Chapter 919: North American Bison
Strictly speaking, Marin's approach is very inhumane. The ancient northern nomads were also called "steppe barbarians" because of the general use of this "law of the steppe jungle". Either way, it's a quick way to grow, simple, fast, and effective.
The population under Marin's rule is still too small after all. With a population of more than a million, it is not enough to occupy a corner of the Americas, let alone annex the whole of America? If it weren't for the fact that Christianity stipulates monogamy, Marin even planned to buy Mao Mei and equip each Beihai man with 10 Mao Mei to make them crazy. In this way, after more than ten years, the population of Beihai Kingdom will be able to expand several times.
However, this is unrealistic. Unless, Marin doesn't want to mix up in Europe......
Therefore, Marin intends - not in Europe, can't I go to the Americas?
If there are not enough women, they will rob the Indians. The Inca Empire had a population of 20 million, more than Japan, and the Aztec Empire also had tens of millions. As long as 2 million women were snatched from the Inca Empire and the Aztec Empire, and they were all pregnant, in a dozen years, there would be millions more young and strong......
Moreover, white Europeans in this era are not more discriminatory against yellow people like Indians. Because, at this time, the Europeans are not very confident. And it can be seen from the young Indian girls on the island of Columbus XX Haiti that Europeans do not reject yellow women. As for the lofty mentality of the Europeans in later generations, it is purely the arrogance that was bred after beating the whole world. But in this era, Europeans have clearly not yet developed that arrogant mentality. Moreover, in the original history, the Portuguese also imported large quantities of women from Japan to Europe to engage in the sex industry. Many poor Japanese Sengoku daimyo had no money to buy weapons and equipment such as iron cannons, so they exchanged women and Portuguese merchants for weapons......
Marin planned to gather more than 200,000 young men from Germany to go to the Americas, and then plunder more than 2 million women from the Inca Empire and the Aztec Empire. Then, let these women all get pregnant......
In this way, even if only half of them are boys, in a dozen years, there will be a million young Germans. Marin then trained them militarize...... A million armed Germans, if not the whole of America, would be enough to control the coasts of those rich regions. In this way, it can also prevent other countries from snatching it.
In the face of an army of millions of young people, no country in Europe will be able to resist......
Moreover, women imported from the Inca Empire and the Aztec Empire, etc., did not only have reproductive functions. In normal times, they can also help with farm work and sheep herding. In this way, productivity can also be increased.
Of course, with a population of two to three million, the source of food will also become a huge pressure. So, Marin decided to expand the catch in Newfoundland's fishing grounds and stock up on enough salted fish. At the same time, enough farmers will be brought in from India and Japan to help cultivate more land to provide enough food.
In addition, the prairie in central North America will also become an important base for the Marin-raising population.
Why? Because in the prairies of central North America, tens of millions of bison live. In the early days, Marin obtained so many people that it must have not had time to supply food for millions of people. Therefore, Marlin intends to simply let the bison be hunted. There are tens of millions of bison to hunt, and as long as there is enough salted meat, there is certainly no shortage of food.
What the? You say that the North American bison are captured as farming cattle? You certainly don't know the character of the bison. The bison are strong, fast (up to 60 km/h) and fierce. Such a bison is not suitable for farming. Otherwise, the farmer will be killed by the ploughing ox.
Therefore, Marin's attitude towards the bison is to hunt bulls and keep only cows......
Cows can be mated to European cattle to create new breeds. This kind of cattle was later called "Piflo cattle". Moreover, the original crossbreeding method was to breed European beef bulls and North American bison cows. Of course, in the beginning, people tried to cross the North American bison bull with the European cow, and very few offspring were produced. Later, in turn, it was crossed with cows from European bulls and North American bison, but it was successful.
There are many bison in North America, and the base of cows is also huge. Therefore, this kind of reproduction is promising.
