The importance of Maomei made Marin sent someone to wait for the response in the Strait of Gibraltar. Even if someone knew about Maomei, it would be fine. However, the impact was still bad.
After all, according to Catholic doctrine, everyone is equal. Therefore, slave trade cannot be put on the table. Although contract slaves are also very popular in Europe, they cannot be made public. Portugal is selling black slaves, but they are not public. All of this involves religious issues.
Fortunately, the female slaves sold by Marin are all Orthodox believers, and are hostile forces of the Catholic Church. If Marin dares to sell Catholics as slaves in large quantities, the Holy See will probably be blown up. Even if there is a Pope's father-in-law, it will probably have to be lost. As for the sale of Orthodox women, it is enough to be discovered publicly. If the news is made public, it will also affect Marin's reputation. After all, the large-scale trafficking of women and children cannot be eliminated.
To this end, Marin asked Kohler to arrange manpower, stationed in the Strait of Gibraltar, bribed Pisas, the commander of the Spanish Gibraltar fleet, and made him turn a blind eye.
When we arrived in the Atlantic Ocean, in order to ensure the safety of Maomei, Marin arranged 20 warships to pick her up to avoid the safety of Maomei. After all, these women are the hopes of the bachelor immigrants in the East Friesland country. It would be a pity to lose the goods, but it would be a pity to embarrass people. Especially, the entire fleet is full of beauties...
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When the fleet transporting Maomei passed through the Strait of Gibraltar and joined the escort fleet on the Atlantic Ocean, Columbus's fleet also came to the Caribbean Sea again.
After passing the once discovered Cape Haiti on Hispaniola Island, Columbus discovered that the colony "Christmas Fortress" that he once built was abandoned by the Spanish.
Then, Columbus continued westward along the waters north of Haiti Island, searching for Cuba Island...
In fact, when Columbus first discovered the Americas, he had already discovered Cuba Island. However, what Columbus discovered at that time was only a section of the southeastern end of the narrow Cuba Island. Moreover, after the second voyage, due to the influence of Marin's "syphilis report", Columbus was thrown off the altar and became a crossing rat that everyone shouted and beat, and the third and fourth voyages were gone.
Therefore, Columbus' information about Cuba before was very incomplete, and it could only be regarded as a "shocking glance". There is only a piece of information at the southeast end of Cuba Island, and there is no complete map at all.
However, after arriving on the coast of Cuba Island, Columbus was extremely surprised to find that the outline of Cuba Island that Marin gave him was very accurate. It seemed that someone had discovered Cuba Island before.
So, Columbus no longer had the discoverer who called himself the "Wild Continent". It was obvious that people had a complete map, which was much more advanced than him...
Following the northern coast of Cuba Island, Columbus directed the fleet to continue sailing while recording the latitude and longitude to facilitate the subsequent navigators to easily reach their destination according to their coordinates.
After a few days of sailing, the direction of the northern coast of Cuba Island turned from northwest to west, and then to southwest. Soon, the fleet arrived at the westernmost end of Cuba Island and then went east...
When Columbus arrived here, there was no need to explore anymore. Because, as it turned out, the Cuba map given by Marin was very accurate, but there were no specific coordinates.
After discovering Pinos, Columbus simply ended his exploration of Cuba. With the Cuba outline map drawn by Marin according to the map of later generations, he also explored a P. In fact, his mission this time was clearly to record navigation coordinates. There is a complete set of navigation coordinates, which is very suitable for ordinary captains to find specific destinations according to their coordinates, so as not to go off the line.
After replenishing fresh water on Pinos Island, Columbus originally planned to go south to find Panama. However, Columbus suddenly remembered that the small ball he gave to Caesar, which Marin called "rubber", attracted Marin's great attention. Moreover, Marin said that if the rubber tree could be found, it would be a credit.
So Columbus stopped going south and returned to Cuba Island. He used his men who knew simple Indian language in the team to land in exchange for information about the rubber tree.
The Indians living on Cuba and Hispaniola are all Tylenols among the Alawacs. Columbus and several capable subordinates have stayed on Haiti for a long time and learned some Tylenols from the local Tylenols. Therefore, it is not particularly difficult for them to communicate with the local people.
Tylenol is gentle by nature and is not as brave as the Caribbeans. So, Columbus and his men easily communicated with the locals.
After sending out some beautiful glass jewelry, the local chief told Columbus that the seeds of rubber trees were actually brought by the Caribbeans who invaded the south. In Cuba, there were not many rubber trees. After searching, the chief found dozens of rubber trees in his own territory, collected a small bag (hundreds of grains) of rubber tree seeds, and told Columbus about precautions and methods for cutting rubber.
Columbus collected hundreds of rubber tree seeds like a baby, and planned to take them to Grenada Island when he returned to the voyage, so that Old George could arrange to plant them. In a few years, hundreds of rubber trees would be available for cutting rubber.
After leaving the Tylen tribe, Columbus rushed to the next Tylen tribe, and used the same method to get some beautiful glass ornaments and exchanged them with dozens of rubber tree seeds from another Tylen chief...
And so on, after visiting the five Tylenol chiefs along the coast, Columbus collected a total of 460 rubber tree seeds, and then carefully put them in a waterproof animal skin bag, hiding them like treasures.
Perhaps because I felt that so many seeds were enough, Columbus finally ended his activities on the coast of Cuba, commanded the fleet to bypass the western end of Cuba Island again and began to move south...
During the voyage, Columbus was surprised to find that in the vast sea, there were many large Indian canoes sailing on the Caribbean Sea. It seemed that these canoes had lost their land to the west (Mexico) for trade.
So, with a strong curiosity, Columbus also asked the fleet to follow the Taino canoe to trade in the west to a fishing village on the Yucatan Peninsula and visit their simple trade market.
The Tylens brought island specialties, such as some beautiful shellfish obtained from the sea or from the sea, as well as a large amount of cassava, fabrics called cotton (Mexican long velvet cotton, also known as island long velvet cotton), and some strange gadgets to exchange some necessary supplies with the Mayans.
On the Yucatan Peninsula, there is an important commodity that is popular among the Tainos and even the Caribbeans, that is - salt.
The northern part of the Yucatan Peninsula is the driest area in the Caribbean. It is dry and hot, and has a large evaporation. Therefore, some puddles of seawater accumulated after the tide are formed. After the seawater in these puddles is confiscated, a lot of salt is formed.
The Mayans not only could collect these natural salts, but also knew how to cook salt. The specific method was to use a simple clay pot, fill it with sea water, and then boil it to obtain salt.
Because of the salt trade, the Mayan civilization has developed. The Yucatan Peninsula is also an important salt trading center in the Caribbean. Not only the Tainos, but also the Aztecs and Caribbeans all came here to purchase salt. Especially the Tainos on Cuba, which is very close to the Yucatan Peninsula, relying on the salt trade with the Mayans.
Columbus took out some shiny glass ornaments at the trade fair of the seaside fishing village, which was popular among the locals. The locals took out their goods and wanted to exchange them with Columbus.
Columbus happily and selectively exchanged some golden sand with the locals and took it for himself. Then, by some reason, exchanged a piece of cotton cloth...
Chapter completed!