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Chapter 1633 Discovering Timbuktu Trade Route

Marin wrote the suggestion, tied it to the legs of the pigeon and sent it to Italy. Then, he was transferred from the intelligence station in Italy and sent another pigeon to Egypt.

After receiving the special envoy Gucci, he immediately offered advice to Egypt's Sultan Garygul. When Garygul heard this, he became interested and anxious to discuss with the ministers.

The Mamluk nobles all agreed that it is indeed much better to be able to fill the canal with the lives of foreigners than to use their own people. It is not that they cherish the lives of their own people, but that they found that the Egyptian people had serious opposition to digging canals. If it is not good, a rebellion will occur.

If they were normal, they would naturally not be afraid of rebellion. However, now the Turks have exposed their fangs, making the Egyptian court restless. It would be the best if they could not cause trouble.

After discussion, the Egyptian Mamluk nobles unanimously decided to send troops to attack the Fenji Kingdom in the south!

The reason why I didn't choose Tripoli is because everyone looked down on the Libyan region, which was severely short of water. Although the Libyan region is located on the Mediterranean Sea, there is no stable river in the country (only a seasonal river, which is interrupted in the dry season), and there is a serious shortage of water. Locals can only grazed near a few oasis where springs are emitting underground, and the population is very sparse.

The Egyptian Mamluk nobles looked down on such a remote land. However, the Fenji Kingdom, which was later in life, had very good agricultural and animal husbandry conditions on both sides of the Nile River.

Before, the Egyptians thought the climate in the south was too hot, so they let the black Fenji control it. However, now that the canal is digging for a shortage of people, the Mamluk nobles thought of it...

Attacking the Kingdom of Fenji, you can not only capture a large number of Black Fenji people to dig canals, but also occupy a large area of ​​fertile soil suitable for agriculture and animal husbandry in the upper reaches of the Nile. Moreover, you can also grab a wave from the Kingdom of Fenji, which can be said to have three goals in one fell swoop.

Therefore, the Cairo court quickly ordered the recruitment of 20,000 Mamluk cavalry to attack the Finji Kingdom. This army was enough to deal with the Finji Kingdom. Even the Cairo court believed that so many people were not needed to participate in the attack. The reason for sending so many people was that it required a large number of people to escort prisoners of war to the Sinai Peninsula to dig the Suez Canal...

The unlucky Fenji Kingdom didn't know that they did not do anything to offend Egypt, and they had no treasures to be remembered. They were actually targeted by the Egyptians because of their abundant population...

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Malin didn't care about this, but was busy training domestic tycoons to use the harvesting artifact Mai.

Marin created 20,000 sets of marina for two-person use, and then selected 40,000 strong men from all over the Beihai country and gathered on the Lüneburg prairie. Then, several farmers from Greater Netherlands taught them how to use marina for the harvest.

Of course, Marin would not let them use unripe wheat to experiment. So, they were taken to the Lüneburg prairie, which is more than 7,000 square kilometers, and used the weeds on the grassland as a target to test how to use maize.

At the beginning, all samarium was not installed with samarium to avoid accidentally injuring unskilled users. Only when everyone cooperated to work hard and was skilled, the blade was installed.

For two months, 40,000 strong men practiced how to use maize on the Lüneburg grassland. Then, a good Lüneburg grassland was ruined to the point of being ruined.

But Malin thinks it is worth it, because after using the two samaret, two strong men can harvest 20 acres of land a day. On average, one person harvests ten acres, which is six or seven times more efficient than ordinary people!

In fact, these 40,000 strong men are only part of the strong men in Beihai. However, considering that it is not realistic to summon all the strong men in the country and the expenses are also high, Marin just draws a few people from each manor as representatives. As representatives, these people can teach the farmers in the same manor how to use the samarium when they go back. Therefore, when summoning the samarium, Marin asked each manor to recommend smart people to come. Smart people learn quickly and know how to express them. At that time, they are still hoping to teach the farmers in the same manor how to use the samarium...

While they were practicing using macadam, Beihai Guo’s factories were also working hard to build macadam and thin macadam blades. There were many wooden frames and other carpenters in Beihai Guo. And macadam was a bit troublesome because there were not many blacksmiths in the folk, and the factory needed to stop the manufacturing of weapons and tools to make way for macadam. But this was worth it, so Marin ordered the whole country to concentrate on manufacturing macadam. After all, in this agricultural era, autumn harvest was a first-class event.

