Chapter 1021: The importance of bamboo

How important is food to the colonists? Originally, Spanish colonists landed on Heping Island to establish the city of San Salvador, but because of the bad relationship with the local indigenous people (the indigenous peoples of the two indigenous villages on the island were driven away by the Spanish), the indigenous people on land refused to sell food to they.

Then, the Spanish colonists on the island lived a miserable life of "a meal full of hunger". Food is mainly delivered by the Manila ship. If the Manila food delivery ship arrives late, the colonists on the island will starve for a long time.

The worst was the Jameson, the first English colony in North America in the early 17th century. In the cold winter of 1609, the British colonists of Jamestown offended the Native Indians who provided them with food and had no source of food. Then, of the 500 colonists in Jamestown, many died because of starvation. The worst thing is that many people eat the bodies of their starved companions in order to survive. Even, killing companions to eat meat ... Then, the 500 colonists of Jamestown finally survived only 60 people. And these 60 people have all eaten the meat of their companions ...

It is because of reading these history that Marin was never blind when he colonized. No colony, Marin tried to avoid fierce conflicts with the indigenous people at the beginning. Because, premature conflicts with indigenous people may make it difficult to gain a foothold.

In addition, wherever he goes, Marin always considers the source of food as the most important thing. For example, when Marin colonized North America, he first colonized the two islands of North America, instead of rushing to land immediately. It was only after the food supplies on the two islands in North America stabilized that they began plotting New York. Even if the colonization of New York fails, the two islands of North America can provide enough food for the colonists.

Establishing a stronghold on Heping Island, Marin also considered a lot. Heping Island is located at the exit of Keelung Port where many freshwater rivers merge. The south bank is directly opposite Keelung Port. It is a freshwater area, and the bank is also an alluvial soil area, suitable for agriculture. Of course, the villagers in Jilong Village are planting land.

The north shore is a stone coast. Outside the northeast coast, it is a salt water area where you can extract salt. The 10 solar stoves brought by Kong Tai just happened to be placed on the northeast coast to cook salt water.

Of course, the colonists are not short of salt now, because a lot of salt was brought on board. However, the solar stove does not consume firewood, it is not cooking time, and it is not wasted. Therefore, while Contai directed the masons to build Majiabao, he arranged several wives brought by the masons to help him get the sea water to cook salt. In this way, while building Majiapu, you can get a lot of table salt every day.

Salt is a good thing. In Beihai or the Ming Dynasty, salt may not be rare. But for the Fan people on the island of Taiwan, it is very precious. Because most people do not know how to cook salt. Therefore, salt is also a hard currency on the island and can be exchanged for many things. Such as venison, buckskin, antler, such as wood ... and these things are not valuable in the eyes of indigenous people ...

What do indigenous people like most? Salt, iron and cloth. However, Kong Tai currently has no conditions to supply iron and cloth, so he has to supply salt first, mainly to establish a good relationship with the local indigenous people.

As for the land defrauded from the east bank of Keelung Port, Kong Tai was not in a hurry to land and build a fortress. Mainly-the building materials are not enough ...

Before, Kong Tai did not expect to be able to smoothly transfer to land on land, so the cement and bricks were not enough to meet the need to build a city wall on Heping Island.

Therefore, Kong Tai simply let the villagers of Jilong Village paddling the raft to land to plant the land, but reserved a place for building a fortress. When the Beihai National Fleet arrives next time, it will send people to the shore to build the castle of Zhenger Bajing.

If you build a castle again, you will not use bricks and cement, but stone. The reason why Majiabao uses brick cement is mainly to consider the fast construction speed. After all, just lay the bricks, put the cement on, and the wind and the sun will be OK. Unlike building a stone castle, it is time-consuming to collect the stone first and then build it slowly. If a strong enemy comes halfway through the construction of the castle, the consequences will be disastrous ...

But it was different when building the overland castle, because Kong Tai did n’t have to worry. With Majiabao on Heping Island as the base camp, he has no rush to build a castle on land. He planned to hire the people of Jilong Village and the masons who sent his men to mine stones and store them during the farming period. When the materials are enough, take advantage of the leisure time, and then slowly build a strong stone castle.

Why don't you use cement? Without reinforced concrete or bamboo-reinforced concrete, a castle made of brick and cement is not as strong as a stone fortress. The advantage of brick cement is that it is built at a high speed, but in terms of sturdiness, it is really sincere. Unless, there is steel supply.

However, the cost of producing steel wire rods was too high in this era, so Marin's decision was to vigorously promote the bamboo planting in the colony and use bamboo reinforced concrete for construction. Unless it is a very important military fortress, luxury reinforced concrete will be used. Even in the future, local construction of cement buildings, such as river embankments and the like, will choose to import bamboo from North America. Phyllostachys edulis has taken root in Savannah now, and Marin has given orders to give Phyllostachys ample room for chaos, even if the grain field has to make way for Phyllostachys pubescens. In addition, bamboo shoots are never allowed ...

After all, every fresh bamboo shoot is an ungrown bamboo. The construction of cement buildings in the future will require a lot of bamboo bars. How can Marin tolerate the bamboo seedlings being eaten by others?

Not only that, but in the future, Marin also intends to cut trees everywhere and plant bamboo in North America. With enough bamboo, there can be materials to build river embankments and prevent floods.

There are many large rivers in North America ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ such as the Mississippi River. But if you want to make use of the fertile soil by these big rivers, you must also be prepared to withstand the flood. The annual flow of the Mississippi River is more than ten times that of the Yellow River, and it is very scary to initiate floods. Only by building sufficient flood dikes can this golden river be fully utilized.

In addition, even small rivers such as the Hudson River in New York occasionally flood in the summer. Therefore, every river of large scale has a need to build a flood dike. The demand for Phyllostachys pubescens is also very, very large. It is impossible to use steel bars, and Marin's wealth cannot be increased by 10,000 times. After all, there are so many river embankments that need to be repaired. The "ribs and bones" needed to build the river embankment can only be bamboo ...

In fact, Marin also intends to use Dongfan Island as a base in the future to purchase bamboo seeds from Daming and bring them back to South America for planting. In this way, North America can provide enough bamboo ribs to the mainland as soon as possible. After all, the local Ames River and other rivers also need to be built with bamboo-reinforced concrete flood dikes. Especially in the Ruhr area, which is located on the banks of the Rhine River, it is common to encounter floods.

In fact, there are also bamboos on Taiwan Island at this time, and its native endemic variety-Taiwan Guizhu is an excellent variety with strong toughness and great bending strength. However, Kong Tai did not know. Moreover, even if he knew, he did not dare to lead people into the jungle of Taiwan Island to find this kind of bamboo.

Also, even if it is Marin, I do n’t know that there is an excellent bamboo called Guizhu on Taiwan Island. Because of its high bending strength, this kind of bamboo is even more suitable than bamboo for building. However, Marin had only heard of bamboo and nanzhu in his previous life, but he did not know much about Guizhu of Taidao. Possibly, Hsinchu in later generations has anything to do with Guizhu of Taidao. Otherwise, it will not be called Hsinchu for no reason ...

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