In fact, although what Marin said is a bit exaggerated, it is not that it has not existed. Generally, freshwater has a shelf life of only about one week. If it exceeds one week, freshwater will become odorous. Because there are many bacteria growing inside and it is no longer possible to drink it.
Later, people brought rum, a spirit of rum and drank it with some spoiled fresh water, which was barely OK. Because rum is a spirit and has a certain sterilization effect, it would not hurt your stomach. But sometimes, problems arise, and many sailors die like this.
And collecting rainwater during the voyage is indeed an important means of replenishing freshwater. But if you are not lucky, you will encounter sunny weather for a long time, and it is really a helpless choice to drink urine.
However, this problem does not exist in Beihai Country. Because Marin had long thought of using canned food to obtain "canned water" that can be preserved for a long time, which perfectly solved this problem. Moreover, in the long-term sunny weather, Marin also has a killer weapon - the sun stove...
As long as you use a sun stove to boil sea water, and then through a simple circulation condensation device, the boiled water vapor can be condensed into clean distilled water for drinking.
Of course, Marin would not tell Magellan. Because he is not his own person yet. However, it seems that it is not difficult to turn Magellan into his own person. From the fact that Magellan decisively abandoned Portugal and turned to Spain's embrace, we can conclude that this guy is not patriotic, he only loves the future. Therefore, Marin began to win over...
"Mr. Magellan, our Beihai Kingdom is very short of navigation talents and needs navigation professionals like you to join. Are you willing to come to Beihai Kingdom to help me?" Marin showed a kind smile and a sincere tone. In this era, he was simply very polite and polite.
Magellan hesitated for a moment, as if he was reluctant to leave the ideal of sailing around the world. However, he then thought - I want to sail around the world for fame and fortune? Well, let's take a look at the other party's sincerity first...
To be honest, in the Age of Discovery, each of those navigators was noble. They were either keen on fame and fortune or were part of pirates. In short, there were no good people.
Marin also guessed the other party’s thoughts. After pondering for a while, he spoke:
"We have a specialized route for trade with Egypt in the North Sea. Recently, the commander of this route, Morris, the Hereditary Knight, is in a state of discomfort and plans to retire within a few years."
"Let me do this, I will first appoint you as the captain of one of the galleys and adapt to the Egyptian route. After a few trips, I will get familiar with you. I will slowly arrange for you to be the deputy of the Great Knight of Morris, and gradually take over the entire Egyptian route within a few years and become the general manager of this route..."
The price offered by Marin is not low, and Egypt's route is very important to the Beihai country. Because most of the soda required for the Beihai country's glass industry and the Glauber's salt (sodium sulfate) required for the papermaking industry are imported from Egypt.
The glass industry is okay. If Glauber's salt is cut off from its source, the papermaking industry in Canada will soon stop, and the consequences will be serious.
Of course, Marin actually has other choices at the moment. For example, imported Glauber's salt from the Ming Dynasty to make chemical pulp for papermaking. But Marin currently needs to support the Egyptian Mamluk dynasty against the expansion of Ottoman Turkey. Therefore, he had to continue to purchase high-priced Glauber's salt from Egypt to support Egypt in disguise.
At the same time, Malin also deliberately purchased a large number of trained Mamluk slaves from Egypt, allowing Egypt's Mamluk nobles to make profits. At the same time, he even imported camels from Egypt...
To be honest, the camel is really useless to Marin. Because most of his territory is rich in water and rarely has arid areas.
However, in semi-arid areas such as the Pampas Grassland, camels can be used to cultivate the land. After all, camels are not weak and are faster than cows.
But the problem is that camels cannot adapt to the climate in humid areas and are prone to illness. Therefore, when Marin bought camels, he was actually worried about how to deal with them.
At present, the camels bought in Egypt are mainly used in the Sahara Desert trade route from Ayuen to Timbuktu. This is the most contractual place and the place where Egyptian dromedary camels can best display their abilities.
