Chapter 1662 Goslar Silver Mine
Albert also wrote a report on the wine trade with the Indians, sent the Clippers to pass the North Atlantic warm current, quickly return to the local area, and submit it to Marin for approval.
Marin quickly approved Albert's report and made strong affirmation. At present, in order not to waste food, the Beihai Kingdom has used all the expired old grain to make wine. However, too much aged grain, and the amount of wine brewed far exceeds the market demand. Now, Marin is worried about the sales of wine.
In order not to waste wine, Marin purified a lot of surplus wine into classic spirits at about 56 degrees, and then sealed them in jar mud and buried them underground. This kind of spirits at above 53 degrees are the most resistant to preservation. As long as it is stored for a long time, it will be a top-notch wine in a few decades. And Marin burys the Erguotou underground seems to be a bit too many - more than 100,000 jars...
There is no way, there is too much leftover wine, so I have to process it into strong wine and bury it. Anyway, strong wine is resistant to storage, and the longer it is, the better it tastes.
However, if there was a sales outlet, Marin would not want to bury all the wine underground. Hearing that the Indians liked to drink, Marin immediately became energetic.
Marin is very clear about how many Indians there are. There are not many Shawnees in Pennsylvania, only a few thousand. There are also few Canadian Indians near Cape Breton Island, and the market is actually not big.
However, there are many Indians in Mexico and Peru! The Indians there are counted in tens of millions, if they sell the wine...
Well, if you don’t say anything else, it’s still no problem to exchange some gold and silver with the Aztec Empire and the Inca Empire.
Now, Marin sent craftsmen to the Aztec have successfully helped the Aztec Empire find several large silver mines and established a mature silver smelting base. In a few years, the Aztec Empire will produce silver energy. At that time, Marin can use wine to exchange silver with the Mexican Aztecs to solve the money shortage.
In addition, the unscrupulous Lao Yin Bimarin also planned to use the wine trade to provoke internal fighting among the Indians, let the Indians attack and kill each other themselves, and consume their strength.
The specific method is very simple - exchange wine for Indian children...
This kind of trade of the population that was destined to be conscientious in later generations was very normal in this era. For example, in the Sanghai Empire in West Africa, the black slave trade was one of the main financial sources of the country.
The Indians in North America seemed to have not yet entered the era of slavery, so the slave trade was not popular.
But that doesn't matter. The unethical Marin will make them do it. Marin intends to exchange Indian children with the Indian alcoholics with the spirits.
Of course, Marin would not be cruel enough to ask the Indians to sell their children. However, he would suggest those Indian drunks - you go to another tribe to grab it! A strong Indian boy would exchange for a jar of medium wine, and a girl exchanged for half a jar of beaver skin... As for beaver skin, the price is much lower...
In this way, there will always be Indians who are addicted to alcohol. As long as they attack other tribes, they will inevitably cause fierce conflicts between Indian tribes.
Moreover, children are the future of the tribe. Once the children of the tribe are plundered by other tribes, it is equivalent to breaking the hope of the tribe.
Although the tribes were not directly massacred, because their children were robbed, twenty years later, those tribes without a new generation of strong men will inevitably decline or even die...
After those boys and girls were bought by Marin's colonists, the strongest group of boys would use the training methods of Mamluk cavalry to conduct cruel training and train them to become the bravest warriors as the assault forces of the North Sea Army. If the girls were good-looking, they would sell them to the rich colonists as maids. Moreover, Marin would also acquiesce the Germans who bought maids to take the Indian girls as lovers and give them children to increase the population of the colonies. Marin would not give up these unnamed mixed-race children, but would also grant land to help develop the colonies.
In this way, through the temptation of wine, Indian tribes will plunder each other's population, become mortal enemies, and cut off their inheritance and hope from each other. Moreover, because of their enemies, it is difficult for these Indian tribes to form a unified tribal alliance like the Iroquoi League that resists colonial rule.
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"I seem to be more and more like the British in later generations..." Marin stroked his head and said speechlessly. This method of stirring up shit was what the British later became best at.
First provoke the internal strife of the target, then reap the benefits of the fisherman... In addition, plundering the children of the Indians, cutting off the inheritance of those tribes... It is a sure British method of messing around, and because cutting off the future of those tribes, it seems to be more sinister than the British method...
As for those Indian children who exchanged for wine, Marlin would let Taylor's fooled disciples and disciples give them brainwashing education since childhood. When they grow up, they will become yellow-skinned banana people, and will live and die for the Beihai Kingdom, or become the leader party...
Speaking of Banana Man, Marin suddenly felt very uncomfortable. But now he has a yellow heart, but has changed into white skin. What is this? Poached egg? Well, the poached egg is indeed yellow heart and white skin...
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Then, Marin decided to go out for a relaxation, and in the name of inspection work, he went to another place to relax…
In this way, Marin came to Goslar, the city of miners, and inspected the Ramersberg silver mine near Goslar.
At this time, the autumn harvest in the southern region had already ended, and 57,800 Hungarian men also returned to the Lammersberg silver mine and became miners of the silver mine again.
The Lammersberg silver mine began to be mined as early as 968. Over the past 500 years, the surface mines have been mined long ago. Now, the silver mine has penetrated deep into the ground and is being mined underground by winding mine caves.
Fortunately, this is not a coal mine, and there is no danger of gas explosions, so I am not afraid of using torches in underground mines. But in this era, the biggest problem with underground mining is water accumulation.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! Just like the Tara lead-zinc mine on the Ireland Island that Marin originally planned, it gave up mining because the underground water was too difficult to deal with.
But now, Leonardo da Vinci has made the Watt steam engine. Although it is bulky, it is no problem to use it to pump water for the mine. Before that, local silver mining required manual pumping of water from the mine before further mining.
After the steam engine pumping water, the production efficiency of the Lammersberg silver mine was greatly improved. Without the trouble of accumulated water, the mining efficiency was greatly improved.
Moreover, in order to ensure the safety of miners, Marin also asked his subordinates to make many load-bearing frames with solid logs and install them in the mine tunnel to prevent the mine tunnel from collapsing and death. In this way, the safety of the Lammersberg silver mine has been greatly improved. The widespread application of guide rails and mine trucks has greatly improved the transportation efficiency of silver ore.
In addition, under the guidance of Marin, the blast furnace of the Lammersberg silver mine has also been improved, greatly improving efficiency.
What improvements did Marin ask the craftsmen to make for the blast furnace? In fact, it is very simple, it is to convert the ordinary blast furnace into a hot blast furnace. According to Marin's instructions, the craftsmen made a long iron pipe before the air inlet. The pipes are curved to increase the contact area with the flame.
Then, when the blower furnace is working, a fire is created under the air inlet duct for heating. When the blower equipment blows the air from the air inlet duct, the air has been heated. The air blown into the furnace is hot air, so there is no need to waste the furnace fire to heat the air...
Chapter completed!