Chapter 864: Sisal
In fact, this time the good thing is not only two pairs, but three good things coming-Tara's messenger not only brought back the good news of obtaining sisal seeds, but also brought back the fleet that Marin sent to Savannah Good news for a foothold on Tybee Island. It is said that the local Indians are relatively friendly to them.
At the beginning of the year, Marin sent five ships to find and occupy the Savannah area. According to Marin's instructions, the leader of the fleet, Korke, led the fleet and soon arrived in the Americas. After fresh water and food were added to the island of Amerigo, Kworker continued to lead the fleet south, looking for the legendary Savannah and Tybee Island at the mouth of the Savannah River.
After two or three months of searching, in May, they finally found Tybee Island at the mouth of the Savannah River. Then, Korwock carefully built a pier and built a house on Tybee Island, a small estuary ...
Because Tybee Island is separated from the land, there are no Indians here. Therefore, after a period of operation, a small dock base was built here.
However, Marin had asked him not to build permanent structures on Tybee Island. Therefore, the buildings on Tybee Island have no stone buildings, only wooden temporary buildings.
The reason for this is that Marin intends to start building the city directly at the location of later Savannah City. After all, the location of Savannah City is an excellent inland deepwater port, and navigation is also convenient. The other is that Tybee Island is on the seashore and is easily seen by adventurers from other countries.
The Americas are so big, Marin does not believe that other countries are unmoved. Moreover, this era is exactly the generation of Italian navigators. Whether it's Columbus or Americano, or John Capote, who had previously played for Henry VII and is now detained on Cape Breton Island, he is a famous navigator from Italy. Columbus was the discoverer of the Americas, while Amerigo and John Capote were both Italian navigators who went to explore the Americas. Therefore, in this era, there are too many Italian navigators who like to explore the New World.
Marin was concerned that the seaside base was discovered by an unknown Italian navigator. If they were found, they landed again to take a look, and the true situation of the Americas was exposed.
Therefore, Marin ’s instruction was to-immediately abandon this temporary stronghold on Tybee Island when he had a firm foothold in Savannah. Moreover, all houses should be removed and taken away without leaving any traces to avoid being discovered by savage navigators passing by the local coast ...
Marin ’s concerns are very reasonable. For example, in Tara, Havana, Cuba, after sending people to Mexico to trade sisal seeds, he sent a ship back to Europe to report the good news. As the ship passed the coast near Savannah, it saw the temporary port on Tybee Island at a glance ...
Then, Tara ’s ship docked for supply and helped Korwok bring the good news back home ...
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After Marin got the sisal seeds, he observed it-it was sisal seeds, yes, the classic triangular black melon seeds. The leaves of sisal itself are shaped like swords, and even the seeds are angular. A unit where Marin worked in his last life was right next to a botanical garden. Sometimes, after eating at noon, Marin will go to the botanical garden to take a walk to eat and take a look at various exotic plants. For example, this sisal, Marin saw the girl in the botanical garden planted. At that time, Marin was still talking about the girl in the botanical garden for a while, watching the girl planting black triangle shaped sisal seeds into the medium. After the sisal had been planted, the girl told Marin with a smile-I was married ...
Marin was very injured that time, but he also remembered the shape of the sisal seed-the black triangle ...
Therefore, this time Tara sent people to Mexico to trade sisal seeds without problems. Since there is no problem, the next step is to promote planting.
As for the planting location, Marin has long thought about it-Cuba ...
In the previous life, Marin remembered that the Philippines is an important sisal producing area in the world, and the famous Cantera sisal was also cultivated. Cuba and the Philippines have the same latitude and similar climates, and are naturally suitable for cultivating sisal.
However, Marin remembers that sisal seems to be not resistant to waterlogging, that is, it is not resistant to water soaking. Therefore, although sisal likes hot and humid, it cannot be planted in low-lying areas. Therefore, half of the sisal is planted in the highlands of the tropics to prevent the sisal from being soaked in stagnant water.
Although the terrain of Cuba is flat, there are many hilly areas. Marin's plan is to grow crops such as sugar cane and rice on flat land. As for the hills, sisal and tea are grown.
In addition to the Havana area occupied by Tara, Marin also plans to send people to grow sisal in the Moa area controlled by Wiltz. Because, near Moa, there are few mountainous areas in Cuba, and there are more slopes. Although the mining of nickel sulfide laterite nickel sulfide caused a little pollution there, but Marin had already moved the nickel sulfide processing site to Great Inagua, the local pollution is not too heavy now. Besides, sisal is used for goods, not food, and does not require such high health requirements.
Marin now desperately needs a large amount of sisal to make the rudder wheel rope, as well as processing super-strength large-area sails (for upper edge skewer sails). Therefore, the cultivation of sisal must not be delayed.
It's just that Marin remembers the content of the chat with the married girl in his last life. The girl said that after planting the sisal, it will grow for two to two and a half years, and it may have 90 to 100 pieces of sword leaves before it can be cut. Moreover, to select the dry weather for harvesting, half of the sword leaves must be kept at a time ...
In other words, even if sisal is planted, it will take more than two years to harvest ...
"I'm so depressed ... I have to wait so long ... So, now I'll use the linen rope to make up for it first ..." Marin said with some frustration.
Fortunately, Da Vinci came up with a way to replace the part of the water that is easily corroded by seawater with a rope made of copper wire drawn by navy copper, so that the corrosion of linen rope by seawater can be solved. Otherwise, every time you sail, you have to store a lot of rope for replacement.
Of course ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ Even if this problem is solved, it is certainly far less than sisal because of the wear resistance of linen rope. Therefore, every time you sail, you still have to prepare a lot of spare linen rope. Moreover, naval shelling, every time you break a lot of linen rope ...
In his reply to Tara, Marin ordered that he should quickly open up a large-scale sisal plantation and plant as many seeds as possible. As for sisal seeds, Malint approved Tara and used local sugar cane to exchange more sisal seeds with Mexicans. Of course, it seems that you can also exchange sisal fiber with them ...
Thinking of this, Marin cheered up and emphasized in the letter that he must send someone to Mexico to buy the sisal leaves. The price is high, and it will be ok with the sisal seeds. After getting the sword leaves, Marin will send some old craftsmen to make ropes, go to Cuba, extract the fibers from those sword leaves and make them into sisal rope. Such high-strength ropes, Marin intends to provide limited use to the steering wheel system. After all, the steering wheel cannot easily go wrong during sailing, otherwise the ship will not steer and it will be miserable when it encounters a reef ...
After writing the reply, Marin urged the messenger who Tara sent back:
"Come back to Cuba with this letter and these sisal seeds! Tell Tara, plant these seeds as soon as possible! The sooner the better!" Cuba is a tropical region that can be planted and harvested throughout the year, regardless of the season of spring cultivation and autumn harvest ...
