The harmony between man and nature is actually very fragile. People love those animals just because they don't endanger themselves. In modern times, it is actually city dwellers who are more interested in protecting animals. Because, I haven't seen any animals in the city. In this regard, the talents in the city are turtles. Naturally, I was amazed to see those animals.

When Ma Lin was a child in his last life, he saw many city children who went to the countryside to play, surrounded by pigsty and amazed, looking at those ugly domestic pigs like giant pandas. Or curiously pet chickens, ducks and geese...... Of course, the big white goose is not easy to pick, and the big white goose, one of the "three tyrants in the countryside", will definitely be taught a lesson in blood......

All in all, for those animals, people in the city are naturally rarer because they don't see them much. And most of the people who advocate the protection of nature and animals are actually city people. However, they will never see the hateful side of those animals......

For example, the little sparrow, petite and cute, right? The people of the city may talk about protecting the birds, and the sparrows chirp and make nature do business. But if you want to change to a farmer in the countryside, when you hear that you want to protect the little sparrow, he will definitely spit on you in the face - to protect you from paralysis, don't you know that the sparrow eats the crop?

There is also a magpie, which is known as an auspicious bird, but is actually a thief and likes to steal grain from the field. The people of the city love scarcity, and the peasants who are stolen to eat the grain are eager to kill them with shotguns.

In fact, these birds are much less harmful to crops. Because, in fact, they prefer to eat pests. Only when the pests have eaten it up, will they steal and eat grains such as rice and wheat. Of course, it is also necessary to control the quantity, not too much. Otherwise, the harvest will surely suffer. However, guns are banned in China, and birds are too small to shoot with bows and arrows, and they need to be shot with shotguns to be easy to hit, so with the ban on guns and bird protection, many birds have increased and gradually become a hazard. For example, legend has it that flower magpies steal grain, and even bird eggs and eggs. This is mainly due to the fact that there are more birds and there is more pressure on food. The bugs ran out, so they had to steal food......

There is a limit to everything, not too much. Birds too, if there are too many, they don't have insects to eat, what do they eat if they don't eat crops? The fields are full of crops, how easy is it to come? There are no shotguns to hit them yet......

The people of the city did not have the pain of being eaten by stealing food, and of course they boasted of protecting the birds there, and it did not harm them anyway. But in fact, birds sometimes need to be controlled. Otherwise, too much is harmful.

This is true for birds, let alone huge herbivores? Birds steal grain by grain from crops, like chickens pecking rice. And rhinoceros, elephants and other herbivores, with one mouth, are talking about eating crops...... An elephant eats 300 kilograms of food a day, or 600 catties, if it runs into the farmland...... It's over, and this year it's confiscated...... Even if the Chinese farmers are usually timid and cowardly, they must have tried their best to kill the elephants when they saw their crops being so ruined...... Because, before the rise of migrant workers in the city, for farmers, the food in the field was the life of the whole family!

Therefore, in China, as long as it is a plain farming area, there is no possibility of a large number of herbivores that can harm farmland, whether it is a rhinoceros or something else. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there were still many rhinoceros in the south. In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, a large number of Han people fled to Jiangnan and developed Jiangnan. Then, there are fewer and fewer rhinos in the Gangnam region. In the Southern Qi era, you can still see the rhino armor army that has been formed. When I went to the Tang Dynasty, I couldn't see any rhinos. Then, only the mountains and forests of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau are left with rhinos......

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Marin sent a team to guide the black people in West Africa to hunt rhinos, which was certainly a catastrophe for the rhinos, but it was a great blessing for the black people in West Africa.

Because, as long as these harmful herbivores are killed, the banks of large rivers such as the Senegal and Gambia rivers will inevitably become rich places suitable for agricultural development.

In fact, Marin also had the idea of helping local blacks develop rice cultivation. For example, sending a few Indian untouchable farmers to instruct them on how to grow rice can stimulate the development of the local economy and make it a particularly developed agricultural area. Or, you can grow sugar cane along the Senegal River.

However, Senegal was a theoretical colony of Portugal. Marin gang black uncles developed, and in the end it was still cheap Portuguese. As a result, he eventually dismissed the idea of instructing the Black Uncles in the development of agriculture. Moreover, Senegal is indeed very close to Portugal, and it is easy for Portugal to send tens of thousands of troops. This kind of thing of making wedding dresses for others, Marin doesn't do it.

However, there is an industry in the Senegalese steppes that is very beneficial to Marin. That is – the cattle industry......

Senegal is a border region of the Malian Empire and is naturally influenced by the economic and cultural influence of the Malian Empire. Thus, on the banks of the Senegalese River, there is simple rice and sorghum cultivation, as well as cattle breeding. However, due to the backward agricultural technology and the destruction of large herbivores such as rhinos and elephants, local agriculture has never been able to develop. The cattle industry, on the other hand, has little impact. Why? The grassland is so big, there is always a place for the cattle to graze. When you encounter those Big Macs, it's a big deal to drive the cattle out of the way......

These cattle, for the local blacks, were nothing more than meat and skins. But for Marin, it means a lot. Because, these are tropical cows!

Tropical cattle can perfectly adapt to the tropical climate of places like Cuba and Grenada, and there is no need to worry about the cattle being killed by heat. Therefore, the introduction of tropical cattle from the Senegalese steppes is much more reliable than the introduction of cattlemen from the cold temperate zone from the Crimean Khanate.

Therefore, while instructing the black people of Senegal to hunt rhinos and elephants, Marin would also send several disciples of Mozhigen and Battle to teach the local black veterinarians, mainly the prevention and treatment of cattle diseases. Then, it will also instruct local blacks to raise cattle reasonably, and stimulate the development of cattle breeding industry for the local people to the greatest extent. They have more cattle, and more can be sold to Marin when the time comes. So, it's a win-win situation.

At the same time, Marin also intended to provide them with some horses for grazing, as well as bows and arrows and muskets (arquebuses) to shoot lions and jackals. In this way, they could also herd cattle on the steppe like the Tatars, instead of running barefoot after the straying oxen as Bolt did, as is the case now......

Running barefoot to chase a lost cow can certainly raise a flying black man like Bolt in the future, but not everyone has Bolt's talent. Moreover, it is very inefficient. The Tatars, on horseback, drove cattle and shot jackals with bows, were much more advanced than the black natives of this era.

It's just that Marin didn't know that his actions had cultivated a team of Black Uncle Nomads who were good at riding and archery in the Senegalese grasslands, with strong combat effectiveness, and almost rewrote the history of West Africa......