In addition to tea and tobacco, Malin also threw a batch of banana seedlings and coconuts purchased from the Ming Dynasty for Tara and arranged for them to be planted in the Havana Colony. Malin bought banana seeds purchased in Guangzhou and was different from those purchased in India before. The banana seeds purchased in India were banana seeds, while the banana seeds purchased in Guangzhou were bananas with degraded seeds, which were more suitable for consumption. The coconut seeds are naturally the big coconut itself (there are small holes germinated at the fracture of the coconut). In short, Malin regarded the Havana Colony as a multi-variety plantation. After arranging the Havana affairs, Malin led a fleet away from Havana Bay, continued eastward, and came to Moa.
The environment here in Moa is not very good. Compared with the beautiful mountains and rivers of Havana, Moa is more like an industrial town, with fireworks everywhere and the streets are a little dark.
Wiltz was a prospecting engineer, so he built the small town of Moa into a craftsman base. Next to the town, there is a large ore dressing plant that specializes in washing the laterite nickel ore. Fortunately, Marin was afraid of angering the local indigenous people, so he moved the steps of calcining nickel sulfide to the Great Inagua Island outside the Cuba island. Otherwise, the foul-odorless sulfur dioxide gas emitted when calcining nickel sulfide would definitely make the local indigenous people so angry that they stabbed them with spears.
Fortunately, Marin thoughtfully and put the processing steps of this heavy pollution on the island of Inagua, where there are few people, so that it would not cause disputes.
But after discovering chromite, Wiltz built several blacksmith shops in the town to smel and forge chromite, making the town a little smoky.
At the same time, during the exploration process of Wiltz in the past few years, several small ordinary iron ore and a small copper ore were discovered. Therefore, the small town Moa has become a metallurgical center.
What made Marin feel a little extravagant was that Wiltz used charcoal in Moa City, both ordinary iron and copper. On the edge of the forest outside Moa City, there was a special workshop for charcoal. This workshop used various excellent wood produced in the local forest. When Marin visited, he saw a lot of mahogany that was cut down and placed aside, and even sandalwood...
Marin was so angry that he jumped straight:
"You actually used such expensive wood to burn charcoal?"
Wilts was stunned and said:
"Very expensive? I don't know it... and I think there are quite a lot of people in the forest..."
Well, Wilts is a mining person, don't expect him to cross-border and learn about precious wood...
So, Marin left a few people to identify the wood from the shipbuilders who planned to take to New York. The shipbuilders left by Marin were from Hu Jian, not from the Longjiang Bao Shipyard in Nanjing. These craftsmen are also southerners and are quite adaptable to the Cuban climate. Moreover, because of their rich experience in shipbuilding, they can use their experience to distinguish the quality of wood. In this way, they will not worry that Wiltz, an amateur, is wasted precious wood in the future.
Just like the sandalwood thrown everywhere on the ground, peeling off the core (sandalwood) and transporting it to the Ming Dynasty, it is worth 055 to 0.56 taels of silver per kilogram, which is half a gold coin. The sandalwood of a whole sandalwood tree can be exchanged for a handful of gold coin when transporting it to the Ming Dynasty.
Malin was worried about how to eliminate the trade deficit with the Ming Dynasty. The sandalwood trees all over the ground gave Malin a huge inspiration - these trees were burned here as firewood, but when transported to the Ming Dynasty who likes sandalwood, you can exchange them for a lot of money!
I remember that in my previous life, Marin saw a news story - the mountain people in Myanmar actually used precious mahogany as firewood to cook, and burned millions of wood in one meal...
In the past, Marin always felt that selling perfumes was a bit single, but now, Wilts pointed him in the direction - selling wood...
Sandalwood trees are not popular in Europe, only Chinese people. Because they like the taste of sandalwood and Buddhist culture like to use sandalwood car beads to make artifacts, sandalwood is very expensive in China.
Later generations of Honolulu, Hawaii, was the famous sandalwood production area. Moreover, sandalwood produced in Hawaii at that time was shipped to the Qing Dynasty for sale. Because only Chinese people prefer sandalwood. China has a large population, the market for sandalwood is also huge.
In fact, because of the large population, the utilization rate of land in the Ming Dynasty was very high, and precious wood had been almost cut down. At least, there was no precious wood in the Central Plains.
Malin remembers that during the Jiajing Dynasty, when Jiajing wanted to build a palace, Yan Shifan, who was then the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, said that a lot of precious wood was cut down to the south and transported to the capital, which was very expensive. Yan Shifan also made a big profit by building a palace for Jiajing.
If you sell other wood to Daming, transportation may be difficult. However, it is easier to sell sandalwood. Because sandalwood is not too large. After peeling off the core, it is even less large and easy to carry on ships. Moreover, you can also bring some South American rosewood and other precious mahogany bays to Daming, so that the trade deficit can be smoothed as much as possible. The best thing is that these precious woods have no cost, just take people to the Cuban forest to see the cut. Of course, there must be people who know precious woods.
Marin suddenly remembered that it seemed that there were also many precious woods to cut down in the Havana colony. Moreover, in order to build the Havana colony into a plantation base, there were more trees cut down there. Therefore, the Havana colony needed more guidance from experts who knew about wood, leaving behind precious wood so that it could be brought to the Ming Dynasty to exchange for silk and porcelain.
So Marin asked Wiltz to dispatch a 250-class armed merchant ship exclusive to Moa, carrying several shipbuilders who were good at identifying wood to Havana, and helped Tara select precious woods so that the precious woods would not be burned as firewood.
In order to obtain enough arable land, Havana can be said to have large-scale deforestation, and a large amount of wood is used to build houses and even burned by firewood.
Therefore, Marin gave Tara an order - the wood cut down in the future would be "eyed" by several shipbuilders in the Ming Dynasty to see if it was precious wood. For precious wood like sandalwood, even if someone had already used it to build a house, it would have to be stripped down and used for trade in the future. Anyway, there is so much other wood in the forest, so there is no need to waste sandalwood to build a house.
Moreover, in the future, all the sandalwood in Cuba will be owned by Marin and will not be kept privately. The Ming shipbuilders will also teach a group of people to learn to distinguish sandalwood. Then, they will look for sandalwood everywhere and collect it and transport it to the Ming Dynasty for trade.
Even Marin made his mind to the Hawaiian Islands. There is a Honolulu on Oahu. The reason why Honolulu is called Honolulu is because when people first came here, they discovered tens of thousands of sandalwood trees...
Tens of thousands of sandalwood trees... Marin's eyes are already full of gold coins...
For these gold coins, Marin also planned to send a fleet to find Oahu, then cut down sandalwood, and transport it to the Ming Dynasty for trade. Moreover, Honolulu is so famous, coupled with the Pearl Harbor incident, it has a great impact... Marin recalled and found Honolulu's latitude and latitude from the depths of memory - 21 degrees north latitude and 158 degrees west longitude...
Now that Marin only needs to send a ship to search for Honolulu according to the coordinates. Then, he will lead the logging team to cut down the trees, then peel off the sandalwood in the core, and transport it to Daming to exchange for money and goods...
Of course, in addition to sandalwood, various other precious woods can also be exchanged for money in the Ming Dynasty. For example, South American rosewood, mahogany, etc., can be used for trading.
Chapter completed!