Chapter 760: Occupy Savannah
While Columbus and Kong Tai and their party arrived in Guangzhou, and sourcing various seeds, Marin was not idle in the country.
On the one hand, Marin ordered that among the hundreds of thousands of people under the rule, he selected 20,000 brave soldiers and began active training to train them into militias surrounding the country.
On the other hand, Marin is also considering where to plant the seeds after Kong Tai purchased the seeds from Guangzhou.
Obviously, the seeds of the tung tree, lacquer tree and Phyllostachys pubescens purchased by Kong Tai are not suitable for cultivation in the colder North Sea country and England. After all, these are native plants in subtropical regions. If you want these plants to grow well, it is best to choose a place with similar climate for planting.
Originally, Marin planned to plant in Cuba. After all, Cuba ’s climate is tropical, without the cold that these crops fear.
However, Marin worried that these crops would not grow well in Cuba. Although Marin is not a student, he also knows that some crops are not too cold or too hot. Preferably, in a cold and moderate place ...
These tung trees, lacquer trees, and Phyllostachys pubescens, since they are all native plants in the subtropical area, then the most suitable for their growth is the subtropical area. So, Marin set his sights on later generations in the southern United States ...
First, Marin chose the Florida Peninsula. After all, to the north of the Havana colony in Cuba is the Florida Peninsula. It is very convenient to send troops to colonize the Florida Peninsula. Moreover, from the Cuban colony back to the North Sea, the ship also passed the Florida Strait, very smooth.
So, based on memory, Marin drew a map of the United States in later generations and began to circle the Florida Peninsula. As a pseudo basketball fan, Marin has also chased the NBA for several years in his life. That was when Yao Ming was playing for the Rockets. Marin was still in high school, but he often skipped classes with a bunch of friends to watch the Rockets game. However, after Yao Ming retired, Marin, a pseudo basketball fan, immediately stopped watching the NBA. The friends despise him, but he is plausible-Nima, I watched the NBA to see Yao Ming, that group of old black playing is my business?
In fact, Marin is blind to black people. If Jordan does not wear the No. 23 Bulls uniform, Marin may not be able to recognize this basketball god. Of course, Kobe and Austrian fat like this very old black, Marin can still recognize. In fact, in the previous life, Marin had made an Oolong-he saw James wearing the No. 23 jersey, looking at the front, he mistakenly thought it was Jordan, and laughed a group of authentic basketball fans. Marin was angry and angry-Nima, who asked him to wear the No. 23 jersey? And it's still red. The most important thing is that James did not wear a hood that time ... Then, Marin mistakenly thought that it was Uncle Jordan ... It was so blind to the old black face, and Marin would be interested in the NBA ...
Thinking of these interesting things from the previous life, Marin smiled. Then he drew a circle at this point in Miami. This is the place where the Miami Heat is located, and it is also an important area where Austrian Fat has stayed before retiring. Although he didn't know a few NBA stars, Austrian Fat Marin knew it. Ao fat is definitely a legend in the NBA, not because of his good playing skills, but because he is particularly strong and unreasonable, completely relying on his body to crush his opponent like a tank. At the beginning, the young Yao Ming had just landed in the NBA and was squeezed by the fat compost. Later, he had to gain weight to strengthen his confrontation ...
Marin smiled, intending to finalize the matter. However, thinking of Dayao's experience, Malin suddenly flashed a bad memory ...
It was in 2008 when Wenchuan suffered a super earthquake and suffered heavy losses ... Of course, these are not the main contents of this memory. The main content of this memory is related to Dayao's donation ...
It turned out that when the earthquake just happened, Dayao donated 500,000 through the Yao team immediately. However, netizens are not happy ...
Why? It turned out that before this, there was a severe hurricane in Florida. At that time, it was said that Dayao donated 2 million US dollars ...
As a result, many people stood up and sprayed Dayao. You donated US $ 2 million to Laomei ’s disaster. You only donated 500,000 for such a disaster in the country, or soft sister currency? Then, there was a tear in the newspaper ...
Fortunately, Dayao responded quickly, and immediately donated tens of millions of others to smooth the storm ...
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Of course, the above is all nonsense, and Marin's important message from this memory is that there are many hurricanes in the Florida Peninsula ...
Then, more memories of the hurricane jumped out of Marin's memory ...
Based on those deep memories, Marin remembered that it seemed that the Florida Peninsula was a high incidence area of hurricanes in the United States. In addition, Texas, which is also on the Gulf Coast, and Louisiana, which is at the mouth of the Mississippi River, were also the hardest hit by the hurricane.
However, the combined states of Texas and Louisiana do not suffer as much as Florida from hurricanes. It seems that every year on the 6th island in October, Florida is always visited by hurricanes. This is the same as the typhoon always patronizes Taiwan, otherwise, the typhoon will not be called a typhoon ...
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Thinking of this, Marrington gave up his plan to put the planting area in Florida. But he is very tight with these seed babies. If he is planted on the Florida Peninsula and accidentally patronized by the hurricane, he will give up his efforts ...
So, Marin opened the map and began to find other suitable places ...
Texas, excluded-there is also a hurricane patronized area. Although it is not as frequent as Florida, it is also quite a lot ... Louisiana is also excluded ... Even several states in the northern Gulf of Mexico are to be excluded.
