Thinking of coal transportation at sea, Marin suddenly remembered the Columbus fleet that was still bumping on the ocean. Calculate the time, Columbus' fleet should be in the coastal areas of West Africa at this time.

Originally, in history, Da Gama returned to Lisbon on September 9. Columbus did not waste that time in Mombasa and Malindi. So, Marin is sure that Columbus will definitely return to Europe in August.

The return of Columbus is definitely a great thing for Marin. Because Columbus will return with extremely expensive spices, so he has to exchange it for money. Marin will be extremely generous. At that time, he will have money to start a plan to dig a large-scale canal in East Friesland and build a large number of Dutch windmills to drain the water from the swamp and turn it into fertile fields.

There are too many swamps in the territory of East Friesland. As long as it can be transformed into arable land, it means that there will be more than 100,000 Yugram's arable land, equivalent to nearly 1.5 million acres!

However, the early investment of digging ditches and drainage and building a large number of Dutch windmills was very large. In this era, even tycoons like the Duke of Saxony could not afford it. It was not that the Duke of Saxony could not afford the money, but that he had used more money and would definitely not be able to destroy all the funds on the swamp to transform.

After several years of development and management of the West Friesian Islands, Marin has deeply realized that developing wasteland requires great investment.

For example, Marin wanted to develop 10 Yugram land (120 acres). First of all, he had to have a population, at least a family of serfs. The West Friesian Islands had no people, so they had to recruit in the inland areas.

However, when Marin recruits a serf in the inland area, he can't go to the battle himself, right? He must hire someone. He has to pay for a day's salary, as well as car and horse fees, meal fees, and accommodation fees.

Then, take a family of serfs to the archipelago, and the travel expenses are also a lot. If you recruit people, you have to pay the travel expenses yourself? During the journey, you have to pay the meal expenses. Even if you give them inferior black bread as hard as bricks, the family will have to spend two Finneys a day.

In total, people were sent to recruit a serf (5 people) to the West Friesian Islands, and the expenses were not less than 5 gold coins. If 10,000 people were recruited, the expenses would cost tens of thousands of gold coins.

But, this is just the beginning...

After these serfs were recruited on the island, the first thing they did was not farm, but to build houses for them to settle them. In this era, the cost of building houses was also very high. Whether it was building wooden houses or stone houses, the cost was very high. Fortunately, Marin knew that building a low-cost adobe houses saved a lot of expenses. Otherwise, the wood and stone for building houses for those immigrants would have to invest tens of thousands of gold coins...

The cost of the house is not high. However, when recruiting serfs, they must rely on them to work. The serfs who just arrived have no food. Therefore, from the time of land reclamation to autumn harvest, Malin needs to pay for it himself and get the food to support them... This raising has been more than half a year... and Europe is so expensive now...

Then, Malin also equipped these serfs with enough iron farm tools; he also bought animals for them; he also provided seeds after spring plowing... There are so many things, and the cost of immigration and land reclamation is amazing...

So, although Marin made a lot of money from the Venetians, he also made a lot of money from selling salt. However, in the process of immigrating to the West Friesian Islands, most of the gold coins were consumed...

Of course, these investments are worth it, and they can be fully recycled in a few years. However, in the early days, the investment was too great and ordinary nobles could not afford it.

Therefore, Marin was also eager to see the return of the Columbus fleet...

However, while expecting Columbus to return, Marlin did not faint because he had another very important thing to do...

This is just to blame...

When Marin was so angry that he made the decision to send someone to trade in India. However, when he thought about it, Marin felt that he was still too hasty.

Because the Portuguese have always regarded the route to India as their forbidden property and are not allowed to be interfered with by others. If Marin was the king of Spain, he might have ignored the Portuguese. However, at the time he was just a little baron, and even now, he was just a monarch of a small state with more than 3,000 square kilometers of land and more than 80,000 citizens. Compared with Portugal, which has a population of millions and an area of ​​nearly 100,000 square kilometers, Marin is still too weak.

Although Marin was not afraid of parallel countries like Portugal, at sea, a powerful Portuguese fleet could teach Marin how to be a human being in minutes...

