Chapter 2005: "Cape Town Development Plan"
Confirming that the person playing Edward Green was simple, Kohler easily found a spy named Brad at the North Sea Chamber of Commerce England branch to play this role.
In order to convince people, when Kohler picked people, he also made a portrait of Baron Ferreira. He compared the portraits, found a look similar to Baron Ferreira, and then chose Brad.
In other words, if Brad went to Portugal to "visit relatives" in the name of "Edward Green", it is estimated that no one would doubt it. Because, they look really similar. After all, Kohler chose people by comparison.
After solving the "actor" candidate, Marin sent someone to secretly notify Baron Ferreira. Although he was dissatisfied with Marin's use of his dead cousin's identity, he still chose to cooperate in the face of huge family interests.
Then, there is the specific development plan ...
Marin brought together his think tanks, such as Heidel and Machiavelli, two civil servants that Marin focused on training. Both Prime Minister Jeffrey and Prime Minister Mikel are old, and within a few years, Heidel and Machiavelli will likely take over.
In terms of talent, it seems that Machiavelli is stronger. But Heidel is not bad. After all, he graduated from the University of Cologne in this era and is a high-quality student. Moreover, Heidel was the first high-level talent to follow him, and in terms of trust, he definitely surpassed Machiavelli, an Italian. In other words, Haider will serve as prime minister in the future. And Machiavelli will become the second civil servant like the Prime Minister. This is already very rare for a foreigner from Italy.
In fact, Marin has always been very prejudiced against the Italians because of Italy's teasing performance in World War II. Even immigrants to America do not consider Italians.
It was later that the Italian, Felice, after obtaining a large area of Uruguay for his younger son Giuliano, because he was an Italian, was close to the Italian, and was willing to immigrate to Uruguay.
Under the influence of Feliz, Marin also agreed to accept Italian immigrants. Furthermore, the South American region is actually not a region that Marin focuses on. It is better to get some Italians to develop in the past. After all, there are too few native Germans. The development of North America is stretched. How can there be idlers to develop South America?
Then, in the past two years, Marin had sent more than 20,000 Italian farmers to La Plata and Uruguay. Italy has been fighting for many years, the war is endless, and there are many war refugees. If it were n’t for Marin ’s fear of being too eye-catching, even if he immigrated to 100,000 Italians, he would be frivolous.
More than 20,000 Italian immigrants immediately accelerated the development of the La Plata Estuary. Because developing grasslands is much simpler than developing forests. Therefore, more than 450,000 acres of arable land were quickly reclaimed at the mouth of La Plata. Today, there are more than 600,000 acres of arable land in the La Plata River area. The population is as high as 30,000. In addition, there are 1,500 Cossack cavalry who are responsible for clearing and pursuing nearby Native Americans.
It is said that in the La Plata colony, in addition to more than 30,000 immigrants, there are more than 10,000 Native Indian slaves captured by the Cossack cavalry. These Native Americans, although not very good at farming. However, it is okay to lay hands, release sheep, dig a river, and repair a house with rice noodles. In addition, it can also be sent to pave the road. After all, the cement slab road promoted by Marin is very simple to lay.
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For the development of the Cape of Good Hope, Marin's request was to develop a supply station for Voyage East, which can provide food and fresh water supplies. At the same time, it can also provide ship repair services. Then, as a springboard, as the main base for hunting rhinos.
In any case, South Africa is a region with a large number of rhinos. Although it does not occupy more than 80% of the world's total as in later generations, the current number is absolutely considerable.
In later generations, there are about 20,000 rhinos in South Africa. It may not seem like much, but it must be taken into account that it is based on the premise that South Africa is already highly developed. In this era, Marin estimated that most of South Africa has not yet been developed. Therefore, the total number of rhinos in South Africa this year may reach hundreds of thousands. With so many rhinos, it is absolutely possible to provide Marin with enough rhinoceros to make armor.
At the same time, through hunting rhinoceros, Marin's hunting team can also detect the road leading to the inland area and reach the Johannesburg area of later generations, which is the largest gold producing area in later generations.
After discussion with the men, everyone agreed that the development of the land near the Cape of Good Hope (that is, the cultivation of land), and the hunting of rhinos or something is secondary. First, a town should be built in the Cape of Good Hope to allow immigrants a foothold here so as not to be driven away by local indigenous people. Then the second step was to consider establishing a port to provide fresh water for passing ships and ship repair business.
To this end, Marin directly ordered that ships be sent to transport a batch of bricks and wood to Cape of Good Hope for the construction of towns and ports, and a simple ship repair shop.
In fact, when building a fort at the Cape of Good Hope, the best option is to use cement. But Marin needs to hide his relationship with Baron Ferreira. Therefore, the cement with Beihai characteristics cannot be used. Therefore, bricks and clay can only be used for simple bonding to build coastal fortresses and ports. Moreover, this is enough to guard against and resist local indigenous people.
Right now, the black natives near the Cape of Good Hope are probably Sans and Coy. They are true local indigenous people, and the Bantu people who accounted for the main population of South Africa in later generations actually moved from the south of East Africa.
The local aborigines have a very low level of civilization. There can be no artillery or siege equipment such as trebuchets. Therefore, the castle uses ordinary bricks and yellow mud as a binder, which is enough.
However, it was too difficult to establish a foothold at the Cape of Good Hope in the early stage, not to mention whether it would be attacked when building the castle. The early food supply alone is a big problem. Just like Jamestown, England's first colonial stronghold in North America, it was later surrounded by local indigenous people who broke grain, and even a tragedy of eating the corpse of a colleague occurred.
Therefore, in any colony, if you want to gain a foothold quickly, in addition to building fortifications such as castles, you also need a stable source of food to avoid starvation.
Marin took the map and looked at it, and found that it seemed very difficult and costly to transport food from the local area. The most terrible thing is that if the grain transporter delays the time, the people of the Cape of Good Hope colony may be hungry.
However, after moving his eyes westward, Marin immediately found a way to mobilize food from the colony of La Plata ...
Today, the La Plata colony has more than 600,000 acres of arable land, and there is too much food to eat, many of which are used to feed animals. Under such circumstances, it is more than enough to come up with a point to support the Cape of Good Hope colony.
Moreover, the Hoffman Fort (Buenos Aires) at the mouth of the La Plata is about the same latitude as the Cape of Good Hope, both at about 34 degrees south latitude, almost horizontally right. Moreover, they are all located in the "prevailing westerly zone" between 30 degrees south latitude and 60 degrees south latitude. From Hoffman Fort (Buenos Aires) to the Cape of Good Hope, sailing can almost go smoothly. Just across the Atlantic, you can reach the Cape of Good Hope. As for the return trip, despite the headwind, with Marin's "invented" upper-edge slant sail, the effect on the speed is also much smaller.
In addition ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ The La Plata colony can not only provide enough food for the Cape of Good Hope colony, but also provide early labor and accelerate the construction of the castle and port ...
As Secretary of State, Kohler also participated in the meeting and made notes. Before the meeting, Kohler suddenly asked:
"Your Majesty, what is the name of this newly built town and port of the Cape of Good Hope? Is it still Cape of Good Hope? Or is it Cape Storm?"
Marin froze for a moment, then thought for a while, and finally said:
"Let's call it Cape Town ..."
"Or?" Kohler didn't understand why Marin used the word "return". After all, nobody used to call Cape of Good Hope the Cape Town ...
Marin waved his hand and said:
"Don't care about this" return ", I just say it casually. Later, the port town in the Cape of Good Hope area will be called" Cape Town ". The plan discussed before is called" Cape Town Development Plan "...
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