Moreover, the bison has an important characteristic - the cows and calves gather together, while the bulls gather separately. Only during the breeding season do the bulls go to the herd.
In this way, it is easy to distinguish when hunting - as long as it is not the breeding season, the one with calves is the herd; If there are no calves, it is a herd of bulls. Then, let's hunt the bulls without calves......
A strong North American bison bull can weigh up to a ton, and after killing, it can also obtain hundreds of kilograms of beef, marinated, and can be eaten for more than half a year.
So, in the early days of colonization, when there was a lack of food, Marlin was able to have people hunt bison and get enough food. They hunt bison bulls on one side and get enough bison cows by driving and trapping them. Then, taking advantage of the huge base of cows, European hornless bulls were introduced for breeding to obtain the hornless characteristics of the Piflo cattle. A bull can be bred with multiple cows, which also allows for more strong Piflo cattle to alleviate the lack of cattle.
Moreover, Marin did not need the immigrants to hunt many bison, mainly to survive the most scarce years of food in the early days of the immigrants. By the medium term, when there is a stable source of food, there will be no need for large-scale hunting of bison.
In addition, it should be noted that the distribution area of the North American bison was also close to the Aztec Empire, which had a population of tens of millions. After obtaining women from the Aztec Empire, they could be brought to the nearest North American prairie to help herd sheep, while immigrant men used the beef of hunted bison to feed the women and their children.
As for the women who were plundered from the Inca Empire, they must have been sent to the Pampas, after all, it was also close to the Inca Empire. However, the Pampas are not as abundant as the North American prairies. So...... It's still potatoes over there, anyway, those Inca women are used to growing potatoes...... Potatoes are highly productive and also very good at feeding people......
In this way, it is bordered on the south by potatoes and on the north by bison...... Using natural resources, Marin has access to two major population breeding centers......
There are many species of wildlife in the Pampas, but there is no excellent breed of bison that can provide a lot of meat. Therefore, you need to cooperate with planting some potatoes over there, otherwise, there will not be enough food to eat. Fortunately, the potato production is very high, and the Inca Empire is a country that is used to growing potatoes, and the Inca women must also grow potatoes.
The conditions on the North American prairies were much better, and there were about sixty or seventy million bison on the North American prairies before the arrival of European colonists. Even if Marin needed to feed 2 million people, it would be enough to hunt more than a million heads a year. Compared to their large numbers, this does not affect the survival of bison. Anyway, those bison themselves die so much every year.
The colonists were allowed to hunt and drive other carnivores while hunting and driving bison. In this way, it is possible to ensure that there is a sufficient number of bison. When the population stabilizes and there are enough men to plow the land and produce food, Marin will stop hunting bison to avoid waste.
Originally, the Indians in western North America, after obtaining the muskets provided by the Europeans, launched uncontrolled hunting in order to obtain more cattle hides and trade with the whites, resulting in the killing of North American bison. However, if the bison are killed for meat alone, the impact on the bison population is not significant.
Of course, cowhide is also a good thing, which can be made into leather armor, leather bags, leather shoes, and leather clothing...... And it is precisely because of the huge demand for cowhide that the Indians of western North America have gone on a killing campaign against the bison, which almost led to the extinction of the bison......
Marin will not make such a mistake again, except for the early stage in order to solve the problem of migrant rations, he will hunt enough bison, when the food supply is stable, he will control the killing of bison, implement a hunting permit system, and avoid indiscriminate killing.
The key to killing bison is horses and shotguns. Without horses, you can't catch up with a runaway bison (bison can reach speeds of up to 60 mph, and no horse can chase an egg...... ); And without a shotgun, it would have been difficult for the Indians' earthen bows and arrows to break through the hides of the bison...... So, the bison were really exterminated and hunted after the Indians of western North America acquired horses and shotguns...... As long as Marlin strictly controls the horses and shotguns, the bison hunt can be controlled and the bison hunt can be profitable in the long run, rather than being killed all at once......