Diego Columbus continued to take eight ships south and take the Cape of Hope route to the east. Marin, along with two ships, along the North Atlantic equatorial current from east to west, first arrived at the earliest colony, Grenada.

On the island, George, the old housekeeper of the Hoffman family, who has been serving as the governor for many years, has been waiting here for a long time. George warmly welcomed Marin and took Marin to the island's construction achievements.

Of course, Marin had no interest in the local towns built. After all, no matter how great these towns were, they could not compare to the local Orich and Emden.

So, Old George accompanied Marin to inspect the farmland on the island. The mountains on Grenada Island were undulating, and the plains accounted for only a small area. Most of these small plains were ordered to be reclaimed into rice fields and sugarcane fields by Old George, and ginger was planted in some areas.

As for those hills and mountains, they can be used to grow spices. Because spices are mainly trees or shrubs and do not need to be planted on plains. For example, nutmeg is a small tree, which can be planted in mountains and forests. Moreover, the requirement of nutmeg is that there is no accumulation of water. Cinnamon is also a tree, while pepper is a vine, which grows in the forest...

Therefore, tropical islands like Grenada, which have many mountains and abundant rainfall, can be grown spices, and are very suitable for growing spices.

Nowadays, spices in Europe are very expensive, so many spices are planted on the island. For example, nutmeg, and marin bought a batch of unpowdered nutmeg in India as seeds and transported them to Grenada Island to grow.

The reason why nutmeg is grown on Grenada is because Grenada was the second largest nutmeg producing area in the world, and it is definitely very suitable for nutmeg growing.

Then, female cloves were planted on the island (the lilacs were divided into male and female, but male cloves were petals, and they could not be planted even after buying them. The female cloves were seeds, which could be planted), cinnamon (the seeds were specially sent to Sri Lanka, not far from Kalikat, otherwise cinnamon bark would not be planted), and pepper were also planted in the mountains and forests of Grenada.

However, the cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg have a long growth period, and it takes several years to bear fruit, so I can only wait slowly. The growth cycle of pepper is shorter and pepper beans have begun to produce. Old George took Marin to visit the forest land where peppers are planting and saw the peppers that are bearing fruit. After a while, the pepper beans on Grenada will be harvested and can be supplied to the local area.

After visiting the spice planting area, Malin visited the plain grain production area for a visit. Then, he saw a cow dying of heat in the field with his own eyes...

"Damn it, it's so unlucky to get hot under my nose..."

After investigation, Marin found that the heat-dead cattle were indeed Eastern European cattle introduced from the Crimean Khanate, which was not heat-resistant. Although Marin also asked people to buy cattle from Africa. However, Africa's civilization level was too low at this time and the number of cattle was small. In addition, the Portuguese did not cooperate very much, so the number received was not large.

Moreover, African cattle are not well domesticated. You should know that African buffaloes are known as one of the most dangerous wild animals in Africa. They are prone to losing their temper and difficult to drive them.

Therefore, the serfs in Grenada still like to drive more docile Eastern European cattle, rather than African cattle with too many wild residues.

In order to better drive African cattle, George Old had to order the bulls to castrate them so that they could be quieter. But in this way, African cattle could not continue to breed and needed to continue to buy more African cattle from the Duke of Coimbra, Portugal.

Marin frowned when he heard this. This was not a good thing. Although Jorge de Rencastre, Duke of Coimbra, was his ally, he was just an ordinary alliance of interests. Moreover, the other party was greedy and offered a high price. It would be unprofitable to buy African cattle from him for a long time.

When it comes to using Eastern European cattle, the biggest problem is that the cows are often hot...

Marin and George Old are both very worried about this...

...

Perhaps seeing the troubles of the two people, at this time, an Indian serf standing by the field suddenly came up and said in less skillful German:

"Are the two nobles worried about Niu Re's death?"

"Mahal, do you have any ideas?" Old George looked at the dark-skinned Indian serf in front of him in surprise.

Mahal was one of the Indian untouchables bought from India in the early days. However, Mahal was a smart man among the Indian untouchables. Over the years, he had learned a lot of German and was able to communicate with Old George. Therefore, he was promoted to the leader of Indian serfs, and usually served as a supervisor, responsible for supervising the work of those Indian serfs. At the same time, he was responsible for conveying Old George's orders. After all, among those Indian serfs, he could communicate with Old George.

Mahal nodded and said:

"Yes, I can see that the cattle used on the island are very problematic. The African cattle you said are not afraid of heat, but they are too fierce to control. And Eastern European cattle are easy to control, they are afraid of heat, and they are easy to die of heat..."

"What do you mean?"

"The cow in our hometown! It is a cow with a sarcoma on its back. In our hometown, this white cow is called a holy cow..."

"Wait, are you talking about the cattle with sarcoma on your back? "Marin interrupted before Mahal finished speaking.

"Kumabol? What is that?" Mahal was a little confused.

Marin also realized that at this moment, the tumor cow is not called a tumor cow. Indians worship cattle and will never give such low names to the tumor cow.

Speaking of the tumor cow, Marin remembered many things. He remembered that there was a kind of cow called Brahmin cow in later generations, which was a famous heat-resistant cow breed.

Of course, this Brahman cattle was not created by Indians, but was made by the Americans using the mixed race of Indian bulb and European bulbs. Among them, the bloodline of Indian bulbs accounts for the majority, while the bloodline of European bulbs accounts for only a small part.

This kind of cattle is specially cultivated for tropical areas. Later, Brahmin cattle were introduced to China and Australia, becoming one of the first choice for cattle raising in tropical areas.

In addition, it should be pointed out that in later Brazil, the main breed of cattle raised was the numb cow. This is mainly because most of Brazil is located in the tropical region, which is wet and hot. It is difficult for cattle that are not heat-resistant to heat to survive here.

Marin read a football novel in his previous life. He mentioned a paragraph when describing the situation in Brazil, mainly when introducing Brazilian barbecue. These memories, because football novels are of no use, are buried deep in memory.

And today, with Mahal's reminder, it came to Marin's mind again...

"Well, it seems that tropical cows have to rely on Indian knot cows!"
Chapter completed!