Chapter 567: Change your mind

If you think about it carefully, Marin feels that it is very necessary to get through the Daming route as soon as possible. Needless to say, wheat with a shorter growth cycle is necessary. In addition, the Taihu pigs with large numbers of cubs and fast growth are also needed by Marin.

In addition, tea Malin is also needed. Most European nobles are carnivores, and the diet is greasy, and tea is needed to clear the oil. Moreover, the English-style milk tea made by Marin, which is to add sugar and milk, is simple but delicious, suitable for the tastes of all kinds of people. Moreover, it can also be matched with the sale of sucrose, which can be said to be a double benefit.

As for silk and porcelain, although it is not urgently needed, it can't stand the Europeans like it. As long as it is shipped back, you can make a lot of money.

Marin's only concern is whether there is so much gold and silver in Europe to buy high-end consumer goods such as Daming's silk and porcelain. You know, there is nothing in Europe that Ming Ming urgently needs. Therefore, if you want to buy silk and porcelain from the Ming Dynasty, you must spend real gold and silver, and it is a big price.

Although Marin came up with a way to use perfume to open the Daming market, the production of perfume is limited after all. If you want to avoid serious overruns in the trade with Daming, you have to think of other ways.

At the beginning, the British solved this solution by adopting the evil method of selling crows. But Marin would certainly not do this, and Daming is not full of Qing, nor can he condone foreign countries to do so.

Therefore, Marin hit his head on Japan. Coincidentally, Japan is now in the era of the village chief and the Warring States period, and there is chaos in the country. The famous Shijian Yinshan has not yet been developed.

Marin's plan was to take advantage of the time of civil strife in Japan and take advantage of the opportunity to send troops to capture Ishimizu's Ishimiyama. As for the village heads of the Japanese Warring States? Marin believed that as long as there were thousands of musketeers, it was enough to hold Shijian Yinshan.

Do n’t look at the devil ’s warrior ’s martial arts is good, it can go to the southeast coast of the Ming Dynasty, but it is useless, because, "No matter how good the kung fu, a shot down" ...

Even Ye Wen, who said, "I want to fight ten," had to bow his head to admit that he faced the small devil's three or eight guns. Otherwise, no matter how good the kung fu is, it is also a life that was destroyed by a shot.

If they are in close combat, those musketeers must not be able to beat those Japanese samurai. However, the role of the musketeer is to keep the opponent away. In the face of volleyball, martial arts is no matter how high it is. If the castle walls can be built, thousands of musketeers are enough to withstand the attacks of tens of thousands of warriors, and they have the upper hand. After all, Musketeers are best at defending ...

As long as Shijian Yinshan, which has extremely rich reserves, is developed, Marin will not lack silver. In Daming, silver is scarce and very valuable. When the time comes, Marin can spend the devil's silver and go to Daming to buy the goods he wants, and still have a lot of surplus. By that time, the merchant ships under his own hands would not only be able to return large quantities of silk and porcelain, but also large amounts of silver produced in Japan to meet the needs of European coinage.

In addition, Japan ’s copper mines are also very rich. Beginning in the late Ming Dynasty, Japanese copper began to become an important commodity for Japanese export trade, and was sold to various places by Japanese Zhuyin ships and Dutch merchant ships. If the copper produced by the Falun copper mine in Sweden caused the European copper price to plummet for the first time, the Japanese copper was brought back to Europe by Dutch merchants, which caused a second major drop in European copper prices. Since then, European copper prices have gradually decreased, gradually approaching the eastern level and no longer high.

Of course, Japan's gold production is also amazing. For example, the gold reserves of Sado Island and Kagoshima are also very large, each with hundreds of tons. It's just that the Kazushima Ryuji gold mine, under the control of Japan's most powerful Satsuma, is more difficult to capture than Sado Island. But the Lingjia gold mine also has its advantages, that is, the gold content of this gold mine is very high, reaching an astonishing content of 80 grams per ton (ore). The Indonesian Glasberg Gold Mine, the top ten gold mine in later generations, has a gold content of only 0.703 grams per ton. The difference in gold content between the two has reached a staggering 113 times. What does this large difference in gold content mean? Means a huge difference in mining costs! In addition, when mining the Lingjia Gold Mine, and paying the same amount of labor, if the annual output of one ton of gold in the Grasberg Gold Mine is mined, the Lingjia Gold Mine can reach 113 tons ...

