there, almost April, construction just started. Once there, it's time to build ports and houses. In fact, there is no rush to build the port. It is enough to build two or three long bridges and piers first. Housing construction is the most important thing. After all, it's so cold over there, if you don't repair the house, people will freeze to death at night.

To say that the fastest repairs are of course the adobe houses that are very popular in Beihai. Reconcile the mud and add weeds for sinews and bones. Then, fill the two boards with mud, tamp them down, and bake them hard to form an earthen wall. There are even simple and crude ones, which can be used directly by taking out the cave dwelling on the slope and drying it inside. There is also a wooden house, but logging and processing are time-consuming. Moreover, the wooden house is not easy to use in winter, and it is not as warm as the adobe house. In particular, there are kangs in the adobe houses, which are most needed in this area.

Of course, a fortress with masonry structures must be built on the port as a garrison base. If the Grand Duchy of Moscow had a convulsion one day and sent troops to attack, the adobe house would not be able to hold it. It needed a masonry fortress to hold it. However, the fort doesn't need to be too big, 10,000 square meters is enough, and it is mainly used as a military fortress. Moreover, there is no need to rush the fort, it can be built slowly, and the most urgent thing is the adobe house that can accommodate people immediately. As for the tent? I'm afraid this thing won't work well in the Arctic Circle, and it can only be used in summer.

In addition, an overland road to the St. Petersburg area needs to be opened. This road does not need to be very good, it just needs to be able to walk.

However, the most troublesome thing is not the road. Because the road can be cleared as long as the trees are cut down. The most troublesome thing is actually crossing the river. After all, this is a place in the extreme north. Even in summer, the water temperature is lower than ten or twenty degrees. If you wade in water, you can easily catch a cold. And in this day and age, a cold is easy to kill...

Therefore, when immigrants encounter rivers, they need to build bridges to cross them. Or, leave a ferry for the ferry. But whether it is a bridge or a ferry, the cost is very high. Therefore, it is necessary to send a pathfinding team to find a reasonable road that avoids unnecessary rivers as much as possible. In this way, a few bridges can be built less and a few ferries can be built less.

But no matter how you save,

Hundreds of bridges and ferries are definitely needed. In addition to logging to clear the road, the cost is not small...

Marin had a very headache and felt that money was needed everywhere. However, he is running out of cash! There is still a lot of food, but because food needs to be prepared for hundreds of thousands of immigrants, the food stored in the warehouse cannot be sold.

No, Albert came to ask for instructions to allocate all the wheat and rye produced in the American colonies to the 300,000 Taino immigrants who were being transported. After all, that's 300,000 people!

Marin thought for a while, and finally decided:

"Albert, don't feed those Taino people too much wheat, rye is enough. If not, send more fishing boats, go to Newfoundland to catch more fish, and get more salted fish for immigrants to eat. As for wheat... ...you ship twenty million pounds to Spain and Portugal, and get some cash back..."

Twenty million pounds of wheat, calculated at 5 pfennigs per pound, is 100 million pfennigs, worth 1.667 million gold coins. In Spain and Portugal, the prices of goods and food are relatively high, and it is estimated that they can be sold for more money.

Moreover, because they have monopolized the Indian spice trade, the two countries are currently extremely rich, and the money of each country has been earned by the two countries, which has caused some inflation and high prices in the two countries.

Therefore, Marin plans to put 20 million pounds of wheat at a time, and withdraw some cash from the two countries to solve the problem of insufficient cash flow in the North Sea country.

Of course, Marin will definitely cover up and send spies in France and Italy to pretend to be French businessmen and Italian businessmen to operate this matter. After all, France and Italy are major wheat producers in Europe. France has excellent geographical conditions, while Italy has fertile volcanic ash soil, and Sicily's "Golden Basin" and other places are famous for their wheat production.

Moreover, 20 million pounds sounds like a lot, but in fact it is just over 9,000 tons. In later generations, it is estimated that grain merchants with a little strength will look down on them. But in this day and age, it is not a small number. After all, these days, the European agricultural technology is really good, and the yield of wheat per mu is less than 100 pounds. So, it feels a bit rare.

