I don’t know why, there are much more precious wood in tropical areas than in temperate areas. Perhaps, there is no cold winter in tropical areas and it is suitable for trees to grow all year round, so that trees can grow better.
Marin suddenly remembered that it seemed that Grenada and Panama were also tropical rainforest areas, and some were wood. Among them, there should be a lot of precious woods?
However, now there is insufficient manpower, so he can only wait for Cuba's shipbuilders to take a few apprentices to send them to Grenada and Panama to identify precious woods. However, there are too many poisonous insects and mosquitoes in the Panama tropical rainforest, which is more dangerous. However, there are no poisonous mosquitoes and beasts on it, and it is a safe tropical island.
After arranging the collection of precious woods, Marin took four ships to Moa and headed north along the east coast of North America, and first arrived at Savannah, which belongs to the subtropical region.
Kowalk brought hundreds of Cossacks to greet Marin and invited Marin into the newly built Savannah City. Then, Marin listened to Kowalk's work report.
By listening to Kowalk's report, Marin learned that over the past two years, with the arrival of 500 Cossacks, the Savannah area has also captured a large area of ​​territory in addition to the Savannah grasslands. According to Kowalk's estimates, the control of the Savannah colony may now reach 6,000 to 7,000 square kilometers.
However, because the Savannah grassland is surrounded by extremely dense primeval forests, it is not conducive to the performance of the Cossack cavalry. Therefore, they have only controlled thousands of square kilometers of land now. If it were all grasslands, it would be enough to conquer tens of thousands of square kilometers in the past two years.
In the past two years, Kowak has led thousands of immigrants to cut down trees, but he has only developed more than 1,000 square kilometers of open space to plant various crops, as well as tung, sumac and bamboo, as well as Mexican land cotton that Marin has arranged. Of course, the rice and winter wheat brought from the Ming Dynasty are indispensable.
Malin visited the cultivation bases of tung tung, sapphire and sapphire. The tung tung and sapphire are still growing, and there is no good or bad yet. After all, it takes several years for these two trees to mature and produce steadily. The bamboo is amazing. The bamboo grows very quickly, and it quickly branches after the rain in spring, producing many Hsinchu bamboo shoots. Now, large bamboo forests have appeared outside Savannah City, but these bamboos are very short. But Malin knows that the bamboo is "ready to go". Once the time is ripe, the bamboo will suddenly rise and quickly become a tall plant.
Marin was very happy, but he did not forget to urge Kowalk to send people to carefully transplant young bamboo plants to other places and allow them to expand everywhere, and strive for more as much as possible.
In addition to bamboo, Kowak also reported on the agricultural situation in Savannah. However, Savannah's agriculture was somewhat off-the-spot. For example, the rice brought from the Ming Dynasty was not well grown in Savannah.
It’s not that Savannah is not suitable for growing rice, but that the thousands of white immigrants here are not used to growing rice, especially in the paddy fields barefoot.
So, in desperation, Kowack simply planted two seasons of wheat in Savannah—one season of winter wheat and one season of spring wheat, and the wheat was raised…
But this does not affect the cultivation of Mexican upland cotton. After all, cotton is not planted in paddy fields, and European immigrants are still accustomed to it.
When Marin came to the warehouse, he saw a lot of wheat and cotton piled up in the warehouse. However, because Marin was not here in the past two years, the Savannah colony did not know how to deal with these wheat and cotton. After all, Marin once said that food should not be sold casually.
Marin didn't care when he saw the wheat in the warehouse. But Marin was very happy to see the cotton. Just so, Marin brought several cotton spinning wheels from Songjiang Mansion that were said to have been invented by Huang Daopa. There was a craftsman who knew how to build spinning wheels. So Marin asked the craftsman to take the spinning wheels and began to teach local women to use Huang Daopa's spinning wheels to start spinning and weaving. In addition, the craftsman also knew how to sprinkle cotton to make quilts.
The excited Marin asked the craftsman to use a bow to help him bounce a few quilts, and also made several high-imitation military coats with similar techniques to making quilts. Of course, it was not a green labor protection military coat, but an ordinary gray cloth military coat. After all, green dye was also very expensive in this era, so it was better to make the most ordinary gray cloth. The white cloth was a little dirty, and it was clear that the gray gray cloth military coat looked better.
When styling cotton, craftsman Lao Song kept sighing that the cotton wool produced here was very long, soft and smooth, belonging to the top cotton, and he had never seen such high-quality cotton.
Marinxin said, isn't it? This is authentic Mexican land cotton, which is much better than the Asian cotton grown in the Ming Dynasty. In the future, China will basically plant land cotton. As for the better-quality long-fiber long-fiber cotton (that is, island cotton), it is difficult to popularize because of the high growth environment requirements.
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Seeing that Savannah was developing well, Marin didn't say anything else, and left behind a craftsman, Lao Song, who was responsible for guiding local women to learn to use Huangdaopo spinning wheels and to build a new cotton spinning wheel.
However, Marin was a little dissatisfied with Kowak's behavior of planting wheat for two seasons. Therefore, Marin asked Kowak to continue planting winter wheat. However, in summer, he changed to soybeans or peanuts to obtain enough vegetable oil.
After all, it is not enough to eat rice and flour, and it also requires a lot of oil and water. The reason why people in ancient times loved big fat meat was because they lacked oil and water. Therefore, using soybeans or peanuts in summer to obtain a lot of soybean oil or peanut oil. Moreover, planting soybeans can fix nitrogen and nourish the land, making the land more fertile when planting winter wheat.
To this end, Kowalk specially sent Savannah-specific ships to New York with Marin's fleet to obtain soybean seeds. After all, Marin is only New York and Cuba, which are now soybeans. But the scale of planting in Cuba is very small, so if you want enough seeds, you should come to New York.
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In New York, Marin is also very happy about the development here. New York's specialties are wheat and soybeans, needless to say. And Albert, because he loves to eat apples, actually brought a lot of apple seeds from the local area and planted them in New York.
Seeing the large number of apple seedlings, Marin shook his head. To be honest, apples are indeed good things. Moreover, the area around New York in later generations was indeed the place of apples. But the problem is that there was no advanced refrigeration technology in this era. Apples grew up and could only be sold locally and could not be transported to other places for long distances. Because after being shipped to a very far place, the apples broke...
"Or, you can make apple cider vinegar... canned apples are also good..." Marin thought.
In the new shipyard in Long Island, New York, Marin let ships transport tung oil and raw paint with ships carrying large buckets of tung oil and raw paint, as well as copper nails, to facilitate shipbuilding. Moreover, in the warship formations that are circling South America, there are also a large amount of tung oil and raw paint. With these tung oil and raw paint, the new shipyard in Long Island, New York can explode the ship...
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After a visit to New York, Marin left New York with a fleet and made a short stop on Cape Breton Island. Marin then started to cross the Atlantic Ocean with four 250 armed merchant ships and returned to the mainland.
Chapter completed!