In addition, Marin also tried to exchange horses with camels with Arabs from North Africa. Arabs in North Africa generally raise horses of Arabian horses. Although their bloodline is not as pure as Arabian horses on the Arabian Peninsula, they are also very good breeds.
However, the herdsmen in North Africa are also very cunning and are unwilling to exchange for Marin, but only want to exchange for two camels for one horse. Strictly speaking, Marin is at a loss. Because a good horse is a little more valuable than a camel in North Africa, but it is far from the point of changing for two camels for one horse. After all, horses are also not worth much by the North African nomads.
But Marin asked for camels to be useless, and horses were more useful. Therefore, he would rather lose money than exchange the camels exchanged from Egypt with North Africans from Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia. As for Libya, he tried changing horses, but he quickly gave up...
Why? Because Libya is close to Egypt. Marin previously asked merchant ships to dock to exchange Egyptian camels for local herders. As a result, these herders turned their heads and sold the camels to Egyptian merchants. Then, Marin's men met the camels that had been replaced before in the Egyptian market...
This is obviously a bit of a trick on me, so Marin later stopped letting people do such business in Libya, which is close to Egypt. Moreover, Libya is extremely short of water and there are actually not many horses.
But even so, Marin bought too many Egyptian camels, and there was still too much place to put them on. In desperation, Marin had to order the camels to be slaughtered and made into camel meat.
Marin remembers that the Hump Peak in later generations seemed to be a famous dish. It was indeed delicious when I asked the imperial chef recruited by the Ming Dynasty to make it!
But the camel meat in the rest of the body tastes a bit big (drogiathia is always in hot areas and has a bit big smell). Although it is not a mutton smell, it is also a bit strange, just like the curry smell on Indians.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! However, it is not impossible to deal with it. For example, you can learn from the young people in the northwest who have passed away and use cumin to remove the flavor. Moreover, Egypt is rich in cumin, and it is the origin of cumin. Therefore, Marin directly placed an order from the locals and imported a large amount of cumin powder.
You should know that cumin powder is a barbecue artifact and also a taste-removing artifact. For ordinary camel meat, sprinkle some cumin, accompanied by chili powder or pepper, and it will immediately become fragrant.
Marin later simply established a processing base, slaughtered the surplus camels imported from Egypt and made them into roasted camel meat. Then, they were put into oil paper bags and heated and sealed. In this way, they were made into very delicious roasted camel jerky, which could be sold as flavored food. Or they could also be used as military rations.
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This time, Magellan was sent to Egypt by Marin to be responsible for the trade with Egypt, and was specifically responsible for importing Egypt's natural soda, Glauber's salt, slaves, camels and cumin powder.
The reason for this choice was that Marin wanted to dispel Magellan's idea of ​​voyage and do his job with peace of mind. Moreover, in order to attract Magellan's interest, Marin also told Magellan about the pyramids and Sphinx in Egypt.
Nowadays, colonists have not yet entered Egypt and do not know much about it. Therefore, this knowledge is very fresh to ordinary Europeans, and Magellan also listens to it with relish.
After listening to Marin's story, Magellan indeed became interested in the ancient civilization of Egypt, and even planned to visit the pyramids and the Sphinx.
However, before agreeing to Marin's recruitment, Magellan carefully asked the answer he wanted to know most - what are the benefits of being the person in charge of the Egyptian route...
Marin smiled and said to Magellan:
"If you become the captain, you have a high chance of being enthroned as a third-level knight, that is, an ordinary knight who is not hereditary; if you become an adjutant of the fleet, you have a high chance of being enthroned as a second-level knight, and you can hereditary third-generation; if you become the person in charge of the route, you are at least a second-level knight, and you have a high chance of being enthroned as a first-level hereditary knight, that is, a great knight, like Morris. If you have any great contributions, you can even be promoted to the Baron..."
"The Great Knight... Baron..." Magellan, who was keen on fame and fortune, was jealous of...
"Okay, I've done it!"
Chapter completed!