Therefore, for the current lower mining technology, mining super rich ores like Lingjia Gold Mine, the production efficiency is obviously much greater. Generally, gold mines pay a lot of manpower and material resources, and the annual output of gold may be only one or two tons, but Lingjia Gold Mine can achieve the level of one or two tons of gold annually with less labor. This is the gap.

Of course, this refers to the rich mine beneath the Lingjia Gold Mine. In fact, there are two gold mines in Lingjia Gold Mine. One is the surface gold mine, which is an ordinary gold mine with low gold content. And the Lingjia gold mine underground is the real super rich mine. Once you find the surface mine, you can continue to drill down and find the underground rich deposit.

As for the Satsuma Clan, it is a powerful princely state, in fact, Marin is too worried. The powerful Satsuma clan in Marin's impression is actually the Satsuma clan after the maritime trade started. Since the start of the Zhuyin ship trade and trade with the Dutch, the Satsuma Clan has actively participated in the maritime trade by virtue of its location advantage in the most southeastern part of Japan. However, after that, Zhuyin ship trade didn't start until 1592. The current Satsuma Clan is just a village-level clan with a slightly larger land area, and the economy is mainly based on fishing and strong brother ghosts. Marin thought for a while, and felt that he sent thousands of people over, and it was not difficult to conquer the Satsuma ...

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It's just that running Japan and beating those Japanese village heads have to wait for the concrete road in Panama to be repaired. Otherwise, the traffic is not convenient ... Marin scratched his hair in distress ...

During lunch, Marin had been thinking about things and accidentally overturned his golden plate. So the servant helped Marin get another food. However, this suddenly gave Marin unlimited inspiration ...

"Change food ... change ..." Marin murmured. After a while, Marin suddenly patted his thigh and said:

"Yeah, let me try another way of thinking!"

Then, he pushed open the food tray and hurried back to the office to think about a new method ...

Previously, Marin was restricted to the Panamanian road. I always felt that the Panamanian road had to be repaired before the big voyage. However, with the technology of this era, it is estimated that in the Panama area, deforestation and the construction of a cement road that is 60 to 70 kilometers long are estimated to be impossible in two years, perhaps longer.

However, after waiting for two years, Marin felt that the daylily was getting cold.

And, in any case, even if the cement road that crosses the isthmus of Panama is built and a port is built on the side of later Panama City, it is necessary to take the ship from the Atlantic Ocean and bypass the Strait of Magellan, the southernmost point of the American continent, and then Go north and arrive in Panama City!

So, in any case, sending the fleet south and bypassing the southernmost point of the American continent is inevitable.

In this case, late action is worse than early action. Marin decided—to take time some time later ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ to send Columbus to lead the fleet down the east coast of the South American continent, directly to the Strait of Magellan, and then westward, to the west coast of the South American continent. Then, heading north all the way to Panama ...

However, halfway through, Marin intends to find a large river estuary on the Chilean coastline and establish a transit port. This port will become a transit port for ships under Marin, and it will also serve as a fresh water supply base for the development of Chile's saltpeter.

Marin knows that Iquique, the seaport of Chile's saltpetre, has not rained for hundreds of years, and fresh water is also delivered by ships from outside.

Therefore, if you want to develop saltpetre in the Chilean desert, you must first find a fresh water supply base in central Chile. Then, a large amount of fresh water is loaded in wooden barrels. After being heated and sealed, it can be kept for several months without damage, and then sent to Iquique to provide enough fresh water for Iquique and the inland saltpetre mine.

After getting this transit port, the ship can also continue to go north to find the location of Panama City. In this way, there is no need to wait for the concrete road in Panama to be completed.

Even before the completion of the cement road, Marin could send a fleet to arrive at the location of Panama City to build a port and castle. When the cement road was paved, the port and castle were almost completed. Then, you can directly use Panama City as a base to start a new westward voyage and go directly to find the route between Daming and Japan ...

Sorry sorry, the fat man is drowsy, I fell asleep on the table again, freezing me. Wake up in the middle of the night and continue to finish the code, let everyone wait for a long time. Alas, I will squint in bed again, and then I have to squeeze the bus again. I must doze off during the day ...