In fact, ice crystals have mineral deposits in nature, but they are rarely found. Moreover, it seems that ice crystal deposits are mainly located on Greenland Island in the Arctic Circle.

But there are very few ice crystals in nature, which are not enough. Therefore, later generations artificially synthesized ice crystals for the electrolytic aluminum industry. But this is too professional. At least, Marin, a liberal arts student, does not understand it. As Greenland is so big, he is unlikely to know where the ice crystal ore is. The most important thing is that he doesn’t know what the ice crystal looks like…

So, even though he knew that Haiti and Jamaica were very rich in bauxite resources, he did not have the means to develop it. Just one ice crystal can make him kneel down. Otherwise, he could get some aluminum alloy armor, so many bunkers?

But without ice crystals, Marin had no choice but to use the bauxite - to make refractory bricks for smelting furnaces for steel and non-ferrous metals...

But now the demand for metals is very low, iron smelting furnaces and metallurgical furnaces are very few, and the refractory bricks are needed. Therefore, the little bauxite from Europe is enough, and there is no need to import bauxite from the Caribbean.

But gold, silver, copper and nickel ore are still very important. Gold, silver is not easy to say, and you can use it as money. The price of copper is also very expensive at present. There seems to be no famous copper ore on Haiti Island, so it is better not to develop it. But nickel ore seems to be easier to develop, because the nickel ore in the Dominican is also laterite nickel ore. At that time, just observe the color and study it when you see the red soil, and you can find nickel ore.

Because he wanted to develop Haiti Island, Marin sent people to find people who had been to Haiti Island. It happened that a student named McCas in Columbus was entrusted by Columbus last year and went to Santo Domingo, Haiti Island to visit the place where Columbus became famous.

I heard that Captain McCas had been to Santo Domingo last year, and Marin immediately called him over to find out the situation...

McCas was in his thirties and was in his prime. He was also one of Columbus's favorite disciples. Last year, McCas was ordered to transport nickel metal to Cuba Island. He was entrusted by Columbus to visit the place where the teacher fought that year.

When McCas learned that Marin was interested in it, he carefully introduced the situation in Santo Domingo...

Santo Domingo, the first colonial city established by the Spanish colonists in the Americas, has been abandoned for more than ten years. The once tall and sturdy castle is now almost in ruins.

The main structures such as the walls of the castle are fine, but the wooden structures in the castle have been demolished by locals...

Including the gates, various wooden furniture, even windows and walls, were all removed by locals as wood. McCas saw with his own eyes that there were many wood used by Spanish colonists in the castles in the houses of the indigenous villages near Santo Domingo...

You ask McCas why he can tell the source of the wood? It's very simple, those woods have paint!

The indigenous people on Haiti Island did not know how to use paint. Only the castles built by Spanish colonists would have paint. Therefore, those woods with different colors of paint must have been demolished by local indigenous people from the castles.

As for why the local indigenous people don’t live in the castle? Because the castle is too far from their village...

These indigenous people mainly rely on planting cassava and sweet potatoes for a living, and their residence is naturally as close to their farmland as possible. The castle is too close to the seaside and a little far away from their farmland. Therefore, the local indigenous people did live in the castle for a while after the Spanish evacuated. But later they found that it was inconvenient to work in the fields and were too far away, so they moved back to the village. Before leaving, they removed all the wood that could be removed...

McCas estimated that as long as the wood is enough, it is still easy to repair Santo Domingo. After all, the main structure of the stone wall has not been damaged.

Moreover, he also told a message that stunned Marin - in the mountains near Santo Domingo, there were many horses, cattle, sheep and pigs left by Spanish colonists at that time...

However, more than ten years after the Spanish left, these horses, cattle, sheep and pigs became wild animals and hang out in the mountains and forests. Moreover, they became prey of indigenous people.

Among them, the pigs are the ones who "mixed" the best. With their strong reproductive ability, their population has expanded rapidly and has become a local dominant. Now, they can no longer be considered domestic pigs, but wild boars.

The domestic pig breeds brought by the Spanish are actually quite similar to wild boars. They are smaller in size and grow slowly. Moreover, they only gave birth to several in one child.

Even so, the strong reproductive ability of giving birth to several children in one child has crushed horses, cattle and sheep. Therefore, in the mountains and forests near Santo Domingo, there are the most "wild boars".

The locals dare not provoke such wild pigs. Because the wild boars are crazy and most people cannot stop them. Although they have no fangs, they can charge forward and get injured and killed. In particular, wild boars like to form groups...

Then, the horse and the cow were still alright. The horse left by the Spanish was Andalusian horse. Although the fertility rate was not high, the horse ran fast. When the local natives went into the mountains to hunt, the horses had already run away when they heard the sound of the wind, so the safety was OK.

As for cattle, the cow brought by the Spanish was the longhorn. This is a kind of cow brought by Columbus from the coastal areas of Spain. The horns were long but very gentle. The later famous Texas longhorn was the descendant of this longhorn.

In fact, this kind of cow is very timid and not fierce in nature. But the local natives felt a little guilty when they saw such long cow horns and didn't dare to provoke them...

So, the only one who is unlucky is the sheep...

Because it is a rainforest in tropical areas, the sheep brought by Spanish colonists are not the famous merino sheep, but some unknown goat breed along the coast. After all, goats are more adapted to the climate of tropical rainforest areas than sheep with thick wool.

The local indigenous people dare not provoke wild boars, cannot catch horses, and dare not provoke longhorn cattle, so they can only attack these gentle sheep. Therefore, the Spanish goats that fled to the wild and became wild sheep became the best prey for the local indigenous people.

According to what McCas and the sailor team he led saw, the forests near the local villages were estimated to have at least a few hundred horses, thousands of longhorn cattle, thousands of wild domestic pigs, and hundreds of goats...

Yes, there are the fewest goats, mainly because they are hunted by locals, and they are easy to bully...

OK, it seems that after re-occupied Santo Domingo, there was no need to find the animals, and just send troops to the nearby mountains and forests to capture them.

It is easy to say about horses and cows. You can deal with them with the legendary horse stick. You can catch them directly by surrounding them. Only wild domestic pigs are a little troublesome.
Chapter completed!