It is not easy to build a port. In order to build a port, Malin plans to send 5,000 professional engineers, accounting for almost half of the Beihai National Engineering Force.

In addition, Marin also needs to prepare a large number of ships and supplies. For example, cement requires several ships. In addition, there are also many bricks. As for wood, you can log on the spot. After all, there are also many cold temperate trees such as pine, spruce and birch.

However, we can only prepare for it now, and we cannot go immediately. Because, Murmansk and Hilkres are located in the Arctic Circle, January is the extreme night. Even if we go there, it will be a long night and there is no daytime and it will not be possible to start construction.

Marin estimated that it would take March to be suitable for departure. After arriving there, construction will start in almost April. After arriving there, the port and houses will be built. In fact, there is no hurry to build the port. You can first build two or three long bridge wharfs to respond to the emergency. The most important thing is to build a house. After all, it is so cold there, and if you don’t repair the house, you will freeze people at night.

The fastest one is of course the very popular adobe house in Beihai Country. Mix the mud and add weeds as muscles. Then, fill the two boards with mud, tamp it, and then build a fire and roast it hard, forming a mud wall. There are even simple and crude ones that can be directly taken out of the cave on the slope and dried inside it. It is also OK to have a wooden house, which is logging and processing, which is more time-consuming. Moreover, wooden houses are not very good for winter, and are not as warm as adobe houses. In particular, there is a kang in the adobe house, which is what the area here needs the most.

Of course, a fortress must be built in a brick and stone structure at the port as a garrison base. If the Grand Duchy of Moscow is fleeing and sending troops to attack one day, the adobe houses cannot be withstand it. They need a brick and stone structure fortress to withstand it. However, the fortress does not need to be too big. It is enough to have 10,000 square meters, mainly used as a military fortress. Moreover, the fortress does not need to be rushed, and it can be built slowly and adobe houses that can be lived in immediately are the most urgent. As for tents? This thing is probably not easy to use in the Arctic Circle, and it can only be used in summer.

In addition, a land road to the St. Petersburg region needs to be opened. This road does not need to be very good, it only needs to be able to walk.

However, the most troublesome thing is not the road. Because the road can be cleared by cutting down trees. The most troublesome thing is actually crossing the river. After all, this is the extreme north. Even in summer, it is only about ten or twenty degrees, and the water temperature is even lower. If you wade in the water, you can easily catch a cold. In this era, colds are prone to death...

Therefore, when immigrants are marching and encountering rivers, they need to build bridges. Or, leave a ferry for ferrying. However, whether it is marching or ferrying, the cost is very high. Therefore, a path exploration team needs to be sent to find a reasonable road to avoid unnecessary rivers as much as possible. In this way, fewer bridges and fewer ferries can be built.

But no matter how you save, hundreds of bridges and ferries are definitely needed. With logging and cleaning the roads, the cost is quite large...

Marin had a headache and felt that he had to use money everywhere. However, he didn't have much cash in his hands! There was still a lot of food, but because he had to prepare grain for hundreds of thousands of immigrants, he could not sell the stored grain in the warehouse.

Albert came to ask for instructions and allocated all the wheat and rye produced in the American colonies to the 300,000 Taino immigrants in transportation to eat. After all, that was 300,000 people!

Marin thought about it and finally decided:

"Albert, don't eat too much wheat for those Tylenol people, rye is enough. If not, send more fishing boats, go to Newfoundland to catch more fish, and get more salty fish for immigrants to eat. As for wheat...you transport 20 million pounds of Spain and Portugal, and exchange for some cash..."

Twenty million pounds of wheat, calculated at 5 per pound of Finney, is 100 million pounds of Finney, worth 1.667 million gold coins. The prices and grain prices in Spain and Portugal are relatively high, so it is estimated that they can sell more money.

Moreover, because of monopolizing the Indian spice trade, these two countries are currently rich, and the money of each country has been earned by the two countries, causing some inflation and high prices.

Therefore, Marin plans to release 20 million pounds of wheat at one time to recover some cash from the two countries to solve the problem of insufficient cash flow in the Beihai country.

Of course, Marin would definitely conceal the spies in France and Italy, pretending to be French and Italian merchants, to operate this matter. After all, France and Italy are major European wheat producers. France has too good geographical conditions, while Italy has fertile volcanic ash soil, and wheat output is very famous in Sicily's "Golden Basin" and other places.