After the Portuguese returned from Dagama's fleet, they soon learned about the huge profits of the Great Navigation. Therefore, in order to eat alone, Marin was sure that if the Portuguese knew that Marin was the one who made profits from the Great Navigation, they would definitely be ruthless and sent fleets to block the sea and sank every ship that dared to enter the Atlantic Ocean. In the face of dozens of times the huge profits, the Portuguese would definitely dare to do this.

So, instead of waiting for the Portuguese to be surrounded and intercepted at sea in the future, Marin might as well blame Spain now. Then, let the two teeth fight each other...

Moreover, in the face of dozens of times the super huge profits, Marin is not worried that Spain will not take the bait...

Lao Ma once said that when a businessman faces 100% profit, he dares to trample on all human laws; when the profit reaches 300%, he dares to commit any crime, and even risk being hung up...

And how much is the profit of 60 times? That is 6,000%... Faced with such huge profits, even if the merchants never live after death, they are willing to do it...

As for the kings and nobles, although they speak beautifully and are very noble on the surface, they will also expose their greed and shameless side in the face of interests.

Therefore, tell the Spanish king this 60 times profit that the Spanish king couple will definitely tear their faces and tear down the "Treasure of Todd Silas" of the "Police Meridian"...

Moreover, they were not worried about offending the Holy See. Because the Pope was a Spanish and even had to help Spain bully Portugal...

Originally, Spain was deceived by Columbus in history and thought that India was in the west. Then, within a few years, they occupied Mexico, which was rich in gold and silver. Therefore, Spain had no intention of snatching the huge profits of India's trade with Portugal.

However, now, because of Marin's secret help, he "exposed" that the American continent was just a "wild continent", not the India claimed by Columbus. In this way, the Spanish kings suddenly lost most of their interest in America and sent people to start planting sugarcane on the islands discovered by Columbus. Then, after the follow-up exploration, they had no intention. Because after exploring, they were not the "golden" India they expected...

At this time, Marin just needs to present information on the Indian route and let Spain take the blame. What is the problem?

Navigation charts of this era are very precious because, without advanced instruments, all navigation materials are recorded and compiled by experienced captains themselves. Each navigation chart is no less than the martial arts secrets in martial arts novels. For example, the navigation chart that can sail far away from India, the spice origin, is placed in Jin Dada's martial arts novels, which is definitely a super secret book at the level of "Nine Yang Divine Arts"...

Marin's plan was to let Columbus make a fuss at the Spanish port of Cadiz and turn it over to Spain, saying that Spain sent him to explore the Indian route.

Of course, before this, Marin needed to communicate well with the Spanish court and negotiate the conditions. Moreover, Columbus announced that Spain supported him in exploring India. Although he would turn against Portugal, he was very fond of the Spanish royal family. Because this means that the royal family is "foresighted"...

Moreover, the huge profits that can be obtained in the future are even more crazy. Therefore, Marin does not believe that the Spaniards will not take the bait...

The only thing to consider is that Marin cannot let all four ships dock in Spain. Because the spices of the four ships dock in Cadiz may make the Spaniards malicious intent to hack the goods. Because these four ships of cargo are worth at least millions of gold coins...

Therefore, Marin decided to send two ships to the Canary Islands to wait for Columbus' fleet. After joining the fleet, Columbus only took one of the ships, and then took some spices as samples to meet the Spaniards. In this way, four ships of cargo could be prevented from being hacked by the Spanish. Columbus could also appear in public before Da Gama, confirming his title of "discovering India first"...

This was what Marin promised Columbus at the beginning. However, if Columbus returned to the Waden Islands directly, the Mariners would not confirm that Columbus was "discovering India first". Because the Portuguese were more powerful and more convincing. At that time, if the Portuguese insisted that Da Gama discovered India first, Marin would not be able to say that the Portuguese were.

If the Spanish take the blame, Columbus recognized India's right to discover India by the Spanish royal family. Then, Columbus' first discovery of India's name can be easily confirmed. Because Da Gama is still on the way back, at least one month behind Columbus's voyage. Spain is a powerful country, and their recognition is much more effective than the words of Marin, the little Count. Moreover, in order to obtain the right to intervene in India's trade routes, the Spanish kings will definitely spare no effort to help Columbus confirm the name of "discovering India first"...
Chapter completed!