Marin didn't pay attention before, and he didn't expect that whale skin was so valuable. Before, he ignored the requirements for fishermen who tried to hunt whales, but only obtained whale oil and whale flesh. whale skins.
It was not until recently that I remembered the article introduction in my previous life that I remembered that whale skin was also a very valuable thing. But he sent someone to the whale fishing village to see that the fishermen directly used the simple and vulgar processed whale skin as ordinary leather and used it as an ordinary leather mat.
Marin asked the newly captured whale skin to be carefully tanned by the tanner with whale oil and salt and other materials, and then discovered that whale skin is completely a high-end leather for daily life!
Its thick, soft, smooth and smooth characteristics make clothes made by whale skin very popular. Therefore, there are also more tanning teams on the whale boats envisioned by Marin...
The task of these people is to peel off the whales in time after the fleet hunts and kills them and process and tans them on the spot, making the whales called a very suitable leather material. Then, they are used to process them into various practical things.
Because it is waterproof, thick and soft, Suha and the others found that leather gloves made of whale skin are very suitable for use in cold areas.
In the northeastern places where the winter is minus tens of degrees, ordinary leather gloves made of cowhide are not enough to keep warm in the environment where the cowhide gloves are minus tens of degrees. After the warriors put on cowhide gloves, they still felt their hands were very cold.
But after wearing thicker and softer whale leather gloves, the five Soron Warriors immediately thought that this thing was very suitable for use in the winter outside the Northeast...
As long as the Sorens wear these very warm gloves in winter, they can draw their swords to fight against the enemy in an environment of tens of degrees below zero and shoot arrows calmly.
In the past, because they didn’t know how to make leather gloves, the Sorens had to stop fighting in the cold winter. Because, in the super cold weather of tens of degrees below zero, it was difficult for the Sorens Warriors to hold the knife. The main reason was that it was too cold in the wild...
Holding a knife with an empty hand in an environment of tens of degrees below zero will freeze the human hand.
But with the waterproof and warm peak gloves made of whale skin, it is very conducive to the battle of the Sauron people in winter...
After all, the Sorens are barbarians with very low civility. Although they have abundant fur resources, they do not know how to sew leather gloves that can completely cover their hands. They only know how to make handguards that wrap some of the hands.
Leather handguards can still be used in the south, but in the northeast where the temperature is minus tens of degrees Celsius in winter, the leather gloves that cannot be completely covered are of no use. Because, as long as you dare to expose them, you will freeze problems...
In Europe, leather sewing made leather gloves became popular as early as the Norman Conquest. It was mainly not used in winter. In other seasons, some people also used leather gloves to stay in their hands to demonstrate their aristocratic status.
Just so happened that Marin was also a person who traveled through time since later generations, familiar with various styles of gloves in later generations. After a heated discussion with the masters of tanning, Marin finally got a modern style of whale leather gloves that had a good cold protection effect and did not affect combat movements such as archery.
After trials by Suha and Baigeri and others, they unanimously stated that if there were such gloves, the Soron Warriors could have been in the cold winter outside the northeast...
In the middle of winter, the northeast and the northeast are extremely cold. If you want to go out, you have to wrap yourself tightly. Moreover, ordinary vehicles are not available at all, so you can only use horse sleds or deer sleds for activities...
"Horse pulling sleds? The Sorens actually used horse-drawn sleds? Isn't sleds pulled by dogs?" Marin was a little surprised. He didn't know that dog-drawn sleds were actually played by Eskimos at first, but later it was spread to the northeast. Before that, the northeast was the south to use horse-drawn sleds, and the north to use reindeer to pull sleds, also known as sleds.
Suha and others said in surprise:
"Can dogs still pull sleds? We Sorens usually use horses to pull sleds. Horses pull sleds in winter, and ride after thawing... Oh, the wild men in the north who make deer generally use reindeer to pull sleds..."
