Spain has been operating on Haiti Island for nearly ten years and built several castles. When Columbus arrived at Haiti Island, Haiti was the most populous island in the Caribbean, with millions of people, which is more than Cuba.
However, smallpox broke out in Haiti, causing the island to lose tens of thousands of people. However, after childbirth over the years, the population has returned to one million.
In original history, Spanish colonists brought smallpox many times, causing the Tylenol people on the island to experience many terrible smallpox outbreaks. By 1544, after several large explosions of smallpox, Haiti, which originally had a population of one million, was no longer there...
In desperation, Spain had to give up Haiti and switch to the development of Cuba. After all, developing colonies also requires labor.
Later, the British and French came to Haiti Island, which was abandoned by the Spanish. But there was no one in the area, so they actively introduced black slaves from Africa. In later generations, Haiti Island had become a mostly black island.
Nowadays, the Spaniards are scared away and replaced by Marin to run Haiti Island, the situation is very different. The Beihai Kingdom under Marin attaches great importance to health issues.
It can be said that in the Beihai Kingdom today, there is almost no problem of urination and defecation in the city. Moreover, Malin ordered cats of other fur colors in the city to catch mice and reduce the possibility of plague outbreaks.
At the same time, the police in Beihai Country are also responsible for the task of warning smallpox. Once smallpox patients are found, they will be isolated immediately. Usually, ports such as Emden Port in Beihai Country have to sprinkle some quicklime on the ground and on the docks from time to time to isolate the virus.
Even Marin strictly stipulates that foreign sailors are only allowed to go to the tavern on the pier and are prohibited from landing. If you want to go to the bathhouse on the pier, you can first wash it with hot water. At the same time, the clothes must be cooked in the lime pool and then dried. Then you can enter Emden City.
Such a strict access system has made it impossible for Beihai Kingdom to have almost no major epidemics in so many years. Even if there have been cases of epidemics, they have basically been eliminated and isolated in the border areas.
During the same period, other European countries often broke out in large and small epidemics because they did not pay attention to hygiene. Although the scale was not large, deaths were frequent.
However, other countries are not fools. Although they do not pay as much attention to health as the Beihai Kingdom, they have learned the method of isolation of epidemics. For example, several countries around Beihai Kingdom, Austria, and even France have learned the method of isolation. In this way, even if smallpox and plague occur, they are mostly controlled in a certain area and have not spread.
Due to strict sanitation management, the possibility of the crew of Beihai Country carrying epidemics is very low. Because at every port, Marin will set up a hospital to prohibit the diseased sailors from running around.
In this way, the possibility of Tylenol people on the underwater island being infected with smallpox many times is very low. So many people can also be used by Marin. The only troublesome thing is that so many people are isolated and checked for syphilis infection will become more troublesome.
After all, that is 1 million people! Even if 1 million pigs are caught, it is difficult to catch. Fortunately, the people on the island are divided into five major tribes and are relatively concentrated. They all live in large densely populated villages, catching birds and fish, and farm with stone axes and wooden shovels, mainly growing cassava and sweet potatoes. The sweet potatoes brought back to Europe by Columbus were obtained from local villages.
Obviously, because of the extremely high-yield crops like sweet potatoes, the Taino people have no shortage of food. After all, even if the planting technology is poor, the yield per mu is hundreds or thousands of kilograms. Therefore, the population on the island will soar to millions in a skyrocketing manner.
The Indians in the North American jungle are different. They do not have the domineering grains as sweet potatoes, and only corn with a yield of not high per mu. Therefore, the population of the entire continent of North America in the later years is not as large as that of the Tylenol people on Haiti Island.
There is no way, it’s just that high-yield food! There are only 250,000 people on the Ireland Island now. But after the introduction of potatoes, the population soared to seven or eight million. Of course, millions died due to the potato epidemic.
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However, because of the habit of growing cassava and sweet potatoes, the Taino people like to live in large villages. Moreover, they like to live in plains along the coast and rivers. After all, farming must be convenient to be near the plains.
In this way, it gave Marin the convenience of using force to them. After all, it was much easier to surround several villages on the plains of farmland than to look for pure savages in the mountains.
Of course, Marin did not want to make things difficult for them, but just wanted to eliminate the source of syphilis! Haiti Island is the source of syphilis, and the private lives of local people must be chaotic. Therefore, Marin needs to send people to observe and isolate them to eliminate syphilis. Without the trouble of syphilis, the 1 million people on Haiti Island and the island have the value of development and utilization. Otherwise, this is a terrifying place.
Currently, the main cities on the undersea island include several abandoned Spanish castles and ports such as Santo Domingo, Santiago and Puerto Plata.
Among them, Santo Domingo has the greatest value. This is the first fortress and port built by the Spanish on the island, and it is also the first colonial city in the Americas.
This is also the capital of the Dominican Republic in later generations, and it is the most developed place on Haiti Island in later generations. Of course, there is another very important point - there is a gold mine nearby!
There are gold mines near Santo Domingo, but they don’t seem to be big, just a small gold mine. Local natives searched for gold in nearby rivers and obtained sand, but the yield was not large. Otherwise, the Spaniards would not give up easily.
In fact, there must be gold mines on Haiti Island, and it will not be too small. However, the scale will not be very large. Marin vaguely remembers the introduction of geography books he read later. It seems that the annual gold output of Dominicans in later generations is 400,000 ounces! That is, more than 11 tons. The annual silver output is as high as more than 2 million ounces, which is more than 50 tons.
However, the information says that the gold and silver mines seem to be in the Rosario area...
However, Marin doesn't remember that there is a big city called Rosario in Dominican, but there is a Rosario in Argentina...
In fact, Marin didn't know that the Rosario district was located in the Asua area on the coast not far west of Santo Domingo, and not far from the sea.
Of course, if the gold mines there were discovered early, the Spaniards would never evacuate Haiti. At least, they had to finish the Rosario gold mine before leaving. The Spanish were willing to give up the gold mine near Santo Domingo because of the small output.
As long as you find the gold and silver mines in later generations, Marin's cost of taking over Haiti Island can be recovered and it will be very profitable. Of course, you will never lose money when growing tobacco.
Moreover, there seem to be copper ore and nickel ore on the island, and the scale of nickel ore seems to be quite large. Later generations, Cuba Island produced millions of tons of nickel ore annually, while the Dominican Republic also produced tens of thousands of tons of nickel ore sand annually.
Chapter completed!