So, move north ...
Marin's pen moved up on the map ...
Obviously, inland areas are not feasible. After all, inland transportation is inconvenient. Marin ’s colonial ship was difficult to drive in, and even if he did, he was easily ambushed by the Indians. Therefore, it can only be chosen along the coast ...
The Gulf Coast has been ruled out, and only the Atlantic coast can be selected ...
Although, the Atlantic coast may also suffer from hurricanes. However, the frequency is much less. Because, like most hurricanes, it was blocked by the tentacle that stretched out of the mainland on the Florida Peninsula.
Marin glanced at the east coast of later generations, and also in the coastal areas, according to memory, circled several cities ...
But after circled a few cities, Marin was surprised to find that it seemed to have been selected ...
Why? Because there are just a few big cities on the east coast of Old America-Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Norfolk, Savannah and Jacksonville ...
Boston, New York and Philadelphia are directly excluded. Because they are not subtropical climates. But Norfolk ... Marin is a little unsure whether it is a subtropical climate. It seems that Norfolk wanders between temperate and subtropical ...
Jacksonville has a subtropical climate, but Jacksonville is a city in Florida. If a hurricane erupts in Florida, it will be difficult to escape here ...
So, no need to choose-it is Savannah ...
Savannah is an important port in the southeast region of old America and later generations. Moreover, it is a port of the mouth of the important river Savannah. What a special deep-water port ...
This is so appropriate! You should know that in the era of wooden ships, the port is best to be a freshwater port, so as to prevent the maggots from biting through the bottom of the ship. Savannah is not only near the sea, but also the estuary of the Savannah River. Therefore, it is very suitable for colonization.
In addition, as far as the climate is concerned, it is very similar to the Zhejiang and Fujian areas in China. Those seeds purchased by Kongtai that are suitable for the growth of subtropical regions can certainly grow well in Savannah.
And, most importantly, this Savannah River is also very important. Marin wants to colonize here, and it must be a large-scale wasteland development in the early stage. But in the era when there was no machine, it was very hard to open up wasteland. In particular, those fields, in order to find the source of irrigation water, it is best to be on the riverside.
Obviously, it is much more convenient to open up wasteland along the Savannah River than to open up wasteland in a place lacking rivers ...
In addition to planting tung tree, sumac, and bamboo, rice and wheat, the Savannah River is also suitable for growth. Of course, whether the japonica rice suitable for planting in the north is suitable for growing in Savannah, this needs to be tried. It ’s not good. It ’s better to open a colony a little further north, such as Norfolk ...
In addition, Marin also plans to develop upland cotton cultivation in Mexico from Savannah. After all, in the original history, Savannah was an important export port for old and beautiful cotton. Before the Civil War, Savannah and New Orleans were important ports for the export of cotton from the South to Britain.
There is also Savannah, which means in English, meaning (tropical and subtropical) treeless prairie.
Therefore, Marin estimated that there is a subtropical treeless prairie in Savannah. The difficulty of reclaiming grasslands and reclaiming forests cannot be compared. To reclaim the grassland, just let the old cattle hang on the plough and turn the ground. When reclaiming forests, the first thing to do is logging ... logging is not the most difficult, the most difficult is to dig out the roots of the original tall trees ... This is a very heavy workload, but everyone who knows something knows, The larger the tree, the larger the roots, and the coverage area is very wide, which is quite troublesome to dig up ...
Although digging out the roots can get a lot of firewood, but before there is no excavator, the roots are dug manually, who knows who digs ...
Therefore, it is much easier to reclaim a grassland near a big river than to reclaim a forest ...
If the American continent is most suitable for reclamation, Marin will not hesitate to choose the Pampas grassland in Argentina. Because the Pampas grassland is directly on the side of the famous river La Plata-Parana, there are no big trees, and it is not too easy to cultivate.
Therefore, later generations of Argentina can easily become the world's agricultural and animal husbandry country by virtue of this unique natural condition. Calculated, Argentina's natural conditions are much better than Australia. After all, although Australia is large in size ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~, it is seriously short of water, but Argentina is not short of ...
However, Argentina is too far away from Europe. If the fertile soil is reclaimed and the coveted of other countries results, it will outweigh the gains. Because if Argentina is occupied by another country, the news will be returned to the country, which is estimated to be a year and a half away, and it is difficult to respond. After the reaction came, send troops to recover, the enemy has been operating there for a long time, and has established a foothold ...
Therefore, Marin might as well manage the close east coast of North America. And Savannah is the place where Marin needs most ...
After thinking about it, Marin ordered-to send 5 ships to occupy the place of later Savannah ...
However, Savannah seems to be a river port, not on the edge of the Atlantic Ocean. Marin remembered that Savannah seemed to be 32 kilometers away from the Atlantic Ocean ... At the mouth of the Savannah River, there was a Tybee Island ...
Marin ’s order was to first land on Tybee Island (a sandbar island of only 6 square kilometers, similar to Chongming Island, but much smaller) at the estuary to build a bunker. Then, through buying, bribing, etc., buy the land of Savannah with the local Indians. After buying the land, the city was built immediately. After the city was built and established its footing, it drove the local Indians and annexed the area along the Savannah River ...
