Marin is still a little familiar with the Galapagos tortoise. After all, even in the 21st century with advanced information, this giant tortoise is a very rare species and has attracted much attention.
The Galapagos tortoise lives on the Galapagos Islands near the equator. Due to the influence of the Peru cold current, the island is relatively dry and hot. Therefore, the tortoise can adapt to a dry and hot living environment. Although the Galapagos tortoise is large, it is a mild herbivore. It mainly uses cactus, grass, leaves, moss, lichens and berries on the Galapagos Islands as food, which is easier to feed. The only disadvantage is that it is not cold-resistant, after all, it is an animal near the equator. In addition, it seems that it has to bask in the sun every day. Because it is a cold-blooded animal and needs to bask in the sun to absorb heat.
These are all key points to pay attention to. We must tell the official Ming Dynasty to prevent the turtle from being raised to death. At that time, the credit will be lost.
For the proud ancient feudal dynasty of China, it is better to offer treasures than to offer auspiciousness. Because what they pay most attention to is face, not interests.
Soon, under the leadership of the navigator, the fleet arrived at the northernmost island of the Galapagos Islands, which seemed to be called Pingta Island in later generations. The Galapagos tortoise on the Pingta Island is also a very famous branch of the Galapagos tortoise. The famous Galapagos tortoise that was made in 2012, the famous Galapagos tortoise "Lonely George", was a Pingta Galapagos tortoise.
Of course, Marin doesn't care about the difference between the subspecies of the tortoise. Anyway, the Galapagos tortoise are very big, and it's enough to pretend to be a black tortoise. It is definitely awesome to send it to the Ming Dynasty.
You should know that in the palace, there are many statues similar to the Qinglong, White Tiger, Vermillion Bird and Xuanwu. Even the palace city of the Tang Dynasty had Xuanwu Gate and Vermillion Bird Street. As long as you go to the Forbidden City, you can see the statue of the Black Tortoise. Those ministers must have seen huge statues. The Galapagos turtle is so big that it is almost close to the statue, so it is difficult not to be regarded as auspicious...
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After arriving at Pingta Island, Marin immediately took a group of thugs to the island to catch turtles. Soon, they saw the Galapagos elephant tortoise slowly on the island. This giant turtle was walking very slowly and was worthy of being a turtle. They walked only two or three hundred meters per hour, less than a mile.
Several turtles saw Malin and a group of people gathered around from a distance, and were so scared that they immediately ran for their lives. However, their speed of escaping was too slow. Malin and his group walked slowly, but they caught up with these turtles who were rushing to escape and easily caught them.
Then, Malin and his men captured 15 Pingta Galapagos tortoises in one breath and brought them to the boat, preparing to take them to the Ming Dynasty as auspicious gift.
In fact, Marin originally planned to bring only 9 elephant turtles. Because the number 9 is very auspicious. Especially for things dedicated to the emperor, the number 9 is the most popular. 9 black turtles, which means "Nine Heavens Black turtles", is definitely auspicious among auspiciousness.
But Marin was afraid that some of these elephant turtles would die, so he caught a few more for later use. When he finally offered "auspiciousness", Marin would still offer 9. As for the more, he would just stay on Taiwan Island.
After catching the turtle, Marin asked the fleet to return to the scheduled route and continue sailing westward. January is winter, and both the Atlantic Ocean and the northern half of the Pacific Ocean are calm and there will be no major storms. Therefore, the fleet's sailing is smooth all the way.
When he drove to the western border line of the East Twelve District after the later international date change line, Marin suddenly remembered that it seemed that there was a small island called Nauru at the east south of the western border line of the East Twelve District and the equator.
This small island is covered with a thick layer of struvita, which is a very good agricultural fertilizer. Because struvita is converted from seabird feces. The manure contains nitrogen, and adding fish to Shanghai birds, which makes struvita also contain phosphorus. At the same time, struvita also contains some potassium elements. Therefore, struvita is the only natural fertilizer in nature that contains nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium fertilizers. However, the potassium content is slightly lower, only 23%, unlike nitrogen and phosphorus, the content exceeds 10%. Therefore, struvita is a very excellent nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizer.
Although he remembered the existence of Nauru, Marin did not change his course to find Nauru Island this time, but planned to send a fleet to find this island if he had the opportunity in the future.
Why? Because Nauru's geographical location is too bad. It is inconvenient to transport it in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. It is better to dig struvite in Nauru and transport it back. It is better to get three kinds of fertilizers by yourself. After all, even the farthest Western Sahara apatite mine is not too far from the local area.
Moreover, even if you want to develop Tai Island in the future, you don’t need to dig struvite in Nauru. Because there are rich struvite mines in Dongsha Island near Tai Island, so there is no need to dig struvite from afar to Nauru.
However, Nauru is also an important struvite reserve base in the future, so it still needs to be occupied first. Even if you can't use it for the time being, you can't take advantage of others. Therefore, Malin will send people to find this island and then put a flag to indicate that the island is its own. As for when to mine the struvite on the island, it depends on the need. But Malin estimated that it would not be able to use the struvite on the struvite on the island for a long time.
However, Marin actually wrote the struvite mine in Nauru into the book "Time Traveler Notes" left for Caesar as a reserve resource for the future. Perhaps, one day it will be used...
Then, the fleet entered the Micronesian Islands, which were densely packed with islands and reefs. Here, the pilots were much more cautious. Because if you were not careful, the ship would hit the reefs. After all, there were volcanic islands and coral reefs here, and there were many reefs. Some coral reefs were growing, and those coral reefs that were about to emerge soon were the most dangerous. Because if you were not careful, the ship would be stranded on it.
Therefore, these navigators who had experienced participating in previous route exploration cheered up and avoided some dangerous areas according to the previous navigation notes, and passed through the Micronesian Islands without any danger.
Then, the fleet followed the warm current of the North Pacific Ocean to the eastern Philippine Islands, turned north, followed the "black tide" flowing to Japan, and headed north to the eastern coast of Tai Island. When passing through the eastern coast of Tai Island, Marin also passed through the famous Fire Island, which is the Green Island. However, Marin did not see any Fire Island, but only saw the hills and valleys on the island, and the island was full of green and green. After all, there was plenty of rainfall in the eastern part of Tai Island, and the plants on the island naturally grew lush.
Then, the ship headed north and passed by Guishan Island. After bypassing the Bitoujiao on the northeast coast of Taiwan, the ship began to sail westward. When passing through the small bay of Yin-Yang Sea in later generations, Malin's eyes flashed and looked to the south - directly south of this bay is the famous Jinguashi gold mine in later generations, a super gold mine with a gold reserve of up to hundreds of tons...
You should know that in later generations, gold mines with reserves of more than ten tons can be considered large gold mines. Those with reserves of more than 100 tons can be considered super-large gold mines. The gold reserves of Jinguashi Gold Mine are estimated to be more than 500 tons, which can definitely be considered super-large gold mines. Moreover, the taste is not low.
Marin uses Keelung as the first base on Taiwan, including the reason why he covets the Golden Gourdstone Gold Mine...
Chapter completed!