In addition to tea and tobacco, Marin also left Tara a batch of banana seedlings and coconuts purchased from the Ming Dynasty to arrange for them to be planted in the Havana colony. The banana seedlings that Marin asked people to purchase in Guangzhou were different from the banana seedlings they had previously purchased in India. Banana seeds are bought in India, while banana seedlings purchased in Guangzhou are bananas with degraded seeds, which are more suitable for consumption. And the coconut seed is naturally the big coconut itself (there are small holes in the broken part of the coconut to germinate). In short, Marin treated the Havana colony as a multi-species plantation. After arranging the affairs of Havana, Marin led the fleet out of Havana Bay and continued eastward to Moa.

The environment on Moa's side is not very good, compared to the beautiful mountains and rivers of Havana, Moa's side is more like an industrial town, full of smoke and fire, and the streets are a little black.

Wiltz himself was a prospecting engineer and built the town of Moa into a base for artisans. On the edge of the town, there is a large concentrator that specializes in washing laterite nickel ore. Fortunately, Marin was afraid of angering the local natives, so he moved the calcining of nickel sulfide to the island of Great Inagua, off the main island of Cuba. Otherwise, the foul-smelling sulphur dioxide gas emitted from the calcination of nickel sulfide would definitely make the local natives so angry that they would stab them with spears.

Fortunately, Marin thought carefully and put this heavily polluted processing step on the deserted island of Great Inagua, so as not to cause disputes.

But after the discovery of chromite, Wiltz built several blacksmith shops in the town to smelt and forge ferrochrome, which made the town a bit smoky.

At the same time, Wiltz had also discovered several small ordinary iron ore and a small copper mine during the prospecting process in the previous years. Therefore, the small town of Moa has become a metallurgical center.

What made Marin feel a little extravagant was that Wiltz used charcoal to smelt ferrochrome, ordinary iron and copper in Moa. And on the edge of the forest outside Moa, there is a large workshop dedicated to charcoal burning. And this big workshop burns charcoal using all kinds of fine wood from the local forest. When Marin went to inspect, he saw a lot of mahogany that had been cut down and put aside, and there was even sandalwood......

Marin was so angry that he jumped to his feet:

"Such precious wood, you actually use it to burn charcoal?"

Wiltz was stunned and said:

"Expensive? I don't know...... Also, I see a lot of ...... in the forest."

Wells, Wiltz is a miner, don't expect him to cross the border to know any precious wood......

So Marin left a few people from among the shipbuilders who were going to bring it to New York to identify the wood. The few shipbuilders left behind by Ma Lin were all from Hu Jian's side, not from Nanjing Longjiangbao Shipyard. These artisans are also southerners and are well adapted to the Cuban climate. And, because they have a lot of experience in shipbuilding, they are able to use their experience to distinguish between good and bad wood. In this way, there is no need to worry about Wiltz, a layman, wasting precious wood in the future.

Just like the sandalwood thrown everywhere on the ground, peeling off the core (sandalwood) and transporting it to Daming is worth 055 to 0.56 taels of silver a catty, that is, half a gold coin. The sandalwood of a whole sandalwood tree can be exchanged for a handful of gold coins when it is transported to Daming.

Marin is worried about how to eliminate the trade deficit with Daming, the sandalwood trees all over the ground have given Marin a huge inspiration - these trees are burned here as firewood, but when they are transported to Daming, who likes sandalwood, they can be exchanged for a lot of money!

I remember that in my last life, Marin saw a news - the mountain people on the other side of Myanmar actually used precious mahogany as firewood for cooking, and burned millions worth of wood in one meal......

In the past, Marin always thought that selling only perfume was a bit of a single variety, but now, Wiltz showed him the direction - selling wood......

Sandalwood trees are not popular in Europe, only Chinese people, because they like the taste of sandalwood, and Buddhist culture likes to use sandalwood beads to make utensils, so sandalwood is very expensive in China.

Honolulu, Hawaii, was a famous source of sandalwood. Moreover, the sandalwood produced in Hawaii at that time was shipped to the Qing Dynasty for sale. Because, only the Chinese people are rare sandalwood. And China has a large population, so the market for sandalwood is also huge.

In fact, because of the large population, the utilization rate of Daming land is very high, and the precious timber has long been cut down. At least, there is no precious wood in the Central Plains.

Ma Lin remembered that during the Jiajing Dynasty, Jiajing wanted to build the palace, and Yan Shifan, who was the head of the household at the time, said that a lot of precious timber had to be cut down in the south and transported to the capital, which cost a lot of money. And Yan Shifan also made a lot of money by repairing the palace for Jiajing.

If you want to sell other timber to Daming, it may be difficult to transport. However, selling sandalwood is relatively easy. Because, sandalwood is not too big. After the core is peeled off, it is not much bulky, and it is easy to load and transport. Moreover, you can also bring some South American rosewood and other types of precious mahogany ballast to Daming, so that the trade deficit can be smoothed as much as possible. Best of all, the precious timber doesn't cost much, just take someone to the Cuban forest to see it cut. Of course, there must be people who know the precious wood.

Marin suddenly remembered that there was also a lot of valuable timber to be cut down in the Havana colony. And, in order to make the colony of Havana a plantation base, more trees were cut down there. Therefore, the Havana colony needs more guidance from people who know how to wood, leaving precious wood so that it can be brought to the Ming Dynasty to exchange for silk and porcelain.

So Marin asked Wiltz to send a 250-class armed merchant ship of Moa's own to Havana with several shipbuilders skilled in wood identification to help Tara select the precious wood so that it would not be burned as firewood.

In order to obtain enough arable land, Havana has cut down forests on a large scale, and a large amount of timber is used to build houses and even burned as firewood.

Therefore, Marin gave Tara an order - the wood cut down in the future must be given to several Ming shipbuilders to see if it is valuable wood. And precious wood like sandalwood, even if someone has already used it to build a house, must be picked up and used for trade later. Anyway, there are so many other timbers in the forest, there is no need to waste sandalwood to build a house.

Moreover, in the future, all the sandalwood in Cuba will be owned by Marin, and private individuals are not allowed to keep it privately. And those Ming shipbuilders will also teach a group of people to learn to distinguish sandalwood. Then, they would look for sandalwood everywhere, collect it and ship it to Daming for trade.

Even, Marin hit the idea on the Hawaiian Islands. There is a Honolulu on Oahu, and Honolulu is called Honolulu because when people first came here, they found tens of thousands of sandalwood trees......

Tens of thousands of sandalwood trees...... Marin's eyes were already full of gold coins......

For these gold coins, Marin also planned to send a fleet to find Oahu, and then cut down sandalwood and transport it to the Ming trade. Moreover, Honolulu is too famous, and with the Pearl Harbor incident, etc., the impact is very great...... Marin thought about it for a while, and actually turned out the latitude and longitude of Honolulu from the depths of his memory—21 degrees north latitude and 158 degrees west longitude......

Now, Marin only needs to send ships to find Honolulu according to the coordinates. Then, take the logging team to cut down the trees, and then peel off the sandalwood in the core, and transport it to Daming to exchange for money and goods......

Of course, in addition to sandalwood, various other precious woods can also be exchanged for money in Daming. For example, South American rosewood, mahogany, etc., can be traded.

And these things are ubiquitous in Cuba's primeval forests, and it is not too cost-effective to use them to fill the trade deficit......

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