The Rise of the European Emperor

On the Taiwan Strait, three ships of the Columbus fleet are carefully exploring the northward along the west coast of Taiwan Island. Before, when sailing along the coast of Guangdong, the fleet also found fishermen to inquire, and went to a place called Crescent Island.

Why go to that Crescent Island? This was specifically ordered by Malin. The name Crescent Island is not well-known, but when it comes to Dongsha Island, many Chinese people in later generations must know it. There are four sands in the southeast, northwest and northwest, and only the Dongsha Islands are under the control of Taiwan Island.

The area of ​​Dongsha Island is not large. There are no hills or even soil on the island, only broken coral sand, which is a standard coral reef. Because it is a coral semi-atoll, it is like a crescent moon, so it was called Crescent Island by the Ming Dynasty.

There is no fresh water on the island, so there is no permanent population. There are only a few broken houses. It is a temporary stop for fishermen along the coast of Guangdong when they go out to sea.

The reason why Marin is interested in this Dongsha Island is because Dongsha Island has the most important strategic resource in the farming era - struvite...

According to the historical articles that Marin read in his previous life, in 1901, a Japanese businessman named Nishizawa Yoshiji accidentally drifted to Dongsha Island and found that struvite was everywhere on the island. 15~20 feet, which is 4.5 meters, the island is 6 meters thick. The land area of ​​Dongsha Island reaches 1.8 square kilometers, and it is conceivable how many struvite there are...

Struvite, as the material of guano, must be rich in nitrogen. At the same time, because it is the dung of seabirds, it is also rich in phosphorus. Because seabirds eat fish. Moreover, the sea fish that seabirds eat, many things eat aquatic plants, and aquatic plants also contain potassium. Therefore, struvite is a natural fertilizer that contains three fertilizer elements: nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium.

In the future, if Marin wants to develop Taiwan Island, it will definitely be inseparable from fertilizer. It is not cost-effective to ship fertilizers from the local area. Therefore, it is better to excavate struvite on the spot as fertilizer. And Dongsha Island was reserved by Marin as a fertilizer mining base.

Originally, Marin also planned to use the struvite fertilizer from Dongsha Island as a bargaining chip and dedicate it to the Ming Dynasty. However, after much deliberation, Marin gave up decisively.

why? It is not that he is reluctant, but that he is afraid of the serious consequences that this will lead to.

Why do you say that? Because, the Ming Empire is a standard agricultural empire. This empire, perhaps not paying attention to commerce and navigation, definitely valued agriculture.

And if the treasure of struvite is known by the Ming Dynasty, God knows what kind of enthusiasm the ministers of the Ming Dynasty who have countless fertile fields in each family will burst out.

In this way, Marin may personally light up the great seafaring skills of the Ming Dynasty. And once the wealthy and prosperous Ming Dynasty started a big voyage, would Marin still be a P?

If you travel through the Ming Dynasty,

Marin will definitely light up the great sailing enthusiasm of the Ming Dynasty through the struvite of Dongsha Island. If you tell the officials of the Ming Dynasty about the profits of the big voyage and trade, those Daming civil servants who emphasize agriculture and suppress business will definitely form a group to kill you - a gentleman does not talk about profit, how can you get into the eyes of money as a second-hand?

However, in another way, tell the civil servants of the Ming Dynasty—going overseas and looking for struvite can double the yield of grain per mu... What’s more, whoever dares to object will be sprayed like a dog— how? You don't want to double the yield per mu? I still think about it... Food is a major event in the feudal dynasty...

In the Ming Dynasty, which minister did not have thousands of acres of fertile land? The search for struvite is in the interests of all ministers, and there will be no objection at all. The only question is how to distribute the struvite...