Moreover, 20 million pounds are a lot, but in fact it is only more than 9,000 tons. In later generations, grain traders with a little strength probably don’t look down on them. But in this era, it is not a small amount. After all, Europeans’ agricultural technology and wheat yields are only 100 pounds per mu. Therefore, it feels that rare things are expensive.

After having more than one million gold coins in cash, Marin could breathe a sigh of relief, so as not to be driven crazy by the money shortage.

In fact, the region with the most abundant gold and silver in this era was India. Because the pepper trade lasted for thousands of years, Europeans gave India thousands of years of gold and silver. Therefore, even though there were not many gold and silver mines in India, a large amount of gold and silver was accumulated by selling pepper. Therefore, there were a lot of gold and silver in every Indian temple. It was also very popular among Indian people to wear gold jewelry.

In the miserable China, gold and silver were very rare in ancient times. Before the development of maritime trade in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, gold and silver were only available to China by wealthy families, and civilians only used copper coins.

In India, since the Roman Empire, people have sold pepper to Europe, accumulating gold and silver for more than a thousand years, which can be described as a sea of ​​gold and silver.

Of course, Britain later colonized India and plundered a lot of gold and silver. The details of the Bangladesh treasury alone contained 40 million pounds of gold and silver treasures (equivalent to 120 million taels of silver). Later, Mysore also obtained 10 million pounds of gold and silver treasures (30 million taels of silver).

Therefore, the rise of the British Empire relied heavily on gold and silver that had been looted from India. These gold and silver were deposited into British banks, ensuring the dominance of the British pound. Until after the two world wars, Britain spent all its savings in the war and owed a lot of money to the United States. The gold and silver that had been plundered for hundreds of years were also used to buy weapons from the United States.

In other words, the gold and silver plundered by the British in India came to the hands of the United States through two world wars, which led to the birth of the superpower, ugly country...

To be honest, Marin wanted to send troops to India to loot. In this way, gold and silver worth tens of millions of Gulden gold coins are indispensable. But the problem is that there are still many threats in the Beihai country and cannot leave casually. Moreover, robbing so much money at one time can easily arouse jealousy and hostility throughout Europe. Therefore, he could only wait until his wings are hard before doing so.

Just as Marin was thinking about going to India for a vote in the future, Albert hesitated:

"It seems a bit insufficient to rely on rye and salted fish alone. In North American colonies, there is not much rye production..."

In addition to the 300,000 Taino people who are being transported, there are tens of thousands of Germans in the North American colonies. The rye produced must be given priority to German immigration. In this way, will the Taino people eat fish every day?

Marin thought about it, and suddenly his eyes lit up:

"Then let them do their old business - growing sweet potatoes!"

The Taino people are good at growing cassava and sweet potatoes, so growing sweet potatoes is not stressful for them. Moreover, the yield of this thing is high. Even if the land is not reclaimed, each person only has one or two acres of land, and the sweet potatoes they grow will definitely be enough for a year. If the area is large enough, the sweet potatoes produced can still feed back to the local area. Fresh sweet potatoes are difficult to preserve, but they can be dried and ground into powder.

Although sweet potato noodles are coarse grains and taste bad after eating them, for Tylenol and poor people, it is good to be able to eat enough and you won’t choose them at all.

Then, you can also let the Tylenol grow some vegetables such as cabbage and radish, and you can also make do with it.

If the planting area is large enough, even if Marin conquered the Aztec Empire and brought in 2 million people, it would be enough to eat. If wheat or rye is grown, it would be difficult to feed so many people at once.

If you grow sweet potatoes, even if a person only planted 10 acres of land, the yield per mu is only 2,000 pounds, and there are 20,000 pounds, which can support thirty or forty people. If you plant 20 acres of sweet potatoes, you can support 70 or 80 people...

Therefore, if you want to expand your population and grow sweet potatoes, it is definitely a good choice. Didn’t you look at the Qing Dynasty? Because of the promotion of growing sweet potatoes and the abolition of population tax on Yongzheng, the population has increased to more than 300 million?

Therefore, Marin gave Albert a task - 300,000 Tylenols to plant at least 1 million acres of sweet potatoes. If you have spare time, consider planting something else.
Chapter completed!