Chapter 1524: Canned pineapple and fruit drinks

After listening to the expedition members, Marin took a breath. He didn't expect that, just because he wanted to find a tropical fruit like pineapple, he even took the life of 79 expedition members.

Of course, things have already happened and are irreversible. Moreover, pineapple is indeed a very useful fruit. If the pineapple is made into canned fruit, it is not only delicious, but also enough vitamin C for the crew to eat, so that the crew is not easy to get scurvy. Therefore, although 79 lives were paid, it is not without value.

The last expedition leader handed over the dried pineapple sample to Marin. After seeing it, Marin knew that it was indeed a pineapple. As for fresh pineapple? The time from Grenada to the mainland is too long to save. Therefore, you can only dry it before bringing it back. The expedition from the Amazon Basin to Grenada Island, because it was not long, did not allow the pineapple seeds they carried to be damaged.

In addition, the expedition also brought several large bags of rubber tree seeds, which could also be planted in a large area to facilitate future tapping.

Seeing the miserable appearance of a group of surviving expedition members, Marin suddenly got a wit, and said to the last expedition leader Rudolph:

"You guys, write your experience over the past few years into a book. I've already figured out the name for you, it's called" rushing out of Amazon "! Then, I will find a way to publish this book in Europe The profit will be distributed to you, and the family of the 79 expedition members who died ... "

Marin suddenly felt that Rudolf and others' stories were very exciting and thrilling. Moreover, probably because they were personal experiences, the content they tell is more informative and exciting than the "Wild Diary" that they made up in a few years ago to frighten Europeans not to **** America with themselves.

If they write their experiences into a book, it is estimated to be more attractive. Moreover, it also scares people more. After all, no one in the "Wild Diary" in previous years has come forward to say that it is not credible.

But Rudolph and 21 other survivors stood there and saw their misery, which was very convincing. If the writing is completed, let these 21 people follow along to sign book sales and roadshows in major European cities, and it is estimated that the effect will explode.

But Rudolph and others listened to Marin and shook his head again and again:

"Duke, we don't know how to write, how can we write a book? This will break your business!"

"Not literate?" Marin chuckled-could this be considered a problem?

You know, in later generations, there is a literary way called "reportage literature". Reportage is a literary model between news reports and novels. It contains not only the authenticity of news reports, but also an artistic description of real stories, which is more contagious and convincing.

Marin is not worried that Rudolph and others are illiterate. He can find a few writers. By interviewing these surviving expedition members, they organize their experiences and add artistic descriptions. In this way, you can get a reportage book-"rushing out of Amazon". Of course, Marin, a former liberal arts student, will also help review the manuscript and finalize it for publication.

However, the purpose of Marin's review is not only to meet the needs of the article, but also that he does not want to expose information in the Americas other than the Amazon forest. This point will also be mentioned when we ask those writers to write articles. Finally, after he reviewed the manuscript. So, the whole book's news about the Americas is only the terrifying Amazon jungle. In this way, it can also scare those monarchs and nobles who want to covet the Americas.

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Of course, no one knows when the profit of the book will be in place. Even, Marin is not sure whether this book can make money. Therefore, he first rewarded 100 gold coins to each of the expedition team, which can be regarded as a reward for their birth and death in a few years. In addition to the 21 living people, the family members of the 79 dead people will also receive the money. As for the rest, you can see how much the book can earn. The more you earn, the more these 100 families will get.

After arranging the interview and writing of "Out of the Amazon", Marin began to pay attention to the cultivation of pineapple.

"After the people in Grenada have cultivated the first batch of pineapples, the second batch of seedlings will be sent to Cuba for cultivation!" Marin arranged.

After all, Grenada is too small, and there are more mountains. Only large islands like Cuba are suitable for large-scale pineapple cultivation.

After large-scale planting, it is also conducive to the establishment of a canning plant on the Cuban island, where the received pineapple is processed into canned pineapple, and then shipped back to the North Sea country for consumption.

Then, the captains and sailors of the ocean navigation can also send some canned pineapple to them. Canned pineapple is easy to preserve, and it's sweet and sour, and tastes very good. In addition, its vitamin C content is five times as much as that of apples, and it is an ideal food for voyagers to supplement vitamin C. Moreover, the juice of the canned pineapple can also be used as a means of supplementing fresh water on the voyage, saving fresh water consumption.

Of course, if every sailor eats every day, Marin cannot afford it. Therefore, only senior officers such as captains and chief mates can often eat. As for ordinary sailors, it must be rare to eat once, and it should be improved.

Speaking of which, the current Cuban island has been used by Marin as a fruit base. What bananas, sugar cane, coconuts are grown on the Cuban island on a large scale. Now, with the addition of pineapple, a large variety has been added.

Malin suddenly remembered that it seemed that the four tropical fruits in the legends of later generations were banana, pineapple, litchi and mango.

Litchi Marin seems to have forgotten to introduce it from Daming, but this is a tricky thing, and he ordered Kong Tai to introduce it from Guangdong. As for mangoes, this thing seems to be native to India, but it seems that it has been introduced to China. Well, it can also be introduced by Kong Tai ... By then, the four tropical fruits will be complete. Made into canned food, people in the North Sea can also enjoy the tropical fruits loved by future generations.

Perhaps, you can also learn about Malaysia, squeezing lychee juice and making it into a drink for thirst quenching in summer. This is not a flavoured and flavored drink ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ but a real juice. As long as it is packaged in canned processing, it can also be stored for a long time.

It's just that it takes a lot of glass bottles and corks to produce fruit juice drinks. According to the most classical can processing method, put cans or juice into a steamer and distill at a high temperature, then quickly plug the cork stopper, and then add beeswax to the contact part of the cork stopper to ensure the air tightness.

As a result, a lot of glass bottles, corks, and beeswax are required ...

Fortunately, the glass bottle is a big deal. Marin can build a glass factory on the island of Cuba to produce glass bottles to reduce the transportation cost of glass bottles.

However, the source of cork and beeswax ...

Beeswax is okay to say, the big deal is to strongly encourage beekeeping. Marin remembers that most of the seals raised in later generations were Italian bees. So, go to Italy and look for bee varieties to promote.

But cork ... This stuff is mainly produced in Portugal. The most pit is that the cork tree seems to take 25 years from planting to harvesting cork. For so long, Marin is old ...

"Hey-wrong, I really want to have natural rubber!" Marin snapped his head, remembering that he still has such a thing as natural rubber ...

Unlike some synthetic rubbers, natural rubber has a strange smell and is not toxic. It can be used as a cork instead of cork.

Although the production of natural rubber in Cuba is still not large, a batch of rubber seeds can be planted and the rubber can be cut again in a few years. At least, it ’s better than 25 years of pit father ’s cork tree ...

In this way, Cuba's future plan as a tropical fruit canning and tropical fruit juice production base was confirmed by Marin. Later, when people mentioned Cuba, they thought of delicious canned fruits and delicious juice drinks. Just hearing the name "Cuba", I feel a little thirsty ...