Chapter 56: Ayoun Phosphate

Northern Western Sahara Ayoun, responsible for managing the local small Quincy is counting the first batch of apatite production, and intends to ship back to Emden.

Little Quincy is the grandson of Old Quincy, the gatekeeper of Hoffman Estates. He was only 23 years old this year. The Quincy family was the servant family of the Hoffman family, and the ancestors were serfs until the beginning of old Quincy, becoming the servant of the Hoffman family. Old Quincy had no brains, and his military value was average, ranking last among old Huffman's attendants. However, victory is faithful. Therefore, old Quincy has been the gatekeeper of the Hoffman Estate, guarding the safety of the estate.

Later, when Marin became the Baron of Texel, old Quincy sent his eldest son Xiao Quincy to Texel Island and arranged under Kohler to learn arithmetic and culture. He was one of Kohler's disciples, behind Draka .

Two years ago, Little Quincy returned to the coal mine of Hoffman Estates and managed the coal mine for a period of time, responsible for the statistics of production and the safety management of the coal mine.

After Marin won Ayoun, he thought of Little Quincy. In fact, Marin won Ayoun and was not interested in anything else. He was only interested in the apatite mine south of Ayoun. As long as the apatite mine is mined, Marin does not need to spend too much manpower to collect fish meal and bones. Moreover, the phosphorus content of apatite mine is also higher than that of fish meal and bone.

After managing the coal mine for two years and having experience, Marin handed over the affairs of Ayoun to Xiao Quincy for management. In this way, Little Quincy luckily became the governor of Ayoun.

After arriving in Ayoun, Little Quincy immediately followed the instructions of Marin, first built the Ayoun wharf suitable for mooring large ships, and then built a fort to strengthen the castle. Not only that, but Quincy also built a large yard. Every night, all the people of the Ayoun tribe were rushed into this yard to rest, and the doors of the courtyard were locked to prevent them from running.

Before the large yard was built, there were already a dozen young men who had escaped at night. After the large yard was built, these Ayoun tribes could no longer run around.

After the castle, fort, wharf and compound were built, Little Quincy finally started the exploration of apatite mine ...

He led a group of men, riding camels, carrying a lot of food and water, and headed south at Ayoun Pier to start the journey to find apatite.

Of course, Marin has given the identification method-one is blue-grey stone; the other is burning on the fire, it will emit green light ...

In fact, Marin's first method of identification is the same as not saying. Because most of the stones are greenish gray ...

Helpless, little Quincy took firewood, looked for stones to burn everywhere, and observed the color ...

After more than a month of burning stone, Little Quincy finally found apatite mine with rich reserves not far from the south side of Ayuan Oasis Lake. Little Quincy can't estimate how many, but it is estimated that there are still hundreds of millions of tons.

Then, it was intended to be mined. To this end, Little Quincy sent people back to the country and applied for a ship specializing in ore transportation on the Ayoun route. Then, he applied for another fund, traded with the Saad people, and bought black slaves ...

Yes, buy black slaves. Moroccans also sell black slaves. In the Sahara Desert, they have a trade route leading to the Mali Empire and the Songhai Empire in West Africa.

This route is connected by several oasis in the desert. The oasis is also transported by camels. The Moroccan businessman first crossed the Atlas Mountains and entered the Algeria region eastward. Then, through the oasis in the desert in the south of the Algeria region, he travelled southwards, bringing salt and other urgently missing goods in West Africa to the most prosperous Marlin region The city of Timbuktu (Tembutu) trades with locals in this city.

The climate in West Africa is hot all year round, and food preservation is not easy. Therefore, table salt is very popular in both the Mali Empire and the Songhai Empire. Moreover, no matter whether it is the Marin Empire, or the Songhai Empire, which has now replaced the dominance of the Mali Empire and controls the West African trade center Timbuktu, there is a great demand for table salt.

However, black people in West Africa do not know how to make salt, produce less salt, and mostly pick it up from the beach. As a result, this brought huge business opportunities to Arab businessmen from North Africa.

North African Arab and Berber merchants drove droves of camels and dragged bags of salt to Timbuktu to trade with the Mali Empire and the current Songhai Empire.

In the West African Empire, table salt is an important currency alongside gold. Whether it is the Mali empire or the Songhai empire, their small cargo transactions use onyx as a currency. For bulk goods, gold and table salt and copper coins brought by the Arabs are used as currencies.

It is strange to say that the two great empires of West Africa, where gold reserves are very rich. Through the gold rush, the Mali empire and the Songhai empire obtained a large amount of sand. Then, the merchants of the two empires used these sands to exchange salt, iron weapons (West Africa does not produce iron at this time), horses, copper, glassware resold from Europe, and North African Handicraft products (including wool fabrics) etc ...