And with the cash of one million and hundreds of thousands of gold coins, Marin can also breathe a sigh of relief, so as not to be driven crazy by the money shortage.

In fact, the region with the most abundant gold and silver in this era was India. Because the pepper trade has been going on for thousands of years, Europeans sent gold and silver to India for thousands of years. Therefore, even though there are not many gold and silver mines in India, they have accumulated a large amount of gold and silver by selling pepper. Therefore, there is a lot of gold and silver in every Indian temple. Indian folks are also very popular wearing gold jewelry.

In the hard-pressed China, ancient gold and silver are very rare. Before the development of maritime trade in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, gold and silver were only available in wealthy families in China, and commoners only used copper coins.

In India, since the Roman Empire, people have been selling pepper to Europe, and they have accumulated gold and silver for hundreds of years, which can be called a golden mountain and a sea of ​​silver.

Of course, later the British colonized India and plundered a lot of gold and silver. Just looking at the details of Bangladesh's treasury, there are gold and silver treasures worth 40 million pounds (equivalent to 120 million taels of silver). After that, Mysore also received gold and silver treasures worth 10 million pounds (30 million taels of silver).

Therefore, the rise of the British Empire largely relied on the gold and silver looted from India. This gold and silver was deposited in British banks, guaranteeing the dominance of the British pound. After the two world wars, the British spent all their savings in the war and owed a lot of money to the United States. And the gold and silver looted hundreds of years ago were also used to buy weapons from Lao Mei.

That is to say, the gold and silver that the British plundered in India, after two world wars, came into the hands of the old Americans, which contributed to the birth of the superpower Ugly Country...

To be honest, Marin wanted to send troops to India to loot. In this way, gold and silver worth tens of millions of Gulden gold coins are indispensable. But the problem is that there are still many threats to the North Sea country, and it cannot be left casually. Moreover, robbing so much money at one time can easily arouse jealousy and hostility throughout Europe. Therefore, he can only wait for the wings to harden before doing this.

Just when Marin was thinking about going to India for a vote in the future, Albert hesitated:

"Rye and salted fish alone don't seem to be enough. The North American colonies didn't produce much rye..."

In addition to the 300,000 Tainos who were being transported, there were tens of thousands of Germans in the North American colonies. The rye produced must give priority to German immigrants. In this way, should the Taino people be allowed to eat fish every day?

Marin thought for a while, and suddenly his eyes lit up:

"Then let them do what they do - growing sweet potatoes!"

The Taino people are good at growing cassava and sweet potatoes, so there is no pressure for them to grow sweet potatoes. Moreover, the output of this thing is high. Even if there is not much land to reclaim, each person only needs one or two acres of land, and the sweet potatoes planted are definitely enough to last for a year. If the area is large enough, the sweet potatoes produced can also feed back to the local area. Fresh sweet potatoes are difficult to preserve, but they can be dried and ground into powder.

Although the sweet potato noodles are coarse grains, the taste is not good after eating. But for the Taino people and poor people, it is not bad to be able to eat enough, and they will not pick at all.

Then, you can also let the Taino people grow some vegetables such as Chinese cabbage and radish, and they can make do with it.

If the planting area is large enough, at that time, even if Marin conquered the Aztec Empire and brought over 2 million people, it would be enough to eat. But if you grow wheat or rye, it is difficult to feed so many people at once.

As for growing sweet potatoes, even if one person only plants 10 acres of land, the yield per mu is only 2,000 pounds, and there are still 20,000 pounds, which can feed several people. Planting 20 acres of sweet potatoes can feed more than a dozen people...

Therefore, if you want to expand the population, planting sweet potatoes is definitely a good choice. Didn't look at the Taqing people, because of the promotion of sweet potatoes and Yongzheng's abolition of population tax, did the population directly increase to more than 300 million?

Therefore, Marin gave Albert a task - 300,000 Taino people, planting at least 1 million acres of sweet potatoes. If you have the spare capacity, consider planting something else.

"Well, let's learn from Daqing and come up with a 'Sweet Potato Prosperity'. Hundreds of years later, we can also make a "Marin Dynasty", specifying that Uncle Daoming will play Emperor Marin..."

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