Gold was a standard hard currency in this era, because if it was cast into gold coins, it could be circulated in the world. Just like the 70 pounds of gold sand that Mosingen returned, it could be cast into 8,918 gold coins. If it was more, it could be cast into 10,000 gold coins.
According to Mosingen, in the Timbuktu market, as long as there is enough salt, you can easily get thousands of pounds of golden sand...
Thousands of pounds of gold! That's a few tons of gold! Marin was so excited that it was something that was within reach. After all, it was a bit too easy to get salt at his Cape Breton Island salt base. As long as there is coal, you can cook salt at will. Moreover, Marin can also expand the scale of salt at any time in Newcastle. Marin has the most salt and other things in his hands.
Not only that, Ayuen can cook salt locally!
Although there is no coal to cook salt in Ayuen, you can use a sun stove! Ayuen is basically not raining, with extremely abundant sunshine and high temperature. As long as you set up a sun stove by the sea, you can cook salt at will. Moreover, adding a condenser system can also produce distilled water while cooking salt. At that time, salt and fresh water will kill two birds with one stone.
The only problem is that if the shipment volume is too large, it will offend the Arab merchants in North Africa. If the Arab bearded men get angry, they will definitely bring a scimitar to kill Ayuen's camels. After all, exchanging salt for gold has always been a forbidden body for the bearded men in North Africa. Last time Mosingen went there, he only traded 100 pounds of sand, which is not very eye-catching. If he brought thousands of pounds of salt and exchanged thousands of pounds of sand, he would definitely anger the bearded men in North Africa.
At that time, for gold, both sides will definitely not die...
If it is a battle faced, the North Sea Kingdom can torture those big bearded men in North Africa ten thousand times. But the problem is that the other party will definitely be in the desert after killing people. Most of the soldiers of the North Sea Kingdom will definitely not be able to tolerate the harsh climate in the Sahara Desert.
After thinking about it, Marin decided to spend money to buy Mamluk battle slaves from Egypt!
Of course, what Marin wants to buy is not the authentic Cherks Mamluk slave cavalry, which is the cornerstone of the Mamluk dynasty and cannot be sold.
What Malin wanted to buy was just the Egyptian native slaves trained by the nobles of the Mamluk dynasty in Egypt using the training methods of Mamluk cavalry.
At present, because the supply of Cherks slaves has been cut off for more than 40 years, there are few authentic Mamluks in Egypt, with only descendants of Mamluk slaves or pseudo-Mamluk slaves selected and cultivated among local slaves.
However, the descendants of the Mamluk cavalry may not be as brave as their father and grandfather. The main reason is that the real Mamluk cavalry is extremely cruel in training and has a high elimination rate. Just like the killer training camp in later generations, being eliminated means death. The Mamluk cavalry who persisted from the pile of dead are all top experts in cavalry warfare.
But the training of the Mamluk nobles for their children is definitely not so cruel. At least, they will not put their children in danger of life. However, this kind of training without death threat is actually not up to standard, and their true combat effectiveness is not as good as that of the real Mamluk. Especially, they may collapse when facing death. The real Mamluk has long been accustomed to life and death, and has long been indifferent to this.
But even so, when the "Dabic Grassland Battle" broke out in 1517 in history, the cavalry confronted both sides, and the Egyptian pseudo-Mamluk cavalry beat the Turkish cavalry to the point of not taking care of themselves. If it weren't for the Turkish guns and the collapse of Egyptian Syrian local troops, the result of the war might have been Egypt's victory.
Therefore, among the Middle Eastern cavalry, the combat effectiveness of the Mamluk cavalry is definitely at the forefront, even the pseudo-Mamluk who has not experienced life and death elimination.
Marin planned to buy pseudo-Mamluk slaves trained by thousands of local Egyptian slaves from Egypt, and then let them become guards of camels. If a North African beard dares to chop people, let these pseudo-Mamluk cavalry take action and let the North African merchant guards taste what is the strongest scimitar cavalry...
