Chapter 969: Gore i.

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Early the next morning, Marin refreshedly climbed from Felice's bed. Behind him, Felice, who was still in the bed, stretched out and said in a tired voice:

"Ma, do you still come to the script tonight? I have many questions to ask you!"

Marin stunned, but after thinking about it, he still refused:

"No tonight, if you don't go back to the main room, Angela will go crazy. So, after two days, I will come to you at night and tell you the essentials of a bed and a show, and I will show you it myself. It must be heard ... "

"Ah, Ma Dao, I like bed scenes the most. At that time, you must" guide "me! I will not only listen well, but also do it well!" Felix understood the Marin dialect The meaning in is that because the two have been playing the role of "director and 'motivated actress'" some time ago, they have figured out the routine of Marin's speech.

"Oh!" Marin went to breakfast after tightening his belt.

Because last night and Felix "dated the script" consumed a lot of energy and essence, so early in the morning, Marin asked the chef to make a big bowl of waist noodles and make up the waist.

After a while, Caesar bounced to breakfast. Marin frowned when he saw it, dissatisfied:

"Boy, stay focused, walk on foot, what does bouncing look like? Are you a rabbit?"

Little Caesar was trained, very depressed. However, the little guy suddenly remembered something and asked Malin:

"Dad, why didn't you go to your mother's room last night? I slept with my mother last night. When I was sleeping, my mother kept scolding you for being a bad guy and a big radish. Why? What is the big radish? "

Marlington's face stiffened, and Angela happened to be in the restaurant at the moment, and he heard Caesar's naive words. Then, Angela couldn't help laughing:

"Hahaha ..."

Marin gave Angela a dissatisfied look and said:

"Don't talk nonsense in front of the children!"

"I'm right!" Angela said indifferently. Moreover, he kissed Caesar with a reward.

Marin was embarrassed, but his eyes rolled, and a rotten excuse immediately blurted out:

"I am not for this family yet? You know, your father's resources will only be slanted to me if your sister is also taken in. Otherwise, multiple sons-in-law, he may not have tried so hard to help me!"

Marin was right in saying this, and it was not an excuse. After Angela listened, she suddenly fell silent, then bowed her head and began to eat breakfast in silence.

Because Marin was right, although Felice shared her husband with her. However, for this reason, his father's resources will be concentrated on Marin. If Felix married someone else, or even a large Italian nobleman, she would probably divide half of the available resources of her father, the Pope. After all, if Felix is ​​married to Italy, she is much closer to her father than she is, and it is easier to obtain resources.

In this situation, despite Felix's fight for her husband, she is a legitimate wife and the children born have the right to inherit. Felix's children can only be regarded as illegitimate children, and they are not eligible to grab resources with their children. Speaking of which, Felice is still losing money.

Felice did have some losses, but Marin promised to support Robert's campaign for the Pope in the future, and his second son Mario (Ma Yun's German name) would serve as hereditary Taiwan island lord. Lost her. Otherwise, it is certainly unwilling to take advantage of Felix's love.

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In remote West Africa, on a small island reef with a length of 900 meters from north to south and 300 meters from east to west on the south of the Cape Verde Peninsula where Dakar, the capital of Senegal, came two commercial ships flying the flag of the Duke of Coimbra family.

This small island is called Gorée, and it was the earliest Portuguese stronghold on the coast of Senegal. For now, it is also the only stronghold of the Portuguese in Senegal. This is because there is no gold resource in the grassland area of ​​Senegal (in fact, it has not yet been discovered), and there is a lack of cooperating suppliers of black slaves. The most popular local resources are only ivory and rhino horns, so the Portuguese have no big demand here. There is only a small base on Gore Island, which often sends ships to land to trade with local indigenous people.

Originally, this island belonged to a small Portuguese noble family named Séréu. This small family maintained a small business on the coast of Senegal by acquiring local ivory and rhino horns.

But Gore Island has a major flaw-this small island is a tiny island without fresh water resources. This led to difficulties for the colonists on the island to drink water, and it was necessary to send a boat to the estuary of the freshwater river on the land to get water. But this is too much trouble, resulting in not many colonists on the island. The business of ivory and rhino horn is not so easy to do. Because local people lack the means to hunt elephants and rhinos, they can only maintain ivory and rhino horns on the dead elephant and rhino corpses. Therefore, there is not much trade here, and there is no big family to compete.

But after Marin and the Duke of Coimbra negotiated the establishment of a joint venture, the Duke of Coimbra, Jorge de Rencastre, decisively registered a "Senegal fur company" in Portugal. The company needs a foothold. Although Gore Island is small and has no fresh water resources, it is currently the most suitable place to stay.

Therefore, Jorge de Rencastre, Duke of Coimbra, sent the Patriarch of the Séréu family and exchanged for interests (spreading out some of the interests of other places ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~) Control of Gore Island and concession to trade in Senegal.

Then, after receiving the news, Marin naturally sent two ships to go to the front station of Gore Island, preparing to establish a "Senegal fur company". Of course, the people of Marin acted in the name of Jorge de Rencastre, Duke of Coimbra.

After the two ships arrived on the island of Gore, they handed over to the people of the Sereu family. In order to facilitate communication with the indigenous people, the other party also left two translators who understood the local indigenous language.

After the people of the Sereu family withdrew, Eschwein, who was in charge of the acquisition of rhinoceros hides, ordered the workers who accompanied the ship to start rebuilding the dock.

Why rebuild the dock? This is because the wooden boat moored at the pier in the pure sea area is very seriously attacked by maggots. Because there is no function of automatically removing the maggots in the freshwater area, the boat moored on the pier in the pure sea area is inevitably troubled by the maggots-the bottom wood of the ship is slammed by the maggots ...

Therefore, the merchant ships of the Sereu family are not anchored here for a long time. Long-term moored here is a group of small and medium-sized ships that travel between the island and the mainland. After all, people on the island who want to go to land to get fresh water and cargo must use boats.

However, in this way, these small and medium-sized ships have been infringed by the maggots for a long time, and the vessels have suffered great losses. Every few months, the small and medium ships on the island will be taken away by the large ships going there for overhaul (replacement of the bottom of the ship), and the repaired ships will be sent.

In this way, the cost of overhauling many small and medium-sized ships every year is a considerable expense. This also led to the low profit of the Sereu family's acquisition of ivory and rhino horns. Otherwise, they will not be willing to give up their interests here. In fact, the loss of ships in the sea water terminal is too great ...

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