The goods traded by West Africans to North African merchants are mainly gold, ivory, spices, cotton fabrics, and ... slave ...

The West African Empire is actually still in the age of slavery. Therefore, here, science and technology are not yet developed, and the slave trade is also prosperous. The West Africans used the captured prisoners of war as tribesmen through clashes among the tribes, and sold them in Timbuktu, the West African trade center, to Arab merchants in exchange for salt, weapons, horses and other locally in short supply.

In fact, the black slave trade in Africa was not initiated by Europeans, but by local chiefs. Those poor chiefs, no gold and silver exchange goods with the Europeans who came to trade. So they moved their crooked brains-black people from other tribes were slaves and sold to Europeans ...

Later, European colonists discovered that it was very profitable to sell black people to American plantations as slaves. As a result, they raised prices and went to destroy villages and arrested slaves themselves, which caused the suffering of Africa.

Before the Europeans sold black slaves, the Arabs actually sold black slaves for hundreds of years. Moreover, the Arabs are cruel. They prevented the black slaves from buying and having **** with their wives and concubines, so they simply castrated the black slaves. In this way, it is safe to put it in the house ...

Little Quincy came to Ayoun and had dealt with the merchants of the Saad tribe, and had heard of black slaves. It is said that these black slaves are obedient and honest, and they are strong enough to work. Therefore, it was only Quincy who planned to use black slaves to mine.

As for why not use the people of the local Ayoun tribe to mine? Mainly, Quincy worried that these locals would take the opportunity of mining to escape. After all, mine terrain is complex and not easy to track. Moreover, Marin also intends to raise Arabian horses and merino sheep locally, and they also need them to help herding. Therefore, it is better to buy some slaves from the merchants in Morocco to mine.

Actually, it is not that African slaves are obedient and honest. In fact, the black people's longing for freedom is very strong. However, those black people who long for freedom have long been killed or maimed by the slave owners. Therefore, the remaining slaves are of course honestly obedient. The tragic end of those rebels, they all look in the eyes.

More importantly, the Arab slave traders castrated those black slaves inhumanely. Therefore, those black men lack the secretion of male hormones, and they are naturally sullen and desperate. Aggressive people generally have strong male hormones in the body, either fighting or finding women. However, these black slaves sold by the Arabs were castrated, and nothing excites them quickly. Therefore, they are so honest ...

The development of the apatite mine in Little Quincy naturally requires honest and willing slaves. As a result, the black slaves who have no desires and desires to buy have become the first choice.

However, when Little Quincy took the gold coins to buy black slaves with the Saad people, Saad chief Abu Abdullah Kaim refused to accept the gold coins. Because they need iron ...

The Saad tribe is an ambitious tribe. They remembered the rebellion and defeated the Vatas dynasty that now controls Morocco. Therefore, they need a lot of weapons ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ However, Morocco does not produce iron right now, most of the iron is imported. To obtain steel to build weapons, you must pass through northern Morocco. However, in this way, the Vatas dynasty will get news of the large amount of iron imports from the Saad tribe, which aroused their vigilance.

Therefore, in these years, the Saad tribe has not obtained much iron. Now, with the opportunity to trade with Europeans, Abu Abdullah Kaim proposed-buy black slaves? No problem, get a sword or iron ingot ...

So, Little Quincy had to send someone back to Europe to report this to Marin ...

However, this matter is in the middle of Marin's arms ...

Marin's iron and steel plant, which produces 3 tons of pig iron and 2 tons of steel a day, is worried about selling ...

So, Marin let the ship bring a lot of pig iron ingots south to Ayoun, and let the little Quincy and the Assad tribe trade. As for the scimitar created by the Saad tribe using these iron ingots, threatening Ayoun? Marin never considered. Because Ayoun built a sturdy castle, and it was right by the sea. Even if the Saad wanted to turn their faces, it would be difficult to break through the castle. What's more, thinking that by the sea, Marin can still provide support from the sea at any time. Therefore, Marin assuredly bought irons for the Ayoun ...

The price of black slaves is outrageously low. When trading with the Saad, Little Quincy could use a 50-pound reborn iron ingot to change to a strong black slave. And it was castrated, honest black slave. With only 5,000 pounds of pig iron ingot, Little Quincy exchanged for 100 strong and honest black slaves.

Then, after Quincy gave these black slaves the shackles to prevent escape, they were assigned to pick mines and go to the apatite mine south of Ayoun to mine, and the first batch of phosphorus was quickly dug Greystone, intends to ship and ship back to Europe ...