In fact, these cruelly trained Mamluk cavalry have the world's leading ability in their personal horse fighting. Even Napoleon said - "Two Mamluk cavalry can definitely defeat 3 French cavalry; 100 French cavalry and 100 Mamluk cavalry are evenly matched; 300 French cavalry can defeat 300 Mamluk cavalry; 1,000 French cavalry can defeat 1,500 Mamluk cavalry"...
This shows that the Mamluk cavalry has a strong personal combat power, and even the top European cavalry can't fight alone. However, the Mamluk cavalry discipline is not as good as the modern cavalry of France. As the number of people is large, the disadvantages will be revealed. Moreover, at that time, Europe already had a wall-style charge that specifically restrained the scimitar cavalry. Therefore, when the emperor was said to be on the scale, he would definitely be able to defeat the Mamluk cavalry.
However, without modern cavalry and without wall charges, the Egyptian Mamluk cavalry was probably the best among classical cavalry.
Marin planned to introduce some fake and inferior versions of the pseudo-Mamluk cavalry trained by Egyptian slaves this time. In addition to protecting the Golden Trade Camel Corps, he also planned to steal the training method of Mamluk.
If the German Cossacks also use the Mamluk cavalry training method in the future, even the counterfeit and inferior training method of the immortals can still bring the German Cossacks' combat effectiveness to a higher level.
Moreover, the German Cossacks have good discipline. Once they are trained, their strong personal fighting ability, coupled with the modern training and tactics of the Beihai Kingdom, will definitely be able to dominate the world.
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Marin suddenly remembered something, he took out the map of Africa and began to recall it carefully. Then, he finally remembered it - it seemed that the trade route Mosingen took in the desert was the route for the destruction of the Sanghai Empire in Morocco 76 years later!
It seems that the Saad dynasty of Morocco only dispatched 4,000 mercenaries and went south along the desert trade route to Timbuktu, defeating the 30,000 army of the Sanghai Empire (it is said to be in fact only a few thousand people).
Moreover, among these 4,000 expeditionary troops, 2,500 were European musketeers from Spain. They were all mercenaries, especially the one who commanded the 4,000 people was actually a Spanish eunuch named Judal. The tactics they used were also the Spanish phalanx...
It is said that Sultan Ishak II of Sanhai was confused during the "Battle of Tomdibi" and actually drove 1,000 cows to the front of both sides, intending to use them to block the enemy's guns and cannons.
However, Ishak II probably had never heard of the "Fire Bull Formation". As a result, the attack of these 1,000 cowboys and 2,500 Spanish musketeers not only failed to block firepower, but instead turned around and attacked the military formation of the Sanghai Empire, disrupting the formation of the Sanghai Empire's army. It was really shooting itself in the foot...
Marin calculated that his army also used the Spanish phalanx. Therefore, four or five thousand people could destroy the Sanghai Empire.
However, the harsh climate of the tropical deserts in West Africa may become the biggest obstacle. After all, native Europeans may find it difficult to adapt to the tropical desert climate of West Africa.
But if you buy pseudo-Mamluk slaves from Egypt, those pseudo-Mamluk slaves who were born in Egypt will definitely be able to adapt to the tropical desert climate. Because Egypt is also a tropical desert climate, they are already used to it.
In addition, Marin would also buy a batch of ordinary Egyptian slaves. Marin would send officers to train them into musketeers and spearmen. At that time, they might be used to attack Timbuktu...
The price of those Mamluk slaves in Egypt was also very high, each slave was more than 100 gold coins. After all, this was a combat cavalry that had been trained since childhood. If you buy 1,000, it would cost 100,000 gold coins. Marin thought about it again and again, and planned to buy 500 Egyptian Mamluk combat slaves first, forming a Mamluk cavalry regiment.
As for ordinary Egyptian slaves, it is relatively cheap. Some can be bought with 10 gold coins. It doesn’t cost much to buy a few thousand...
Chapter completed!