And Bai Geri added:
"As for dogs, they are very important to the Sorens, because dogs are also important helpers for the Sorens to catch marten."
minks are precious, so the Sorens dare not shoot minks with bows and arrows, because they are afraid of damaging minks. You should know that the price difference between a complete mink and a broken mink is very large.
Therefore, those Soren hunters who capture marten often specially train several hunting dogs who know how to cooperate and hunt marten for tracking and arresting marten.
Once Diaoer's nest is found, several hunting dogs will surround it. If Diaoer dares to come out, she will be bitten by one bite...
When capturing the mink, the Sorens hunting dogs only bit the rabbit's head and did not cause too much killing. The Sorens hunter also got a complete mink with a smile...
Generally speaking, the Sorens who live in the Greater Khingan Mountains often raise several ferocious Sorens to catch martens.
The Soren Hound is not small in size, fast in speed, and has strong explosive power. This kind of dog is mainly involved in hunting, and later was also called the Oroqen Hound. Of course, it must be called the Soren Hound now. Just like the Soren Hound, it was also called the Oroqen Hound in later generations, but it must be called the Soren Hound now. Because Oroqen is also called the Soren Hound now.
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Marin was not worried about whether there was a dog sled in the Northeast at the moment. What he was now considering was how to obtain enough huge profits in the fur trade and soap trade in the Far East to smooth out the trade deficit.
Of course, he never thought of taking away a large amount of gold and silver from the Ming Dynasty. It was not that he didn't want it, but that he couldn't. Once the trade between the Beihai Kingdom and the Ming Dynasty caused a large amount of gold and silver to flow out of the Ming Dynasty, the stingy and conservative Ming Dynasty might cut off his trade. Therefore, what Malin pursued was not a trade surplus, but a trade deficit. Anyway, the goods imported from the Ming Dynasty were definitely a hot commodity in Europe, enough for him to make a living...
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content below! However, although the cost of one piece of soap is up to two or three cents, the problem is that if the soap is produced in the Beihai country or the Americas, the transportation cost will be very high. If the soap is sold for only a dozen cents per piece, the profit will be very low. At least, it is not worthy of Ocean Trade.
Marin thought about it and suddenly remembered that it seemed that Hokkaido Fishing Farm is also one of the four largest fishing grounds in the world...
Nowadays, the Japanese did not understand modern whaling methods, and there were no whaling cannons. Hokkaido is currently the territory of the Hokkaido. There are many fish there, and in places where there are many fish, there are often many whales that make a living by eating fish. Unless there are too many whaling ships, they will kill whales. But in this era, there are definitely no whaling ships, so the whales in Hokkaido fishing grounds must be rich in whales.
If Marin set up a whaling fleet in Hokkaido fishing grounds, he could catch a lot of whales in Hokkaido fishing grounds and also get a lot of whale oil.
Then, Marin could set up a soap factory on the Hokkien Island, import osteo alkali and lime from the Ming Dynasty, and use osteo alkali and lime to react with whale oil to make soap.
Hokkaido is much closer to the Ming Dynasty than the mainland of the Beihai Kingdom and the Americas, and the transportation costs are much lower. Moreover, Marin can recruit cheap sailors and samurai guards from Japan.
At the same time, sailors can be recruited from Hokkien Island and Japan to participate in the whaling fleet, helping him hunt many whales, obtain whale oil, whale meat and whale skin.
The whale meat caught in the Hokkaido fishing ground can be made into cured or bacon and sold to Nuergan City as food. Then, it is exchanged for minks from Nuergan City, and then shipped to Daming with soap to make profits.
At the same time, in the Ming Dynasty, Malin would also ask his subordinates to purchase a large amount of cheap stearic acid and lime here, and transport it to Hokkaido as raw materials for soap production. He also purchased iron pots and various iron tools to transport it to Nuergan City, northeastern...
In this way, in the Far East, Malin will use soap, mink, whale oil and Ming iron tools to form a three-party Far East Triangle trade circle. The three parties export goods to the other two parties, and at the same time import goods or raw materials to the other two parties. In this way, once it is healthy, the energy source will continue to make enough huge profits for Malin.
Chapter completed!