In addition to the local area, Marin also ordered the creation of excess samarium and sent to the New York colony. After all, the wheat in the New York colony was more valuable than the local rye.

However, this year is a bit special because the wheat in the New York colony has been harvested long ago and has not waited for the autumn harvest...

Why? Because the Ming-style winter wheat was planted in the New York colony this year, and it started harvesting in summer. Just when Marin went to Hungary to discuss purchasing Hungarian prisoners of war, the winter wheat in the New York colony was harvested.

At present, the New York colonies are all planning to start arable land and prepare to plant next year's winter wheat. What we need to harvest in the real autumn is soybeans. However, soybean straw is much thicker than wheat straw, and sago is not easy to use. So, what should we do or what should we do.

...

Just as the Beihai country was preparing for the autumn harvest, a news that suddenly came from the Ayuen colony that shocked Marin - the merchant from the Ayuen colony contacted Timbuktu of the Sanghai Empire. Moreover, he also exchanged dozens of pounds of gold from Timbuktu with salt!

Marin was shocked and quickly summoned the messenger sent back by Ayuen and learned about the details...

It turned out that although Marin's colony in Ayuen, Western Sahara, mainly used the excavation of local apatite mines, it also operated the sheep farming industry in Ayuen Oasis. At the beginning, Marin raised hundreds of merino sheep from Spain in Ayuen.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! At the same time, the Ayuen colony also traded with the Moroccans in the north to exchange for the Moroccan pyrbu horses as military horses. At the same time, it sold goods such as salt, cloth and sugar to the Moroccan herders. The means of transportation used for trade between the two sides is naturally the "Desert Boat" - camels.

Speaking of which, it was also a coincidence. Once, the Ayuen colony sent a camel fleet, headed by Mosingen, the regional manager of the North Sea Chamber of Commerce, and carried the salt ships from the Beihai Kingdom to trade with Smara, an important religious city in northeastern Western Sahara. The merchant liked the bitter salt brought by Mosingen's camel fleet very much, but he had no spare money to exchange it. In desperation, he proposed to use the black slaves from the Smara Empire he brought to pay the bill.

Mosingen thought to himself that it seemed that the American colonies of the North Sea really needed black slaves, so he agreed. Then, the merchant from the Sanghai Empire exchanged five sacks of salt with Mosingen for five sacks of salt. When he left, the Sanghai businessman was smiling very much, as if he had taken advantage of the situation...

Then, Mosingen, who was worried, communicated with the five black slaves from Sanhai who were exchanged. Through difficult communication such as gestures and "Guess I Guess", Mosingen learned incredibly shocked that in the Timbuktu market of the Sanghai Empire, salt plates of equal weight could be exchanged for gold of about the same weight!

Mosingen was almost frightened and thought these old men were bragging. However, they were not bragging. In order to prove that what he said was true, a black man named Yaya volunteered to say that he was willing to serve as a guide to lead Mosingen's camel team to Timbuktu to trade salt and gold. The only requirement was to give him freedom in the future!

Mosingen immediately agreed that compared with the huge profits in the salt-gold trade, the freedom of a mere black slave is nothing.

Then, Mosingen took a camel caravan and went straight east from Smara to enter the later Algeria. Then, under the guidance of Yaya, he passed by several oasis in the desert, and made great strides through the sub-Saharan Desert, and arrived at Timbuktu, the largest trading city in West Africa, south of the desert!

At this time, Mosingen brought not much salt. However, what surprised him was that the locals prefer salt plates and did not like bulk salt. As for why, Mosingen couldn't understand why.

But the sea salt he brought was of good quality and had no bitterness, and eventually won the popularity of the locals with its quality. Then, he exchanged 100 pounds of sand with the local merchants for only one hundred pounds of sand with the remaining lemon (112 pounds) of salt.

However, when leaving Timbuktu, he was levied a heavy tax. He was levied a passerby tax along the way. When he left the Sanghai Empire and returned to Ayuen, only 70 pounds of 100 pounds of sand were left.
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