Therefore, Marin believes that in the novels he has read through the Ming Dynasty, they use business to lure everyone into a big voyage, and he simply does not understand the social environment of the Ming Dynasty at that time. Those civil servants in the Ming Dynasty, of course, paid attention to interests, but they had better face. If you lure them with low commercial profits, you may not succeed. After all, literati also have discipline. But it is the safest and most direct way for you to promote the Ming Dynasty's great voyage with a major event that affects the country's capital, such as the increase in grain production. In order to obtain fertilizer, the agrarian Ming Empire will explode with unimaginable enthusiasm... Whether reformers or conservatives, no one will object...

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Of course, that is what the transmigrants who have traveled to the Ming Dynasty should do. As a prince of Germany, if Marin told this kind of secret to the Ming Dynasty, he would be insane. After all, when the tiger of the Ming Empire was released to snatch the cake of the Great Navigation, what would Marin eat?

Therefore, Marin's plan is to take advantage of the fact that the Ming Dynasty does not pay attention to the interests of the sea, quietly control Dongsha Island, and dig the struvite on the island to Taiwan Island for use...

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After finding out the location of Dongsha Island, Columbus wrote down the coordinates of Dongsha Island. Then, command the fleet and continue to sail northeast. After approaching Taiwan Island, start sailing north along the west coast of Taiwan Island.

When passing by the Penghu Islands, the fleet did not alert the Penghu Inspection Division. After all, they are here to capture Dongfan Island, and they are a little unspeakable. Naturally, they do not want to disturb the Ming Dynasty Penghu defenders.

In fact, it was difficult for the Penghu defenders to find Columbus' fleet. Because, Penghu Island is more than 40 kilometers away from Taiwan Island. The Ming army did not have binoculars, and Columbus's fleet sailed close to the west coast of Taiwan Island. Of course, the Ming army could not see it with the naked eye at such a long distance.

After passing through the area near Penghu Island, both Columbus and Conté breathed a sigh of relief. Then Columbus, out of tune, invited Comte to play with the dozens of Malay girls he had obtained from the Sultan of Malacca. These girls are tragic. When they boarded the ship in Malacca, there were 50 people in total, but now there are only 34 left. Of the remaining 16 people, 6 died because they were not adapted to life at sea, and the remaining 6 were killed by Columbus and the sailors.

These little girls were originally very small, and their bodies had not yet opened, so it would be fine if they were violated by the villain Columbus, and they were also shared with the sailors by Columbus... The girl who died first was after receiving 12 sailors in one breath. , was tossed to death alive...

Both Contay and Sconda were educated by Marin's modern civilization, and they were very uncomfortable with the behavior of Columbus's childbirth. However, his identity is not as good as Columbus. In this era of strict hierarchy, he is not good at teaching Columbus anything, so he can only pretend not to see it.

In fact, during the period of Qinglou in Guangzhou, because he had a great time, Columbus had collapsed. After all, it was a high-end Qinglou building, and the girls in it were all beautiful. The point is, the skin is very white... If it weren't for the difference in the hair and eyeballs, and the nose, Columbus would have directly regarded them as white beauties...

Columbus's dark Malay girls are willing to go, not to mention the white and pink high-end Qinglou girls? So, as soon as Columbus got excited, he suffered from kidney failure...

But it doesn't matter. After crossing the Penghu Island, Columbus became interested and planned to insult those Malay girls again.

It's just that his kidneys are not good now. Although Kong Tai prescribed a lot of tonic medicines for the kidneys, including ginseng and deer antler, for him to take in Guangzhou, the important effect came slowly, and Columbus had yet to recover.

How to do it? Columbus, the old silver bug, has his own way. Seeing that he carefully took out a box, after opening it, he took out a small porcelain bottle very preciously...

Although Comte did not accept Columbus's suggestion to be happy together, he was very curious about the small porcelain bottle Columbus took out. Obviously, this is something Columbus got in Guangzhou. After all, there are no porcelain bottles in Europe. Moreover, looking at Columbus's very precious appearance, it seems to be a good thing...

"Lord Columbus, what is this?" Kong Tai asked curiously.

"Haha, good thing. Using this thing, I can immediately revive the glory of men..." Columbus said slyly. Obviously, this porcelain bottle is filled with medicines to boost the fun.

