After listening to the expedition members' stories, Marin took a breath. He did not expect that just because he wanted to find tropical fruits like pineapple, he actually took the lives of 79 expedition members.
Of course, things have happened and are irreversible. Moreover, pineapple is indeed a very useful fruit. If the pineapple is made into canned fruit, it will not only be delicious, but if the crew members take it, it can also supplement enough vitamin C, making it less likely to get scurvy. Therefore, although 79 lives have been paid, it is not without value.
The last expedition leader handed Marin the sample of the air-dried pineapple to Marin. After Marin looked at it, he knew that it was indeed a pineapple. As for the fresh pineapple? It took too long to be saved from Grenada to the local area. Therefore, he had to dry it first and then bring it back. The expedition team went from the Amazon River Basin to Grenada, but because it was not long, the pineapple seeds they carried did not break.
In addition, the expedition team also brought several large bags of rubber tree seeds, which could also sow a large area to provide convenience for future rubber cutting.
Seeing the miserable appearance of a group of surviving expedition members, Marin suddenly had an idea and said to the last expedition captain Rudolph:
"You guys, write your experiences over the past few years into a book. I have already thought of the name for you, it is called "Storm Out of Amazon"! Then, I will find a way to publish this book in Europe, and the profits I get will be distributed to you and the families of the 79 expedition members who died..."
Marin suddenly felt that the narrative of Rudolph and others was very exciting and thrilling. Moreover, perhaps because of personal experience, the content they told was more detailed and exciting than the book "The Wild Diary" he made up in the past few years to scare Europeans against the Americans.
If their experiences were written into books, it would probably be more attractive and, more scary. After all, no one came forward to say the book "The Diary of the Wild" in the past few years, and the credibility was not high.
But Rudolph and other 21 survivors stood there and saw their misery, which was very convincing. If the writing was done, and the 21 people followed them to sign and sell books and roadshows in major European cities, the effect would probably explode.
But Rudolph and others shook their heads after hearing Marin's words:
"Duke, we are illiterate, how can we write books? This will ruin your business!"
"I can't read?" Marin smiled - can this be considered a problem?
You should know that in later generations, there was a literary method called "reporterology". Reportage is a literary model between news reports and novels. It not only contains the authenticity of news reports, but also provides artistic descriptions of real stories, which is more contagious and convincing.
Marin was not worried that Rudolph and others were not educated. He could have found several writers to interview these surviving expedition members, sort out their experiences and add artistic descriptions. In this way, he could produce a reportage-style book "Breaking Out of the Amazon". Of course, Marin, a liberal arts student in his previous life, would also help review the manuscript and finally release it.
However, the purpose of Marin's helping to review the manuscript was not just to make the article more in line with the needs, but to not want to expose information about areas other than the Amazon forests in the Americas. This would also make a point when those writers wrote the article. Finally, after he reviewed the manuscript, the only news about America in the whole book was left with the terrifying Amazon jungle. In this way, it could scare those monarchs and nobles from other countries who wanted to covet America.
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Of course, no one knows when the profit of publishing a book will be available. Even Marin is not sure whether the book can make money. So he first rewarded each of the expedition team with 100 gold coins, which can be regarded as rewards for life and death for several years. In addition to the 21 living people, the families of the 79 dead people will also receive this money. As for the rest, it can be seen how much the book can make. The more money the 100 families will get.
After arranging the interview and writing of the book "Run Out of the Amazon", Marin began to pay attention to the issue of pineapple planting.
"After let the people in Grenada cultivate the first batch of pineapples, the second batch of seedlings will be sent to Cuba for cultivation!" Marin arranged.
Grenada is too small after all, and there are many mountains. Only large islands like Cuba are suitable for large-scale planting of pineapples.
After large-scale planting, it is also conducive to establishing a canned factory on Cuba Island, processing the received pineapples into canned pineapples on the spot, and then transporting them back to Beihai for local consumption.
Then, the captains and sailors of the ocean sailing can also send them some canned pineapple foods. The canned pineapple is easy to preserve, and it is sour and sweet, and has a very good taste. Also, its vitamin C content is as much as 5 times that of apples, making it an ideal food for navigators to supplement vitamin C. Moreover, the juice of canned pineapple can also be used as a freshwater supplement during the sailing process to save freshwater consumption.
Of course, if every sailor is allowed to eat it every day, Marin can't afford it. Therefore, only senior crew members such as the captain and the first mate can eat it frequently. As for ordinary sailors, it must be rare to eat it once, just to improve their lives.
Speaking of which, Cuba Island is now used as a fruit base by Marin. Bananas, sugarcane, and coconuts are all grown on Cuba Island on a large scale. Now, with pineapples, another large variety has been gathered.
Marin suddenly remembered that it seemed that the four major tropical fruits in later generations were bananas, pineapples, lychees and mangoes.
Litchi Malin seemed to have forgotten to introduce it from the Ming Dynasty, but this thing was easy to make, so I told Kong Tai to go to Guangdong to introduce it. As for mango, this thing seemed to be native to India, but it seemed to have been introduced to China. Well, you can also let Kong Tai introduce it... By then, the four major tropical fruits will be complete. Make it into cans, and people from Beihai can also enjoy the tropical fruits that future generations love.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Perhaps, you can also learn about Malaysia, juice lychees and make them into drinks for summer thirst quenching. This is not a drink with flavor and odorants that later generations drank, but a solid juice. As long as it is encapsulated in canned processing, it can be stored for a long time.
However, if you want to produce fruit juice drinks, it is estimated that it will cost a lot of glass bottles and corks. According to the most classical canning processing method, it is to put the can or juice into a steamer and distillate it at high temperature, quickly plug the corks, and then apply beeswax to the contact part of the corks and bottle mouths to ensure air closure.
In this way, it will cost a lot of glass bottles, corks and beeswax...
It’s okay to say that glass bottles are, but at worst, Marin can set up a glass factory on Cuba Island to produce glass bottles to reduce the transportation cost of glass bottles.
However, the source of cork and beeswax...
It’s okay to say beeswax, but at worst it’s a big boost to beekeeping. Marin remembers that most of the seals raised in later generations were Italian bees. Therefore, looking for bee varieties in Italy to promote it.
But cork... This thing is mainly produced in Portugal. The most tricky thing is that it seems that it takes 25 years for cork trees to be planted to harvesting cork! For such a long time, Marin has grown old...
"Hey-No, I really want to have natural rubber!" Marin slapped his head suddenly, remembering that he had natural rubber...
Natural rubber does not have a weird smell and is not poisonous like some synthetic rubbers. It can be used to replace cork as a bottle stopper.
Although the yield of natural rubber in Cuba is not large, you can plant another batch of rubber seeds and you can cut rubber again in a few years. At least, it is better than the 25 years of a pitiful cork tree...
Chapter completed!