In addition to taking advantage of the geographical advantages here and doing business with the Ming Dynasty, Marin Console Island also covets the super gold mine of the Golden Gourd Stone on the island and the camphor, the specialty of the island.
Needless to say, the trade with the Ming Dynasty and the Golden Gourdstone Gold Mine made great profits. Camphor is the best passivator for new gunpowder. Once camphor is put into use, the new gunpowder can truly have practical value. Otherwise, if the unstable is alone, you cannot get on a wooden warship at will. Otherwise, before others hit you, your ship will be burned by new gunpowder.
If camphor is used, the new gunpowder will become safe and then be moved to the warship to use...
When fighting a naval battle, firepower is the king. The new gunpowder is more powerful than three times that of black gunpowder. If used as launching medicine to shoot at sea cannons, it can drive the opponent out of the air. As long as Marin wins a few more sea battles, he can become the overlord of the sea and control as much interests as possible.
In fact, Marin has been planning to one day defeat the current maritime overlord Portugal and replace it. After all, Portugal itself is very weak and its national strength is not much stronger than the Beihai Kingdom. Moreover, its army is very bad and is no match for the Beihai Kingdom Army at all.
However, the Portuguese navy is very strong at present, especially the number of warships. Marin is now accumulating strength, intending to fight a decisive battle with Portugal at sea one day and eliminate Portugal's maritime power in one fell swoop. Then, he launched a landing war and completely destroyed Portugal...
When Portugal is destroyed, then Portugal's native Marin is not interested, but Marin has been jealous of their maritime interests for a long time...
For example, Ronaldo's hometown of Madeira, is a good shipping transit station. The Azores are also an important transit station to the Americas... Not to mention Africa, the South African gold mining area is currently the Portuguese territory. If Portugal is not crippled, how can you seize the colonial rights of South Africa?
So, don't underestimate camphor, it is an additive for Marin's important weapon to dominate the ocean...
Marin extracted more than a dozen barrels of camphor powder in one breath and planned to take it back to make smokeless powder. At this time, Marin remembered that he seemed to have another important thing on Taiwan.
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Of course, this is not about developing the Golden Gourd Stone Gold Mine. Marin is not that stupid yet. He is anxious to develop the Golden Gourd Stone Gold Mine without fully controlling Tai Island, which is easy to be envious and jealous. Therefore, the development of the Golden Gourd Stone Gold Mine can be put on first. Anyway, the mine is there and will not run away...
Another important thing Marin wants to do is to find the first oil field on Tai Island and the location of Asia's first modern oil well - the sulfonium pit...
The development history of the sulfonium pit was not long. After all, the development of Taiwan Island only began in the late Ming Dynasty. The sulfonium pit was discovered to be able to produce oil in the mid-to-late 19th century.
However, shortly after the discovery of oil from the sulfonium pit, American technicians were introduced to drill wells with machines and drilled Asia's first mechanical oil well. Moreover, the sulfonium pit oil well is also the second machine oil well in the world.
Therefore, the later generations of Wanwans made the sulfone pit a magical blow, and the local area has become a famous historical scenic spot. There is no way, Taiwan really has no history, so it can only use goods like the sulfone pit as a historical scenic spot...
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Marin had never been to Wanwan in his previous life, but he couldn't resist the love of playing. Especially during the reign of Brother Ma, in order to attract mainland tourists, he worked hard to promote various attractions. Although Marin had never been to Wanwan in his previous life, he saw a lot of information online, so he knew about the sulfonium pit and remembered its location.
The Shuopike is located on the banks of Houlong River in Miaoli County. Houlong River is a river with a shape of "Z". When the Shuopike is located near a corner point below the shape of "Z". As long as you find the nearest turning point, you can find the Shuopike oil well.
It is said that Mr. Qiu Gou, who was the first to discover oil seedlings, could only dig a 3-meter-deep soil pit, and produce 40 kilograms of crude oil per day...
Such shallow soil pit wells can produce oil, which proves that this oil field is not difficult to find. Moreover, its name "Sulfurcated Pit" indicates that there is a sulphur smell here, otherwise it would not be called "Sulfurcated Pit". In fact, crude oil has some scent of sulfur, and Marin guessed that the name of the Sulfurcated Pit came from... Before leaving Taiwan and returning to China, Marin took a large group of people to find the Sulfurcated Pit...
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However, when Marin really started to find the sulfonium pit, he realized that it was difficult...
First of all, it is very troublesome to find Houlongxi for Malin...
Because there is no GPS navigation, Malin can only look for it. Especially, there are many rivers and various "creeks" on the west coast of Tai Island. When Malin passed by Hsinchu, he saw many streams entering the sea.
Marin didn't know which one was Houlong River, so he took people into the various streams to explore the way first...
Fortunately, Marin remembered the shape of the "Z" in Houlongxi, so he sent someone to take a boat to go deep into these rivers to see if it was the "Z" shape that Marin called.
Finally, after failing to explore several rivers, they realized that they had finally found Houlong Creek. Then, Marin took a large force to land and searched southeast along the south bank...
Along the way, Malin also encountered two indigenous villages, and even had a fierce conflict broke out. But this was useless - Kahn could beat them alone, not to mention that Malin also brought hundreds of elite soldiers...
In this way, Malin followed the river to the south bank upstream and finally found the horizontal position below the "Z" shape. Then, he found specific oil...
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But even if you determine the approximate location, it is still extremely difficult to find the location of the sulfon pit oil well. Because, at this time, there are tall trees everywhere by Houlong Creek. If you want to find it slowly, you have to clean up these trees that are in trouble first...
So, Malin had to go back and mobilize a large number of people and brave men. After coming to Longxi, the horizontal south bank under the shape of "Z" was used to log wood first...
After finally cutting down all the local trees, Marin was stunned to find that it seemed that after cutting down all the leaves, no natural oil mine was found...
In desperation, Malin had to take a group of his good-nose men and start to smell the smell along the south bank of Houlong River...
Isn't this place called "Sulfurf Pit"? That's simple. If you smell the scent of sulfur, it should be the location of the oil well. Then, just dig a well crazily. Qiu Gou could dig a 3-meter pit and start oiling. It can be seen that it is not difficult to find an oil well for the sulfide pit...
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These days, Malin has become like a police dog, leaning down on the south bank of Houlong River and a group of subordinates sniffing with their noses...
Marin suddenly regretted not bringing a few German shepherds over. If there were German shepherds, it would be easy to find the smell of sulfur. However, now, Marin himself is going to transform into a police dog...
Chapter completed!