"Where did this thing come from?" Kong Tai asked.

"Of course I got it from Tianxianglou (the high-end Qinglou where Columbus stayed for a long time)!" Columbus said proudly.

It turned out that in the later period of Columbus' stay in Tianxianglou, he had some kidney deficiency. But the old bustard also expected him to continue to find a girl to consume, so he gave him a few bottles of drugs to help her continue to consume.

Columbus proudly held up the small porcelain vase and said:

"This is called 'Yangdingtian'. It is made of many precious medicinal materials and is worth thousands of copper coins. Using it, I can 'love' those little girls well for more than 30 minutes..."

"Honey, it's so powerful..." Kong Tai stammered. It's not unusual to last 30 minutes, but it's unusual for an old man like Columbus with kidney failure. You know, Columbus is 55 years old...

"That's not right, Lord Columbus, I didn't arrange an interpreter for you. How did you communicate with those Daming mothers?" Kong Tai remembered that he only lost a few large silver ingots to Qinglou's mothersang. Forget about Columbus.

"Well, you know, I also know some Arabic (before, in order to find Indian routes, Columbus studied Arabic for a while. In Calicut, India, Columbus also communicated with the locals through Arabic. After all, There are many Arab businessmen in Calicut, and there are many who know Arabic.) It happened that the Chief Secretary in Daming assigned me an interpreter (translator) who knew Arabic, and then I took him to the Qing Building. The horse is galloping..."

"It turns out that..." Kong Tai suddenly realized. The Ming Dynasty also had contacts with Arab merchants, and it is not surprising that there are interpreters who understand Arabic.

Later, Columbus took out another porcelain vase and introduced proudly:

"This is called 'Jade One Girl Becomes a Fierce Sister-in-law', and it's also a miracle drug that my mother gave me to cheer me up. After eating this, no matter how cold a woman is, she will become enthusiastic... Unfortunately, these little girls are too young and have not yet It's useless to grow and eat... But, back in Las Vegas in the North Sea, I can use it on those hairy girls... Hehe..."

Conté is speechless...

"This is called 'I love a piece of wood', and it's even more powerful..."

"This is called 'Tianzhu Divine Oil'..."

"This is called..."

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Finally, Columbus dug out a red porcelain vase. He was stunned for a moment, and then said:

"This doesn't seem to be useful, it's called 'sterilization powder'. Mom Sang said, it seems to be eaten for females, so that they won't get pregnant no matter what, and it's permanent... It seems, it doesn't matter to me. Use it..." After saying that, he planned to throw it away.

"Don't!" Kong Tai was stunned for a moment, then suddenly shouted, and snatched the little red porcelain bottle directly from Columbus's hand...

why? Because when Marin taught Kong Tai Chinese, he casually said, "If there is a bottle of medicine for women to take, it will be good to never get pregnant", and he also said that "this kind of medicine is probably only available in Ming Dynasty"... Then, Kong Tai remembered...

However, before leaving this time, Marin did not instruct (maybe he forgot) Kong Tai to look for this drug, and Kong Tai did not think to look for it.

Now, Columbus took out the drug and planned to throw it away. Conté suddenly remembered, and then grabbed the drug and planned to bring it back to Marin...

"Why do you want this drug? Don't you want offspring?" Columbus was a little strange.

"This is a secret... By the way, does this medicine smell bad? Will you feel it?" Kong Tai didn't answer, but instead asked Columbus, changing the subject.

Columbus thought about it and said:

"Mom Sang said that this stuff is colorless and tasteless, and you don't feel anything when you eat it. Men don't have any side effects, but women will be weak and sick for a few days if they take it for seven consecutive days. Then, the water of Tiankui becomes weak, and there is no longer any more. Fertility, but it doesn't affect women's emotions... In other words, what is this Tiankui?"

Kong Tai had learned Chinese, and naturally knew that it was a civilized name for menstruation, but he didn't have the heart to explain it to Columbus.