On Grenada Island, after two years of development, the sugarcane planting area on the island has expanded to as much as 10,000 mu. If it weren't for the lack of manpower and insufficient manure (nitrogen fertilizer), it would be fine to plant 50,000 mu.
As for other things, such as ginger, it can be grown in large quantities. As for rice, because Marin likes to eat fried rice, it naturally planted thousands of acres. Although cloves, cinnamon and nutmeg have been planted, it takes five or six years of growth to produce spices, and it is impossible to rely on them in a short period of time. As for pepper, which has a growth cycle of two years, although it has been produced, Marin does not want to sell it to Europe.
Because if Marin takes back the most popular spice pepper in Europe and sells it, it will alarm Spain. Spain is no longer focusing on the Americas. If Marin suddenly starts selling peppers produced in the Americas, it will make Spain regain interest in the Americas.
Therefore, Marin would rather not make money, nor would he be willing to bring the pepper produced in Grenada back to Europe for sale. Of course, it is OK to bring some back to supply the official needs, but it must be hidden from the Spanish.
At present, when the new pope takes office, Spain and Portugal are having fierce disputes over the Todd Silas Treaty. In the face of the huge profits in the Indian pepper trade, Spain may voluntarily give up the Americas in exchange for the legal right to trade in India. In this case, Marin did not even take out ginger, and was waiting for Spain to voluntarily demand to give up the Americas in exchange for India's trade rights. At that time, he would also be a "taker" in the Americas...
As for the sucrose thing, Marin will not have any concerns. Because sugarcane can be grown in North Africa, it is not rare. Of course, it is relative to Spain and Portugal, which have an impact on the North African region.
At present, the price of a pound of spice in the European market is about 10 shillings. A pound of cane sugar costs only 1 shilling. If planting spices is dozens of times profitable, planting sugar cane is only a few times profitable, and it will not make people jealous.
Of course, Spain and Portugal don’t know that Marin masters advanced fertilizer technology, and the yield per mu of sugarcane can reach 1 ton. This is because the current sugarcane varieties are low per mu. If they were replaced with high-yield varieties in the future, the yield per mu would reach several tons.
At this time, Spain's sugarcane fields in the Canary Islands and Portugal's sugarcane fields in the Madeira Islands were only about a few hundred pounds. According to the sugar output of 10% to 15%, the sugar yield per mu is only a few dozen pounds. The sugar cane field in Grenada has a yield of one ton per mu, which is 2,000 kilograms, and the sugar output is as high as two or three hundred kilograms, several times that of the sugar cane plantations in Spain and Portugal...
Because of limited production, it is good to produce sugar from Spain and Portugal that can satisfy Spain, Portugal, Italy and France, not to mention selling it to Germany, England and the Baltic region. It is said that in the Baltic region, the price of sugar also reaches a sky-high price of 10 shillings per pound, ten times that of southern Europe...
Originally, Grenada Governor George Old Grenada was very happy to see the sugarcane field coming to a great harvest. However, just when he was happy, the cannibalist Caribbean tribe came to attack Grenada again in canoe.
Because the enemy came suddenly, one immigrant and three old and weak Bucas tribes were caught by the warriors of the Caribbean tribe before they had time to run into the cement compound. Then, the four invaded Caribbeans baked and ate directly in front of the immigrants and Bucas people on the wall...
Old George was furious. He organized all the 300 militiamen who had immigrated to Grenada in the first 400 migrants, fully armed, left the cement compound, and took the initiative to fight the Caribbeans.
Although there were thousands of Caribbeans, their equipment level was far inferior. They were a little helpless when facing the militia holding wooden shields. However, once they were stabbed by the swords of the Grenada militia, they were either killed or injured.
After a great battle, only more than 300 Caribbean invaders fled to the canoe and left, while others were either killed or injured.
After this war, although 8 were injured and two died, the 300 militiamen had been injured and two died, they had established strong self-confidence. So, Old George "was talking about young men" and decided to attack the Caribbean villages.
In this era, Caribbean villages were all thatched huts by the water, and they had no defense at all. As long as the militia attacked, they would definitely win.
With the help of the bald captain Aben, who commanded the ships to and from Grenada and Europe, Old George finally found the old nest of the Caribbean tribe that invaded Grenada - St. Vincent Island (Marin named it for saving trouble).
According to the estimates of Captain Aben, the island is about 100 kilometers away from Grenada, located in the east of the north of Grenada. The Caribbean tribe is located on the southwest coast of St. Vincent. This is a large tribe of thousands of people who have been dominating the nearby waters for a long time. However, it was defeated in front of the militia on Grenada last time.
After finding the enemy's nest, Old George was not vague. He used a ship prepared on the island with the bald Aben's ship, carrying 290 militias who could still fight, and sailed towards the hostile Caribbean tribe.
The arrival of the Grenada militia caused great panic among the Caribbean tribe. The remaining 300 soldiers in the tribe picked up their weapons and planned to fight to the death. However, this was useless...
The bald Abenmin's men dragged two cannons from his ship and began to bombard the wooden fences of the Caribbean tribe...
Under the attack of the bald Aben's artillery, the Caribbean's wooden fence was no stronger than paper. Then, the Caribbean tribe was finished...
When the Caribbeans turned around and ran away because of shelling, they had no hope of winning...
Because they have suffered from the invasion of this Caribbean tribe in the past two years, the militia soldiers are very resentful. They mercilessly killed all the men on the island. As for the women... some people made mistakes...
The two militiamen have been in Grenada for two years. Except for the local Bucas woman, they have basically never seen any women. But George is very strict in management and prohibits immigrants from having sex with Bucas women, otherwise they will be punished as slaves. Therefore, in the past two years, the young men have lived a very "abstinence" life...
In this large tribe of thousands, hundreds of young women were captured. While Old George was not paying attention, the two guys took one of the most beautiful women from the pile of captured women and went to the woods on the side...
Then, after a while, these two guys were caught - they got syphilis...
Syphilis can only be considered a very serious skin disease in the Caribbean Sea, its birthplace, but locals have produced certain antibodies to it. Therefore, although it is also considered a serious illness, it may not necessarily cause death.
However, for Europeans who have never had syphilis, syphilis is no less than a beast. Two "stealing chickens" bastards paid the price of their lives for their evil thoughts...
When they died, they had been isolated by Old George for many days. Their wails spread throughout the cement compound...
When bald Aben was transporting sugar back to East Friesland, he told Marin about this as a strange thing...
Unexpectedly, after hearing this, Malin slapped the table excitedly and shouted:
Chapter completed!